Chapter 13 Pork and Tea
When Wen Fei said this, he suddenly remembered, isn't this Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo in Henan? This Henan people love to eat noodles, but they are quite famous in later generations. Although there is evidence that wheat feeds people more than rice. But as a stomach that is used to eating rice, I still can't eat that pasta often......
Forget it, too lazy to say, Wen Fei said: "The world has all kinds of flavors, and only rice is the most nourishing." I don't care what you like to eat, but I want to eat rice!"
Jiang Fan knew that he would be wrong, it turned out that it was not Wen Fei who thought that he ate too much flour. Wen Fei has the identity of an immortal, speaking of this, the most authoritative, then Jiang Fan listened to it and asked cautiously: "Immortal Master, is this pork also more nutritious than mutton?"
Wen Fei nodded hurriedly and said, "That's nature!"
"But, this pork is too sassy. Su Xian has a poem: Huangzhou is good pork, and the price is as cheap as dirt. The noble man refuses to eat, and the poor man does not understand how to cook. Get up in the morning and make two bowls, so full that you don't care. This pork is too sassy, and it can only be cooked in water according to the practice of Dongpo meat, so that the smell can be removed. Other methods, but they can't be eaten!" Jiang Fan said suspiciously.
Wen Fei understands now, there must be some misunderstanding in this. It's not this Jiang Fan, desperately trying to pit his own money. However, what he wondered about was that the pork eaten in modern times was not the same as the pork in the Northern Song Dynasty? Why did Jiang Fan always call this pork too sassy?
Soon, he sent someone to buy a pound of pork and brought it back with a straw rope. Put it on the tip of your nose and smell it, and sure enough, it is a fishy smell. Wen Fei's face changed color, threw away the pork, and shouted: "Dead pork, it turned out to be dead pork!" Wen Fei still remembered buying sick and dead pork when he was a child, so he asked.
The man who went to buy pork said suspiciously: "This meat must be dead pork." If you don't kill this pig, how can you cut the meat?"
"I mean, this pig must have died of disease, otherwise it would have smelled like this. ”
But the man laughed and said, "The pork all over the world tastes like this, is it that they all die of illness?" It's that the pork is so dirty that no one wants to eat it. ”
Wen Fei was strange, his heart said, could it be that the pork of two planes and planes was really not a kind of pig?
When I went back in the future, I consulted an expert and found out that none of the pigs at this time had been gelding. That's why there is a smell of turmoil, and the later boars are all gelding, except for the breeding pigs.
After pestering with the housekeeper for a long time, I finally reduced the expenses to twenty per day. Wen Fei finally knew that if he wanted to live in such a big house, the pressure was quite heavy. It seems that I really have to find a way to make money!
Thinking that so many people outside who came to see him were either high-ranking officials or wealthy households, ordinary people would definitely not be able to squeeze in to come with them. Wen Fei said ruthlessly: "Since these people have come to visit the Immortal Master, they naturally have to pay money to celebrate the Immortal Master's housewarming. See you all!"
Wen Fei is lazy and hates trouble. So there are so many people blocked outside, I didn't even want to see it. At this moment, I thought that I had such a lot of survival pressure, and I would have to spend a year's salary on others every day, so I could only grit my teeth and think about making a fortune on those people.
The first time he came, he was taken aback by Wen Fei, this is a standard royal relative, and it is the father of the current queen, that is, Song Huizong's Taishan old father-in-law, Zheng Shen, the Duke of Yiguo.
The ancients were born very early, and the current queen is only in her twenties, and this Zheng Guozhang is at most forty or fifty years old, not at all the seventy and eighty years old that Wen Fei imagined at the beginning.
Wen Fei met in the main hall, even if it was the emperor's father-in-law, but Wen Fei was not in a good mood, and he didn't plan to give a good face. sat on the chair with a big prick and didn't lift his buttocks, let alone go out to greet him.
Zheng Shen said in his heart: This is what it looks like to be a Taoist master, unlike those Taoist priests who claim to be Taoist masters, but in fact, they are just some people who tend to be inflammatory, and they are very flattering when they see me.
With this understanding, Zheng Shen was a little more respectful, and took the lead in saluting: "Good faith Zheng Shen has seen Mr. Demon Auxiliary Dao!"
Seeing that the national abbot put his figure so low, Wen Fei was a little embarrassed. stood up and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Zheng Guozhang...... , please, please ......"
As soon as I sat down, a man came out with a tea tray and served tea. At this time, drinking tea was very different from the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the Song Dynasty drank tea differently from the Tang Dynasty, and changed the boiling tea to the tea, so there was a saying that "the Tang Dynasty boiled the Song point".
In the Tang Dynasty, tea was drunk, and various ingredients were added. Lu Yu opposed the traditional folk habit of adding a large amount of spices when boiling tea, but the sencha method he advocated still retained the habit of adding salt, and the Song Dynasty ordered tea without salt, purely tasting the natural fragrance of tea. Ordering tea is an artistic and technical skill, and the current Japanese matcha tea ceremony is derived from the method of ordering tea that prevailed in the Song Dynasty.
Of course, at this time, tea drinking was the same as in the Tang Dynasty, and tea fighting was popular. If any dignitary does not have a few decent tea masters under his hands, he is embarrassed to go out to meet people. If it weren't for Song Honest's efforts to help him get all the manpower together, Wen Fei would have to laugh and be generous in his hospitality.
Wen Fei was also the first time to see this ancient person drinking tea, and he only felt extremely troublesome. A servant sits on a low table, first roasts the tea leaves, then grinds them into powder, and sifts them into fine ones.
Then put the tea powder into the tea tray, and then add a small amount of boiling water, adjust into a paste. So constantly transporting, blowing, and panning, so that a layer of white waves floats on the tea soup surface, and the ancients called this scene "war snow waves". A qiē appears very quiet and tidy, focused and orderly. Even Zheng Shen sighed: "I didn't expect that there is such a master of tea buckets here as an immortal master!" Then he stopped talking and watched quietly.
Wen Fei is a layman, and he doesn't know what to look at about these tea foams washed up with boiling water. If this man had been thirsty, he would have died of thirst before he had even drunk the tea.
But I don't know that there is a pervert, Song Huizong mentioned in the "Daguan Tea Treatise, Points" that the tea is popular among the aristocracy and scholars, the requirements are very high, and there are seven actions of adding water in the process of ordering tea, which is called the "Seven Soups" tea method.