[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

"Mr. Lang is really smart." This woman is the concubine of the Eighth Prince and the adoptive mother of the little emperor Zhao Zhen. She smiled slowly. Although she said so, she didn't show any curiosity when Xia Anran guessed her identity. , but if there is nothing, he has to look at Xia Anran's face.

After Xia Anran got the woman's acknowledgment, she showed a slightly shy smile, her almond eyes narrowed, looking extremely harmless.

He felt a little strange when he found out about the sudden hospitality of Master Mingran in the morning, because today is not Xiu Mu, and it is a grand meeting, so Bai Jinxi is not with him, so he can suddenly come to Daxiangguo Temple and roll his name However, the identity of the person accompanying the master is extremely subtle.

If we ignore the unexpected situation and simply talk about it, a person who has not made an appointment with Master Lianran, but can make Master Liaoran let go of the patient when he suddenly jumps in the queue, if this person is not a close friend of Master Lianran, he is either powerful or valuable , people with power are at work today, so only the nobles are there.

The noble but powerless people in Kaifeng Mansion are the princes, and as far as he knows, among the princes who are proficient in Buddhism and have a good relationship with Master Liaoran, only the Eighth Prince——Zhao Yuanyan.

He didn't guess who this woman was at the beginning, but felt that although this woman was plainly dressed, she was quite imposing, and the maids around her were all exquisite and beautiful. Bringing overly bright girls as maids is easy to cause troubles for no reason, and it is not prudent enough, but those who can take beautiful girls as maids and travel with them must be people who trust their husbands .

It is precisely because she knows that her husband respects her, and she will definitely not do such a thing as choosing a maidservant, that's why she has the bearing to take some smart and beautiful girls on the trip.

Of course, the most important reason is that the woman saw his attitude change too quickly.

She was still extremely shocked when she saw it on the stairs. After that, she must have immediately thought that the official family is still in the city, and it is impossible to appear here. There was a bit of doubt in her expression. Confirmation, it was just now that he was so sure that he was not Zhao Zhen's expression.

Otherwise, any noble lady who has seen Zhao Zhen will never be able to sit upright and invite him to take a seat when she sees him coming, unless it is the current queen mother.

And no matter which queen mother it is, it will not appear here at this time, and it will still be "single-handed".

To sum up these factors, and seeing this woman blocking him here, he boldly guessed that this lady was the eighth princess.

It was precisely because the eighth princess wanted to worship Buddha that the eighth prince came without an appointment.

...Of course, the above are all speculations, but it's just a [-]-[-] split.

When Xia Anran was thinking this way, she heard the eighth concubine suddenly say, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude to this old woman, but...can you let me see your husband's arm?"

Xia Anran was quite caught off guard when he heard the words, but before he could react, she saw Di Niangniang's expression was so serious that she almost couldn't refuse, she stretched out her hand and held Xia Anran directly on the table. right hand, and flipped up Xia Anran's sleeve extremely neatly.

Both of them looked at Xia Anran's arm in a daze.

As white as jade, nothing.

Xia Anran's shock came from the fact that the little red dot on his arm that belonged to the system had disappeared. This, this can actually be invisible?No, why did the system go invisible at this time without receiving his instructions?

The source of Di Niangniang's shock was unknown, Xia Anran looked at her expression, but her heart cooled down a little.

Did he guess wrong?He originally thought that this body was the son of the third son, but seeing Di Niangniang's reaction, could it be that there were some marks on the son of the third son, which are gone now?

So, who is he then?

Xia Anran, who thought she had finally found her background, was stunned, but she felt the woman holding his hand tremble slightly. Eyelashes, extremely moving.

Xia Anran was shocked by Wang Hao's expression, and subconsciously pulled out the handkerchief before her reason came back, and wanted to wipe her tears, but the hand holding the handkerchief was also caught by Wang Hao, and Wang Hao had a serious expression on her face. Tears, the movements of his hands are still extremely bold, his sleeves were pulled up to the end again, this time there was nothing.

Sikong Zhaixing had already asked him about his physical characteristics when he checked his identity. Xia Anran had checked him carefully at the beginning. He even looked at the blind spots on his back with water. He knew very well that there was nothing on his body. Birthmark, no dark mole, no trace at all.

Seeing Di Niangniang lift his arms twice in a row, Xia Anran's heart felt a little chilly.

Sure enough, after a while, the empress slowly let go of her hand, sat upright, and said, "I'm sorry... I... I once had a close friend who lost him when he was a few months old. When I see someone with predestined relationship, I want to see their arm."

Di Niangniang locked his eyes tightly, "I... a friend's child, there is a red mole on the elbow as a birthmark. It is bright red, very eye-catching."

Xia Anran frowned slightly when she heard the words, and looked at Niangniang Di in confusion, and saw the latter pause every word, "Later I heard that it was a blood mole."

Blood mole...?

Wait, blood nevus is a blockage of blood vessels in modern terms, that is, hemangioma. Only a small part of this kind of situation will appear in infants and young children, and it will either become larger or disappear as the child grows up. It is impossible to stay there exactly the same for 20 years.

No, it is also possible that what the empress is talking about is a birthmark...?

Just as he was thinking this way, his hands were held by someone, and the concubine's eyes were tightly locked on Xia Anran's, "If you can see a son with a blood mole on your hand, you must tell him."

"His mother, misses him every day, never dares to forget."

"I only hope that there will be a reunion day."

"For this reason, the mother will offer lamps in front of the Buddha every day to pray for each other, just for the reunion."

Di Niangniang left in a hurry, but she dropped a bomb in Xia Anran's heart.

His brain, which has always been clever, was knotted at this moment, and he felt that his brain had turned into a paste.

But the corners of his lips were so honest that they rose again and again.

There is no red mole on the third son's arm at all. He doesn't know why Di Niangniang emphasized the matter of red mole so much. It must be a little subtle, but Di Niangniang looked at him with an attitude, but she told him clearly that she was her baby.

In this life, he is still his mother's child.

Hey Hey! !

Xia Anran only felt that she was so happy that she was going to float!

When he regained his sanity, he sat under the tree with a smirk for more than a quarter of an hour, and he chewed over and over again what Niangniang Di said just now, as if he had vaguely grasped the meaning of his mother in this life.

The one with the red mole is the son of Di Niangniang's "friend".If friend doesn't mean herself...

So Di Niangniang is hinting that she should get a mole.

There will be such a hint... Xia Anran rubbed her chin until her chin became hot, and then she calmed down a bit.

He felt that something must have happened that he didn't know. The most likely change was that Niang Niang or the Eighth Prince got the news from "Prince Pingnan", and "Prince Pingnan" noticed their abnormal reaction .

Furthermore, it is also possible to touch Xia Anran's place.

That's right, his arms must have been exposed intentionally or unintentionally. Usually, when the system is around, there are red spots on his hands, but the original body doesn't have them. King Pingnan naturally knows this.

Although this difference is extremely small, it is enough to make the person who found out about him a little bit suspicious.

Bai Jinxi must know this, and the Eighth Prince also knows this, so he must express that this body is not his son.

The empress should have also got this information, but today she couldn't let go, but when she tried it, she saw that there was no red dot on his hand, so she must have thought that the red dots on his hands were made by herself, thus affirming his identity .

At the same time, she also reminded herself, don't forget to pretend.

...In this way, Little Leopard was suddenly sent by Big Brother Bai, and came to the door with Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou...There is also an explanation.

Xia Anran could feel that someone was divided into two vortexes centered on him.

One group wants to protect him, the other does not.

how to say.

He smiled slightly, although it felt good to be protected behind his back, but he hadn't experienced this kind of thing for decades.

Having figured this out, Xia Anran is in a good mood, and he is going to complete his original goal for today - Seng Tian.

Following the smell of the soil, he quickly found the monk field of Daxiangguo Temple. Apart from some monks, there were also many idle people who came to experience life—the precious people who came to make a connection with the Buddha. .

Seeing Xia Anran walking over in nice clothes, the people here didn't have any special reaction, obviously they also regarded him as a member of experience life.

Xia Anran didn't care about the clothes he was wearing today, he quickly used his pretty face and native Luoyang mandarin to talk to a farmer who was teaching these nobles how to farm.

At the beginning, this gentleman could understand what the two people were talking about, but after turning around they used terms that he didn't understand, and this gentleman looked at the two people talking with a bewildered expression on his face. I just squatted under the shade of the tree for no reason, and it’s fine to squat down, why did I put my hands in my sleeve pockets while talking?

That's all for the old farmer, why did the young gentleman follow suit?

He didn't understand what was wrong with it.

Xia Anran, who had been co-released with the skills of peasant squatting and peasant holding, only felt comfortable in the whole body at this moment, and felt that he had suddenly found a sense of peace in life.

And in the chat message between him and the old farmer, he got an important message - Champa rice.

Champa is the modern Vietnamese region, and Chamcheng rice is naturally the rice cultivated on the Vietnamese side, because Vietnam's geographical location is closer to the equator, and the Indochina Peninsula has extensive planting and management methods.

Champa rice is widely planted in the Indochina Peninsula. Due to the management methods of the local people, it has the enviable characteristics of intensive farming areas in order to survive. As a paddy field plant, Champa rice is more drought-tolerant and matures earlier. The most critical What is more, according to the farmers, is that Champa rice goes nowhere.

Regardless of whether it was a dry field, a paddy field, or a sandy loam soil, as long as enough water is given to the seedlings when they are tillering, they can grow.

In fact, Champa rice was introduced to the southern part of China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was planted in Fujian and Guangdong in large quantities and had a certain foundation. But frankly speaking, although Champa rice is easy to grow, its defect is that its taste is not as good as in China. Self-owned Jiangnan varieties that have been selected from generation to generation.

Therefore, although this kind of rice has a good reputation among the people, it has not been widely promoted until the period of Zhenzong. The Yangtze River, Huaihe River and Liangzhe River are indeed the main rice producing areas to promote planting.

Because it is promoted by the government, Champa rice has a good reputation among the people, so Champa rice is quickly planted among the people, and because of its early maturity, it can be used as Champa in some warm and long-sun areas. The model of rice + rice in the Song Dynasty launched two seasons of rice planting, which greatly increased the grain income of the Song Dynasty, and also made the Song Dynasty a dynasty that gradually changed from a two-meal system to a three-meal system because of the abundance of food to the extent of luxury.

In a country dominated by agricultural civilization, every prosperous dynasty is basically accompanied by the progress of agricultural civilization.

Or the progress of water conservancy irrigation measures, or the discovery of new grains.

The Northern Song Dynasty relied on the double-cropping rice harvest of Champa Rice and Da Song Rice, while the Qing Dynasty relied on the large-scale spread of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.Of course, the above premise must ensure that the climate is suitable. If there is a small ice river, it will be difficult to feed the people of the whole country even with the best grain.

——The larger the field, the more difficult it is.

Only when rations are guaranteed can the development of productivity and social progress be promoted. Xia Anran knows this very well. He plans to go to the grain and rice store to buy some Champa rice and try to sow it. He wants to know the origin of this kind of rice. Superiority and its degree of drought tolerance.

The rice grains purchased in grain shops in the Northern Song Dynasty are definitely not the white rice that is eaten in modern times. Modern white rice is called polished rice, which is made by repeated rolling and polishing of rice after husking. In the process, only the endosperm is left. part.

Most of the grain stores in the Northern Song Dynasty sold brown rice, that is, only the husk and bran were removed. Although the taste was not very good, it was called "live rice" by farmers because it retained the germ layer. The white rice that is ground into modern daily consumption is "polished rice", and because it can no longer germinate, it is also called "dead rice".

For example, brown rice is an egg that has been shelled but still has an egg membrane. Although the conditions are relatively harsh, it can still hatch chicks if it is well protected. Polished rice is egg white, and there is no possibility of life at all.

Therefore, the rice bought in the grain store in the Northern Song Dynasty can be bred and germinated.

Of course, generally for farmers, they still choose unthreshed rice grains containing rice husks as seeds. Such rice grains are highly disease-resistant. If there are no seeds, they will go to the homes of familiar people to exchange some. , No one has ever gone to the rice store to buy rice grains to plant.

When Lu Xiaofeng found Xia Anran with Hua Manlou, who had his eyes tied, the son had already tried to plow the field with the plow newly distributed by the government under the introduction of the old farmer.

Lu Xiaofeng saw that he was still a neat and handsome young man when he came, but after being separated for more than an hour, he had already pulled up his hem into his belt, pulled up his sleeves and bound him with grass, a pair of brocade skirts The shoes were left alone on the side of the road. Xia Anran was wearing rustic cloth shoes provided by the farmer's uncle (with several layers of soles, very resistant to roughness, recommended by the farmer's uncle) with a towel tied on his forehead under the sun Absorbing sweat, he was so proud that he stood on the farm plow and let a docile ox pull him around.

While walking, he was still chatting with the old farmer.

Look at the little expression can be happy.

Lu Xiaofeng's eyes darkened, and thinking of the warning eyes of Big Brother Bai, who had an accident and couldn't go with him before his trip today, he felt inexplicably that he was going to take the blame.

This feeling is very familiar, Lu Xiaofeng is really very experienced.

Things went as he expected, Huamanlou didn't need to go to Daxiangguo Temple the next day, so everyone originally agreed to go to a restaurant in Bianjing that was good at cooking shad. Lu Xiaofeng and Huamanlou took a detour to pick him up. Xia Anran and the Bai family, just a few steps into the house, saw Xia Anran wielding a very slender small hoe and plowing the first row of land in the small yard.

... If he remembers correctly, there was a chrysanthemum seedling there yesterday?

Although it's spring now and the chrysanthemums haven't bloomed yet, judging by its size, it will definitely be full of fragrance when the moon is full in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now, it has become a wasteland now!

What about chrysanthemums?

Seeing that Lu Xiaofeng was concerned about this, Xia Anran looked at him in some bewilderment, and then pointed to the chrysanthemum seedlings in several flower pots beside him.

It's not that he ruined things, it's just that the cultivation of flowers in the Song Dynasty has just started, and Xia Anran thinks that today's rare varieties are already the regular varieties of later generations!Except for some varieties that were not preserved due to the devastation of modern wars, ordinary ones such as Golden Dragon Turui, Hechan, and Red Two Colors have undergone more complicated changes in later generations, which are really not precious to him.

Chrysanthemums can be planted in pots or in the ground. First grow them in pots to let them grow roots, and then plant them in the soil after the summer is safe. They can bloom together with the autumn wind. Otherwise, we must find ways to prevent this short-day herb from being exposed to the sun in summer. It hurts!

Xia Anran was so confident that she made excuses.

If Renzong really has an opinion at that time, just plant it back. It is impossible to plant dead. The little flower hoe in his hand is a mission gift. Xia Anran has already experienced how good this little flower hoe is in the Three Kingdoms world. , It's just a green finger, as long as he doesn't do anything that is extremely harmful to the plant, the germination rate and rooting rate are both leveraged.

He also has no choice. Although he has some money in his hand, it is not easy to buy a piece of land in Bianjing, let alone outside the city. Yesterday he asked the monks at Daxiangguo Temple if they could ask them to rent land, which would annoy the monks. Looking at his expression, he was speechless.

So Xia Anran had no choice but to plant them on his homestead.

To be honest, the soil in my garden is shallow soil, which is to ensure the foundation of the house is stable, especially the house like Xia Anran is on the riverside. Disadvantage - loose foundation.

The Bianhe River is a tributary of the Yellow River, which carries a large amount of sediment every year. Some of this part of the sediment is taken away during dredging every year, and some are retained. The situation of saline-alkali land along the Bianjing River in the Northern Song Dynasty was serious.

This seems to be a paradox, since it is a fertile alluvial plain, how can there be saline-alkali land?

This is because there is a condition of saline-alkali formation precisely because of low-lying, poorly drained areas.

The groundwater level in Bianjing is very high. At the same time, as the rain belt gradually shifts from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin, its precipitation gradually decreases. When the evaporation is huge in spring, the salt dissolved in the water will follow the groundwater along the capillary water. It rises to the ground, and then gathers on the surface of the ground. In addition, the water of the Bianhe River itself is also salty, because the salt concentration in the water has also increased slightly due to the decrease in precipitation, which has aggravated the situation of saline-alkali land along the Bianhe River.

This is the case on both sides of the Bian River in Kaifeng Prefecture.

At present, this situation has not become a problem, because the Bianhe River, as the lifeline of Bianjing City, transports a large amount of grain, and the banks of the Bianhe River in the city are mostly gathering places for rich and wealthy households, and no one takes this precious place. For farming, there are still plenty of fields outside the city, and for the sake of beauty (at the same time to defend against nomadic raids in the north) a large number of woods are planted at the gate.

Only after Shenzong succeeded to the throne and Bianjing City, which was brought about by the high economic development of the Northern Song Dynasty, began to overload, with the east wind of Wang Anshi's reform, did someone start to focus on rectifying the problem of saline-alkali land outside Bianjing City, and achieved extremely fruitful results.

Therefore, the soil quality of Xia Anran's house, which is also in the alluvial plain of the Bian River, is very bad. Although Xia Anran did not have enough equipment to test the quality of the soil, he scraped away the top soil and knew the situation when he touched the soil below.

Silt is certainly nutritious, but it must also be used with ordinary soil.Because its density is too high, it will squeeze the roots of crops after it absorbs water and becomes heavier when it encounters water. At the same time, it will also hinder the respiration of crops. It is usually only used by farmers as a fertilizer.

Fortunately, Xia Anran already had sufficient experience in improving soil quality.

In fact, before Lu Xiaofeng arrived, he spent almost the whole night yesterday collecting materials. Now it is the fourth month of the lunar calendar, and his rice seedlings have just started breeding, which is much later. In order to ensure that the rice seedlings do not encounter high temperatures after they germinate He had to use a small hoe as a golden finger due to the weather and other conditions.

The data obtained in this way is likely to be inaccurate, but it is better than not being able to grow what you want.

In fact, there is a reason for Lu Xiaofeng to see this embarrassing situation when he comes here, and that reason is - Xia Anran is the only one who tends the fields in this house!indivual!people!

That's right, even if Xia Anran glanced left and right, all she could see were black heads on bright faces, and all of them said that they had never tended the fields.

Mr. Xia Lang is angry!

When His Majesty gave them to him, he clearly said that these people are decathlons!Could it be to avoid farming...?

He squinted his eyes and looked at them suspiciously, and he met eyes with sincerity.

Even if he pulls out his nirvana—the little notebook that bears vengeance meets his sincere eyes.

In the end, it was Bai Jinxi who found out about the situation when he came out to find someone after taking a bath. Xia Anran learned that these people in the house really don't know how to farm, because they were all born in official families. , Therefore, whether it is the Imperial Army or the spies of the Imperial City Division, all of them are born extraordinary.

Although these people have learned various camouflage skills after entering the Imperial City Department, they are generally disguised as peddlers who are easy to walk. Farmers are too difficult to imitate. There are more or less traces of calluses on the shoulders, so the Imperial City Secretary did not cultivate this skill for them.

Xia Anran silently put away the little notebook that held grudges, pretended that nothing happened just now, and then showed a kind smile.

But this small book was quickly taken away by Bai Jinxi. After flipping through a few pages, the governor of Huangcheng raised his lips slightly, and put it back in Xia Anran's hands in silence. After that, he looked at these subordinates again. His expression took on some meaning.

After sleeping all night, Xia Anran felt that his ears were much quieter. He slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, pretending not to know the changes around him after the night passed. Obviously all masters.

Xia Anran cherishes her life, although she can't say it clearly, it is not bad to use this method to trick herself into a lot of powerful experts.

He followed Bai Jinxi, Huamanlou and Lu Xiaofeng to a three-story restaurant in Bianjing City with a nonchalant expression on his face.

When spring is warm and flowers are blooming, when the temperature of the river warms up, the shad will go upstream along the Yangtze River and return to their birthplace, where they will meet their partners, fall in love and have children, and then soon go down the Yangtze River when the water temperature drops. Go to the sea, where they can get more nutrients for the coming breeding season.

We all know that animals that are ready to fall in love are the most delicious. In order to ensure the favor of the opposite sex, they will show their best side, including - taste.

After going up against the water for a long distance, coupled with the stimulation of the river current, a thick layer of unsaturated fat will accumulate under the scales, which is extremely fat.

This moment is also the only time in a year when literati and poets can let go of their slander.

The Yangtze River shad, which has been waiting for a year, is one of the three delicacies of the Yangtze River together with pufferfish and saury. It is also listed as the four famous fish in China together with Yellow River carp, Taihu whitebait and Songjiang perch. It is commented by the famous gourmet Su Shi as A fish that "flavors better than sea bass" does not need to mention its status in the eyes of gourmets.

However, in modern times, due to the overfishing during the period of shortage of materials after the founding of the People's Republic of China, as well as the construction of river reservoirs and climate change, the Yangtze River shad is rare.

In addition to the rising global temperature, the cleanliness of rivers cannot meet the requirements, etc., although the Chinese government and related organizations have been trying to restore the ecology of the Yangtze River Basin, and even put shad seedlings more than once, but so far they have not yet achieved results.

Therefore, even Xia Anran, who grew up in the Yangtze River Basin, never tasted the delicacy of shad when she was a child. She only heard about its taste from her grandfather, and she was extremely regretful while hearing the drooling.

Fish in the migratory period have the highest content of sodium glutamate. As we all know, sodium glutamate is the source of human umami, and it is also the main source of monosodium glutamate and chicken essence.

Umami is a taste that human beings can never describe with exact language and precise words.

Therefore, Xia Anran's expectations for this shad meal were even higher than the puffer fish feast he ate before.

Since it is a banquet, of course there will not be only shad as the main dish. This hotel is famous for shad, but the rest of the side dishes of his banquet are not inferior at all.

The small shrimp caught by the first fishing net in Taihu Lake are fried in oil and then sauced. The shell is crispy and the spikes have been cut. It can be eaten with the shell. The salty and sweet sauce, one bite, full of fragrance, is the best appetizer.

The whitebait that was scooped up together was transported to Bianjing fresh all the way, fried with eggs, and the fresh water dances together, which is very delicious.

There is also a fragrant snail in broth as a side dish. Xia Anran doesn't know the type of snail. He thinks it should be a conch, but it doesn't look like it, because it is a bit small, but it looks like a river snail. He didn't struggle with it for too long. The snail meat is crispy. Frankly speaking, the snail meat is not easy to taste, especially when it is cooked in a light soup. If it is cooked for a long time, the meat will tend to be old, but if it is cooked for a short time, the taste will not be absorbed.

Xia Anran didn't know what method the chef used to blend the taste just right, and it was full of delicious flavor, chewy and full of flavor in one bite.

Just then, the main course was served.

The shad is violent, and it dies when it leaves the water. It is obviously impossible to transport live shad from the Yangtze River to Bianjing City. Therefore, in order to eat shad, many celebrities choose to go to the Yangtze River during the fishing season, and Xia Anran cannot leave. Fortunately, there are stale ways to eat stale.

The shad served on the table was placed on top of the charcoal stove as soon as it was pulled out of the river. The fish scales on the surface were baked for a while, then wrapped in lotus leaves, the internal organs were removed, and antiseptic herbs were stuffed in. In the ice, while the ship was heading north quickly, the shad was often taken out for smoking and testing. Even so, there might not be more than a dozen shad that the chef allowed to serve on the whole boat.

The steamed shad served by the waiter was only topped with two slices of bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms for flavor. Xia Anran felt that the world without ham really lacked some umami. This color needs to be promoted in the future. !

But it doesn't matter, the anticipation of shad is enough for him to temporarily ignore everything, Xia Anran silently picked up the chopsticks, eyes full of longing and appetite.

The author has something to say: The author puts a flag today, solves the problem of life experience within five cards, and then makes waves!

The author Jun ate shad when I was a child, but I really don’t remember it, and it should be farmed, because I was watching a documentary when I was writing, and then my mother said lightly: Didn’t you eat it?

I:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Mom!Give me another chance to eat shad!

In fact, there are still shad, besides the Yangtze River shad, there are also shad in the south, but the delicacy of shad does not lie in this species, but in the fact that it goes upstream when migrating, eating these baits all the way, coupled with the qualitative changes that occur in sports and chasing ah!

That is to say, the taste of shad in the sea is different from that in the river, and the same goes for saury.