"When a dynasty reaches the third generation of emperors, it always has to pursue more than the founding ancestors." Qi Jing understated, picked up the folded notebook arranged on the case, and stepped neatly on the table, as if he had been muttering for a moment, and put down the pile of folds to be taken away, "I'll personally send it back to Qi Mengxuan in the evening, I just have something to say to him in person." Qi Xuan was too busy to send such a twist and turn to beg Qi Jing to share his worries, Qi Jing didn't say a word and sent it back for him, obviously acquiesced to Qi Xuan's move, and once he got his wish, he had no psychological burden, and Qi Xuan would act like this in the remaining prison days, and Qi Jing would definitely give him a few words of advice.

Qin Xun looked out the window and looked at the sky: "Let's have dinner, that pot of hoof flower soup has been stewed in the kitchen for a long time." ”

"Okay."

Qin Xun picked up the last piece of yam jujube paste cake left in the pastry plate on the table, took a bite of it, stuffed the rest into Qi Jing's mouth, and said, "It's a little cold, but fortunately, the taste is not much worse." ”

This time, he was more face-saving, and he didn't stuff the whole pastry into Qi Jing's mouth, thinking about it, he still remembered the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, because he stuffed a piece of pastry in his hand and caused Qi Jing to be dumb for one night.

Qi Jing pinched the pastry between his fingers, only bit down on the small part that was stuffed in his mouth, chewed and swallowed it slowly, and said, "It's a little similar to the taste of your favorite jujube paste plum blossom cake." No wonder Qin Xun was very partial to yam and jujube paste cake after returning to Beijing.

Plum blossom cake is a characteristic small cake in the south of the Yangtze River, one side of the multi-sided mold is divided into several small grids, spread into the batter, put in the soft filling of bean paste, and then seal with the batter, the surface is covered with a layer of small Lantern Festival and dried green and red silk of broken fruits, sprinkled with a layer of white sugar, baked until cooked, picked out one by one from each small grid, the shape is an irregular column, the adult grasps the thickness of the combination, the outer skin is slightly crispy, the inside and the upper layer of the small Lantern Festival that is covered with ripeness and opening are soft and glutinous taste, sweet but not greasy, Qin Xun likes it very much when he is in Jiangnan.

The soft filling in the plum blossom cake is generally red bean paste, but Qin Xun does not like to eat bean paste, often choose the jujube paste filling, in Jinling, where plum blossom cake is popular, the taste to choose from is more diverse, Qin Xun often eats yam jujube paste filling when visiting Jinling. The yam is dense and light, just enough to neutralize the excessive sweetness in the small pastry.

Chang'an is not a place to promote plum blossom cake, Qin Xun eats steamed yam jujube mud cake, and can only eat a taste similar to the soft and glutinous inside of plum blossom cake, lacking the special soft and crispy feeling of plum blossom cake skin, but can be comforted when you are hungry.

"The plum blossom cake stall in Jinling is the most, you can see the stall wherever there are more people, the plum blossom cake sold by the small shop on the bank of the Qinhuai River is the most delicious, I have eaten several shops one by one, the taste is good, the filling type is also a lot of novelty, and I can eat the yam and jujube paste filling in that place. Pingzhou bar may be a small place, or it may be that Pingzhou people don't like to eat plum blossom cake so much, anyway, I often hang out in the Dongjun market, there are stalls, but it is rare to be able to eat jujube paste filling, most of them are made according to the rules I don't like to eat bean paste filling. Qin Xun looked a little regretful, and said, "I thought about it later."

, I accompanied Liu Beicang and a few of them to the Jiangnan martial arts field to compete, and by the way, I bought a plum blossom cake mold from Jinling and came back, planning to do it himself, but the result was ......" He touched his nose embarrassedly.

Qi Jing couldn't help but smile: "Destroy the world by yourself? ”

Qin Xun coughed lightly: "Fortunately, it was just past lunchtime, and the helper in the canteen had just finished work and hadn't taken a nap, so he rushed over when he saw smoke coming from the kitchen, otherwise I really want you to compensate for the canteen of the villa for me." ”

"Have you been punished?"

"The same old thing, punish the top water bowl." Qin Xun added, "Oh, there were seven or eight brothers who had a good game and were curious at that time to accompany me into the dining hall and kitchen to toss. ”

Qi Jing knew that there must be Lu Feng without asking, and he silently sympathized with Lu Feng in his heart.

Lu Feng is also very unlucky, but he was told by his mother to focus on taking care of Qin Xun, so every time Qin Xun causes some trouble, the disciples of the villa who are affected may not be the same every time, only one Lu Feng, who is the best with Qin Xun, can't escape the bad luck of being punished together, even if he is lying in bed and sleeping soundly, he doesn't know that Qin Xun sneaks out to make trouble, he can be innocently affected by his father Lu Yuanshan twisted his ears from the bed and yelled at him to take care of Qin Xun ineffectively.

"But in the end, we ate it." Qin Xun smiled crookedly, "Do you remember the aunt I told you about who takes care of us very much?" It's the aunt who caught the cicadas in the summer and roasted and ate the aunt who would leave us a handful of salt, and the plum blossom cake mold I bought back was collected by my father, a mold for eating, and my father simply put it in the dining hall kitchen after receiving it, and then when the time of our punishment was full, I planned to go back to the dormitory, and the aunt of the cook actually used this mold to make plum blossom cakes and distribute them to us to eat. ”

Qin Xun was sitting on the long table when he said these things, Qi Jing stood up and gently rubbed the top of his soft hair: "That must be delicious." ”

Qin Xun said with a smile on his face: "The canteen is only a few steps away from the dormitory, and seven or eight of us took it back to the courtyard of the dormitory, and sat under the shade of the tree while laughing and eating." My aunt didn't pay much attention to our respective tastes at the time, and made the traditional bean paste filling, and I actually thought the plum blossom cake with the bean paste filling was also delicious that day, and I ate the whole thing. He wrinkled his nose slightly, "But that time I still don't like to eat bean paste." ”

Qi Jing couldn't stop rubbing the top of his hair with his hands, and responded with a smile: "Well, okay, I know." ”

The young people who are half years old and a half years old in the dancing elephant always have endless vitality when they get together, toss some troubles and disasters when they have nothing to do, are punished by the elders, and are comforted by the kind women, and gather under the shade of the trees to rub the sour limbs of the punished while talking about their talents and eating, which is a leisurely time that belongs to the young people's vitality and unrestrained.

It was Mu Xi who came into the study to clean up the tea tray on the table, and Qing Yan probably went to arrange the dinner of the two masters.

I have to say that Qing Yan is indeed a very good palace maid, and she is careful and thoughtful in her work, and even Qin Xun is cheeky and throws it away

The little maid she taught had already done things in a short period of time, although she would still subconsciously twist her hands nervously when facing her master, so she could look less timid if she ignored her hand movements.

Qin Xun looked at Mu Xi's smooth move of closing the table after giving him a blessing and saluting.

"If you want to eat plum blossom cake, it's not difficult to ask the cook to make it for you." Qi Jing looked at the empty pastry plate that Mu Xi folded into the tea tray and said.

"Okay." Qin Xun responded very smoothly.

Pastries are just pastries, it is indeed not difficult to make, even if you need a mold, the court will not be unable to take it out, but the plum blossom cake is a Jiangnan specialty, Chang'an is basically no one to eat, and eighty percent will not be able to do it, if you want to ask the cook to do it, I am afraid you have to refer to Qin Xun's book full of recipes for eating in Jiangnan, and the taste of the first few attempts is not necessarily satisfactory.

What's more, the kitchen of Jingyang Hall was tired last time, and a large number of Liuhe cakes were busy up and down to supply the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, which made everyone tired enough, Qin Xun was always a little embarrassed to toss the cooks frequently.

He had eaten the plum blossom cake cooked by Boss Li once or twice in the "Qinhuai Bo'an", and in the end he was an authentic Jinling person, and the taste was almost the same as the plum blossom cake that Qin Xun ate in the stall on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Jinling.

Qi Jing's hand on top of his head patted it gently: "Are you going out for dinner?" ”

Qin Xun came back to his senses: "Go." ”

Mu Xi walked out of the palace door with the tea tray that had just been cleaned up from the study, and when the two stepped out of the study door, Qin Xun happened to see the tea tray in her hand flickering and disappearing outside the palace gate, and he suddenly smiled: "Qi Jing, how is Daqi's dealings with other countries now?" ”

Qi Jing groaned slightly: "General." ”

Originally, in Xiliao, he ignored the peace covenant of several countries and began to attack and annex other countries, and the political relations between several countries began to gradually tense, and when the end of Yin was crumbling, other countries and other ethnic groups had jackal thoughts of staring at this land, and finally failed to be satisfied, so that the Qi family who was born out of thin air won the right to rule this country, and now there are still no normal diplomatic relations between the remaining five countries, but when they secretly weigh the general trend of the world, they still dare not act rashly, It's just a matter of maintaining a delicate and fragile state of peace.

Political relations are not stable, and naturally there will be no stable and frequent trade exchanges.

Seeing that Qin Xun seemed to be silent after hearing this, Qi Jing took the initiative to smile and asked, "What, have an idea?" ”

"Yes, but it's just an idea, and I guess you can figure it out for yourself." It's just an idea, and it takes a lot of thought to put it into practice.

"Do you want to talk about developing Daqi's economy through business exchanges with other countries?" Qi Jing could easily guess what he was thinking by following his previous question.

"Look, I'll just say you can think of it yourself." Qin Xun smiled and pointed to the gate of the palace where Fang Muxi went out, "I just saw that girl carrying the tea tray out, and suddenly remembered that the tea leaves that are very common in our Central Plains Daqi, including silk brocade, are rare treasures for exotic races, just like some of their common things are put here for us, I'm afraid."

It will also be praised as a precious thing because of the novelty and scarcity, after all, rare things are expensive. ”

This is not a difficult reason, the world has gone through many dynasties in the past, and there was a famous "Silk Road" in accordance with this principle to carry out commercial exchanges with foreign peoples, but in today's world situation, the five countries bordering each other have not even properly handled political relations, let alone the so-called economic exchanges between these five countries and even to foreign races in distant places.

Qi Jing said: "When the western border is stabilized, I can try to resume commercial transactions between the five countries first, and I am also thinking about this matter, it shouldn't be too long." "After all, in the western border, the Western Liao, which had just swallowed another country, turned around and collided with Daqi, and it was no surprise that it would not last long.

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