Mr. Minguo's kitchen

March [-]th in the Gregorian calendar of the Republic of China, three days have passed since the assassination on March [-]rd.Yu Zuotang, who lived in Fenglaiju Hotel, packed up his things early and rushed to the restaurant before lunch.I found a seat by the window in the lobby and sat down. Without taking the menu, I called the waiter and ordered duck blood vermicelli soup for myself as usual.Then I ordered dishes according to the preferences of other friends.

The waiter knew Mr. Yu very well, so he said: "Mr. Yu, there is a new dish of cured duck slices on the counter today. Would you like a small dish to try?"

Yu Zuotang immediately regained his spirits, "Sliced ​​duck, how do you say it?"

"The high-grade duck meat fed with rice in Xiangcheng was marinated for ten days, exposed to the sun for seven days, and air-dried for seven days. You don't need to add any seasoning, and you can directly cook it in boiling water and high heat. You will know the taste after eating it. "

Yu Zuotang didn't need to imagine it at all, because he had already smelled a strange and unique fragrance in the air, and he didn't know it unless he smelled it carefully. Once he smelled it, the body fluid in his mouth would immediately start to overflow.

He immediately said: "If you have a new dish, don't tell me earlier, of course you have to try it! Is a small plate enough? I have a few friends coming later, they eat a lot, so you can serve me a few more dishes." He said This is a habit of eating. There is a new dish in Fenglaiju, no matter what it is, it will be very popular. At that time, no gentleman at the same table will say that the host treats guests warmly.

The waiter smiled and agreed.A table of diners next to them obviously heard what they said, and immediately called the waiter, and ordered a plate of cured duck slices.

While waiting for food and people, Yu Zuotang spread out today's newspaper.The hotel provides all kinds of up-to-date newspapers and magazines, and the one in Zuo Tang's hands is the national newspaper "Min Bao".

Today's "Min Bao" headline is still the political affairs of the current situation.In enlarged black letters, it was reported that Mr. Song Yuanju was rescued by Fengtian Hospital and survived, and the revolutionaries of the whole country rejoiced.And now the murderer is unknown, but he resolutely disregarded his personal safety, electrified the whole country, and planned to go south to Beijing while dragging his seriously ill body. He will put aside his personal grievances and continue to discuss the constitutional plan.In order to quell the anger of the public and to shirk responsibility (the original words of the report), the President Zhao Bingxing and the current Prime Minister resigned.

The newspaper also published a photo of Song Yuanju who was very fragile on the hospital bed, and Yu Zuotang was by his side at that time.He watched Mr. take off his suit and put on a hospital gown to lie down.In this "assassination", only he was informed by the husband as a close friend and participated in the whole process of the whole thing.At the train station that night after the banquet, in order to confuse people in the dark, he was standing next to the fake Mr. Song.

Soon old friends came upstairs. Wu Shunyu took the newspaper in his hand, glanced at it, and laughed loudly: "I got the newspaper early this morning and saw this, and immediately found friends and laughed for 3 minutes. Mr. Song Ji People have their destiny, and the Republic of China is hopeful! It is really a happy event! You Li asked me to have a meal together to celebrate."

Yu Zuotang only smiled and nodded, and then said: "Tomorrow I will go south with my husband, and this time I want to say goodbye to you all." Strictly speaking, Wu Shunyu and the others are people in the literary and art circles, although they also know revolutionaries and Provided support when necessary, but did not join the party after all.If Mr. Song hadn't come to Fengtian to have a secret talk with Ye Honghu this time, I'm afraid this group of old friends wouldn't be able to get together.The matter was naturally completed perfectly. Although there was an assassination, the people behind the scenes must have stolen chickens and made money. Fengtian played tricks and tricks, which caused the reputation of Song Yuanju's hostile camp to plummet, and our morale is booming!

Wu Shunyu and the others ordered a jug of wine to bid farewell to their friends.The wine was served, and the food was just served.

The rest of the food was already delicious that everyone had eaten many times, except for the big plate of bacon that was served at the end.After 24 days of marinating, the cured duck is cut into two pieces from the back with a knife, and then steamed and chopped into slices of the same size. The duck slices are red and yellow, and the skin is wrinkled after being dried , that is the imprint of time reincarnation.

Die approached Wu Shunyu, with a righteous look on his face, he said to his friends: "This is a new dish, don't worry, everyone, let me taste it for you?"

The other gentlemen immediately attacked them, they were all delicious people, who would be deceived by him and let him go there first.

A large plate of cured duck slices and a few pairs of chopsticks are gone, and half of them are gone. Many of them picked up two or three yuan at one go, and they seem to be very aware of the temperament of old friends around them.

The duck skin in the mouth has a peculiar burnt smell, and the duck meat is unexpectedly soft and salty, without the feeling of dryness and stagnation.Even bones can be sucked with relish.The cured duck slices are a bit salty to eat alone, and they are just right with the vermicelli soup. Yu Zuotang has a quick eye and a few extra pieces.

"When do you think this Youfenglaiju can open one in Shanghai? If we eat too much food here, what will we do when we go back?" The gentlemen who had enough to eat and drink began to worry about their future food. This time, in addition to being invited to a dinner for friendship, it was also to write a press release.Seeing that the bi-monthly "New Life" is about to be published, there are materials and big names, and Mr. Song has met again, so it can be imagined that the sales in the second half of the month will be very impressive.Their manuscript was finalized early on, and they stayed in Fengtian just to eat a few more days of Fenglaiju's meal.

Yu Zuotang comforted them and said: "According to the hot situation of Mr. Lin's hotel, it may not be long."

Bing Lebai, deputy editor-in-chief of "New Life", is an absolute fan of Chinese food. He mocked: "The restaurants in Shanghai are dominated by foreigners now, tsk tsk, they should come and see the food in real high-end Chinese restaurants. This This is the essence of Chinese food. We talk about Westernization all day long, so why don’t we also have an operation on the stomach and replace it with a foreigner’s stomach?”

Another musician friend, Qiu Zhengzhang, partly agreed with his statement, but also put forward his own views, "But we should not completely look down on other people's things. In some places, it is indeed necessary for China to abandon some old and harmful Chinese traditions. , For example, isn’t the blind marriage with bound feet and braids the backwardness?”

Yu Shiwen, a writer friend, agreed with Qiu Zhengzhang’s words: “You must have read the newspapers. At the beginning of the year, the provisional government issued a series of decrees, requiring all localities to abolish the ceremony of reading scriptures and kneeling to Confucius in primary schools. One of them can be deleted according to the local education situation. Textbooks. The hornet's nest was blown up at once, and those old-school people have established so-called Confucian churches and respecting Confucian churches in various places. Even the original proposal of "natural selection, survival of the fittest" and "the world must advance, Yan Gong, who made deafening declarations like "the future is better than the present", announced the establishment of the Confucian Association.If they are as stubborn as they are, completely ignoring the tide of history and just blindly going back to the past, wouldn't it be perverse? "

Gentlemen are gentlemen, and they can rise to the level of academic discussion after a meal. Everyone feels that the other party's words are reasonable, but they cannot completely convince each other.Lin Weirui, who just stepped into the lobby, was arrested as a judge.

Lin Weirui didn't want to pay attention to them at all, and he was not a liberal arts student. Unless it involved ancient recipes, he was completely unfamiliar with issues such as history and philosophy.But the crowd refused to let him go, and he couldn't send someone to beat them all out, so he had no choice but to stay.

But after listening to their dispute, he was speechless, and said in a contemptuous tone, "What have you learned about the principle of 'what is and is not born, what is difficult and what is easy, what is good and what is short, and what is superior and what is inferior'. In this case, just 'take whichever Essence, discard the dross' isn't everyone happy. Why do you have to distinguish between the superior and the inferior? Anyone who goes to extremes will suffer evil results."

Bing Lebai clapped his fists, and said with a shameful smile: "What a 'take the essence and discard the dross', Mr. Lin thinks more clearly than us! Such a simple truth, but everyone here is blinded by the situation in front of us. If you close your eyes, you can't treat them with a fair attitude only because you are in the mountains. Western learning has its merits, and we must learn aspects that are beneficial to our society; The essence lies in the fact that Chinese studies cannot be completely negated. Is this the critical inheritance that foreigners have learned?” He used English for the last two phrases because he could not find a suitable Chinese translation.

Lin Weirui simply translated for others in order to escape earlier, "That is the meaning of critical inheritance in Chinese."

After thinking about it, other people also expressed their support for adopting a critical attitude towards China and the West. Later, this refutation of the study of China and the West and Lin Weirui's remarks were published on the front page of the second issue of "New Life" in March, which aroused great social repercussions . "Taking the essence and discarding the dross" has become a new word that everyone knows, but it made Lin Weirui's name famous, and it was also an unintentional insertion.

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At the end of March, in a secret club in Beiping, Ye Honghu, who was forced to "go on a business trip" due to work, sat in the middle, surrounded by a group of well-dressed gentlemen, regardless of whether they were wearing long robes and jackets or suits and top hats, they were all fine people.Every piece of decoration in the house is something that has been on for many years. They listened to the ditties comfortably, drank the top-quality Biluochun, and there were even several people serving them.

However, the faces of the people surrounded by the crowd didn't look like they were indulging in enjoyment. Unlike the others, there wasn't a single waiter around him. He leaned on the back of the sofa with a blank expression and an unpredictable expression.

Ye Honghu only felt that his mouth was tasteless, the famous tea in the world was nothing more than this, it couldn't compare to the top quality tea made by his husband.He also listened to the babbling ditty that he couldn't utter a word for a long time, only felt the noise in his ears, wishing to fly back to Fengtian to listen to his daughter-in-law singing.

Ye Honghu, who was full of longing for his wife and had nowhere to vent, impatiently gave the eviction order: "Let them all go out."

Holding a girl in one hand, Cao Kunqian, who squinted his eyes and followed the rhythm of the ditty, took a look at him, smiled and rudely pushed away the people around him, "Men are going to talk about business, all go out, and the last one closes the door."

When the people went out, he said with an evil smile: "Could it be that Marshal Ye has a beautiful wife hidden in his home, so he can't look down on these vulgar fans. If this news is released, I'm afraid those people will line up to wait for the Marshal to come down." The nobles and ladies hired are crying and breaking their hearts!"

All the gentlemen gave a good-natured smile to save face, and only Ye Honghu here has not yet married.They are all men with status and status. They are socializing outside, and there are more dramas on the occasion. Most of the gentlemen don’t take it seriously. It is the norm to have wives and concubines in groups at home, and colorful flags fluttering outside.According to their words, they don't have many confidante, which seems shameless, as if women are their gorgeous clothes, people must wear clothes, and they can't just wear the same clothes all day long.

The corner of Ye Honghu's mouth curled up into an unruly smile, with a contemptuous look on his face, "Three thousand weak waters, is it possible that the commander-in-chief can't take a ladle of his favorite drink?"

It is natural for everyone to say.Yes, the situation is like this, but there are also some people in the community who are clean and self-conscious or have a tigress at home, but they are unwilling or unable to mess around outside, and they only wear one piece of clothing all day long.People like this are really different, and if they were changed to normal life, most of them would be excluded from the social circle, but who has the courage to laugh at Ye Honghu and Marshal Ye who only like to wear one piece of clothing?So what if people don't like to wear clothes?Fengtian Marshal Ye likes to wear a piece of clothing, then he becomes a loyal one that everyone praises, and no one dares to question it.

Power, that's what it is.

Naturally, this group of big shots didn't come to listen to Xiaoqu when they got together.Regardless of who instigated this assassination, the situation of who is weaker and who is stronger has already been created.

March, spring and Jingming.Song Yuanju, the leader of the party, successfully united the parties and held a constitutional assembly with the hope of the whole country.As long as the official constitution of the Republic of China is freshly released, the next president and cabinet will be elected.Now it seems that even if President Yuan will not step down because of the previous agreement between the revolutionaries and Yuan Datou, his rights will be greatly weakened in the new constitution.

After the storm, we ushered in a rare sunny day in the Republic of China.