Little wealth

The two walked through the long street and stopped in front of a house.

Sun Nian went forward and knocked on the door, and after a short while, someone came to open the door for them. He turned around and said to the little brother who was following him, "Brother, let's go in."

"What is this place?" Fu Siran found the difference as soon as he entered the house. It seemed that the house had been fully furnished, but it didn't look like a house where people lived.

Could it be that the boy bought a house outside?

But Hou's mansion is so big, he knew that the young man couldn't live alone, and he ran outside to build some kind of house, even if he built it, he wouldn't be able to live in it, Fu Siran thought in his heart, he didn't think it was like this place.

The two followed the person who led the way and continued to move forward.

Sun Nian kept a mysterious smile on his face, and reminded again: "Brother, take a closer look."

When the door of the house was pushed open and he saw the table and the copper pot inside, Fu Siran finally understood what the house was for. He turned to look at the young man in surprise, and asked, "Is it ?”

"It's just what you think. I want to give you a surprise, how about it? It's not bad? Do you like it here? It just so happens that we are all free today. I invite you to come here for the first hot pot meal." Sun Nian invited someone Go and sit down, there is a copper pot on the table, the bottom of the pot is already cooking, and the table is full of various meat dishes.

This house is their newly opened hot pot restaurant. Their family has opened several barbecue and hot pot restaurants in Anyang and Lucheng over the years, and their business is doing very well.Before their family also thought of opening a store in Kyoto, it was only because his father and father mainly lived in Anyang over the years, and it was inconvenient to manage opening a store here, so their family's business was mainly in Anyang and Over there in Lucheng.

The properties in the capital are all properties of the Pingyuan Hou Mansion, and they are still in the hands of his uncle.His own uncle wanted to let him manage it, but he was still young in the past few years, and he was a little older in the past few years, and he has been busy studying and taking scientific examinations, so this matter has been pushed and pushed, and finally The family's father and uncle discussed it, and let him take over the properties of the Hou Mansion after he passes away.

But this house was his uncle's birthday gift to him last year, so he thought it would be better to do something instead of sitting idle, so he thought of opening a hot pot restaurant. He looks happy to eat hot pot once.At that time, he thought that if he was allowed to open a restaurant by himself, if he wanted to open a restaurant, he would think of opening a hot pot restaurant that his little brother liked.

"Brother, please sit down." Sun Nian went up to pull out the chair for the person himself, and asked the person to sit down, before he walked around the table and returned to his seat.If there is something wrong with eating hot pot, it is probably because the table is too big. If he brings his little brother over next time, he will have to get someone to change him to a smaller table!

He asked people to prepare the mandarin duck pot, mainly because he liked the name, mandarin duck... as soon as he heard the name, it was a couple, just like him and his little brother.

"When did you prepare this place? Why don't I know?" Fu Siran looked around the room after sitting down, and saw that there were tables and chairs outside, separated by a screen, through which he seemed to be able to see the inside There is a tea table.

"Hey, this is a surprise I prepared for you little brother. Is there any surprise?" Sun Nian dare not say when he prepared it here. Something, must be angry with him.

Fu Siran counted the time, and probably knew that this person must have started preparing for this place after he went to Kyoto to prepare for the exam at the end of last year, otherwise he would not have opened the place when there were the most students in Kyoto, and missed so many good things in vain. Business.

But he still nodded and said, "I'm a little surprised." What surprised me was that this younger brother opened a shop while preparing for the exam, and even won the first name of Chunwei. It seems that the scientific examination is an easy job for young people .

"...Why is it a surprise and not a surprise?" Sun Nian seemed dissatisfied with this answer.

"How do you want to surprise me?" Fu Siran raised his eyebrows, looked at the boy and asked.

"...No, let's move our chopsticks quickly, the soup will be gone in a while." Sun Nian quickly changed the subject, not daring to let his little brother grab his braid, otherwise he would be the one who will suffer later up.

The bottom of the soup in the copper pot is already boiling fast, and the charcoal underneath is burning very vigorously, so the soup in the pot is boiling.

"You all go down, we can come here by ourselves." Sun Nian let the person standing by the side go down, and he came to serve his little brother himself. Knowing that the little brother likes to eat beef and spicy pot, he put the beef in the Cook in a spicy pot.

He didn't ask people to close the door of the house. Anyway, there were only the two of them and the people in the house. They were all his own people, so it didn't matter if they were seen.And he also thought that his little brother was a brother, and if outsiders knew that he was alone in the same room with a man, it might damage his little brother's reputation.So even though he likes his little brother, for so many years he has always been in love with him, not daring to do anything wrong with his little brother, even when they get along with each other, they will let one person stay in the room guarded.

But this time it was at his own place, and he wanted to spend some time alone with his little brother, so he didn't keep anyone in the house to guard him.

Sun Nian is quite proficient in serving people. He has taken care of the three younger brothers in the family since they were young, and they often eat hot pot at home. He is already very proficient in how to cook meat and how long to cook it.

The beef was sliced ​​very thin, so it cooked faster. Sun Nian picked up a few slices of beef with chopsticks and put them on the spoon. Come up and pour it into the little brother's bowl, "Come on, brother, eat it, this beef is so tender. I sent someone to kill a cow on Zhuangzi today, and I even sent some to the palace." He said it in a low voice, because he was afraid that the partition wall had ears.

Of course, he asked the butler grandpa to send someone to secretly send them in. Otherwise, if the ministers knew that the emperor took the lead in eating beef, then not only would the emperor be impeached by the censor, but even his reputation as Huiyuan would not be preserved. , At that time, let alone marrying the younger brother in the exam for the number one scholar.

Since Emperor Taizu came to the throne in Daliang, the central government has issued an order prohibiting the killing of farming cattle. Every cattle is recorded in the government. Except for cattle that die of disease and old age, strong cattle cannot be killed. .Of course, some folks also secretly raised cattle and killed those who ate meat. As long as someone wanted to eat it, someone would kill the cattle.

Their cattle were secretly raised on the Zhuangzi, and of course the cattle they killed were not farm cattle, but beef cattle that his father had asked them to find from other places.Earlier, his father sent someone to send a few calves to the Zhuangzi here in the capital to raise them, just for the convenience of killing them for meat.

So a few days ago, he received the news from the shopkeeper here, saying that all the houses here have been taken care of, so he sent someone to kill a beef cow and send it over on this day.

Seeing the little brother put a piece of meat into his mouth, Sun Nian asked expectantly, "Is it delicious?"

"Well, it's delicious." The beef in the mouth was extremely tender, and Fu Siran knew from the first bite that it was not an old or sick cow, but a healthy and strong cow, otherwise the beef wouldn't be so delicious.But when he saw the boy cooking beef for him with the first chopsticks, he asked in surprise, "How do you know I like to eat this?"

"Hmph, I know." Sun Nian was so proud that he could remember everything his brother liked and anything he didn't like.

He knew from a long time ago that his brother liked to eat beef. At that time, his father made beef jerky, and his little brother ate it very deliciously.Later, they ate hot pot together, and that time there was also beef. He remembered that the little brother ate a lot, so he always remembered what the little brother liked to eat.

Fu Siran took a closer look, only to find that the table was almost full of his favorite meat, and a smile appeared on his face.Seeing that the boy was busy cooking for him, he smiled and said, "Sit down and eat too. Don't worry about me. If I want to eat, I can come by myself." In fact, he wanted the people waiting outside to come in and help cook. , but seeing the young man doing it so happily, he didn't let anyone in.

So to put it bluntly, he himself likes spending time alone with the boy, and they actually don't spend much time alone together.Even when they played together when they were young, a group of servants followed them to take care of them, not to mention that when he grew up, he also realized that he was a brother and could no longer get along with his younger brothers like he did when he was a child.

"I also ate." In order to show that he was also eating, Sun Nian poured the rest of the meat into his own bowl, and added the meat to cook again.But let alone, this meat is really delicious.

The two people in the back ordered duck intestines, tripe, beef balls, etc., as well as various fresh mushrooms and vegetables, all of which Fu Siran likes to eat.

Of course, it's not that Sun Nian doesn't like it, it's just that this spicy pot is a bit too spicy.

The tastes of the two people eating together are a bit different. Fu Siran has been able to eat spicy food since he was a child, while Sun Nian has been particularly incapable of eating spicy food since he was a child. He remembers that he cried when he ate spicy food for the first time. The stuff is a bit messy.But today, in order to eat hot pot with my little brother, the clear pot next to me was hardly used, and the two of them ate this spicy pot together.

Huhu——

But really spicy!

After a few bites, Sun Nian couldn't take it anymore, so he hurriedly filled two big cups with tea, and then continued eating.