Ying Xiaozheng said: "Oh? Then I can let Uncle Cai and the teacher be replaced by Xiangguo? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "With one more Lin Li, the three of them can take turns in the position of Xiangguo and Prime Minister, so that they can contain each other." It just so happens that the three of them have different governing philosophies. ”

Even if they are close friends, they have different governing philosophies and different families behind them, and they will contain each other in the court.

Ying Xiaozheng said disgustedly: "Don't." Uncle Lin was the prime minister, and he always felt that he would embarrass the Qin country. ”

Zhu Xiang laughed.

But don't look at Ying Xiaozheng's dislike of Lin Zhen now, except for Zhu Xiang and Xue Ji, the closest person to him now is Lin Zhen, and he regards Lin Zhen as half of his own. Lin Zhen's status in Ying Xiaozheng's heart is probably higher than that of Zichu.

The two chatted and changed their clothes. Zhu Xiang was a little tired, but after changing his clothes and freshening up, he was sober again.

He saw that there was a bamboo forest in the courtyard of Mengwu Mansion, and immediately went to dig bamboo shoots with great interest.

Although the spring bamboo shoots are good, the bamboo shoots that are all over the ground in the bamboo forest at the beginning of summer will not taste bad.

Although there are many bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest at the beginning of summer, they all grow after a rain, and it takes a long time to eat new bamboo shoots.

Although the sky is gloomy now, it has not rained for half a month in Eyi, and the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest have not emerged, so it is the time to eat bamboo shoots.

After Zhu Xiang dug up the bamboo shoots, he directly piled bamboo leaves and bamboo joints to make a fire, took half of the new bamboo shoots from the bamboo shoot shell and buried them in it to simmer, and the other half was sliced and made with the lettuce.

This is when Zhu Xiang was on a business trip with his colleagues, his colleagues taught him how to eat, and he also mentioned two allusions to him.

The first bamboo leaf simmered bamboo shoots are called "Pang Lin Xian", and the second Ulva bamboo shoot soup is called "Jade Belt Soup", both of which are "literati dishes" in "Shanjia Qing Offering", and the former seems to be related to Su Shi and his "confident" cousin Wen Tong.

The food is related to the Dongpo monks, so I don't seem to be surprised at all.

While making bamboo shoots, Zhu Xiang wanted to tell the story of the Dongpo monks to Ying Xiaozheng.

But he pondered for a long time in his mind, even if Su Dongpo was changed to a small national scholar in the Spring and Autumn Period, it was really difficult to explain how Su Dongpo demoted his official to the barbarian land that is now deserted, revitalizing culture and education, and looking for food. If it is only a scholar who travels around and loses the interest of the story, he has no choice but to give up.

Zhu Xiang felt regretful, but fortunately, the bamboo shoots were delicious and made up for his regrets.

After listening to Zhu Xiang's evaluation of the elegant method of this bamboo shoot, Ying Xiaozheng first commented on "fresh", and then added, "I still think it is more delicious to mix bamboo shoots with meat."

Zhu Xiang almost sprayed bamboo shoots.

Well, Mr. Dongpo is furious. Bamboo shoots mixed with meat are villains and bad gentlemen! Heterodox!

"Okay, what do you want to eat with bamboo shoots?" Zhu Xiang asked.

Ying Xiaozheng immediately ordered: "Roasted chicken with bamboo shoots, roasted beef with bamboo shoots, roasted ...... bamboo shoots"

Zhu Xiang stopped: "Wait, roast beef with bamboo shoots?" The state of Qin should prohibit the slaughter of cattle by the people, right? ”

Ying Xiaozheng blinked his eyes: "What does the cow that the teacher bought from Dongou have to do with cultivating cattle?" ”

Zhu Xiang was speechless: "Zheng'er, this is Nanjun, can Li Mu still send the cattle stolen from Dongou to Eyi?" What's more, why didn't I know that Dongou was good at raising cattle? ”

Dongou has not yet started to implement cattle farming!

Ying Xiaozheng blinked his eyes again: "There are also bison in the mountains." Perhaps Uncle Meng caught it from the mountains. ”

Zhu Xiang: "......"

Ying Xiaozheng child who knows the law and breaks the law, at this time you will call Meng Wu "uncle"?!

Chapter 137: Burning Beef Brisket with Tobacco Shoots

Ying Xiaozheng still ate beef.

The cow belongs to the Mengwu family. As the county warden of Nanjun, Meng Wu owned many granges in the local area, and naturally owned many cattle.

The Qin State promoted cattle farming in Nanjun. The government raised cattle and rented them to farmers at a low price when they needed spring ploughing.

If there is a time to encourage farming, such as now, the government provides farmers with ploughing cattle for free, but they need to sign and draw a pledge, and if the ploughing cattle have an accident, they need to pay off the debt with labor.

As a county guard, Meng Wu does not need to use the cows of the government, and he has a lot of cattle. Ying Xiaozheng doesn't want to eat one head, he just wants to slaughter ten heads and eight heads, and the servants of the Meng family will serve them diligently.

If Meng Wu is here, Ying Xiaozheng takes the initiative to call him "Uncle Meng", he will definitely give all the farming cattle to Ying Xiaozheng and spend a huge amount of money to buy the farming cattle again.

Of course, if this happens, Zhu Xiang will say "get out" to Meng Wu, and then still only take away a calf that is enough to eat.

Meng Wu was like smelling the smell, obviously he had already gone south, and on the second day after Zhu Xiang arrived at his house, he was smoking and roasting bamboo shoots in Beizhuang, which had the most bamboo forests in his house, and came back.

When he returned, Zhu Xiang's servants, together with his servants, were killing his cattle in the back kitchen.

Ying Xiaozheng also asked him: "Uncle Meng, the cattle I ate were the booty you stole from Baiyue, not the ploughing cattle, so I didn't violate Qin's laws, right?" ”

Before Meng Wu could answer, Zhu Xiang said angrily: "Ah, yes, yes, yes, it's all Baiyue's, it's all Baiyue's, it's Mengwu who robbed Baiyue." Mengwu, what are you doing in a daze? Come and help me. ”

Meng Wugang, who was confused, changed his clothes, and his clothes were all gray again.

"What are you doing?" Meng Wu asked as he worked.

Zhu Xiang said: "Smoked bamboo shoots, make smoked bamboo shoots and roast beef brisket for Zheng'er." Roasted beef brisket, you still have to use smoked bamboo shoots to taste the best. What would you like to eat? ”

Meng Wu said: "Feel free, I can eat anything." ”

Zhu Xiang smiled evilly: "The bamboo insects in the bamboo forest are very delicious to eat, do you want to eat them?" ”

Meng Wu: "......"

He gave Zhu Xiang a "What do you say?!" Looks.

Zhu Xiang laughed.

Zhu Xiang finally set the menu as three meat dishes: roasted chicken with bamboo shoots, braised beef brisket with smoked bamboo shoots, and stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots.

When making fried pork with bamboo shoots, Zhu Xiang remembered another interesting story related to Su Dongpo.

Su Dongpo told his cousin Wen Tong in a serious manner that bamboo shoots and meat were mixed, and it was a villain who bullied the gentleman, and the bamboo shoots should be vegetarian, and Wen Tong was stunned for a while, and he reflected for a long time.

But Su Dongpo himself likes to eat braised pork with bamboo shoots, and wrote a poem saying that he ate braised pork with spring bamboo shoots, which is "not vulgar and not thin", which is both elegant and nutritious, not to mention how beautiful the mood is.

Let him finish everything.

However, when many people in ancient times spoke, they probably didn't think as much as later recorders, and it was normal to make a joke or simply say something, and it was common for words to conflict with behavior.

It's just that later generations mythologize them, and they have to make up a bunch of things in their brains.

For example, what Su Dongpo said to his cousin Wen Tong probably has nothing to do with any circumstances, he just wants to slap his cousin.

If you see your cousin eating dry-roasted vegetarian bamboo shoots, it is estimated that Su Dongpo will still scold him for not eating them, so he has to eat fried meat with bamboo shoots. This is a brother who has a good relationship.

"Meng Wu, what do you say outsiders will say about me when they hear that I eat roast beef with bamboo shoots?" Zhu Xiang smiled, "Will you make up a set of elegant rhetoric for me?" ”

Meng Wu said while chopping his own ornamental bamboo as firewood: "How do I know? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "You make one for me." Zheng'er, also think about it for your uncle. ”

Ying Xiaozheng threw the bamboo shoot shells he picked up into the fire: "What do you think?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "I want to praise my uncle's words." ”

Ying Xiaozheng said angrily: "Don't ask me this, I won't praise people." ”

Meng Wu sighed and said, "Fresh bamboo shoots are clear qi, beef is turbidity, turbidity converges, just like the harmony of yin and yang, which can show the way of the great sage Zhu Xianggong's self-cultivation?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng paused his hand to add firewood to the fire, and couldn't believe it: "Uncle Meng, can you really make it up?" ”

Meng Wu smiled: "I used to be a close attendant of King Qin, and I still have the ability to speak." ”

Ying Xiaozheng was puzzled: "Then why can't Meng Tian speak?" I haven't heard anything nice about him. He is like a stuffy gourd, he only knows how to bury his head in things every day. ”

Meng Wu was puzzled: "It shouldn't be, Tian'er is quite eloquent." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Maybe I'm too tired from work and don't have time to talk." When he grows up, he will be able to juggle work and flattery. ”

Zhu Xiang knew how high Ying Xiaozheng's requirements were, even if Ying Xiaozheng had slowed down under his own persuasion and patiently taught Meng Tian, Meng Tian had to do his best to keep up. Meng Tian estimated that he really didn't have the energy to figure out how to curry favor with Ying Xiaozheng.

With Ying Xiaozheng's character, if he doesn't do a good job and says superfluous flattering words, it will only backfire.

Meng Wu frowned: "This can't be done, flattery is also the most important job of the servant, I have to train him well." ”

Ying Xiaozheng continued to throw bamboo shoot shells into the fire, and said, "Saying that flattery is work in front of me? Uncle, Uncle Meng taught me badly. ”

Zhu Xiang joked: "What? Isn't flattery work? Isn't one of the duties of the chamberlain to make the serving king feel good? ”

Ying Xiaozheng: "......" can't refute it.

Ying Xiaozheng snorted coldly: "Uncle, you say so, be careful that someone misunderstands Meng Tian and says that Meng Tian is a servant." ”

Zhu Xiang almost burned his hands: "Zheng'er, who taught you this?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "Do you still need someone to teach? Isn't it everywhere? ”

Zhu Xiang thought about it, it was really like this. The high-level of the Warring States is in chaos.

Speaking of the close attendants to make the king who served him feel good, he has to mention the old Liu family.

It is well known that the emperors of the Han Dynasty were almost all bisexual. They had a position called "Langzhong", and selected young men with good faces among the nobles to enter the palace as close attendants.

This was originally similar to the close attendants of the Warring States Period, and it was one of the ways for the children of nobles to be promoted, similar to the imperial guards of the Qing court opera. Sengoku also has the position of "Langzhong".

But because of the fetish of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, "Langzhong" is mostly their favorite candidate - not a forbidden or prostitute, people are really good, you and I want to.

It is said that the top gate lord Cui Shi at the time of the founding of the Tang Dynasty boasted that he was a real ancestor with historical evidence, and it seemed that what he did was "Langzhong".

Of course, not all "Langzhong" can be selected by the emperor, and the ancestor of the Cui family should be a serious Langzhong.

Zhu Xiang thought this was very interesting, so he casually changed the Han Dynasty to an unknown small country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and told it as a joke to Ying Xiaozheng and Meng Wu.

Not only was he once a close attendant of King Qin, but his son was also a close attendant of King Qin in the future, Meng Wu, who said that he didn't want to hear it.

Ying Xiaozheng laughed happily, laughing so much that the bamboo shoot shell in his hand kept falling ashes.

"Uncle Meng, rest assured, I'm not such a person." Ying Xiaozheng laughed so much that his stomach hurt a little, and the jokes his uncle told every time were so funny, "But it is common for the children of the nobles to be in a high position with their servants, and then to shade their descendants." Isn't there a Longyang Jun in the Wei Kingdom? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "It seems that there is such a person. I heard that this person is quite talented? Good swordsmanship? ”

Meng Wudao: "No matter how talented you are, can you compare to Xinling Jun?" The king of Wei loved the king of Longyang and alienated the king of Xinling, which was the behavior of the faint king. ”

Zhu Xiang was speechless: "Don't compare Xinlingjun with Longyangjun, if Xinlingjun is here, he will definitely fight you to the death." ”

Meng Wu neatly piled up the chopped firewood: "He will definitely not be able to beat me." ”

Zhu Xiang looked at Meng Wu piled up very neatly, it was like a firewood pile for the gospel of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and his hands were a little itchy.

Ying Xiaozheng also looked at the pyre, his eyes were dark, and he couldn't see what he was thinking.