Chapter 62: Hot Pot Fire and Rebellion
Xu Qin was frightened all night, and he fought wits and courage with Zhu Di's father and son, and he was really tired. I slept until noon.
But it was a gloomy day, as if it was going to snow.
In his memory, it rarely snowed in Nanjing, and it also rained in Dongtian, but the weather in the Ming Dynasty was different from that of later generations.
It had snowed heavily some time ago, and it was not small.
In the Beijing generation, I am afraid that this heavy snow will become a disaster.
Xu Qin sighed with emotion, and then told the maid that we eat hot pot, there is nothing more pleasant than eating hot pot with the maid in this weather.
There are records of eating hot pot in the Song Dynasty, and there are also records in the Ming Dynasty. However, compared with later generations, it is not so professional.
Or the style is different, maybe the people of the Ming Dynasty thought that the food of later generations was not authentic. Anyway, this thing depends on the hobby.
He had just solved a big thing, and he had made a lot of money, and he decided to lie down completely. This mood is naturally unstoppable.
At noon, I just took a bite of it, and in the afternoon, I found a blacksmith to transform the hot pot.
He even fried the bottom of the butter pot himself according to his memory, adding dogwood, peppercorns, bay leaves and other things that could be found.
I hired a carpenter and shaved the lamb and beef into thin slices with a small planer, and prepared various dipping sauces by myself.
In the evening, a hot brass hot pot began, and the four beautiful maids and Yunhe, looking at the meat and vegetables eaten with boiling water at will, felt that the little grandfather was wasting food.
What do you need a cook to do when you eat like this?
However, after taking a bite, I was immediately conquered by this taste, and I sucked my bright red lips and feasted on it, and soon it was too hot to wear clothes.
Hongshu first unbuttoned his coat to reveal his close-fitting clothes, and when the others saw that the little grandfather did not object, they immediately followed suit, and they were sweating one by one.
Xu Qin felt that the taste of this bull's eye and dried seafood was better than that of later generations, but this seasoning was almost meaningless. Still, the unpolluted tongue and taste still feel good.
"What's it, what a smell of cattle and sheep." Xu Miaojin came in after receiving the words.
Frightened, a few maids and Yunhe hurriedly got up, but one by one they were disheveled.
Fortunately, this is the inner house, and it is Xu Qin's inner courtyard, as long as it is not too much, Xu Miaojin doesn't care.
Seeing that they were so happy eating, I tried it. As a result, it was out of control and could not be stopped.
"Then there is this delicious thing, why don't you think about your aunt." Xu Miaojin's cheeks were red when she ate, and she was happy when she saw sweat on her forehead.
"Today is also a whim, the utensils have just been built, and the seasoning and the bottom of the pot are barely improvised. I'll send it to my aunt when it's perfected another day. ”
Xu Qin said while soaking the mutton with chopsticks.
Seeing that the mutton was almost there, it was taken away by Xu Miaojin with a chopstick, and he could only eat a chopstick vermicelli.
"Auntie, what are you eating, big brother?" Xu Hao went into the room to take a look and asked.
Xu Qin promised to find him a teacher, but there was no news. Seo Ho has come to him several times, but he is not there.
Today, I finally heard that my brother was busy, so I hurriedly came over to look for it, who knew that my brother was eating strange things.
He was a little afraid of Xu Miaojin and seemed very restrained.
"Arrange a set of chopsticks for him." Xu Qin said. Soon the maid arranged for Xu Hao.
"No need brother, I'll finish eating. I came to my brother just to ask, how is the matter of inviting the master? Xu Hao glanced at Xu Miaojin and asked.
Xu Miaojin didn't care about him at all, and his mother didn't like him.
"I forgot, I'll arrange it for you tomorrow, you taste it first." Xu Qin gave a chopsticks of beef slices.
Xu Hao carefully took a bite, and his eyes lit up. Well, this stuff has a different flavor.
It's a pity that Xu Hao is a little angry bag, and Xu Miaojin doesn't dare to feast here. And you have to be very eye-catching to serve the bureau and help with the meat.
"What is this?"
Xu Huizu came in, looking at the table and the family and feeling very hurt, didn't they take me with them to eat delicious food?
Originally, I installed a master at the door with my son last night, waiting for my son to come the next day to say goodbye, and then communicate in depth.
Who knew that after waiting all morning, my son slept all morning.
Knowing that his son reconciled accounts with Mr. Xia was dawn, it was very hard. If you don't come, you will forgive him.
After another afternoon, why don't you come? When I inquired about this kid being a blacksmith and a carpenter, I didn't know what he was tinkering with.
Maybe he was tinkering with that firebolt, that thing Xu Huizu had seen, and it was naturally a murderous weapon. This son of his own family is really a son of Jiangmen Huzi, and he has the legacy of his ancestors.
Xu Huizu thought that his son must still be hiding more powerful things, all that was left outside was rags, and the really good things were hidden in the mansion.
This blacksmith must be making something better.
Who knows that this is a pure misunderstanding, the son who is not angry is making hot pot and preparing for cat winter.
So he waited patiently, and who knew that he would not come in the evening. And I heard that Xu Miaojin and his youngest son Xu Hao have passed.
Xu Huizu, who couldn't wait to talk to his son, killed him directly. Then I found that the family ate good food, so I didn't bring myself.
"I'll just eat a hot pot, how can I make up so complete? Who else hasn't come? Xu Qin asked, simply a family gathering.
Xu Miaojin shook his head, and Xu Huizu shook his head. The Wei Mansion seems to be the only one of them.
Xu Ho raised his head weakly.
"My aunt ......," Seo Ho said.
He is a concubine, and he can only call his biological mother his aunt, and Xu Qin's mother is his mother.
This is where feudal society does not talk about human rights.
Xu Huizu remained silent and looked at his eldest son Xu Qin. Xu Miaojin didn't take it seriously at all.
At this glance, you can see the family status of everyone.
"Mei Su, go and ask my aunt to come over, just say that my father invited me." Xu Qin said.
Seo Ho immediately became happy. Xu Huizu also smiled, and also sandwiched a chopstick vermicelli for his son, and the beef was left by himself.
"Little grandfather, there's not enough meat." Qi Su came over and whispered.
"Meat, it's not enough to find a carpenter, let him work harder and plane more." Xu Qin received it without raising his head.
Xu Huizu felt strange, what is the situation if you don't look for a cook and a carpenter when you run out of meat? When he saw the carpenter slicing the frozen beef and mutton into small slices, he realized that he could eat it like this.
After a while, Xu Hao's mother came, startled, and said in her heart, what is the situation? After sitting down nervously, he consciously served Xu Huizu.
As a result, Xu Hao was sad, and he completely became a waiter. His mother's status is not much stronger than that of a maid, but after all, she is a mother, and she still comes by herself.
"Son, this thing is good, if you put some wolfberries, ginseng, and astragalus as the bottom of the pot, and add beef and mutton, it will be a big supplement. There are many women in your room to eat. ”
Xu Huizu pointed to the copper pot and said.
At first glance, he is an expert in eating, and he can make effective suggestions so quickly.
But one sentence made the little faces of a group of maids red.
"I'll make two more another day, you can eat more, work hard, work with me to help the old Xu family spread out the branches, and strive to fill in a few younger brothers for me next year."
Xu Qin and Xu Huizu said very improperly.
Xu Miaojin snorted and laughed, almost squirting the noodles in his mouth out of his nose, how could there be such an unserious son.
"Drink, drink." Xu Huizu raised his wine glass with a red face.
This son says everything, that's what I think, and you can't say that.
After a hot pot meal, Xu Huizu took Xu Qin to wander around the Zhan Garden, which was given to Xu Da by Zhu Yuanzhang and was very famous in Yingtianfu.
It is especially famous for rockeries, but the scenery is slightly inferior in winter, and it is a must in spring and summer.
Xu Qin, who has seen many gardens and mountains in later generations, doesn't feel anything. Just think it's big.
"Is there anything better than you thought of it?" Xu Huizu asked.
Xu Qin was shocked, after his father was worthy of being a famous general, he actually knew that there was something better.
In fact, he misunderstood, Xu Huizu thought that he was hiding his secrets and it was impossible to hand over the best things.
Xu Qin thought that Xu Huizu saw the future of musket development.
"How do you know about the firebolt?" Xu Qin asked suddenly.
This firearm has always been built in the barracks, and no one knows about it except Luo Zhong and his men.
Now it is estimated that Dingguo Gong and Zhu Di know.
Then in his stunnedness, Xu Huizu asked people to bring over a fire gun, which was very well forged, and the butt of the face gun was all rosewood.
In addition, there are also tongs, horn medicine bags, iron sand bombs, and even gunpowder in the horn medicine bags.
"I'm not deaf or blind, tell my father, how can this thing be transformed? And what kind of tactics does this thing have to go with? Xu Huizu asked with great interest.
Xu Qin understood that he was using the blacksmith of the Xu family, how could this old man not know?
He stared at Xu Huizu deadly, and said in his heart, I want to tell you, you won't backhand Emperor Jianwen to organize a musket team.
That's no joke.