Chapter 20: The Qian Family
Ye Chanyi deliberately pretended to be very surprised, and asked her mother what happened, and Mrs. Ye hurriedly told her daughter what happened.
After hearing this, Ye Chanyi deliberately breathed a sigh of relief, came to his father and uncle with a smile, and said to his father: "The reason why my father is against it is because I am afraid of disobeying my grandfather's instructions, and it is not wrong for my uncle to want to earn money for the Ye family!" Since my father and uncle can't hold on to this matter, why not invite the elders of the clan to come and discuss, there will always be a reasonable solution! ”
After hearing this, Ye Zhuling also thought about it, and Ye Zhuhuang was even more overjoyed, and praised Ye Chanyi without hesitation: "It's still my niece who thinks thoughtfully, it is a matter in the clan, and it should be resolved by the people in the family!" If it were up to you and my brother to decide, no matter whose opinion we followed, it would be difficult to convince the other party and convince the public! Why don't you follow my niece's suggestion and invite the clansmen to discuss, at that time, no matter what the result is, my brother and I will be convinced! The righteousness of Ye Zhuhuang's words is awe-inspiring, but in fact, the small abacus in his heart is "crackling"!
Now the Ye family in Wutong Lane, from top to bottom, no one is the only one who is not the only one who is looking at Ye Zhu and Huang Ma, ostensibly to ask those old men, but in fact, they are not acting according to their own opinions. So he immediately called Xiao Si around him to invite a few elders in the clan.
In about half a pillar of incense, the fourth and sixth uncles, the oldest in the clan, were invited over, followed by these cousins, Ye Chanyi's second and fourth uncles, and a large number of people.
The two elders stepped into the threshold, Ye Zhuling and Ye Zhuhuang got up one after another to greet each other, this big family is like this, there are many rules and they are big, even if the branch of these two uncles is now weaker than this side in all aspects, but at the sacrificial family banquet, these two old men are seated.
Needless to say, the result of this meeting was naturally done in accordance with Ye Zhuhuang's intentions, and Master Ye had no choice but to agree, but he couldn't rest assured that in the end, then the sixth uncle thought of a compromise solution, and the box was handed over to the third master, but the key was let Ye Zhuling send a reliable person to keep it and follow the third master!
Ye Zhuling reluctantly agreed to this plan, Ye Zhuhuang smiled on the surface and praised the sixth uncle for his thoughtfulness, but in his heart he secretly scolded this old fox for being treacherous, not only to leave a good reputation of fairness and strictness, but also to not want to offend both ends!
The next day, it was Mrs. Song's birthday, and this birthday banquet was set at the Qian family restaurant where the ancestors had been the imperial chef. That is, the Qian family who is discussing marriage with Ye Baiwei. Speaking of this old Qian family, the ancestors were originally just ordinary villagers, who had the craft of grinding tofu and relied on a tofu stall to maintain the family's livelihood. But his Taizu is a person who is quite good at thinking and learning. Of course, due to too many failures, his father picked up the flat pole and beat him a few times, but he did not give up, and finally, he made better and more tender tofu than others.
Just when everyone was praising him, he went behind his parents' back and quietly followed a passing caravan to the capital.
After a few years, there was no news, and just when everyone thought that he would not be able to come back, he returned to his hometown in beautiful clothes and became the head chef of the imperial dining room in the palace......
The old Qian family was stained with the light of Taizu and ran a restaurant business in Jincheng, the business became bigger and bigger, and the wealth accumulated more and more, but the Qian family never interfered in other businesses except for opening a restaurant! It is said that it is also a family motto left by that Taizu.
Everyone in the world said that the ancestor was too cautious, he was a brave son who dared to dare to do things, and he was not afraid of difficulties and dangers to start a career, but let future generations rest on their laurels and not want to forge ahead!
No matter how the world speculates, although the Qian family has no achievements in other industries, in the restaurant industry, there is no one who can compete with them.
In his restaurant, there are not only top chefs in the eight major cuisines of Shandong, Guangdong, Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan and Hui, but also the second child in the running hall needs to be carefully selected, and then let the master take half a month to run the hall alone to take orders.
This time, on the birthday of Mrs. Song, the Zheng family took over the banquet affairs, and Zheng Xiao was originally a big salt merchant in Jincheng, not only had a close relationship with Lord Song in Futai, but also had a good relationship with Lord Song of the salt transportation history who was far away in the capital. So this time, Mrs. Song's birthday banquet, Zheng Xiao attached great importance to it, and even had to ask about the menu in person.
also deliberately spent a lot of money to buy off the cook of the Song Mansion, and inquired about the eating habits and preferences of Mrs. Song! It turned out that this old lady Song was a person from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and she liked to eat seafood and parallel goods, but although there were many rivers and lakes in Jincheng, authentic seafood was not common, and occasionally, it was also dry goods, so Zheng Xiao decided to hold a decent seafood banquet for Mrs. Song.
Seafood is a rare thing in the inland, and in the coastal areas, it is the same as the green and white dishes in the inland. It's not that the inland tongue is cheap, and the product can't be good, but it's really this ancient food preservation technology is very sad, and the seafood is high-protein and perishable, and it is defeated, so in addition to the seafood in the coastal area to be sold to the mainland, there are no more than pickling and drying two means, and there is also a kind of winter hit, and then poured water to freeze it (there is a farm in Jiafu in the Red Mansion for the New Year, so send seafood to Jiafu).
The first two are commonly known as stinky fish and rotten shrimp, which are too cheap to eat, and the latter is too luxurious and belongs to the privilege of a wealthy family. In order to make this birthday banquet beautiful, Zheng Xiao has put a lot of thought into it, and as early as half a month ago, he booked a large number of aquatic seafood in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. From lobsters, geoducks, king crabs, abalones, eastern star groupers, wrasses, to snails and shellfish, he asked them all one by one.
I also considered that some people may not be accustomed to eating seafood, so they specially bought yak meat and Tibetan fragrant pig from Tibet. Even the county lord, who has always spent money lavishly, is staggered, and praises the people around him that this Zheng Sanye is a great character, who can make money and spend money, and every tael of silver is spent in practice, if he can really catch the boat of the Song family, then the Zheng family's business can smoothly enter the capital. When the time comes, the Zheng family's little lifter will really be like a tiger in his career.
The county lord's personal maid, tortoiseshell, looked at his master's peachy face and his eyes were full of spring, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Then Zheng Sanye is really so good, as for making a dignified county lord never forget, seeing that thousand-year-old cold face makes people tremble! And they don't have the slightest pity for jade, they know that the county lord is interested in him, but they turn a blind eye again and again, who knows that they, the stupid county lord, not only did not give up, but became even more obsessed with Zheng Xiao!