Chapter 25: The Aftermath

Or in the Chengqing Palace, today's dinner has not yet come up, the princes and princesses have no desire to eat, there are too many revelations of today's royal gathering, and waves of surprise continue to emerge, constantly refreshing everyone's three views, so that the princes and princesses are enjoying watching the drama in their hearts. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, the table culture of the ancient Chinese is very interesting, eating depends on who you eat with, eating at home is called eating at home; Going out to eat with friends is called eating a big meal, and what are you eating more or less for both meals? Doubts about how to eat. But when you're having dinner on an important occasion with a heavyweight such as a big person, it doesn't matter what you eat, it's who you eat with. The princes and princesses also felt the same, so when the princes and princesses looked at the long table of today's banquet, there was only Tu Su wine and Wuxin plates on the table, which could not fill their stomachs and was not delicious, and they did not dislike this royal family banquet at all.

But it is also the Tusu wine placed on the food table that has made today's Li Ke, oh no, it is the achievement of today's prince Gaoming.

Tu Su wine is a kind of low-degree wine soaked in a mixture of Chinese medicine called Tu Su, it is said that drinking can drive away evil spirits, detoxify and prolong life, but the taste, naturally it will not be very good, the princes and princesses present are also shallow taste, not a cow drink.

When Li Ke thought of Wang Anshi's "Yuan Ri" because of the Tusu wine on the food table, he struggled a little in his heart, whether to let this poem come out in advance by himself, or to give it to the prince.

Perhaps because of the character "Ke" left over from his previous life, Li Ke finally struggled in his mind, made up his mind not to be a first-class bird, and decided to finally secretly pull the prince's sleeve when the prince was about to get up and reply, causing the prince to fall. When the prince fell, as the closest person to sit, Li Ke was naturally the first to go over and help the prince and whisper a few words to him. This is the "good story" of today's prince Gaoming's seven parts into "Yuan Ri".

As the prince slowly finished reading this poem, the slightly noisy hall suddenly fell silent, and even the little son, who had been carelessly lying in Lao Li's arms, also set his eyes on his wise brother. Li Tai, the king of Wei, had already incarnated into a "humanoid chameleon" at this time, his face turned from blue to red, and then his swollen face turned slightly purple, which was considerable. Obviously, this poem completely stepped on Li Tai's Shang Jia's work, and it couldn't be stepped on anymore.

Everyone in the hall has been completely immersed in the artistic conception of the twenty-eight characters of "Yuan Ri". The silence in the hall was broken by Lao Li's sudden laughter after a long time.

"Hahahaha, good poem, good one" firecrackers in the sound of a year old, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su "Gao Ming is worthy of being my prince, such a good sentence is enough to overshadow the poems of Yuan Zheng in later generations, Tu Su and Tao Fu in this poem I know, but I don't know what this firecracker is, well, Gao Ming? ”

As the crown prince Gao Ming, who grew up in the palace, naturally did not know what the "firecrackers" were, just when Li Chengqian was about to support him, Li Su, who was sitting farthest, suddenly interjected and said: "Father, the firecrackers know that the gunpowder is stuffed in the fine bamboo joints, and after being thrown in the brazier, it suddenly bursts, and crackles to ward off evil spirits, so it is called firecrackers." ”

When Lao Li heard this, he was also interested, and asked: "The common people use this thing to ward off evil spirits, well, the New Year passed unconsciously in the crackling sound of firecrackers." Good, good, good.? ”

Before Lao Li could say the third good, the little son was already hungry on the side, pulling Lao Li's sleeve.

"Father, the little son is so hungry, you can eat hot pot."

Lao Li turned his head over, not at all unhappy to be disturbed by the little son, but his expression was obviously much more relaxed than just now, and he glanced at Wang De.

Wang De understood and hurriedly instructed the other maids to send the hot pot into the palace.

The surrounding princes watched the small hot pots being carried into the hall by the maids, some were amazed by the shape of the hot pot, and some said with a relieved face: "I just said how could my father let himself starve." ”

The most tragic thing is Li Ke's fifth brother Qi Wang Li You, poor Li You thought that today's luncheon only had Tu Su wine and Wuxin plate as the staple food, but as a result, he ate and drank the sea and drank the pre-dinner snack as a main meal.

Seeing that everyone was curious about the hot pot, Lao Li didn't sell it, looked at the children in the hall with a smile, pointed to the hot pot and said: "This hot pot is offered by Ke'er," paused, Lao Li seemed to remember something, glanced at Li Ke and continued: "This pot is red red soup and white soup, the boundary is like the yin and yang of Taoism, when the pot boils, the boiling eyes on both sides are like less yin and less yang in yin and yang, which is very peculiar." ”

"Father, the sons and daughters of this thing have also seen similar things, and they call it Wen Ding, but the style is slightly different from this thing." Li Chengqian interjected.

Lao Li nodded and continued: "As for the way to eat, this pot will cut the fresh ingredients into thin slices into the pot, and after a few hours, the ingredients will be scalded by the delicious soup, and they will be scalded when eaten, especially the red pot, which can make people sweat and be hearty." Obviously, Lao Li prefers the red soup pot.

Li Ke, who was sitting behind the eating table, felt who was looking at him, and glanced up, Li Ke found that Lao Li was looking at him with a smile, and his heart skipped a beat for no reason. was about to pretend to be choked on drinking to hide his embarrassment.

Lao Li stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Today, King Wu has not answered my question, so I will punish Ke'er for eating for the little son." ”

Li Ke was helpless, and knew that there was nothing good, so he had to get up and say, "Erchen will be punished." ”

The princes saw Li Ke get up to eat food for the little son, and they also followed the food in the hot pot in a similar way, and Li Ke in the distance had already eaten by himself, and from time to time told the prince and princess beside him about the way to eat this hot pot, looking at the way Li Ke taught the prince and princess around him how to eat hot pot, Li Ke couldn't help but be a little envious of the position far away from Lao Li.

The hot pot at this banquet is also slightly different from what Li Ke made yesterday, a small amount of yellow essence and wolfberry are added to this white soup, which makes the whole pot of white soup more healthy, and the food is nourishing blood and qi. The red soup is boiled with Li Ke's base mixed with water, which is the same as yesterday.

It's just that the rich shabu-shabu makes people feel that this is a real palace banquet, the main dish of shabu-shabu, unlike the one that Li Ke hastily prepared yesterday, there are dozens of kinds of meat, cattle, sheep, deer, rabbit meat are all prepared, and Li Ke even saw a large plate of tiger meat. But in the winter of this era, these meat dishes are nothing compared to the dozens of catties of various coloring vegetables stacked next to them.

The little son watched Li Ke come over to give her a hot pot, and waited for the third brother to eat good food with a smile, and then dipped it in sesame oil and small ingredients made of shallot and bean paste, Li Ke blew it for her slightly, and felt that it was not hot, and the little son slipped down, with a satisfied smile on his face.

After a while, the sound of sizzling and huo in the hall came one after another, Ziyu couldn't stop his mouth because of deliciousness, and hehe was spicy and sweaty.

This banquet slowly came to an end with the spicy shouts of the princes and princesses and the footsteps of the maids serving tea and water.

On the other side, next to the main seat, the little son had eaten before he had eaten much, and with a small vegetable leaf in the corner of his mouth in the maid's arms, he fell asleep with a satisfied face.