Xiao Qi is a black and gray tanuki slave, that is, the Chinese raccoon cat, its ancestors, is a native cat, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States began to catch rats.The cat master was as arrogant as two thousand years later, and he didn't pay attention to Ren Hong, but just yawned lazily, stood up, walked to the edge with small steps, jumped lightly, and didn't know which gap he jumped into.Ren Hong scolded with a smile: "Sooner or later, throw out this raccoon slave who is not good at catching mice." ”Luo Xiaopu also gritted his teeth: "I have long wanted to stew it, but the cat meat is not delicious!"
”said so, but the one who secretly brought food to the raccoon slave on weekdays was not Luo Xiaopu?
Don't look at him who is five big and three thick, with a full beard, and he smiles happily when he feeds the cat.This combination of cats and dogs is really interesting.Ren Hong didn't expose it, and continued to walk forward, uncovering the wooden lid of the clay jar all the way, and inside was unhulled millet, millet, wheat, mushroom and other grains, which were full.In the five grains of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the rice mainly produced in the south, the hanging springs were all in place, adding up to more than 100 stones, which was equivalent to 3,000 kilograms, enough for a delegation of hundreds of people to eat for a month.Ren Hong is most concerned about the reserves of one of them: "I remember that the last time the grain was registered in the warehouse, there were still a lot of Lemai?
”Luo Xiaogou said: "There are still thirty stones, which is too much." ”Raia is wheat, although it is also one of the five grains, but it has never been treated well by the people of the Central Plains.Because the surface of wheat is coated with a layer of bran, when cooking grains, it is very hard and rough, and it is easy to bloate the stomach, and even food poisoning due to the germination of wheat by moisture, which is far less safe and delicious than using millet and rice.Therefore, from a very early age, wheat was the ration of the poor, and some aristocratic officials even took eating wheat rice during mourning as simple and filial piety, but by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the situation changed.Because the cultivation of winter wheat is ripe, planted in autumn and harvested in the following summer, it can relieve the poor farmers who are not in need of green and yellow crops and prevent them from dying of famine and starvation, and is considered a good crop for emergency relief.Decades ago, the great Confucian Dong Zhongshu also wrote a beggar envoy to Guanzhong to plant wheat, and then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty let Dasi Nong take the lead and popularized the cultivation of wheat in Guanzhong.Coupled with the hardiness of wheat, under the auspices of a sou commander named "Zhao Guo", the newly opened Hexi Corridor was also widely cultivated, second only to millet in area.Even so, wheat, as a "coarse grain", has not yet shaken off its position as the last of the five grains, and in terms of price, it is a grade lower than other grains, and the only thing that is cheaper than it is beans, which are often eaten by livestock.But Ren Hong liked this large amount of wheat, which was full and cheap, and patted the big clay jar containing wheat and said: "Please also ask Chef Luo to take 5 stones of wheat out and grind them all!"
”Next to the granary is the area where the grain is processed: a row of mortars, wooden pestles, and stone mortars are used to hull and remove the grain.There are also a few stepping on them with their feet, and thankfully, since this thing has appeared in the Han Dynasty, there is no need for Ren Hong to invent it.Rice is a boring and tiring job, and it is generally done by prisoners and reworkers.People are divided into three, six, nine and so on, the same is true for rice, which is divided into four levels according to the difference in pounding fine and coarse, the best rice is called royal rice, and the rest are barnyard bài rice, 粲càn rice, and 粝米, which are provided to travelers of different levels.In addition, there are two large stone mills, which are said to have been invented by Luban for a long time, although they were originally used to grind wheat, but they were not widely spread.It wasn't until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty planted wheat on a large scale in Guanzhong, and the common people couldn't do anything about the wheat rice that was piled up in granaries, but it was hard to chew, so the stone mill entered every household.The food made of wheat noodles is called "cake" by the Han people: boiling it with water in a kettle is called "soup cake", and steaming it with retort zèng is called "steamed cake", which is often sold in Dunhuangfang City.There are also fried and water rubbed balls into the mouth, similar to the Tibetan tsamba znba in later generations, called "糒" bèi, often used as a military food reserve.There are many types, but at the moment, because the flour is coarse and the method is monotonous, the taste is not flattering, and it is necessary to face the deep-rooted Chinese grain food tradition.Therefore, the pasta is still just a concubine on the case, and it can't shake the main room seat of all kinds of rice grains.However, the stone mill of Hanging Springs was transformed by Ren Hong: the original quaint pit-like grinding teeth were adjusted by him to the eight-zone oblique grinding teeth common in the northern stone mills of later generations.Because of the proper density and orderly arrangement, the efficiency and quality of grinding noodles are greatly improved, and the wheat noodles produced are much more delicate than those in other places.At the other end of the East Kitchen Courtyard, the chef Xia Dingmao had already used ready-made wheat noodles, and began to knead the noodles with water, which was two kilometers away from the Hanging Spring Spring Water, which was kept in the water tank after being called, clear and cold, and into the yellow noodles that were not fine, and then beat an egg into it.Xia Dingmao never washed his hands before cooking in the past, but recently listened to Ren Hong's words and changed this old problem.I saw that the yellow dough was kneaded and deformed under his strong hands, and finally slapped into a large flat dough and placed in a clay pot.Seeing Ren Hong coming, Xia Weng asked, "Gentleman, do you want to die or make a face?"
”"Just a little hair."
Xia Dingmao was a little curious: "What does the gentleman want the old servant to eat?"
”Ren Hong smiled but didn't answer, and Xia Dingmao began to guess one by one: "Donkey meat yellow noodles?"
”"Hu Yang stewed cakes?""
That's not right, could it be a fish roe?"
Xia Dingmao ordered, are two thousand years after Dunhuang snacks, under the guidance of Ren Hong, basically made in the kitchen of Hanging Spring, relying on a wok, this variety of food, Hanging Spring can be widely known in the county within half a year.Compared with the brown rice under the miso in this year, it is indeed too delicious, so that Xu Fengde, who has always been indisputable with the world, has the courage to compete for the title of the first place in the county.Ren Hong smiled: "I haven't done it before, as for what it is, Xia Weng will know later, but I still need something that can add color to it" As he was talking, a call came from the door of the hanging spring."
Ren Jun!
I bought the things you want from the county and city!
”Ren Hong went out and happened to see Lu Duoyu driving an old horse-drawn square van and stopping outside the Hanging Spring.Lu Duohuang took leave yesterday evening and went to Xiaogu County, went home to visit his mother, sent the letter and clothes to his younger brother, and helped Ren Hong buy something by the way.After he got out of the car, he picked up a few small bags in the carriage with both hands and carefully handed them to Ren Hong."
I haven't seen this thing all over the county and city, and sure enough, as Ren Jun said, you can only find it in the place where the medicinal materials are sold."
The color of these small bags is yellow-brown, and as for their material, it is fine and tough, like linen, but it is not linen.That's right, this is theoretically the paper that will not be invented by Cai Lun until more than 100 years later in the Eastern Han Dynasty!
A few paper bags used to hold items appeared in front of Ren Hong like this, not only that, but there were also two words written on them with a brush: not cannibalism.It's "flax"!
Ren Hong was not surprised that paper appeared in this era.All sit down, all sit down, what's so strange about this, don't look at their hanging springs are just a side plug station, two thousand years later, but it is the discovery of the earliest paper book in China!
In the room where the slips were specially stored, when Ren Hong was sorting out the papers, he turned out several pieces of hemp paper, and a lot of words were written on them.The ironclad evidence shows that Cai Lun only improved the papermaking technique, and before that, at least since the Jing period, rough hemp paper appeared in Guanzhong, which was called Baqiao paper in later generations, and the Han people called it "Hejian tí".There is also a lot of paper in Dunhuang County, and Ren Hong also inquired about its source, and found that most of it came from the weaving room of the government to weave silk and linen, where a large number of needles and threads and rag corners were produced every day.In order not to waste it, an unknown craftsman chopped them, steamed them, and pounded them to make the first piece of paper and invented it, but no one remembered his name.Because of the rough texture, these ancient papers are not very suitable for writing, and are more used to wrap fine items, and there are many in the East Kitchen, on which aconite, fine spice, etc., are obviously used to wrap medicinal materials.The packs in his hand are no exception, what Ren Hong really needs is flax wrapped in a paper ball.Ren Hong gently opened the paper bag, which was filled with flat and fine black particles.That's right, it's really the best black sesame seeds.This thing is a typical alien species, and it is said that it was brought back from Dawan when Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions.Xia Dingmao also came out, and was a little surprised when he saw Hu Ma: "The gentleman wants to decoct the medicine?"
”Since Zhang Qian's return, the Han people like to mention sesame seeds, but decades have passed, this thing is still not regarded as food, but first as a medicinal material: poor Ren Hong just came to the Han Dynasty, was poured a lot of sesame soup by the doctor, it is said to be able to replenish the five inside, benefit qi, grow muscles, and fill the marrow brain.Southern black sesame paste Ren Hong likes it very much, but the taste of sesame soup is really not flattering.Ren Hong explained: "It's not as medicine, but to sprinkle it on the food that will be made later, it will be more fragrant!"
”Xia Dingmao's mind still didn't turn around: "What does the gentleman want to do, he has to add medicine as a guide!"
”Ren Hong had no choice but to uncover the mystery: "Naan." ”"Grilled naan!"