Chapter 7 Gastronomy
Du Fu said: "The clouds in the sky are like white clothes, and they must change like dogs." www.biquge.info"When Gillian suddenly remembered this poem, it was just about to enter spring at the turn of the year, and the willow trees by the lake in Fuli were sprouting. Gillian was tossing the person who was waiting to make a kite for her, oh, no, this time it was called a paper kite, and she wanted to pretend to chant a sentence in a deep way that the spring breeze in February was like scissors, which amazed everyone, and thought of writing Fu in the Han Dynasty, and she was suffocated back. And at this time, Guan Tao, who had just returned from the palace and was changing her clothes and drinking tea, was gossiping with her father, and suddenly she changed the topic and said that she wanted to prepare a gift and establish a prince.
Gillian on the side was stunned for a moment, the prince? I haven't heard a little wind in the palace before. She was very stunned for a moment, she didn't find her tongue for a long time, and after a while, Gillian heard her voice pretending to be calm and trembling slightly: "Who is it?" ”
"If you don't have a grandson, you will be a cousin of the emperor." Guantao's voice is very ordinary, and he can't hear too much emotion.
Once established, the rest is fast. In April, Liu Rong was officially made the crown prince, and on the same day, the four-year-old Liu Yu was named the king of Jiaodong.
When she entered the palace again, Li Niangniang even if she came to the Queen Mother's palace to ask for peace, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were all proud. Bo Hou has no children, and now he has a prince, Bo Hou is respected as the queen mother, and the mother is precious by her son, and Li Ji, the biological mother, is indispensable.
Guantao didn't seem to see Kurihime's provocation, and she didn't even look at her. Gillian can't help but be a little strange, the relationship between Guantao and Li Ji is so bad, and Guantao has always maintained the identity of the eldest princess, how could she propose marriage? And Liu Rong is nineteen years old, she is only five years old, so she is obviously not worthy.
Gillian was full of doubts and had nowhere to say, but she firmly knew that history was destined to happen, and she had not yet participated in it, and she could not talk about change. But now is the most critical moment, stop the pavilion, stop the gold house.
But how to stop it? Who knows when it will happen?
She couldn't help but sigh.
After Dou Hou's early illness, her eyesight became worse and worse, and later she became blind. But correspondingly, she pays more attention to hearing because she can't see. She heard Gillian's inaudible sigh, she turned her face to Gillian and asked in a kind voice, "Isn't the food in my grandmother's palace unappetizing?" ”
Gillian came to her senses and looked at the smashed meat soup in front of her case. Compared with the richness and colorfulness of the Han Dynasty's descendants, many ingredients were not mentioned in the Han Dynasty, even steamed buns, cakes, and noodles were invented in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Even the cooking of the ingredients is relatively simple, like the meat soup in front of Gillian, which is minced beef and cooked with rice. Gillian heard that there were thousands of people in the palace who cooked meals, and there were thousands of people who served meals. As the queen mother, Dou has the most examples in the palace, but every time she eats in the Dou harem, Gillian does not experience the happiness of the emperor's generations. At home, you can also grill meat, which is the original version of barbecue. Although Guan Tao strictly controlled her, she said that the child has a weak spleen and stomach, and he can eat a little. But it's better than simmering together like this, the dishes in Dou's harem are either stewed or steamed. So she admitted right away that although the daze had nothing to do with food, she did have an opinion about food.
Guan Tao glared at Gillian, the Queen Mother is old, and the people who serve in the palace are naturally easy to mouth. The Queen Mother heard her say that children love meat, and the child was afraid that she would choke and get stuck, so she specially told the owner to serve meat soup every time.
Gillian was glared at by her mother, although she didn't understand what she meant, but she thought that she shouldn't pick up a meal with her grandmother and was just about to pick up a spoon to eat, and Dou Hou spoke: "Go and pass the word, it's called Farewell My Concubine." "It is said that when Dou Hou was young, he was vigorous and resolute, guiding the world. As the queen mother, she is even more pampered and majestic, but she is very fond of Gillian, the only granddaughter, and she is never willing to speak loudly.
What does Farewell My Concubine mean Gillian naturally knows, but can it still be eaten? Gillian was puzzled. Not long after, some palace people presented dishes, the soup was milky white, and the green onions were bright green. It's a turtle and chicken stewed together, no wonder it's called Farewell My Concubine. Gillian tasted a mouthful of the soup, and was conquered by the fresh and mellow soup, and the chicken and turtle meat melted in the mouth, tender and crispy, and Gillian ate it unconsciously.
Dou Hou said while listening to her eating: "Now raising children is becoming more and more sophisticated, and your mother is afraid that she will not be able to raise you well, so you have been giving you soup and preserved food when you are so old." I don't dare to give you more meat, for fear that you won't be able to digest it and get sick again. Speaking of this, Gillian agrees that in the Han Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, many diseases were the same as modern cancer. Especially when children are small and not good at medicine, it is natural that they will not get sick if they don't get sick.
Dou Hou's voice changed, and she talked about how to make this dish: "To make this dish, you must first slaughter and wash the soft-shelled turtle and tender chickens, blanch them in a pot of boiling water, remove the blood water, and remove them and wash them." Then put them in the pot and add the stewed bone soup, put in the green onion, ginger, shiitake mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and cover the basket and steam until the soup is thick and the chicken and fish are rotten, put the tender green cabbage heart and blanch it slightly. ”
Gillian couldn't help but be curious: "Grandmother, do you still do it?" ”
Empress Dou couldn't help but be a little funny, but her voice was more gentle because of the memories: "Not to mention that a woman has to be a female celebrity cook, your grandmother was not born to be the queen mother, and her grandmother was poor when she was young." Guan Tao sat next to her and did not speak, she looked at the two grandparents quietly, her eyes warm.
So Gillian listened to the story of her grandmother when she was young, and by the way, she refreshed her new understanding of my country's traditional cuisine, and decided to learn about the food world. It wasn't until she returned home that she remembered that she had completely forgotten about Liu Rong, the Golden House, and the fact that she wanted to inadvertently mention the matter of the crown princess in front of Empress Dou, so that Liu Rong could marry his wife as soon as possible, and that Guantao would not have a chance to say goodbye to Li Ji.
Lying on the bed, she couldn't help but wail in her heart: "The food mistook me! The next day, he completely forgot about it, and pulled Guan Tao to beg for more appetite.