Chapter 90: After expressing His Royal Highness the heart of King Qi, Sun Hou, a guest of all kinds, did not say anything and left quickly.

Xia Shang was busy all afternoon, and the evening meal was finally ready.

Dinner is still based on the principle of rice, with diced soybean and pork as the main dish, braised tofu as the vegetarian dish, and sour radish temporarily bought from the private house to make it a simple, refreshing and filling meal.

In order to meet the needs of more people, a lot of dishes were prepared in the evening, which was fully double that of the noon.

At dusk, there were really a lot of guests waiting outside, and after seeing the Fang brothers bringing out the food, they rushed in. Xia Shang collected the money one by one at the door, his face full of joy.

Among these guests are neighbors, but there are also visitors from other places, whether farmers or merchants, they will choose to come here to try it.

There were all kinds of people in the hall.

In the corner, the shopkeeper Hu Beihu, who was fragrant and delicious all over the world, wore simple clothes, lowered his official hat, and sat opposite the spies he sent at noon. His gaze stopped in front of the meal in front of him, and then swept over the surrounding guests, his expression solemn.

The spy on the opposite side was very relaxed, looking at the food in front of him with a disdainful expression: "Shopkeeper, how can you fight with us with such a meal?" Twenty wen per person, even those untouchables patronize it, and it is not possible to go to a small restaurant for a lifetime. ”

"You know what you know? Look at how many guests are there? It's night, who can have such a guest at night? Even the flower building of Yong'an Canal has never been so lively. A person has twenty yuan, and at the end of a day, there are more than a dozen taels of silver in the account. And although our fragrant food is expensive, it is by no means every day that there is such a business, there are a few days a month that does not enter half a cent, and if you calculate carefully, this store is not much different from us every month. ”

"Shopkeeper, you're too alarmist, aren't you? This has just opened, there are many fresh people, and it is natural that business is good, and there will naturally not be so many people after a while. ”

Shopkeeper Hu stroked his beard and nodded slightly: "I hope so." ”

As he spoke, he also picked up the chopsticks: "Let's also taste how it tastes." ”

At a table not far from the shopkeeper Hu, three people ordered four servings and just occupied a table.

Although these three people are dressed as civilians, their manners and actions are by no means ordinary people, especially the woman at the table, whose movements are elegant and noble, and even the chopsticks have to be held on to the sleeve with one hand, leaning forward slightly, and gently pulling out the chopsticks. And the two middle-aged men beside him waited for the woman to take out the chopsticks before they moved.

Then he waited for the woman to pick up the bowl and then took it too.

The rice in the bowl was mixed, and a man shook his head: "Rice is rice, and vegetables are vegetables, how can they be mixed?" It's really unseemly. Your Royal Highness, you can't eat it. ”

"When I came, I already said that this palace is just an ordinary woman now. If others can eat it, why can't this palace eat it? ”

If Xia Shang is here, it is not difficult to find that the woman who spoke is Princess Runan who appeared at the Saijia banquet that day, at this time she took off her gorgeous attire, and the simple folk clothes matched her elegant and ordinary appearance surprisingly matched, without the burden of gold and silver, but made Her Royal Highness the princess more beautiful.

And the middle-aged man who talked to the princess was Jia Yu, the head of the imperial dining room.

As for the other middle-aged man, he was sturdy and had a murderous aura in his eyes that was difficult to hide, and it was not difficult to guess that it should be the general in charge of the princess's security or something.

Facing Her Royal Highness the Princess's rhetorical question, Jia Yu frowned: "Your Royal Highness the Princess, your status is noble, how can you eat such a bad thing?" ”

"Dregs? This palace thinks that this thing is mixed with food, and the color and flavor are good, so why is it resisted? Besides, the person who makes this chaff can make more authentic cherry meat than Mr. Jia, if the dishes he makes can be called chaff, then what Mr. Jia makes? ”

Jia Yu's face turned red and white, and he looked at the other person helplessly: "General Wu, you persuade the princess." ”

Before she finished speaking, Princess Runan started her chopsticks first.

"Oops! Your Royal Highness, Princess, you ......"

On the other hand, General Wu spoke: "Jia Yu, don't be your mother-in-law." In the past, you were asked to cook a dish for your mother-in-law, and you were also a mother-in-law and mother in front of Your Majesty, but now you are also a mother-in-law and a mother-in-law with the princess, isn't it just a meal? I've tried it all, no problem. What else are you talking about? Don't you just want to try the cherry meat for yourself? Said to take the princess out to breathe, can you be quieter? ”

Jia Yu was so angry that he blew his beard, and said in his heart that the old man only said a few words? Who the hell isn't quiet?

At this point, Jia Yu had nothing to say, and honestly shut up.

"If there are no rules, how can meals be mixed up? Isn't this heaven and earth reduced to chaos again? ”

Jia Yu looked at the food in front of him and couldn't eat it.

However, the princess and General Wu in front of him ate attentively. Although the princess chewed slowly, she didn't stop, and General Wu gobbled it up, and a big bucket bowl was cleaned up by him three times and five divided by two, and then picked up the extra bowl and continued to wreak the clouds.

"Reckless!" Jia Yu silently said nothing.

At this time, General Wu finished the second bowl, and before the rice was swallowed in his mouth, his eyes fell on the bowl in front of Jia Yu: "Jia Yu, don't you eat?" Don't eat it for me. ”

Jia Yu was too lazy to take care of it, and was about to hand over his share to General Wu when he suddenly thought that although General Wu was a military general, he had never seen him behave so badly in the face of countless delicacies and delicacies from the mountains and seas when he sat at the same table before, how could such an ordinary meal mix make him behave like this today?

"General Wu, is the food here really so delicious?"

General Wu nodded: "It's not delicious, it's refreshing!" ”

"Eating refreshment?" Jia Yu has been cooking for so many years, and it is the first time he has heard someone describe the dishes as refreshing.

"If you want more, go buy another one, I'll taste it."

Jia Yu finally picked up the chopsticks, he wanted to see what kind of secrets this chaff-like meal hid, how it could attract so many people, and how it could make General Wu never get tired of eating.

……

Lanterns are lit at the entrance of the delicious restaurant, and the enthusiasm of the guests finally decreases as night falls.

So far, copper coins have filled the first drawer, and the second drawer has also had quite a bit, and it is noticeable that they are sold more than at noon.

Now, there are fewer customers, and Xia Shang and Fang Xiangshu, who are also at the counter, have almost chatted.

Fang Xiang said and put down the spoon and shook his hand: "Shopkeeper Xia, my hands are sour when I serve rice, if the business is like this every day, I am afraid that it will be possible to return the scenery in a few years!" ”

Xia Shang shook his head with a smile: "We can't rely on our small shop." But who knows what will happen in the future? ”

Fang Buyu was in charge of cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, he was also tired enough, and took advantage of this gap to go to the counter and give Xia Shang a look: "Hey, look over there, that strong man, this is the fifth bowl he has eaten." ”

Xia Shang noticed that the other party's position was facing the counter, and Xia Shang recognized Princess Runan at a glance.

"Why is she here?"