Chapter 129: A Home
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Rong An sniffed, "My daughter likes to be in Uncle Qi's house very much, and he gave that piano to his daughter." By the way, he also took his daughter and Sissy to eat sixty-four bowls. I heard that there are one hundred and eight bowls! ”
"It's unpalatable!" When Sissy heard this, she hurriedly stretched out her head with a painful expression.
"What's unpalatable, everything you like is in it." Rong An glanced at his younger brother disdainfully and looked at his father, "My daughter now knows what he wants to tell my daughter." ”
"Tell me about it."
"E-niang has never given me the life of a princess, she has given her daughter a real home."
Rong An is in Chery's house, and he was squeezed by Chery if he had nothing to do. Although it seems that he is on his side, he feels that Qingyu is not a good queen or a good mother. However, no matter how she looked at it, she felt that Chery had something to say to her.
Later, the four of them went to Fangshan Restaurant, a long table, on which sixty-four high plates were filled with Baishou porcelain, and then look, there was a smokeless candle in the Tory below, which was supposed to be used to keep warm.
Also, sixty-four dishes, unless sixty-four chefs do it together, to ensure that each dish is steaming. This is not in line with the cost, and she is following Qingyu to manage things, and Fangshan Restaurant is very profitable.
The receptionist was a real eunuch, who was also the steward here, and saw Rong An and Xixi hurriedly kneeling down and saluting.
"Don't you dare to say that I trespassed this time!" Chery smiled at the eunuch.
"How dare the slave say that, my lord, I am here to open the door to do business, and I dare to open this banquet, just looking forward to people. Several dishes, because they have not been made for a long time, the masters are afraid of getting hands, so they make it once in a while and give it to regular customers to taste! The eunuch smiled and pulled out a chair for them at the small table beside him.
"It's nothing for a big businessman at this table, a big official like me, this guy has to report to your mother immediately, saying that I have the heart to trespass."
"Can I eat it, then?" Xixi looked at the long table of dishes, and was stunned, he had never seen this formation.
"Almost, when you Ama was the prince, there were only thirty-two bowls. Later, he became the emperor, and in order to be frugal, he did not add regulations. When your Eniang first entered the palace, the rules were still there, she was a concubine, and there were thirty-two bowls according to the rules, but she showed you Ama a light one time, and these were all waived later. Chery said slowly. Look at the dishes on the table and shake your head.
"Alas, I returned to the court to be the prime minister, and I was also made a first-class marquis, and I didn't even try a serious palace banquet when I gave a banquet in the palace."
"Look at what you said, how can you call it a palace banquet that is not serious. The previous rules, eat a dish, and the emperor knelt three times and knocked nine times, after the mother was sealed, she said, the emperor and the ministers feasted together, that is, let people eat well, so I learned the elegance of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it is actually a system of separate meals, and each dish above is a serious palace dish, besides, I can eat a hot meal. The eunuch said with a smile, they send the big banquet every year, which is also an aspect of cost control in the palace.
"Alright, let's serve!" Jian Dong'er smiled and asked the eunuch to serve the food.
The dishes are served one by one, and the last one, each person holds a chopstick, and it is immediately withdrawn and replaced. Why did Xixi say that it was unpalatable, because he took a bite, and when he wanted to clip the second chopstick, it was gone, and when he ate all sixty-four dishes, he was full.
And Jian Dong'er and Rong An didn't taste every dish, when they saw that it was served, they asked what it was, and then waved their hands, and when the circle was over, they picked the one they liked, and called it up, but they could only use three chopsticks at most.
When the four of them were finished, they looked at the table, and the plates on the table felt full.
"How many people is this?" Rong An looked at the eunuch.
"If you go back to the princess, this is one person's share, otherwise how can the mother feel wasted, the emperor's share, the mother's share, the princess's share, the eldest brother's share, it's really a sin."
"Are you only allowed to eat three chopsticks?" Sissy wants to lift the table.
"Exactly, the original quality in the palace was complicated, in order not to let people know the emperor's likes and dislikes, from the past Ming, so such a rule was also set. However, the emperor and his wife have a deep affection, and before the rules were changed, she personally made some snacks in her small kitchen, and this rule was useless. Later, the palace was frugal, so the rules were changed. The princess was still young! ”
Rong An still looked at the table, "What about these dishes now?" ”
"If you can't eat it, you usually allow guests to bring it back." The eunuch smiled and bowed his head and said, "We will prepare the box and send it back to the guest's house." This is encouraged, and generally many people will support it. ”
"What if there's one who won't bring it?"
"Yes, the princess thinks so. Generally, if the guests who go to Beijing to play are pompous, it is not good to ask the locals who were invited to bring them back, so we will send them to the senior hall in the name of the guests. Please eat it to the old people there, don't dare to recycle! ”
Rong An nodded and looked at Chery, "Will you bring it back?" ”
"Let's send it to the old people's hall!" Chery is rich and rivals, how can he eat leftovers.
Sissy hurriedly pointed to his favorite goose paw, "I'm going to bring this back." ”
The eunuch nodded hurriedly, and asked someone to take a small wooden tige, put the dish in with a plate, put the lid on, and set it aside.
"Do you want to send this back?"
"If it is the one who has a heart, it will be sent back, but if it is too lazy to send, we will not urge." The eunuch smiled and pointed to the dishes, "We have burned countless equals, but no one knows." ”
Rong An nodded, those who can afford to eat this table are not ordinary people, and those who really accept this plate are only afraid that they want to take it out and show off. In fact, their food money already includes the money for these dishes and boxes.
Xixi was very happy, not as much as Rong An thought, he looked up at the eunuch, "Don't worry, I will pay it back." I don't dare to be greedy for my mother's money. ”
The eunuch laughed and knelt down and kowtowed to Sissy.
After Rong An came back that day, he saw that the goose paw had been steamed again in the evening, and a few dishes were served, Xixi happily discussed with Jian Dong'er which one was delicious, and ate the meal in a big gulp, and Jian Dong'er was also smiling so much that she couldn't see her eyebrows.
She looked at Chery again, Chery was also looking at them, and the rice in his bowl didn't move. Rong An thought of the situation of eating with a family in the palace at that moment. Parents are talking, and then they are not willing to be lonely and interject, and then they will think that the food is really delicious.
If it was true that everyone had their own share, then she would have gone crazy in front of the long table and bowl alone.
Maybe that's why she has been showing favor to Qingyu since she returned to Changchun Garden, but Qingyu is not in the mood to pay attention. At this time, she knew that her father was leaving, and she knew that she had to reassure him.
"yes, you're so smart!" Xianfeng was really happy, and he burst into tears.
"Amma, that dish is really not as delicious as the one in Eniang's Palace." Sissy hurriedly said it again.