"There is no such thing as your brother Cai Liu. This kind of thing is called Yipinxiang, also called perfume. It was made by a local businessman in Chengdu. I heard that now, no matter how small aged, lady-in-law, or a city-state, can find their own fragrance. This thing can be said to be priceless in Tokyo now, and it is hard to find a thousand gold. Compared with the supreme ambergris, perfume is much more popular. I heard that in Chengdu, the fragrance has gone from light to strong, from ordinary to noble, and the grade is divided into nine grades. I finally asked for two bottles from your son-in-law, and now I was led by Nianmei. I have taken a bottle away by me. My loss is quite large."

"There are strange things every year, and this year there are a lot. First, the "Journey to the West" that was popular all over Tokyo, and then another episode. If I have the chance, I really want to go to Chengdu Prefecture to experience it myself. How enviable are the people living there." The Emperor Prince of the Danei Palace, who was originally a trendy trend, is now envious of being far away in Western Shu and having just experienced a turbulent place of war. If this matter is spread, it is probably surprising.

"My sister, this is absolutely impossible. Don't mention your daughter's family. Even if you are a seven-foot man, you will not be able to persevere in poverty and bad waters. I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible. Besides, your parents are here and you are not traveling far away. The father is obedient to you. Don't be in a blessing without knowing it. You have just experienced a mutiny and the world is not peaceful. I learned from my father-in-law that there are now hungry and everything is in trouble, but it is not as beautiful as you imagined. This "Journey to the West" is just used to pass the time. Compared with perfume, I am a natural nobleman who likes ambergris. This perfume is a bit too petty."

As the saying goes, there is no speculation, Zhao Huanhuan, who is clever, has long heard of Cai Laoliu's character. If she hadn't been close to her fifth sister, she would have really not want to step on the Cai Mansion. No matter how the fifth sister is, she is a member of the Cai family, as the saying goes, her elbow is turned inward, Cai Laoliu runs her own ambergris business. All the nobles in Tokyo know that such a big competitor appeared at the moment. He heard that perfume came out, which made everyone flock to him. Cai Laoliu hurriedly sent someone to Chengdu Mansion to inquire, and wanted to invite the perfume merchant to Tokyo to study it together. To put it bluntly, Cai Laoliu was very loyal and powerful, and just wanted to make a fortune and take the perfume formula for himself. If it weren't for such a big military disaster suddenly in Chengdu Mansion, he might have succeeded.

"What is so fragrant?" Just now, Zhao Huanhuan spent a lot of effort on dancing. When she smelled the smell of flesh that made her even more hungry, Zhao Huanhuan, who was usually reserved, couldn't help swallowing her saliva. She seemed to be really hungry.

"Go quickly and bring some of the newly released steamed buns to Nian Mei." Zhao Fujin proudly summoned the maid who served the side. Wherever he went, he naturally could not live without the word "eating", not to mention that the enjoyment on Master Cai's belly had already reached the pinnacle of his achievement.

The staple food of the Song people was mainly pasta in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, with the migration of the Song Dynasty south, pasta was also spread to the south of the Yangtze River. However, the man was a land of rice, and ordinary people always ate rice. The tradition of Buddhist porridge and charitable people giving porridge also influenced the pasta custom. Here we have to mention Wu Dalang, the most famous person in the Song Dynasty. The pasta he sold was called cooked cakes. Now some people learn from Wu Dalang to wear Song people's clothes on the street, carrying a load, but selling sesame cakes. In fact, this is a huge joke. The cooking cakes are steamed, originally called steamed cakes, and sesame cakes are naturally roasted.

I went 100,800 miles away. Steamed cakes were changed to Cook Bread because of the same pronunciation as Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong. The ancients changed steamed to Cook Bread to avoid taboos. In fact, Cook Bread is today's steamed buns, with nothing added in it, and the price is fair, suitable for ordinary people to consume. In fact, most of the pasta eaten by the Song people can be called cakes, steamed cakes, and baked cakes are called soup cakes, and the soup cakes are a bit like the current noodle slices, with a variety of meat and vegetables, soft sheep noodles, large pieces of sheep noodles, silk chicken noodles, fish noodles, fried eel noodles, etc. It can be said to be a blessing for those who like pasta.

Since the cooked cakes are today's steamed buns, what are the steamed buns from the Song Dynasty today? The answer is buns.

According to Tao Gu, a native of the Song Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties, there was a Zhang Shumei family next to the road outside the Changhemen in Bianzhou (now Kaifeng) and a land-based aquatic products sold as needed. They sold one item in each section, and bought "green poach buns" on the day. This is the earliest written record of the buns being seen in history.

Due to the revolution in fermentation technology, steamed buns and buns developed into the Northern Song Dynasty and became the national food in Kaifeng, the capital. Like the steamed buns and tea shops, they occupies an important position in the lives of Kaifeng people. The ones that can be found in history include "grouted steamed buns", "mutton steamed buns", "plum buns", "Taixue steamed buns", "soup buns", "vegetarian buns", "bean buns", etc. This dietary trend later influenced the diet of the entire Song Dynasty and even today's Henan people.

However, at that time, buns were made of cold water noodles, mostly vegetarian stuffing, and were known as "a bun"; while steamed buns were made of fermented noodles, and the filling was made of meat, which is today's meat buns. In other words, vegetarian buns and meat buns were not a family at that time, but were two different foods.

After the Northern Song Dynasty, steamed buns gradually became fermented noodles without fillings in the Central Plains, while buns became a general term for pasta made from a variety of doughs and wrapped in meat, vegetables and various fillings.

The Song people liked to eat buns, even the emperor was no exception. "On the birthday of Renzong, I gave them buns to all my ministers." Song Shenzong also loved to eat buns especially, so the buns in Kaifeng were the most famous at that time.

According to "Chat Yu Ke Talk", one day in the early years of Yuanfeng, when Emperor Shenzong of Song inspected the National University-Taixue, he wanted to understand the students' diet while he was just in time, so he asked someone to bring the food that Emperor students had eaten from the Imperial College canteen. That day, he was eating "mant buns". After Emperor Shenzong of Song tasted it, he was very satisfied and said, "It is worthy of raising a scholar!" After the steamed buns were praised by the emperor, the Taishen students always brought "Taixue steamed buns" as gifts when they went home to visit their relatives. "Taixue steamed buns" have been famous since then.

The Song Dynasty moved south, and Taixue steamed buns were also taken to Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (now Hangzhou). Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke returned home after attending a banquet at the palace and wrote a poem about steamed buns, which said: "A few years after the Taixue was full of scholars, the thin scholars were still taught about bamboo shoots and ferns. The prince Peng made red wisps of meat, and the general had a white lotus skin. The fragrance was so fragrant that it could make the peppers solid, so why not compare to the jade pot. After aging, the teeth were too big to chew, and saliva was used to comfort the greedy slaves." The poem says that "Taixue steamed buns" were to cut the meat.

It is made into shreds and then mixed with pepper flour, salt and other seasonings, and then used the noodles to make the skin (similar to today's steamed buns). Its color is white, soft and tender, and tastes delicious. Even people without teeth can chew it. Perhaps because Kaifeng was the capital at that time, the name of meat buns as steamed buns affected the country and the south of the Yangtze River. To this day, there are also noodles such as fried steamed buns and fresh meat steamed buns in the Jiangnan area, which are actually meat buns.

In the Ming Dynasty, the palace of King Zhou, Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son, was in Kaifeng. It is said that he liked to eat "Taixue steamed buns" the most and often used it to entertain princes and ministers. Since the prince was a first-rank official in the court, those who were interested in the tyrants changed the name of Taixue steamed buns to "Taixue steamed buns".

Today's vegetable buns (vegetarian buns), bean-filled buns, were first called sour filling or stool filling. By the time of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, due to the "leader of the six thieves", Lord Cai Jing, the sour filling or stool filling was also named "vegetable buns".

Zhou Mi, a native of the Song Dynasty, once told a story in "Helin Yulu: Shredded Onion": A scholar-official official bought a concubine in the capital and said that he was from the buns kitchen of the Grand Master Cai's mansion. One day, he asked him to make buns, but he refused to do so. He asked him, "Since he is a bun, why can't he make buns?" He replied, "I am the one who carries the scallion (cut onion) in the buns kitchen." It's just a bun, but Cai Jing's kitchen can subdivided different types of jobs such as choosing vegetables, cutting onions, rolling onions, and making buns. Moreover, the salary of these people is not low, which shows that Cai Jing's attention to food has risen to a very high level.

Crab roe steamed buns, quail soup, and orchids are all the favorites of Cai Jing recorded in history. Especially the pickled product of orchids, which was once a representative of luxury and lewd food because of Cai Jing.

The oriole is a sparrow. The slaughtered yellow bird is chopped off the tip of the slaughtered and claws, washed with Shaojiu, then spread it out and dry it out and remove one-third of the water. Put the wine lees, rice sweet wine, red cherry, pepper, green onion, ginger juice, fine salt, and orange peel into a paste. Put the oriole into a mixture, put it in the porcelain jar, seal the mouth of the jar, stew and marinate for 6-7 days to taste. When eating, take out the oriole, wash the adhesion dregs with Shaojiu, and dry the water on the body of the yellow bird. After the oriole is made, it can be dried and fried or steamed. Perhaps because of its complicated production process, the oriole is a delicacy that was lost after the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Cai Jing used crab roe buns to treat guests. A meal cost 1,300 stags of money, which was equivalent to the total living expenses of the fifty middle-class families at that time.

How did the vegetable buns come from? One day, a new hawking voice appeared in Kaifeng City: "Sell a bun of vegetables, a bun of vegetables!" I don't know how Cai Jing offended this person who sells the sour stuffing. Anyway, the seller hates Cai Jing and sells Cai Jing as a "vegetable bun". From then on, "one bun" and "vegetable buns" became the exclusive title of Cai Jing. Gradually, vegetable buns replaced the sour stuffing and became a collective name for vegetarian buns and bean stuffing. In the Ming Dynasty, with the rename of Taixue steamed buns to "Yipin Baozi", meat buns and vegetable buns finally became "a family".

Let’s talk about a famous dish that Zhao Ji also likes - sheep head stickers. Some people say this thing is soup, and some people say it is a barbecue kebab. However, Wang Anshi grabbed the goat head stickers while reading a book, and ate it a whole plate. It can be seen that it is neither soup nor skewers. This thing is probably fried food. It’s not clear what the lamb head meat is breaded outside. Anyway, this thing is a snack of literati at that time.

What exactly is the sheep head sign? It does not use the whole sheep head meat, but only tender meat on the cheeks. But this may just be the way to make the imperial kitchen in the palace. Wang Anshi is still relatively frugal, and he may not be willing to let it go, and ordinary people are even less likely to be so willful. As for where the meat left on the sheep head and the hairy crabs with crab roe removed go? The answer is that they are all thrown away, because that is not something for noble people like the emperor or the Grand Tutor.

With the effect of the upward action, the Grand Master Cai is even more unlikely to hold the emperor back. Cai Jing likes to eat a kind of quail soup. He uses hundreds of quails to make this dish. Even if he uses one hundred at a time, he can eat 36,500 of them a year. Cai Jing is definitely a well-deserved wild animal killer.

No one could bear such a waste, so that later the ghosts of the quails collectively gave him a dream and gave him a vivid lesson on cause and effect, "Eat the grain in the cereals and make the meat in the soup. A soup with hundreds of lives is still not enough. What is the meat of soup? Life and death are still turning around. I advise you not to eat, and misfortune and good fortune are attached to each other. Looking at this, it can also be a warning for those who waste natural resources for gluttons.

In "Shan Hai Jing", there is a monster who uses its mouth as a tomb. It is Taotie. Taotie, sheep body, eyes are under the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, a big head and a big mouth. According to folk legend, Taotie is greedy and eats his body in order to satisfy his desire to eat, but only his head is left because he cannot be eaten. There is also a Taotie who can be called the Unshuang Lianbi of Cai Jing, which is President Yuan and Yuan Shikai during the Republic of China.

There is a famous saying that comes to tease them, "Cai Jing's buns, Yuan Shikai's meal."

Yuan Shikai's meal was quite monotonous compared to the imperial family, and was far less than the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, but he ate much better than those emperors because they all liked to eat. When the emperors of the Qing Dynasty ate, they did not see that the table was full of dishes, but they could not eat more dishes, so as not to be held by others. Yuan Shikai was different. He told the kitchen to be his favorite dishes, but his taste was relatively simple, and the food was similar in every meal, and even the placement would not change. First of all, there must be a duck for lunch and dinner. Yuan Shikai liked to eat duck very much.

Especially the duck skin. Before eating, he would eat up all the skin of the whole duck. After a long time, he developed a good method of peeling duck skin. He lifted the duck skin with long ivory chopsticks, then turned it around and rolled down a large piece of duck skin. Then he happily put the duck skin in his mouth and made a whispering sound. The duck that Yuan Shikai ate is different from ordinary ducks. These ducks are raised by Yuan Shikai himself and are specially for himself to eat. The feed used for raising ducks is very precious. They are mashed and fed with deer antlers and sorghum, and have high nutritional value.

The second dish that Yuan Shikai must have on the table is fish. Yuan Shikai is from Henan. He has loved eating Yellow River carp in the north of Kaifeng since he was a child. He once thought that Yellow River carp was the most delicious fish, but when he was demoted to Qi County, he found that the crucian carp in Qiquan was the most delicious. After he became president, there must be Qiquan crucian carp every day. In order to please Yuan Shikai, the county magistrate of Qi County fished out the Qiquan carp every day and fed it in a large tank. The water for raising fish must be Qiquan water, and then transported the fish to Beijing to Yuan Shikai. Therefore, there must be Qiquan carp or Yellow River carp on Yuan Shikai's dining table.

In addition, Yuan Shikai's dishes are always indispensable for braised pork, shredded pork, and stir-fried leeks, as well as pig's trotters and elbows. Yuan Shikai is decent and wide-waisted, so he eats specialty. For this reason, he also proposed a theory that he must be able to eat to dry. He eats four steamed buns weighing half a pound of rice for each meal, six eggs in the morning, four eggs in the afternoon, and four eggs in the evening, and four eggs in the evening, and often gets sweaty, just like a pig eating.

So what is the matter with "Yuan Shikai's rice"? Usually, big fish and meat naturally look honest in front of outsiders. Once, Yuan Shikai deliberately summoned the cabinet members during dinner. When everyone came to his residence, he was holding a bowl of millet porridge and eating with a braised crucian carp with relish, and sometimes pouring something into the bowl with a seasoning bottle. When the cabinet members saw it, they praised: "The president's life is so frugal, it is worthy of our imitation."
Chapter completed!