Siheyuan: I am Du Shouyi

Chapter 98
Old Kyoto eats "zheluo" on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, which is to pour all the leftovers of the Chinese New Year from the previous three days into a stew.

Du Shouyi made a Southern Poon Choi that night. He put sea cucumbers, elbows, roast duck, dried tofu, etc. together, and it was unexpectedly delicious.What was even more unexpected was that the system gave him a skill the next day.

"Ding, the host's reward for signing in today is the primary skill of 'Poon Choi Making'."

Du Shouyi has signed up the 'gardener' skill this month.In addition to the exchange, he obtained five skills for the first time this month, which made him have to examine them.

'Is the first month a skills month?What is the system doing? '

With a little hesitation, Du Shouyi clicked on the 'Black Iron' album.

Cantonese Poon Choi is a kind of miscellaneous dish, which involves cooking techniques such as braised, stewed, fried, deep-fried, and roasted.Du Shouyi didn't know any of these skills!What he learned is 'harmony'.

It is how to combine various flavor materials and how to season with condiments such as southern milk.

After all, he has become a qualified 'poon choi foodie', who knows how to match the ingredients and how to make the addition of one greater than two of various flavors.

"Isn't this the job of an 'executive chef'? It's just a matter of pointing fingers, and the work is done by the underlings, and I'm the last one to check it out."

Tucao to Tucao, Du Shouyi is very satisfied with this skill.

There are so many ready-made dishes in his space that it is difficult to choose.Learn how to do 'zheluo' now, and if you feel worried in the future, you can simply make a hodgepodge and adjust it from time to time, which is very good.

After the fifth day of the new year, it is considered a new year.After get off work on Saturday, Xiaobei sent Yan Jiedi two pairs of Asics sneakers and a new racket.

The third mother was worrying about Jie Di's shoes wearing too fast, but Gong Xiaobei sent the shoes as if he could pinch and count, and the shoes looked unusual.

"Xiao Bei, why don't you stay and eat?" The third mother was sincerely grateful and invited her sincerely.

Gong Xiaobei smiled and refused, "No, Shouyi is cooking at home."

Du Shouyi didn't know what happened to him today, maybe it was the "Zheluo" on the night of the fourth day of junior high school that made him so delicious, and he insisted on doing it again the next day, pouring good prawns, sea cucumbers, and elbows together 'Zheluo'.

This left Gong Xiaobei and Du Shougui speechless.But by dinner time, when they almost bit their tongues, they stopped thinking about it.

Since then, the Du family's zheluo has become a "private house famous dish", which has conquered the stomachs of several generations of the Du family, and also conquered the circle of relatives and friends around the Du family.It also has a famous name in the outside world: "Zheluo of my sister's house".
There was nothing to say all night, and in the blink of an eye, it was Sunday morning, and the alley was unsurprisingly quiet.The scene of groups of "sacred beasts" gathering in the alley to play wildly like a few days ago is gone.School will start tomorrow, and the beasts are doing their homework at home right now.

After seeing off Shougui, Du Shouyi finally breathed a sigh of relief.This sister is also a 'beast'.When he was at home, he followed Gong Xiaobei's ass, making him always feel like a policeman was watching, and it was inconvenient for him to do anything.

As soon as I got back to the room and sat down, I heard a 'ding', and today's check-in time has arrived.

"The host's reward for signing in today is 'Gaoyou' Salted Egg X100"

'It's not easy! 'Du Shouyi sighed in his heart.It is not easy to get the system to order food outside of Kyoto.

So far, the check-in system has been quite exclusive in 'taste'.Everything outside of Kyoto is foreign.

For example: the amount of white rabbit toffee rewarded is the same as that of Belgian chocolate.In the eyes of the system, Belgium and Shanghai are both 'foreign places' and there is no difference.

But when it comes to sundries and other items, the system is a bit 'fascinating', and it basically uses whichever one is authentic, which is really in line with the 'temperament' of the old Kyoto people.

On the menu that Du Shouyi wants to eat most now, the number one item is actually 'Japanese sashimi'.There are too many big fish and meat, and he really wants to change to a lighter taste.It can be operated according to the system, and I don't know that I have to wait until the year of the monkey.Maybe I can't sign these things in my life.

Salted duck eggs are also very good. People in Kyoto love duck and usually make salted duck eggs.But from a national perspective, Jiangsu Gaoyou is the champion of salted duck eggs.

Red hearts, double yellows, one poke and one puddle of oil, and fragrant, there is no other place that can compare.But later generations came out with a bunch of bastards who even used Sudan red to color duck egg yolks.

Seeing that it was still early, Du Shouyi simply boiled some rice porridge and had Gaoyou salted eggs for lunch.Porridge, salted eggs, pickles, what is happiness?That's it.

After lunch, when the two were planning to go to a movie, two brothers Kang Changguo and Kang Changqing came.

Du Shouyi went to Kang's house to give away some new year's goods a few years ago, and met them once. He also paid his respects to the parents of the two brothers and recognized the family.

The Kang family brothers are all apprentices now, earning about 20 yuan a month, but their father is still working, and the salary is not low, so the Kang family lives well.

It is also because of this that Kang Changqing can hang around doing nothing for a year after graduation, until he enters the unit he likes.

The annual gift brought by the Kang family brothers is quite special. It is a "little milk cat" with black hair and white belly.

There is an old actor in the Kang Changqing Troupe. The cat at home had already given birth to a litter last year, but he did not expect to have another litter last month.The old actor's salary was not low but his energy was limited, so he couldn't afford it anymore, so Kang Changqing asked for one for Du Shouyi.

In the old capital of Beijing, cats were given to each other as gifts from relatives and friends, and they could not be bought with money. Only those whose families were going bankrupt sold cats and dogs.

Speaking of actors, I have to talk about an interesting phenomenon.Who is the highest paid group in this era?In the literary and art circles, especially Peking Opera actors.

Boss Zhou Xinfang’s salary is more than 2000 a month; Ma Lianliang’s boss is [-] a month;

What concept?The salary of the chairman = president = manager is only five or six hundred a month, which is not as high as Zhou Xiaotian.So there are still some 'rich people' in this era.

There are also a group of people who receive "high wages" are "capitalists" like Lou Dong.

Wang Jieyuan of Shanghai Jianhua Woolen Mill earns more than 600 yuan a month; an ordinary clerk at Wanli Paint Factory earns more than 500 yuan.There are not one or two cases where ordinary guards take three or four hundred a month.

Another high-wage group is physician-engineers.For example, "orthopedic expert" Shi Xiaoshan.In [-], the Shi family's gold was transported out of the country by several trucks.Note, it is several.I won't expand on these.

The richest people in this era are mainly these three types of people, as for the merchant group.
With high wages comes high consumption: those who buy land and build buildings, and act as landlords to collect rent; those who hire two or three nannies at home;This kind of thing has happened, and many of them are still in the three-year difficult period.

"Luxury" is not only found in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suxichang, and also in the north.Kyoto is at the foot of the emperor, and it is rare to "show off wealth".For example, boss Ma Lianliang, he is relatively low-key.

But Tianjin, which is not far away, is interesting.For example, Ding Zhiyun, the famous artist mentioned above, bought two sponge mattresses for [-] because he was afraid of getting prickly heat, and slept on them at night.I bought a monkey for two hundred and kept it for fun.

Zhou Xiaotian, Boss Zhou, has two dogs and one cat. He serves fresh pork liver, milk, and eggs every day. He eats much better than people.Many of these things happened during the three difficult years from May [-]th to June [-]st.

In the previous life, when Du Shouyi saw the information, he couldn't help but deeply 'admired' these seniors.If you can earn money and spend money, it’s okay to eat and play, so why let others know?Isn't it all trouble from now on?
So he gave Gong Xiaobei and Du Shougui a very strict gag order.The North House does not allow outsiders to enter casually.Zhong Yuemin and the others were accidental last time, but they are the type who cannot protect themselves, so it doesn't matter.

(End of this chapter)