When the two returned to the nave, the servants had already prepared food and drink. There were only two tables and seats in the hall, and the rest of the troops lined up in front of the corridor.

"Wait until you go to dinner, drink and eat, don't disturb my uncle and nephew!"

Gao Zhongmi stood in front of the hall and waved his hand, and then pulled Li Tai into the hall. Outside the corridor, the musicians scattered into the side hall and sat down, and only a few maidservants who carried the food and cloth followed inside.

The two sat down separately, looking at the somewhat empty hall, Gao Zhongmi sighed again: "In the past, there were many followers. Now the only people who can eat relative to each other are me and Pan! ”

After Li Tai heard this, he thought back slightly, Gao Zhongmi really didn't brag when he said this.

Li Tai himself has more than a dozen family soldiers to follow him all the way, which looks very magnificent, but compared to Gao Zhongmi, it is nothing more than a trivial.

When Gao Zhongmi went to the Tiger Prison in Northern Yuzhou to take office, he led nearly 2,000 people. It was not an army rationed by the Eastern Wei court, but a subordinate army of the Bohai Gao clan!

Even this, it is still the scale of the tribe that can still be maintained a few years after Gao Aocao's death, when the Bohai Gao clan is scattered and many tribes. In this era, the family was strong and powerful, and the huge private armed forces can be seen.

Therefore, after the Western Wei Dynasty experienced a fiasco in the Battle of Pishan, Yuwentai vigorously recruited Guan Longhao to reorganize into an army, and the soldiers were quickly replenished, and became the world-famous Guanzhong soldiers in later generations.

Li Tai roughly counted before, and there were hundreds of the tribal family slaves who dined outside the hall, including the more than 30 people he brought back, but compared with the thousands of precursors before Gao Zhongmi, it was naturally greatly reduced.

"And with this cup of things, remember the people who died before the month!"

Gao Zhongmi asked the maid to fill the wine glass, got up and bowed deeply to the east, and poured the wine in the cup to the ground, with a lot of sadness between her eyebrows.

Seeing this, Li Tai did the same, and silently hoped that his father Li Xiao could get out of danger safely. He has already occupied the body of other people's sons, and the feelings for his relatives are not deep, and guilt is always inevitable.

"Alright, let's dine! The Western Army has a poor diet, and you are only hastily hungry recently. ”

After returning to the table, Gao Zhongmi squeezed out a smile and pointed to the food on the table and said.

Li Tai's eyes also turned back to the food table in front of him, and there were already five or six dishes on the table, all of which were meat and vegetables. Finally, it's no longer just a simple combination like buttermilk cereal rice, just looking at it is already appetizing.

Before coming to this world, Li Tai was an UP master of ancient life, racking his brains every day for material copywriting, and the diet of various periods in ancient times was also a major source of his video materials.

After all, people take food as the sky, and compared with the relatively boring ancient history and popular science, there is no doubt that the ancient diet should have more taste and texture, which is the guarantee of traffic.

In the long course of history, the sense of existence of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was actually not high, and many people in later generations felt very unfamiliar with this era.

But when it comes to food, the Northern and Southern Dynasties have to say that the fundamental reason is that there is a strange book that appeared in this era, that is, the "Qi Min Yao Shu" written by Jia Sixian, the most famous agronomist in ancient times.

"Qi Min Yaoshu" not only records the rich knowledge of agriculture and animal husbandry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but also records a lot of dietary materials of this era.

Li Tai once produced a special edition of the diet of the Northern and Southern Dynasties based on "Qi Min's Technique", which received a good response, so he also has a certain understanding of the diet of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

There is a small tandoor in the center of the dining table, the charcoal fire in the furnace is in full swing, and there is a small copper tripod on it, the soup in the copper bowl is boiling, the soup is milky white, there are a lot of meat materials floating and sinking, and the aroma is tangy.

Next to the small stove is a wooden box with cooked venison with skin, and next to it are condiments such as green onions, ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, salt and vinegar, and tempeh.

This is very similar to the name of a dish of hot pot called Qiang boiling, as the name suggests, it is a Qiang people's food custom, which was introduced to China and became popular.

The soup is made of pork and various condiments, and the deer head is boiled in water and cut into pieces, and it can be directly eaten on the table.

There is a little knowledge involved in this, that is, will the base soup made of pork be fishy and unpalatable?

Pig is one of the six domestic animals in ancient times, and it is also one of the three animals in Taigao, and its breeding and eating history are long. Especially because of its habit of feeding and fattening, it is an important part of the smallholder economy.

An ancient name for pigs is called fen, which refers to castrated boars, so there is no need to worry about the ancients not knowing how to castrate pigs and causing pork to be fishy and unpalatable. After all, if you don't eat it yourself, your ancestors will eat it too.

Li Tai felt that there was little oil and water during this time, and he was naturally not polite when he saw such a delicacy, so he picked up the bamboo chopsticks and started to eat, and only stopped after eating half a box of venison in a row. It's not because I'm full, it's because I'm too tired.

It is recorded in "Qi Min Yaoshu" that there is also an orange peel half-heaval in the condiments of Qiang boiling, which is used to relieve greasy seasoning. Probably orange peel is too rare in Guanzhong, and the chef didn't put it when cooking, so the soup was too greasy.

But the venison is tender and delicious, even if it is not boiled in the soup, it is only seasoned with salt and vinegar, it is already a delicacy.

Gao Zhongmi didn't look like Li Tai without eating, he just took a cup and drank himself, smiling and watching Li Tai eat.

Next to the small Qiang boiling stove, there is a box of rice. It is a kind of dietary practice of chopping vegetables and mixing and stirring, and it is also a relatively common way of eating in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

It is recorded in the "Qi Min Yao Shu" that a dish of eight ingredients and seasonings such as ginger, garlic, orange, white plum, cooked chestnut kernel, japonica rice, salt and sorrel is mixed and stirred, and the sorrel is vinegar.

The box on the dining table, Li Tai tasted carefully, there was no orange peel, but instead of hollyhock leaves, and mixed with honey, it was also sweet and delicious.

There are also chicken and duck preserved meat, sour sauce and so on, Li Tai also tasted in turn, in terms of taste alone, naturally not as strong and distinct as the diet of later generations, after all, the seasoning has a gap between the times. However, the atmosphere brought by the antique approach is not comparable to the diet of later generations.

Li Tai's body is half the size of a child, and the amount of exercise is not small, he tastes every dish, and unconsciously most of the food on the case is also swept away.

Gao Zhongmi saw that Li Tai still had a sense of unfinished, so he smiled and motioned to the maid to send a few dishes on his case to Li Tai's food table, and said with a smile: "Ah Pan don't just care about a full stomach, accompany me to drink a few cups of holy food!" ”

After Li Tai heard this, he put down his chopsticks, raised the untouched wine glass and said with a smile: "Young and unrestrained, let Uncle laugh." Since then, my uncle and nephew have lived in this hometown and forged ahead. ”

When the wine was in the mouth, he slammed it abruptly, only to feel that the wine in the entrance was not spicy enough, sour and astringent, which was simply a torture to the taste buds, and it was almost difficult to swallow.

When Gao Zhongmi saw this, he slapped the case and laughed: "Don't spit out, don't spit out, drink it!" Alas, in the countryside, half of my family was used as a wine field, and even the home-brewed wine did not have this taste. When I came to Kansai, I even had to rely on this sour pulp to give it to my heart's content, and I couldn't drink it to my heart's content......"

Li Tai didn't have any alcohol addiction, and he barely swallowed this cup of sour wine and didn't let the maid refill the glass, and when he heard Gao Zhongmi's emotion, he was also quite associative for a while.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty occupied the land of Hebei, and the productive forces were comparable to those of the Western Wei Dynasty in the exhaustion of non-rule. There was a great famine in the Western Wei Dynasty a few years ago, forcing Yuwentai to lead the army out of Tongguan to Hengnong to steal grain to eat, of course, there was no rich grain to make wine.

Just look at the amount of Yuwentai who even has to pick and search for this kind of sour pulp, which shows the lack of materials in Guanzhong. Even if there is a strong family on the surface, I am afraid that it will not be as generous as the Bohai Gao family, taking 100 acres of fertile land to plant sorghum and make wine.

Gao Zhongmi smiled and smiled, his eyes became moist again, and his thoughts were probably once again immersed in the gap between the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei.

Li Tai knew that the Western Wei and Northern Zhou had a great future, and the new arrivals crossed over, but there was no feeling of encountering a gap. Seeing Gao Zhongmi drinking alone, he continued to focus on the food on the table.

A dish moved from Gao Zhong's secret case caught Li Tai's attention, this dish was yellow and white, fragrant, and it was a plate of scrambled eggs with green onions and white.

Yes, the Northern and Southern Dynasties already had stir-fried vegetables, not the common belief of later generations that the ancestors could not eat stir-fried vegetables until the Song Dynasty had an iron pot.

Stir-frying was originally not a cooking method, but a method of processing crude medicines, and there have been records of stir-frying medicinal materials since the Han Dynasty. Vegetable oil also has a long history, not only for food, but also for lighting, lubrication, lacquerware and even as a military stockpile.

Scrambled eggs are naturally not used in an iron pot, but in a copper bell. It's just that the thermal conductivity of copper is much higher than that of iron, and the popularity of copper is not high, and there are not many ingredients that can be fried and processed with copper bells, so stir-frying was not the mainstream way of cooking before the popularization of iron pots.

The lives of the dignitaries and the common people in ancient times were two very different worlds. Unlike later generations, which are based on abundant material foundations, there is no essential difference between the rich and the poor in terms of food experience.

After Li Tai ate this plate of scrambled eggs, the maidservants served the staple food of the night, the flowering steamed bun, that is, the dough cage cake. Dipping the remaining vegetable juice soup, Li Tai ate two more fist-sized cage cakes, and finally finished his first full meal after coming to this world.

"He Liuhun, ungrateful, unkind godson! I will kill you, I ......"

Gao Zhongmi drank himself and soon became drunk, cried and scolded a few times, and then yelled: "Take the wine, take the wine......"

"Wine, wine is gone......"

The servant girl said with a crying and trembling voice, and when Li Tai saw this, he stepped forward and waved his hand to the servant girl and helped Gao Zhongmi, who had fallen to the table, up.