The red sun is faint, the breeze is blowing, it is before and after the Qingming Festival, the flying flocculent is wet, such as snow and feathers, and the clusters are flying, or round or broken.

Bai Wei walked on the white embankment, holding a red lacquer food box in his right hand and waving an oil-paper umbrella in his left hand, so as not to squint Bai Fu. The willow trees on both sides have long been draped like hair, and the peach blossoms planted last year have bloomed and gone, leaving only a few remnants of the petals struggling on the branches, and the fragrant snow pink falls in the turquoise water, rippling with the waves.

He walked up to the broken bridge, put the food box and paper umbrella at his feet, and stood in the wind, watching the sparkling waves and the overlapping green hills.

The scenery is beautiful, the lake is calm, like a glass mirror, different from the surging waves eight years ago, pouring into the sea and mountains.

Bai Wen lowered his body and lay on the edge of the bridge, his eyes staring at the secluded lake under the bridge, his eyes were sad, and he remembered his father and mother sleeping in the grave by the lake.

"Forget it, what's the use of thinking about this"

Bai Wei comforted himself in a low voice, took a deep breath, rolled his eyes a few times to restrain his emotions, and re-hung a smile that seemed to be nothing, faint, rejecting people.

Lifting the food box again, picking up the oil-paper umbrella, Bai Wei walked to the waterfront.

As usual, knocking on the bluestone slab, Bai Wen opened the food box, held the remaining plate of white sugar cake in his hand, and waited quietly.

Sure enough, after a short time, a fist-sized blister turned out, and after a few successions, an ink-colored figure appeared, a black fish more than two feet long.

"I brought you a white sugar cake, eat it quickly" Bai Wen nodded a little water, smiled with a smile on his eyebrows, pinched off a piece of soft and sweet white sugar cake and handed it to the black fish.

The black fish wags its tail, makes a splash, opens its mouth to devour, then sinks into the water and tosses, and then floats up again to ask for a second piece.

"You eat slowly, I won't rob you," Bai Wei teased, talking and joking with the black fish as if he were a human being.

A piece of white sugar cake entered the stomach of the black fish, and Bai Wei shook the empty plate at the black fish, indicating that it was gone, and he could only talk about it next time.

The black fish is not entangled, and a few tail swings are about to sink to the bottom of the lake.

"Wait," Bai Wei called urgently.

The black fish probed slightly, and it was pitch black, and the fish around the golden edge stared at Bai Wei, as if they didn't understand why they didn't let him leave as usual.

"Don't worry, I have something to tell you" Bai Wen tentatively touched the smooth scales of the black fish, and said slowly, "From tomorrow, I will take over the family's business, and I can't come to see you often, I'm sorry." ”

Eight years ago, the weather changed suddenly, the West Lake was turbulent, and Bai Wei was thrown into the water by the waves, but fortunately, he was rescued by this black fish to pick up a life. Since then, in order to repay the kindness of the black fish, Bai Wei often comes to the lake to feed, like a friend, and chats with the greedy fish in the water until today, and the black fish has lived for eight years, he has thought about it, but he is unwilling to investigate.

The black fish dodged Bai Wei's fingers, neither approaching nor leaving, only floating on the surface of the water, as if waiting for Bai Wei to give more explanations.

"I'm really sorry," Bai Wen sighed, "I was still young at that time, although my father passed away, because I still have my sister to take care of me, I don't know the hardships of life, so I promised you to bring food and feed you every day, in order to repay you for saving your life." But now, I'm an adult, and I have to take on the responsibility of supporting my family, and I can't put it off any longer, so I can only miss the appointment, sorry. ”

Bai Wei knew that he was in the wrong, although he knew that he was just a fish, but a breach of contract was a breach of contract, and his heart was difficult to settle down.

When the black fish heard this, his eyes were as black as ink, and his tail moved slightly, and suddenly, he hit Bai Wei's wrist hard, and with a "bang", he sank into the water and disappeared.

Sure enough, I was angry!

Bai Wei wiped off the lake water splashing on his face, and said helplessly, "This matter is my fault, but I will still come to see you in the future, your kindness, I will never forget it in my life." ”

After waiting for a while, and making sure that the black fish was impossible, Bai Wei shrugged, picked up the paper umbrella and food box and got up to leave.

The sky is dark, the mist rises, and the drizzle falls, which is in response to the sentence "rain in the Qingming season".

On the broken bridge, a majestic man dressed in black stood in the drizzle, looking at the elegant figure in the distance, his eyes were deep, as if he was unhappy, but he pouted.

Bai Wen held the umbrella and walked slowly, and suddenly felt that a sight fell on him, and he turned his head to look back.

The rain is like weaving, hazy, the broken bridge is lonely, the green willows are fluttering, except for the swallows who have not had time to return home, there is no one.

Sighing again, Bai Wei didn't think about it, and walked straight to the city.

Tomorrow, the Baijia Restaurant will reopen, and there are still many things to prepare, so he must hurry back and make everything clear.

"Brother Wang, are the ingredients ready?" Bai Wen asked the middle-aged man in the kitchen who was cutting shreds.

The middle-aged man's name is Wang Fugui, and he is the master hired by Bai Wen.

"The owner, you can rest assured that I will do something, we will definitely get off to a good start tomorrow" Wang Fugui kept in his hands, and said happily, it can be seen that the skills are passable.

"I'm relieved to have your words" Bai Wen said with a smile, and put the written menu on the table next to him, "Brother Wang, this is tomorrow's menu, I'll put it here for you first, and glance at it twice when I have time, the back is the practice of new dishes, you can take a look." ”

"Okay" Wang Fugui put down the knife, hurriedly came to Bai Wei's side, and praised, "Boss, your research speed is fast enough, Lao Wang, I have been turning the spoon for more than ten years, and I don't have as many tricks as you come up with in a month." ”

"I have nothing to do, except for what I can do to study these things" Bai Wei said modestly, "I'll go to the front and take a look, so I won't bother you." ”

Bai Wen was about to walk out of the kitchen when he met the young man who had returned from shopping.

"Look, boss, I've bought something good," the young man was full of interest, holding the wooden basin to show Bai Wei.

In the wooden basin, it was a black fish with phosphorus armor black flowers like a python, more than two feet.

The water in the basin is not more than half, and half of the back of the black fish is exposed, and some places have dried out, and no matter how much they swing their tails and struggle, they can't take care of it.

Bai Wei recognized the fish in the basin at a glance, took the wooden basin into his arms in a panic, and hugged it tightly. He was thin and didn't have much strength, so he shook a little when he collided like this, and his body was stained with water.

"What's wrong with you, boss?" The young man was taken aback, and quickly took out the cloth towel around his waist to wipe Bai Wei's clothes.

On weekdays, why is the little young master of Riss Wenwen so excited, as if he has never seen a fish for thousands of years.

"I want this fish" Bai Wei said simply, thought about it, and said to the young man and Wang Fugui, "In the future, if we buy all the black fish in the store, I will send them home, and I am not allowed to slaughter one, our Bai Family Restaurant does not make black fish dishes, remember, you go back and say it to the front, if anyone dares to kill the black fish in my store, I will quit him" After that, he fished out the black fish from the water and held it in his arms and hurriedly ran home.

The young man and Wang Fugui looked at each other, not knowing what kind of wind their host was smoking.

The black fish is fierce, it is not easy to catch, it is rare on the market, however, the black fish meat is strong, and the dishes made with it are much more delicious than grass carp and carp, if you get it in the restaurant, it is generally made as a hard dish, and a fish can earn a lot of money.

Bai Wei has an extraordinary talent in cooking, and has a lot of ideas, if he can study it well, he will definitely be able to make a black fish dish that resounds in Hangzhou City, but he gave such an order, wouldn't he cut off a fortune in vain?

"Brother Wang, did you say that the owner went home to eat alone?" The guy guessed.

Wang Fugui also didn't understand, as a cook, of course, the better the ingredients, the happier he was, just after taking a look at such a big fish, there were no less than a dozen ways to do it in his mind. However, he was hired by one, and it was difficult to say anything, so he told the young man to obey his words, so he suppressed the doubts in his heart and went to work.

Let's talk about the white water walking through the streets and alleys with a black fish.

The black fish was already heavy, and it was very exhausting for Bai Wei to run and bumble, and he was out of breath after a while, but he didn't dare to slack off, although the black fish was out of the water for a while, it was no big deal, but the fish couldn't get out of the water after all, so he still had to be placed in a hurry.

Fortunately, this fish is honest, and he doesn't struggle along the way, and he really "cares" the small body of white sugar.

Ignoring the gazes of others, Bai Wen puffed up and kept walking.

Rushing through the door, bypassing the front hall, and running into the backyard in three steps and two steps, Bai Wei finally sent the fish into the small pond in the courtyard.

"You" Bai Wei sat on the shore with his ass, accusing the fish of roaming and spitting in the water, and said fearfully, "I have known you for eight years, why did you let people catch you today, fortunately I bought it, if you let someone else take it, you will be a dish." ”

The blackfish didn't care at all that he had escaped the dangerous situation, and he was leisurely in the water, as if he was living faster than in the West Lake.

Bai Wen didn't have the heart to be angry with a fish, looked at himself covered in mud, and suddenly felt a headache, if he was seen by his sister, he should be scolded.

"You can live in my house with peace of mind, and I will send you back to the lake in two days" Bai Wen said to the fish, and hurriedly went back to the house to change clothes, take a bath, and destroy the evidence of the crime.

As soon as Bai Wei left, a blue crab came out from behind a rock by the pond, looked around with its eyes on top of its head, climbed sideways into the pond, and dived to the bottom to join the black fish.

The huge blister hit, and the blue crab turned over when it landed, but fortunately, there was water all around, and it didn't hurt or itch.

"Boss, do you want the money from selling fish?" The blue crab asked with a wave of tongs, and in the middle was a string of copper coins.

The black fish snorted coldly, and his face was calm, "It's a reward for you." ”

"Boss Xie" Qingcrab said beautifully, hiding the money, "Boss, I was scared to death just now, I thought I sold you to the wrong person." ”

"Even if it's sold wrong, what if this seat can't deal with a few mortals?" The black fish said disdainfully, shook his head and tail, and deliberately stirred the current, making the ignorant small fish and shrimp in the pond dizzy.

"Boss" Qing Crab crawled back again and asked, "You have cultivated to a thousand years old, why do you want to sell yourself to get close to that young master of the Bai family?" Wouldn't it be much more convenient to turn into a human form and go straight to the door. ”

"Are you stupid, if this seat appeared in human form, would that kid give me food for nothing?" Blackfish said with disdain.

"But, boss, we don't lack jewelry, gold and silver, if you really want to eat, you can buy it, won't the restaurant of Young Master Bai's house open tomorrow, and when the time comes, you will be a big customer, don't you eat whatever you want?" Blue Crab suggested.

"Can what you eat for free be the same as what you bought?" The black fish is right, but the blue crab's suggestion is circling in his heart.

Seeing the appearance of their boss, the blue crab silently retreated to the side and stopped making suggestions, still not quite able to understand the boss's thoughts, but according to the boss's approach, they could leave a large amount of money, and the blue crab was very satisfied with this.

As a big housekeeper, Blue Crab thinks that even if they are not short of money, it is good if they can save a pearl.

Thinking like this, the blue crab looked at the small pond where he was now sheltering, and said in his heart, this place is much easier to manage than West Lake.