Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Chapter 307

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Isn't Coke and popcorn the standard for watching movies

Cui Xie can't wait for Coke to be invented in his life, but corn has spread to Beijing, so why is it difficult to eat popcorn

This corn was not directly shipped from Europe, but passed down from the Spanish to Jadu, and then from India to Yunnan, where it was first planted by the natives. It's just that the local people are used to eating rice, and they don't like the dry, rough texture of corn after drying. You can get five or six stones per mu.

When Xiong Lu, the governor of Yunnan Province, knew that there was this new grain, he selected a few old farmers who could grow it, and presented it to the emperor as auspiciousness.

A stick is full of hundreds of seeds, what is it if it is not auspicious

Today, the sergeants of the Ming Dynasty, the Xixu Tuolu, Dongfu Kaipingwei, Duoyan Sanwei and Liaodong Nvzhi also bow their heads and obey. Overseas Koreans, Annan, Zhancheng and other countries pay tribute every year, and they also follow the example of Ryukyu to send officials and students to Guozijian, and Taixi Missionaries and scholars came to the DPRK with the Daming ship. Isn't it just the time when the four seas are at peace

Having such a prosperous world, and obtaining this good valley from foreign countries, this is a clear proof that the Ming Dynasty is peaceful and peaceful, and the people of the four barbarians serve!

Not only Xiong Buzheng, but also Emperor Hongzhi thought so, and directly gave the new wheat from Xifan the name "Yumai", and every official who served in front of the emperor sent a few baskets.

Based on the yield of corn, this is not the small basket that used to distribute sweet potatoes, but a large bamboo basket that can hold dozens of kilograms.

Cui Xie asked a craftsman to order a pot lid with a shaker like street popcorn, and then asked the Italian missionaries for a few pieces of butter and two buckets of fresh cream.

The butter has melted in the pot, add Guangzhou white sugar, a tablespoon of cream, and a small cup of corn kernels. Hold the handle on the lid of the pot and shake it vigorously. After a while, you can smell the sweet and fragrant taste of the cream and hear the crackling of the corn. Popping sound.

As the popped rice popped up on the side of the pot, he lifted the lid a little, poured the popped rice into the bamboo pan, and then shook the handle while picking up the popped rice to taste.

sweet! fragrant!

It exploded really well.

He no longer remembers the taste of the popcorn in his previous life, but this is the first plate of popcorn in Chinese history, and it must be authentic!

This kind of corn is not an improved variety in later generations, and there are not many that can be popped. After the popping sound fades away, there are still many hard grains stuck with grease and sugar at the bottom of the pot. He popped a few more pots and asked people to grind the remaining corn kernels into powder to make snacks. He carried a basket of popcorn and asked Gao Lin Xie, the commander, to participate in the research.

Research and study how to pop the popcorn bigger and what kind of sweetness is more palatable, so that Bachelor Fei can write the recipe.

Fei Xue Shi, who was studying how to eat Yumai noodles at home, never imagined that some people were eating popcorn and going on dates, and they even thought of letting him work.

Editor-in-chief Cui is not the kind of person who blindly oppresses authors. He popped the corn himself, mixed the remaining cream with white sugar, put it outside the window to freeze it into ice cream, kept it fresh in a box full of crushed ice, and gave it to the authors as welfare.

Only Mr. Li's family was naturally weak, and Cui Xie didn't dare to give them cold drinks, so he only gave them some popcorn and chestnut noodles mixed with sugar and cream.

Dairy products are not eaten and can be addictive. Cui Xie finally went to ask for things from the missionaries, so he simply used his newly developed recipes for popcorn and ice cream, and exchanged recipes for cream and butter with the missionaries.

On the 15th day of the first lunar month, at the garden party in the Huangjia Garden, the Qingcha shop was allowed to sell popcorn, ice cream, and fresh orange juice in the garden. He and Xie Ying could be as romantic as future lovers.

During the Lantern Festival, the lights can not stop at night. Men and women can go out to enjoy the lanterns. The theater tickets of the Huangjia Garden have also sold a new high. This is Cui Xueshi's first garden party after it was revealed that Cui Meiren is holding a garden party, and he is playing a new work that has been missed for a long time. The two celebrities cooperated in a big play. How can it not be a dream for the old readers of the Jinyiwei series

Cui Xie was afraid that the garden would not be able to hold, so he simply sold movie tickets, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. Several troupes sang in turn to divide the crowd.

Even so, there must be thousands of guests at each event, so Cui Xie, the host, naturally has to stare at the garden party from beginning to end, and cannot be reunited with his family. Cui Heng and Cui He originally wanted to accompany him to the garden, but Cui Xie pretended to be the eldest brother and taught them a few words, not allowing them to come here on the day when there were the most people.

They are all people with children and daughters, and they are not stable! The children at home are still young, can they bring them to the garden party, and are they not afraid of losing them? If you can't lose it, what should you do if someone gets sick!

What, don't bring the kids? You dress up as adults and go out to play, and leave the children at home alone during the festival, do you look like parents!

He scolded the two younger brothers so much that they couldn't lift their heads, and he promised to take the pictures to his home in the future, and then invited artists to come to the house to sing a solo, and finally put them at home.

Xie Ying was not as troublesome as him.

Because the Xie family had a widowed sister-in-law in the hall, his brother-in-law never went there. It was later that his nephew married and had children, and he set up a family. He only went back to worship his ancestors on New Year's Day. Usually, he called his nephew and grand-nephew to this house for teaching. , I can come back early to do my own thing.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, there are Aoshan Lantern Festivals everywhere in Beijing. There are too many lanterns to see at night, but fewer people go out to watch the opera than other times. It is no longer like a tourist attraction in the 21st century. .

Cui and Xie didn't accompany their friends or colleagues. They only wore a wide felt hat to cover their faces. They each held a bamboo tube of fruit juice and a paper bag of popcorn, and leisurely played in the garden with the flow of people while eating. .

The garden was full of lanterns, and many families brought their female relatives to watch the lanterns and the opera. He was dressed in a bright satin cloak, and his clear and charming voice attracted the attention of tourists. Men like Xie Ying and Cui Xie, let alone walking side by side, or holding hands, no one was there. Ken condescended to take a look.

They simply sat side by side in a generous manner, and when passing by the lantern riddle booth, they also guessed a few lantern riddles.

Xie Ying is a born romantic character. Although Cui Xie is not good at other word puzzles, he is omnipotent in the four books and five classics. Even the four calculations that the owner of the lantern stand specially came up with from "Women's Must-Read Library", they were both quick and familiar, and they won a lot of lanterns from the boys and girls watching the lanterns.

Under the eyes of everyone, the two looked at each other and smiled, each only picked a lantern, turned around and left with the lantern, leaving the rest to the stall owner. When the two answered questions, they were more attractive than the scholars and romantic children around them. Even if they couldn't see their faces, they attracted a lot of tourists from the stall.

Satisfied, Cui Xiexiu mixed into the crowd with a lantern, wandering from one stall to another, buying some insignificant toys and snacks. When I saw that there were sugar gourds on the street, I was excited to buy one to try.

This is the favorite of the costume drama director. In many TV series, the heroine has the experience of going to the street to buy / grab candied haws.

Eat it once! Who's not a little guy anymore!

Xie Ying looked at his eyes on the haystacks with the candied haws, and asked with a smile, "Which one do you want to eat? The hawthorn one or the one with bean paste and melon seeds?"

Want one with melon seeds, or one with green and red silk. Daming's green and red silk is not the blue and red silk dyed with wax gourd strips in Baiguo moon cakes, but real roses and olives. The taste is quite unique and it is not bad to taste.

He took the bamboo tube and lighted lantern from Xie Ying's hand, wrapped the rice flower buns around his arms, and asked him to buy two bunches to eat while walking. Xie Ying smiled, took out his purse and crowded with a group of boys to buy candy piles, he was waiting eagerly by the roadside...

Waiting for a low, slightly hesitant "Scholar Cui".

As the master of the academy, when I was shopping with my wife, I was recognized by the new Hanlin and Shuji who came to the academy. What should I do? Urgent, wait online!

There was a barrage in Cui Xie's heart, but there was a kind smile on his face, looking at a few Hanlins who peeked at him not far away, and Ai Ai didn't dare to speak: "You guys also come to see Qinglianji tonight? Young people. People should also go out for walks from time to time, not always bored at home to study, is it hard to study with Yang Xueshi? Are you used to the daily affairs of the Hanlin Academy?"

This group of young people didn't pay much attention to studying with Yang Xueshi, but they were very active in watching the drama written by Yang Xueshi, and they had to pay to watch it themselves.

Several juniors never thought that the masters of the academy would kindly care about their viewing of paintings and shadows. Only a few newcomers were not very sensible. Seeing that Cui Xueshi was good-natured, he actually asked him about the lantern riddles he had just seen with Commander Xie of Jinyiwei.

At this time, Xie Ying had already bought the candied haws, and was walking back holding them. The thin transparent sugar coating on the outside of the hawthorns shone under the light, and long pieces of sugar were pulled out from the two hawthorns. Cui Xie lingered on him all the way from the corner of his eyes, and the corners of his brows and eyes were full of smiles. He said to the younger generation smartly: "You young people know how to come out to play, so we are not allowed to 'the old man chatting about the juvenile madness'?"

Everyone laughed and said in a continuous voice, "How can you make such a joke when you are young and powerful. If you say that, then we were only admitted to the jinshi in our thirties, so we should resign as soon as we enter the court. ?"

While talking, Xie Ying came back with the candied haws, nodded to these Hanlin juniors, gave a bunch of them to Cui Xie, held the brim of his hat and said, "Brother Cui Xian has colleagues here, so I will avoid it first, you say you business."

Cui Xie smiled and said: "How can there be serious business. No matter how harsh I am as a master of the head academy, I can't ask people to do office work during the Lantern Festival, right? These Hanlins are all here to see your paintings, Brother Xie, and they will definitely not let you leave. I, the Shangguan, should go away, so as not to scare them away from playing."

Several Hanlins said "dare not" and praised Cui Xueshi for his literary style and Xie Commander's extraordinary bearing, and they were willing to accompany the two adults to the garden.

Xie Ying couldn't see their trembling appearance, and pointed at the candied fruit stall kindly: "The ice candied haws there are well made, and there are snacks and cream sorbets made by Yumai in the back, you all go and try them. I am here. Look at the pictures you Cui Xueshi made, he wants to entertain me, and he doesn't care about you, so you don't have to be restrained here."

Those young people had long regretted their status as Shangguan, but now that they had retreated, they quickly said goodbye, and Fei seemed to run into the crowd. Xie Ying watched them go away, took the bamboo cup and popcorn from Cui Xie, nodded and said, "Let's go too, we're almost done buying what we should eat, let's find a place with fewer people to occupy a seat, and we'll see it later. Enjoy the show with peace of mind."

Boss Cui is the organizer of this local movie, and he can find the clerk in the study room to ask about the schedule. Which hospital has more people, which has fewer people, and which hospital still has good seats, it is clear in one sentence.

The man replied, "There are more than ten best seats reserved for your lord in the innermost Sosek Institute. How many officials did your lord bring?"

Cui Xie rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "The Hanlins I met haven't come yet, you can look at the arrangement, you don't have to deliberately reserve your seat. This time I brought Master Xie, he is the protagonist of the painting, how can I go Sitting in a crowded place? Find a secluded corner seat for us."

Mr. Li won't come. The scholar has a thin skin and can't openly watch the play where he is the protagonist; Yang Xueshi has to reunite with his parents, wife and children for the festival, and cannot leave the city; Liu and Yang, the two censors who were imprisoned with him, are both outside the city. He was released to serve as the inspector and the deputy capital's censor, and he was not in the capital at all...

This time, there is no need to reserve any seats. We will hold a special performance of the Hanlin Academy and a special performance of Jinyiwei at their home, and ask the actors who appear on both sides to watch the play in a clean way.

The two of them don't want to be in a conspicuous position in the middle of the field. They still sit in a corner where no one sees them, grab popcorn from a paper bag to eat, and drink a drink from a cup. Only then can they feel romantic.

The two of them found the movie hall with the fewest people and sat in the corner of the last row. There was a space between the two of them deliberately to put snacks.

The light in front of the studio is as bright as day, and the huge screen is bright and compelling. After shrinking the face, closing the cheekbones, opening the corners of the eyes, adding European-style double eyelids, and padded hair, the boss Li Dongyang and the official uniform version of Di Long and Jiang Dawei Performing the memorial chapter, standing in front of the majestic palace wall. All three of them showed a brave and heroic feeling on their faces, and they wanted to persuade the emperor to be close to worthy ministers and distant villains with the remonstrance in their hands, so that the world could return to the rule of three generations.

Behind the scenes, there was a passage of "Qing Ping Le", which sang "Thinking about the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the general splendid country. The weather is smooth and the people are safe... Famous for a lifetime in the world, praised and praised by all ages."

In the low and gentle singing, Cui Xie and Xie Ying reached out to pick up a piece of popcorn at the same time, neither of them would give in, and they fought with their fingertips in the paper bag. Mai finally stopped.

The author has something to say: I actually forgot to add a note, this song belongs to Yang Shen, the son of Yang Da Lao, the future champion, Yang Shen who wrote the rolling waters of the Yangtze River and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors