Northern Dynasties

Chapter 12 The traitor still hates
When the two returned to the middle hall, the servants had already prepared wine and food.There are only two tables and seats in the hall, and the other parts are lined up in front of the corridor.

"You go to eat by yourself, enjoy the food and wine, don't disturb my uncle and nephew's conversation!"

Gao Zhongmi stood in front of the hall and waved his hands, then pulled Li Tai into the hall.The singers outside the corridor scattered into the side hall to sit down, and only a few maidservants who served dishes and meals followed inside.

The two sat down in separate seats, looking at the somewhat empty hall, Gao Zhongmi sighed again: "In the past, there were many followers in daily life and travel. Now the only ones who can eat relative to each other are me and Ah Pan!"

After Li Tai heard the words, he thought back a little, Gao Zhongmi really wasn't bragging when he said that.

Li Tai himself has more than a dozen family soldiers who follow him all the way, and he looks very dignified, but compared with Gao Zhongmi, he is insignificant.

When Gao Zhongmi went to Hulao in Northern Yuzhou to take office, he led a group of nearly [-] people.It's not the army rationed by the Eastern Wei court, but the family soldiers who are completely subordinate to the Bohai Gao family!

Even this is the scale of the trilogy that can still be maintained even when Gao Aocao's tribes in Bohai are scattered a few years after Gao Aocao's death in battle.The aristocratic families in this era are powerful, and the huge private armed forces can be seen.

Therefore, after the Western Wei Dynasty suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Mangshan, Yu Wentai recruited Guan Longhaoyou to form an army, and the soldiers were quickly replenished, and became the famous Guanzhong government soldiers in later generations.

Li Tai made a rough count before, and there were more than [-] slaves dining outside the hall, including more than [-] people brought back by himself. Shrunk.

"And use the contents of the cup to chase after the people who died a month ago!"

Gao Zhongmi asked the maid to fill the wine glass, stood up and bowed deeply to the east, and poured the wine in the glass to the ground, with a sad look on his face.

When Li Tai saw this, he followed suit, silently hoping that his father, Li Xiao, could escape safely.He has already taken over the body of someone else's son, and his relatives' feelings for this body may not be that deep, and guilt is always inevitable.

"Okay, let's eat! The Western Army's diet is simple, and I think you, Apan, are just eating carelessly these days."

After the table was settled, Gao Zhongmi squeezed out a smile, pointed to the food on the table and said.

Li Tai's gaze also turned back to the food table in front of him. There were already five or six kinds of dishes on the table, both meat and vegetarian.Finally, it is no longer just a simple combination like buttermilk rice. Just looking at it has already made people's index fingers move.

Before coming to this world, Li Tai was an UP master of ancient life. He racked his brains every day for material copywriting. The diet of various ancient periods was also a major source of his video material.

After all, people depend on food. Compared with the relatively boring ancient science popularization, there is no doubt that ancient diet has more taste and texture, which is the guarantee of flow.

In the long historical process, the Southern and Northern Dynasties did not have a high sense of existence, and many people in later generations feel unfamiliar with this era.

But when it comes to diet, the Southern and Northern Dynasties have to say that the fundamental reason lies in a wonderful book that appeared in this era, that is "Qi Min Yao Shu" written by Jia Sixie, the most famous agronomist in ancient times.

"Qimin Yaoshu" not only records the rich knowledge of agriculture and animal husbandry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but also records many dietary materials of this era.

Li Tai once produced a special series on the diet of the Southern and Northern Dynasties based on "Qi Min Yao Shu", which received a good response, so he has a certain understanding of the diet of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

There is a small clay stove in the center of the food table, the charcoal fire in the stove is booming, and a small copper tripod is placed on it. The soup in the copper tripod is boiling, the soup is milky white, there are a lot of meat floating and sinking, and the aroma is tangy.

Next to the small stove is a wooden box with a radius of more than one foot. In the wooden box, cooked venison with skin is placed, and beside it are condiments such as scallion, shredded ginger, pepper, salt and vinegar, and fermented soybeans.

The name of this dish, which is very similar to hot pot, is Qiangzhu. As the name suggests, it is a food custom of the Qiang people, which was introduced to China and became popular.

The base soup of Qiang stew is made from pork and various condiments. The deer head is boiled in water and cut into pieces, and it can be eaten directly on the table.

This also involves a little knowledge, that is, will the soup made from pork be fishy and unpalatable?
In ancient times, pigs were one of the six domestic animals and one of the three animals in Tailao. Its breeding and eating history has a long history.Especially because of its habit of raising and fattening, it is an important part of the small peasant economy.

An ancient name for pigs, fen (fen), refers specifically to castrated boars, so there is no need to worry about the ancients not understanding castrated pigs and making pork smelly and unpalatable.After all, if you don’t eat it yourself, your ancestors will eat it too.

During this period of time, Li Tai felt that there was little oil and water, so he would not be polite when he saw such delicacies, so he picked up the bamboo chopsticks and started eating, eating half a box of venison in a row before stopping.Not because I was full, but because I was too tired.

It is recorded in "Qi Min Yao Shu" that the condiment of Qiang cooking also contains orange peel, which is used to relieve greasy seasoning.Probably the orange peel is too rare in Guanzhong, so the chef didn't put it in when cooking, so the soup was too greasy.

But the venison is tender and delicious, even if it is not boiled in the soup, it is already considered a delicacy if it is only seasoned with salt and vinegar.

Unlike Li Tai, Gao Zhongmi didn't eat like that. He just took a cup and drank by himself, watching Li Tai eat with a smile.

Next to the small Qiang cooking stove, there is a box of 齑.It is a dietary practice of chopping and blending vegetables. It is also a relatively common dietary method in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

"Qi Min Yao Shu" records a dish of Bahe, which is made by mixing and stirring eight kinds of ingredients and seasonings, including ginger, garlic, tangerine, white plum, cooked chestnut kernel, japonica rice, salt and vinegar. The vinegar is vinegar.

Li Tai savored the box of glutinous rice on the food table carefully. There was also no orange peel, but mallow leaves were used instead and blended with honey. It was also sweet and delicious.

Others include dried chicken and duck, sour sauce, etc. Li Tai also tasted them in turn. In terms of taste alone, it is naturally not as strong and distinct as the diet of later generations. After all, there is a gap in seasonings between the times.But the ambiance brought by the antique style is not comparable to the diet of later generations.

Li Tai's body is about half his age, and he has a lot of exercise. He tasted every dish, and before he knew it, most of the food on the table was wiped out.

Gao Zhongmi saw that Li Tai was still unsatisfied, so he smiled and signaled the maidservant to send the few dishes that were not on the table to Li Tai's food table, and said with a smile: "A Pan, don't just care about filling your stomach, drink some holy food with me." cup!"

After Li Tai heard the words, he put down his chopsticks, raised his untouched wine glass and said with a smile: "Young and unrestrained, I made my uncle laugh. Since then, my uncle and nephew have lived in this hometown and made great achievements. Ah Pan drinks first as a respect." !"

He took a drink, but he had a sudden meal. He only felt that the wine in his mouth was not spicy enough, but rather sour. It was a torture to the taste buds, and it was almost hard to swallow.

After Gao Zhongmi saw this, he slapped the table and laughed: "Don't spit, don't spit, drink it! Alas, when I lived in the countryside, my house had half a field of sorghum seedlings as a wine field, and the home-brewed wine was not as delicious even in Yexia. When I moved to Kansai, even this physalis had to be given by Daxingtai, and I couldn't drink it as much as I wanted..."

Li Tai didn't have any alcohol addiction at all, so he reluctantly swallowed this glass of sour wine and refused to allow the maid to refill it. Hearing Gao Zhongmi's emotion, he was quite associated for a while.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty occupied the fertile land in Hebei, and its productivity was comparable to that of the Western Wei Dynasty in the exhausted pass of non-rule.A few years ago, there was a great famine in the Western Wei Dynasty, which forced Yu Wentai to lead the army out of Tongguan to steal food from Hengnong. Of course, there was not enough food to make wine.

Just looking at the amount of Yu Wentai's gift of even this kind of physalis, it can be seen that there is a shortage of supplies in Guanzhong.Even if there is a tycoon with a strong family business, I am afraid that he will not be as wealthy as the Bohai Gao family who use a hundred acres of fertile land to grow sorghum to make wine.

Gao Zhongmi smiled, his eye sockets became moist again, probably his thoughts were once again indulged in the gap in fortunes brought about from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to the Western Wei Dynasty.

Knowing that the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty had a great future, Li Tai didn't feel that there was a gap in his fortunes because he was a newcomer.Seeing Gao Zhongmi drinking alone, he continued to focus on the food on the table.

A dish from Gao Zhongmi's case caught Li Tai's attention. This dish was yellow and white with a tangy aroma. It was a plate of scrambled eggs with scallions and whites.

Yes, the Southern and Northern Dynasties already had stir-fried dishes, not the common belief of later generations that the ancestors could only eat a bite of stir-fried vegetables until the Song Dynasty had iron pots.

Stir-frying was not a cooking method at first, but a processing method of crude medicine. There have been records of stir-frying medicinal materials since the Han Dynasty.Vegetable oil also has a long history. It is not only used for food, but also used for lighting, lubrication, lacquerware, and even as a military reserve.

The scrambled eggs are naturally not iron pans, but copper pans.It’s just that the thermal conductivity of copper is much higher than that of iron, and the popularity of copper utensils is not high. There are not many ingredients that can be fried and processed with copper pans. Therefore, stir-frying was not the mainstream way of cooking before the popularity of iron pans.

The lives of the dignitaries and ordinary people in ancient times were two completely different worlds.Unlike later generations based on a rich material foundation, there is no essential difference in the eating experience of the rich and the poor.

After Li Tai ate up the plate of scrambled eggs, the maids served tonight's staple food, flowering steamed buns, that is, steamed noodles.After dipping in the remaining vegetable juice, Li Tai ate two more fist-sized cage cakes, and finally finished his first full meal after coming to this world.

"He Liuhun, you are ungrateful, and you are not a good parent! I will kill you, I..."

Gao Zhongmi drank the wine himself, and soon became drunk, slapped the table and cried and cursed a few times, and then shouted: "Bring the wine, get the wine..."

"The wine, the wine is gone..."

The maid said in a trembling cry, and when Li Tai saw this, he stepped forward and waved his hands to push the maid away, and helped Gao Zhongmi who had fallen over the table.

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