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"Fifth sister-in-law, have you washed all these vegetables and vegetables?"

"It's washed, washed, it's ready to be plated." The fifth sister-in-law, who was washing vegetables, hurriedly replied.

Qu Er saw that the large clean storage boxes were already filled with all kinds of vegetables that had been washed, including cabbage, spinach, chrysanthemum, etc., so he nodded and turned to leave.

"Fifth sister-in-law, you said, this chief invited those of them to eat and drink today, why do you only have these vegetarian dishes?" After a woman next to her saw Qu'er leave, she asked her fifth sister-in-law.

The woman who was called the fifth sister-in-law, she also shook her head a little puzzled, "I'm also curious, maybe it's the hot pot of the upper realm, right?" ”

"Hot pot?!"

The fifth sister-in-law shook her hand, stood up with her feet propped up, and wiped her wet hands on her apron, "The hot pot is 'Diaxia Offering'." ”

"Oh." As soon as she heard that it was a warm pot, the woman next to her understood.

Because the origin of hot pot is very early, as early as in the "Book of Wei", it is recorded that in the Three Kingdoms era, when Cao Pi was the emperor of the Han Dynasty, hot pot made of copper appeared, but it was not popular at that time. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people used hot pot to cook various meats such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, and fish.

Later, with the increasing development of economy and culture, cooking techniques were further developed, and various kinds of hot pots also appeared one after another. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the tavern in Kaifeng, Bianjing, had hot pot in winter. In the era of the Qing Dynasty, hot pot shabu became a winter delicacy in the court.

Of course, ordinary people in the countryside have generally never eaten, but the five sisters-in-law and they are working in the kitchen of the Jiang family, so they have naturally seen it, and the second master and Master Li like to put a small charcoal stove on the stone table in the garden pavilion in the cold winter of heavy snow, and then set up a soup pot on the stove.

Then he instructed the kitchen to cut the rabbit and mutton into thin slices, make a sauce with wine, sauce, pepper, and cinnamon, and wait for the soup to open, and then take the slices of meat and cook them in the soup and eat them with seasonings. It is said that it is with three or five friends gathered together to talk and laugh, you can eat at will, very pleasant, at that time the second master also read a poem said that it was "the waves of the clear river and snow, the wind turns the evening glow", and then everyone knew that this is "the Xia offering".

Now that the second master is gone, the new chief is here, and I thought that I would never see the "Dial Xia Offering" again, but I didn't expect that the chief lord would use this dish as a banquet for the first time, she was still thinking about this, and heard the fifth sister-in-law call her, "The seventh daughter-in-law, let's carry them all to the auditorium." ”

"Okay." The seventh daughter-in-law responded, although the chief took all the "clean vegetables", but he couldn't stand the dishes, that is, according to what he said, each dish only had to be washed lightly, and it took more than an hour to make it, so as soon as he stood up, he felt that his legs that had been sitting for a long time couldn't help but be a little numb.

After resting for a while, the seventh daughter-in-law and the fifth sister-in-law walked to the auditorium with a storage box full of vegetables and vegetables.

Then there was a small piece of land in the middle of the auditorium, on which were placed more than a dozen benches and formed a long case, on which several storage boxes had been placed, and the boxes were all cut enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, cucumbers, winter melons, tomatoes, potato chips, and kelp knots.

"Manager Qu, where do you want to put this dish?" The fifth sister-in-law saw that Qu'er, who had just left, was also here, and hurriedly asked, at first, the chief asked everyone to call the manager the manager, and she felt quite awkward, but after a long time, she slowly got used to it.

"Just leave it here." Qu'er pointed to the long case and said, she is also a little strange today, she originally heard Hong'er say that the chief is going to hold a banquet today to celebrate the completion of those pools, so he is going to arrange people to slaughter sheep and pigs, and show their skills, but the head of the road is going to invite them to eat hot pot.

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Green ant new brew wine, red clay small stove, late day snow desire, can you drink a glass of no? This is clearly to say that the literati invited friends to drink and talk about the scene in the snowy evening, but when he arrived at the chief, it became one of the reasons for him to invite those vulgar men to eat hot pot. Thinking of the poem that the chief had just read to them, Qu'er couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Huang Shi didn't know that he was secretly laughing at Qu'er, on the contrary, he was a little complacent, because he was very satisfied with the arrangement of the hot pot, he originally wanted to arrange a celebration banquet, but under normal circumstances, it is natural to have a large round table, but the people on the island are divided into meals, and there is no such table, if you buy it again, you may not be able to use it in the future, and this kind of banquet is really more extravagant and wasteful.

So Huangshi thought of the buffet that foreigners like to do, the buffet Huangshi itself is also occasionally eaten, there are colleagues who get married, there are children and wives to eat, there are breakfast in the hotel on a business trip, there are cheap, some are expensive, it solves the problem of waste on the banquet, but its waste is in the kitchen, and in addition to Western-style pastries, the treatment of Chinese hot dishes is also very troublesome.

So I can only eat hot pot, because this hot pot is popular all over the country as a popular folk delicacy. China's hot pot has a variety of colors and flavors. A kind of tableware made of metal or ceramic that combines a pot and a stove. Originally, there was a charcoal fire built into the stove, so that the pot soup was boiled to cook the dishes, and it was eaten as it was cooked.

Now it's more convenient, with a cass stove, or even an induction cooker, you can often eat hot pot at home. You can put whatever you want to eat, and you can eat it freely, and it is also the best to keep it fresh, without greasy. At that time, Huang Shi and his wife had to eat once a week at home, but after the little sheep arrived in Fuzhou, they basically stopped eating at home.

Because there are many famous hot pots in various places, such as Chongqing's spicy hot pot, which is spicy and mellow, and famous all over the world; Guangdong's seafood hot pot, calcium bone hot pot is not greasy, and the taste is endless; Beijing's mutton shabu-shabu has a unique flavor and makes people appetizing.

In addition, Hangzhou's "Sanxian Hot Pot", Hubei's "Wild Meat Hot Pot", Northeast China's "White Meat Hot Pot", Hong Kong's "Beef Hot Pot", Chongqing's Mandarin Duck Hot Pot, Spicy Hot Pot, Shanghai's "Assorted Hot Pot", Henan's "Red Braised Mutton Hot Pot", etc., can make people eat for a while, but what really makes Huangshi feel that he can never get tired of eating is the little sheep.

Now Huangshi has no way to invite them to eat authentic little fat sheep, but fortunately, it didn't bother him, because the company itself launched the soup base, some spicy, some fragrant, a pack is only ten yuan is very cheap. Considering that even chili peppers have not been introduced to China now, Huangshi chose the fresh and fragrant ones, preparing to make them fall in love with this flavor from now on.

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"Wow, what kind of fragrance is this, so fragrant."

"It's so fragrant."

Niu vigorously sniffed, and the fragrance suddenly rushed into his nasal cavity, and he immediately felt that his saliva was about to flow down, "Brother, the fragrance of this hot pot is even more fragrant than the chief's instant noodle seasoning bag." ”

Jiang Laogan also swallowed his saliva, looked at his watch, it was already six o'clock, "Yes, you can go in later." "Because the chief told them to go back to rest at noon, saying that it would be at six o'clock on time. After they freshened up and rested for a while, they all ran outside the auditorium and waited.

However, the chief did not let them all in, but only called a few young and strong people to go in, saying that they would help arrange the table, and when they were done, they were all driven out, and then they saw the helpers in the kitchen, and carried their washed dishes in one after another, but they did not see half a chicken or duck.

Fortunately, Huangshi didn't let them wait outside for too long, as soon as the time came, he asked Hong'er to come out and inform them to come in, and everyone came in to take a look, and the inside was really as Wu Nanhai said that it had been changed to a big appearance, and now a banner with white characters on a red background was hanging on the wall.

So some literate people read it and read it to everyone, "Celebrate the successful completion of the first phase of the Dongluo Island drinking water project." ”

"Let's all sit in groups of four." After speaking, Huang Shi turned his head to Li Chengpeng, who was around him just now, and said, "You three will sit at my table." ”

After everyone sat down, Huang Shi stood and advertised to everyone for the little sheep.

"The way to eat this hot pot is unique to our upper realm, it is different from your warm pot, it is not at all stained with the so-called sesame sauce, leek flowers, fermented bean curd and other small ingredients, but with our upper realm ginseng, angelica, ganoderma lucidum, red, white buttons, sand kernels, wolfberry, astragalus, grass fruit, meat buckles and other more than 60 kinds of seasonings to make a soup base, you can see and hear."

He then picked up some silver and shiny scoops and other things on the table and made an introduction, which made Niu Dali wait anxiously, because the strong fragrance overflowed their saliva and they didn't know how much their saliva flowed, and they stared at the transparent pot lid with green eyes.

"Okay, that's all for now."

"I have a few things to add." Everyone thought that they could start eating after the chief's words were finished, but when they heard his words, they all sighed in their hearts.

"The drinks on this table include our beer in the upper realm, as well as green and red wine suitable for your taste, as well as the top liquor in the upper realm.

Huang Shi originally wanted to say a few more words, but looking at the green eyes of the few people present, he had to shout, "Okay, I'm done talking, let's eat now." ”

So on November 13, 1558, the residents of Dongluo Island ate the little sheep hot pot for the first time and drank the second pot head.

The vegetables, beef and mutton slices, and meatballs of all colors that were put into the boiling soup were fished out by these green-eyed people before they were ripe, and the momentum was as unstoppable as the tiger out of the gate and the dragon out of the sea.