The firewood was burning, the flames licked the bottom of the pot, the hot soup in the copper nest of the beam was bubbling, and the fragrance gushed out.

Xue Wu stared at the pot and said with a smile, "It turns out that this is the hot pot in your mouth, I thought it was something strange, isn't it just a grunt pot." This thing is said to have existed as early as the Han Dynasty. At that time, people had such a pot for hot vegetables to eat, and it was divided into grids, and a pot could cook several dishes without flavor. ”

Hot pot, Gudong pot, and grid pot may have different names, but in fact, the functions are similar, they are all different names for hot pot, and they taste the same.

The wisdom of the Chinese ancestors is infinite, they have been able to cook hot pot in a very early era, at that time there may not be a hot pot base, but hot pot has long been available. The Han Dynasty's grid pot is to divide a pot into several grids, similar to a mandarin duck pot.

Zhu Zi and the others had never eaten any hot pot before, but a disciple of a general like Xue Wu had naturally eaten it earlier.

There is no hot pot base, no sauce, and even the side dishes are pitiful.

There are many delicious things such as duck blood, goose intestines, hairy tripe, shutters, fried tofu, fat sheep, mutton rolls, prawns, fish mouths, etc., not even green vegetables, but this does not prevent Li Xiao from still looking forward to the hot pot in front of him this winter.

There is no hot pot base, Li Xiao stewed an old hen directly, this is an authentic local chicken, after stewing for a long time, it is fragrant.

The old hen makes the base soup, which is enough.

Although many people are not happy with hot pot, and the red oil base soup is the best, but there are no chili peppers in these years, and the clear soup pot is also very good.

"Almost, let's eat."

Li Xiao saw that the chicken soup was already good and the chicken was precocious, so he couldn't help but entertain Xue Wu, Zhao Lushi and others to eat.

The copper pot is not big, and it is in the courtyard, Li Xiao simply didn't get a table or chairs, everyone has a bowl, a pair of chopsticks, and they gather around the pot.

On a small table next to the pot, there is beef and mutton cut by Biaozi, as well as chicken blood and duck blood made when killing chickens and ducks, and some chicken and duck offal.

There are no greens, only a little radish slices and coupling slices.

"If you want to eat, you can take chopsticks and put them in the pot, and you can eat them."

"Everyone, just eat, I just cut thirty catties of mutton and twenty catties of beef, if it's not enough, I'll cut it again." Da Biao greeted, his knife skills were really good, with a few people on the pillar, it didn't take long to cut thirty catties of mutton and twenty catties of beef, and the cuts were quite thin.

"I didn't expect to be able to eat beef today, it's so delicious." Zhao Lushi stood by the pot with a bowl in his hand, but he didn't dislike the cold, although this way of eating the banquet was indeed a bit excessive in his opinion, how could he let the distinguished guests stand in the courtyard to eat.

A group of people gather around a pot and shake the vegetables together in the pot, which is the same as calling Hanako.

Xue Wu had eaten a Gudong pot before, and in winter, he made a small copper pot, added charcoal underneath, and put all kinds of meat and vegetables on the table, which was very pleasant, but it was the first time for him to eat like today.

He didn't think it was a bad way to eat, but he thought it was fresh and fun.

In fact, today's way of eating, more precisely, should be a side stove. The first time to play the side stove is the way of eating of Guangdong fishermen, there are clay pots, fishing and selling fish leftovers every day, everyone you make up a little I make a little, and then stand around the stove to eat, eat is the seafood pot.

"That's what beef is." Xue Wudao.

The law of the Tang Dynasty protects the cultivated cattle. Therefore, in Datang, ordinary people can't eat beef, there is no special storage of slaughtered cattle, cattle are all ploughed cattle, unless they die of old age or fall to death, they are not allowed to be slaughtered privately. Even if you are disabled and unable to plough the field, you have to report to the government first, and even have to be killed by someone designated by the government.

Even after killing, beef is generally not sold to ordinary people.

Many people have seen or even raised cows, but have never eaten beef. Of course, this article is not the same for Xue Wu.

His family is a general, and his father is the emperor's guard general, and he has enjoyed very high treatment, and the palace often rewards some beef and mutton.

After all, many cattle were slaughtered in the end when they were too old to plough the land, but they did not flow into the people's table, but went to the banquets of the court and the magnates.

Zhao Lushi does not have a high status in Lantian County, but his real power is not small, and his net worth is very fat, but he usually does not say that he can eat beef casually, and he is very envious when he sees that the Xue family sent so much beef from the palace to Li Xiao.

"Beef and mutton are delicious to eat, but these are red meats, not as good as pork. A strong man has nothing to do with eating three or two catties of beef and mutton, but if you eat three catties of pork, you will definitely have to roll your eyes. Beef and mutton are easy to digest, especially when eaten shabu-shabu, and you don't feel full. My dad used to eat five catties of mutton at one time! Xue Wu said.

Li Xiao also agreed with Xue Wu's words, beef and mutton are indeed not so greasy, especially when eaten shabu-shabu, you can eat more than boiled ones.

But eating five catties in one meal is really powerful.

"Let's have two catties of mutton and one catty of beef first." Xue Wu said with a smile.

Zhao Lushi shook his head, "Xue Gongzi's disciples, martial arts are good, this digestion is good, we can't do it, we are old, eat a pound of meat, and we will have to accumulate food at night." ”

"It's okay, I'll get two more things later, and I'll definitely be appetizing, even if I let them go." Li Xiao said beside him. Xue Wu is a nobleman, and people like Zhao Lushi can't be easily offended.

"Bring something good first." Xue Wu was not polite.

"Wait a minute, I'll go get it."

After a while, Li Xiao brought two things, a rock sugar gourd and a hand-patted cucumber.

Today's hand-patted cucumber with vinegar is crisp and appetizing, while the rock sugar gourd is made of hawthorn, which is the most digestible.

"And what about this good thing? I didn't think you actually have jasper green here? Xue Wu looked at those cucumbers with some surprise, yesterday the manager of the Xue Mansion purchased some of these cucumbers, the price is not cheap, but it tastes really delicious, I didn't expect to see it in the Li family today.

"In fact, the jasper green that appears in Chang'an and Lantian now is what my family sold."

"Ho!"

Li Xiao entertained, "Don't talk much, let's eat." ”

"Uncle Biao, you entertain over there, let everyone hurry up and eat, while it's hot, don't get cold."

A pair of long bamboo chopsticks were used as chopsticks, and a few slices of mutton were picked up and put into the hot soup to be scalded a few times, and the color of the meat turned from red to white, Li Xiao quickly picked it up and put it in his bowl.

There is no sauce, but the soup is good, the mutton is fresh, and when it is hot, it really feels like it melts in your mouth, and it is delicious.

After eating a few handfuls, I felt oil in my throat, and this feeling of oil in my throat was so good!

"Delicious!"

Xue Wu, a foodie, couldn't help but applaud while eating, "I can't imagine that the old hen soup and mutton shabu have a different taste!" ”