Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 672

If Li Shimin is still in the palace, then Li Mingda and Li Zhi will be in the palace tonight, but Li Shimin is not in Chang'an today, so Li Mingda, Li Zhi, and Concubine Yin are all out of the palace.

Li Ke and Li Yin also entered the palace to accompany Concubine Yang. Here, Li Ke and Li Yin also want to lament that the crown prince, Li Zhi, respects Concubine Yin. Concubine Yin is out of the palace. Otherwise, according to the ancestral system, Concubine Yin would not be allowed to leave the palace. But with the influence of Li Zhi and Li You, Concubine Yin was allowed to leave the palace at 18:9 p.m. Click back to the palace, this is Fang Xuanling's greatest authority.

Concubine Yang didn't have such a good life, and Li Ke and Li Yin didn't have such influence in front of Fang Xuanling.

At about 15:[-] in the afternoon, Li You's house in Dunhuafang became busy. Many people will come to Li You's house tonight, including Quan Wanji, Quan Zhixi's father, Xiao Baoer's family, Xue Rengui's family, and Di Renjie. One family, Su Dingfang's family, Cui Jue's family, Yan San, Zhang Jing, Qin Shaoyu are all members of Li You's family. How could they not be together on New Year's Eve, a day when everyone must watch the year?

So at Li You's house at this time, Chun Niang has already arranged for people to start cooking tonight's New Year's Eve dinner, with chicken, duck, fish, meat and all kinds of seasonal vegetables.

The big stove is also fully fired, and all the cooking methods of frying, frying, cooking, and frying can be used once. When the adults are busy, the children are also running around and playing non-stop at this time.

Li Mingda, Xiao Baoer, Li Zhi, and Di Renjie brought Li Heng, Li Jue, and Li Xiang to play billiards together. The billiards, the balls, were brought back by Li You from Hyundai. The table and cue were made in Dunhuafang. , This ball is too heavy, so Li You brought two sets. The children like new things, and they started playing as soon as they came up.

Next to the children, there is a fruit plate, which is full of delicious food, milk candy, chocolate, canned food, fruit. Chocolate is something that everyone grabs fiercely, and it will almost be taken up as soon as it goes up. Follow Li You and then signal to Yueying to get it Some come out.

In the past, Li You would not always take it, because it is not good for children to eat too sweet, but today is the Chinese New Year, Li You is more tolerant, and has taken it four times. Li Heng and Li Jue The little guy is full.

It gets dark quickly in winter, and at 18:[-], the sky is completely dark. At this time, Concubine Yin also came to Dunhuafang, and Li You and Li Zhi went to pick her up in person. However, after taking Concubine Yin over, Concubine Yin was the first to hug Li Heng, Li Jue and Li Xiang, followed by Quan Zhixi, Xiao Yan, and Cui Xiuniang, because all three of them were pregnant, which was a great joy , next year, Li You's child will be born, then Li You will really have roots in Datang.

"Come, come. Today is my family, so I have all the rewards, and the crown prince will take the biggest one!" Before eating, Concubine Yin took out her red envelopes, ten golden melon seeds each.

But Concubine Yin still favored Li Zhi a little, and gave Li Zhi the ten largest golden melon seeds. After all, Li Zhi often went to the palace to accompany Concubine Yin, and Concubine Yin had the deepest affection for him.

Li Zhi hurriedly took the golden melon seeds with a happy smile and said, "I knew that my concubine loves me the most!"

"Haha.!" Everyone laughed, and after the crown prince took the golden melon seeds, all the juniors came to Concubine Yin to beg for golden melon seeds, ten for each person, as long as they were not adults, they could get them. Yes, Concubine Yin is also prepared, that is Yan San.

But Yan San didn't appreciate it, and didn't want to say anything. Later, I found out that Yan San said that he was going to marry a wife soon. If he took the golden melon seeds, he was afraid that he would not be able to marry a wife.

Li You also smiled very happily, everyone was with him, and it was time for dinner,
In the past, the delicacies of the Tang Dynasty were limited, and the cooking methods were also very simple. If you count strictly according to the time, the Tang Dynasty dinner at this time should be steamed buns and flatbreads, because millet, barley, and wheat are in the north. , rice has become the main food crop in the south.At this time, in the northern regions where rice is rarely grown, the price of rice is much higher than that of corn and flour. Usually only the rich can afford it, and it is a luxury among grains.

This means that the main food eaten in Chang'an can only be steamed buns and pancakes. By the way, Chang'an belongs to the northern region. The north and south are bounded by the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River. Xi'an is north of the Qinling Mountains, so it is the north.

However, the arrival of Li You has already changed the division of grain between north and south in advance. In Chang'an City, many grain stores already sell rice. Of course, the price has also dropped a lot.

Many people can eat a bite during the Chinese New Year, but they don't know if they are not used to it.

Anyway, on the dining table of Li You's family, rice, steamed buns, and pancakes are on the same level, and the dishes on the table are not mainly mutton and venison, but also some pork, of course, very little pork.

In fact, mutton has ruled the dining table for thousands of years, and pork did not turn around until the Southern Song Dynasty. From Wei Jin to Tang and Song Dynasties, mutton has ruled the dining table for a long time; game is rich, and venison was once "popular food"

This is mainly because during the period from Wei, Jin to Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the southward migration of northern nomads, the sheep raising area expanded, and mutton surpassed pork and became the most important meat on the Chinese table.

The second is that the taste of the pork has not been solved well, but Li You has already solved it now. Basically, the piglets raised by Li You's family will be cut with a knife, so that the taste will be much less, and it is also delicious.

The braised pork made from this kind of pork is the favorite food of Li Mingda, Li Heng, Li Xiang and others. Originally, peacock meat, tiger meat, and fox meat would appear in the New Year's Eve dinner of Li You's family because in the Tang Dynasty, there was no such meat. What protection animals, these wild animals can be slaughtered at will.

Once an emperor of the Zhou Dynasty captured more than 5000 elk, 12 rhinos, and a large number of "rare animals" such as tigers, leopards, and bears in one hunting.

People in the Tang Dynasty liked to eat venison, especially deer tail and deer tongue, which are famous dishes for drinking.

It's just that Li You was somewhat resistant, so there was very little game like this on Li You's table. Of course, at the New Year's Eve dinner in the Tang Dynasty, the most important thing was fish sticks, that is, sashimi. People in the Tang Dynasty loved raw fish so much So there is a summary, not before crucian carp, bream, bream, sea bream, and perch!

To put it bluntly, the island country has really perfectly inherited some of the Tang Dynasty's heritage, and has also carried it forward. For this New Year's Eve dinner, Li You consumed a total of 1 fat duck, 3 vegetable ducks, 3 fat chickens, and vegetable 7 chickens, 3 pork knuckles, 2 pork bellies, 8 small bellies, 15 rice dishes, 25 catties of wild boar, 5 Kanto geese, 20 catties of mutton, 15 catties of venison, 6 pheasants, and 20 catties of fish , 4 deer tails, 3 large and small pig intestines, etc.

Hehe very rich.

(End of this chapter)