Chapter Forty-Eight: Washing the Children in the House (2)
On the day of the Kangzhai Washing Banquet, the door was wide open, and there was an endless stream of celebrators. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Kang Dazhi was the head of the merchants in Shazhou, and he had the position of the Great Sabao under the imperial court, and it was needless to say that the Sogdian merchants and colleagues in the city came to congratulate him. Almost all the characters on the head of Shazhou have gathered, Zhang Boyong, the parent official of Dunhuang City, and Suo Shi, the leader of the Shazhou clan, also came with their families, and even the Fu Yan, who has never liked to gather for drinks and feasts, also gave enough face and came with his entourage.
The nurse came out with a swaddling cloth wrapped in gold and silver, and Kang Dazhi put a small piece of stone honey in the child's mouth and took it out according to the custom of the Sogdian people for generations of merchants, implying that the honey will be Taoist. Then he announced the name of the child in public, but surprisingly, he did not give the child a Sogdian name, but imitated the habit of the Tang people and took the word "Dingye".
The child was quickly sent back to Mi's side and returned to the backyard, but the mother-nursing servants and maids did not buy the account of the serious name, and still called "Ah Tuan, Ah Tuan", because the wind spirit felt that he was pitiful, and first evoked this milk name, which caused Mi to laugh, so those people followed this call, and they were not afraid of their own Ah Lang Niang's displeasure.
Mi's body was still weak, and he only greeted the ladies in the inner courtyard.
Since the New Year's Festival was so troubled by the Turks, the ladies have lost a lot of party fun, and they are bored until the early summer, and the washing banquet of the Kang Mansion has become a thing that everyone is looking forward to.
As early as half a month ago, Feng Ling sensed their urgency in the cloth shop, and every day she came to her shop in person or sent her maidservants, trying her best to find out what kind of colors and silk the ladies and ladies of other families had bought.
Unfortunately, on the first day, the wind spirit did not know what kind of flowers they had dressed the silk they had bought from her shop, nor did they know what the outcome of their competition would be.
She was so busy in the back kitchen that she led a dozen or so temporary cooks to keep her feet on the ground. Kang Dazhi really had that ability, and he was stunned to find five or six cooks from Jiangnan, and follow Feng Ling to make those dishes.
Early in the morning, Kangda Zhishang was not relieved, and deliberately went to the back kitchen to instruct Feng Ling, for fear that the kitchen would not be able to grasp the essentials, and the three seats of Fu Yanyan, Suo Shenjin and Zhang Boyong had to be made by herself.
Feng Ling thought about how well the couple treated her, and where she could be used at this time, where would she slack off in the slightest, she was full of spirit and went all out.
In the middle of the day, the drums, pipa, qinse, and gonghou stopped together, Kang Dazhi invited everyone to the table, a color of ebony food table, a small azure porcelain cup on each case, the green plum tea that was cool in the bowl, slightly sour and refreshing, vaguely like plum fragrance.
A few merchants immediately laughed in their hearts, Kang Dalang is the richest man in Shazhou, although the plum tea is elegant, but it is far less lively than the five-color pulp on the usual banquets.
Speaking of the drum music, not only did I not see the orchids who were entertaining, but even the music stopped for a long time, and no matter how informal people were, they gradually felt that Kang Dazhi was not well entertained.
Just as half of the people quietly shook their heads in their hearts, a thick and mellow string sound broke through the air, simple and far-reaching. More than a dozen servants entered the main hall with food boxes in their hands.
The food box was opened one by one on the ebony table, and a meatball was dipped in a small porcelain bowl the size of a palm, which was fat and thin, the soup was clear, and there were chicken eggs floating in the middle, as if spring flowers were blooming. "Soup bath embroidery pills." The maid at the feeding box whispered the name of the dish and withdrew from the house. This dish is quite ordinary, but the chicken eggs are unique and the taste is light.
A moment later, the maid re-entered the house, still holding the food box. This time, the small crystal clear pieces in the food box were half a plate, and a small plate of bean sauce was attached. There are not many people who have seen this dish, so Suo Ting picked up a spoon with great interest, and suddenly said: "This is a soup boiled with raccoon meat, frozen into a cake through ice water?" The maid in front of the case chuckled, "Suo Gongzi is so knowledgeable." This one is called 'Cool Crushed'. ”
Just when it is easy to get tired in summer, these two light dishes, accompanied by green plum tea and guqin music, are actually refreshing in the mouth, and the index finger is moving.
A piece of piano music gradually faded, the maidservants sent the wine pot and wine cup, which was the Kang family's own grape wine, and the live quail "Chop Head Spring" was presented, and the happy flute was playing the minor tune of Jiangnan.
The interest of everyone was attracted by the exquisite and chic dishes, and all kinds of thoughts, news from all sides, flattery, and flies and dogs were put aside.
The pink white dolphin loin is repeatedly beaten into strips, and then steamed into a pink white dolphin loin, sprinkled with verdant and finely chopped coriander, called "White Dragon Yao", fresh and elastic teeth; The live shrimp is pinched to the head and tail, and the one that is roasted half white and half red is "bright shrimp burning", the preparation method is simple, but it is rare to live shrimp; Warm and solemn "Red Sheep Branch" ......
Until the white and snowy, light as a cloud, with the golden mustard sauce of the "golden jade fish" was carefully held out of the food box, someone suddenly came to his senses, couldn't help but gasp, and secretly sighed from the bottom of his heart that Kang Dazhi was really willing to spend blood.
"Brother Kang is not...... Didn't you invite the people from the Moon Residence? The man asked hesitantly.
During the banquet, there were well-informed wealthy businessmen and tycoons, as well as gentlemen like Suoting, who were accustomed to pleasure, and most of them had heard of Qiyueju, "But Qiyueju in Jiangnan Province?" Brother Kang is so generous. Everyone sighed, Kang Dazhi touched the beard on his cheek and smiled without saying a word, his face full of pride.
"I don't know how Chang'an's elegance compares?" There are good deeds here who suddenly asked Xiang Yan Yan, Suo Ting glanced at Yan Yan, and secretly wondered, the person who asked was very uninteresting, this stake-like character, where would he know what elegance was.
There was a man in gorgeous clothes sitting next to Suo Ting, with a sneer on his lips, leisurely picking up the green plum tea and taking a sip.
"Even if you are in Chang'an, most of your efforts are spent in the barracks, and you don't know how to be elegant, which makes you laugh." Fu Yanyan arched his hand. It's not that he's humble, but he really doesn't understand the doorways in the joy field.
Suo Ting rolled his eyes, saw the expression of the noble prince beside him, and said busily: "Yanduwei has been away from Chang'an for a long time, how can he know the current appearance of Chang'an." He stretched out his arms to the side: "This cousin in my mother's house, who only arrived in Shazhou from Chang'an the day before yesterday, can probably talk to us about it." ”
Zhang Boyong followed with a smile: "Young Master Liu should not hide it, so that those of us who are outsiders can see and see the prosperity of Chang'an." ”
The young man in the costume smiled lightly and excused himself, saying that he was just a layman. During the banquet, the flexible minds had already woken up, the cousin of the Suo family's mother's family, Mrs. Liu's nephew, Suo Ting and Zhang Boyong were so welcome, I was afraid that they would ...... I'm afraid that there will be no one else, it is the squire of the military department, Liu Shuang, Liu Shuang.
Some people just thought of this layer and were speechless, and some people were well-informed, but they thought of another layer: Mrs. Liu, the wife of the Suo family, was Liu Gongzi's aunt, but in Chang'an City, he still had another aunt, who was also a fellow citizen of his father, and that aunt was amazing, and she was actually the mother-in-law of the prince of the dynasty. About everyone in Chang'an knows that the prince and his wife rely on their uncle Liu Zheng very much.
In this way, Liu Gongzi is one of the hottest people in Chang'an City, but when he arrives in Shazhou on the western border, how can it be compared to the scorching heat, and it almost becomes the sun in Shazhou in July, shining so brightly that people can't open their eyes.