Chapter Forty-Seven: The Gluttonous Feast

The rich aroma emanating from the pot was like smoke curling from the pot, gradually drifting away, and the hunting dogs led by Liu Bei also barked restlessly because of the bloody smell of the wild boars slaughtered by Gongsun Zhan.

Liu Bei: "It's so fragrant! How does Hanwen cook it?" Liu Bei and Lu Zhi had already entered the table, chatting casually about today's harvest at the moment.

He Hanwen: "Brother Xuande, teacher, Hanwen has a unique cooking method, which is different from ordinary things. Hanwen has studied the Medicinal Sutra since he was a child and has learned many strange flowers and plants. Some of these plants and trees can only be used for profanity, but there are also those who can be used for medicine or edible. He Hanwen sprinkled some of the powder stored in the bamboo tube into the pot and stirred it clockwise one at a time.

Lu Zhi: "Is there anything here?" What is the cause of the strange fragrance in the pot?" Lu Zhi was also quite interested.

He Hanwen saw that Lu Zhi also had questions, and Gongsun Zhan didn't completely deal with the wild boar, so he said: "Yes." The powder in this barrel is made by grinding herbs. There is no record of this herb in the medicine scriptures, and Hanwen also obtained it by chance, and it took four months to successfully cultivate it. Hanwen called it "flowing clouds". Liuyun likes yin but is hot, the appearance is like an ear of wheat, but the ear is milky white. Liuyun has a bitter feeling in the direct entrance, but if you peel off the shell, only take the kernel and grind it into powder, and then cook it over high heat, it has a strange aroma. ”

After speaking, He Hanwen pointed to the bamboo tube next to him, Liu Deran immediately stepped forward to pick it up, and then gave it to Lu Zhi, Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan one by one.

Liu Bei was not very interested—he was just concerned about the taste, but Lu Zhi seemed to be quite interested, not only did he take out some, dipped a little with his finger, studied it carefully, and asked many about the characteristics of this plant, and then asked, "Does Hanwen intend to cultivate the Medicine Sutra?"

He Hanwen replied: "If this is not the intention, this is Hanwen's pastime." ”

Lu Zhi listened thoughtfully, and then asked, "How is this medicine administered?"

He Hanwen replied: "Take a little liuyun, use it with honeysuckle and coptis chinensis, it can remove dampness; bake and grind it to remove water, and then boil it into glue with donkey skin, and apply it to the sores dryly, which can speed up the wound healing and don't worry about thickening; and take it together with hot soup to get rid of wind chill and relieve head wind." ”

Lu Zhi listened to He Hanwen one by one, then nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Hanwen is free, he can make a book, which is called "Rare Grass Strange Record", what is it?"

He Hanwen immediately threw the spoon into the pot when he heard this, saluted in a proper manner, and then said: "Hanwen has made this book!"

Lu Zhi: "You can send it to me for a look." ”

He Hanwen: "Bring the book and send it to the teacher Yazheng." ”

After chatting for a while, Gongsun Chan finally skinned the wild boar and cramped, and the internal organs and various parts of the meat were all divided. He Hanwen selected the pork ribs, washed them, carried the blood water, then poured out the rice wine, spread it evenly, and finally threw it into the pot.

Not long after the ribs are in the water, bubbles are immediately stirring in the pan. He Hanwen threw the unwanted entrails to the hunting dogs, and then carefully selected them in good condition, cut them open from the middle, and smeared them with salt and pickled them. The pot was already boiling, and some pickled things immediately surfaced, swirling along the whirlpool stirred by He Hanwen. Ho Hanwen carefully skimmed them out along the edge from the opposite direction, then covered the pot and waited for it to cook through.

After finishing the cooked food, he immediately lit a fire, brought a cleaned rock, and roasted it on top of the fire.

The crowd had never seen such a way of cooking, so they asked questions. He Hanwen didn't explain, just said that it was enough to wait and see.

He cut the tenderloin and pork belly into thin slices, bundled them with artemisia, sprinkled them with salt, and pasted them on a stone.

The firewood burned the stones crackling, and the roasted meat on the stones was bubbling with oil. Since the pork belly was underneath, the fat flowed down the stones, dripping into the flames from time to time, and the flames immediately shot out flames, licking and licking the tenderloin on the surface.

After a while, He Hanwen put out the fire. It used a knife to carefully hang the meat that had stuck to the stone, leaving the charred part on the surface of the stone, while the rest of the meat had completely fused with the tenderloin on it.

I don't know if I was attracted by the smell of barbecue or after a long day of hunger, maybe both. All the people, after getting their part, did not care much about it at all, and feasted on it.

Gongsun Chan praised while eating the meat: "It's wonderful! Hanwen is always full of surprises. Refresh!"

Liu Deran also helped on the side: "It makes people's appetite move!"

Liu Bei: "I seconded it." ”

As for Lu Zhi, he relied on his identity and did not speak, but it seemed that he was quite satisfied.

The wine was not yet finished, but the meat was gone. However, at this time, the food in the cauldron had also been cooked, and He Hanwen served a large bowl of broth to everyone, and put the ribs on a plate and sent them to everyone.

He Hanwen: "This soup warms the stomach and gets greasy, you can drink it first." ”

The broth was a little hot, and Gongsun Chan only took a small sip first, but after the taste was over, he drank it in a big gulp, and he didn't care about it at all. Liu Bei laughed when he saw it, got up and served him another bowl.

Since He Hanwen left Luoyang, he has been running all the way, basically gnawing on dry food. At that time, there was a famine, and all parts of the country were affected, so it was good to have food to eat, how could there be hot rice to satisfy the stomach? As for coming to Zhuozhou to settle down, it was not a few days, so today's feast was not exciting, so I sang some Yuefu poems, Liu Bei and Liu Deran helped to beat the beat, and everyone was drunk.

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After He Hanwen said goodbye to Lu Zhi, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Deran, Liu Bei and others, it was almost noon on the second day when he returned to He Mansion.

But before he entered the door, He Hanwen saw Li Shen's outstanding figure falling up and down from the door, jumping three times and jumping on top of He Hanwen's head. He Hanwen had already changed his hunting outfit at Lu Zhi's place, but there was no alcohol on his body at the moment. He gently took Li Shen off the top of his head and put it in his arms, only to see the big cow come to open the door.

Xiaozhu: "The young master is back!"

He Hanwen: "Well, it's returned, Da Niu, this hunting trip has yielded a lot of harvest, do you know how to tann leather?"

Da Niu said yes, He Hanwen told him to deal with it, and told him to handle those beautiful tail feathers carefully, and then send them to his classmates and teachers before entering the house.

Xiaozhu: "Young Master, there is an envoy from Qingtianlou in the main hall, and he has been waiting for a long time. ”

He Hanwen: "Oh, interesting, go check it out with me." ”

Xiaozhu led the way in front, and after a short time came to the main hall, but saw a thin man sitting in the guest seat.

He Hanwen also sat down, and then talked politely with the envoy, only then did he know the envoy's intention.