131, "Hongmen Banquet" (three watches!)
The meal that his second uncle Zeng Fanyou ate at night simply stunned Wang Bo, even if he was a well-informed reborn person, it made him feel like "I haven't had a meal for ten years, and one meal is worth ten years".
What did Wang Bo eat at his second uncle's house?
First of all, cold dishes: saliva chicken, red oil hairy belly, dipping rabbit, husband and wife lung slices, plus northern Sichuan jelly and green pepper preserved eggs, one six!
The second is braised vegetables: a plate of braised fat intestines, a plate of braised duck feet, and a plate of braised duck gizzards, a total of three plates!
This is followed by five dishes: roasted local chicken with taro, roasted fat sausage with peas, beer duck, spicy eel and spicy boiling fish.
Then there are three classic steamed dishes that are indispensable at the banquet of Sifang and Guanghan: sweet roasted white, salty roasted white, and longan roasted white.
Then there are three stir-fried dishes: mapo tofu, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, and stir-fried pork.
A stew: Pork knuckle stewed with kelp.
Soup: Pea tip balls (meatballs) soup!
Vegetarian?NO vegetarian!
All 22 dishes in total! A table is a sumptuous meal even if it is placed in ten years!
Wang Bo looked at the table in front of him was a banquet with three layers inside and three layers outside the plate and bowl, and his first thought was not joy, but a "very bad" premonition surged in his heart: there is no good feast, there is no good feast, this is probably a "Hongmen banquet" set up by the second aunt for himself!
However, even if you know that it is the "Hongmen Banquet", since you have already entered the banquet, served the banquet, and raised the wine glass, then only the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it, what should you do, and then talk about it after eating!
According to the unwritten rules of eating and drinking in the countryside, the second uncle's banquet was still arranged into two tables, one table for men and one table for women and dolls. As a man who was about to become an adult, Wang Bo was invited by his second uncle to the man's main table, because there were no beautiful women sitting there for him to be beautiful and delicious, Wang Bo readily agreed.
Grandma and the women dolls sat together, and Wang Jichang, the man's table, became the oldest person, and was naturally arranged in the top position. If it was placed in the past, Wang Jichang would have to pretend to give in, but now it is a bit of a deservient taste, and the big horse golden knife sat down.
Except for Xie Mingfang, the only woman Wang Bo's second uncle, although all the people sitting at the main table were men, there were only three people who drank: Wang Jichang, Xie Mingfang's second brother, and the professional chef Xie Mingfu, who was also the hero of the big table tonight, and Wang Bo. It is strange to say, people say that tobacco and alcohol are not separated, Wang Bo's mother's seven brothers and sisters, including grandmother and grandfather who has died, except for Xiaoniang and Xiaodong, who do not smoke, the rest of them are all contaminated with the "vice" of smoking, but they do not drink alcohol, even if it is beer, they blush when they drink it.
Although Wang Bo is also greedy for a cup, he only drinks some beer to moisten his throat and make up the atmosphere, and he doesn't stick to liquor, even if it is Moutai Wuliangye, because he can't drink it (can't drink it). In addition to beer, Wang Bo also occasionally drinks some red wine, but it is usually unsweetened and tastes sweet, like a drink. Once the red wine is desugared, he will not enjoy it in his mouth, but feel uncomfortable, at this time, the only solution is to add Coke or Sprite, a way to drink it that is slandered as a turtle by people who really drink red wine.
Because the people at the table are not relatives, or relatives of relatives, and they are so familiar with each other that they can't be more familiar, so the atmosphere of the meal is very relaxed, and after a little sandwich two chopsticks dishes, they start chatting.
The conversation initially focused on the recent farm work. It's the end of August, and it's the season to harvest the millet.
But soon, the conversation shifted to Wang Jichang's rice noodle shop. Wang Bo's second aunt Xie Mingfang first asked about the business of the rice noodle shop and the decoration of the flagship store, and Wang Jichang poured bitter water as usual, saying something like "decoration is a bottomless pit, no matter how much money you can't fill it", what kind of clichΓ©s such as "owing a fart (ass) account", which has become one of the routines he has used to talk to people in the past month. Wang Jichang would not have said this at first, and would only say to people complacently, "When a farmer has a hammer, he still has to do business to make a head". In the end, Wang Bo really couldn't see it, so he communicated with his Lao Tzu in private, telling him what it means to be "clever and clumsy", what is called "Taoguang and obscure", and taught him a set of rhetoric for dealing with other people's inquiries, and his old man slowly improved.
Xie Mingfang didn't want to borrow money from Wang Jichang, she just wanted to find a conversation to do business, so Wang Jichang's words of "calling her poor" had no effect on her. Soon, after Wang Jichang finished calling him poor, Xie Mingfang asked Wang Jichang:
"Alas, Brother Wang, from you and my sister, I saw that this farmer is farming, and there is really nothing to do. Fan You and I have been planting fields all our lives, whether it is growing grain or vegetables, we dare not say anything else, but when it comes to the harvest per mu, which of the team can catch up with us? People are taking a nap, and the two of us are weeding in the fields; people are playing cards in the shops, and we are playing medicine in the fields, in order to collect an extra 1 or 200 catties per mu of land. But so what? If you have more than one or two hundred pounds, you can earn dozens of dollars more, but this requires the two of us to get up early and work in the dark, whether it is windy, rainy, thunderous, fire, and sun, we have to work day and night! In the past ten or twenty years, we have not seen that life is much better than that of others. Brother Wang, you say, what is the problem of being a farmer?"
"The price of grain is cheap, and the price of vegetables cannot be sold, and now as a farmer, there is really nothing to do. Wang Jichang picked up the wine glass, took a sip of wine, and shook his head.
"Yes, so, if you want to have a good life, you still have to be like you and your sister, and Song'er, and do some business. Xie Mingfang immediately echoed and said.
"Business is not so easy to do! The competition in the current business is also very fierce. You don't know, now some people see that our 'Zeng's Sister-in-law Rice Noodles' have become popular, and they immediately opened a 'Sister-in-law Li Rice Noodles' diagonally opposite us, decoration, signboards, everything follow us. Alas, I don't know how long this rice noodle business will be able to be popular!" Wang Jichang shook his head and said with a sigh.
And Zhong Xiaomin, who was next door, heard the second sister-in-law mention her own water business, and immediately shouted loudly:
"Oh, second sister-in-law, do you really think this business is very good? Let me tell you, it is Song'er's water surface business, whether it can be done this year is full of questions (questions)! He opened the big market less than a week ago, someone opened a 'Liu Zhaoshou' nearby to play against him! Now the people are very shrewd, and if you see that your business is better, you will learn it immediately. β
"Ah, Brother Wang, Song'er, is someone playing against you? This, is this true?" The news released by Wang Jichang was a big bomb to Xie Mingfang, who wanted to learn from Zeng Fansong to sell water or learn from Zhong Xiaomin to go to work in a rice noodle shop, and it blew her up to the point that she was scorched inside and tender outside, and she was a little overwhelmed.
"What's the fake? The one surnamed Li is decorating these days, you can come into the city in a few days to come and see, the dog day is about to rob our business!" Wang Jichang said loudly, but the movements in his hands were not slow, and he used chopsticks to pick up a piece of "rake, glutinous, loose, soft" but chewy braised fat sausage and began to chew.
The little aunt Zhong Xiaomin also echoed, "Second sister-in-law, when you go to the big market to take a look, you will know if it is true!"
What Wang Jichang and Zhong Xiaomin said is naturally true, but the real situation is not as suspenseful and serious as these two people said.
Not long ago, that is, a week ago, on the diagonal opposite side of the road of "Sister-in-law Zeng's Rice Noodles", a clothing store that used to sell clothes suddenly hung out a signboard of "Sister-in-law Li's Rice Noodles".
Wang Bo was also a little surprised, and immediately went out to take a few glances from a distance, and found that the other party not only had a name similar to his own, but also the color and style of the signboard were almost identical. His name is "Sister-in-law Zeng's rice noodles", and the other party's name is "Sister-in-law Li's rice noodles"; he makes his mother's big head picture, and the other party hangs his mother-in-law's big head picture; he compares himself with Chinese and English, and the other party also comes with a comparison of Chinese and English - no, to be exact, it should be Chinese and pinyin; his own name is MZC, and the other party is called L**F.
As the other party's renovation progressed, Wang Bo also found that he made up a story about a mother who created rice noodles for her children to study, and the other party also followed the story of a mother who studied rice noodles for her daughter. Wang Bo translated the story into English, and the other party spelled the story in Chinese pinyin, or it was a professional who didn't understand English, Wang Bo guessed.
Looking at the other party's all-round copycat himself so shamelessly, copying himself, if Wang Bo was a little worried at first, after reading it, he was completely as stable as Mount Tai. In this regard, he has only one comment, that is:
Drawing a tiger is not an anti-dog! This son is poor in donkey skills!
"There's nothing to worry about!" Wang Bo directly said to everyone, including Wang Jichang, "It's hard to draw the skin and bones of a tiger! The other party can imitate our shape, but can't imitate our taste! And the imitation is the simple trial version of 'Zeng's sister-in-law rice noodles' that are about to be eliminated! After a few days, the hardcover version of the 'Zeng's sister-in-law rice noodles' flagship store will be on sale, I see how the surnamed Li can imitate it! Wang Bo waved his hand, loudly, and shouted loudly to everyone with great confidence.
After listening to Wang Bo's words, the worried bosses and employees were relieved and relieved, and they all thought:
Yes, our flagship store is about to open, such a beautiful, such a foreign restaurant, in the entire Quartet, and even the entire German city is the only scorpion, what are you afraid of him doing?
However, Wang Bo is still clear about the principle of despising the enemy strategically and attaching importance to the enemy tactically. After cheering up the panicked staff, he immediately summoned his parents to a small meeting and sternly warned them that they must strictly guard against the three secret recipes of "Zeng's sister-in-law's rice noodles" and never leak them! Once it is leaked, everyone will "return to the pre-liberation period overnight" and continue to "face the loess with their backs to the sky."
Wang Bo's words immediately scared Wang Jichang into a cold sweat, because although he had heard his stepson talk about the importance of confidentiality many times before, he always felt that his stepson was making a big fuss. Now that the enemy is coming, and just across the road, in the face of the direct threat of "Sister-in-law Li's rice noodles", an enemy who may allow him to continue to be the second brother of the farmer "facing the loess with his back to the sky", Wang Jichang immediately paid attention to it with an unprecedented attitude, and sometimes even reached the level of a cup bow and snake shadow in Wang Bo's opinion.
For example, when it comes to stir-frying the seeds, boiling the old soup and frying the oil and spicy seeds, Wang Jichang will smash the door and close the door. And those spices and seasonings that need to be discarded after making the three secret recipes, such as peppercorns, pepper, star anise, trinaphthalene, ginger and so on, used to be thrown in the trash can in the kitchen, but now they will all be packed in a plastic bag and thrown into the people's ditch when they accumulate a certain amount.
Wang Jichang's appearance of the bow and snake shadow made Wang Bo feel funny, but he would not remind his Lao Tzu not to be too nervous. He is very aware of his stepfather's character: what has nothing to do with him is basically hanging high on his own, and he will die for thousands of years, and once something threatens his enjoyment, his comfortable days, Wang Jichang will immediately become more active than anyone else, more nervous and caring than anyone else.
In essence, he is a person who cares about himself the most.
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