Chapter 25 The world is impermanent
Liang Yi was hit repeatedly, and a mouthful of blood almost didn't spurt out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
He couldn't deal with Liu Tao well, so he could only point his finger at Zhang Wang, and scolded loudly: "Shaft, you dare to be so rude to the old man!" ”
During the Han Dynasty, it was an insult to call each other by name, and Liang Yi even omitted Zhang Wang's name, and directly said "vertical", which was a complete tear of face.
"Lord Liang, as a gentleman, is in charge of the imperial food of the palace, and the responsibility is so important, can't he be humble and accept other people's opinions?"
Zhang Forget originally just wanted to make some money and spend it, and by the way, he got acquainted with Liu Tao, the servant of the imperial history, and saw Liang Yi's mouth dirty under shame and anger, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
I deliberately ridiculed you for naturally having something wrong with me, but it's too much for you to tear up directly if you don't agree like this, I'm still a child!
Between the scholars, most of them wrestle behind their backs, and they rarely tear their faces in person. Since you have already scolded, I will pretend to be a grandson, and if I want to raise my head in Luoyang in the future, it will be difficult.
I smashed the trick of first suppressing and then raising, and was slapped in the face by your old man, and I can't be good now.
I'm sorry, I'm going to fight back.
Zhang Forget instantly turned on the performance mode and began the audition with emotion.
He slammed the copper plate in his hand to the ground, raised his handsome face with an extremely serious face, and asked, "Could it be that on weekdays in the palace, Lord Liang also uses this kind of shoddy food to perfunctory His Majesty?" ”
"You, you, you...... What nonsense are you talking about? ”
Liang Yi was so angry that he was about to faint because of Zhang Wang's accusation on the line, if it wasn't for a servant next to him who grabbed him, he was afraid that he would make a fool of himself on the spot.
Seeing that Liang Yi was so angry that he couldn't speak, a palace servant stepped forward, pointed at Zhang Forget and reprimanded: "The kid is presumptuous! Lord Liang is facing the humerus, how can you be so slanderous? ”
Zhang Forget said "Huh" in surprise: "Unpalatable is unpalatable, how can you slander it?" The food is unpalatable, and no one is allowed to say it, what is the reason? Could it be that Your Majesty can only pinch his nose and eat the dishes you cook on weekdays, but he can't express any opinions? ”
"You, you...... Do you still dare to talk nonsense? ”
Zhao Heng was so frightened by this serious accusation that he almost vomited blood, and he couldn't wait to pounce on him and tear Zhang Wang's mouth apart.
"I am upset for the Holy Tomorrow, a world of loyalty can be learned, what is wrong?"
Zhang Forget put gold on his face while buttoning the big hat to Liang Yi as if he didn't want money.
"It doesn't matter if the food you cook is unpalatable, but it is disrespectful to cause Your Majesty to eat this kind of unpalatable and shoddy food every day!"
"Your Majesty worries about the people and manages the affairs of the state, how hard is that? What do you have in mind to let Your Majesty eat this kind of stuff for two meals a day? ”
"I, a loyal and patriotic person, can't help but feel pain in my heart when I think of Your Majesty having worked for a long time without any appetite for a bowl after working hard for a long time."
"Liang Yi, you are not good at learning, but you serve as a cook for Your Majesty, may I ask, how much money did you spend and how many ways did you get in?"
The onlookers were all dumbfounded at this time, staring at Zhang Wang, speechless.
As for it? It's just a dish of steamed fish that doesn't match your appetite, why do you scold people so bloody? What kind of grudge do you have against the Zhang family of Shu County and Liang Yi?
Liang Yi, you also deserve it, people come to the door as guests, saying that if you don't do it well, it won't taste good, what do you care about with a child? This time I stabbed the hornet's nest, I'll see how you end.
Zhang Forget saw Liang Yi sitting on the ground trembling with anger, so he said slowly: "I said that the food you made was unpalatable, and you seemed to be very unconvinced?" It's okay to help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, and today, I will be very kind and teach you how to make fish, so that you can atone for your sins in front of Your Majesty. ”
"What?"
When Zhao Heng heard this, his eyes were about to pop out.
He trembled and pointed at Zhang Wang, and scolded: "What kind of thing are you, and you are worthy of teaching me how to cook?" ”
The guests were in an uproar, laughing, and looking at Zhang Wang's appearance was like seeing a pig flying.
In this era, the gentleman is very particular about cooking, and the ordinary dignitaries and nobles and the children of the scholar clan will not go to such a dirty place as the kitchen at all, so Zhang Forget said that he can cook, which is surprising in itself, and as for him saying that the dishes he makes are even more delicious than Liang Yi, it is even more unbelievable.
Of course, the gentleman is far away from the words of cooking, and the cook will not take it seriously at all.
Among the guests in the room, half of them are the same people as Liang Yi, and when it comes to poetry and songs, they can't do it, and when it comes to cooking, they think very highly of themselves.
At this time, Zhang Wang, a child of the scholar clan who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, actually said in front of the court that he wanted to teach their peers to cook, wouldn't this make people laugh off their big teeth?
Whether it's to pat Liang Yi's sycophants, or to maintain their own reputation and status, they can't be silent any longer.
"Boy, what is your identity that you dare to say such wild words in front of us?"
"Boy, how old are you, how much can you know about cooking, and you dare to be cheeky enough to teach Master Liang Yi to cook?"
"Boy, quickly kneel down and beg for mercy, Lord Liang is open-minded, maybe he can't be as knowledgeable as you."
"Boy, you humiliate yourself, how stupid!"
……
A stream of ridicule and reprimands poured in, overwhelmingly drowning Zhang Wang.
Zhang Wanghehe sneered a few times, and pointed over one by one with his hands: "What are you doing shouting so loudly one by one?" Weak heart? Scared? I'm afraid that I'll cook a delicious dish and trample you all into the dust? Afraid that after tasting the dishes I cooked, you will have low self-esteem, you will collapse, and you will hide at home and never dare to go out to meet people again? ”
Liang Yi saw that Zhang Forget was not ashamed, and he didn't take everyone in his eyes at all, so he was furious and slapped the long case, and finally stood up from the ground: "Shaft, don't be arrogant!" ”
His roar was deafening, and the noise in the hall was instantly suppressed.
"You said you were going to teach the official how to cook? Okay, you do it! I want to see what you're capable of! If you really have the ability, it's okay, if you just make a lot of nonsense and play tricks on the official, don't blame the official for being unkind to you! ”
After Liang Yi finished speaking angrily, fire almost erupted from his two eyes, staring at Zhang Wang.
Zhang Forget waited for this sentence, and slapped his face a few times unforgivingly, and praised: "Lord Liang is such a great official!" The boy's neighbor, Lord Liu Tao, must not be as domineering as you. ”
"You! You! You! You are presumptuous! Liang Yi jumped three feet high in anger.
Liu Tao was the one who came to the banquet after all his hard work, and he was also the person with the highest status among the guests.
After the cannon attack, he grabbed a servant and shouted, "Where is the kitchen, take me there." Today, I will teach your master to know what it means to 'ask the world whether this mountain is the highest'. ”
Zhang Wang's swaggering grabbed the servant and went to the back kitchen, leaving all the guests in the hall to stay where they were, looking at each other one by one.
Some of the guests who had been full of food and drink and were about to leave sat down again. It doesn't matter what you eat and drink, it's important to stay and watch the excitement.
In the lobby, there was no longer the atmosphere of staggered chatting and laughing at the beginning, everyone drank silently and waited silently to see if Zhang forgot to say something crazy and didn't know how to write dead words, or if he really had the ability to impress him.
Liang Yi lost all his old face today, and he almost had to crush his teeth when he sat there, and he didn't know how many ways to fry Zhang Wang.
And Liu Tao, the servant who had been watching the play from the beginning, quietly kept a certain distance from Liang Yi at this time.
Liang Yi is narrow-minded, irritable and irritable, and cannot be deeply acquainted.
If his proud cooking skills can really be suppressed by Zhang Wang's casual dish, then once today's matter spreads, it is only a matter of time before Liang Yi's position as a cook is dismissed.
Zhang Forget came to Liang Yi's kitchen and was shocked by the abundance of precious ingredients in the kitchen.
Pork legs, deer lips, dog livers, mare's milk, bear's paws, camel's hooves......
Coriander, celery, white sap, courgette, broad bean, bracken, ......
With a dazzling array of ingredients, Zhang Wang's eyes are a little dizzy.
He couldn't help but scold "Shuo Mouse", then rolled up his sleeves and began to think about what to cook.
In all fairness, the steamed fish cooked by Liang Yi is not so unpalatable. The reason why Zhang Forget deliberately ridiculed was on the one hand to attract people's attention, and on the other hand, he deliberately set Liang Yi up, so that he could give himself a chance to sell recipes and make money.
There are hundreds of people in the family waiting for dinner, and Taiwei Yang Ci will definitely not accept help, and the more the hero Wang wants to help, he doesn't have the ability, in the final analysis, he can only rely on himself.
Since there is a cook living next door, let's pick a few recipes and sell them, and talk about emergencies first.
As for tearing his face with Liang Yi, it was completely an unexpected "joy".
Narrow-minded people really can't live with common sense.
Zhang Wang, looking in the kitchen for a while, picked a fat Yellow River carp, removed the gills and internal organs, removed the fishy lines on both sides of the fish's body, and then began to cut the flower knife.
He plans to use carp as a material to make a common "sweet and sour carp" in later generations.
During the Han Dynasty, the level of cooking was as low as productivity. As long as the people can eat enough, they do not have high requirements for food quality. Even if you are an emperor, the delicious food you can eat comes from those few simple cooking methods.
Yang Wanli, a genius in the Southern Song Dynasty, chopped cabbage and added salt, boiled it in water, and thought it was a rare delicacy, and wrote a poem to praise it.
Throwing all the useless thoughts out of his mind, Zhang forgot to put the flour and eggs into a basin, then added a little water to make a paste, and began to make sweet and sour carp seriously.
This dish was very common in later generations and did not require any particularly advanced cooking skills, but people of this era had never heard of it at all. Zhang Wang can be sure that once the guests in the hall eat this sweet and sour carp with good color and flavor, their eyes will definitely light up and they will be addicted.
The only pity is that compared with the market in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the seasoning is far inferior in quantity and quality, and the taste of the sweet and sour carp made may be discounted to a certain extent.
Fortunately, during the Zhou Dynasty, there was already a method of pickling meat with sugar and wine, and the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar that were most needed to make sweet and sour carp were all complete.
The guests in the hall waited for an hour, and some even thought that Zhang Forget had secretly run away. So when Zhang Wang walked into the lobby with a plate, most of the guests stood up, looking as if they were lining up to greet Zhang Wang.
With a sneer on his lips, Zhang Forget walked up to Liang Yi with his head held high and placed a plate of sweet and sour carp in front of his desk.
Liang Yi's eyes widened as he looked at the plate of carp that looked golden in color and smelled sweet and sour, and his heart suddenly chuckled.
No one has ever been able to make carp this color and taste, and this alone can be concluded that this dish must not be simple.
At this time, the guests forgot their noble status, and huddled together like street idlers, scrambling to see the fish made by Zhang Wang.