Chapter 23: Potted Meat (10): The Will of the Dark
Hearing Xiao Dezhang's mouthful of "our house", the diners understood that this restaurant was going to be unlucky, so they got up and left to avoid trouble, and some of them didn't even settle the account, so they took advantage of the chaos to leave Zhenweiju.
Xiao Dezhang's guards began to pick up their chairs and messed around, and for a while they were full of mess.
The cousin of Zhenweiju recognized Xiao Dezhang's identity and understood that this was no longer something that could be solved by his long-sleeved good dance, so he hurriedly ran to the back kitchen to find the owner.
When Zheng Xinwen came to the lobby in a hurry, Xiao Er, who had said the wrong thing, was already blue and swollen and dying, he hurriedly ran to Xiao Dezhang and begged for mercy: "My lord, the new guy doesn't understand the rules, you have a lot of ......."
Syllable!
Xiao Dezhang slapped Zheng Xinwen in the face, and his eyes were full of tyranny and angrily reprimanded: "You can't even teach the rules of the guys, and you are still opening a restaurant in the capital?" This is Donghua Gate, a royal control area, is it a place where you can open a restaurant if you want? ”
The so-called "rules" do exist, and the capital is different from other places, there are many eunuchs, so the restaurant never uses the word "egg", so as not to stimulate the eggless people who go out of the palace to run errands.
This is also why Zhenweiju wants to call poached eggs "lying fruit", if it is placed in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, egg fried rice is directly called egg fried rice, who will deliberately use the ancient name of "broken golden rice" in the Sui Dynasty?
This junior was introduced by his relatives and had only come to Zhenweiju for a short time, and he had not had time to do a full set of rules, which was a taboo in doing business in the capital.
Several guards were beating Xiao Er, punching and kicking, mercilessly, venting their anger for their master.
Zheng Xinwen endured the hot pain on his face, and wanted to beg for mercy for Xiao Er again, Xiao Dezhang shouted at one of the nearest guards: "You go and call the Admiral of the Nine Gates, how can you let this kind of unruly shop lose the face of the imperial city and seal it for our family!" ”
Zheng Xinwen couldn't help but turn pale, Donghuamen is not far from the Forbidden City, and it is naturally his father Zheng Mingquan who can open a store here, but now because he has offended the celebrity in front of Cixi, will his twenty years of hard work be in vain?
Hao Xian witnessed this scene that had happened in history, and his brows were twisted into twists.
The little second of Zhenweiju said the wrong thing about Xiaode's egg noodles, he read it when he read the origin stories of various famous dishes, in the original history, although the Zheng family could not continue to gain a foothold in the capital because of offending Xiaodezhang, but at least the people were fine, and finally went to relatives in Harbin Daotaifu and became the ancestor of the Bingcheng generation.
However, it is clearly said in the abuse task that "history has been distorted, and the chef who created the pot of meat was killed by a traitor and his hands were abolished".
But why did he make a different choice?
What is it that causes history to be distorted?
Hao Xian was puzzled, and suddenly felt that the whole world had become dim for a moment, everyone's movements were frozen, and the "Peng Zu Kitchen Sutra" beside him emitted a warm light that enveloped him, as if he was resisting this dark power.
When time began to flow again, a strange black mist drilled into Xiao Dezhang's body, and his already angry eyes were soaked in ink, becoming selective, exuding a dark will.
"Stop! We have a great idea. Xiao Dezhang waved his fan with a grim smile on his face, and the guards immediately stopped doing chores and waited for his next instructions.
"You're Zheng Xinwen, right? We've heard about you. You are obviously a rich businessman from the banner, since you were a child, you like to run to the back kitchen of various restaurants and teahouses, and the chef to discuss, and later in Prince Gong's mansion to learn to cook for ten years, the royal dishes made even Prince Gong and his old man are endless, eleven years ago to open this true taste house, now has a great name. If you can abandon your wealthy family business and engage in such a lowly business as diligent work, you must like to cook very much, right? ”
Zheng Xinwen didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Xiaode Zhang's gourd, so he could only reply solemnly: "The adult has won the award......
"Your experience is actually very similar to ours! When you were a child, your father didn't let you learn to cook, you had to learn to cook; And our father didn't let our family be eunuchs, so our family gave themselves a knife. It's a beautiful story that both of us can realize our dreams despite the opposition of our families! ”
Although Xiao Dezhang had a smile on his face, Zheng Xinwen listened to his words, and his entire back was already wet with cold sweat.
The customers in the store have long run away, Xiao Er has slipped away several times, but none of the apprentices in the back kitchen have escaped, and they are trembling and guarding the true taste house, waiting for fate to come.
The smile on Xiao Dezhang's face suddenly became hideous, and he changed his words and said: "The difference is that you used to be rich and our family was poor, but now, your life is in our hands!" But our family is not an unreasonable person, isn't it just a little second who said the wrong thing, as long as Zhenweiju can give our family an explanation today, it's not that I can't let you go. ”
"Your Excellency, as long as I can do it, I will definitely satisfy my lord!" Zheng Xinwen's eyes rekindled a glimmer of hope:
Xiao Dezhang walked up to him and grinned happily: "Whoever does something wrong will pay the price." As the owner of True Flavor House, of course, you have to punish Xiao Er who doesn't understand the rules, so let's go and beat him, when our family says stop, you can stop. ”
Zheng Xinwen looked sideways at Xiao Er, who looked like a puddle of rotten meat on the ground, and hesitated: "But if you continue to fight like this, you will kill people!" ”
"You, go and beat him up, when our family says stop, you can stop." Xiao De's face sank like water, his pupils were as black as the abyss, and he said sentence by sentence, "Of course, you can not give our family this explanation, then our family will not only seal this true taste house today, but also break your hands, so that you will never be able to cook again!" ”
Zheng Xinwen realized that Xiao Dezhang just wanted to force him to kill the guy in his restaurant with his own hands!
I often hear people say that the eunuchs in this deep palace live a lackey-like and undignified life in order to please the emperor and the queen mother, and each one has a more distorted personality.
Zheng Xinwen couldn't help but fall into a tangle, he couldn't see death without help, but he couldn't lose his hand!
In the past ten years, foreigners have pried open the country, doing business and plundering everywhere, and the Zheng family's tea business has long plummeted. He and Anna's fifth child had only been born for a few years!
As if to make the boulder in his heart heavier, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, but it was the Admiral of the Nine Gates who had already arrived with a group of sergeants and surrounded the True Taste Residence.
It is worth mentioning that at this time, Hao Xian's soul shadow was long gone, and he rushed out of Zhenwei Ju when Xiaode Zhang's black mist entered his body.