Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 498
Everyone in the hall thought to themselves: "Isn't there enough peach charms? Is it possible that Wang Ping'an needs to make a few more?"

This time, Li Shimin did not make things difficult for Wang Ping'an. He said: "Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the people of our Central Plains have observed the New Year's Eve. When observing the New Year's Eve, there is something that must be eaten. What is it?"

Everyone in the hall was slightly disappointed, alas, this question is too simple, let alone Wang Ping'an, even a three-year-old child can't pass the test.

Wang Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: "It turns out that I asked about dumplings." He said: "If you go back to the emperor, you will eat dumplings on New Year's Eve!"

Everyone in the hall came out in unison, no way, you can even answer this wrong!Dumplings, what's that?No matter where the dialect is, there is no such word!

Habits have become natural. When Wang Pingan mentioned what to eat on New Year’s Eve, Wang Pingan naturally mentioned dumplings, but as soon as he said it, he knew he was wrong. In the early Tang Dynasty, there was no mention of dumplings. It is called Jiao Er, or Tang Zhong Lao Wan.The folks call it Tangzhonglao Wan, but this is the imperial palace, so Li Shimin must have asked about the original name.

Wang Ping'an hurriedly changed his words: "I made a mistake. I was in a hurry to answer the emperor's question, but blurted out the dialect of our Wuli Village. On New Year's Eve, you should eat Jiaoer."

Li Shimin thought to himself: "Wuli Village is a place in Xuzhou, but Xuzhou doesn't seem to have this dialect!" He didn't ask why the people in Wuli Village called Jiaoer dumplings, and asked again: "Why do you want to eat this thing? "

Wang Pingan said loudly: "To commemorate the medical saint Zhong Jinggong!"

Dumplings were invented by medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. At the beginning, they were not made for delicious food, but had practical significance.Dumplings were first used as a decoction, named "Quhanjiaoer Decoction".

In winter, it was cold and cold, and the ears of the people were often frostbitten. Zhang Zhongjing couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so he set up a medical shed in Dongguan, Nanyang, and cooked mutton and medicinal materials to dispel the cold in a pot. After cooking, he took out these things Chopped and wrapped in dough into ear-shaped food, called jiaoer, cooked in a pot and distributed to the common people.The people ate two jiaoer ears and drank a bowl of soup. Their whole body became hot, their blood flowed smoothly, and their ears became warm.Zhang Zhongjing used Jiaoer to protect the people from typhoid fever and cured frozen ears.

Zhang Zhongjing donated Jiaoer Decoction for dispelling cold until the New Year's Eve.On the first day of the new year, people celebrate the new year and also celebrate the recovery of the rotten ear. They make New Year's food in the shape of Jiaoer and eat it on the morning of the first day of the new year.Ever since, an important custom in traditional Chinese festivals came into being.

There are many legends about dumplings, and this is one of them. Wang Ping’an was a medical student. If he asked him why he ate dumplings, he naturally preferred this answer.

Li Shimin smiled and said: "Very well, it seems that you have read a few books. Naturally, you have to eat Jiaoer when you watch the New Year's Eve." As he spoke, he took a string of orbs from the jewelry on his waist, and took one in the middle. A red bead, said: "Put it in stuffing, wrap it in Jiao's ear, whoever eats this in a while, come forward and tell me that I gave him all this string of orbs!"

Shi Zhongchen stepped forward to take the red bead and said: "Yes, this old slave will put the orb into the stuffing!" He asked the little eunuchs to bring in the big food bowl for the stuffing, wiped the orb, and put it in into the stuffing, then stir with chopsticks to mix the beads into the stuffing.

Li Shimin clapped his hands and said: "Okay, let's cover Jiaoer's ears and let's explode the stick!"

When the emperor gave an order, there was another sound of explosions outside, and Shi Zhongchen divided the stuffing into small pots, put a pot on each table, and sent out dough and noodles for everyone to make dumplings.

Naturally, there was also a basin on the table where Wang Ping'an was.Looking at the food bowl, Wang Ping'an felt amused. Making dumplings is not difficult, but for the royal family and relatives, it can't be said that it is not difficult, but it should be extremely difficult. I guess everyone can't make dumplings, just go As a cutscene, the dumplings eaten at the end were made in the imperial kitchen.

As soon as he finished thinking about it, he heard Li Zhi say: "Gu come to roll the dough, and you are responsible for wrapping it." As he spoke, Li Zhi took out a piece of dough, broke it into small pieces, picked up a rolling pin, and rolled out the dumpling skin. up.

Wang Ping'an was taken aback and almost screamed, seeing that Li Zhi's movements were proficient, it could be said that he had reached the level of a chef, with both hands he kept rolling out several doughs in an instant, that is, the effort of blinking his eyelids!

Looking at the surrounding tables, I saw that at each table, there were people rolling out the dough, and all of them were skilled in their movements. They definitely didn't look like they were just holding a rolling pin and didn't know how to start.Especially at Li Ke's table, Li Ke is the same as Li Zhi, he is also rolling dough.Li Zhi's technique is quite good, but Li Ke is even more powerful.

I saw him rolling out the dough and even throwing it to the other side of the panel... The speed was astonishingly fast. I guess he didn't want to be a prince, but went to open a small restaurant in the market, just playing this game in front of the guests. With one hand, you can attract a lot of business!

Wang Ping'an was dumbfounded, it was hard to believe, how could such a thing happen, what kind of world is this, could it be that he went to the wrong place, and now he is not in the palace, but in the kitchen of a big restaurant?

He turned his head and looked at his table again. Not only Princess Nanping and his wife, but also Li Yiren were making dumplings. The movements were fast and the dumplings were beautiful. I made a dumpling out of the ground and put it aside!
Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "After working for a long time, in the whole hall, I'm the only one who is the worst at making dumplings... No, the worst one should be the emperor, and I should be the second to last!" Thinking in his heart, he turned his head again Go see Li Shimin.

Unexpectedly, at first glance, the second-to-last immediately became the last-to-last. Beside Li Shimin, there was a lady in a palace costume rolling dough, and Li Shimin personally made dumplings, not just one, but There are several of them, all of which look good, and they are placed on the side panel!
Wang Ping'an opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it. How could this happen? Why does everyone know how to make dumplings?It doesn't matter if you know how to wrap, why are they wrapped so well?Could it be that the Li family of the royal family came from the dumpling restaurant, and Li Yuan has done this business before?
The concubines, princes and princesses, including Li Shimin himself, all know how to make dumplings. At this time, they are called Bao Jiao Er, and they not only know how to make dumplings, but also make them very well.For the members of the royal family, only tonight in a year would they have the opportunity to have a meal with the emperor without having to observe too many etiquettes.
Li Shimin also knows how to make dumplings. That's because he was a prince back then. Like the princes now, he also needs to present his skills to his father and emperor at that time, and have a good time with his knees!
Li Zhi didn't know that Wang Ping'an's dumpling-making skills were poor, at least much worse than theirs. He made dumplings well, so he took it for granted that Wang Ping'an was also good at making dumplings, and threw a dough in front of Wang Ping'an, saying: "No Sickness, you also take care of it."

Wang Pingan made a sound, picked up the dough, and thought: "I can't make any tricks, let's make an ordinary one, don't show off, so as not to make a fool of yourself." He made a very regular, very ordinary dumpling , placed on the panel.

Shi Zhongchen walked around the hall, serving the royal family, came to Wang Ping'an's table, and said with a smile: "No disease, you are too ordinary with delicate ears, why don't you make a good-looking one?"

Royal people always make dumplings in various tricks, and some even make beautiful small animals, in order to make the emperor look at them and eat the dumplings they made. Wang Ping'an's bag is ordinary, not even as good as a child's bag, and there is no novelty at all.

Wang Ping'an said with some embarrassment: "Usual Baojiao'er is made like this at home, so my nephew hasn't learned much tricks. In the countryside, some food is good!"

Shi Zhongchen said with a smile: "Come on, let our family teach you. It's good to make it like this!" While speaking, he picked up a dough and put it in Wang Ping'an's hand.

Wang Ping'an only felt a hard hand, as if something was stuffed into Shi Zhongchen's hand, and when he pinched it, it felt like a bead, the size of which Li Shimin asked Shi Zhongchen to put in the dumpling stuffing just now.His heart moved, what's the matter, didn't the orb be put in the food bowl, didn't it go in?
Shi Zhongchen made gestures and sighed: "No disease, you are so stupid that you can't even wrap Jiaoer ears well. Forget it, just eat for a while, you can eat, you can wrap it in a fancy way, Let's see if we can figure it out!" This sentence didn't suit his status, no matter how important he was, he couldn't talk to Wang Pingan like that, and he still said it in front of everyone.

But everyone didn't care, Li Zhi smiled instead: "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to make a bag if you are not sick, but it does matter if you don't know how to eat. Eat a few more in a while."

Li Yiren also smiled at him and said: "You are so stupid, you can't even wrap your ears!" He stretched out his hand to shave his cheeks, shyly.But there was flour on his fingers, which stuck to his cheeks.

Wang Pingan laughed, tried his best to look like a fool, and said, "I'll go back and learn. When I have the New Year's Eve dinner next year, I'll definitely wrap it better than you all."

Holding the orb tightly in his hand, he thought to himself: "Yes, I can't make tricks, but I can eat it, just wait and see!"

Shi Zhongchen shook his head and walked away. He didn't put the beads into the stuffing at all just now, he just made a gesture of letting go. His sleeves were wide and his movements were fast. No one saw his tricks and thought that He put the orb into the stuffing.He took the opportunity of serving the people in the hall to give the orb to Wang Ping'an.

The dumplings were wrapped in a short while, and the little eunuchs brought the dumplings and cooked them in the side hall.It was already close to midnight at this time. In modern times, it is the time to rejoice and pray for the New Year, and the Tang Dynasty was no exception.

The little eunuch outside the hall drew a long voice and shouted loudly: "Happy New Year to my lord Long Live!"

Hearing the little eunuch's call, Wang Pingan got up quickly, but found that no one in the hall got up, so he had to sit down again, thinking: "What's wrong, isn't there a New Year greeting? It should be the time!"

Footsteps could be heard outside the hall, and countless maids and eunuchs came in. They lined up to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor.

It turned out that they were the ones paying New Year's greetings to the emperor, so they should all be famous figures in the palace!Wang Pingan had no interest in these people, and was about to turn his head to talk to Li Zhi, but suddenly found a familiar face not far in front of him.

It was Wu Meiniang!
(End of this chapter)