Chapter 480 Invitation Xiaojing Lake
A bite of Dongpo pork is sweet and glutinous with the aroma of wine, which is really delicious.\The heat of this roast pork may take three hours to simmer it on a low heat. It really requires patience to eat.
When asked about Su Shi, the method of making Dongpo pork was beyond Ji Qing's expectations, and it was actually very simple. In Ji Qing's opinion, is this the method of making home-cooked braised pork?
The reason why it is so delicious is that it is not only made by Mr. Dongpo, but more importantly, the natural ingredients are the ingredients. Take this pork as an authentic local black pig, and it is not the kind that is induced by hormones. It can be said that the delicacy comes from nature.
When Su Shi heard Ji Qing and his party admired Dongpo Pork, he smiled and was extremely happy. He ate a big meal of meat, tasted the same delicious food as the visitors, and gained recognition. This feeling was absolutely different. For Su Shi, it may be more happy than the poems that praised him. You should know that in history, Su Shi was also a gourmet.
At this time, Su Shi's servants came back and brought back all kinds of side dishes, buns, steamed buns, and cooked cakes. Ji Qing and the others came to visit suddenly, and because of insufficient time, Su Shi had to apologize for treating this item.
Ji Qing didn't care about these things. He had to say a few words to bother the bachelor's. If you want to blame them, they came too suddenly and took the liberty. Then, Ji Qing's eyes fell on the steamed buns.
By the way, there is no separation between steamed buns in this era. Steamed buns are actually buns from later generations, the kind with fillings.
There are many kinds of steamed buns bought by Su Shi’s servants, including sugar-fried meat steamed buns, fake meat steamed buns, mutton steamed buns, bamboo shoot steamed buns, shredded bamboo steamed buns, fish steamed buns, crab roe steamed buns, crab meat steamed buns, sugar-fried steamed buns, spicy steamed buns, etc. It is enough to see that this servant is quite attentive.
Ji Qing tasted a bite of spicy steamed buns, which was indeed very spicy, but not the spicy of chili peppers, but a spicy one. In this era, the spicy taste was still in the spicy stage. However, for people of this era, this spicy taste is also a rare taste for rice.
As for the crab roe steamed buns, they were full of weight and they already looked like crab roe buns in later generations. However, the head was much bigger and they had to be eaten. It was a waste for those who only drank soup in later generations.
As for the buns, they are actually steamed buns, but they are just more exquisite and closer to the kind of buns that were later generations, with beautiful patterns and natural coloring on them.
The cooked cake is the steamed buns from later generations, the kind without fillings, but it is just the shape of a big cake with a cross flower blooming in the middle. Just like steamed buns in later generations, the hole that blooms is commonly known as the flowering steamed buns.
Speaking of cooking cakes, thinking of Wu Dalang, Ji Qing felt that the reason why Wu Dalang sold cooking cakes instead of buns was actually cheaper and had a wider demand. Relatively speaking, steamed buns, especially meat steamed buns, are much more expensive. Ordinary people, especially those in small counties, may not be able to afford them.
There is meat, there is wine. With cups and cups, Su Shi fully demonstrated the feelings of a literati, recited poems and lyrics on the spot, expressed his emotions through the scenery, and expressed the joy of having a banquet with the guests.
Everyone admires this. But it is very difficult to give a poem like Grandma Su. This kind of on-the-spot performance is much more difficult than writing poems on the scheduled topic. Even if you use known poems to make up the numbers, it will not work. If you ask questions, it will be a joke.
However, Ji Qing was smart and praised the good lyrics written by Su Shi in the past. They were all wonderful comments from later generations about Su Shi's lyrics. Let's see how Su Shi reacted.
Ji Qing was just starting out, and his family's literary skills were the best. In the end, only she could talk to Su Shi and talk about poetry and essays, as if she was a poetry meeting. As for the others, they were the audience. As for Ji Qing as her son and Ji Qing's father as her husband, she naturally had to support her on time.
A banquet passed. Because Su Shi still had official duties in the afternoon, everyone was not inconvenient to disturb him, so he prepared to say goodbye.
However, before leaving, Ji Qing invited Su Shi on behalf of Zhoujiazhuang. Some of the Sixteen Prefectures in Yanyun in the north had already recovered, and talents like Grand Secretary Su were needed. He hoped that Su Shi would go to the north to be busy.
Of course, Ji Qing could not say that he would invite Su Shi to become an official, otherwise the taste would change. The word "help" is the most suitable.
Su Shi was surprised and asked carefully, and then he realized that Ji Qing and his group were from Zhoujiazhuang, which was not long ago.
Thinking of this, Su Shi quickly asked about the situation of Zhoujiazhuang. Although the vast area centered on the Western Capital of the Great Liao Dynasty has been liberated, Su Shi did not know the details of Zhoujiazhuang and the north. At this time, when he saw Ji Qing and the others from Zhoujiazhuang, Su Shi naturally would not let him go.
Looking at Su Shi, Ji Qing thought that no matter whether Su Shi was a new party or an old party or not, as a child of China, there was nothing he didn't care about the matter of taking back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the north, and there was nothing he was not unhappy with. Compared with military generals, literati were not bad, or even even more so. Su Shi's appearance could prove everything, and his rosy face and excited expression were no less than a chicken blood.
Ji Qing quickly introduced the form of the north and the situation of killing the enemy. In fact, it was similar to what he said to Qiao Feng, Duan Yu and others.
Of course, there is more content. It is the situation where Zhoujiazhuang fought against the Liao Dynasty again in recent days. Naturally, the result was one-sided. The Khitans had no other use except to provide horses for Zhoujiazhuang.
Then, Ji Qing said that the north lacked talents to manage the people. If Grand Secretary Su went there, he would be able to handle all matters well and make the people feel the glory of China.
Although Su Shi was the prefect of Hangzhou at this time, he was much worse than the senior officials in Tokyo not long ago. At this time, he was delegated and no longer joined the core of the old party.
Although he did not regret this matter, and he could have said his conscience, there may not be no trace of desolation, a feeling, a loss, and a disappointment in his heart.
Su Shi is no longer young, how many more can he be an official?! It is impossible for him not to be moved by Ji Qing's invitation. However, for a moment, he could not decide.
Ji Qing naturally knew that this matter was not urgent, so he left a bracelet and told Su Shi that if he made a decision, he could just press the button on the bracelet. Then someone would come to pick up Su Shi's family. The arrangements on the road would be solved by Zhoujiazhuang to reassure him.
In this way, in Su Shi's half-believing and half-doubtedness, Ji Qing and his group stood up and said goodbye and left.
Su Shi naturally would not know that Zhezong would soon restart Wang Anshi's reform policies, and Su Shi and his younger brother would also be in great trouble and would continue to be demoted. However, with Su Shi's years of experience as an official, he might also know that there will be major changes in the court.
Ji Qing estimated that Su Shi had resigned from office and went north to the north. In his later years, he could do his best to recover the Sixteen State of Yanyun. No one could resist this temptation.
Ji Qing also hopes that this old man can be more brilliant and take this opportunity to raise his body and live a few more years. Although such a talent is not perfect, in general, he still has a side worthy of recognition.
The banquet at Su Shi's family made Ji Qing and his group recall it, including Qiao Feng, Azhu, Ji Qing's parents, grandfather, and even Ji Qing, who were very moved that they could have a banquet and talk to the world's famous Grand Secretary. This experience is enough to be remembered for life, and this memory is extremely precious.
Afterwards, the group left Hangzhou and rushed to Xinyang. For Qiao Feng, it was Ji Qing who found Azhu's possible birthplace through Zhoujiazhuang's intelligence network. Qiao Feng did not question it, but instead thanked Ji Qing with Azhu.
Although Mrs. Ma was dead and there would be no more murder of Azhu, Ji Qing was afraid that something would happen, so he decided to accompany them.
The journey of Xinyang is much farther than that of Suzhou to Hangzhou, but it is much closer than that from Suzhou to Songshan. Soon after, the group came to Xinyang.
But instead of entering the city, he turned to Xiaojing Lake in the northwest of Xinyang.
Speaking of which, Duan Zhengchun's lovers did not have any good endings. Not to mention that they were eventually killed by Murong Fu in the plot, they were quite frustrated in the first half of their lives alone.
Needless to say, Mrs. Ma is the most miserable, whether it is alive or dead.
Qin Hongmian and Gan Baobao are not much better. One doesn’t let her daughter know everything and hates her. The other marrys others, but her daughter is not that person. You can imagine how she feels.
Ruan Xingzhu is the same. Her family is a traditional family with strict tutoring, which forced her to give her two daughters with Duan Zhengchun to raise, and each gave her a single tattoo of a dictionary and a lock piece engraved with a poem with her own name as a memory.
The golden lock pieces on the two sisters Ah Zhu and Ah Zi are cast in two sentences: "The stars in the sky are bright, bright forever, and tranquility forever." "The bamboo by the lake is green, and the peace is full of joy." The words "star bamboo" are embedded.
She herself could not live in her family, so she moved to the Fangzhu Forest, Xiaojing Lake, northwest of Xinyang, which is difficult to reach.
Ruan Xingzhu doesn’t know how good his martial arts skills are, but she is extraordinary. In addition, she has another advantage, that is, softness.
Ruan Xingzhu is the one who lacks the most opinion and softness among Duan Zhengchun's mistresses. She does not have the intelligence of Gan Baobao, nor does she know how to advance and retreat, nor does Qin Hongmian's resentment and sharpness, nor does Mrs. Wang's pride, domineering, and does not have the perverted and crazy twisted love of Mrs. Ma.
Ruan Xingzhu has no characteristics, but she is the most feminine, so Duan Zhengchun came to Zhongyuan to visit Master Xuanbei and others in Shaolin Temple to investigate the truth about the tragic deaths of Master Xuanbei and others, and took care of her in three words. The two relived their dreams and stayed together, and lived a happy life for a while.
Ordinary women can get the most real happiness in the world and enjoy the best gifts of God. Ordinary women are blessed.
The more ordinary parents are, the more special children they can give birth to. Ruan Xingzhu's two daughters, A Zhu and A Zi, both have a unique unique aura, which is another dialectic of life.
Ruan Xingzhu was insane and went with the flow. After Qin Hongmian came, the two turned enemies into friends and talked about the things about the wind and moon. Softness can overcome hardness. The more Ruan Xingzhu has no opinion, the more active he can take the initiative in passivity, the easier it is to grasp life.
Unfortunately, this woman also died under the knife of the pervert Murong Fu in the plot. And Murong Fu's purpose was just to become another person's godson.
This reason is really sad. Murong Fu is really crazy.
Fortunately, everything has changed now.
It is still far from Xiaojing Lake, but Ji Qing already sensed that there were several people there. Ji Qing's eyes lit up. Could it be that Duan Zhengchun was here?!
Ji Qing guessed correctly. When the group walked into Xiaojing Lake, they saw several people.
One of the middle-aged men was quite imposing, not young, but handsome, and had a handsome personality. He was surrounded by a scholar and a fisherman, one holding a pair of axes and the other holding a copper stick. Four of them were around the middle-aged men, as if they were guarding each other. Like a guise, they named the identity of the middle-aged man, Duan Zhengchun, the prince of Dali.
There were two women next to him, one of whom was fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a purple shirt, but at this moment his eyes were closed and he was covered in water, and he seemed to be dead.
Another woman was wearing a light green body with a slim waist, a pair of black big eyes, shining like stars. The waves were waving, extremely flexible, as if one eye could speak, with a beautiful face, and a smile on the corners of her mouth, about thirty-five or six years old.
ps, yesterday's chapter of "Interview with Dongpo" should be Chapter 479. @ya
Chapter completed!