Chunlan asked the slave cook who was originally Goguryeo in the kitchen, and the kitchen immediately started crying like a ghost.
"Don't, don't cry!" Chunlan was a little anxious.
Li Chang came over just in time and grabbed the cook: "Quickly answer someone, what's so special about this soup?"
"This is mother's soup!" The cook said with tears running down his face: "Every year during the lean season, the dried fish that has been stored for a year until it becomes moldy is mixed with various wild vegetables and cooked for the children to eat. So, this is
Soup is mother soup, only poor people know this soup!"
Wild vegetables, there are a lot of wild vegetables here, and the organizers can pick several cartloads of them very quickly.
Li Chang asked people to prepare wild vegetables. It was really difficult to find moldy dried fish.
After much deliberation, Li Chang asked Chunlan to go in and make a report first. He also went to tell the three superiors and see what they said.
When Wang Jishan heard this, he thought it was Jin Manqing who was homesick, which coincided with her hesitation about the menu page just now.
After Wu Zhao heard this, he secretly handed something to Chunlan and whispered: "This is the last soup!"
Mushroom and green vegetables, this is the first dish served on the table. The kitchen is naturally dominated by chefs from the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuanxing is delicious, but the taste does not matter the color and style. Wu Zhao is delicious, and requires both color and flavor. This mushroom and green vegetable
It is a very common dish in modern times, even in the Tang Dynasty, but it is a top-notch VIP dish in Chang'an.
Because all year round, no matter when you are, you can eat a serving of mushrooms and vegetables.
After this dish was introduced at Qin Wangzhuang, it quickly became an important vegetarian dish at banquets because it ensured the supply of fresh mushrooms and vegetables all year round. Especially when officials of the Tang Dynasty hosted foreign envoys, the absence of this dish represented
That envoy was not valued by the Tang Dynasty.
There are green vegetables in all seasons, which represents the wealth and strength of the Tang Dynasty.
The second course of meatballs is four-color meatballs. There are lean little lion heads, raw meatballs, starch-fried meatballs, and fresh meatballs. Fresh meatballs are delicious meatballs mixed with shrimp and pork.
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The four kinds of meatballs are steamed, boiled and fried, using three techniques. And all of them are fresh meat.
This dish, any kind of meatballs are top-notch at banquets. In Yaozhou, slaves can also eat this dish, but they can't buy it with money. Instead, they can get it with the points rewarded by the workshop.
This dish represents Yaozhou's most outstanding craftsmen, regardless of age or sex, civilians or slaves.
The third course. Twice-cooked pork slices.
Marinate the meat, or boil the meat, then slice it into thin slices and fry it with garlic sprouts. This dish is not a banquet, but it is a top-quality dish on the table of ordinary people.
Both cured meat and boiled meat are meats that can be stored for many days.
Since the slaves in Yaozhou could own some property, the first thing they stored in food was dried meat or boiled meat. Such things represented the wealth of ordinary slaves. I don’t know what it meant in Chang’an.
, it can be Yaozhou, this is the best dish for the lower-class slaves or commoners in Yaozhou.
The last dish, braised beans!
This is not a dish anymore, it is one of the original staple foods of the Tang Dynasty. After pressing the oil, put some coarse salt in a clay pot over low heat, add water and simmer slowly over low heat before starting work.
When I got home in the evening, most of the water in the casserole was almost dry, and the beans were like porridge.
Eating wheat bran dumplings mixed with wild vegetables and then eating this braised beans has become a staple food for several months.
Four dishes represent four different emotions.
Wu Zhao admired this Jin Manqing. She was really a smart woman. She expressed all her current mood in four dishes. She loved the Tang Dynasty and she liked her current life, but there were still things in Goguryeo that she couldn't give up.
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When the last soup is served, it is buckled on the tray with a semicircular pure steel lid.
The maid did not take off the lid in front of Jin Manqing, but placed the entire tray on the table.
With doubts and encouragement from Wu Zhao's eyes, Jin Mancheng reached out and slowly opened the lid. There was no soup on the tray, only a parchment roll tied with a red ribbon and placed in the tray.
"Your voucher, from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty to Goguryeo, is valid for one year! You can carry your luggage and set off at any time. This voucher was issued by the Prince of Qin of the Tang Dynasty. You can pass without hindrance. It is the post station of the Tang Dynasty.
You can also check in, and each inn will provide you with a meal and a night's accommodation."
Chunlan stood next to Wu Zhao, explaining the special features of Pingyin.
Jin Manqing held the citation and suddenly asked loudly: "Isn't the Tang Dynasty afraid that I won't come back if I leave?"
Wu Zhao did not answer, but ate his lunch slowly.
Wang Jishan and Cui Junsu, who were sitting behind the screen, looked at each other and wrote a sentence on the paper at the same time. This was what they thought was the best answer when faced with such a question.
Wang Jishan wrote: Datang treats you like a daughter, why don't you return?
Cui Junsu wrote: Only here in the Tang Dynasty can you become a master, why don't you go back.
After the two of them finished writing, they signaled to Lu Chengqing and Li Chang to also write down answers they might need. Li Chang wrote directly on the paper in front of him: He is a rough man and doesn't know much about writing. He only thinks that His Highness the King of Qin is nice to him.
Someone repays him with death.
However, Lu Chengqing wrote: What is home? It has relatives and friends, and it is rich and happy to call home.
Wang Jishan and Cui Junsu gave Lu Chengqing a thumbs up at the same time. As far as the younger generation is concerned, Lu Chengqing's words combined the essence of Wang and Cui's words. Whether it was his own thought or after seeing the words of Wang and Cui.
Nothing you write can hide that Lu Chengqing is a truly talented person.
But how would Wu Zhao answer?
Everyone is looking forward to it, a few people behind the screen are looking forward to it, and Jin Manqing is also looking forward to it.
Wu Zhao finished the rice in his small bowl, wiped his mouth and then said: "The Pingyin of the Tang Dynasty is just a pass. Some people come to Chang'an from Lingnan, and if they stay, they will not return to Lingnan. This is not against return."
According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, if he wants to return to Lingnan, he needs to apply for the certificate again."
What kind of answer is this?
"You are a commoner of the Tang Dynasty, and no one restricts your freedom. However, if it has been more than one year, your certificate will become invalid, and you need to apply for a new customs clearance certificate at the border. As long as you are alive, you will always have this qualification. You also
You can choose where you will live in the future, Goguryeo is your home."
"Why?" Jin Manqing seemed to be asking herself. She lowered her head and held the ticket in a daze.
Why? Wang Jishan also didn’t understand why Wu Zhao answered like this.
"The common people of the Tang Dynasty have freedom. This is written in the laws of the Tang Dynasty. However, you have signed a contract with the Yaozhou Medicine Shop. If you have not worked in the medicine shop for enough years, you will have to pay compensation. This
There is a clause in the contract, so if you don’t come back for a year, officials from the Tang Dynasty will come to you in Goguryeo and ask you for compensation for your breach of contract."
Everything Wu Zhao said is true.
Jin Manqing really couldn't understand. He got up and walked to the middle position to give a big gift. He knelt on the ground and asked again: "I came from Chang'an to Goguryeo to ask for compensation. The money was not even enough for travel expenses, but why didn't I come back?"
"I tell you very seriously that you are a free man and no one has the right to arrest you. Do you think it is a joke that the Tang Dynasty asked you to redeem your body? Or is the Tang Dynasty using this word game to deceive you people? I am looking for you.
Compensating money is upholding the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Paying back debts is a matter of course!"
Wu Zhao spoke word by word, and his words were very impressive to Li Yuanxing.
If it weren't for the fact that Wu Zhao's voice was obviously that of a young girl, Wang Jishan and others would have really thought that the King of Qin, Li Yuanxing, had arrived.
Jin Manqing cried.
She believed that what a princess said would not be lies, and that she was truly free.
But……
Jin Mancheng cried so sadly that he cried all the tears he had shed since he became a slave. From being captured to now, no matter whether he was suffering or tired, even when his shoulder was accidentally hit by a cabinet, he had not shed a drop.
Tears, but now she is really crying.
"Your Highness, I can't go back. I want to go back, but I can't!"
"Why?" Wu Zhao's tone softened a lot, but it still sounded like Li Yuanxing's.
"After I go back, I will be captured back to the palace. Because I am a runaway slave, if I die, the palace will give my parents some reward. If I am a runaway slave, my parents will also be implicated. I will be captured back.
, beat him to death with a whip, and my parents will lose their family property and even become slaves!"
Jin Manqing cried sadly. She was a medical woman in the Goguryeo palace. From the day she entered the palace, she became the property of the palace.
Although she was not sold into slavery, when she entered the palace, the Goguryeo Palace would give her family a sum of money, which was regarded as buying her. However, she did not fall into the status of selling a girl into slavery. In fact, she was considered a high-level slave and became a palace slave.
As a medical maid in a Chinese novel, it was not until she became an official medical maid that she finally got through and became free.
Wang Jishan and Cui Junsu were both senior officials of the Tang Dynasty. They not only knew the laws of the Tang Dynasty, but also knew some laws of the surrounding small countries. After all, they were friendly countries.
Hearing Jin Manqing cry, both of them were a little moved.
Wang Jishan said: "It shouldn't be difficult to buy her parents back. General Cheng should be able to do it!"
But just when everyone was sympathizing with Jin Manqing.
"Ha, hahaha!" Wu Zhao laughed loudly, seemingly without any sympathy.
Jin Manqing gave up. She knew that her only option was to stay in Datang. The only thing she could ask for was to save enough money to bring her parents and younger brother to Datang and live a prosperous life.
"What is that in your arms? Do you know what that piece of paper represents?" Wu Zhao's tone of voice at this time was definitely a replica of Li Yuanxing, without any difference. The words, sentences, and pauses in his tone, everything was the same.
It is a replica of Li Yuanxing.
This shocked the four people behind the screen.
Jin Manqing tremblingly took out his piece of paper that represented the identity of a commoner in the Tang Dynasty.
"You are a citizen of the Tang Dynasty. Outside of the Tang Dynasty, there are no prison cells for the people of the Tang Dynasty. How dare you whip the people of the Tang Dynasty!" (To be continued...)