Zhang Chao was originally very disgusted with arranged marriages, and of course his own marriage had to be decided by himself. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

When he was a junior in college, before he graduated, his family began to urge him to get married, and even helped him arrange blind dates several times, which made Zhang Chao's relationship with his parents very stiff for a while, and later his parents found out that he was in love with Wang Yan, so they finally dispelled that enthusiasm.

Before meeting Cui Shisanniang this morning, Zhang Chao was inwardly resistant to this marriage arranged by his father and Qin Qiong. He's been looking for an opportunity to spoil this good thing. But when I saw him today, Zhang Chao completely changed his attitude.

It's not just because Cui Shisanniang is very similar to his girlfriend.

Love at first sight, Zhang Chao felt that he fell in love with her at first sight. It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, and Zhang Chao felt that the moment he looked at each other, he was addicted to it, and he couldn't extricate himself.

During the time Zhang Chao came to Datang, most of the Datang women he saw were rural village girls, such as Lianniang Lan Niang, Da Ya Erya, Seven Women and Eight Women, most of them were malnourished, their skin was yellow or black, they were usually thin, and they were not tall. The village girl who doesn't know how to dress up without makeup makes Zhang Chao, who is used to seeing all kinds of beauties in later generations, really hard to be interested.

As for the ladies of the Tang Dynasty, the daughters, Zhang Chao's impression should be the images of those Tang women in film and television dramas, with thick white foundation on her face, her eyebrows are all shaved, and then she has short thick eyebrows such as distant mountains, and the rouge on her mouth is only painted in the middle.

In short, Zhang Chao really didn't dare to compliment those Tang beauties in film and television.

But today, when he saw Cui Sanniang, who is the daughter of a wealthy family, it changed his impression. It turns out that the daughters of everyone in the Tang Dynasty can also be so elegant and natural, so simple and beautiful, generous, beautiful, intellectual, and temperamental.

Zhang Chao fell in love with Cui Shisanniang all of a sudden, originally he wanted to break this matter, but now he wants to achieve this marriage. He felt that if he could marry such a girl, this life would be enough.

The idea changed, and Zhang Chao's attitude towards Cui Shanfu immediately took a big turn.

"Zhang Sanlang is very polite today."

Zheng Shanguo said to Cui Shanfu with a smile.

Cui Shanfu was well aware of Zhang Chao's change, "San Lang came to the house to find me this morning, and I happened to be in your house at that time." ”

"And then?" Several brothers-in-law of the Zheng family asked with a smile.

"Cui Yan took San Lang to secretly meet with Thirteen Niang." Cui Shanfu said with a serious face, but he was actually very happy in his heart. He has always been a little worried that Thirteen Niang is dissatisfied with selling marriage, but this time Cui Yan, this kid, has done a good thing. Thirteen Niang and San Lang met in private, and the result was unexpectedly good.

Thirteen Niang is very satisfied that this kid from a peasant family is actually very satisfied, and Zhang Sanlang, who originally saw that he was also a little resistant to this marriage, has now changed his attitude greatly, and he obviously also likes Thirteen Niang.

It's a good thing, now his heart can be collected with a thousand taels of gold.

Zheng Shanguo's brothers sighed, and they all understood.

"That's good, I've always been worried that Thirteen Niang will be aggrieved and unwilling to accept this marriage. Okay now, although Zhang Sanlang is just a flat-headed commoner, I believe that this kid will have a great future in the future. ”

If you are accustomed to eating big fish and meat, you will get tired of the delicacies of the mountains and seas, which is the same as the people of later generations who like to go to the farmhouse to play. After eating too much Western food, sometimes I want to eat some bamboo rice, wood-stove rice, and grilled crucian carp.

Although the Zhang family's flowing water banquet is a country meal, it is not as simple as a real country meal. Although the dishes are mainly cheap meat, they have a new cooking method and a new dish.

"Is this meat really made of pork? Well, it tastes very good. ”

"Fat and thin, sweet and fluffy, melt in the mouth, wonderful." Li Shimin ate several pieces of braised pork in a row and was full of praise. Li Shimin did not dislike pork, he started the army at the age of sixteen, and he was not so picky when he was fighting outside. Dry food cakes have been gnawed, and pork has also been eaten.

The eldest grandson Wuji also ate several pieces in a row, "Fat but not greasy, soft and glutinous and sweet, it is really delicious, it is really hard to imagine, it is so delicious, it is actually made of cheap meat." ”

"The fragrance is tangy, and the color is attractive." Fang Xuanling was amazed with a piece of braised pork.

Hearing these bigwigs praise him like this, Zhang Chao didn't feel a little proud, it seems that his official version of braised pork has finally succeeded. He was worried that these people didn't eat pork, but it seemed that he was happy to eat it just like dog meat.

"San Lang, how did you make a piece of cheap meat so delicious? Tell me about it? Li Shimin asked Zhang Chao who was standing next to him with a smile.

"The price of good pork is like dung, the rich refuse to eat it, and the poor do not know how to cook it. Slow fire, less water, when the fire is full, it is beautiful. Come to make a bowl every morning, and you can be full of your own family. Zhang Chao dragged a poem coolly, in fact, he borrowed a poem written about braised pork by Su Dongpo, the inventor of braised pork.

Only the beginning of a poem in Huangzhou was changed to Bashang.

Zhang Chao was also a little carried away for a while, forgetting that the people at the table in front of him were all from Tiance Mansion, especially Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Yu Shinan and others, among these people there were eighteen bachelors from the Qin Palace.

Su Dongpo's poem, of course, is a good poem, although this is not a peerless poem, but it is not bad.

"Good poetry!"

Yu Shinan couldn't help but clap his hands in admiration.

This celebrity, one of the eighteen scholars of the Qin Palace, was admired, and the others couldn't help but echo it.

Although Li Shimin is a general who commands hundreds of thousands of troops and has great martial arts. But he is also a literary young man in his bones, Li Shimin used to admire his cousin Yang Guang very much, and Yang Guang's literary talent can be called everyone in the world. He once made several very famous poems, such as the Great Wall of Drinking Horses, and the Spring River Flower Moon Night and other famous poems, and later after Li Shimin became the emperor, he also made two poems with the same name.

Although later generations praised Li Shimin's two poems, in terms of poetry alone, in fact, there are many gaps between them and Yang Guang's two poems in terms of style and artistic conception. But although it is not as good as Yang Guang, Li Shimin's writing is indeed very good.

Zhang Chao copied a poem by Su Dongpo, and Li Shimin can still feel the level of this poem.

It's not a masterpiece, but it's already showing a good level. He didn't expect that this Zhang Sanlang would still have talent.

After a pause, Zhang Chao also realized that he had lost his words.

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and they have always wanted to be low-key, why can't they control this broken mouth today. Fortunately, this poem is only average, otherwise it would be bad if it copied a masterpiece by Su Dongpo.

Zhang Chao was a little embarrassed, so he had to hurry to save it.

"This one was written by my master, and I think it's good."

"Your master wrote it? I heard that your master is not a hidden monk? ”

Zhang Chao's face was not red and his heart was not beating, "That's right, my master is indeed a reclusive monk, and his Dharma name is Sanzang." However, my master is a high monk, and he often says that wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart. Cultivating Buddhism is about the mind, not sticking to the form. As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? ”

"Wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha has left it in his heart. If I don't go to hell, who will? Li Shimin read it silently and thought it was very interesting. Although he did not approve of these two sentences, he did not deny that the monks who could say these two sentences must be very good.

"Master Sanzang is really a high monk, which is extraordinary, but unfortunately we couldn't meet."

"Was this meat also invented by your master?" Fang Xuanling asked.

Zhang Chao nodded, anyway, the pot had already been pushed to a good Sanzang master, so he simply let him take the blame.

"Well, this dish is cooked with pork, and it's called Tang monk meat."

"Tang monk meat?" A table of people screamed in surprise.

"In the Buddhist scriptures, there was a Bodhisattva who sacrificed himself to serve the tiger, so the master named this dish Tang monk meat."

"Interesting."

"Master Sanzang is really a master."

"Tang monk meat, hahaha."

Mr. Dongpo is sorry for you, there will be no Dongpo meat in the world in the future, and it will be called Tang monk meat. Tang Seng children, I'm sorry for you, although you haven't been born yet, but Tang Seng's name has been preemptively registered by me.

The square pork belly with skin, Zhang Chao fried it with rock sugar and soy sauce that he had tried to make before, and simmered it slowly over low heat, with all the color, flavor and flavor. Add spices such as green onions, ginger, bay leaves, star anise, and simmer carefully, which is definitely oily but not greasy.

"In fact, pork is flat and sweet, has the effect of moistening the stomach and intestines, shengjin liquid, tonifying kidney qi, and detoxifying fever, and can cure fever and injury, quench thirst and thinness, kidney deficiency and weakness, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, replenish deficiency, nourish yin, moisten dryness, nourish liver yin, moisten skin, facilitate urination and quench thirst. Pork soup can be used to make up for irritability, dry cough, constipation and dystocia caused by insufficient fluid. ”

Zhang Chao is not afraid of blowing the cowhide, which he wrote down from the computer before.

Anyway, this thing is also considered a food supplement, and it can't eat bad people.

"The key to pork is the cooking method, which needs to be spiced. When cooked, pork is no worse than lamb and even tastier. ”

A large bowl of braised pork on the table had bottomed out, and Li Shimin's chopsticks were empty.

He couldn't help but smile, "It's really turning decay into magic." ”

"Xiaoba, go to the kitchen and bring a piece of Tang monk meat, and then a Dongpo elbow."

robbed the name of Dongpo meat, Zhang Chao was quite upright, and another dish named after Dongpo, Dongpo elbow, still retained the name.

Zhang Chao's explanation to everyone is that this dish was made by his master once on the eastern slope of the mountain, so it was named Dongpo elbow.

Dongpo elbow is stewed with the whole hoof, the shape is not rotten, oily but not greasy, and it is definitely a favorite of foodies.

Sure enough, Li Shimin and the others ate deliciously, and they ate it all with a big elbow in a while.

Cui Shanfu was also very satisfied with today's meal, he didn't share a table with Li Shimin, but with Qin Qiong, Dad and the Zheng family.

At the banquet, Cui Shanfu told Zhang Chao and Thirteen Niang about their private meeting today, of course, it was an occasional unexpected encounter, and then focused on saying that the two were very satisfied with each other.

"Since both of them are satisfied, this is naturally the best, I think we can set the wedding date as soon as possible, so that the two can get married as soon as possible."

"It's better to get married early, it's better to get married early." Dad is a strong supporter of this marriage, and naturally hopes that Zhang Chao can marry Cui's daughter home as soon as possible, so as to save a lot of long nights, after all, the other party is a woman with five surnames, Qin Qiong has exceeded a thousand taels of gold for Zhang, and Dad doesn't want any accidents.

"I think it's better to hit the day than another day, everyone is here, let's set the wedding date today." Qin Qiong, as a big media, also expressed her position.

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