The Fang family is quite good. If the host I visit one day is from a relatively poor family or is a retro enthusiast, he may not even have a couch. There will be a few seats on the floor. Please...
This kind of kneeling, cross-legged, and upright posture is the most solemn and dignified sitting posture.
In formal occasions, if there is a senior boss sitting in front of you, then the juniors or subordinates can only abuse themselves like this. If this senior boss wants to punish you, he can nag you and order you to sit upright while watching.
The muscles in your legs compress the blood vessels, causing soreness and numbness in your waist and knees, making you dizzy. After a while, you fall down once, and then again, until you faint and finish...
If you want to avoid this painful experience, it is best to get close to the host in front of you. The flattery is enough. Before he knelt down and fainted, the host kindly suggested that we should be relaxed and relaxed... so the two parties changed their sitting postures and
The legs are pulled out from under the body and folded into a ball in front of the body, which is "sitting" or "sitting on the back", just like the sitting posture of the great Bodhisattva statues in Buddhism.
For most ancient people, sitting cross-legged and meditating is already a relatively relaxed and comfortable posture. It is not a big deal to stay on a couch or on the ground like this for a few hours.
Fang Jun is a modern person who has lived through time. How can he bear this if he is used to a chair? Just after sitting for a while and saying a few words, his buttocks hurt, his waist became sore, and his whole body couldn't help but sag...
Fortunately, Li Ke was very knowledgeable. When he saw Fang Jun's state, he knew that he couldn't stand it, so he laughed, stretched his limbs, and changed to a cross-legged sitting position.
Fang Jun breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Li Siwen. He seemed to have had a smooth bowel movement...
Qiao'er served tea soup. There were only three cups for four people. One cup was placed in front of Li Ke, one in front of Uncle Cen Wen, and one in front of Li Siwen. My young master... just skipped it. Erlang didn't drink this.
Li Ke picked up the tea cup and took a sip casually. He said "Hey" and praised: "This tea is well brewed. It's not much better than the tea maker in this prince's palace." Then he smiled at Qiao'er and asked.
: "But you cooked it?"
Qiao'er was dazzled by Li Ke's handsome smile, her heart skipped a beat, her pretty face flushed, and she shyly said: "Yes...it's cooked by the slave family."
Li Ke smiled and said: "Not bad."
Qiao'er almost fainted, oh my God! Is His Highness King Wu talking to me? This is a well-known virtuous king in the court, a literary, elegant and fairy-like figure. He is really good-looking...
Fang Jun's face turned dark. Looking at the nymphomaniac Qiao'er, he felt sour in his heart. He waved his hand in great displeasure: "Hurry up and go down. What are you doing here?"
"oh……"
Qiao'er responded, turning away from Erlang full of resentment, asking him to say a few more words, really...
He turned around and walked away step by step.
Fang Jun looked at Li Ke and said, "This girl has never seen the world. Your Highness must not blame her."
Li Ke smiled and said: "This little maid is innocent and as pure as a flower. It's too late for me to be happy, so how can I blame her?"
Looking at the handsome smile on this guy's face, Fang Jun's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that His Highness King Wu, who is "loved by everyone and blooms when flowers bloom", has fallen in love with Qiao'er? If he opens his mouth to ask me for it, I will
What to do?
These days, it is not a big deal for nobles to exchange, even ask for, or give away a few maids, but Fang Jun cannot accept this concept of treating a person as a commodity.
He quickly shouted: "Is the hot pot ready?" He sealed Li Ke's mouth before speaking.
A servant trotted to the door and asked, "It's ready. May I ask Erlang if he will serve it now?"
Fang Jun nodded and said: "That's the case."
The servant responded and turned back to the kitchen to inform.
Fang Jun stood up, moved the table in front of him to the middle, pulled the couch over, and said to the other people: "Come on, come on, everyone, move over here."
Several people were confused, but they didn't ask any questions and just followed the law.
After a while, he saw two chefs from the house walking in carrying a stove. Fang Jun ordered the two of them to first place a tray filled with water on the table in the middle, and then put the stove in the middle of the tray...
…
Li Ke and others had never seen such a strange-looking stove before, so they couldn't help but look at it carefully.
However, I saw that the top of this furnace was pointed, but it was a round barrel. The waist and abdomen were wide in the middle, and a round belly suddenly appeared. There were two animal pattern pull rings on the top, and a base with hollow carvings on the bottom.
Looking at the pattern, you can see the blazing charcoal fire inside. The charcoal fire passes through the seemingly hollow belly of the furnace, and occasionally a few sparks are seen shooting out from the furnace barrel above.
This furnace is made entirely of brass, with dazzling golden flowers and exquisite auspicious clouds and animal patterns, giving it an aura of wealth and nobility.
Immediately afterwards, the cook brought dishes after dishes, including green cabbage, leeks, mallow, bright yellow bean sprouts, dark wild mountain mushrooms, and red and white mutton. Especially those plates of mutton, which were cut as thin as cicadas.
The wings are crystal clear and will whet your appetite just by looking at them.
It's a pity that they are all raw...
Although Li Ke and Uncle Cen Wen were surprised, they didn't have the nerve to ask. Li Siwen was also a little dumbfounded and asked: "Fang Er, how do you eat this?"
Fang Jun smiled and said nothing. He stepped forward and grasped the two animal pattern buckles at the waist and abdomen of the copper stove with both hands. He lifted it slightly and opened it. It turned out to be a cover.
Under the lid was a ring-shaped pot trough surrounding the furnace. The water contained in it was already boiling and steaming. Fang Jun poured the vegetables into several plates, closed the lid, and said, "It's ready to eat as soon as the pot is opened."
Place the pre-prepared sauce in a jar around and give each person a portion.
How can you eat hot pot without chili peppers? Unfortunately, chili peppers were still nesting in the valleys of South America during the Tang Dynasty. They were not introduced to the Central Plains until the Ming Dynasty. This was simply unbearable for Fang Jun, who loves spicy food.
He even thought about getting a fleet to sail to the East to open up a new route and occupy South America...
Fortunately, there was still Dogwood in the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, dogwood is not the main ingredient for making "spicy" flavor in this era. People mostly use ginger and mustard. However, after Fang Jun tasted it, he felt that dogwood is closer to the taste of chili pepper.
Cornus officinalis is also called "Yuejiao". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that eating Cornus officinalis "has a pungent and bitter taste. The natives pick it in August, pound and filter the juice, add lime and stir it into a mixture. It is called mugwort oil, also called spicy rice oil. The taste is
Spicy, used in food."?
Even Li Ke had never seen such tableware and such a way of eating, so he pointed at the hot pot and asked, "What is this?"
Fang Jun distributed the condiments and said: "Hot pot."
Uncle Cen Wen praised: "There is a fire in the pot. This name is appropriate. Cen is ignorant and has never seen it. I wonder where Erlang got this thing?"
"You've seen it before. I designed this hot pot myself."
Fang Jun was so bold that he took the founder of hotpot as his own...
Uncle Cen Wen was in awe: "Erlang is indeed very clever."
He is not a pedantic scholar. On the contrary, his thoughts are more inclined to new things and his receptive ability is very strong. He does not think there is anything wrong with playing with these "odd and obscene techniques".
Li Siwen's stomach growled with hunger and he didn't say anything, just staring at the hot pot.
As he spoke, the hot pot began to simmer again.
Fang Jun opened the lid, poured the chopped mutton into a plate, and shouted: "Let's start!" He was also very hungry. He didn't care about His Highness King Wu, so he reached out and picked up a chopstick of mutton and poured it into the boiling soup. After rinsing it for a few times, I took it out, put it in a bowl, rolled it with the sauce, and put it in my mouth. It was so hot that I breathed in cold air, but my heart was hooked. It tasted familiar...
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At two o'clock in the afternoon, this book won the [New Book Recommendation for Category Novels] [New Book Recommendation for History Channel Channel]. I didn't mention it, but there will be two more chapters in a while. Please give all the recommendation votes to my brothers. But there was something wrong with the recommendation vote statistics system of Dreaming Start last night, so I voted It’s not shown either, so I don’t know if it’s true…