Chapter 377: The History of Noodles

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But he encountered the same problem in the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion, the current Wei Cai is not the previous Wei Cai, people used to give him face and treat him like an uncle, but now they all know that he has offended a prince and a marquis, and he can't avoid it, who will lend him money?

When Wei Cai tried to be kicked out of the house like a lost dog several times, he was not complaining about the lack of affection, but the blood in his body burned like fire, and he strengthened his belief that he wanted revenge!

Wei Caidu has reached this point, and there are too many people he wants to retaliate against, but among these people, Jiawang Zhao Hao can't even think about it, how can he not afford to provoke him.

Wang Laohu is dead, but Lan Ruoxin, who calculated him and Wang Laohu with Yang Huairen, is still there, but Wei Cai thought about it and wanted to take revenge on Lan Ruoxin, and now is not the time.

Needless to say, the status of the beggar gang in today's first gang in the rivers and lakes, just the status of the Qinglian Gang's current status as the first gang in Tokyo City, he doesn't dare to provoke easily, even if he has martial arts, it is impossible to compete with a big gang that is now in full swing, not to mention that he doesn't know martial arts.

So the rest is only Yang Huairen. Speaking of all the unfortunate things that happened to him, they are inseparable from Yang Huairen, and everything between them is from the day Yang Huairen rescued Wang Xialian, planting a seed of resentment.

Wei Cai's money is gone, his home is gone, and his most beloved youngest son has become crazy, and he blames Yang Huairen for all these sins.

For a person whose heart is already extremely distorted, after suffering all this, it is impossible for him to reflect on the reasons in his body, and the pressure and hatred in his heart need a way to release, so it is natural to transfer this hatred to Yang Huairen.

Wei Cai can't control it so much, he only has one idea now, which is to use his own way to destroy Yang Huairen and let him taste all this he has experienced!

Wei Cai hid in a dilapidated rented courtyard, hiding in a dark and cold room all day long, watching his crazy son, who turned white overnight, and finally came up with an insidious plan for revenge.

He first figured out Yang Huairen's family history, and suddenly found one thing, that is, Yang Huairen's family property and status today rely on his superb cooking skills, the focus of which is the food provided by Suiyuan.

Throughout the development of food history and the change of people's eating habits, a food has a relatively clear development process from scratch, and the popular food can find the whole vein of this food from being unknown to gradually entering people's field of vision, and finally becoming popular.

Although it was originally just an ordinary dish in the homes of ordinary people in the Lianghu area, it was formed through the continuous improvement of his Wei ancestors, and it also achieved the Wei Jiazheng store, which was once famous in the capital.

However, these delicacies that have recently become popular in the garden seem to have fallen from the sky, so that Wei Cai has no way to trace the evolution of its historical development.

Take beef noodles as an example, as a noodle dish, wheat was the main ingredient since it was introduced to the Central Plains from West Asia through Central Asia in the middle of the Shang Dynasty more than 1,000 years BC, and soup cakes as the predecessor of noodles appeared.

The first soup cake is easy to make, mix ground wheat flour with water and form a dough, then roll out the dough into a thin large dough, and finally fold the dough and cut it into strips, which is the first noodle.

However, the original form of this type of noodle is different from that of modern noodles, and it is more similar to a kind of wide dough with local characteristics.

Wheat really popularized and became the staple food source of the people in northern China, it was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty a thousand years later, that the cultivation and breeding of wheat gradually increased the yield per mu to exceed the yield of upland rice in the north at that time, and gradually replaced upland rice and millet with a smaller yield, becoming the most commonly planted crop in the north.

The evolution of food is not carried out alone, and different foods interact with each other.

Due to the fact that there were no ways to refine vegetable oil such as pressing at that time, coupled with the lack of animal oil, even since the Eastern Han Dynasty, noodles called "soup cakes" at that time have been very common food, but until the vegetable oil of the Northern Song Dynasty entered the public life, soup cakes were clear soup with little water and little taste.

It is recorded that the Chinese began to use marinade or sauce to add to soup cakes to flavor them, beginning with the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In other words, the simplest food of soy sauce and sesame oil noodles, which was the most common in later generations, could not be eaten by the three bigwigs Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms period.

However, there was once a food very close to the soy milk noodles of later generations, which is already a classic match for Chinese noodles.

During the Tang Dynasty, the state was strong, but it was limited to diplomacy. There is never enough food to eat, so the development of diet is basically in a state of semi-stagnation during this period.

A statistic is very revealing, the number of households in the Tang Dynasty was one-third of that of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the grain output was less than one-tenth of that of the Song Dynasty.

The military strength boasted in the history of the Tang Dynasty depends on how you look at it, and the so-called nominal military strength obtained by killing 80 enemies and losing 100 self-inflicted losses and letting millions of people sacrifice their lives in vain is not known to be anything to be proud of.

So don't believe the braggadocio in those film and television dramas, the facts are there, the people in power at that time can still boast of being an emperor through the ages, I don't know how much experience this emperor has.

The strange thing is that in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, the development of food has begun to enter the fast lane again, and considering it with a simple thinking, it may really verify the truth of "born in sorrow and die in peace".

Similar to the five dynasties and ten kingdoms divided by warlords, everyone who claims to be the emperor is actually unstable in his heart, and he has tried his best to win over his people.

In times of chaos, food was more attractive than money, so making food more delicious became the consensus of all rulers.

Of course, this is only a conjecture, or that the new tricks of food that came up in this particular time are simply the product of the pleasures of the rulers.