For people in Luan County, pasta is definitely not as delicious as bamboo tube rice. People in Jiangnan Road and Lingnan Road further south don’t have much interest in pasta.
For example, people in Chang'an celebrate New Year's Eve and winter solstice by eating dumplings made of wheat flour, while people in Jiangnan and Lingnan Province prefer to eat glutinous rice dumplings.
It's just that the center of imperial power in the Tang Dynasty has always been in Luoyang and Chang'an. This has caused records left in historical materials to show that all people in the Tang Dynasty love to eat pasta, as if the south was expelled from the Tang Dynasty.
This is the same as in the modern Spring Festival Gala. Every Spring Festival Gala, the customs of the north are always regarded as the customs of the whole country.
At the end of the day, the host always invites people all over the country to eat dumplings. He doesn't even consider the area south of the Yangtze River. They don't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, they only eat glutinous rice balls.
At today's dinner, what Lin Wanwan prepared was right in the hearts of the people of Luan County.
In addition to bamboo tube rice, a specialty rice dish, there is also Guoyang Restaurant that caters to the mainstream.
The mutton chosen by everyone is not grilled using the method of the Tang Dynasty, but is made using the modern technique of roasting the whole lamb. Added with pepper and other spices, it is sprinkled and rubbed for free. The delicious smell of the roasted mutton is intoxicating.
My appetite is whetted.
The hard dishes of the Tang Dynasty banquet such as Xiongbai, carp tail, raw clams, sugar crabs, shrimps, prawns, lobsters, mung bean soup, and ginseng soup are all also arranged.
With good food, of course, good wine is also indispensable.
The green ant turbid wine that appears most often in the writings of poor poets is not on the aristocratic table. What appears here are Sanlejing, Tulip, Yicheng wine, Lihuachun and extremely precious wines in the Tang Dynasty in the fourth year of Zhenguan.
Li Bai once wrote, "Lanling's fine wine is filled with tulips, and the jade bowl holds amber light."
As Xiao Chong is a direct descendant of the Xiao family in Nanlanling, how can he let go of such fine wine from his hometown?
Among these wines, only the wine was red wine that Lin Wanwan bought from Hyundai, and the rest were local wines from the Tang Dynasty with very low alcohol content.
For this reason, everyone chanted poems and made wine orders, and drank wine one after another without getting drunk.
After eating, a group of people started fighting and dancing. As the host, Lin Wanwan naturally had to participate.
She had played step singing several times in the Tang Dynasty, and now she was no longer as ashamed to dance as she was at first, and she felt free to do so.
Besides, they have separate seats for men and women, and they eat around the big long table in front of them. The dances are also divided between men and women, so there is no need to lose etiquette.
After drinking and eating, Lin Wanwan sent everyone out one by one.
Except for the people from the Xiao family, everyone else left one after another.
When the house was empty, Xiao Chong was holding a bottle of red wine and was about to continue the next scene.
The reason why he didn't drink at the table before was because he had been addicted to red wine and knew that the wine was very potent and would make him drunk.
With his personality, he would naturally not put himself in a situation where he would be disrespectful in front of others, and it would not be difficult to resist drinking.
Lin Wanwan's third cousin, Xiao Jingkun, had been surrounding Xiao Chong to compliment him. The latter, whether intentionally or not, poured a lot of wine into Xiao Jingkun, so the former had drunk too much at this time and was fought by Xiao Ronghua and Xiao Xianghua.
Lin Wanwan stopped Xiao Chong, who was about to start a red wine duel with Dugu Di and others, and proposed to challenge his chess skills. The challenge was chess and Go. The loser must promise the winner something.
Xiao Chong was surprised by Lin Wanwan's confidence today. The other party looked confident and seemed sure that he could win.
Xiao Chong, who has played chess with Lin Wanwan several times, has a pretty good understanding of her chess skills. He wonders where she got her confidence?
"Okay, since my cousin is so elegant, Xiao will naturally accompany her." Xiao Chong put down the red wine, nodded in agreement, and followed Lin Wanwan to the study.
Dugu Di and Xiao Ce also went over to watch the chess game and cheer for each other. On Lin Wanwan's side, Xiao Yu'er brought her pet lynx cat and elephant to cheer her up for nothing.
Xiao Yu'er held the lynx cat in her hands, leaned on the white belly of the elephant, and watched Lin Wanwan and Xiao Chong playing chess.
They played chess first, a best-of-three game system.
Lin Wanwan walked first, holding the red hand. The first step was her favorite shot, Xiao Chong mounted his horse to protect the middle soldier. Lin Wanwan lowered her head and quietly clicked twice under the desk.
Xiao Chong glanced at her curiously. Even with his eyes like a torch, under the candlelight at night, he couldn't see clearly the screen of Lin Wanwan's mobile phone with a privacy screen specially posted under Lin Wanwan's desk. He thought she was playing with a glass mirror.
!
Lin Wanwan did not rely entirely on the AI chess master at the beginning. Instead, she relied on her own skills to make a few moves with Xiao Chong, and then she started cheating when she saw that she was about to be kicked out.
It's a pity that the masters are competing with each other, making one mistake and another. It's too late to ask for help from AI now. Even if she cheated in the second half of the first game, Lin Wanwan still lost.
Lin Wanwan: "..."
Xiao Chong's strength is so terrifying. When Lin Wanwan plays chess with the ladies in the afternoon, she doesn't need to rely on AI for the whole process. She herself can be on par with them. She only needs to refer to one or two steps at critical moments.
Killing the opponent to the point of defeat.
But facing Xiao Chong, who is so smart and almost a monster, this obviously won't work. The AI must go all out, even if it misses one move.
She understood Xiao Chong's strength a little bit more. Fortunately, she had said that she would win two out of three games before. In the next two games, Lin Wanwan didn't even plan to leave on her own, and she walked AI-free throughout the whole process!
From this game on, Xiao Chong's thinking time became longer, and even Dugu Di and Xiao Ce, who were watching the game, couldn't help but frown.
Speaking of which, the reason why Dugu Di, a half-blind man, was able to eat melons and watch a show under dim candlelight was mainly because his personal bodyguard kept telling him "horses on the right road 1 into 3, cars on the right road 1 into 2"
Chess game.
Therefore, Dugu Di "listens" to chess rather than watching chess.
Lin Wanwan had AI in hand at this time, and thought she was sure of victory, and did not care about the number of onlookers. It would be better if there were more people, so that Xiao Chong could not deny his defeat.
Sure enough, after a long battle in the second game, Lin Wanwan narrowly won.
No, we can't let the other person think for too long. If she thinks for too long, the AI installed on her mobile phone may not be able to suppress the other person, and she must disrupt his rhythm.
So in the third game, Lin Wanwan did something wrong again. Not only did she distract Xiao Chong from time to time with daily gossip, she also urged him every time when he was thinking: "Cousin, hurry up, you are too slow.
Is it necessary to think for so long? I think so I think?"
After Xiao Chong was disrupted in his thoughts again, he raised his eyes and glanced at Lin Wanwan, with an undetectable smile on his lips.
After that, he really accelerated his pace. Needless to say, he must have lost in the end.
"General!"
Lin Wanwan excitedly played a move, and said in a slightly loud voice: "Kill! Cousin, you win two out of three games, you lose."
Xiao Chong threw down the chess piece and sighed: "Well, I lost. I will treat you with admiration after three days apart. My cousin's chess skills have improved amazingly, and Xiao admires her."
Xiao Ce also sighed at the side: "Xiangjun's chess skills are indeed superb."
Only Dugu Di's face showed a look of confusion, but Lin Wanwan naturally didn't care about others. She just stared at Xiao Chong and said: "Cousin, there is still Go. Let's play another game of Go. It's been a long time.
How about we decide the outcome in one round?"
Xiao Chong said with a smile: "Did my cousin get some clever chess skills? I can't wait to show off my power to Xiao?"
Lin Wanwan smiled and said: "Cousin, why do you say this? Are you unable to afford to lose?"