Chapter 17 Peanut + dried tofu = ham flavor?

In the cold spring night, there will always be a time when people scratch their hearts and lungs.At this time, I want to have a midnight snack. Most of the time, I don’t just want to eat, but because I need something to relieve my loneliness.It's hard for a lazy person to do anything, and he really doesn't want to cook big dishes, and the hateful calories are unpleasant.Go to the kitchen, put a handful of peanuts in the pot, put water, salt, five spices, star anise, and all the mud and sand down on the head, and then cook it on the fire.Just boil it, pour good soy sauce and sesame oil, mix it with the salted peanuts, and make some bad tea, that's enough for a meal.

Speaking of dry silk and peanuts, the most famous one is the story of Jin Shengtan.Jin Caizi is an arrogant person, and he criticizes unscrupulously. Shi Naian will definitely be upset if he cuts "Water Margin" in half.When the Qing people entered the customs, Jin Shengtan and a group of crying temple scholars were knifed together.The version I heard is this: Uncle Jin went to the execution ground with a smile, and called his son urgently before his execution, saying: "There is a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors." It tastes like ham (or beef) when chewed together with dried tofu, this is also a secret recipe handed down from one’s family, remember it.” After saying that, he went to die.

The similarity between ham, peanuts and dried tofu is that they can all be served with tea and wine.Wang Zengqi said that Yangzhou people used to serve morning tea with dried silk.Old-fashioned Yunnan people can serve tea and wine with cloud legs.These are all chewy and delicious food with a long aftertaste, but they have the self-deprecating air of a poor scholar to some extent-it is quite a contrast to Kong Yiji's fennel beans. Of course, when Jin Caizi talked about it before he died, the focus changed. It is said that only two people in the world know the formula of Coca-Cola, and it is a commercial secret that is passed on by word of mouth.Famous chefs in the old days had their own secrets in making their specialty dishes, and some of them spoke well. They were passed down from father to son, such as the eighteen palms of subduing the dragon and the dog beating stick, etc., which are highly confidential.However, if people want to pass on the recipes, they are all the secrets of the God of Cookery.Chewing peanuts and dried tofu together has a beef flavor. It is suitable for sour scholars who can't afford beef and want to satisfy their hunger.The so-called "secret recipe handed down from ancestors" in the first word immediately reminds people of the scene of Confucian scholars in Tsing Yi who have been handed down from generation to generation, with their heads in their heads and poor scriptures.

Farewell to the execution ground, the most true temperament.Li Si was framed by Zhao Gao. When Chao Gang was about to move the Qin Ding, he looked back at his son and said, "I want to lead the yellow dog with my son and go out to visit the east gate of Cai. How can I get it?" It can be said that he was disappointed.Tan Gongsitong failed in the reform and saw the country sinking. He shouted "If you want to kill a thief, but you can't return to heaven, you will die well, so happy and happy", which is magnificent; Mr. Ah Q imitated the anarchist militants in the previous dynasty and shouted "Twenty years later, he will be a hero again", which is also considered a great momentum.There are often acts of robbing the court in the commentary.Jin Shengtan cut "Water Margin" in half, and saw the work of Weizhi, probably when he was on the execution ground, he thought of it for a moment, right?The novel and life complement each other, which is also interesting.However, Jin Shengtan was neither melancholy nor tragic, but elegant and grand, and put it aside.What was enjoined in secret was such a secret, a secret that belonged to the common people of the market, the sour scholars and scholars.

Jin Shengtan, who was so passionate when he criticized "Water Margin", seemed to be more sober than most people at the moment of death.Tragic and mighty as a martyr, the country and the country, righteousness and benevolence, these words are the vocabulary in the classics, the bamboo slips are old, and the dust has settled.Teacher Jin, who wandered around, found his place - a Confucian scholar who was about to be sentenced to death and deprived of his life.At the moment when dynasties are changing, peanuts and dried tofu seem insignificant and almost trivial compared to the roaring words such as Meihualing, Taohuafan, Yashan, and Guidance Record.However, this is far more real: those legends that can be written on bamboo and silk and passed on orally are ornamental items and prophecies attached to the spirit, while peanuts and dried tofu are much more realistic and can be found everywhere.

The true heroes who roamed the world in "Water Margin" only know beef tendon, strong wine and dog legs.Song Jiang, who is a county magistrate, played with petty bourgeois sentiments. Seeing "the utensils are so neat", he thought "spicy red and white fish soup".The ones who talked about loyalty, filial piety and justice, and those who drank petty bourgeois fish soup were the ones who sold out all the brothers who ate beef and drank hard wine in the end.Jin Shengtan reads a lot of books, and he is an expert in what to say in the execution ground.This sentence of peanuts and dried tofu has a strong sour taste and poor whiteness, just like the few fennel beans under Kong Yiji's hands.At the time of life and death, use the crying temple to repay the previous dynasty, and use dried peanuts and beans to pass on to future generations. The former is as heavy as Mount Tai, and the latter is as light as a feather.It can be said to see through.Scholars in ancient times were often said to be pedantic, but in fact there were some who were enlightened and sophisticated, but they were no longer willing to struggle. They just sighed a little, dried beans and peanuts, and ended in silence.