Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 370

Hai Mingxian was waiting for this moment!
But at the beginning when someone asked him, he also said that the other party was able to make such a cake for him out of friendship, but he didn't want people to disturb his peaceful life, but in the end those people patted their chests and promised that they would not disturb the master. Most likely, Hai Mingxian reluctantly opened his mouth after asking the other party to make a cake.

"The one who made this pastry is my friend. He wanted to send a gift when he learned that my grandfather was going to celebrate his birthday, but he didn't know what to give, so we decided after discussion. They sent such a birthday peach here together, but he is relatively indifferent to fame and wealth, and he doesn't want to show off, so he asked me to send it in my own name."

Everyone heard that this person is so indifferent to Mingli. You must know that it is very difficult to get a gift from the Shanghai family and give Mr. Hai a gift. It is related to Haijia.

But this person doesn't care about these fame and fortune at all, even after knowing that this cake will amaze everyone, he still chooses to let Hai Mingxian take the limelight.

It's really a folk expert!

But the more this happened, the more curious they became!

"Can Mr. Hai reveal the name of this person, I'm just curious, so I won't bother you."

Hai Mingxian nodded, and this time it was also an adult from the court who spoke, and the other party was a fourth-rank official of Daxia, who worked in the Ministry of Industry.

"My good friend is named Chen Nian. There is a dim sum shop at home, which is the Lu Wanxing dim sum shop that His Majesty mentioned earlier. There are only a pair of siblings busy in this shop. The elder sister is gentle and virtuous. The skill of making dim sum at home is also passed down from the ancestors, and my friend Chen Nian is the younger brother, although he just came to the capital not long ago, his craftsmanship is superb, and the idea of ​​making dim sum is also unconstrained."

When everyone heard this, they secretly wrote down the information in their hearts, but Li Zhao, who was sitting in the banquet, was suddenly taken aback.

Is this cake actually made in old age?

Didn't this kid just make thousand fruit cakes before?Why did such a big birthday peach come out suddenly, and this birthday peach is really delicious!

Especially the white cloud-like thing on the outside, he hadn't seen this thing before, it tasted like milk, but it wasn't fishy at all, but very sweet and delicate.

But isn't milk a liquid? How could it be in such a state?
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Zhao couldn't figure it out, and finally just came to a conclusion: Chen Nian hid his secrets!There were good things not brought out when he went.

Thinking of this, Li Zhao planned to go to Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop to have a look after dinner later. After all, Chen Nian said that we were friends at the beginning, so why did the friends hide from each other?
What's more, Chen Nian was able to get the signboard written by Emperor Daxia himself because of his credit.

After Hai Mingxian said the name of Chen Nian and the name of the pastry shop, everyone at the banquet planned to let people go there to see it later.

But after all, today is Mr. Hai's big birthday, so it is still necessary to distinguish between priorities. Although I am full of unfulfilled desires after eating the cake, I still have to continue to follow the flow of the birthday banquet.

Soon they started talking about Mr. Hai again.

Chen Nian stood at the door and looked at the different expressions of the crowd, the smile on his face couldn't be stopped, but the servants standing next to him stood a little further away, for fear that Chen Nian would have some serious illness , and suddenly turned up the wind to affect them.

But at this moment, the servants who offered the birthday peaches before all came out to have dinner together if they were free, but they saw Chen Nian as soon as they left the yard.

"Master, why are you here? The banquet has begun, let us take you to dinner!"

Chen Nian hadn't had time to agree, the eyes of those people just now were rounded, and they looked at the four people who came out of the yard: "What are you talking about? He is a master? What master?"

"What kind of master can there be? It must be the master who makes longevity peaches. Otherwise, why do you think he is here? Do you think he is the same as you?" They have the same status, so there is no need to be so polite.

"Him?" The man was still a little unbelievable, but when he turned his head to look at Chen Nian, Chen Nian had already begun to nod: "Then let's go eat first, finish eating early, I have to go back to the store later , There may be more guests in the afternoon, I have to go back and help."

"Okay, master, let's go quickly, I will take you to sit with the child."

In the end, Chen Nian went to eat under the messy and disbelieving gazes of those people.

Speaking of old age, it is the first time to eat banquets in ancient times.

When he was in Yangzhou earlier, Fu Xin went back to look for Xiao Mudan after high school. They did have a meal, but it was mostly common meals. Now this kind of big family is called a real meal.

Moreover, Chen Nian could tell that they were very particular about this banquet.

Four dry, four fresh, four candied fruit, four cold meat, three sweet bowls and four snacks, first of all, there are more than 20 dishes. Four dry refers to black and white melon seeds, walnut dips and sugared almonds, and four fresh refers to apples. , peaches, lychees, and water chestnuts, and the four candied fruits are green plums, orange cakes, round meat, and melon strips.

There are also four cold meats in the back, which are whole lamb liver, crab legs, boiled chicken, and fried pork ribs. These are all meat menus, and the finished products are cold, so they are called four cold meats.

There are also three sweet bowls, which refer to lotus seed porridge, almond tea, and steamed eight-treasure rice with sugar.

And Furong Cake, Lama Cake, Fried Stew, and Fried Lantern Festival, these four dim sum.

The portion of each dish is not much, basically only enough for most people on the table to eat one or two bites, if there is a special favorite among them, the rest is enough for one or two people to eat more.

However, most of the people present are used to eating this kind of noodles. Naturally, they know the rules and order, and know that the real good ones are yet to come, so they are not in a hurry to get full.

But this situation will only happen in the guests' banquets, and it will not be so harmonious in the subsequent banquets. Everyone is working and has a big appetite. After the food is served, eat what you can eat. When eating, I will grab two more handfuls and pick them up, and eat slowly when I go back.

Looking at the battle situation on the table next door, Chen Nian found that he was extremely harmonious here.

There are ten people at a table, and besides myself, the rest on this table are five children and four little girls.

Everyone's appetites are so small that they can even ask them to eat the previous dishes as soon as they are served, and then eat them at a leisurely pace.

The scene is very harmonious.

The girls at the back were a little embarrassed, and even started to ask Chen Nian to eat, and put the delicious meat directly in front of Chen Nian.

There was a lot of laughter and chatter for a while, and after we got to know each other well, the little girls felt that Chen Nian was handsome and his conversation was interesting, so they took the initiative to help Chen Nian with vegetables.

In this way, Chen Nian even saves the effort of using chopsticks.

The little girls here are all maids of the Haifu, and they are especially good at observing words and expressions. After a while, they can tell at a glance what Chen Nian likes to eat and what he doesn't like.

This meal was very comfortable for the old age, and he enjoyed the life of a young master who was served by a rich family.

As a result, the servants around were extremely unbalanced, but they didn't know Chen Nian's identity. When they were about to come over to inquire about it, suddenly Hai Mingxian walked in from outside, stood at the door and looked around. , found that Chen Nian was talking and laughing happily with the little maids, and came to the front with great strides.

"How about Brother Chen? Is it enough? If not, I'll ask someone to add some to you."

"Enough is enough, how can we finish eating so many dishes." Chen Nian said.

Hai Mingxian nodded, and then looked at the maids on the table: "You guys arrange him, this is my brother, give him whatever you want to eat, if you don't have enough, go directly to the kitchen Take it, just say I said it." After speaking, he turned his attention to those children again: "If you want to eat, you can take it and eat it yourself, don't shout and shout, understand?"

"Understood." Those children are all children of the people of the mansion. Although they are not very old, they are destined to be given to the current people of Hai Mansion when they grow up. Be sure to listen to the philosophy of the Hai family.

Hearing what Hai Mingxian said at this moment, they quickly replied.

"It's okay. These are things that the children can't eat much, and these children are very good. Don't scare them by talking like that."

"Yes, yes, what Brother Chen said is, brother Chen, you eat here first, I still have some things ahead, if you have something to do, just go to the front to find me or ask someone to go to the front and tell me."

"No problem, Mr. Laohai is here."

Then Hai Mingxian left, and the others were stunned.

Immediately, he gave up the idea of ​​looking for trouble for Chen Nian. He has become brothers and sisters with the third son of the Hai family, and he still makes trouble for him, so he doesn't want to live anymore?

No wonder this guy can be arranged to sit with women and children, this has a related background!
Forget it, instead of paying more attention to that side, it's better to bury your head and eat more.

After that, the maids took care of Chen Nian even more.

……

After the banquet was over, Chen Nian entrusted someone to bring a message to Hai Mingxian and said that he had gone back, and then left Haifu.

Walking on the streets of Chang'an City, the sun is shining brightly and warming the body. Even though this is the north, the weather is gradually getting hotter in April and May.

The surrounding shops have already been negotiated. There are two yards in total, and more than 600 taels of silver have been spent, and more than 100 taels of silver will be spent on the rest for decoration.

However, even if they bought it, it was only used as a workshop, so the changes are not major, and the decoration only needs to be simple.

And now cream can be produced, and the production method is not difficult. There are also special machines for olive oil. Although it is a little rough, it can be used.

Walking back to the store like this, Lu Ke was sitting at the counter bored. The snacks in the store had already been prepared, and she had a casual bite at noon, and now she was waiting for customers to come to buy.

"I'm back." Lu Ke said with a smile.

"Yes."

"How's the food? Is it lively over there?" Lu Ke asked again.

"The food is not bad. There are quite a lot of people, and most of them are officials, but there should be a lot of people coming in the afternoon. We will be busier this time around."

"It's better to be busy, make more money by being busy, and then I will buy you a big yard in the capital, and let you young couple live in it."

"No, sister, you can just keep the money. I'm not interested in making money."

"Look at what you said, it's useless for me to ask for so much money. I have enjoyed everything I should enjoy in this life, and I have seen everything I should see, except that I don't have my own children. But when you get married, my sister will I can help you take care of your children." Lu Ke said with longing.

Seeing this, Chen Nian sighed in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

In the afternoon, many people from Haifu came directly to Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop. When they looked up at the entrance of the shop, they saw His Majesty's Royal Pen Plaque, and then looked at the two siblings in the shop.

Then he walked in and started to ask about the birthday peaches. Chen Nian said that the birthday peaches need to be ordered in advance, and the price is not cheap.

They all said that there is no problem with the reservation, and there is no problem with the price.

Then I asked for a while, and found that the popular thousand fruit cakes on the market now come from this store, and in two days they will launch a pastry wrapped in cream.

Everyone expressed their expectation. After all, they had already eaten butter at the birthday banquet. If they could eat some butter in normal times without buying such a big one, that would be the best.

Of course, some are for their own sweet tooth, while others are intended to be bought for their wives, concubines, children and so on.

But what Chen Nian didn't expect was that Li Zhao also came in the afternoon, and the other party asked Chen Nian why he made cream cakes, and he would come here every two or three days, so he didn't know.

"Do you not consider me a friend anymore?"

"How can I do this? It's just that this cake is newly made, and it is not sold to the outside world. If you want it, you have to make an order in advance, and in that case, I can't be in the store for at least one morning. Helped."

Li Zhao heard that Chen Nian's words did not seem to be fake.

"However, after you made a splash in Haifu today, there must be many people planning to recruit you. If you want me to say that you should just go to my place, otherwise those who have status will come over. If you refuse, their faces may be red. It’s not pretty, and it’s inevitable that they will target you.”

But Chen Nian had already prepared for this point: "I'm sorry to bother you, but I have already negotiated a cooperation with Mr. Fu Xinfu, and now I have bought the shops on both sides. At that time, Mr. Fu will send some people to visit me." Learn to help here and take some shares."

Li Zhao sighed helplessly after hearing this, thinking that the relationship between the two of them was better, it seemed that he was still a step too late, then bought some thousand fruit cakes and went back.

In this way, people came over one after another, and the number of people who came to inquire gradually became less and less in the evening, and this is the time when old age sells discounted dim sum.

There are still many people queuing outside.

In this way, they waited until all the snacks were sold out, and then they closed the stall.

But when closing the stall, Chen Nian looked at Lu Ke again: "Sister, I have something to tell you."

(End of this chapter)