The proposal was suddenly proposed by Mr. Qian. They didn't expect anything at the moment, but Chen Nian on the side suddenly had a good idea. In order to let them have some snacks, Chen Nian planned to give them some advice.

"Dear young men, I have an offer here. I wonder if you are willing to listen?"

When Hai Mingxian heard this, he became interested. At the same time, he also made plans in his heart. No matter what Chen Nian said, he would praise him and convince others to play according to what Chen Nian said.

"Please say it."

Chen Nian nodded: "Today, all the young masters here are the future pillars of the Great Xia Dynasty. They must be very literary and talented. Why not take local materials to a hearty poetry party. Everyone chooses the subject matter and writes a poem separately. Then choose the best ones from each subject. Choose four of these snacks that can be eaten by themselves or shared with others."

"Good idea!" Hai Mingxian sighed. He originally wanted to swear without thinking, but after listening to it, he thought this idea was really good and interesting. The main reason is that everyone can also share it with others after choosing the snacks, which avoids the situation where people can't eat it.

Everyone's eyes were basically lit up after hearing this.

Especially the scholar named Qian, who was named Qian, walked over to appreciate Chen Nian's ideas and patted Chen Nian's shoulders: "This idea is good. I didn't expect that even a vendor who sells snacks could come up with such interesting ideas."

Although he was complimenting, Chen Nian felt that the other party wanted to show off, guide everyone's topics, and turn himself into the center of the topic.

I have seen too many such people in college.

Hai Mingxian was watching from the side and sucked her teeth, thinking that this person's connections were no worse than you and me, so she hurried over and kept pressing the scholar named Qian back to her seat.

Then he acted as the host and planned to start the game quickly.

Soon, the game begins.

Chen Nian was watching while pretending to be curious. Hai Mingxian was naturally happy. Chen Nian was here. In this way, he could still show off because he felt that he was much better than the other young men.

As the game began, everyone wrote a poem based on the subject. Chen Nian listened on the side. Every time the scholar named Qian finished speaking, Chen Nian couldn't help but chuckled, and then quickly covered his mouth.

The sound is exactly the kind of sound that others can hear but not particularly obvious.

At first they hadn't reacted, but after a few rounds, the scholar named Qian finally reacted and turned around and looked at Chen Nian with a glaring look.

Chen Nian did this on purpose, and he was not worried about what the other party dared to do, because according to the previous chat, Chen Nian knew that the man named Qian was a fifth-rank official in his family.

He knew that Hai Mingxian would protect himself today.

What's more, the other party said bad things about Fu Xin behind his back. It would be fine if he didn't hear it. Since he heard it, he couldn't ignore it. At least he had to vent his anger on his friend.

Even if he is really targeted by this guy, as long as he lets go, he will soon become the target of public criticism.

Although Fu Xin is only a sixth-rank compilation editor of the Hanlin Academy, his teacher is the prime minister of the dynasty, and Fu Xin, the top scholar, was personally selected by Emperor Daxia during the palace examination. You are talking behind your back that he is lucky, wouldn’t that slap those big men in the face?

So Hai Mingxian will definitely protect himself today, not only for his sister, but also for his own considerations.

This is also the confidence of the old man.

"Why are you laughing at?" the scholar named Qian said angrily.

"I just thought of something interesting." Chen Nian shook his head and acted innocently. "Caomin doesn't know what to recite poems and write, so he naturally started to get distracted after listening to it because he was bored."

Of course, Chen Nian also felt from the bottom of his heart that the poems written by the guy named Qian were not very good. If the poems written by Hai Mingxian were like those produced automatically on the Internet, then the poems written by the scholar named Qian were like beginners who had just learned tone and copied them.

After Chen Nian finished speaking, the other party then withdrew his gaze and continued to play...

But just like that, every time he finished speaking, Chen Nian would laugh, making him upset: "Brother Hai, I can't bear it anymore. I must teach him some lessons today!"

"Why?" Hai Mingxian asked pretending to be puzzled.

"Didn't Brother Hai hear it? He kept laughing next to him. Every time I finished a poem, he would laugh. Isn't this intention to disturb me?"

At this time, Hai Mingxian's face suddenly became serious. The man named Qian was indeed invited by him, but that was just to make up the number. As a result, this guy really regarded himself as a character.

It has been leaping from the beginning to now.

"Mr. Qian, have you ever thought that maybe the poem you wrote is really funny?"

The sudden turn of confrontation caught everyone off guard, but although most of the people present were young, how many fools could there be in a family of officials?

After Hai Mingxian said this, they quickly chose the camp in their hearts. In contrast, Mr. Hai's father was from the second rank, and that guy's father was only a fifth rank.

At this moment, Mr. Qian turned his head and looked at him, and found that everyone's eyes were getting colder, and there was a smile on his lips, as if he was really laughing.

At this moment, he suddenly felt like a clown.

The initiator of all this, Chen Nian, was watching the excitement with his arms held back and with interest.

"You untouchable!" He said as he wanted to go up to find trouble for Chen Nian. Even if he did it here, he was not afraid. After all, Chen Nian was just a civilian.

But at this moment, Hai Mingxian became anxious. He shouted on the spot: "Stop him!"

After the words came, three or four strong servants rushed over and held the money one after another!

"Dare to hit someone in my house and throw it out!"

In the end, the scholar named Qian was thrown out directly, and he didn't even have the chance to resist because this was the difference in class.

"Thank you, Mr. Hai." Chen Nian said with a smile.

"Where is it, Brother Chen is not injured, right?"

"No, I will go back after I've given that snack. If Mr. Hai likes it, I can order it next time."

"Don't worry." Hai Mingxian nodded.

Gu Zhu

Then Chen Nian thanked him and left.

As Chen Nian left, Hai Mingxian turned around and looked at the other friends with a little surprised expression: "Didn't you understand why I protect this dim sum so much? I am willing to offend the Qian for him?"

"Actually, even if I don't talk about some things now, you will know about them in the future. The guy who just brought us some snacks, even though he was just selling snacks, and he just came to Beijing, he is a friend of the top scholar Fu Xin, so he humiliated the Qian surnamed just now."

"Secondly, he is not as simple as it seems. This morning, I went to his shop. Prince Jing was there at that time, and Prince Jing was only following him. Prince Jing said something at that time. Can you guess what it is?"

"At that time, Prince Jing said that the person named Chen Nian was his friend."

...

When Chen Nian returned to the dim sum shop, the dim sum here was almost sold. When Chen Nian came back, Lu Ke took out some ingredients and started to tell Chen Nian about sour plum soup.

"This sour plum soup is not what we do at home, but I accidentally learned it with an old man when I first got married to the capital. During that time, the old man pushed a cart every day to take out sour plum soup in our mansion. I bought some every day and got back. Over time, I met him. Later, the old man said that there was something going on at home, but he was afraid that he would leave suddenly and I couldn't find anyone, so he waited for one more day to explain the situation to me. Later, he asked me if I wanted the recipe for sour plum soup. I agreed at that time, and he told me completely." Lu Ke said.

"Later, I found that most of the materials he used were cheaper, so I replaced them, and some of them were improved by trying to add them to the old man more than a dozen times before I could make the current taste."

When Chen Nian heard that this ancient method was learned from the roadside, he couldn't help but feel more excited. You should know that many dishes or snacks that were later circulated were made first by the people and then began to be widely circulated.

And Chen Nian also knew that there were many kinds of seasonings to make sour plum soup. After all, every time I saw my cousin make it, my cousin would take out a large basket of seasonings, and weigh it when making seasonings.

"The first ingredients to be prepared are black plum, black dates, hawthorn, orange peel, licorice..."

Lu Ke introduced the seasonings to make sour plum soup, but Chen Nian looked at the black plums beside him and moved his heart. He picked them up and smelled them, but he felt a strong smoky smell on it.

This black plum must have been bought from a pharmacy, so the smoky and medicinal flavor are relatively strong. If this thing is not processed, the sour plum soup cooked may not be much better than Guangdong's herbal tea.

When Lu Ke saw Chen Nian picking up the black plums and playing with them, he couldn't help but say, "The black plums must be washed carefully first, and then steamed in the pot for a long time to remove the smokey smell. However, even so, a little remains when cooking, but the remaining smokey smell will be very light, like I really like the smoky smell inside." Lu Ke said.

Chen Nian nodded as he heard this.

As for the smoky smell in sour plum soup, it is the same as eating coriander. Some people like it, and some people don’t like it, but overall it is still acceptable. After all, some beverage manufacturers in later generations mostly retain some smoky smell in them when they directly make the finished products of sour plum soup.

Otherwise, it is not difficult to remove this smell with their technology.

What Lu Ke took out is the untreated black plum now. The main purpose is to let Chen Nian recognize it first, and then she took out the already processed black plum. Chen Nian picked it up and smelled it. Sure enough, the smokey smell on it became much lighter.

Then Lu Ke started to wash the ingredients with the ingredients, but the osmanthus flowers were still standing by the side without moving.

After washing, Lu Ke poured water into the pot, then weighed various ingredients separately, put them into the pot according to a certain number of grams, and poured in an appropriate amount of water.

Then the fire started.

"Xiao Nian, this sour plum soup is actually the same as boiling medicine. It has the same head decoction and second decoction. Now what we have to do is the head decoction. You see, the water is boiling now, so you have to start turning to low heat and boil it for about three quarters of an hour."

Chen Nian silently wrote it down in his heart: "What about three quarters of an hour later?"

"After three quarters of an hour, put the prepared yellow rock sugar in it, then turn on the high heat and stir while boiling. Wait until the high heat boils, and then turn it to medium heat and simmer for more than a quarter of an hour. After it comes out, sprinkle the dried osmanthus flowers on it."

"Are the dried osmanthus flowers last put?"

"Yes, the taste of osmanthus is very easy to dissipate. If you put it in in advance, there will be no osmanthus flavor when you cook it. Finally, if you soak it in for a while, the osmanthus flavor will be very fragrant."

"I see."

After that, I tasted it and found that the taste was really good..

Then he tried to identify the dish with a recipe, but found that the completion rate of the dish was only 91%, which means there was still a lot of room for improvement on this basis.

This made Chen Nian a little confused for a moment.

Can't you learn perfect here?

Then I can only try it slowly afterwards.

The long-lost feeling surged in my heart. What Aged likes the most is the process of studying a dish...

How can I make it perfect? ​​What kind of seasoning should I add? What heat can I use to make it more delicious than before? You may feel confused and crazy during the process, but when a dish reaches 100% of the time, I feel happy in the old heart.

Agedan also has a certain understanding of some common Chinese medicines. After all, when I was making fish and sheep fresh, Agedan had already learned a lot. Although I didn’t memorize all Chinese medicines, I basically memorize the dozens of medicinal herbs used as seasonings in Chinese food. Its taste, efficacy, medicinal properties and so on.

After selling the snacks in the afternoon, they had dinner. Lu Ke prepared some of the ingredients they needed to use the next day, and some of them had to be prepared in advance so as not to be useless the next day.

Agedan made out some A4-sized paper, folded it in half, and finally sewed the edges with thread to make a notebook.

Then I went to the stove to make some charcoal strips with wooden branches to use as a pen.

Although they also have brushes at home, compared to the convenience, Chen Nian still feels that pens made of this kind of charcoal strip are more convenient to carry and modify.

Lu Ke didn't know what her younger brother was going to do. Through this period of time, she found that her younger brother had always been a bit weird and had a lot of ideas in his mind, so she didn't care about it.

After Chen Nian finished the notebook and pen, he first wrote a few pages on it.

When doing experiments, you naturally need to have preliminary samples and variables. The initial sample is Lu Ke’s method. The variables include the amount of all the materials to be used, the time and heat of each step, and the order of the ingredients being placed.

In terms of time and heat, there is not much room for modification, so Aged didn't care about those, but just added a few variables related to the materials later, added mint, and replaced the orange peel with tangerine peel. For this first experiment, Aged was written for three years.

Then he wrote the Luoshen flower.

But there are not enough medicinal materials in the store now. I plan to go to a nearby pharmacy shop tomorrow to buy some back.

After writing, Chen Nian went to help Lu Ke prepare what he had to do today, and then returned to the room and fell asleep.
Chapter completed!