Chapter 92

During the three-day holiday of the Winter Solstice, Shen Shaoguang had a "ups and downs". He had a meeting with his partner - from a rich woman with a house and a car to a house slave who paid in installments; drunk once - broke up with her boyfriend, The breakup failed, and the marriage was agreed verbally. In addition, I cried twice, causing the number of emotional out of control this year to exceed the standard. Shen Shaoguang summed up this way while drinking porridge on the morning of the fourth day of the winter solstice.

The porridge is a yellowish millet porridge with a moderate thickness; the porridge is served with tofu mixed with pickles, with chopped green onion and sesame oil, as well as vinegar celery, which is loved by the Tang people; the staple food is minced meat rolls and bean noodles, chestnut noodles, wheat noodles, and wheat noodles. Small steamed buns , and soft boiled eggs.

At first glance, this egg was boiled by the third princess. It was about the size of a bean, and it was tender and not fishy-Shen Shaoguang didn't like to eat runny eggs. At this time, there is no very accurate timer at home. don't know how the three princesses cook so well every time.

Speaking of boiled eggs, Shen Shaoguang remembered a novel he read many years ago. The heroine gave birth to a child. Her unreliable and extroverted husband brought dumplings bought outside, while the mother in the same ward complained about her own. husband. ①

The mother's husband brought some boiled eggs to the ward, all of which were as hard as rubber. The mother was very puzzled. The husband said that he did exactly what his wife said, put cold water in it, and boiled it for forty-five minutes after the pot was boiled. The mother said, "I said four or five minutes, you cook for forty-five minutes! Why don't you cook for four or five hours?" She also said that before giving birth to the child, she took her husband one by one to tell the house what and where. I'm afraid that when I go home after giving birth, my husband starves to death.

At that time, Shen Shaoguang was only in his teens, with too much age difference and different growth background. , but I don't know why I remember this paragraph clearly, especially the "four or five minutes" stalk - the sensitivity of foodies?

What Shen Shaoguang remembers is the lard bibimbap that the female protagonist made for the male protagonist. He mistaken sugar for monosodium glutamate. The gap, in the end missed, once missed, is a lifetime.

Shen Shaoguang didn't know why he remembered such a long-term story, maybe the woman in love was especially sentimental.

I didn't miss Lin Yan. As for whether the two of them will reveal their true colors after marriage... Shen Shaoguang smiled, put the egg in his mouth, and exposed it. As he said, thinking too much is not enough, always seek everything, how can there be so much everything? Life is like sailing a boat, we don't know what to expect, we can only choose people who are in the same boat.

Looking at her little lady's cloudy and sunny face, sometimes frowning and sometimes smiling, A Yuan asked, "But this meal doesn't suit your taste?"

Shen Shaoguang smiled and said, "I'm thinking about bibimbap with hog oil."

A Yuan had never eaten when he was with the old master, but now there are too many delicious things. After imagining it, he shook his head, not very interested.

Shen Shaoguang didn't eat it either. Mr. Cai Lan put lard bibimbap on the must-eat list before death, and Shen Shaoguang suspected that there were too many emotional bonuses in it. A spoonful of lard, a little soy sauce and chopped green onion, plus white rice, can there be any chemical reaction?

There is ready-made lard in the store, and Shen Shaoguang tried to make a pot of lard bibimbap at noon. Compared with simply adding soy sauce, lard, and chopped green onion, her bibimbap is almost luxurious—with sausage, shredded chicken, pickled bamboo shoots, shrimp, and other things, red, green and green, at least it looks very good. Beautiful, steaming hot rice wafts the aroma of the oil and it smells so appealing.

A-yuan was very arrogant in front of eating, and her previous disapproval turned into almost burying her face in the bowl.

Yu Sanyi has always been very resistant to the strange rice cooked by Shen Shaoguang, but after tasting this lard bibimbap, he also ate a bowl.

The rest of the people were also very supportive, and Shen Shaoguang was satisfied - Lin Shaoyin didn't eat or not, it didn't matter, Shen Shaoguang always suspected that he had fewer taste buds, and he used to praise himself for delicious food, which was all a strategy.

After the Winter Solstice Festival, Shen Shaoguang spent less and less time in the kitchen tinkering with food like this. Shao Jie bought the Dongshi restaurant, busy decorating and arranging the storefront, setting up desks, supplies and personnel, and trying to open it before the new year.

In addition to the daily management of the original four restaurants, Shen Shaoguang was also thinking about how to make the Dongshi store a Shenji signature—this good location must not be wasted, the key is not to let so much money go to waste!

The East City is close to the Imperial City, and there are many dignitaries living around. There are also Chongren Square with a concentration of Ni Hotel Residences and Pingkangfang, the famous Red Light District of the Tang Dynasty. Different from the civilianization of the West City, the East City is simply a central business district. Inside the central business district.

In order to create this Shenji signboard, which was a blockbuster, Shen Shaoguang and Shao Jie made some renovations on the basis of maintaining the unified characteristics of Shenji.

For example, adding a private room. The second floor is separated by a large piece and made into several private rooms for guests who want to be quiet. The private room is indeed "elegant". There are a few rich and luxurious or distant and indifferent paintings on the walls, a large dining table or a snack table on the wooden floor, and the rest are sandalwood couch, small incense table, silver mud screen, and Shu brocade hidden capsule. You have everything you need, and there are wax plums in the pot, and the incense burns in the furnace - eating here, a bowl of noodles costs thousands of dollars, you are embarrassed to say that it is expensive!

There is no ambiguity in the intentions of the elegant rooms for the "nobles" and the "entertainment" for the public diners. Shen Shaoguang discussed with Shao Jie to open a space in the lobby on the first floor and build a stage, where Zhang Erlang and others from his family could perform "Reporting the Name of the Vegetable" and "Shen Ji from the Wall".

Shao Jie slapped his palms: "It should be! Our 'teasing' is the only one in the Dongxi market. It's not like they made two singers babble, and few people listen..." ②

It's not that there are no banquet performances in the form of drama sketches at this time, but most of them are at the banquets of the rich and powerful, and some restaurants in the East and West City will invite Pingkang singers to play and sing to entertain guests, Shao Jie said. is this.

Shao Jie added: "That day, I followed my grandfather to the first week's family banquet, and there was a 'teasing' during the banquet. I heard that the two miscellaneous actors served in the palace before, I don't think it's too bad. Er, the key is - the joke is too old." Shao Jie pouted in disgust. The word "duanzi" was obviously learned from Shen Shaoguang.

Shen Ji's "duozi" is really new, but it's not that Shen Shaoguang has a big brain and is good at originality, or that she has a good memory and reserves a few G jokes, but that she has mobilized the people.

Shen Shaoguang had long thought that the "script" was the soul of this kind of performance. Just like the dishes, it has vitality and attractiveness.

However, I don't have original jokes, I don't know that my humorous cells are lacking, and I can't last long by relying on joke books such as "Lin Guang Ji" I read in my previous life. Shen Shaoguang remembered the story of Mr. Liao Zhai who exchanged tea for stories, and decided to add such an interaction - invite diners to submit articles, the topics are limited to eating, and the requirements are funny and interesting. Anyone who submits will be given a plate of seasonal flower cakes. .

This move has been implemented in four old stores in Shenji. Sure enough, the power of the masses is unlimited, and a lot of interesting jokes have been collected. Shen Shaoguang compiled and transformed these jokes together. In addition to the stingy and greedy Zhang Erlang series, he also added the elegant joke series that readers like, the slightly fragrant boudoir series, and the stupid series that the public likes to see. Most of the stories are related to eating. .

Shen Shaoguang is not good at creating, and his ability to choose to compile is still passable, and he will not take any of those with bad intentions, too violent, political affairs, and so on. Just for fun.

Diners, those who can tell such humorous stories, are all good at it, and they are quite proud to see their jokes being performed at this time. For those who are narcissistic, when they ask when they will act, they keep repeating it, not only by themselves, but also with friends and relatives.

Shao Jie is a "teasing" fan. He listens to a few paragraphs when he has nothing to do, which is why he is particularly disdainful of others - without him, his appetite has been raised.

However, Shen Shaoguang said, "Just teasing is monotonous, let's sign a contract with those who perform Hundred Operas and Huxuan Dance in Dongshi, let them come once or twice every ten days, and the guests will reward them and keep them for themselves. We'll pay them extra."

"That's even better!"

Shen Shaoguang did not invite the singing and dancing prostitutes of Pingkangfang to come, not because she was fresh and refined, but because she could not afford to invite - famous, beautiful, good at playing and singing, once, too expensive; not so good, What are you going to do?

In the twelfth lunar month, the Dongshi Shenji liquor store opened.

Standing by the fence on the second floor, looking at the diners from Yunlai, listening to Xu Shilang's classic opening "The Name of the Dish", Shen Shaoguang asked Lin Yan, who came to join him: "Do you think it's not bad?"

"It's not bad, it's very good," Lin Yan said with a smile, "It's very good."

Shen Shaoguang felt a sense of completeness and narrowed his eyes with a smile.

"It's not in vain for the tea I was waiting for you to drink."

Shen Shaoguang turned to look at him, the corners of Lin Yan's eyes were raised, with three points of teasing and two points of grievance in his expression.

Due to the opening of the new restaurant and the seasonal menu changes of the old restaurant and the New Year's celebration, Shen Shaoguang is indeed quite busy, and even occasionally sleeps out. Lin Yan was also busy and took time to visit her, but she wasn't there...

Shen Shaoguang licked his lower lip, learned the tone of a prodigal son, and squinted at him: "Do you have the feeling of 'repenting to teach your husband and son-in-law to find a prince'?"

Lin Yan couldn't help but laugh.

Shen Shaoguang thought he would not answer, but he nodded with a smile: "I regret it very much."

The author has something to say:

① Wang Hailing's "The Colonel's Daughter" was written many years ago.

② This kind of performance was called "teasing" at that time.

It is still a chapter in which time is busy with business and molesting.