Chapter 10 Chapter 9: Shiheng Lineage

This "vegetarian roasted oriole" is a home-cooked dish, but it has a long history, and it has drawn countless twists and turns. Among the Eight Heroes, Ren Fu ranks third, only behind Yin Hezhen and Lu Siniang. He is good at poetry and prose, especially good at Emei marksmanship; he is also good at cooking.It is said that his skill of shoveling and shoveling Ding Nai did not come from Emei, nor is it from the family of Zheng Chenggong, the well-known king of Yanping County, but a chef who specializes in running vegetarian dishes for some temples in central Sichuan. .This kind of cook has no fixed place, and has never been detained in a certain city or set for too long.Generally, five or seven people form a group of their own, and they are called "Yan Chef", which means that they travel from south to north, roaming freely like a swallow; and I suspect that the word Yan is a false spelling of the word Yan, so it means such a gang of cooks. Just like wild geese, the end of the road is quite like migratory birds of geese and ducks.Regardless of whether it is Yan Chu or Yan Chu, they do not live, settle down, marry wives and have children, but they shuttle back and forth, and they must pass through the same place.When Cao Renfu was young, he saw them show up and perform at the water and land dojo in the temple, and they disappeared after the Dharma meeting. , was finally taken in as an apprentice by a master chef of the kitchen gang, and passed on his unique recipes for three vegetarian dishes and twenty-seven dishes.In terms of names, the three vegetarian dishes are Shanzhenmen, Haiweimen and Qinniaomen, but the ingredients are not meaty at all - "vegetable roasted oriole" is the third of the nine dishes of Qinniaomen.The method is to use shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and young bamboo shoots to be cut into cubes, which are used as fillings, covered with rotten clothes, and then folded from both ends to the center to form a bundle. Sparrow; then put it into the pan and fry it yellow with a small amount of oil.Those who are more particular will line up the red and green fruits and vegetables under the oriole to make it bright and pleasing to the eye.

Let's say that Father Cao Ren is intelligent by nature and dedicated to learning, three seats and two!It took him more than half a year to learn the seven vegetarian meals.All the disciples who are advanced in the kitchen gang know that one or two treasures of gold knives, silver spoons, and copper pots passed down as tokens of the gang will surely fall into his hands; so they secretly poisoned Cao Ren during the ceremony of building a funeral ceremony in a certain temple, and then blamed Cao Ren. father.Furious and resigned, the benevolent father finally bowed to Emei's sect and practiced marksmanship hard. He hung knives, spoons, pots and shovels and other kitchen items on the treetops day and night, and jumped up and down to stab.The history of martial arts called it: "Using two guns is not based on confrontation and response. It is an anti-cooking method to push the spatula. It may waver or give way when advancing and retreating. It is not just fighting to kill!" However, Cao Renfu's purpose of learning Emei gun is revenge .One day, when the Yan chefs went to a certain temple to make a vegetarian meal, they went straight into the stove with their guns and stabbed the people who had been convicted back then like yellow leaves blown by a strong wind. It hurt their lives, but this group of cooks either broke their wrist tendons or their nose veins, and they can no longer cook and taste new things.But there was a monk in that temple who couldn't stand it any longer, grabbed two long chopsticks and pointed at Cao Ren's father with two spears.It's strange to say that Ren Cao Ren's father tried his best to lift bulls and tigers, but he couldn't move an inch; he threw away his gun and knelt down, saying: "Cao Ren's father can't do it in learning, but he can't do it in martial arts; today he is willing to worship under the seat of an eminent monk. Just let it happen." This monk is none other than Brother Wan Yunlong, who is known as the founder of the Tiandihui; it was time to become a monk in the monastery, and his Dharma name was Dharma.This Fa Manhe didn't want to show off his martial arts at all, so he lightly clamped his two guns in front of Cao Ren's father, and said: "The Yan chefs can't just wander away because of your revenge; otherwise, they will not become beggars, even Become a thief. Why don’t you lead the gang to open the business, preside over the knife and shovel, save money for them, and then try to change jobs.” After all, Cao Ren’s father became the chef of this gang, and he was on the road for eight years. .After all the people were settled, they found that Fa Manzi was waiting for him.

According to legend, Faman gave Cao Renfu a letter, recommending him a place to go—to serve in Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing army.At the same time, I also told him: I am named Faman, which originally meant "cutting down".Lost in the temple, what he kept was an anonymity, and he got acquainted with people in the world in order to wait for the time to take advantage of the situation and make a big deal.What puzzled Cao Ren's father was: Since he wanted to make a big deal and restore the Ming Dynasty, why did he let him lead this group of crooked cooks to hang out in the rivers and lakes for eight years?Faman said: "In this way, you will be freed from grievances and grievances. Besides, the eight years of Chunqiu, the wind and the dust, the situation in the mountains and rivers, the world's sophistication and human feelings have added a lot of knowledge and experience for nothing. The heroes I want to accept in the Tiandi Club, It’s just such a bachelor.” Here, Wan Yunlong, who is called Tiandihui for example, explained the original definition of the word “bachelor”.

However, according to credible historical data: Zheng Chenggong died of regret as early as the first year of Kangxi, and the incident of the Eight Heroes in the south of the Yangtze River occurred from the end of Kangxi to the beginning of Qianlong, with an interval of nearly 60 years.Even if the so-called "Zheng's trilogy"—that is, Zheng Jing and the dozens of ships he led—sprinted into Taiwan, it was only four years after Kangxi's reign; middle.However, according to various historical materials in the "Synopsis of Secret Societies Since the Early Republic of China" written by Li Shouwu under the pseudonym Tao Daiwen, the founding myth of the Tiandihui was originally "credible but not cute" The so-called "official history" creates "cute but unreliable" legends.For the believers of the early Tiandihui, the important thing about these legends is not whether they have a convincing basis for research, but how the people living in the bottom society relate to the events of the upper-class figures who occupy the key and core of the big history. Contact and communication occur, and even cause influence and change on the latter. "The Score of Secret Society Since the Early Republic of China" further stated: "Cao Ren's father was a cook, and he had many adventures. Gai Tiandihui disciples reproduced in the stories of the eight heroes in the south of the Yangtze River. The chivalry has been solid for a long time. However, the theory of chivalry is full of contradictions, and it is often impossible to have both the beginning and the end. If Lu Siniang is the head of Yongzheng, as recorded in Pu Liuxian's "Nv Xia", then Cao Renfu will never see Wan Yunlong between Shunzhi and Kangxi. Suppose if If Cao Ren's father had served in Zheng Yanping's battalion as stated in the book, then Wan Yunlong is over a hundred years old and Lu Siniang is ninety years old, so how can he go in and out of the forbidden area and take the dragon's head like picking melons from a bag?"

On the contrary, Cao Ren's father is proficient in cooking skills, and there is a lot of evidence to test.According to a volume of family history in the appendix of "Food Virtue and Painting" written by Wei Yizheng: Cao Renfu, Lu Siniang, Lu Minzhan, Zhou Xun, Lu Yuan, Bai Taiguan and Gan Fengchi and other seven heroes were not used to the leader of the Eight Heroes. Liao lost his chivalry because of his lack of prostitution and violence, so he made an appointment to attack them together.What's the matter? Yin Heshang's martial arts are too high, and he has practiced the magical skill of using the mind as the sword and using the spirit as the blade. It is extremely difficult for the Seven Heroes to match, so they had to combine the strength of the six heroes to attract Yin Heshang's ears respectively. , eyes, and two nostrils can sense the position, and then Bai Taiguan, who is good at lightness kung fu, flies down from a height of a hundred steps away with a volley step.Even so, Bai Taiguan was so tired that he made three air strikes and dug three 6-inch deep holes in Yinheshang's celestial spirit cover before he was considered dead.However, this was actually the only one of Cao Renfu's lifelong chivalrous deeds that killed someone.However, whether it is the Eight Heroes of the South of the Yangtze River or the Seven Heroes of the South of the Yangtze River, they are so famous that everyone has to flee. Father Cao Ren changed his surname to the Wei family and took the name of Renfu; this is how the Wei family was born.However, before Cao became Wei, Cao Ren's father had a wife and house heir. This branch—according to the records of Wei Yizheng's family history—had adopted the same clan when Ren's father was arrested and fled at the beginning, and had won the Suxi three. The direct inheritance of the twenty-seven dishes.During the reign of Qianlong, there was Cao Xiuxian, who was a big official and died with the posthumous posthumous name Wenke.It can be regarded as winning glory for the ancestors—and also adding irony to the so-called racial legend of anti-Qing and Fuming.

Cao Xiuxian's vegetarian meal was once celebrated by Qianlong's relatives, and there was a poem written by the imperial pen to praise it.The style of Qianlong's poems is not high, but the Cao family at this moment is the supreme honor.The poem said: "Singing sparrow yellow several times in the thick shade / Drunken and strange fragrance by the side of the peach in the exposed well / Sending a message to the branches to stop calling far away / Trying the soup with plain hands in Jun's house".This poem uses the vocabulary in Wang Changling's "Spring Palace Song" and Wang Jian's "Newly Married Wife", but it is about the "vegetarian roasted oriole" in Cao's heirloom meal.Although the poetry is not very deep, it not only praises the lifelikeness of this dish, but also ridicules the custom of vegetarianism that resembles wild animals. It is a lovely work.

On the contrary, Cao Xiuxian is not a vulgar official.His vegetarian meals won the title of Emperor Qianlong, and he was given the title of "Shi Heng", but he himself did not like vegetarian food. According to the download of the volume "Grand Views of Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty, Shuyi of the Qing Dynasty": "Wen Ke has a loose belly and must be folded Two stacks; when full, they will be folded. Every time meat is given, the quasi-princesses and ministers will each bring out a leg of lamb, and the rate will be filled with the leftovers. When you get to the shed house, the sedan chairs will be full of meat." On the surface, this statement is about Cao Xiuxian eating a huge amount of meat; but he doesn't know that this amount is an internal skill passed down by Cao Ren's father.When the ministers of His Highness Qianlong handed over the lamb leg to Cao Xiu to eat first, it happened to give him the opportunity to practice this "immeasurable longevity skill". "Wuliang Shou Gong" is to send a large amount of high-protein food into the stomach pouch in a short time, and immediately convert it into pure Yang Qi that can be channeled to the acupuncture points of various parts of the chest cavity.Father Cao Ren changed his name and surname in the future, so even the Wei family practiced this skill from generation to generation.Wei Yizheng wrote in the appendix family history of "Food Virtue and Paintings": "Yu's great ancestor Jun Luogong is the most skilled at this skill. He is seven feet long, has a waist that is heavily girthed, and a belly that is five folds. Gai is also very talented. Bing, it’s hard to learn.” This Wei Junluo once opened a vegetarian restaurant in Beijing during the Jiaqing period, and his signature dish was “vegetarian yellow bird”; and it was just to make the background of this dish look green. , Wei Junluo even developed a vegetable that was not valued by people at that time-bean sprouts.On the other hand, although the Cao family did not know that there was another branch of the Wei family, the Wei family always knew that their clan was originally from the Cao family, so they paid special attention to the ups and downs of the Cao family, and naturally knew the Qianlong imperial hymn It's two things with "Shiheng" product title.Therefore, Wei Junluo, who opened the restaurant, specially named the bean sprouts "Peach Bianxiang", which echoes the phrase "Drunk with Peach Blossoms and Different Fragrance".Before and after the Northern Expedition, a descendant of the Wei family opened another "Peach Fragrance Restaurant", but it already had a variety of meat and vegetable dishes. Bean sprouts, not to mention the anecdotes of Cao and Wei's families having the same origin and different streams.