Chapter 25 Eat pork with confidence
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Zhu Lang sat on the rocking chair, and there was a brazier on the left side of the rocking chair. At this time, there was a lot of firewood in the brazier, and coal was usually burned in the brazier in the homes of rich people.
However, the Zhu family is at the foot of the green mountains, with a lot of firewood, so buying coal is stupid.
There is a coffee table next to the brazier, with pastries and a cup of boiled water on the coffee table. The pastries include a piece of sponge cake, a piece of five-spice cake, three piece of mint cake and two piece of sesame cake noodles and dates.
Zhu Lang did not eat pastries at this time. Because he had just eaten, Zhu Lang drank a little boiled water, but speechlessly, soon all of his pastries were stolen by Zhu Erbao, Wang Xue, Dagou, and Ergou.
Zhu Erbao was originally helping Yan Laojue to support wood outside the yard, but as soon as Yan Laojue went to get a saw, Zhu Erbao put down the wood, touched it into the room from the yard, came to Zhu Lang's side, smiled and picked up Zhu Lang's teapot, pretending that he wanted to drink some water.
Zhu Lang didn't think about anything else. His father had just done something and came in to drink a sip of water. This was very reasonable, but Zhu Lang didn't know. Just when Zhu Lang turned his head, Zhu Erbao picked up a piece of sponge cake and wrapped it directly into his mouth.
That was a sponge cake, a big piece, and it was just wrapped by Zhu Erbao with his mouth. It was really scary. After a dead corner of the yard, Zhu Erbao spit out the sponge cake from his mouth. Seeing Zhu Erbao get such a big piece of sponge cake in a corner of the yard and eat it wildly, Big Dog, Ergou, and Wang Xue's saliva flowed down.
The pastries are delicious because they are filled with candy. Tell me which child can refuse to lose the sweetness. But after buying a lot of pastries, they are now locked in the cabinets of Aunt Wang and Erxiang’s rooms. There is a lock on this cabinet, and only Aunt Wang and Erxiang each have a key.
Children stipulate that there is only one piece of pastry to eat a day, but there is no other time. In the evening, when Wang Xue is greedy, she will act coquettishly and please Zhu Lang. At this time, if Zhu Lang is happy or helpless, Zhu Lang will get up and ask for a piece of pastry in Aunt Wang and Erxiang's room. Only when Zhu Lang wants it, Aunt Wang will be willing to give it to him.
I was so happy to have Wang Xiaoxue eating alone when she came back.
"It's my place..." Seeing Zhu Erbao eating the super large piece of sponge cake, Ergou coughed, stood up from one side, tidied up his clothes, and then walked from the yard into the main hall where Zhu Lang was. Ergou took a look at the five-spice cake on the coffee table beside Zhu Lang at a glance.
It was another old routine, saying that he wanted to drink water, and then while Zhu Lang was not paying attention, he wrapped the five-spice cake in his mouth and ran into the yard. After Ergou happily took out the five-spice cake from his mouth.
All the children's eyes were straightened. Ergou bit her and could clearly hear the sound of a person swallowing. This person was nothing but Zhu Erbao. He had just eaten the sponge cake. When he saw Ergou eating the five-spice cake, Zhu Erbao became greedy again.
Zhu Erbao followed the sound of the muffled voice: "I want to go to Xiaolang where can I drink water?"
The subtle meaning of this sentence is to steal pastries, which makes everyone ridiculous.
"Ah... Dad, you can't do this..." Wang Xue showed a speechless expression: "You have eaten almost sponge cake, so big... Now it's time for me to go..."
"Xiaoxue... Humph... Don't think that my dad doesn't know. You always ask Xiaolang to bring you food at night. Dad has seen it several times...!" Zhu Erbao didn't want to give in at all. When it comes to pastries, his daughter-in-law couldn't do it.
"You two have eaten, it's my turn now..." The big dog fucked at this time... and before Zhu Erbao and Wang Xue reacted, the big dog rushed into the main hall. At this time, Zhu Lang looked at another person coming to drink water and immediately shouted: "Hey... Big dog..."
When Zhu Lang suddenly shouted, the big dog was startled and thought he had been discovered, so he said guiltily: "Brother Lang..." The big dog turned around and looked at Zhu Lang and smiled. The more careful you should be, the more careful you should be.
Fortunately, Zhu Lang didn't find anything, but laughed: "Please help me prepare some hot water from the stove, and you have finished drinking the water...!"
"Oh...oh...!" The danger was relieved. Big Dog laughed and hurriedly went to fetch water. Taking advantage of the opportunity to help Zhu Lang fetch water, Big Dog directly touched two pieces of sesame cake noodle dates... If you want to say that this big Dog is quite taking care of Yan Shihua, Zhu Erbao and Ergou both reached out to ask Big Dog for two pieces of sesame cake noodle dates, but Big Dog gave Yan Shihua.
This aroused the contempt of Ergou and Erbao. What a thing... he actually forgot his brother and uncle. Big Dog is so bad.
However, Yan Shihua's face turned red after taking the jujube. At this time, Wang Xue on the side finally couldn't hold back. She didn't want the last three mint cakes to fall into someone else's mouth, so she didn't pretend to drink water. She ran directly to Zhu Lang, took Zhu Lang's hand, and watched Zhu Lang act coquettishly and wanted to eat.
Zhu Lang didn't care about the pastries at first, but when he smiled and was about to divide the pastries, he found that there were only three mint cakes left in the pastries. He shook his head and smiled speechlessly. Zhu Lang didn't say anything, but gave two mint cakes to his little wife.
Wang Xiaoxue happily ate the mint cake, and from time to time he showed off to Dagou and others. Dagou and others were working hard at this time, but no one dared to take on this matter. If someone knew that he and others stole Zhu Lang's pastries to eat.
Zhu Lang would not have any doubts, but if Aunt Wang and Erxiang knew about it, they would be scolded to death.
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"It's time to eat..." It was busy at noon, and then the meal started. Because everyone was busy, the dishes I ate at noon became very hard, including a pot of pork head meat, a pot of cabbage stewed fatty meat, and a pot of pickled dried radish.
The staple food is rice.
Although the pork in the Ming Dynasty still tastes a little bit, it can be removed by taking some small measures, such as adding soy sauce and some rice wine to the pork.
So pork has slowly begun to recover in the Ming Dynasty, and many people have begun to eat pork. Of course, many people have a problem. Ancient emperors paid attention to taboos. For example, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was surnamed Li, so the people were not allowed to eat carp.
Then the Ming Dynasty emperor’s surname is Zhu, so is pork not allowed in the country?
This is not actually true. Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a peasant, so he had experienced the lives of ordinary people. Knowing the suffering of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely not let the people eat pork. However, if the people say that they kill pigs and pigs every day, they would be disrespectful to themselves. What should we do? The smart Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree, directly using "pig" or "pig" to express the pigs. How about it? This not only solves the problem of people killing pigs, but also does not violate his own taboos, killing two birds with one stone.
However, there was a person who had banned pork in the Ming Dynasty, but it was not Zhu Yuanzhang. This emperor was very strange. Not only was his surname Zhu, but he was also a pig. Here he was called "Pig" Emperor.
This pig emperor is Zhu Houzhao, the Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty. What he did in his life was indeed the same as that of a pig.
Here is an example. He was not good at being a good emperor and insisted on becoming a general. So he issued an imperial edict, and named himself "the mighty general general, Zhu Shou, Duke Zhenguo".
In the 14th year of Zhengde, Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning in the south, rebelled. This made Zhu Houzhao so happy that he appointed himself as a general. He was just waiting to show his skills on the battlefield one day. Someone was coming to the door, so he decided to lead the army in person.
This decision scared the ministers and they advised him not to go. However, before Zhu Houzhao arrived at the battlefield, the rebels were pacified by Wang Yangming, which made Zhu Houzhao so angry that he almost fainted.
But since he came, he could not go back in vain. So he inspected the south and after arriving in Nanjing, the old capital of the Ming Dynasty, he issued an imperial edict: It is roughly meaning that it is very common for people to raise pigs, but unfortunately, the emperor's surname is Zhu and his year of pigs. I feel embarrassed. You can't raise pigs anymore, otherwise all of them will be sent to the frontier.
After the imperial edict was over, the whole country was in an uproar! The people sold pigs one after another, causing the pork prices to plummet, and some pigs that were not slaughtered were buried alive.
Of course, such a ridiculous policy would definitely not be implemented. Three months later, the minister submitted a request to abolish the pig ban order. And it happened to be a sacrifice. The Ministry of Rites said that pork must be used, otherwise it would not comply with the etiquette. Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to allow the palace to use pork secretly.
So in the Ming Dynasty you can eat pork at will with confidence and boldness.
Chapter completed!