Chapter 31: Feasts and Surgeries
Liu Qi didn't wait for Zhou Yafu to finish speaking, waved his hand and said: "I know that you want to impeach, this is a private banquet, and you can avoid those golden rites." I see that this glass bottle is much better than the gold bottle, the color is bright, and the wine is clear at a glance. After I saw it, I waited for more money in the palace, and listened to the words of the eldest princess, and it was easy to wait for the production of this instrument. I don't have enough money and food in the house, so how about I get rid of it? ”。“ Your Majesty has already said that such things are not yet available for tribute", Ouyang Xuan hurriedly got up and said. "Your Majesty, these things are the materials of the sacrificial vessels and roof tiles, how can they go to the palace", Tao Qing also got up and said. Ouyang Xuan now knows why the glass technology was lost in the Qin and Han dynasties, and why the porcelain that existed in the Han Dynasty rose in the Song and Yuan dynasties. They are regarded as inferior things such as sacrificial vessels and roof tiles, and refuse to use them. Later generations took Tang Sancai and placed it in the room, and Ouyang Xuan once made fun of it, putting the sacrificial ritual utensils in people's graves in the room is equivalent to moving the grave to the house.
"I see that this thing is very different from the sacrificial ritual vessel, far from it, and it is better than jade. I heard that the people still use this thing as a treasure for food and drink, not to mention it? ”。 These words were obviously biased in favor of Ouyang Xuan, making it difficult for everyone present to say anything. That's right, the people all treat him as a treasure, if the emperor and nobles don't use it, wouldn't they slap themselves and don't know the goods.
It was also out of Ouyang Xuan's expectation to make such a show before the banquet started, and when he looked at Nie Pingzhi at the door, he knew that he was also worried. With Liu Qi's approval, the banquet is also the beginning. The delicious food and delicious wine made Liu Qi very happy and kept praising him. With the strength of the wine, Tao Qing said in person: "Waiting for this banquet, I'm afraid it's quite a lot of use?" ”。“ The prime minister said that they are all daily farm vegetables and meat, and they are made by a certain trained cook, and if you say that the degree of use, it is also the cook's money and food skills." Ouyang Xuan hurriedly explained that thrift was still advocated in this era, and if it was extravagant, the consequences would be unpredictable. If the prince spends more than 100 people a day, he is dismissed from office. Otherwise, there would not be the king of Huainan who pushed the tofu to the people, first started to eat it from the people, and then went to the palace and sealed the mouth of Youyou. Nie Ping is also well versed in this, whether it is glass or porcelain, and now the ordinary people in the town use it, and soybean oil has become a must-have. Of course, tofu, a non-technical thing, has been deeply rooted in the fiefdom of Huguo and the homes of the people of Chang'an more than ten years earlier than the King of Huainan. "Oh? If you have this matter, why don't you ask the chef to demonstrate it on the spot", Dou Ying didn't know when to stand up and said.
Ouyang Xuan looked at Liu Qi, Liu Qi nodded and said, "I also want to see how to make this daily ingredient so exquisite and delicious." "In this way, the minister is ugly." The servants in the back were ordered to carry over the field stove made of stainless steel designed by themselves. Iron horse spoons, wooden vegetable mounds, meat and vegetables in ceramic pots are placed in the hall.
The black stove was brought and placed in the middle of the hall, and the servants lit a fire with charcoal wood, flashed it aside, washed the vegetables and meat, and placed them in a clean glass basin. Ouyang Xuan walked to the board and asked the cook how many dishes he wanted to make. Then draw the knife in the hand to change the knife to the vegetables and meat, the skilled knife work, so that everyone sitting is amazed, especially from time to time to play the flower work, is even more amazed. Put all the meat and vegetables that have been changed into categories and codes for the chef to choose. The cook is an orphan bought by Ouyang Xuan and Nie Ping, he is more than ten years old this year, he has a soft spot for cooking, and he is very good at cooking, Ouyang Xuan sighed to himself, and he taught him the experience of cooking by himself in later generations and the nearly 100 recipes recorded on the tablet without reservation, and now he has become the leader of the kitchen of Zhongnan Villa, and he regards himself as a disciple.
Although he is not as skilled as Ouyang Xuan in knife work, he is much stronger than Ouyang Xuan in terms of cooking posture, skillful and quick. You don't need to do it, it's all on your own. Things like soy sauce and soy sauce and sugar are now in the fiefdom, a copper coin and a catty, but they are all franchised by the Nie family.
That is, in less than half an hour, the four dishes have been put on the plate, the braised pork is crystal clear, the juice is red and bright, the meatballs are golden and shiny, the emerald green tofu, and the tofu is fried with herbs (one of the main green vegetables before the Three Kingdoms, which is the fresh and tender soybean leaves), the heat of the fried herbs is just right, and the white tofu is bright yellow with soybean oil, and the aroma is overflowing. There is also a dish of stir-fried pork with wild onions, the green onions are still emerald green, and the meat looks red and bright, which seems to be very delicious. Seeing these four dishes, Ouyang Xuan was happy and said casually: "A natural cook's life."
Except for Ouyang Xuan, everyone else present had straight eyes in a daze and a surprised expression. They are all common ingredients in daily life, and they become delicacies in an instant. Of course, the dishes were brought from Huangmen to Liu Qi's case, and after trying, Liu Qi used chopsticks to taste, nodded frequently, and gave it to Concubine Li and Mrs. Wang, and finally to Queen Bo. Seeing this scene, Ouyang Xuan only smiled and said nothing, and the cook then made a few dishes with the remaining ingredients, and Ouyang Xuan let him go down, because he saw that Huang Men Ling's eyes were filled with greed. "Your Majesty, the minister is wrong, they are all home-cooked ingredients, but due to different skills, the dishes are different", at this time, it is better to give Tao Qing some eye medicine.
"Well, that's right, let the chef of the house come into the palace to replace those things that don't work." "Your Majesty's courtiers have not yet learned the art of cooking, if Your Majesty does not give up, you can let the people in the kitchen come to the house to learn the arts." "It's okay, Huangmen Ling, I ordered you to pick some smart slaughterers and Hu Houfu to learn art." "No!" The Huang Men Ling, who was standing next to Liu Qi, replied wistfully. "Prime Minister, what else do you have to say? Haha, Hu Hou let me know the matter, things are the same, with differences, things have changed. I often hear that Hu is waiting to improve the agricultural technology of Fengyi this spring, but I don't know if there is such a thing? ”。“ The minister only taught some agricultural tools and villagers, and changed some water conservancy and irrigation, which was conducive to drought and flood." "Well, good. Prime Minister, I think this matter should be revealed." "No, the minister takes the order". Tao Qing replied very unhappily.
The banquet ended in the middle palace of the moon with the sound of Ouyang Xuan's zheng, of course, there was still something to embarrass Ouyang Xuan during the banquet. He also fulfilled his promise. Liu Qi didn't plan to return tonight when he came, and Nie Ping, under the supervision of the Yellow Gate, cleaned up a VIP courtyard according to the etiquette system, which was the courtyard that Ouyang Xuan originally intended to use to receive the princes. A two-storey square courtyard with a pavilion in the middle and a sycamore tree around the cloister. There is also a small lake with a group of koi fish of all colors, birds singing and flowers, which is also a good place. The Yulin army guarded the surrounding area of the villa, and Ouyang Xuan's guards were responsible for guarding the courtyard. Naturally, the accompanying officials slept in guest rooms, which were also separate double-storey courtyards.
In the middle of the night, Ouyang Xuan was woken up by a rapid knock on the door and dressed and went out. The servant reported that "some villagers suddenly fell ill and knelt in front of the infirmary to seek medical treatment. After listening to this, Ouyang Xuan went straight to the medical hall, and the patient was lying on a stretcher in the middle of the north hall. He was probably in his forties and pale. Ouyang Xuan hurriedly stepped forward, and finally diagnosed acute appendicitis through pulse examination and palpation, according to the aggravation of pain in the right lower abdomen, the whole abdomen was due to pain, high fever, low blood pressure, etc., there were signs of perforation. Quickly ordered someone to carry it to the room used as an operating room, and light all the oil lamps, which had already been fumigated with alcohol. I went back to the room to get the headlamp, and when I came back, the patient had been placed on the table and was already in a semi-comatose state. In this room, Ouyang Xuan prepared everything he needed, a complete set of high-temperature sterilized surgical instruments, as well as two sets of linen surgical gowns, ether for anesthesia, and drugs such as iodine wine. Ouyang Xuan was also a little apprehensive, under such conditions, I don't know if the operation will be successful, and if I don't get it right, the patient will die of sepsis caused by infection. Ouyang Xuan took out the salt water and anti-inflammatory drugs he had brought at the beginning, prepared the medicines, and put on a mask and disposable gloves on the back of the patient's hand, these things will expire if they are not used again. When the preparations are completed, leave Xu Shanyou and Chun Yuyi, let everyone else go out, and give each of them a mask to wear. After anesthetizing the patient with ether, the clothes are removed, the skin is prepared with a knife, the iodine wine is disinfected, and the hands are also disinfected with alcohol once, and the operation is only started after the treatment is completed. Although the whole process was carried out in a weak light, Ouyang Xuan still dared to do this kind of appendicitis surgery. In order to reduce the infection, Ouyang Xuan's surgery was extremely fast, the skin was incised and the final purse suture was completed in less than an hour, and in order to heal well, there were also distilled water glass bottles specially soaked in blue stones in the operating room. It's been soaking for over a month. Let Xu Shanyou use a high-temperature sterilized cup to catch some blue water, and wipe all the windows with absorbent cotton before sewing them layer by layer. Wipe the blue light of distilled water again on the outside and wrap it with penicillin gauze. He's okay, he just showed signs of a perforation, and if it's any longer, it will be very troublesome, and his life may be in danger.
When the operation is done, the door is opened and the servant is allowed to place the patient in a room dedicated to inpatient patients. When the liquid was still, the patient was still in a coma, and he was given a decoction mixed with a large dose of penicillin. Ouyang Xuan and everyone in the medical hall stood guard by the bed, and the patient did not wake up until dawn. Ouyang Xuan was relieved at this time, he still had a little fever, prescribed a prescription to dispel heat and detoxify, ordered someone to grab the medicine, boiled the medicine with blue light distilled water and gave it to the patient, and when the fever subsided, he instructed his family members and servants to have some details before returning to the room to make up for sleep.
He slept soundly, and was awakened by a servant knocking on the door. There was no way, there was still a big customer to serve, and he ordered the servant to let the kitchen get some early delivery to the living room. When I went out, I saw the yellow door order who came to find Ouyang Xuan. "Your Majesty can wake up?" His Majesty woke up in the morning, and heard that Hu Hou was a night thaumaturgy to diagnose and treat the villagers, and ordered the Sprinkle family to come and inform Hu Hou, so that he could rest for a while." "Haha, since you're up, take me to see you." Where is this to let more rest, it is simply looking for trouble.
Coming to the living room, Liu Qi and the ministers were curiously eating the unique breakfast of Zhongnan Villa, which was steamed buns, fried dough sticks and soy milk, some pickles made of wild vegetables, air-dried meat, and milk tea, no one drank it, and it was placed next to it. After Ouyang Xuan finished visiting the shrine one by one, he sat on the table and simply ate a few steamed buns and drank a bowl of milk tea. "Waiting for dinner has been an eye-opener for me, and now this breakfast is full of surprises for me. These fried noodles and these pickles make the chef in the house sure to teach the palace to slaughter people well." "Minister, take the order". "When I heard that the villagers who were waiting for the diagnosis and treatment of sudden illnesses last night, I was very moved. Take me to see your infirmary and the villager later." Ouyang Xuan was a hundred unwilling, he originally wanted to deal with it in a low-key manner, but now it's okay, he stabbed to the top at once, and he didn't scare the villagers to death. I had no choice but to do it.
After breakfast, the group went straight to the medical center, and Liu Qi actually asked Huangmen Ling to bring a large package of fritters and air-dried meat to take away. In the hospitalized hut, the villagers knelt in front of Liu Qi and bowed their heads silently. "Let's get up, I just look at the thaumaturgy of the waiting doctor, and I can actually open my stomach to take the lesions, which is really a miracle in the world." Ignoring the villagers' families, he walked straight to the bed to see some of the patients who had recovered their spirits. Now he still has a little fever, Ouyang Xuan ordered someone to give him penicillin dissolved in blue light distilled water and the decoction of heat and detoxification prescribed yesterday. Liu Qi looked at the whole process very curiously, and didn't speak, Ouyang Xuan consumed his pulse again, his blood pressure rose on the whole, and his pulse beat strongly, if it wasn't for the scene he experienced last night, now he is no different from ordinary people, maybe it's the effect of that blue light distilled water, and the inch-long wound heals quickly. I should be able to exhaust gas today, looking at his flushed face, I quickly asked, "Do you have gas in your body to discharge?" ”。 The villager nodded quickly. Ouyang Xuan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, my lords, please forgive me for being disrespectful in this trouble." "Oh? What would be irreverent? I am all forgiven". Ouyang Xuan turned to the patient with a wicked smile on his face and said, "Your Majesty has pardoned the disrespect, you can do whatever you want, don't worry." As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a poof, and the fart sound was a little loud. Liu Qi was stunned at first, then raised his head and laughed, "If it weren't for the reminder, I would have been really shocked." Haha, go back to the palace", and quickly covered his mouth and nose and walked out of the house. Others also covered their noses without smelling the smell. Damn, I really know how to pretend, Ouyang Xuan said in his heart. He also instructed the servants to bring some food for the sick.
went out to see Liu Qi back, before Liu Qi got on the frame, he turned his head and said to Ouyang Xuan: "Hu Hou, two days later, I will bring Yu Linjun and Anmen to welcome King Liang into Beijing." Playing momentum for me, can you know? After speaking, he handed over half of the Feather Forest Tiger Talisman to Ouyang Xuan. Minister, take the order".