Section 502 The people of the Tang Dynasty
What kind of soup is soup.
Chunlan asked the slave chef who was originally Goguryeo in the kitchen, and the kitchen immediately cried like a ghost.
"Don't, don't cry!" Chunlan was a little anxious.
Li Chang happened to come over, and picked up the cook: "Answer quickly, what's so particular about this soup?" ”
"It's Mother Soup!" The cook said with tears in his eyes: "Every year when the green and yellow are not harvested, the dried fish that has been stored for a year is dry until it is almost moldy." I mixed in a variety of wild vegetables and boiled them for the children to eat. Therefore, this soup is the mother's soup, and only the poor know about it! ”
Wild vegetables, here are wild vegetables, and the starters can quickly pick several large carts.
Li Chang asked someone to prepare wild vegetables, and it was really difficult to find a moldy one for the dried fish.
After thinking about it, Li Chang asked Chunlan to go in and make a report first, and he also went to tell the three Shangguan to see what they said.
Wang Jishan heard that it was only Jin Manqing who was homesick, which just coincided with her hesitation about the menu on that page just now.
After Wu Cao heard it, he secretly handed over an object to Chunlan, and at the same time whispered: "This is a soup of zuihou!" ”
Shiitake mushrooms and vegetables, this is the first dish on the table, the kitchen is naturally dominated by Datang chefs, Li Yuanxing is delicious, but the taste does not need color and style. Wu Cao is delicious, and it requires all the color, flavor, and flavor. This mushroom green dish is a very ordinary dish in modern times, and it can be Tang Dynasty, but it is a first-class VIP dish in Chang'an.
Because all year round, no matter what time of year you are, you can eat a serving of shiitake mushrooms.
Since the launch of this dish in Qinwangzhuang, it has ensured the supply of fresh shiitake mushrooms and green vegetables in all seasons. It soon became an important vegetarian dish at banquets, especially when Tang officials feasted foreign envoys, the absence of this dish meant that the envoy was not valued by the Tang Dynasty.
There are green vegetables in the four seasons, which represents the wealth and strength of the Tang Dynasty.
The second course of balls, four-color balls. The other is a lean lion head, raw meatballs, and starch-fried meatballs, and fresh meatballs. Fresh meatballs are delicious meatballs that are a mixture of shrimp and pork.
Four kinds of meatballs, steamed, boiled, and fried, used three processes. And it's all fresh meat.
This dish. Any kind of meatball is the best at the feast. In Yaozhou, this dish can also be eaten by slaves, but it can't be bought with money, but is exchanged for the points rewarded by the workshop.
This dish represents the best artisans in Yaozhou. Young and old, men, women. Civilians or slaves.
The third course. Back to the pot with slices of meat.
Marinate meat, or boiled meat, and slice it thinly. Stir-fry with garlic sprouts. This dish is not a feast, but it is the best dish on the table of ordinary people.
Cured meats and boiled meats are meats that can be preserved for many days.
Since the slaves in Yaozhou could own some property for themselves, the first thing they stored in terms of food was this cured jerky or boiled meat pieces, which represented the wealth of ordinary slaves. I don't know what it means in Chang'an, you can Yaozhou, this is the best dish for low-level slaves or civilians in Yaozhou.
zuihou one, stewed beans!
This is not a dish, this is one of the original staple foods of Datang. After squeezing the oil, put some coarse salt in a casserole over low heat, add water and simmer slowly over low heat, cook it before going to work, and when you go home at night, most of the water in the casserole is almost dry, and the beans are like porridge.
Eating wheat bran dumplings mixed with wild vegetables, and then eating this stewed bean, it is a staple food for several months.
Four dishes representing four different feelings.
Wu Cao admired this Jin Manqing, she was really a smart woman, and she used four dishes to express all her current mood. She loves Datang, she likes her current life, but there are still things in Goguryeo that she can't give up.
When a zuihou soup is served, it is fastened to the tray with a semi-circular pure steel lid.
The maid did not remove the lid in front of Jin Manqing, but placed the entire tray on the table.
With doubts, with the encouragement of Wu Cao's eyes, Jin Mancheng reached out and slowly opened the lid, there was no soup on the tray, only a parchment roll, tied with a red ribbon and placed in the tray.
"Your citation, from Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty to Goguryeo, the time limit is one year! You can set off at any time with your luggage, this voucher is issued by the Qin Mansion of the Tang Dynasty, you can pass unimpeded, you can also stay in the post stations of the Tang Dynasty, each post station will take care of you a meal, overnight accommodation. ”
Chunlan stood next to Wu Cao, explaining the peculiarity of the citation.
Jin Manqing held the guide and suddenly asked loudly: "Isn't Datang afraid that I won't go back?" ”
Wu Cao didn't answer, just slowly ate his lunch.
Wang Jishan and Cui Junsu, who were sitting behind the screen, glanced at each other, and both of them wrote a sentence on the paper at the same time, which was the best answer they thought was the best answer when faced with such a question.
Wang Jishan wrote that Datang treats you like a daughter, why don't you go back.
What Cui Junsu wrote is that you can become a master here in Datang, why don't you go back.
After the two finished writing, they motioned to Lu Chengqing and Li Chang to write that they might have used the answer. Li Chang wrote directly on the paper in front of him: A certain person is a rough person who doesn't know much words, but he only thinks that His Royal Highness the King of Qin is good to a certain person, and a certain person will repay him with death.
Lu Chengqing wrote: How to be home, have relatives and friends, and be rich and happy.
Wang Jishan and Cui Junsu gave Lu Chengqing a thumbs up at the same time, and in terms of the younger generation, Lu Chengqing's words combined the essence of Wang and Cui's rhetoric. Whether he thought it himself, or wrote it after seeing the words of Wang and Cui, he couldn't hide that Lu Chengqing was a person with real talent.
But how would Wu Cao answer.
Everyone is looking forward to it, a few people behind the screen are looking forward to it, and Jin Manqing is also looking forward to it.
Wu Cao finished eating the rice in his small bowl, wiped his mouth, and then said: "Datang's voucher is just a pass, some people come to Chang'an from Lingnan, and they won't return to Lingnan if they stay." This does not violate the law of returning to the Tang Dynasty, but if he wants to return to Lingnan, he needs to apply for a new reference. ”
What is the answer?
"You are a civilian of the Tang Dynasty, and no one restricts your freedom. It's just that after more than one year, your certificate will become invalid, and you will need to re-apply for customs clearance at the border. As long as you're alive, you've always had this qualification. You can also choose where you will live in the future, and Goguryeo will be your home. ”
“weishenme?” Jin Manqing seemed to be asking herself, she lowered her head and held the certificate a little stupid.
weishenme? Wang Jishan also didn't understand that Wu Cao Weishenme would answer like this.
"The civilians of Datang have freedom. This is written in the laws of the Tang Dynasty, however, you have signed a contract with the Yaozhou Medicinal Material Workshop, and you have not worked for enough years in the Medicinal Material Workshop, and you are going to lose money, and this is in the contract, so if you don't come back for a year, the officials of the Tang Dynasty will go to you in Goguryeo and ask you for compensation for breach of contract. ”
Everything Wu Cao said was true.
Jin Manqing really couldn't understand it, got up and walked to the middle of the place to give a big salute, knelt on the ground and asked again: "From Chang'an to Goguryeo, I found me to pay compensation, and the money was not even enough for the passage, but Weishenme didn't arrest me back." ”
"This palace is very serious to tell you that no one has the right to arrest you as a free man. Is it a joke that you let you redeem yourself when Datang asks you to redeem yourself? It's still Datang playing word games with this to deceive you people. Looking for you to lose money, this is to uphold the law of the Tang Dynasty, and it is natural to repay debts! ”
Wu Cao said word by word, and that language was very similar to Li Yuanxing.
If it weren't for the fact that Wu Cao's voice was obviously a young girl's voice, in this tone, Wang Jishan and the others really thought that Li Yuanxing, the king of Qin, had arrived.
Jin Manqing cried.
She believed that what a princess said would not be a lie, and that she was truly free.
But......
Jin Mancheng cried very sadly, and cried all the tears he had since becoming a slave at once. From being caught, to now, whether it is bitter or tired, even once she accidentally hurt her shoulder by a cabinet, she has not shed a single tear, but now she is really crying.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, I can't go back. I want to go back, but I can't! ”
“weishenme?” Wu Cao's tone softened a lot, but it was still like Li Yuanxing's tone.
"When I go back, I will be recaptured and returned to the palace. Because I am a fugitive slave, if I die, the palace will give my parents some reward, and if I am a fugitive slave, then my parents will also be affected. I will be taken back and beaten to death with a whip, and my parents will have to pay for their property and even become slaves! ”
Jin Manqing cried sadly, she was a medical woman in the Goguryeo Palace, and from the day she entered the palace, she was the property of the palace.
Although she was not sold into slavery, when she entered the palace, the Goguryeo Palace would give her family a sum of money, which could be regarded as buying her. It's just that she didn't lose the status of selling women as slaves, in fact, she was a high-level slave, she became a medical maid in the palace, and it wasn't until she became an official medical female official that she could be regarded as having a free body.
Wang Jishan and Cui Junsu are both high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, they not only understand the laws of the Tang Dynasty, but also know some of the laws of the surrounding small countries, after all, they are friends.
Hearing Jin Manqing crying, both of them were a little moved.
Wang Jishan said: "It shouldn't be difficult to buy her parents back, General Cheng should be able to do it!" ”
But just when everyone was sympathizing with Jin Manqing.
"Ha, haha!" Wu Cao said loudly, seemingly without any sympathy.
Jin Manqing was desperate, she knew that she had only one way out to stay in Datang, and the only thing she could ask for was that she had saved enough money to take her parents and younger brother to Datang to live a rich life.
"What do you have in your arms, and what do you know that piece of paper represents?" The tone of Wu Cao's speech at this time was definitely a copy of Li Yuanxing, without the slightest gap. The use of words, sentences, and pauses in tone, everything is a copy of Li Yuanxing.
This shocked the four people behind the screen.
Jin Manqing trembled and took out his paper scroll that represented the identity of a civilian in the Tang Dynasty.
"You are a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, there is no prison cell for the people of the Tang Dynasty outside the Tang Dynasty, and you dare to beat the whip of the people of the Tang Dynasty!" (To be continued......)