Chapter Seventy-Seven: Zhao's Mansion Night Banquet (I)
Lu Zhe is not without the experience of drinking and feasting with others, whether it is modern, Ang or when he came to Qin.
Drinking with modern friends at will, the Qin people's drinking banquets are actually mostly chaotic and happy, but most of these are not formal occasions.
At Zhao Gao's invitation, the guests did not find a place to sit down in a mess.
The civil officials may be polite and polite, procrastinate for a long time, and sit according to their prestige or official position; The military attache is extremely crisp on his side, the captain sits in the first seat, followed by the military marquis, and the last is the five hundred masters. The seats of the military marquis are also divided into titles, and the five hundred lords are generally like this, and there is no sound of conversation during the whole sitting.
Lu Zhe's position was the fourth in line on the left, and he looked at the civil officials who were still humbling each other and looked messy, and then looked at the warriors who had already sat down. I have to say that there is a fucked up sense of superiority at this moment.
Turning his gaze to the long case, there were only two kinds of things on the table, one was a pale piece of boiled meat, and the other was a dagger. The boiled meat is simply packed in a blue-black magnetic basin, which has three legs, and there is a small stove burning on the left side of the table. Apparently that the little stove was a tool for heating.
A group of officers straightened their waists and knelt down to sit down, watching the group of civil officials still humble, but they sat down uneasily, and they didn't know how to scold this group of civil officials in their hearts, and how they chirped endlessly.
Zhao Gao, who was sitting in the first place, smiled and looked at him and didn't make a sound, looking at his expression, it seemed to be with relish?
The old time......
"How long will you be humble?" The lieutenant didn't know if he couldn't help it or what, and he made a noise: "Sit down according to your title or official position, where is there so much nonsense!" ”
Lu Zhe subconsciously looked at Zhao Gao, curious about how Zhao Gao would react.
The civil servants seemed to be a little embarrassed, but they did not sarcastically say anything about the lieutenants, and they really sped up their seats. However, Zhao Gao's expression on the face of the captain did not change, but how did he look at it, there seemed to be some relief in his expression?
"Zhao Cheng?" Zhao Gao pretended to be unhappy: "How can you talk to a guest like this?" ”
It turned out that the captain was called Zhao Cheng. I saw him say nonchalantly: "Brother, these people are too ......."
"Shut up!" Zhao Gao interrupted, this time he was really unhappy, and raised his voice: "Why are you still so ungrown!" ”
"Some outsiders are still reprimanding me like that." Zhao Cheng muttered twice, and then faced the embarrassed civil officials in a circle, very reluctantly: "Cheng is a rough man, he was summoned by his brother after his official duties, and he was short-tempered under hunger." Thank you for your understanding. ”
The civil officials danced with long sleeves, saying "where, where", looking at the ugly expression, it is estimated that Zhao Cheng has already been scolded to death in their hearts.
Zhao Gaodang looked like nothing had happened, and when he saw everyone sitting down, he slapped his palms three times.
The applause seemed to be a signal, and the maids outside the hall stepped in with plates in their hands, their bodies twisting their hips as they walked, and the hem of their clothes swaying slightly to reveal their delicate bare feet.
It seems that when he returned to the maids who were constantly shuttling, Lu Zhe found that the tools used to hold food in the plates they held were not the same, some were porcelain pots, some were small wooden barrels, and a few three plates were filled with hot food in small tripods.
Waiting for the maids to stop, there was a maid standing in front of each guest.
Looking at their slightly bent figures, each maid in the cyan dress on their bodies had extremely flat lower abdomen, and the slightly slanted upper body clothes exposed a little white skin on the side, and the white arms held up were very slender.
Almost at the same time, the maidservants turned to face the guests who were sitting on their knees, and at the same time knelt down and placed their plates on the long table, and opened the lids of the food utensils, and held this position for a while before standing again.
Lu Zhe saw it very clearly just now, these women could be seen from the gap because of the full breasts in front of their kneeling chests, he was not a pervert, and he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva because he saw the looming curve just now.
The maidservants sat down on their knees and began to fiddle with the tools for boiling the wine, placing the boiled wine on the bowl and then on the long table beside the guests.
Zhao Gao, who was sitting on the main seat, saw everyone's expressions clearly, especially a few civil officials who showed color ~ and wanted to look old were seen most clearly.
The maids who had regained their feet did not leave, they slowly moved to the left side of the long table, and knelt down behind the guests.
Lu Zhe, who didn't pay any attention to the maidservant, looked at the porcelain basin on the long table, the basin was opened, and white smoke was emitting, there were some bones in the turbid and greasy soup, and some deboned meat was floating quietly on the soup.
Lu Zhe, who had never participated in this kind of formal banquet, looked at an old man with a small copper tripod on the case opposite, but saw that the old guy with white hair and beard turned his head and stared at the maid beside him with squinted eyes, and he was not interested in the things in the small copper tripod on the case at all.
Far away, Lu Zhe could only see that the dingnei seemed to be the ingredient of the animal's tail, and there seemed to be a hairy mane in it......
This kind of banquet is actually taken from "Zhou Li", people who don't understand the complex description is estimated to be dizzy, simply put, this kind of banquet will not have a variety of cuisine at all, everyone will only get two portions of food according to their own identity. The tools that contain food represent everyone's identity, and the real Zhou Rite is not only the tool of Ding, but also the combination of Ding and Gui, Ji, Wok, and Plan.
Of course, Zhao Gao was not qualified to arrange a full set of Zhou rites and banquets, only the Son of Heaven was qualified in the era when Zhou Tianzi was full of authority, and later in the Spring and Autumn Period when Zhou Tianzi was in mourning, the princes would also be placed, until the Warring States Seven Heroes Period Only the kings, dukes, and marquis of the Seven Kingdoms were eligible.
Now that Great Qin dominates Shenzhou, only Ying Zheng can put the full set of food and etiquette system, and whoever violates the system is a traitor. However, the nobles of Great Qin could not set up a full set of banquets, and some marquis could set up three sets of banquets. The so-called three sets of banquet ding, gui, and figurine, and some ingredients have also been added, such as the animal's chest, tail, and sashimi. These ingredients go hand in hand with tools, each of which can only handle one type of ingredient.
At present, the most qualified to explain Zhou rites is none other than Confucianism, but the bureaucrats of Great Qin have little affection for Confucianism, who emphasizes Zhou rites and likes to talk about them, and they do not attach so much importance to Zhou rites.
The banquet set by Zhao Gao is a set of banquets for Zhou Li, in fact, he is not qualified to set up food and drink etiquette, but special people will always have some privileges, even in Daqin, where the law is strict. The banquet he set up was not excessive, and the ingredients he took were of the lowest class, such as bone broth and deboned meat, which was probably just a pomp.
The banquet was held up in Zhao Gao's sentence of "Drink together!" From the beginning, the guests did not need to do it themselves, but the maid beside them did the work for them, as if the guests only needed to bring a mouth.
Eating the food brought by the maid with his mouth, smelling the faint fragrance on her body with his nose, and then feeling the soft body of the maid rubbing from time to time, Lu Zhe wanted to flash very much, but he failed repeatedly.
At this time, the sound of music suddenly played, and it turned out to be a lot of musicians outside the lobby. Amid the music, a dozen or so dancers came to the center of the lobby with long sleeves.
From the beginning of the banquet to the present, except for Zhao Gao's occasional persuasion, no one including Lu Zhe has spoken out to talk, fully demonstrating what it means to "eat without words".
And something seems to be wrong? Lu Zhe saw that the old man was watching the dance with a serious face on the surface, but the old man's hand in the mainland actually reached into the maid's clothes......