(2): Katsuka is a magic show.There are many records about the Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty, and the main reference I used when writing this article is "Tokyo Menghualu".Chapter 6 Do You Have Anything to Eat Su Yu is not a person who has no eyesight, and naturally knows that his lover has the strongest affection when he sees each other at first glance, and he hates having someone in the middle.She didn't want to be a nasty person, so when she saw that Su Pu was going to Jiang Xingshou's small building, she found an excuse and said that she would go first, and then go over after shopping by herself.After Su Pu left, the mother brought two men in a green shirt and a white shirt, and pushed them in front of Su Yu as if offering treasures, and said flatteringly: "Little lady, these two are the little ones selected from Lin'an just now, up to composing poems, down to drinking and puffing (1), proficient in everything, you see ......"
Su Yu knows that the people of this dynasty are open, and the status of women has been greatly improved compared with previous generations, and it is very common for women to wear men's clothes to play around like her, mostly for fashion rather than to hide their identity, a bit like today's "boyfriend style".The bustard's eyes are vicious, and she can naturally recognize her as a daughter, so it is not strange to call her "little lady" directly.However, recognizing and recognizing, selling his own man as accurately as selling goods, Su Yu doesn't seem to have a way to accept this.The two men obeyed their mother's words and stepped forward to greet Su Xuan, one green and one white, like the White Lady and Xiaoqing sandwiching Su Xuan, a weak and slender Xu Xian, in the middle.Su Yu had no choice but to shake the small gauze lamp in his hand, stood sideways, and said that he already knew each other in this Langhuan Courtyard, and there was no need for him to serve him.This mother is a human spirit, Su Yu is a raw face, where did she come from, she just doesn't like the two young men in front of her, since this is the case, it is okay.The mother had a slightly cold face, and only said that if Su Yu took a fancy to someone, just come to her, and immediately left with the two men to greet other female guests.Lang Huan Temple is one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, with three floors high and five floors facing each other, each with a flying bridge railing, and light and dark communication.There are small pavilions on the flying bridge, there are huge tortoiseshell lamps hanging high, and the surrounding lintels are lit with red gauze lanterns at night, which has the feeling of the stars arching over the moon, so it is called the Star Picking Pavilion.Beauty is beautiful, but ......
Su Yu slandered in his heart, the road signs look almost easy to get lost!
She had enough shopping, and estimated the time to find the residence of the head of the river to eat the dumplings, and asked the little guy for directions, but the residence of the leaders of the line was all in a separate place, and it was inconvenient for them to lead the way, as long as they crossed the star picking pavilion on the flying bridge and turned left a hundred steps forward.Whether it is this little guy or Su Yu herself, they all overestimate her ability to recognize the way.Su Yu walked back and forth around the pavilions on these similar flying bridges, but he couldn't find the way.The winter night was windy, and the corners of her clothes were vibrating, and it was so cold that she still couldn't find Jiang Xingshou's residence.The problem of low blood sugar in the previous life has not changed even if he has changed his secondary body, Su Yu was a little dazed with hunger, his steps were sluggish, and he floated up in vain, and the white in front of him became blurred.She couldn't help but scold the unreliable Su Pu 10,000 times in her heart, and she knew that it would be good to let her buy something to eat on the street to pad her stomach......
Just as she was thinking, she fell to the ground with the little red plum wisp gold lampball in her hand, but she didn't fall to the ground as she expected - someone held her from behind.She lowered her head and caught a glimpse of a familiar thin cotton white sleeve, and thought it was Su Pu who had come to her.Her feet were weak, and of course she was not angry, so she simply fell down with the strength in his hand, and asked him weakly, "Why did you come to me, for Jiang Xingshou's mouthful of rice balls, you really ......forgot to see it" She leaned on the hand of the person behind her and turned slowly, and when she saw the person's face, half of the angry resentment was left in her mouth - it was not Su Pu.The person in front of him was tall and slender, and even if Su Yu raised his head, he could barely see a thin lip and a beautiful nose.The man lowered his head, as if to look at her.The tortoiseshell lamp on the top of the Star Picking Pavilion is surrounded by a very thin sheepskin carved ornament, and the light is revealed from this, and the white-clothed man bends slightly under the dim yellow lantern, reflecting the light of the Qing Dynasty, handsome and straight, such as the crane forest and jade dew, such as the jade mountain will tilt.The night wind blew away the small lamp ball that Su Yu had dropped, and the lamp ball was lying on the ground, and the candle flame inside rolled up into a small fire.He couldn't help but turn his face to look at the little burning lamp.As soon as he turned his face, the light fell right on his eyes.The amber pupils, as clear as a faint spring, were silent and cold.Su Yu was very close to this person, his vision was blurred, but his sense of smell was unusually sensitive.At that time, people loved incense very much, and everywhere they went, there was a piece of incense.But the man's body was clean and did not smell anything.He was dressed in cold and thin clothes, and his back was straight.The robe was washed white and slightly hard, with a bit of stubborn astringency to the touch.This dissociated him from the frivolous and amorous nature of any prince and grandson in Langhuan Courtyard, including Su Pu.Su Yu's hand was still climbing his sleeve, and ten points of pale pink on his spring-like fingers were printed on the white shirt, dazzling.She noticed that he had no gold flowers on his placket."
This Lang Jun," the feeling of low blood sugar came so fiercely, Su Yu felt that every pore under his armpit and back was breaking out in a cold sweat, and his eyes gradually dispersed, and he couldn't see anything clearly.Feeling his body gradually sliding down weakly, Su Yu licked his lips, his voice was weak, and a thousand words were barely gathered into a short question, "Do you have anything to eat?"
”Xue Ke looked at the woman in front of him silently.After a year, she reappeared in front of him without dispersing.The pomp and circumstance when she went out has always been a rare flamboyance in Tokyo, freshly dressed horses, followed by at least a dozen servants.Why is it that a person is crumbling in this cold wind now?
Xue Ke subconsciously pulled the corners of his mouth, what tricks are he playing this time?
Although the wound on his left arm had healed, it could only maintain a slightly curved curvature and could never be straightened.At this moment, because of the weight of the other party's fall, there is a faint pain.Xue Ke tried to withdraw his hand, but to no avail.She hugged it so tightly like a drowning man grasping a piece of driftwood.He was expressionless, "It's you again, what the hell do you want to do?"
”Su Yu was no longer able to answer his question.Before she finally fainted, she heard someone running from afar, with the sound of whistling wind, hurriedly calling his name, "Uncle Ye, Uncle Ye, you call me easy to find!"
…… This is......
How is her!
What happened to her?......"
The man's voice came and went, eventually screeching, and she passed out in the crook of his arm again.Just like at the gate of Taixue back then, she fell from the sky without saying a word and smashed into his arms.Jiang Xueyin has never seen someone so able to eat.It is said that Jiang Xueyin has never seen it, and Su Pu has never seen Su Xue so able to eat.When Su Pu and Jiang Xueyin heard the news and rushed to bring Su Yu back, her face was pale, her teeth were clenched, and there was a bean-sized cold sweat on her forehead, which startled everyone.The doctor in Langhuan's courtyard pried open Su Yu's teeth and poured down two bowls of syrup water, and she woke up slowly.The first thing Su Yu said after waking up was, I'm so hungry, do you have anything to eat?
Fortunately, although the protagonist of tonight is a rice ball, there are still side dishes on the table, which Jiang Xueyin prepared for Su Pu to accompany the wine, which is light and homely.A plate of deep-fried sheep's head sticks, a plate of crispy braised larvae, a plate of fried kidney flowers with mushrooms, a plate of spicy pheasant nuggets stir-fried with pickled melon and snow mushrooms, a steamed goose paw with slices of ham and bamboo shoots, and a bowl of yellow sprouts boiled on a roast duck rack.The maid was sensible and brought a big bowl of steaming white rice to Su Yu.When people are hungry, their sense of taste becomes very dull, and what is sweet and sour, what is tender and smooth must take a back seat, and eating enough is the first place.At this time, nothing compares to a bowl of white rice.Su Yu picked up the chopsticks, rolled up his sleeves, and filled a bowl of rice into his stomach like a whirlwind, but he didn't feel that it was enough, Jiang Xueyin intimately asked the maid to add another bowl of rice to Su Yu.Drinking soup and eating vegetables with chopsticks is not enjoyable, Su Yu thought about it, and simply soaked the rice upside down in the yellow sprouts and duck soup, and ate the soup and rice with the spicy snow mushrooms.She gave full play to her original expertise as a food blogger, ate quickly, abundantly and cleanly, and finally picked up the bowl and drank the soup at the bottom of the bowl, which made her feel much better.Su Pu looked at his sister's extremely hungry appearance, as if he didn't know Su Yu anymore, and said after a while: "Ah Pu, if I knew that you were hungry like this, I would never stop you." ”After eating, the cold sweat stops, and the hands and feet are energetic, and the pleasure and satisfaction of being full are indescribable.Half an hour later, Su Yu, who had recovered his strength and regained his spirits, held a bowl of hot osmanthus lactose balls and tasted them with a small spoon, just like the two of them who had gobled it just now.Su Yu was a little embarrassed.When people are very hungry, they don't look too good, so she is very ladylike now, to make up for the demeanor she just lost.Su Pu knew that it was because of himself that he made his sister faint, and he wanted to speak, but saw Su Yu glaring at him fiercely.He knew that he was wrong, so he had to smile a little awkwardly.Jiang Xueyin has been in the wind and dust for many years, how can she not see that the two brothers and sisters of the Su family are angry, and she is also responsible for Su Yu's accident tonight.She walked over and said apologetically to Su Yu: "Sister Yu, it was not mine tonight, I distracted Ziyu and neglected you." ”Ziyu is Su Pu's character.Su Yu has always been generous to good-looking people, and he is even more good-tempered to a gentle beauty like Jiang Xingshou.She thought about it, the original body had never been hungry in the princess's mansion before, so even the people around her didn't know that she had this problem, so how could they blame Su Pu.Su Yu had just finished eating, and when she came back to her senses, she felt that something was wrong: before she moved the chopsticks, Su Pujiang and Yinxue did not touch the food on the table, but the wine went down half a pot.Seeing Jiang Xueyin's eyes red when she came over, she didn't look directly at Su Pu, and there were traces of lead powder on her cheeks that were washed away by tears before she had time to make up, and she heard her words "call Ziyu distracted", Su Xue suddenly understood in her heart: her brother Su Pu and Jiang Xingshou were not as lingering and forgetting as she thought, and the two probably quarreled.People are in a rage, and time passes unconsciously.It seems that the demonstrative-like fragrance left by Yuan Biyun on Su Pu really had a demonstrative effect.In this case, Su Pu is a generous little girl, and she doesn't want to blame Su Pu anymore.The atmosphere here was slightly awkward, and I only heard Su Yu say sweetly: "I heard my brother say that the lactose balls made by Sister Jiang are unmatched in Tokyo City, and when I taste it today, it should be true." ”This glutinous rice ball is different from what Su Yu has eaten elsewhere, and it is extremely exquisitely made.The balls are the size of a cherry, with a snow-white skin made of milk and glutinous rice flour, sprinkled with pale yellow osmanthus nectar.When you bite into the filling, you can still taste the whole and crispy red bean grains inside.The most different thing about this glutinous rice ball compared to the sesame rice balls that Su Yu has eaten is that its filling is not too sweet, but the soup with osmanthus nectar is light and sweet.Beef frankincense, Jiangmi incense, tangerine peel incense, red bean incense, osmanthus incense, several fragrances are excellently integrated, and it is not choked or greasy to eat, which shows the intentions of the maker.Jiang Xingshou raised his eyes and smiled at her, "Really, did he really say that?"
”Although it was said to Su Yu, it was said to another person.Su Yu gave Su Pu a look of "I understand, no thanks", and then lowered his head to eat the rice balls obediently.Suddenly, as if Su Yu thought of something, he raised his head and asked Jiang Yinxue, "Sister Jiang, is there a man named Shuye in Langhuan Courtyard?"
He was the one who saved me tonight. ”The author has something to say: (1) Guan Pu: that is, gambling.—————————————————————— Xue Ke: Little lady Su, did you graduate from the porcelain major?
Su Pu: Why don't I know that my sister is a rice bucket?
—————————————————————— hypoglycemia is really scary, the world is spinning, covered in cold sweat, and the feeling of near-death.It's really important to eat three meals a day and eat well.
——————————————————————Chapter 7 Drinking pepper and cypress wine at night, there are many high-rise buildings in Bianjing City, and the girls with strict makeup upstairs sit and talk casually.From time to time, they looked downstairs on the street, and saw that there were Wuling boys and Wang Sun Gongzi riding horses slowly following behind the beautiful woman's incense cart, so they laughed together, thinking that soon there would be slow and romantic lyrics and songs to sing the rhyme between a certain lady and a certain Langjun."
Look, that man!"
One of them patted his companion, "That scholar in a white shirt is so handsome." ”With that, she suddenly covered her mouth with a fan, as if she was annoyed that she was too loud.The women upstairs cast their gazes, and then their affectionate eyes lingered between the man's eyebrows for a long time.When a bold woman saw that the man was about to go away, she bit her lip, took off the silk flower she was wearing on her head, and threw it at the man."
Ah, what a pity!"
The girls shouted softly.Before he could throw it, the silk flower landed on the footsteps of the man, and he didn't seem to see it, and walked straight away.Back at the Taixue Academy, Zhao Ruozhuo let out a sigh of relief, and said with a little puzzlement: "The women in Bianjing are really strange, why do they throw everything at you?"
Those who threw silk flowers are not enough, why are the beaded golden hairpins also thrown over, what if they hit people's heads?
”After that, he found it with sharp eyes, "Uncle Ye, why is the golden flower on your chest gone?"
”Shuye is Xue Ke's cousin.Seeing that the other party's expression was faint, and he didn't care about being hit or losing the golden flower, Zhao Ruozhuo couldn't help but pat his thigh, "Hey, it's a pity!"
”The things in Langhuan Courtyard are really luxurious, and the delicate corsage that is not needed after wearing a hairpin for guests is also a real gilded thing, and it is also very good to make a souvenir.It was the third watch day when I came back from Langhuan Courtyard.It was late at night, and there was still a faint sound of Saisen and Kabuko joking and noisy outside Taixue's schoolhouse.Since the "Yuanyou reform", the dynasty will pass the Ministry of Rites Examination all the tribute students into the Taixue, learn here, stay here, all the costs are borne by the Ministry of Rites, do not have to pay a penny of their own pockets, in order to wait for the spring after a year.These students were called fasters.There are also grades in the fasting life, there are three grades, upper, inner, and outer.Among them, the upper class is the best, and most of the Jinshi in the temple examination are born in this kind of fasting students.The students lingered in the workshop, recruited prostitutes, and the atmosphere was quite prosperous.On weekdays, there are already other fasting students who find their sleep disturbing and report to the warden.But tonight is the Lantern Festival, the biggest festival of the year, and the crowds of people who have been partying all night on the streets have not dispersed, so how can they force the fasting students to go to bed early?
There's nothing to do but have fun right now.Zhao Ruozhuo pushed the cyan clay porcelain bowl in front of him in front of Xue Ke, and said with a smile: "This is what I specially asked for from Jiang Xingshou's small kitchen, and it is said that Jiang Xingshou's osmanthus lactose balls are a must in Langhuan's courtyard."
The first line of the Lang Huan Yuan is hidden in the high pavilion on weekdays, and it is not easy to greet him, and today it is with distinguished guests that he has made this round.If it weren't for the maidservant in her kitchenette being my cousin, how would this extra bowl of balls get our turn?
”After that, he smacked his lips again and said, "If you can see the head of the line in Langhuan Courtyard, then you can really see Tokyo City!"
”Zhao Ruozhuo is twenty-eight this year, a Lingnan person, with purple begonia skin, a wide face and square jaw.He is hearty and informal by nature, and he speaks with a big grin, and he makes no secret of his poor background.He is the same as Xue Ke, and he belongs to the upper class of Taixue.His surname is Zhao, and his family has been related to the royal family for nine generations.It's just that the dynasty has been established for nearly two hundred years, and the royal branches and leaves have also scattered among the people, and Zhao Ruozhuo's family has fallen, and he is counting on him to become a jinshi and revive the family.Xue Ke thought of the little miserable white goose egg face, and couldn't help but sigh, the distinguished guest of Jiang Xingshou, the second daughter of the eldest princess, must be her."
Hmm, it's delicious!"
Zhao Ruozhuo used to calling him the word, "Uncle Night, try it!"
”Xue Ke pushed back the small bowl in front of him, and smiled faintly at his friend: "You finally got it, how can you plunder the beauty." ”Zhao Ruozhuo shook his head and said, "I forgot, you don't like to eat with others." ”After that, I brought this bowl of rice balls back and ate it.Zhao Ruozhuo and Xue Ke live in the same room, so they naturally know Xue Ke's character.Although the lifts in Taixue are all based on the future palace examination, it is rare to be as self-disciplined and clean as Xue Ke.It is said that a gentleman is like jade, but he Xue Shuye is a person made of jade, but he has a heart made of stone.Zhao Ruochu often joked with Xue Ke and said: "If a little lady covets your good looks and marries you, it won't be long before Guining will vomit bitterness with her parents." ”Xue Ke was noncommittal when he heard this.Zhao Ruozhuo laughed and said: "You are living an ascetic life, Zuo is just a good-looking ascetic, which little lady can stand it." ”Among the Taixue, everyone only knew that there was a student of Zhang Duan, a famous Confucian in the south, in this year's move, but they didn't know who this person's surname was.Because Zhao Ruozhuo was close to Xue Ke, he knew that Xue Ke was Zhang Duan's disciple.It turned out that I learned the "Analects" and learned that Confucius praised Yan Hui, "A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink, in the alleys, people are unbearable, and they don't change their pleasures", Zhao Ruozhuo only thought that such a person who eats scoop pulp and self-denial is only available in the Spring and Autumn Period, but he doesn't want to meet a ready-made Yan Hui.Later, after getting along for a long time, Zhao Ruozhuo found that he couldn't see through this young man who was five years younger than himself.Xue Ke is not a complete Confucian student, but more like a disciple of the Mo family.It is true that his appearance is extremely outstanding, but it is not just the kind of "beauty" of the men in Langhuan Courtyard, it is not that simple, there are many other things hidden in his special demeanor alone.Students gather in groups, and there are three categories of these people according to the criteria of family wealth and talent.Naturally, people who have no talent, no money, and rich people will not become fasts, so they don't care.There are not many talented and rich students, and they are the lowest among the students, and although they are rich, it is difficult to gain the respect of others.Talented and wealthy people tend to be arrogant, and most of them like to point fingers and ridicule officials in the DPRK and China, but at the same time, they make friends with powerful people and use Taixue as a way to seek connections.There are the most talented but no money-rich fasting students.These people want to find a good way out for themselves, or they can use their talents to rise to the top among the fasteing students in order to gain the favor of the ministers of the DPRK and China; Either he befriended the chaebol with his long-sleeved dancing and became a wealthy son-in-law.Zhao Ruozhuo selfishly felt that Xue Ke was an exception among these three types of people.There are two things that make Xue Ke famous in Taixue.First, a few days before the test, someone was riding a horse in the street and accidentally injured him.The Xue family was poor, and they couldn't get enough money for treatment for a while, so Xue Ke could only ask the doctor in Taixue to simply treat and bandage and then go to the exam.On the day of the exam, Xue Ke didn't say much, only asked the invigilator Zhigong to ask for the most common paperweight.Zhigong said curiously: "What's the use of paperweights?"
”Xue Ke said: "The wound on the left arm has not healed and cannot heal the exam paper, so please send a paperweight." ”When he spoke, his face was calm and calm, and he did not see anything unusual.The invigilators in Taixue sighed, "It's a pity, and regardless of the pain of a broken arm, even the test paper can't be healed, how to answer?"
”"It can only be said that God does not pretend to pity the Si people, and I am afraid that this move will not be successful.""
But fortunately, he is still very young, and it is not too late to come back in three years."
When other people heard this, some people regretted it as if they were learning, but more people were happy in their hearts, and the Tao was one less opponent.These voices lingered in his ears, and Xue Ke did not react in particular, and the expression on his face was also faint.With his left arm under his sleeve, he raised his eyes and fixed his eyes on the first row of the red head list.After the test, the list will be distributed, and Xue Kezhong will try to top the list.The crowd was in an uproar.Second, the dynasty values scribes, and everyone is proud of having a jinshi in their family, and even Xiaoerlang will sing: "Today's Jinshi Wenkui, his future Shangshu Shilang." ”Naturally, if they have a son, they are encouraged to study more and participate in the scientific examination, and those who do not have a son only hope to recruit a jinshi as a good son-in-law by the Jinming Pond.This trend is extremely popular, and it has even developed to the point that a strong family snatched Jin Shiqiang home on the day of the announcement of the ranking, and the people of the time called it "catching a son-in-law under the list".The prescient wealthy families would contact the poor and high-achieving students in advance, and in exchange for subsidizing their lives with large sums of money, in exchange for these sons and daughters who would marry their own daughters, so that they would protect the family's wealth after becoming officials.This is an upgraded version of "catching a son-in-law under the list", "about a son-in-law before the list".Even Zhao Ruozhuo had several contacts, asking if he was interested in accepting funding, let alone Xue Ke, who would try first.Xue Ke's family is poor, young and without a wife, and he was born with a good skin and a very good demeanor, and there is an endless stream of people who "ask for a son-in-law", but they are all rejected by Xue Ke.Among the Taixue, everyone said that Xue Keqing, who came from Linchuan, was withdrawn and rarely interacted with people, and only Zhao Ruozhuo, who was a little friendly with him, was hearty by nature.Outside the Taixue Gate that day, Xue Ke was knocked down by the people on the horse, and only Zhao Ruozhuo rushed out to help him when he heard the sound.The candle in the school building in front of me had been burning for a long time, and the wick inside had not been cut, so the flame jumped and flickered.The pepper and cypress wine in front of Xue Ke is fragrant, which can dispel miasma and plague, and most importantly, it is a cheap and good thing that can warm the body.A cup slowly enters the throat, and under the effect of alcohol and the spicy smell of pepper and cypress, it can slightly relieve the pain of pinprick in the left arm of Shicai in the cold wind.The medical officer in Taixue said that the arm was too badly damaged to be completely healed.The medical officer had a look of pity in his eyes, and said suddenly: "Xue Langjun, if you write and read books on weekdays, it is just fine, if you want to draw a bow and shoot arrows, it is impossible." ”Zhao Ruozhuo saw that Xue Ke's face was not good, so he changed the topic and asked, "Is there still no news of the person you are looking for in Langhuan Courtyard?"
”Xue Ke closed his eyes and endured the continuous pinprick pain.He shook his head and said, "No." ”It is a very common thing for too many students to travel to prostitution, Zhao Ruozhuo had the intention to come to Bianjing to see the world, and wanted to travel with Xue Ke to go to the fence, but he couldn't do it for a long time.In the end, Zhao Ruo was forced to provoke him, and deliberately said with bad intentions: "Brother Xue, don't you like women?"
I heard that there are also men in Langhuan Courtyard. ”But naturally, in the face of Xue Ke, the agitation method is useless.However, a few days ago, Xue Ke suddenly relented and agreed to go to Langhuan Courtyard with Zhao Ruozhuo.Zhao Ruozhuo was surprised at the time, and he didn't know why Xue Ke suddenly changed his mind and changed his mind.He was surprised at first, then smiled and boldly guessed: "Isn't it......
Isn't it that the head of the industry has taken a fancy to Brother Xue and is willing to promise him a private pillow?
”This kind of thing is not common in a small place like his hometown, but it is not uncommon in the elegant Bianjing, not to mention that the other party is Xue Ke, which makes this conjecture more convincing.Xue Ke could have followed Zhao Ruozhuo's words casually, but he didn't do so.Facing the only friend in Bianjing City who could make friends, Xue Ke paused slightly.No matter how quiet a person is, the rivers and seas in his heart must have a place to flow.Xue Ke didn't want to hide Zhao Ruozhuo, so he only briefly explained the reason."
I was a widow, and my family suffered a change before I was born, and after my grandfather and father died, my mother fled to the south under the escort of a general surnamed Qin.When I was a teenager, my mother remarried, and it was not good for Uncle Qin to continue to follow my mother, so he said goodbye to us and came to Bianliang.After my mother passed away, there were still many things in the family that were not clear.That Uncle Qin is the only one who knows about my family's past, so I have only inquired about his whereabouts several times.I heard that he was doing work in Langhuan Courtyard, and he went there just to find him. ”Zhao Ruozhuo originally thought that Xue Ke had a noble temperament, not like an ordinary family, not a concubine of a family, and a son of a side branch of a declining clan.Unexpectedly, Xue Ke said this, his life experience was even more miserable than he imagined, which couldn't help but make Zhao Ruozhuo admire the person in front of him more.Chapter 8 Chestnut Cake and Silver Knife After the first month, it has been a few days since the eldest princess Kangyang and her concubines Su Zhang and Su Kui returned from the palace.When the eldest brother and second sister of the Su family saw their parents come back, they had two well-behaved smiling faces.Su Yu was taken by Su Pu as a disguise, and went to Langhuan Courtyard every day in January.The first month was almost over, and Su Yu was already familiar enough to walk to the entrance of Nanwazi Street and close his eyes to the extent that he could walk to the gate of Langhuan Courtyard.Who would have thought that she was a shop blogger in her previous life, and the most familiar place in her life was actually Goolan in Tokyo.Su Pu naturally went to find Jiang Yin and Xue Jiang.As for Su Yu, it's not that he has any other thoughts, most of it is just because he likes the feeling of freedom among the people, and the atmosphere where everyone can speak freely without scruples.There is also a little bit of selfishness, Su Yu didn't tell his brother, nor did he tell Jiang Yinxue.The man who saved her never showed up again.This made her wonder if she was really dizzy and hallucinated that night.But no matter why they came, the two of them were very generous, and the mother in the courtyard saw the two of them as if she had seen a bodhisattva with money all over her body, and she smiled so much that she bent over and closed her mouth, naturally she was meticulous and served their brother and sister comfortably.And at this moment, when the father and mother went home, the eldest son and the second girl of the princess's mansion were afraid that they would ask about their whereabouts in the near future, so they were extremely filial and intimate in front of Kang Yang and Su Zhang.Su Pu was about to return to Huaizhou in the near future, and Kang Yang was reluctant, so he spent more time with his mother.In Su Zhang's study, Su Yu helped his father sort out and copy the book "Bianjing Food List" that the official family requested.This "Food List" is a book prepared for next year's big celebration, with a total of 10 volumes, namely Tokyo Bianliang, Xijing Luoyang, Nanjing Yingtian, plus the food and travel guide of Jiankang and Lin'an in the south.Intending to emulate the opening up scene of the Tang Dynasty, the present day commissioned officials from all over the world to compile this set of guidelines as a guide for ordinary people and foreign merchants.Su Zhang is a colt and a good friend of Jinshang, and he has always been quite familiar with this elegant eating and drinking, so this task fell to him as a matter of course.At that time, I thought it was a simple task to just collect and visit the shops worth eating and playing in Tokyo.Who knew that it was not easy to write, but found that it was not easy to do.The volume of "Bianjing" is intended to serve as an example for the compilers of the other three places, so how to formulate a common criterion for the book that can be applied to various places is the first difficulty.Su Zhang and the rest of the compilers originally envisioned a division according to the five flavors of "sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty".Regardless of whether it is a store, a restaurant, or a restaurant, all of them only reported three signature dishes for selection, and they were compiled into the book according to taste, but when they were really implemented, they found that there was a problem with the division of these five flavors.Regardless of the taste of each place, everyone has their own taste, the northerners like to eat sweet, and the southerners like to eat salty (1), according to the standard of five flavors, the number of dishes selected in the bibliography is very uneven, and the book is ugly.Besides, the cuisine of the national dynasty is mostly complex taste, and dishes with sweet and sour, salty and spicy, sour and salty and other tastes cannot be classified.Third, some shops are only famous for one signature dish, and if they can't make up three dishes to choose from, they can only discard them, which is a pity.Su Yu was originally a waiter, but she saw her father meditating hard and not using her pen for a long time, so she ran to the side to be lazy.The work of grinding ink was handed over to the boy Ah Yan, who was waiting in his father's study, to do it, and he was drinking tea and reading the script by himself, which was not very comfortable.The most satisfying thing is that Ah Qiao knew that Su Yu was detained here early in the morning, for fear that his girl would not have enough breakfast, so he asked the kitchen to make a plate of Shiman chestnut cake and send it.This chestnut cake is not difficult to make, but in this late winter and early spring, it is difficult to find such chestnuts.Fortunately, last autumn, Su Yu asked someone to buy a lot of chestnuts, and hung them under the eaves of the kitchen with baskets, and they became air-dried chestnuts.Having lost the moisture inside, the dried chestnuts are not only shelf-stable, but also more powdery and sweet.The chestnut cake at this moment is made from these air-dried chestnuts.Just peel the chestnuts and cook them, drain the water, tear off the astringent brown clothes, and mash them repeatedly in a large bowl until they are very fine and smooth, and there are no coarse grains.Then add honey and cow cheese and mix well until smooth, put it into the plum blossom mold to demold, and sprinkle pine nut meat, pomegranate seeds, ginkhorns and other garnishes in the middle according to taste.The ordinary mold is small, and the chestnut cake after demolding is also a small one, and the lady is afraid of staining the size of the lipstick, and it is neatly stacked in the shallow plate of the flower mouth, elegant and exquisite.Su Yu is not a lady, she likes to dig and eat with a spoon.So the pastry molds used in the kitchen are two palm-sized and then upside down in a bowl.Dig down a deep spoonful, the moist and delicate chestnut puree melts in your mouth, cold and cold, sweet and sweet, and the texture is like cream.The pleasure of sweets is always remembered for a long time.Su Yu raised his head, and for a moment recalled the happiness he used to have when he was sitting on the small sofa and eating a large bucket of ice cream.The "Lion" is a more ornate version of the chestnut cake, like a crown placed on the chestnut cake, crowning the ordinary Cinderella chestnut mud into a princess chestnut cake.The rice cake is made into a variety of lifelike animal images, and then dyed on the animal pattern with red, yellow, blue, black and white color dots leached out of the grass juice, and placed on the chestnut cake, which is the "lion barbarian".Lively and interesting, delicious and fun.Su Yu heard that this lion chestnut cake was a dim sum eaten by Chongyang, and only the honey frying bureau in charge of the palace pastry had the ability to do it.Now that Chongyang has already passed, the chestnut cake sent by the kitchen only needs to be made into a plum blossom pattern, but they still complete it respectfully and meticulously, and the craftsmanship seems to be more above the honey frying bureau.A plate of lion chestnut cake, a pot of brewed Anji white tea, and a novel of world romance.Su Yu stretched his whole body, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and he was really comfortable.At noon, the person sent by the eldest princess to urge the meal had already urged him at the door several times, and Su Zhang was still thinking about it and was motionless.For hundreds of years, all dynasties regarded breakfast and dinner as a formal meal, and lunch was added by the upper class of the dynasty and the common people after they were rich and prosperous, so people did not regard lunch as a particularly formal meal.The eldest princess and the concubine are in love, and they are the only ones in the princess's mansion who are used to eating together at every meal, including lunch.The rest, such as the three brothers and sisters of the Su family, can have lunch in their own courtyard and wait for dinner to use with their parents.Su Zhang closed his eyes and thought intently, sitting firmly like a mountain, as if he had not heard the sound of the little girl urging food outside.At the end of January, it was still cold outside, and the food makers stood several side by side, stamping their feet in the cold, but they didn't dare to leave.Here, Ah Yan's hand grinding ink also slowed down, grinding smaller and smaller round by circle, and it seemed that he was also hungry.Su Yu remembered the last time he fainted because of low blood sugar, and the feeling was really uncomfortable.Besides, people have little breakfast, and they stand for another morning, and the taste in their stomachs can be imagined.