Evolution of the heavens

Chapter 227 hunger strike
Liu Shizhi, who was born in Shu in ancient times, is a native of Shanyin today.Talented.

In the eighth year of Chongyang, Liu Shizhi failed to win the exam and voluntarily gave up his official career, so he took the book boy Lu Ya to play around the world.

Come to Hangzhou.

"My lord, the front is the building outside the building."

Lu Ya carried his schoolbag and followed behind Liu Shizhi.

Liu Shizhi walked in front, waved his hands and said, "No, no, no."

Lu Ya asked:

"It's said that the West Lake vinegar fish is the best in the world, son, you don't like to taste the world's delicacies the most, why don't you try it?"

After all, he said embarrassingly, "I want to try it too."

"West Lake vinegar fish is not good."

Liu Shizhi glanced contemptuously at the building outside the building, and said:

"You also know your son, I don't eat anything but good food. If there is no good food, I'd rather be hungry, but if you let me eat that West Lake vinegar fish, I'd rather starve to death."

Lu Ya was stunned, and asked: "Is it so unpalatable? Isn't this a famous dish all over the world, and Lou Wai Lou is the No. 1 building in Hangzhou."

"It's all because of this building that the West Lake vinegar fish is so unpalatable!"

Liu Shizhi said: "West Lake vinegar fish is supposed to be grass carp. It was starved for three days in the West Lake to remove the smell of mud, and then it was marked with a flower knife with seven and a half knives. However, since the prosperity of this building outside, It has become a high-rise building with a grand view, and the people who come and go are rich and wealthy. This building feels that the grass carp is despicable and cannot be sold at a high price, so it chooses the more expensive mandarin fish. When the material changes, the vinegar fish immediately changes in half. Taste, plus their master chefs have lost their skills, and they no longer know how to make sweet and sour sauce. The West Lake vinegar fish that they make is complicated and unspeakable..."

"Complicated and unspeakable, what is it like?" Lu Ya asked.

Liu Shizhi said: "One is sweet, two is salty, three is sour, and four is fishy."

Lu Ya's eyes widened: "It's so unpalatable."

Liu Shizhi said: "After eating this fish, I threw myself into the river once. Fortunately, I was rescued by a Jinshi friend in Hangzhou. His name is Xu Wenchang. Now let's find this person and ask him to take us to eat real fish. delicious."

The passers-by who heard this pair of master and servant talking, especially when they heard that Liu Shizhi even committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake because the vinegar fish in the West Lake was not tasty, could not help but look over suspiciously.

Is it too exaggerated.

After a while, Liu Shizhi's master and servant came to Huanxiu Villa in Hangzhou. After visiting and entering, he exclaimed:
"Nice garden."

Hearing Liu Shizhi's voice, the owner who came out of the garden was Liu Shizhi's friend Xu Wenchang, and laughed loudly:

"Meng'an is finally here."

A group of people introduce each other.

Someone cupped their hands and said with a smile: "I have long heard that Brother Liu claims to be obsessed with landscapes and gardens. He is crazy about celebrities, loves prosperity, and eats delicious food. Seeing him today is really true."

Someone said: "We are also a bunch of idiots, but not as many idiots as Brother Liu."

Crazy, is a hobby interest.

There are drama idiots, wine idiots and so on.

Liu Shizhi said with a smile: "People have no obsessions, so you can't associate with them, because they don't have deep feelings."

"Good! Wonderful!" Xu Wenchang praised, and said: "I know that brother Liu has all kinds of hobbies. He doesn't eat unless it's good food, he doesn't go there unless it's beautiful, he doesn't love it unless it's beautiful, and he doesn't wear it unless it's beautiful. Among all the beauties, food is the most important." .”

Liu Shizhi said: "Everything must not be neglected, especially when it comes to food and drink."

If his three meals a day were not delicacies, he would rather not eat them.

Someone praised: "You can't get tired of fine food, and you can't get tired of fine meat. The same is true for my master."

Xu Wenchang laughed and said: "I have specially invited Sifang Chef, what brother Liu wants to eat, just order."

As soon as they clapped their hands, four cooks, Chuanlu Huaiyue, came out from behind.

Liu Shizhi was unceremonious, and gave orders one by one. After finishing the orders, he urged:

"Remember, pick pork with thin skin and not be fishy; pick tender chicken and not be immature; crucian carp with a flat body and white belly is better, and those with black backs must have stiff meat. Bamboo shoots have few knots but are sweet and fresh.

Even if it is the same ham, the appearance is so ugly, but the taste is totally different.The same turtle also has the difference between good and evil tastes and ice charcoal. "

Someone asked in amazement: "Brother Liu, do you not trust these four chefs too much? Do you still need to tell me about this kind of thing?"

Liu Shizhi said: "For delicious food, the cook can only account for [-]% of the credit, while the person who buys the ingredients can only account for [-]% of the credit. If the ingredients are not delicious, no matter how good the cook is, it will be difficult for the cook to perform. The ancients It has long been said that 'a clever woman cannot cook without rice'."

All the people were amazed when they heard the words.

Liked:

"In terms of people who can eat in this world, there is no one who can eat willows."

Xu Wenchang asked: "I heard that brother Liu is writing a food list? Can you take a look at it?"

Liu Shizhi smiled and said, "It's not finished yet, it will take ten years."

Xu Wenchang said: "Then make a ten-year agreement."

"Good to say."

By night.

A table of delicious food.

Let the guests in Xu's mansion linger and forget to return, which is the best thing in life.

During the banquet.

When a group of literati gathered together, it was inevitable to criticize the current situation and the court. Headed by the master Xu Wenchang, he angrily denounced the authorities:

"Now the emperor favors treacherous ministers, which has caused great chaos in the court. If I can re-enter the court, I must admonish your majesty with death..."

The literati clapped their hands and applauded: "Master Xu said well. Since ancient times, the death of literature has remonstrated with the death of martial arts. Scholars of my generation, receiving the favor of the emperor, eat the rice and millet of the country, and we should serve the country with our own body."

Only Liu Shizhi didn't speak.

The crowd looked at him.

Xu Wenchang asked: "Brother Liu doesn't seem to think so?"

Liu Shizhi smiled and said, "Not really."

Xu Wenchang tentatively asked: "We intend to go to the academy and advise the court, brother Liu, would you like to go with us?"

Liu Shizhi shook his head and said, "I have no intention of becoming an official."

Xu Wenchang frowned and said, "Brother Liu, isn't he afraid of death?"

Literati admonishing the court is indeed in danger of death.

Liu Shizhi said: "Life does not die, and death has no self, so there is nothing to be afraid of."

"Then..." Xu Wenchang asked, "Brother Liu or..."

Liu Shizhi said: "I have placed my love in the mountains and rivers, and besides, now that the country is so ruined, it's not worth my death for it, it's better to eat more delicacies."

A group of people finally talked and broke up.

After leaving Huanxiu Villa.

"My lord, does talking like that hurt them too much?" Lu Ya chased after him and asked with a smile.

"I'm the literati, the thickest-skinned." Liu Shizhi smiled and said, "No harm, no harm."

……

Back to the inn.

Day two.

Heavy snow in Hangzhou.

This snow fell for three days at once.

Liu Shizhi and Lu Ya, who were supposed to start their journey back and forth to their hometown, were blocked by heavy snow.

Hangzhou seems to be buried in snow and frozen.

People in every household are lying on their own quilts on the kang, carrying them next to the stove, or making tea around the stove.

Suddenly, Liu Shizhi rushed out of the inn with Lu Ya, yelling: "Shopkeeper, is there still anyone supporting a boat in West Lake?"

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then looked at the whiteness outside and said, "Guest officer, what are you talking about, are you going to West Lake in this snowy day?"

"It's snowing, go to the West Lake."

Liu Shizhi only asked, "Is there a raft?"

"In this weather, all the fishermen on the lake must have gone home," said the shopkeeper.

"Help me find one." Liu Shizhi said, "I'll add money."

No one was found all day.

Everyone thinks it's crazy to go to the lake in this snowy day, isn't it?

It was not until evening that one person heard the news.

So the master and servant and the fisherman propped up a small raft, wearing fur coats and carrying a stove, and the three went to the center of the lake.

The boatman was puzzled and asked, "Master, it's snowing, what are you going to do in the middle of the lake?"

"Not much." Liu Shizhi smiled.

"If you don't do anything, why do you want to go?" The boatman was even more puzzled, and sighed, "Isn't this a waste of time?"

"Floating life is a big dream, life is until death, what is not a waste of time."

Liu Shizhi looked ahead and laughed loudly:
"But if you can feel happy about these things, it's not a waste of time."

The boatman was ignorant.

Road:
"My husband is an idiot."

As the raft moved forward, the lake was filled with ice flowers.

Gradually to the center of the lake.

The sky and clouds, mountains, and water are white up and down.

The ripples caused by the boats and rafts in the center of the lake are like a long dike on white rice paper. At the end is the blurred outline of the pavilion in the center of the lake and a small boat with only two or three grains of people in the boat.

After a while, I arrived at the center of West Lake.

Unexpectedly, there are people in this snow-capped, quiet and picturesque lake pavilion. There are two old people who have spread felt in the lake pavilion and sit opposite each other.

There are boys boiling water behind their backs and making tea around the stove.

The stove is boiling.

The smoke is lingering, and the snow and wind are the same color.

"what!"

The two old men in the pavilion in the middle of the lake were stunned for a moment when they saw Liu Shizhi's master and servant and the people coming by boat, and they were all overjoyed:

"Who is on the boat ahead?"

Liu Shizhi was also very surprised and pleasantly surprised to see the people in the center of the lake. After going to the pavilion in the center of the lake, they each reported their origins.

It turned out that the two old men were from Jinling.

Liu Shizhi stroked his hands and sighed, "I never thought there were people like you two in the pavilion."

"Hahaha!"

An old mink man laughed and said:

"My friend and I saw the snow rising, and we were in the middle of the lake. We saw the sky and the earth as one color, the vastness of the sky, and the sound of people and birds in the lake. It can be called a scene of heaven and earth. We sighed and said that this scene belonged to only the two of us. I'm average."

"It should be clear."

Another old man chanted:

"When will there be no lake? When will there be no snow? But there are few idlers like me."

After all, invite Liu Shishang to drink tea together.

"Hahaha!"

After talking in detail for a while, everyone enjoyed themselves.

Seeing that it was getting late, Liu Shizhi offered to leave.

The two old people said: "If you want to wait for the clouds to disperse after the snow and enjoy the moon, you will return differently."

Liu Shizhi showed admiration in his eyes.

So I don't say much.

A flat boat, with master and servant, returns from the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

The boatman looked back and saw that the two old men were gradually covered by heavy snow and the pavilion in the middle of the lake, leaving only a little smoke and water vapor, and a few shadows. Thinking that they would be here tonight to wait for the clouds to clear after the snow and enjoy the moon, he couldn't help but look at Liu Shizhi. muttered:

"Don't say that your husband is an idiot, there are even more idiots who are like your husband."

This is exactly:
Everywhere in life knows what it is like, it should be like Feihong stepping on the mud.

Accidentally leaving fingers and claws on the mud, Hong Fei repeated things.

……

After the heavy snow, Hangzhou cleared up.

Liu Shizhi and Lu Ya's master and servant returned to Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

Half a year after returning to Shaoxing.

Then I heard that Xu Wenchang, a Jinshi friend who invited him to dinner in Hangzhou and talked about the current situation of the court, was appreciated by the emperor and resumed his official position.

Someone came to ask Liu Shizhi if he ever regretted it.

Liu Shizhi smiled and said, "My joy, he doesn't know."

So, as always, I traveled all over the world, eating, drinking and having fun, going around and going around. Every six months when I came back from a trip, I would come back and write a "food list."

In addition to the food list, there are several articles that are very poetic and sung all over the world.

Nine years passed in a flash.

Although Liu Shizhi has not entered an official position, he is indeed a wonderful flower in the jungle of literati today.

The world evaluates him as the current generation, and only people call him Xu Wenchang and Liu Shizhi.Xu Yiqi wins the police, and Liu Yixiong wins.

Xu Wenchang is the Hangzhou Jinshi who is now the leader of the Wen Party.

As for Liu Shizhi, he could not succeed in learning books, swords, etiquette, essays, immortals, Buddhism, agriculture, and gardening." However, this Liu Shizhi who "accomplished nothing" became "the number one in the world." Article everyone.

He writes his life.

Some people describe it like this: Where there is a lot of people and gongs and drums, there must be willows;
At the end of the song, people parted, the wind was cold and the moon was dying, someone blew a mournful flute, the audience must be Liu Shizhi.

The gourmet food in the world is the same.

Liu Shizhi must not have missed it.

17 years in Chongyang.

This year, Liu Shizhi's most proud work in his life finally came out, not because of his articles and poems that were highly praised by outside literati.

It's a book that teaches people how to cook.

Everyone knows that Liu Shi, a great talent, has a lot of romantic and elegant things in his life, but the number one thing is eating.

The whole book is divided into notice list, precept list, seafood list, Jiangxian list, special animal list, miscellaneous animal list, feather list, aquarium scale list, aquarium scaleless list, miscellaneous vegetable menu, small menu, snack list, rice porridge There are fourteen aspects of the list and the tea and wine list.

However, in the 17th year of Chongyang, two months after Liu Shizhi's work called "Meng Yi Food List" came out.

The world is in chaos.

First, the rebels broke through the capital, and the emperor hanged himself to death.

Then there were foreign countries who took the opportunity to go south and occupy the Central Plains.

On the occasion of the fall of the country and its families.

The leader and belief in the minds of the literati in the world, when he was young, he once said that loyalty to the emperor and patriotism is the silk of the country, and Xu Wenchang, the prime minister of our dynasty who was never afraid of beheading, is standing on the edge of the West Lake at this time, facing the siege of foreign armies .

On the edge of West Lake.

Prime Minister Xu Wenchang walked to the lake, and his students turned to look at the foreign army, crying:

"The disciple is willing to fight for the country with the respected teacher, and is willing to die for the country with his own body, so that he can die for the festival."

Xu Wenchang walked to the lake and murmured, "Ming Jie is dead."

He bowed slightly.

Touched the lake water.

Shaking his head suddenly:

"This water is too cold to enter!"

The disciple was shocked.

Then he yelled: "Master, forgot what you told us when you were young, Wen died to remonstrate with Wu to fight to the death, scholars of my generation, received the emperor's favor, eat the rice and millet of the country, should we serve the country with our own body?"

But I saw this loyal and patriotic old man go to the enemy camp alone.

One of the world's literati leaders, into the enemy camp.

The morale of the Central Plains was greatly dissipated.

The enemy army soon came to Shaoxing.

Liu Shizhi is the second person who is ready to capture and subdue the talented leader of the world.

In the camp, Xu Wenchang stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "The old minister and Liu Shizhi have been friends for many years. It only takes a few words to say that he is coming to the new court."

"Is it so simple?"

Xu Wenchang said: "You don't know, Liu Shizhi is a man of many obsessions, and he is not a loyal and patriotic person. He once said in his early years that his body does not serve the country."

is the day.

Came to Shaoxing.

But he learned that Liu Shizhi and Tongzi were not at home.

And the family has already been dismissed.

Xu Wenchang searched the city for several days, but he couldn't see it.

The enemy general asked coldly.

Xu Wenchang hurriedly said: "The old man has a plan. Liu Shizhi is the best food. If he doesn't eat non-food every meal, even if he flees, he won't be able to escape very far. As long as the general uses the world's delicacies as bait, he will definitely be able to lure him to surrender." .”

A few days later, the general held a big banquet, but Liu Shizhi still did not appear.

A year later, until the new dynasty completely unified the world.

three years later.

Finally someone claimed to have discovered Liu Shizhi's whereabouts.

That is a tomb.

Liu Shizhi had been dead for more than two years.

Xu Wenchang asked the local people and learned that when Liu Shizhi learned that a foreign country had entered the Central Plains and wanted to recruit him, he disbanded his family and hid in the mountains. When he learned that a general of a country wanted to lure him to surrender with delicious food , they feed on bark and wild fruits.

When you learn that foreign countries have completely dominated the world.

So he went on a hunger strike deep in the mountains.

After Xu Wenchang left.

Lu Ya looked at the wooden tablet, which was the epitaph written by Liu Shizhi himself:

Shaoxing Liu is the one who is rarely a dude, loves prosperity, loves abstinence, loves beautiful maids, loves prostitutes, loves fresh clothes, loves delicious food, loves horses, loves lanterns, loves fireworks, loves pear gardens, loves propaganda, and loves antiques , good flowers and birds, and tea obscene orange abuse, book beetle poetry devil.

From the age of half a hundred, the country is broken, and half a life of hard work is all a dream. The Si people would rather starve to death than eat the millet of a foreign country.

A sigh.

"When will you enter the Tao?"

(End of this chapter)