Chapter 145: The Banquet
Taking care of the different tastes of everyone present, He Qiu had already specially instructed the people in the kitchen, and the dishes were quite rich.
The hot pot has a spicy pot and a mountain mushroom pot, the fried chicken is also made in advance, and those who don't like to eat hot pot can also eat freshly made stir-fried dishes, and each table comes with a chrysanthemum scrambled egg, and roasted sweet potatoes, which is very intimate.
He Qiu did this mainly to show off the food in his academy, and it was also just an advertisement, so that these masters would go back to help publicize and recruit more students.
Zhu Di was very impatient with He Qiu's approach, so let He Qiu stop talking nonsense, just serve the food directly, you are a person who is so particular about eating, and the food in the academy is not bad.
He Qiu was as kind as a stream, and immediately asked the cooks in the cafeteria to bring up all the prepared meals, and put the hot pot aside for the time being. This fried chicken and stir-fry look like it uses a lot of oil.
The dishes placed in front of everyone are called a full of color and flavor, no worse than the big restaurants in Beiping City.
Some of the masters on the side have begun to frown, such a good dish for students to eat, can the academy recover the cost?
These masters all know He Qiu's approach, the first year of admission for new students is free of tuition, room and board, and there are bursaries for those who do well in the exams, and only those who are too bad will ask for money.
If the academy follows this practice in the future, providing food and drink for hundreds of people, it is not a small amount.
Some discerning masters can't help but be a little worried, this mountain chief seems to have a lot of connections, and he is willing to spend money, but if he is allowed to persevere in the bottomless pit of education, don't insist on two years and stop doing it.
So the master euphemistically put forward his opinion, "Students come to the academy to study, and the mountain chief makes the academy food quite luxurious, but I'm afraid it's not a good thing." Moreover, every day is like this, I'm afraid that He Shanchang won't be able to hold on. β
He Qiule smiled, there are not many people who are so sincere these years, and there are not many people who still think about the owner, "Nothing, nothing, I have 10,000 taels of silver a month, and I can still afford this little expense of the academy." β
This master was taken aback, and he earned 10,000 taels a month?! How can there be so many?
Thinking of this, some masters had strange looks on their faces, and some even wanted to leave the table immediately.
He Qiu didn't see it, but Zhu Di had already guessed what they were thinking, and said with a smile: "It's not that I gave him the silver from the imperial court, Mr. He Qiu He is the owner of the Qiu Mingshan shop in Beiping City." β
A small shop in Akinayama?
The master who has used the flower water and perfume launched by this store has a strange face. In the past, they didn't scold this store in private.
A small bottle of toilet water costs a tael of silver, and perfume is even more expensive, but the losers in the family want to buy it, and they can't stop it, and they don't know how much silver they throw into it, so the object of their scolding is sitting here, and it has become their owner.
The word fate is really wonderful.
At this point, these masters, who were still a little worried in their hearts, were relieved and concentrated on tasting the dishes of the academy.
These masters' families are not particularly wealthy, and they don't have much opportunity to visit restaurants every day on weekdays, so these dishes in the academy are still very attractive to them.
Many people who have fast brains have begun to consider whether to let the mother-in-law at home learn how to make a simple hot pot in the future, which is convenient and fast, and the taste is also very good.
Soon, however, some of the masters noticed that most of the meat dishes served were pork...... Everyone turned their eyes to Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was sitting there.
Although the imperial court did not have a clear decree that it was not allowed to kill pigs and eat pork, there should still be some avoidance, just like in the Tang Dynasty, many people did not eat carp, which is a reason.
Moreover, pork is generally not very tasty, the smell of fish is very strong, and the castrated pork poor people can't eat it, after all, they want to let the pigs reproduce.
For example, the famous dish of Dongpo meat is not something that ordinary people can afford, and there are too many spices used, and it is estimated that the spices of this dish alone are more expensive than pork.
Zhu Di was eating there with taste, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him, he said angrily, "Look at what I'm doing, just eat." β
Zhu Di knew in his heart, and the reason why they looked at him was to know what this Ming royal family thought about eating pork.
But Zhu Di didn't think this was a matter at all, his father cherished the people's strength the most, and even chose particularly rare words to name his descendants, so as not to cause inconvenience to the people.
How could it be possible to embarrass the people in such a trivial matter.
At this time, He Qiu also explained: "When students come to the academy to study, it is also the time to grow their bodies, and they always have to be a little meaty, but mutton is too expensive, killing cattle is a felony, and chicken, duck and fish have too little meat, so it is still cost-effective to calculate pork." β
"There are fried pig's blood, fried pig's large intestine, etc., which I deliberately asked the kitchen people to work hard to figure out, don't say it, these dishes are very delicious, I think, in the next half a month, the academy can kill a pig and replenish the students' bodies."
The masters looked at each other, are we thinking about this? Forget it, the people of the old Zhu family don't care about this, we still care about what we do so much, just eat.
When the pig's blood and pig's large intestine were served, Zhu Di frowned a little when he looked at these two dishes, although I have no objection to eating pork, but you He Qiu brought all the parts of the pig, are you sure it's not to disgust me?
He Qiu also enthusiastically persuaded Zhu Di to try it, saying that this thing was really delicious, and he took the cooks to study it for a few days.
Zhu Di put a big question mark on He Qiu's words, what are you doing on weekdays, I still don't know?
However, considering that He Qiu has always been a gourmet, he still frowned, and put a piece of pig's large intestine into his mouth.
The strange smell in my imagination did not appear, but I felt that this piece of pig intestine was sour, sweet, fragrant, spicy, and salty.
Seeing that Zhu Di moved his chopsticks, several children of Xu and Zhu Di also moved their chopsticks one after another, and tasted this pig intestine, well, not to mention, it was really delicious.
After eating these, He Qiu asked people to serve some fruit salad and added some jam, which was still chilled and sweet, and was sought after by Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu, shouting that they wanted to eat it.
Zhu Di glared at them fiercely a few times before he became honest.
After he was full of wine and food, He Qiu pulled Yao Guangxiao again, muttered, and offered a large price, so that this old yin bi put forward a few words of encouragement on the prepared white wall.
Zhu Di was very unhappy on the side, do you kid look down on me? Why don't you let me write?
When his temper came up, he waited until Yao Guangxiao finished writing, snatched the brush in Yao Guangxiao's hand, and left his own ink treasure.
He Qiu was secretly happy, just to have such an effect, without spending a single piece of silver, he prostituted the current Yan King, the future Yongle Emperor's encouragement to the students of Zhixing Academy.
When Zhu Di takes the throne, my academy is not popular? Think about it, the couplets of the academy are Zhu Diti's, and there are also his ink treasures on the white walls of the academy, what are the names of the students of Zhixing Academy in the future?
The protΓ©gΓ© of the Son of Heaven, comfortable, comfortable.
He Qiu sent Zhu Di and the others away, and he took Chen Siwei to stay, and went to lecture to the newly enrolled students with the masters of the academy.