184 Under the banquet in the palace in the first year of Shengkang
This seating arrangement is telling.
In ancient times, the left was respected, according to common sense, Yang Weiai was Mu Fushu's mother-in-law, and she was the eldest princess, so she sat on the left. Even if Mu Fushu is the future queen, she has not yet got married after all, and now she is sitting on the left, and the people below are a little incomprehensible.
Yang Weiai seemed to be unknown, sat down peacefully, and said hello to Yang Weng and Cui Chongyu, who were sitting in the first row of seats below, although it was only a vague eye contact, and many people who were watching the stage below found out.
For the two eldest princesses, uh, colts, everyone really has a lot of ideas. One is a former colt and the other is a current colt, both of them now live in the eldest princess's mansion, and now they are still sitting at a table to eat.
Can they say that this is the way of the eldest princess?
No matter what the people here thought, Saburo greeted everyone to sit down with a smile on his face, and said a few words similar to today's New Year, everyone is happy, I hope that everyone will continue to support my work in the coming year, etc., after a few words, he raised his wine glass symbolically saluted heaven and earth, and the third cup saluted everyone, and drank it all first, and then announced the beginning of the banquet.
Because the palace banquets that Mu Fushu learned before were all about eating cold food, many people came back after the mat bar at home, and they had to eat again after they went back. Because the Penglai Hall is in the previous dynasty, the former dynasty is not allowed to set up a kitchen, for fear of fire. Besides, the palace banquet is only two or three times a year, there is no need to set up a big kitchen here, but the big kitchen is really not close to here, the dishes on the banquet are cooked in the big kitchen, with a large stove with charcoal burned at the bottom, and then put on a plate after pushing to the side hall of Penglai Palace. This also ensures that it is hot after serving, otherwise without this insulated charcoal stove, the dishes served will freeze.
The descriptions of the three kinds of wine are explained on the bottles, and everyone pours the wine according to their own preferences, and there are also those who are greedy, and they want to taste all three, and the consequence is that they get drunk not long after the palace feast begins.
You must know that today's wine-making technology is not high, and most of the wine we drink is turbid wine, that is, rice wine, although the stamina is enough, it is far less exaggerated than drinking mixed wine. Mu Fushu saw that many of the female dependents were drunk.
The Great Sui men's and women's defense was not as open as the Tang Dynasty, nor was it as strict as the Ming Dynasty. When the Great Sui Dynasty has a banquet, men and women will not sit in two rooms or separated by a screen, this palace banquet Mu Fushu is according to the family, each family set up a few tables, the elders and juniors are separated, men and women are mixed, so many couples sit at a table, the wife is drunk and the husband is in a hurry, or the husband is drunk and the wife is helpless. Mu Fushu looked funny and couldn't help but snicker.
Saburo sat on the high platform, and when someone wanted to toast, he also stood at the bottom of the high platform. This time he drank red wine, Mu Fushu felt that the red wine was low, and it was healthy, and he was not afraid of many toasters.
Fortunately, everyone is also interested, and the toasters are all clan elders, and there are not many people. After a circle, Saburo just blushed a little, and his mind was still very sober.
After the tomato sauce prawns came up, San Lang slowly began to peel the shrimp shells, peeled a few and dipped them in the tomato juice and handed them to Mu Fushu behind him. Mu Fushu frowned and smiled, took it and ate it one by one.
Many people below have never eaten this prawn, and they happened to see San Lang peeling it happily, and while learning to peel it, they wondered why the emperor only peeled it and didn't eat it, but it turned out to be for the queen to eat!
Mu Fushu's image has once again risen two heights in everyone's hearts!
Mu Fushu calmly ate the prawns, and gave the chicken legs he didn't like to eat to San Lang. They sit alone, the amount of dishes is small, and they have eaten all the dishes that come up, which is also because of the scarcity of food now, if it is wasted, not only will it be condemned by people with intentions, but their conscience will not be able to get by.
Here San Lang peeled the shrimp shell for Mu Fushu, and over there Yang Weiai simply let the palace maid bring the crab and shrimp down to Yang Weng and Cui Chongyu, just one dish per person. Although she was not strict with her joy, it would be extremely embarrassing to vomit at the palace banquet because she ate meat, so she simply didn't eat it.
Yang Weng and Cui Chongyu naturally ate up the two small dishes, and their chic and upright appearance simply blinded everyone's titanium alloy dog eyes.
San Lang finished eating the chicken legs, wiped his hands, looked at the people below who were eating a little restrained, and said loudly: "You don't have to be stubborn, although there are many dishes today, the amount is good, the queen said, just be full, in order not to waste, everyone has to eat it all." She didn't want everyone to go back and cook porridge again. ”
Everyone laughed, and the frequency of chopsticks was faster. Originally, the dishes were good and delicious, and the education and identity of these people made them embarrassed to empty their plates. Since the emperor opened his mouth and had the premise of not wasting things, what are you waiting for? Naturally, we can't live up to the hospitality!
So the palace maid who served the food sped up, and Mu Fushu had instructed that the plate should be served slowly if it was not empty, but now that the plate is empty, the serving speed is much faster.
During the Great Sui Dynasty, there was no obvious difference between dumplings and wontons, or the so-called wontons that everyone ate were still called "chaos", and there were many names, and some places were called wontons. Mu Fushu firmly named the wontons, and dumplings are also her new invention, because the current wontons are all soup, and most of them are cooked together with noodles.
When the dim sum came up, the palace maid specially said that the dumplings were filled with mutton, and the wontons were filled with fish. San Lang even said loudly on the high platform: "Everyone be careful when eating, there are ten wontons and dumplings with pearls in them, see who has the luck to eat, and the coming year will be safe and smooth." ”
Pearls at this time were very valuable, because they were not cultivated artificially, unlike a pearl necklace of several hundred pieces in modern times. Anyone who wears a pair of pearl earrings is considered tall, I heard that there are pearls in it, everyone is cautious, and adults with children are careful to crush the wonton dumplings, for fear that the child will swallow it.
Soon there was a commotion in the eight tables of the Wen family, and a small child's voice giggled: "Pearl Pearl!" Fang'er has eaten pearls! ”
The Wen family sat very front, just in the third row, Mu Fushu saw clearly that the girl who was talking was combing two buns and wearing a pink short shirt, thinking of the clever little lady, he couldn't help laughing and said: "It's Wen Jiafang of the Liulang family." ”
Yang Weiai's memory is not so good, she only knows that the little girl of the Wen family has eaten it, and she can hear the little lady's laughter crisp and moving, so she said loudly: "Fang'er is lucky, this palace will give you another one as big as it will later, and make the right earrings to wear...... Ouch! ”
Before the words fell, Yang Weiai's mouth moved, spit out a pearl, and said with a smile: "Okay, don't look for it, I'll match it for you!" ”
These pearls are all the same size, and they are also suitable for earrings.
The palace maid wiped the pearl and took it down to Wen Jiafang, the little lady giggled happily and couldn't stop at all, her mother Lu also drank some wine, her cheeks were red, and she had to make trouble.
Soon twenty pearls were eaten, and Mu Fushu and San Lang naturally ate them too. That's the positive benefit of privilege, and there are always smart people who can beat the horse and quietly build momentum for them.
Although Mu Fushu was not short of pearls, he still said with a smile in San Lang: "I and the queen are exactly one each, and I also make a pair of earrings for the queen." He nodded in response, and happily handed the pearl to the hugqin behind him.
The wine at the palace banquet is provided in unlimited quantities, and after drinking, the empty bottle will be handed over to the palace people to change for a new one, and at first some restrained people will reveal their true nature when they drink wine, and soon the sound of everyone eating and drinking is getting louder and louder, and some people even guess the fist. The bold little lady and the young daughter-in-law also cheered for the family.
Yang Weiai's body is easy to get tired, and he went back after eating the snacks, of course, the two big horses were also closely protected, and no one left beside him.
San Lang dragged Mu Fushu's seat to his side, almost next to him, and he could see that Mu Fushu was half a step behind, which was also Mu Fushu's bottom line, they didn't get married after all, and at the palace banquet next year, she would sit beside him justifiably, not retreating an inch.
The two of them looked at the people below with a smile, and they were not at all disgusted by their boldness. First, because they were broad-minded people, they felt that their subordinates should be in awe of the emperor rather than fear; Second, it's really because everyone has drunk wine, the new emperor ascended the throne, not to mention the wind and rain, at least there is no snow and drought, there is a mansion to take in the New Year, and the palace banquet can still be full of food and drink, ask yourself, Yang Sanlang is really good as an emperor. Even if you can't see his courage and deeds in the short term, at least many of his actions are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, plus the mysterious future queen Fu Shu County Lord, who is so smart and beautiful (this is a world of Yan Kong) and approachable, and the emperor treats her so well......
Many people who originally planned to send the ladies of the clan into the palace beat drums in their hearts, asking themselves if they didn't have such an outstanding little lady in their own family, not to mention that there were two fathers behind her, the eldest princess and General Wen Shangshu Cui......
The feast ends at about half past mid-hour, followed by a fireworks display. In this era, there are firecrackers, and there are also simple fireworks, which are really simple, just some silver-white sparks. The real fireworks were only invented in the Song Dynasty. This overhead era is without the Tang Dynasty, according to time, it has probably reached the time of the founding of the Song Dynasty, and the person who invented fireworks is estimated to have been cannon fodder, or it may not have appeared yet, anyway, this time San Lang and Mu Fushu once again became "inventors" and invented fireworks in the real sense.
Saburo was thinking about the wedding in a month, so this fireworks were not the most grand and complicated, but the colorful fireworks still stunned everyone inside and outside the palace! This time, the fireworks they made were all in the shape of relatively large colorful flowers, and a fireworks would take a few minutes, a total of half an hour, and those who were drunk were also "awakened", not to mention the people outside the palace.
When the first fireworks were released, the people, including the people who participated in the palace banquet, were startled, but fortunately, Saburo had said in advance that there would be a fireworks display, and everyone was taken aback and began to watch, followed by exclamations and applause.
The people outside the palace were unlucky, first they were scared and crawled on the ground, and then there were people who were "lucky" to see explosives and screamed in fright, thinking that there was a palace change, and the palace was fighting again, and finally put it to the third one only to find out that it might be fireworks.
The palace banquet and fireworks in the first year of Shengkang left a deep impression in the hearts of the officials and people of Chang'an City, which also continued the grand beginning of the prosperous era of Shengkang for hundreds of years. R1152