Chapter 100: Wuchuan Town Night Market
By dusk, Ling Hao had finally finished transcribing these volumes of the Sutra of Plain Women, and now he had sent someone to help him burn and print it.
Anyway, the template for engraving printing is here, and it should be able to be made within a few days.
"Childe, Uncle Lu said he couldn't do it. It just so happened that at this time, Gao Rong came back with the plate of fried pork with green peppers from before.
"I told him a long time ago, if you want to learn, you have to work hard, I'm afraid he can't understand the ingredient list sent to him before, right?" Ling Hao laughed in his heart, but it stumped him.
This old man Lu had made things difficult for him several times before, and now a plate of stir-fried meat with green peppers made him dumbfounded, how could Ling Hao not feel a burst of happiness in his heart?
Hmph, wasn't it quite smug before? Now dumbfounded, right?
"Is there any news from Madame?" Ling Hao asked.
"Not yet. Gao Rong shook her head.
"Rong'er, you came just in time, help me help. Ling Hao beckoned to her.
"What do you command?"
"Well, come and see this, I've already transcribed it, you can help me check if there are any typos and mistakes, and I'll correct it tomorrow." Ling Hao tapped on another scroll he had copied.
Burning can only be done during the day, because now the sun is setting.
"Okay, Childe. Gao Rong nodded.
"This dish must be cold too, give it to me, I'll heat it up, I can't waste it." Ling Hao said and walked away with the fried pork with green peppers that Gao Rong was holding.
"Alas...... Childe is always like this. Gao Rong shook her head helplessly.
The boy he serves is good in everything, but he is too obsessed with the art of cooking, and sometimes the dishes he makes are more important than practicing martial arts......
But it's okay to look like the kind of man with special ambitions.
Gao Rong was still quite satisfied with Ling Hao, but one thing was wrong, after that night, no matter how much she tempted Ling Hao, Ling Hao shirked and said that she was "tired", and she was really powerless.
Does this man look down on himself? Then he wants to tempt him and give that Wang Xuanqing a dismount!
What kind of woman is Wang Xuan, an orphaned daughter, even if she has a little beauty, it is impossible to be this man's wife......
The only possibility is that her charm is not as great as Wang Xuanqing, she already knew it when she saw Wang Xuanqing, Wang Xuanqing's temperament is indeed more elegant than herself. China
However, she is now closer to this man, even if something happens between the two of them, there is absolutely no reason for that woman to come here to take care of it herself, she must find a way to continue to win the favor of this man.
Otherwise, the plan will not be able to proceed......
In fact, Ling Hao treats her quite well, although he no longer shares a bed with her, he has all the preferential treatment he deserves.
Usually the "communication" between Ling Hao and Wang Xuanqing is mostly carried out by her.
After dinner, Ling Hao signaled that Gao Rong could go to dinner, and he personally picked up the scroll and began to check it, and found that there were already many dense circles and dots on it, scribbling and altering, and he also carefully marked out the mistakes and omissions.
Well, although this woman has her own tasks and small abacus, but aside from these purposes, her ability to do things is still quite good, should you be kind to her?
Ling Hao actually liked this little girl quite a bit, if it weren't for the fact that she approached him with some ulterior motives, he would really have been able to take her into his harem group.
When night fell quietly, Ling Hao stopped the pen in his hand and looked out the window, not knowing how the night market street in Wuchuan Town was doing now.
"Childe, it's time to rest. ”
"Well, let's sleep together tonight. ”
"Yes......"
At the same time, the night market street in Wuchuan Town is naturally in full swing, and all kinds of shouts and shouts emerge in endlessly.
About the night market first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, Du Xunhe has a poem: "The night market sells water lotus root, and the spring boat carries Qiluo." You can also see "Looking at Yangzhou City at Night" and other articles. It can be seen that the "night market" in the Tang Dynasty was relatively prosperous. However, the state explicitly allowed night markets during the period of Kaifeng Tokyo City in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The capital of the Northern Song Dynasty was Bianliang City in Tokyo (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province), and the prosperity of industry and commerce in the Song Dynasty surpassed that of the previous generations, and commerce in the south was particularly developed. At that time, there were many commercial cities, the largest of which was Kaifeng City, the capital of the country, with a population of 1.5 million, and the Southern Song Dynasty moved its capital to Lin'an (now Hangzhou). Due to the large number of people in the Central Plains who have moved south, the population of Lin'an is also as high as one million, and the streets and alleys are lined with shops, and the morning and night markets are "bought and sold day and night". There are also various vendors and vendors, which add to the lively atmosphere of the city.
Night markets can be said to be one of the important representatives of the culture of civilian life. At that time, Tokyo (Kaifeng) in the Song Dynasty had become an unprecedented city that never sleeped in the world.
There are many night markets, there is a saying that "the night market of shops cannot be counted", and the famous night markets are: Zhouqiao Night Market, Mahang Street Night Market, Fanlou Gate Night Market and Zhuque Gate Outer Street Market Jingjing Night Market, Panlou Hotel Night Market, Tushi Zidong Street Night Market, etc. Among them, the state bridge night market across the royal road, Linbian River, located in the city of Tokyo, the water and land rush, plus the spectacular state bridge, the towering bright moon tower, the scenery here is picturesque, the tourists are weaving, and the literati are more than this to chant poetry. The Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Dongpo once left "Longjin View Night Market, the lights are also brilliant...... I don't know the noise of Beijing, it is said to be the poetry of Jianghu Township". At that time, the largest and most prosperous night market in Tokyo was the Bahang Street Night Market.
Mahang Street is the location of the forbidden army of the imperial palace in the Song Dynasty, and the people of the capital Shishu and the public and private honors come and go in the meantime, so the night market is known even if it is a heavy snowstorm and rainy day, and its lights and oil smoke make it difficult for gnats to stop. The Song Dynasty Cai Tiao's "Tiewei Mountain Cong Talk" recorded: "The world is bitter gnats, and there are no lonely streets in the capital." The street is a night market in the capital, and the restaurant is very prosperous. "Tokyo Menghualu" praised "Bishuqiao Night Market is a hundred times more prosperous", its prosperity can be imagined, so that the carriages and horses on the street are crowded, and you can't stop. From this point of view, the scene of the Tokyo night market was truly spectacular. At that time, it was the back alleys of the four corners, and even on snowy and rainy nights, the lights were shining, and you could clearly hear the rhyming and deafening cries of the hawkers.
On April 13 of the third year of Qiande (965 AD), Song Taizu issued an edict to Kaifeng Mansion: "The night market in the capital to the three drums has not been banned." Since then, food night markets have not only appeared in large numbers, but also flourished. It is recorded in "Tokyo Menghualu": "The night market did not reopen until the third watch, and then reopened on the fifth watch. If you want to go to a place, you know endlessly. "Although the winter moon is windy, snowy and rainy, there is also a night market. This is a true portrayal of the Tokyo night market at that time.
The special snacks of Kaifeng in later generations include yellow stewed fish with fresh fish in soup, hot and tender fried cold powder, mellow soup sheep intestines, crispy and delicious peanut cake, cool and sweet rock sugar pear dates, rose sugar cake with charred outside and tender inside, crispy and spiced puff pastry pupae, egg scones with charred outside and inside Xuan, fresh and delicious shredded chicken wontons, sweet and delicious cylinder stove baked cakes, as well as spicy peanut kernels, Gen Jiao peanut kernels, spiced peanut kernels, Jiangmi sweet wine poached eggs, spiced roast chicken, bucket chicken, spiced air-dried rabbit meat, spiced salted mutton, cured mutton, mutton soup, Five-spice bean foam, belly and lung soup, chicken blood soup, duck blood soup, Jiangmi cut cake, pancake fruit, five-spiced sheep's trotters, sauced beef, five-spiced hairy eggs, almond tea, sweet potato puree, xiaolongbao, potstickers, fried buns, spicy soup, Kaifeng buckle bowl...... There are all kinds of varieties, and there is a big view. At the same time, the imported foreign snacks, such as mutton skewers in Xinjiang, cut cakes in Beijing, Liangpi in Shaanxi, wonton in Guangdong, hemp flowers in Tianjin, Malatang in Chongqing, cross-bridge rice noodles in Yunnan, and mutton steamed buns in Xi'an are also competing in the market.
Although Wuchuan Town does not have the same favorable conditions and cuisine development experience as the Song Dynasty and even later generations, it is still quite easy to copy some of the simple snacks in it.
However, there were a few "uninvited guests" in today's night market street, who quietly bypassed the guardianship of the Wuchuan Town Army and began to quietly observe everything here.