Chapter 170: Winter Solstice
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This chase is only just ready, and on the day of the Winter Solstice Festival, the people of Ling Tiancheng come to visit the lake, and selling mutton hot pot is the main topic.
Jiang Jiang has been so busy these days that he doesn't even have the time to go to Yuwen Mansion to teach the cooks there.
Yuwen Zhengji stayed in his own mansion like a wolf, so he simply ran to Coolie Street to find Jiang Jiang, but he was caught by Jiang Jiang, took him to Uncle Huang, and asked him to sign the printed book.
"Why are you printing so many books, my hands are sore when I write." Yuwen Zhengji couldn't help but complain to Jiang Jiang after signing it: "You have to make delicious food and treat me in a while." ”
"Cheng, if you want to eat lo-mei, sit down in front of the stall and eat it yourself, if you want to eat copper hot pot, then wait for a while." Jiang Jiang was busy with the work in his hands, and said to him without raising his head.
"Hey, why didn't you see Su sinking? Didn't you say he was always on Coolie Street? Yuwen Zheng looked left and right, looking for the shadow of Su Sinking.
"Lao Su has to disappear every half a month," Jiang Jiang said helplessly, "I have already decided to call him Su Banyue." ”
"Do you know what he's going to do?" Yuwen Zhengji seems to be very interested in the matter of Su Sinking.
"How do I know? If he doesn't say it, I naturally don't ask, as a friend, don't you even have this trust? Jiang Jiang said in an unkind tone.
Yuwen Zheng knew that he was wrong, so he quickly shrunk his neck and said nothing. Before, he sent someone to secretly follow Jiang Jiang to know that she was originally Jiang Bearded, but now that Jiang Jiang was knocked on the side like this, he naturally felt very shameless.
In fact, he sent someone to follow Jiang Jiang just out of curiosity, and he didn't have any other thoughts.
"You don't have to stand here, so that everyone won't see you don't work," Jiang Jiang said to Yuwen Zhengji unhappily: "Or you should go home!" ”
"The surname is Jiang, you are too much, unload the mill and kill the donkey! Why didn't you kick me away before I signed it? Yuwen Zhengji indignantly accused Jiang Jiang.
"You understand it perfectly! Now you have no use value for the time being," Jiang Jiang said very bluntly: "Not only that, but you have also affected everyone's work, of course I hope you will leave." ”
"I won't let you succeed," Yuwen Zheng said with a dead face, "I prefer to stay here." ”
"Hey, by the way, there was a very strange person here a few nights ago," Jiang Jiang remembered what happened before, and couldn't help but ask Yuwen Zhengji: "That person was wearing a mask like a hanging pot boy, he came to my lo-mei stall and asked for two servings of lo-mei, but he didn't eat it and left, I feel that he is a strange person." ”
"Did he come alone, or did someone follow?" Yuwen Zhengji asked Jiang Jiang.
"There is another person who came with him, that person looks very ordinary, I really can't describe what he looks like, anyway, he is a very ordinary person." Jiang Jiang said with some distress, because that person is too featureless, such a person is actually the most difficult to describe.
Yuwen Zhengji couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't show it at all on the surface, and pretended to be very strange and said, "Yes, who could it be?" I just can't think of it. ”
Every winter solstice festival, Diecui Lake is the favorite place for people in Lingtian City, boating on the lake, eating boiled mutton while enjoying dance and music, which is both in response to the solar term and pleasing to the eye.
On the first night of the Winter Solstice Festival, Jiang Jiang led the people of Coolie Street to transport many things to be used the next day to the shore of Diecui Lake.
Because there are many stone tables and benches by the lake, it is convenient for them to place things.
On the day of the Winter Solstice Festival, people who come to Diecui Lake to play invariably find that the stone tables next to Diecui Lake have been occupied, and there is a steaming copper hot pot on each stone table.
But most people don't recognize it, they just think it looks like an incense burner, but it doesn't quite look like it. It's obviously made of brass, and it looks very delicate, but I don't know what it's for.
In addition, there were many plates of mutton on the table, but this mutton was cut into thin slices and rolled into even meat rolls, and it was very beautiful to stack there, but the people of Ling Tiancheng had never eaten such mutton like this.
In addition, there are a lot of vegetables, and charcoal is placed under the table.
Among them, when he was swimming in the lake before, he had seen Yuwen Zhengji use this thing on the boat, so he asked curiously.
Jiang Jiang has already arranged for four people to be in charge of each table, one of whom is specially responsible for explaining, and he must be articulate and have a good attitude.
Jiang Jiang specially ordered people to make several huge banners in advance, with slogans such as "Copper hot pot shabu mutton, so that this winter is no longer cold", "How to solve worries, only hot pot", "There is no trouble that cannot be solved by one hot pot, if there is, then two" and other slogans.
The sun has risen high by this time, and even though it is the winter solstice, the weather is not cold today, because it is clear and windless.
Jiang Jiang saw that there were a lot of people who came to visit the lake, so he ordered someone to take out the oversized advertisement prepared before, on which were the lottery rules written by Yuwen Zhengji himself:
Anyone who orders a copper hot pot package today will get a free lucky draw chance:
Three first prizes, one copper hot pot.
Ten second prizes, free of charge.
Twenty third prizes, five plates of mutton.
Fifty winners of the fourth prize will receive a plate of mutton.
Eighty fifth prizes, one plate of green vegetables.
In order to play a better propaganda role, Jiang Jiang asked these people in Coolie Street to demonstrate to everyone, lighting the copper hot pot on each stone table, putting the base and soup and then starting to demonstrate the mutton shabu.
The aroma of the hot pot was fascinating, so that the people around couldn't help but move their index fingers after smelling it, and they stepped forward to inquire about the price of hot pot mutton shabu.
Jiang Jiang has already given the price before, in order to facilitate the settlement of accounts, the hot pot package was specially launched, the copper hot pot is free to use, the package includes five large plates of mutton base and dipping sauce, as well as the corresponding vegetables and vegetables, as well as a small bag of charcoal, a total of one or two silver.
If the customer does not have enough to eat, you can also order the food again, each with its own price.
However, because the cost of copper hot pot is not low, if you take it to the boat to eat, you need to pay a deposit of ten taels, and the deposit will be refunded after the copper hot pot is returned.
Of course, if the customer wants to keep the hot pot and take it home for his own use, then the price of the hot pot is also ten taels of silver.
Jiang Jiang ordered people to start building copper hot pot a few months in advance, and now there are thousands of them in reserve, which is enough to cope with this winter solstice festival.
The people of Ling Tiancheng attach great importance to the festival, and when they see such a novelty, they naturally have to give it a try, plus there is also a lottery, not that everyone is greedy for cheap, but at least it is a lottery, so they are all actively involved.
This lottery explanation is actually written by Yuwen Gongzi himself, and it has played a celebrity effect, plus it is rumored that Yuwen Gongzi used this copper hot pot when he was swimming in the lake before, even he likes it, this thing must be good.