Ling Hujing thought about it repeatedly, felt that he had matured his thoughts, and thought: "Just because I can't stop Xin Youzhu from attacking Shuofang, Gao Chong has brought back such a piece of news, which can be used by me." ”

He looked at the sky outside, it was just past noon, and he thought in his heart, "I have no official or position in the court, if I want to take advantage of this news and stop Xin You's attack, I still have to ask the Duke to come forward."

"The Duke of Pan is not on duty at this time, I am famous in Beijing, and whenever there are visitors, it is often spread all over the five cities, so as not to cause alarm, I am not good to go to his official party to tell him. Xin You's book collected the wisdom of Tang Qianli, Yang Shidao and others, compiled a "New Book of the Art of War", and taught the camp generals and colonels, in which there is a saying that "every major event must be calm", which is very true. But I don't have to rush. In the evening, it was not too late to go to the house of the Rang Gong to ask for an audience. ”

After taking the idea, Ling Hujing asked the maid who was kneeling in the outdoor corridor to fetch food.

Although Linghujing has not entered the ranks, he is a clan, and his family has fertile land, pastures, dock forts, and shops, although it cannot be compared with the wealth of the first-class valve family, Zhong Ming Ding food is not lacking.

After a short time, five dishes are served.

A pot of steaming camel's hoof soup, a cold frozen fish tart, a steamed mutton, a plate of lamb liver, and a plate of vegetables.

Five kinds of vegetables, arranged on a gold disc.

The disc can be turned. If you want to eat any dish, turn the disc in front of you.

In addition to five dishes, a bowl of fragrant rice with mushrooms; a stack of steamed cakes made of dried dates and walnuts, with a cross on the cake; A pot of puff pastry.

Linghujing has always prided himself on frugality. Judging only from the number of dishes, it is indeed frugal. There are only five dishes. And the five dishes are already the standard of the thrifty people among the nobles and scholars. Xin'er's daily diet is at most five dishes per meal.

However, the gold content of Linghujing's five dishes is much higher than the "five dishes" that Xin Er is accustomed to, or it can be said that the homely meals that Xin Er eats daily cannot be compared with these five dishes of Linghujing.

Just that pot of camel's hoof soup is worth a lot of money, and it costs half a month's food expenses.

On a hot day, you can still freeze the fish pan, and the cost of the ingredients is even more expensive.

The practice of camel's hoof soup still carries Hu Feng, and the practice of steaming mutton has been basically Tang, specifically: cutting a pound of mutton, combining the soy sauce, and the green onion is white on the top, and steaming until cooked; Compared with the first two dishes, the ingredients seem to be inexpensive, but Ling Hujing has a habit, he likes to eat mutton neck, and the meat used in this plate of steamed mutton is all the neck meat of a one-year-old lamb.

The practice of sheep liver burn has also been Tangized, the materials are cheap, but eating liver pays attention to freshness, and behind a sheep liver burn is one or two newly slaughtered sheep. Green vegetables are useless to say, when you eat a lot of meat, you can use the spices, but you are also quite particular about the condiments.

Mushroom is a kind of aquatic plant, the smell is fragrant, and the fragrant rice cooked with mushroom is full of fragrance, and the smell of it will greatly increase the appetite. Longdi does not produce high-quality fragrant rice, and what Hujing eats is all transported from other places by Hu merchants, which is rare and expensive, and the price is high.

As for the steamed cake of Shangqi Cross, this is a technique passed down from the home of a scholar in the Western Tang Dynasty, similar to the flowering steamed buns that Xin Er ate in his previous life, which is made by fermenting raw noodles and then steaming, which is soft and delicious, and easy to digest.

——Fermentation is an emerging technology, and most people don't know about it. Emperor Chengwen of the previous generation of the Cheng Dynasty tasted and said: "The elders of the third generation know how to be served, and the elders of the fifth generation know how to eat." "Eating and drinking, for the poor people, is a luxury, let alone work hard to ponder? Only the aristocracy will pay attention to not getting tired of eating and not getting tired of being fine. There are many scholars and doctors who have money and leisure, and there are many who pursue the pleasure of the mouth, ingenious, poor and extravagant, and there are not a few people who "eclipse ten thousand dollars, hate thrift, and have no place to go", and what "swallow scarlet lips" and "the fetus of the leopard" have been collected by them on the table. The scholar doctor in the Western Tang Dynasty was one of them, and he was a very famous one, he didn't even look down on the imperial food in the palace, every time he was summoned by Emperor Wu of Tang, he never ate the imperial food prepared by the Taiguan, and Emperor Wu of Tang could only allow him to bring his own food. He wrote a masterpiece of food, called "Food Shu", which has been widely circulated, and the method of fermentation is what Ling Hujing learned from this book.

Crisp cheese, not ordinary buttermilk, is the famous milk skin of Longzhou, like a silver cake, all cheese cream. Even the small rate of the Huyi tribes is not always able to eat this thing.

In short, despite his self-proclaimed frugality, Ling Hujing's meal is something that poor families can't even imagine.

With the accompaniment of silk and bamboo, singing and dancing, Linghu Jing ate a beautiful meal.

After eating, his maid brought a jade plate with two golden pills on the plate.

The jade plate is moist, the golden pill is shining, and the view is full of fairy spirit.

The golden color is already brilliant, and the jade plate sets off the appearance, making the appearance of the elixir more and more excellent.

This is a health elixir specially prepared for him by the Fang Shi in Linghu Jing Mansion.

Ling Hujing knew that Wushisan was harmful to his body, and he never took it, but this golden elixir, he firmly believed that it was beneficial and would not leave for a day.

I didn't sleep all night, I was very sleepy, I was full of food and drink, and I finished taking the two pills of Jindan, so that Hu Jing opened his clothes, ** his body, and walked around in the shade of the courtyard, and made a little loose medicine, but he didn't care about Zai Yu's day and night, and the wall of dung could not be enclosed, so he returned to the bedroom and fell asleep with his head covered.

When he slept in the evening, he got up and ate too much for lunch, so he didn't feel hungry, so he saved his dinner for the time being.

Ai maid waited for him to wash, turned a few chapters of "Lao Tzu", and ordered Hujing to prepare the car.

The servant asked, "Dare to ask what kind of car you want to take?" ”

Today's scholars and doctors travel, there are many means of transportation to choose from, there are the previous Qin Dynasty cheap, and the current dynasty is expensive, there are all kinds of ox carts, such as the Wugai long eaves car, etc.; There is a wheelbarrow pushed by a man named "Deer Car"; There are two or four or more people shoulder-to-shoulder car, there is a basket-shaped basket carried by people, there is a version of the public opinion held by two people, there is a public opinion bar on the upper fold, people hold the bar in both hands, and the shoulder bears the carriage and so on. It can be described as varied, and scholars can choose to use them at will according to different situations and different preferences.

When participating in the Qing Talks, Ling Hujing mostly chooses to sit on the shoulder.

Four well-dressed, strong-bodied, green-eyed and thick-haired Sogdian Hunu carried the shoulders of the unroofed and shaped like a couch, and the side was hung with a curtain of tulle, and the breeze blew, the gauze curtain was swaggering, and a slave was obedient, holding a long-handled fan, leaning behind the sitter to shade the sun.

And there is also an advantage of shouldering, that is, when you arrive at the master's house, you don't have to get off the horse and get off the car like riding a horse or a car.

Ling Hujing considered that it was best not to let Xin Er know about it immediately, so he didn't choose a means of transportation such as shoulders, thought about it, and said, "Let's go to the car!" Don't take the long eaves, the pass can also. ”

The shape of the eaves car is sleek and easy to notice. 幰, the meaning of the curtain on the car. The general carriage is a relatively common type of bullock cart, which is covered with a curtain to cover the carriage. The car, which was originally intended for high-ranking officials, has now gradually spread to the middle and lower classes.

The subordinate answered the order and went out to prepare the car.

Ling Hujing changed his body, cleaned up, took the rich incense on his clothes, walked to the court, and came to the front yard.

His maid helped him pick up his clothes and sleeves that were hanging down to the ground, and he grabbed the feather fan in his hand, stepped on the silver stool, and sat down in the car. Ai Wan then followed into the car.

The twilight is deep, and the night is coming.

The ox cart slowly drove out of the door of Linghu Jing's house, and more than ten Tang and Hu Danu, three or four beautiful little slaves, followed closely.

From the middle of the line to the street.

The streets were noisy, and the people of the Tang, Hu, and Hu ethnic groups in the Western Regions came and went, and the river was endless.

There are officials from various prefectures and official temples who have just been on duty and come out to hang out together; There are merchants who have closed from the "city" and hurried home; There are vegetable vendors, who are tired, squatting under the dense green trees on the side of the road to rest; There were customers who bought wine on the street, and bargained with the woman in the house. After a whole day of sunbathing on the bluestone pavement, the residual temperature is still hot, mixed with the noise of pedestrians, full of fireworks.

Ling Hujing lifted the curtain and looked outside, and his handsome face showed a relieved expression.

Fan hard, the love maid who was cooling him off, asked in a charming voice, "What did you see?" So happy. ”

Ling Hujing turned his head and said, "What do I see?" What else could there be, nothing more than the people on the streets. ”

"Where can't the people see? It's vulgar and dirty. Even when they see it, they stink like pigs and dogs, which makes people hateful. Every time the little maid goes out on the street, she can't hide from them, lest she run into them. Worthy of everyone's pleasure? ”

Ling Hujing has a good temper and patience, and does not disdain to explain as a loving maid, and says: "You can't say that, the people are the foundation of the country!" It is vulgar and indeed despicable, but if there are no Qiantou people, how can there be a scholarly stream? If there is no stream, how can there be a country? "The ancient is the government, the lover is great", "the people are only the state, the country is solid", this saint's teaching. Don't despise Qianshou.

"Now that there is a war in the sea, I have to protect myself. The people of Guanzhong, Hebei and the Central Plains are like fire and water, but the people of Qianshou in my Long can live happily and peacefully. As a descendant of my ancestors, how can I not be happy? ”

He stretched out his white fingers, nodded outward, and said to Ai Wan with a smile, "And you know me, I am lazy by nature, and my only hobby is to get up in the morning to appreciate the rat marks left on the desk dust last night, spotted toe marks, innocent and natural." I don't have any great wishes, nor do I have any great ambitions, I just wish that I can see everywhere and everywhere at all times, and I am the first point in Guyin City! Gillian, this is also a natural one! ”

Linghu Jing looks at the marks left by the mouse toes, so the slaves are not allowed to wipe the cases and the ground at home, and the dust is often full of cases and grounds.

At this time, the people on the streets of the city, in his eyes, although they are the "foundation of the country", but from the perspective of his natural and true taste, they are also like the traces of spots, etc., which is also very in line with his celebrity aesthetics.

Linghujing's beloved maid Gillian didn't understand his words, and out of worship, she fanned the big fan harder.