Ignoring the resignation of the two Xinnen County Cheng in Wannian County, Dugu Xinci took Feng Wangwei and the three of them back to the Liaoyang County Palace, Qinrenfang, and entered the mansion to see the green-robed servants with fresh faces, knowing that there were already distinguished guests.

Entering the lobby, sure enough, the Chen Dao observation envoy of Shannan Province had arrived, and Han Xiu's waiter from the Ministry of Rites was actually in the ranks, as well as Yin Li Yuanhong of Jingzhao Mansion, and there was also Zuo Cheng Xiao Song of Shangshu Province.

Everyone in the hall saw Dugu Xinci come in with a scholar, a squire and a head of Lijingmen, although they were a little stunned, they also ordered to warm up, they were all working with the courtiers and were familiar with each other.

The king of Dugu County did not blame Dugu Xinci for leaving duty early, and after welcoming the three guests, he drove Dugu Xinci to clean up the banquet.

Dugu Xinci depressed went back to his courtyard to change his official robe, and ran to the kitchen.

The banquet of the Star Picking Building has not yet been delivered, but the ingredients that Qiu Bin went to buy are piled up all over the ground.

Dugu looked at the smiling Qiu Bin and the two or three guards melancholy, and sighed, "You think that a certain person has been too idle recently, right?" ”

"Everyone wants to taste Tanhualang's poetry and delicacies," Qiu Bin retorted.

"The poem is a big winter melon, and the poems of Raushzi are mentioned again in front of a certain person? I'm about to vomit when I write a certain poem."

"Don't, just get used to spitting"

The two of them were fighting, and they were not idle under their hands, and several large pieces of pork belly were thrown into the big urn by Dugu Xinci and stewed in thick sauce.

"Don't say it again, if you keep doing it, you'll eat all the things you make, it's disgusting."

"If you eat something, you will eat it, and you also claim to have eaten human flesh"

"What about eating human flesh? Tell you that it is not the best taste of the heart and liver on the human body, the best thing to eat is the calf meat, and the teeth are still bounced after being stewed."

"Really?"

might as well cry out and put it away, which frightened a few people in this room.

"Big Bear, why don't you say hello when someone comes?" Dugu is kind and complaining.

"That's the little lady of the Yin family in the Li Mansion, who was originally brought on a blind date with you, but yes, it seems that there is no drama" Qiu Bin gloated.

"Maybe the little lady of the Li family has a heavy taste?" Dugu Xinci smiled.

"Oh, why don't you go and coax?"

"Busy, how many guests are there today?"

"It's better for you to go to the front and ask, and by the way, go and accompany Li Xiaoniang for a crime," Qiu Bin gave advice.

Dugu Xinci didn't care, there were many things at hand, seeing that Qiu Bin was too lazy to go, he ordered everyone to steam and cook a few dishes, and then went to the front hall.

There are two more ladies in the front hall, one of them is hugging the little lady who was crying just now, only saw a back before, but now when I look at it, I am disappointed, it is actually a little lady who looks less than thirteen or fourteen.

Everyone was looking at the crying little lady for some reason, and when they saw Dugu Xinci coming in, King Dugu asked, "Did you see the sister of the Li family in the backyard just now?" ”

"Except for him, it won't be anyone else," Feng Yuanyi fanned the flames on the side.

"I'm in the kitchen, come and ask how many guests there are today, so I can prepare carefully" Of course, Dugu Xinci would not admit it, and replied lightly.

The little lady originally saw a young man coming, and knew that it was the heir of the king of Liaoyang County, and was still secretly looking, and when she heard Dugu Xinci's voice, she heard that it was the person who just said that people's hearts and livers were not delicious, and she immediately hid behind the noble lady and trembled.

When King Dugu saw that he was angry, he got up and pointed at Dugu Xinci and scolded, "You, this son of a, how did you provoke Little Lady Li?" ”

Dugu Xinci couldn't say anything, he opened his mouth, this time even Li Yuanhong, who didn't care, couldn't help frowning, and Feng Yuanyi and Wei looked at Wang Qiu gloatingly.

"I've seen Li Shimei, a certain is the heir of the king of Liaoyang County, I just frightened the little lady, and I was guilty of sin" Dugu Xinci had to make amends to this timid little lady.

Everyone looked at the prince of Liaoyang County with a smile, and some discerning people also saw that Li Yuanhong must have the intention of bringing his young daughter to make friends on a blind date, but this Yuandong Hou was too anxious, and somehow provoked Li Xiaoniang.

Li Yuanhong's face turned red, and the king of Dugu County shouted, "Say, how did you offend Little Lady Li?" Come on, the family law waits"

Dugu Xinci was taken aback, how can this Dugu family also have a family law?

"Don't, don't." The little lady was frightened by the Tie Qing face of the King of Dugu County, trembling all over, but still stammered and shouted, "So-and-so didn't take a look, so-and-so just heard him... He said that people's hearts and livers are not delicious."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and they all sneered.

"Brother Xinci of your family is to scare you, how can a person's heart and liver be eaten?" Li Yuanhong's wife also turned her anger into laughter.

"Dugu Mingfu is talking about pig heart and sheep liver, right?" Li Yuanhong also knew that the two of them had nothing to do, so he smiled.

"Hehe, it's extreme, you're all noble people, and these things naturally can't be contaminated," Dugu Xinci said with a dry smile.

"Then you don't go to rectify it, starve a few uncles, be careful of your skin and flesh" Duguzhen sighed secretly, afraid that what this little lady heard was true, this Dugu Xinci and Qiu Bin's guards spoke unscrupulously, you might as well be heard, but this is not the point, but this Dugu Xinci is telling the truth, Shenlong was soaking in the Far East Hailan in the harsh winter for six years, and their wolf group survived by eating the meat of the Turks.

There is also a noble lady on the side who is Xiao Song's wife, with a shy young man, who seems to be younger than Dugu Xinci, and at this moment the eldest lady of the Xiao family also came over to help comfort the little lady of the Li family.

The young man also came over and comforted him, "The Hou of the Far East is good at talking, and Journey to the West is just a story written by him."

The two ladies also nodded yes, and the little lady slowly calmed down.

Several ministers of Yan Tang and the humerus also didn't care, and continued to talk about it, but a few insiders such as Feng Yuanyi and Chen Dao all knew that Dugu Xinci was scared by telling the truth.

Xiao Songzuocheng's youngest son called Xiao Heng, and also accompanied Eminem to listen to everyone on the side, smiling and silent, without being as noisy as Dugu Xinci.

Duguzhen, Xiao Song, Chen Dao, Wei Kang, Li Yuanhong, Han Xiu, Wang Qiu and the last Zhang Jiuling to arrive, all of different ages, with Chen Dao as the elder, he is one in his fifties, and the youngest Zhang Jiuling is only thirty and three.

According to the title and position, Duguzhen is naturally the highest, and the left servant of the king of Liaoyang County shoots, from the second grade, and has been added to the third rank under the same Zhongshu door; Xiao Song is the Zuo Cheng of Shangshu Province, who is in charge of the three departments of the Ministry of Soldiers, is the third product, and is the governor of politics; Chen Dao, a senior imperial historian, is now an observer of Shannan Province, and is on the fifth grade, but there is a third rank under the same book; Wei Kang, Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Zheng Sanpin; Li Yuanhong, Jingzhao Prefecture Yin, Governor of Political Affairs, from Sanpin; Han Xiu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Qiu, and the waiter of the Ministry of Officials, are all on the fourth grade; Zhang Jiuling, a scholar in the middle school, Hanlin is waiting for the edict, and he is on the fifth grade.

It is not an exaggeration to say that these eight people gathered together are the most powerful people under the five ministers of the political affairs hall, although there are only two governors participating in politics, one is the same as the three products of the Chinese book, and one is the former three products of the same Zhongshu door, although it is a little reluctant to be called the prince, but it is not modest to say that at least half of them have become the princes, and if the chances are good, it is not surprising that they are all the ministers except Duguzhen.

is because Duguzhen is already the king of the county, and if he goes further, he can only add the title of Taibao Taishi or Shaobao like Yao Chong.

And more importantly, these eight people are actually fellow scholars, which is very unusual?

Dugu Xinci was thinking about the purpose of the king of Liaoyang County to gather such ministers, and at the same time arranged the cooking ingredients in an orderly manner.

It was nearly noon, and the banquet of the Star Picking Building had also been served, and Dugu Xinci arranged the banquet slightly, and came to the lobby to ask if there were any guests? Are you hungry or not, you can eat at the table.

So everyone smiled and said, today you can see the poetry and delicacies of the Far Eastern Hou, Duguzhen is quite confident in her heir, so she invited everyone to eat in the second hall.

The second courtyard of the Liaoyang County Royal Mansion was originally Duguzhen's study and bedroom, and was later driven to another quiet courtyard by Dugu Xinci, and the second hall became the special canteen of the Liaoyang County Palace.

Dugu Zhenyan led a group of seven Wenchen, plus Feng Yuanyi, the general of the right prison guard, as well as two ladies and a little lady, Xiao Langjun, to the middle hall of the second courtyard.

Dugu Xinci naturally arranged it with his heart.

Two heaters with vents were installed here, one for each thing, which was very warm, and the middle mat was different from ordinary people.

Nowadays, Chang'an has become popular with high table circles and chairs, and the low chairs in the past have gradually been driven away, and the initiators are also the Far Eastern Commercial Firms, whose home shops are all over the 100 and 8 squares of Waiguo City.

The palace of Liaoyang County is also a high table circle chair, which should be a number of pieces put together.

The long table in the middle is placed with the banquet noodles sent by the Star Picking Building, astragalus mutton, five-spice roasted lamb shank, steamed bear's paw with honey, five treasures of mandarin ducks, hemp curd sea cucumber, Buddha jumping over the wall, yellow finch sorrel, sea bass, brine duck and goose paw, fresh shrimp roast, jade dew group, butter cherry, through the flower cake, Xiaotian crisp. There was a long line full of them.

There are twelve circle chairs on both sides of the table, one at the end of the desk, and tableware is placed on the circle chair as usual. Two pairs of ebony wood chopsticks were placed on white porcelain chopsticks pillows, saffron and white porcelain dishes, and a delicate small silver knife, and then a glass jar containing seven points full of dry and wine, and a blank porcelain wine glass.

There are also eight kinds of dishes in front of each person, four small plates, not much bigger than the mouth of the glass cup, and two pigeon eggs on a plate of pickled winter celery, yellow and green; One dish is a cold pineapple with several pickled winter bamboo shoots on top, and the winter bamboo shoots are made into a herringbone shape; and then a piece of white sugar bean curd, like snow and frost; There is also a small boat shaped carved from the flesh of winter melon, on which soybean and corn kernels are stacked.

The four dishes are very exquisite, with bright colors and elegant shapes.

There are four dishes outside the small plate, a plate of steamed eggs of crucian carp, the crucian carp is also covered with black hair cabbage, the black hair cabbage and the tender white egg custard form a gossip shape, two hexagram eyes, one is a blue-green pigeon egg yolk, the other is a red egg yolk; One plate is made of fat cabbage in the shape of a tree, with clear soup, and on the hair cabbage is a roasted turtledove; Next is a side of braised pork, the size of a child's palm, boiled red, decorated with a few corianders, and a small person poured with sugar sauce on the meat side; The last plate is a plate of red and white cranberry silk and yellow golden needle vegetables stir-fried, arranged in the shape of a dragon, with beards, cherries for eyes, and black caviar for scales.

Everyone already knows the story of the 29 dishes and 29 sentences of the Rim River, and now it is still a little shocking to see such a delicate and picturesque delicacy with their own eyes.

are all eunuchs for many years, what kind of banquet have you never seen? Three or five old friends drink, the flower banquet year after year, the royal banquet every three or five times, the upper, middle and lower eight treasures have not tasted?

In time, the eight treasures are called scarlet lips, humps, monkey heads, bear paws, bird's nests, preserved birds, deer tendons, and yellow lip glue. The eight treasures include shark fin, white fungus, civet, anchovy, wide belly, what lee, fish lip and so on. The lower eight treasures are sea cucumbers, dragon mustaches, large mouth mills, Sichuan bamboo shoots, red scale fish, dried scallops, oyster yellow, and mullet eggs.

But today, only this simple dish made of a few ordinary ingredients is carefully placed, and the poetry and painting are suddenly born.

They are all full of Confucianism, even Feng Yuanyi, the general manager of Lijingmen, has been cultivated for a long time, and can recite two poems without saying that they can recite two poems, the two ladies of the Li family, and the mother and son of the Xiao family have also studied for many years.

Chen Dao, who was obsessed with Taoism, pointed to the crucian carp steamed egg and chanted, "Open up a piece of the sky and draw a cloud." If you want to seek yin and yang, enter my Tai Chi Gate. ”

Xiao Jialangjun Xiao Heng pointed to the four plates of side dishes and said, "This is the famous sentence of the Hou of the Far East: two yellow orioles singing green willows, a line of egrets on the blue sky, the window contains a thousand autumn snow in Xiling, and the door is anchored in the Dongwu Wanli boat."

"A good word is used to cook, it's really nonsense" King Duguzhen scolded with a smile, and invited everyone to take a seat.

Duguzhen is the lord of the throne, since the family banquet has no official size, Chen Dao and Xiao Song, the two elders, sit down in turn, followed by Feng Yuanyi and Li Yuanhong, next to each other are Han Xiu and Wei Kang, Wang Qiu and Zhang Jiuling are the youngest, and at the end of the table is the Li family lady with the little lady, the Xiao family's mother and son.

The last seat in front of the main seat is reserved for the chef Dugu Xinci.

Waiting for everyone to sit down in turn, Chen Dao also called Dugu Xinci to work hard, sit down and eat.

Zhang Jiuling was still chanting, "I can't bear to eat, I can't bear to eat"

Feng Yuan coaxed together, "Far Eastern Hou has a verse?" ”

So Wei Kang also made up the knife, "I heard that Dugu Ming Mansion has no poetry and no banquet, so let someone have insight?" ”

Everyone did not move, waiting for the last year to Tanhualang to chant poetry.

Dugu Xinci exclaimed, "Is it interesting to eat a whole meal so tedious?" ”

"Interesting," everyone nodded and said in unison.

"Hmph, it's also a good guest but I don't know it's a bad guest" Dugu Xinci hummed, and had no choice but to come to a random song:

"There are few guests, and the poor family also has money for the banquet.

In the drunken spring breeze of flower arrangement, I don't want to learn more about Zen. ”

"Hehe, there are few customers? Why don't you call all the children in the family? "Feng Yuanyi demolished the stage.

"The poetry is obscure, the artistic conception is not good, and it will come again" The official Wang Qiu Shilang took the opportunity to take revenge.

"It's extreme, it's not in line with the New Year's situation, you need to come again" Zhang Jiuling also shook his head.

"Zhang Beizhao, you are a giant in the current literary world, and the kid wants to ask Zhang Zhizhao for advice?" Dugu Xinci smiled.

"The Hou of the Far East is the master, how can someone go beyond the kitchen to replace him?" Zhang Jiuling is clumsy.

"In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu, thousands of households are on the day, and the new peach is always replaced with the old charm" Dugu Xinci had to take out an old work to deal with.

Unexpectedly, Feng Yuanyi immediately revealed that this was done on the eve of the Chinese New Year's Eve in Gongchuan, and everyone immediately accused him of being perfunctory, not treating guests sincerely, and the king of Dugu County could not drink and ordered him to make another song.

Dugu Xinci's eyes rolled, and he said with a smile, "I saw Qi Guogong today, and I got a verse, I don't know if Qi Guogong is interested in listening to a certain chant?" ”

Hairpin Tai Sui Feng Yuanyi had an ominous premonition, but he still stubbornly said, "Tanhualang's poems should be the best."

"Then so-and-so will chant and laugh" Dugu Xinci chanted unceremoniously: "Chinese New Year's Eve is even more sleepless, tired of dull and sluggish New Year; Children call to walk the long street, and Yun has dementia to call people to sell. ”

The meaning of this poem is very simple, very vivid, and very hurtful, such as hairpin Tai Sui Feng Yuanyi,

From Chinese New Year's Eve to midnight, people are still sleepy, praying to the gods to remove disasters and blessings, and everyone waits for the approach and arrival of the new year. Walking on the street in the morning is naturally a little demented, so some children call for selling fools, selling fools.

Everyone laughed, even the little lady of the Li family was sneering, she was sitting on Dugu Xinci's right hand, and asked in a glutinous voice, "Does this poem have a poem name?" ”

"Well, it's just a dementia song, right?" Dugu Xinci thought about it and said, causing everyone to laugh again, but he didn't dare to persecute Dugu Xinci anymore, otherwise he would be depressed to death if he came to sell a stupid song again? You don't see that General Feng Yuanyi has already attacked the delicacies, and he has the artistic conception of turning grief and anger into food.

There are few guests, and the poor family also has a cane for money.

In the spring breeze of drunken dancing in flower arrangement, I don't learn Pang Weng and ask Zen.

(End of chapter)