Chapter 101: Small Building Chain (6)
After Tiangui sat down, he stuffed the peach slice in his hand before into his mouth, and said, "Say, I'll see what you can say." ”
Guo Xiang immediately began to tell the story of Fan Zhongyan and Baiyun Cake.
"It is said that Fan Zhongyan's family was very poor when he was a child......"
How poor is it? The family has no house, no house of their own, so they have to live in a mantra bowl at the foot of Tianping Mountain in Suzhou. The mantra was in disrepair and was horribly desolate. However, although Fan Zhongyan had a difficult life, he did not waver in his ambition to seek knowledge.
There is a saying that the more you don't eat, the bigger your belly gets. Fan Zhongyan only eats porridge three times a day, and his belly is so big that he frightens people, and he can eat thirteen bowls at one meal; even if he eats thirteen bowls, he will be hungry for a while. Every winter night, the belly "cooed" with the sound of his reading. Later, he came up with a way to put the porridge on a plate and freeze it, and then divide the porridge into pieces like tofu, and when he was hungry, he took a piece and ate it. He gave this piece of square cake a good name and called it "Baiyun Cake".
"Wait!" Tiangui directly interrupted Guo Xiang and said suspiciously, "You just said that it was piece by piece?"
Guo Xiang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Can you finish listening first?" Tiangui nodded helplessly and took another piece of peach slices. Guo Xiang continued, and also reached out to take the peach slices to eat, but Tiangui was engrossed, afraid of missing the details, and did not pay attention to Guo Xiang's actions. And Qin Qing'e looked at the two of them, and naturally reached out to take the peach slices to eat.
In this way, one person speaks, two people listen, and three people eat peach slices.
"Then, Fan Zhongyan has a friend named Shi Meiqing......"
My friend Shi Meiqing knew about Fan Zhongyan's situation and was deeply moved, so she personally prepared good wine and food to visit him. But Fan Zhongyan saw Shi Meiqing and said, "I can't eat this wine and food." Shi Meiqing asked Fan Zhongyan why, and Fan said: "This wine and food are not worse than arsenic, you are harming me." Shi Meiqing was stupid when she heard this, she couldn't figure it out, and said, "I'm sincerely here to help you, how can I say it's harming you?"
Fan Zhongyan said: "I am now used to eating this kind of 'white cloud cake', and my life is quite passable." If I eat your good wine and good food today, then tomorrow I will eat 'Baiyun Cake', my tongue will not obey the call, and then I will not feel distressed? As soon as I feel the distress of life, I will be distracted and have no intention of studying. Isn't that hurting me, you think?"
Shi Meiqing listened to Fan Zhongyan's words, and was amazed and admired, and after going back, she asked someone to use glutinous rice flour to make a square cake modeled after Fan Zhongyan's "Baiyun Cake", and sent it every day until Fan Zhongyan lifted it.
It is said that this is the origin of the "white cloud cake" in Jiangsu.
"It's over?" Tiangui asked with a glare.
Guo Xiang nodded and said, "Yes." Finished. ”
Tiangui looked angry, slapped the table and scolded angrily: "You are fooling me, aren't you Fang in the end?"
Guo Xiang smiled and explained: "I'm done talking, I'm done eating." ”
"Finished eating?" Tiangui reacted at this time, looked down, gasped, and exclaimed: "I see, such a long speech, it's like filling the number of words in a novel for a long time, you are just for my peach slices!"
Guo Xiang first tilted his head, then bowed to Tiangui, looked up at Tiangui and smiled: "But to be honest, I have to admit now that this Ruilanzhai peach slices are really delicious!"
Tiangui held his head in his hands, pushed back step by step, and said unwillingly: "That's because it's delicious!
Guo Xiang restrained his smile, suddenly looked at Tiangui with a serious face, and said, "Do you think I really told you this story of Fan Zhongyan just to eat this peach slice?"
"Isn't it?" Qin Qing'e and Tiangui said in unison, staring at Guo Xiang. In the eyes of both people, there is a look of you don't lie to me.
Guo Xiang scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Do I look like such a greedy person?"
Qin Qing'e and Tiangui glanced at each other and nodded at Guo Xiang. "You are!"
"This ......" Guo Xiang's big eyes rolled and said, "Didn't you find that Baiyun cake and peach slice cake have one thing in common?"
Tiangui raised his head and thought about it, stared at Guo Xiang with disdain and said, "Don't say anything, these two are cakes." ”
Guo Xiang glanced at Tiangui directly and said, "Superficial...... What I want to say is that although these two kinds of cakes are cut into squares and slices, their main ingredients are glutinous rice. ”
Tiangui sighed and sat down directly, with an indifferent expression. "I'm not going to talk nonsense with you, most of the pastries are glutinous rice as the main ingredient, I want you to talk about it...... Forget it, you've eaten all anyway, and it's in vain for me to reason with you. ”
"Don't, the key is not glutinous rice!" Tiangui didn't want to pay attention to Guo Xiang, but Guo Xiang was energetic, and stood up and said: "When you told the story of Du Fu just now, did you first say that Du Fu had stomach problems. ”
Tiangui ignored Guo Xiang, but Qin Qing'e nodded. Seeing Qin Qing'e responding to herself, Guo Xiang continued to speak.
"Here's the problem, you don't know how to heal, so you probably don't know. ”
Tiangui originally didn't plan to pay attention to Guo Xiang anymore, but when he heard Guo Xiang talk about medical skills, he couldn't help but read softly: "Glutinous rice is warm and sweet, can warm the spleen and stomach, and nourish the middle qi." The body is weak, isn't it just right to eat some warm supplements? ”
"Yo, do you know how to heal?" Guo Xiang laughed, thinking that he just said that he was no longer theoretical, and he would break the gong in just one sentence, and your concentration was too poor.
"A little bit of it, a little bit of it. Tiangui still didn't look at Guo Xiang, but he still disdained it in his tone.
"Then it's no wonder......"
"You ......" Tian Gui almost stood up, but he gritted his teeth and did it.
Guo Xiang secretly covered his mouth and smiled, and then continued: "As for me, I unfortunately have studied with a master for more than a year. As for my teacher, he told me that glutinous rice should not be eaten if you have stomach problems. ”
"Hmph, I see that barefoot doctor of yours, who doesn't know where, would say such a thing. Tiangui sneered.
When Guo Xiang heard this, he was also a little annoyed, and said hurriedly: "You can say that I can't do it, but my teacher, that is famous in the rivers and lakes, you apologize to my teacher." ”
"Hmph, I'd like to hear about the name of the Venerable Master!"
"Then you have to listen well, my teacher is the famous Medicine Buddha!" Guo Xiang said proudly.
When Qin Qing'e heard this, she thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't think of hearing it. Tiangui snorted directly: "I'm sorry, I haven't heard of it!"
"Hey, haven't you heard of it? You're not a martial arts person, so you don't know. My master said that he was famous in the rivers and lakes more than ten years ago, and he was very famous.
Tiangui looked at Qin Qing'e and asked, "Do you know?" Guo Xiang also looked at Qin Qing'e, Qin Qing'e was stunned for a moment, and shook her head helplessly.
"Huh?" Guo Xiang was stupid, when he was in Shaolin Temple, Zhijin insisted that Guo Xiang learn medical skills with him, and Guo Xiang had no interest in learning at that time. But Zhijin likes Guo Xiang too much, in order to let Guo Xiang study medicine with himself, he frantically brags about his fame back then, and the title of Medicine Buddha is really what Zhijin said in a hurry at that time.
"Master Zhijin of Shaolin Temple, haven't you heard of it?" Guo Xiang said this, Qin Qing'e hurriedly said: "Master Zhijin, have you heard of it......!"
Over there, Tiangui laughed directly, with a sneer. "The apprentice of the Shaolin Temple is a woman! Are you really an idiot for us?"
Guo Xiang was anxious and shouted, "What I said is the truth." If I lie, I'll thunder five times a day. ”