Shangshi female official

Chapter 95 Cold Dispelling Jiaoer Decoction 1
"tell me the story."

"According to our kitchen, things like dumplings were originally invented by the genius doctor Zhang Zhongjing."

"Dumplings, were they actually invented by a doctor?"

"That's right. According to legend, when Dr. Zhang Zhongjing was a parent official, he saw poor people in poor clothes in the middle of the winter, and their ears froze to pieces.

So he boiled the mutton with some anti-cold medicines, and when it was cooked, fished it out, chopped it, wrapped it in dough, and cooked it in a pan. The doctor first named it Quhan Jiaoer Decoction. "

"Quhan Jiaoer Decoction, the name sounds good now."

"It's also because of this that there is a folk saying that eating dumplings in winter will not freeze your ears. You must eat dumplings during the winter solstice, and you must eat dumplings at the [-]th, and you must eat dumplings on the first day of the new year."

"Then today, I want to eat a few more dumplings so that my ears don't get cold."

"Happy to be able to win the emperor, eat two more dumplings, it is the blessing of the old minister."

As the emperor said, he ate more than half of the five-color dumplings. After the breakfast was removed, an eunuch knelt down in front of the emperor with a red lacquer box on his back. Eunuch Qiu put the box on the small table. The box had nine sides. .

Eunuch Qiu opened the box, and there were nine triangular compartments inside, which contained nine kinds of fruits, such as dried persimmons, dried lychees, round eyes, chestnuts, and ripe dates. .”

The emperor ate some fruit, and another eunuch topped a red lacquer plate with a small wooden box inside. Eunuch Qiu opened it and saw that it was pink meat with a little skin on it.

"Your Majesty, the first day of the Lunar New Year, chew ghost."

After hearing this, Wang Yifu understood that the pink meat in the box was donkey head meat. Donkeys are commonly known as ghosts, and chewing ghosts can exorcise evil spirits.

The emperor took a sip, and the breakfast ceremony was over, and then all the servants from the Hall of Mental Cultivation sent the emperor to his knees, and the emperor stepped into the golden sedan chair in all directions to go to the hall of worship to worship the ancestors.

It takes about another day for the ceremonial officials to sing praises and sacrifice the three animals, so the emperor will not be able to eat lunch on the first day of the new year.

Although Wang Yifu was resting today, she was willing to go back to the dining room to see what else she could do. As soon as she entered the door, Mo Xi stuffed a piece of Xinxin carrot into her mouth, "Today is the first day of the new year, and it is also the beginning of spring. "Bite spring", quickly chew and swallow the radish."

Wang Yifu chewed it, and in his heart the radish was like a pear. Although it was not as sweet as a pear, it was juicy and crisp when bitten down. It was really delicious.

"I still have to make some spring pancakes today. Cut nine kinds of shreds to make spring pancakes and vegetables. Juanzi, take out the big green glaze plate and use that to put it nicely."

Everyone in the dining room was busy with themselves, and Mo Xi was making spring pancakes by the stove herself. The spring pancakes she made were special. She held a piece of wet dough in one hand and wiped it on an upside-down iron pan. , there is a round cake on it.

After waiting for a while, the other hand fiddled with the edge of the round cake. The edge of the cake became warped, and then tore it off and turned it over to bake.A spring pancake would be fine.

She wiped a piece of dough into a cake, and in a short while she made a thick stack. Wang Yifu picked up one and looked at it. The surface of the spring cake was relatively white, as thin as paper, but it was tough and not easy to break when pulled.

"The spring cakes I saw before were mostly steamed. I didn't expect this kind of baked cake to be so soft and tough."

"As long as the paste is adjusted correctly, the steamed and baked cakes can be complete and delicious."

They were talking in the dining room when Xu Xinyan came again.

She took out a lot of small cotton from the small cloth pocket, distributed it to the people in the dining room, and ran to Wang Yifu with a smile, stuffed cotton into her ears, and said, "Efu, I will use cotton to stuff my ears in Lichun, and I will take the smart ones." What do you mean?"

There was something in this ear, and Xu Xinyan's voice was separated far away. Wang Yifu was uncomfortable wearing it, so she quickly took the cotton out of her ear and said, "Children are smart, how old are we?"

"It's a good omen for the first day of the new year. Efu, be careful when you speak, there is a god in the air."

"It's a good sign, let's take it at night, we still have a lot of things to do during the day."

"Aren't you resting today? Why don't you accompany me to the Imperial Hospital!"

Shen Ci didn't know where she heard them talking, so she turned around and pushed the two of them outside, saying, "Hurry up and go play somewhere else, we have to eat something good on the first day of the Debi."

Wang Yifu was pushed to the door by her, then she turned her head and said with a smile: "Shen Ci, we can't go empty-handed...you should let me get some spring pancakes anyway."

Only then did Shen Ci let go, and Wang Yifu went into the room and took a stack of spring pancakes, some ready-made hot and cold dishes, and took a food box away.

Xu Xinyan dragged Wang Yifu to the Tai Hospital in a hurry, but he didn't expect Du Jingmo to be on duty as soon as he entered the door.

As soon as Xu Xinyan saw someone, she let go of Wang Yifu, jumped forward in two or three steps, and said with a smile, "Brother Jingmo, is your mother okay? Why is she on duty here in the first day of junior high school?"

Du Jingmo's eyes were dark and displeased, and he only said: "My mother is fine."

"I walked in such a hurry last night, is it really all right?"

"It was the servants of the General's Mansion who came to deceive me last night. They just wanted me to go home, reunite the General's Mansion, and please my father."

"why is it like this……"

Wang Yifu entered the door one step later, and said with a comforting smile, "Dr. Du, everything is fine if there is nothing at home."

"Happy New Year, Eve."

"Happy New Year. Sister Moxi made some spring pancakes today. She said she would come to see you, so I took some by the way. I have to eat spring pancakes in the beginning of spring. It's a custom."

"Let's put it aside, I eat a lot at home in the morning, and I will eat it later when I am hungry."

"Brother Jingmo, since you returned home last night, why come to the palace today? On the first day of the new year, if a nobleman is really sick, he will send someone to the house to recruit someone, and people in the palace will not come to see the doctor on the first day of the new year. .”

"The Tai Hospital has people on duty every year. Today just happens to be my turn. I have nothing to do at home. Why don't you just sit here and read medical books?"

Although it is said that no one in the palace would visit a doctor during the New Year’s Eve, there is a counterexample today. A palace lady came in in a hurry and begged Du Jingmo, "Thank God, there are still people in the Tai Hospital today, thank you." Please move this imperial doctor and go to our Sixth Bureau and First Division to take a look."

"Tell me what's going on first?"

"An aunt in the Shangyi Bureau caught wind and cold last year and coughed all day long. After seeing the doctor for several months, taking medicine didn't help. Yesterday at [-], she was greedy and drank too much. I'm afraid she's catching a cold again. , and now I have a high fever that won't go away."

After hearing this, Du Jingmo hurriedly packed up the consultation box and trot away after the maid.

Wang Yifu always felt familiar when she heard the maid's description, Shangyi Bureau, coughing again, and taking medicine didn't help, could it be Zhou Dongchun?
(End of this chapter)