The banquet continued. Lin Mengbo and others were accompanying Xiao Jingfeng in the main hall at the front; across the patio, Xiao Qingyu was playing with the babies brought by a group of noble ladies; in the main room at the back, Lin Wanwan and a group of ladies were sitting.
I saw a dining bed covered with mats in the direction of the door. In front of the dining bed was a large rectangular dining table with two benches surrounding both sides. There were five people sitting on each bench. The married couple
All the ladies are here, plus four older unmarried ladies.
There are two smaller long dining tables in the lower left corner, with a bench on each side, where the remaining unmarried ladies sit.
The same plates and dishes are placed on the food table in front of everyone, and everyone does not interfere with each other. This is a typical dining system in the Tang Dynasty where people sit at the same table but do not eat together.
For thousands of years before the Tang Dynasty, aristocratic families had a separate meal system. Each person's seat and meal were different according to their status. During a banquet, the status of each person could be clearly seen through the seating and tableware.
However, starting from the late Sui Dynasty, it gradually became popular to have dinner parties at the same table instead of sharing meals. This is just because it is more lively and makes it easier for everyone to drink, sing and dance.
There are a total of nine young ladies who are here today who are unmarried and six who are married. They are all the legitimate daughters of the family.
These sixteen ladies are from the Shi family, the Wang family, the Zhang family, the Fang family and the Fan family. Married women travel on behalf of their husband's family, while unmarried women naturally travel on the basis of their own family.
These families were originally inextricably linked to the direct lineage of the Lin family, but the contact was cut off because the Lin family's family encountered soldiers and bandits during the war and their whereabouts were unknown.
The Lin family branch, a group of rural farm-housed Han families, looked down upon and would not take it seriously at all. But now that Lin Wanwan has risen and has been awarded the title of fifth-grade rural lord, it is natural that this relationship should start to move forward.
If you are poor in the busy city and have no one to care about you, if you are rich in the mountains and have distant relatives, this is how the world is.
Lin Wanwan's memory is now very strong, and she feels that this may also be a benefit of traveling through time and space, so it is not difficult to remember the complex family relationships behind this group of people.
After receiving the assassination, Lin Wanwan took Huanong and Kunlun on horseback to find Xiao Chong.
As the magistrate of Luan County, Xiao Chong naturally has the books and records of everyone under his command, so it is most convenient to ask him directly.
Xiao Chong didn't reject her either. He explained clearly the relationship between these families and the direct descendants of the Lin family in just one cup of tea.
Therefore, Lin Wanwan entertained everyone very easily today, and her name and face matched up instantly.
In addition to herself, Lin Wanwan also invited Lin Qin and the patriarch's wife Niu to accompany her. Although Xiao Xianghua was also a guest, she was a close sister to Lin Wanwan compared to others, and she also helped Lin Wanwan cope with the situation.
Lin Wanwan had never had any contact with this kind of human relationship before. After today's flowing banquet, Lin Wanwan felt that she could start a big show in modern times. It was a great training.
After the fruits, cold dishes were served. One of the most popular dishes was the tuna fish. This fish was caught overseas by people from Linjiazhuang.
There is also a modern dish of braised crab with red paste. This was a famous dish in Yongcheng a thousand years later, but the people in Luang County in the Tang Dynasty did not know how to eat it.
Lin Wanwan brought it out today and it was immediately popular. It opened everyone's eyes to the fact that sea crabs can be eaten like this. Maybe the people of Luan County have a love for seafood engraved in their bones.
After the Lantern Festival, the men of the Linjiazhuang clan sailed out to sea and brought back a lot of seafood. After unloading the goods, they rushed to Qiantang to pick up Lin Wanwan.
Lin Wanwan sold most of the seafood to Xie Yuting, and kept a small portion for today's banquet. All of them were fresh to the bone.
After the cold dishes, the hot dishes were served. What was before everyone's eyes was the shiny Peking duck, the spicy fried chicken bought as a semi-finished product, the yellow croaker wrapped in bean curd skin (also bought as a semi-finished product), crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the sour and appetizing citric acid. Fatty beef in soup, local chicken stewed with matsutake mushrooms, prawn cakes, braised beef brisket with potatoes, etc.
How much gold does it cost to eat such a banquet! If they hadn’t come here today, no one would have thought that the dishes could be cooked like this! Just the spices put in the dishes are worth a fortune, let alone the unheard-of cooking methods. .
And potatoes, which are most popular in Luan County during this Spring Festival, are so delicious!
The legend about potatoes has become one of the myths in Luan County. It is auspicious to the sweet potatoes. The scene of Xiao Chong’s harvest in the field shocked everyone.
Nowadays, people in Luan County have begun to say that Xiao Chong was a banished immortal and came to earth. As soon as he came to Luang County, he brought such high-yield sweet potatoes and potatoes to the people. As for Lin Wanwan, who was hiding behind Xiao Chong, only the aristocratic circle of Luan County and Only the farmers in Shilibaxiang near Linjiazhuang know this.
This is also normal. Firstly, communications are very underdeveloped. Secondly, it is Xiao Chong, not Lin Wanwan, who sells potatoes and sweet potatoes to the common people at low prices for seeding.
Whoever gives everyone practical benefits is a god.
Of course, these good things are beyond the reach of the nobles. Normally, the benefits of the world in Luan County should be divided into ten, with the county magistrate and the gentry and aristocracy divided into eight, and the remaining two divided by the common people. .
But Xiao Chong did the opposite and sold all the sweet potatoes and potatoes to the farmer at a low price. On the contrary, the gentry and nobles could not get anything.
Therefore, the ladies of the noble family have not had the opportunity to eat sweet potatoes, but the potatoes are actually fresh to eat today.
Madam Zhang looked at Lin Wanwan and said, "Madam Wanwan, are these delicacies cooked by Silla maids?"
Lin Wanwan was sitting on the main seat of the dining bed. Looking at the shocked expressions of everyone, she smiled casually and said: "That's not true. I learned these from Master when I was young. Master often said that food is the most important thing for the people and they will never tire of it. It’s exquisite, and you never get tired of the details. There is only love and delicious food in the world that you can’t live up to.”
"It's a good saying that love and food should not be let down. The master is indeed a free and easy hermit. Wouldn't these delicious recipes be created by the master?" Wang, who has a pair of children, asked curiously.
"Yes, Master has his own obsession with food and delicious food. And my senior brother loves to travel around the world and collect rare treasures from all over the world. The potatoes on your dining table are the potatoes my senior brother took a boat all the way west from overseas to the American continent. I brought it back." Lin Wanwan explained with a smile.
"Where is the American continent? There are such high-yielding crops there. Could it be a paradise land?"
Lin Wanwan replied without hesitation: "America is just to the west of the sea. It is rich in materials and is indeed a paradise. If I, the saint of the Tang Dynasty, can gather a fleet to go out and explore, maybe we can bring more information back to us. Lots of good stuff.
I heard from my senior brother that there is gold and silver everywhere, and no one picks up the gold in the open-pit gold mines, just because the land is so vast and the people are sparsely populated. Moreover, people there don’t have to work in the fields themselves, they only eat some wild wheat that grows wild. Fruit can also make life very nourishing."