Chapter 170 Mid-Autumn Anecdote (2)
The fast horses quickly entered Chang'an City. The rider on the horse brought some mooncake molds and some made mooncakes into the homes of some old generals who were familiar with Yang Heng, and even the palace.
"Is this?" Li Er and Changsun looked at the mold in front of them and the few mooncakes. "Father, Queen, these are some patterns and molds designed by Yang Heng. You can make them according to the imperial chef. It is probably just right for the moon viewing, daughter Changle, Yu Zhang."
Similarly, in the homes of several old generals, this scene also happened, "General Cheng, can these be drunk?" A very simple sentence made these old generals confused.
"Hurry, what about the people who delivered the goods." "Go back to the general, they have left," "But have you left any words." "No." "Where are they going?" "Get out of the city."
A few simple conversations made the old generals feel sad. Obviously, the style of this snack must be related to this festival. Even the word mooncake was written on the box for them, which was related to the moon viewing, but the method and the usage of these molds were not mentioned, how to use it. Moreover, Yang Heng sent it today, it was completely for use tonight. If he had three or five friends to watch the moon and drink together to drink, he forgot to say that their wine was sent by Li Er, which was the white wine steamed by Yang Heng. Li Er just could give these old generals a jar, and then Li Er was gone. In other words, Yang Heng not only offended some of the old generals, but also Li Er.
When the old generals went out to inquire, Yang Heng also sent moon cakes and molds to the palace, and it had already started to be made in the palace. This was mainly because Li Er had already known that these old generals had also received the things Yang Heng sent. But they did not learn how to make them, and there were recipes.
"Okay, haha, invite a few veteran generals to the palace and enjoy the moon with me. After the moon appreciation is over, I can give them some moon cakes to go back to enjoy the moon and eat it."
"Your Majesty, this is not good. Will it cause disaster for Yang Heng? What should we do if these old generals hate Yang Heng?" Changsun was a little worried. This was related to his daughter. Changsun's intelligence had plummeted.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's just causing him some small trouble, and this was given to me by that boy Yang Heng himself."
Indeed, Yang Heng was reluctant to give Li Er wine, because the wine was too strong. Li Er seemed to have some genetic disease in the record. If he passed away too early because of drinking, Yang Heng would feel regretful. If Li Er and his sons were talking about Li Er, he was still pretty good and a good emperor. Yang Heng could only find a way to make him and Changsun live as many years as possible, and would not expect him to die too early.
"Mr., do you think your father will understand what you mean? Didn't I explain it clearly in the letter?" Changle asked worriedly, "Yes, brother-in-law, sister did not explain it clearly. Can the father know what it means?"
"Don't worry, you sisters, your father is the smartest person in the world. Your mother is the smartest person in the world. They will definitely understand," Yang Heng said confidently, and even flattered Li Er and Changsun in front of the two princesses. You must know that this flattery is much more effective than directly slapping Li Er.
The Mid-Autumn Festival at this time is not an official official festival. Although there is a custom of reunion and enjoying the moon among the people, for some officials, they still gather together, and even Li Er invites some ministers to come to the palace to enjoy the moon and drink. Because it is not a formal official festival, no matter who Li Er invites him, he will just be at ease.
Li Er will seize every opportunity to exchange feelings with the ministers, and he will also seize every opportunity to make some unharmed jokes with the ministers, especially these generals, who are the best jokes.
"My dear friends, I have prepared a new moon-watching snack tonight, called mooncakes, and I seem to have heard that you have learned this way of making snacks. Otherwise, I will exchange it with you to enjoy the moon, and you have not brought it to you. That's a pity, you can't eat my good wine. Tonight, you can taste the mooncakes here first."
How can a jar of wine be enough? These old generals are waiting to come to Li Er to drink his good wine. If they really make moon cakes, they will really bring them to the palace. Whether Li Er eats or not, they will drink the wine. This time, their moon cakes are still confused. The dim sum masters at home and some chefs are carefully studying the moon cake samples and molds sent by Yang Heng. Li Er called them into the palace. They knew it was not good, but there was nothing they could do, but they didn't expect there was no good wine to drink.
In fact, what they didn't know was that Li Er had given them all the wine, and Li Er had no wine at all, so Li Er easily wiped out the matter.
"I don't have wine to watch the moon, I really don't have any consciousness, right?" The old generals opened their eyes widened. At this moment, His Majesty actually gave him a favor and took out the good wine.
But when they saw the jar, their hearts began to feel half cold, but they still had some hope in their hearts, maybe they were just using these jars.
"Come on, my dear, raise your glasses, let's watch the moon and drink together." As a result, the old generals were completely cold. If they had smelled the wine before, they would be very excited, but today they could not be excited. The wine that would be hot from their mouths to their stomachs after drinking in one sip was the wine that these veterans on the battlefield drank, and the hot wine was like going to the battlefield again.
In short, it doesn’t matter whether the wine is good or not. It’s just that the spicy and exciting level is the generals’ favorite. If you give them a chili at this time, it will make the generals even more excited.
Sanle Juice, in the past, these veterans drank like drinking jade liquid nectar, but now they feel that it is not much better than drinking cold water?
This is just their own feelings. These three lejuices are a relatively mature wine, which is incomparable to Yang Heng's inferior distilled wine. But what new things naturally have a freshness? When the freshness passes, it will no longer be so mysterious. However, at that time, Yang Heng will have new cellar wines, and even some special high-altitude wines appear, and there will also be some low-alcohol wines suitable for literati and poets to drink. That is the time when these mud wines are truly withdrawn.
If you want to say that wine would waste a lot of food, Yang Heng reported that he used wine lees to feed pigs and some other methods of using wine lees. In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, except for the lack of food in the earliest years, the grain was relatively abundant at other times and was suitable for making wine. Even some inferior high-quality wines could be exchanged for some meat from the hands of the nomads in the north, as well as some horses, cattle and sheep.
Li Er lived a comfortable life this night. It was also a pleasure for him to coax these veterans. For these veterans, they did not feel embarrassed, but they were a little unwilling to drink that kind of good wine.
Yang Heng spent the night even more lively. What is the moon? You are so round, why are you so round and you have recited a lot of saliva poems like this? Yang Heng will never say some poems from later generations even if he is beaten to death. The main reason is that the poems he can remember are a bit unsuitable for the mood, such as the bright moon in front of the bed... Although the poems like raising a cup to invite the bright moon are all very good, they cannot be expressed even if they are unsuitable for the mood, right?
Chapter completed!