The sun is shining, the courtyard is full of spring,

The talented people gathered in front of Zhang's Mansion gradually dispersed because they couldn't make the next couplet,

"Good one, the sun is shining on the ninth day, and Brother Zhang has come up with another excellent couplet, now those talented people have to think about it for a while,"

Just as Young Master Zhang stepped forward and was about to step into the door, a hearty voice sounded from behind,

There is no need to look back, Zhang Baiyi can guess that the person who came must be Nan Zhuyu,

"Let Brother Nan smile," Zhang Baiyi turned around, and sure enough, Nan Zhuyu was walking alone,

The last genius in front of the house shook his head, and finally gave up and left,

Nan Zhuyu saw that there was no one around, and the disguised appearance of a humble gentleman suddenly broke down,

"Yesterday, I went to my grandmother's house to catch up with my relatives, I was bored to death, no, I just came back, I came to you, go, accompany me to drink two glasses," Nan Zhuyu dragged Master Zhang to the carriage not far away,

Zhang Baiyi has a bitter gourd face, he was blocked at the door by these talents before he entered the house, and he was finally solved and dragged away by you, what kind of sin did I create, how could it be so difficult to enter my own door. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The outer building is located at the southern foot of the lonely mountain of the West Lake, facing the beautiful mountains and rivers with light makeup. This famous restaurant with a long history of more than 100 years is known for "dining with delicious food and beautiful scenery" inside and outside Hangzhou, and has the reputation of the first floor in the south of the Yangtze River. Almost all of Hangzhou's famous dishes are the signature dishes here, and they are the benchmark of Hangzhou's food culture in the minds of the people.

Legend has it that the original outer building was "just a bungalow" and was a very inconspicuous lakeside shop. However, due to the fact that the owner of the shop is good at management, and he cooks good dishes based on fresh food from the lake, especially he attaches great importance to interacting with the literati, so that the literati in Hangzhou and Hangzhou take the drinking outside the building as the first choice when visiting the lake, so the business is becoming more and more prosperous, and the reputation is gradually spreading.

Now the building outside the building is open and atmospheric, and there are two dark red wooden signs hanging on the front two sides, and a couplet is written on the wooden card: "The wind and moon on the first floor should be drunk, and the ten miles of lakes and mountains are drunk,"

The couplet can reflect the characteristics of the building outside the building,

The first floor is consumed by ordinary people, and there is a terrace on the second floor, which is really refreshing and pleasant when viewed from the outside. However, the cost is also several times that of the first floor.

In a private room on the second floor of the outer building,

All kinds of delicacies have been placed on the table, Dongpo meat, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimp, West Lake Ulva soup, fried bells, and so on are all famous dishes.

"Brother Zhang, although the plates here are relatively small, and the number is indeed small, but the taste is excellent, and the workmanship is exquisite, it can be regarded as a finely crafted handicraft."

Young Master Zhang looked at these dishes, there is a plate called "Signature Fish Head" that is particularly conspicuous, and the rest are small plates, only this signature fish head uses a very large basin, it is better to say that it is a basin is more suitable~ The fish head is very large, it looks tender and tender, and there is no fish. The soup is estimated to have been burning for several hours, the soup is white, and it looks very nutritious~ with pepper, it is very delicious! There are also a lot of accessories in the soup, including small abalone and sea cucumber, as well as green vegetables and bamboo shoots."

"This dish is called a blue and white porcelain jar, and the fish balls are homemade by the chef outside the building, and they taste like they are eating tofu, so tender! Don't look at this dish as inconspicuous, but it costs ten taels of silver. Ordinary people may not be able to eat for the rest of their lives. Nan Zhuyu introduced Zhang Baiyi,

Ten taels of silver for a dish, converted into RMB is six or seven thousand yuan, a dish is worth so much silver, in the current society can be described as a sky-high price.

But if you think about it carefully, it's also very reasonable, in my own time, someone talked about hundreds of thousands of meals for a meal, but it was a small thing compared to it.

Shocked to shocked, Young Master Zhang has still seen the world, and soon calmed down,

Seeing the shock in Zhang Baiyi's eyes, Nan Zhuyu smiled proudly, "But today, these are all free,"

"Free?" Zhang Baiyi was surprised,

"Yes, this meal is specially invited by the young owner of the building outside the building, and it is also stained with Brother Zhang's light." Nan Zhuyu said with a smile,

"But I don't know the young owner of the building?" Young Master Zhang was puzzled,

"The young owner of the building outside the building is interested in getting to know Brother Zhang, so he set up a dinner here, and asked someone to ask me to introduce him,"

Zhang Baiyi looked at Nan Zhuyu seriously, no wonder he behaved a little strangely today, it turned out that he was a lobbyist,

"Look at the hour, he must be almost there," Nan Zhuyu said as he looked at the sky,

As soon as the words fell, a crisp knock sounded outside the door,

"Here," Nan Zhuyu pointed out the door, and hurriedly got up to open the door.

The door was opened, and a handsome boy stepped in,

After simply saying hello to Nan Zhuyu, the young owner walked straight to Zhang Baiyi,

Standing still, Shi Li said: "Si Tingxuan, the young owner who is downstairs and downstairs, presumably this is Zhang Baiyi Zhang Gongzi, who is really as handsome and chic as rumored, and he can feel the temperament exuded by Brother Zhang from a long distance, which is really talented." ”

is worthy of being the young owner of the restaurant, and he pulled the son to the brother in one sentence, but this eloquence shows that this person is a character, and this sycophancy...... It's so comfortable to shoot,

In an instant, Young Master Zhang had a good impression of Si Tingxuan,

"Brother Si has won the award, the rumors in the market are really wrong, and those that are circulating outside are just a little bit of merit in the lower body, which is really not enough to worry about." Young Master Zhang got up and said modestly,

Si Tingxuan was stunned, thinking that Zhang Baiyi wanted to be modest and polite, but he didn't expect him to be really "modest".

"Haha~ Brother Zhang is really funny,"

The three of them each found a place to sit down,

"I wonder what you two think of the food outside my building, but it's delicious?"

"It's delicious, it's delicious," Nan Zhuyu praised, "especially this plate of West Lake vinegar fish tastes tender and delicious, with crab flavor, tender and sweet and sour." ”

"Brother Nan really knows the goods, the West Lake vinegar fish is a traditional local flavor dish in Hangzhou, with the West Lake grass carp as raw materials, the fish is not more than a foot, the weight is not more than half a catty, after slaughtering and cleaning up the Wo to boiling soup, cooked that is, the pot is cooked, poured on a layer of smooth and oily sweet and sour, the pectoral fin is erected, speaking of which the West Lake vinegar fish and Song sister-in-law fish soup is also quite related,"

There is still a history of a dish, and Young Master Zhang was also interested, and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

This also starts with the "Song Sister-in-law Fish Soup" in Hangzhou a hundred years ago.

Song Wu's sister-in-law, a famous female chef of the people, Gaozu took a dragon boat to the West Lake, once tasted its fish soup, and praised it, so her reputation was greatly boosted, and she was regarded as the "ancestor" of the fish. Since then, Song's sister-in-law fish soup has become famous all over the world. Later, it was renovated by famous hands, and it became two famous dishes of West Lake vinegar fish and Song sister-in-law fish soup, which have been passed down to this day. ”

Master Zhang and the two of them looked at these two dishes from a new perspective, but they didn't expect that a small dish would have such a history.

"This plate of dry fried bells is also very good to eat, come Brother Zhang, you can also taste it," Nan Zhuyu picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, "Quack--~ Quack" and chewed it,

Zhang Baiyi picked up a piece as if in his mouth, chewed it twice and couldn't help but praise: "The color is yellow and bright, and the fragrance is beautiful." Not bad. ”

Speaking of this plate of dry fried bells, it takes a lot of effort to make, the dish is made of Sixiang tofu skin rolled in fine minced meat, cut into inch segments, and fried. Because the tofu skin is as thin as cicada wings, and the dish is crisp like a bell when eating, it is called a dry fried bell, at first this dish is very ordinary, and then it is appreciated, and it has to come to the fore. ”

"Brother Si, isn't there any origin of this dish!" Nan Zhuyu joked,

Si Tingxuan smiled slightly and said: "Brother Nan is really wise, speaking of this plate of dry fried bells, there is really a origin, according to legend, there is a hero in a restaurant who ordered this dish to drink, but unfortunately the oil bean skin required in the raw materials has just run out of oil and bean skin this day, but this hero has the tendency to never give up until he reaches his goal." When I heard that the fried bean skin was customized in Sixiang, I immediately returned to the store and whipped the prancing horse and took the tofu skin back from there. The restaurant was so moved by his love for this dish that they cooked it with great care and made it into a horse bell-shaped.

Later, this matter spread and became a good story, so later generations changed the name of this dish to "dry fried bell". ”

"Haha~ Interesting, interesting," Nan Zhuyu laughed,

"Patronizing it, it's really rude, come, Ting Xuan salutes the two of you with a glass,"

Si Tingxuan picked up the wine glass and drank it all,