Liu is it, the ancient book of Shu, the person of Shanyin today, has an uninhibited personality, a noble background, and a ruined family capital. Talented.

In the eighth year of Chongyang, Liu Shizhi failed to be moved, took the initiative to abandon his career, and took the scholar Lu Ya to play the world.

Come to Hangzhou.

"Childe, there is a building outside the building."

Lu Ya carried his schoolbag and followed behind Liu Shizhi.

Liu Shizhi walked in front, waved his hand and said, "No, no, no." ”

Lu Ya asked:

"It is said that the vinegar fish in West Lake is a must-have in the world, son, you don't like to taste the world's food the most, why don't you try it?"

After that, he was embarrassed and said, "I want to try it too." ”

"West Lake vinegar fish is not delicious."

Liu Shizhi glanced at the building outside the building with disdain, and said:

"You also know that your son-in-law I don't eat food, if there is no food, I would rather be hungry, and if I eat the vinegar fish in the West Lake, it is better to starve me to death."

Lu Ya was stunned and asked: "Is it so unpalatable, isn't this a famous dish in the world, and the outer building of the building is the first building in Hangzhou." ”

"If the vinegar fish in West Lake is so unpalatable, it all depends on this building!"

Liu is the way: "West Lake vinegar fish, should be to take grass carp, first in the West Lake starvation for three days, to the muddy smell, and then with seven and a half knives of craftsmanship on the flower knife, but since the prosperity of the building outside the building, it has become a prosperous high-rise building, the people who come and go are rich businessmen, this building feels that the grass carp is despicable, can not sell the price, so I chose the more expensive Guiyu, this material changed, the vinegar fish immediately changed half of the taste, plus their master has lost his skills, sweet and sour sauce can no longer be made, made of the West Lake vinegar fish, It's complicated to say......"

"It's complicated and hard to say, what kind of flavor it is." Lu Ya asked.

Willow is the way: "One point sweet, two parts salty, three points sour, four points fishy." ”

Lu Ya's eyes widened: "It's so unpalatable." ”

Liu is Zhidao: "After eating this fish, I threw myself into the river once, but fortunately I was rescued by a Jinshi friend in Hangzhou, his name is Xu Wenchang, now we will go to this person and let him take us to eat real delicious." ”

The people walking by next to him heard the master and servant talking, especially when they heard that Liu Shizhi even committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake because the vinegar fish in West Lake was not delicious, and he couldn't help but look at it suspiciously.

Is it too exaggerated.

After a while, Liu Shizhi's master and servant came to Hangzhou's Huanxiu Villa, and after visiting and entering, he sighed:

"Good garden."

Listening to Liu Shizhi's voice, the owner who came out of the garden was Liu Shizhi's friend Xu Wenchang, laughing:

"Yumean is finally here."

A group of people introduce each other.

Someone smiled and said: "I have long heard that Brother Liu is known as obsessed with mountains and rivers and obsessed with gardens. Celebrities and gentlemen are crazy, love prosperity, excellent food, see it today, it is really true. ”

Someone said: "We are also a group of idiots, but we are not as stupid as Brother Liu." ”

Idiocy is a hobby and interest.

There are drama idiots, alcoholic idiots, and so on.

Liu Shizhi said with a smile: "People have no idiotic habits, and they can't associate with them, because they have no affection." ”

"Good! Wonderful! Xu Wenchang praised and said: "Brother Liu knows all kinds of habits, he doesn't eat non-food, he doesn't go to beautiful scenery, he doesn't love non-beauty, he doesn't wear beautiful jade, among all the beauties, especially food." ”

Liu is the way: "You must not be reluctant in everything, and especially in food." ”

If he eats three meals a day, not food, he would rather not eat them.

Someone praised: "You don't get tired of eating, you don't get tired of being fine, and so is the Master." ”

Xu Wenchang laughed and said: "I have specially invited the chef of the Quartet, what Brother Liu wants to eat, just ask." ”

Clapped his hands, and four cooks came out from behind, Chuanlu, Huaiyue, all of them were here.

Liu Shizhi was unceremoniously, commanded one by one, and after the order was finished, he admonished:

"Remember, pork with thin skin should not be fishy; The chicken should be tender and not old; Crucian carp is better to have a flat body and a white belly, and those with a black back must have stiff flesh. The eel is expensive to swim in the lake and stream, and the bamboo shoots of the soil are few and sweet.

Even if it's the same ham, the appearance is so ugly, and the taste is like an abyss. The same soft-shelled turtle is also divided into the difference between the beauty and evil of ice and charcoal. ”

Someone was surprised: "Brother Liu doesn't believe in these four chefs too much, do you still need to advise you about this kind of thing?" ”

Liu is the way: "A delicious dish, the chef's credit can only account for sixty percent at most, and the credit of the person who buys the ingredients, to account for forty percent, if the ingredients are not delicious, no matter how powerful the chef's cooking skills, it is difficult to play, the ancients have long said that 'it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice'." ”

The crowd was amazed.

Praise:

"As for the people who can eat in the world, there is no willow to be the right."

Xu Wenchang asked, "I heard that Brother Liu is writing a food list?" Can you list it? ”

Liu Shizhi said with a smile: "It's not done yet, it will take ten years." ”

Xu Wenchang said: "Then make a ten-year contract." ”

"Well said."

It's night.

A table of delicious food.

Let the guests on the Xu Mansion linger, and it will be the most important in their lives.

In the middle of the seat.

A bunch of literati gathered, and inevitably attacked the current court, led by the master Xu Wenchang, and angrily reprimanded the authorities:

"Now that the emperor favors the traitorous ministers, it has led to chaos in the court, if I can re-enter the court, I must admonish Your Majesty with death......"

A group of literati applauded: "Lord Xu said well, since ancient times, the death of the civil and the military to the death, my generation of scholars, by the emperor's grace, eat the rice of the country, since the body to serve the country." ”

Only Liu is the only one who doesn't speak.

The crowd looked at him.

Xu Wenchang asked, "Brother Liu doesn't seem to think so?" ”

Liu Shizhi smiled and said, "No." ”

Xu Wenchang asked tentatively: "I intend to go to the academy and advise the court, is Brother Liu willing to go with me?" ”

Liu Shizhi shook his head and said, "I have no intention of giving advice. ”

Xu Wenchang frowned and said, "Brother Liu, isn't he afraid of death?" ”

The literati advised the imperial court that there was indeed a danger of death.

Liu Shizhi said: "Life is not dead, death is not me, there is no fear." ”

"Then ......" Xu Wenchang asked, "Brother Liu is still ......"

Liu is the way: "I have placed my affection between the mountains and rivers, and besides, now that the dynasty is so collapsed, it is no longer worth my death for it, it is better to eat more food." ”

In the end, the group of people broke up unhappily.

After leaving Huanxiu Villa.

"Childe, does it hurt them too much to talk like that?" Lu Ya caught up and asked with a smile.

"We are the most cheeky literati." Liu Shizhi smiled: "No hurt, no hurt." ”

……

Return to the inn.

Day 2.

Heavy snow in Hangzhou.

This snow fell for three days at once.

Liu Shizhi and Lu Ya, who were supposed to leave for their hometown, were blocked by heavy snow.

Hangzhou seems to be buried in snow and frozen.

Every household is lying on their bed, carrying it next to the stove, or making tea around the stove.

Suddenly, Liu Shizhi rushed out of the inn with Lu Ya and shouted, "Shopkeeper, is there still anyone holding a boat raft in West Lake?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, then looked at the white blank outside and said, "What crazy are you talking about, this snowy day, you want to go to West Lake?" ”

"On a snowy day, go to West Lake."

Liu Shizhi only asked, "Is there a raft?" ”

"In this weather, all the fishermen who are holding rafts on the lake must have gone home." The shopkeeper said.

"You help me find one." Liu is the way: "I add money." ”

No one was found all day.

People think it's crazy to go to the lake on a snowy day.

It was not until late in the evening that a man heard the news.

So the master and servant and the fisherman carried a small raft, dressed in fur coats, and carried a stove, and the three of them went to the middle of the lake.

The captain was puzzled and asked, "Master, what are you doing in the middle of the lake on this snowy day?" ”

"Don't do much." Liu Shizhi smiled.

"Why do you want to go?" The captain was even more puzzled, and sighed: "Isn't this a waste of time." ”

"Floating a big dream, life to death, what is not a waste of time."

Liu Shizhi looked ahead and laughed:

"But if you can be happy in these things, it is not a waste of time."

The captain was ignorant.

Road:

"Xiang Gong is an idiot."

As the raft progressed, the lake was filled with ice flowers.

Gradually to the center of the lake.

The sky and the clouds, the mountains, and the water, are white above and below.

The ripples driven by the raft in the middle of the lake are like a long causeway on white rice paper, and at the end is the vague outline of the pavilion in the middle of the lake, as well as a small boat, and there are only two or three people in the boat.

After a while, we arrived at the center of West Lake.

Unexpectedly, in this snowy, quiet and picturesque pavilion in the middle of the lake, there were actually people, and there were two old people who laid felt in the pavilion and sat opposite each other.

There were boys boiling water behind their backs, and tea was brewing around the hearth.

The stove is boiling.

The smoke is swirling, and the snow and wind are colorful.

"Huh!"

The two old men in the pavilion in the middle of the lake were stunned for a moment when they saw the master and servant of Liu is and the people who came from the boat, and they were all overjoyed:

"Who's on the boat ahead?"

Liu Shizhi saw the people in the center of the lake, and he was also surprised, and after going to the pavilion in the center of the lake, they each reported their origins.

It turned out that the two old men were from Jinling.

Liu Shizhi stroked his hand and sighed: "I didn't expect that there were people like you in the pavilion. ”

"Hahaha!"

An old man with a mink laughed and said:

"My friends and I saw the snow rising, in the middle of the lake, looking at the color of the world, the vast white practice, the sound of people and birds in the lake, it can be described as a scene of heaven and earth, sighing that this scene only belongs to the two of me. I didn't expect that there would be people like me. ”

"When the float is white."

Another old man groaned:

"When is there no lake? When is there no snow? But there are few idlers like me. ”

After that, invite Liu is to drink tea together.

"Hahaha!"

After a short discussion, everyone had a good time.

Liu Shizhi saw that it was not early, so he offered to leave.

The two old men said: "If you want to wait for the clouds to disperse after the snow and admire the moon, it is different to return." ”

Liu Shizhi's eyes showed admiration.

So I didn't say much.

A flat boat, with the master and servant, returned from the lake pavilion.

The captain looked back at the two old men who were gradually shrouded by the heavy snow and the pavilion in the middle of the lake, leaving only a little smoke and water vapor, and a few human figures, thinking that they would have to wait here tonight for the clouds to disperse after the snow and admire the moon, he couldn't help muttering to Liu Shizhi:

"Don't say that you are stupid, you are even more stupid."

This is exactly what it is:

Life is everywhere, it should be like Feihong stepping on the slush.

Occasionally, there are fingers and claws on the mud, and Hongfei counts things.

……

After the heavy snowfall, Hangzhou cleared.

Liu Shizhi and Lu Ya's master and servant returned to Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

Half a year after returning to Shaoxing.

I heard that Xu Wenchang, a friend of Jinshi who invited him to dinner in Hangzhou and talked about the current situation of the imperial court during the banquet, was appreciated by the emperor and restarted.

Someone came to ask Liu if he regretted it.

Liu Shizhi smiled and said: "My pleasure, he doesn't know." ”

So, as always, travel the world, eat, drink and have fun, go around and around, and when you return from a trip every six months, you will come back to write a food list.

In addition to the food list, there are several articles that are very poetic and sung all over the world.

Nine years have passed.

Although Liu Shizhi has not entered the ranks, he is really a wonderful flower in the jungle of today's literati.

The world evaluates him as the current generation, and he is known as Xu Wenchang and Liu Shizhi. Xu won with a strange policeman, and Liu won with a strong force.

Xu Wenchang is the Hangzhou Jinshi who has now become the leader of the Wen Party.

And if Liu is, you can't learn books, you can't learn swords, you can't learn festivals, you can't learn articles, you can't learn immortals, Buddhism, and agriculture can't learn." However, this "nothing" Liu is the one who has become "the first article in the world."

He writes his life.

Some people describe it like this: Where the voices are full of people, gongs and drums are noisy, there must be willows;

At the end of the song, the people are scattered, the wind is cold and the moon is gone, and someone blows out a wisp of sadness, and the listener must be Liu Is.

The world's food, any of the same.

Willow is the capital must not be missed.

Seventeen years in Chongyang.

This year, Liu Shizhi's most proud work in his life finally came out, and it was not his articles and poems that were highly respected by the literati in the outside world.

It's a book that teaches people to cook.

Everyone in the world knows that the talented man Liu is a life of romance and elegance, but the first one is to eat.

The book is divided into 14 aspects: the list of instructions, the list of precepts, the list of seafood, the list of river fresh, the list of special animals, the list of miscellaneous animals, the list of feathers, the list of scales of the aquarium, the list of non-scales of the aquarium, the menu of miscellaneous vegetables, the small menu, the list of dim sum, the list of rice porridge and the list of tea and wine.

However, in the seventeenth year of Chongyang, two months after Liu Shizhi's work called "Dream Memories of Food List" came out.

The world is in chaos.

First, there were thieves who broke through the capital, and the emperor hanged himself.

Then a foreign country took the opportunity to go south and occupy the Central Plains.

On the occasion of the collapse of the country.

The leader and belief in the minds of the people of the world, when he was young, he once said that loyalty and patriotism are the silk of the society, and Xu Wenchang, the prime minister of our dynasty who was not afraid of being killed, was standing on the edge of the West Lake at this time, facing the siege of foreign armies.

On the edge of the West Lake.

Prime Minister Xu Wenchang walked to the lake, and his students turned to look at the foreign army and wept:

"The disciple is willing to go to the trouble for the country with the respected teacher, and is willing to die for the country and die on the Ming Festival."

Xu Wenchang walked to the lake and muttered, "It's dead Mingjie." ”

He leaned down slightly.

Touched the lake.

Shaking his head suddenly:

"This water is too cold to enter!"

The disciple was shocked.

Then he shouted: "Honorable Master forgot what you told us when you were young, Wen Death Admonishes Martial Arts to Fight to the Death, my generation of scholars, by the emperor's grace, eat the rice of the country, and serve the country with his own words." ”

saw this loyal and patriotic old man, who went to the enemy camp alone.

One of the leaders of the Heavens, thrown into the enemy camp.

The morale of the Central Plains was greatly dissipated.

The enemy army soon came to Shaoxing.

Preparing to capture and subdue the second leader of the world's talents, Liu is it.

In the camp, Xu Wenchang stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "Lao Chen and Liu Shizhi have been friends for many years, and they only need a few words, it can be said that he has come to descend to a new dynasty." ”

"Is it that simple?"

Xu Wenchang said: "The princes don't know, Liu is a person with many habits, and he is not a loyal and patriotic person, he once said in his early years that his body does not serve the country." ”

It's the day.

Come to Shaoxing.

only to learn that Liu Shizhi and the boy were not at home.

And the family has long been dismissed.

Xu Wenchang searched the city for several days, but he could not see it.

The enemy general came coldly to inquire.

Xu Wenchang hurriedly said: "The old man has a plan, Liu is the best person to eat, don't eat every meal of non-food, even if he escapes, he can't escape far, as long as the general uses the world's food as bait, he will be able to lure him down." ”

A few days later, the general held a feast, but Liu Shizhi still did not appear.

A year later, until the new dynasty completely dominated the world.

Three years later.

Finally, someone claimed to have discovered the whereabouts of Liu Shizhi.

It was a tomb.

Liu is dead for more than two years.

Xu Wenchang asked the local people and learned that when Liu Shizhi learned that a foreign country had entered the Central Plains and wanted to recruit him, he dismissed his family and hid in the mountains.

When it was learned that the foreign country had completely dominated the world.

So he went on a hunger strike deep in the mountains.

After Xu Wenchang left.

Lu Ya looked at the wooden tablet, which was the epitaph that Liu Shizhi wrote for himself:

Shaoxing willow is the one, less for the gentlemen, very prosperous, good house, good beautiful maid, good child, good fresh clothes, good food, good horses, good lanterns, good fireworks, good pear orchard, good advocacy, good antiques, good flowers and birds, and tea and orange abuse, books and poems.

Half a hundred, the country is broken, half a life of hard work, all become a dream, people would rather starve to death than eat foreign millet.

A sigh.

"When will you enter the Tao?"

(End of chapter)