In a blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, in the Tang Dynasty it is called the year division, and the same as the later life, this night to set off the blast rod, at this time the Tang is no fireworks, can only buy some bamboo, bring back the fire to burn, make a crackling sound, this night to keep the year all night, the first two years are Wang and Xuan Shijing, in the second half of the night, Xuan Shijing can not bear, sleep, as a result, the year has become Wang's business.

Xuan Shijing in his previous life felt that since he grew up, the New Year was not as good as a year, not how his life was, but the lack of the "New Year's flavor" when he was a child, Xuan Shijing, who came to the Tang Dynasty, decided to regain that long-lost feeling, after all, it is still his childhood.

In the study, Xuan Shijing gathered Zhong Zishuo, Long'er, Gao Jun, and several people in charge of the Hou Mansion together, planning to let everyone have a different year.

Xuan Shijing handed a written procurement list to Zhong Zishuo.

"Uncle Zhong, go to the market and buy all the things I listed, keep a New Year's Eve this night, gather the people in the house, and let's have a good time."

Zhong Zishuo took it and said with some hesitation: "Little Marquis, let's keep the New Year together at night, after all, the identities are different, it's not good......"

Xuan Shijing waved his hand: "Uncle Zhong, I understand what you mean, you look at these previous years, it was my mother and me, it was less than the middle of the night, I fell asleep, the two of them kept the New Year, it was so boring to be alone, the New Year, let's not just want to be happy, let's have fun, Uncle Zhong, you are also from the rivers and lakes, when do you like these clichés, the people in the Hou Mansion are their own families, and it is nothing for their families to get together for the New Year." ”

Seeing Xuan Shijing say this, Zhong Zishuo could only do it.

"Long'er, let's go to the kitchen in a while, tonight's night banquet, let's do it ourselves, Gao Jun, you go and arrange it, the miscellaneous maids in the house have put down their work before the dinner, and it's time to take a holiday or something for the New Year, if you have relatives who want to go to your relatives, send more money, and if you don't leave the house, come together in the evening, let people clean up the meeting room, and we will hold this banquet there tonight." Xuan Shijing said.

The meeting room is the original Qin Wang Tiance Mansion ministers to deal with political affairs gathered place, since the Qin Wangfu was changed to the Hou Mansion, there is idle, the meeting room is a very large room, three points larger than the hall of the Hou Mansion, used to open the annual meeting of the Hou Mansion, it is very suitable.

"Master Hou, there is nothing in the meeting room, it has been vacant for several years." Gao Jun said.

"Then clean it up, put a few more charcoal stoves, make the house warmer, and spread blankets on the floor." Xuan Shijing commanded.

"Yes." Gao Jun nodded.

"By the way, did you buy all the blasters?" Xuan Shijing looked at Zhong Zishuo.

"Master Hou, rest assured, these were all done before the year." Zhong Zishuo said.

"Well, okay, let's go and prepare, Long'er, you come with me." Xuan Shijing stood up.

At sunset, the sound of crackling burning rods had sounded intermittently in Chang'an City, and the Xuanwei Hou's Mansion was also lively, and the miscellaneous servants were busy preparing for tonight's grand dinner.

In the kitchen, Xuan Shijing directed Long'er and a cook to cook dinner and eat for the New Year.

"Little Hou Ye, there isn't much meat on these chicken breastbones, what are you doing with it?" Long'er asked, holding a basin of chicken breastbones that had been cleaned up and chopped open with a knife.

"This one needs to get some flour, add seasonings and water to stir the flour into a paste, wrap it in these chicken breastbones, fry it in oil, sprinkle spices after frying, and you can eat it." Xuan Shijing stepped on the small bench, and the mutton was skewered with a bamboo skewer in his hand.

"Oh, okay." Long'er followed Xuan Shijing's words and began to mix the flour.

Xuan Shijing had already skewered a large pot of mutton skewers, and instructed the cook to take them to the shelf and cook them, the so-called barbecue grill was also thought up by Xuan Shijing, and he had previously instructed the people in the house to find a craftsman to melt a rather large rectangular bronze utensil, which was burned with charcoal to make a simple barbecue grill.

In the afternoon, Zhong Zishuo went to the pharmacy and bought a big bag of some spices listed by Xuan Shijing.

It turns out that cumin is called benzoin here, and it is all rough processing, far less meticulous than cumin powder in later generations, and Xuan Shijing can only buy a pack and process it himself.

Grinding these spices into powder, Xuan Shijing really made a lot of money this time, the most expensive thing for the whole meal is spices, followed by some melons, fruits and vegetables, Datang's planting technology has not yet developed, and the vegetables that can be eaten in winter are simply a handful.

Xuan Shijing looked at the busy Long'er and the cook, and then realized that the dishes were not enough at all, so he looked at the flour left over from the chicken breastbone, and then looked at the mushrooms in the basket.

Xuan Shijing can be regarded as bringing fried food to Datang in advance, since it is fried, there are more things that can be made, radish vegetarian balls are fried in a large pot first, this thing is stored for a long time in winter, and it can't be bad if you put it for five or six days, eggplant, now it should be called Kunlun purple melon, fry some eggplant boxes.

Once you think of a recipe, as long as you have the ingredients, you can make it.

Xuan Shijing himself definitely couldn't move, so he could only peel a few heads of garlic on the side, pound some garlic paste, and fry mushrooms dipped in garlic paste, which was simply delicious in the world.

Mutton skewers, beef skewers, garlic cloves should also be there, cattle can not be easily slaughtered in the Tang Dynasty, but it does not mean that you can't eat beef, since the Turks were disabled by the Tang Dynasty, a large part of the cattle on the grassland have entered the Tang Dynasty, these cattle, can not be domesticated and can not be cultivated, it has become the food of the border army and rich families. After Xuan Shijing finished making the garlic juice, he began to skewer the meat skewers again, and then he remembered that he could move this simple barbecue grill to the conference room.

"Wang Er, don't grill the mutton skewers, quickly stop the charcoal fire in the oven for a while, and let people move the oven directly over in a while, and the meat skewers will be grilled and eaten." Xuan Shijing hurriedly stopped the cook from kebabs: "Go wash the mushrooms, tear them into strips, wrap them in the remaining noodles in the basin, and fry them." ”

"Okay." Wang Er answered, removed all the mutton skewers that had not been fully cooked on the oven, and began to fry the mushrooms busily.

Long'er had already fried the chicken breastbone, poured it into a wooden tray, and sprinkled it with pepper and cumin powder according to Xuan Shijing's instructions, and in an instant, the fragrance filled the entire kitchen.

"Little Marquis, it's so fragrant." Long'er couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Xuan Shijing smiled, if beer can be brewed now, this is called perfect.

Kebabs...... How can you eat barbecue without peanuts edamame?

"Long'er, are there peanuts and edamame in the house?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"Little Hou Ye, what are peanuts and edamame?" Long'er was puzzled.

Didn't there be peanuts in the Tang Dynasty? By the way, peanuts are native to North America, and Columbus has not yet discovered the New World.

"There are no peanuts, there should always be edamame, that is, unripe soybeans, with skin." Xuan Shijing knew that Datang planted soybeans, otherwise there would be no soybean sprouts soaked in the kitchen pot.

"Master Hou, this soybean is not ripe, what are you doing with it? Now it is still growing in the ground, and the farmers will plant a crop of soybeans after harvesting the farmer in the autumn, and the adults of the agricultural supervisor say that planting soybeans can raise the land. ”

"Find someone immediately, go out and pick some back, and go to the nearest dealer to buy some, it doesn't matter if it's expensive." Xuan Shijing said.

"Oh......" Long'er nodded stupidly, walked out of the kitchen, pulled a handyman, and told the matter to continue.

The kitchen is busy here, and the meeting room is here, Gao Jun also commanded the handymen to tidy up the meeting room in an orderly manner, according to what Xuan Shijing said, the things in the whole room were moved out, cleaned thoroughly, thick blankets were spread on the ground, and the long low wooden table that was urgently customized in the afternoon was placed in the center of the whole room, the wooden table was very large, there were not many people in the Hou Mansion, there were more than 20 people up and down, enough to sit open.

In the four corners of the room, the charcoal fire in the huge charcoal basin is booming, the whole room is warm, as soon as you come in, you feel extremely comfortable, in order to leave no carbon in the house, Xuan Shijing also specially instructed Gao Jun to find a few thick bamboos, open up the bamboo joints, put them on the charcoal basin in the house, and lead to the outside of the house from the window.

Xuan Shijing and the servants of the Hou Mansion were busy, and Wang was in the house, with her personal maid, preparing the red envelopes that would be sent to the people of the house at night, the word red envelope was taught to Wang by Xuan Shijing, as early as the middle of the month, when the house bought some red silk when buying New Year's goods, Wang made some brocades with red silk, at this time these brocades were placed on the case, and there were some copper coins scattered next to it.

"I didn't expect Jing'er's Shanpinfang to really bring a lot of benefits to the Hou Mansion, and now the nobles of Chang'an are sent to Shanpinfang every once in a while to buy some Songhua eggs to eat." Wang said with emotion.

"Yes, madam, if you want the slave to say, this is called being a good person and having a good reward, our Hou Mansion treats the Zhuang family well on weekdays, you see, no, the Hou Ye went out for a trip, and he had this recipe for making Songhua eggs." Wang's maid Xiao Ji said while picking up the bags: "The red envelopes issued by our Hou Mansion this year are much thicker than in previous years. ”

Wang smiled suddenly: "Yes, at the end of this year, the Hou Mansion is rich, and the people in the Mansion will also follow suit." As he spoke, Wang began to stuff the copper coins into the red brocade bags, and then placed them in a tray covered with red cloth.