Champion red and ingot meat

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During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the father of Lu Runxiang, the champion of Suzhou, passed away early. His family was very poor, and he lived on his widowed mother's needlework. Lu Runxiang was young and ambitious, and he studied very hard. He had a hobby and liked to drink Shaoxing yellow wine. Although his family was poor, he still drank it. Lu Runxiang lived on Lotus Leaf Street in Changmen. Not far away, there was Dulin Lane, and there was a hotel at the entrance of the alley. Lu Runxiang would go to this store every day to drink yellow wine. The hotel owner saw that he was beautiful and talented. He studied hard and was full of articles. He believed that he would make a fortune in the future, so he was willing to give him the wine on credit. Later, Lu Runxiang went to Beijing to take the test without travel expenses. The hotel owner also lent him a large sum of travel expenses.

After Lu Runxiang won the No. 1 prize, he returned home with an order and held a banquet in the No. 1 prize building, entertaining scholars and bureaucrats from Suzhou. Of course, he also invited the hotel owner. The banquet was still Shaoxing rice wine. Lu Runxiang did not forget the kindness of the hotel owner and said humorously, "Li Bai has a hundred poems, and I can have today because of this Shaoxing rice wine!" Then Lu Zhuangyuan stood up and said, "Lu benefited from Shaoxing rice wine at that time, and this old man, Domon, the owner, took care of it. Today, thank you in public!" Everyone praised it.

All the literati here knew that Lu Runxiang liked to drink Shaoxing rice wine. Now that he was the champion, his reputation was prominent and he became very popular for a while. Some people flattered and said, "The champion drank the champion of rice wine, and this yellow wine is also red, so it is called the champion red."

Later, a group of scholars in Suzhou City, scholars, people, drink wine to drink champion red, Tujili, in order to pass the palace examination, enter the official career, and achieve prosperity.

Zhu Caizhe, who was born in Jianli, Hubei Province, was an upright and honest official. When he served as the magistrate of Yilan County in Taiwan during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, he was deeply popular with the people. Later, he served as a Taoist platform in Taiwan, and the people of Taiwan called him "Zhu Qingtian." He spent 32 spring and autumn in Taiwan, and returned to his hometown at the age of 72 in the second year of Tongzhi. On the day of departure from Taiwan, the people sent large boxes and small bags of gifts, but the honest and upright Zhu Caizhe refused one by one, and finally left only 32 empty wooden boxes. On the day of the departure of the ship, the people set up a payment account and sent each other tears. After the ship set off, they found that several small boats following, and it turned out that the new Taoist platform brought people to investigate. With the heart of a villain, the new Taoist platform thought that the box must contain Zhu Caizhe's private house savings for more than 30 years, otherwise why would the ship be so heavy? After catching up, he sneered at Zhu Caizhe and said, "There is a saying that'three years in the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, 100,000 snowflakes of silver '!" Zhu Caizhe understood his purpose and said, "What if the box is not gold and silver?" The new Taoist platform replied, "If it is not gold and silver, I would rather open one box and pay for two boxes of ingots." So Zhu Caizhe ordered someone to open the box in public. It turned out that it was not gold and silver treasures, but all large and small pebbles. The new Taoist platform said with a face full of shame: "Ear hearing is false, but seeing is believing. Lord Zhu really has two sleeves, and his reputation is well deserved! But I don't know what's the use of packing so many pebbles to return home?" Zhu Caizhe replied: "Shipping in the sea often encounters wind and waves. If it is empty, it is easy to be overturned by the wind and waves, so the ship is stable by pressing the ship with stones. In addition, these pebbles can be shipped back to the hometown and distributed to the children and grandchildren and the students of the countryside as paperweights, so that they can study hard. It can also be regarded as a commemoration of my more than 30 years in Taiwan." After hearing this, the new daotai's face became more and more feverish, and he said shamefully: "The box I opened, I am willing to fulfill my promise and give away ingots." Zhu Caizhe replied: "You don't have to break the fortune, my lord, you pay for compensation, it's not from Taiwan's people's fat and people's ointment!" He said again, "I don't think the daotai is rude, it's my bad resignation. Today you brought people to see you off After saying that, he ordered his family to serve the boiled meat with eggs prepared by himself, saying that it was a high-quality dish in his hometown, and the name was ingot meat. Xindaotai was moved. Since then, the dish "ingot meat" has spread all over Taiwan. The people of Taiwan also built a Zhu Gong Temple in memory of Zhu Caizhe's public morality.