According to the contract signed with the Teng family, each of us can return to the Yang world to visit relatives with one month of vacation every year. I just came in, and the novelty of Yin City has not yet subsided, so naturally I will not apply for a vacation so early. But Wei Dahu is different, his application has already been typed, but he has been pressed by the supervisor Teng Boli and refused to approve it.

As a result, Wei Dahu became emotional. He didn't dare to say it, so he quietly complained to us below: "It must be the shopkeeper who refused to let me go, so that his eldest brother didn't approve it!" ”

In fact, the boss Teng Shuli did this, not because he wanted to make things difficult for Wei Dahu, but because he couldn't do without Wei Dahu now!

There are a total of four nurses in the Longevity Hotel, and if the main backbone of Wei Dahu is gone, Teng Shuli will really feel big when he thinks about it. Therefore, he procrastinated again and again, and never refused to let Wei Dahu leave.

But Wei Dahu still has his wife and children in the yang world, and he goes back once a year. In order to round the lie of running the boat, he had to go to Shangcheng every once in a while to borrow the only telephone line that Teng's family had pulled to Yincheng to call home. It's been delayed for so long, and I won't go back:

"Maybe my wife is going to run away with someone else!" He said.

However, Wei Dahu is not a stupid person, since it can't be hard, then come soft. He followed Teng Shuli's ass every day, nagging in the boss's ear when he had nothing to do.

One moment it might be: "My son is going to turn 10 this month, and every time he calls, he asks if I can go back in time for his birthday?" ”

After a while, it may be again: "My wife has been complaining about the clogged water pipes in my house lately, and asked me if I should hire a plumber to come to the door?" , shopkeeper, do you say she's a hint? We haven't had that in over a year! ”

Teng Shuli finally compromised, because he really couldn't stand a big man with a full face who kept talking about this kind of "private" thing in his ear. So Wei Dahu finally got his wish, and went home happily yesterday to hug his wife and children.

However, as soon as Wei Dahu left, Teng Shuli began to have a headache.

The next day, at breakfast, he looked at the remaining three nursing homes and frowned. At this time of the day, he always has to go to the food market to purchase, and Wei Dahu usually accompanies him, but today he really doesn't know which one to choose.

"Xiao Zhai, you go out with me after breakfast, it's okay if you don't have one in the kitchen!" Surprisingly, Teng Shuli's finger was pointed at me at the end.

"Me?" I wonder if I've heard it wrong.

"That's you!" Uncle Teng confirmed, "Bring your precious pair of chopsticks, put on the protective gear left by the big tiger, and go to be my bodyguard!" ”

"Okay......

Actually, I am not resistant to such an arrangement, on the contrary, I am a little excited. It's been more than a month since I came to Yincheng, and my range of activities has basically not left the vicinity of the Longevity Hotel. First, the business in the store is lively, and there is not much free time, and secondly, I am not familiar with the place, and the security in the city is not good, and it is indeed unsafe for no one to take me out. Now it's a good errand to be able to go out shopping with the boss in a bright way!

Wei Dahu was much bigger than me, and the model of the protective gear was also large, which was ridiculous for me to wear, but Teng Shuli still insisted that I be fully armed. The two ghost guys also came with us with a small cart, and after a while, all the ingredients purchased were packed inside.

There are a total of ten streets in Zuoshi, the Longevity Hotel is on the Seventh Street, and the Food Market is on the Second Street. So, I was able to take the opportunity to see what's new in Zuoshi.

The shops in the left market are all opened in the shade, so they are quite standardized, and there are many types. In addition to the hotel, there are also theaters, dance halls, bathhouses, mahjong halls, and smoke halls, all of which entertain ghosts. The commercial street of entertainers is located in the upper city, and the prosperity of the street cannot be compared with the left and right markets in the lower city.

However, although the shops in the Yin City are also for making ghost money, the style is still higher than that in the Xiling Ghost Market, and there are no massage parlors and beauty salons and other places that surrender their identities. Here, the status of Yin cultivation is obviously higher than that of ghosts.

The most in the left market are all kinds of wholesale stores and warehouses, which are the distribution center of all kinds of underworld specialties, and the yin cultivators of the yang world and the small yin cities from all over the world will come here to find rare materials and products. And the caravans that brought these goods were the caravans established by the major families, and dozens of caravans came here every day to load and unload goods, and the transaction volume was amazing.

The terrain of the lower town is much less flat than that of the upper town, and many places adopt a local architectural approach, which is also suitable for different shops. For example, Fifth and Sixth Streets are relatively open, so warehouses and fences were built, and loading and unloading goods and buying and selling livestock were mainly concentrated on these two streets.

There are many stone pillars connected to the roof of the cave on Third and Fourth Streets, and there are many boulders and steps underneath, and the streets are winding. Therefore, the shops on those two streets are usually smaller, and most of them are stone houses dug directly from the boulders, so they can only sell some small goods.

The only underground river in the city runs between First and Second Streets and flows to Youshi. Because of its proximity to water sources, it was only natural that a seafood market and an ingredient market were built here. Teng Shuli mainly procured the materials needed in the restaurant on these two streets.

As soon as he arrived at the second street, Teng Shuli looked very imposing. The longevity hotel is a big customer in this area, so the owners of those shops are very kind to come up and sell it. Teng Shuli is not in a hurry or impatient, and always has to shop around before deciding to buy.

The boss only cares about big shopping, and I, the "bodyguard", have to pay attention to the surrounding situation. I found that the food market was also very unstable, and there were always some idle little ghosts wandering around, and their eyes were rolling, probably pickpockets. However, perhaps because they saw that I had been staring at them, these little thieves did not dare to approach.

Teng Shuli almost finished the entire food market and aquatic market, and finally walked to a dry goods store. As soon as he entered, he shouted, "Boss! Have I arrived with my order? ”

A fat uncle, who was no less in size than Teng Shuli, hurriedly ran out and replied, "It's here!" It's here! Is the vine shopkeeper going to be taken away now? ”

"Now! Why else am I here with you? ”

"Okay! Good! The shopkeeper sits down first, and I'll let the guy pack it for you! ”

The two heavyweight bosses stood together and spoke, their stomachs almost together. I couldn't help but wonder, thinking that the food in the Yin City was not necessarily much better than that in the Yang World, how did they eat like this?

The owner of the dry goods store invited Teng Shuli to sit down for tea, and then ran back to the back to get busy. I casually looked at the goods in his shop, most of them were medicinal herbs or ingredients made from various unknown underworld plants dried and dried in the shade. Of course, there are also many dry goods made with animals endemic to the underworld.

For example, the Stygian half-headed shellfish specially created by Teng Shuli in this store is a huge shellfish with a shape and flesh very similar to the abalone in the yang world, and it is said to grow in a large dark river called the Stygian Sea. The half head refers to the weight of the dried scallop to describe its size, one is a shell just about a pound of weight, the second head is a pound of two, and so on, the more the number of heads, the smaller the size of the shellfish.

Half a scallop is even more remarkable, a single dried scallop has a net weight of two catties, and each of its size is the size of a sea bowl. If you take it back and process it, it can even rise to the size of a small basin after soaking and steaming!

The Stygian Half Scallop is the main ingredient of several signature dishes in the Longevity Restaurant, such as: Kung Fu Shellfish, Stewed Bamboo Shoots with Shrimp Shellfish, Spicy Stir-fried Shellfish with Soy Sauce, Cordyceps Flower Shellfish Soup, etc.

Kung Fu shellfish, so the process of making the dish is more cumbersome and labor-intensive, so it is named "Kung Fu". The method is about to wash the shellfish and remove the film, then take it out with hot water and let it cool, then add chicken fat and simmer over low heat, then take starch, original soup and salad oil, stir evenly and fry in the pot, and finally stir-fry with mint leaves, dried chili peppers and peppercorns, before it can be put on the plate. After the dish is cooked, the shellfish is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, which is very distinctive.

A stewed bamboo shoots with a smug shellfish, the recipe for this dish is relatively simple. After boiling the shellfish until cooked, take the meat slices into thin slices and set aside, and cut the cooked bacon into thin slices for later use; The ghost bamboo shoots are blanched and cut into thin strips, and neatly laid out in a stew bowl, topped with cooked bacon and slices of shellfish, and steamed in a chicken soup basket; Finally, remove and garnish with coriander leaves and serve. This special dish that combines salted meat, shellfish, and bamboo shoots has vegetables and meat, and the taste and nutrition are very balanced.

Spicy stir-fried scallops with soy sauce are suitable for spicy diners. For this dish, first wash the green and red peppers and cut them into shreds, and then cut the shellfish into shreds, fly the water, pull the oil, and control the oil for later use. After adding the bottom oil to the pot and stir-frying, first stir-fry the shredded peppers, then stir-fry the shredded shellfish and the withered seasoning together, stir-fry well, and then put it on the plate. This dish is salty, spicy and refreshing, and the high-end ingredients are used in a home-cooked way to make it equally delicious, tasty, and more affordable.

Cordyceps flower shellfish soup has the therapeutic effect of nourishing the lungs, nourishing the kidneys and nourishing yin and nourishing deficiency, clear but not greasy, suitable for all ages. It's not difficult, it's just time-consuming. The shellfish are washed and blanched in boiling water, and the pork bone broth is simmered in a pot over low heat, and then ginger, cordyceps flowers, shellfish and wolfberries are added at intervals to stew again, which takes several hours to boil.

In addition to the above-mentioned signature dishes, the Stygian Half Scallop can also be braised with garlic and iron plate, which is an indispensable main ingredient for longevity restaurants. Therefore, the amount of Teng Shuli's order each time was not small, and the owner of the dry goods store tossed for a while before finally wrapping everything and handing it to Teng Shuli for inventory.

Uncle Teng counted clearly, and finally looked at the purchase order in his hand and said, "Okay!" Now that you've bought everything you need to buy today, load all the scallops into the car and go back! ”