Chapter 128: Brothers settle accounts
The queue in front of the restaurant was crowded.
The list of uncooked dishes also filled almost the entire kitchen.
Lu Mingzhi was holding the big spoon mechanically, and his whole head was still confused.
He only came back from Lu'an yesterday.
Only passed the preliminary round, and then was brushed off in the last game.
Originally, he was quite regretful, but he didn't expect that since he came back, this restaurant seemed to be about to explode.
Everyone came over with great interest and asked if his family would make boiled pork slices.
When he learned that his signature dish of boiled pork slices had won a lot of veterans in Lu'an, diners flocked to him.
In just two days, the restaurant made more money than he had earned in more than three months before.
What's going on? Is business so good?
Then why were there so few people in his restaurant in the past......
"What's the wait, hurry up, the guests are still waiting outside!"
When Aunt Wang came back from serving the food, she saw that he was still in a daze, and slapped the back of his head mercilessly.
There's no way, she's done too much work in the past two days, and she can't take care of any shopkeeper labor.
She was now sweating all over her face, as if she had just been blistered.
The aunts who picked and washed vegetables were already busy in the front hall.
Brother Lu naturally couldn't watch it, so he borrowed several guys from his teahouse and asked them to help his younger brother's business.
Wait until you have a little time to spare.
The smell of chili peppers wafts through the small kitchen.
Lu Mingzhi finished today's tenth boiled pork slice, and finally had a moment to spare, and just wanted to go to the front hall to see the situation, he saw Aunt Wang running in with a nervous face.
"Shopkeeper, your future father-in-law is here, I just saw it, and he is queuing at the door!"
Lu Mingzhi opened a restaurant in order to marry his daughter-in-law, and of course Aunt Wang, as the only employee, knew about it.
She used to think that Master Meng was quite discerning.
Such a man with low eyes and low hands, and he can't make money, if she is a daughter, she won't do it.
But since the reputation of this boiled pork slice broke out, Aunt Wang didn't think so.
Don't worry about it, their restaurant is now one of the best restaurants in Huainan Mansion.
Even Lu Mingzhi, because of this cooking skill, has become a popular existence for gourmets.
I heard that the Gu family, the king of Huainan, sent someone to invite, saying that the old prince's birthday was coming soon, and he wanted to invite him to his home to cook a meal.
With such a young talent, Master Meng can't look down on him like he did in the past.
Aunt Wang thinks so, and Lu Mingzhi thinks so too.
He had the feeling that he was about to raise his eyebrows.
Hearing this, he immediately walked out of the back kitchen with his head held high.
But as soon as he saw Master Meng and Meng Xiaolian standing in the team, the confidence he had just pretended to be immediately disappeared.
"Master Meng." He screamed timidly, his eyes gently crossed his sweetheart's face, and he whispered, "Xiaolian." ”
The two slowly looked at each other through the long line.
The affection in his eyes seemed to have turned into a shape, and he was about to smash it directly on Master Meng's head.
Ning Xin, who also came to see the business of the restaurant, was watching from the rouge shop opposite at this time.
Watching this scene, I think it's really romantic.
But Master Meng on the side didn't feel romantic at all, and was even a little offended.
He stopped his daughter behind him, faced Lu Mingzhi with a tiger face, and said coldly: "You kid really has two hits, I thought you couldn't make money and ran away, but I didn't expect to come up with such a gimmick." ”
There was contempt in Master Meng's tone.
After all, this Lu Mingzhi can be regarded as something he grew up watching.
He knew the boy's temperament very well.
That's a person whose heart is higher than the sky.
He didn't want his daughter to follow Lu Mingzhi to suffer.
But now, looking at him wearing an apron and busy in front of the restaurant, Master Meng hesitated for a moment.
This kid......
It doesn't seem to be as hard to hold up as he thought.
But thinking so in his heart, the expression on his face did not relax at all.
Still with a serious face, he looked at the distant line with his hands behind his back.
"Forget it, where can the things made by a young master be delicious, go girl, let's go home."
He reached out and grabbed Meng Xiaolian's wrist and was about to pull it back.
Lu Mingzhi hurriedly caught up, with a flattering smile on his face: "Don't worry, since you have already come, you must try my craftsmanship, come in, come in." ”
He grabbed Master Meng's shoulders and couldn't help but say, take people inside.
Meng Xiaolian was led by her father, and she also blushed and slowly followed her in.
Looking up timidly from time to time, the two of them could collide again, and their earlobes blushed again.
Ning Xin ate the fruit handed over by Wei Qin, and sighed that although this little Lu shopkeeper is really not good at doing business, he is really a pure love warrior.
Okay, this help can be regarded as promoting a good marriage.
Wei Qin smiled: "It's also a good thing for his family to make money, and even my business here has improved a lot." ”
The queue of the restaurant has already lined up on the other side of the road.
Everyone is really bored waiting, and there are also people who go to the rouge shop opposite to buy something.
So in the past two days, the rouge shop has become hot again on the other side.
Seeing that someone was brought directly into the restaurant, the diners who had been waiting in line outside the door for a long time were not happy.
"What's going on, why are there still people cutting in line?"
Someone saw that it was the shopkeeper of the restaurant who came to pick up people just now.
But the gourmets who have been waiting for so long are almost smoked by the fragrance inside and the worms go straight to the stomach, no matter what you are the shopkeeper or not, it is shameful to blatantly cut the queue!
It was still Aunt Wang who came out with a smiling face to play a round: "Just now it was my shopkeeper's father-in-law and his future wife, I finally came to the restaurant, where do my shopkeepers dare to slack off, you wait, it will be lined up immediately." ”
"It turned out to be the shopkeeper's old Taishan."
Thinking of the little shopkeeper of the restaurant nodding to Old Taishan just now, the men seemed to also remember their cautious appearance in Yue's house.
The man understood the man, so he did not continue to pursue it.
took Master Meng and Meng Xiaolian into the restaurant, and the seats in the front hall of the restaurant were already full.
Because the business was so hot, there were even two tables at the door of the kitchen, which he temporarily borrowed from next door in the morning.
Master Meng was brought in half-pushed, and he had already been hooked up by the spicy smell in the restaurant.
He swallowed his saliva and said dissatisfiedly, "There's a place for this." ”
Lu Mingzhi sweated anxiously, glanced at the back door, his eyes lit up, and said: "If you and Xiaolian don't dislike it, just sit here, I'll set up a table for you here, and it's quieter than outside." ”
The hall of the restaurant was full of people, and the kitchen was quiet.
Seeing the boiled meat slices being served out one by one on the counter, Master Meng had already moved his index fingers, and he was clamoring to taste it quickly.
In this way, for the first time, he did not refuse Lu Mingzhi's invitation, and took his daughter to sit in the newly placed "elegant seat" next to the back door.
Looking at the smile on her father's face, Meng Xiaolian's eyes were crooked, and her heart was beautiful.
The eyes that look at his sweetheart are also gentle as water.
Lu Mingzhi was encouraged by such a look, hurriedly ran into the back kitchen, and carefully made a boiled pork slice with extremely rich ingredients and asked Aunt Wang to send it.
In order to avoid the boiled meat slices from being too spicy and eating on fire, he also made a stir-fried shrimp and winter melon meatball soup intimately.
Although the boiled pork slice that made his restaurant famous was taught to him by Ning Xin.
But Lu Mingzhi himself still has some cooking skills.
It's just in the past, because Master Meng looked down on him, and he never deigned to taste his craftsmanship.
Just think he's a trickster.
But this time he was hooked by boiled pork slices, and Master Meng tasted this kid's craftsmanship for the first time.
The boiled meat slices are spicy and smooth, the stir-fried shrimp is crispy, tender and fragrant, and this winter melon meatball soup is served just right, just to relieve the spicy spicy of the boiled meat slices.
Master Meng is already a delicious food, and after this meal, he did not hesitate to say several good.
Meng Xiaolian, who was listening on the sidelines, was so excited that her heart was about to bloom.
Daddy, this is finally seeing the advantages of Mingzhi, is this going to agree to the relationship between the two of them?
Meng Xiaolian was excited, but she was unexpectedly poured a basin of cold water on her father's head.
"Don't think that I can promise you two dishes if I can cook two dishes, if you can cook, you are a cook, just rely on him, if you really want to make a lot of money, you have to die of exhaustion on the stove."
Being able to cook doesn't mean that you can operate, and Master Meng still doesn't believe in Lu Mingzhi so much.
But saying so, in fact, he has a much better impression of Lu Mingzhi in his heart than in the past.
can make such a delicious dish, at least this kid is a person who has some talent and admits it.
Moreover......
Mr. Meng thought of the "food competition" that the storytellers in the city were talking about a few days ago, and the famous dish "boiled pork slices" that made people salivate when they heard it.
He looked at the dishes in front of him that almost had chili peppers left, and then looked at Lu Mingzhi, who was busy in the back kitchen, with a flushed face.
Could it be this kid's warm-up for the restaurant business?
If that's the case, then he's really impressed with this kid.
Very business-minded!
Just as they were thinking, two people, one big and one small, passed by and they were about to go to the back kitchen.
The eldest Master Meng knows Lu Mingzhi's elder brother, the shopkeeper of Lu who opened a teahouse.
The two of them didn't look good about their children's marriages before, but for the sake of their younger brother, Shopkeeper Lu still took the initiative to bow his head and greeted the two warmly: "Master Meng, Miss Meng." ”
Meng Xiaolian got up with red ears and owed to him.
Master Meng sat motionless, with disdain written on his eyebrows and beard.
But when he saw the little little man next to the shopkeeper Lu, he smiled and said: "Master Meng likes spicy food so much, I don't know if you have ever eaten a special dish called Mao Xuewang in Shudi?" ”
As a senior gourmet, a boiled pork slice is enough to make Master Meng scratch his liver if he doesn't know it.
Now this is a dish that I have never heard of.
"What is Mao Xuewang? Which restaurant sells it? He had a pair of inquisitive eyes.
Ning Xin shook the little tugs on her head, trotted two steps and pulled Lu Mingzhi out of the kitchen, and said with a smile: "There are no other houses, only Xiao Lu's shopkeeper can make it, it's delicious!" ”