Chapter 163: Peak Loop
As a shrewd Shanghainese, Tang Chizhou of course knew what to do, he quietly stuffed a few silver dollars into the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper pretended to be embarrassed to give in: "Oh, Tang Ye is in the store these days, and you are enough to take care of the villain, so you don't need it, as the saying goes, no merit is not ......."
Tang Chizhou shoehorned into his hand: "It's not a lot of money, take it and buy a bag of tea to drink, we live here and take care of you, a little heart, you can accept it."
After a few pushes like this, the shopkeeper accepted it with a smile on his face. Of course, this kid is also clever and knows that this money is not taken for nothing, so he looked around with a thief's eyebrows and found that there was no one, so he lowered his voice and said to Tang Chizhou with a mysterious face: "Don't hide it from Tang Ye, the immortal of our shopkeeper has repeatedly told me, don't tell others about this, because this is a magic weapon for our store to make money, and other stores also want to make this kind of dish, but they have no supply, only we have the only one, so you can buy as expensive as you want, and every year there will be rich people around you, I came to our store because I specially ate this dish.
Because this kind of dish, there is a record in our county annals, saying that as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, there were people who collected this kind of vegetable from the mountains and sold it, and what is more peculiar is that some people call this dish 'Shihuang cuisine', because it is said that in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, there was a person who picked this medicine and sold it, and looked very much like Qin Shi Huang. At that time, when people first tasted this dish, they felt that it was extremely delicious, and it was a kind of "strange thing", so why did it say "strange"? Because this kind of leaf will have an extremely delicious meat taste, the meat flavor has the deliciousness of mutton, the mellowness of beef, and the strong aroma of pork, but it is not fat or greasy at all, so since this dish appeared, it was very expensive and rare. Of course, those who can afford to eat are also rich people.
There are still many soldiers in our area who served in the Qin army, and even some of them served as eunuchs in the Qin Imperial Palace, which happened to be the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, so many people have seen Qin Shi Huang himself.
One day, a Qin Dynasty official who had served as an official in the Qin Dynasty and later returned to his hometown heard that this 'strange grass' tasted extremely delicious. So he went to the place where the grass was sold, and was going to buy some to eat, and he wanted to inquire where the leaves came from, and if he could know it, he could send someone to collect it himself, and wouldn't it be a great fortune?
He pushed through the crowd and prepared to have a good chat with the medicine seller inside, but when he finally squeezed in and saw the medicine seller, his knees weakened and he knelt in front of the man. Because of the medicine seller, he felt extremely shocked - too much like the First Emperor, appearance, figure, and then the temperament of that every move, as if the First Emperor was reborn, although he knew intellectually that this young man could not be the First Emperor, but because the First Emperor's prestige in his mind was too powerful, so although he knew that it was not, he still couldn't control his legs.
Gradually, the officials of the Han Dynasty also heard about this - there was a person who looked very much like the emperor of the previous dynasty, and sold strange "vegetable leaves" whose origin no one knew the origin of, which was by no means a good omen. So I thought about arresting the vegetable seller, and later, for some reason, before the official implementation of this plan, the vegetable buyer who looked like Qin Shi Huang mysteriously disappeared, and never appeared again.
With the disappearance of the mysterious vegetable seller, all kinds of rumors are boiling, some people say that it is the reincarnation of Qin Shi Huang, some people say that it is the son of Qin Shi Huang, and it will overthrow the newly established Han Jiangshan and restore the world of Qin."
After listening to the words of the shopkeeper, Tang Chizhou felt more and more that this plant was mysterious, but although the shopkeeper said so much, he hadn't mentioned where he got the mysterious plant they were eating now, which was the crux of the matter.
"Then who collected this dish you are using now?" Tang Chizhou asked tightly, he asked while putting his hand into the pocket of his pants, as if it was a casual habitual action, in fact, he grabbed a few silver dollars in his pocket tightly, and thought, if the shopkeeper didn't say it, then take out the remaining few silver dollars and give them to the shopkeeper.
Fortunately, the shopkeeper was talking about Xingtou, Tang Chizhou asked, and he explained without hesitation: "Actually, in our area, all along, the one who can get herbal medicine is a blind man, no one knows where the blind man comes from, who is who, he sells three or four times a year at most, and the sellers are among the best in the local area, and, in recent decades, no one has ever seen this blind man come out to sell, some people speculate that he is dead, and some people say that he has traveled to other places, so, This dish has been missing from our area for decades.
But listen to the old generation, before this blind man sells this kind of dish, since the Qin and Han dynasties, this kind of dish has never appeared, people in our area, only know that there is a legend of this kind of dish, and it is recorded in the county annals, but no one has seen it with their own eyes, tasted it with their own mouths, until the blind man appeared, I don't know where to get this dish, and the appearance and taste of this dish, and the county annals record almost exactly the same, people know that the dish that has disappeared for 2,000 years has miraculously appeared.
After the blind man stopped selling this kind of food, people thought that this kind of food would disappear again, but just over two years ago, a strange thing happened, and speaking of which, I still think it is really strange, and I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I still don't understand it.
But I think this can happen because our store is famous, in a radius of hundreds of miles, our is the most famous restaurant, just a variety of dishes, banquets, other homes can't compare. Because the owner of our shop has been a cook for generations, I heard that there were imperial chefs in previous generations, so the ancestral craftsmanship is very set, and then it was slowly made, so all of our people with a head and face banquets, customized banquets, etc., almost all choose us, and the mysterious "food delivery person" I am about to talk about may be because of this reason, so he decided to sell this extremely precious dish to our store.
I still remember that it was an early summer afternoon, it was already very hot, there were very few people that day, I was napping on the counter, and suddenly I heard someone call me, I thought it was a hotel, or came to eat, I looked up, only to find that the person who came was dressed very strangely, said to be a robe, but even the face was still wrapped in something, and still wore a big hat, only two eyes were exposed, looking very crazy, it was fortunate that it was in the daytime, if it was at night, that dress can really scare people to death.
Although there were not many people eating in the store at that time, they all stopped the chopsticks in their hands and looked at this strangely dressed Taoist priest. The Taoist priest also noticed that everyone was looking at him, as if he was a little uncomfortable, so he whispered to me, there is something important, I want to tell me, can you go to the back room to talk about it alone, although I was very surprised: why did such a strange person suddenly appear to talk to me, but still took him to the back of the tent, to see that there was no one else in the house, he took out a package from his arms, and after opening it layer by layer, it was a few leaves as big as lotus leaves, he probably thought I didn't understand, so he didn't say anything else, Just let me carefully take out a leaf and let me show it to our shopkeeper, who said it was the ingredient that the shopkeeper had ever dreamed of.
I didn't know much about this vegetable at the time, so I was skeptical of the Taoist priest's words, but I saw that he spoke very methodically, although he was dressed a little strangely, but his demeanor was still very decent, and the Taoist priest may feel that his outfit made me think that he was a little abnormal, so he quickly explained that the reason why he wore this was because he had been burned when he was a child, leaving an ugly scar, and he was afraid of scaring people, so he was wrapped so tightly.
When he said this, I felt that I could believe what he said, so I took that leaf and showed it to the boss. ”
When Tang Chizhou heard this, he secretly thought in his heart: "What the shopkeeper said is quite high-sounding, the reason why he showed the leaves to the shopkeeper is probably not because he thinks what the old Taoist said is credible, but it is very likely that the Taoist priest stuffed him with silver."
The shopkeeper spat and continued: "When I took the leaf to the boss, I was really worried that the boss would scold me, saying that I was stupid and believing everything, but I didn't expect the boss to see the leaf over there, he was stunned, and even the teacup in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously and broke, he hurriedly took the leaf, observed it for a long time, and then remembered to ask me where this leaf came from." After telling him, he couldn't wait for me to take the Taoist priest to meet him, and after the two of them met, what exactly did they talk about in the house, I don't know, but since then, the Taoist priest has delivered goods to our store several times a year, but I have never heard that he also sent them to other people, probably after discussing with our boss, he sent them to our family.
Speaking of which, this dish can make a lot of money for our shop, and the secret recipe for cooking this dish is something that the owner of the restaurant has figured out himself, and he has made a unique ingredient, and every time he cooks it, he puts that ingredient in it to make it even more delicious. Every year, there are many rich people, from hundreds or even thousands of miles away, come to taste this dish, the supply exceeds demand, grandma's, do you say that this is more or less my share of the credit, but our shopkeeper who picks the door never gives me a penny, it's really his grandma's black heart."
After listening to the words of the shopkeeper, Tang Chizhou couldn't help but get very excited, because the strangely dressed Taoist priest mentioned by the shopkeeper was very likely to be the Taoist priest they were looking for this time, because he had heard the Jews say more than once about all kinds of strangeness about the Taoist priest, and from the description of the shopkeeper, many signs and characteristics were very consistent with the Taoist priest. If it was really that Taoist priest, if he actually delivered goods to this store, then as long as he stayed in this shop, he would definitely be able to see him.
It's really "stepping on the iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, it takes no effort to get it", I don't know how to find the Taoist priest, I actually got such an unexpected joy, Tang Chizhou couldn't help but give the shopkeeper a few more silver dollars, and the shopkeeper bowed happily, and made a gesture, and said a lot of New Year's words, so he almost knelt down and kowtowed to Tang Chizhou.