Chapter 69 (I) The Banquet (V)

+++++++++++++++++++ feast will be the dividing line (V).

Contrary to their sister's happy mood, the Wang brothers of Luming Academy seemed gloomy and boring after all, in their opinion, Tang Zhuang was too gangster, just a family of rivers and lakes, even if there was the support of the Queen Mother? In recent years, Xintian and Xinjie Xinye have the name of talents in Xianyang City, but in the eyes of the Wang brothers, they have not passed the scientific examination to enter the office, they are busy doing business to make money, and they are clichΓ©d. Wang's Luming Academy was established by his grandfather Wang Zemin, a great Confucian in Guanxi, and there were many talented people, who were unique in Guanxi, and many disciples were officials in the court, and they respected Wang's ancestors, and the children of the Wang family also regarded themselves very highly, disdained to be with the people in the township, and had more contacts with officials and scholars. If it weren't for the Yang family's face today, they would disdain to mix with these rough people. And many people who came to the merchant's house today felt very uncomfortable when they arrived, and they were talking about the fear that they would be stained with copper today from the moment they entered.

The first to notice that his sister was different was Wang Kai, who himself had a more impatient personality, and saw his sister's eyes locked on the Jiupin little sesame official, and the flames were scurrying in his stomach. Before I came, the family explained that I should get closer to the people of the Tang family and the Yang family, so that after the brothers gradually enter Beijing next year, they can be invoked by them in the court. In the eyes of the Wang brothers, a sesame official like Lu Chaoyun, who has no family and no backer, is useless.

Wang Kai felt that his sisters' poetry and book etiquette were extremely outstanding, so naturally he would not treat men casually, it must have been Lu Chaoyun who did something inappropriate to deliberately attract his sister's attention. Every sister of the Wang family is a member of the family and has responsibilities to the family, and their marriage must be based on the interests of the family. Lu Chaoyun seduced his sister by digging the corner of the Wang family. The idea of a foreign Jiupin petty official actually beating the Wang family in Kansai is really beyond his strength. Be sure to teach him a lesson. He saw that the third brother left them and planned to say hello, and his sisters went to Miss Fan's house, so he whispered to the eldest brother Wang Ming about Lu Chaoyun.

Although the ancestor of the Wang family was admired by Qingliu because of the Luming Academy, but the ancestor was not ambitious in the court, so he returned to his hometown early and founded the academy, I didn't expect this road to suit him, it was the right one, so that his reputation in Guanzhong rose, and now he is faintly on a par with the Yang family, becoming a famous scholar in Xianyang and Kansai, and his disciples are all over Guanxi. However, the Wang family didn't know why, and it didn't go well in Zixi. Although the ancestor of the Wang family had four sons, he didn't know what was wrong, and the four sons, whether they were descendants or concubines, all died one after another soon after they became adults, leaving only a few grandchildren in the long house, who were raised by their grandfathers and widowed mothers. Among the three brothers, the eldest brother Wang Ming is the most stable, and the third brother Wang Dong is the most impulsive, he only likes to discuss with the eldest brother when he has something. And today, the eldest brother is still standing next to their cousin Huang Fangyu, the person Wang Kai admires in his heart.

Huang Fangyu's father, Huang Guangyong, is currently the head of the household department, and his mother is the daughter-in-law of the Wang family and the mother-in-law of the Wang brothers. The Huang family has been in the capital, generations of scholars, when the Huang family grandfather for the country to supervise the sacrificial wine, and the ancestors of the Wang family are quite like-minded, in the capital as an official with the Huang family set the baby kiss. The Huang family grew up in Beijing until they were sixteen, and although the Huang family was extremely reluctant to give up this only daughter, in order to fulfill their promise, they married their daughter far away to Kansai, and they rarely saw each other since then. Huang Fangyu has been in the Guozijian since he was a child, and at the age of thirteen, he was appointed by the emperor as the youngest attendant of the Hanlin Academy. Just when the future was bright, Huang Fangyu's mother Zou passed away the year before last, and he had to worry at home. This year is the birthday of the Huang family, since marrying in Kansai, although there are constant correspondence with the capital, but there is rarely a chance to see the mother's family, the grandfather is concerned about this daughter who is married far away, so he asked his grandson to bring a birthday gift to his aunt.

Huang Fangyu only arrived yesterday, he met Xinjie in the capital, the two were quite similar but did not tell the people of the Wang family this, today the Tang Mansion invited him to the Tang family with his cousins. He has been in the capital for many years, and his knowledge is different from that of the Wang brothers. He just saw Lu Chaoyun, and saw that he was peaceful and polite, his eyes were clear, although he didn't know him, he didn't look annoying. And Huang Fangyu especially appreciates those who do not rely on family background, do not rely on knots, and rely on their own efforts. Listening to the discussions of the Wang brothers, he guessed that Lu Chaoyun's background was most likely because he didn't go any way in the capital after he first entered the city, and he was transferred to this lowest position. Hearing Wang Kai say that he was going to humiliate the other party at the banquet today, Huang Fangyu pursed his lips and frowned.

As he listened to the Wang brothers, he browsed the people around him, most of whom were now gradually concentrating on a clearing in the orchard, with some tables and chairs loosely placed under the fruit trees or in a few grass huts next to them. One of the straw huts has a deep stove. There is a spacious hall not far away, the plaque is written with three big characters of "Wenguotang", the pen is strong and wild, the plaque has been some years, I don't know which elder of the Tang family is handwriting. In this orchard, it is quite appropriate to use the word "smelling fruit". Wenguotang is an open hall structure, from the outside at a glance, there are more than a dozen large tables inside, I think it is a place for wine banquets, there are more than ten wings on both sides of the open hall, the Tang family arranged for servants to be at the door of each room, I think it is to take care of the young lady who goes to the side room to rest. The ladies brought one or two girls to serve by their side, and the men didn't bring anyone, When they came, the entourage and the servants around them were arranged by Tang Zhuang's subordinates to go to other places to rest. The subordinates of Tangzhuang shuttled back and forth, sending all kinds of food and tea to the young ladies and young masters.

Wang Kai discussed with his brother how to find trouble with Lu Chaoyun for a while, and at this time, the Wei family brothers and sisters came over to chat, and Wang Kai began to make fun of the Tang family's vulgarity without any scruples. Today, all the people invited are the sons and ladies of the city's well-known families, and they actually came to such a simple place as the orchard, and he pointed to the deep stove in the grass shed: "You see how simple the stove is, where can you eat the things made in this kind of place?!" Takeo is rough. ”

Huang Fangyu just meditated in his heart, afraid that his aunt would be disappointed in the future. Wei Jianzhong has always disliked Wang Kai, and he came to say hello just because the eldest brother and the boss of the Wang family used to be classmates, and the relationship is not bad. He didn't like Wang Kai's frivolity and narrow-mindedness from the bottom of his heart, and at this time he was really annoyed that he would continue to arrange, so he interrupted him: "Wang Gongzi is only afraid that he doesn't know how to pay attention to cooking, although the kitchen of a large family is obviously exquisite, but the taste of burning out is not necessarily delicious." Especially on this kind of day, if you want to roast chicken, duck and beef, the bigger the fire, the hotter and bigger the stove, and the more tender and delicious the roasted meat will be. Ordinary people really don't have such a good deep well oven, which requires skilled craftsmen to dig deep wells underground, and repair exquisite flues and fire pits. Today is an eye-opener in Tangzhuang. ”

"Brother Wei is very knowledgeable, and there are not many people who know how to cook in this deep well, which shows that Kansai is full of talents." When entering the door just now, the two sides had already introduced, so Huang Fangyu knew that this was Wei Gongzi: "I heard that the two sons inherited the double masterpiece of calligraphy and painting from their ancestors, could it be that in addition to this double master, Wei Gongzi has a third master?" ”

"Huang Gongzi is joking!" Everyone loves to listen to good words, Wei Jianzhong is no exception, I saw Huang Fangyu and the Wang brothers together before, and I didn't want to deal with it, but at this time, I felt that he was much more pleasing to the eye: "How can I understand such a profound Tao, or did I hear Xinjie say that his Yuehuaxuan just has a set of honey burn seats?" It is said that this method was when he followed his aunt in Ninan to see the locals roast duck to sell, pondered for a long time, and had a long time with the Tang general's army to make cakes in the way he came up with, and after coming back, he built such a set of things in this garden to honor Mrs. Tang. Later, he thought about a set of things, and opened Yuehuaxuan in the city. ”

"It turns out that Yuehuaxuan's honey burning banquet came like this, we often go to the capital, but we don't know that these are created by Xinjie himself, and I thought they were the good cooks he hired."

"Good cooks are everywhere, but not everyone is looking for something new."

"Also, otherwise, how could Yuehuaxuan be able to prosper for so long in a place as luxurious as the capital."

It is said that after the opening of Yuehuaxuan in the capital, he also gave things to the Queen Mother to try, and the Queen Mother was full of praise. Many hotels in Beijing want to imitate them, but few of them really do so. ”

How can it be so easy to imitate. Not to mention that this deep well is difficult to repair, even the various spices and herbs that are packed with ingredients and put into the deep well are not easy to match. This was all sent to each Yuehuaxuan after the Bai family's own Baihuatang medicine garden was fully configured. Even if you have money in the outside store, you can't buy it. These herbs are rarely grown outside, but they are good for nourishing people. ”

At this time, everyone looked carefully at the deep well, and a few people who seemed to be in the kitchen slowly put down the straw bales with long iron hooks, these straw bales looked like ordinary hay, but there were some medicinal herbs mixed in the middle.

Only then did the Wang brothers know that they were rough people in their eyes, and they had such dexterous minds. However, the merchant cooks and the martial artists are all inferior in their eyes.

"It is said that barbarians eat a lot of roasted meat, but if they have a bad spleen and stomach, it is difficult to restrain them. Xinjie's formula added a lot of things to strengthen the spleen and stomach, so he dared to dedicate it to the old man of the Queen Mother. ”

"He's quite clever." Wei Jianping said in his heart: "He has not been in Kansai all these years, so his friends can afford it, saying that our brothers are excellent in calligraphy and painting." If they have seen Xinjie's calligraphy and paintings, they are afraid that they will swallow their tongues, lest the words they say will flash the wind. This brother is no worse than my ancestors. ”