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Chapter 776 Noodles + Vinegar + Garlic = Immortal Ways to Eat (ask for a monthly ticket)

"Hey, Zhuzi, who is this kid?"

When Chen Nian was cleaning up, a neighbor came out and saw him, so he asked curiously.

"He's my new buddy. He came from Sichuan. It just so happened that two of us couldn't handle it, so I kept him here."

"Sichuan, it's so far away."

"Yes."

"But it's good for you to find a buddy here who can help you with your work."

"Who says it's not? In the past, the two of us were busy and could only sell hand-rolled noodles. Now there are more people who can make other noodles."

"what are you planning to do?"

"Let's slice the noodles." Gao Genzhu replied.

Chen Nian was listening on the sidelines, his heart skipped a beat.

I thought that I would make sliced ​​noodles so soon. Speaking of which, I have also made sliced ​​noodles for a long time.
It does taste more chewy than other noodles, and the shape is also good-looking, which makes people quite appetizing.

In this way until the opening of the business hours, people came to eat one after another, and after seeing Chen Nian, they all asked curiously, who is this.

Chen Nian also brought bowl after bowl of noodles to the table.

At present, Gao Genzhu's small noodle restaurant only has two kinds of toppings, one meat and one vegetarian. The meat one is diced potatoes, and the vegetarian one is stewed toppings made from tofu, cabbage and beans.

If you want meat, you can pay three yuan for a bowl, for two yuan for vegetarian dishes, and for four yuan if you want both.

And the bowls here are very big, just like the small noodles sold in his own shop. Every bowl of noodles sold by Gao Genzhu here will be filled to the brim, and after putting the toppings in, it can even pile up into a hill.

But when they were busy, suddenly a group of carriages came over and stopped nearby.

"Boss, 31 bowls of noodles, 26 bowls of both, [-] bowls only vegetarian."

"okay."

Listening to the conversation, Chen Nian found that the other party's accent was somewhat similar to Gao Genzhu's, but not quite the same.

Gao Genzhu smiled when he saw the other party: "Shopkeeper Wang, are you going out to do business again?"

The headed man was an old man who looked to be in his 50s, with a round cap on his head and two goatees, looking very shrewd.

"Well, let's go to the south for some tea."

After speaking, the shopkeeper Wang sat down on the table with several people.

"It's quite a long way, but I should be able to make a lot of money this trip." Gao Genzhu said, with envy in his eyes.

These are all business masters, and they have to earn at least several 10 taels of silver for a round trip, unlike him here who only earns dozens of taels from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

"Oh, don't talk about it. You have to go back and forth for thousands of miles to earn a lot of hard money. You have hundreds of mouths to eat. In fact, if you really want to talk about it, it's better to open a noodle stall like you and be free." The other party said modestly .

"Shopkeeper Wang is too polite. I'm a small business, barely making ends meet, so I can't compare to you." Gao Genzhu skillfully rolled out the noodles, cut them into noodles with a knife, and said while putting them into the pot.

And Zhang Chuanfang is in charge of cooking noodles and toppings.

After matching, put the noodles on the table and serve them by the aged.

"Treasurer Wang, your face."

"Ah."

At this time, shopkeeper Wang also took a look at Chen Nian: "A new recruit?"

"Yes, I just went to work with Brother Genzhu today."

"It's good. While I'm young, I can learn some crafts. The noodles made by Gen Zhu are still delicious. We come from Yushun County, and every time we pass by, we will come to Gen Zhu to eat noodles."

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Wang, for your support. Brother Genzhu's noodles are really good." Chen Nian also echoed. Although he had only joined the Genzhu Noodle Restaurant for more than three hours, judging from the appearance and taste of these noodles, this The noodles are pretty good too.

Shopkeeper Wang and his party had 31 people, but due to the limited number of tables here and other guests, only seven or eight of them sat and ate here, and the others all carried their bowls to the carriage to eat.

All of a sudden there was a snoring sound. Most of these men were strong and strong, holding the bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other. After a few simple stirs, they buried their heads in the bowl.

It's more like drinking noodles than eating noodles.

As the Adam's apple moved up and down, this large bowl of noodles was eaten into the stomach at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Miss Boss, give me another spoonful of cabbage and beans."

Some people ran out of food in their bowls while eating, so they came to ask for it again, and Zhang Chuanfang generously scooped up another spoonful of vegetarian toppings for them.

But at this moment, some of the ones that were eaten first had already been eaten.

So Zhang Chuanfang asked them again: "Do you want noodle soup? Turn the original soup into the original food."

"Yes! Have a bowl!"

"I also want."

Several people who had finished eating came over with their bowls, and Zhang Chuanfang also scooped two big spoonfuls of noodle soup into their bowls.

"Wait a while and ask for it if you don't have enough, don't be shy." Zhang Chuanfang said with a smile.

While Chen Nian gave them noodles back and forth, while listening to their chat, he also learned something about the caravan.

They were from Yushun County, about [-] miles away from Lingma County where they were. They set off in the morning and arrived here around noon.

They are going to Wuyi Mountain in Jiangxi on this trip.

It will take more than a month on the road to get there, and when the time comes, all the money they bring will be exchanged for tea and then shipped back for sale.

"No wonder you have to eat noodles after you come out. Otherwise, if you go out of the province and go south, it will be very difficult to eat the noodles here." Chen Nian thought to himself.

However, this place is quite strange. Although Lingma County and Yushun County are not far away, their accents are obviously different.

But it's inconvenient for him to ask more about it, so he can only find out after dinner.

After all, Chen Nian doesn't know how long he will stay here, and he still needs to be familiar with the various customs and habits here, so that he can integrate into the environment here faster.

Because some places are more xenophobic, he doesn't know if Lingma County is like this.

About half an hour later, the caravan had finished their noodles, and shopkeeper Wang asked the cashier to pay the money, then got into the carriage and left.

After that, the people who came to eat were basically neighbors.

After the business ended at noon, Chen Nian said while washing the dishes: "Brother Genzhu, our business here is good. We sold more than 100 bowls in one noon."

"Of course, this is a handicraft handed down from my ancestors, and my ancestors were much better than me now. That is to say, after our family gradually declined, there was only such a small shop left." Gao Genzhu said.

"But it's good to be like this now, at least we don't have to worry about food and clothing, and our place is also close to the root of the imperial city, so we usually can't come here in war."

Chen Nian nodded: "By the way, Brother Genzhu, don't we have a lot of business here, like shopkeeper Wang."

"A lot, we have a lot here. I don't know what kind of people there are. Anyway, we Shanxi people love their families and make money. In our county alone, there are many businessmen, especially some Big family, often run to the south and Inner Mongolia.

And many of them are related to the Huangshang side, otherwise it would be impossible for a small county like ours to be built so well. "

"That's true." Most of the Shanxi people who have been with each other for a long time are actually pretty good.

Especially in school, those students from Shanxi tend to live a relatively simple life, and even some rich families are very low-key.

"In Yushun County, there are several well-known families including Shopkeeper Wang, but in our Lingma County, there are also four major families, namely Shui, Li, Liu, and Ma.

The Shui family is in the silk business. Most of the clothing stores and silk shops in the counties around us are owned by the Shui family. Even in the provincial capital, there are many shops of the Shui family. The Li family is a grain merchant. We now eat These grains are basically bought from the grain store of the Li family. The Liu family is a bank account with a royal background behind it, and it is also the richest here.

However, although the Liu family has the same surname as His Majesty, it is only a side branch. It has been passed down from more than 1000 years ago. Although their ancestral home is not from our side, they are considered to be from Lingma County when they grew up here.

You see, the streets outside of us were built with money from the Liu family.

There is also the Ma family, which is mainly engaged in the business of medicinal materials. There are many pharmacies, and there are many doctors in the family. There are two days a month for free medical treatment. Even buying medicine is much cheaper than usual. .

Anyway, not to mention anything else, just a few big households here are all first-class benevolent people. How much money they earn has nothing to do with us, and we don’t care, but the money they earn is good for the common people. This is enough. "

Chen Nian was listening and pondering in his heart, what Gao Genzhu said was actually not unreasonable, which of the businessmen throughout the ages was not for making money?
But making money is money making. It is enough to be praised by everyone if we can do less harm to the people and do more good deeds.

"So those of us who do business, although the purpose is still to make money, we must always remember where the money comes from, as long as we can avoid harming the common people."

"Brother Genzhu, I feel that your ideological consciousness is very high. If only the whole world could be like you." Chen Nian sighed.

"That's definitely impossible. Take the four major families in our county as an example. Everyone is greedy and wants to make more money, including me. In this way, I can say these words now only because I have not reached that point, otherwise I would be greedy."

"Very real!" Chen Nian couldn't help giving a thumbs up.

While talking, Zhang Chuanfang also prepared lunch.

Chen Nian came over on the first day, and they also asked Chen Nian what he would like to eat for lunch, and Chen Nian said that it would not be so troublesome, just eat some noodles.

Anyway, there are still toppings and noodles.

So they made a few more bowls of noodles.

Looking at the big bowl of noodles in front of him, Chen Nian couldn't help touching his stomach.

"That's enough."

"Haha, let's eat, we are all like this here, after eating and taking a break in the afternoon, we have to start working again."

Chen Nian nodded.

His bowl of noodles has two toppings.

The vegetarian topping tasted a bit like a northern stew. The diced potato on the meat topping was about the same size as the first section of the little finger, and the meat was half the size of the diced potato.

There are fat and thin.

I flipped it twice with chopsticks, and the heavy noodles hung on the chopsticks, which made Chen Nian feel a little bit strenuous.

"Do you want vinegar?"

After Gao Genzhu poured a large amount of vinegar into his own bowl, he held the bottle of vinegar and asked about the old age.

"Come on." Chen Nian said.

Then Chen Nian also poured a lot of vinegar into the noodles.

"Wife, peel some more cloves of garlic, let Chen Nian see how we eat here." Then Gao Genzhu turned to his wife and said.

Hearing this, Chen Nian immediately stood up: "Brother Genzhu, sister-in-law, let me come."

"It's okay, it's okay, you sit and have been busy all afternoon, just eat."

But how could the proprietress do this kind of work after a long time? As a newcomer, I naturally had to perform well.

With the lessons learned from the past, now Chen Nian is quite proficient in this kind of work, especially in how to please the master, Chen Nian has rich experience.

The first thing to do is to be diligent, lazy people will not be seen anywhere, and then to have good eyesight, for example, even though my sister-in-law told me to sit down at this time, Chen Nian still had to rush to work.

The last thing is to be able to talk and do things, so that you can quickly get along with Master, Master's Wife, and their children.

Aged to the side, peeled the garlic and onions, and returned to share with several people.

Sitting back at the table again, Chen Nian imitated the appearance of a high-heeled column, and picked out a large chopsticks noodle and put it into his mouth.

As soon as it is sucked, the noodles enter the mouth lightly.

Chen Nian couldn't help squinting his eyes from the satisfaction of being stuffed into his mouth with noodles, and started to chew hard.

Take another bite of garlic in the middle, the spicy taste of garlic is neutralized by the noodles, with full chewiness, it feels really enjoyable to eat like this after aging.

And this is not like the noodles in Honghong Restaurant, it was still a little hot when it was served, the bowl of noodles in front of Chen Nian, although it was hot to the touch, the noodles had already been lost in the process of mixing with the toppings part heat.

The entrance is just right at this time.

Wrapped with topping soup on the outside, it is extremely silky.

At the beginning, I still used chopsticks to pick and eat when I was old, and I started to move to the side of the bowl to scratch with chopsticks.

Every time chopsticks come down, noodles and vegetables are delivered to the mouth.

The sound of snoring kept ringing, and no one spoke, and Chen Nian couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief after eating.

At this moment, when he touched his forehead again, it was already covered with sweat.

This bowl of noodles was given to him directly to make him feel ashamed.

"We mainly eat noodles here. Although we sell noodles ourselves and have eaten them for more than 30 years since we were young, you always feel that there is something missing if you don't eat a bowl of noodles for a few days." At this time, Gao Genzhu also finished his meal He was about to get up to scoop up the noodle soup.

"Brother Genzhu, I'm coming."

As Chen Nian said, he directly reached out to take the noodle bowl from Gao Genzhu, and went to scoop up the noodle soup.

After scooping it up, I gave myself another bowl.

But Zhang Chuanfang and their son hadn't finished eating yet.

"That's not the same as our side. We eat more rice and noodles, but the method is a little different from ours here."

(End of this chapter)