Roaming in the dark night

Chapter 103 Squirrel Mandarin Fish
Yu Wenhao followed Brother Wang into the store. The decoration of the store is also antique. The furniture, tables, chairs, wooden windows and stairs are all made of mahogany and rosewood, which is very elegant.Entering the door is a classical sky-reaching staircase, above which is connected to the corridor of the Racecourse Building.

It was nearly six o'clock when they arrived, and it was meal time. There were quite a few customers in the store, but as expected by Brother Wang, there were not enough seats yet.The waiter led them to the second floor. In the lobby on the second floor, they arranged a table to sit down and asked:
"Sir, should we order now or later?"

Brother Wang said, "Come on now."

The waiter nodded and said yes, and walked away. After a while, the orderer came over and took their order.Brother Wang moved very quickly. He almost didn't need to look at the menu, and he reported casually. He ordered a squirrel mandarin fish, a squid eel paste, fried prawns, crab powder tofu, and Taihu Sanbai soup.

"Okay." Brother Wang and Yu Wenhao said, "That's all the special dishes of this restaurant. It's amazing that there is also stir-fried shrimp and honey sauce fire recipe, but if you want to eat stir-fried shrimp and honey sauce fire recipe, you can also eat it." If you don’t come here to eat, it’s better to go directly to the Louwailou or Tianxianglou in Hangzhou, don’t you think?
"Traditional Suzhou cuisine is actually similar to old-school Hangzhou cuisine. There is nothing delicious about it, but it is famous or special. That's why there is Xinhang cuisine. Everyone goes to eat Xinhang cuisine. Grandma's Xinkaiyuan or something, Hangzhou locals, if not for guests from other places, how many people would go to places like Lou Wai Lou to eat, I think Suzhou people are similar."

Yu Wenhao said, "I didn't expect Brother Wang to be a gourmet."

"Hey, I can't talk about a gourmet, but it's delicious. Now that I don't have any other extravagant desires, even if I eat better, I can be considered worthy of myself. Otherwise, what should I do? People have no taste for life, and their minds will be full of random thoughts. Eat better, and when you have a mouthful, you won’t think about things, and you feel that life is interesting, really, this is my personal experience.” Brother Wang and Yu Wenhao said.

Brother Wang ordered a half-jin bottle of Huadiao, and ordered coconut juice for Yu Wenhao. The dishes came out quickly. Brother Wang and Yu Wenhao said:
"Move your chopsticks, move your chopsticks, try it."

Yu Wenhao was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Aren't you waiting for anyone?"

"Who are you waiting for?" Brother Wang was also taken aback for a moment, then remembered that when he was answering the phone in the car, he told the other party that he would have dinner with the president at night.

Brother Wang laughed: "There's no one else, just the two of us, I was lying."

Yu Wenhao suddenly realized, when he came up in front, he was puzzled, why didn't Brother Wang go to the box, but chose the hall instead of inviting the president to dinner.When he ordered wine, Yu Wenhao was even more strange, why he only ordered half a catty of flower carvings, which is enough for anyone to eat.It turned out that there were only the two of them eating, and Brother Wang had to talk about things at night, so he couldn't drink too much.

Brother Wang thought of something, he looked at Yu Wenhao, and said to him: "Yu Yu, come out with me in the future, and when I talk to others, you just listen to it as a story and don't believe a word."

Yu Wen laughed and said, "Then Brother Wang is the king of stories."

"Yes, yes, yes, in this business, I am the king of storytelling." Brother Wang smiled, "Do you still remember what I told you about how I was deceived by those companies and storytellers in Beijing?"

Yu Wenhao nodded, he was very impressed, of course he remembered.Brother Wang said:

"Thinking about it now, I was an idiot at that time. I couldn't see that everything was a story and a trap. If I were to tell a story now, no one else could tell me. That's right, I He is the king of stories."

"Let me tell you, less than, don't underestimate stories, stories are everywhere."

Brother Wang raised his glass, touched Yu Wenhao, took a sip, put the glass down, and continued:
"Look at this hotel. It's just a story. It's a time-honored brand. It claims to be founded in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Ming Dynasty has a fart relationship with it. Not a single hair in it belongs to the Ming Dynasty, including the dishes. You have a look……"

As he spoke, Brother Wang picked up his chopsticks, pointed to the plate of squirrel mandarin fish, and said hello to Yu:

"This is another story. Anyway, in the area of ​​Yangzhou, Suzhou, what kind of food and where, when it comes to mentioning it, it has something to do with Qianlong's trip to the south of the Yangtze River. It is said that Emperor Qianlong came here and ate it. He was very impressed and praised.

"What a fart. Emperor Qianlong is from the Northeast. He knows what is delicious. It's cold in the Northeast. What good things will there be? At that time, there was no air freight and no refrigerator. Go and see the menu of the Manhan Banquet. It's 80.00 % of the dishes are placed in front of you, and you don’t even have the desire to pick up the chopsticks. If you say that a Cantonese is amazing, I still believe it.”

When Brother Wang was talking, a waiter happened to pass by. Brother Wang stopped her and said to her:
"Beauty, this is our first visit to Suzhou, our first visit to your store, and the first time we saw this fish. It looks so beautiful, and it really looks like a squirrel. Can you introduce it to us?"

The waiter said yes, and she began to introduce, saying that Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River in low clothes, walked to the Songhelou Restaurant once, saw carp swimming in the lake of the restaurant, and told her men to catch one and eat it.

At that time, carp was used as a sacrifice to worship the gods, and ordinary people dared not eat it, but the emperor wanted to eat it, and his subordinates had no choice but to discuss it with the chef.In the end, the chef decided to make the fish head into the shape of a rat's head, so as not to offend the "god fish".

The fish with a length of feet is raised on the plate with its head and tail raised. The body of the fish has been deboned and cut with a flower knife. After deep-fried, it is poured with tomato juice.When the dish is served, the freshly-drenched fish squeaks, much like a squirrel.It is said that when Emperor Qianlong finished eating, he kept applauding.

Later, the chef improved and changed carp into mandarin fish, so it was called "squirrel mandarin fish". , the squirrel mandarin fish dish in our shop has been put on the screen twice by the movies "Satisfied or not" and "Little Deyuelou".

When the waiter was talking, Brother Wang listened solemnly and nodded solemnly.Yu Wenhao was on the sidelines, almost laughed, and Qianlong would really be involved, Qianlong is really busy, he is almost overwhelmed, right?
After the waiter left, Brother Wang looked at Yu Wenhao, and Yu Wenhao also looked at him, and they both couldn't help laughing.

Brother Wang said: "See, stories are productivity and the economy, including the current Internet economy. I think it should not be called the Internet economy, but the story economy. Everyone is telling stories. Let us be honest and honest. As a business owner, I feel like I can't speak a word, like a thief, which is very embarrassing.

"Look at the blockchain that everyone was talking about in the past two years. Is there anyone talking about it now? Then they talked about cloud computing and metaverse. Where can we afford it? How can we keep up. Less than, they are The real king of stories, anyway, as long as you tell stories and make yourself and others happy, someone will pay for it.

"Sometimes I don't even know, those who invest are like fools, how do they make their money?"

"I earned it from more stupid people, or cheated me." Yu Wenhao said.

Brother Wang laughed, and he said yes, "But this is relative. When there are fools everywhere, smart people are useless, because in the eyes of fools, these smart people are fools. Everyone thinks you When you are a fool, you become a fool, there is no way.

"It's like in a village, if everyone has six fingers and only you have five fingers, you will be recognized as the deformed person."

(End of this chapter)