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The window in front of Shu Hui belongs to the lattice branch window, which can be opened upward, which is unique in this period when most buildings use rainwater grates [bì] to fix mullioned windows.

The decoration on the third floor is also very stylish. Qiongzhou belongs to Shangzhou, and Linqiong is the ancient city of the Qin Dynasty. Its historical origins, cultural and educational prosperity, can be glimpsed from the celebrity calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls and the embroidered image screens erected between the tables.

In addition to Shu Hui and his party, there was also a table on the third floor at this time where two people were drinking together. Looking at the clothes of the two, although they are only dressed in plain silk and white silk, there are jacquard silk and other techniques to deal with different light and dark colors, showing a low-key luxury.

The "Wine Doctor", who is well versed in famous wines from all over the world, reported several famous wines and signature dishes, and pointed out that the scrolls placed on the table were the menus. If you have any doubts, you can ask him, or you can read the prompts on your own.

The doctor is an official of the Qin and Han dynasties, and he served in Taichang Temple and was responsible for answering consultations. During the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Wei Wen placed Dr. Taichang, who was in charge of sacrificial divination, and was an official from the seven grades in the Tang Dynasty.

At this point, there is no longer a doctor in Taichang Temple, only Dr. Taichang. Therefore, this title is in the people's house, and it is still used to understand a certain industry and reply to consultations. Dr. Liquor is a professional who knows a lot about wine and is responsible for introducing customers to the customer.

Shu Hui didn't hear his strings of place names, wine names and dish names, so he took the menu and spread it out and looked at it carefully.

The decoration on the third floor of this ten-square building is very elegant, and the people who usually come to feast on this floor are people with some culture. The restaurant even prepared a forward-thinking menu, which made Shu Hui a little curious about the person in charge of the land.

The menu is divided into three sections. After all, it is a restaurant, and the front is wine. Shu Hui has seen a few glances and can't understand the essentials, such as the rich water of Yingzhou, the Ruoxia of Wucheng, the spring of the soil caves of Rongyang, the frozen spring of Fuping, the spring of Raochun in Bienan and the Yunxi and Boluo of Lingnan, the nine brews of Yicheng, the tears of Xunyang, the west of the capital, the Lingling, Langguanqing, and Apoqing...... ("Supplement to the History of the Tang Kingdom")

He had heard some of these wines in his previous life, but most of them had not, and he didn't really remember what he had heard.

In addition, there are also some low-alcohol drinks and cold foods, which are usually considered fruit juice drinks at this time, such as Sanle pulp brewed from three kinds of fruits, such as Sanle pulp brewed from three kinds of fruits, such as fresh cow and goat's milk and mash coagulated cheese, and fruit puree with lightly fermented fruits such as plum peach and cherry.

Among them, the grape wine produced by Gaochang Kingdom and the Jiannan Fired Spring in Zizhou made Shu Hui interested.

Turpan was also rich in grapes in later generations, and it was thought that this wine could be exported abroad, and the taste should be good.

And Jiannan's spring reminded Shu Hui of the Jiannanchun of later generations. The Jiannanchun advertisement says that it originated from the Tang Dynasty and recalls the Tang Dynasty, and the name of Jiannanchun here has a burning word, which seems to be the earliest distilled liquor in China?

Shu Hui decided to have a pot of the same and taste it first, and what was the difference between it and the taste in her impression.

The menu is well-organized and clearly priced. In terms of price, the wine and food provided on the third floor are undoubtedly high-end consumption, and Shu Hui only found some famous shochu sake on the menu, so he could not get a glimpse of the whole picture of the wine culture of the early Tang Dynasty.

"Doctor, bring me a pot of grape brew, another pot of Jiannan Burning Spring, and a smaller cup."

He just tasted the taste, and he couldn't finish drinking it, but didn't he still have Ao Guang, whether he wanted to drink it or not.

"Hongyu will help me finish the grape brewing later, and Ao Guang is in charge of Jiannan Burning Spring." Shu Hui decided to explain in advance, so as not to waste too much wine on the two of them.

In Shu Hui's thoughts, letting the red fish drink grape brewing is to take care of the lady, and such a domineering name of Jiannan Burning Spring should be drunk by Ao Guang, a gentleman. Spring is wine, and the so-called burning spring is not what later generations said about burning knives and wine.

I also saw the intermediate dishes, most of these names are obscure, which is very puzzling. Such as Jushengnu, Guifei Hong, Qihui Cream, Leng Toad Soup, Jin Ling Burn, See Feng Xiao, Yulu Tuan, Jin Su Ping, Han Palace Chess, Changsheng Porridge, Shengping Burn, Cool Crack, Chop Head Spring, Guomen Xiang, Red Luo Dumpling, etc. ("Roasted Tail Banquet Menu")

But it is estimated that the finished product is just an ordinary thing, so Shu Hui casually ordered a few valuable things according to the guess that the more expensive the better. Because you eat on separate plates, you don't have to consider other people's preferences.

At this time, small-scale sake restaurants do not serve dishes, but restaurants are different in that they not only serve food but also courtesans. The last third of the menu scroll is the orderable tunes, which cost 20 to 40 yuan each, depending on the length, but they are like a pot of good wine, worth two dishes.

The music is the soundtrack of the poems, and most of the poems recorded in the menu are classics of the predecessors, but there are also contemporary writers and even local talents. Shu Hui saw that the titles of several consecutive songs in these songs were similar, and after pondering for a while, he suddenly understood that the embroidered image screens around him and these songs were telling the same story.

The ancient city of Linqiong is the hometown of Zhuo Wenjun of the Western Han Dynasty. The Zhuo family is a family of iron smelters, and their ancestors moved to Linqiong in the Qin Dynasty, and when they were in the Western Han Dynasty, Zhuo Wenjun's father Zhuo Wangsun was already the richest man in the southwest.

Sima Xiangru was already quite famous at that time, especially good at playing the piano and composing endowments. Seeing Zhuo Wenjun's family and beauty, he played a double reed with Linqiong County (Linqiong was a county in the Han Dynasty) and his friend, so that Zhuo Wangsun mistakenly thought that Sima Xiangru was noble and extraordinary, so he invited him to be a guest at home.

When he arrived at Zhuo Wenjun's house, Sima Xiangru, who had only known her for half a day, relied on a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" to easily capture the heart of the beauties, Zhuo Wenjun eloped with Sima Xiangru overnight and returned to Shu County.

Zhuo Wangsun was furious when he learned of this, but his daughter's elopement was a scandal after all, and Sima Xiangru could not trouble him because of his fame, but he naturally refused to give his daughter a dowry.

According to historical records, Sima Xiangru "has no way to be self-employed". Zhuo Wenjun saw that he and Sima Xiangru could only starve to death if they continued to stay in Shu County, so he asked Sima Xiangru to return to Linqiong with her to live on the help of his brothers and sisters, and Sima Xiangru happily agreed.

When he arrived in Linqiong, Sima Xiangru sold the car and horse he bought before as a façade and convenient elopement to open a wine shop, Zhuo Wenjun sold wine at the front desk, and Sima Xiangru washed the cup in the back, which is a good story "Wenjun is like a washer".

The daughter and son-in-law of the richest man in the southwest showed up in front of his house to sell wine on the street, which made Zhuo Wangsun ashamed and angry, but he had no choice but to close the door in the end.

But escape is not a way after all, after the persuasion of his brothers and elders, he had to give his daughter Zhuo Wenjun some dowry, the historical records said that "Zhuo Wang Sun had to give Wen Jun a hundred servants, money millions and his wedding clothes, clothing, property, Wen Jun is the same as the CD, buy a field house for the rich." ”

Except for the title of the song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", the above are all contained in the official history, that is, the historical record Sima Xiangru.

However, there is also a song "White Head Yin" on the menu, which is the follow-up story.

According to legend, Sima Xiangru became a rich man and went to Chang'an to be chic. He was entrusted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's disgraced queen Chen Ajiao in Chang'an to write a piece of soothing fu, that is, "Changmen Fu", which successfully made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty change his mind and make Chen Ajiao favored again.

Sima Xiangru's talent is also unique for a while because of this incident.

A word endowment will get a hundred catties of gold, according to the Han system of one gold and ten thousand coins, that is, one million copper coins, isn't this as much as the cash in Zhuo Wenjun's dowry?

Although he was not an official at this time, Sima Xiangru was also very inflated, and he was tired of the marriage with Zhuo Wenjun mixed with too many utilitarian factors. Coupled with the matchmaking of Chen Ajiao, who was grateful to him, he came up with the idea of divorce and remarrying.

Zhuo Wenjun wrote "Poems of Resentment" to express his thoughts about her husband, and wrote "Baitou Yin" and "Farewell Book" because of her husband's ruthless coldness. Among them, the good sentences are popular and widely praised, causing Sima Xiangru's scumbag image to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The above content is a wild history, but it is a wild history before the Tang Dynasty. Because the content is popular with everyone, and the words in it are recorded in the famous anthology, it has been widely circulated among the people, but it is similar to what Shu Hui heard in later generations.

Details may vary depending on the edition. However, no matter which version they are, there is no record of whether they are united or divided, and it is only left to the endless reverie of future generations.

In fact, this matter is quite suspicious. Regardless of whether Emperor Wu was forced by public opinion after reading "Changmen Fu", or whether he was sincerely moved, as far as historical facts are concerned, Chen Ajiao's so-called re-favoring failed to let her move out of the Changmen Cold Palace, after all, she was only the first of the four queens who were deposed in his life.

After paying an incredible "100 catties of gold" as a pen fee, he did not move out of the cold palace. And because he is grateful to Sima Xiangru, who is at least forty-nine years old, has diabetes, has a stutter, and is very rich because he married Zhuo Wenjun, he wants to find him a little wife?

This is because of old age and decrepit use of "women's charm", how can Chen Ajiao, who has implicated more than 300 people and be beheaded, so naively think that she can have a bright future if she is still alive.

But Shu Hui doesn't know this! He just thinks that Sima Xiangru is a real scumbag, even if he is talented and characterless, he can't do it.

He couldn't help but think of a comment by later scholars on Sima Xiangru: ""Changmen" is interpreted as someone else's endowment, but it provokes the boudoir to complain about "Baitou". ”

Yes, you can tell your grievances and sorrows so affectionately and movingly in a woman's voice, but how can you bear to make your wife who is alone at home write a white-headed groan with her liver and intestines broken?

In fact, Sima Xiangru may just be greedy for money, but he may not like Zhuo Wenjun's beauty and have a harmonious relationship with him. Even the twists and turns contained in the historical records may be just folk anecdotes.

But it is precisely because of this little story at the beginning of the historical record Sima Xiangru that the image of Ma Xiangru being greedy for money has been established. And because his wife's family was rich, and he was once dismissed for taking bribes, the later generations of art processing it became a sad and tortuous love story between a poor man and a rich woman.

Shu Hui, who had no idea about this, thought of this story and felt quite unfair, but he didn't feel much righteous indignation. After all, a woman who can elope with someone when she sees each other, and she can't find much sympathy when she turns around and pits Lao Tzu when she is abandoned.

Perhaps the only place that can be sympathetic is that in the story, Zhuo Wenjun knew that he was deceived, but he was afraid that he would be difficult to remarry after having experienced two husbands, so he had to accept his fate.

"The thinking is still too feudal, it seems that if there is a chance in the future, it is necessary for me to compile a canon to emancipate my mind in this regard." Shu Hui thought for a while: "But will this be beaten to death by those old pedants who are full of etiquette?" ”

Shu Hui touched his chin, the old scholars shouldn't come to trouble him because of this, after all, this doesn't violate any etiquette.

But his idea of publishing a canon to change the minds of the people is dangerous, and it is difficult to become the target of public criticism.

Although many people are grateful to him because of his great achievements in the first three years, now that the crisis has passed, if his behavior is too threatening to others, it will also provoke a counterattack.

Even if it seems that Shu Hui's actions are good, no one will want to see him become a god who is said to be the will of heaven in the hearts of all the people, that is too dangerous.

However, it is useless to think about these questions, and it is important to order food at this time.

"Let's have another song of Sima Changqing's "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", and then let's take the song "Baitou Yin", I want a female version."

is famous, like thunder, but now I have the opportunity to listen to it.

But Dr. Jiu replied: "The guests want to listen to the music, but it has already passed at the moment, and I don't know that the people who sing and play the piano are not available, so they have to wait for me to ask." ”

It seems that the courtesans and musicians in this restaurant have already left work. Shu Hui estimates that the status of the courtesans in this building may not be low, otherwise who cares if you are free or not.

And Shu Hui also paid attention, it turned out that Dr. Jiu was calling them guests, not the guest officers he imagined.

Shu Hui and his entourage are not white, and the red clothes on Shu Hui's body are particularly sassy and bandaged, so it is also a little careless to let Dr. Jiu wait, thinking that it is not that he is neglected, but that it is customary.

Not only for customary reasons, guest officials originally referred to officials who were officials in other places, and only in vernacular novels would this word be used to refer to the guests of teahouses and restaurants.

The wine is ready-made and served quickly.

In ancient times, there were many etiquettes for drinking, such as special etiquette actions, seniority and inferiority, and order between the old and the young...... However, the Tang Dynasty was arrogant and usually didn't care much about form. In addition, Shu Hui's identity is special, and he is higher than everyone here, so no one will prompt him to follow the rules.

While Shu Hui poured himself wine, he watched Yuan Tiangang and other officials sprinkle wine and sacrifice to the ground, raising bottles to respect each other, the chief official drank first, and the subordinate officials drank together, which was really boring.

However, after three rounds of drinking, everyone drank their own drinks, no longer restrained, but it was also relaxed. In this way, the previous etiquette norms made Shu Hui more understandable.

Poured a full glass of grape wine, Shu Hui didn't drink it, but pointed to the Aladdin's magic lamp-like thing in the wine cabinet that he opened just now and asked, "What is that, bring it to me to see." ”

At this time, a few cold pastries ordered by everyone were the first to be served, and Dr. Jiu was instructing which guests belonged to each dish, so he ran to fetch the porcelain cup and explained to Shu Hui:

"Some time ago, the masters of the kiln have improved their craftsmanship and made a lot of new things. This cup of justice is one of them, and it is the same master as the fuel-saving lamp, which has recently become very popular among scholars. ”

Fair Cup? What's the name......

"Is this a cup, how do I think it's more like a teapot, and why is it called a fair cup?"

Shu Hui asked as she picked up the cup and looked it up and down, but she didn't find anything fair about it. Aside from being a little smaller and having no lid, it's just a teapot entirely.

Dr. Jiu did not answer directly, but gave a vivid example: "The guests should have heard that the thirsty crow used a curved tube to climb the mountain to draw water, and used air to lead the water above the water surface and then into the lower pool." ”

Even if Shu Hui has never heard of what thirsty Wu is, listening to Dr. Wine's intriguing explanation, he can understand that this is the application of the siphon effect. The previous fuel-saving lamp, which can be reversed to ensure that the water inlet with the opening below the liquid level does not leak, also uses a similar principle, but it is used in reverse.

After Dr. Jiu's explanation, Shu Hui understood the meaning of this so-called fair cup:

It ensures that when the level of the wine exceeds the top of the ear like a teapot handle, all the liquid that is higher than the bottom pipe opening of the cup inside the glass leaks out of the glass through the ear.

In this way, it is possible to prevent the cup from being too full when drinking with each other, which is very fair, so it is called a fair cup.

Shu Hui didn't think that such a design was fair, but thought that this cup was good for people who were greedy for cups, and it could make them drink a little less.

The most common application of the siphon principle of the fair cup in Shu Hui's previous life was the storage tank and flush toilet of the toilet, which slowly filled the pool with a small flow of water to a height above the top of the siphon and quickly emptied it at one time.

"Tsk, why didn't I think of it before?" Shu Hui smacked her lips and thought excitedly: "The master of Qiongyao already has this technology, so it's no problem to let them burn a hygienic and comfortable toilet for me, right?" ”

The current toilet environment is really bad. Although Shu Hui has an air purifier to avoid smelling foul odors, whenever it rains and the water rises, Shu Hui will find a corner where no one is there and refuse to enter the toilet.

Because that would have splashed his belly with dung!

The ownerless wasteland in the county is difficult to find, and Shu Hui's so-called no-man's corner is the garden behind the third hall of the county office, and once he almost let the county Cheng bump into his embarrassing scene.

"Anything else can be slowed down, but this matter is very urgent, and it is best to let people burn the finished product before going back." Thinking of this, Shu Hui's heart moved and looked at Dr. Jiu.

"I heard that the supply of fuel-saving lamps is in short supply, and Liu Yuanjun is also very interested in this thing, why can you still get a 'fair cup' with a similar level of process complexity here?"

I want to come to this store should have some relationship with Qiongyao, and now I am settled here, if I can simply spend money through the relationship of the restaurant, I don't need to find someone else to trust the relationship.

After all, Shu Hui doesn't know how much of a relationship this uses, it is embarrassing to use it small, and it is not cost-effective to use it if it is big.

"Guest, don't you know, there are three porcelain kilns in Qiongzhou, and the one opposite Shililou is also the largest one, and it is the same owner as our Shililou."

Oh? That's pretty good. Shu Hui was taken aback, isn't a porcelain kiln of such a scale still not governmental?