I saw the Taoist priest bowing slightly to the travelers and smiling gently:
"Liu An has met all of you distinguished guests!"
The travelers returned the favor one after another.
"I dare not, I have seen His Highness the King of Huainan!"
This man is not only a historical figure, but also a real immortal. Ghosts and immortals are also immortals!
Then Liu An's eyes rested on Gao Jingfei, and he saw that the young monk in front of him wearing a black feather coat and a deer antler crown was from the same sect, and he couldn't help but smile at him with appreciation.
But this time, Gao Jingfei didn't risk his life to use his spiritual vision to observe. Xiang Yu had almost blinded his spiritual eye before. And they didn't know the temper of Liu An, the king of Huainan, so they couldn't act arbitrarily to avoid causing dissatisfaction on the other side.
Then, under Xiang Yu's introduction, the group entered the tall and solemn temple in a happy atmosphere.
After the guests and hosts were seated in the front hall, Xiang Yu said:
"On business, I brought these little friends here just to eat the delicacies of your house. If you have any preparations, please bring them out quickly!"
Liu An was not dissatisfied, but was happy that others could enjoy and like his food. He clapped his hands gently, and a group of beautiful maids in fluttering clothes and strong men with bare chests and arms prepared the banquet.
Obviously compared to Xiang Yu, the overlord, Liu An, the king of Huainan who was born in the royal family of the Han Dynasty, knew how to enjoy things better.
Liu An also said politely:
"Because I'm not in the palace, the preparations are simple. You don't have to be restrained and enjoy it to your heart's content. We, the people in the underworld, don't have to worry about the red tape in the earth."
Everyone was polite, and then the banquet began.
The cold food and drinks were served first.
Gao Jingfei saw three cold dishes served on the table in front of him, one meat and two vegetarian. The meat dish was the famous historical dish "Jin Yu Dao", which is the prototype of sashimi. The crystal-clear fish meat was spread on the golden seasoning.
On top of the sauce, use chopsticks to pick up the fish fillets and sauce.
With one bite, the fish meat is so sweet that it melts in your mouth. The sauce is fresh and rich, with the sweetness of wild rice, the aroma of corn, and the spiciness of ginger, garlic and dogwood. Different from the spiciness of chili peppers, this spiciness is less exciting.
But it's more flavorful.
"tasty!"
Gao Jingfei's eyes lit up, and then he took three more slices in a row, and then turned to the other two vegetarian dishes without being satisfied.
One is a long food similar to rice dumplings, wrapped in green leaves, and the other is courgette strips topped with cheese, that is, cucumber strips.
After Gao Jingfei opened the former and tasted it, he felt that the rice was fragrant in his mouth, the bamboo leaves were fragrant, and it also had a meaty taste, but it was pure vegetarian and he didn't know how it was made.
The latter was similar to a salad, but the cheese was rich in flavor and the cucumbers were crisp and refreshing. It tasted better than any salad he had ever eaten.
Soon the plates on the table in front of Gao Jingfei had been cleared away, and it wasn't like he was gobbling it down, but he was savoring every bite carefully, and he was eating quickly.
Soon the hot food was brought out one by one by the maids.
The first course is the famous grilled meat, that is, barbecue. There is a grilling method in the traditional barbecue technology of the Xia Kingdom. It was also spread to Central Asia and West Asia through the Silk Road very early, and eventually formed the roast mutton that people like to eat there.
Then it was spread back to China from the frontier and became a well-known delicacy all over the country.
This barbecue is different from modern barbecue. It is similar to the barbecue in island countries. It looks brown and red in appearance and is very appetizing. It has faint streaks left by the grill. It is light in the mouth but has a rich aroma. You can taste the delicious meat.
It also tastes like pepper.
What's rare is that in an era when there was no meat tenderizer, we were able to make fresh and tender barbecue, and the heat was just right. And this should be venison, not beef and mutton, but it was processed very cleanly, and there was no fishy smell at all.
The second one is similar to lotus leaf chicken, beggar's chicken, which is wrapped and then baked in the oven to be simmered, but it doesn't look like a chicken in size, but a bird that is similar to a pheasant but smaller.
This dish, tentatively called "Lotus Leaf Roast Bird", has tender, firm and chewy meat, not fat, not thin, and not filling your teeth. It also has a rich braised flavor, which is simply better than those modern roasted chickens and ducks.
taste.
The third hot dish is Hu Pancake, a specialty of the Han and Tang Dynasties, which is a delicacy introduced from the Western Regions.
Sprinkle sesame seeds on the cake and bake it in the stove, or it is similar to the sesame cake in the north today. The main ingredients are roughly flour, sesame seeds, onions, eggs, ghee, milk, clear oil, sugar, and salt. It is said that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty especially liked to eat it.
, and also promoted the fashion in the capital.
Gao Jingfei discovered that the pancake in front of him did not contain any oil such as butter, but it was crispy and delicious, with the aroma of sesame and flour, as well as salt and a touch of sweetness. Although the ingredients were simple, the heat and ingredients
The mastery of the ratio is definitely at the level of a state banquet master, and even surpasses it.
Then it was time for everyone to feast, and for a while the hall was filled with sounds of admiration.
“So delicious!”
This was the most common sound at the banquet, or it was the sounds of chewing, swallowing and enjoyment.
I tasted more than a dozen delicacies in a row, and they were all double portions. Except for the two ghosts and gods present, only Gao Jingfei ate the most. He also drank three different flavors of wine, including Lanling Wine, Western Region Wine and Laojun.
wine.
The former has been famous throughout the ages, but it is not the liquor of the same name in later generations, but the real Lanling Fine Liquor Tulip with a golden color. The jade bowl contains amber light. It has a sweet and mellow taste in the mouth, which is perfect for all kinds of alcoholic beverages in later generations.
Needless to say, wine has a history of more than 2,000 years in China. It was first brewed by local people. Later, the wine from the Western Regions was even better, so everyone thought it was a foreign product.
Moreover, this wine is not sour and unpalatable like Western dry reds. Instead, it is soft in the mouth, sweet and refreshing, and has a rich fruity aroma.
Every drop is as crystal clear as the finest ruby.
The last Laojun Niang was a distilled and fermented wine similar to liquor, but it was not spicy. Instead, it had a refreshing feeling like drinking from a clear spring. After drinking this wine, Gao Jingfei found that not only was his thinking clear, but he was also troubled by the past.
Some of the problems that hindered my practice began to be solved, and even my soul became as transparent as crystal and became more solid.
"Your Highness, this wine?"
The effects of the previous delicacies were actually more powerful than those eaten at the banquet at the Wujiang Water Palace last night, but this Laojun brew alone shocked Gao Jingfei.
Liu An smiled and explained:
"This Laojun wine is a famous wine produced in Luyi, my hometown. After I learned the recipe, I collected the purple air of the morning glow from the sun and the fairy dew collected in the immortal dew tray built by Emperor Wu, and mixed it with the fine alcohol from the sacrifice.
Brewed with qi, it has the wonderful effect of cleansing the soul and purifying the Taoist heart. Due to the isolation of yin and yang, the ingredients of this wine are difficult to find. For our monks, it is the best quality to assist in spiritual practice!"
"So that's it. Your Highness is indeed worthy of being a famous immortal throughout the ages. Such a fine product is probably rare even in the heavenly fairyland!"
Liu An waved his hand:
"Fellow Taoist, you are so ridiculous. This is just an ordinary spirit wine. It is incomparable with immortal wine. But I think that you, Taoist friend, are pure and upright. You are obviously a member of my generation. I don't know where you came from or where you practiced."
Family law?"
Gao Jingfei put down his wine glass and replied with a straight face:
"Your Highness is my senior in the Xuan Sect and the ancestor of the Tao Sect. My family teaches miscellaneous knowledge, but it is nothing more than heresy."
Liu An smiled and said:
"Although there are Taoist sects in this world, we are all juniors to me. Moreover, in the pre-Qin period, there were frequent exchanges between alchemists and warlocks from various schools. There is no distinction between what is authentic and what is not authentic. It is just imposed on others by later generations."
"I am also a collection of Taoist, Legalist, Yin-Yang, and other schools, and I have taken the strengths of each school. It is also very messy, and I have learned everything I have now. If you say so, don't I also count as the originator of other schools?"