Chapter Seventy-Five: Secret Visit to the Forest Residence (2)
There will be a more late one.,After reading this more sister paper, it's better to go to bed early!)
The young man who had been disturbed from his sleep looked up angrily and glared at the figure beside him.
When he saw a very young lady with two teenage maids not far in front of him, his eyes shrank for a moment, but when he noticed that the three masters and servants were dressed ordinarily, he suddenly became stiff again.
The boy stood up, glanced at him with his eyes, and patted the dust that didn't exist on his body.
"What are you doing, didn't you see me sleeping!"
Wen Qing frowned, crossed his waist and said angrily: "What are you doing? Aren't you a restaurant here? What else can you do if you come in and don't eat!"
The young man bared his teeth and glanced at Chu Lian's master and servant, "I'm sorry, our restaurant is not doing business today, and the shopkeeper is not here, so let's find another home!"
Huh? Not in business?
Wen Qing took a breath, obviously smelling the aroma of food from the back kitchen of the restaurant, how could he not do business with the door open?
Chu Lian stood beside him, didn't say a word, just looked at the young man who was talking with a pair of dark eyes, and then carefully looked around the lobby of the forest residence.
Wen Qing secretly glanced at Chu Lian's expression, and saw that she had no other instructions, so he continued to interrogate as he thought.
"How do you do business, do you have to kick customers out when the door is open? If you don't want to do this business, what are you doing with the door open, you can just close the door and close the business. ”
The young man was asked Qing to say this sentence and became popular, he was the nephew of the shopkeeper, relying on this relationship, who did not give him some face when he was asked by a little girl like this, and immediately became angry.
"We still want you to teach us how to do business in the restaurant? You go and inquire who the owner of our restaurant is, and get out of here after inquiring!"
The young man not only did not greet the guests respectfully, but he was even more angry than the guests, Chu Lian walked to the lobby of the restaurant by himself, and the corners of his mouth were hooked with interest.
The quarrel in the lobby soon attracted the attention of the people in the courtyard behind the restaurant.
After a while, a middle-aged woman walked out of the backyard quickly, "It's time to eat, Ah Cai, who are you talking to outside?"
As soon as the voice fell and the door curtain moved, Chu Lian saw a middle-aged woman wearing an indigo cloth dress walking out quickly.
The woman had a long face, slightly chubby, and small eyes, which narrowed almost into a slit when she laughed.
As soon as she came to the lobby and looked up at Chu Lian's master and servant, the woman was slightly surprised, she took two steps forward and put on a smiling face, "May I ask what this lady is doing?"
Wen Qing was going to be laughed at, Gui Linju, who was in the restaurant business, and when the guests entered the door, they had to ask what they were doing, this was not to make people laugh off their big teeth.
Chu Lian didn't bother to speak, and glanced at Wen Qing, who turned around and walked two steps towards the door of the restaurant, and then stretched out a slender index finger to point at the plaque on the door.
"The three big characters of Guilinju can be written here! The banner next to it is printed with the word "Restaurant", and our wife came in to eat a meal of wine and food, isn't it?"
The middle-aged woman was embarrassed by what she said, and she opened her mouth to refuse, there were not many ingredients to buy in the West Market today, and it was only enough for a few people in the restaurant to eat, but seeing that three or four strong housekeepers came in at the door of the restaurant, and saw one of the leading housekeepers respectfully bending down to report something to Chu Lian, the woman swallowed her words back.
The middle-aged woman laughed and said courteously: "It's because our restaurant is not well entertained, Ah Cai has only been in the restaurant for a short time, and he doesn't know the rules, so I ask Mrs. for forgiveness." Come on, ma'am, please. ”
Chu Lian followed the middle-aged woman to a pair of wooden tables in the lobby, looked down and saw that there was a layer of dust on the wooden table, and asked Qing to wipe the dust with a handkerchief before helping Chu Lian sit down.
The guy named Ah Cai followed behind the middle-aged woman, wrinkling a face that was not outstanding at all, full of reluctance, if it wasn't for the woman pulling his arm, I was afraid that he would have to play the uncle's temper again.
Wen Qing looked at the tea cup on the table that had fallen ashes, and didn't bother to wipe it, standing behind Chu Lian, and asked, "I heard that your restaurant has been open for many years, and our wife is so delicious, what special dishes does your restaurant have?"
The woman choked, they did this business, Guilinju has not opened for several months, and the cook who used to work in Guilinju has already resigned, where are there any special dishes. The woman's small eyes rolled, "Look at this girl is a well-informed person, our restaurant has not been opened for a young age, naturally there are a few special dishes, otherwise it can't last for so many years, right?"
Wen Qing sneered in her heart, but her face didn't show much, she still remembered Chu Lian's instructions in the carriage.
"Oh, since there is, let's talk about the name of the dish and let our wife hear it, our wife has eaten the food of the north and south of the river, but she knows a lot of special dishes. ”
The middle-aged woman didn't want to ask Qing and get to the bottom of it, and her face suddenly froze, Gui Linju didn't even have a cook now, where could she say the name of the dish.
Ah Cai was about to step forward to drive the person out, but was pulled by the woman, the woman's eyes rolled, and she smiled again: "This lady, the little woman is vulgar, where do you know the names of those beautiful dishes, it is better for the little woman to go back to the kitchen and let the cook cook it for you directly." ”
What restaurant would not know the name of the specialty dish of its own restaurant, and this woman really thinks they are fools?
Wen Qing snorted, and was about to demolish the woman with a treacherous face in front of him, when he received a reassuring look from Chu Lian.
Wen Qing bit her lip and waved her hand at the middle-aged woman, "Then you go and let the cook make it, our wife wants a copy of each special dish, remember to be fast." ”
"Alright, ma'am, wait a minute. After finishing speaking, he turned around and glared at the guy named Ah Cai, and said in a low voice: "Ah Cai, come with me to the back kitchen and prepare some tea for the guests." ”
The man, Ah Cai, was finally unwilling to be dragged away by the woman.
Seeing that both of them went to the backyard of the restaurant, they asked strangely, "Third grandmother, this is Lin Ju obviously no longer in business, why do you still let the slave and maid order food." ”
Chu Lian winked mischievously at Wen Qing, "Let's see what they can bring out in a moment." ”
Wen Qing scratched his head speechlessly.
The middle-aged woman is Ah Cai's eldest aunt, the woman Wang Lu, and the Wang family were all the slaves of He Lao Taijun's dowry back then, and they were later sent to take care of the business of Gui Lin Ju.
Since the re-planning of Shengjing City's West Market, Guilinju's business has plummeted, and it has been in deficit in recent years, and the original shopkeeper has changed to this son-in-law Wang family.
Mrs. He always knew that Gui Lin Ju was losing money, and the reason why he didn't close the door was a thought, so he never asked, but he didn't know that the slave surnamed Wang ran a business like this.
As soon as he entered the backyard, Ah Cai pulled Wang Lu's hand, "Auntie, why are you still keeping them, just throw them out, look at the most it is just the wife of a small official, can it be even greater than the power of Jing'anbo's Mansion?"
Wang Lushi glared at him, "You know that you have already had several waves of guests this month." Although we are doing things for the Jing'an Bo Mansion, we don't have any business every month, and it doesn't look good on the surface, and you didn't see the little woman with a few strong families. If you get into trouble, your uncle hasn't come back yet!"
Ah Cai frowned, "Auntie, you are just too timid, we all know that the reason why this Gui Lin Ju has not changed hands is not the relationship of the old lady, as long as the old lady is in one day, this Gui Lin Ju will not fall, we can live a fairy-like life in the Gui Lin Ju, what can a little woman endure us, I am afraid that I will be scared when I hear the name of Jing Anbo Mansion!"
Wang Lushi sighed, "Okay, okay, Ah Cai, the aunt you said knows, no matter what, let's deal with those people first! I don't know which fox spirit came out of the mountains, hooked up with the son of a petty official, and came out to show off with a few family members, and I was embarrassed to say that I had eaten all the delicacies from the north and south of the country." Hmph, I'm afraid I haven't even tasted Chef Zhou's dim sum in Jing'anbo's Mansion! Okay, look at your aunt and I will take a few dishes and send her away in a while. When the time comes, you will ask for more silver, and go to the West Market in the evening to buy half a roast goose and come back to add vegetables. ”
Hearing Wang Lu's words, Ah Cai laughed, "It's still the eldest aunt who thinks thoughtfully." ”
The two came to the kitchen, Wang Lu's had been cooking in the backyard before, but now they could quickly prepare some dishes to deal with Chu Lian and his party.
Wang Lushi took a white disk and wanted to put the pot of meat that had been cooked before on the plate, but Ah Cai saw it and hurriedly stopped her, "Auntie, this is what we eat, and it was given to those few people, it's not a waste!"
Ah Cai is a person who likes to eat meat, and he has been talking about meat in front of Wang Lu's family for several days when he makes meat at noon today, where is he willing to bring this pot of meat to the front for Chu Lian and his party to eat.
Wang Lushi glared at him amusedly, didn't insist anymore, poured the plate of meat back into the pot, looked around in the kitchen, prepared a few dishes at random, and asked Ah Cai to send them to the lobby.
A quarter of an hour later, the guy Ah Cai returned to the lobby with the food.
After a while, the table in front of Chu Lian was "banged" and a few plates were placed.
Ah Cai raised his head and said proudly: "Madam, look, this is the special dish of our return to Linju." ”
Chu Lian looked at the table in front of him without moving, two plates were black and I don't know what they were, next to one was a soup, which was mixed with some sparse and lala vegetables, and the other plate was stuffy and changed color, and I couldn't tell what ingredients it was made of.
At first glance, the four dishes in front of me are simply hard to swallow.
Do these people really think she's blind?
This time, without waiting for Qing to speak, Chu Lian said in a flat voice: "Special dishes, I'm afraid it's for pigs!"
Saying that, Chu Lian did not hesitate, swept his hands, and all the four dishes on the table fell to the ground, and the porcelain plate made a "bang" sound after it crashed into the bluestone slab ground and shattered.
Wen Qing and Lan were also taken aback by Chu Lian's sudden formation, but when he saw the ugly face of the arrogant guy Ah Cai, he instantly felt a burst of joy in his heart!