Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

After talking about the vegetables, we can talk about garlic. You all know garlic, right? Garlic is a must when eating noodles. As for the garlic that goes with it, there are pickled garlic, soaked garlic, raw garlic, and all kinds of garlic.

In addition, there are four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and four different kinds of stir-fried dishes are needed. Noodles with gravy must be served with stir-fried dishes. There are four different kinds of stir-fried dishes for each season. It is also served with river fish and seafood, which is extremely troublesome.

If you are more particular about it, you will have to have braised sauces and fried sauces. There are all kinds of red and white braised sauces, cherry braised sauces, etc. If you don’t run a restaurant, let alone eat braised noodles, if you want to eat noodles for lunch tomorrow, you have to start preparing tonight.

When eating, all the dishes were laid out. There were more than ten kinds of dishes on the big table, and the one in the middle had to be red vermicelli!

When eating noodles, you must have red rice noodles. This rice noodles is made of mung beans. The rice noodles, also known as cold noodles, are dyed red. After mixing a bowl of noodles, pick up a piece of red rice noodles with chopsticks and put it on top. This is called "picking red". It makes the bowl of noodles look colorful and beautiful.

You also have to add a kind of gluten shreds. Gluten shreds are not the big grilled skewers that you can see everywhere on the streets later. They are a kind of oil gluten, which is a piece of flour that has been washed away with other things, and the only thing left is called gluten.

When we were kids, we used it to catch cicadas. As long as we caught them, the cicadas would be caught for sure!

After frying the gluten, take it out, cut it into shreds, fry it again and add sweet and sour sauce, mix it with the noodles. This is the typical old noodles, but this thing cannot be made too early. It must be made and eaten now, otherwise it will collapse.

So usually the noodles are cooked here and then fried there.

After saying so much, it's as grand as a banquet. Who is the important person coming to our house today?

There weren't any important people coming to Xu Dacan's house today, but today is Lou Xiao'e's 48th birthday.

It is true that it is better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. After learning that it was her birthday, Haozi hurriedly prepared a gift.

Xu Dacan stopped him and said, "Just be quiet for a while. If you make such a big fuss, and invite all those good-for-nothings here, how many noodles will I have to cook?"

Of course Haozi wouldn't believe his lies. How could such a wealthy man ruin a meal of noodles?

It's simply that such a big scene is rarely seen in normal times. It's too troublesome to prepare the noodles, and there are too many wolves and not enough meat to share.

Haozi dares to bet that the noodles he eats today will be enough for him to brag about for a whole year!

"..."

He was quite embarrassed: "But I didn't bring any gifts. I'm empty-handed. I'm so embarrassed..."

Xu Dacan said: "Excuse me, just help cook the noodles."

Only then did Haozi breathe a sigh of relief and hurried into the kitchen to help.

After a while, Xu Dacan and Damao also came to the kitchen, and Haozi said to them: "Today Liu Guangtian successfully met with Li Huaide, and Banggeng also played his due role. Li Huaide said that he has already made the arrangements, and now it's up to us."

After Haozi finished speaking, he emphasized that Li Huaide took out a stack of change from his wallet, which totaled less than 200 yuan, and that he was pretending to be generous.

Xu Damao smiled happily when he heard this: "Director Li is going backwards. He was not like this in the past."

Xu Dacan also said: "He must have been unable to make it out there. Either he offended someone he shouldn't have offended, or he was in debt. He had nowhere else to go so he came back to try his luck and turn his bicycle into a motorcycle."

What seemed like a normal sentence to Xu Dacan turned out to be so funny that Xu Damao and Haozi laughed so hard that they couldn't stop laughing.

"Give it a try, and the bicycle will turn into a motorcycle. Hahahaha..."

Xu Damao laughed so hard that he fell down, and Haozi was almost the same, their expressions were unbearable to look at.

"..."

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. Today, Xu Damao brought Zhang Jinxi to the Sichuan restaurant to meet with Li Huaide.

When Xu Damao arrived, Li Huaide and You Fengxia were already there. The three of them discussed it like a rehearsal.

By the time they had formulated a strategy, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu arrived.

The two brothers were quite surprised to see Xu Damao here: "Xu Damao? Why are you here too!"

Xu Damao said impatiently: "Look at what you said, you two brothers can come, why can't I come?"

After Xu Damao finished speaking, he turned to Li Huaide and said, "Boss Li, we agreed to discuss business, but look at who these people you called here are?"

Li Huaide didn't even need to say anything, Liu Guangtian exploded: "Xu Damao, how can you talk like that?"

"That's what I'm saying. Liu Guangtian, do you know how big a business we're talking about? Just because your father Liu Haizhong shamelessly established a relationship with Director Lan and traded rebar for a few dollars, do you think you're worthy enough?"

After being scolded by Xu Damao, Liu Guangtian was unable to refute.

But at this moment, Li Huaide was like the Bodhisattva in the temple, saying nothing.

Xu Damao hugged You Fengxia and deliberately put his hand on her thigh in front of Liu Guangtian and his two brothers.

After touching enough, Xu Damao said to You Fengxia with a snobbish look: "What they are doing is a business of making money out of nothing. It is true that rebar is a hot commodity, but it is not theirs. The most they can do is to make a profit from the price difference, and they have to look at other people's faces every day. I don't know if you have heard of this saying?"

You Fengxia was quite cooperative: "Oh, what did you say?"

Xu Damao even cleared his throat: "This favor is what you owe me and I owe you. In the end, we can't tell the difference. That's when the relationship is established."

After saying that, he pointed at Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu and said, "But look at them again. They owe you a lot of favors. What can they give back? So do you think it can last long?"

Liu Guangtian's face turned ashen, he never imagined that the business that he and Liu Guangfu had deliberately forced Liu Guangqi away and snatched from Liu Haizhong was actually nothing in the eyes of Xu Damao!

Fortunately, Li Huaide spoke up for them at this time: "Brother Damao, no matter who it belongs to, there is no shortage of buyers for in-demand products."

"..."

Li Huaide helped the two out of the predicament, and then said to them: "I wonder if you have ever heard of this saying?"

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu said in unison: "What?"

"Money is neither good nor bad, because money is good. People are neither good nor bad, because people are bad; but business can be divided into good and bad. What kind of business do you want to do?"

Liu Guangtian scratched his head and said, "Director Li, please tell me in detail."

Li Huaide said with a smile: "This is a good business, which benefits others but not oneself; this is a bad business, which benefits oneself but not others. Which business do you two want to do?"

Liu Guangtian said quickly: "Bad ones, we choose the bad ones!"

Li Huaide slammed the table vigorously: "Okay, this is what you chose!"