Chapter 17: The Feast Language
Following my words, Hui Sizhu and Hui Sizhu immediately agreed with me, but the third Hui Si Tan of their family was very unhappy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
When I was Hui, Hu and the mud, he pulled his face, as if my words stole his limelight and made his Hui family very embarrassed.
I don't know what to do, I don't bother to pay attention to him.
Anyway, after I said that, I finally brought the question back to the point, and turned this "project meeting" back into a banquet.
After that, everything seemed to be on the right track, the waiter served eight cold dishes and eight desserts for the nineteen of us, and then according to the rules of Ludi, everyone waited for the appearance of the first dish of the banquet.
During this period, Hu Lao Er was still talking about his grand idea. Raising chickens is only the first step, and once you get your foothold, you will start the subsequent projects of a mountain herbal medicine base and a high-end tourist hotel.
"Tell the truth!" Hu Lao Er pointed to his stone cave hotel in the mountainous area of northern Lu and said: "This is all invested and built by Boss Kuan, such courage and determination, I Hu Lao Er does not have it, but Boss Kuan has!"
As he spoke, Hu Lao Er complimented Kuan Tiandu, who had been smiling and silent, and said: "You can't believe me Hu Mad Dog, can't you trust Boss Kuan? His courage is obvious to everyone!"
Hearing this, Kuan Tiandu, a Taiwanese businessman who really didn't have much "ordinary hair", immediately nodded and said: "Fine, fine! Everyone who has money makes money, they are all Chinese, and they are unanimous with the outside world! Unanimous with the outside world!"
At this point, Hu Lao Er also told Hui Siqi that as long as the Hui family did not care about their previous suspicions, then he was very happy to let Hui Siqi and them join the project in Tibet, and gave away 3% of the shares for nothing.
And if the rest of the bosses here are also interested, then they can also buy shares, and then he and Kuan Tiandu will also give shares and dividends according to the situation of shares.
When Hu Laoer said these words, I have been observing everyone's reactions, especially the Hui family.
Don't look at the three Hui brothers and sisters, they shouldn't admit it, but I can see that Hu's words are in the hearts of the Hui family, and the three masters are also a little excited.
After all, the Hui family is now fighting for power and profit internally, so the juniors of Hui Siqi want to prove their ability and seize the opportunity to make some actual achievements for the old man to see.
And the current so-called plan to raise chickens on Mount Everest is not a good time?
Bystanders are clear, so I quickly felt that if they really got involved in this project, no matter what the outcome, it would exacerbate the division within the Hui family.
And this ...... Keeping it uneven is the real purpose of Hu Laoer's olive branch.
Just when I was thinking nonsense, the waiter at Hu Lao Er's restaurant pushed a food cart into the private room.
The dining car is silver-plated, because there are more people eating, there are three main dishes in the dining car, each of which is covered with blue and white porcelain silver-plated plates and thermal lids, which are delicate and do not leak.
If the first hot dish is shark fin, it is called shark fin feast, if the first hot dish is bitter gourd, then it is called bitter gourd feast, and so on.
Because of these old rules, the abbot and the old lady of our Five Organs Temple, especially the Confucius Palace, pay special attention to this dish when they hold a banquet, thinking that this dish is the foundation of a banquet and must not be sloppy.
Therefore, this dish is Hu Laoer's face, so when the dish is served, Hu Laoer is naturally the first to stand up, and introduces us fairly: "Everyone, today's first dish is very rare, please see!"
As Hu Lao Er spoke, the three waiters picked up the lid at the same time, leaking out the steaming dishes inside.
Previously, everyone was busy for a long time at the exhibition, but now, we have listened to Hu Lao Er talking about the Everest Chicken Farm for a long time, so we are all very hungry.
With hunger and curiosity, as soon as this dish came up, we all craned our necks to look inside, but we watched...... Everyone has a little disappointment on their faces?!
Why? Because in those delicate plates, we see three grilled chickens, Texas grilled chickens.
Grilled chicken, created by Jia Jiancai, the abbot of the former Qing Dynasty Five Organs Temple, in Dezhou, is a representative dish of Lu cuisine, its materials are exquisite, the work is fine, the technique is complicated, the history is long, known as "a hundred miles of fragrance, civil and military orderly", that is the dish that brings the Lu cuisine to the extreme, it is indeed a good thing.
But even so, everyone was not happy to see this chicken, because although it was good, it was ...... It's hard to carry the tripod.
It is a bit difficult to take it on the stage as the main course of the banquet, and even ...... Insulting.
At that time, there was an old old man from the restaurant federation who was dissatisfied: "Master Hu, this is a bit harsh to the brothers, right......?
"Three chicken feasts?" the man with glasses said again: "Can't you, Hu Ye? This big bandit only eats a hundred chicken feasts, let's have three chickens...... Is this to be on par with the 'beard'?"
"Yes, yes, so many side by side, this face ......."
The bosses sneered at the three chickens, which seemed very ridiculous to the layman, after all, "the guest is as good as the host", but in terms of the rules of the Five Organs Temple...... But it's not unreasonable.
Because in the rules of the Five Organs Temple, there is a saying that "chickens are bandits, ducks are thieves", and these two poultry meat are by no means casual.
In the old society, if the hotel guests asked for a "headless chicken dish", it was a hint to the restaurant owner that "we are bandits", and it meant not to provoke them.
This article, by extension, can also be used in reverse, which means unwarranted insults and slanders to guests, but the restaurant of the temple people will not serve chicken dishes first and insult customers for no reason.
So over time, chicken on the first dish has become taboo.
Therefore, even if a guest does not understand the rules and mistakenly orders chicken as the first dish, then the owner of the Five Organs Temple who understands the rules will send a bowl of hot rice first to show his "innocence".
In this way, chicken dishes are not considered the first dish, and chicken with rice has later become one of the sources of "yellow braised chicken rice".
By analogy, this Hu Lao Er brought three chickens for no reason, and did not give the first meal, it is indeed unruly, and it is not to blame those old people who talk about rules and taboos in the temple of the five internal organs to find faults.
After listening to the old man's reproach, Hu Lao Er was not annoyed, but smiled and said: "I knew that there would be 'Old Lady Gao' misunderstand me, but it doesn't matter, everyone's misunderstanding of my Hu, I will accept it first, just ask all the 'Old Abbot Lady' to taste it first, how does my chicken taste? Can you take on the word 'main course'!"
After speaking, Hu Lao Er made a very strange move!
He flipped a cutlery bowl in front of him over and buckled it onto the table, then slapped it a few more times with a cutlery plate.
Looking at Hu Laoer's movements, all the old people in the Five Organs Temple immediately became serious, and even Zhao Haipeng, who was a little absent-minded next to me, shook his body and sat with a scarf.
Looking at Hu Laoer's sign language, Chen Bamiao, a fake expert, was a little puzzled, so she asked me in a whispered and slightly timid: "What does he mean by this?
"That's knocking the bowl with chopsticks!" I also replied with a serious face: "Take the plate and knock the buckle bowl, this is to 'call the board' and 'enter the famous spectrum'!"