Chapter 498 Colorful Head

Everyone in the palace thought to themselves: "Isn't the peach talisman enough, is it possible that Wang Ping'an needs to make a few more pairs?" ”

Li Shimin did not embarrass Wang Ping'an this time, he said: "Since the beginning of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the people of my Central Plains have to observe the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, and when they observe the New Year, they must eat something, what is it?" ”

Everyone in the palace was slightly disappointed, alas, this topic is too simple, not to mention Wang Ping'an, even a three-year-old child can't pass the test.

Wang Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief and thought, "It turned out to be the dumplings that I asked." He said, "If you go back to the emperor, on Chinese New Year's Eve, you want to eat dumplings!" ”

Everyone in the hall came out in unison, no, even this can be answered incorrectly! Dumplings, what's that? No matter where the dialect is, there is no such word!

Accustomed to nature, when it comes to what to eat on Chinese New Year's Eve, Wang Pingan naturally said dumplings, but as soon as he said it, he also knew that he was wrong, in the early Tang Dynasty, there were no dumplings, and the dumplings of this era were called Jiao'er, or Tangzhong Prison Pill. Folk call Tangzhong Prison Pill, but this is the imperial palace, and Li Shimin must have asked the original name.

Wang Ping'an hurriedly changed his words: "The minister said something wrong, and he was in a hurry to answer the emperor's question, so he blurted out the dialect of our Wuli Village. On Chinese New Year's Eve, eat coquettish ears. ”

Li Shimin thought to himself: "Wuli Village is the place of Xuzhou, but Xuzhou doesn't seem to have this dialect!" He didn't ask why the people of Wuli Village called Jiao'er dumplings, and he asked, "Why do you want to eat this?" ”

Wang Ping'an said loudly: "To commemorate the medical saint Zhongjinggong!" ”

Dumplings were invented by the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, and at first they were not made for deliciousness, but had practical significance. Dumplings were first used as decoctions, called "dispelling cold and Jiao'er soup".

In winter, the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, and the ears of the people have frostbite, Zhang Zhongjing can't bear to see the people suffering, so he opened a medical shed in Dongguan of Nanyang, boiled it in a pot with mutton and cold-dispelling herbs, and after cooking, these things were fished out and chopped, and the food was wrapped into an ear shape with dough, called Jiao'er, and then cooked in the pot and distributed to the people to eat. The people ate two Jiao'er ears and drank a bowl of soup, and their whole body was hot, their blood was smooth, and their ears became warmer. Zhang Zhongjing used Jiao'er to resist typhoid fever for the people and cure the frozen ear.

Zhang Zhongjing gave alms to dispel cold and delicate ear soup, and continued to give alms until the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people celebrate the New Year and also celebrate the recovery of rotten ears, so they make New Year's food in the same way as delicate ears and eat them on the morning of the first day of the new year. As a result, an important custom in traditional Chinese festivals was born.

There are many legends about dumplings, this is one of them, Wang Ping'an was born in medicine, let him say why he wants to eat dumplings, he naturally preferred this answer.

Li Shimin smiled: "Very good, it seems that you have read a few books." Chinese New Year's Eve celebrates the New Year, naturally you have to eat Jiao'er. As he spoke, he took a string of orbs from the ornament around his waist, took a red bead in the center, and said, "Put it in the stuffing, wrap it in your ears, and whoever eats it in a moment will come up to me and tell me that I have given him this string of orbs!" ”

Shi Zhongchen stepped forward to take the red bead and said, "Yes, the old slave will put the bead into the stuffing!" He told the little eunuchs to bring in the large bowl with the stuffing, wiped the orbs, put them in the stuffing, and then stirred them with chopsticks to mix the beads into the stuffing.

Li Shimin clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's wrap up Jiao'er and release the explosive rod!" ”

The emperor gave an order, and the sound of bursting rods outside sounded again, and Shi Zhongchen divided the stuffing into small basins, put a basin on each table, and sent dough and panels and other things for everyone to make dumplings.

Wang Ping'an naturally put a basin on the table. Looking at the food bowl, Wang Ping'an laughed in his heart, making dumplings is not difficult, but for the royal relatives, it can't be said that it is not difficult, but it should be extremely difficult.

As soon as he finished thinking about it, he heard Li Zhi say: "Roll the dough alone, you are responsible for the bag." As he spoke, Li Zhi took out a dough, kneaded it into small pieces, then picked up the rolling pin and rolled out the dumpling wrappers.

Wang Ping'an was taken aback, and almost didn't scream, but he saw that Li Zhi's movements were skillful, and it could be said that he had reached the level of a chef, and his two hands did not stop, and he rolled out several dough in an instant, that is, the kung fu of blinking his eyelids!

Looking at the surrounding tables, I saw that on each table, there were people rolling dough, and all of them were skillful, definitely not just holding a rolling pin and not knowing how to start. Especially at Li Ke's table, Li Ke, like Li Zhi, is also rolling dough. Li Zhi's methods are quite good, and Li Ke is even more powerful.

And I saw him rolling the dough and throwing it on the other side of the board...... Brush the ground, the speed is amazing, it is estimated that he will not be a prince, but go to the market to open a small restaurant, just by playing in front of the guests, he can attract a lot of business!

Wang Ping'an was dumbfounded, it was hard to believe, how could this kind of thing happen, what kind of world did this become, could it be that he went to the wrong place, now he is not in the palace, but in the kitchen of a certain big restaurant?

He turned his head and looked at his table again, not only Princess Nanping and his wife, but also Li Yiren was making dumplings, the movements were fast, and the dumplings were beautiful, even the little child named Tong'er also made a dumpling in style and put it aside!

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "After a long time, in the entire hall, my dumpling making skills are the worst...... No, the worst one should be the emperor, and I should be the penultimate one! Thinking in his heart, he turned his head to look at Li Shimin again.

Who knows, at a glance, the penultimate immediately became the penultimate one, and I saw that next to Li Shimin, there was a palace lady rolling dough, and Li Shimin made dumplings with his own hands, not just one, but several, all of them looked good, and put them on the panel on the side!

Wang Ping'an opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it, how could this be, why did everyone make dumplings? Even if you know how to wrap it, how can you wrap it so well? Could it be that the Li family of the royal family is from the background of opening a dumpling restaurant, and Li Yuan has done this business?

The concubines and princes and princesses, including Li Shimin himself, will make dumplings, which is called Bao Jiaoer at this time, and not only can they wrap, but they are also quite good. For the people in the royal family, in a year, only tonight can they have the opportunity to have a meal with the emperor without observing too many etiquette, how can they not show their skills and attract the attention of the emperor?

Li Shimin also makes dumplings, that's because he was a prince back then, and like the current princes, he also needs to dedicate his skills to his father at that time, and he will have a good time!

Li Zhi didn't know that Wang Ping'an's dumpling making skills were poor, at least much worse than them, he wrapped them well, so he took it for granted that Wang Ping'an also wrapped them well, threw a dough in front of Wang Ping'an, and said: "No disease, you can also wrap it." ”

Wang Ping'an sighed, picked up the dough, and thought: "I can't make any tricks, let's make an ordinary one, don't show off, so as not to make a fool of yourself." "He made a very regular, ordinary dumpling and put it on the panel.

Shi Zhongchen walked around the hall, waited for the royal people, came to Wang Ping'an's table, and said with a smile: "No disease, your delicate ears are too ordinary, why don't you make a good look?" ”

The royal people make dumplings, always wrapping all kinds of tricks, and some can even wrap good-looking small animals, in order to make the dumplings cooked, so that the emperor can look at them, so as to eat their own dumplings, but Wang Ping'an is ordinary, even children's wrapping is not as good, there is no novelty at all.

Wang Ping'an said with some embarrassment: "Usually the family bag Jiao'er is like this, so the little nephew hasn't learned much tricks, in the countryside, some of them are good to eat!" ”

Shi Zhongchen smiled: "Come on, let our family teach you." To be so ...... That's it! As he spoke, he picked up a dough and put it in Wang Ping'an's hand.

Wang Ping'an only felt a hard hand, it seemed that something was stuffed into Shi Zhongchen's hand, and he pinched it and felt that it was a bead, the size of which was the jewel that Li Shimin had asked Shi Zhongchen to put into the dumpling filling just now. His heart moved, what's the matter, wasn't that orb put in the food bowl, didn't it put it in?

Shi Zhongchen made a gesture and sighed: "No disease, you are too stupid, you can't even cover your delicate ears." Forget it, just eat it for a while, you will eat, and see if you can eat it! This sentence is not very consistent with his identity, no matter how important he is, he can't talk to Wang Ping'an like this, and he said it in front of everyone.

But everyone didn't care, Li Zhi smiled instead: "It's okay if you don't know how to pack without disease, but it doesn't matter if you don't know how to eat, eat a few more in a while." ”

Li Yiren smiled at him: "It's so stupid, I can't even cover my ears!" "Stretched out his hand and shaved his face, ashamed. But there was flour on his fingers, which was on his cheeks.

Wang Pingan laughed, tried his best to pretend to be a silly aunt, and said, "I will go back to study, and when I have the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner next year, I will definitely wrap it better than all of you." ”

He clenched the orb tightly in his hand and thought, "Yes, I can't make a trick, but I can eat it, you can wait and see!" ”

Shi Zhongchen shook his head and left, he didn't put the beads into the stuffing just now, he just made a gesture of putting them, his sleeves were wide, and his movements were fast, no one saw his tricks, they all thought he put the beads into the stuffing. He also took the opportunity to serve the people in the palace and gave the jewel to Wang Ping'an.

The dumplings were wrapped in a short time, and the little eunuchs took the dumplings and cooked them in the side hall. It was close to midnight, and in modern times it was a time to rejoice and worship the New Year, and the Tang Dynasty was no exception.

The little eunuch outside the hall dragged a long voice and shouted: "Long live my lord!" ”

Wang Ping'an heard the little eunuch's call, and hurriedly got up, but found that everyone in the palace did not get up, so he had to sit down again, thinking: "What's the matter, isn't it to pay New Year's greetings?" It's time for that! ”

There was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and countless palace maids and eunuchs walked in, and they lined up to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor.

It turned out that they were giving the emperor New Year's greetings, and it seems that they should all be figures with heads and faces in the palace! Wang Ping'an had no interest in these people, and was about to turn his head to talk to Li Zhi, but suddenly found a familiar face not far in front of him.

It's Wu Meiniang!