The name of this restaurant is "Feiran", covering an area of about 15 acres, the decoration is mainly plain and elegant, and the food and accommodation are all involved, and it is a well-known restaurant in Anhui County.

Since I had already missed breakfast and it was not time for lunch, there were only a few customers in the restaurant. The owner of the restaurant is a young couple - the husband's surname is Tang, who is mainly responsible for the shopping in the store; His wife's surname is Lu, and she is mainly responsible for the hospitality in the store.

"Your guest's room, please."

When the Lu family saw the second lady of the Qiao family coming, they led them to sit in the private room.

In the center of the private room, there is a square table of three feet and three inches, and around the table, there are exquisite banquets in all directions, and on the left side of each banquet, there are two rolls of bamboo slips of different thicknesses. In addition, to the south of the table, on the copper stove ten feet away, there was still a faint sandalwood.

"What do you want to eat—soup cake or porridge?" Lui said.

"Porridge." They spoke in unison.

"On the left side of the feast, the slightly heavy bamboo slip is the list of porridge sold in our store." Lui said.

"White dew is frost, soak the rice field ......"

Zhou Yu followed the guidance of the shopkeeper, picked up the slightly heavier bamboo slip and unfolded it, only to find that what was written on the bamboo slip was either a good sentence in the "Book of Songs" or some unfathomable rhetoric.

Zhou Yu watched it for a long time, and finally picked out a porridge name, and said: "'Wei Ji Wei Zhen' is from "Daya Shengmin". Strawberry, black millet; The straw contains two grains of millet in one shell. Literally, this porridge should be a millet porridge made from rice and straw. ”

"Exactly." Lui said.

Finding out the routine of the "Book of Songs" named porridge, Zhou Yu stared at the rhetoric of "Bowang Hou Zhushi" again, and said: "Bowang Hou is the Han envoy Zhang Qian. Legend has it that when Zhang Qian was not out of office, he once got Wenqu Xing into a dream and said: "The day you see black rice, that is, the time when you are out of office." Since then, Zhang Qian has often paid attention to the fields. Three years later, Zhang Qian finally met black rice in a rice field somewhere. It was also that year that Zhang Qian was able to become an official. Therefore, 'Bowang Hou Chushi' should be black rice porridge. ”

Lu Shi nodded, replied "Exactly", and said, "Distinguished guests, please order." ”

"Fubo Zhu." They said in unison.

The repeated tacit understanding made Xiao Qiao shyly bow his head. Seeing this scene, Lu Shi covered his handsome face with his sleeves, said "Distinguished guest wait", and slowly withdrew.

"At present, the season is autumn, and the hair and skin are slightly dry, so eat some maintenance."

"After traveling overnight, a lot of moisture has accumulated in the body, so I eat some conditioning."

This Fubo bead is actually barley porridge.

According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo, was ordered to go on an expedition to Jiaozhi, but because there were many miasma in the south, the whole army was infected with dampness. Later, under the guidance of the doctor, the whole army began to eat barley, a specialty of the south, to relieve dampness. In October, the whole army was cured. When the war was over and Ma Yuan led the army back to the division, he returned to Luoyang with a cart of barley. At that time, most of the subjects of Luoyang did not know barley, and thought that it was a treasure brought back from the south by Ma Yuan. When Ma Yuan was alive, he was the emperor's favored minister, so no one dared to say more. After Ma Yuan's death, some political enemies used this to frame Ma Yuan for not being a minister during his lifetime. After many twists and turns, the grievances were revealed.

The name of barley porridge is Fubozhu, which is the allusion behind the coix pearl.

During the conversation, Lu Shi had already brought two bowls of barley porridge and said, "This is made according to Miss Qiao's taste, and the son may not be used to it." ”

Zhou Yu glanced at the barley porridge and found that there was nothing unusual on the surface, so he took the bowl and picked up the spoon to scoop some taste. After taking this bite, he immediately tasted the difference in the porridge - the taste of this bowl of porridge was much sweeter than ordinary barley porridge.

If ordinary people eat this bowl of barley porridge, it will be unbearably sweet, but Zhou Yu, who also loves sweets, said: "It's delicious." ”

"As expected." Lu Shi muttered.

It turned out that Zhou Yu's barley porridge was also made into an extremely sweet taste, which was deliberately done by the Lu family. The reason why the Lu family did this was to see if they even had a tacit understanding of the taste of food.

"This porridge has achieved a very good name, who is so attentive?" Zhou Yu opened the topic while eating.

"It's my father-in-law. Wait for your guest, and I will call him. ”

Lu Shi took the tray and retreated.

When he was young, Mr. Deng entered the private room and said, "In Xia Dengdang, what is the matter with me?" ”

"Next Zhou Yu."

He saw that Deng Dang was dressed elegantly and talked extraordinarily, quite like a hermit, so he tentatively said: "Those who are outstanding are also outstanding." can be named porridge with the good sentences of the Book of Songs and allusions from previous dynasties, and Mr. deserves the word brilliant. With the brilliance of Mr. Learning, he was born in a scholarly family or an official family. ”

Deng Dang was stunned at first, and then said with a smile: "Childe said that he was joking, Deng Dang is an ordinary restaurant owner, an ordinary ordinary person." ”

Although Deng Dang pretended to be calm, his momentary stunned revealed his mood. At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" outside the door. When everyone heard the sound and searched for it, they found that it was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy who knocked over the inkstone in the study.

"You kid, you knocked over the inkstone again, if I don't clean you up today, I won't be your eldest sister."

Lu Shi shouted as he rolled up his sleeves and posed as if he was going to hit someone.

Seeing this, the young man shouted "Eldest sister spare my life", hid behind Xiao Qiao, pulled the corner of Xiao Qiao's clothes and said, "Sister Qiao save me, Sister Qiao save me!" ”

Xiao Qiao stretched out his hand to protect Lu Meng and said, "Sister Lu, Amon didn't mean to, you can spare him." ”

"This is the seventh time in a month that he has knocked over the inkstone."

"For the seventh time!"

Xiao Qiao was speechless, so he had to stand still.

Zhou Yu was very interested in this matter, so he discussed with the Lu family: "Can I have a casual conversation with Lu Meng?" ”

"Childe, please." Lui said.

Zhou Yu leaned down and said, "My name is Zhou Yu, you can call me Brother Zhou." You told Brother Zhou, why did you knock over the inkstone seven times in a month? ”

"Alas!"

Lu Meng sighed: "I don't like to read and write, but my eldest sister and brother-in-law force me to read and write all day long. Every time I read, I can't help but feel sleepy, every time I fall asleep, my hands can't stop moving, and every time I move, I often knock over the inkstone. ”

Zhou Yu walked to the bookcase, picked up a few books and flipped through them, put down the books again, returned to Lu Meng's side, and said, "Tell Brother Zhou, what do you like to do?" ”

Lu Meng didn't think about it, so he blurted out: "I like to practice martial arts, and my ideal is to be a general." ”

"Then my brother asks you again, do you want to be a general, do you want to give orders to the emperor, do you want to give orders to your generals? Do you need to be able to write if you want to play and give orders? ”

"Yes, not ......"

Lu Meng snorted.

"Did you hear what your brother Zhou said?"

"Amon, as long as you want to do something in the future, you can't escape reading and writing."

Deng Dang and his wife taught Lu Meng a lesson together.

"Don't worry, listen to me." Zhou Yu said, "However, elegant works such as "The Book of Songs" and "Analects" do not seem to be what Lu Meng should read. ”

Deng Dang didn't agree with Zhou Yu's words, he said "oh" and said, "What about the opinion of the son?" ”

Zhou Yu saw Deng Dang's displeasure, but out of the truth of "teaching students according to their aptitude", Zhou Yu still said: "If Lu Meng is dedicated to joining the army, he has no intention of being among the literary classes, nor is he a general who is both civil and military, and he only needs 3,000 commonly used words to read, and only a few history books and military books are needed to understand reason." The time saved in this way can be used for him to practice martial arts. ”

Maybe Zhou Yu was too much in charge, so he only heard Deng Dang "snort" and said: "Lu Meng is my brother-in-law, how to educate, I don't have to worry about Zhou Gongzi." After saying that, Deng Dang brushed his sleeves and left.

Lu Shi said "Son, forgive me", and pulled Lu Meng to follow Deng Dang's footsteps.

Looking at their departing backs, Zhou Yu just acted as if nothing had happened, and said, "Let's continue to eat." ”

Xiao Qiao Waner smiled, echoed the sentence "continue to eat", and returned to the private room with him.

At the same time, Deng Dang, who was just right, went to the back garden in the depths of the restaurant.

Only a moment later, Lu Shi and Lu Meng also followed.

Under a huge camphor tree in the back garden, Lu Meng knelt down and said, "Eldest sister, brother-in-law, Amon is wrong. ”

Deng Dang didn't speak, just "giggled" and laughed. Lu Shi also smiled with a smile, helped his younger brother, and said, "Today's inkstone, you really hit the right one." ”

"Eldest sister, Amon doesn't dare anymore." Lu Meng bowed his head and said.

Lu Shi touched his younger brother's head and said, "I really don't blame you this time", and then talked to Lu Meng about the difficulty of Shicai: "Shicai, that Brother Zhou......"

It turns out that Deng Dang's identity is indeed more than just the owner of a restaurant. For some reason, Deng Dang didn't want to reveal his identity in front of Zhou Yu. Shicai, if it weren't for Lu Meng overturning the inkstone, Deng Dang would probably still be wasting his tongue in the private room at this moment.

Hearing his sister's words, Lu Meng was finally relieved. He said hello to his sister and brother-in-law, and went to a horse farm on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city.

Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao returned to the private room, and for a while they were silent, each eating barley porridge. Both sides were waiting for the other to speak first, but neither was willing to open the deadlock themselves. It wasn't until the barley porridge was exhausted that Zhou Yu said: "The reason why I violated the way of being a guest and talked about Deng Dang's family affairs at will was that in addition to speaking for Lu Meng, I also gave Deng Dang a reason to get out." ”

"The reason for getting out?"

He was wary of the world, so he didn't want to show his true identity. Shicai is in the study, even if I don't provoke him, he will leave under the pretext of excuses. That being the case, it is better to send a favor and say a few good words for Lu Meng. ”

"I have heard others mention that Mr. Deng is not from Anhui County, he is a native of Nanyang Xinye. During the Yellow Turban Uprising, Nanyang was affected by the war, and Deng Dang moved his family south for refuge. In Anhui County, he met the Lu family.

The Lu family was originally from Runan Fupi. Later, because of the spread of the Yellow Turban Uprising, they moved to settle in Anhui County.

After Deng Dang and Lui came into contact, they liked each other quite a lot, and they got married. Deng Dang also stayed in Anhui County and opened this restaurant.

"New savage, new savage...... Zhou Yu muttered, "Hmph, in the near future, I will let him tell his identity in person." ”

"Looks like you've got a plan." Little Joe said.

Zhou Yu seemed to reveal a trace of curiosity in her words, so he joked with her: "When I was young, you accompanied me to enjoy it, and I told you Mr. Deng's true identity." ”

Xiao Qiao pouted, threw down the sentence "Do you like to say it or not", then stood up and put on a posture of brushing his sleeves and leaving.

"Wait. Tell you, okay......"

Zhou Yu grabbed Xiao Qiao, leaned over to her and whispered a few words, who would have thought that she would say, "Really? ”

"Naturally, take it seriously." Zhou Yu said, "I lied to you, what good is it for me." ”

"Even if you don't say it, I will accompany you on a tour of Anhui County."

Xiao Qiao hid his face and smiled, and walked out of the private room.

"You, this girl ......"

Zhou Yu touched his forehead, blinked his eyes, and walked out.

At the checkout, they were received by a maid of the Deng family.

Two bowls of barley porridge were originally only worth a hundred yuan. However, Zhou Yu took out a tael of gold worth 10,000 yuan from the money bag and said, "Give it to your master and say that I will come again." ”

As soon as they left, the maid found Deng Dang and transferred the gold and words together. Deng Dang took the gold and looked at it carefully, only to find that the back of this piece of gold was faintly engraved with the word "Zhou". The font of the word "Zhou" is not the most popular official script in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but a small seal under the Qin Dynasty's "book with text" policy. The moment he saw the word "Zhou", Deng Dang seemed to understand something, so he put away the gold and ordered the maid to retreat.