The first pot of oolong, the big golden word and the lacquer bottom signboard, are hung brightly at the intersection of the secondary road and the road into the county!

The iron pot produced in Oolong County is famous in the province, and the iron pot stew of Oolong is a few points more famous than the iron pot, but where there are iron pot stews in restaurants around the country, they will definitely emphasize to the guests that "our master is from Oolong County!"

The first pot of oolong, we all know that it is the signature restaurant of iron pot stew in Oolong County!

How long this signboard has been hung Jian Fan still can't say, since he can remember, his father's acquaintances called his father "Jian Iron Pot" as soon as they met, and he became a well-deserved "Jian Xiao Pot". Since kindergarten, the nickname of this small pot has been followed until now, and occasionally a girl warmly calls "handsome guy!", the word "brother" is obviously elongated, and the "OU" sound is added, which is simply a handsome pot!

Jian Fan knew that this group of young people admired themselves so much, which was largely related to eating and drinking. However, faintly Jian Fan is not disgusted with this nickname, this first pot of stew is not greasy from snack to big, not to mention that the brothers and sisters have relied on their father to get up early and run the first pot to support the whole family in school over the years. Not only is he not disgusted, but he has a special and friendly taste for the four iron pots in the backyard of the hotel.

In Wulong County, the iron pot stew that can be seen everywhere is simply a well-known popular delicacy, just go to the village and countryside to pull an old man or an old woman or a little brother and uncle, will be like this, two or three kinds of seasoning sit on the bottom, three or five firewood and grass stuffed into the hearth to add a fire, six or seven kinds of vegetables and vegetables are thrown into the pot, first fry and then add a few scoops of well water to boil, casually make it is delicious, the vegetables are cooked in the pot, the steam is thick, the fragrance is a room, the mother-in-law and the doll surround a table, the family eats a pot with white steamed buns, with the chili pepper of lard, The old white roast stuffed with sweet potato, during the New Year's festival or good luck, there will occasionally be a hare, pheasant, and fatty pork slices in the pot, which is the supreme delicacy of the countrymen!

And these delicious scenes, the first pot is seen every day!

Outsiders feel that mysterious things are very ordinary in Jian Fan's eyes, since he was a child, he should have no problem consciously taking charge of his father, and there is nothing unusual about the first pot of stew, but it is more varied than other people's stews, and the taste is more fragrant and fresher; the soup is thicker and more beautiful; the price is more inexpensive! Jian Fan didn't think that his father's skills were high, and because no one was developing in this area, the stew was just radish and cabbage, tofu and bean sprouts, some common vegetables and vegetables, and even better, pig, beef and mutton.

When you enter the door, you will be greeted by the unique fragrance of the stew, and the taste is very full!

"Cousin, I'm back!"

"Xiaofan, I'm back!"

"Son, come here, go and pick up that pot of fish!"

As soon as I entered the door of the hotel, a number of people greeted Jian Fan, and on the bar, there was a black girl with thick hands, who was my cousin Jian Taohua! She dropped out of junior high school and made a cameo appearance at the bar to charge at the bar; she wiped the table and washed the dishes in the sink next to the kitchen, and there were two people who ran to the hall, one was called Sanqiang and the other was called Shui Sheng, both of whom were old family members, and they were both surnamed Jane! My father was busy in the backyard, and it had been a year since he graduated, and my father had already regarded Jian Fan as a call for running from the hall with peace of mind! Not only for the call, but also for nothing!

A typical family-style old shop, and the wine sold in the store is corn yellow and sweet potato roast brewed in the grandpa wine shop in Fenglin Town, which is transported to the county once a month.

The kitchen is not like the kitchen, it is the standard agricultural stove in the countryside, there are four seven hundred and twenty-eight small pots of binaural sitting on the mud fire of the base, and the other side is the whole coarse porcelain square bowl, white noodles and blue background, which is also a specialty of oolong, on the case, in several huge basins, there are piles of cut cabbage, tofu, green vegetables, mountain mushrooms, soaked vermicelli, boiled cloud beans, fried potato chips, and a big case.

Out of the kitchen, there are four soup pots in the backyard, in the large soup pot that can pour eighteen loads of water, one pot of boiled pork belly, the other two pots are soup boiled by the skeleton of sheep and cattle, and the last big pot is spectacular, with a twelve-layer cage wall, like a steam engine, it is the water vapor mixed with steam and firewood and grass light smoke, and you can smell the smell of cooking smoke in the countryside! Lift the cage wall made of these straws, inside is the white, tender and tough big steamed buns, this soil steamed steamed buns, there is the natural fragrance and wheat fragrance of straw, from the morning to noon from the pot, more than six hours, delicious is delicious, is time-consuming and laborious. And demand simply outstrips supply. Jian Fan has persuaded his father to change the oven with a steamed bun mechanism more than once, but his father is sometimes more stubborn than his mother, and he has always adhered to this local method.

Jian Fan squatted down and looked at a pot of small fish that was inch long, caught by his father's drinking friends, groped his body, and untied an arc-shaped knife from the keychain, a self-made knife, a finger wide knife body, a knife body more than three inches long, the hacksaw blade was sharpened, three knives to scale, one knife to pick the intestines, the technique was extremely sharp, I liked to do these things in the kitchen since I was a child, and after a while, more and more small fish were piled up in the big basin.

"Yo, son, it's good to make this little knife!" Dad glanced back casually and praised it.

"Dad, know the goods, I'll make one for you tomorrow, I invented it myself, fish intestine knife, see it!" Jian Fan smiled, the knife turned around in his hand and explained: "One side is a blade and the other side is a tooth, you only need one knife to pick fish intestines, and you only need three knives to remove scales, look at ........."

Jian Fan demonstrated it very draggedly. The father was also happy, touched the back of his son's head, and praised with a smile: "My son is just smart! Hehe, I haven't figured out this method for so many years as a cook." ”

Jian Fan smiled and lowered his head to get busy. Every time I don't do well in the exam, or make a mistake, I will work twice as hard here, first, to make up for the guilt, and second, to let my mother see it, so that she can gag her mouth. No matter how bad you are outside, you will always be a good boy at home!

Dad's little spoon reached into the soup pot to taste the taste, and asked casually, "Xiaofan, have you met your mother?"

"Oh, I did. ”

"Is she coming back for lunch at noon?"

"I didn't say it. ”

"Oh. ”

Just a few words, Dad seems to be asking casually, his attention is always on those few pots, Jian Fan listened to Dad chattering more than once, the dish is just the surface, no matter what dishes are cooked, as long as these soups are added, they will taste together with the fierce fire, and it will immediately be a fragrant table of dishes.

Stirring the dishes, Jian Fan secretly looked at his father, his tall body was already a little rickety, and his wrinkles were deeper than a few years ago, and the standard Chinese character face really had a bit of a tough guy image if he looked closely! When I was a child, I didn't feel anything, after graduating from college, I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in my family to read three books, and I didn't even know what I had learned, and I was unemployed as soon as I graduated, Jian Fan always felt more or less guilty about his family, as if he owed a lot of debt to this family!

I did so badly in the exam today, looking at my busy father, Jian Fan was heartbroken, and asked cautiously: "Dad, why don't you ask me how I did in the exam?"

"You kid, it's not that material, you have to do well in the exam, tell me when you enter the door. ”

My father was indifferent, but I heard it in this, and I didn't need to ask to know that I didn't do well in the exam.

"Then you know I can't do it, and let me take the test. Jian Fan pouted, smuggling.

"I didn't let you go, your mother let you go. ”

"Dad, then I'll follow you to open a restaurant, anyway, this job won't be settled for a while. ”

"I don't have an opinion, ask your mother to go. ”

"Dad, you can't just be home, why do you have to ask my mother?"

"In addition to cooking, your mother is in charge of the rest!"

"Hey...... I said, Dad, why are you less than me? Jian Fan burst out laughing, his father never concealed his low status, even the name of the head of the household in the family was Mei Yuyun, his mother was so domineering, Jian Fan felt that his father was used to it.

"What do you say? I think you're itching. As a father, he picked it up casually, and the rag smashed over, Jian Fan didn't raise his head, and caught it. The tacit understanding between father and son is very deep. smiled and listened to my father's loving words: "Don't blame your mother, your mother is also well-intentioned, I don't want you to be like me for the rest of your life around the stove without interest, if you really want to be a chef, why spend another hundred thousand yuan for you to go to college?......... Dad's set, there's nothing evil about it, you're almost done. ”

"Dad, just your two strokes, I'll be ten years old. ”

"Wrong, you can choose materials, ingredients, and knife skills, but this pot of soup is not something that anyone can boil, you are as impatient as your mother, you get hot at every turn, and you want to do this job and be a little tender. ”

"My mother is an occupational disease, so I'm not like her. ”

The father and son talked about each other, Dad has never been angry or angry, and Jian Fan has always been smiling. The father and son have always been very easy-going in conversation.

Talking that noon is coming, the guests are on the table one after another, the two of them are busy, the father rolls up his sleeves, and is busy listening to the menu brought in by the cousin of the running hall or the bar, according to the big spoon and waving up and down, adding ingredients, spooning vegetables, draining oil, seasoning, adding the same dish to the amphora and putting it on the fierce fire, clear soup stewed pot, pork stewed cabbage, earthen pot rabbit meat, earthen pot chicken, winter melon pork ribs, cloud bean fish, potato vermicelli baba cake......... The father and son were busy working back and forth, pot after pot with soup, and sent it to the restaurant table with flowing water!

At this time, my father didn't say a word of nonsense, at most he just added soup, put on the fire, and took out the pot.

"Cousin, cousin...... Come out to support the meeting, there are many people today......"

The cousin stretched out his head and shouted, and outside there was a commotion, and Jian Fan rushed out in response.

Watching Jian Fan go out, a subtle smile passed on his father's face, this is his son's forte, four years of college Jian Zhongzhong felt that his son didn't feel white at all, at least the little doll who couldn't sit down on his ass was now able to stand alone. Immediately, the smile was confirmed. My son's crisp voice was so clear.

"Yo...... Uncle, sit down, first taste the small black melon seeds, a specialty of Fenglin Town, especially fragrant...... What are you going to eat today?"

"This big brother, come, let's serve you a cold dish first, the two of you drink it first, make your own corn, I'll toast you three cups for my dad!"

"Big sister, big sister, wait a minute, there are a lot of people today, the food has to be a little slower, just a little bit, we have to ensure that the color and flavor are complete, and we can't smash the first pot signboard of our Jian family, right!?"

"Yo, Auntie, your son looks so smart...... How old are you...... What is it called...... Wait a minute, you two wait......"

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Jian Shizhong smiled, smiled very knowingly, at this time, no matter how many people come, no matter what the identity of the other party is, the son must be able to deal with it decently and easily, as long as the son appears, the chaotic restaurant will be in order in a few minutes, and if the food is slow, if the hospitality is sluggish, and if the food is a little wrong, he will be persuaded immediately!

If you want to talk about your son, it's really the material to open a restaurant. The mouth is sweet and the face is tender, and when he sees the guests, the uncles, aunts, and sisters call out, this is the basic skill of opening a restaurant; the hands and feet are diligent, and he loves to use his brains in cooking; when he passes the dishes, he does not leak, which is much stronger than the hairy little waiter; he says that he is not good at learning, and he does not use a pen at all when reporting the dishes, and he even memorizes the eighteen or nineteen dishes on the three tables; he does not learn mathematics well, and the accounts are not clear, but this is nothing, the son will only calculate the accounts in many places, and he has never received less!

Although his temperament is a little impetuous, he has been working for a few years, and there should be no problem with the brand of oolong's first pot for his son!

But there should be no problem, but there is a big problem, and his wife will definitely not agree, even Jian Zhongzhong feels that after studying for more than ten years, he graduated from Kankan University, and he is really unjustified to trap his son in such a small county shop!

But what can be done? If it weren't for the fact that the hotel was running a good business, it would be a problem to support these two college students, and now they are throwing tens of thousands of dollars away to find a job, which sounds scary. It's a shame that his son is sensible and didn't force his parents to do this and that, otherwise it would really make it difficult for the father!

Ay......... The same sigh is in the kitchen, Jane sighs faithfully, and the way she sighs is the same as if her son failed the exam!

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During the meal, it is generally busy from almost noon to two or three o'clock in the afternoon before seeing the guests sparsely down, brushing the pots and washing dishes while busy, the checkout outside to clean up the table, the hands and feet are not idle at all, busy for more than two hours, the guests gradually dispersed, a large pile of vegetables became a zero or whole ticket in the cabinet, at this time you can drink a glass of water and take a break, Jian Fan just sat down, and saw two cars parked outside the window, and there were guests again!

Five men and two women, the first one, was a little fatter than Fei Shiqing, and his whole body was like a good fat belly! The five men were almost as sexy as him, and at first glance they were the masters full of fat intestines; unexpectedly, the two women accompanying him were very beautiful, the younger ones were in their early twenties, wearing a white sunhat, and the older ones were carrying bags and sunglasses, and they couldn't look ugly like that.

The man didn't think anything, those two women were not products of Oolong County at first glance, and the women in Oolong County almost all had thick arms and big hands like their cousins, and they didn't look much stronger than cabbage.

What was more unexpected than the woman was the car, an Audi and a Thunderbird, all with "O" license plates, which looked like a car from a government department.

It's not a local car, it's not a local, Jian Fan's eyes turned, and when he looked back, he was stunned, and his cousin who was counting a pile of money with thick fingers and a little spit on his thick lips said, "Peach blossom, take a look...... A flock of fat sheep is waiting to be slaughtered, and I greet you at this table. ”

"Don't let you find out!"

With a big face and cheeks, cousin Peach Blossom nodded heavily, looking at her cousin with a smile, in the eyes of her cousin, who dropped out of junior high school, this handsome, clever and smart cousin is definitely an idol, the two of them looked at each other and smiled......