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

When he was full, Xia Anran threw the gauze aside. He just took the gauze out of the steamer when he was eating, and separated it with reed leaves before putting it into the rice bowl. Just throw it away, which saves a lot Dishwashing time.

The daily water supply for candidates is limited, one bucket per person, estimated to be four to five liters, enough for drinking, but it is a little nervous for washing dishes, this is the method taught by Lin Ruhai, he A fellow student at the same time did just that, and told Lin Ruhai so proud of it.

Master Lin didn't care about it on the surface, and he used it as soon as his students took the scientific examination.Of course, if he didn't say it, Xia Anran naturally didn't know that his teacher had memorized this matter for more than ten years, and he still admired the teacher for being so far-sighted.

After eating a full meal, the blood enters the stomach. Naturally, the effect of doing the questions at this time is not good. Xia Anran stood up and stretched her legs in the small room, and began to do soothing exercises, relaxing the shoulders and cervical spine, twisting left and right Twisting, and bending his elbows, he relaxed without any pressure, tormenting the examinee on the opposite side, and when he looked up, he saw the young boy twisting himself into various positions.

The old man was very calm. He thought about it, stood up and raised his hands horizontally, and made a Tai Chi gesture. When the inspector walked over, he saw the two candidates separated by a long distance. The long corridor seemed to be communicating with each other physically. His face turned black at the time, thinking that he had encountered a cheater, and he was waiting to step forward to stop him. When he got closer, he couldn't help but cry.

It turned out that Xia Anran saw the examinee on the other side also got up and did Tai Chi movements. She was a little worried that the two of them would attract the examiner's attention. There were no monitoring probes in the ancient exams, and they didn't reason with you. Moreover, if such actions are suspected, no one would It was said that the stolen goods were obtained at the same time, but now they are still talking about torture... So, he turned his back very cleverly. Seeing Xia Anran turned his back, the old man seemed to realize something, and through a change of posture, he also turned his back. Turn around, because the examination room is a long one, and he has a relatively wide range, so naturally he can't completely carry it like Xia Anran, so he performs Tai Chi facing the wall, and he can't see clearly from a distance. They can't say anything like this.

But I was really worried that this was a new cheating method, so I found a patrol test, and pulled another one. Three strong northern men held hands and blocked the two test rooms tightly.

When Xia Anran felt a little hot in his body, and his mind became clearer, and he was about to turn around and do the questions, he saw three yamen servants waiting for him with dark faces.

Xia Anran was taken aback and almost jumped up on the spot.

Xia Anran:? ? ? ? ?

No, brother, what are you doing?

It's scary!

Embarrassed, he sat down silently under the sharp eyes of his big brothers, opened the paper, and started drafting while grinding the ink. Soon, he was immersed in his own thoughts.

Brothers in the inspection tour: Mom, are you even more angry!

Xia Anran's answer sheet means that he has answered the sun, and the Gongyuan lit up a few scattered lights. These lights are not for the examinees to illuminate, but for the convenience of the examination. If the examinees want to see the paper clearly, they must light candles. A candle can burn for more than an hour, and if there is no wind, it can burn for about an hour and a half.

That is to say, during the time of Chunwei, excluding the unsteady sunshine time during the day, each person is given a total of three to four hours of night time.

Although the scientific research is said to last three days and two nights, in fact the papers will be closed at noon on the third day, and with the extended time of candles, it will be almost three days.

If you encounter cloudy and rainy weather during the exam, you really have to try your luck to see how the light transmittance is in the exam room you are in.

But Xia Anran was obviously lucky this time, it was a sunny day.He looked at the sky, it was about five or six o'clock in the evening, and it was already a bit reluctant to write the paper in daylight. He closed his paper and put it aside, and covered the paper with the coarse cloth that was originally covered on the test basket to prevent it from being stained. Start cooking your own dinner with the setting sun.

During the years Xia Anran has been here, at the beginning the family conditions were not good, so he ate two meals with Xia's mother, but after a little surplus, he really couldn't get rid of the habit of three meals a day, so he brought Xia's mother to also change. It became three meals a day.

He brought a total of three small bags of white rice. After eating rice for lunch, of course he didn't want to eat it at night. What he prepared extra was egg noodles.

Add eggs when kneading the noodles, the color of the noodles will turn yellow naturally, with the aroma of eggs, in order to increase the preservation time and taste, the egg noodles are cooked and then fried with lard when bagging, so wait for a while to cook At this time, the lard wrapped in the noodles is scattered into the water, and it becomes a low-profile version of the base soup.

Because it was eaten by one person, Xia Anran did not add more water, the water in the pot could only submerge the egg noodles, which are cooked noodles, and they can be eaten after boiling, Xia Anran likes it to be mushy, so just leave it After cooking for a while, he was preparing another bowl of rice sauce.

Different from the strong flavor prepared to match the bland rice at noon, he used a slightly lighter sauce for the rice sauce with the already delicious egg noodles.

Pork tenderloin, winter bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, fungus, dried tofu, peanuts, bean paste, sweet noodle sauce, rice cakes.

The ingredients are extremely easy to get, but this dish is not ordinary.

All the ingredients are cut into diced shapes that are easy to taste and maintain the texture. The method is also very simple. Stir-fry the pork first, then stir-fry the bean paste and sweet noodle sauce, mix in all the ingredients, and slash evenly.

This dish is the most famous eight-treasure chili sauce in Shanghai cuisine. It is durable, full of ingredients, and mixed with various ingredients. With the bean paste and sweet noodle sauce, one bite is enough to make people want to rest their cheeks to help them chew.

The tenderloin is fresh and tender, the winter bamboo shoots and peanuts are crisp, the dried tofu with fungus is full of toughness, and the rice cake is soft and glutinous. These completely irrelevant ingredients are condensed into special power through the leadership of the sauce in the human mouth.

As the so-called saucer is, the general of all flavors, he will act with all flavors.

Doubanjiang and sweet noodle sauce have a salty taste and a sweet taste. After being fried together, they are like the Chinese people. Although there are differences between the north and the south, the foundation is the same and can be easily blended. The sweetness gives the salty taste, and the salty gives the sweetness. Chunwei, the two complement each other and help each other, and the strength of the ingredients will push the deliciousness to its peak.

This dish has both texture and taste, and it can be eaten hot or cold. Naturally, Xia Anran does not need to cook the eight-treasure chili sauce together in the pot. He pours the chili sauce into a bowl first, and then pours the noodle soup all at once into the bowl.

This kind of chili sauce tastes hot on the outside, but the core is cold. It has a special taste when mixed with hot noodle soup, and because the sauce is on the bottom and the noodles are on top, part of the saltiness of the sauce will be dissolved by the soup and noodles. The season is salty and light, very delicious.

After he made this dish to prepare for the scientific examination, he made more of it because it was convenient to make, but after one night passed, most of the hot sauce in it was reduced by half the next day, and no one would admit it. All of them put on high airs, with a look of "How could I go to the kitchen to get something to eat? Don't insult my personality", and no one told him when he asked the servants, this could only become an unsolved case in the end .

Xia Anran didn't guess that it was his family who ate, because this person had been missing for several days, and the words on the guestbook stayed in the past few days when he said he was going to travel far.

In an era without communication tools, Xia Anran will inevitably miss and worry more about friends who travel far away.

He put some of the things he made recently in his room. He was not at home, and the servants would not come in to clean them, and he didn't know if the man could come back before the things broke.

After eating, Xia Anran washed the porcelain bowls. Turning the test basket upside down is the best drying rack. Today is over, and there will be fresh water delivered tomorrow morning, so he naturally doesn't have to worry about water.

Now the sky is completely dark, and when he looked outside, he could vaguely see that some exam room candles were already lit, but he didn't plan to use candles this night. During the day, he had already written the outline and just added a little polish Complete the draft, and then consider the copying.

The first exam consists of five questions on history. Take history as the topic and talk about your views on history.

The second exam will be more complicated. The questions are no longer limited to history books, but will also examine the politics of various countries. These questions test students' familiarity with neighboring countries and their familiarity with policies between certain countries. Ask for something to say.

The third exam is this reform, and the three questions are all about policy theory.

Policy theory means that the emperor asks policy from the bottom. If you are admitted to Jinshi, you will be an official. People can figure it out, but it is conceivable that it must be related to the current political situation. Xia Anran was brought by Lin Ruhai's side before, so he naturally knows the current situation of the new government order and the implementation situation in various places.

This is his advantage, as for the disadvantage...

Lin Ruhai also expressed helplessness at this point, the student had too many brains, and no one knew what he would think of at that time, Mr. Lin expressed his helplessness at this point.

He sat on the bed under the moonlight, stretched out the thin quilt, wrapped himself in the clothes, and lay down, closing his eyes and thinking about the answers to the last two questions.

In the second month of the lunar calendar, although the beginning of spring has passed, the night in Beijing is still very cold, and the thin quilt is not enough to keep out the cold, which can only be said to be reluctant. Of course Xia Anran dare not take off her clothes. Although there is a heater, she is walking around for the sake of transparency. In the examination room of the wind, it is useless.

He sat in a leeward corner of the room, closed his eyes and meditated.

When the inspection tour passed through the examination room with a lot of things, he couldn't help but glanced inside, and saw that the examinee had fallen asleep while everyone was still writing. He shook his head and thought to himself: what happened? There are quite a lot of children, and the heart is quite big, but I don't know how to learn.

But the smell of the stuff made by this scholar is really fragrant. Just now, when there was no wind, the smell of the noodles spread throughout the examination room. Although it was not as overbearing as it was at noon, the lard soup smelled so delicious!Xun Zuo is also a meat lover, so he can't help but want to eat!

After three exams...

He thought blankly,

After the three exams are over and there is no suspicion of cheating, you must ask the examinee where the sauce is, tender and fragrant!

On the second day, Xia Anran, who had a music score in her chest, didn't hesitate much. She ate porridge early, studied a inkstone full of ink, and started to write at dawn.

He already had a manuscript in his heart, and when he wrote it, he had the help of a god. He wrote the third question and the fourth question one after another without stopping except for the ink.

Taking the past as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, he put the equipment into the examination basket, and waited for the bell to ring to collect the papers.

As soon as Xia Anran walked out of the examination room, he was surrounded by candidates.

"I'm in Zhu Xun, Guangdong Province." An older student bowed to him, and Xia Anran hurriedly introduced herself with a confused expression.

The student looked at him very seriously and said.

"How old is my idiot, let me call you brother," he said with a straight face, his expression was very serious and reliable, "Can you tell Brother Yu, where did Brother Xia buy the sauce from?"

"..."

"……what?"

The author has something to say:

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The months in this article are all in the lunar calendar. In fact, it should be around March in the Gregorian calendar. Beijing is still frozen in two months.

Talk! ! !The author is from the south, once went to Beijing to play in winter, although there was no snow, but there was ice!The entire river is frozen and you can walk on it (Beihai). Also, there are very few people traveling in winter, and it gets dark early, so taking pictures of the Forbidden City when it gets dark is especially impressive!There is also hot pot. It may be that there are few tourists, so I eat Donglaishun and think it is delicious!There is also a cheap place, and a barbecue season!Ow!Cough, of course there are candied haws.

Soy sauce...don't try it.

By the way, the fresh taro menu in Beijing seems to be different from that in Shanghai (touch your chin)

Do you especially recommend traveling to City B in winter?ah?You ask me if it’s cold, hehe, I’m a person from a big city in the south without central heating, and I’m telling you, I guess, as long as it doesn’t snow and I wear the same clothes, I can carry it to Beijing at -10 degrees without putting on a warm baby !

It is especially recommended to go to the ancient buildings in winter. I went to the Summer Palace. When there are no people, the photos taken in the Summer Palace with withered flowers and trees and the frozen river are very beautiful!It’s ancient rhyme without P.Then the friends in the south recommended to go to Ming Xiaoling Tomb when the ginkgo trees are yellow in October, which is also very, very beautiful. (Be sure to go early, go on the first bus) Nanjing Museum is very interesting, and there are many small products around it. It is a relatively exquisite peripheral made by domestic museums.

Surroundings of the Palace Museum... Well, do you know their specialty—the cats in the Palace Museum?There is a specialty in this article.