Chapter 51: Food captures people's hearts
After leaving the gate of the General's Mansion unhappily, Li Chuxia stood on the street thinking about what he should do in the future.
Now that she is being bullied by people who look down on people, she naturally wants to rely on her own strength to make everyone dare not underestimate herself.
After Li Chuxia returned to the inn as usual, he happened to meet Wei Jingran who was full of anxiety.
"Where have you been? I sent people to look around, but they couldn't find any trace of you, and I thought something had happened to you, so I went to report to the police immediately. Wei Jingran looked at the person in front of him, and finally came back safe and sound, and he was relieved in his heart.
"It's just that you went out for a walk, why are you so nervous?"
Li Chuxia smiled perfunctorily at this time, after all, she didn't plan to tell Wei Jingran what happened just now.
Wei Jingran didn't seem to be in a high spirit, and didn't dare to ask what was going on, so she muttered, "It's good that you're okay." ”
"I have something to ask you, though." Li Chuxia suddenly remembered what he had just thought, if he wanted to rely on his own strength to make a little famous in this capital, it would be too difficult, but he had a ready-made person in front of him who could help him.
Wei Jingran glanced at her, "You say." ”
"Do you have a way to catch up with the boss of Fulou? I want to use my own strength to make a name for myself in this capital. Li Chuxia had a relaxed smile on his face, after all, he can be regarded as a nobody now, if he wants to mix a piece of the world in this huge city, he still has to rely on connections.
Wei Jingran paused, and then continued to speak: "I know the boss of Nafulou, how do you want me to help you?" ”
"Naturally, I met you like I did when I met you, and then I got to know that boss."
Li Chuxia was full of energy at this time, and he was very excited when he thought that he would break into the world in such a big place in the future.
"Okay."
Wei Jingran looked at the girl's eyes full of stars, and his heart was also happy.
The two discussed it for a while, and they would go to the Fulou boss tomorrow to discuss business, but now what Li Chuxia has to do is to take a dish that is amazing enough to capture the heart of the Fulou boss.
Li Chuxia took Wei Jingran and the two of them to the vegetable market for a walk, and wanted to buy some vegetables from local materials to see what to do, but after turning around, he found that there were no useful dishes in the vegetable market.
There are only all kinds of relatively ordinary fruits and vegetables on the stall, and Li Chuxia is entangled in what dish to make for a while.
Wei Jingran squatted in front of a fishmonger at this time, looking at the fish in his wooden basin, it was quite fresh, and he was thinking about whether to let Li Chuxia make a fish to replenish his body tonight.
"Early summer, what do you think of this fish?" Wei Jingran shouted to the girl who was still standing on the side of the road.
Li Chuxia listened to this, and then walked to take a look at the fish in the wooden basin, which was quite fresh.
"Why don't you buy a fish from the river this morning?"
The fish seller saw the hesitation of the two people in front of the fish stall, and immediately put on a smile and sold to the two.
"Why don't you buy a fish?" Li Chuxia supported his chin with his hand and looked at the fish in this pot.
Wei Jingran immediately took out the money to buy it, bought a big fish, and carried it in his hand.
Looking at this handsome boy wearing a moon-white robe, but carrying a fish that was still jumping alive in his hand, Li Chuxia really couldn't help laughing.
Fortunately, Wei Jingran didn't care much about herself, seeing her laughing, she laughed too.
After the two returned to the inn, they walked directly to the kitchen of the inn, and after spending some money, they temporarily took the kitchen for themselves.
Li Chuxia had just bought a few ingredients on the street and was going to make soup with crucian carp.
Wei Jingran has occasionally helped her over the years, and she is not very unfamiliar with the work in the kitchen, so the two of them are busy in the kitchen.
The cooks in the inn were curious about these two people, and a few people stood at the door of the kitchen, watching these two people chop vegetables and make fish.
"I think it's still early today, why don't you get it today, and then send it to Fulou?"
Li Chuxia glanced at the sky, it was only evening at this time, if it was done and sent to Fulou, the time would be just right.
"If you think it's okay now, then let's make soup now." Wei Jingran also glanced at the sky outside, if he went to Fulou now, it would be just right.
"Hmm."
Li Chuxia nodded and began to make the crucian carp soup to be boiled, boiled oil and salt, put the crucian carp that he had made before, and then fried the fish until golden brown on both sides.
The kitchen is filled with the smell of fried fish, and the fish is boiled in a pot under water as soon as the fish is fried.
After boiling the fish on high heat until the milky white broth, add the vegetables that you bought before, that is, the yams, white radishes and carrots that you bought when you bought the fish.
boiled the fragrance on low heat, and then Li Chuxia directly took the big pot of fish out of the pot.
Wei Jingran hurriedly took out the prepared food box, put the fish in the big basin into the food box, and closed the lid.
"Well, I'll leave you a little bit."
Li Chuxia happily served a small bowl of soup left in the pot to Wei Jingran, although it was leftover, it was not good to say it.
"Thank you." Wei Jingran was pleasantly surprised and drank this small bowl of delicious fish soup.
The cooks who had craned their necks at the kitchen door to watch were almost drooling just by smelling the smell, they didn't expect that these two people could make such delicious things in the kitchen.
After the two of them finished preparing, Li Chuxia took the food box, led by Wei Jingran, and the two went to Fulou to let the shopkeeper lead him to the VIP seat on the second floor.
Li Chuxia looked at this restaurant and prepared well, there are such things as VIP seats, looking at those seats are not far apart, and each position has wooden screens and floating yarns as partitions.
It looks quite elegant, but eating here is not relaxing, after all, the privacy is not very good.
Just when Li Chuxia was thinking nonsense, she and Wei Jingran were taken by the shopkeeper to the innermost room at the corner of the corridor.
The shopkeeper stood outside the house and knocked on the door, and said respectfully: "Boss, the young owner of the Wei family wants to see you." ”
Immediately after that, the people in the room opened their mouths to let people in, and followed the shopkeeper into the house, and Li Chuxia saw a middle-aged man sitting in the room reading something.
The shopkeeper left room for the three of them, then exited the door and closed the door smoothly.
Wei Jingran looked at the sitting man with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Boss, don't come unharmed." ”
Boss Quan stood up and greeted Wei Jingran, "Hahaha, Quan is doing well, how is the young owner doing recently?" ”
Li Chuxia followed Wei Jingran behind and looked at the two of them to greet each other, and knew that he was Quanfu, the owner of Fulou, and Quanfu was naturally a bit of an identity background if he could make the restaurant the biggest in the capital.
"It's fine." Wei Jingran paused and said, "I'll bring you someone this time, a person who can make your restaurant worth several times." ”
"Oh?" Quanfu's eyes lit up, and he saw Wei Jingran pulling out the person behind him.
Li Chuxia greeted Quanfu with a smile, "Hello Boss Quan." ”
Then he put the food box in his hand on the table next to him, and then he continued to speak, "My name is Li Chuxia, and I am good friends with the Shaodong family. ”
"I have the best chef in the world here, and the cooks in the imperial dining room in the palace are all the apprentices of the old chef under me.
Quan Fu squinted at her, but in his heart he was sneering at what Wei Jingran said, if this woman is so powerful, he Wei Jingran doesn't keep it himself, and he still needs to give people to himself?
Li Chuxia also understood that this Quanfu's words were already very tactful, if this Fulou was so big now, if she really didn't have any ability, it would be impossible, but since she dared to challenge Fulou, she had her own confidence.
"Boss Quan, she was the first one in me that could triple my monthly income, and after a while, she opened her own restaurant and took over the entire city's business."
After Wei Jingran finished speaking, he glanced at Li Chuxia beside him again, gave her a comforting smile, and then continued: "Since I have eaten your Fulou's dishes, I also understand that your cooking skills are good, but in the past two years, I have eaten the dishes made in early summer, and eating your Fulou's things today is like chewing wax." ”
Quan Fu's face was not very good at this time, but he didn't think that people like Wei Jingran would evaluate his Fulou's things as chewing wax, and then looking at Li Chuxia's gaze, he couldn't help but look at it with a little scrutiny.
"And how do you prove that your cooking skills are better than mine?" Quan Fu didn't believe the words of these two people at this time, after all, who wouldn't talk big, and he had to see his true strength.
Li Chuxia smiled, "Here." ”
When I lifted the lid of the food box on the table, a milky smell overflowed, filling the room with a clear fragrance.
Quanfu's face changed, and he touched the beard on his chin, he had also eaten delicacies from the mountains and seas, so just by smelling the taste, he knew that the contents of this box were good.
Li Chuxia took the soup spoon and the fish and soup out, and very politely served it to Quanfu who was standing next to him, and seeing that Wei Jingran was also greedy, he was very helpless and served him soup.
Quanfu took the bowl of fish, put a small piece with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and immediately felt a whole tenderness rippling in his mouth, chewed it twice and quickly ate a bite of fish.
Li Chuxia saw his appearance and knew that this thing could definitely be done today, she was also a person who had done a state banquet at the beginning, and her cooking skills were praised by the leaders of various countries, and these ancient people still had something she couldn't do?
"Delicious!"
Quan Fu praised while eating, this is the most tender fish he has ever eaten, the skin is crispy and delicious, but the meat inside is the most tender, there is no fishy smell of fish at all, and even this soup makes people feel fragrant.