Chapter 80: The Famous Capital (1)
Pan Long looked at the porridge bowl handed over by the prince and was stunned, and the others were even more confused, a bowl of porridge is indeed not a good thing in their eyes, but after being hungry for nearly five days, whoever wants to say that he doesn't want to eat it is a fool.
"If you give them the porridge, aren't you hungry?" The little lady asked in surprise.
"Hungry, and hungry, they're hungry too!" Zhao Ta said honestly, "They could have eaten all day long, but they were willing to accompany me to be hungry, how can I enjoy a bowl of porridge from my lady today!" ”
"Okay, although the prince is small, he has a heroic style, which is admirable!" The little lady couldn't help but praise.
"The little lady said well, share hardships with wealth and nobility, and have righteousness..." I don't know when it happened, there were more onlookers around them, cheering indiscriminately.
"Brothers, the prince has to carry our faces, I have to eat this porridge Pan Long!" Pan Long took the porridge bowl and took a sip, and handed it to Xue Bao beside him, Xue Bao took a sip and passed it to the next person... After turning to the most lush, when the porridge bowl returned to Zhao Ta's hands, everyone really gave face, and there was a bottom of the bowl left.
"At the bottom of the bowl, I drank the blessed land (bottom)!" Zhao Ta scraped it with his fingers, poured it all into his mouth, and said with a smile, his funny appearance caused everyone to laugh, but there was something bright in everyone's eyes.
"Thank you young lady, the grace of a meal, unforgettable, I dare not say anything in return, this should be given to your young lady a plaything!" Zhao Ta took off the jade ring of the clothes from his waist and put the rice bowl in the food box, returned it to the little lady and said.
"Hehe, if I don't take it down, it seems that we are hypocritical!" The little lady was bold, took the food box and separated everyone and walked along the royal street.
This little lady who suddenly appeared seemed to bring them good luck, and when it came time for supper they each got a bowl of porridge, and although they were not full, they finally had some food in their stomachs. The next morning, before dawn, a sedan chair carried by eight people walked past them slowly, and a relative who followed behind the sedan chair put down a food box, nodded at them and smiled, and followed the sedan chair into the palace gate.
"Who is he?" Zhao asked.
"I don't know how to do it, look at how the sedan chair is also more than three grades!" Jianxi shook his head and said.
"Oh, what a big bowl of Qibao vegetarian porridge, it's a good boil!" Zhang Hao opened the food box and looked at the bowl inside, which was not so much a basin, he said with a smile.
"I'll see!" Jianxi took a closer look, sniffed the porridge in the food box and said: "I know who Lu Dao is, he is the inspector of the school, he likes to eat Qibao vegetarian porridge the most, and the vegetarian porridge in his house is also very famous!" ”
"Tong Guan?!" This name Zhao Ta is too familiar, he has known Lu Dao since he was a child, the second villain after Gao Yu in "Water Margin", a famous armed eunuch, one of the six thieves in the Northern Song Dynasty, anyway, there is no positive one in his impression, "I have never met him, let alone have a friendship, why did he send me porridge for Lu?" Zhao Ta thought for a moment, but he didn't figure it out, but he didn't delay him to greet everyone to drink porridge, and he didn't expect that his grievances and grievances with Tong Guan started from this bowl of porridge.
This pot of porridge hasn't been drunk yet, and a young man came over and put down a food box with a smile, "Prince Yan, the little one is a guy from Bailulou, our shopkeeper specially let the kitchen boil this bowl of five-flavor porridge, and brought it to you while it was hot!" The young man said diligently, took out the pot porridge from the food box, put it in a silver bowl, put a delicate silver spoon, handed it to Zhao Ta, and then put a few bowls and distributed it to everyone to eat.
"Who asked your shopkeeper to bring us porridge?" Zhao Ta stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon, ate two bites and asked.
"Back to the prince, no one has commanded, you don't know that the road is now spread throughout the city of Tokyo, Prince Yan resisted the decree to enter Beijing to worship his mother, set up a mourning hall outside the palace, five days without eating, filial piety to the world, and the guards to share a bowl of porridge, but also righteous thin clouds, our shopkeeper is also deeply moved by what he heard, so he specially ordered a small morning to send porridge to you and the big brothers, but it is still a step late!" The young man looked at the food box left by Tong Guan on the side and said with a little regret.
"Second master, someone is here again!" Before the two pots of porridge were finished, Hong Ba saw two people coming over with food boxes.
"Yo, isn't this Fourth Brother Li from Bailu Tower, you came early!" The person who came saw that Li Si was cleaning up the guys' affairs, and Zhilu Dao was preempted today, and said with vinegar.
"Hehe, it's not too late for Third Brother Zhang to come, your Changqing Building is a little farther away than me and us, so I let the younger brother take the lead, you wait, I will leave first!" Li Si was not in a hurry or annoyed, a soft nail was sent back, although he lost to others, but it was also a good thing to rob Changqing Tower first. ,
"Second master, this Changqing Building is also one of the best restaurants in Beijing, why did they send us porridge today, didn't they collectively take the wrong medicine last night?" Seeing Xi, he remembered what the prince said, 'abnormality is a demon', and immediately began to wonder if all this was a premeditated event.
"I can't figure out the situation now, since someone sent us to eat!" Zhao Ta replied dryly.
"Lord Yan, the little one got up early in the morning, and it was still late, but the porridge in our Changqing Building is no worse than that in their alum building, and I would like to invite the prince to taste a few bites!" Although Zhang San was preempted by his peers and was a little frustrated, he still accompanied him with a smile and greeted him politely······
"Thank you shopkeeper, this porridge is delicious, and it is on par with Bai Alum Lou!" Zhao Ta picked up a bowl of porridge and took a bite and said, and then beckoned everyone to eat it again, this kind of big hotel has a big business, since you dare to sign up, you are not afraid that he will poison people, you can rest assured when you eat, and the taste is really good.
"Thank you for your face, our shopkeeper has ordered, as long as the prince eats smoothly, from now on, everyone's breakfast will be covered in Changqing Building, and we will ensure that it will not be the same every day!" The young man said happily.
This Changqing Building has just cleaned up and left, as if it was discussed, the next batch has arrived, this is the Liu Building under the Jinliang Bridge, followed by the Zhoudong Song Gate Wairenhe Store, the Zhouxi Yicheng Building, the North Eight Immortal Building, the Dai Loumen Zhang Bajiayuan Mansion Store, Li Qijiazheng Store..." See, how many big restaurants are there in this capital? Zhao Ta ate three times in a row, and his stomach was panicked, and he could only give a face, just a shallow taste, but the porridge was also poured into his throat, he rubbed his stomach and asked.
"There are seventy-two households in Jingzheng store, and in addition, you can't count them, and the rest are all those "foot shops". Sell some fine dishes to drink, welcome the noble diet, can be ranked on the first white kitchen, Xi'an Zhou Lane Zhang Xiujia, to the second Baokang Men Li Qingjia, East Ji'er Lane Guo Kitchen, Caomen brick tube Li family, Sidong Dice Li family, Huang Fat family, Jiuqiaomen Street Hotel, I don't know how many Lu Dao. "Jianxi is very familiar with this, so he opened his mouth and came.
"This drought and flood are uneven, a few days ago, we were hungry and no one paid attention to our backs, today it was just breakfast and more than ten dials, if we all come, we will have to die!" Zhao Ta hiccups very vividly and said.
"But we can drink a bowl of porridge from each of their families, and we can eat all the major restaurants in the capital!" Hong Ba said with a smile.
"There will come a day, the next time I go back to Beijing, I will not only eat all over Tokyo City with you, but also open our own restaurant here!" Zhao Ta said solemnly.
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"Second master, don't talk about this porridge to death, even if we kill it, we won't be able to eat it!" Seeing Xi looked at the large and small food boxes and rice bowls placed around the mourning shed, and looked at the crowd around him, he now wondered if all entertainment was forbidden in the queen's funeral in Beijing, and the people were running to relieve their boredom.
"Well, this... What the hell is going on? Zhao Ta was also confused, in the morning he thought that his mother or grandfather instructed various big hotels to send him food, but at noon, not only the restaurants around the imperial city, that is, silk shops, selling groceries, these shops that do not operate food also brought them food, as for the small people in the market carrying small baskets and rice bowls, the porridge sent is enough for them to open a porridge shop, and it has to be that kind of big porridge shop.
"Second master, it's time again, hurry up and prepare!" Seeing the joy of looking at the prince, he said with some pity, now the person who delivers the meal has another gift, and he has to go to the queen's spirit to put incense on the pillar and make a salute, the prince of course has to return the salute when he is a filial son, it is said that he is only allowed to give his hand, but he has to kneel and bow back, which is less than an hour of effort, and there are no less than two or three hundred heads knocked down.
At this time, an old lady came over tremblingly, put down a small basket, took out a bunch of incense, two candles and a wad of paper money to Xue Bao, who received the gift, and put down a bowl of coarse rice porridge, and then walked to the spirit, saw Xi quickly lit a stick of incense and handed it over, the old lady took it and inserted it in the incense burner, knelt down and kowtowed respectfully three times, and Zhao Ta returned the salute.
"Lord Wang, you are a filial son, and the queen's spirit in heaven will bless you with peace for the rest of your life!" After the old lady finished this set, she was already out of breath, and walked over to help Zhao Ta and said.
"Grandma, thank you, take a break!" Zhao Ta got up and supported the old lady, moved a stack of burning paper, took off the big coat on his body and spread it on it, and then helped her sit down. ,
"Tut, you see that the prince is afraid that the old lady will sit cold, so he put his big on the old lady, at first I heard that the prince has not eaten for five days in order to sacrifice his mother, and it should be fake, and now I see that he is so good to an old lady who I don't know, and I know that this is really the case!" A spectator on the side sighed.
"The prince hasn't eaten for five days, I saw it with my own eyes, and the food their guards bought was nothing else to eat except tribute!" Another said.
"How do you know that the road is so clear?"
"My shop is just around the corner, and they all pass by my door to buy things, of course I saw it!"
"Then you know that the prince of Lu Dao is starving, why don't you send a bowl of porridge?"
"I... At first, I thought that it was just for show, and someone in the palace would inevitably send food to the prince, but who knew that Lu Dao was like this, his guards were really amazing, the master didn't eat, and they were hungry for five days, which made people have to admire! ”
"Yes, I also saw it, someone sent a bowl of porridge yesterday, and the prince only ate one bite, so everyone shared it, and that situation made me, a big man, can't bear to cry, I asked my mother-in-law to cook porridge and send it over at night!" A person is talking while gesturing, and the people on the side are embarrassed.
"Wu Liu, the house where your wife lives is about to collapse, you don't care about such a cold day, you will also make people cry!" An acquaintance on the side teased.
"Hey, I don't honor my mother as soon as possible, it's really my fault, I went back from here yesterday, and I took my mother to our house, the prince can resist the decree of the sacrifice mother, and he is not afraid of death, I am a small person who doesn't even support the old lady, so I really deserve to die!" Everyone looked at Wu Liu, who calmly admitted his mistakes, in surprise, as if they saw the sun coming out of the west, and they couldn't believe that this scoundrel who was wandering the streets had actually learned well.