Chapter 45: The Frozen Cellar
"Which restaurant? How do you still sell dumpling filling? Because of his intelligence work, Lu Qin habitually and vigilantly asked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The old man squatted, squinted into the pipe, knocked it, blew it again, lit it, and said, "Oh, not far away, it is the big lantern restaurant diagonally opposite, which was later changed to an inn, and this has become a restaurant again." The brand has not yet been decided, saying that the name will be changed, and the food will be sold as usual in the morning. But the dumplings never tasted good. ”
The old man chirped his pipe and slurped. But his stomach began to bulge. The nearby shops were closed, and I only remembered to buy dumpling fillings for my deceased son, and I was too busy to buy a nest to fill my stomach, so I only drank a few sips of cold water.
"Then this old man, have you eaten at noon?" Lu Qin, he heard the old man's stomach purring.
The old man said embarrassedly: "I'm busy today, I haven't eaten anything, I sold two more livestock this morning, saved some money, and prepared to take my son's bones back to my hometown." Keep the house for now, and wait and see what happens. ”
Lu Qin responded to the old man with a smile of comfort, and then asked Gao Dadou, the chef of the Dai family: "Is there any food in this inn?" Did you eat at noon? ”
"Yes, there are a lot of beef meatballs, dumplings, and other miscellaneous items for the opening the day after tomorrow. The dumplings were frozen with cold ice cubes according to the ancestral secret recipe. Frozen cellar in the backyard of my inn kitchen. It turned out to be in the open air, and my lord built a shed for fear of pollution or something, and the small door here is directly connected, so you can go through directly. In fact, where is the ice, it is getting hotter and hotter these days, and the ice cubes have long since turned into ice water. The chef is tall and talkative, and he said with a smile as if he had found a confidant, and he seemed to be an understanding person.
"Frozen cellars? How does it work? "Lu Qin seems to be interested." How can you cool down? ”
Dadou laughed: "You are so stupid, the ice cellar is not far from the groundwater well, it is deep enough." The surface temperature is thirty degrees, and there are only a few degrees Celsius. In the summer, my grandfather always asked us to come here to fetch water and make him ice water to drink. It tastes great with a little sugar. How can I help the original head of the household, Boss Zhu, I don't know, we spent money to get water, and he didn't give it. It wasn't until later, when he was penniless, that he gave up this land. It's still my lord's benevolence and righteousness, and when he bought here, he didn't think about some water here. This inn has been bought for three years, and this is not the only way to do business. ”
The tall man chattered, as if he was upset for his master. He picked up a huge bamboo basket: "Let's go, Lu Qin, go down to the cellar and help me take out some food." We still have to eat and drink at noon, bring some for the old man, and let your kid have a meal by the way. My tall and big fight is not in vain, the ancestors of the Dai family like to eat the food cooked by my family. It turned out that I had been staying at his house and there was no such thing as a world to show my superb cooking skills. ”
"you." The two were about to make a detour to the kitchen door of the cellar, and Lu Qin smiled: "How old are you?" Lu Qin looked at the fat cook's tall bucket, his oily face that couldn't see wrinkles, and he really looked younger.
Unexpectedly, there is still fog nearby, and there is still a backyard kitchen, so it is impossible to get there immediately. As they walked, they fanned to avoid the fog leaking through the cracks in the shed. Luckily, most of them were blocked and scattered over the shed. The principle of this small shed really aroused the interest of Lu Qin.