Chapter 357: The Table
Xu Li pushed the door and got out of the car and headed towards the "Li Ji Night Market...... walked over, and after two minutes of entering the restaurant, Xu Li came out again, standing at the door of the restaurant and nodding towards Zeng Yi.
"Old general, let's go over!" Zeng Yi smiled and asked Xu Lao to get out of the car, and he asked Xu Li to go in advance, first, to confirm the safety issues, and secondly, to see if the restaurant was open and whether there were a few things to eat.
Although Xu Lao felt that Zeng Yi was making a fuss, he didn't say anything, got out of the car and walked over there. He knew very well in his heart that this was Zeng Yi, if he were someone else, it would be absolutely impossible for him to appear in a place like the night market, so he didn't want to cause any trouble to Zeng Yi for others.
After a few people came over, Xu Li left quickly and went to park.
The restaurant is not big, there are more than a dozen tables in it, and it has not yet reached the point of opening the night market at this time, so it is empty, and there is not a single customer.
The boss is a man in his fifties, dark-skinned, loyal and honest, when he saw Zeng Yi and a few people coming in, he walked over with a list and smiled enthusiastically: "Sit casually, what do you want to eat?" "Is the mountain wine authentic?" Zeng Yi asked.
"It's all home-brewed, it's definitely authentic and genuine!" The boss smiled and said, "You can drink it with confidence, don't dare to boast about anything else, but in these two places of Rongcheng and Baiyang, you will definitely not find a more authentic mountain moving wine than me!" Zeng Yi glanced at Xu Lao and found that this veteran general who had experienced a hundred battles was already a little impatient at this time, so he said: "Let's take a pound of mountain wine first, and then bring a plate of the special dishes in your store, and you will have to have one more wild vegetable dumpling!" ”
"Okay, right away!" The boss taught a few strokes in the list, and then shouted for the man to serve the food, and he picked up the wine funnel and went to serve the wine himself.
The wine was packed in two large black sè vats against the wall of the store, and when the sealed lid was lifted, the whole store was filled with the aroma of wine.
Old Xu's big hand rubbed twice on the tuǐ, laughed, and said, "That's the taste!"
But you slandered me! ”
The boss brought the wine over and said with a smile: "This is one catty and two taels, you are the first table of guests today, I will spare you two taels!" "Then we're welcome!" Old Xu laughed.
"Isn't it just two or two wines, if you eat deliciously, you will come often in the future!" The boss is also a person who can do business, and seeing that these people in front of him are all customers who have never been to the store before, he just wants to be a repeat customer.
The dishes came up quickly, except for the wild grass dumplings, the rest are cold dishes with wine, rabbit head, beef, bangbang chicken, drunkard huāsheng, pickled pepper bamboo shoots, although the shop is small, but the variety is also rich, there are meat and vegetarian, there are marinated and pickled, Yan sè is also very well matched, red, yellow, white and green, and most of the tables are placed.
"Do you still need a hot dish? There are casseroles, grilled fish, and fried lobster! The staple food is noodles and rice! The boss asked enthusiastically and said, "Everything on the street outside, you can order it and let the guy call it!" Zeng Yi took a look at Xu Lao and found that Xu Lao didn't mean to call again, so he said: "Let's do these first, and I'll call you later!" ”
"Okay, you can shout if you have something!" The boss smiled and left, moved a chair and sat in front of the store, waiting for the next group of customers to visit.
Xu Lao couldn't wait for Zeng Yi to pour wine for himself, so he directly picked up the wine jug and poured himself a glass, and then drank it in a big gulp, and when the liquor went down his throat, Xu Lao knocked the cup on the table and said, "Happy!" Joyfully! This wine is so energetic to drink! "Old Xu, taste the wild vegetables first, and it's not too late to put something in your stomach and drink it!" Zeng Yi took the wine jug and put it in his hand, took a look out, and found that Xu Li had already parked the car and came back, sitting at the door of a barbecue restaurant across the road, ordering a barbecue, ordering a pot of tea, eating and drinking slowly, staring at the situation on the night market street vigilantly.
Xu Lao glared, stretched out his hand and wanted to grab the wine jug, but remembering what he said before he came, he took his hand back and said with a smile: "Okay, good, listen to you, just listen to you, eat the vegetables first!" The emerald green sè wild vegetable dumplings, dipped in the fiery red spicy oil and garlic juice, ate a bite of the stomach, Xu Lao said happily again, and his appetite couldn't help but open, and he ate several wild vegetables in a row, and Xu Lao transferred the chopsticks to other dishes.
"The chef in my house is a serious special chef, and the taste he can make is not as good as this small shop!" Xu Lao put down his chopsticks, looked at the wine glass again, and said, "Xiao Zeng, this wine is good, you can taste it too!" ”
Zeng Yi laughed, then picked up the wine jug and poured the wine, and said: "Xu Lao is a drinker, if you can say good, it must be good wine, I must taste it!" "Come, come, let's do one!" Xu Lao picked up the cup and said, "Thank you Xiao Zeng for your hospitality, this is the most comfortable meal I have had in Nanjiang." ”
Zeng Yi smiled and said, "Old Xu, let's take it back quickly!" Otherwise, I'll be out of luck if someone else listens to it! Xu Lao laughed and said: "What do you say these people think, I just secretly drank a glass of wine, and they were like the sky was falling, crying and grabbing the ground, and they had to make a report, and they gave some ultimatum, making me like that ignorant little doll, my hands are not hands, and my feet are not feet." I won't treat them if they don't make me happy, and I never give them a good face...,
Before he could finish speaking, the guard sitting next to him reminded in a low voice: "Chief, please pay attention to the ..............." "Shut up!" Xu Lao's big eyes widened, you kid really doesn't have any eyesight, I'm talking about this, you give me a shot immediately, this is not the platform for demolishing Lao Tzu, he shouted: "Don't say a word, no one treats you as a dumb person!" There is a doctor Xiao Zeng, what amount to pay attention to! ”
"Old Xu, everyone is also thinking about your health!" Zeng Yi appeased a few words and said: "It's okay to drink, but you must not indulge, it's harmful!" Xu Lao interrupted Zeng Yi's words and said, "Don't ruin the fun!" ”
Zeng Yi didn't say much, he drank a glass with Xu Lao, and as soon as the wine entered his throat, a burning taste extended from his voice to his stomach, as if he had been set on fire.
When Xu Lao saw Zeng Yi's face, he laughed and asked, "How is it, how does this wine taste?" Zeng Yi shook his head and said with a smile: "I finally know why you are worried about this mountain wine, Old Xu!" "Why?" Xu Lao looked at Zeng Yi, "You say! "This wine is the same as yours, it's too domineering!" Zeng Yi said.
Xu Lao laughed loudly and said, "Those who know me, Xiao Zengye!" ”
After a few people were drinking, there were more people on the night market street, and many restaurants began to slowly serve customers, and some shops with hot business put their tables on the side of the road at the door.
In addition, there are some small vendors, pushing small carts to the night market street, selling some fried stinky tofu, grilled fish, hot and sour noodles and other flavors, the whole night market street, suddenly filled with the smell of all kinds of food.
Xu Lao smelled the smell of stinky tofu outside, his nose twitched twice, and shouted: "Boss!" The boss sitting at the door ran over and asked with a smile, "Is there not enough food, what do you want to add?" Xu Lao pointed to the door and said, "Let's have a stinky tofu!" ”
The boss responded, but his face was a little unhappy, and after a long time, he called a waiter, gave ten yuan, and said, "Go out and buy a stinky tofu!" Xu Lao was a little puzzled, what was going on with this boss, he was still happy just now, saying that he could order everything on this street, and now let him buy a stinky tofu, but he was so reluctant, Xu Lao looked at Zeng Yi and wanted to understand.
Zeng Yi laughed in a low voice: "Old Xu, this shop is a fixed operation and has a table, while those small traders outside belong to a mobile operation!" As soon as Xu Lao pondered it, he understood that on the surface, these merchants are all engaged in night market trading, but after careful analysis, the difference is still very big.
The fixed shops on this street have tables, chairs and benches to entertain guests, and the guests sit in other people's stores, but they can order their own food, which is equivalent to their own store with a lot of extra seats, and the table is the benefit, and as a guest, it is also very convenient, into a store, you can order the food of all the stores, which is a mutually beneficial behavior.
The vendors outside are different, just a small cart, no tables, chairs and benches, and the customers who eat there will even occupy the tables, chairs and benches in other people's stores for nothing, so they will only rob the business of these shops around, but will not add a customer to these shops, so they will naturally not be welcomed.
Xu Lao looked at Zeng Yi, and said in his heart that this kid is still very accurate in looking at the problem, and he will get to the root in one sentence, isn't it just a matter of a table!
Immediately, Xu Lao shook his head again, why bother with each other, they are all begging for life!
"The chengguan is coming"
At this time, I don't know who shouted outside, and the vendors on the street pushed the cart and ran, and in the blink of an eye, there was no shadow.
The waiter was a young girl, and she came back with the ten yuan in her hand, and said, "The stinky tofu seller let the chengguan run away, but he didn't buy it!" Xu Lao had no choice but to tenon, waved his hand, and signaled that he didn't need to buy it.
After a while, I saw more than a dozen chengguan hao dàngdàng passing through the night market street, fierce and vicious, shouting loudly, scolding and scolding in the mouth, and chased the small traders.
Xu Lao's appetite was bad for a while, he put down his chopsticks and frowned, he had already heard of the notoriety of the chengguan, you can charge for it, do you have to be the same as the bandits in the old society, in other words, it is the war years, see if Lao Tzu's gun can spare you! It's just that Xu Lao can only sulk, this is a local affair, Xu Lao, as a military figure, is inconvenient to ask, and the army's interference in local affairs has always been a taboo, so big that even people like Xu Lao dare not touch it easily.
Seeing the chengguan chasing after him from the door of the store, Zeng Yi also frowned, as a government administrator, he disagreed with the chengguan department in his heart.
Hearing that the chengguan was far away, Zeng Yi turned around, ready to persuade Xu Lao to go back, anyway, he had almost eaten today.
Who knew that as soon as he turned around, he saw Xu Lao staring at Zeng Yi with a serious expression, and asked, "Xiao Zeng, you also have a city management in your high-tech park, right?" "I've been delayed a little bit, I'll just have this chapter tonight, and I'll make it up tomorrow! 1。 @。