131, Hongmen Banquet
The meal that my second uncle Zeng Fanyou had at night shocked Wang Bo. Even a well-informed and reborn person made him feel like "a meal that lasts ten years, one meal is worth ten years."
What did Wang Bo eat at his second uncle's house?
First of all, there are cold dishes: salivating chicken, red oil tripe, dipped rabbit, couple lung slices, plus Sichuan North jelly and green peppercorn eggs, one six!
The second is braised dishes: a plate of braised fat intestines, a plate of braised duck feet, and a plate of braised duck ginger, a total of three plates!
Next are the dishes: taro roasted local chicken, pea roasted fat intestines, beer duck, spicy eel slices and spicy boiled fish, a total of five dishes.
Then there are the three classic steamed dishes that are indispensable at the banquet in Guanghan: sweet and white, salty and longan.
Then there were three stir-fry dishes: Mapo tofu, shredded pork with Jingshu, and stir-fried pork.
A dish of stew: kelp stewed pork skewers.
Soup: Pea Spike Round (meatball) soup!
Vegetarian dishes? NO vegetarian dishes!
There are 22 dishes in total! Even if you are placed ten years later, it will be a sumptuous meal!
When Wang Bo saw the table in front of him, which was heavy with plates and bowls, which was heavy with three layers inside and three layers outside, his first thought was not joy, but a "extremely bad" premonition arose in his heart: there is no good banquet, and there is no good banquet. This is probably a "Hongmen Banquet" set up by his second aunt for himself!
However, even though we knew it was the "Hongmen Banquet", since we had already entered the banquet, had the banquet, and had picked up the wine glass, then we could only stop the soldiers and generals and cover the water and soil. What should we do? Let's talk about it after eating!
According to the unwritten rules of drinking in the countryside, the second uncle's banquet was filled with two tables, one for men, one for women and one for babies. As a man who was about to become an adult, Wang Bo was invited by his second uncle to the man's main table. Because there was no beauty sitting for him to have a beautiful meal, Wang Bo happily agreed.
Grandma sat with women and children, and Wang Jichang became the oldest person at the table of men, and was naturally placed in the upper seat. If it were put in the past, Wang Jichang would have to give in, but now it has a bit of a presumptuous taste. He sat down with a big golden sword.
Except for the only female, Wang Bo's second aunt, Xie Mingfang, although all the people sitting on the main table are men, there are only three people who drink: Wang Jichang, Jie Mingfang's second brother, and Xie Mingfu, a professional chef at the big table tonight, and Wang Bo. It's strange that people say that smoking and drinking are not separated. Wang Bo's mother's seven brothers and sisters, including grandmother and deceased grandfather, except for the little girl and uncle, they all have the "bad habit" of smoking, but they don't drink wine, even if it's beer, blush when they drink it.
Although Wang Bo is also greedy, he only drinks some beer to moisten his throat and creates atmosphere. He does not stick to white wine, even Moutai Wuliangye, because he can't drink it (I can't drink it). In addition to beer, Wang Bo will also occasionally drink some red wine, but usually it doesn't take off the sugar and drinks sweetly, like the kind of beverage. Once the red wine is removed from sugar, he will not enjoy it, but feel uncomfortable. At this time, the solution is to add Coke or Sprite, a way to drink it by people who can really drink red wine.
Because the person at the table was either relatives or relatives, they were so familiar with each other that they could not be cooked anymore, the atmosphere of eating was very relaxed. After picking up two chopsticks of dishes, they started chatting.
The chat content was initially focused on the recent busy farming season. It is the end of August, and it is the season for harvesting millet. Are you busy? How is the harvest this year?
But soon, the topic shifted to Wang Jichang's rice noodle shop. Wang Bo's second aunt Xie Mingfang first asked about the business of the rice noodle shop and the decoration of the flagship store. Wang Jichang, as usual, complained, saying "decoration is a bottomless pit, no matter how much money you have, you can't fill it up", and clichés such as "owing a lot of money" have become one of his tricks to talk to people in the past month. Wang Jichang would not say that at first, but would only show off to others with a complacent saying "A farmer has a promising future, but he still has to do business to get a big and inappropriate remark. In the end, Wang Bo couldn't stand it anymore, so he communicated with his own son privately, telling him what it means to "exposing a coincidence is worse than hiding his weakness" and "hiding his strength and keeping a low profile". He also taught him a set of words to deal with others' inquiries, and his old man gradually improved.
Jie Mingfang didn’t want to borrow money from Wang Jichang, she just wanted to find a topic to do business, so Wang Jichang’s word “called poverty” had no effect on her. Soon, after Wang Jichang called poverty, Jie Mingfang asked Wang Jichang:
"Oh, Brother Wang, from you and my sister, I saw that farming as a farmer is really nothing to do. Fanyou and I have been growing fields for life, whether it is growing grain or growing vegetables, I dare not say anything else. When it comes to the harvest of each acre, which one in this team can catch up with us? They are taking a nap, and we are weeding in the fields; they are playing cards in the shop, and we are taking medicine at the fields to collect one or two hundred kilograms more than one acre of fields. But what about this? More than one or two hundred kilograms can earn dozens of dollars more, but this requires us to get up early and get into the dark, whether it is windy, rainy, or thunder and fire, we have to work day and night! In this ten or twenty years, we have not seen much better life than others. Brother Wang, what's the point of being a farmer?"
"The price of grain is low, and vegetables cannot be sold at a high price. Now that I am a farmer, I really have nothing to do with it." Wang Jichang picked up the wine glass, drank a sip of wine, and said with a shaking head.
"Yes! So, if you want to live a better life, you should do something like you and your sister, and Song'er, just do something." Jie Mingfang immediately agreed.
"Business is not that easy to do! The competition in the current business is very fierce. Don't you know that now someone is making our "Zeng Sao Mi Noodles" popular now, and immediately opened a "Li Sao Mi Noodles" diagonally opposite us. The decoration, the signboard, and everything is learned from us. Alas, I don't know how long this rice noodles business will be popular!" Wang Jichang shook his head and sighed.
When Zhong Xiaomin next door heard that his second sister-in-law mentioned her water business, she immediately shouted loudly:
"Oh, second sister-in-law, do you really think this business is easy to do? Let me tell you, it's Song'er's water-surface business. Can you do it all this year? There are only a question number (question)! Less than a week after he opened in the big market, someone opened a "Liu Zhaoshou" nearby to play against him! People nowadays are very smart. If you see your business a little better, you will learn immediately."
"Ah, Brother Wang, Song'er, someone is fighting against you? Is this true?" The news released by Wang Jichang was a big bomb for Jie Mingfang, who was determined to learn from Zeng Fansong to sell water surfaces or learn from Zhong Xiaomin to work in a rice noodle shop. She fryed her so much that it was so hot that she was a little overwhelmed. She looked at the three layers inside and three layers outside, and she was a little overwhelmed. She looked at the delicious dishes that were heavy on the table. The first time she started to think that this dish was a little too much?!
"Is there any fake? The person surnamed Li is decorating these days. You will come to the city to see him in a few days. The dog-good guy will soon rob our business!" Wang Jichang said loudly, but his hands were not slow. He picked up a piece of "rake, glutinous, loose, soft" but chewed but chewy but started chewing.
My aunt-in-law Zhong Xiaomin also agreed, "Second sister-in-law, you can go to the big market to check it out, and you will know if it is true!"
What Wang Jichang and Zhong Xiaomin said is naturally true, but the real situation is not as silenced as these two people said.
Not long ago, just a week ago, diagonally across the road of "Zeng Sao Mi Noodles", a clothing store selling clothes suddenly opened a sign of "Li Sao Mi Noodles". After seeing it, Wang Jichang was shocked to death. He immediately jumped in front of Wang Bo, saying that he was robbing the business. God, it’s time to do it now!
Wang Bo was also a little surprised and immediately went out to glance at him from a distance, and found that not only was the name similar to his, but the color and style of the sign were almost exactly the same. He called him "Zeng Sao Mi Fan" and the other party called him "Li Sao Mi Fan"; he made his mother's big avatar, and the other party hanged his wife's big avatar; he compared his Chinese and English, and the other party also compared his Chinese and English - no, to be precise, it should be a Chinese and pinyin comparison; he called him MZC and the other party was L**F.
As the other party's decoration progressed, Wang Bo also found that he had made up a story about his mother who was studying for his son and creating rice noodles. The other party also followed the story about his mother studying rice noodles to treat a daughter. Wang Bo translated the story into English, while the other party spelled the story in Chinese pinyin, or was it a professional who didn't understand English, Wang Bo guessed.
Seeing the other party's shameless and all-round copying himself, if Wang Bo was still a little worried at first, he would be as stable as Mount Tai after watching it. He only had one comment on this, that is:
If you don’t draw a tiger, you will become a dog! This boy is exhausted!
"There is nothing to worry about!" Wang Bo said directly to everyone, including Wang Jichang, "It is hard to draw bones when drawing tigers and skins! The other party can imitate our shapes, but cannot imitate our taste! And the imitation is a simple trial version of the "Zeng Sao Rice Noodles" that is about to be eliminated! After a few days, the hardcover version of the "Zeng Sao Rice Noodles" flagship store is released and sold. I see how the person surnamed Li is imitating?! Our "Zeng Sao Rice Noodles" can be imitated, but it can never be surpassed!" Wang Bo waved his hand, loudly shouting to everyone with great confidence.
After hearing Wang Bo's words, the worrying bosses and employees were relieved and relieved, and thought to themselves:
Yes, our flagship store is about to open. Such a beautiful and fashionable restaurant is the only one in the entire Sifang and even the entire De City. What are you afraid of if he does?
However, Wang Bo is still clear about the principle of despising the enemy strategically and attaching importance to the enemy tactically. After angering the panicked employees, he immediately called his parents for a small meeting and severely warned them to be strictly guarded against the three secret recipes of "Zeng Sao Mi Noodles" and must not be leaked! Once it is leaked, everyone will "return to the front of liberation overnight" and continue to "face the loess and back to the sky".
Wang Bo's stern words immediately scared Wang Jichang to the point of sweat, because although he had heard his stepson talk about the importance of confidentiality many times in the past, he always felt that his stepson was a bit of a big deal. Now the enemy is coming, and it is just across the road. Faced with the direct threat of "Li Sao Mi Fan", an enemy who might make him continue to "face the loess and back to the sky" to be the second brother of the Nong, Wang Jichang immediately took it seriously with an unprecedented attitude. Sometimes in Wang Bo's view, he even reached the level of a cup of bow and snake shadow.
For example, when it comes to stir-frying sauce, making old soup and hot chili, Wang Jichang will close the rolls. Those spices and seasonings that need to be discarded after making the three secret recipes, such as pepper, pepper, star anise, santane, old ginger, etc., used to throw them in the kitchen trash can, but now they will all be packed in a plastic bag, and after a certain amount is accumulated, they will ride a bicycle and throw it into the People's Canal.
Wang Jichang's appearance of the bow and snake shadow made Wang Bo feel funny, but he would not remind his son not to be too nervous. He knew very well his stepfather's personality: it was basically nothing to do with himself, and he was hanging up high, and he died of a person's eggs and eggs were on the sky, and he would never die for tens of thousands of years. Once something threatened his enjoyment, Wang Jichang would immediately become more active than everyone else, more nervous and caring than everyone else.
In essence, he is the person who cares most about himself.
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