Chapter 95: All the people who came from the Song Dynasty

"Teacher, where is the teacher?" The shouts at the door interrupted Su Shi's article and also interrupted the dispute over paper and pen inside the house. Su Shi heard the sound and looked out of the house. Zhao Xing took away the impeachment written by a few sentences from the table in a flash, giving Chen Gongchuan a wink.

Chen Gongchuan turned around and ran to the backyard with the undried ink text.

A group of people came to the door, and the leader was Huang Tingjian, and there were several other "Four Scholars of the Sumen". There was also an acquaintance of Zhao Xing - Chen Ku. Seeing Chen Gongchuan running backwards, Chen Ku jumped out and shouted: "Little thief, where can I run!"

When Chen Gongchuan heard something was wrong, he quickly ran to the backyard without looking back. There were Chen Buqun and Jin Buer in the backyard. Chen Gongchuan didn't know the relationship between Chen Buqun and this hero, but he knew the skills of Jin Buer and others, so he naturally thought it would be safe to run there.

This action made Zhao Xing see the other party's skills clearly - it was not as humble as his son said. Chen Qing still turned around and bowed to Zhao Xing while running. This was thanking the other party for taking care of his son. His movements were chic and natural, which showed that Chen Qing had a great sense of balance.

The two of them ran away in a blink of an eye. The group of scholars at the door stood there at a loss. They obviously did not expect that Su Shi's yard would become a warehouse, with only a palm-sized space left in the middle.

Su Shi was also a little embarrassed. He stood up and nodded to several students. Before he could think of a conversation, several court officials appeared at the door, including someone Zhao Xing knew - Wang Gong and Wang Dingguo, who was the concubine Rouyun - the husband of "I am at peace with my hometown".

Zhao Xing was not embarrassed. While Mrs. Wang and Chaoyun both came out to greet him, he quickly directed his men: "Move them in, and there are labels on each box. Whoever moves the room, hurry up and clear the room."

Wang Gong smiled and greeted Zhao Xing: "There is someone who is leaving... I still count on you for my house, haha, if I don't build my house this time, don't leave."

After saying that, he introduced Zhao Xing to everyone: "Zhao Liren, I told you that in Huangzhou, Zizhan won half a boat of wine with a poem, and then another poem, and won a disciple. This person is the one who lost his bet - Zhao Xing and Zhao Liren, 'One Day' Zhao Liren, who wants to build a house in the future, find him."

This matter was extremely elegant, and everyone burst into laughter, and there was only envy in the laughter - look, there were gifts everywhere, why didn't I capture such a rich man?

The hotel guys were busy in the kitchen and the dishes had not yet come up. Su Shi took advantage of this to recommend Zhao Xing to everyone.

Today seems to be the day for celebrities to gather together, and the most powerful figures in the Song Dynasty. Huang Tingjian came to celebrate the ceremony of apprenticeship. He himself is one of the "Four Great Calligraphers of the Song Dynasty", and another guest, Mi Fu, is the third among the four major calligraphers. It can be said that except for Cai Jing, the four major calligraphers today have almost gathered together.

In addition to the four major calligraphers, there were also four major painters in the Song Dynasty. Among them, in addition to Su Shi, Li Gonglin was also on the scene. He was good at painting horses. The "Five Horses Picture" he painted was called "two major treasures of the Song Dynasty" and Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Unfortunately, Zhang Zeduan is only one year old now, and the butterfly effect caused by Zhao Xing made it hard to imagine whether he could become a great painter. However, Emperor Huizong of Song was not yet on the throne.

These people here almost included all the literary elites of the Song Dynasty. They came here for nothing but to witness Huang Tingjian's apprenticeship.

The ceremony of apprenticeship is very complicated. Zhao Xing now has a headache when he sees the cumbersome etiquette. He originally wanted to sneak away by the busy cooking skills, but Su Dongpo called him and asked him to stand with Chao Buzhi, Zhang Lei, and Qin Guan to witness Huang Tingjian's entry.

In addition to the above-mentioned people watching the ceremony, there were also Xiao Wang's son-in-law, Wang Shi, Wang Jinqing, Wang Gong, Dingguo, and several Taoist priests and two monks... Chen Qing has never shown up and probably has been reunited with his son, while Chen Gongchuan and his sister were in the backyard, enjoying Mrs. Wang's family banquet - his level of fame is not suitable for this occasion.

Zhao Xing did not remember the name of the monk and Taoist priest because he never looked at the monk and Taoist priests directly. So he ignored it directly.

Huang Tingjian finished his visit and presented a few manuscripts and copybooks as a gift for apprenticeship. According to the etiquette, Su Shi should give the other party some four treasures of the study to encourage him. When he touched his body, he remembered that he had been talking to Zhao Xing just now and forgot to prepare the gift. This made him a little embarrassed. In a hurry, Zhao Xing reached out to help him, and a hard object immediately appeared in his sleeve.

Who is Su Shi? He immediately understood the meaning of the hard thing in his hand, and quickly handed it to Huang Tingjian. While handing it, he quietly looked at what it was. This made him startled.

It turned out to be a jade inkstone.

Huang Tingjian smiled and was shocked when he saw Su Shi's sleeves popping out of his green jade color. He was also shocked. When he bought the inkstone, he found that what Su Shi handed over was a jade inkstone.

This is an inkstone carved from a whole piece of jade. It is as thick as the water of West Lake in spring, making people love it.

There were four famous inkstones in the Song Dynasty, but gem inkstones were not listed among them. However, some people still use large pieces of jade to make inkstones. Due to the precious materials, such jade inkstones immediately became famous as soon as they were released. Jade inkstones are relatively rare, and it was the first time that Huang Tingjian saw such large pieces of high-quality jade as inkstones.

This is too luxurious.

This jade inkstone is not large in shape and belongs to the type of "inkstone in the palm". It is about the size of a palm. After grinding the ink, it can be held in your hand and dipped in ink while writing. The inkstone is made of Buddhist figures, which seems to be a scene of "multi-armed king" catching ghosts. Several extended arms can be used as pen holders or hold them out. The evil ghosts open their mouths and shout for help become ink pools.

Most of the ink pools of inkstones in the palm are deeper, so the gem walls appear particularly thick, and the same is true for this inkstone. The green ink pool is now empty, but if you store a pool of ink, the green and black form a sharp contrast, the more ferocious the evil ghost's mouth appears, the more vivid the landscape of the entire inkstone will be.

Huang Tingjian is also a person who likes painting. After a brief look, he has already discovered that this inkstone is so precious that he cannot afford it. He quickly refused: "Mr., this thing is too expensive, what kind of virtue is the student? He actually enjoys such a famous inkstone... The teacher should take it back and give it to the student with something."

Su Shi was also shocked by the luxury of the inkstone. After a little hesitation, he immediately felt relieved when he thought of Zhao Xing's luxury: "You should take it, this thing is not as rare as you thought. It's just a toy."

Su Shi's answer was very plain, which made Huang Tingjian unable to understand the depth. He was very strange: According to legend, Su Shi was not so rich. I heard that they were in Huangzhou, so poor that they had to farm on their own to eat. This is the origin of the name "Dongpo Layman". Why is Su Shi so luxurious now?

Huang Tingjian looked around at the person watching the ceremony. Wang Gong saw Zhao Xing’s little movement just now. He winked at Huang Tingjian, and pointed at Zhao Xing slightly with the help of his sleeves. Huang Tingjian immediately understood that he was a little modest, put away the inkstone like lightning, and gave the court honestly: "The elders give it to him, I dare not refuse."

After the ceremony, everyone came forward to congratulate him. Zhao Xing took the opportunity to find the house and came to the kitchen. Several hotel friends were busy there, and several halls stood at the door. Zhao Xing glanced at the kitchen, immediately frowned and stepped out, standing at the door to look inside.

The kitchen is shining with silver tableware, which is the light of silver tableware. But these tableware does not belong to Su Shi.

Su Shi was a person who liked to treat guests at home, and the restaurant was called "outside meeting". The hotel style of the Song Dynasty was generous. If the owners booked a seat at home several times in a row, they would throw down a set of sterling silver tableware and spare it at the guests' home. The Song people were rich. In the city of Bianliang, even in the smallest store, there were several sets of such sterling silver, each set of tableware worth four or five hundred taels of silver.

Although silver tableware adds a layer of glamor to the kitchen, in Zhao Xing's opinion, this restaurant is really lacking in management. The whole kitchen is messy, the kitchen utensils are clueless, and pots and pans are piled up, which makes him want to curse. However, after pondering for a moment, he remembered that the kitchen in the Song Dynasty did not have water, so the hygiene situation in front of him was already a rare cleanliness at that time.

Considering that there are still customers in the house, it is a bit inappropriate to clean up the hall now, Zhao Xing resisted the impulse. He raised his hand to greet the manager waiting for him and asked: "Which store are you from?"

The manager was very proud. When he thought, Zhao Xing, a foreigner, dressed in a typical manner, could he know what famous wine and dishes. His answer was proud: "The young people are from Hele Building. The bachelor often orders meals in our store and are always very satisfied..."

Zhao Xing interrupted the other party: "Hele Tower, is Xiaoliang still 'big' frequently 'bright' now?"

As soon as these words were said, the manager immediately became three points shorter. He smiled flatteringly and asked, "Does the high-ranking official recognize my master?"

"Xiaoliang's Daliang" is a joke.

Dong Xiaoliang, the shopkeeper of Helelou, is only in his early twenties this year. Two years ago, he wanted to take over his father's class. His father joked: "It's just Xiaoliang, how can he do something big?" It means that he is too young and needs training.

Dong Xiaoliang immediately replied: "I am twenty years old and it is already Daliang."

His father laughed.

This sentence was later rumored. It was originally just a family gossip, but then Dong Xiaoliang went to the brothel to stay overnight in order to prove that he had grown up. As a result, at dawn, his father touched the brothel and shouted: "It's already dawn, where is Xiaoliang?"

A prostitute answered: "Although it is bright, it is not bright, it is not bright, it is not bright, so why should I urge you?"

Dong Xiaoliang in the room didn't know what was quarreling outside, so he replied in a daze: "No, who said I wasn't 'bright', I've been 'bright' three times."

So, the client in the yard laughed.

Brothels are used to lighting lanterns at the gate of the courtyard where guests stay, reminding others not to stir up. Over time, "liang" becomes synonymous with "erection". "liang" is an accent. These conversations are spoken in modern Mandarin and cannot feel the taste, but if they are chanted continuously in Song Dynasty Chinese, it will be crisp and interesting.

After this incident, Dong Xiaoliang's reputation on "Light or Not" was circulated in the industry.

Last year, Dong Xiaoliang's father could not force Dong Xiaoliang's urging and finally handed over the operation of some industries to this Xiaoliang. Unexpectedly, this Xiaoliang was indeed extremely smart. He introduced the concept of seafood in Hele Tower, and he could actually transport fresh seafood from the distant sea.

In the Song Dynasty, the habit of eating seafood was not popular because of the inconvenience of transportation and most people who could not cook, which made seafood products very fishy. However, after Dong Xiaoliang was in charge of the kitchen, he immediately introduced a large number of unheard of Nanyang spices, and introduced new things in cooking methods, which made Helelou immediately fight against Pan Lou and Yang Lou, the top hotel brothers of this era, and became the three masters in the industry.

Since then, few people have dared to ask him the question of "Liang or not" in person. Those who dare to make fun of him in person are at least those with the same status as his or higher status than him. So as soon as Zhao Xing spoke, the manager immediately understood: There are not many people who can know about "Xiaoliang and Daliang". They are basically all colleagues in the industry, but can it be simple for those who are qualified to make fun of him in person?

Zhao Xing ignored the charm of the manager. He reached out to ask the other party for today's recipe, asked about the order of serving, closed the recipe with a snap, and said lightly: "Let your Xiaoliang come to you tomorrow, and you will say that Zhao Liren is back and has new tricks... No, I'd better come to the door tomorrow and try Xiaoliang's chef skills."

Zhao Liren? This name is not familiar with the manager, but since the other party mentioned the training of the chef, it is obvious that his shopkeeper has a close relationship with this person and even knows such a secret matter. As soon as he thought of this, the manager dared not neglect and nodded frequently.

The dishes at Helelou are a bit similar to the modern dish combination. First there are twenty-four cold dishes, namely eight pieces of fruit, eight pieces of braised pieces, and eight pieces of fresh pieces.

The eight fruits are honey-sauce plum meat, apricot slices, plum ginger, lettuce bamboo shoots, mustard melon, mustard cherry, frosted pear, apple slices... Today, Zhao Xingzai was more proficient in what he ate, so the eight fruits became twelve fruits, adding four rare fruits in Bianliang, including crystal grapes, yogurt cantaloupe, salted pineapple, and orange slices.

The six famous buildings in Bianliang City all have their own special braised platters. The characteristics of Helelou are: Baiyun Pig Hands, Fenjiu Beef Tendon, and Old Tofu Goose. Recently, Gao Xiaoliang added a "rainbow spicy goose gizzard", which is very popular. The biggest special thing about Helelou is the combination of eight seafood: cold jellyfish head, five-spice smoked hairtail, garlic kelp, mustard eel, etc., which makes Bianliang City, which is raw in the inland, also feel the flavor of the sea.

After the cold dishes were served, the rest of the people drank slowly. The wine in Helelou is also very famous. Its unique famous wine (specially selling wine) is called "Qiongju Liquor". In addition, the gathering today was officials, and several good wines were also produced by royal relatives, such as Yingyu Liquor, Qiongsu Liquor brewed by the concubine's home, Qiongsu Liquor brewed by the prince's son-in-law's home, Lanzhi Liquor brewed by the emperor, Yuli Liquor brewed by the prince's and son-in-law's home, etc.

After Dong Xiaoliang took charge, Helelou added a specialty wine, with a very strange name, called "Langjun (Huam, a kind of wine made of sugarcane bagasse)". It is said to be a famous overseas wine, but it is packaged in Chinese. The wine is also divided into several series, each with different tastes: the pure white and colorless one is called "Fire Fire Ice Spring", the pink one is called "Pink Beauty", the green one is called "Dream Green Boy", and the orchid one is called "Seven Seas Treasures"...

These names are very vulgar, but the wine is very delicious. Considering that this is a kind of barbarian wine, everyone will endure the name a little vulgar.

There was also Langju wine today, which could easily get over the wine. During the whole banquet, Zhao Xing stayed in the kitchen, and the supervisors served the food. When he heard the voices in the house become loud and rude and speechless, Zhao Xing chuckled, walked to several boxes in the yard, stretched out his fingers to point one by one, and finally stopped in front of one of the boxes. He called an idle hall and told him to carry the box to the living room.

He is choosing gifts for his guests.

According to the rules, guests cannot come to the door empty-handed, and of course they cannot leave empty-handed. This is called a reciprocity exchange. Originally, this matter should have been brought by Mrs. Wang, but Su Dongpo's youngest son Su Dun had just returned home, and there were family members of Chen Gongchuan and Zhao Xing in the backyard, so Mrs. Wang and Chaoyun were busy receiving and taking care of Su Dun who had just returned home. So Zhao Xing had to come forward.

Subcontracting gifts one by one according to their names. Zhao Xing then instructed people to carry the gifts into the living room, and he followed the gift-giving person into the house.

It is against etiquette to send gifts before the guests leave. Generally speaking, after the guests leave, they should hand the gifts to the guests at the doorman, but Zhao Xing had another purpose. He took advantage of the drunkenness at the table and ordered people to hand the packages directly to everyone.

The guest who received the gift was stunned for a moment. Su Dongpo frowned slightly on the host seat, but Zhao Xing looked calm, which made it difficult for everyone to say anything. They accepted Zhao Xing's instigation intoxication and excitedly opened the gift package.

The gifts Huang Tingjian received were even more novel - they were actually a set of four-color floral cloth and colorful silk printed and dyed.

In this era, the dyeing technique was still very monotonous. For satin, the popular dyeing method was to dye pomegranate skins, dyeing brightly pomegranate-like fabrics. "Worrying under the pomegranate skirt" was the slang that appeared in this era... But no matter how bright the cloth silk they dyed was, it could only be monochrome. Now Zhao Xing is displaying four-color printing, with various patterns and flowers on it, most of which are the scenes in Su Shi's poems.

Since Zhao Xing sold cultural silk to Goryeo, printing cultural silk has also appeared in the Song Dynasty. Based on the Chinese imitation ability, this kind of printing technology with no technical threshold will be promoted soon. However, since the pirated technology only masters "ink printing", the color is single and the cost increases a lot, resulting in high prices and poor sales.

Now, four-color printing will surely bring new breakthroughs in printing and dyeing technology.

The officials at the scene were amazed at. The prince consort of the little king, Wang Shi, Wang Jinqing looked at the cloth and thoughtfully: "I seem to have seen this four-colored cloth in the palace - it is recently. Legend has it that it was made by the 'Heshengxuan' in Jiangnan, but this 'Heshengxuan' is very strange. It is rumored that its workshop is in Suzhou or Quanzhou, but there are also saying that it is in Yue Kingdom overseas. Yesterday, the empress dowager ordered the palace to buy it and then search for it...
Chapter completed!