Chapter 61: The Smell of Food and Wine

In Sun Xiangfu's view, mastering the hot spot of social public opinion is also a kind of energy, and now more than thirty percent of the magnates in Chang'an are gathered in Wangjianglou, which has a lot of places that can be used by him, such as today's dishes, which are mainly fish, soy products, chicken, and pork, and the happy village that can produce a large number of these ingredients, after this feast, the future is bright.

As soon as the lunch arrived, more than 200 food deliverers began to stream dishes to each countertop, and at the same time, the first exclamation came from all corners of the hall, those were all on the table that ordered the stone pot fish recommended by the waiter, and the dignitaries who had a relationship with several major owners of the restaurant and brought congratulatory gifts to congratulate them, they did not need to order, so there must be a stone pot fish on their table, including Li Shimin's private room.

"Wow, this stone pot is so big, there are so many fish fillets in it!"

In the private room, Li Chengqian and several princes and princesses all exclaimed, it turned out that after the tablecloth on the big round table was uncovered, there was a hollow table top in the middle, and there was a carbon stove below, and the guy who served the food added ignited carbon to the stove, and put a large stone pot with a diameter of about one meter at the mouth of the stove, and in the stone pot, it was made of tofu, bean sprouts, bean skin, sauerkraut, radish strips and other side dishes, and it was covered with several layers of good fish fillets and a big fish head, which was a fish fillet made of more than ten catties of large grass carp slices. The kitchen has picked the thorns almost when slicing the fish, the huge fish head is in the center of the pot, and it is watered by the boiling soup, which is very attractive to the eye, the wild fish of this era are nutritious, and the whole pot of fish soup that is directly cooked has become milky white, fresh and attractive.

"Your Majesty, the first pot of fish soup is delicious, you can drink a bowl of soup first, and then start eating fish." There are colander and soup spoon on the side of the pot, and the waiter first uses the soup spoon to serve a bowl of fish soup to each person seated.

In the private room, most of the eight to ten people sit loosely, but each table has a stand waiter, basically the waiter is responsible for helping everyone eat from the pot, and this big pot of ingredients that needs two people to lift can actually make a table of people eat about the same.

After that, the stewed chicken, roast mutton, tamales, braised pork and other dishes made in advance soon came up, and then some stir-fried dishes came up one after another, and in less than a quarter of an hour, a whole large table was placed, just looking at it, it made people have a great appetite.

"Well, it's delicious······"

The princes and concubines in the private room, like the ordinary diners downstairs, are not tired of their praises, and this kind of feeling of the whole family eating around a hot pot is very good, and after a while, the atmosphere of the whole restaurant is warm.

"So, how did they do it?" At the table against the railing on the second floor, Wang Lin said with some disbelief.

The diet of thousands of people, less than a quarter of an hour, is almost on it, and the dishes are strangely fragrant, looking at the things cooked in the big stone pot on the table, even if he is used to living a life of brocade clothes and jade food, he began to drool, and Wu Ting and others, who have poor concentration on the side, have begun to feast.

"It must have been prepared in advance, but the kitchen of this Wangjianglou is really big, this is thousands of people, hundreds of dishes! Moreover, there are many people who order different dishes just like us. Zheng Xuancheng, who also has a restaurant business at home, is not very good.

Compared with Xinxianglou and Deyue Building, which can only accommodate a few hundred people at most, the volume of this Wangjiang Building is simply a giant, don't look at the four or five thousand diners in the restaurant now, even if there are one or two thousand, you can easily sit down, because today's sitting rate is only seven or eighty percent, and Sun Xiangfu's kitchen system is able to provide full customers.

"The wine is coming, the wine is coming."

Today's drinks are free, and they are just sent to the table one by one, and the cups for pouring wine are also small and pitiful, and they want to take the opportunity to make trouble, and Wang Lin and others, who are stingy in the restaurant, have not yet spoken, they were hit by a strong smell of alcohol, and the waiter who knew what they were thinking said smiled and smiled.

"It's not that our host is stingy, it's just that the wine of our Wangjianglou specialty is too strong, and it is not suitable to drink in a large cup, even if it is a small cup, I also advise you to drink slowly, after this wine is drunk, it is very difficult to wake up."

Sun Xiangfu does not know any superb wine-making technology, he only knows that distilling the liquor of this era can get alcohol, and the alcohol can be mixed with more water or honey or something, you can get a relatively high concentration of blended wine, so this kind of drunk will have a headache, and the spirits that can't smell the smell of alcohol within three days will come out of the pot, but the brewing workers of Wangjianglou are constantly researching, how to make this distilled liquor more mellow, more suitable for drinking.

"Ha, this wine is really strong, if you can have this wine when you were fighting in the north, I'm afraid that not many men in the army will not be frozen to death." Dugu Mou drank a small cup and said with a wrinkled nose.

Qin Qiong, who was sitting next to him, had a strong nose and raised his cup high, but the waiter didn't pour him wine.

"The owner said that this wine is too strong, it is easy to damage Yigong's body, and you can't give Yigong a drop to drink."

"This stinky boy, this stinky boy, hey, I'm ······ angry"

Looking at Qin Qiong's gluttonous appearance, Dugumou also laughed, and hurriedly persuaded him to eat more vegetables, this pot of wine! He was to himself.

The aroma of wine suddenly permeated the entire hall and private room, and the enthusiasm of the banquet was pushed up a few points, and by this time, Wang Lin and the others no longer cared about comparing their own restaurant with Mochizuki Tower, so they ate and drank enough first.

In the No. 1 box, Li Shimin drank three small glasses of wine in a row, and said with a ruddy face, "That kid has a lot of good things to hide, but I think that as long as there are too few thirds of this restaurant." ”

The eldest grandson nodded and said, "This person's talent is in this way of growth, but with him in hand, we will not worry about making money in the future, but if there is another project, I will pay attention to the distribution of benefits." ”

When Empress Changsun was talking to Li Shimin, the other concubines generally did not dare to interject, but through the conversation between the two of them, several concubines also knew Sun Xiangfu's talent and kept it in their hearts.

The scene of eating and drinking in front of the hall is warm, and the back of the stage is doing the final preparations of tension, as mentioned earlier, mastering the hot public opinion of the society is a kind of power, so Sun Xiangfu will also use this opportunity to develop this power, spend a lot of money to buy cotton, and it is also useful to make clothes, cotton clothes are more warm and warm, and it is a weapon for the people and the army to fight against the cold winter, he wants to promote the trend of wearing cotton clothes in Datang, after the spring of next year, he is ready to cultivate all the hundreds of catties of cottonseed in the warehouse and plant it. A large amount of cotton is produced, so the waiters in Wangjianglou wear cotton clothes and pants is only the first step, and on the stage, a variety of fashionable cotton clothes and costumes are the key to promoting this trend.

"Lady, you are so beautiful."

"Xianggong, you are so handsome."

After changing their clothes and putting on makeup, the two looked at each other affectionately in the background, and the dog food immediately killed several onlookers.

"All teams should pay attention, all arrive at the designated location within a quarter of an hour, and start the performance according to the usual rehearsal steps, so as not to make mistakes or omissions."

Uncle De, who was temporarily brought in to be the chief director, learned Sun Xiangfu's tone ten out of ten, these days he has also watched the rehearsal once, for this kind of drama, even no less than a few young people such as lawyer Pei, he never felt that he would be serious about a matter to this extent, in this quarter of an hour or so, he has already told the opening song and dance, the first two children to perform on stage, Sun Deshou and Zhao Ya seven or eight times, the two children who were not too nervous were a little nervous, this, Sun Deshou plays the little shepherd boy, and Zhao Ya plays the little white Suzhen, but it is only a two- or three-minute scene and a few lines.

In Pei Leng's No. 2 private room, Lawyer Pei, who patted his stomach after eating, looked at Pei Lone, who did not eat much, but was still unsatisfied with the table full of food, and said, "Dad, have you eaten enough, the time is almost up." ”

"What do you mean the hour is almost up? Are you cursing Lao Tzu to die? Pei Lin and his son usually talk like this, who called the personalities of these two fathers and sons, and lawyer Pei only has such a son.

"Well, the boy is saying that the time for the stage performance is almost up, and if you are full, you can go to the viewing seat by the windowsill with the little ladies and sit down."

Pei Lian's wife died early, but there were many concubines, hearing this, his face looked better, he was used to singing and dancing in Qinglou, usually with Li Yuan, the biggest pleasure was to watch singing and dancing, and even played the women's body feast, but he didn't think that the singing and dancing of Wangjianglou could be so good.

is similar to the situation in Pei Lian's private room, Cheng Chumo, who has watched the rehearsal, is urging several younger brothers and sisters who have eaten enough to go to the toilet, and tells them not to make noise to disturb everyone watching the play for a while, Yu Chi Baolin also pulled the old lady, sat on the fence of the private room near the stage, and held his younger brother Yu Chi Baoqing in his arms, as for those concubines of Yu Chi Gong, they could only go to the back row.

In Li Shimin's private room, Chun Tao came to a trip in person, and saw that the emperor and the concubines were full, so they asked them to move to the grandstand seats by the railing and sat down, which is less than ten meters away from the stage in a straight line, and can condescendingly see everything on the stage, if no one is noisy, the voice can be heard clearly, and after telling the chamberlain to pay attention to the younger prince and princess, Chun Tao ran to the backstage on the first floor and informed that the show could start.

The first layer of the curtain opened, and Sun Xiangfu, dressed as a scholar in a cotton robe, was standing on the edge of the stage, putting his right index finger between his lips, signaling everyone to silence, and only after the whole restaurant was quiet did he speak loudly, "Because the restaurant is too big and there are too many diners, in order to let everyone hear and see the singing and dancing on the stage, please silence the whole process in the process of watching the performance, don't move around, if you really look at the rise, please don't applaud at will, every time you change the background, there will be a small gap, You can clap your palms to show your love for the show, and it's best not to exceed the five-breath time, do you understand this rule? ”

"Understand ······" Offstage, the audience responded sparsely.

"Thank you for your support, next, there will be a twists and turns of the love story of a thousand-year-old snake demon on the stage, everything that happens on the stage is a play, please don't be surprised, don't take it seriously, don't ask questions, and wait until the performance is over, and then share and discuss with relatives and friends, warning, the cowardly, you can leave the scene first!"

Sun Xiangfu's joking tone caused a burst of laughter from the audience, but when he said this, it made the audience want to watch the performance even more, and basically no one admitted that he was timid and left the stage.

"Then, below, please enjoy the theme song and dance of the large-scale stage drama "The Legend of the White Snake"."