Chapter 2 Shabu mutton
The person on the other end of the phone said a few words that made me lose my temper.
"It seems that you have done a lot of homework to find me! Who is your owner? Let's be honest, what do you want me to do for you? I got straight to the point and asked the person on the other end of the line.
"My master is really not mistaken, Jiang Ye is really a cheerful person! In this way, at seven o'clock this evening, my master is in Huixin Building, please eat mutton shabu with Wang Ye, let's see you and talk while eating! After the other party finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for me to make a statement.
Obviously, the other party expected me to go to the appointment, which is really a piece of paper to draw a nose...... What a big face! What is the origin of the master in this man's mouth? Where am I going? Or not? Judging by the situation in front of them, Wang Yueban seemed to be in their hands, and it seemed that he had been controlled by them. With Wang Yueban's skills, he can control him, which shows that the strength of the other party should not be underestimated.
The person on the other end of the phone, on the surface, spoke politely, but in fact, he gave me a soft and a hard, ready with both hands!
Besides, why did the other party go to such great lengths to find me? He mentioned on the phone that he knows everything about my family, is it true or not?
My family's ancestral home is Luoyang, Henan, and I have been digging in the pit for generations, and my ancestors have been begging for a living by touching gold and fighting for generations.
It is said that three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion! However, only the line of touching the gold and fighting is not on the table, and it is the most disgraceful! Moreover, there is an old saying on the rivers and lakes since ancient times: digging graves and digging graves will kill you!
Therefore, in my generation, my grandfather made a poisonous oath that I would not be allowed to get involved again in everything that was about finding dragons and touching gold, moving mountains and fighting upside down!
However, as the saying goes: a dog's mouth can't get ivory, and a chicken can't fly out of a golden phoenix! Everyone has everyone's talents, some things are born with them, what I inject into my bones is the genes of the Touching Gold family, and what flows in my body is the blood of Captain Touching Jin, this matter, no one can change it.
So, when I was three years old, I was already playing with my grandfather's bronze compass every day, and at the age of four, I was carrying a small shovel and making holes in the corner of the yard, and the result was ...... dug up the private money that my father had hidden for many years. When I was five years old, I was in kindergarten, earning pocket money by performing bone shrinking skills for my friends.
Wang Yueban, who called me, is a little friend who grew up with me bare-chested, good brother!
Wang Yueban was born in a martial arts family, according to his own words, his ancestors were generals during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and there were several generations of ancestors, who were the imperial guards beside the emperor.
When I was in kindergarten, I was attracted to all the little girls in all classes to revolve around me because of my performance of bone shrinking skills; Wang Yueban looked greedy, gathered all the friends, and threatened to perform ancestral stunts for the friends...... Iron crotch work! As a result, he was rushed to the hospital, and after this battle, he almost became a eunuch.
I lay on the bed, thinking about it, and finally decided to go to the banquet and find out the other party's way in person.
Huixin Lou is a century-old restaurant, mainly engaged in hot pot and mutton shabu. According to legend, when Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai Khan, led the Mongolian army, on the way to the march, because of the urgency of the war, the soldiers did not have enough time to eat, in order to save time, Kublai Khan had an idea, ordered the cooks of the army, set up a cauldron, and then cut the mutton into thin slices with a knife, and boiled it in the cauldron...... This is the prototype of hot pot.
The reason why the mutton shabu shabu of Huixin Building is famous far and wide is a must, mainly for three reasons, one is that the utensils are exquisite and authentic! The hot pot uses a traditional old-fashioned copper hot pot, which is heated by burning fruit charcoal.
The second is that the mutton is delicious! The mutton is all selected from the deepest part of the Horqin grassland, the lamb that grows within a year, and each sheep only uses the hind leg meat commonly known as "cucumber strips", such mutton, the meat is extremely tender, fresh but not fat, fragrant but not greasy!
The third is the secret pot base and dipping sauce! The bottom of the pot and the dipping sauce of Huixin Building are a hundred years of secret recipes, exclusive secret system, using dozens of kinds of ingredients, refined, the aroma drifts down the wind for several miles, not into the store, only passing by in front of the store, can make people can't help drooling.
Wang Yueban and I, from childhood to adulthood, our favorite thing to eat is the mutton shabu in Huixinlou, and the other party has obviously done his homework in this regard.
The sky has not yet been darkened, a plate of plates in Huixin Building is neatly stacked, the tender mutton slices have been served on the table, the fruit charcoal is burning unhurriedly, with a soft red light, in the copper mandarin duck pot, the milky white clear soup and the bright red spicy soup, "goo-goo-goo" rolling, everyone sits at the table, shabu mutton slices, pushing the cup to change the lamp, in the steam, quite a bit of a sense of clouds.
As soon as I walked to the door of the hall on the first floor, I saw a strong man in a neat black suit who came straight to me, and then looked at me expressionlessly, and said coldly: "Master Jiang, my master, has been waiting for you in the private room upstairs for a long time!" ”
I didn't speak, just glanced at the strong man.
Under the guidance of the strong man, I came to the most secluded private room on the second floor, at the door of the private room, two men who were also wearing straight black suits and were also sturdy, like two sculptures, stood motionless at the door of the private room.
Seeing the temperament and style of the three strong men in front of him, it is obvious that he does not look like an ordinary person, but a bit like a well-trained soldier...... What is the origin of the other party? I couldn't help but have such a question in my heart again!
Entering the private room, I saw Wang Yueban in front of him, and at this time, I saw this kid, holding a glass of beer in his left hand and chopsticks in his right hand, taking out a piece of steaming mutton from the hot pot, and was about to send it to his mouth...... Seeing this kid sitting there with all his beard and tail, my nerves, which had been tense, relaxed a lot.
And directly opposite Wang Yueban, with her back to the door of the private room, sat a girl.
At a glance at this girl with her back to me, an idiom instantly came to my mind: slim and slim! Then I remembered a poem by Li Bai: Clear water comes out of hibiscus, and it is natural to carve and decorate...... A woman's temperament can really reach the point of being amazing!
"Hey, Jiang Ye, come out after a long time, the shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village!" Wang Yueban saw me at a glance, stood up suddenly, and excitedly opened her mouth to recite two lines of poetry.
The girl, who had her back to me, stood up, and she slowly turned back, and it happened to meet my gaze, and the two of us, looking at each other, looked at each other.