"This second sister-in-law Shen and her niece Mrs. Yao are the heroes of Miaocheng's banquet today."

Wang Shu ordered the Li family, and after inviting Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huan over, he introduced it to the guests present.

He turned his head sideways and smiled at Shen and Yao: "Huang Luzhi Huang Gong, he is a fragrant idiot, the first one to sniff out, your roasted chicken and mutton are added with Western Regions spices." Second sister-in-law Shen, why don't you bring the spice packets of your barbecue to him quickly? ”

Shen Fuzhi listened to the order, gave a gift, and was about to turn around and walk in the direction of the food car, but heard Huang Tingjian speak: "Second sister-in-law Shen stays, among these meat dishes, horse celery (cumin) and allspice (pepper) are obvious, and the others, let the old man guess." ”

With that, he picked up a section of roasted river eel that had been brought to him by the servant.

Yao Huan saw it and secretly praised it, he was indeed an expert in appreciation.

Chicken, sheep, pig three kinds of meat, the taste is relatively strong, the river eel itself is not considered the fishiest thing in the aquarium, peaceful and diluted, and the fish fiber is delicate, easy to absorb the smell of seasoning, dry lime and other spices on the fish meat, the most obvious, easy to distinguish.

The "idiot" wanted to show off his skills, and everyone was interested, staring at Huang Tingjian.

Only Zeng Wei had another thought, but he secretly glanced at Zhao Ji, the king of Suining County.

Just now, when Yao Huan followed Shen Fuzhi and was invited by Wang Shu to come over to show up, Zeng Wei quickly swept the expressions of the male guests present.

Huang Tingjian and Yan Jidao are both old men in their fifties and sixties. Li Gefei was a witness to the Zeng family's acceptance of Yao Huan as a righteous daughter, and he is also an elder. Su Yu and Yuwen Huang Zhong, the former has set the woman who will continue the string, and the latter has played with Yao Huan after playing football that day, like a wooden lump, no need to worry about it.

Only Zhao Ji, the king of Suining County, although he was only fourteen years old, Zeng Wei heard his father as an internal official in the palace say that the behavior of this little prince is very frivolous......

However, Zeng Wei used his mind at this time, and suddenly discovered that this carefree little prince Zhao Ji was taking advantage of the fact that everyone was waiting for Huang Tingjian to show his ability to smell and understand materials, so he took a pair of slender crescent moon eyes and looked at the dogwood tent.

Ho......

Zeng Wei realized that Zhao Ji should be looking at Li Gefei and Li Xiaoshu's daughter, Li Qingzhao.

It's also strange to say, although I heard that Li Xiaoshu, a little girl, can recite poems and make small orders at the age of eight, and she has also written one or two articles that she can handle, but how to say that she is also a daughter in the boudoir, and she is no longer a little doll like Su Yu's son, how did Li Xiaoshu bring her to today's elegant collection?

Could it be that Li Gefei knew that the king of Suining County would also come, so he ......

Zeng Wei smiled meaningfully.

After he returned home, he had to tell his father Zeng Bu immediately.

For those who are courtiers, slogans such as "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world" that show the sense of mission of civil and military officials are recited on the table is needed.

But if you sit in a position like your father Zeng Bu, it is more important to figure out the holy will, and secondly, to collect various movements among colleagues in the court and among the powerful in the harem. In the Zeng family, whether it is Zeng Ti, who is almost forty years old, or Zeng Wei, who is only in his twenties, he has been taught this by his father Zeng Bu.

Only by knowing the thoughts of the officials, and the thoughts of the colleagues up and down, can you understand what kind of behavior is safe for you, and when will you turn from a friend to an enemy, and when will turn an enemy into a friend......

Zeng Wei thought of this, raised his wine glass, pretended to sip, but also looked in the direction of the curtain.

It's just that it's not Li Qingzhao who is looking at it, but the Zhang family of the Shangyi Bureau in the palace.

Zhang Shangyi, about Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, wears a small-necked straight-up brocade robe with indigo blue, and wears a crown with crossed feet, which is a typical dress for a female official in the palace. If you just look at the style of the robe, it is not much different from that of male scribes, as if it deliberately downplays the femininity and charm.

But as long as she is not blind, no one will deny that Zhang Shangyi is actually the most beautiful one among the women in the entire garden today.

Zeng Wei put down the wine cup, held a chopstick, and ate a small dish with chopsticks at random.

The little yellow door that Zhang Shangyi brought was called Liang Shicheng, and he was still hungry in the pavilion at the moment copying a part of "Snow Landscape Map".

Zeng Wei felt that Liang Shicheng was very similar to Gao Yu's cleverness.

In the eyes of everyone in the painting pavilion, Liang Shicheng was able to help Zhang Shangyi and bring the message to Zeng Wei.

……

Huang Tingjian twisted his goatee, which was mostly white, and muttered for a moment, and said softly, but confidently to Shen Fuzhi: "This second sister-in-law Shen, you see that the old man guessed correctly, there are a few other things in the spice bag, one is dried citrus with the color of withered lotus, the second is nutmeg that is larger and round than the grass fruit, and the last one should be a round dried fruit that is slightly larger than the fragrant fruit in the Western Regions and black and purple. ”

Shen Fuzhi was surprised and praised: "Accurate, what Huang Gong said is right!" ”

He said to Yao Huan again: "Huan'er, go get the spice packet and give it to Huang Gong." ”

Wang Xu, who was on the main seat, laughed loudly and said: "Lu Zhi, your nose, the spices of the East China Sea and the West Sea, there is nothing that it can't smell?" ”

Huang Tingjian showed a look of self-humility and said the reason: "It's not unusual. The old man loves to make incense, and used to use the agarwood of Qiong and Ya Erzhou into the incense recipe. Later, I heard from a friend who worked in the Guangzhou Bosi that there were also agarwood imports from Champa (now Vietnam), Chenla (now Cambodia) and other places, so the old man took advantage of visiting his friend to go to Guangzhou for a good turn. The imported agarwood is a general product, at most it is just the middle and lower class of Qiongya agarwood, but Guangzhou is not in vain, not only saw the frangipani flower field, but also from the Western Regions those who came by sea, saw a variety of spices. ”

While speaking, Yao Huan had already taken the spice packets left over from the barbecue and held them to Huang Tingjian's case.

Huang Tingjian twisted the Melab kernels in it, sniffed it carefully, and said, "Well, this is it, it has a strong spicy flavor and is very good for barbecue." There is also a kind of blue-gray kernel, which looks three points similar to it, but it is not a spice, and the merchant brought it all the way, but boiled it in water and drank it, saying that it was to talk about homesickness, and the old man tasted it, such as drinking Coptis chinensis. ”

Nuts, bitter, fanshang......

When Yao Huan heard this, his heart moved.

On such a table today, she was already highly concentrated, and when she heard Huang Tingjian's last sentence at this moment, she suddenly thought of something.

1095 A.D....... Calculate the time, it's about the same. If that thing could be brought to the Arab region from Africa, why wouldn't it be brought to the Great Song Dynasty in the East by Arab camel caravans or merchant ships?

Yao Huan then strengthened his courage, and he didn't care if it was rude, and asked Huang Tingjian in an extremely cautious and respectful tone: "The foolish woman dares to ask Huang Gong, the green and gray nuts, but one side is bulging, the other side is flat, and the flat side is like a barley?" ”

Huang Tingjian raised his head, looked at Yao Huan again, and said, "Exactly." ”

This time it was Huang Tingjian's turn to be slightly surprised.

Can't you see it, this little lady who cooks lightly has a lot of knowledge?

Hmm, probably the same friend who gave them spice packets, and talked to them?

In Yao Huan's heart, he was already ninety percent sure of his guess.

Coffee bean!

Yes, in this era when the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road were both developed, in the context of opening the country to the outside world for busy trade, it is very likely that coffee beans from Africa to the Arabian Peninsula have also appeared in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, even in their own home countries, they have not yet mastered good roasting techniques, and they cannot obtain the true meaning of the flavor of coffee beans by just boiling them in hot water.

At this moment, an older voice sounded in the banquet: "Hey, you are both fragrant and meat-eating, can you be considered happy?" Teach the old man to say, since it is an elegant collection, how can he not make a few small orders? ”

Everyone followed the prestige, and it turned out to be Yan Jidao who was sitting with Yuwen Huangzhong.