Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 731 Have a meal together

  In the Taicang Bank, there is a post at five steps and a sentry at ten steps, and the defense is extremely strict.

  Zhu Ping'an silently observed the strict defense of the Taicang Bank, while dealing with Jia Langzhong and others' pleasantries. After walking for about five or six minutes in the warehouse area, we arrived at the dining room in Taicang.

  This is a large dining hall, which is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. It can accommodate about 70 or 80 people dining at the same time. There are more than a dozen tables in it, and the tables and chairs are relatively simple.

   Meals were set up on one of the tables, eight dishes and two soups, to be exact, four dishes and one soup, but each dish was repeated.

  The dishes are very ordinary, two meat and two vegetables, the meat dishes are stewed pork with tofu, fried pork with Chinese cabbage, the vegetarian dishes are cucumber and braised eggplant, and the soup is a big gluten soup.

  Such eight dishes, two large pots of gluten soup filled the table.

   "Come on, Mr. Zhu, please take a seat."

  Zhang Guanku stood in front of the chair facing west and east, smiled warmly, and stretched out his right hand to ask Zhu Pingan to take the seat.

  In ancient times, banquets were very particular about the arrangement of seats. On the one hand, it was because of the tradition of the state of etiquette, and on the other hand, it was because of the difference in rank. For the current dining room that is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, the most honorable seat in the dining room is to sit west to east, second to sit north to south, third to sit south to north, and the most humble is to sit east to west.

  The seat that Zhang Guanku asked Zhu Pingan to sit on is the most respected seat in the dining room.

   "Master Zhang, please." Zhu Pingan shook his head with a smile, and stretched out his hand to invite Zhang Guanku to take a seat.

Daming is a feudal society that is very particular about rank. The most obvious manifestation is the arrangement of seats. There are strict rules on what kind of seat a high-ranking person should occupy and what position a low-ranking person should take. suspect.

  Zhu Ping'an would not make such a low-level mistake and leave no excuses for others.

Moreover, Zhang Guanku is the top snake in the Taicang Bank, and everyone says that Qianglong is not overpowering the top snake, not to mention that he is not even a strong dragon. More like a small earthworm.

  In addition, just outside the gate of the bank, Jia Langzhong and the others looked at themselves with contempt, and did not take themselves seriously.

  Since this is the case, I can't let them down.

  After a lot of pushback, Zhang Guanku finally sat in the first place, and Zhu Pingan sat in the lower seat of Zhang Guanku.

  Seeing that Zhu Pingan is so knowledgeable, all Taicang officials felt more relaxed. In their view, this menacing inspection was easier than ever.

   "Hey, there are four meat dishes, not bad, but thanks to Master Zhu, we finally see meat."

  After being seated, Taicang doctor Zhao Dingtian glanced at the food on the table, his eyes were full of disdain, but his face was full of surprise, he made a fuss and thanked Zhu Pingan, as if he really didn’t know the taste of meat in March.

  Zhu Ping'an slightly hooked the corners of his lips, hehe, the performance is quite good, if you can wipe off the bear paw smell on your body and the oil stains on your mouth, it will be even more perfect...

  Zhang Guanku glared at Zhao Langzhong, and then Zhao Langzhong closed his mouth resentfully, with a displeasure on his face, as if he was still wrong to tell the truth.

   "Hehe, our poor village in Taicang is not as good as your city. It's all simple food and poor hospitality. Please don't take offense, Mr. Zhu." Zhang Guanku said to Zhu Ping'an with a smile.

  After the voice fell, Zhu Pingan looked up at Zhang Guanku, and then glanced at everyone present, his eyes were deep, and his eyebrows were also wrinkled...

  Zhang Guanku and all the Taicang officials present were terrified by Zhu Pingan's eyes, especially Zhao Langzhong, who were even more terrified, thinking that Zhu Pingan had seen some flaws.

   next second

  But seeing Zhu Ping'an's eyes getting deeper and deeper, and his eyebrows furrowed more and more.

  Everyone in Taicang present became more and more uneasy.

However, in the next second, Zhu Ping'an's deep eyes were moistened, his eyebrows were brought together, he opened his mouth and took a deep breath, and said with a moved face: "Master Zhang and all the adults are watching over you!" The Taicang bank is so strict with itself, and this kind of sentiment really makes Pingan admire. Mr. Zhang made an exception for Ping An, and prepared such a table of rich and delicious food, how could Ping An be dissatisfied."

   Nima Hi!

   It turned out that this guy was moved by our "thriftiness". Damn, I thought this kid found some flaws.

   Damn, I was worried for nothing.

  Let me just say, how could he see the flaws, hehe, it turned out to be a waste of worry, a little calf is a calf, a rookie is a rookie! It's so easy to be bluffed, what kind of **** champion, a young nerd, this kind of person is good at stereotypes, but you let him do other things... Hehe...

   After this incident, everyone underestimated Zhu Pingan even more.

   Four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables.

  Except for Zhu Ping'an, the other people on the table lacked interest and basically didn't move their chopsticks.

  It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

  They just came out of the "Late Night Canteen", and one of them ate bear's paw abalone, delicacies from mountains and seas. Now let them eat this cabbage tofu again, wouldn't it be embarrassing for them, how can they get rid of the chopsticks.

  However, Zhu Ping'an's food is delicious.

  Zhu Ping'an hasn't had a sip of water or eaten a grain of rice since early morning.

  However, there were a lot of things that happened that day. When I got up early in the morning, I went to Dali Temple first. As a result, Deputy Envoy Qu Tongyang of Dali Temple suffered a stroke. After hearing the news that Sinan was imprisoned by the imperial staff, he went to the Meridian Gate without stopping.

   Then he rode with Gao Rui to the Taicang Bank, but Gao Rui "fell off his horse" on the way, and turned back to the city to find a doctor.

   Then I basked in the sun for half an hour outside the gate of Taicang...

  Zhu Ping'an has long been hungry and thirsty.

   In addition, the "thrifty package" launched by Master Zhang and the others with ulterior motives also gave Zhu Pingan a surprise. It looks like cabbage tofu, but sometimes the same ingredients are cooked by different chefs, and the taste is very different.

  Zhu Ping'an is sure that the cooking skills of this Taicang chef are no less than that of the imperial chef.

   This seemingly ordinary cabbage, tofu and cucumber tastes surprisingly good. It is so popular that people can't stop chopsticks.

  Zhu Ping'an is like a rice bucket, eating non-stop. Everyone in Taicang despises Zhu Ping'an's good appetite. He is really a bumpkin from the countryside...

   "Well, Mr. Zhang, you can also eat it. You don't need to take special care of me. Come, Mr. Zhao, this stewed tofu meat tastes good."

Zhu Pingan immersed himself in the meal break, raised his head and looked at the crowd. Seeing that the crowd didn't move their chopsticks very much, he was "moved" and advised everyone to eat food and not take special care of themselves, especially Zhao Langzhong, who spread a lot of tofu for Zhao Langzhong with public chopsticks Stewed meat, who made you say that you were so pleasantly surprised that you finally saw meat.

   "Ahem, no, no, I will do it myself."

  Looking at the big meat slices in the bowl, Zhao Langzhong felt nauseous for a while. Who the **** still eats such pork? Looking at Zhu Pingan's enthusiastic eyes, Zhao Langzhong stuffed a big meat slice into his mouth like swallowing a fly...

  (end of this chapter)