Chapter 144: The Feast
'Sir, is it really a curse?' The next day, Li Chen gave a lesson to the children, talked about friction, dynamic friction and static friction, and also showed them experiments. After class, Ah Xiang asked such a question, and Li Chen was stunned for a moment.
'Who told you that?' Is it Mr. Wang? Mr. Wang is the king's judgment, 'how can he tell you?' ’
Mr. said that Bao Xi charmed King You of Zhou, so that the Zhou Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, King You was captured by the dog Rong, and the capital was moved to Luoyang. It is said that Bao Xi and Daji are both calamities. Originally, Li Chen gave history lessons to the children. But helplessly, history books are really a bit difficult to understand, although he is right to study history, but modern history textbooks, how can they be so difficult to understand.
Modern history textbooks are all written in the vernacular, that is, to memorize the treaty, to memorize the date, and to memorize the characters. Those ancient books, ancient history books, if you really take them out and read them, they can be included in the national language textbook as a textbook. He didn't read Chinese literature.
Of course, he has also read a lot of ancient history books, but he reads them very slowly, slowly understands, really doesn't understand the place, skips it directly, or thinks he understands it in one stroke.
But now, he's going to teach. Reading history like him is completely misleading. Therefore, he let the history of his country be taught by Wang Xianyan, and he himself taught some general history of foreign countries and talked about some foreign things. But today, it seems that Wang Xianyan stuffed a lot of private goods to the children.
'About this...' Li Chen coughed lightly, thinking about how to explain, "Actually, this is a way of writing for His Holiness. After all, people are kings. For the Venerable, for the relatives, for the sage. This is the principle of Confucius when compiling and deleting the Spring and Autumn Period. ’
This is a manifestation of Confucianism, a kind of courtesy attitude, and in Confucianism, the five constants are very important. Since the Han Dynasty, after the deposition of Confucianism, this has also become the principle of writing history. Li Chen still knows this knowledge, the venerable, the relatives, the sage, Li Chen doesn't think so, so...
I don't agree with that. To study history is to learn lessons, and this is also hidden and that is concealed, and what lessons can be learned. Li Chen said disdainfully, "To put it bluntly, history is written by men, and of course women are not written well." It's a man's world. ’
'It's not good, it's bad. It is all men who make decisions, and Bao Xi likes to listen to people tear silk, and King Youhu plays the princes for him, which is his own ignorance and takes national affairs as a child's play. Today Bao Xi is a beauty, so I blame her. What if she's ugly? Ugly girls can listen to whatever they say, because it's not a red face, so it's not a disaster? ’
'Reading history, you have to learn to think, not just like the clouds, don't know how to think, it doesn't matter, you can think in the opposite, Mencius said, it is better to believe in the book than not to have a book, today you read the book, you can think in the opposite direction, the meaning of the book is reversed, or put yourself in the shoes of the person to think, carefully scrutinize. Okay, I've got to stop class today. ’
This afternoon, Li Chen let them study on their own, he began to prepare things, he was going to lead the team to the Jiedu Embassy Mansion in the evening, **** is today. Li Chen personally led the team, firstly, to show prudence, and secondly, Paradise was invited a lot today.
As the first tile house in the Tang Dynasty, Paradise has become famous near Xuzhou, the first all-weather entertainment venue, unlike the temple theater, where there is no day to get it, and the flow of people is stable, and the fame is getting bigger and bigger.
In addition, Li Chen continues to bring forth the new, and all kinds of new tricks emerge in endlessly, making Elysium more famous, attracting many rich and idle personnel, not only that, but the people of the ten miles and eight towns around Xuzhou will always come here to have a look if they have the opportunity and ability.
Because it is famous, many people today have been invited by the festival envoys, such as stir-frying, which is the name of the festival envoys, kick and dance, as well as performing operas, performing puppet shows, and of course, Yang Er is the main invited. There were many people, so Li Chen personally led the team.
When I arrived at the Jiedu Embassy, the first thing that caught my eye was a huge school field. The layout of the Jiedu Mansion and other mansions is different, (I don't know who built it.) Li Chen thought to himself.
At this moment, the colonel's field is already full of tables and chairs, thousands of people are here, boundless, and it makes people dizzy to see, 'These are the Silver Sword Army?' Li Chen asked, pointing to the thousands of people on the school grounds.
'I guess so. Wei Xuan wasn't sure, "These thousands of people, including their families, should all be here." If you look closely, in addition to some strong men, there are also many old and weak women and children, thousands of people, filling the school field.
Li Chen began to direct cooking, cooking is also a science, not how to make it delicious, but you have to make food for thousands of people in a short time, that is the test. He remembered his mother, who had worked in a kindergarten, and the teacher in the kindergarten had said that he had never seen such an easy kitchen mother.
In the past, every kitchen mother was in a hurry, and a kitchen was like a battlefield. But in the hands of my mother, it is very easy to get the same number of people.
Without him, he is efficient and knows how to distribute. Know what to do first, what to do later, and what to do together. It's not messy, it's a blind rush without a head or an end.
Li Chen is also studying now, and he has to assign them to do things efficiently when he learns. But he didn't do it himself, because he wasn't in the kitchen all day, he didn't understand how the kitchen worked, and he didn't understand the efficiency of some cooks and helpers.
He just assigns the flow so that those people don't get in the way of each other. Tell the chef to be quick, sort out the order and workload, and then make a reasonable allocation. This has been rehearsed many times, and when I knew I had to prepare meals for so many people.
Some things have already been taken care of when they come, and they are chilled with ice cubes, and they can be served first as soon as the table opens, which is a cold cut. More stuff, wait here to deal with it hot. These have to be rehearsed in advance, which is not the same as in Bliss.
At that time, although it was also busy, but when the list came in, it was to make a copy, unlike now, when thousands of people had to go out at once, and there was no way to go wrong.
Dozens of pots were set up, hot water and hot oil were boiling in the pots, and the cooks began to be busy frying things, some of which were fried and steamed, and some of which were steamed and then fried. In the steamer, there are a lot of things, the bottom is the slowest to cook, and the top is to keep warm. All of this is scored clearly to ensure that the table is steaming hot.
The chef is busy, and he is rectifying a famous dish of the Tang Dynasty called Hun Yang Death. It looks like roasting a whole sheep, you have to use roasting, you have to roast a sheep, or a whole sheep, it's not easy, and the chef is good at this. He dehaired a sheep, began to eviscerate it, cleaned it up, and then began to stuff it in.
Took over the whole goose that had been cleaned up by the cook, and stuffed him into the belly of the lamb. This goose actually has something in its belly, stuffed with sticky rice, eggs, and goose eggs. Carefully sewing the lamb belly on, the chef began to get busy, and to control the heat, he needed to roast the whole sheep and the goose inside, and not burn it.
The chef got it done here, Li Chen went to see how the tables were set up, because they were more experienced, so Li Chen was more relieved, in fact, this was even more nervous than the kitchen, and there was still a period of time for the kitchen to be served. It's not bad, the stage didn't let him worry too much, he was familiar with it, he knew what to do, he didn't panic, he set up the stage very smoothly, and now he is ready to start.
At this moment, the stage is ready to start, and the audience is crowded with people, the elderly and children, men and women, according to their own preferences, crowded in front of the stage, and several hot artists are performing, although it has not officially started, it has already made them watch it with taste.
There is no big problem, Li Chen walked around, and saw that these silver knife army military dependents were doing well, they looked pretty clean in their clothes, and their complexion was not bad, it seems that this silver knife army is quite valued, although from the **** point of view, it should be so, but God knows if it is abused all year round, so I will give some sweetness at this moment.
Next, the dish is served, some cold dishes are served first, and then the main force, a few dishes of fried vegetables are served, as soon as they are served, the fragrant taste immediately makes people appetizing, and then the big dish, braised pork is served. As soon as it is on the table, it is a crazy robbery, as a signature dish of Bliss De, this dish is well-known.
The line of serving food has also been arranged to ensure that they will not interfere with each other, but this is just a try, there are too many little children running around during the banquet, Li Chen frowned, the children are crazy, they don't care about anything, and the parents don't care, in case they bump into the hot soup and get burned, who is to blame?
'The proprietor, the death is healed. At this time, the chef came, and reported that the whole sheep was roasted, Li Chen nodded, and began to prepare for serving. Roasting whole lamb is a big dish, and the chef carefully roasts the whole sheep until it is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and it is fragrant. It's appetizing at first glance.
Cut open the lamb's belly and take out the fat goose inside, which is also roasted to just the right amount. Take out the fat goose, send it to the nobles, this muddy sheep is sudden, eat the goose inside, the Tang Dynasty takes the goose meat as the top grade, the roast goose meat should be given to the nobles to eat, and the rest of the sheep will be given to the next person to eat. The chef stomped the whole sheep and divided it into plates, and Li Chen picked up a food box that could be kept warm, and walked up the steps.
The pattern of the Jiedu Embassy is first a large school field, and then it is a pile of soil, and on top of a mound, the Jiedu Embassy is built. In fact, in addition to the school field, the layout of the Jiedu Mansion is no different from other mansions.
Li Chen took the servants and entered the main hall with the food box, the atmosphere in the main hall was warm, Li Chen knew why Yang Er looked down on the current Xuzhou Festival envoy.
When Li Chen came in, he was singing, although this main hall was full of middle and senior officers, but he was a festival envoy, so no wonder Yang Er looked down on him.