When Pharmacist Li and his entourage returned to Chang'an, in the Pingkangfang Mansion, the birthday gift to celebrate Huajia's birthday was already colorful.

In the middle of the lobby, hang a huge "longevity" word waved by the emperor's imperial pen, which is the grass of the two kings.

There is another word "longevity" on it, which is the emperor's hand.

There are forty-nine "longevity" characters on each side, all of which are written by the prince and the kings, and the fonts are different, which are combined as "Baishou".

Pharmacist Li had to enter the palace and thanked him one by one.

On the day of the birthday banquet, just like the banquet of the new home two years ago, the emperor and the prince came in person, and the kings, Zaifu, Xungui, and Gao Yi were all there.

This year's autumn harvest, the world is large, and each bucket of rice grain is no more than three or four dollars.

The homeless people returned to the country, the sea was Kangning, and the Turks were flattened, and the four Yi were served, and this was the incomparable and excellent birthday gift in the mind of Pharmacist Li.

However, since the Tang army broke Jieli, for more than half a year, from the center to the people, I don't know how many days of feasts and how many banquets have been held.

Now in Chang'an City, although it is not as good as singing all night, everyone is inevitably a little tired of the feast.

So on this day's birthday banquet, the dishes are absolutely unusual.

At that time, the formal banquet paid attention to the color, sound, fragrance and taste.

Color is visual entertainment, in addition to the hall furnishings and garden layout, but also take the fresh fruits to form a spectacular "look".

The sound is the entertainment of the senses, in addition to the sound of the golden drum and the silk bamboo elegant performance, there is also the "sound part" of pinching the dough and steaming into a pictogram.

Incense is the entertainment of the sense of smell, in addition to the Baoding incense smoker, there is also a cage box for storing cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, sand kernels and other kinds of incense, spreading the fragrance.

On this birthday, the presentation of color, sound, and incense is all indeparting from the rules.

However, the "taste" part is very new.

After the tea and fruit were served in the hall, five glasses of wine were served.

The wine of this banquet is mainly "fermented", which is the sweet liquor brewed by Wei Zheng's family.

Wei Zheng has been lonely since he was a child, although he was reused during the Zhenguan period, and even entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister, but he has never been able to get the real seal of food, so the family assets have always been poor.

Fortunately, his family is good at making fine wine, and Wei Zheng took the wine as a gift, and was even praised by the minister.

Li Shimin even once wrote the royal pen "Poems of Wei Zheng", praising this wine and saying:

Ransheng is better than Lan Sheng

Cui Tao over the jade shallot

A thousand days of drunkenness

Ten years of undefeated

Accompanied by the delicious wine, the "five wines" were offered one by one during the banquet.

As the name suggests, these five lamps are all the fault of the wine, and the dishes are simple and elegant.

The first is to use the newly harvested corn with green bean grinding, and then burn it into rice and bean cooking cakes; The other is to grind the wheat flour given by the villagers of Sanyuan, and steam the noodles into noodles.

The elegant one is five dishes, each with one dish and one soup, containing the Shannan, Lingnan, and Jiangnan states where Pharmacist Li once served.

One is the "Autumn Moon of Kuimen" on behalf of Kuizhou.

With red preserved wax, white salt burned into red armor, white salt two mountains, with egg yolk as the bright moon, there are various colors of mushrooms to decorate the image of flowing water.

It is accompanied by a green stream soup made of celery, algae, apple, sa and other aquatic wild vegetables.

The second is the "Yunmeng Xiaoxiang" representing Jingzhou.

At that time, it was the season when the lotus flowers would be thanked and the lotus root was first formed, and the lotus heart was taken from the tender house, and the mandarin fish pieces were actually used, and the shape of the lotus pod was still maintained after steaming.

In the plate, the scales of the male herb are cut into lotus petals, and the cucumber slices are put together to form lotus leaves, decorating the image of the lotus pond.

It is accompanied by lotus seeds, lotus roots, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, water chestnuts and other lotus pond lake fresh mixed fisherman's soup.

The third is the "landscape Guilin" on behalf of Guizhou.

All kinds of poultry meat with smoked, broiled, windy, pickled and other flavors are spelled together to form the mountain of Yangshuo, and the water of the Li River is decorated with various seasonal vegetables.

In the meantime, there are elephant-shaped ships made from generations of plucking, which contain gardenia petals fried in oil.

Accompanied by a snow glow soup made of hibiscus flowers and tofu, red and white are staggered, just like the glow of snow.

The fourth is the "Fenghualing Table" on behalf of Duanzhou.

This is based on the river shrimp stuffed lychee that Xu Deyan and Chairman Lechang Gong tasted in the Fuchun River that year.

Although the lychee season has passed, there are still hairy lychees in Lingnan that can be used to make this delicacy.

It is served with a shrimp clam soup made of lake prawns and river clams.

The fifth is the "Yanyu Jiangnan" on behalf of Yangzhou.

This is also the delicacies that were tasted at the banquet in the Fuchun River that year, although there are no spring camelina and spring bamboo shoots, but there are equally luscious mountain vegetables and mountain bamboo shoots.

It is served with blanched bamboo shoots and wontons in soup.

These five delicacies, from the emperor to the guests, are all amazing.

Li Shimin praised it: "My brother can govern the army with a small number of soldiers and horses, and create unprecedented great achievements in the period of ten months." And my brother governs the family, and he can use simple and frugal things, between the dishes, to show the elegance of the five lakes and the four seas! ”

Pharmacist Li hurriedly led out of the dust and thanked him humbly.

In fact, in Pharmacist Li's heart, he was particularly deeply moved.

Before preparing for the birthday feast, Chuchen asked him what he wanted to eat? At that time, he only explained that there must be a noodle that represents the hearts of the villagers, and he must not spend it extravagantly.

I didn't expect that my family would be so attentive! The two-color grain food shows the abundance of the autumn harvest and the joy of the farmer; The five dishes reflect the profoundness of the situation and the elegance of the incomprehensible.

However, except for the generations and hairy lychees, there is no rare thing at the end of the banquet.

And these two fruits are also congratulatory gifts from the old Lingnan department, which can show the great achievements of Pharmacist Li to take down half of the country for the Tang Dynasty.

There are many guests, only the emperor and the highest-ranking dignitaries can be seated, and the simple and elegant charm on the table may not meet everyone's preferences.

Therefore, another banquet was set up between the gardens, where there were all kinds of majestic barbecues, wild and open large articles, in line with the masculine fashion of respecting martial arts in the early Tang Dynasty.

The feast in the hall focused on the rules of the ceremony, and after the five soups, the salute was completed, and everyone got up and left the table.

The dust will be the eldest grandson queen, Yang Shufei led by the noble lord and wife, extended to the beautiful scenery of the water pavilion to serve tea.

Li Shimin ordered the prince, the kings, and the ministers not to have to be served, and he stepped into the hustle and bustle of the garden under the guidance of Li Yaoshi.

The emperor had already ordered everyone to eat and drink by themselves, and there was no need to take the salute.

Therefore, I saw the forest by the pool, where the fireworks started, from time to time there were sounds of vigorous youth laughter, exuding the joy of the coming of the world, and looking forward to the future.

Li Shimin looked at it with a smile frequently, but what he was most concerned about was still the crown prince Li Chenggan.

He looked up and easily found the guards who accompanied the prince.

Pharmacist Li followed the emperor's gaze and knew that the Sacred Heart was tied to, so he immediately led the way.

Soon it was seen that there was a circle of thin poles around the bonfire on the shore of the pool, and each pole was strung with a tail of fresh fish dipped in minced salt, wafting with the fragrance of ointment.

It turned out that Li Dejian and Li De Award actually copied the exotic food they had tried by chance in Hanhai Hexi a year and a half ago to their home.

The pond bank was covered with gravel, but between the walks, Pharmacist Li's left foot seemed to stumble.