Infrastructure masters in the red building

The charcoal stove provided by Rongfu in Luxueguangli is very special. It is a small and exquisite copper pot with two ring-shaped pot ears, and the pot ears are wrapped with anti-scald cotton cloth.

There is a layer of silver charcoal on the bottom of the copper pot. The charcoal is burning red, but there is no smoke or peculiar smell. Only some "dog noses" can smell the charcoal.The open mouth of the copper pot is covered with a layer of something called a "grate", which is actually a densely woven copper grid.The meat prepared in advance by the imperial dining room was roasted on the copper grid, and after a while it was cooked, it was eaten together with the dipping sauce.

All kinds of meat have been marinated in advance, and when grilled, the aroma is overflowing, and the oil is sizzling, and the copper grid turns black after a while.The little eunuch serving on the side will immediately use clips to remove the stained grate and replace it with a brand new one for continued use.

The prince looked at the whole row of various ingredients on the table, and asked, "What are these? I don't even recognize any of them."

Immediately, a royal chef came over and pointed out one by one: "Returning to Your Highness, this is beef heart, this is beef tongue, this is bezoar throat, which is beef heart tube, this is pig yellow throat, and this is chicken liver..."

The prince was completely speechless: "Dare to love, this is all trash. Is there anything more normal..."

The imperial chef bowed again and again, and said: "Yes, yes... This is veal, and this is pork belly. It has been marinated in advance, and it is very tasty. You will know when you try it."

His Majesty the Emperor next to him said: "When I was at the border, if there were these offal, it would be a delicacy. Why is it abnormal?"

Second Master Ning Rong immediately agreed, and immediately the table became a memory of bitterness and sweetness, recalling the turbulent years of the past.Several people said that what impressed them most at that time was that they had to eat horse meat, which was their favorite mount, but they had to do it as a last resort.

Jia Daishan said: "I still remember that time, weeping while eating, the more weeping, but still eating. After all, I haven't seen meat star for many days. When I entered it, I still sighed. It really is my beloved mount. And bid farewell to the master with such a delicacy..."

The prince was embarrassed.What he was most likely to be criticized in his life was that he was "good at the hands of women in the deep palace". Although he had supervised the country for some time, he was always evaluated as "indecisive" and had never experienced conquests.

The prince had no choice but to muster up his courage, picked up a piece of beef heart that had been cut and marinated in advance, roasted it twice, saw that it had changed color, dipped it in the sauce, and put it in his mouth, he immediately scalded himself and sighed. After taking two mouthfuls and chewing slowly, I felt that the meat was fine and dense, and the seasoning was just right. It turned out to be a delicacy that had never been tasted in the palace.

On the other side, the third prince was chatting and fishing with the fifth prince and the king of Xining. Behind each of them was a little eunuch who was roasting meat for them.

The third prince was picky on purpose: this one was scorched, and this one became fishy when it got cold.In short, in his opinion, the barbecue banquet prepared by the Rong Mansion is useless. The material selection, the utensils are not good, the heat is not good... The most unbearable thing is that the guests have to cook it by themselves.

Finally the emperor spoke: "Zhou Deyu, it's fun to do it yourself. Enjoying the snow and barbecue in the garden is the most leisurely and elegant thing, but you are making noise."

The third prince blushed immediately, like a gourd with its mouth sawn off, and he didn't dare to speak again.

He quickly dropped the fishing rod, snatched the chopsticks from the little eunuch beside him, and started to do it himself.The Fifth Prince and King Xining cast sympathetic looks at him at the same time.

After a while, there was a burnt smell.Second Duke Ning Rong looked at the emperor at the same time, as if to say: You may also need to be considerate of other people's actual situation, after all, there are also handicapped party members who really can't roast themselves.

The emperor could only shake his head and sighed: "I can't even do this well..."

The table between Jia Fang and Shui Xian is the most leisurely and attentive.Encouraged by Jia Fang, Shui Xian boldly tried the chicken liver. The chicken liver that had been marinated in advance, even if it was fully cooked, looked pink and tender, and tasted full of fragrance.

Shui Xian immediately praised it.

Jia Fang really didn't expect that this guy, who usually looks like a fairy, would like this.He immediately became nervous, waved to invite Jia She, the manager of the restaurant, and whispered a few words in his brother's ear.Jia Amnesty nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes!"

Jia She said with a smile: "At first, I didn't dare to present it because it was not elegant. But the smell of it... tsk tsk tsk! Wait, I'll get it for you."

When Yu Chu brought this dish up, his expression was a bit unnatural.Shui Xian looked at the objects on the plate, and asked for a long time: "What is this?"

Jia Fang: "It's chicken skin——"

Shui Xian was stunned immediately: "With you, even this can be baked?" He spoke in a higher voice, and several tables next to him looked over here.

Jia Fang quickly lowered his voice: "I won't tell others!"

He picked up two pieces of chicken skin and put them on the grate. After a while, the fat slowly seeped out from the surface of the chicken skin, and the surface of the chicken skin gradually became brittle.

Jia Fang: I flip through——

As soon as he turned it over, the grease that had just leaked immediately fell into the charcoal stove, and the flames shot up in the stove, grilling the meat above it wantonly.

The flames illuminated the faces of Jia Fang and Shui Xian at the same time.The aroma wafted away immediately, and even the emperor at the table asked, "What is this roasting?"

Jia Fang quickly replied: "Chicken...this one is a little fatter."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shui Xian mouthed to him on the opposite side: "How dare you bully the king so close?"

Jia Fang turned over the chicken skin with an innocent face, and sure enough, there was a shallow layer of chicken under the subcutaneous fat, shrinking into a small ball under the action of heat.

At this time, the whole skin had been baked and the surface was completely crispy, so Jia Fang boldly handed it to Shui Xian, and naturally asked: "Hot... let it cool for a while—"

Shui Xian flicked the chopsticks a little, put them into his mouth in one gulp, chewed a little, and his eyes lit up.

Jia Fang unceremoniously took a piece himself, wrapped it in salt and pepper, and put it in his mouth.At this time, the chicken skin has shrunk into a ball, and the entrance is all crispy, but after one bite, it immediately produces warm and fat oily flowers——

cool!

When Jia Amnesty saw the expressions of the two foodies in front of him, his eyes widened.Feelings This person is already imagining his "Xiaolou" hot pot in the future, adding another branch to do "Xiaolou" barbecue, specializing in roasting these strange and weird parts, it will definitely be able to attract the best foodies in the whole capital. Gather to him.

In addition to all kinds of meat and offal, this barbecue banquet also caters for different tastes. It serves various grilled mushrooms, grilled tofu and sea vegetables. In addition, it also serves cabbage leaves that have been slightly blanched in water. You can use this to wrap grilled meat. , adding a burst of refreshing, but also relieve some greasy.

The Fifth Prince, who claims to eat meat "restrains and immobilizes", with the help of cabbage leaves, he also eliminated a lot of meat.

In short, some people enjoyed the meal in Lu Xueguang very much, while others were extremely unhappy.

After the third prince was forced to eat the grilled veal roasted by his extremely poor barbecue skills, he felt that this day was really impossible, so he raised the wine cup in his hand and proposed to the prince: "Second brother, Today's snow scene is outstanding, and it's rare for my brothers to gather here at the knees of my father. My younger brother suggested that Lu Xue Guang Zhonglian poems here to commemorate today."

He turned around again, and raised his glass to Shui Xian's table from a distance: "Zi Heng is also coming, and Zi Fang is also coming."

Obviously, the third prince wanted to bring this situation back to the battlefield he was familiar with.

Jia Fang suddenly made a bitter face, asking an engineering student to write a couplet of poetry, where is your conscience?

If he is forced to drive the ducks to the shelves, he can only quote "Northern wind is tight overnight" at the beginning of the article like Sister Feng, and then try to escape.

Who would have thought that at this time Shui Xian sat beside Jia Fang as firmly as Mount Tai, and whispered, "Don't be afraid, I'm here!"

Jia Fang: I didn't feel much better.

Poetry is really impossible without talent.

Besides, he occasionally loses his hearing, and once he hears the allusions that are so sloppy, he doesn’t know what they are. Maybe it will come up again in the original book that Baoyu’s people said, "Yo Yo Luming, lotus leaf duckweed" Jokes like that.

The third prince continued to stir up the matter over there, but Ninggong Jia Daihua smiled and said: "Third Highness, what should we do if we can't do it?"

The third prince hastened to sell the favor to Second Duke Ningrong: "...Second Duke Ningrong has worked hard and done a lot, let's just listen to us juniors writing poems here, if you are willing to comment a few words, you are very welcome..."

Before he finished speaking, Duke Rong Jia Daishan suddenly left the table, came to Jia Fang, and whispered: "Fang'er, come out with me."

Jia Fang didn't know what happened, but he was also happy to be able to escape from Lu Xueguang at this moment and avoid one, two, three or four glasses of fine wine. He tidied up his clothes and followed Jia Daishan to the gate of Lu Xueguang. He presented the great cloak that he wore outside.

"Go ahead and wait at Zhedai Zhulan Banqiao!" Jia Daishan whispered in his ear.

Jia Fanghun didn't know why he wanted to go, but since his father had said it, he had no choice but to do so. He went a long way and looked back, but Jia Daishan didn't follow him.

- This is strange.

The snow is still falling, and the sky and the earth are gray, reminiscent of the chaotic scene at the beginning of enlightenment.But only the gorgeous railings of Zhedai Zhulan Banqiao are very eye-catching, adding a touch of color to the eyes.

Jia Fang waited honestly on the Zhulan Banqiao. He opened it casually, and found that the family members of the Jia family and the eunuchs in the palace who had been here earlier "three steps, one post, five steps, one sentry" had all withdrawn. left.

Just as he was wondering, someone suddenly grabbed his sleeve and dragged him forward.

Jia Fang is very familiar with this movement, and just about to ask the person next to him, what's wrong, who knows that the "fisherman" next to him, wearing a jade needle cape and a golden rattan hat, squeezed out a sentence: "Come with me——"

Jia Fang didn't know if he was right, the one who was dragging him across the snow was not Shui Xian, this one was clearly—the one who was sitting in the Luxue Guang and had a long talk just now, His Majesty the Emperor.

Jia Fang stumbled and quickly followed, muttering to himself: Don't you have a leg problem?Don't you still need a shoulder?Why is he walking like flying at this time, faster than him?

Moreover, His Majesty the emperor was very familiar with the path in the garden. After crossing the Zhulan Banqiao, he went straight to Daoxiang Village. In front of the earthen well outside the gate of Daoxiang Village, this one stopped abruptly without saying a word.

Poor Jia Fang, he almost bumped into the person in front of him, and stopped abruptly.However, the emperor loosened Jia Fang's wrist and came to Daoxiang Village alone with his hands behind his back.

The emperor stretched out his hand, but after hesitating for a moment, he put his palm on the door panel and pushed gently.Snow had accumulated on the door for a long time, and now it fell in chunks, fell to the ground, and fell to pieces.But the courtyard door squeaked and opened after all.

Jia Fang watched from the side, and felt that the emperor was full of emotions, and he stood there in a daze for a long time before stepping in from the courtyard gate.

Imagining the gossip immediately took flight, and Jia Fang immediately thought that the emperor was imprisoned in this garden 15 years ago, so this Daoxiang Village was the little black house back then?

But why does this person's expression turn out to be extremely melancholy and nostalgic?

Should not be!

Jia Fang was hesitant to follow in, but he was afraid of running into this person's bad luck, so while hesitating, a sentence came from inside: "Aren't you coming in?"

Jia Fang: ...Why should I come in?

The slander in his heart is the slander, Jia Fang thought it was his duty to take care of the old man who was enjoying the snow alone, and when he stepped into the courtyard, he found that His Majesty the Emperor himself did not enter the house, but was standing inside the courtyard wall, admiring the giant tree growing inside the wall. A few red plums.

Jia Fang listened to him muttering and chanting all the time: "Taking all the charm to Xiaoyuan."

This is a sentence from the "Two Poems of Little Plums in the Mountain Garden" written by Lin Bu in the Southern Song Dynasty, who is known as the plum wife and crane son. Jia Fang still remembers it clearly. Xiang Xiaoyuan", but this first couplet is definitely not as famous as the neck couplet, because the neck couplet is "sparse shadows, horizontal slanting water, clear and shallow water, dark fragrance, floating moon and dusk".

If His Majesty the Emperor just saw the plum blossoms and wanted to express his emotions, then the "sparse shadows and horizontal slant" of the neck couplet should be more suitable for him.

So why is His Majesty the emperor always persistent, and must "take all the charm and go to the small garden" with the wheel?

But listening to Jia Fang, he felt that something was wrong. Why did His Majesty take off the golden rattan hat at this time, and when the snow fell on his face, his face was shining, could it be snow water?

Jia Fang was thinking wildly when he suddenly heard the emperor cough, and then he coughed loudly while clutching his chest.Jia Fang strode forward, then supported the emperor's shoulders, reached out and patted him on the back, hoping that he would feel better.

The Ninth Five-Year Master coughed for a long time and coughed very fiercely. Jia Fang was really worried that he had coughed up his heart, liver and lungs when he heard the coughing sound, so he quickly helped him into the main courtyard of Daoxiang Village.

Although Daoxiang Village is not the main reception place for this pick-up, several smoke cages have been set up in order to prepare for the royal driver to "come and have a look on a whim".The room was very warm, and the emperor stopped coughing shortly after he entered and sat down.

At this time, it was snowing outside the door, and there was occasional wind noise, but the room was quiet and quiet, occasionally one could hear the crackling of coals in the brazier under the smoker cage.

The emperor sat on the chair, looked up and looked around the main house of Daoxiang Village.He nodded and said: "The cultivation is exactly the same as in the past..."

Jia Fang nodded proudly: "That's it!" Restore the old as before, not just shouting for fun.

The emperor sized him up, and then he set his eyes on Jia Fang, stared at him intently for a long time, and then called softly: "Fang'er——"

But Jia Fang was distracted, and casually agreed: "Oh!" Subconsciously, he still felt that Jia Daishan was calling him.

"How have you been all these years?" This sentence was asked slowly, with a low voice that was barely audible.

Jia Fang scratched his head: As the emperor, do you care so much about your subjects' families?

He thought for a while and said: "Returning to Your Majesty, the young minister is doing well."

"I heard some rumors last year...but since you said it was good, I believed it."

Jia Fang still didn't know that he just unintentionally solved a huge problem for the Rongguo Mansion, to be precise, for Mrs. Shi.He said sternly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern." To show his courtesy.

"I know a thing or two about you. You... are fine."

It was still a deep praise, but it seemed that he had run out of words, except for the word "good", it was impossible to express the indescribable pride in his heart.

He was satisfied, really satisfied.

"Your Majesty's absurd praise." When Jia Fang replied, he tried to make his tone cheerful, so as to appear genuine.

The other party was obviously very useful when he heard it, and said slowly: "Your conversation in Rongxi Hall today was full of youthful vigor. I appreciate it very much—"

At this moment, the Ninth Five-Year Lord leaned on the armrest of the seat, stood up slowly, and stared at the nave facing him with his eyes, and that still read the very sad couplet.

"Fei Changfang shrinks in love"

"Nuwa's can't finish Lihentian"

If anyone could see his expression at this moment, they would be able to notice that this person's face was flushed, his eyes were trembling slightly, and his teeth were biting his lower lip lightly.

God, I can't make up for Lihen... That's right, the Sri Lankan is gone, so I can't make up for Lihen after all.

But this child, this child still exists, and has picked up this fairy garden again—he has ideals and abilities, and he is different from the other sons under his knees.

So he spoke softly again, and turned his head to the young man behind him:

"Let go!"

"Aren't you ready to..."

Aren't you going to take me to see your Peach Blossom Spring?

Unexpectedly, at this time, someone outside Daoxiang Village also shouted: "Fang'er!"

Jia Fang heard the voice of his father Jia Daishan, and happily responded: "Father!"

"The child is here!"

This voice can be regarded as true feelings.The young man ran out of the main house, opened the gate of Daoxiang Village, and quickly answered the visitor's question: "The emperor is here... the emperor is very good!"

"Boy? Baby is fine too."

It was only a short moment before the words that were about to be said could never be said again.

Standing alone in front of Mi Fu's ink and wash landscape, the Ninth Five-Year Lord felt an unsolvable loneliness rushing to his heart again, he slowly closed his eyes, and said secretly in his heart: "Xiaoyuan, Xiaoyuan... ..."

"I will 'release' this child as you wish."

"And you, are you still blaming me?"