Chapter 81: A Moonlit Night
At dinner, everyone sat down around the Hu table, and Yang Xi noticed Yang Xiao's slightly swollen eyes, he thought that Yang Xiao knew about Yan Guo's marriage proposal, and was sad because he didn't want to enter Yan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yang Xi looked around, except for Yang Hibiscus who bowed his head and was silent, the others were the same as usual.
After the meal, Yang Xi left Yang Hibiscus alone, and took his eldest daughter to his study under the pretext of checking Yang Hibiscus's learning of calligraphy.
No one knows what the two said, but after a few days, Yang Xi called Yang Xiao over again.
After another ten days, Yang Xi finally invited Bao Qixun to enter the palace, just like the Wei State visited, feasting and entertaining, the difference was that only the musician stroked the qin and played the chime, and there was no singing and dancing.
Gao took his two sons and Xi, and the three Yangxiao sisters were in their own rooms and did not attend.
There are palace mermaids rushing in, and it is still the inner attendant carrying the box, with a maid next to him.
It's just that the four cools are just the four gentlemen who should be in the situation, plum and orchid take their shape, and bamboo and chrysanthemum take their taste.
The four heats are very elegant.
First of all, there is a "four happy wishes", the leg of mutton, the ridge, the neck, the kidney four slices are stacked, rolled into a ruyi pattern, steamed and then supported with a jade plate, placed on each person's case.
Bao Qixun looked at the knife work, and first secretly shouted "good" in his heart.
The second dish is a white disc with a section of beef tendon with five holes on it, and 24 chicken balls lined up neatly on one side.
"On the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where does the jade teach".
In this way, there must be a hole on the invisible side of the cow tendon.
The third dish is ordinary steamed anchovies, Bao Qixun just didn't see the doorway, and was wondering whether the meaning of this dish was in its taste but not in the form. Suddenly I caught a glimpse of the fourth course, and then it dawned on me.
"The anchovy has a taste. I hate to share a cup and plate with no good guests".
The fourth course is a row of fresh bamboo shoots simmered in broth.
A maid stepped forward and poured osmanthus wine. Yang Xi raised his glass in time, said a few polite words, mentioned "There is a guest today", and drank a glass with Bao Qixun.
When moving the chopsticks, Bao Qixun really went to gently turn over the cow tendon first, and when he saw another hole in the back, he couldn't help but smile.
Although this Gaoyang Kingdom is not big, I didn't expect it to be so exquisite.
After eating chicken meatballs and steamed anchovies, Bao Qixun was truly impressed by Gao Yang's delicacy.
He didn't know what was going on. Euphemistically ask Yang Xi for advice.
Yang Xi laughed and said, "It's not difficult, but it's not easy to learn." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Bao Qixun became more and more curious.
"If it weren't for the visitor, these dishes would be too extravagant." Yang Xi said, briefly introducing the cooking methods of a few dishes.
The texture of the chicken is neither tender nor refreshing, and it is easier to spread out when made into meatballs, but the meatballs on this plate are made of the outermost layer of meat of the chicken thighs, and they are pureed by hand. Take the chicken broth to cool. Fill it in a very small porcelain cup, soak the meatballs in it, and place the porcelain cup in ice cubes.
After about two hours, the meatballs are flavored. In the meantime, you need to constantly change the ice cubes to prevent the chicken from falling apart.
Heat the chicken fat in a pan, pour in the chicken broth and bring to a boil. Then put it out in a clay pot and let it dry.
Add the cooled chicken broth to the porcelain bowl of the meatballs and place it in the middle of the three-tiered cage drawer. Steam slowly over a simmer.
And the soup of steamed chicken meatballs is not an ordinary soup, it is actually a large pot of chicken soup.
Bao Qixun couldn't help but sigh when he heard it. And asked how to make the fish.
This time, it seems to be ordinary, but it is just the technique and time of salting, and the soup base of steamed fish.
Like the "Moonlit Night at the Twenty-Four Bridges", the anchovy soup is used for steaming the anchovies, but the fish soup is very thin to prevent the fish from sticking to the pot and affecting the smell of the fish.
After three rounds of drinking, Yang Xi was a little drunk, and agreed to marry Yan Guo with the strength of wine.
He intended to ask Bao Qixun about Wu Chengxun's personality, but he was afraid of being laughed at, so he still couldn't speak.
Bao Qixun never thought that things would go so smoothly, so he couldn't help but be overjoyed, praised the benefits of Wu Chengxun, and briefly mentioned a few words about his shortcomings.
It's just that he has a dull temperament, and he has been happy to suffer since he was a child, and he is not an all-rounder who can write and martial arts.
Yang Xi listened to it and was really relieved.
After the banquet, Yang Xi personally sent Bao Qixun to the palace gate. The two quoted scriptures all the way and chatted very happily.
Bao Qixun returned to the post house, and it was difficult to sleep in the dead of night. He put on his clothes and pulled on his shoes, went out of the door of the bedroom, and paced up and down the courtyard of the inn.
Today's encounter really made him sigh.
He never thought that a small country would be so exquisite, let alone that Yang Xi would be so polite to him.
Bao Qixun recalled the past, and it seemed that he had changed since he passed the second branch of the Jinshi.
Above the court, because of his slight words, no matter whether he adheres to his original intention or not, no one really treats him with courtesy.
As time passed, in order to survive, Bao Qixun finally fell into the vulgar, and gradually changed from a high-minded to a greedy slanderer, and the so-called style and bones did not exist at all.
Only Yang Xi, who doesn't know his details, can treat him so kindly.
Bao Qixun suddenly remembered that it was his idea for Wu Yue to enter Yan at the beginning. He felt that the world was really changeable, and he couldn't help laughing at himself.
Thinking that the crown princess is from such a background, her person must be unusual, otherwise how can His Royal Highness the crown prince be so valued, and even his sister's marriage is so bothered.
Thinking like this, Bao Qixun couldn't help but compare Yang Xi and Wu Yue in his heart, and then compare Wu Yue and Wu Chengsu.
As soon as he had a thought, Bao Qixun suddenly came back to his senses, lest he would be known that he was emotional, and his heart was empty, so he coughed twice deliberately, turned around and went back to the bedroom to rest.
Yang Xi also couldn't sleep, but fortunately, he deliberately drank a lot of wine, so that he could fall asleep steadily.
The so-called drowning of my brother is because of him, and he can't get rid of the death of his sister-in-law.
At first, Yang Xi thought about asking the Gao family to accompany him to the funeral, but he was used to being weak, and when he thought of his four children, he softened his heart again.
Every time she saw the young Yang Yun and Yang Xiao, Yang Xi felt very uneasy, and could only try her best to be good to them.
Yang Yun didn't understand the precautions in his eyes, although he was heartbroken, he felt that he deserved it.
When Wei Guo visited, the two sons of the Zhou family fell in love with Yangyun, and Yangxi was very happy. Regardless of the Gao family's noise, he insisted on Yangyun's marriage, not wanting Yan Guo to kill him halfway.
Yang Xiao went to visit his sister, and when he came back, he didn't say anything wrong, but he saw that Jin'er was wrong and asked him, and then he knew that Yang Yun was having such a difficult time.
Jin'er said that Yang Xiao wanted to enter Yan, he hesitated for a few days before calling Yang Xiao, and when he saw that Yang Xiao was hard-hearted, he saw Bao Qixun.
That Bao Qixun looks good, Yu Ning Wang Shizi did not blindly boast, and even said that it was inappropriate.
Yang Xi thinks that maybe it's okay, the sisters are both near the water, so they have a companion. Even if he breaks through Linshui in the future, the two of them have the identity of the Yang family's daughters, and they can save their lives.
He remembered what Yang Xiao said about the embarrassing situation of Wei State, and he understood Zhou Daozhao's two retreats.
In the palace of King Wei, Zhou Sui was crazy and generally rushed out, and it was easy to be pulled by Zhou Yi. (To be continued.) )