The rise of the poor

Chapter 731 Have a Meal Together

Inside the Taicang bank, there is a post at five steps and a sentry at ten steps, and the defense is extremely strict.

While silently observing the strict defense of the Taicang Bank, Zhu Pingan dealt with Jia Langzhong and others' pleasantries.After walking for about five or six minutes in the warehouse area, we arrived at Taicang Dining Room.

This is a large dining hall, which is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. It can accommodate about 80 to [-] people dining at the same time. There are more than a dozen tables in it, and the tables and chairs are relatively simple.

Meals were set on one of the tables, eight dishes and two soups, to be exact, four dishes and one soup, but each dish was served repeatedly.

The dishes are very ordinary, two meat and two vegetables, the meat dishes are stewed pork with tofu, fried pork with cabbage, the vegetarian dishes are cucumber and braised eggplant, and the soup is a big gluten soup.

With such eight dishes, two large pots of gluten soup filled the table.

"Come on, Master Zhu, please take a seat."

Zhang Guanku stood in front of the chair facing west and east, smiled warmly, and stretched out his right hand to ask Zhu Pingan to take the seat.

In ancient times, banquets were very particular about the arrangement of seats. On the one hand, it was because of the tradition of the state of etiquette, and on the other hand, it was because of the difference in rank.For the current dining room that is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, the most honorable seat in the dining room is to sit west to east, second to sit north to south, third to sit south to north, and the most humble is to sit east to west.

The seat that Zhang Guanku asked Zhu Pingan to sit on was the most honored seat in the dining room.

"Master Zhang, please." Zhu Pingan shook his head with a smile, and stretched out his hand to ask Zhang Guanku to take a seat.

Daming is a feudal society that is very particular about rank. The most obvious manifestation is the arrangement of seats. There are strict rules on what kind of seat a high-ranking person should occupy and what position a low-ranking person should take. suspect.

Zhu Pingan would not make such a low-level mistake and leave no excuses for others.

Moreover, Zhang Guanku is the top snake in the Taicang Bank, and everyone says that Qianglong is not overpowering the top snake, not to mention that he is not even a strong dragon. More like a small earthworm.

In addition, just outside the gate of the bank, Jia Langzhong and the others looked at him with contempt, and they didn't take themselves seriously.

That being the case, I can't let them down.

After some concessions, Zhang Guanku finally took the first seat, and Zhu Pingan sat in the lower seat of Zhang Guanku.

Seeing that Zhu Ping'an is so knowledgeable, all Taicang officials feel more relaxed. In their opinion, this menacing inspection is easier than ever.

"Oh, there are four meat dishes, not bad, but thanks to Mrs. Zhu, we finally see meat."

After being seated, Taicang doctor Zhao Dingtian glanced at the food on the table, his eyes were full of disdain, but his face was full of surprise, he made a fuss and thanked Zhu Ping'an, as if he really didn't know the taste of meat in March.

Zhu Ping'an slightly hooked the corners of his lips, hehe, the performance was pretty good, if you could wipe off the bear paw smell on your body and the oil stains on your mouth, it would be even more perfect...

Zhang Guanku glared at Langzhong Zhao, and Langzhong Zhao closed his mouth resentfully, with a displeasure on his face, as if he was still wrong to tell the truth.

"Hehe, our poor and remote village in Taicang is not as good as your city. It's all poor food and poor hospitality. Please don't be offended by Mr. Zhu." Zhang Guanku said to Zhu Ping'an with a smile.

After the words fell, Zhu Pingan raised his head to look at Zhang Guanku, and then glanced at everyone present, his eyes were deep, and his eyebrows frowned...

Zhang Guanku and all the Taicang officials present were terrified by Zhu Ping's eyes, especially Zhao Langzhong, who were even more terrified, thinking that Zhu Pingan had seen some flaws.

Next second

However, Zhu Ping'an's eyes became deeper and deeper, and his eyebrows frowned more severely.

Everyone in Taicang present became more and more uneasy.

However, in the next second, Zhu Ping'an's deep eyes were moistened, his eyebrows were brought together, he opened his mouth and took a deep breath, and said with a moved face: "Master Zhang and all the adults are watching over you!" The Taicang bank is so strict with itself, and this kind of sentiment really makes Pingan admire. Mr. Zhang made an exception for Ping An, and prepared such a table of rich and delicious food, how could Ping An be dissatisfied."

Nima Hi!
It turned out that this guy was moved by our "thriftiness". Damn, I thought this kid found some flaws.

Damn, it made me worry for nothing.

Let me just say, how could he see the flaws, hehe, it turned out that the worry was in vain, a little calf is a calf, a rookie is a rookie!It's so easy to be bluffed, what kind of bullshit champion, just a young nerd, this kind of person is good at stereotyped writing, but you let him do other things... Hehe...

After this incident, everyone underestimated Zhu Ping'an even more.

Four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables.

Except for Zhu Ping'an, the other people at the table were not interested and basically didn't move their chopsticks.

It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

They just came out of the "Late Night Canteen", and one of them ate bear's paw abalone, delicacies from mountains and seas, and now let them eat this cabbage tofu, wouldn't it be embarrassing for them, how could they get rid of the chopsticks.

However, Zhu Ping'an's food was delicious.

Zhu Pingan hasn't had a sip of water or eaten a grain of rice since early in the morning.

But there were many things that happened that day. When he got up early in the morning, he went to Dali Temple first, but Qu Tongyang, the Deputy Envoy of Dali Temple, suffered a stroke. After hearing the news that Sinan was imprisoned by the imperial staff, he went to the Meridian Gate without stopping.

Then he rode a horse with Gao Rui to the Taicang bank, but Gao Rui "fell off his horse" on the way, and turned back to the city to find a doctor.

Then I basked in the sun for half an hour outside the gate of Taicang...

Zhu Ping'an was already hungry and thirsty.

In addition, the "thrifty package" launched by Master Zhang and the others with ulterior motives also gave Zhu Pingan a surprise.It looks like cabbage tofu, but sometimes the same ingredients are cooked by different chefs, and the taste is very different.

Zhu Ping'an was sure that the chef from Taicang was no less skilled than the imperial chef.

This seemingly ordinary cabbage, tofu and cucumber tastes surprisingly good, and it is so popular that people can't stop chopsticks.

Zhu Ping'an is like a rice bucket, eating non-stop. Everyone in Taicang despises Zhu Ping'an's appetite. He is really a bumpkin from the countryside...

"Well, Mr. Zhang, you can eat too. You don't need to take special care of me. Come, Mr. Zhao, this stewed tofu meat tastes good."

Zhu Ping'an buried his head in between meals, raised his head and looked at the crowd, seeing that the crowd didn't move their chopsticks very much, he was "moved" and advised everyone to eat food and not to take special care of themselves, especially Zhao Langzhong, who spread a lot of tofu for Zhao Langzhong with serving chopsticks Stewed meat, who made you say that you were so pleasantly surprised that you finally saw meat.

"Ahem, no, no, no, I'll do it myself."

Zhao Langzhong looked at the big meat slices in the bowl, and felt nauseated. Who the hell still eats such pork? Looking at Zhu Pingan's enthusiastic eyes, Zhao Langzhong stuffed a big meat slice into his mouth as if swallowing a fly...

(End of this chapter)