Chapter 29: Steamed Meat (16): The Ice City
After Peter and AndrΓ© had finally eaten and drunk enough and left satisfied, another carriage stopped outside the True Taste House, and an old man with gray hair walked down accompanied by the old servant.
"Father!" Zheng Xinwen greeted him.
"Grandpa is here!" "Grandpa!" The children also wanted to come forward, but were picked up by Anna.
"I already know the situation. Give you two days to pack up the valuable things in the store, and we'll go to Harbin to visit your uncle, and ask the chefs and guys in the store if anyone wants to go along, and if they don't, they will pay a severance pay. Although Zheng Mingquan is old, he is still so categorical when he speaks to his son, and there is no doubt about it.
"This ...... However, the ambassador of the Rakshasa country has already helped to solve this matter...... "Zheng Xinwen hesitated, the true taste house is his hard work for many years, and it is really difficult to give up.
"Confused! Who are you as the ambassador of the Rakshasa Kingdom? Will they stay in the capital for the rest of their lives and not go back! Zheng Mingquan blew his beard and glared.
Zheng Xinwen shrank his head a little weakly.
At this moment, Hao Xian felt as if he had seen the young man who had been doing house-to-house for three days again, and he couldn't help but show a nostalgic smile, but there was a hint of sadness in his smile.
Mission accomplished, it's almost time to separate.
Zheng Mingquan glared at his son, sighed and said: "If we offend such a character, we can't settle it, not only will we stop the store, but we will not be able to stay in the capital." Even if he can't deal with you openly because of the Rakshasa Ambassador, there are also secret means to make you unable to survive in this Sijiu City, and if you leave late, maybe your family will be ruined! β
Seeing Zheng Xinwen hanging his head, full of entanglement, the old servant Fu Bo who came with Zheng Mingquan also opened his toothless mouth and persuaded in a leaky voice: "Young Master Wen, the master is more reluctant to leave than you, the Zheng family's family business has been in the capital for several generations, but now, if you don't go, you can't go!" β
Zheng Xinwen looked up at Fu Bo, who was about to die, then at his old father, and finally nodded: "I understand......"
He returned to True Taste House and explained to the chef and his friends that the Zheng family was about to move to the northeast, which immediately caused an uproar. But after the initial chaos, they all reluctantly understood the owner's approach, especially when they remembered the sinister appearance of Xiao Dezhang when he left, which made everyone afraid.
Most of them asked Fu Bo to receive severance pay and left on their own, and since then they have been making a living again, and in the end, only fourteen chefs who have been carefully instructed by Zheng Xinwen are willing to follow the Zheng family to Harbin to explore.
Migration is by no means an easy task, especially with such a large family, but it took the Zheng family just two days to pack up all the valuables, leaving only a few and some trustworthy loyal servants in the capital to continue to arrange the hand, and the rest are about to travel by car.
Outside the city gate, on the official road where cars come and go, the cold wind is howling and blowing, except for Anna's mother's family, not many people dare to come to see off the Zheng family who offended Xiao Dezhang.
Anna's father said that Harbin was more comfortable for Lucia than the climate in Beijing. He decided to move to Harbin to reunite with his daughter after a while, so the scene of seeing him off did not appear too sad.
No one knew that there was another time-traveler from a distant time and space who was also seeing off the Zheng family.
Anna waved vigorously to her father, and Zheng Xinwen put her arm around her shoulders and whispered comfortingly.
The carriage faded away, disappearing beneath the distant mountains.
Anna's father watched for a long time, until he couldn't see anything, and then reluctantly turned back to the city.
Hao Xian still looked motionless at the northeast, as if he had seen through time and space and seen the future.
The distant city of ice and snow in Harbin is about to welcome a culinary master of her own, who will bring her cooking skills honed in the capital for more than 20 years to the ice city, and in the next 30 years, completely change the dining table of Harbin people.
When he went to Shenyang on a business trip, he would transform the pot meat with tomato sauce, which led to the debate between later generations of northerners about whether to add tomato sauce to the pot meat, but they didn't know that he, the founder, actually wanted both.
He would create crispy yellow cabbage and use a copper spoon to teach the apprentices who called it a shredded egg. But in fact...... That's the silk egg, he just doesn't dare to let anyone mention the word "egg" anymore.
He will also support his son Zheng Yiling to reopen the True Taste House in Harbin, so that his culinary skills can continue to be passed on......
"Ah, it's snowing."
Hao Xian raised his hand, trying to catch a snowflake.
Snowflakes passed through his palms and slowly fell to the ground.
Hao Xian sighed.
After all, he is not a person of this era, and it is time to go back and return to his family.
"Peng Zu's Kitchen Sutra" once again opened the wheel of time and space, and this time Hao Xian took the initiative to step in, and he seemed to be much more proficient......
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"Poof!"
Xiao Dezhang on the hospital bed spat out a mouthful of black blood.
Since the incident a month ago, his health has deteriorated.
He thought that he had been beaten by the envoys of the Rakshasa Kingdom, but no matter how the imperial doctor helped him recuperate, there was no sign of improvement.
He invited several monks and Taoist priests for this purpose, but one of the old Taoists turned around and wanted to leave at the first sight of him.
Xiao Dezhang asked the guards to arrest the old way, and when he was questioned in every possible way, the other party said that he saw that he had a strong evil aura on his body, and vomiting blood was not sick, but evil!
He immediately asked Lao Dao to exorcise evil spirits for him, and Lao Dao gave him two potions afterwards, and Xiao Dezhang really felt a lot better.
However, when he began to vomit blood again two days later, he was nowhere to be found.
"Arrest all the monks and Taoists in the city and exorcise evil spirits for our family!" Xiao De yelled at the little eunuch who was serving him with a hideous face, and then coughed violently.
He continued to vomit blood while coughing, and only stopped for a while.
His face was as white as wax, and he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and his whole body was fluttering.
He found that the little eunuch who was serving him was kneeling in front of the bed and shivering, and was about to laugh and curse, but he saw black blood all over the ground.
Did I vomit so much blood?
Then I'...... Why are you still alive?
Xiao De rolled his eyes and fell back, ending his twisted and sinful life.
Soon, another little eunuch will inherit his name of "Little Dezi" and become the new favorite of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who will succeed Li Lianying as the last chief eunuch of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and replace Xiao Dezhang after the founding of New China to accept the transformation of the Republic - to sweep the streets.
His death did not have any effect on the development of history, and the butterfly does not stir up its wings for an existence that is too humble......
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Hao Xian walked out of the wheel of time and space, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
He thought he would return to his warm room, but what he didn't expect to see was a snowy street, and the pedestrians on the road were wrapped in thick clothes.
"Isn't the mission over yet?"
Just as Hao Xian was puzzled, he heard the voices of two men passing by him:
"When will we be able to get rid of the devils! It's been six years, it's been six years! β
"Be careful, don't say this outside, don't want to live?"
Hao Xian's originally relaxed expression immediately became tense, and he already understood where he was.
Harbin, 1938, 7 years before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.