Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Small Building Series (4)
After listening to the story of Tiangui and Qin Qing'e, Guo Xiang blinked his eyes and asked, "Wait, Du Fu in your story is obviously talking about cloud cake, how did it become cloud cake?"
"You don't understand this, after Du Fu eats the cloud cake, it is quite famous, just like the popular Mai Li Huang, do you know?" Tiangui immediately explained, Guo Xiang nodded again and again when she heard Mai Li Huang, she took it and ate it wherever she was in Zhijin, it was too familiar.
"The wheat millet didn't actually taste like it is now, it was only later that it was improved to this taste. ”
Guo Xiang wanted to say that he knew Zhijin, who invented Mai Liwei, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say it. Here I want to talk about the old monk Xia Zhijin, who only told Guo Xiang that this wheat millet was invented by himself, and he didn't mention that it was the mountain peak that participated in improving the taste, so it became so popular.
It's not that Zhijin wants to monopolize fame and fortune, but he just thinks about his Guo Xiang medical master, and wants to put more gold on his face.
Seeing Guo Xiang nodding, Tiangui continued: "After the cloud cake became popular, there were people in the whole of Sichuan and Shu to make it, but the taste was hugely different, and the quality was uneven. Among them, the peach slice cake of Hezhou Ruilanzhai is the best among them, with a sweet taste, fragrant aroma, dense taste, and the most important thing is that the slicing effort is extremely good. You must know that each piece of peach cake is written as thin as paper, and it cannot be done without more than ten years of cake cutting skills. ”
"Therefore, only Hezhou's cloud cake is called peach chips, and we generally call it Hezhou peach chips directly, just to distinguish it from ordinary cloud cakes. ”
Tiangui said that the head was the Tao, but Guo Xiang frowned. Tiangui looked at it and asked, "What's wrong?"
Guo Xiang raised his head and said: "I suddenly remembered, I have eaten cloud cake, you just said that the cloud cake is cut piece by piece like paper, I remembered." When I was a child, my mom brought me a pastry, and when I opened it, it was boxy, but when I touched it with my hand, I would see that it was piece by piece. ”
Tiangui was stunned, opened the small cardboard box in front of him directly, and spread out the peach cake directly. Guo Xiang looked at it, pointed to the cake and said, "Yes, yes, that's it." Engage in a long time, I have eaten. I thought it was amazing, I remember my mother seemed to say that it was brought to me by a relative in Jiangsu, called Baiyun Cake. Isn't it everywhere in the world, because you blow so hard? ”
After speaking, Guo Xiang twisted his head, with an expression that was completely uninterested. Tiangui was in a hurry now, and pushed the peach cake in front of Guo Xiang, his expression was very excited. Qin Qing'e on the side felt a little wrong at this time, Guo Xiang looked like she was eating a small twist just now, not like a person who would have lost interest in eating, she suddenly remembered something, and secretly covered her mouth and smiled.
"Yes, the so-called "peach slices" may be found in many places in China, but do you know why the most famous one is Hechuan?" Seeing that Guo Xiang didn't even glance at the peach slices he pushed over, Tiangui slapped the table and asked urgently.
"If you hadn't blown it up, to be honest, I had never heard of it before. ”
"You...... You ...... "I can't say all the words of the heavenly noble." "Of course you don't know, I'm going to give you today, why this peach slice can have a separate name! The main material of cloud cake is glutinous rice, and walnuts are only accessories, which are dispensable. However, the real selection of slices should be glutinous rice and walnuts, and on the basis of these two, other dried fruit accessories are added, so the "peach slices" similar to cloud slice cakes cannot be regarded as peach slices in the traditional sense. ”
Hechuan is located at the confluence of the "three rivers" of Jialing River, Qujiang River and Fujiang River, and because of the geographical environment, Hechuan is very suitable for the growth of rice. A good growing environment can produce more high-quality glutinous rice, and the raw materials are of sufficient quality to lay the unique and dense taste of Hechuan peach slices. ”
"The third is the unique formula. Hechuan peach slices have a unique adjunct - aged roses, which give the peach slices an unusual rose aroma. In addition, the glutinous rice used in Hechuan peach slices is of high quality, so the amount of sugar used as a powder bond is relatively low, and this ratio makes the peach slices produced in Hechuan more sweet, soft and glutinous, and not too sweet and greasy. ”
"Du Fu ate all the things that he said were good, coupled with the craftsman spirit of Hezhou people who carefully improved and paid attention to materials, you actually dare to say that this peach slice is nothing remarkable?" Tiangui said excitedly, he had already torn off a piece of peach slice, held it in his hand and shook it vigorously in front of Guo Xiang.
Guo Xiang glanced back at Tiangui at this time, then turned his head with disdain, and asked Qin Qing'e, "Did he accept the money and silver of this peach slice and sell this peach slice so hard?"
Qin Qing'e wanted to laugh at this time, but she still held back her smile and replied truthfully: "Anyway, I think it's delicious, I don't know how high it is compared to other cloud cakes." There is no problem with what he said, as for whether he has received any money...... I think if he has money to collect, he won't have to be a little white face for Xi Murong. ”
Tiangui looked embarrassed, although he was very grateful to Qin Qing'e for helping to correct the name of the peach slices, but there was no need to say the latter sentence.
"What a good thing, what's wrong with me being willing to sell it to him for nothing?" Then, as if holding back a big move, Tiangui said with a proud face: "The most important thing is that Du Fu said okay after eating it, do you have that white cloud cake?"
Guo Xiang was stunned for a moment, Tiangui saw it, his expression was even more arrogant, and his nose was about to be tilted to the sky.
With a "snap", Guo Xiang laughed and said, "Hey, there really is! I didn't even think about it if you didn't say it! My mother told me." ”
Tiangui was stunned, but he didn't expect that the other party's white cloud cake really had a story. whispered: "Who, I'm Du Fu, don't talk about any gods and ghosts, then it's a low grade." ”
Guo Xiang wiped his nose with his thumb and said, "Fan Zhongyan." ”
"Fan Zhongyan?"
Guo Xiang looked at Tiangui's expression and said hurriedly: "Don't say you don't know Fan Zhongyan." ”
Tiangui rolled his eyes and snorted, "Fan Zhongyan, of course I know, the ...... who wrote "The Story of Yueyang Tower"
Guo Xiang slapped the table again, stepped on his chair, and gave a thumbs up. "It's Fan Zhongyan, Fan Wenzhenggong is also ......"
Tiangui seemed to be quite familiar with Fan Zhongyan, because his expression was not as high-flying as just now, but he still didn't admit defeat and said: "Although Fan Wenzhenggong is also a powerful character, but ...... I, Du Fu, am known as the poet saint! Together with Li Bai and the poet immortal Li Taibai, I am collectively called the "Li Du" of the Tang Dynasty! Even if Fan Wenzhenggong sees me Du Shisheng, he has to bow and say goodbye to his predecessors. ”
When Guo Xiang heard this, he scolded in his heart: "I'll rub it, it's a shame that you can say such a thing, these two people are hundreds of years apart, and it's hell to see it." However, if you really want to say that the evaluation of the two of them in later generations, Fan Zhongyan is still not as good as Du Fu after all. And the most terrible thing is that even Li Bai was pulled out, Li Bai's reputation in later generations is top-notch, and there is no one. How do you fight back?
Tiangui saw Guo Xiang's hesitant expression, and immediately increased his firepower to continue to output. "The poet saint nominated together with the poet immortal Li Taibai?"
Guo Xiang looked at Tiangui's arrogant face, and his heart was so angry that he couldn't wait to punch Tiangui directly in the face. But I still held my breath. Suddenly, Guo Xiang's little head flashed, and he laughed.
Tiangui saw that Guo Xiang suddenly laughed, shrank back in fright, and asked in a low voice: "What are you doing?
"Hey, hey, where, the gentleman doesn't move his mouth, am I that kind of person?"
Tiangui rolled his eyes, thinking that the person who drew his sword just now didn't know who it was.
"What did you just say Li Du?" asked Guo Xiangthief with a smile.
Tiangui was beating a drum in his heart, but he still replied: "Tang Li Du, why don't you know?"
Guo Xiang nodded, clasped his hands into fists and bowed to the top, his expression became very serious: "Li Du, everyone, can I not know? I also admire these two very much." ”
"Then you ......"
"But, as you said, Tang Li Du. Although Li Du and the others are really powerful, I, Fan Wenzhenggong, am born in the Great Song Dynasty. You use the poets of the previous dynasty to suppress my Wen Zhenggong of the Great Song Dynasty? Don't you think your behavior is very inferior?"
"The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy. I, Fan Wenzhenggong, this deep love for my Great Song Dynasty, is it really not as good as Li Du of the Tang Dynasty?"
At this time, Qin Qing'e on the side really couldn't help it, she didn't expect Guo Xiang to be so sophistry, buried her head in her hand to cover her face, and laughed.
Tiangui was like being struck by lightning, stunned and didn't move.