Chapter 97: The Banquet of a Thousand Souls
Luo stubbornly followed her father and Aunt Fang to the town in the car early in the morning, and she was still thinking about whether she could meet Brother Cheng Xiao.
As a result, when he arrived in the town, he went directly to his senior brother Zheng Daming's house with Lao Luo.
The Immortal Residence is still closed, but Zheng Da understands that his family is not cold.
Because of Fang Wenhai's arrival, many people came to visit.
Just as they saw off the guests, Fang Ruzhen and Luo Dahai arrived with Luo Stubborn.
Luo stubbornly followed his father into the house, and saw a spirited, red-faced little old man sitting cross-legged on the big kang drinking tea.
"Dad, you have a guest early in the morning?"
Fang Ruzhen sat comfortably on the edge of the kang, grabbed a handful of peanuts from the plate decorated with dried fruits on the table and handed it to Luo Yan.
Fang Wenhai didn't even glance at his own girl, but he saw the white and well-behaved Luo stubbornness at a glance.
"Whose child is this? That's good. β
Fang Wenhai looked at the girl in front of him, she was in her teens and was not tall, but she looked good, and she didn't contact her apprentice Luo Dahai for a while.
"Hello grandpa, my name is Luo Yan, and I am from Luo Dahai's family."
Luo stubbornly looked at his father's master, and felt that this old man really liked children as Aunt Fang said, and his smile was very kind.
"Hahaha, it turned out to be the daughter of the sea. I remembered it, I didn't expect it to grow so big. β
Fang Wenhai laughed, amused by Luo's stubborn and serious answer.
"The sea said you look so rough, your daughter is not like you, huh?"
Fang Wenhai joked that his apprentice was not ambiguous at all, he was a stupid apprentice who was blessed to have such a big girl.
Luo Dahai, who was named, touched his head and only knew how to laugh.
"Dad, has there been any progress in my brother's affairs? The other party still refuses to return the recipe? β
Fang Ruzhen pulled Luo Stubborn to his side and sat down, and asked about the bad things that Senior Brother Zheng Da understood.
If Zheng Da hadn't begged in front of her father with tears in his eyes this time, her father would not have come to Shenmu Town for the New Year.
At the mention of this matter, the expression on Fang Wenhai's face became a little serious, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know which way it is an immortal, I invited them to discuss, but they refused." It's a thing that doesn't go in with oil and salt. β
Luo Dahai picked up the thermos bottle and diligently refilled the master's water, listened to the master's words, and asked, "Master, you don't know where the other party came from?" β
"If you want to know, you have to see to know, this side is gone, I can't find out the other party's way?"
Fang Wenhai's status in the local culinary industry over the years is high enough, and others have come to visit him, and it is really rare for him to go on a date with others.
So as soon as the other party refused, the old man was still a little confused.
"The rats don't come out of the hole because they don't eat at the hole."
Luo, who was seriously snorting melon seeds, was stubborn, and suddenly such a sentence came out.
The speaker has a heart, and the listener has more intention.
"Huh? yes, I didn't think of that! β
Fang Wenhai slapped his thigh, and said in his heart that he was really being held too high, and he always felt that as long as he invited someone, someone would refute his face.
In fact, the loss of face is secondary. Knowing what the other person wants, you can prescribe the right medicine.
"Dad, what do you think?"
Fang Ruzhen didn't pay attention to what Luo stubbornly said, and her attention was all on Fang Wenhai.
"It's still the girl who reminded me, now that the other party has taken the initiative, she naturally takes Qiao. I want to meet, I'm afraid I have to hook each other with something. β
As if thinking of a way, Fang Wenhai smiled and looked at Luo stubbornly who was bored and swallowed melon seeds, this girl from the Dahai family is not simple.
"And what are you going to do?"
Luo Dahai is also interested, and it is difficult to say that the senior brother is easy to do.
If the other party is talking about the rules, I'm afraid they won't be able to do the next thing to set the recipes.
Against this kind of person, I'm afraid it's useless to be reasonable.
"Dahai, you go and call your senior brother, I have something to tell you."
Fang Wenhai thought about it for a while, and then had an idea, and immediately asked Luo Dahai to ask Zheng Da to discuss.
Taking advantage of this gap, Fang Wenhai chatted with Luo Stubbornly for a few words, and found that this girl was a sesame rice ball. It looks simple and harmless, but it is actually clever and eccentric.
"Dad, it's not easy for Brother Dahai to take a daughter and a son by himself now. You want to help him. β
Fang Ruzhen saw that her father liked Luo stubbornly so much, and took the opportunity to say good things to Luo Dahai.
It is said that Dad liked Brother Dahai the most, although Brother Dahai was not the smartest apprentice, but he was the most down-to-earth. The kung fu explained by the master will never be cheating and slippery.
But later, because of her affairs, I had an opinion on Brother Dahai.
Otherwise, how could Fang Wenhai's proud protΓ©gΓ© be just a small village banquet chef?
The master gave a little help, not to mention opening his own business, many restaurants rushed to ask for it.
Fang Wenhai glanced at his daughter, he knew what this girl was thinking all these years. On the one hand, he felt sorry for his daughter, and on the other hand, he also felt very proud.
Even if his daughter loves the sea in her heart, she has never done anything beyond the norm. Guarding a lovesickness, he never married.
Therefore, he complains about the sea in his heart, but he can make people happy, how can he force this kind of thing?
This time, I went out of the mountain at the request of the eldest apprentice, but I didn't expect to encounter the sea and get a divorce.
To say that he doesn't have the slightest faint expectation in his heart is a lie.
After all, he is also an ordinary father, hoping that his daughter can get what she wants and be happy.
"Isn't the sea doing quite well over the years, how can you help?"
Fang Wenhai deliberately talked back to his daughter, and the look on his face made Fang Ruzhen puzzled.
"Dad~ Look at the other senior brothers, they have developed very well by relying on the name of your apprentice. Don't talk about it far away, let's just say Senior Brother Zheng, he got your recipe, and he relied on the dish of fairy meat to open a fairy residence, and he has made a lot of money over the years, right? If you hadn't had to ...... in the first place."
Fang Ruzhen naturally stood on Luo Dahai's side and spoke, in her opinion, Brother Dahai was no worse than any of her father's apprentices, but he didn't get any help from his father, and he lost blood!
But before she finished speaking, Luo Dahai took Zheng Daming into the house, and she automatically silenced the rest of the words and swallowed them back.
"Master, just said that you have a way?"
Zheng Da understood that since his master came, his original frustration was greatly alleviated. In his opinion, as soon as his master's name came out, the people in their industry didn't give three points of thin noodles, right?
Fang Wenhai didn't have a good face for Zheng Da, this apprentice had more than enough brains and lack of wisdom, and he had no way to teach his son.
also because of his mistakes, he paid off the unique secret recipes passed on to him by Fang Wenhai to others to pay off his gambling debts.
It's not that Fang Wenhai doesn't want to punish this loser apprentice, but the internal contradictions have to wait until he settles out the jackals who are eyeing the prepared outside.
"Hmph, you hurry up and release the news, I plan to hold a banquet for the elderly, and reproduce the representative dishes of the Qiansu banquet back then. And the day was set in three days. β
As soon as Fang Wenhai finished speaking, everyone present was stunned.
A Thousand Banquets? That was what Kangxi and Qianlong had held back then.
"Master, although the main dish of the Qiansuo banquet is hot pot, it is not easy to get all the ingredients."
When Luo Dahai followed Fang Wenhai to learn to cook, he once heard the master talk about this thousand banquets. In his memory, the most important thing in the Qiansu banquet is hot pot, which is not difficult to make, but the ingredients for this shabu-shabu are not easy to find.
Back then, the emperor held a banquet to raise the power of a country. Now with only their senior brothers, what kind of ingredients can they get all?
Even if it is complete, can the quality of the ingredients meet the standards of the Qiansu Banquet?