Introduction
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Translation
The tall locust trees are covered with green leaves, Pick it and send it to the kitchen (mashed into juice). I bought new flour from the market and put it together with the sophora leaf juice (mixed with the flour to make noodles). Boil it in a pot and make it into cold pottery. When you put it on the table, you always worry about not having enough food.
The bright green color of the cold dish reflects the chopsticks, and it is extremely delicious when paired with fresh asparagus. The cold noodles are as cold as ice and snow when they touch your teeth. I urge everyone to share this pearl-like and surprising mountain delicacy.
I am willing to accompany the king's messenger on a horse to transport this delicacy to the king's royal kitchen. The long journey makes me worried that it will be muddy, but my sincerity in offering delicious food to the king remains unchanged. The delicacies I offer may be as insignificant as celery and waterweed (but they contain my sincerity).
The king thousands of miles away may be in the Liang Palace, with a crystal jade pot in his hand holding clear ice. The king enjoys the coolness in the evening, and this locust leaf cold dish is also the delicacy he needs most during this season.