Chapter Ninety-Seven: On the banks of the Surabaya River

'Please try it, this is the Seven Little Blessing Wine Shop, newly brewed and drunk red dust. Please have a drink for free. If you like it, please buy it at the Seven Little Blessings Liquor Store in the east of the city. Li Chen took the four children and sent wine on the edge of Surabaya, between the curtains.

Drink for free, but no one refused. Some people like it, some people hate it, but they always drink two sips, so they brought a few stone wine, which was quickly sent away, and received a lot of praise. In modern parlance, it's a bunch of people who give likes.

During this period, some fragrant things also happened, interspersed with many obstacles in the "skirt feast", so that the entire Surabaya River, seems to exude fragrance. "The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people on the waterside of Chang'an." From Du Fu's "Beauty Walk", you can get a glimpse of one and two.

There are so many women, women in the Tang Dynasty have a high status, and they have always been known for their arrogance, so when Li Chen sent wine, because of his tall and burly martial arts and the kind of bookish atmosphere brought from modern times, he attracted many women to flirt..., it was really a flirtation.

Several times, he was pulled into the "skirt banquet" by others, and was judged by the women of all families in public. I was so bold that I stepped forward to touch it here and pinch it there. Is the Tang Dynasty woman really arrogant and dares to be in charge of the family to flirt with a man from a good family? Neither is it, because... Shangsi Festival is also a blind date for unmarried women.

On the Shangsi Festival, families with daughters to be married at home often take women on trips and take the opportunity to choose a son-in-law. So Le, those aunts and aunts are all picking sons-in-law, Li Chen of course admits that he is unmarried, although this body has a wife and children in Chang'an. But this soul of him doesn't admit it.

Actually, he didn't want to ask for trouble, saying that he was unmarried, and he didn't have so much trouble, but Li Chen himself also wanted to take the opportunity to see the beauties, and besides, he was proud of his unremitting exercise, so he would be casual. Anyway, if you touch it twice, you won't lose a piece of meat, it's a little stinky and beautiful, so Li Chen thought so.

'It's back, it's back. It's finally done. Finally sent out all the wine, and it was easy to relax, Li Chen was so arrogant that he lifted the barrier and walked in.

'Who are you?' Trespass, who let you in. Before he walked in, he heard a man scolding Li Chen, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake." Li Chen withdrew, but he took a closer look, it was right here, and then he thought.

"It's Yang Erniang who invited me here, it's not good to dare to leave like this." Li Chen lifted the barrier and came in, and it was Ah Yong who just drove him away. If you still remember, there was actually Ah Yong who rescued Li Chen at the beginning.

However, Ah Yong has always looked at Li Chen unpleasantly, for unknown reasons. Although they don't have many opportunities to meet, when they have the chance, Ah Yong will definitely make things difficult for him.

'Uncle, please go to the side. Where is Fauber going to show up? ', 'Who is the uncle?'' 'It's not you who else, thirty people are up, not what is the uncle.' Damn, the ancients got married early, maybe they could be grandfathers at the age of thirty, and it's not wrong to say that they are uncles, but my heart is still very young, okay?

'Don't worry about you kid. Okay, call me uncle, I don't know as much as you hairy child. After Li Chen went in, he walked directly to the river, and now that he doesn't see anyone, they must be by the river. Li Chen shook off Ah Yong and ignored him to block him, he knew that Ah Yong didn't dare to go too far, after all, whatever he said, Yang Erniang invited guests.

Sure enough, where did Li Chen see a few women, Yang Er, Xiaohong, Green Lotus, Ah Xiang, Datou, and the five women were in a river bay, taking off their outer skirts, similar to the "skirt banquet", covering their privacy. Of course, the women are not undressed, and there are no swimsuits in this era, they mainly wear hakama to play in the water.

Fold up the trouser legs slightly, expose your wrists and calves, wash your hands and feet, and splash water on each other. Seeing this, Li Chen didn't dare to step forward. Drove a few hours to another place, and also went into the water to play.

'Uncle, uncle, come here, little tiger, little dog, you all come and play together.' Although he walked to the other side, he was not far away, and was immediately noticed by Ah Xiang and beckoned Li Chen and Wuxiao to come over to play.

'Well, no. If it weren't for Yang Er and Lu He, Li Chen would have passed long ago. Please, a modern man, what is there to play with the girls, how many men and women are in the pool. But now that it is ancient times, Li Chen is not sure whether to avoid suspicion.

"Ah Xiang, we're pulling out the clothes, not playing anymore, and someone doesn't want to come over, so forget about seeing outside." Hearing the word "outside", Li Chen thought about it for a while, and still brought a few little past.

This is also in the Tang Dynasty, if after the Song Dynasty, etiquette and religion prevailed, even family members could not be so casual. Sure enough, it's still the Tang Dynasty.

In other words, playing with water is playing with water, what is the meaning of pulling? Because this is a kind of ritual, which is also handed down from ancient times. On the third day of March, this day finally gradually warmed up, and it was necessary to wash and wash. In addition to the water, willow branches, herbs, mulberry leaves, and camellia flowers will be added to the water.

The ancients did not have a major national event than in the era of sacrifices and wars, so naturally there will be many things that will involve superstition. will be solemn and solemn, and turn the March 3rd bath into a ritual.

Fortunately, this situation was alleviated in the Tang Dynasty, although there would still be people who would do it, make a bathtub by the water, and put those things in the bathtub. But for most people, it's as simple as playing in the water.

'What is this?' Li Chen took a few children, merged with the Yang family, played in the water together, embarrassed or something, but did not appear, what do you want to see wet body, it is difficult, the clothes are too thick. It's just that Li Chen suddenly found something and floated down the current.

'What? Egg. Li Chen was very strange, how could there be eggs flowing down the water, 'Could it be that someone accidentally dropped the eggs brought into the water.' Li Chen thought so. However, more things are flowing slowly and slowly downstream with the current. Some things Li Chen stopped, and some didn't.

Li Chen intercepted some eggs, some eggs, some duck eggs or goose eggs. Li Chen felt that he had made progress, and before he crossed over, he probably couldn't recognize the difference.

'Can you eat these things?' In addition to eggs, there are also red dates. Li Chen originally guessed that someone had brought a picnic, but accidentally dropped it, but now he guessed that there was something upstream, and he threw all this food into the water.

'Uncle, won't you eat?' Give it to me?' Fat Ball drooled on the side, staring at it with a blank eye. 'Eat, and you will know how to eat.' Li Chen was angry, "This thing, left from the upstream, you are not afraid of being broken." Otherwise, how could people throw it away. Pick up everything and eat it, and I'm not afraid of eating it. ’

'Broken?' Fat Ball wondered, isn't this a floating egg and a floating jujube? How could it be broken. Fat Ball was puzzled, "Come on Fat Ball, my sister has to give this to you." At this time, Xiaohong had a bad word, and gave Li Chen, a guy who didn't know anything about the world, and gave an egg to Fat Ball.

"You, this is something that people specially share with others to eat, how can it be bad, you won't have a good time." I don't know. Seeing that Li Chen was stupid, Xiaohong smiled and explained to Li Chen.

It turns out that there is still this custom in the Shangsi Festival, some people will prepare some eggs or red dates, eat them themselves, and throw them into the river for people downstream to pick. It's also a kind of alternative to be blessed to share. Then, if this kind of activity is among the literati, it is to put a wine glass, which is called composing a song.

'Come up and get something to eat.' Xiaohong beckoned on the shore, Green Lotus set out a mat, a huge straw mat, Yang Erniang had already sat upright, and Xiaohong greeted while distributing vegetables.

'It's delicious. ''Yes, it's delicious.'' A few children went ashore, wiped their hands and feet, and thanked Yang Erniang, Xiaohong, and Green Lotus before they started.

Today's meal can be sumptuous, there are pork fried meat minced and mixed together to steam out meatballs, fragrant Q is strong, a green onion vinegar chicken, green onion and vinegar to enhance the flavor of the chicken after steaming. A plate of sausages, but not the kind we commonly used in later generations, using the large intestines of pigs to fill the pork, but sheep bone marrow into the intestines of cows.

A few meat dishes, paired with seasonal vegetables, are a hearty meal, as well as after-sale snacks. A mandal-like sandwich that mimics a mandala flower and has a filling inside. Well? What does a mandola look like? The mandola flower is quite large, and the flowers are pentagonal.

Finally, there is a soup called Mao Soup... To put it simply, it's rabbit soup. Because in the sexagenary branch, it happens that the rabbit is ranked Mao, so it will be called Maotang.

Li Chen was very addicted to this meal, praising Xiaohong's good skills, which made Xiaohong very embarrassed, and was teased by Lu He and Yang Erniang. His face was red and puffed, which made Li Chen very excited. It's just that he didn't notice that Ah Yong's face on the side was even more stinky.

Li Chen was full of food and drink, but he didn't know that to a certain extent, such banquets promoted the development of ancient Chinese cooking skills and enriched the variety of food. Usually this kind of food is prepared by women. Every household is exempt.

Because the women are ingenious and good at cooking, in order to make the atmosphere of this banquet better, or to compete with each other. They often put a lot of effort into the food and wine they bring: or in the taste of raw materials, or in the color and shape, or in the tableware, wine utensils, food boxes innovation. In disguise, it stimulated the development of ancient Chinese food culture.

After eating, I made some games, such as singing. Li Chen went back with Qixiao. I just didn't know that that night, after a day off, a fire broke out in the Seven Little Blessing Wine Shop, which almost burned the entire wine shop.