Chapter 373: The White-feathered Divine Rooster is out
It was hard for Lin Wanwan to compete head-on with them in ancient music, chess, calligraphy and painting. After all, they had been immersed in this art since childhood, and Lin Wanwan studied exam-oriented education when she was a child.
So why is she able to kill everyone in today's chess game? It's very simple. There is a mystery behind this bookcase!
Lin Wanwan hid a mobile phone with the national team's sparring AI software system installed underneath. Seeing that she couldn't beat them, she asked the AI to help. It would be weird if they could win.
However, Lin Wanwan's main purpose of using this cheating device was not the ladies, but the person who would come to the dinner.
That's right, it's Xiao Chong.
The thought of tricking Xiao Chong has been lingering in Lin Wanwan's mind for a long time.
During the recent slack season, the labor force at Taishanyan has resumed, and Xiao Chong is also too busy to keep his feet off the ground.
In addition to Taishan Weir, Rihu Lake was also excavated. Xiao Chong was determined to carry out water conservancy projects. He would not be able to survive until all the profits from the salt farm were spent.
He is such a big foodie, and he doesn't even have time to come over for lunch. You can imagine how busy the county government is.
Seeing the speed at which Xiao Chong spent money to build projects, the scalps of the collective gentry and nobles in Luang County were all tense.
Lin Wanwan also had a premonition that she might be ripped off. Fortunately, she had a white-feathered chicken subsidy.
During the locust plague, the batch of white-feathered chickens that the common people bought from the county government were usually left in the fields to eat insects. In less than a month and a half, they were all put out for slaughter.
For a time, there were a lot of white-feathered chickens on the market in Luan County, and the supply exceeded demand, so the price was naturally much cheaper than ordinary chicken.
The common people were overjoyed to see the plump and strong white-feathered chickens that would be ready for slaughter in forty-two days, and even shouted loudly at Xiao Chong.
Nowadays, rumors are circulating in Luan County that Xiao Mingfu and Le'an Xiangjun both descended from the stars. Otherwise, how could we produce a white-feathered divine rooster that can be sold in forty-two days?
The information about locust control in Luan County has been reported to the court, which means that ancient horses and carriages were slow, otherwise the north, which was plagued by locusts, would have reacted and looked for the white-feathered divine rooster at this time.
After all, this chicken can eat locusts and grow quickly. It is a rare good thing for Datang, a country where many people suffered from hunger and poverty.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty had not yet eliminated chicken as a "meat" category. For ordinary people, eating chicken was already a rare luxury.
Eggs and chicken soup are always indispensable during confinement, replenishing the body after illness, and hosting banquets. This shows how nourishing chicken is in the hearts of the people.
It will not be until next year, the fifth year of Zhenguan, that chicken will be dismissed from the ranks of meat dishes by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin.
Why did Li Shimin do this? There is also a short story recorded in historical materials.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the whole country was really too poor. Even with the strong foundation of the Sui Dynasty, it was not enough to feed all the people. There were still many mountain people hiding in the mountains as gangsters and unable to come down.
In order to be frugal and curb extravagance, the imperial court issued regulations prohibiting censors from eating meat while on patrol.
At that time, Li Shimin had a beloved Qian Ma Zhou, who was an honest official and very capable. His only hobby was eating chicken.
One time when Ma Zhou was on a business trip as censor, he was eating chicken and was seen by a petty official who wanted to bring him down. He immediately reported him to Li Shimin and accused him of eating meat!
In order to protect his beloved Qing, Li Shimin excluded chickens from meat, saying sophistry: "I forbid the imperial censor to eat meat, and I am afraid that the prefecture and county will waste money, so why eat chickens?"
Well, you are the emperor and you have the final say. From now on, chicken is not considered meat in the Tang Dynasty.
Although after five years of Zhenguan, chicken was not considered meat in official terms, but for the common people, only the stomach could tell whether it was meat, and everything else was false.
Because the demand for white-feathered chickens in Luang County has increased so much, Lin Wanwan had to invest in a chicken farm in modern times a few days ago to hide her from others.
After all, it is easy to buy finished white-feathered chickens, and it is also easy to buy white-feathered eggs, but it is not easy to buy a large number of ancestor white-feathered chickens, and you must have a channel.
Lin Wanwan originally only wanted to get some white-feathered chickens for the clan to subsidize the family, but she didn't have to think about it so much. However, Xiao Chong performed a ritual of praying to gods and offering sacrifices to heaven, and the business spread instantly.
After several large purchases, she felt that she could not continue like this. So many chickens disappeared without a trace after entering her small villa. She was afraid that the big guys would catch them and slice them up for study.
Let’s not talk about whether the people in Linjiazhuang would wonder why her chicks hatched so quickly. Even in modern times, she can’t get over it.
Especially there were two carpenters working on decoration on the second floor of the house, and they looked at Lin Wanwan very strangely every day.
So one time when the grandma of the family was cleaning Lin Wanwan's small villa, she saw the white-feathered chickens she bought and quickly told her that she had a distant nephew who had rented a piece of land in the countryside to build a chicken farm.
He asked Lin Wanwan to buy chickens from him next time. Lin Wanwan had an idea and immediately contacted the other party through the relationship with the little grandma and wanted to invest.
At first, the other party thought Lin Wanwan was joking. After all, young people nowadays would not go back to the countryside to raise chickens. But it was not until Lin Wanwan happily took out the real money that he understood that she was serious.
Lin Wanwan's explanation to him was that she wanted a batch of pure green white-feathered chickens, which could be fed with nutritious chicken feed, but antibiotics and other drugs must not be added.
She doesn't invest to make money, she just wants to eat a bite of green and nutritious chicken.
This reason was extremely powerful and convinced the other party instantly (mainly because she gave too much and had no reason to refuse).
So Lin Wanwan suddenly changed her identity and became a chicken farmer with 40% of the shares of the chicken farm.
Let's go back to the house for a banquet. In the afternoon, Lin Wanwan killed everyone on the chess track and won the reputation of a chess master.
In the evening, Lin Wanwan's maternal family, the Xiao family of Qiantang, sent someone.
Representatives of the grandchildren who came were Xiao Xianghua, Xiao Ronghua, Xiao Jingkun and other direct descendants. It was not a trivial matter to enter the house for a drink, so they naturally came to congratulate him.
Only Xiao Jingfeng, the eldest son of the Xiao family, did not come. It was probably because of his drunken gaffe last time that made him feel ashamed and embarrassed to come again.
In the Tang Dynasty, the rule for drinking in a house was that dinner was only considered formal in the evening, and the meal at noon was just a warm-up meal, so during the day the guests from every house were young women of the same generation as Lin Wanwan.
The dinner party was different. In addition to the Xiao family, other families who were traveling with the Lin family, from the oldest to the youngest, came to the door with gifts and congratulations.
Xiao Chong also rushed over before the dinner started.
Also coming with him were his aide and clan brother Xiao Ce, his cousin Dugu Di, and the doctor Chen Liang who often discussed (taught) acupuncture with Lin Wanwan.
The dinner party is more sumptuous than the luncheon.
All kinds of popular noodles in Chang'an are arranged, including steamed pancakes, pancakes, and Hu pancakes; the rice that Jiangnan people love to eat is also arranged. It's not just ordinary rice, but Lin Wanwan specially asked Sun Hueyao to cook it.
Bamboo tube rice made from bamboo cut from the mountain!
Bamboo tube rice is one of the specialties of Lingnan Road.
This bamboo tube rice is steamed with glutinous rice, japonica rice, bacon, pickles, carrots, salt, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, black pepper, and a little olive oil. It is soft and delicious, has a fragrant and waxy texture, and is also blended with bamboo.
The delicate fragrance made a group of upper-class people in Luan County, who had never tasted such delicious food, salivate.
If Xiao Chong hadn't saved his stomach for other delicacies, he would probably be able to kill Sanzhutong by himself.