Retracing the Police Path 1993

Chapter 180
Early Republic of China.Emperor Xuantong abdicated, and the eunuchs and maids in the palace scattered like birds and beasts.Only some of the necessary ones are left to serve the few "masters" who are still in the palace.

On this day, an old eunuch came to Beibin City to visit relatives in a donkey cart.

The eunuch has no children, only a few nephews. When the old eunuch thought about his own glory, he sent money and things to his nephews. It is not a problem for a few nephews to provide for him.

Sure enough, when they arrived in Beibin, the nephews treated the old eunuch like their own father, and the old eunuch finally lived a few days of life when he was old.

But after a long time, the old eunuch felt that this was not the case. A person who came out of the palace must have a very sensitive and accurate feeling, otherwise he would not be able to live from a eunuch to an old eunuch.

After eavesdropping on the conversations of a few nephews, he realized that his feelings were just a few bastards, and after finding out that he had neither brought out gold bars nor brought out any good things from the palace, he planned to leave him alone!

It's not that he doesn't have good things and gold bars in the palace, nor does he want to bring them out.But those wolf-like soldiers guarding the palace gate, except for a little travel expenses, wouldn't let them take out even a single stitch.

This is not just talking, and Madam Liu, whom I am familiar with, wanted to take out the embroidery frame I am used to so that I can make a living in the future, but it was all confiscated and used as military expenses.

I didn't expect, I didn't expect, I stood in the palace until my legs and feet were swollen, and I raised my head every day to earn money, and I actually raised a group of wolf cubs.Fortunately, there is still a third child, this child is a good one, knows how to be grateful, and takes the old eunuch into his own home to raise him.

It is said that the third son opened a small restaurant, and the money for the restaurant was of course funded by the eunuch uncle. Unfortunately, this restaurant has an average location, average size and furnishings, average food taste, and naturally the business is also average.It's nothing more than earning food and drink for the few members of the family.

The old eunuch stayed in the old three's house for two years, and the old three couple and their three children really didn't say anything to the old eunuch.But in the winter of this year, the old eunuch finally caught a cold. Although the third child found a doctor and prescribed medicine, the old eunuch went down to continue serving his master.

However, when the old eunuch was dying, he gave this filial third nephew a "surprise". Inside his cotton-padded jacket, there was actually a hand-copied "Little Book of Braised Vegetables for the Emperor" on silk. What is this?This is the secret recipe and method of braised pork, roast chicken, and smoked pickles eaten by the royal family!
It turns out that the old eunuch did not prepare something for his nephew. What is better than a craft or a royal secret recipe?This is an heirloom!

As we all know, the Qing Dynasty won the world by entering the customs from the northeast. They were originally a fishing and hunting people, and they liked to eat meat, so they also love to eat stewed vegetables. This secret recipe is the taste of the people in the Northeast.

The youngest's small restaurant quickly picked up business because of the new stewed vegetables. Even Zhang Dashuai's family came to the villa in Beibin to escape the summer. They sent soldiers to purchase every day, and they couldn't leave for a day.

This small restaurant is Ding Ji Old Shop, and the third nephew is Ding Jiafu, the founder of Ding Ji Old Shop.

The above are not unofficial histories, but recorded in the "Beibin County Chronicles" during the Republic of China!Originally, a small restaurant that made cooked food was definitely not enough to be listed in the county annals. Who told him to get involved with the Zhang family?

When the business is good, people have to be added. At that time, there were two kinds of people working in the restaurant. One was the buddy. You had to pay them wages for this, and you had to give them red envelopes if they did a good job. Otherwise, they might go to other places. The shopkeeper is there, and I won't serve you anymore.

There is another kind of apprentice, who does not need to pay wages, just some pocket money every month, and they have to give gifts to their masters for three festivals and two lives.

But you have to teach them how to do it. Whether they start their own business or go to someone else's home to take charge of the cooking after they become apprentices here, you have to support them, so that the neighbors can give their thumbs up and say hello!

At that time, Ding Laosan took in three apprentices, and the third was Qi Wumu, who later became the old man of the Qi family.Seeing that the three-year apprenticeship was over, the boss went to Wufulou in Jincheng.The second child went to a senior official's house in the provincial capital to be a cook.

It was the third child who was left in a daze, saying that he was not good at learning skills and had to learn more, and then stayed in Ding's old shop for two years before returning home as an apprentice.Although there were also big restaurants looking for him, he didn't agree.

Instead, he opened a stewed meat stall in Dongguan Market, which is far away from Ding's old shop.And it is mainly the food of the poor who mainly eat pork head meat, large and small intestines and other pig offal.

Although it is impossible for Lao Ding's family to tell these apprentices the real marinade formula in the end, the simplified version still has to be taught, or what else should they learn?

Qi Wumu's approach has been well received by everyone. The location is not the same, and the business category is different from the old club. This is a sensible child who knows how to be grateful!
And what the Ding family did was even more shocking!When Qi Wumu's small stall opened, Ding Laosan rushed to congratulate him personally, and even gave gifts.

This gift is amazing, it is a bowl of Ding's old soup!

Since then, the two families have come and gone frequently, one in the east and the other in the west, one serving high officials and nobles, and the other serving ordinary people.It has become a great story in Beibin County.

In the age of spring breeze, all things recover.

The two old stores also resumed business by coincidence.It's just that after all, the vicissitudes of life have changed, and the old masters of the two families have passed away.Now Lao Ding's family said that it was Ding Jiafu's youngest son Ding Hecai who had been converted, and the old man of Lao Qi's family, Qi Tongle, Qi Wumu's son, was still alive, but he safely handed over the business to his grandson Qi Qi.

After such a long time, the relationship between the two families has only maintained a superficial relationship.The old man of the Ding family even regarded the Qi family as an opponent.

But the styles of play of these two families are different.The Ding family continued to take the route of restaurants and takeaway.And the Qi family simply mortgaged the old house they had just returned, and opened a food factory with a loan!

At that time, the old man of the Ding family laughed at Qi Qi because he had no hair on his mouth and could not do things well.Don't go out to borrow money before the stall where the family is ruined?What a prodigal!
But when Lao Ding's house was still selling vegetables plate by plate, and weighed braised pork for customers by the catty.

Qijia Food has already boarded the train!Into the grocery store!Even all tourist shops can see Qijia food gift boxes.The slogan "from the court, serving the common people" written on it is very dazzling to Lao Dingtou!
That's not to mention, a few years ago, Qijia Food held the so-called second-generation braised food conference with great fanfare.Focus on low-fat health!
At this time, it is normal for many people to eat meat, and there is no shortage of oil and water in their stomachs. It turns out that the kind of greasy cooked food is hard to eat.

And Qijia Food, which is refreshing and refreshing, will make you appetite just by looking at it. Qijia Food also launched a series of vegetarian dishes and stewed food: Thyme-Lotus series.It is also welcomed by the majority of diners.

Qijia Food rushed into Wangfujing, all the non-staple food stores and department stores in Dongxidan!And the new generation of Qijia food has become the favorite of rich people, why do you say that.

Because even in the 90s, not everyone has too much oil and water in their stomachs, and the price of Qi's food is much more expensive than the old Ding's!

The Qi family's food has been tossing so hard, of course the Ding family can't just do it and watch.The old man of the Ding family did something that left the whole city dumbfounded. He went to the headquarters of Qi's Food Company to find the secret recipe for the second-generation marinade!

(End of this chapter)