The spring wind does not have a trace of coldness, even if it blows from the boundless wilderness, it carries endless gentleness, which makes people intoxicated, inhaled and refreshed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The moon on the horizon has just shown its head, looking at the stars in the distance, climbing up little by little.

The kerosene lamp on the front of the car reflected the road ahead, hazy, and there was not a bush of wildflowers popping up on the side of the road, which was beautiful and somewhat mysterious. Occasionally, a poplar flower falls, and in a trance it floats like a snowflake in the night.

Wang Gongchen, Ouyang Xiu and the others sat on the tricycle, looking at the night of the countryside that they had never paid attention to, and feeling the spring breeze blowing in their faces, they couldn't help but feel excited.

Xu Ping sat in the car driven by Sun Qilang, looking at the grange that had become a little unfamiliar, looking at the green wheat seedlings not far away, the flat rice fields in the distance, and the woods of the Hesse forest, and felt a sense of steadfastness that had not been seen for a long time.

The days in the officialdom are really a torment, and only in this farmland can Xu Ping really open his mind and feel the truth of this life. As soon as I left the countryside, life seemed to become a dream.

It wasn't long before the cars drove into the newly renovated amusement park.

The bankers have already tidied up this place, and the bright lights are shining brightly as if it were day.

The last time I had a party with the same year, the garden was bare, so everyone didn't want to come again after coming once, and Xu Ping made great efforts to clean it up afterwards. The original small pond was filled with a rockery, many flowers and trees were planted on the bank, and a long verandah was built. Not far away, a new pavilion was built, and there were more than a dozen rooms in the pavilion.

Although it still looks rough, now this garden is already a reasonable garden.

After getting out of the car, Xu Ping invited everyone to the open space in front of the pavilion and sat down.

He said to Lu Song, who came with him: "Take good wine, tonight is beautiful, don't get drunk!" ”

The crowd applauded, and when it came to the connoisseur of winemaking, of course, there was a lot of wine.

After a while, Zhuang Ke brought a few wine jars over, and slapped one open in front of everyone, and immediately the aroma of wine overflowed.

Pour a full glass of wine, and everyone drink a full glass and applaud together. There are those who are not good at drinking, and they are choked by this strong wine and cough.

Putting down the bowl, Xu Ping said: "It is often said that drinking wine and eating meat, how can you just drink wine and not eat meat!" Bring the meat! ”

The villagers carried several large basins, which were full of large pieces of mutton, and some of them also had bones, and placed them in front of everyone one by one, and crossed their hands together: "Slow use of guests!" ”

Wang Gongchen's eyes widened, looked at the big basin in front of him, and stabbed Ouyang Xiu beside him: "The food in this village is too rough, just such a big piece of meat, can you just grab it and eat it?" ”

If the family is not burdened, there is still money for drinking and eating meat. But such a large basin of meat, and an altar of fine wine, is beyond their ability to consume.

But a scholar always has the reserve of a scholar, Ouyang Xiu frowned and looked at the meat in front of him, and said unhappily: "Deputy Envoy Xu is also from a Jinshi, reading sage books, how can he be so informal?" ”

Wang Gongchen disagreed: "The deputy envoy is like this, and he doesn't care much about the etiquette subsections. Uncle Yong, Deputy Envoy Xu is a person who led 100,000 soldiers to break the country, although he is a jinshi in his studies, he is also a border general, which is different from us. ”

Xu Ping saw it on the side, knowing that these people wanted to eat and pay attention to their manners, so he asked Zhuang Ke to bring a plate of knives up, distributed them to a few people one by one, and said: "In the countryside, the food is not fine." If you are in a restaurant, such a large piece of meat will inevitably make people laugh, but in the country yard, the meat is cut into small slices, which is just as funny. It's hard for you to get the countryside once, and open your mind, drink wine in a big bowl, and eat meat in a big piece. This knife is made in the village, and it is very sharp, and it has been washed beforehand, so you can only use it to cut the meat. ”

Fang Kai and the others are characters who have been rolling at the bottom for many years, and after listening to Xu Ping's words, they all took a knife in their hands and looked at the moonlight that had just risen. I saw that the blade was shiny and cold, and I couldn't help but praise a good knife.

Only Ouyang Xiu, Yin Zhu and Fu Bi are used to eating and drinking in Luoyang, Xijing, and some are not used to it. Fu Bi has an open-minded temperament, but he doesn't care, and takes a knife in his hand to watch carefully. Ouyang Xiu and Yin Zhu kept frowning, feeling that Xu Ping's temperament was too casual, and it was not the style that a scholar should have.

Sun Qilang took the Zhuang Ke to put the wine in the jar into a few wine jugs, and took the jugs to fill everyone with wine. When I arrived in front of Ouyang Xiu and Yin Zhu, I felt a little unhappy when I saw their gloomy faces and unhappy looks.

Reluctantly poured this round of wine, Sun Qilang put the wine jug down and said to Xu Ping: "The officials and guests are drinking, I'll go to barbecue!" The sheep slaughtered today is delicate, and the meat is delicious when it is roasted. ”

The main methods of meat in this era are one to boil and the other to roast, unlike the various ways to eat in later generations. In particular, barbecue is very popular, which is the traditional way of eating of the Han people, and the wrist knife is also always available. However, the literati and writers paid attention to manners, and gradually became less popular, and regarded this as something that only rough men would do.

Xu Ping let him go, Sun Qilang is also a court official, although he refuses to go out to serve, but he is no longer a slave of the Xu family. He was supposed to sit with everyone tonight, but others looked down on him, and he didn't bother to pay attention to others, even though he did what he liked.

After drinking two more rounds of wine, Ouyang Xiu saw that everyone else was eating happily, especially Wang Gongchen beside him, who didn't even use the knife in his hand, and directly grabbed a rib with his hand and gnawed it sweetly.

Seeing Ouyang Xiu hesitating with a knife, Wang Gongchen said: "Uncle Yong, taste it, the sheep raised here by the deputy envoy are not as good as the meat bought in the city." I heard that they are all selected sheep breeds from Shaanxi and Hedong, and they are fed with the best forage, which is extremely fragrant and fragrant, without the slightest smell. Leave here, but I can't eat anymore! ”

At this time, the mutton, the best thing to pay attention to is the northwest sheep, basically from the Shaanxi Road, or even from the party to buy, every year to the capital there are tens of thousands of mouths. The second level is Hedong sheep, and many of them are sold to the capital. The worse ones are the sheep on Hebei Road and Jingjing West Road. As for the sheep raised in the south of the Yangtze River, many people in this era thought that they could not eat it, not only because it tasted bad, but also because it was poisonous and not good for the body. Later, the Song family moved south, and there was no need to pay attention to it, and there were good sheep in Jiangnan.

The sheep breeders and ewes on Xu Pingzhuang are carefully selected, using the excellent breeds of Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road, and have been selected and bred in the village. Usually fed, in addition to grass, there is also prepared alfalfa, drinking water, the taste is better than the sheep from the northwest. In the capital, the sheep on the village of the Xu family are already famous, and they are often purchased even in the palace, of course, they are not eaten casually. (To be continued.) )