Chinese dining table

Chapter 23 Write your own household registration
"Steal your mother...thieve your mother...thieve your mother..."

When Fangzheng was eating noodles, he felt that his legs were shaking constantly, and as long as there was no noodles in his mouth, he would burst out cursing like sighs!
At this time, he didn't know what he said in his mouth, he only knew that the smooth and chewy noodles were slippery in his mouth, and almost without swallowing, they went directly into his stomach pouch.

He Yuanshan and the others could only stand on the side and watch Fangzheng eat blankly. Although Yunchu's movements below were fast, they couldn't keep up with Fangzheng's eating speed. Often, one piece of noodles was put into the pot, and Fangzheng had already finished the previous one.

"It's all mine..." This was Fang Zheng's order after eating the first mouthful of noodles.

He was not like this before, brothers came to the outside of the customs with bitterness, and it is the minimum way to be an official.

This time, he didn't care.

Liu Xiong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and saw that Yunchu was still pulling the noodles into the pot with no expression on his face. The yellow dragon-like noodles, as if they had come to life, danced with Yunchu's hand from the pottery urn, and finally plunged into the pot. soup pot.

The oil on the surface of the soup pot sealed the heat of the soup. Although the noodles did not boil, the noodles immediately floated as soon as they fell into the pot.

In the hot weather, there is still steam coming out, but the white gas leaves the pot surface and disappears. After the white gas disappears, the strong smell of mutton soup will permeate and penetrate into everyone's heart.

After Fangzheng ate three sea bowls in a row, his sanity finally came back. He gave up the fourth bowl to He Yuanshan, but he was still somewhat reluctant when delivering the noodle bowl.

He Yuanshan is a relatively gentle person. He doesn't eat like Fangzheng. However, after taking the first mouthful of noodles, his eating speed unknowingly becomes faster, not at all compared to Fangzheng's Xilihulu eating speed. Slower, even faster, because he doesn't speak.

Fangzheng was staring at the soup pot, Liu Xiong was staring at the soup pot, everyone was staring at the soup pot, no one had the time to talk nonsense.

Delicious food has such a charm, he can make people's mouth return to its original appearance, and use it to taste delicious food instead of saying something that makes people feel uncomfortable.

When Yunchu was meeting, he had already overestimated the food intake of these people, but he did not expect that he would greatly underestimate the food intake of these people in the end.

To be precise, only Fang Zheng, He Yuanshan, and Liu Xiong ate this mutton noodle soup today, and the rest of the people could only watch it.

There was no more noodles in the pottery urn, so Yunchu filled a big bowl of mutton soup, put a bowl full of meat, and ate it on his own.

Holding an empty bowl, Liu Xiong burped and said, "Come again, I'm only half full after eating one."

Yunchu looked up at Liu Xiong and said, "You ate six bowls and ate up all the noodles."

"If you don't have it, keep doing it."

Yun Chu gave Liu Xiong a cold look and said, "The gentleman is far away from the cook, I cook this meal for you today to let you distinguish between a gentleman's food and a slave's food, not to satisfy your hunger. Desired.

Furthermore, a gentleman does not overeat, and uses it with discretion. If you eat to death like this, there is still half a gentleman's demeanor.

Gone! "

After Yun Chu finished yelling at Liu Xiong, he picked up his bowl of mutton soup and went to the side of the canal to enjoy the coolness. Several people who didn't eat noodles also shouted bad luck.

Yunchu thought for a while, and asked Hou San to fetch the dry and hard naan cakes, crushed them and put them in the wicker woven fence, soaked the naan cakes and mutton slices in the mutton soup pot until soft, put them into a large bowl, sprinkled them with Chopped green onion and salt, and finally pour a spoonful of fragrant mutton soup, and a bowl of decent mutton steamed buns is out of the oven.

Although the appearance of this thing is not as good as the mutton noodle soup, the fragrance of the grains combined with the strong mutton soup, after mixing, and then mixed with a handful of chopped green onion, it still makes these people enjoy eating.

Yunchu doesn't like to cook the pancakes until they are soft, because he has good teeth, eating a mouthful of dry pancakes and drinking a mouthful of mutton soup is still considered a rare delicacy these years.

Fangzheng still wanted to continue eating mutton noodle soup at night, but Yunchu didn't give them the thought to continue making it.

He didn't intend to be a cook in Datang World, even if the cook could be the No. [-] cook in Tianzi, he still had no interest.

After a short rest, he went back to the dilapidated yamen under the sun to continue sorting out the paperwork.

Organizing files is actually a very specialized knowledge, and it is definitely not as simple as stacking documents neatly.

The horizontal ones have timeline classifications, and the vertical ones have functional classifications. The documents here not only come from Taifu Temple, the directly managed department of Fangzheng, but also come from various decrees issued by the six ministries of the three provinces of the Tang Dynasty and the five supervisors of the nine temples. , regulations, and various things that need to be announced to the world.

If it is said that the documents issued by the above departments are only general government affairs, then the official document requirements of the Tang Xizhou Government Office and the Anxi Military Governor's Mansion are very specific.

That is to say, the real duty of Fangzheng's Daguan Order is actually to serve as a channel for communication between Xizhou Governor's Mansion, Anxi Governor's Mansion and the imperial court.

In order to sort out all the piles of documents, Yunchu mercilessly rejected Fangzheng and the others' request that they want to eat a gentleman's food.

At this time, Fangzheng and the others no longer doubted Yunchu's identity, and in front of Yunchu, a real scholar, they could no longer look down on this young man from Guanzhong.

Not to mention anything else, just this bowl of mutton noodles is enough to make Yunchu famous in the gourmet desert of the Western Regions, and become a guest of all kinds of leaders, big and small, in the Western Regions.

Back then, Yunchu told Fangzheng and the others that he only knew a little about food, he also knew a little about medicine, and he also knew a little about divination...

This creates an image of an unattainable young odd man.

At this time, let alone that Yun Chu is a prisoner and a foreigner, not to mention other people don't believe it, even Fang Zheng himself doesn't believe it.

For ten consecutive days, Yunchu buried himself in the pile of documents, day after day studying all the documents he could see.

Since Guo Xiaoge's death in battle, the person who replaced him as the Protector of Anxi was Chai Zhewei, the eldest son of Duke Qiao and Princess Pingyang.

The governor of Xizhou is a fourth-rank official named He Shutong. Judging from the documents, this person has a very low sense of existence.Most of the documents from the governor's office in Xizhou were issued by the governor's subordinate Sihu.

This is very interesting. There is a Hucao in the Anxi Governor's Mansion, and a Sihu in the Governor's Mansion. One is a fifth-rank official and the other is a seventh-rank official. The jurisdiction of these two positions is exactly the same.

The main duties are household registration, bookkeeping, roads, post offices, Nilu, Tianchou, six animals, passing offices, exhausting talismans, and litigation.

When the two departments were fighting endlessly, there was naturally no way to carry out the work well. Therefore, the Kucha Ozeki Order, which was in the middle of coordination and hardly valued by others, became the most important office.

When he saw this, Yun Chu couldn't help but pat himself on the head. He pretended to be in the department that was most suitable for him to start. His luck was beyond words.

No matter how many things are managed by the Daguan Order, for Yunchu, the most important one is of course—household registration and past residence!

For outsiders, Yunchu can fill in the household registration that is hard to compare to the heavens in the Daguan Lingyamen, and Yunchu can also fill in the documents that Lao Yangpi dreamed of in the Daguan Lingguan Yamen.

Then go to Daguan Ling Fangzheng and Huzheng He Yuanshan to use the seal.

And these two, after having a meal of dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables and mutton with Yunchu last night, the three of them are brothers who can be pulled out to cut chicken heads and burn yellow paper.

Looking at the neat, tidy, and brand-new Daguanling Yamen, Yunchu sat in the empty lobby and couldn't help sighing.

"This is really the place where I can soar to the sky for nine days!"

Yunchu's evening food tonight is mutton, beef, mutton noodles, served with cold bitter vegetables, and the chive flowers that Hou San and the dumb groom brought for Yunchu were marinated into chive flower sauce, which is just right for today.

Fangzheng brought wine, as well as the legendary super delicacy - vinegar parsley.

The wine he brought was not good at all, it was sweet and sour, and the taste of the wine was not strong at all. If he had to use a particularly appropriate description, Yun Chu felt that this thing was better than fermented glutinous rice.

The most terrible thing is that when scooping wine from half a jar of rice, you have to dig a hole in the middle of the rotten rice, and use a gauze cover to block the edge of the hole, blocking the rotten rice and some black plants like ants, and then, Only a wooden spoon can pick up the rice wine with white flowers in the middle.

Green ant new fermented wine, red clay small stove, it will snow in the evening, can you have a glass?This poem was written by Bai Juyi, and it is full of artistic conception, but the quality of his green ant new fermented wine is a bit poor, and the green ant wine that Fang Zheng brought is not as good as that in Bai Juyi's poem, at least he has artistic conception, Fang Zheng has nothing.

The vinegar and celery brought by Fangzheng is also a well-known dish in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that it is the favorite dish of Sikong Wei Zheng, who has passed away in the Tang Dynasty. It is rumored that Emperor Taizong sent people all over the world to find the best vinegar in order to please Wei Zheng. Qin gave it to Wei Zheng to make him say less about him in the future.

As a result, Wei Zheng ate his vinegar and celery, and did everything he had to say and do.

So this kind of dish is also called "Wenzhen" dish, because Wei Zheng's posthumous name after his death is Wenzhen.

When officials of the Tang Dynasty gave gifts to each other, it was very popular to present this Wenzhen vegetable for a period of time, until the Emperor Taizong was almost mad at death because of the "Liuju Zhu", and after he whipped Wei Zheng's tombstone severely, he exchanged Wenzhen vegetables. The trend of Zhencai gradually calmed down.

Yunchu looked at the vinegared celery that Fangzheng brought, and after taking a bite, he immediately concluded that the people of Tang were pitiful and had never eaten anything good. This vinegared celery was not a dish like pouring vinegar into celery.

Instead, boil the celery first, then add a little flour to the boiling water and stir vigorously, and finally pour the celery into the noodle soup again, find a jar without oil, and after a few days of fermentation, this thing will become Sour and fragrant.

The sour noodle soup is very refreshing, and the fermented celery in it also has a strong sour aroma... People in the world before Yunchu generally called this thing-syrup water!
The taste of the wine has been fixed, and Yunchu can't change it. As for the vinegar celery, Yunchu has a more advanced way of eating it.

Tear a few strips of beef from the beef block on the table, tear it into shredded beef, put two pieces of garlic on it, put the shallots on it, and finally heat it with the unique sesame oil of the Western Regions and pour it on. Such a plate of vinegar celery should be eligible to serve The emperor's dining table, after all, it was clearly recorded in Emperor Taizong's statement that his subsequent emperors had only three chances to eat beef every year.

(End of this chapter)