At the end of the day, Li Tao finally reluctantly left the county seat of his eldest son. When they came there were four, but when they returned, they were seven. In addition to the father and daughter of the Bai family, another old man who fainted and was a sugar man on the street.

Li Taosuo hired a carriage and let the old man and Zhang Lingfeng's father and daughter all get into the carriage, while he and Liu Xuan and his son followed the carriage on foot.

Seeing Li Tao's comfortable and casual appearance, Liu Zhiren was angry and didn't fight outsiders, he teased on the side: "Li Xiaolangjun is really a bodhisattva!" The first time I came to the county seat, I got back three people who had idle meals at once. If you go to Luzhou, you can't get dozens of people back? ”

Liu Xuan listened to Liu Zhiren's words, his face sank and he scolded: "Zhiren, what are you talking about?" As the old saying goes, don't take evil as small and do it, and don't take good as small and don't do it. Li Xiaolangjun is doing something to accumulate virtue and do good, how can you be cynical? ”

Li Tao stretched out a thumbs up to Liu Xuan: "Old Master Liu is right, giving roses to others, leaving fragrance in your hands, and helping others is the foundation of happiness." ”

Speaking of this, Li Tao pointed to the carriage and continued: "This old man who is a sugar man has no children and no daughters, and he is sick. If I don't help him, I may abandon the world one day. The Buddha said that saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, I am just a gesture, why not? ”

Liu Zhiren is not a ruthless and unrighteous person, just now he just wanted to bargain from Li Tao, but he didn't think about it, but he was speechless by Li Tao's truth, and his face was red and he stopped talking.

Back in Guojiazhuang, Li Tao, Liu Xuan, Liu Zhiren and others were busy preparing for the opening of Zhang Luoqiufeng. Pei Yue suddenly disappeared at this time, Li Tao didn't mention it, and naturally no one asked.

On the eighth day of August in the third year of Jinglong, the autumn wind broke the farmhouse and finally opened as scheduled. In addition to providing guests with a variety of farm fruits and vegetables and mountain game, the most popular among guests is the string of incense invented by Li Tao.

The skewers are characterized by three types of soups: spicy red soup, bone white soup, and fragrant clear soup. The soup is made of chicken bones and pork bones, and more than 20 kinds of Chinese herbs such as grass fruits, cloves, sand kernels, and cinnamon are added at the same time. Beef, chicken, yellow dice, crucian carp, squid, quail eggs, hairy tripe, yellow throat, meatballs, ham sausages, gizzard liver, duck intestines, chicken hearts, crab fillets, dried tofu, tofu skin, bean tendons, potatoes, taro, green bamboo shoots, Chinese cabbage, lotus root slices, fungus, shiitake mushrooms, pea tips and other things are threaded into strings with bamboo skewers.

There are several ways to eat skewers. One is to blanch the strings of incense in the pot, not all the ingredients can be scalded, the texture is tender and crispy, and the ingredients that are cooked instantly, such as duck intestines, kidney slices, liver slices, pea seedlings, spinach, etc., are suitable for blanching. The texture is slightly denser, and it is not easy to cook in an instant, so it should be scalded for a while, such as hairy tripe, mushroom liver, beef slices, etc. When the soup is boiling, constantly tumbling, and the fat on the soup is sufficient, the hot food is delicious and can be kept warm. In particular, it is necessary to control the heat, because if the heat is too much, the food will become old, and if the heat is not good, it will be raw. The second is to put the skewers into the soup and cook them. There must be some ingredients that can be cooked, such as hairtail, meatballs, shiitake mushrooms, etc., which have a tight texture and must be heated for a long time before they can be eaten.

The soup must be boiled away when scalding, and all the incense should be immersed in the soup. Those who like spicy food can be scalded from the oil on the edge of the pot; Otherwise, it is scalded from the boiling place in the middle. It is best to eat a cup of tea with a cup of tea to appetize and eliminate food, relieve oil and get greasy. If you can't achieve the taste with only the base ingredients, you can also bring your own flavor plate, which is generally sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar and other condiments. Of course, there are salt, chopped green onions, leeks, Fuliu vines, ginger slices, garlic slices, pepper, dogwood, peppercorns, etc., which can be appropriately adjusted according to different tastes.

Perhaps it was really the 20 copper plates that played a role, and the carriages and sedan chairs of the eldest son county continuously sent guests to the Qiufeng Po Restaurant. Li Tao did not break his promise, and paid the coachman and sedan chair driver according to his hair in a timely manner, and never defaulted.

Zhang Lingfeng's father and daughter temporarily put down their singing business and wholeheartedly helped Li Tao work in the restaurant. With a place to settle down, there is no need to run around, and the two are very satisfied with the current situation. Of course, the key is that Li Tao's promise worked, and Zhang Lingfeng trusted Li Tao surprisingly.

Li Tao asked Lang Zhong to treat the old man who was a sugar man about the illness, and it was said that he had a cold. After a few pairs of Chinese medicine, the old man's body quickly recovered his health. During the conversation with the old man, Li Tao learned that the old man was also surnamed Zhang, and others called him Sugar Man Zhang. Sugar man Zhang has no children and no daughters, he is alone, and he makes a living by being a sugar man. I heard that Li Tao will let him live here in the future, and will give him a pension for the rest of his life. Sugar man Zhang suddenly burst into tears, thinking that he would leave alone at the end of his life, but who knew that now someone suddenly sent him to the end, how could he not be excited?

Seeing that Li Tao was busy in the restaurant, the sugar man Zhang also wanted to help, but Li Tao was afraid that he would be tired, so he refused to agree, which made the sugar man Zhang lose his temper. In desperation, Li Tao had to think of a solution. He whispered a few words to the sugar man Zhang, and the sugar man Zhang suddenly smiled.

The next day, the sugar man Zhang started his own business in Guojiazhuang with a pick.

Candy Man Zhang's pick is very special, one end is a rectangular cabinet with a shelf, and under the cabinet there is a semi-circular open wooden cage, inside which there is a small charcoal stove, and there is a large spoon on the stove, and the middle is full of syrup. The wooden frame is divided into two levels, each with many small jacks, in order to insert the candy man. There was no panel at the other end of the burden, just a small charcoal stove with a copper pot boiling syrup, and a few drawers for raw materials, tools, bamboo skewers, and charcoal.

The stall of the sugar man was full of people watching, of course, most of them were children. The children's big eyes are round and round and have an indescribable admiration for the sugar man Zhang, whenever a "rooster" or a "monkey" is presented in the hands of the sugar man Zhang like a trick, the children will burst out of joyful laughter, the sugar man is good-looking, fun, and can be eaten after playing, the children like it, and they can't walk when they see it. Either pestering adults to buy it, or running home to ask for money, those who really have no money refuse to leave, staring at these sugar people.

Sugar man Zhang wasted no time in shouting: "Mountain goods are exchanged for sugar people, yellow flowers, fungus, and mountain mushrooms can be exchanged for sugar people......"

The children who drooled only then knew that the candy man did not have to use money to buy, but to exchange for mountain goods, which was great news for the children, and it was much easier to pick mountain goods than to find adults for money.

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