Chapter 106: The Land of Abundance
Twilight is four, and the lights are on.
After a fierce battle of life and death, Sikong Jieyue already felt hungry in his belly, he ordered a large table full of dishes, and saw the diners in the restaurant pointing and whispering, which normal person can eat so many dishes?
Look at his orders: dried scallop goose paws, crystal pig's trotters, braised eel fins, oyster sauce belly strips, stewed pigeon with black cucumber, steamed evening siad, wine stuffed bamboo shoots, dry braised prawns, sauced beef, and a big bowl of shrimp dumplings. How many people do you have to eat these dishes?
Everyone thought that he couldn't finish eating these things, but he just relied on a few silver tickets in his waist and deliberately ordered them on the table to show off.
It seems that everywhere there are some people who like to show off.
Sikong Jieyue doesn't look like a rich man at all, although the clothes on his body are made of the best materials, but he looks like he has a few cracks, and his hair is messy, giving people the impression that he doesn't look like a rich man, but the table of dishes he ordered is enough for an ordinary family to eat for a month.
Sikong Jieyue doesn't look like a person who can eat at all, he is weak, and he doesn't look like the kind of person who can eat very well.
Not only is he really good at eating, but he is also really rich.
He took out a stack of silver tickets, and took out one at random, the smallest denomination was two hundred taels a piece, he stuffed a silver ticket in the shop, and said with a smile: "The silver found is given to you." Then he flew away in the thousand thanks of the little two in the shop.
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Chengdu Mansion, the country of abundance, since the Qin Dynasty, has not encountered a major military revolution for more than 1,000 years, prosperous and stable, and prosperous as Beijing.
At night, the streets are full of traffic, and Jin Wu can't help it.
The Shu people still have a long history of taste and good spices, so the night market is dominated by snacks.
Here, there is no such thing as sunrise and sunset, and at night, the streets are more bustling than daylight.
The bustling crowd, the shouting and selling one after another, men, women and children, the government and the people have fun together, this lively scene is different from the graceful in the south of the Yangtze River, but it also has a different style.
Xiao Ding, Tang Qingqing, Ye Rongqiu, Zhou Ziheng and other four people had already parked their carriages and horses at the inn and walked to the market, intending to find something to eat.
Tang Qingqing, as a local, naturally gushed about introducing the famous dishes and snacks in Shuzhong to Xiao Ding and the three of them.
Ye Rongqiu looked at the flowers, and she hadn't decided what she wanted to eat, because she felt delicious when she saw everything, and the air seemed to be filled with tempting tastes.
Xiao Ding said with a smile: "It is said that the poet immortal Li Bai is known as the meaning of Qinglian monk, because there is a place called Qinglian in Jiangyou County, Shuzhong, Qinglian monk loves Jiangyou's famous dish stewed and steamed duck, this dish not only maintains the deliciousness of the duck, but also has the aroma of wine, which makes people forget the fragrance of their lips and teeth." Therefore, after entering Beijing to worship Hanlin, he personally improved this dish, adding nourishing medicinal materials such as Huadiao, wolfberry, and Panax notoginseng on the original basis and dedicated it to Tang Xuanzong. After the emperor ate it, he was amazed and greatly appreciated, and when he was happy, he gave this dish a name, called 'Taibai Duck'. Jiangyou is only a short distance of two or three hundred miles away from Chengdu Mansion, and presumably the Qinglian monks will often come to this country of abundance to find food. ”
Tang Qingqing smiled: "Hey, I can't see it, you really know a lot of things." It just so happens that there is a restaurant on this street called 'Taibaiju', and it just so happens that Taibaiju's 'Taibaiya' is the most authentic one in Chengdu......"
Ye Rongqiu interjected: "Then what are you waiting for, just go to Taibaiju, I heard you say that my saliva is all over the place." ”
The four of them laughed and went to Taibaiju......
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Sikong picks the moon to eat and drink to his heart's content, and walks leisurely in the night market with his teeth pinched.
Do you want to find a place to drink tea, or go back to the inn to sleep?
Soon he rejected the second idea, it was too early to go to bed, or drink tea to pass the time.
He didn't go far, and then he denied the first idea, just after eating and drinking, his stomach was full, what kind of tea to drink.
Why don't you go to the casino and play both? No, no, he always felt that Xuanyuan was not only staring at himself in secret, just waiting for himself to step into the door of the gambling house, thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the crowd around him, it was okay not to look at it, he couldn't stop when he saw it, he saw that as long as it was a burly and tall person, which one looked like Xuanyuan Buguang.
Sikong Jieyue shook his head, sighed, and suddenly lost his interest, he was about to return the same way, when he suddenly saw a large group of people gathered not far in front of him, and laughter came from time to time.
"Can't these people see the excitement, where are the more people going? What can be fun on the big night. Sikong Jieyue muttered in his mouth, but his legs involuntarily stepped over.
Sikong Jieyue walked up to him and saw that someone was betting on turtles.
It's really the world's biggest, and there are no surprises.
Sikong Picking Moon has gambled on enough things, the set in the dice pai gow gambling house is not counted, he has also compared with others, bet on crickets, horses, birds, parrots, and even bet with others on what color the fish bites first, but he has not gambled on turtles.
Seeing such a novel gameplay, how could he bear it, but there were too many onlookers, and it was not easy to squeeze in and watch carefully for a while.
The place where the turtles gambled was a boxy pavilion, which was neither big nor small, surrounded by wooden fences, like a well-ventilated room. But at the moment, there are many onlookers, and no matter how well ventilated the room is, it is also hot and hot. Even on the fence, there are many people watching condescendingly, and it is these people who laugh the loudest, as if the more people who do not get involved, the more they like to follow others to coax.
Sikong picked the moon with a roll of his eyes, and suddenly had an idea, he took out two ingots of silver from his arms, raised his hands and shouted: "This is the silver that someone accidentally dropped, and no one wants me to throw it away." ”
Who doesn't love silver?
When everyone looked back and saw him, he threw the silver in his hand behind him and laughed, "Go and see for yourself who dropped the money, and be careful next time." ”
Wow, it's really silver, and those with sharp eyes have seen it clearly, it's fifty taels of silver, and two ingots are a full hundred taels.
The few who were lying on the fence were the fastest, and in a few moments they were making a way.
Sikong Jieyue hurriedly took the opportunity to squeeze in, regardless of whether those people outside would fight for the one hundred taels of silver he threw out, one hundred taels of silver to buy a position, he felt that it was worth it, because he originally planned to throw a few silver tickets, but he was afraid that others would not believe it when he thought of such a thing as a silver ticket, and at night, others must have thought he was joking, who would be stupid enough to pick up a few large silver tickets and shout loudly, and the silver is different, this is clearly visible and tangible, the bright silver, loud and sound, naturally more attractive.
Except for me, who would have thought of such an idea, and finally entered the pavilion to pick the moon and be complacent.
I saw that there was a wooden box in the middle of the pavilion, which was not wide, only two feet, but it was almost a zhang long.
And they were divided into two wooden boxes with wooden strips, which were only one foot wide and about one foot long.
There was a turtle in each box, and at the other end of the box was a small wooden hole that was only big enough for a finger to fit into.
Because the game was interrupted due to a small commotion caused by Sikong picking the moon and throwing silver just now, he still didn't understand how to gamble on this turtle and how to calculate winning or losing. Sikong Picking Moon's curiosity at this time is like a cat scratching in his heart.
"How do you gamble with this turtle?" Sikong Jieyue asked the man who looked like a banker.
Who knew that the man was glaring at him, snorting and panting in his mouth, but he didn't answer.
"It's strange, could it be that this person is deaf, and I ask you, how do you gamble with this turtle?" Sikong Picking Moon shouted in the man's ear.
The man who looked like a dealer suddenly said angrily: "You are deaf, you are a turtle, this is a turtle, this is a turtle, we are betting on this turtle, not a turtle, do you understand!" ”
Hahahaha......
The crowd burst into laughter.
Sikong Jieyue touched his nose and said with a sneer: "Ahem, gambling on turtles is gambling on turtles, what are you angry about, come on, let's talk, how to gamble?" ”
Sikong Jieyue's face is really not ordinarily thick, and he didn't blush in this situation.
Could it be that people who are often transfiguring can thicken their skin?