Chapter 103 The twelfth round of the Long Live Lord's First Taste of the Immortal Feast

Ke Yong's words were very enticing, so Empress Dowager Li changed her mind temporarily, followed Zhu Yijun, walked more than ten zhang away, and entered the Old Immortal Restaurant. Compared with other shops, the door of this old Immortal Restaurant is much more luxurious, with gilded agarwood signboards, and Xiang curtains hanging on the lattice windows to block the sun, everywhere exudes a sense of wealth and nobility.When I entered the door, I saw the Eight Immortals table, the official hat chair, and even the curved-leg shelf for potted flowers in the corner, all made of the same color of yellow pear wood.Under the east wall stands a large wine cabinet with open doors and four corners inlaid with copper. On the lower two floors are two gold-inlaid agarwood barrels that can hold six catties of wine, and a large carved face jue that can hold four catties of wine. Wine glasses made of rhino horn, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and Burmese jade.On the south wall, hung a very elegantly framed running script vertical scroll, the brushwork is a bit like Zhao Mengjia's, round and elegant.Empress Dowager Li, mother and son and Feng Bao all like calligraphy, so they come to watch it for fun.On the vertical axis it is written:

Shi Yi Drunk flowers should be painted, drunk snow should be night, drunk moon should be building, drunk mountain should be secluded, drunk water should be autumn; The general should ride the horse and call the scorpion, and the drunk emperor will do nothing to me! After careful consideration of this "Ten Yis of Drunken Country", it is not a strict epigram, but it feels very random. "Which drunk man conjured up these words?" Queen Mother Li asked. "If you talk about this drunk, he is also a dragon in the sky." The "treasurer" in the shop replied.This is a yellow-faced man in his forties. Just by looking at his bare chin, he can tell he is a "parallel importer".

"Dragon species." Hearing these two words, Zhu Yijun became alert and asked, "Who is that?" "Emperor Wu Zong, in terms of seniority, he should be the great-grandfather of your Long Live Lord." "Ah, it's him?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile, "The emperor of the previous dynasty dared to change his ways to have fun. It's not surprising that this "Ten Yis of Drunken Country" came from him." What am I? Listen, even if you are drunk, you still have the aura of being king." Empress Dowager Li had heard about the absurdity of Emperor Wu Zong indulging in the leopard house for a long time. She disliked such nonsense by nature, so she asked: "These wine utensils must be the old things of Emperor Wu Zong?"

"Yes," the shopkeeper replied respectfully, "the opening of a market in the Forbidden City is also the first time in the world: yesterday, Eunuch Feng instructed to simply build a wine shop, so that the Long Live Lord and the two empress dowagers can have a new experience." Empress Dowager Li smiled at Feng Bao: "So it was your idea, why did you name this restaurant an old fairy?" "Emperor Wu Zong also took this name," Feng Bao explained, "One year, Emperor Wu Zong led troops to Datong, went to a hotel, and spent two thousand taels of silver to eat three dishes and one soup. The best meal he ate in his life. If he can eat this kind of meal, he is considered an old god. Since then, the hotel has been renamed as Old God Restaurant."

"It turns out that there are allusions here," Zhu Yijun asked with a puzzled look on his face, "The three dishes and one soup that Emperor Wu Zong ate were all delicacies, and they were worth two thousand taels of silver. Bar." "Where would anyone dare to deceive the emperor?" Feng Bao replied in a mysterious manner, "Three dishes and one soup cost two thousand taels of silver." Zhu Yijun didn't know the actual value of the two thousand taels of silver, puffed his cheeks and thought for a while, then asked: "Can a tael of silver buy a chicken?"

"How can there be such an expensive chicken?" Empress Dowager Li smiled. "We know the price in the early years. One tael of silver can buy about eight chickens. We don't know how much we can buy now. Shopkeeper, do you think you can?" How much to buy?" "About ten chickens." "Oh, I understand now," Zhu Yijun clapped his hands together, and shouted loudly, "One tael of silver is ten chickens, and two thousand taels of silver is twenty thousand chickens. What kind of belly is Emperor Wuzong? Can you eat that much in one meal?" There was a burst of laughter in the room, and a group of personal servants chirped and praised the shrewdness of the Long Live Lord.Feng Bao felt that he was being ridiculed, but he was not angry and explained with a smile:

"If it's chicken, of course it won't cost two thousand taels of silver, but Emperor Wuzong doesn't eat chicken." "What did you eat then?" "A plate of tofu, a plate of melon seeds, a plate of green vegetables, and a bowl of soup, just a few things that are refreshing." "No matter how refreshing it is, it's not worth two thousand taels of silver?" Zhu Yijun was still not convinced. Feng Bao said with a smile: "Long Live Lord, don't argue with this old slave. If you don't believe me, cook a meal in this old fairy building right now. How about you try it?"

"Can this temporary restaurant make such exquisite dishes?" It was the Empress Dowager who asked the question this time. Feng Bao replied: "Although the restaurant is built temporarily, the real deacon is the chef of the imperial dining room." "Queen, let's meet here, shall we?" "Alright," Empress Dowager Li nodded her chin, and said with a smile, "A meal of two thousand taels of silver, let alone food, we have never heard of it." As soon as Empress Dowager Li spoke, Empress Dowager Chen had no objection, and the two walked to the table of the Eight Immortals and sat opposite each other. Zhu Yijun did not dare to presume to sit in the main seat, but stayed at the bottom of the table.For a while, except for Feng who stayed to wait, the rest of the servants bowed and retreated.

After about a cup of tea time, the shopkeeper brought out the first dish from the back room.A plate of round thin slices of meat, with some emerald green onions sprinkled on it, looks very nice, Zhu Yijun asked: "what is this?" "Melon seeds." Feng Bao, who was standing behind Queen Mother Li, replied with a smile. "This piece of meat is small and delicate, it looks like melon seeds." Queen Mother Li said, and invited Queen Mother Chen to hold up her chopsticks. She took a bite and exclaimed, "What kind of meat is this? It's so slippery." Cool."

Zhu Yijun took a big bite and praised: "The taste is really not bad. Companion, what kind of meat is this?" "Mynah's tongue:" Feng Bao replied. "Mynah's tongue?" Zhu Yijun carefully picked out a piece of "melon seed kernel" and put it in front of his eyes for a closer look, and said in surprise, "Mynah's cry is the best. This plate of little tongues is all mynah's?" "all:" "How many starlings do you need?" "Over a thousand." "There are so many, where can I find them?" "Go to the woods to catch it," Feng Bao patiently explained, "it will take dozens of people to work for half a month. The most essential part of a starling is the tongue. If you take the tongue, the flesh of the starling will be Nothing to eat."

"Ah, no wonder the price is so high." Zhu Yijun sighed. When the first dish came, the empress dowager and the emperor whetted their appetites, and the shopkeeper took the opportunity to ask, "Empress dowager, what else do you want to drink?" "You mean drinking?" Queen Mother Li asked. "Yes." Empress Dowager Li was very strict with Zhu Yijun, and she didn't even let him touch a wine glass until he was sixteen.After reaching the age of sixteen, he was allowed to drink a little tonic wine brewed by the royal wine room three times a year, but it was only a small cup.She decided to make an exception for "going around the market" today, so she glanced at the wine cabinet and asked: "What kind of wine are there?" "It's dog days in June, so you can't drink shochu. The servant has prepared several kinds of sweet wine here, which won't hurt the spleen and stomach." "Which one is the best?" "Hibiscus liquid," the shopkeeper said, picking up the big carved noodle jue from the wine cabinet, "this is made from a secret recipe found by the folks in the imperial wine room. The main raw material is lotus flower, which is both fragrant and fragrant It's pretty thick." "Okay, just pour us a small cup for each of us." Emperor Longqing drank a lot during his lifetime, and his son Zhu Yijun inherited it, and the smell of alcohol would make his heart sway.Today he really wanted to drink, but he didn't dare to make a fuss in front of the two queen mothers. He picked up the ivory cup that had just been placed in front of him, took a sip of the lotus liquid, and said: "The smell of wine is too thin." Empress Dowager Li glanced at him, and said, "It's a meaning, do you really want to learn from Emperor Wu Zong, to the point of 'the drunken emperor can do nothing to me'?" "I don't dare." Zhu Yijun blushed and restrained himself quickly. At this time, the shopkeeper brought out the second dish, a plate of snow-white tofu, served with a few slices of very thinly sliced ​​magnolia. "It looks like tofu, so there may be organs in it?" Queen Mother Li asked with a smile. "The empress dowager will know after a taste." "Sister, try it first." Empress Dowager Li respectfully invited Empress Dowager Chen. Empress Dowager Chen said: "You're welcome, let's taste it together." The tofu on the plate looked lumpy, but because it was too tender, it would rot when picked with chopsticks, so the three of them had to eat it with spoons.Empress Dowager Chen always eats finely. She scooped a small piece of tofu and put it in her mouth. It felt extremely fresh and greasy. She didn't need to chew it. She just licked her tongue lightly, and the tofu slid down her stomach.There was a cool feeling left in the esophagus. She was so surprised that she asked: "Eunuch Feng, what kind of tofu is this?" "The brain of a thrush." ​​Feng Bao replied, "the brain of a thrush is probably less than a drop of dew." "Then how many thrush brains does it take to make this plate of tofu?" "Probably more than two thousand." "Oh, it's a shame that people can figure it out." While talking, the third dish was also brought to the table. It was a plate of green and fuzzy vegetables as thin as pine needles. Ren Xuebi above.It is advisable to pick in October every year.This snow dragon's beard has a characteristic, that is, it maintains a green color at all times.Because the Kunlun Mountains are perennially windy and snowy, there is no way to go, and the people who pick the snow dragon's beard will never return, and they are either frozen to death or crushed to death by the avalanche.Only in this way, the value of snow dragon's whiskers is much higher than that of silver, and a catty of silver can only be exchanged for one tael of snow dragon's whiskers. Hearing what Feng Bao said, the three of them were amazed, and a plate of snow dragon's whiskers was eaten up in a short while. The last thing that came was soup—it was said to be soup, but it was actually a bowl of clear water steaming hot in an egg-blue, thin-bodied sea bowl.Zhu Yijun took a little with a spoon to try the taste. "How is it?" Queen Mother Li asked. Zhu Yijun smacked his tongue and said, "It looks like clear water, but it's actually very delicious. Companion, what's so special about this soup?" "This is made with male carp," Feng Bao squinted at the thin sea bowl, and said, "Although the ingredients for this soup are common, the workmanship is very special. First, put an earthen pot on the open fire, There is clear water in it. There is a rope hanging from the top of the earthen pot, and a hook is installed at the bottom. When the water in the earthen pot boils, the chef will catch a lively male carp and hook the carp’s body with the hook. Let the tail face the earthen pot with its head facing the earthen pot, with the mouth of the fish about an inch away from the boiling water. The hot air in the earthen pot rushes up, making the carp uncomfortably hot, and when the carp is pulled, saliva will drip out of its mouth. You must know that this saliva is The life juice of the carp, if it is not exposed to heat, the saliva will never drip out. After a few times of tossing, the carp will be dying, and at this time its life juice is running out, so the chef will put Replace this carp, and hook another fresh one. When the life juice of this fish is almost dripping, replace it with another one, and so on. A bowl of soup like this requires about two or three hundred males. carp." "So what we drink now is almost all the life juice of male carp?" Zhu Yijun asked. "Exactly." Feng Bao licked his lips and replied, "The previous tank of water turned into gas, and the rest is fish juice, and there is no need to add any condiments, just a little salt. " "What is this soup called?" Queen Mother Li asked. "Longquan soup." "The soup tastes good and the name is elegant." "Now that the three dishes and one soup are all used up, the Empress Dowager and the Long Live Lord will evaluate whether it is worth two thousand taels of silver?" "It's worth it!" Zhu Yijun said excitedly, "I'm still worried, whether I can do it with two thousand taels of silver." "Eunuch Feng, the three of us have had a full meal, but you are still hungry," Empress Dowager Chen said apologetically, "Have you ever eaten such three dishes and one soup?" "How can this old slave be so lucky." Feng Bao chuckled. Zhu Yijun thought in his heart: "You haven't eaten before, how can you say it so logically? Only ghosts believe it." But on the surface he said with concern: "Brother, it's hard to be hungry, you'd better eat something." "Thank you Long Live Lord for your concern, this old slave is not hungry." Empress Dowager Li admired Feng Bao's conscientiousness in his service. She picked up the hot face towel presented by the shopkeeper, wiped her mouth gently, and said contentedly: "Today, I would like to thank Eunuch Feng for allowing us to have a rare meal. Jun'er, I'm sorry that you don't have much money from your private house, so Niang Qian will pay for this meal." "Let's go to the market today! How can I let my mother spend money, isn't it only two thousand taels of silver, my son told Sun Hai to withdraw it from the inner court supply treasury." "No need," Feng Bao stood up quickly and said, "This old fairy banquet is considered to be an honor for the two empress dowagers and the Long Live Lord." "Are you paying?" Zhu Yijun asked, and immediately smiled triumphantly, "Alright, let's eat the big ones today." It was already past noon when I came out of the old fairy wine house, the sun was scorching at this time, and there seemed to be flames on the road.The empress dowagers of the two palaces couldn't bear the heat, so they went back to the palace to rest accompanied by Feng Bao.Zhu Yijun, the Master of Wancheng, is not a heat-resistant master, but after all, it is the first time in his life to visit the market, so he is willing to give up the fun of shopping and run back to the Qianqing Palace to escape. What? Surrounded by Sun Haike and a group of personal servants, he still walked on the East Long Street.Seeing the two empress dowagers walking away, Sun Hai whispered in Zhu Yijun's ear: "Long live. Once the empress dowager and Eunuch Feng leave, the three ropes that tied you are gone. Now you will have more fun." "What else is there to be happy about?" Zhu Yijun asked with great interest. Sun Hai said: "Just now, when the Long Live Lord was eating the fairy banquet, the servant ran around the street and found that there was an antique shop in front of him, and there were good things for sale." "what?" "It's hard to talk about slaves," Sun Hai said deliberately, "I'd like to ask Long Live Lord to go and have a look." After all, Sun Hai led the way and led Zhu Yijun towards an antique shop in a ostentatious manner.At the door of the store, Sun Hai stopped the accompanying servants and asked them to wait outside the door, and only two guests accompanied Zhu Yijun into the store. The boy in the store has a pretty face, and seeing Zhu Yijun coming, he froze there, too nervous to speak. "Why don't you shout?" Sun Hai pointed at the boy's nose and reprimanded him. The boy muttered, "We don't know whether we should call Guest Officer or Long Live Lord." "Blind, I don't know who I am," Sun Hai said in a bullying manner, "Outside the store, we pretended to be the guest officer, but now when you enter the store, you call Long Live Lord." "I understand," the servant turned to give Zhu Yijun a high bow, and said, "Thank you, Lord Long Live, for coming into our small shop." "I heard that you have some rare items in your store?" Zhu Yijun asked while taking his seat. The boy replied: "There are some rare items, but I don't know which one Long Live Lord wants to see." Sun Hai interjected, "The two pieces we have seen just now, show them to Lord Long Live." The boy nodded, and took out two bronze mirrors from the drawer under the shelf. He handed one to Zhu Yijun first. This bronze mirror was about eight inches high, and one side was clean. The accumulated copper stains had obviously been wiped off. However, it exudes a faint light.Casting on the other side is a erotic picture. A girl with a bun is naked and lying on her stomach, with her round buttocks sticking out. Another naked man kneels facing the girl and stabs the girl's vagina with his penis in his hand.It was the first time Zhu Yijun and Niu Ping saw this kind of picture of men and women intercourse, and his eyes straightened immediately.After all, he has only been a bridegroom for a few months, and he is very interested in the matter of cloud and rain. In an instant, a hard object is sticking out of his crotch.Xia Ri's clothes were thin, and he was afraid that his servants would see his flaws, so he pretended to scratch it, and stretched his hand underneath to hold it down.Sun Hai was clever, and hurriedly took the bronze mirror for Zhu Yijun, and said: "Long live, there is another side." "Ah, let's take a look:" Zhu Yijun said, his face flushed, his embarrassment didn't look like an emperor. The boy took another bronze mirror and showed Zhu Yijun the dark side. In the middle of the mirror was a square nose button with four seal characters "Chunyue Building System" on it.Around the nose button, the following words are engraved: man and woman cuddling affectionately Whispering and whispering female love joy Tamado Kaizhang Agar Liquid Infiltration The stem is hard and long-lasting Feminine and male desire beauty and pleasure Zhu Yijun read these jingles twice with great interest. The words were crooked, obviously after the bronze mirror was bought, some narrow-minded ghost ingeniously engraved it.Although Zhu Yijun was very interested in these two bronze mirrors, but because of the dignity of the emperor, he kept his face straight and scolded with staring eyes: "What a mess, you guys are so bold, you dare to use these objects that are full of obscenity and robbery to smear your eyes." The boy didn't know where he was.Immediately frightened, his knees softened and he knelt down on the ground, begging in a weeping voice: "The little one was only thinking about learning how to trade in Qipan Street, but didn't think about the taboos in the palace. I hope the Lord Long Live will forgive me." "You mean, this item is sold on Qipan Street?" Zhu Yijun asked in a stern tone. "Yes." The boy replied timidly. Sun Hai knew that the emperor liked those two bronze mirrors very much, and the sudden anger was just to deceive others. He was thinking about how to turn around, but he heard Ke Yong muttering from the side: "The shops on Qipan Street catch pigs on benches and ride donkeys across paper bridges. Not to mention selling this kind of bronze mirror, it is human flesh. As long as you are willing to eat it, he will dare to sell it to you." "What Ke Yong said is the truth," Sun Hai grinned, and explained, "It's true to say that these two bronze mirrors are full of obscenities and robbers. But the reason why they can be sold in the store is because they are antiques. .” "Antiques, are they antiques?" Zhu Yijun was dubious. "Yes, these two bronze mirrors are from the Song Dynasty." "Since that's the case, bring it here and I'll have a look." Zhu Yijun finally had a "justifiable reason" to appreciate the bronze mirror, and the young man knew it very well. He quickly got up from the ground and held the bronze mirror again. The seductive scene of the queen's jade body laying across, suddenly felt "obsessive", and she couldn't help sighing: "How could there be such a bronze mirror in the Song Dynasty?" The boy replied, "I heard it's a product from the brothel." "Brothel, what is a brothel?" Zhu Yijun blinked and asked in confusion. Sun Hai replied: "The brothels are the places where prostitutes gather." Seeing that Zhu Yijun seemed to understand, Sun Hai added, "Prostitutes specialize in prostitution, and men go to brothels if they want to have fun. Right now, there are many places in the capital. brothel." "Have you been there?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously. "How can the slaves go there?" "Why can't you go?" "Long live God forgot, the slaves are all rootless men." After Sun Hai finished speaking, he forced a smile on his face.Only then did Zhu Yijun remember that the three people in front of him were all fake men who picked out egg sacks. He couldn't help laughing, and then changed the topic to the bronze mirror: "Are these two bronze mirrors from the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty?" "Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty?" Sun Hai didn't usually study, so how could he have a concept of dynasty? He continued to write nonsense, "According to my servant, this bronze mirror must have been produced in the south of the Song Dynasty. Long live you look, this couple who are having sex, She is not big in stature, not like a northerner, and a woman's butt is bigger than a millstone." Sun Hai's talk about donkey's crotch and horse's crotch made Zhu Yijun laugh out loud.For many years, the Empress Dowager, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao have been extremely strict with him, and he has never been so relaxed as today.He suddenly felt how boring the life of reviewing memorials and meeting ministers every day was: Having laughed enough, he asked the servant again: "Where did you get this bronze mirror?" "It was borrowed from Qipan Street." Zhu Yijun remembered that Ni Yunlin's "One Hundred Thousand Pictures" bought in another calligraphy and painting shop in the morning was also taken from Qipan Street, and said: "Why are the better goods in the Dongchang Street Market borrowed from Qipan Street?" Hissing answer: "The shops on Qipan Street heard that we are going to hold a market in the Forbidden City, and all of them took the initiative to send their goods over for consignment. They all saw that Long Live Lord is a big buyer." "So that's how it is," Zhu Yijun flicked the bronze mirror with his fingers again, "How much do these two mirrors cost?" "Twenty taels of silver a side." "It's not expensive." "Long live, why don't you buy it?" Sun Hai took the opportunity to encourage. Zhu Yijun wanted to collect it, but he was afraid that his mother would cause trouble if he found out, and it would be a pity if he returned it to Qipan Street, so he said: "Sun Hai, I think you like it, so you can buy it." Sun Hai was stunned, and said: "Long Live Lord, how dare the servant keep this?" "I have approved your collection, what are you afraid of?" Sun Hai couldn't tell what Zhu Yijun was thinking, so he had to obey.The boy took out a special wooden box and put the bronze mirror in it. He was bandaging it when he saw the door curtain rang. "Long Live Lord, just now the Secretary of the General Administration sent a courier from the Shuntian Mansion, and Mr. Zhang, the chief assistant, returned to Beijing. He will be able to arrive at the Jingnan Station in one application hour today." Upon hearing the news, Zhu Yijun's heart suddenly felt like fifteen buckets fetching water—he was up and down. On the one hand, he was glad that the chief assistant had returned, and he could handle the difficult and difficult affairs of the government for him; on the other hand, the three The unfettered life of many months seems to be coming to an end again.But no matter what, his feelings for his master made him more happy than frustrated, so he immediately ordered: "Decree Yuan Fu Mr. Zhang, he doesn't need to go to Beijing tonight, he will live in Jingnan Station. Tomorrow morning, order all officials to go out of the city to meet him."