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Jin Wuxi falls, and the sky is full of red glow!

A total of 11 races in the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race have ended, and the top three finalists are the Songzhou Shipyard Dragon Boat Team of Li Rangjia, the richest man in the Song Dynasty, and the Dragon Boat Team of Zhang Rui's family, the second place, and the Dragon Boat Team of the Zhenguo Army.

The competition has ended, but the banks of the Bianqu Canal are still crowded, and many girls who are rare to come out of the river are pouring water and playing with each other in groups, and the water is warm. The laughter like a silver bell spread far and wide.

Because there are soldiers and horses of the Zhenguo Army stationed in Songzhou, and the Zhenguo Army has several troops stationed on the periphery of Songzhou, the people in Songcheng are not in a hurry to return to the city. A rare Dragon Boat Festival, especially for those unmarried women, in addition to the spring, autumn outing, Shangyuan Lantern Festival, the average unmarried woman, especially those who are daughters, but it is rare to have these opportunities to relax.

The moon had risen, and people were a little tired, so Zhang Rui announced the results of the Dragon Boat Festival race, and invited Li Jing and Li Rang to come to the stage together and awarded rewards to the top three teams. The other top 10 also has a nice prize. For the rest of the teams, Zhang Rui also boldly announced the reward flowing water banquet.

From the riverbank outside Songcheng to the middle of Songcheng, a long night market has been set up, and lively lanterns have begun to light up. Many onlookers gradually dispersed, discussing the grand scene of today's martial arts competition and dragon boat race, and hurried to visit the night market and watch the lanterns.

The officials of Songzhou and the subordinates of the Zhenguo Army were not in a hurry to go back, and a banquet was held on the bank of the river today. and he gave them the boats. The soldiers of the Zhenguo Army are also rewarded. In addition, for those displaced people who came nearby, Songzhou also arranged to put porridge and vegetables.

And the officials of Song Prefecture and those gentry and wealthy people accompanied Li Jing and other generals of the Zhenguo Army to have a night banquet by the river. Even their families were surrounded by gauze tents next to them to participate in this night banquet.

The officialdom of Songzhou is very flattering to Li Jing and other Zhenguo soldiers. Today's night banquet is also the highest standard. Even in the past few days, I have hurriedly invited the best cooks from Luoyang and other places.

In May, the Bianqu River is very cool, and the breeze blows, which makes people very comfortable.

Countless large lanterns have already been hung high, as bright as day.

On the shore surrounded by gauze tents, Li Jing sat at a table with Zhang Rui, Li Rang, and other most prestigious Bo people in Song Prefecture. Sit down and watch a wonderful Hu Xuan dance, these dancing girls are all orchids from the Western Regions, all of them are extremely beautiful. What is especially rare is that they wear light veils as thin as cicada's wings. The whole wonderful waist is exposed, flat and graceful waist. With the music writhing like a water snake, it is indeed a feast for the eyes.

Before the song was finished, the invited chefs had already delivered the first famous dish.

It was a roasted whole lamb, golden and with an enticing aroma.

"Li Zhongshu, please taste this delicacy, the sheep is dead!" The head chef was full of red light, with a big face and a thick neck, and introduced with a smile.

Li Jing thought it was just a roasted whole lamb at first, but as soon as the chef from Luoyang introduced it, Li Jing realized that he was a little dirty. According to reports, this dish is actually eaten with goose. First buy a goose, use the fire to remove the fire, and then remove the internal organs, then fill it with meat and glutinous rice, and mix it with five flavors. After getting all this, do not cook directly, but kill a sheep, also remove the hair, burn it clean with fire, and then go to the stomach, and then put the goose in the belly of the sheep, sew the sheepskin, barbecue, "put the goose in the sheep, sew it and burn it", as soon as the mutton is cooked, immediately remove the sheep, take out the goose inside, hold it and eat it, but the mutton is not eaten, probably the taste has penetrated into the goose meat, the name of this dish now sounds very foreign: "muddy sheep succumbly".

Seeing that the cook skillfully took out the goose from the belly of the sheep while talking, wrapped it in a few lotus leaves and handed it to Li Jing, Li Jing was really stunned. There is such a luxurious way to eat it, but after taking a bite, it tastes really wonderful.

"This muddy sheep is a must, and there are no more than ten people in the world who can make this dish authentic and delicious. This dish is in Luoyang, it is worth 100,000 yuan, and you have to book it in advance. Li Qilang estimated that he had eaten a lot and was very familiar with this dish, and it is said that this cook was invited by him.

Li Jing couldn't help but be speechless, a sheep is a few thousand dollars at most, and a goose, although it was more expensive in the Tang Dynasty, it was only a few thousand dollars. But now, after such a combination of processing, the price is actually 100 yuan. This thing is really unaffordable for ordinary people, and rich people don't care about the price.

Subsequently, there are other celebrity chefs who have successively presented their own signature dishes, among which there is a dish called wild boar catfish, which is said to be the food used by Tang Xuanzong to entertain An Lushan, the production process is that the wild boar hot meat is deboned and cooked, dried and sliced, mixed with japonica rice, mixed with dogwood seeds and salt, sealed into the jar with mud and dried for one month, and then cooked with garlic, ginger and vinegar.

There are also geese and ducks, Zhang Yizhi created a barbaric food method, with a large iron cage into the goose and duck, put a pot of charcoal fire in the middle, and put the five-flavor juice of various spices in a copper basin around it, the goose and duck have to run around the cage by hand fire, and are thirsty to drink the five-flavor juice. When the feathers are removed and the flesh turns red, it is ready to eat. Li Jing shook his head when he saw this dish, and he didn't put down the chopsticks at the end.

There is also a dish called Ox Head Praise, take the skin and flesh of the tender calf head, first burn it on the fire to lose the hair, and then scald it with boiling water to remove the hair roots. Put wine, tempeh, green onions, and ginger in the pot, boil the cow's head, peel off the meat and cut it into palm-sized pieces, mix it with ghee, Sichuan pepper, lime, etc., stuff it into a bottle urn, and seal the mouth of the urn with mud. After the last time, the meat urn is buried in the fire pit, and the flavor is slowly heated and baked with weak fire.

Li Jing has eaten a lot of beef, but it is the first time to eat a cow's head. But after trying a few chopsticks, the taste is really unique and delicious.

Among the famous dishes, Li Jing has only eaten one dried eel fish before. It is a famous dish left by the Sui Dynasty, on the sea boat, make a fish, remove the skin and bones, take its fine meat, cut the wisps, dry it for three or four days to make it extremely dry, put it in a new white porcelain bottle that is not stained with water, seal it with mud, and after fifty or sixty days it is still the same as fresh fish. When you want to eat, take out the dried carp and wrap it in a cloth and put water in an urn. Stain three moments. Drain with a cloth. Put on a plate, finely chop the fragrant leaves, spread it, mix well and eat. It tastes like freshly caught fish. At sea, Li Jing was fortunate to meet a chef who could cook this dish, and after eating it, he was sad to forget, this dish has always been his favorite.

After that, there were also three soups, which were Li Gong soup created by the famous minister Li Deyu, with precious jade, jewelry, realgar, cinnabar, and seashell fried sauce. Each cup of soup costs 30,000 yuan. And: The white year soup made of shepherd's cabbage has the effect of good life, so everyone loves to drink. There is also a duck foot soup, which is made from sunflower leaves that the Tang people call duck feet.

These three soups seem to be very simple, but it is said that only these three chefs have been invited to make the best taste. Each bowl of soup costs more than 10,000 yuan, which really surprised Li Jing.

Even the rice at the banquet was not ordinary white rice, but green rice. Using the branches and leaves of the azaleas, mash them to make the juice and soak the rice in them. After steaming, it is dried in the sun, and the rice turns green. It is said to be a nourishing food, so it was loved by the aristocracy.

In addition to this, Li Jing also remembers a kind of pastry called gourd head deeply. It is said that this is a kind of cake created by the famous doctor Sun Silian in the early Tang Dynasty, which fills the pork belly and pig intestine with starch, minced meat, and prepares seasoning drugs such as pepper, fennel, cinnamon, etc., which is both delicious and has the effect of strengthening the body. And the gourd head on today is said to be made of wild boar belly and wild boar intestines. It is said that wild boar belly has the effect of health care and stomach, so this kind of miscellaneous cake, which seems ordinary, is very precious, a small piece, worth thousands of dollars.

In the middle of the banquet, the officials of Song Prefecture and these leading figures in Song Prefecture all called their wives, sons, and daughters to come forward to meet Li Jing. Although under normal circumstances, the nobles and the families of the scholars pay more attention to etiquette, and their relatives do not see outsiders. However, Li Jing is not an ordinary guest, a popular man in front of the Son of Heaven, and a frontier minister wearing the handsome seal of the three towns. At a young age, he was already ranked as the third duke, and the figure was Lingyan Pavilion.

Many people have some small ideas, hoping that Li Jing can take in his son and follow Li Jing for a future. Some people even simply thought that their daughter could attract Li Jing, even if Li Jing already had a wife, it didn't matter if she was the sixth or seventh wife.

Li Jing was very polite to these Songzhou family members who came to visit, and praised them with a few smiles, and gave those sons swords, pen and ink, and those ladies sent silk perfumes, etc., and the daughters also sent some jade perfumes and other things, which were very polite. Everyone was very happy and the atmosphere was warm.

Zhang Rui didn't expect this to happen, but at this time, even if she didn't want to, she had to let her wife and daughter come out to meet Li Jing together.

Mrs. Wang brought Zhang Hui to meet the ceremony, Mrs. Wang was polite, gentle and elegant, wearing a large-sleeved shirt, combing a falling horse bun, with a step on her head, and light makeup on her face, a very beautiful woman, very similar to Zhang Hui. She is more like Zhang Hui's sister, a young woman in her twenties, who exudes elegance and mature charm all the time.

Zhang Hui stood behind Madame Wang, and when Li Jing stood in front of her and smiled at her, she felt her throat tighten, and they hadn't seen each other since the last time they saw each other in the garden. She felt that she had escaped like that that day, and that she might have left him with a lot of misunderstandings. She wanted to say, but she didn't actually blame him.

As soon as she saw Li Jing tonight, she felt that a thousand words could not describe her feelings. Because today's Li Jing is too exciting for her, he is wearing a colorful silk armor, the thin silk armor shows Li Jing's slender and toned body, two golden unicorns on both shoulders, a golden unicorn jade belt around his waist, and a purple and gold hair crown on his head, his hair is black and shiny. Zhang Hui looked at her, and couldn't help but tremble slightly, and Xia Fei's cheeks flew away.

Li Jing gave Zhang Hui a bronze mirror inlaid with gemstones, a jade pendant, and a box of sixteen beautifully packaged perfumes.

Zhang Hui stepped forward to take the gift, and Li Jing took advantage of no one's attention, and his fingers swiped lightly on the pair of slender jade hands, which was extremely smooth. Zhang Hui's face became more and more red, she raised her head and glanced at him, then lowered her head and quickly handed a small thing to Li Jing's hand.

After Zhang Hui's mother and daughter thanked her and left, Li Jing found an opportunity to secretly look at the hand, but it turned out to be a small note. When I opened it, it read: "The willow tops on the moon, people are about after dusk!" ”

Looking at the line of juanxiu small characters on it, Li Jing couldn't help but be happy, this little girl is really interesting. Last time, he said that he bullied her, but now it's only been a few days, and he is so bold that he took the initiative to stuff him with a small note and asked him to have a private meeting.

After reading the note several times, Li Jing finally confirmed that Zhang Hui should really ask him out. It is estimated that the time is the willow tip on the moon, and as for the location, I think it should be the old place in the back garden of Zhang's mansion.

With a beautiful woman to meet, Li Jing naturally wanted to go in his heart. At first, Li Jing really didn't have many other ideas. But now, he really likes Zhang Hui, a little girl. Such a bold little girl's invitation, how can I not live up to her good intentions today.

In the next banquet, Li Jing was a little absent-minded! (To be continued......)