readx;?readx; Chapter 557 The First Man to Eat Crabs

Listening to Eunuch Huang's words, Prime Minister Shangguan felt a pang in his heart and said softly: "Why? ”

Eunuch Huang was the person he placed next to the emperor, so he naturally knew everything and said everything, and while slowly walking in with the old prime minister, he said softly: "It's not those guys, taking the opportunity of today, I finally stabbed the battle situation into Your Majesty's ears." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Oh." Shangguan Yunhe nodded and said softly, "Lead the way." ”

"Hey." This is not the place to speak, so Eunuch Huang didn't say anything more and led the prime minister to the back garden of the Wanshou Palace.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard soft music, and it was the "Mid-Autumn Moon Worship Blessing Song" being played. Prime Minister Wen followed the sound and looked over, and saw that the garden was full of all kinds of flowers, and the garden with a hundred flowers withered and a little depressed was freshly decorated. In the garden to the east, there is a screen from behind which the sound of music is heard, apparently by a small band.

On both sides of the screen are cockscombs, edamame branches, taro, peanuts, radish, fresh lotus root, large pomegranate and other seasonal freshness. In front of the screen, there is a table of eight immortals, on which a large moon cake is placed, surrounded by pastries and melons and fruits. His Majesty the Emperor, Zen Master Huineng and His Majesty's own brother, His Royal Highness Prince Rong, are all here. Three are missing one, and he is waiting for him.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was wearing an apricot yellow monk's robe, was seated facing the direction of the door, and as soon as Shangguan Yunhe came in, he saw it, and said with a smile: "The prime minister is late, and he will be punished for drinking." The other two also laughed and said, "Be punished, be punished!" ”

"Let Your Majesty, the Prince, and the National Teacher wait for a long time, and sin and sin." In addition to the emperor, the other two are also extremely noble, and the prime minister of Shangguan naturally did not dare to hold it up, so after bowing respectfully to the emperor first, he got up and bowed his hand to the two of them, and said with a smile: "I have just negotiated with the military department for the matter of the military supplies ahead, and I also ask Your Majesty for forgiveness." ”

"What is the prime minister's crime? The major affairs of the country of soldiers are much more important than eating. The emperor bowed his head slightly and said, "Sit down, the banquet is open." ”

"Yes." Shangguan Yunhe walked over briskly and sat down facing the emperor at the bottom...... Although his power far exceeds that of the other two, a prince and a national teacher are all superb, so he naturally wants to accompany the last seat.

Waiting for the prime minister to sit down, Eunuch Huang presented a kitchen knife, the emperor took it, cut off four pieces of the moon cake with his own hands, and handed the knife back to Eunuch Huang and said, "You can cut the rest, and send it to the queen and the prince." ”

"The old slave understands." Eunuch Huang bowed down, beckoned the two little eunuchs to come over, and carried the big moon cake off the table...... The size of the palace moon cake is absolutely unimaginable, even if Emperor Xinghua concentrates on cultivation and does not like luxury, this moon cake is about two feet in diameter and weighs about twenty catties. I really don't know how big mooncakes those emperors who like luxury will eat?

When the table was empty, Eunuch Huang began to serve food. The dishes are dazzling and perfect, but none of them can compare with the red crab.

Osmanthus is fragrant and crab roe is fat, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is the time to eat crabs. At this time, the crabs are the most beautiful and fattest, and even Zen Master Huineng can't help but eat two...... At this time, the monks did not have so many rules and precepts, as long as they did not eat onions, ginger, garlic and mutton, and there were no requirements for crabs. But Huineng Zen Master is a vegetarian all year round, and only when the autumn wind rises and the crab feet itch', he can't help but move his index finger and make an exception.

After the crab was steamed in a pampton, it was brought up in a steamer and invited His Majesty and the three nobles to taste it. But while this thing is delicious, there's one thing that's bad...... It has a hard shell and many claws, which makes it very troublesome to eat, and it is inevitable to tear and bite, making the juice splash, which is very indecent. But if you let the next person peel and eat, it will save trouble, but it will be a lot less fun.

But don't worry about them, the people of Qi are the smartest, and a small crab still can't be difficult for them.

I saw that the palace people presented four small boxes, one gold and three silver. The gold ones were given to the emperor, and the silver ones were given to Shangguan Yunhe. The box contains eight kinds of crab eating tools, including a small square table, a waist hammer, a long-handled axe, a long-handled fork, round-headed scissors, tweezers, a chisel, and a small spoon, which is referred to as 'crab eight pieces'.

'Eight Pieces of Crab' is specially designed for eating crabs. They have a variety of functions such as padding, knocking, splitting, forking, cutting, clipping, picking, and serving. When the crab is served, first take a crab and put it on a small square table, beat all parts of the whole crab with a waist hammer, and then use round-headed scissors to cut off the crab legs and crab claws, and eat from the feet.

And to eat crab legs and crab claws, you must use a chisel. Although the crab legs are slender and small, the legs are movable, and the meat that moves is delicious. If you don't have a chisel, you have to bite or chew crab legs with your teeth. Eating crab leg crab claws with a chisel is more elegant and funny than chewing crab legs with teeth, and it is the most reserved and troublesome of the many ways to eat crabs...... However, the aristocracy is this model, not the kind of savage of the Qin State can understand.

Rao is these people have been used to these 'eight crabs' since they were children, but it takes more than a quarter of an hour to eat a crab roe...... If Qin Yutian is allowed to eat, he can destroy a cage in a quarter of an hour!

Fortunately, the orange-red egg mass, the white cream, and the nephrite-like crab meat. The taste is especially recommended wine, and the fragrance is the most suitable orange. The shell is thin and rouge-stained, and the cream is amber, and it deserves to be treated as such......

With wine vinegar, facing the bright moon, and eating crabs and chrysanthemums, it should be one of the top enjoyments in the world, but these people have their own ghosts and are absent-minded, and they haven't eaten a taste for a long time, and they can't help but be disappointed.

Prince Rong, who was impatient, threw half of the crab on the plate, and scolded in a low voice: "How did Shang Shanjian do it? How dare you take some bargains to fool the royal brother? ”

Eunuch Huang suddenly shouted: "You see that there is still hair on this claw, but it is an authentic Yangcheng crab!" ”

Master Zhishan also stopped, drank a bowl of Suye soup, washed his hands with it, and said lightly: "The thing is still like that, it's just that you're not in the mood to taste it." ”

The emperor also stopped eating, wiped his hands and said: "Tasting delicious food also requires a mood, if you are in a bad mood, you will have no taste in what you eat." ”

Shangguan Yunhe saw that the three of them sang and harmonized, yin and yang, and knew that the person who came was not good. Slowly, he continued to deal with the crabs, and chuckled without changing his face: "Why don't I tell Your Majesty and the two of you a joke, and see if I can help appetize and eat a few more crab roe." ”

Emperor Xinghua said with interest: "Prime Minister come and listen, if I can eat a few more crab roe, the world will have a little less right and wrong." Prince Rong was about to make the conversation clear, but when he saw what the imperial brother said, he had to stop talking.

Shangguan Yunhe wiped his mouth, drank a bowl of Suye soup, and first said to Zen Master Huineng: "The protagonist of the story is a monk, who may be a little disrespectful, and please ask Master Haihan." ”

Huineng shook his head and smiled: "There are more monks in the world, as long as you don't name names, who knows which one you are talking about?" ”

Prime Minister Shangguan said slowly: "Do you know who was the first person to eat crabs?" ”

The emperor was really interested at this time, so he put aside what he wanted to say completely, and asked with a smile: "Do you two know?" Saying that, he thought first: "The Tang people said: 'The taste of the Quartet, when Xu Han Huang Bo is the first.'" It can be seen that there have been people who eat crabs since the Tang Dynasty, and as for the first one to eat crabs...... Probably sooner. ”

Prince Rong shook his head and said: "Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty said: 'The thing that is recommended is the meal of the four seasons, such as the fish of Jingzhou and the crab of Qingzhou. 'Xu is crab sauce, crab is crab sauce, it can be seen that it was in the Han Dynasty. ”

The emperor was about to nod his head in praise, but when he saw Zen Master Huineng laughing silently, he couldn't help but ask softly, "What is the master laughing at?" ”

Zen Master Huineng smiled and said: "The old man only laughs at His Highness and knows it, but he doesn't know why." ”

"What do you mean by the national teacher?" Huineng is the emperor's master, and Prince Rong naturally does not dare to be presumptuous, and said respectfully:

Huineng bowed slightly: "Your Highness knows Zheng Xuan's words, but I don't know why Zheng Xuan said this. ”

"Please advise."

Huineng smiled and said: "How dare you, people are not omniscient, Your Highness doesn't have to care." "Zhou Li, Tianguan, Kuren" said, "There are six animals, six beasts, and six birds in the palm of the blister, and they distinguish their famous objects." All the things that are dead and alive shall be eaten by the king, and the things that are recommended by him to be ashamed, and the food of the descendants and the sons of the world. Zheng Xuan's words were annotated to this point. ”

Prince Rong was convinced: "The national teacher is very knowledgeable. Saying that, he looked at the prime minister and said, "It's probably in the Zhou Dynasty." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, according to the record of the Book of Zhou in Ji Tomb: 'When Zhou became king, Haiyang offered crabs as tribute', indicating that crabs were listed as imperial meals at that time." Prime Minister Shangguan smiled slightly and said, "Maybe it will be earlier, but Xia Shang's literature is scarce and difficult to study, and there is no need to dwell on it anymore." ”

The three of them were all top-notch, so they naturally heard the turning point in Prime Minister Shangguan's tone, so they smiled and said, "Xiangye, don't sell it, tell your story quickly." ”

Prime Minister Shangguan nodded and said slowly: "A few days ago, I read a book and saw a story about an Arhat eating crabs. Said with a smile and said: "Arhats are all supernatural, and Shouyuan is said to be 100,000 years old, so Weichen deduced that Arhats were probably the first to eat crabs." ”

The emperor couldn't help laughing and said: "Master has studied Buddhism, have you heard the story of 'Arhat eating crab'?" ”

Zen Master Huineng smiled bitterly: "Although I haven't heard of it, my Buddha has eight hundred arhats, who knows which one has ever done it?" "He wanted to deny it altogether, but he was squeezed out by the prime minister of Shangguan in advance, saying, 'As long as it is not named, it doesn't matter', and now although the prime minister is talking about Arhat, but Arhat is also a monk, and there are as many as 800, and he did not name names, so he had to let him talk nonsense.

"The Arhats are all immortals, and they have their own heavenly elixir and jade dew, peach and fresh fruit, how can they eat the dirty things on our earth?" It can be seen that the emperor is very yearning for the life of the Western Heaven Elysium.

"Oh, he naturally doesn't eat when he becomes an Arhat, but before he becomes an Arhat, he still has to eat." Prime Minister Shangguan said solemnly: "It is precisely because of the merit of being the first to eat crabs that he has successfully ascended to heaven." ”

The emperor liked to listen to the stories of cultivation the most, and his eyes lit up and said, "Then listen to how this Arhat eats crabs." ”

"Yes." Prime Minister Shangguan cleared his throat and said: "When this Arhat was a monk, he specialized in practicing one kind of Zen, and it is said that if he eats one kind of thing every day, he can achieve merit if he eats it for eight hundred years in a row. ”

"This Zen is good," Prince Rong said, "I will become a god when I eat and drink, and I will also cultivate when I am ready." ”

Prime Minister Shangguan shook his head and smiled: "Although all the three thousand methods can be consummated, none of them can be achieved. ”

"Not bad." The Supreme Master nodded solemnly and said, "You have to go through the hardships of the world to succeed." ”

"What's so hard about that?" Prince Rong smiled: "Isn't it just eating." ”

"It's not difficult for one person to eat one thing, and it's not difficult to eat three hundred and sixty things a year." Shangguan Yunhe smiled faintly: "But eight hundred years is 288,000 kinds, dare to ask Your Highness, is there so much to eat in the world?" ”

Prince Rong suddenly said: "It's really difficult, I've probably eaten thousands of foods in the past 40 years." ”

The emperor nodded and smiled: "You are still born in the emperor's family, which shows how difficult it must be for a monk to gather these 288,000 things." ”

"Your Majesty is wise." Shangguan Yunhe smiled faintly: "He has gone through a lot of hardships, traveled all over the four continents, spent seven hundred and ninety-nine years and three hundred and fifty-nine days, and ate twenty-eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine kinds of food, but he can't remember what to eat for the last one......