Daily life of the imperial mausoleum

It’s not like Xia Xiaoqiao didn’t do banquets in his previous life. Some old customers are used to celebrating their birthdays at home. The old people just like to eat their special dishes. It’s like this once a year. The juniors are also willing to spend money to treat Xia Xiaoqiao went to cook a few tables at home. Of course, the price must be more expensive than in the store. If you are polite, you will give an extra red envelope and a cigarette before leaving. Therefore, Xia Xiaoqiao is an unscrupulous person. Qian Chuanzi has always liked to take on this kind of work, and doing one trip is worth the income he earns from running a restaurant for several days.

Although Mrs. Cui said that there is no need for the servants below to hold a banquet, Xia Xiaoqiao decided to cook two extra pots of vegetables, which were delicious and sufficient, and sent them to the servants below to add two dishes. It's fun, isn't it?Although in his opinion, people like the Cui family may not be willing to regard these slaves as "people", because according to the traditions and laws of North Vietnam, only those ordinary people with clean net worth can be counted as "people", and ordinary slaves can only be counted as "people". As a "slave"...

Big pot dishes are actually very easy to cook. For example, when some old people in rural areas celebrate their birthdays, the common steamed meat with rice noodles, braised pork with dried plums, eight-treasure rice, etc. are usually prepared one day in advance, and they can be heated in a steamer before serving. up.He didn't have time to cook dried plums, so he could only cook a dish of braised pork with winter bamboo shoots, a pot of eight-treasure rice, and a pot of dried shredded chicken soup.The servants didn't expect Xia Xiaoqiao to even think of them. You know, usually when they add food, it is usually leftovers from the master's family, so they will be "rewarded" for them to taste.

Seeing the expressions of gratitude and apprehension on the faces of the servants who came to fetch the vegetables, Xia Xiaoqiao felt a little uncomfortable, and waved his hand to tell them not to kneel down, and fled back in a hurry.

When I went back, I found that the stewed winter bamboo shoots and old ducks in the pot were ready, so I hurriedly put them on the plate, added water, put them in the cage, and put the braised pork knuckles, venison balls, and dried vegetables that I had prepared earlier. Put the meat, steamed pork ribs, etc. in it and heat it up.

The cold dishes have been prepared in advance, marinated beef, red dates marinated in tree honey, crispy crispy bone skewers, cold wild vegetables, etc. are all put on a plate and waited to be served.Taking advantage of the time of steaming the vegetables, he fried a few prepared vegetables. The desserts are sesame glutinous rice balls made by himself and two kinds of steamed stuffed buns with meat and vegetarian fillings.There weren't many people, so it happened to fill one table, plus a small table for the ladies, who drank the rice wine brewed by Cui himself.The only pity is that there are no fish and shrimps. This is Xia Xiaoqiao's most regrettable place. You must know that the drunken shrimps and drunken crabs he cooked in the previous life were the favorites of gourmets, alas!If there is a chance to go to the beach, he will definitely take the opportunity to make many shrimps and crabs to make drunken shrimps and drunken crabs. Anyway, these things can be stored for a long time, and fresh shrimps can also be made into shrimp paste, which is usually seasoned to eat hot pot The ultimate ah.

Let go of the regret of not being able to eat fresh seafood from the river. This house warming wine was very successful. The evidence is that all the dishes on the table were eaten up. Even Jiang Mingxi, the columbarium, temporarily let go of his obsession with the "insulated lunch box". Read it, I ate a piece of steamed pork ribs with relish.

Seeing that everyone was eating at such an inhuman speed, Xia Xiaoqiao was delighted that the meals he made were popular, but also worried that there was too little prepared food, so he hurried to the kitchen to prepare the staple food: sesame glutinous rice balls and meat Two kinds of steamed stuffed buns with stuffing and vegetarian stuffing were brought up.

"This sesame glutinous rice ball is a little hot. Be careful when you eat it. Bite it slowly and don't swallow it all at once. The sesame filling inside is very hot." Xia Xiaoqiao hurriedly warned, he didn't see anyone here I've eaten glutinous rice balls, but I don't know if there are glutinous rice balls here. The glutinous rice flour he used to make glutinous rice balls is used by people here to make sacrifices...

Tasting a familiar taste in his mouth, His Majesty the Emperor froze, and glanced at Xia Xiaoqiao strangely. Among the few present, the two immortals had never eaten sacrifices for the dead, and Cui Shijing's family in North Vietnam were all They were all dead, and naturally no one prepared sacrifices for him, but Xiaobai accidentally ate a sacrifice made of glutinous rice flour, and immediately shouted happily: "So glutinous rice flour is not for the dead? This is called glutinous rice balls." The taste is very good! Xiao Xia, you are really amazing! You can make sacrifices so delicious!"

"Sacrifice... Sacrificial offerings? Food for the dead?" Xia Xiaoqiao was in a bad mood.

"It's okay, it's okay~ The sacrifices are also for people to eat~ Which one of the sacrifices dedicated to the ancestors is not distributed to the younger generations?" Regarding the matter of eating sacrifices, several pure ancients were very calm, even Yunxiancui Yao and Fengshen Nanyue didn't reject anything, but thought it was very fresh. It turns out that human sacrifices are so delicious. Thinking about the offerings I have received over the years, I couldn't help but want to go back and ask, which ones are prepared for the gods? Is the guy who made the offerings embezzled? Why are the offerings to them so unpalatable?It's not as good as a sacrifice after the death of a mortal, it's simply unforgivable!

"Well, you guys eat slowly, I'll go to the kitchen to clean up..." Not wanting to hear such heart-wrenching topics again, Xia Xiaoqiao ran away in a hurry as he didn't even have any appetite for the sweet sesame glutinous rice balls.

Ignorance really kills people!

To be honest, when he saw glutinous rice flour in the pile of things brought back by the guards, he was really pleasantly surprised. Glutinous rice flour is an indispensable ingredient for chefs!It can be used whether it is making snacks or cooking. It is a habit. He thinks that these glutinous rice noodles must be the ingredients bought for him. After playing for a while, he never thought that the glutinous rice noodles from North Vietnam are actually used as sacrifices for the dead. use!

Therefore, this is a misunderstanding of "the guards thought Xia Xiaoqiao knew (the glutinous rice flour is a sacrifice prepared for His Majesty)" and "Xia Xiaoqiao thought he knew (the glutinous rice flour was an ingredient bought for himself)"...

Blushing into the kitchen, Xia Xiaoqiao felt that he had never been so ashamed in his life. He actually took the ingredients prepared for the dead to the living. He didn't know how to face everyone... Everyone said just now It's a sacrificial offering and it's delicious, so it must be to comfort him, right?

"Xiaoqiao, what's the matter with you?" Jiang Yuanzhen followed, still holding the big soup bowl in which he had just put the glutinous rice balls in his hand, "When the glutinous rice balls were finished, they asked if there were any more. One bowl for one person is too little."

"Ah? You guys, don't you feel uncomfortable?" Xia Xiaoqiao was stunned when he heard that it was scary to eat the sacrifices of dead people.

"Uncomfortable? Why? Sesame glutinous rice balls are delicious, even better than the offerings made by the royal chefs in the past, and everyone still wants to eat them." Jiang Yuanzhen looked at him curiously, and then suddenly realized, "You, your place , Do you not eat the sacrifices of the ancestors?"

"Yes! Of course! Who would eat dead people?!" Xia Xiaoqiao went crazy.

"...Let's eat." His Majesty the Emperor was silent.

Xia Xiaoqiao: (⊙o⊙)!

"Ahem~~ This is the custom in North Vietnam. After the great sacrifice, the sacrifices dedicated to the ancestors will be distributed to the clansmen to enjoy. This is a reward from the ancestors, and it is also a kind of family honor. Generally, only the descendants of the direct line can enjoy the sacrifices of the ancestors. , the distant branch does not have this honor..." Only then did I realize that Xia Xiaoqiao was not from their place, and His Majesty the Emperor slowly explained their traditional customs.

"So it's like this~" Xia Xiaoqiao understands, there are different customs in different places, no wonder everyone eats sacrifices so happily, it turns out that in North Vietnam, eating sacrifices is actually a behavior worth boasting about!

After figuring it out, Xia Xiaoqiao no longer resisted the sesame glutinous rice balls made of glutinous rice flour. After all these years of eating, he quite liked using glutinous rice flour to make various snacks. Gabe said enthusiastically, "There are still a lot of sesame glutinous rice balls. I originally planned to make them for you to make wine glutinous glutinous rice balls for you tomorrow morning. Let's cook them all now. I'll pack some more in the evening."

Seeing the white cloth covering the cage, His Majesty the Emperor frowned violently, swallowed his saliva, and asked with difficulty: "Well, Xiaoqiao, where did you get the cloth covering the cage...?"

"Ah? This, I found it from the big boss's warehouse before. This kind of white cloth is very useful for covering cages or steaming buns... I don't know why the big boss didn't take it with him when he escaped." Xia Xia Xiaoqiao replied casually.

"This white cloth is not good. Later, I will order someone to buy some new cloth for you. You, throw this away..." His Majesty put down the soup bowl, and suddenly he didn't want to eat glutinous rice balls.

"Ah? Why? What a waste!" Xia Xiaoqiao is used to living a frugal life, and he doesn't want to waste it like this. Besides, these white cloths are all clean and unopened. I also want to use these white cloths to make some underwear to wear. It is soft and sweat-absorbent, which is much better than the cloths I wear now.

"Ahem...well, Xiaoqiao, do you know what these white cloths are for?"

"What is it for?" For some reason, Xia Xiaoqiao suddenly had a bad feeling, as if some terrible truth was about to surface...

"Eh~ this white cloth..."

"What happened to Baibu?"

"Well, Xiaoqiao, you don't know that in North Vietnam, these white cloths are specially used to wrap the dead..."

Xia Xiaoqiao: (⊙o⊙)!

The kitchen that suddenly feels warm and comfortable has become a place full of dangers and unpredictable horrors?

"Well, Brother Yuan, why don't you help me see if there are any other inappropriate things in the kitchen?" Pit cook!The white cloth he thought was a cage pad was actually used to wrap the dead. Could it be that the wood he picked up from the side of the road last time and used as a small bench was also used as a pillow for the dead?I'm really tired and don't love~

The problem is that he has steamed countless steamed buns with this white cloth/(tot)/~~

The only good thing is that these white cloths are unopened, otherwise, he would really spit out all the milk he ate when he was a child!

Silently walked around the kitchen a few times, took out a few bowls from the cupboard and threw them away, and threw away the roll of linen on the chopping board. When he turned around again, His Majesty looked at Xia Xiaoqiao sincerely. : "Xiaoqiao, next time you need something, just go to the yellow dog, he will arrange it for you." Don't just pick up things from outside and use them. The Imperial Tomb is a very dangerous place. ah~

"...I know!" Xia Xiaoqiao wanted to cry, but he didn't want to ask any more, why those bowls with blue borders and those linen cloths can't be used anymore. Needless to say, it must have something to do with the strange customs of North Vietnam~

"Ahem~ What about glutinous rice balls?"

"I'll cook it right away!" Xia Xiaoqiao rushed to take out all the ready-made glutinous rice balls, rolled up the white cloth covering them and stuffed them into the stove to burn them. This kind of black history must be destroyed immediately. ~~Xia Xiaoqiao feels that in the next few decades, he will probably not be able to look directly at these good-looking white cloths...