Chapter 1017 Criminal Law Violation (Part 2)

Dressed in a tribute uniform, he has to walk with small steps. Zhao Xing only wore short clothes when he released the cow, and he also made a variant of Su Dongpo hat - shaped like a chef's hat, which was called "Zizhan hat" or "Dongpo hat" at that time.

At dusk, two small sedan chairs swayed out of the east gate, the people in the sedan chair smelled the beef fragrance in the courtyard from afar, he sniffed deeply, and laughed before he got off the sedan chair: "People say that Zizhan lives in Huangzhou is poor, living in a house, eating meat, drinking wine, why bother?" ”

"Of course it's difficult!" Su Shi laughed and came out to greet Wang Gong: "Brother Dingguo knows how I spent the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, I made a poem to describe the hardships at that time - the world is a big dream,

How cool is life?

The night wind leaves have sounded in the corridor,

Look at the eyebrows and sideburns.

Wine is cheap and often sad that there are few guests,

The moon is mostly disturbed by clouds.

Who is the lonely light in the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Look to the north sadly. ”

"The world is a big dream, and life is a few new degrees of coolness" - Zhao Xing shook his head in the back, and the two widows were also intoxicated.

Immediately afterwards, another small sedan chair fell to the ground, and a smiling woman walked out of the sedan chair. When Chaoyun saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward with a big belly, and the two held hands and chatted in a low voice. Madame Wang stood in the doorway, nodding at the woman from afar.

The guests arrived, the courtyard was still covered with blood, Chaoyun and Mrs. Wang hesitated for a moment, but still didn't have the courage to take over the cooking work, and Zhao Xing seemed to be very obsessed with the profession of a chef, he was dancing with a kitchen knife in his hand, and he was doing it happily.

Chaoyun and Mrs. Wang glanced at each other, and they turned around at the same time in a tacit understanding, and went into the house without saying a word.

The ancient Chinese way of cooking was different from the modern one, and its basic feature was that no salt was added to the dish.

Due to the irreplaceable nature of salt in food, successive governments have regarded salt as the object of heavy taxation. The salt tax revenue of the Song Dynasty was ten times that of the Tang Dynasty, which made it a luxury to stir-fry vegetables and put salt.

However, there is no heavy tax on sauce, so China has developed a unique sauce culture.

Generally speaking, in ancient times, local vegetables were eaten with a thick and salty sauce, and the invention of boiling the sauce with the vegetables - this is Su Dongpo. The dishes that are cooked with sauce are called "Dongpo pork", "Dongpo fish", and other "Dongpo-style" dishes.

Zhao Xing is not a family and does not know the price of money, he stir-fried vegetables completely according to the modern practice of a lot of salt, the most significant feature of this modern style of cuisine is that it is not polluted by the sauce, the color and fragrance are complete, which is eye-opening for the guests...... However, it made Mrs. Su Dongpo's heart tremble.

Wang Gong was satisfied, he pointed at Su Dongpo and said with a smile: "Zizhan has a good life, and he tastes such delicacies every day, even if he gives it to a god, he will not change it." ”

At this time, Su Shi's children had already mixed in the courtyard to watch Zhao Xing's performance, and only Su Shi and his wife were left in the house. Zhao Xing also entered the end, there were still a few dishes and a pot of stewed beef left, Su Mai stood beside Zhao Xing, waiting to be delivered. With a smile on their faces, the two widows stood in front of the pot and waved a spoon to serve the hot beef to the children, and the students who had been given the meat sat on the ground with plates, tasting the hot soup that came out of the pot with relish, and their laughter sprinkled throughout the courtyard, mixed with Zhao Xing's gentle persuasion: "Don't worry...... Be careful with the scalding...... Don't just eat it, serve this plate to the guests. ”

Su Dongpo looked in the direction of the courtyard, with a happy smile on his face, and said slowly: "This meal...... It was made by someone in the hospital...... He's my protégé...... This protégé. I don't like poetry but I have a good miscellaneous, and I tasted his craft for the first time, but I didn't expect him to be so proficient in cooking. ”

Su Mai came in with two new dishes, and when he saw that the guests couldn't eat anymore, he went out to say hello: "Brother Liren, the guests are happy, haven't you finished your fun, you also stop, let's eat." ”

Zhao Xing was still unsatisfied, looked at the pot of stewed meat and ordered: "Pay attention to the fire, boil all the broth, and marinate the meat before it can be stored." ”

"Got it", the students vaguely agreed: "Don't worry, teacher, we have a number." ”

The two widows had already squatted aside with their plates, they didn't ask for meat, so they took a few steamed buns and dipped them in vegetable soup, eating with relish, looking at Zhao Xing's eyes from time to time, full of reverence and fear. Zhao Xing saw that they were so "self-disciplined", but he felt a little pity - what is it to eat some meat? As for eating poor Su Shi?

Unbeknownst to him, it was actually an ancient Japanese eating habit. In the Asuka period of Japan, Emperor Tenmu ordered that the eating of cows, horses, dogs, apes, and chickens was forbidden, and in the Nara period in the middle of the eighth century, Emperor Shomu forbade the slaughter of cattle and horses, so the Heian people after the ninth century have developed the habit of not eating any animal meat. This ban lasted until after the Meiji Restoration.

During this period, there were also people who made a living by hunting, providing animal meat to the noble "sick" or "infirm" nobles as a tonic, mainly birds such as pheasants and ducks. Therefore, at this time, Japanese civilians did not have the habit of eating meat at all. Until after the Meiji Restoration, there was still this custom in Japan: giving meat to others is a great gift, and the other party is treated as a nobleman - nobles, they are called "Chinese".

PS: In order to have meat to eat, vote!