Tang's dining table

"General!"

"Haha, I can fly."

"General again!"

"There's nothing you can do if I pick up the soldier, right? Naha, you should move your car. You haven't left your home yet."

"I don't care, I'll kill your soldiers with cannons."

"Look clearly, if you replace my taxi with a cannon, you won't have a cannon to use."

The old monkey now has a new game, which is to play chess with Naha, and he wins every time.

In fact, Yunchu felt that anyone who knew the rules of chess could play Naha. After playing a few more games with Naha, it would be boring. Only the old monkey was different.

This old guy plays chess with Naha with the perseverance of a god, and he never tires of it.

Yun Chu knew why Naha was so obsessed with chess. It was entirely because as long as she was willing to play chess, she could write a lot less big characters. Therefore, she would rather kill time playing chess than go into the study to practice calligraphy.

Even if she had to have her nose pinched by her opponent if she lost, she would choose to play chess without hesitation.

As soon as the bell starts ringing in the dining hall not far from the Yun family, Naha will immediately give up playing chess and run towards the dining hall.

It’s just that this child’s appetite is really scary. It’s common for him to eat ten whole-wheat steamed buns in one meal. The most terrifying thing is that not counting ten steamed buns, this child can also eat a full bowl of noodles and a big bowl. vegetable.

Because she ate too much, and in order to reduce her guilt towards her family, the child never asked for the extra money that Yunchu gave her.

Yes, the dining hall outside is the Yun family's large kitchen. Under normal circumstances, the family will eat in the large kitchen. However, except for Yun Chu and Naha, the servants in the family can only wait for the scholars to eat. It’s over, eat again.

Mutton, chicken, and goose in the Tang Dynasty are very expensive, but pork and duck are very cheap, especially duck. The value of this thing is not even comparable to that of eggs. As for duck eggs, because ducks eat meat, the eggs have a fishy smell. The price is as cheap as dirt.

The cooks of the Yun family cook seven or eight pots of duck meat, three or four pots of sauce-roasted pork, and braised pig heart and liver every day, which was warmly welcomed by the scholars.

Even eating pig intestines is still a big problem. The reason why the scholars can accept pork is because the cooks of the Yun family made it so delicious that they temporarily forgot about the pickling of pigs. As for serving grains They are still not sensitive to the pig intestines of reincarnation.

Ms. Cui had no materials to waste. After learning how to make pig intestines from Yun Chu, she took it upon herself to add some fat meat to the pig intestines to improve the quality of the pig intestines. Then, A coolie delicacy called gourd head appeared.

The low-level ones only add some worthless intestines to a bowl of soup, and charge five yuan for two yellow steamed buns.

The high-end ones give a bowl of soup with intestines and a piece of fat meat, plus two slices of fried tofu cut into diagonal slices, and finally give a pancake, which costs ten yuan, plus the soup.

The old women in Jinchangfang are rushing to do this job. As long as they get a pot of soup, some intestines, some fried tofu, some fat meat from the Yun family, and prepare some onions and garlic themselves, they can carry their little ones with them. The stove picker is looking for a place with a lot of coolies to do business.

Whenever someone asks if the gourd head is edible, the old woman selling the gourd head will decisively mention Sun Shenxian's name.

Sun Shenxian never sells fake goods, let alone treats the people badly. As long as something has passed through Sun Shenxian's hands, even poison can be taken. This is definitely common sense in the Tang Dynasty.

The intestines are full of fat, and when you take a bite, the oil and water will sizzle. The fat meat only shows the pig skin, not the red meat. The thing itself has been boiled to a pulp by the pork bone soup, even for a toothless old man. , the old woman could also sip it bit by bit with her toothless mouth.

This caused Yun Chu to hear women shouting from time to time when he was walking around Chang'an - "Selling gourd heads, selling gourd heads with plenty of oil and water". Whenever he heard such shouts, Yun Chu's heart was filled with excitement. It's so warm,

Such Chang'an finally looks a bit like Chang'an.

Yun Chu doesn't eat gourd heads. It's not that he doesn't eat this stuff, but he is waiting for the castrated pigs that Cui ordered from farmers and only eats grass and feed.

The people of the Tang Dynasty mastered the castration technology much better than the people of later generations, mainly because they not only castrated sheep, but also castrated people.

There are many such tricks in the Yeting Palace. It is said that there are as many as 20 famous masters who are said to be able to kill them with one knife and never leave any trouble. Castrating pigs is a trivial matter to others. If Yun Chu needs it, he can do it. It is not difficult to castrate the elephants raised in Qujiang Pond and paid tribute by foreign countries.

Yunchu also heard that some of the craftsmen castrated chickens. He didn't know how to do it, so he planned to observe it when he had time.

When the scholars came, the most troublesome thing was not the kitchen of the Yun family, but the bathhouse. Erniu would often cry because he couldn't serve so many scholars, and there was a large piece of white meat that couldn't be rubbed. Not having money is a life-long pain for this child.

Especially now that a bath can charge five cents, Erniu had to suggest to Liu Yi to add two more bathers.

There is no idle person to be found in Jinchangfang... Even the toothless old woman is sitting under the eaves, watching over the child in the cradle and twisting the wool thread, because Jinchangfang has begun to weave blankets and needs Lots of wool thread.

It's still very cold in Chang'an in February. Even if the willows by the river have begun to sprout new buds, it's still common to have bloody cuts on your face due to the cold wind if you don't pay attention.

If you want to feel like "the willow wind blows on your face without chilling your face", you should at least wait until all the willow leaves have grown.

The past winter was considered safe for the people of Chang'an, but money was not very valuable anymore.

However, this is nothing. It’s just one less meal a day, and you can continue to live your life.

Every day, when the city gate opens, there are still a large number of people entering Chang'an City with all kinds of hopes. At the same time, there are also groups of people with withered faces leaving Chang'an City.

An elder at the Hu Renmin Temple in Liquanfang cut his own throat with a knife in front of the residents of Liquanfang. I heard that the blood in his throat traveled more than ten feet and dyed the stone steps blood red. , paid for the life of the old woman who was killed in the sutra hall, and let this matter go.

Yun Chu arrived a little late and didn't see the big scene of bloodshed. He only saw a group of Persian monks surrounding an old Hu man in white and crying sadly. Di Renjie also specially paid tribute to the dead Persian Hu man. Burned a stick of incense.

Although the smoke rising from the stick of incense in the Hu Renji Temple was very inconsistent with the religious atmosphere there, Di Renjie still persisted in expressing his grief with the stick of incense.

Those barbarians were not good people. After Di Renjie expressed his condolences, he asked a few strong Persian men to carry two large boxes full of money, weighing three hundred kilograms, and placed them in front of Di Renjie. Not only In this way, he took the initiative to open the box and poured out all the five hundred copper coins inside. As a result, the money almost drowned Di Renjie's legs.

As a result, the originally black eyes of the residents suddenly turned green, and some even turned red.

Yun Chu believed that at this time, as long as one person shouted "Grab the money!", the people from Liquanfang would drown Di Renjie in an instant.

Di Renjie didn't seem to be panicked. He just clapped his hands and a dozen monks with big shoulders and sticks came over from outside.

The monks from Liquan Temple put the copper coins back into the box and carried them into Liquan Temple without saying a word.

Until this time, Di Renjie said with a smile: "Money, you have seen it. If you want money, you have to work for it. If you listen to me, I don't have to say whether I will use it for food in the future." All the money.

If you don't listen to me, the lieutenant, you can get away as far as you can, and I will starve you to death. I, the lieutenant, won't even look at you.

Now, if you are willing to listen to me, please stand to the left. If you are not willing to listen to me, get out immediately! "

Di Renjie, who has been eating pork like a pig recently, looks like a pig when he is angry.

The glare and the bared teeth were quite powerful and made people whose eyes turned red after seeing the money slowly wake up.

I also thought that the chief in front of me was not the same person as them, but the pride of the Tang Dynasty - the imperial student.

I heard that people who graduated from Taixue, even if they did not pass the Jinshi examination, could still get a foreign official, and the worst one was a scribe in the yamen.

What's more, at this moment, there are fifteen or six imperial students standing behind Di Renjie. It can be seen that each of these imperial students is holding a stick in their hands, eager to find someone to come out and beat him. .

The basic requirement for the imperial students of the Tang Dynasty is to be proficient in all the six arts of the gentleman. Even among the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult to find a few martial arts masters. For example, Changsun Wuji can fight with Cheng Yaojin. , and a fierce general who never falls behind.

The villagers who knew what was going on had slowly walked to Di Renjie's left hand side, and there were still a few hesitant ones among them. Before they could react, a group of Tai students, led by Di Renjie, rushed forward with sticks in their hands.

They struck hard, with even a look of madness on their faces. For a moment, a few hesitant people could only beg for mercy pitifully. Even so, Di Renjie didn't seem to let them go until these people were removed. The man was beaten until he was reduced to a gourd of blood, and then he stopped.

Qianhu Cao of Chang'an County Government was watching coldly from the side, and dozens of big-bodied and round-waisted delinquents were also watching coldly with their hands folded.

After Di Renjie allowed these people's families to carry the injured people to the hospital, Qian Hucao came over and took Di Renjie's hand and said, "Just let go and do something."

Yunchu had always felt that what he did in Jinchangfang was a bit unreasonable and arrogant. Now after seeing the methods of Di Renjie, a famous native of the Tang Dynasty, he now knows what the true meaning of "the people's hearts are as strong as iron, and the official law is as strong as a furnace!"

He believed that Di Renjie would definitely change Liquanfang. He even believed that Di Renjie would make Liquanfang the star of Chang'an 108th Fang after Jinchangfang.

I also believe that all Di Renjie’s actions will eventually benefit all the people in Liquanfang.

However, the method was too crude, too disrespectful, and too arbitrary.

It feels uncomfortable to read, and I feel uncomfortable to write it. I looked through history books and found the experiences of more than a dozen famous people who were masters of governing the people. Even famous ministers who were known to love the people like sons, when they came to the local government, they killed people first and governed later. The reason why there is such a prosperous scene in a place that no one picks up lost items on the road and the house is not closed at night is because the cost of picking up lost items is too high. Strong command, strong command, even the emperor's relatives dare to kill, let alone ordinary people.