food queen

Chapter 348 Feast (1)
Han Qian asked the Ministry of Industry to collect exquisitely crafted and fresh lanterns from folk workshops, and asked the talented scholars of the Hanlin Academy to specially make some lantern riddles for both refined and popular tastes and hang them under the lanterns. Hanging scattered.

The path by the lake is decorated to look like a Lantern Street. Along the way, there will be stalls of various artists, such as: sugar blowers, caterpillar fungus weaving, lion dance, dragon lantern playing, stilt walking, and small opera singing.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible to allow small traders to come in the important place of the palace. Apart from the three troupes specially recruited by the Ministry of Rites, these people dressed as jugglers are just some temporary fillings selected from eunuchs and palace people.

When the kings, nobles and other envoys from allied countries entered the imperial garden, they seemed to be walking on the streets of Dayun Imperial Capital.Walk and watch all kinds of juggling gadgets on the roadside, admire palace lanterns while walking, and guess lantern riddles while walking.There are also many trinkets placed on both sides for Fanbanggui envoys to watch and play, such as a set of teacups carved from bamboo roots, various small figures made of clay, various paper-cut paintings, various knots, purses, fans, and velvet flowers made of yarn. , etc. There are all kinds of snacks, and there are always new tricks every ten steps, which makes everyone dazzled and amazed.

"Oh, this banquet is really fun. I thought it was a pity that I couldn't go to the Lantern Festival in Dayun Imperial Capital, but now it seems that it is complete." Let yourself do something inappropriate at this banquet. After coming to Beijing, he has been hiding in the post house to study the etiquette and rules of those banquets for the past few days. Be careful!

"It's just a trivial matter. In fact, the lantern festival in our imperial capital is full of people at this time, and the scene is a hundred times more lively and prosperous than ours. However, because of your noble status, you really can't go to the lantern festival with those ordinary people. Therefore, the queen So I came up with this idea, just to show everyone what it means." Shao Xilan explained to everyone with a smile on the side.

"The Queen's Empress is Lan Xinhui." The Uighur King slapped her back in a timely manner.

"The King of Uighur has won the prize." Han Qian looked back at Tantador and smiled faintly.

"Couldn't tonight's banquet be a visit to the 'Lantern Festival'?" Zhishan Suuji glanced at the Uighur King lightly, feeling very disliked by this sycophant.

"Is Princess Zhishan hungry?" Wei Xiyue, who was following behind Han Qian, turned her head and smiled at Zhishan Suji, "Don't worry, there is delicious food ahead. It's just a few more steps to go."

"What's delicious? Why are you still so mysterious?" Zhishan Suuji's Central Plains dialect has improved significantly in the past few days, and she can already use a few four-character idioms, but the tone is not standard. After she finished speaking, others were very careful It takes careful consideration to understand what she is saying.

"You can't say that. The empress arranged all this just to let us know more about Dayun's customs and customs. We think it's very good." Earl Caesar said to Andrew's godfather in Western dialect, and Andrew's godfather translated the words into The Central Plains speaks to Zhishan Suuji.

Han Qian, who was walking in front, smiled lightly, thinking that what was said in the book was indeed true: the envoy who travels across the ocean is always friendlier than the kings and princesses of these small countries nearby.

Before Zhishan Sujin could refute anything, there was a burst of sweetness in front of her, which hooked Princess Zhishan: "Huh? What is this smell?"

Gu Ningshuang turned her head and said with a smile: "Princess, don't you know if you look ahead?"

Zhishan Suuji was a free-spirited person, she didn't say much when she heard the words, she really walked over quickly following the scent.

Under Linlang's lantern, there was a flat-bottomed iron pot on a small stove. I don't know what was cooking in the pot. It was red and bubbling.The woman sitting next to the small stove was dressed as a common folk woman in Dayun, with a calico baotou on her head and a blue cloth dress on her body. Her long face was reflected by the fire, and she was pretty and pretty, much better-looking than ordinary folk women.

She held a rough porcelain bowl in her left hand, and she pinched a little white stuff from the bowl in her right hand and sprinkled it into the pot.

Princess Zhishan Suuji knew that the white, powdery thing was called sesame, a kind of seed that tasted very fragrant, and the pressed oil had a special fragrance.

"What are you doing?" Zhishan Suuji asked curiously.

The woman looked up at Zhishan Suji who was still sitting by the stove and didn't get up, she just smiled and said, "Dear guest, do you want candied haws?"

"Candied haws? Is it the red thing that someone carries a target and sells it for nothing on the street of your Dayun Imperial Capital?" Zhishan Suji looked back at Gu Ningshuang. She has not been idle for the past two days. I took a walk around early last night, and the purpose was naturally to learn about the various delicacies in the Imperial Capital of Dayun. I happened to see candied haws, but I haven’t tasted them yet.

Gu Ningshuang smiled and said, "The princess is right."

"But..." Zhishan Suuji wanted to say that I have seen that thing before, and it is completely different from the ones in your pot, but before she could say anything, she saw the woman by the fire opening a wooden box in her hand. Wearing a clean white cotton cloth, he opened the cotton cloth, and inside were neatly arranged bunches of red fruits.

"Ah! That's it!" Zhishan Suuji immediately changed her words.

The woman smiled, took a few bunches of red fruit and put them into the pot, and twirled them nimbly with her fingers. The red sugar juice in the pot wrapped the red fruit with white sesame seeds. The two kinds of red overlapped, making the color brighter and more vivid.

Zhishan Suji couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva, thinking, I really want to eat it!
The woman seemed to be a god who knew what was on her mind, and in the next moment, she brought the food that Princess Zhishan Suuji wanted to eat: "My dear guest, please."

Zhishan Suji took it and brought it to her mouth, smelled the faint sweetness first, and was about to finish her mouth when Gu Ningshuang who was beside her quickly reminded: "Princess, be careful of burning!"

"Oh, oh!" Zhishan Suuji nodded, and carefully tried to take a bite.

The sugar juice has turned into a crispy skin, which is sweet, but the fruit inside is sour and soft.Chewing the sweet and sour together makes people sigh with satisfaction.

"Give me a bunch too." Godfather Andrew said with a smile.

The woman nodded and bowed, and also offered him a bunch.

Han Qian said with a smile, "This red fruit is called hawthorn, a kind of fruit from the mountains. It has the effect of invigorating the spleen, appetizing, digesting food and eliminating stagnation. Everyone should try it."

The empress spoke, and someone next to her immediately went up to help take hawthorn skewers to dip in sugar. After a while, several noble envoys had a bunch of candied haws in their hands.To make fun of it, Han Qian stuffed one in Yun Shuo's hand, but everyone else had a complete one, and the one in the emperor's hand had already been gnawed into two.

A mighty group of people, from the emperor to the noble envoys, everyone held a bunch of candied haws in their hands. This scene is a bit ridiculous to say, but no one dared to laugh. Serving the masters with a smile back and forth.

(End of this chapter)