Section 2: Chengdong Branch

During the chat, they had come to the east of Anhui County.

At this moment, the sun was almost noon, and Zhou Yu felt hungry, so he began to pay attention to the restaurants on the street.

Walking and walking, a very large restaurant gradually appeared in front of their eyes.

Zhou Yu took a closer look and found that the word "Feiran" was written on the banner of the restaurant, and he couldn't help asking: "Why is this restaurant also called Feiran?" ”

"The owner of this restaurant is also the Deng family, and the Deng family has two restaurants in Anhui County, and it is Mr. Deng's parents who are now taking care of this restaurant." Little Joe said.

"It's noon, let's go get something to eat." Zhou Yu said.

The environment and dishes of the restaurant are much better than those of other restaurants, which is what Xiao Qiao likes. She nodded and said, "Well, just eat here and carry me off the horse." ”

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment and said, "Shicai is in the bazaar, didn't you get off the horse by yourself?" ”

"Huh? Have it? ”

Before Zhou Yu could reply, Xiao Qiao looked sad and said, "Do you hug it or not!" ”

"Hug, hug ......"

Zhou Yu muttered and stood on the ground with Xiao Qiao in his arms.

"Bold lewd thief, let go of Sister Qiao!"

A high-pitched shout, mixed with the sound of slumping horses' hooves, echoed through the air of the street. Looking back, I saw Lu Meng riding a horse.

Before Zhou Yu could speak, Lu Meng jumped off the horse and punched him in the chest.

Perhaps thinking that Lu Meng was aggressive, Zhou Yu subconsciously took a step back sideways, and happened to dodge this heavy punch.

"You still dare to hide!"

Lu Meng shouted, and his backhand was another punch.

This time Zhou Yu was on guard, he first dodged the punch like a spinning top, went around behind Lu Meng, and then grabbed Lu Meng's other balanced hand with lightning speed. Lu Meng immediately changed his fist to a palm, trying to strike backwards with all his might, but he didn't want to be caught by Zhou Yu again.

"Let me go, you whore!"

Lu Meng struggled.

"It was your sister Qiao who asked me to carry her off the horse."

Lu Meng turned his head, looked at Zhou Yu with disdain, and said, "Hugh has to quibble, Sister Qiao can ride a horse!" ”

"What a word! Why are you so sure? ”

Under Zhou Yu's questioning, Lu Mengcai said bluntly: "Half a month ago, I personally taught Sister Qiao to ride a horse. ”

"This kid, Hugh is causing trouble for my sister." Xiao Qiao said, "Half a month ago, Amon taught me, but he didn't teach well, I didn't learn. ”

"Sister Joe, you ......"

Halfway through Lu Meng's words, Xiao Qiao squeezed his eyes and whispered, "It's my talent and stupidity, I don't blame you." ”

"That's it, that's it!"

Lu Meng shook his head and said, "Let go of me." ”

Zhou Yu neither let go nor spoke, he just looked at Xiao Qiao with gentle eyes, as if he was asking for her opinion.

"He's still young and ignorant, so just let him go."

Under Xiao Qiao's plea, Zhou Yu let go of his hand.

Everything that happened just now made the young Lu Meng a little resentful, and he still said, "Let the thief teach you to ride a horse," so he tied his mount to the horse stake on the side of the road, and flicked his sleeves into the fragrant restaurant.

At this moment, at the door of the huge restaurant, only Shuang and Yu were left looking at each other.

"Uh-huh." Zhou Yu said, "In the future, as long as I am by your side, the stirrup will be just an ornament for you." ”

Xiao Qiao walked up to him, looked up and down, stretched out his little finger happily, and said, "Okay, do what you say!" ”

"Okay, do what you say."

Zhou Yu stretched out his little finger, ticked Xiao Qiao, and said, "Let's go in and eat!" ”

She was slightly stunned and said, "If you don't tie the horse, aren't you afraid that Piao'er will get lost?" ”

"Piao'er is not ordinary, even if there is no horse stake as a restraint, he will not run around at will."

He dragged Little Joe into the restaurant.

What they went to was still the private room of the restaurant. They were received by Deng Dang's mother: "What do you want to eat?" ”

Zhou Yu opened the bamboo slip and found that the names of the dishes on it were also some unfathomable words. He looked back and forth, put down the bamboo slip, and said, "Shuang'er, what do you want to eat?" ”

"I don't care, just look at it."

Zhou Yu picked up the bamboo slip again, and after careful consideration, he finally put down the bamboo slip and said: "Xijia turtle carp, Ximen no wine, cannon Hanyin, pick sunflower for soup, and bait for honey." ”

"Wait, both of you."

After Mother Deng left, Xiao Qiao said, "Do you know what these things are?" ”

"This 'turtle carp' refers to steamed soft-shelled turtle and raw carp fillet. This dish comes from the 'Braised Turtle Carp' in "The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, June". "June" is a poem by Yin Jifu, the monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, on the Northern Expedition of Xuanli. The word 'Xijia' in the name of the dish is Yin Jifu's name and name, and the word 'turtle carp' in the name of the dish is steamed soft-shelled turtle and raw carp fillet.

This 'Simon no wine' refers to roast beef. This dish comes from the poem "Ximen Xing" in my dynasty, "drink alcohol, burn fat cow". In "Ximen Xing", when it comes to eating, there are only these two sentences, since there is no wine, then only the fat cow is left.

This 'cannon sound' refers to simmering roast chicken. The word cannon, the meaning of simmering and roasting; Hanyin, another name for chicken.

This 'picking sunflower and holding the soup' refers to the winter sunflower soup. This dish comes from my poem "Fifteen Conscriptions".

This 'honey bait' refers to sweet flour cakes and honey rice cakes. This dish is from "Chu Ci: The Conjuring". ”

Just for the time of talking, the handyman put the angular bronze utensils on the table and said, "Guest officer, please use it slowly." ”

These delicate utensils contain: a steamed soft-shelled turtle, 20 delicate carp fillets, 10 small pieces of fatty roast beef, a simmered roast chicken, a thick pot of winter sunflower, a large piece of sliced sweet dough, and four pieces of fluffy honey rice cake. There is also a small plate of mustard and shrimp paste next to the utensils for the carp fillets, and a sharp boning knife next to the utensils for simmering the roast chicken.

"You're right." Little Joe said.

Zhou Yu picked up the chopsticks, sandwiched a piece of fish tart, dipped some shrimp paste and put it in Xiao Qiao's bowl, and said, "It doesn't matter if you guess right or not, what matters is whether you like to eat it or not." ”

Xiao Qiao lowered his head, blocked the corners of his snickering mouth with his fingers, and said, "As long as you order it, I love to eat it." However, I don't understand one thing, ordinary people eat fish and love to dip it in mustard, why did you dip it in shrimp paste? ”

"My taste is similar to yours, so I dipped it in shrimp paste. If you don't like it, I'll make it new for you. ”

With that, he picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish tart, and stretched it out to the saucer with mustard.

Before he could dip it in mustard, Xiao Qiao stopped him with a "hey": "Who said I don't like to eat!" ”

She picked up the fish in the bowl and said, "The mustard is spicy, not what I want; The shrimp paste is fresh and fragrant, just what I want. With that, she ate the fish in one bite.

"Eat slowly, don't choke."

Zhou Yu dipped the fish in shrimp paste again, put it to her mouth, and said, "Eat another piece." ”

This is the first time she has been fed something by someone else since she can remember, and she is also the person she likes. She blushed suddenly, bowed her head and muttered, "I'll do it myself." ”

Zhou Yu didn't speak, he just waited quietly with the fish tartle.

When I was young, I saw Xiao Qiao squirm and raise his head, slowly loosen his lips, vaguely show his teeth, and eat the fish in small bites. Then, she also picked up chopsticks, picked up a piece of roast beef, stretched it out to Zhou Yu's mouth, and said, "Try this, this beef is very tender." ”

"Since you love to eat frost, you can't go wrong with the taste."

He bit down on the beef in his mouth, and savored it between his teeth for a long time with an emotionless face, until Xiao Qiao asked expectantly, "Is it delicious?" ”

"Whew!"

Xiao Qiao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Look at your suitable appearance, it's just that it's not delicious." ”

"No, no, I'm just a little confused." Zhou Yu said, "The roasted beef here is made of the best beef tenderloin. Pepper, ginger, garlic, sugar, etc., are also among the seasoning ingredients. However, in addition to the above-mentioned clouds, there seems to be a hidden taste in this roasted beef that has never touched the tongue. ”

"Well, that's good." Xiao Qiao nodded, looked at the bamboo slip next to the table and said, "Look at the price of this dish." ”

Zhou Yu picked up the bamboo slips full of dishes, started from the beginning, and said, "Five thousand yuan!" The other six dishes add up to only 4,000 yuan. ”

"In Anhui County, a restaurant of the same size, the same amount of roasted beef, is generally only 500 yuan. The reason why the price of the roasted beef here is ten times that it is because a rare condiment is added to the roasted beef. ”

"What's more?"

"I can't name it."

Xiao Qiao pointed to the only trace of lilac left in the utensil, and said, "This is it, a round, purple thing." ”

Zhou Yu stretched out his hand and twisted the purple fines, and said, "Just this silk, it costs four thousand five hundred yuan?" ”

"It is said that this product is produced in the Western Regions, and it is not cultivated in our dynasty, so it takes thousands of miles to obtain it, so it is expensive. I gave it a code name 'Purple Ball'. ”

The 'purple ball' in Xiao Qiao's mouth is an onion native to Central and West Asia. As early as when Zhang Qian opened up the Silk Road, onions were already cultivated in the Western Regions. However, at that time, Zhang Qian did not introduce the method of onion cultivation to the Central Plains. Therefore, even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, onions were still little known in the Central Plains, and the price was very expensive.

Zhou Yu sighed, "No wonder", looked at the simmered roast chicken again, and said: "This way of eating simmering roast chicken is also quite Beirong charm." ”

He picked up the boning knife next to the simmering chicken and cut the chicken in fine pieces. Maybe it's the sharpness of the deboning knife, or the softness of the simmering chicken, but with just a single stroke, the blade has passed through the chicken and sliced through the hard bones. He pulled out his knife, sliced the chicken thighs in small pieces, placed them in the empty space of the utensils, and said, "You eat first, and I'll slice them slowly for you." ”

"I'm not hungry." Xiao Qiao shook his head and said, "When you finish the film, we will eat together." ”

Zhou Yu kept slicing the roast chicken, while looking up at Xiao Qiao, and said, "You eat first, be obedient." ”

"If you don't eat it, I won't eat it either." Little Joe insisted.

Zhou Yu said, "I really can't help you", and then opened his mouth and said, "Then let's eat together." ”

Xiao Qiao lowered his head, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly stood up and walked to the opposite side to sit down. She picked up the chopsticks in front of her, picked up a piece of chicken, and did not eat it herself. When she ate the second piece of meat, she blushed and said, "In this way, does it count as you kissing me?" ”

Xiao Qiao's question came too suddenly, which made Zhou Yu a little at a loss, and he was stunned for a while as if he was frozen. After a while, after deep thought, he finally spoke: "If you think it's counted, then it's counted; Qing thinks it doesn't count, then it doesn't count. ”

Xiao Qiao nodded, "um" agreed, then turned his head, looked at the steamed soft-shelled turtle, and said: "Although the turtle meat is old, the cook's skills are not bad, try a piece first, okay?" ”

"Hmm."

Xiao Qiao opened the shell of the soft-shelled turtle, picked a relatively rotten piece, and fed it to Zhou Yu to eat.

"Not bad." Zhou Yu said, "You eat too, don't always take care of me." ”

Half an hour later, the simmering roast chicken was only a craggy skeleton, but the pot of winter sunflower soup did not move at all.

"Pingsuri, cute egg custard?"

"I don't love to eat, but I don't exclude it."

"Where's the tofu soup?"

"Love to eat."

"Mustard soup?"

"Never eat."

"Stir-fried mustard greens."

"Eat."

"yes, I see."

"Oh? What do you understand? ”

"I'm not going to order any more vegetable soup."

He handed him a piece of honey rice cake and said, "You have a sweet tooth, and this is specially ordered for you." ”

When they finished dessert, they found Dundown's mother to settle the bill. At the checkout, Zhou Yu still used one or two gold engraved with the word "Zhou" in the seal style. In a hurry, he only left the words "there will be a period later", and took Xiao Qiao's hand and walked out of the restaurant.

Deng Mu accepted the gold, but did not look at it much, and did not find the inscription on the gold bar.