Su Shi felt that Yun Fei must be very tired when he came from afar, so he immediately called his neighbor's family to come and help. Chaoyun brought fried crispy Guanyin Pavilion peanuts.

After hearing the news, the neighbor's uncle's son immediately went down to the river to find a large plate of fresh snails, and his daughter Jiang Yue brought the plum cabbage and meat steamed yesterday and left quietly.

Su Shi thanked the neighbors and poured wine for everyone one by one.

The old man welcomes distinguished guests from all walks of life to come to the humble house with both hands and feet, respects the noble and beautiful ladies, respects the heroes with unique skills, and respects the dragon boy who has the same cooking skills. Dry, the old man did it first as a respect. "The people drank the wine.

"Concubine Wen, pregnant with a dragon fetus, it is inconvenient to drink, please forgive Master Su." Stay safe and drive well, and speak kindly.

But Concubine Wen felt that the opportunity to come to the mansion of the great writer was really rare, even if it was a drop, it was worth the trip, and said boldly: "How can I refuse to be given wine by the talented son of the Great Song Dynasty?" In front of Brother Su, the little sister uses trickle to represent a full cup, is it okay? ”

"The supreme Concubine Wen Niangniang can be said to be under one person and above ten thousand, why not?" Su Shi said happily.

I saw Concubine Wen dip her chopsticks in the wine, so three times, she really tasted it.

"A good concubine, she takes care of everything, and she has a very good grasp of proportion." Su Shi boasted.

"Little sister, I haven't had the fairy spirit of drinking for a long time, especially in the land of Penglai, a great writer, how can I miss the opportunity?" Before he could finish speaking, everyone laughed happily!

"Eat the vegetables and eat the vegetables." Su Shi urged everyone.

"Taste the food." Concubine Wen corrected.

The crowd laughed again.

"Hey, where is the dragon boy?" The attentive eighth sister asked puzzled.

"Don't worry, he'll definitely be back, because he hasn't learned Dongpo fish yet."

"Yes, yes." The crowd chimed in.

The ladies in the palace rarely ate a local dish like plum cabbage, and they rushed to ask, "Bachelor, why is this dish so delicious, and is it made under your guidance?" ”

"It seems that the old body should be proud again." Su Shi drank a glass of wine and was a little excited.

"You can't call yourself old, you must call yourself big brother." Concubine Wen corrected loudly.

"Yes! Little Sister Wen, in the future, I will call myself 'Brother Su' in front of you."

"Good, good! Good, good, good! The crowd agreed.

"Huizhou plum vegetables are a traditional specialty that is unique to the local area. Huizhou plum vegetables with a long history are made by the villagers through multiple processes such as cold drying, selection, and salting. Since Brother Su and I came to Huizhou, this kind of plum cabbage with golden color, fragrant aroma, sweet and refreshing, not cold, not dry, not wet, not hot, and is rumored to be a righteous dish by the people. It is the Dongpo button meat taught by Brother Su and me, which is also known as plum vegetable button meat and is famous inside and outside Huizhou. ”

"Oh my God, Long Gongzi can not only learn Dongpo large pieces of meat Dongpo delicious fish, but also Dongpo plum vegetable steamed pork, it is difficult to describe the huge harvest of this trip with 'full load'." Everyone applauded one after another, thinking that Concubine Wen's analysis was very exquisite.

"If you have good food, you have it." All the warriors laughed in unison.

"Xianggong, come and fry fresh snails." Chaoyun commanded.

"It smells so good!" Everyone was full of praise, only Concubine Wen didn't dare to agree, and said with a smile: "This girl doesn't dare to agree, now people open the skylight of food, and many things dare to eat, so let's just give everyone a name." ”

"What?"

"I dare to eat many things."

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed from ear to ear.

"Brother Su, come and taste your masterpiece." Concubine Wen called out loudly.

"Tell us a story about your food, okay?"

"Okay, the people take food as the sky, the legend of food, Brother Su, I have experienced many stories, perhaps, in the future, it will become a legend."

Su Shi took a sip of wine and said proudly: "Let's take this snail as an example, in Guangzhou, many people have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the third year of Yuanfeng in the Song Dynasty, that is, in 1080, because of the Wutai poetry case, I was relegated to Huangzhou, Hubei, far away from Beijing, and I had to devote myself to ploughing on the eastern slope, driving a flat boat, wearing grass shoes, and wandering in the mountains and rivers and fishing woods. It's so satisfying, it's wonderful. One day, when Mianzhu Taoist Yang Shichang came to visit, he joined him, took the donkey as his foot, and went to Jingzhou to visit, in order to rely on the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, which deliberately turned to Jianli to re-take Huarong Road.

At that time, in the spring of March, the willows and flowers are bright everywhere, the warblers are crying tactfully, the bees are flying and the butterflies are dancing, and the swallows are flying geese. With my friends by my side, my interest in traveling increased greatly, and the frustration of officialdom was swept away. We walked across the Taiping Bridge, came to the shore of Conch Lake to rest under the shade of a willow, fortunately there was a village restaurant nearby, so we called the host to ask: Can you have a special taste to accompany the food and wine? The shop has not been open for a long time, and on weekdays it only supplies the coarse food of the villagers to satisfy their hunger and fatigue, so the host replied: There is no wine and food to entertain guests from afar. Yang Shichang and I are both people who are devoted to Zen, and we like wild fun and avoid Huatang, so we insist on having a simple meal in a small shop. He repeatedly instructed the shopkeeper to select only vegetables and special products from the garden to make a banquet, and to prepare only a pot of grain and wine made in the local market. The shopkeeper pondered for a long time, there is no shortage in the seasonal vegetable garden, but how to make a banquet without meat dishes? In the end, in a hurry, I touched half a bucket of snails in the ditch. Back then, Conch Lake entertained Brother Su and me with this snail banquet.

When I was satisfied, I hurriedly asked what this main dish was. Delicious meat but not very good at cooking? The shopkeeper was immediately embarrassed, told the truth, and asked what the crux of the matter was. I used poetry as a small skill of carving insects, and did not answer, his family held the four treasures of the study, I chanted a little, and inscribed a poem:

The heavy rain has wet the wall, Zhuge regretted the defeat of Xiangyang,

Guan Gong ran away thousands of miles, and Liu Bei went to the battlefield with a knife.

After finishing the question, the two of us walked away. The shopkeeper didn't understand what he meant at first, so he only framed Su Shi's poems and books and hung them on the wall. Later, it was discovered by the local Xiucai, and the mystery in the poem was revealed after careful study: the first sentence is "no eaves (salt)", the second sentence is "miscalculation" (garlic), the third sentence is "off the bridle" (ginger), and the fourth sentence is "no general" (sauce).

Then, Su Shi explained, "This is not so much my criticism of the hotel host's poor cooking that day, but rather my guidance for the cooking of snails." In fact, braised snails later became a well-known delicacy here, and the heavy taste of salt, garlic, ginger and sauce are the four essential flavors for cooking snails. ”

"Master Su, you are really good at everything." Concubine Wen praised enthusiastically.

The third sister frowned and asked uneasily: "Brother Su, Sister Wen refers to people as 'dare to eat many things', may I ask, as a great writer, why can't you get along with Tian Luo?" ”

"Brother Su, although I am dedicated to Zen, I can't withstand the charm of food; Besides, the folk believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival snail can be eye-catching. Medical scientists have deduced that snail meat may contain a certain important substance that is excellent for the eyes, but why do you have to diet it during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Some people pointed out that around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the snail is empty, and there is no small snail in the abdomen, so the meat is particularly fat. ”

"Oh, I'm afraid that every time around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the female snail will suffer again." Concubine Wen said jokingly, and after everyone heard it, they also felt the same way, and they slowed down their chopsticks.

Taking advantage of the wine, Su Shi revealed his true feelings: "Virtuous, Concubine Wen, this is probably a big reason why Emperor Xu is obsessed with his mother." ”“”

That's true! That's true! The beauties and warriors agreed.

Su Shi had a guest at home, and the news spread far and wide. Su Shi's friend Lin Po pulled Xixi bamboo shoots, quickly mixed them cold, and sent crispy mash bacon together, and then quietly said goodbye.

Everyone tasted the sweet, crisp bamboo shoots, chewed the crispy mash bacon, and felt that the strange aroma of the bacon had penetrated into the bone marrow, in addition to the sweet and crispy bamboo shoots, it also had a peculiar Chinese medicine fragrance, and it was not greasy, and they were happy to praise: "Beautiful, beautiful!" ”