Bring the soup in the warm cauldron to a boil and add the ingredients for the base first.
Flying forward and walking backward, fish on the left and shrimp on the right, build a cage beside the pot, and slowly lower the peppercorns.
After the food was cooked and the aroma slowly spread in the room, Song Ruo'e and Xie Qin arrived just in time, opened the curtains and entered the room.
Zhou Jun greeted everyone in the room to sit down.
Song Ruo'e, Xie Qin and Hua Yue all sat down.
Xiao Qingchan thought about her identity and was a little hesitant. When she heard Zhou Jun's urging, she sat on the crescent stool and carefully sat half of her body sideways.
The Tang Dynasty food warmer was relatively rare in formal banquets. It usually appeared at family dinners or private banquets with old friends. During the meal, in addition to some common tableware, there was another interesting item called Chang
Handle tongue spoon dagger.
This thing is a piece of hand, which can be used to ladle soup, and can also be used to pick up ingredients. Put the soup and ingredients into the container, and then bring them into the mouth with a short spoon and chopsticks.
Zhou Jun first scooped some soup with a spoon and dagger, poured it into a bowl, then added scallions, garlic, leeks, green onions, and coriander, stirred it evenly with chopsticks, and finally took off the wine pot from the oven and poured a cup of warm water.
He drank the wine and said: "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. In the next ten days, I am afraid that I will be busy with court meetings. It will not be until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, after attending the palace banquet on the night of the Lantern Festival, that I will rush back to Ba
Sichuan. We have a banquet today, which means we have New Year’s Eve dinner in advance.”
Song Ruo'e glanced at Huayue and Xiao Qingchan opposite the desk, and then asked Zhou Jun: "We have three days off during the Lantern Festival. Will Erlang have time to get back after attending the palace banquet?"
Zhou Jun nodded and said, "If nothing happens, I should be able to come back to celebrate the Lantern Festival."
Song Ruo'e nodded and stopped talking.
Xie Qin took a piece of cooked turnip, ate it and said to Zhou Jun, "I'm afraid there's something Erlang doesn't know about."
Zhou Jun was puzzled.
Xie Qin: "Zhong Zhang, the son of the Zhong family, passed the civil service examination. He was scheduled to marry the daughter of the doctor's family in the first month of next year, and then go to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to take up an official position. Just a few days ago, Beili got news that Gong
It is said that Zhong Zhang behaved inappropriately and lacked moral integrity. His dismissal from office was stopped and his marriage was also cancelled."
Zhou Jun was stunned when he heard this, then looked at Song Ruo'e and said with a smile: "This is a good thing, evil people will eventually be punished."
Song Ruo'e nodded slightly, without much fluctuation in her expression.
Huayue had been busy all day and was eating vegetables. When she heard this, she said: "In Dashi, prisoners who commit deception and slander will have their shirts taken off in public, and then the victim will be whipped.
, the punishment in the Tang Dynasty was still light."
Regarding Zhong Zhang's dismissal, Zhou Jun was a little surprised, but he was not surprised at the decision of the court, but was surprised that Xie Qin was able to learn about it so quickly.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jun asked: "What happened to Beili's purchase of land in Bachuan and the opening of a new brothel?"
Xie Qin and Hua Yue looked at each other.
Huayue put down the chopsticks in her hand and said to Zhou Jun: "Jie Douzhi is a close friend of the layman. Logically speaking, Huayue should help her. However, Bachuan Market now wants to build residences and workshops for the palace residents. The original plan
It is difficult to free up free land. Therefore, in the newly developed Xizhou, we can only free up the land of two small courtyards and sell them to Beili."
Xie Qin said: "It is enough to build two small courtyards. I plan to inform the fake mothers in Beili and let them jointly fund the construction of an arch bridge on the Quxi River between Jiazhou Prostitute and Xizhou Prostitute.
This will connect the two places together.”
Zhou Jun asked: "After the construction of the prostitutes in Jiazhou and Xizhou is completed, and all the envoys will know their posts, who do you plan to send from Beili?"
Xie Qin: "I have discussed with the fake mother and others in Beilizhong, and I plan to recommend myself to Bachuan."
Zhou Jun nodded: "It's best if you know how to come. From now on, the prostitutes in Bachuan will always have a charter, so that there won't be a lot of rumors and rumors."
Jie Qin glanced at Zhou Jun and nodded lightly.
Xiao Qingchan was listening with her head down, thoughtfully.
Song Ruo'e poured a glass of warm wine and said to Zhou Jun: "If Erlang hadn't come to the rescue, Ruo'e would have turned into a pile of bones."
Zhou Jun picked up the wine glass, drank it down with Song Ruo'e first, and then said: "It's just a matter of raising a hand, why bother with it."
Song Ruo'e put down her wine glass, shook her head and said, "I heard from Jie Qin about what happened that day. Ruo'e had already given up her life, but it was Erlang who used magic to pull me back from the hell gate."
Zhou Jun was startled and quickly looked at Xie Qin.
Xie Qin held the chopsticks and caught a glimpse of Zhou Jun's gaze, with a smile on her lips.
Huayue and Xiao Qingchan were unaware of Song Ruo'e's suicide. When they heard the word "immortal method" coming from the latter's mouth, their faces were full of doubts.
Zhou Jun cleared his throat and pretended to be calm and said: "Jun's skills are just trivial. In the final analysis, a layman is blessed with great fortune."
Song Ruo'e: "Everyone who is virtuous must be repaid, and the shame of a piece of gold is too small. What's more, Erlang not only saved my life, but also gave Ruo'e a place to live. This kindness is more than mountains and seas. I should die for you!"
Zhou Jun waved his hand quickly: "You are serious."
Xie Qin said with a smile at this time: "Erlang, don't be too modest. I told Ruo'e earlier that in order to save her life, Erlang worked hard to save her life. This kind of kindness should be honored by the ring knot grass, and it will never be forgotten."
forget."
Zhou Jun heard the ridicule in these words and couldn't help but smile bitterly. He could only raise his glass and toast to the matter.
Tianbao Five Years, the night before New Year's Eve.
Zhou Jun and four women gathered next to the Wen Ding and had a special New Year's Eve dinner.
The next day, Zhou Jun went home to spend New Year's Eve with his parents.
On the day of Yuanzheng in the sixth year of Tianbao, Zhou Jun got up early again, packed up, and went to the imperial city to attend the Tang Dynasty's annual meeting.
The Great Court Meeting was held in the Taiji Hall. There was an imperial tent, a yellow pole, chariots, chariots and other ceremonial objects in the hall. There were also three hundred military guards on both sides.
The emperor Li Longji naturally sits high in the throne, and the senior civil servants of the third rank and above are located on the right side facing the emperor. The Zen throne of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was given to the Sui Dynasty, and the Zen throne of the Sui Dynasty was given to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, their descendants Jie Gong and Yong Gong were located on the right side facing the emperor.
On the left, the military attachés of third rank and above are located outside these people and slightly behind them.
The envoys of each vassal state were facing the emperor, coming from the southeast, northwest, and behind the high-ranking officials of the third or higher civil and military ranks.
The governors of various states and counties and the governors (prefects) who came from other places were at the back. As for the lower officials of the sixth rank or so, they stood in the outermost position near the palace gate.
Zhou Jun, who was a sixth-rank supervisor of the mutual market and acting governor of Wuwei County, could only huddle in a corner of the wall of Taiji Hall. When he looked up, he couldn't even see clearly the appearance of the emperor's throne.
However, compared to last year, he was not even qualified to enter the Tai Chi Palace, so there was a natural difference.
At the beginning of the court meeting, Li Linfu, the right prime minister, first invited hundreds of civil and military officials and envoys from foreign countries to kneel down and praise: "The emperor Zhengshou Zuo, Jingfu Weixin, Fuwei Kaiyuan, Shenwu Emperor, rest with heaven."
Then, Li Linfu walked to the left front of Li Longji and shouted: "With control!"
Everyone bowed again and celebrated with their mouths.
Li Longji said that Yuan Zheng was very happy.
Everyone shouted long live and bowed three times.
After that, the governors of various states and counties and the vassal states presented tributes, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites paid tribute, and finally the meeting was dismissed after the ceremony.
After the Yuan Zheng Dynasty meeting, Zhou Jun rushed around the imperial city in the next few days, and participated in a series of banquets and court societies as a minister of Wuwei County.
Soon, the time came to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
The Shangyuan Festival, the most important festival of the year in the Tang Dynasty, has finally arrived.