"Bafang Building" Shen Rui got out of the carriage, looked at the three-story building with white walls and gray tiles in front of him, and couldn't help nodding and said: "The name is good, and the word is good!"

Different from the atmosphere of the northern buildings, the Jiangnan architecture is graceful, even if it is a restaurant in the market, it looks very elegant. Shen Jue pursed his lips and said: "Brother Rui is so good, how can you learn those rotten Confucian products to raise plaques, this is the realm of eating, and it is not a study and painting workshop!"

There was a little second standing at the door, and when he saw the two of them getting out of the carriage, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and greeted him warmly: "Two little brothers, please come in." ”

Shen Jue didn't speak, and his eldest follower Wang An stepped forward and said, "Little Er, I came over at noon to book a private room on the third floor with my fifth brother!"

Xiao Er recognized Wang An, his face became more and more courteous, and he led everyone to the private room on the third floor.

Looking at the few long-term entourages and scholars who followed, Shen Jue waved his hand and said boldly: "Since you have come to Bafang Building, you can also go to the first floor to order a few dishes to fight tooth sacrifices." He said to Qixing again: "Take care of Liu Cheng, see that he is honest, don't let others bully." ”

The first cadre went downstairs with the little servant and the second child, and only Shen Rui and Shen Jue were left in the private room.

Although this is the third floor, the shouting on the street can still be heard very clearly. It's just that unlike the loud shouting in the north, the shouting in the south is not high, and the selling words are a set of words, all of which are a bit elegant.

Shen Rui walked to the window and looked at the street scene in front of him, only to feel that everywhere was good, and he watched it with relish. Although he had gone north with Wang Shouren and had seen some of these market customs, he was in a different mood during the journey at that time, and his daily homework was heavy. Now I am in a leisurely mood, putting aside those ideas such as the imperial examination, and then looking at these market picture scrolls, it is another kind of comfort.

Seeing him like this, Shen Jue squeezed next to him and looked around, there was nothing unusual, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Brother Rui is looking at something, he is reluctant to move his eyes"

Shen Rui pointed to the cart selling glutinous rice cakes on the corner of the street and said, "Brother Jue, look there."

Shen Jue followed Shen Rui's finger and looked over, and saw a small car parked at the corner of the street, an old woman selling cakes next to it, and there was a long queue in front of the car.

"That's the white grandma rice cake, which is quite famous on this street, and her sesame sticky cake is the most powerful, only selling a few curtains a day, and it will be gone later." Shen Jue thought that Shen Rui wanted to eat, and after speaking, he went out to greet Xiao Er, grabbed half a copper coin from his purse and said to him: "My brother wants to eat sticky cakes, you go out of Lu to buy one." ”

A rice cake can cost a few dollars, and the rest is naturally a reward. Xiao Er happily responded and went downstairs attentively.

Shen Rui laughed twice and said, "Brother Jue, I didn't want to eat cakes, I see that no one is maintaining order over there, everyone is in order, and no one is cutting in line......"

Shen Jue said curiously: "This shopping is naturally first-come, first-served, and queuing is not what it should be, not queuing up is messy, but it will delay your efforts." ”

Looking at the crowded market, Shen Rui always felt that there was something shortcoming, and after thinking for a while, he remembered, and said, "Why don't you see that the beggars are being expelled?"

Shen Jue shook his head and said, "Songjiang is already rich, and it is not a disaster year, where there are so many beggars. Even if there are people from outside, they have entered the Huimin Hospital. Speaking of this, like a little adult, he said: "Jiang Fuzun is indeed a good official, but unfortunately he will take office next year, and I don't know how he will take over later." ”

Jiang, the prefect of Songjiang, will be promoted until next year, and because he has already been re-elected as the prefect once, he will most likely be promoted this time. In addition to the pro-people officials such as the prefect and the governor, who will serve three consecutive terms, the chief officials above the prefect level are rarely re-elected for three consecutive terms in order to prevent entrenchment in the localities, unless it is a border province with a remote road, and the chief official has nothing to do with transferring himself. With a fat shortage like Songjiang Mansion, it is not easy for Jiang Zhifu to be re-elected once, but it is because his brother is a bachelor of Hanlin, otherwise he would have been squeezed out a long time ago.

Shen Jue just said this, not because he was afraid that the prefect behind him would come to scrape the ground. There are several big surnames in Songjiang, not to mention the relatives, and there are many children in the officialdom. Unless it's a stunned youth, who will offend these local snakes. Where is it so easy to be stunned, the prefect who was dismissed half a year after taking office was fascinated by the wealth of Songjiang, and regarded Songjiang as the fat in his bowl, and finally ended up asking for the guilt and dismissal.

Hearing Shen Jue mention Jiang Zhifu, Shen Rui thought of Jiang Rong, the third son of Jiang.

Jiang Sangongzi Hongzhi entered Beijing in the eleventh year and participated in the spring of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, but unfortunately there was no name on the list. However, after that, he did not return to Songjiang, but stayed in the capital to prepare for the next subject. After the recommendation of his uncle Jiang Bachelor, he became a closed disciple under Wang Hua, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. When Shen Rui saw him again, he would be called uncle.

Zhuang Gongren and the Sun family were originally friends of interest, and they were once open for Shen Rui, and they were also entrusted and loyal; Protecting one or two more is because as a mother, she pities innocent children, and it is not much heavier than face. Wang Shouren lived in Songjiang for half a year, and was asked by Shen Li to accept Shen Rui as a student, outsiders knew wrong, but Zhuang Gongren was one of the few insiders.

Waiting for Jiang Sangongzi to apprentice, Zhuang Gongren got the news in Songjiang, and sighed fate, but he was a little more sincere and attached importance to Shen Rui. Heaven and Earth Jun pro-teacher, for scholars, the teacher-student relationship is second only to the kinship relationship, and sometimes even the kinship relationship is more helpful. Jiang Sangongzi is Wang Hua's closed disciple, Shen Rui is Wang Shouren's first apprentice, and the biological mother of the two has a relationship, so they can also help each other among the disciples of Wangmen.

Because the table was booked, the two of them entered the box for a while, and when Xiao Er bought back the sesame glutinous rice cake, they also began to serve it.

Shen Rui saw that the cold dishes were served four times, and he knew that the number of hot dishes in the back was even more indispensable, and said, "Is it too much?"

Shen Jue said: "I just think that there are few people, so I only make people book a third-class mixed eight treasures seat, if the second-class table will have twenty-four, and the first-class seat will have thirty-two." ”

Four cold dishes, four stir-fried dishes, four steamed bowls, one dessert, one soup, two dim sum, a total of 16 delicious dishes.

In order to make it easier for Shen Rui and Shen Jue to eat, these dishes were concentrated on the side of the two-person seat, and the six-foot diameter round table was half empty. Because of the words "Eight Treasures", all the ingredients of these dishes are in "Sea Eight Treasures", "Grass Eight Treasures", "Poultry Eight Treasures", and "Lu Eight Treasures", which look exquisite, but the amount of dishes is not much.

In the eyes of Shen Rui, who has seen the eight major cuisines of later generations, these dishes are nothing, but Huaiyang cuisine mixed with Lu cuisine. However, compared with the food in the fourth room of the Shen family in the past few days, Shen Rui's eyes were bright when he looked at these delicacies.

Shen Jue was also the first time to come back to Bafang Building, and he had already picked up chopsticks and put a piece of braised fish maw in a bowl. Both of them are small rules, they don't say anything when they eat, they don't say anything when they sleep, and they won't make a whirlwind situation, but the speed of eating is not slow, and the number of dishes has increased significantly.

Shen Rui used two bowls of rice and drank half a bowl of soup before putting down the chopsticks.

Shen Rui had already rubbed his stomach and said, "No wonder this seat costs four taels of silver, but it took me two months a month." The same shark fin, I don't know how they concocted it, and the comparison made in the kitchen at home has become a fan. ”

"So expensive" Shen Rui couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this price.

When he went north with Wang Shouren, a meal was only a few dozen yuan to a few dollars of silver, but it had increased dozens of times here. Although the table in front of me is a "mixed eight treasures", the main dishes are only shark fin, sea cucumber and the like, and the remaining side dishes are poultry meat and mushrooms, which are not scarce things, but the dishes are exquisite and novel.

Shen Jue raised his eyebrows and said: "This is the imperial chef in the palace, and the price can be the same as that of the restaurant outside, but not everyone dares to book a table on the third floor!" Asked as he spoke, showing a little smugness.

Shen Rui couldn't help but listen to it. This is not the best, only the most expensive

Resting in the later generations, it is just imitation food, but the education at this time made the scholars and people afraid of the imperial power to the bones, even if this restaurant played the signboard of imitation food, no one dared to say it, everyone could only say that the master was once the imperial chef.

It's just that I don't know which owner of this restaurant is, and it's nothing to ask a retired imperial chef to be the master in charge; If you dare to set the price so expensive, you have a bit of courage. Regardless of the taste of the dish, the price alone limits the identity of the diner.

Like Shen Jue, there are definitely not a few people who can eat with two months of pocket money.

Just thinking about it, I saw Qixing come in and said, "Fifth brother, the second cousin is in the private room next door, I heard that the fifth brother and Young Master Rui are here, so I sent someone to invite you." ”

Shen Rui heard about this kinship, and before he could react for a while, Shen Jue had already frowned, and muttered in a low voice: "Why are you so unlucky, you ran into him......"

After Qixing finished speaking, he turned sideways, revealing a young man in green clothes behind him and bowed and said, "Young Master Cousin, Second Young Master of the Shen Family, the Second Master of my family heard that the two of you are here, so I sent a villain to invite you." ”

Shen Rui has already reacted, Shen Jue's foreign family is the He family, and the one who is called the cousin by Shen Jue is the eldest wife of the Zongfang and the cousin of the He family, isn't that the second master of the He family, He Nansheng, but as far as he knows, Shen Jue has never been close to the foreign family, how could this second master He think of calling them over

In the private room next door, He Nansheng was impressively seated, and two people were sitting opposite, two people were in their fifties, and one was in their early twenties, and their appearance was somewhat similar. Judging from their clothing, the two are just from ordinary families.

"Seventh uncle, Kang Sheng, the one who eats with the fifth child of my cousin's family next door is Brother Rui, the fourth sister-in-law of the Shen family, this is also a coincidence, you can also see it." He Nansheng held the wine jug and poured the old man a full wine cup.

The old man's face was a little uncomfortable, and he hesitated: "But the eight characters of the family matter have not been skimmed yet......

He Nansheng said with a smile: "With me as a guarantor, Uncle Seven can't trust his nephew"

The old man smiled reluctantly, and the young man next to him "snapped" and put down the wine cup and sneered: "What the second brother said is better than singing!" What a good family affair, how do you think that my sister is only eighteen in our family, do you have to go on the pole to fill the house for an old man The second brother is better to be cautious, don't make another joke, in case something happens, it can't hurt your Zongfang, we can't stand it. My eldest sister has married far away, is it possible that my third sister will also end up marrying far away......"