After sending Dai Luoshu away, Shen You couldn't sleep for a long time, originally thinking that Ning Yutang was just seeing his every move, but judging from the information revealed by Dai Luoshu, or was it all over his eyeliner in Sijiu City?

Only, how did he do it?

The news of the Tang Sect, Huzhou Zihaobi, who was born out of thin air and returned with a broken army, even contains the meeting between him and Duan Laosan, and even contains the news that Wen Ci has not had time to confide in him. It seems that none of them can show the breadth of Ning Yutang's tentacles.

Two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the children on the street have already begun to set off firecrackers or small fireworks, and the childish laughter shows the carefree and simplest happiness of childhood.

The market is also going on with the most frenzy, whether it is poultry and meat vendors, or dried fruits or mountain seafood, they have entered the last time, and their nervous and excited faces are full of anticipation for the New Year's Festival.

Or because of the New Year's Festival, Dai Luoshu and Wen Ci have come a little less recently, while Shen You will stay in the West Courtyard most of the time, and occasionally go out to discuss some things with millions of others.

At six o'clock in the evening, the living room in the back garden of Wen Ci's house was brightly lit, and in Wen Ci's impression, only the occasional major banquet would develop that living room, such as the visit of his grandfather's old comrades-in-arms, the visit of the ruler of the country, or a major family banquet.

In addition to these circumstances, there is a kind of once every four years, this kind of no one knows the content of the Dao, since the beginning of the Wen Ci chronicle, only a few people attended this banquet, or only four people really participated, occasionally one or two people will be accompanied by a fat person to play a role in serving tea and pouring water.

Although it is serving tea and pouring water, Wen Ci also knows that in the entire Wen family, all the people are unusually blushing at this job that was originally a subordinate, after all, being able to enter this banquet is itself a kind of recognition of the younger generation of the old man of the Wen family.

Or a disguised transfer of power.

The people in the kitchen began to prepare the ingredients for the evening from noon, and the eight words of not getting tired of eating are vividly reflected at this moment, relatively speaking, the dishes are actually relatively simple, six hot dishes, three cold dishes and one soup. However, meat and vegetables are available with mountain delicacies.

In addition to paying attention to color, flavor, and health, such as the originally set silk eggs, they were also excluded at the last moment because they were not healthy enough.

Relatively speaking, Wen Ci still prefers the shredded eggs made by the master, selecting eggs of similar size and leaving only the egg yolk, and then adding a little starch to fry it in oil and then stir-fry the sugar to make it.

This year, it is Xu Thorn Whale as a companion, which makes Wen Ci extremely surprised, and at the same time, he has a greater curiosity about the content of their conversation for a while, the meaning of using Xu Thorn Whale is self-evident, not asking for no requirement to remember just a person who pours tea and water, and this is perfect for Xu Thorn Whale who lives to worship the old man as a god.

Wen Ci appeared as the reception and welcome at the door, standing at the door, he first greeted the old man of the Ye family with a slightly fat smile, and after the old man of the Ye family entered, Wen Ci made a gesture, and had already waited for the next person to send the good black tea and various dried fruits inside.

Immediately, the old man of the Nalan family, who was slightly thin, and the mighty Dai Zhongyuan, who was walking and tiger, came together.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Wen Ci signaled to the people around him that they could serve the food, and the dishes were brought to the door one by one, and Wen Ci personally brought them in and handed them to Xu Thorn Whale, and Xu Thorn Whale brought the dishes inside.

The three cold dishes are bitter gourd shreds mixed with grapes, the peeled grapes are like pearls against the backdrop of the shredded bitter gourd shreds, soaked in the soup made with fine honey, and the bitterness is slightly bitter in the sweetness, and the bitterness is a honey sweetness when it is just felt. In addition to this, there is the cucumber shreds dressed like enoki mushrooms, and the golden and emerald peanuts are matched with a different appetite. The last one is the spring tofu, which is made of ground peanuts and black beans, and it has a special taste when served with a sauce.

Hot dishes basically cover the best of the major cuisines, whether it is spicy, sweet or salty and sour, it is relatively light, but the ingredients are not frugal at all, such as Lu vegetables fried with shrimp and bamboo shoots and meat skin, although it looks simple, but it can be described as the best in terms of taste and nutritional value.

The soup is a mountain soup, adhering to the convention that four legs are not as good as two legs, and two legs are not as good as one leg, enoki mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, white fungus oyster mushrooms, and various mushrooms are boiled in a clay pot, it is said that this soup is boiled for nearly six hours, with some old hen stewed ginseng soup and milk soup, the soup is ru white, and there is no aroma to come to the nose.

As the dishes were served one by one, under the instruction of Mr. Wen, Xu Thorn Whale brought over a pitch-black wine jar, and when the wine jar was brought over, the slightly chubby Old Man Ye and Nalan Banshan smacked their lips at the same time, and Nalan Banshan smiled at Old Man Wen and said: "Okay, you hide all day long, I haven't been thinking about it all the time in the past four years!" ”

After hearing this, the old man smiled and said: "No way, we set such rules back then, everyone was at home for a year, and now except for the Central Plains, which is young and strong, the three of us old guys may travel west one day!" ”

"Yes, old man, don't make fun of me, any one of you three is in good spirits and in good health, and this spirit is much better than that of a young man in his early twenties." Dai Zhongyuan hurriedly said.

Old Man Ye was more direct, and directly pushed the blue-gray bowl in front of him with a large mouth and shallow inside to Old Man Wen and said, "Don't say anything else, fill it for me first!" ”

As soon as Old Man Wen signaled, Xu Tingjing, who was standing on the side, immediately picked up the wine jar and poured it for Ye Laozi, and a rich aroma of wine opened up.

After Old Man Ye took the bowl, he didn't wait for Xu Tingjing to pour wine for the others, and immediately said at one end of the bowl: "That, every time I come to Lao Wen's side, his wine is always better than me, which makes me very embarrassed, so I'll punish myself first!" After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for others to speak, and he raised his head and drank it all.

When he handed the bowl back to Xu Tingjing, he still shook his head and slowly tasted it. This provoked the other two people to have a burst of opinions, and Nalan Banshan also said with a smile: "I am at Lao Wen's house, and the wine I prepared is not as good as Lao Wen's wine, and I will punish myself in advance!" ”

"Oh, what are you doing so seriously, come, taste this fish." As he spoke, Old Man Ye stopped Nalan Banshan and put the stewed carp that came up on the plate in front of Nalan Banshan with chopsticks.

"Yes, try this fish, there was no such fish before, this is also what our chef has just researched, in fact, I think the real taste is not this fish, but the meat in the belly of the fish." Old Man Wen took the chopsticks and pointed at it.

Everyone was stunned after hearing this, Nalan Banshan took the chopsticks and clamped them in the belly of the fish, and there was an extra square piece of cut pork belly in front of the chopsticks. And Mr. Wen continued: "This fish is relatively troublesome to make for public welfare, not to mention that it has to go through procedures such as pickling, rubbing, frying, steaming, and stewing, and it takes a total of 24 hours to eat it only when you grasp the time." If there is more, the taste will not be enough, and if there is less, the taste will not be completely nourished, especially if there is meat in the fish, and there is a fish flavor in the meat, that is the best thing. ”

"Good! I really can't see it, Lao Wen, you are still a master of this way, this shouldn't be what you did! ”

Old Man Wen shook his head at Nalan Banshan, who was high-fived, and nodded and said: "Actually, what you said is pretty much the same, this fish is really not made by me but I made it again, the chef is Yan Zhao's person, crispy fish is already popular over there, and I improved it for him after eating it, originally he put shiitake mushrooms in the belly of the fish, and I just changed it for him, and then extended the time." ”

After hearing this, everyone naturally couldn't help but applaud. A meal is staggered, and the guests and hosts are happy. The four of them all started a discussion about eating, and no one said anything, as if they didn't care about anything except eating.

Although the four of them ate slowly, they didn't eat much of the dishes on the table as they slowly drank, although there were more dishes, but the amount of each was relatively not very large, and the chef's grasp was not fine.

After eating, there was still some wine left, and Old Man Ye directly hugged the remaining wine into his arms, and said to Old Man Wen with a strong posture of starting first: "Old Wen, this wine is mine, I haven't drunk it well today, I will take the rest back and drink it myself." ”

Naturally, everyone couldn't help but laugh again.

Xu Tingjing quickly cleaned up the plates and saucers on the table, and after wiping them, he brought up the fresh fruit platter that had been prepared earlier, and then combined it with the dried fruit plate that had been prepared earlier, and after the new tea was boiled, the four of them also wiped off the initial laughter, and their faces gradually became solemn.

"How's that going?" Old Man Ye was the first to ask.

"I've already confided out the news, and it's basically been passed to the other party's ears, as for whether they can make a move, and when they do, this is not something I can consider." Old Man Wen said leisurely.

After hearing this, Old Man Ye nodded, with an old fox-like smile on his face, and said to Nalan Banshan: "Next is your show, it's up to you how to do it......"

After hearing this, Nalan Banshan shook his head and sighed lightly and said: "Alas, in fact, from the bottom of my heart, I really appreciate that little guy, if you hadn't planned it earlier, maybe I would have given him a hand!" ”

There was a lot of regret between the words.