Text Chapter 19 Red Like a Flower Rice Shop
It wasn't until he saw the bustling crowd that the county lord of Qingqi stopped talking, and two maidservants on each side followed, plus the four tall nurses of the Li family, their line was still very eye-catching.
The originally empty open-air venue has long been lively, not only the traffic and crowds coming and going, but also the moo of domestic animals, the color of goods, the shouting of sales, and the singing and cheering of gongs and drums.
Due to the distance between the surrounding villages and the scattered distance, the market here has been maintained once every fifteen days, but the area is large enough to occupy dozens of acres of empty space.
Each township market has its own market, and although the dates vary from one to the other, this major gathering on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year is a large gathering of all the small markets on the outskirts of Chang'an.
The origin of the name of this called Huapu Daji is because not far away is the highest Huapu Peak in the entire Chang'an City, I don't know when it was agreed, and I don't know when it started, and there are few records of the market in the folk village records.
In short, it has continued to this day, exists in every corner of every village, exists in the memory of every villager, and its existence may have been hundreds of years.
As soon as he came, Li Zhi was deeply attracted, compared with the city, the countryside is often lonely, lonely for a long time, he yearns for those who have no reason to be lively, and the bazaar is the place where this kind of liveliness is derived, it is the place where the excitement is.
It is like a punctuation point, located in a corner of the countryside, quiet and full of mystery, as if there is a powerful vitality latent in it, and with the slightest stirring of a voice, it can make a noise of collective laughter, a kind of life energy.
Living in a village is okay if there are no shops, but if there is no market, the village is deserted, lonely and unsatisfactory. Without the communication between people and villages, the village has really become a closed place.
To a certain extent, the bazaar is like the blood vessel of the village, and the agricultural products are the blood of the input and output of the bazaar, and fresh agricultural and sideline products need to be transported from here to meet the shortage in the city.
Wooden cars, children's novelty toys, advanced agricultural machinery, and fashionable clothing of all ages in the city must also be transported from the city to the remote villages in the mountains.
It belongs to the mountainous countryside, and the market can continue to the present, whether it is now or in the future, it must have its value reflected.
They did not join in directly, but were led by Li Zhi and the county lord of Qingqi to a street shop outside the bazaar, which was a simple street thousands of meters long, with a hundred kinds of food and drink, which was extremely precious.
It is full of Chang'an City's long-famous Xiaojia wonton, Yujia zongzi, cherry Biluo (饣Bi 饣饣luo), Lenghu Tu, Geluo River, sashimi, steamed musk deer, piso cake, hump roast, scarlet lip, bear white, sugar crab, carp tail, prawn, shrimp, lobster, roasted whole sheep, steamed whole dog and other signboards, of course, eighty or ninety percent are fake and shoddy.
Because of regional reasons, the Hu people of the eating habits have long been in the locality, and the local characteristics of the food culture are blended together, the Hu people are the ancient Chinese name for the northern borderlands and the Western Regions of various ethnic groups, after the Han Dynasty also refers to foreigners.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the country was already strong, the economy was developed, the culture was prosperous, foreign exchanges were frequent, religious belief was free, and there were many people from distant countries who came to the dynasty, and the household department once played on this matter: Chinese returned from outside the country, and those who came to surrender from Siyi, there were more than 1.2 million men and women.
The influx of a large number of foreign people not only brought the music, dance, and costumes of the Hu people, but also brought different styles of food culture, and a trend of Hu culture soon appeared in the upper class society of the Tang Dynasty
Water and land delicacies from different regions and different countries are available in several big cities such as Chang'an City and Luoyang City, so among the people, the princes and nobles compete to wear Hu clothes, learn Hu language, and eat Hu food.
One of them, the county lord of Qingqi and Li Zhidu, is a snack bar called Fengjiapuzi, where the cherry Biluo is a chic noodle with a meat soup such as fried lamb liver.
The pastry is somewhat similar to a stuffed dim sum, served with yellow and red crab roe like chicken and duck, baked in the oven and covered with cherry and camphor peels, and then covered with a special sauce that varies according to the salty and sweet tastes.
The taste of the two is similar, they both like that kind of salty dim sum, and then ask for a bowl of corresponding salty and spicy fried lamb liver, break it and mix it, because the cherry covers its fishy smell, and the entrance is sweet, bitter and fresh, fragrant, indescribably refreshing and transparent.
The four maids were relatively sweet, and when they saw the sweat stains on the two of them forced by the chili peppers, they each snickered.
Including the other four family members, they obviously knew that the next breakfast would not be just this one, and no one was worried about not being full, so they ate early and wiped it clean, and stood quietly and waited.
There were a lot of people dining in this store, and the originally slightly noisy environment was much quieter in a blink of an eye because of their arrival, and the sound of conversation was still lowering the voice.
The only two large mansions in the vicinity of Huapu Daji are the two of them, and these perennial street vendors and merchants have long been very familiar with the owners there.
It stands to reason that these lower-class villagers see that the aristocracy needs to be promoted, but they are faced with people of high rank, etc., and in such a crowded place, they need to bow their heads first, without approval, and do not need the normal number of ordinary rituals.
Lord Qingqi ate very slowly, because she had to constantly wipe the sweat on her forehead or the residue on the corners of her mouth for Li Zhi.
He was very proud to have such a delicate person in front of the public, expressing his concern for himself in public, but the scorn in his eyes could be glanced at by the little county lord, and her slightly disgusted smile was extra full of comfort.
Because of the movements from her hands, he could clearly feel the warmth in it, as well as the intimacy and greasy that should be in the first love.
"Let's go eat red rice next house?"
I am very grateful that she still remembers the early habits of the two of them, and he actively responded, "I still want to immerse myself in the beauty of childhood with you for the rest of my life, of course, the old habits cannot be changed!" ”
"As far as you can say some sweet words, compared to the previous Mu Ne, you seem to have a different person when you come back this time!"
"Do you like me before or me now?"
"I don't know, I like them all, right? Anyway, I feel at ease with you! ”
"I remember you only eat a few bites of red rice at a time, or we just crossed over?"
"I don't, the horse cow and sheep cheese taste sweet and sour, I feel that the taste is too strong after eating a few bites, but I feel missed after not smelling it for a long time."
The red rice here is like a flower, it is boiled with the unique red rice in the south, and the buttersauce brewed by the milk of the animal is poured on it, eating cheese is originally the traditional habit of the people in the extreme north, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, many local landlords had wanted to taste the taste of cheese, but they did not expect to have diarrhea after eating, so they had to be afraid.
In the Tang Dynasty, cheese miraculously appeared on the dinner tables of southerners.
Sand beef and white sheep crisp, sweet and slightly cold non-toxic, in addition to the stomach is polite, good for the large and small intestines, and treats mouth sores.
The crispy taste of the cow is sweet and non-toxic, and it goes to all rheumatism, heat, stool, and food.
Daigo (cream) has a sweet and flat taste, non-toxic and replenishes deficiency, and removes wind paralysis.
Hundred exercises are very good, go to the eclipse sores, add the marrow to fill the bones, and take it for a long time to increase the years.
Compared with the height of the ancient southerners of one meter five or six, it is not difficult to see that the reason why the Tang people can grow tall and mighty, plump and proud, may be closely related to their eating habits.
After a more delicate transformation in the south, the red flower-like rice that now flows back to the boundary of Shaanxi has more of a mixed sense of wonder, so it has become very popular.
When I came to the Zhou Ji Red Flower Rice Shop, there were obviously a lot fewer diners there, and the lord of Qingqi County was born and raised in Chang'an City, so of course he could tell the authenticity of the time-honored brands in the hundreds of shops here.
However, the other red rice shops here are mixed with other omnivores because they can't make the unique milky flavor of Zhouji, so the villagers who don't know how to eat in them prefer to eat in those shops with more categories.
Only traders and customers from large places will appreciate the authentic existence of this home.
Li Zhi, who came from later generations, was very unimpressed by the taste here, and barely ate a few bites, so he found an excuse and rushed to the next place.
This Mi's medicinal house is as famous as the Xiao family's wontons, and it is also the favorite of the county lord of Qingqi.
Almost everyone in the royal family surnamed Li is keen on health preservation, and the health trend has also created a new prosperity in food culture.
During the Tang Dynasty, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism were parallel, and various cultures contended with each other, developed together, and were extremely vigorous.
As the only religion in the world with the purpose of health preservation, its prosperity has greatly promoted the development of health culture.