Villager of Daming

Chapter 164 How Can a Restaurant Compare to a Box Lunch (Fourth)
On June 24, the team from Xiaqiu Village set off with another batch of glass mirrors, telescopes and twenty large wooden barrels.

The guards of the Prince's Mansion left ten people to continue guarding the village, but the four of Zhu Taiyi left together. The guards were rotated, and they hadn't returned home for a long time.

At noon, everyone arrived at the Danqing shop, and all the work in the shop was done, except for glassing the windows of the greenhouse.

Xiaocao guards the store by himself, and he only cares about cleaning and guarding the door, and still pays him [-] Wen a day.

When he saw people from the village coming, his eyes were red with excitement: "It's finally here. I'm bored by myself. I just sit at the door and rub the hemp rope during the day. See how much I rub?"

He let everyone see the fruits of his labor, such a large bundle, he started rubbing when others finished their work and left.

The head of the village is very distressed, Hanhan will not stay alone in the village.

"Xiaocao, where do you eat when you live on your own?" The Li Chang looked at Xiaocao, but fortunately he was not hungry and thin, and he was still big and round.

"When I eat at Fuhua Building, I ask the staff to give me a copy. The leftovers from the guests are the best. They are rich and prodigal.

The clerk told me that four people ordered a table of food, and just after eating for a while, two more people came, this table was removed, and a new table was served.

When I meet this time, I have good food, which is really delicious, and it is better than the box lunch you make. "

Xiaocao talked about her situation and compared it.

"That's because you only pay three Wen for food, and you take three thousand Wen to see."

The head of the village is not happy, what kind of vegetables can I make for a few cents?I really should let you go to Xiaqiu Village to see it.

"You are Xiaocao? Don't worry, we are here. We will have dinner later at noon and make it for you."

The chef in charge of cooking in the village told Xiaocao with a smile that he brought nine people and some of the dishes he was going to cook.

After the house is tidied up, it can be regarded as starting a new fire and burning the stove, otherwise we can bring the vegetables directly, it's only half a day's journey.

The things were moved over, and the rest were taken away by the guards in the palace.

The four of Zhu Taiyi went to the Prince's Mansion first, and then returned home with their gifts.

A big pot was set up, and the children helped to pick vegetables and light the fire. Everyone in the kitchen had a division of labor, and those who cooked cold dishes were separated from those who cooked meat dishes to avoid getting sick.

The big pot rice cooks a lot of meat at a time, and the cutting board cannot be cleaned at all. If you eat raw meat, you have to change the cutting board.

Half an hour later, Xiaocao stared at the food on the table dumbfounded.

Pot-wrapped meat, sizzling lamb, fish-flavored shredded pork, steamed carp, homemade tofu, crispy pork with salt and pepper, eggplant in coir raincoat, cowpea with garlic, fried chicken in sauce, beer duck, spinach and shredded ginger soup, crucian carp stewed pork ribs.

The staple food is rice and dumplings filled with three delicacies, and the side dishes are also four meat, four vegetarian and four dried fruits.

Xiaocao was stunned for a while, pointing to the iron plate mutton and asked: "Is the iron under this one?"

"Of course the iron plate mutton is iron, try the box lunch that can't be eaten for three renminbi." The head of the village still remembers it!
"I could smell the scent outside, so you guys are hiding and sneaking to eat good food."

Shopkeeper Xu's voice came from the door, and he brought a few shop assistants, carrying trays with dishes on them, following Xiaqiu Village's example, there were four dishes.

"Shopkeeper Xu is here, and he is about to invite you! Sit down quickly." The chief stood up and greeted him.

The guys helped to put down the dishes, turned around and went back to his own restaurant, shopkeeper Xu washed his hands, smiled at Hanhan, and then at Xiaocao.

He had known that people from Xiaqiu Village were coming and needed to pass by the door of Fuhualou, and the guy was not blind.

He estimated the time and asked the restaurant to cook four dishes, four servings of each dish, and it was estimated that four tables would be set for the number of people in the village.

There are indeed four tables, including Xiaocao, a total of 36 people, nine people at one table.

Shopkeeper Xu came over and sat down at the Lichang's table. He took a look and found several things he didn't recognize. Okay, try it!

"Zhu Lichang, you can't finish these dishes, can you?" Shopkeeper Xu found a table with sixteen dishes.

"The chef from Fuhua Building brought three of them to eat together." The head of the village understood what the other party meant, and if he couldn't ask for a recipe, he asked someone to eat.

"Okay! I'll be right back." Shopkeeper Xu was not polite at all, turned around and left. In less than twenty breaths, he brought three chefs.

The chef comes to eat with a mission, eat slowly, and taste carefully.

It turned out that the coir raincoat eggplant began to frown, how did it cut it?Try the beer duck again, what seasoning?
"It's delicious, it's delicious, it's better than Fuhualou's. I'm willing to spend ten, no, thirty yuan to eat it once." Xiaocao justified the name of the box lunch through comparison.

"You don't need to spend money, you can eat for free every day." The head of the village cheered up, look, let's say that our box lunch is not ordinary!

"Okay, okay!" Xiaocao was very happy, he liked every dish.

Shopkeeper Xu took a sip of wine: "Master Zhu, I have something to let you know. The store opposite me and the Luoyunzhai opposite you have changed people. I don't know who it is. They have all moved out."

"Hmm!" Li Chang coughed, "I know who it is, it's...Xiaqiu Village."

"Xiaqiu Village! Listen... huh? You bought it?" Shopkeeper Xu's eyes widened.

He knew that there was someone behind the pawnshop and had contacts with many officials. How did he buy it?

As for the sale of the Four Treasures of the Study, it is easy to deal with. If you find someone from the official to suppress it, if you are intimidated, they will sell it, but no one is optimistic about the position.

"It's a long story. Anyway, I'm going back to the village. I'll have a look after dinner. Otherwise, we'll have to wait a few days before we come."

The head of the village didn't mention that the prince helped to buy it, and he owed His Royal Highness eight thousand crowns.

Shopkeeper Xu was silent for a moment: "Your village is rich and powerful."

He thought that there was a move in the palace, people were invited to watch the ceremony, and the prince and concubine were people who had seen the current emperor.

"I don't have any money, I owe a lot of famine, hey! Not to mention Shi, I'm just the head of the village."

The chief is modest, we are not crazy, we only do small things for Daming.

The two sides chatted about other things. The shopkeeper Xu introduced that his Fuhualou had a few more dishes, bread, and cakes, and there were many customers. If Xiaqiu Village is short of money, he can help.

After the meal was finished, shopkeeper Xu called the waiter to bring the leftovers back to Fuhua Building for others to eat.

The people in Xiaqiu Village originally planned to heat it up for dinner, but they asked for it, so let’s give it!Remember to send back the iron plate, plate and so on.

"I'm not afraid of it going bad this time, I'll do something else tonight." The person in charge of the kitchen shrugged.

As soon as shopkeeper Xu returned to the restaurant, he greeted the waiters and the kitchen staff to eat.

"Try all of them. It's the first time I've seen vegetables put on an iron plate. This method is great! Especially for winter, it won't be cold when eaten."

Shopkeeper Xu looked carefully at the iron plate. It has edges, and the mutton and other things are placed in it so that the juice will not flow out.

"Shopkeeper, we don't know how to cut this eggplant. It's called a coir raincoat eggplant. The empty and connected parts inside look similar to the grid when weaving a coir raincoat."

The most powerful chef in the restaurant uses chopsticks to pick up the unfinished eggplants, like a continuous fishing net, just like when weaving the coir raincoat.

"Could it be a little bit hollowed out?" Another chef shook his head after speaking, and he couldn't eat it after the hollowing out.

(End of this chapter)