Chapter 1139: Messenger
The restaurant is really close to the pier, and the visual distance is no more than 100 meters.
There are three restaurants side by side, all of which are bungalows, and Gu Yiyi and the others are going to the middle one, which has the largest area, about seventy square meters.
The group walked in, and there were already two tables of people eating.
One of the tables was Xiaobao and Brother Zhao, and the poon choi on their table had just been served, wafting with aroma.
It's a waste to eat such a big pot for only two people!
Gu Yiyi sat down with the Chen family and waited for the food to be served.
Because on the way here, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chen family told her that eating poon choi in this restaurant was booked one day in advance.
It's not that you can't eat it without booking in advance, but you have to wait more than 10 hours to eat the food a la carte.
Just because one of the dishes in Poon Choi is "stewed pork", it takes more than ten hours to cook.
Usually there are only a limited number of diners who eat poon choi, and the restaurant will not back it up more, so if no one buys it, if it is hot, it will be a loss of money!
Therefore, after she remembered this situation, she saw that Gu Yiyi was resting, and she was embarrassed to disturb, so she asked her eldest son to go to the restaurant to ask in advance, is it too late to book tonight's poon choi?
If it doesn't work, she will discuss it with Gu Yiyi again.
Fortunately, they were lucky, when the eldest grandson of the Chen family went to the restaurant, the store was worried. It turned out that a diner who had booked tonight's poon choi had just asked a villager to bring him a letter, and he couldn't eat it, so he asked them not to do it.
Because the restaurant wants to solicit customers, they only charge a deposit of one-tenth of the price of the dish.
In other words, they have already made most of the poon choi, and they can't even recover the cost.
So when he heard that the eldest grandson of the Chen family came to ask, he was very happy, and even the deposit was confiscated, so he agreed.
Poon Choi is a traditional dish in Bao'an County and the New Territories on Hong Kong Island.
A pot of vegetables can be gathered with 100 dishes and 100 flavors, a total of one furnace, the basic principle is "harmony", has a history of hundreds of years, is a chowder dish!
Whoever has a happy event will be in an open place, with a wooden platform and wooden stool, heated with charcoal, and everyone will gather around the hot poon choi, while tasting and celebrating.
In addition, the locals also like to eat poon choi during the New Year's holidays, so poon choi has the meaning of festive reunion.
Seven or eight minutes later, Gu Yiyi's table of poon choi and seven bowls of rice were served.
The dishes stacked high in the already large pot make people have an appetite when they look at it.
Because it was Gu Yiyi's treat, the Chen family was waiting for Gu Yiyi to open the chopsticks.
Gu Yiyi watched the little grandson of the Chen family swallow his saliva unabashedly, and immediately picked up the chopsticks: "Grandpa Chen, everyone, let's have dinner." ”
The people at the table picked up their chopsticks and began to eat the top chicken, duck, shrimp, and dace balls.
Gu Yiyi "counted", there are a total of twelve kinds of ingredients in this pot, which are fried, fried, burned, boiled, stewed, and marinated according to the characteristics of each ingredient, and then packed into the basin layer by layer.
The kind of poon choi that Xiao Bao and Brother Zhao ate had sixteen kinds of ingredients, including abalone, sea cucumber, crab and goose meat.
The two of them noticed it when Gu Yiyi and the Chen family entered the restaurant.
When he saw that it was the lowest priced kind of poon choi, and it was seven people eating a pot of vegetables, Brother Zhao sneered.
The voice was very loud, but Gu Yiyi ignored him at this table, and they were all tasting the delicious food wholeheartedly.
Gu Yiyi heard it clearly, but she didn't bother to deal with such a stupid person who was not even a "second ancestor".
The eldest son and eldest grandson of the Chen family also heard it, but they obviously knew that these two people could not be provoked, so they simply pretended not to hear it and ate their own dishes and meals by themselves.
Brother Zhao lives in the county town and is not familiar with the locals.
But he could tell from the way he dressed that except for a girl, the people at this table were all villagers from the fishing village here. And the girl looked plain, and after one look, he was not in the mood for a second look.
Xiao Bao didn't want to make trouble at this time, he knew the eldest son of the Chen family, after all, the eldest son of the Chen family was also a person with a face in the neighboring village, so he proposed: "Brother Zhao, try sea cucumbers, I heard that this thing is a big supplement." ”
Brother Zhao immediately grabbed a sea cucumber and ate it. This is still said by others, and he knows it well!
The crew of the third ship arrived at Xiao Chen's house, put the melon seeds and sugar cubes brought down from the ship on the table, and chatted while eating, so as to pass the time.
When Gu Yiyi and the others were eating, they also started eating.
Xiao Chen's family was the only one whose father was at the table to accompany the guests, and everyone else went to another room to eat.
Xiao Chen still remembered what he said before getting off the boat, so he went to deliver food to the second brother, and let the captain hold it down: "You don't have to go, let's eat quickly, just bring him back after eating." ”
Xiao Chen hurriedly said: "I'd better go, I'll be back in a while." ”
"Captain, you eat first, don't wait for me. ”
When the captain heard this, he let go.
Xiao Chen went out of the house with food.
He went to the end of the village first, picked up a stone from the ground, and took out a piece of paper with words in his trouser pocket to wrap it up.
Seeing that there was no one left and right, he threw the stone wrapped in paper in his hand into the lonely courtyard, and then walked quickly to the dock.
When he arrived at the boat, he handed the food he was carrying to his second brother.
The second child asked, "The letter has arrived?"
Xiao Chen hurriedly nodded: "It's here, they should arrive soon." ”
The second child instructed: "Try to delay the meal for an hour, and then let them come back!"
After Xiao Chen got down, he was a little worried: "What should the captain do if he finds out?"
The second child didn't even raise his eyelids: "Try not to let him find out, and give him some money if you find out." ”
He didn't say the last word, and if he didn't do it again, he would kill the captain.
Xiao Chen got off the boat, but he was thinking in his heart:
The captain had suffered from lung disease and had been at home for almost a year, during which time the second brother had been in charge of the ship.
The captain had recovered from illness three days earlier, and he had not known the second child before, who had been recruited during his sick leave.
So, when the captain came, he began to take power. On the surface, there is a faction between the two people, but in fact, they both want to get each other away.
Otherwise, the captain would not have left the second child alone on the boat and let him watch the boat.
It is said that the captain is very experienced in sailing, and the company values him very much, which is why he was allowed to take such a long sick leave without dismissing him.
The second child had been using the boat nine months earlier to transport stowaways, who had stunned people and put them in large cabinets with holes.
Each time it was so well planned that the rest of the crew really didn't find out.
Before Xiao Chen, there was another person who was the temporary crew member to cooperate with the second child.
Four months ago, Xiao Chen was almost cut down because of gambling, but it was the people in the courtyard at the end of the village who helped him pay back the money.