Chapter 9 Leek Yellow Cabbage
Sima people love to eat a kind of vegetable--- leek yellow cabbage, leek yellow cabbage is a vegetable that grows in straw, yellow and tender leaves, and there is a fragrance of leeks when you eat it.
After eating leek cabbage, I found the taste of my hometown, and my hometown has its unique taste. Leek yellow cabbage is a dish that Sima people eat when they think about their hometown, and the taste is only known to homesick people.
But there is a story about leek yellow vegetables, according to legend, when Sima Guo was not established, the world had just changed from Shang to Zhou, and the largest family in Zhou was the Sima family, which had a very high status. Why did the Shang people lose their Sima family power, and how did the Chinese people buy the Sima family's people to expand the plate this week.
Everyone said that it was because of the small leek cabbage, the leek cabbage has a special growth environment, and only the people of Sima Guo will grow leeks. Once, the king of Shang Yang came to see the sick General Sima and asked the reason for his illness, because the family had eaten all the leek and yellow vegetables, and he couldn't find even a leek seedling leaf.
King Shang Ying said, "Isn't leeks just ordinary leeks?" You can eat leeks after eating, so why do you have to eat leeks? This king issued an order to Sima's family, and the supply of leeks is sufficient every year. When General Sima heard this, he immediately kowtowed to the emperor and knelt down, and said loudly, thank you.
King Shang Ying did this, but he was also worried that the Sima family would have different intentions, and he didn't know what he would do when he left the emperor's feet!
Later, the Duke of Zhou wrote a letter to General Sima to appease General Sima, and after a letter, the Shang State became the Zhou State, and the people of the world said that they could finally get the favor of the Zhou State after leaving the tyrannical rule of the Shang King. They all praised King Zhou as a good emperor, and the rare capable soldiers were all brought by King Zhou.
No one expected that this letter that changed history would eventually be obtained by other countries. The yellowed bamboo slips are engraved with a line of small characters: Leek Huang Leek Huang said that the wine at home is yellow and sour, and we will definitely win the war if we work together, right?
Since then, the leek has been regarded as a joke by the aristocracy, and whoever talks about the leek of the Sima family will definitely attract a burst of laughter.
Sima heard this joke and said to the servants at home: The leeks and leeks at home are all rewarded to the untouchables who can't afford to eat vegetables.
The people of Sima Guo got the leek cabbage presented by General Sima himself, and they were all very happy, and every household planted leek cabbage in the ground.
For a while, the price of leeks in the bazaar fell to the bottom, and the proprietress who sold leeks scolded the Zhou people: Old lady, the leeks you have worked so hard to grow are yellow and old as you say, so that the old lady can't do business, and she can't live her life, so be your spring and autumn dream and be the emperor.
The days passed, and the leeks went from being cheap to being eaten by civilians from the cheap vegetables eaten by the generals, and they all said that freedom was the most expensive price, and after thinking about it, they started to pay the price from a small leek cabbage.