The method of calling the flower chicken is very simple, and there are two versions: economy and luxury.

The economy version is to wrap the chicken directly into the lotus leaf, wrap it in a thick layer of wet mud, and put it in the fire to simmer, while the deluxe version is more complicated, the chicken is marinated in rice wine and salt, the chicken belly is stuffed with diced meat, mushrooms and various spices, and the outer layer is wrapped in lotus leaves and wet mud to simmer and grill.

Qin Kan is now not too big or small, so of course he chooses the luxury version.

In spring, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River flies, full of greenery, the weather is neither cold nor hot, every time it is sunny, the moat is full of tourists, the ladies of large families, the literati who chant poems, and the hawkers who carry the burden of hot food, and even the little beggars who are not clothed are holding broken pottery bowls, laughing and rolling in the green grass outside the city.

Brother Bohu is rarely not drunk today, and his mind is quite clear, but his eyes are a little dull, and he seems to be floating when he walks.

"Brother Qin Xian actually has Yaxing today?"

"Brother Tang should go out and walk around more, it's not good to be stuffy in the house all day, although indulging in poetry and wine is an elegant thing, but it is harmful to the body after all......"

Qin Kan was carrying two chickens in his hands, patrolling around the moat, and Tang Yin followed behind Qin Kan with two jars of wine and a food box containing seasonal side dishes.

"What is the intention of the virtuous brother to carry two raw chickens in his hands? Do we eat raw? ”

"Cook a delicious meal for Brother Tang today, although the sage Yun: 'The gentleman cooks far away', but it doesn't hurt for a man to cook occasionally......

Tang Yin looked at Qin Kan with a strange expression, and his gaze was as if he had eaten the saint as a chicken, and he was very condemned.

"How do you read the sages of the virtuous brother? Mencius said: 'The gentleman cooks far away', which means that the kitchen is a place to kill, and the gentleman can't bear it, so what does this have to do with the gentleman's inability to cook? ”

Qin Kan: "............"

The defective products of modern assembly line education! Qin Kan's old face was hot, and he didn't know whether he was red or not.

"Brother Tang, we're out to eat chicken, isn't it too bad to talk about the trolling?" Qin Kan grimaced, and his look of shame flashed.

Fortunately, I didn't let the little eighth woman come with me today, otherwise she would have rolled on the ground with laughter.

Who knows that Brother Bohu has a very stubborn energy towards academics, and shook his head again and again: "The virtuous brother is not good at learning, and he should be three provinces of my body, and the foolish brother has a detailed annotation of the book "Mencius", and the foolish brother gave it to you, the so-called learning is like a tired soil, and after years of accumulation, it can eventually become a mountain......

"Brother Tang, come and dig the soil!"

"Oh......"

Found an open and uninhabited place by the moat, under a weeping willow that pulled out new shoots, Qin Kan stuffed the belly of the two chickens with diced meat and spices, wrapped them in lotus leaves, and wrapped the lotus leaves with a thick layer of wet mud, and then dug a pit next to the tree with Tang Yin, put the chickens in the pit, found some dry firewood and lit a fire on the pit.

Tang Yin looked at Qin Kan doing this, his expression was hesitant, and he was a little disgusted: "It's mud and leaves, can you eat this thing?" ”

Qin Kan didn't reply: "Don't eat if you don't eat, don't rush to eat later." ”

The waiting process was long, Qin Kan took out a huge linen cloth from the food box, spread it out on the green grass, put the wine and side dishes he brought on the linen, and the two took off their shoes and sat cross-legged, drinking while waiting for the flower chicken to come out.

"Brother Xian was hired as a county officer, can he handle errands?"

Qin Kan took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "It's okay, anyway, the foolish brother has no ambitions, but with wine, meat, and surplus money, all over the world can be immortal." ”

Tang Yin smiled bitterly: "The virtuous brother is so open-minded, when the foolish brother was inexplicably involved in the fraud case, he was cut off his official status, and the Jingshi took pity on me and gave me a county official to put it away, but the foolish brother was too arrogant, and he resigned angrily, and he has been wandering all over the world so far, and there is still no fixed place." If I had your open-mindedness back then, maybe my situation would not be as depressed as it is today. ”

Tang Yin sighed heavily, and a little jealousy gradually appeared between his eyebrows. …,

Looking at the depressed appearance of this talented man who has been famous for hundreds of years, Qin Kan had to persuade: "Brother Tang, there is no smooth sailing in life, there will always be failures and setbacks, whether it is with or against the current, life should have a goal and a direction after all." Brother Tang has been depressed in the past few years, indulging in lust all day long, depressed and decadent, is this kind of life worthy of your hard work in the cold window? Is it worthy of your talent? ”

Tang Yin looked stunned and said, "Life goal? What should I aim for? ”

"The goal varies from time to time, when you go downstream, you might as well set a goal of a thousand miles a day, when you go against the current, you might as well advance a foot a day, an inch, no choice, a small step every day and a thousand miles a day, its meaning is the same, a small advance when the reverse current, more admirable than a thousand miles downstream, it is better than you go with the flow, too much in a muddy life."

Tang Yin was stunned for a long time, sighed, stood up and respectfully bowed to Qin Kanchang to the ground.

"In a word, the teacher will be used for life. The virtuous brother is kind and grateful. ”

"Brother Tang is polite, but my brother is ashamed."

"Brother Virtuous is a man of great wisdom, why do you talk to Brother Fool about this today?"

"The chicken is not ripe yet, and it is idle when it is idle......"

The process of talking about the heart is a bit perfunctory, mainly because Qin Kan's mentality can't be reversed for the time being, he used to talk about life, and the ideal object of talking about it was a woman, but he changed to a man in vain, which was a little uncomfortable.

When the chicken was cooked, Qin Kan used a branch to pull out two dirt bags that had been burned into a black charcoal shape, and the stone was hammered twice, and the outer layer of burned soil shattered in response, revealing the chicken wrapped in lotus leaves.

As soon as the earth was shattered, a rich smell of chicken filled the air, making people salivate.

"It smells so good! Brother Xian, what kind of method is this? Tell us about it! Tang Yin was a little shocked, and his eyes were full of greed.

"It's called Flower Chicken ......"

Tang Yin didn't bother to listen to his explanation, and he couldn't wait to eat it after snatching it, and he was so hot that he screamed, still gasping and feasting.

Qin Kan pouted, and returned to Jiangnan as a genius, look at this food......

Just about to pull away the remaining chicken, but I heard a suspicious "huh" from the river embankment not far away, and then the figure flashed, and a lot of people sat cross-legged on the linen, wearing a very luxurious, moon-white silk gown, with a jade belt around the waist, hanging a Nafu jade pendant, and a hearty smile in his mouth: "Hehe, the two brothers came early, and they ate ......."

In the stunned eyes of Qin Kan and Tang Yin, the person who came was not polite, snatched the chicken in Qin Kan's hand, followed Qin Kan's example just now and smashed the topsoil with a stone, peeled off the lotus leaves, and ate it with his head down.

Qin Kan was stunned and looked at this benevolent brother eating, listening to what he said just now, "two brothers", it seemed that he was quite familiar with him and Tang Yin, but ...... I really don't know him!

There are only two chickens, and if this strange brother eats one, it means that Qin Kan has nothing to eat.

It wasn't until the whole chicken was eaten clean by the strange brother that there was only a pile of chicken bones left on the grass that Qin Kan finally couldn't help it, and looked at Tang Yin's gaze with some resentment.

"Brother Tang, you don't know me early if you have a guest......

Tang Yin was taken aback, his eyes widened and he was stunned: "I don't know him, isn't he your guest?" ”

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There are two theories about the origin of the flower chicken, one is the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other is the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty......