"Guest officer, why don't I bring you some of the Khitan specialties, you shouldn't have tasted the Khitan cuisine when you first arrived! Although the food is not so fine compared to our Nanchu people, the taste is also a must. ”

Wuwei Taoist didn't want to try it, after all, he should eat big fish and meat almost every day in the Khitan palace, but he is a Taoist priest, in order to maintain his image of immortal wind Dao bones, he has no choice but to pretend to be a Bigu cultivator, just drink a small amount of water every day and it's over. In fact, with the Khitan Emperor on his back, he did not eat less secretly. It's just that after all, it can only be done occasionally, so after a long time, he is hungry and thin, and it is very painful, and he can't care if he can eat the food of his hometown when he comes out today, and this big fish and meat of Khitan is now to his taste.

So as soon as the shopkeeper finished talking about the food in the store, he wished he had eaten everything again, regardless of whether it was delicious or not.

"There's no grinding and chirping, let's all come up first, and I'll introduce you to me while I'm eating." I just don't have oil and water in my stomach now, so I just need to eat a few big bowls of meat. Is there such a dish? ”

If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing silk clothes that only Khitan nobles could afford, he would have suspected that Wuwei Daoist was coming to eat overlord meals. "Yes, yes, yes, this will be served to the guest officer."

Animal husbandry, fishing and hunting are the main production methods of the Khitan people in the steppe, so it is determined that their diet is mainly meat and dairy food. According to the mural data of the Liao tomb, the most common way of eating meat for the Khitan people is boiled fresh meat. They blooded the slaughtered domestic animals or hunted animals, then skinned them, gutted them, cut them into large pieces, put them in large iron pots, added water, lit a fire, and cooked them. After the meat is cooked, it is enlarged in a plate, thinly sliced with a knife, and then dipped in various ingredients before eating.

The first dish served by the small two in this shop is boiled fresh meat, it can be said that these beef and mutton may have lived on the grassland since childhood, and they ate fresh pasture, which has no smell at all.

"This piece of meat is also so delicious, what is it called?"

"It's good if the guest officer likes it, this is the Khitan people specially slaughtered fresh beef and mutton and boiled directly, retaining the original flavor, very delicious, if the guest officer thinks the taste is too light, you can also dip this condiment and eat it together, there is a different flavor." The shopkeeper introduced.

Seeing the red, red, yellow and yellow spices next to him, Wuwei Taoist dipped a red one at random and chewed it and swallowed it in his stomach, and a spicy sensation surged into his heart, stimulating the entire mouth.

"It's so spicy, it's so cool!"

"If the guest officer likes it, eat more, and there are still a lot of fresh beef and mutton we just slaughtered!"

"Well, go, bring me another ten plates, give, this is your gold." The Wuwei Taoist casually took out an ingot of gold from his waist and put it on the table.

The shopkeeper was still thinking that this guest officer was so angry, and he was going to take ten plates of boiled meat slices at once, could he get so much money? When he saw the golden ingot on the table by the Wuwei Daoist, both eyes lit up.

The title has changed, "Uncle, the amount of gold you has is too big, and the small one can't be found!" Why don't you ask our boss to find you some money? ”

"You don't have to be so troublesome, just keep an account for me alone, I like your shop, I will often come here to eat in the future, how much reward do you want, look at it yourself!" Wuwei Taoist didn't care about talking to Xiao Er, and said indistinctly while eating slices of meat.

"Hey, okay, thank you uncle, I see that your mouth is dry, uncle, I'll go and bring you a pot of good wine!"

"Well, go ahead, go ahead!"

The Khitan people liked to drink alcohol and mastered the technique of winemaking a long time ago. There are two types of brewing: official brewing and private brewing. In order to meet their own drinking needs, the Khitan nobles set up a special wine-making workshop and management organization "Quyuan" in the imperial capital Shangjing. The Khitan civilians have small folk brewing workshops and drinking places "restaurants". In addition to using grain to make wine, the Khitan people can also use the ** of livestock to brew a kind of "milk wine" with the flavor of the grassland people.

What Xiao Er of this shop brought out to the Wuwei Daoist was their own milk wine, which was very different from ordinary wine. Those who like it like it have a faint milky aroma, and those who don't like it think it smells too fishy.

And Wuwei Taoist is a person who likes its taste, he couldn't help but call the shop Xiao Er loudly, "Xiao Er, what kind of name is this wine, how can it still have a milky fragrance, so delicious!" ”

"I didn't expect the uncle to like this wine very much, to be honest, the general Nanchu people don't like to drink this when they come here, it's rare that the uncle likes this milk wine."

"Milk wine?"

"Yes, this is also a Khitan wine. Legend has it that when hunting in this area, the ancestors of the Khitan people, with the improvement of hunting methods and tools, may catch more live beasts at a time, and when they can't eat them all for a while, they will tie them with ropes or fences to be slaughtered later. It is entirely possible that among the beasts that are bound or imprisoned there is a mother who is nursing her young, or it is possible that she gives birth to a young beast when she is bound or imprisoned, so that people have the opportunity to taste the milk of the beast, and of course there are conditions for milking the animal. The milk of the animal that is milked cannot be eaten for a while, and it is not well kept, and it is similar to the sugary wild fruit, and it will also be affected by the action of microorganisms in nature. They tasted this sake by chance and thought it tasted good, so they consciously imitated it and brewed it, which was the first milk wine. ”

"It seems that this Khitan people are not as uncivilized as they imagined, they still have a skill, and I like this milk wine very much." Wuwei Taoist drank a big bowl of milk wine again and said happily.

"If you like the uncle, you can drink more, this is made of horse milk, horse milk, itself is a kind of nourishing and medical food, Lang Zhong said that it has the effect of nourishing blood and moisturizing dryness, clearing heat and quenching thirst, curing bone steaming fever, and treating throat and mouth diseases!"

"Well, then I'm going to have to drink more!"

Then the shopkeeper brought dozens of delicacies such as grains, vegetables, dried and fresh fruits to the table, and made the guests next to him look stupid, this person is too good to eat. The green vegetables eaten by the Khitan people include vegetables grown in the garden and wild vegetables picked in the fields. Such as "iron horn grass", wild vegetables, dried in the shade after picking, and thrown into the boiling soup when eating, "in an instant, the stems and grass stretch like life." "The Khitan people are known to grow vegetables, such as the Uighur bean introduced from the Western Regions, which is two feet high, straight and dry, with leaves and no side branches, one branch has six or seven horns, the horn is two inches long, and there are two beans in each corner, "the color is yellow, and the taste is like millet." "There are many kinds of dried and fresh melons and fruits eaten by the Khitan people, including watermelon, acacia melon, pear, begonia fruit, jujube, apricot, peach, plum, persimmon, cherry, pomegranate, grape, hazelnut, walnut (walnut), pine fruit, and so on.

Here, the Wuwei Taoist was eating with a wine jug in one hand and a slice of meat in the other, but the guests at the table next to him were already eyeing the wallet on his waist.