In the years of ancient traders
Chapter 71 The First Pot of Gold
"do not want!"
Wu Shichang shouted, but it was too late.
The fuse was already on fire, the gun was thrown out, and a tiny flame flashed across an arc.
Outside the hot pot restaurant, there is a crowded crowd.
"Get down!" Someone yelled.
Wu Shichang had seen the power of the gangster before, so he got down on the ground in response, and the others also fell down one after another.
The expected bang did not come.
"Did it explode?"
"It seems not yet."
"What about?"
Wu Shichang rushed to the window to see that everyone had been evacuated outside Song Ji's enclosure. There were only slides, swings and seesaws on the grass, and there were no traces of the gangsters.
"Where is it?" Wu Shichang couldn't find it everywhere, and even ran down bravely, searching around carefully.
The bomb that was about to explode was gone!
"Did it get picked up by a passing bird?"
"Silly X, it will explode even if it is carried away, and now it doesn't even make a sound!"
Song Anan ordered people to tie shopkeeper Li up, and glanced at Song Shu, who was standing aside from beginning to end.
Song Shu breathed a sigh of relief, time stood still in his space, as long as he didn't take out the gun, that thing would always maintain a state of being about to explode.
He really didn't dare to let it disappear under the eyes of everyone just now.Now, □□ disappeared after it was out of everyone's sight. No one can tell what happened in it, so let it be an unsolved case.
"Yin Min, you little bastard!" Song Shu here breathed a sigh of relief, when he heard a few thuds on the stairs, a burly middle-aged man rushed down from upstairs, pointing at Song Anan and shouting.
Song Anan's expression was calm, he knew that Aye was up there, and he wasn't panic when he saw him now.
Fortunately, Song Shu was smart and had already guessed his identity, otherwise he would not know how to deal with Aye's sudden appearance.
"General." As soon as Yin Rong appeared, his own soldiers immediately stepped forward to report and briefed him what happened in a low voice.
Yin Rong glanced at Shopkeeper Li who was tied up by Wuhuada: "Take him back and let Yin Heng interrogate himself."
"Yes." The soldiers cupped their hands, and immediately two people stepped forward, one from the left and the other from the right, and brought up shopkeeper Li, and took him downstairs.Yin Rong told several other people to go to the yard to search carefully for the missing gun.
After Shopkeeper Li was taken away, the atmosphere froze for a moment.
Yin Rong's personal soldiers all went down to look for them, and Wu Shichang and others didn't receive any instructions from Song Shu or Anan, but simply cleaned up the messed up counters.
And the father and son stood at both ends of the second floor of the shopping mall, confronting each other silently, pulling everyone's nerves up.
Song Shu sized Yin Rong's eyes. Judging from his appearance, it was 100% original and made in China, so Anan's mixed blood characteristics should come from his mother.
Wu Shichang was sweating in his heart. He heard that General Yin's method of educating his son was very rough. When their little general was mischievous when he was six years old, he was sentenced to military law.Now that he has been away from home for two years and has not returned, he was suddenly arrested, and he does not know how he will be punished.
A few guys went upstairs. They had just seen the troublemaker Li shopkeeper being dragged out. Now they boldly came up, and the upstairs was eerily quiet.
They are in contact with customers every day, and they know how to read words and expressions best.
The reason why this atmosphere is weird seems to be because of their manager Nan and that burly man.
The burly man seemed very angry, and stared at Guanshi Nan fiercely.
Nan Guan was very calm.
That's right, they heard from the people in the bean oil workshop that their Guanshi Nan is invincible in the army. Although the most powerful little general is not there, he is already very powerful!
They are so powerful in Nanguan, they must not be afraid of this burly man.
"Go back with me!" Yin Rong said.
Song Anan turned his head: "No."
Yin Rong's eyebrows trembled, and he almost drew his sword.
The personal guards immediately came up to him, and whispered into his ear: "General, the Eldest Young Master said that the young general will take the soft but not the hard."
The eldest son is right, why did I forget!
Yin Rong thought to himself, he adjusted his expression, walked towards Song Anan, lowered his voice and said, "Xiao Min, go home with Aye."
Song Anan really didn't refuse this time, he subconsciously glanced at Song Shu, Song Shu smiled gently, and mouthed: "Go."
"En." Song Anan nodded, reluctantly following Yin Rong.
"What did that person just say?"
"Aye? That's Aye, who is in charge of Nan? He looks so strong."
"The man was still carrying a sword. He looked really scary."
Several Song Ji guys gathered together and said in a low voice.
Yin Rong's soldiers were about to leave, when they heard those people's discussion, they interrupted with a fake cough: "Don't talk about the general." Afterwards, they also went downstairs and left.
"What did he just say?" one of the guys asked, rubbing his ear holes with his middle finger, wondering if he heard it wrong.
"General? The general is Aye who is in charge of the guide?" Another person said.
When he said this, the rest of the people immediately realized what was happening, and they all showed terrified expressions in unison.
——Their steward Nan turned out to be the son of a general.
——Who else can there be generals of this age in Hengzhou City?
——Their steward Nan turned out to be the son of the Jiedushi!
——Looking at his age, I am afraid that he is the young general Yin Min who is the best in martial arts in the world!
Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, their Song Ji was really amazing!
What an amazing host they have!
Several gazes focused on Song Shu, but his face was calm, he clapped his hands and said, "Go and inform all the counters, clean up here, and continue to open the store in the evening."
Song Anan is gone, but the business will continue.
Wu Shichang's team is still there, helping to clean up the mess.
In the evening, Songji Shopping Center was open as usual, and the episode at noon did not cause any casualties. Although there were discussions among the common people, it did not cause a big splash.
"I heard that something happened at the hotpot restaurant at noon. Are you okay?" Song Shu came home in the evening, and Sanniang happened to come back from the workshop outside the city, so she asked him when she saw him.
"It's okay, sister, don't worry." Song Shu said, smiling a little forcedly.
"Where's Anan?" Sanniang asked again.
The fact that Song Anan was the son of the Jiedu envoy was known only to a few of Song Ji's staff, and it had not been reported yet.
"He's home." Song Shu didn't say much.
"His family is in Hengzhou City?" Sanniang was surprised, she had never heard Anan talk about his family before.
Song Shu let out a "huh" and was not very energetic.The dinner was very sumptuous, but he was full after only moving a few chopsticks, so he got into his room and planned to have an early rest.The sweet potatoes from Xianghe Village will arrive tomorrow, and he will have to work for several days in a row.
On the small table in the room, there was still a candlestick, on which a half-burned candle was twisted, and the candle's tears froze half way through.
Song Shu was a little sleepy, took out the lighter from the space, and walked to the table.
click-
The lighter was lit, and the red and blue flames flickered in the pitch black.
He's gone, I still have to light some candles.
Song Shu laughed at himself.
Anan's fear of the dark was just an excuse, and he knew it well.It's just that he didn't tell the truth, so he didn't mention a word.After a long time, I developed the habit of sleeping with candles every night.
Putting away the lighter, Song Shu took off his coat and climbed to the upper bunk.
He rolled the quilt into his arms and fell asleep.
When the next day was dawn, he had already washed and washed, and led the horse out of the Song residence.
Recently, he is often busy with shopping malls, so he doesn't go to the workshop much.His family's sweet potatoes had been harvested in the past two days, and Song He had stayed in Xianghe Village for several days, and he would come here today with the harvested sweet potatoes.
Song Shu rode a horse, walked out of the south gate along the street, and soon came to his family's workshop.
The crowd lined up loosely in the open space, and the hey-ha sounds came out neatly, huddling together, as if they wanted to overthrow the day.
Song Shu dismounted, and immediately someone came to lead the horse away for him.
So many people punched at the same time, and each punch set off a buzzword. Song Shu wanted to listen for a while on a whim, so he walked around the team.
Although these people lined up loosely, they all faced one direction.Usually, the direction they are facing is Song Anan who is leading the fist.
I don't know who it is today.Song Shu looked in that direction.
I saw that the leader was not tall, judging by the width of his shoulders, he seemed to be about half his size.
Song Shu quickened his pace and almost ran over.
"Why are you here?" Song Shu blurted out.
Song Anan punched out, and then stopped.
Wu Shichang who was behind led the punch for him, and Song Anan walked towards Song Shu.
"Didn't you go home?" Song Shu realized that he was too loud just now, and now he tried to maintain a normal volume and asked.
"Well, I'm back." Song Anan said.
After he, Aye, took him back yesterday, there were almost three interrogations.
Fortunately, his elder brother reacted quickly and hurried over with Yin Lian. As soon as Aye saw his lovely granddaughter, most of his anger dissipated.
In the end, I just asked a few symbolic questions, but I was not very excited.
"He's not angry anymore?" Song Shu was suspicious. General Yin's behavior yesterday clearly made him angry at Song Anan's house, and he could see that he was worried about his son. Why did he let him out like this today? "Did you escape by yourself again?"
"No." Song Anan was categorical. He was aboveboard this time, and he only came out with the consent of his father and brother.
"Little bastard." Yin Rong scolded at the Jiedu Ambassador's Mansion in the north of the city.
Yesterday he finally caught his youngest son who hadn't returned for two years, and finally coaxed him back.After returning, he wanted to ask how his son was doing.
However, the little bunny was extremely uncooperative.
Ask him: "What have you been doing for the past two years?"
After thinking for a long time, he spit out two words: "Farming."
Yin Rong was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. The food and drink at home were delicious, and a beautiful woman was sent to serve him, yet he escaped to farm? !
Yin Rong told himself to calm down, but don't scare away the son who just coaxed back.
"You like farming, you can go to Beiying and follow Yuan Lao San, why bother wandering outside, isn't your family bad?" Yin Rong sweated, what if this kid really said that his family was not good?
There is nothing wrong with the family, Song Anan thought, especially since his second brother was away, he could feel much more at ease.
In the beginning, I stayed with the Song family to repay them.Later, it was because I was worried.After Song Shu came back, their business grew step by step, and there seemed to be nothing to worry about, but he was reluctant to leave, even afraid that Song Shu would know his background and drive him away.
"No." Song Anan, who had thought a lot, said simply and horrified.
"It's not bad, why don't you go home?" Yin Rong was walking back and forth eagerly like a irascible lion, even his favorite little granddaughter couldn't appease his irritability.
Facing his father's question, Song Anan had to think again.
After thinking about it, Song Shu's face always appeared in front of his eyes.Gentle, sly, and annoyed, it seemed that he filled every moment of these days.
"Song Shu." Song Anan said, because of Song Shu, this was his conclusion.
"Song Shu?" Yin Rong stopped, his thick black eyebrows raised upside down, "Who?"
"Aye, it's..."
"Shut up!" Yin Rong interrupted the eldest son who was trying to smooth things over.
"Yes..." Who is it?Song Anan didn't know how to answer for a while.
He is the owner of Songji Hot Pot Restaurant, his brother in name these days, the person who lives with him under the same roof, the one who makes hot pot and tomato egg noodles for him, the one who loves to call him for everything. The one who would spend one gold to buy him a cart of peppers.
Yin Rong saw that a smile appeared on the face of his serious young son.
The corner of his mouth is turned up, and there is a small dimple on the left cheek, which is exactly the same as his mother's smile.
"That's all." Yin Rong was instantly discouraged.
Since this kid can't stay at home, it's better to go out and have a look, so as not to spend the whole day practicing kung fu or military training.
In the end, Yin Rong only asked Song Anan to go home and visit the barracks often, so he let him go.
It was already late at that time, Song Anan hadn't returned for many years, thinking about staying overnight at home, Yin Rongben was quite relieved, but this morning, Song Anan didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he jumped over the wall and ran away.
"Little bastard!" Yin Rong scolded.
Song He took the lead and entered the boundary of Songji Workshop.Followed by several carts of sweet potatoes, a total of fourteen to five hundred catties.
"A bumper harvest! This sweet potato is really high-yield, and the least family has harvested tens of catties more. Besides ours, there are several other families that have harvested thousands of catties." Song He got off his horse neatly, and went to Song Shu and Anan. walk.
"The well cellar has been cleaned up, brother let everyone put the sweet potatoes there first." Song Shu said. More than 1000 catties of sweet potatoes is not too much, but it is not a lot, and it can do many things.
The early punches were over, and the others were moving sweet potatoes, and those who were going to start work, but Song Anan didn't leave, and asked Song Shu, "What are you doing?"
"Do you remember the hot and sour noodles you ate?" Song Shu asked.
"Yeah." Anan nodded, forgetting which time, Song Shu asked him to do extra work, so he gave him a pack of home-cooked hot and sour noodles.There were also peppers in it, so after buying the peppers, he thought that Song Shu would also make this, but unfortunately he didn't do it for a long time, which made him disappointed for a long time.
"Let's do this first." Song Shu said, he has already vacated two workshops in the workshop, dedicated to making sweet potato flour, "You go and call some people to wash two hundred catties of sweet potatoes first."
Without further ado, Song Anan went immediately.
The workers picked up water, poured it into the pre-built pool, and began to wash the sweet potatoes.
"Boss, what are you going to do with these sweet potatoes?" Someone asked when Song Shu passed by.
"Use it as a fan." Song Shu said.One hundred catties of sweet potatoes can produce about seventeen or eight catties of vermicelli, which consumes a lot of food, but it is delicious.
"What are fans?"
"Don't you make potato chips and French fries like last time?" The person who asked this question came from Xianghe Village with the Song family, and had personally experienced the grand occasion when sweet potatoes were first discovered.
"You can also make some, but there are more ways to eat vermicelli. Boiled pork slices, cold salad, stewed salted fish, or put them in a vegetable pot are all delicious, and the hot and sour vermicelli that you Nan Guanshi likes to eat is also made of sweet potato vermicelli. .” Song Shu said.
The sweet potato washing workers couldn't help but glance at Anan, and Anan was also squatting by the pool washing the sweet potatoes. Hearing Song Shu's words, his ears turned red.
It must be because of this that he refused to leave at the beginning.
Song Shu can always tempt him with all kinds of delicacies, which makes him lose his self-control, and obediently works for him every time.
After washing the sweet potatoes, Song Shu had someone throw them into a stone mill for grinding.
Two hundred catties of sweet potatoes was a lot, even if the two stone mills started working at the same time, they were still grinding until noon.
Before noon, there was a long queue at Songji restaurant. It was right next to the pipeline, and a long line of people could be seen lined up along the official road from a distance, which was very spectacular.
The stone mill is not far from the restaurant, and people in line can see it, so someone asked loudly, "But you're grinding noodles?"
"No, it's grinding sweet potatoes!" One of the noodle grinders replied loudly.
sweet potato?
Most of the people queuing up are residents inside and outside Hengzhou City, who are still very unfamiliar with the word sweet potato.
But there are also people who often come and go to explain to them, especially the grand occasion of sweet potato auction in Xianghe Village that day.
"Two pieces cost 820 Wen? My dear, this is too expensive!"
"It would be great if we could find sweet potatoes in the mountains here."
"It's just a kind of grain, why is it so expensive? Rice doesn't charge so much."
"That's not what you said. You know that the yield of this golden fruit is extremely high, and one mu of land can produce forty or fifty stones!" the man said again.
"Four, five... ten stones?"
Those who heard this were all dumbfounded.
They all have farming land in their family. It is good enough that one mu of land can produce more than one stone of grain. Even if there is fertile soil by the river, two stones is the limit.This year the barracks got very high-yielding millet seeds, and they bought some of them. It is said that if the millet seeds are sown, an acre of land can produce five or six stones.
Five or six stones!
If they didn't know Yuan Duwei's character, they would definitely not believe his words.
But now there are people who say wildly that this kind of fruit can produce forty or fifty stones per mu of land?
I'm afraid I'm not crazy!
"Really, I just came from Datu County. Many people in Xianghe Village grow sweet potatoes, and each plant can bear a dozen or so fruits, which is a lot!"
"Really?" The man spoke so confidently that some people believed it.
"Of course it is true." The man said, "I bought some on a special trip to save the seeds. Our family will also grow sweet potatoes in the coming year. With such high-yield grains, we will never be afraid of starvation again!"
Speaking of this, the few people listening suddenly stopped asking.
They looked at each other and thought to themselves, should they grow some of such good food?
"Why don't we ask?" Someone suggested.
Another person even yelled directly: "Hey - do you sell these sweet potatoes?"
"Aren't you tired from shouting so far away?" A young man asked, immediately stepped out of the queue and headed to the stone mill for grinding sweet potatoes.He can see that Song Shu, Song Ji's boss, is also here, so he has to seize the opportunity.
"Of course my sweet potatoes are for sale, but like Xianghe Village, they are auctioned." Song Shu said, "In the morning of the next day, I will take out about [-] catties of sweet potatoes for auction."
"Really? What is this auction?" the young man asked.
A few more people followed his lead and ran over, asking around Song Shu.
"Come, come, let me tell you." Pang Liulang took over the conversation and took them to the other side. "I watched the entire sweet potato auction last time. If you have any questions, just ask me."
"Tell me what this auction is first?"
"How much money do we have to prepare?"
"Why the morning after tomorrow, can't I buy it earlier?"
Auctions are common in Datu County, but people in Hengzhou City have never seen them.
Pang Liulang has a loud voice, speaks fast, and never gets bored. He can repeat a question many times.
Originally, there were only five or six people around him, but there were a lot of people queuing outside the restaurant at noon, people kept coming over, and they all understood the benefits of this sweet potato, so they also asked about the auction.
With his repeated explanations like this, more and more people understand the benefits of sweet potatoes, and more and more people know about the auction.
These people go back home and talk about it.
Siping Village, Wu'an Village, Liuhe Village on the outskirts of the city, the southwest corner of the city, Beicheng District... and other places have heard of the benefits of sweet potatoes.There are quite a few families living in the city who also have land. Like the farmers, they also want to increase the yield of their land.
"We have to wait until the morning of the next day." Two people queuing at a fried dough stick stand in the city said.
"I have to go home and prepare more money. I heard that in Xianghe Village, the two can be sold for more than 800 Wen!"
"Hey, more than 800 Wen is still good. I heard that some sold more than usual!" The stall owner of the fried dough sticks stall also interjected, obviously also concerned about the sweet potato auction.
Even those big families in the north of the city were discussing the sweet potato auction.
"Go and tell Song Silang that he wants all those sweet potatoes, and sell them at any auction, he's so petty!" A certain lord was a straightforward man, and said to the housekeeper in a calm manner.
"Master, I'm afraid this won't work. I heard that the Shen family has sent someone to ask about it, and Song Silang said it won't work."
"The Shen family? The Shen family is very polite, of course not, you can find a few strong nurses to go with you, and if you scare him, you will agree!"
"This...Master, General Yin's youngest son is shaking there. If you give me a hundred courage, I won't dare to make trouble!"
"What?!" The old man took a sip of tea, coughing until his face turned red.
Little General Yin has come back and is still watching the scene in the Song family workshop?That killing god is not easy to mess with, behind him are Mr. Yin, Mr. Yin and Old General Yin, all of whom are too tall to be messed with.
Having said that, what is the origin of this surname Song, and Yin Min is willing to condescend to show him the situation?
"You go to take pictures in person in the morning of the next day," the master said to the housekeeper, "no, no, master, I will go in person, and you prepare money and silk for me, and then prepare some gifts. The relationship between the Song family and the Yin family is not ordinary. .”
After Song Ji's incident happened yesterday, the news that Yin Jiedushi's youngest son was Song Jinan's steward gradually spread in the city.At the beginning, only a few people knew about it, but gradually it spread more and more widely, and spread faster and faster, almost to the point where everyone knows it.
Song Anan didn't seem to know that someone was looking at him, so he stood tall and asked someone to pour water into the grated sweet potatoes, while he dutifully stirred with a big wooden stick.
"The little general is stirring sweet potatoes?"
"Shh, don't be overheard."
"So what, he used to grind flour, farm the land, and dig ice in Xianghe Village!"
"Shhhhhh, the little general is here, let's go to work!"
As expected, the gossip went through extraordinarily fast.Early this morning, almost no one in the city knew about it, but it was only past noon, and the news had already spread to the streets.Hearing those people's comments, Song Shu was very helpless. What's the matter with farming and grinding flour? He even pinched his legs and shoulders!
After the pulping was completed, Song Anan followed Song Shu's instructions and ordered the staff to pour the sweet potato pulp into a bag made of fine gauze, filter it into a large tank, and add water while filtering until the starch was filtered out.
"Then let it sit and wait for it to settle." Song Shu said, "It's getting late today, so just filter it all out, and wait until tomorrow to skim the vat and leak the powder."
"Come on!" said the workers.
"Thank you for your hard work." Song Shu said to Anan.They were surrounded by crowds today, which made him a little embarrassed. He seems to be overqualified for the dignified little general to make sweet potato flour. "Let's go back and get you French fries."
Song Shu hooked Anan's neck and pulled him home.
Sanniang had already gone back by car.Song Shu and Song He each have a horse, and Song Anan is walking.Song He originally wanted to give up his horse to Song Anan, but who knew that Song Anan stepped on another horse neatly, and stretched out his hand to Song Shu: "Come up."
According to Song Anan's thinking, Song Shu's riding skills are so good, he should sit in front of him and let him control the reins.
However, he never expected that he was not tall enough!
Finally, Song Shu sat behind him, hugged his waist and shouted: "Drive!"
Song Anan: "..."
The sweet potatoes in the barracks were also harvested, Yin Rong was very happy, and ate two extra steamed buns at night.
"The steamed buns in this Songji restaurant are delicious! You can ask Xiao Min another day. If he knows how to make them, he can teach Yuan Laosan to improve the food for the soldiers in the camp." Yin Rong said, taking off another big piece The buns were stuffed into his mouth.
"I'll ask another day." Yin Heng said, taking a sip of corn porridge slowly.
"This beer duck is good, no wonder that brat refuses to come back!" Yin Rong said.After knowing that his youngest son was in Song Ji, Yin Rong asked his subordinates a lot about Song Ji, and in the evening, he asked the kitchen staff to buy many dishes from his restaurant and taste them, they were really delicious.
Yin Heng smiled without saying a word.
Why did he stay in Song's house? I'm afraid that Xiao Min himself hasn't figured it out yet. Although he is a bystander, he doesn't like to intervene too much.It's just that the last time the second younger brother disclosed his habit of breaking his sleeves, the family was full of chaos.
If it happens again, I don't know what will happen to Aye.
Xiao Min's skin is thick and rough, so it's not a problem to be beaten a few times, but don't drive Song Silang away, he's still useful.
Yin Heng figured it out, now that Song Anan's identity is clear, it will be much easier for him to cooperate with the Song family.More importantly, let Aye know the importance of Song Silang, so that he will restrain himself when things happen in the future.
"Aye, the shopkeeper Li has already been interrogated clearly. The two people who came from Qingzhou to pass the message ran away, and the other and the people they arranged in the city to instigate civil uprisings have all been arrested." Yin Heng said.
"What are you going to do?" Yin Rong finished eating the steamed buns, took a sip of corn porridge, and picked up the duck legs.
"Yi'an Zhifang is spread all over the seven states of Yicheng. It is not only Li Youhe's eyes, but also his pocketbook." Yin Heng said.
Few people know how to make paper. With this skill, Li Youhe amassed a lot of money in Yicheng. If paper was not a necessity, he would have thought of a way to drive people away.
"I heard that the Song family has a paper shop?" Yin Rong said.
"Yes, Aye, the Song family's paper workshop will be of great help to clean up Yi'an Paper Workshop," Yin Heng said.
"Understood, you just let go and do it." Yin Rong said, he has always trusted his elder son in these things, "Tell Xiao Min, let him go through the back door to order a few more beer ducks, and I will eat it every day, and I don't know how to bring some back to honor him." His old man."
Yin Heng smiled: "Understood, I will tell Xiao Min."
The sweet potato flour sat overnight and the starch settled.
Song Shu asked people to skim off all the water on the top, use a shovel to produce starch, and heat the water and noodles.This noodle is different from the usual dough. It is liquid, a bit like batter.
After reconciliation, Song Shu brought a leak.
The funnel is made of wood, shaped like a flat-bottomed ladle, but with many holes drilled in the middle.
"You scoop the noodles in like this and let it leak out. The higher you lift, the thinner the leaked strands will be." Song Shu said while demonstrating, "The leaked strands are directly put into hot water and scalded, and then scooped out. Put it into the cooling pool, hang it on the bamboo pole like this after sorting, dry in the shade indoors for half a day, and then take it out to dry for a day."
Leaking out sweet potato flour is a technical job. Song Shu gave the leaker to one of the workers. This worker is usually known for his meticulousness and strength. After a few tries, he was able to leak out decent sweet potato flour.
"Is there any hot and sour noodles like this?" Song Shu asked Anan.
Anan looked at the long fans that leaked out and nodded.
"Your sword skills are good." Song Shu said suddenly.
Of course, Anan raised his eyebrows.
"How's the knife skills?" Song Shu asked.
Anan: "..."
He didn't practice swordsmanship for cutting vegetables!
Although Chu Ning often comes to the hot pot restaurant in Hengzhou City now, he is too busy to take care of the back kitchens on both sides, and Song Shu is too embarrassed to hire people to do coolies.In the end, he found a cooking woman from Song Ji's restaurant. Although her knife skills were not as good as Chu Ning and the chopping boards in his hotpot restaurant, she could still cut French fries.
Song Shu asked people to mix ground pork and tofu together, add some seasonings such as salt and pepper, and make them into round cakes.Fried on both sides, it is a hamburger steak.
When the hamburger came out of the pan, the sweet potato fries had just been picked up from the pan, and it was served with a glass of cold beer.
Song Shu put the things in front of Song Anan: "Have a taste?"
Song Anan ate a mouthful of hamburger steak. The ground pork with tofu was very tender, and the fried skin was even more fragrant and crispy.He took another bite of the sweet potato fries. The fries were soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. They were also delicious.Have a sip of cold beer at the end, refreshing!
"Delicious!" Song Anan said.
He just took a bite of this thing, and he felt very full, dry and oily, but not greasy.
"Okay." Song Shu clapped his hands, and said to the woman cooking in the nearby restaurant, "I will add this set meal at noon today. It costs [-] yuan a piece, and only sells [-] copies." After finishing speaking, he asked Anan to put The food was taken out, and in the restaurant that was not yet open, it was eaten in a grand manner.
Song Shu sat across from him and also ate some French fries.
"Didn't you have enough for breakfast?" Song Shu asked, the way he was eating seemed to be very hungry.
"I'm full." Song Anan blushed, slowed down, and turned his eyes away, "Don't look."
Song Shu snickered.
It's not just him watching, but everyone passing by on the side of the road is watching.
"Is that the little general and Song Silang?"
"It seems to be, what is the little general eating?"
"Could it be that Song Kee Restaurant has released something new?"
"It smells good."
"It's so fragrant, what can you smell so far away?"
"Song Silang," the bold one asked directly, "What are you eating?"
"Hamburg steak set meal." Song Shu said with a smile, "One burger steak, one sweet potato fries, and a glass of beer. It will be available at Song Kee restaurant today."
"What's a hamburger steak?"
"It's made of pork and fried in oil. It's delicious." Song Shu said.
"It smells so good." The person who spoke stared at Anan, and he felt delicious when he saw how he was eating.
"If you're free at noon, come and have a taste," Song Shu said.
Those people really moved their minds.But when he asked the price, he withdrew his hand.
Fifty Wen!too expensive!
But the sweet potatoes alone can fetch sky-high prices.
The sweet potatoes were just discovered in the mountains behind Xianghe Village last year, and there are not many of them in the world. Those who have sweet potatoes in Xianghe Village also keep their own seeds or sell them as grain seeds, and no one is willing to get them to eat. .
That is to say, Song Ji has such boldness. Yesterday he was making sweet potato noodles, and today he made this hamburger steak set meal. How many melon seeds are there in Song Silang's head that they don't know about?
These people have been eating at Songji recently, and the food in Songji is really different from the restaurants nearby.The hamburger steak launched today is something they have never heard of.
There are a lot of people who think this thing is expensive, but Song Ji has a huge number of customers, so there is always someone who can afford it.There are many rich families who are willing to come to Songji to buy food in order to taste something new. Seeing that the hamburger steak set is very fresh, there are many people who buy a set or two sets.
Only twenty sets were sold out quickly.
"Song Silang, can you still cook this set meal tomorrow? My husband wants to eat it." said the servant of a big family.
"Whatever you do, twenty copies per day, each person is limited to two copies, first come, first served." Song Shu said.
As soon as the words came out, every day at dawn, the lords and wives in the city would send servants and maidservants to line up, and Song Ji's reputation for hamburger steak spread throughout Hengzhou.
"I heard that you have a hamburger steak set meal here, which is very famous?" Yin Heng came to Song Ji's workshop, and immediately a worker who knew him led him to the reception room, and called Song Anan.
The workers of Songji Workshop adapted well to Song Anan's new identity. After all, after he was exposed, he was the same as before. He should work and be in a daze.It's just that these people are still a little at a loss when they think that Mr. Yin is the eldest brother of Guanshi Nan.
"Why are you here?" Song Anan found a stool and sat down without any courtesy.
"Opening the door for business, why does it seem like you want to drive me away?" Yin Heng said.
Song Anan ignored him, and still said: "Why are you here?" Yicheng Qizhou said it was not big, but it was not small. There were many trivial things every day, and he, Aye, had no patience to pay attention to them, all of which were taken care of by his elder brother. He said, he didn't believe that this man had leisure time to go shopping.
"Aye said that the beer duck here is delicious, so you should find a way to open the back door and bring him a few more. The portion is too small and not enough." Yin Heng said, "I looked at the hamburger steak set meal. Not bad, or get a few copies, your niece likes it."
"Let's get down to business." Song Anan said, it's just a few ducks, he's just looking for someone to pass on a message, and it's definitely not for this reason that he came here in person.
"Tsk, you're still so smart. I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for Song Silang, and I've already sent someone to invite you." Yin Heng said.As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, and his personal guard pushed open the door, inviting Song Shu to come in.
Song Shu was not surprised to see that Anan was there, but just said hello to Yin Heng.
"You're welcome, Shiro, we are all our own people." Yin Heng said, bowing his hands in return, and asked Song Shu to sit down, as if he was the master here, "It's good to call me Big Brother Yin from now on."
"Brother Yin's sudden visit must be something important." Song Shu said.
Yin Heng looked at Song Shu, and then at Anan.Even what they said seemed to be withdrawn, but there was a tacit understanding.
"Does Shiro still remember the matter of shopkeeper Li?" Yin Heng said.
"Of course I remember it," Song Shu said.
"You know, Shiro, shopkeeper Li's place is not only aimed at the hot pot restaurant, but also to disturb my entire territory under the jurisdiction of the Yicheng Army." Yin Heng said.
"Of course." Song Shu was not surprised. This kind of suicide attack may be new to the ancients, but he has seen it a lot in the news. "Brother Yin thought of a way to fight back? But you want Anan to go back and help?"
The person behind shopkeeper Li is Li Youhe, who is in charge of the three regions of Qingzhou, and is also a very powerful Jiedu envoy. If the Yin family conflicts with him, it is very likely that they will go to war.
"No." However, Yin Heng shook his head, "I want to cooperate with you."
"Me?" Song Shu was at a loss. He was only doing some daily necessities and catering business, so how could they need his help in their territorial dispute.He didn't do firearms or salt transport or anything like that.
"Song Silang knows that Yi'an Zhifang is not the only one in Hengzhou City, Yicheng has seven states, each of which has a city, and there are many counties where Yi'an Zhifang controls the paper business." Yin Hengdao .
This
Wu Shichang shouted, but it was too late.
The fuse was already on fire, the gun was thrown out, and a tiny flame flashed across an arc.
Outside the hot pot restaurant, there is a crowded crowd.
"Get down!" Someone yelled.
Wu Shichang had seen the power of the gangster before, so he got down on the ground in response, and the others also fell down one after another.
The expected bang did not come.
"Did it explode?"
"It seems not yet."
"What about?"
Wu Shichang rushed to the window to see that everyone had been evacuated outside Song Ji's enclosure. There were only slides, swings and seesaws on the grass, and there were no traces of the gangsters.
"Where is it?" Wu Shichang couldn't find it everywhere, and even ran down bravely, searching around carefully.
The bomb that was about to explode was gone!
"Did it get picked up by a passing bird?"
"Silly X, it will explode even if it is carried away, and now it doesn't even make a sound!"
Song Anan ordered people to tie shopkeeper Li up, and glanced at Song Shu, who was standing aside from beginning to end.
Song Shu breathed a sigh of relief, time stood still in his space, as long as he didn't take out the gun, that thing would always maintain a state of being about to explode.
He really didn't dare to let it disappear under the eyes of everyone just now.Now, □□ disappeared after it was out of everyone's sight. No one can tell what happened in it, so let it be an unsolved case.
"Yin Min, you little bastard!" Song Shu here breathed a sigh of relief, when he heard a few thuds on the stairs, a burly middle-aged man rushed down from upstairs, pointing at Song Anan and shouting.
Song Anan's expression was calm, he knew that Aye was up there, and he wasn't panic when he saw him now.
Fortunately, Song Shu was smart and had already guessed his identity, otherwise he would not know how to deal with Aye's sudden appearance.
"General." As soon as Yin Rong appeared, his own soldiers immediately stepped forward to report and briefed him what happened in a low voice.
Yin Rong glanced at Shopkeeper Li who was tied up by Wuhuada: "Take him back and let Yin Heng interrogate himself."
"Yes." The soldiers cupped their hands, and immediately two people stepped forward, one from the left and the other from the right, and brought up shopkeeper Li, and took him downstairs.Yin Rong told several other people to go to the yard to search carefully for the missing gun.
After Shopkeeper Li was taken away, the atmosphere froze for a moment.
Yin Rong's personal soldiers all went down to look for them, and Wu Shichang and others didn't receive any instructions from Song Shu or Anan, but simply cleaned up the messed up counters.
And the father and son stood at both ends of the second floor of the shopping mall, confronting each other silently, pulling everyone's nerves up.
Song Shu sized Yin Rong's eyes. Judging from his appearance, it was 100% original and made in China, so Anan's mixed blood characteristics should come from his mother.
Wu Shichang was sweating in his heart. He heard that General Yin's method of educating his son was very rough. When their little general was mischievous when he was six years old, he was sentenced to military law.Now that he has been away from home for two years and has not returned, he was suddenly arrested, and he does not know how he will be punished.
A few guys went upstairs. They had just seen the troublemaker Li shopkeeper being dragged out. Now they boldly came up, and the upstairs was eerily quiet.
They are in contact with customers every day, and they know how to read words and expressions best.
The reason why this atmosphere is weird seems to be because of their manager Nan and that burly man.
The burly man seemed very angry, and stared at Guanshi Nan fiercely.
Nan Guan was very calm.
That's right, they heard from the people in the bean oil workshop that their Guanshi Nan is invincible in the army. Although the most powerful little general is not there, he is already very powerful!
They are so powerful in Nanguan, they must not be afraid of this burly man.
"Go back with me!" Yin Rong said.
Song Anan turned his head: "No."
Yin Rong's eyebrows trembled, and he almost drew his sword.
The personal guards immediately came up to him, and whispered into his ear: "General, the Eldest Young Master said that the young general will take the soft but not the hard."
The eldest son is right, why did I forget!
Yin Rong thought to himself, he adjusted his expression, walked towards Song Anan, lowered his voice and said, "Xiao Min, go home with Aye."
Song Anan really didn't refuse this time, he subconsciously glanced at Song Shu, Song Shu smiled gently, and mouthed: "Go."
"En." Song Anan nodded, reluctantly following Yin Rong.
"What did that person just say?"
"Aye? That's Aye, who is in charge of Nan? He looks so strong."
"The man was still carrying a sword. He looked really scary."
Several Song Ji guys gathered together and said in a low voice.
Yin Rong's soldiers were about to leave, when they heard those people's discussion, they interrupted with a fake cough: "Don't talk about the general." Afterwards, they also went downstairs and left.
"What did he just say?" one of the guys asked, rubbing his ear holes with his middle finger, wondering if he heard it wrong.
"General? The general is Aye who is in charge of the guide?" Another person said.
When he said this, the rest of the people immediately realized what was happening, and they all showed terrified expressions in unison.
——Their steward Nan turned out to be the son of a general.
——Who else can there be generals of this age in Hengzhou City?
——Their steward Nan turned out to be the son of the Jiedushi!
——Looking at his age, I am afraid that he is the young general Yin Min who is the best in martial arts in the world!
Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, their Song Ji was really amazing!
What an amazing host they have!
Several gazes focused on Song Shu, but his face was calm, he clapped his hands and said, "Go and inform all the counters, clean up here, and continue to open the store in the evening."
Song Anan is gone, but the business will continue.
Wu Shichang's team is still there, helping to clean up the mess.
In the evening, Songji Shopping Center was open as usual, and the episode at noon did not cause any casualties. Although there were discussions among the common people, it did not cause a big splash.
"I heard that something happened at the hotpot restaurant at noon. Are you okay?" Song Shu came home in the evening, and Sanniang happened to come back from the workshop outside the city, so she asked him when she saw him.
"It's okay, sister, don't worry." Song Shu said, smiling a little forcedly.
"Where's Anan?" Sanniang asked again.
The fact that Song Anan was the son of the Jiedu envoy was known only to a few of Song Ji's staff, and it had not been reported yet.
"He's home." Song Shu didn't say much.
"His family is in Hengzhou City?" Sanniang was surprised, she had never heard Anan talk about his family before.
Song Shu let out a "huh" and was not very energetic.The dinner was very sumptuous, but he was full after only moving a few chopsticks, so he got into his room and planned to have an early rest.The sweet potatoes from Xianghe Village will arrive tomorrow, and he will have to work for several days in a row.
On the small table in the room, there was still a candlestick, on which a half-burned candle was twisted, and the candle's tears froze half way through.
Song Shu was a little sleepy, took out the lighter from the space, and walked to the table.
click-
The lighter was lit, and the red and blue flames flickered in the pitch black.
He's gone, I still have to light some candles.
Song Shu laughed at himself.
Anan's fear of the dark was just an excuse, and he knew it well.It's just that he didn't tell the truth, so he didn't mention a word.After a long time, I developed the habit of sleeping with candles every night.
Putting away the lighter, Song Shu took off his coat and climbed to the upper bunk.
He rolled the quilt into his arms and fell asleep.
When the next day was dawn, he had already washed and washed, and led the horse out of the Song residence.
Recently, he is often busy with shopping malls, so he doesn't go to the workshop much.His family's sweet potatoes had been harvested in the past two days, and Song He had stayed in Xianghe Village for several days, and he would come here today with the harvested sweet potatoes.
Song Shu rode a horse, walked out of the south gate along the street, and soon came to his family's workshop.
The crowd lined up loosely in the open space, and the hey-ha sounds came out neatly, huddling together, as if they wanted to overthrow the day.
Song Shu dismounted, and immediately someone came to lead the horse away for him.
So many people punched at the same time, and each punch set off a buzzword. Song Shu wanted to listen for a while on a whim, so he walked around the team.
Although these people lined up loosely, they all faced one direction.Usually, the direction they are facing is Song Anan who is leading the fist.
I don't know who it is today.Song Shu looked in that direction.
I saw that the leader was not tall, judging by the width of his shoulders, he seemed to be about half his size.
Song Shu quickened his pace and almost ran over.
"Why are you here?" Song Shu blurted out.
Song Anan punched out, and then stopped.
Wu Shichang who was behind led the punch for him, and Song Anan walked towards Song Shu.
"Didn't you go home?" Song Shu realized that he was too loud just now, and now he tried to maintain a normal volume and asked.
"Well, I'm back." Song Anan said.
After he, Aye, took him back yesterday, there were almost three interrogations.
Fortunately, his elder brother reacted quickly and hurried over with Yin Lian. As soon as Aye saw his lovely granddaughter, most of his anger dissipated.
In the end, I just asked a few symbolic questions, but I was not very excited.
"He's not angry anymore?" Song Shu was suspicious. General Yin's behavior yesterday clearly made him angry at Song Anan's house, and he could see that he was worried about his son. Why did he let him out like this today? "Did you escape by yourself again?"
"No." Song Anan was categorical. He was aboveboard this time, and he only came out with the consent of his father and brother.
"Little bastard." Yin Rong scolded at the Jiedu Ambassador's Mansion in the north of the city.
Yesterday he finally caught his youngest son who hadn't returned for two years, and finally coaxed him back.After returning, he wanted to ask how his son was doing.
However, the little bunny was extremely uncooperative.
Ask him: "What have you been doing for the past two years?"
After thinking for a long time, he spit out two words: "Farming."
Yin Rong was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. The food and drink at home were delicious, and a beautiful woman was sent to serve him, yet he escaped to farm? !
Yin Rong told himself to calm down, but don't scare away the son who just coaxed back.
"You like farming, you can go to Beiying and follow Yuan Lao San, why bother wandering outside, isn't your family bad?" Yin Rong sweated, what if this kid really said that his family was not good?
There is nothing wrong with the family, Song Anan thought, especially since his second brother was away, he could feel much more at ease.
In the beginning, I stayed with the Song family to repay them.Later, it was because I was worried.After Song Shu came back, their business grew step by step, and there seemed to be nothing to worry about, but he was reluctant to leave, even afraid that Song Shu would know his background and drive him away.
"No." Song Anan, who had thought a lot, said simply and horrified.
"It's not bad, why don't you go home?" Yin Rong was walking back and forth eagerly like a irascible lion, even his favorite little granddaughter couldn't appease his irritability.
Facing his father's question, Song Anan had to think again.
After thinking about it, Song Shu's face always appeared in front of his eyes.Gentle, sly, and annoyed, it seemed that he filled every moment of these days.
"Song Shu." Song Anan said, because of Song Shu, this was his conclusion.
"Song Shu?" Yin Rong stopped, his thick black eyebrows raised upside down, "Who?"
"Aye, it's..."
"Shut up!" Yin Rong interrupted the eldest son who was trying to smooth things over.
"Yes..." Who is it?Song Anan didn't know how to answer for a while.
He is the owner of Songji Hot Pot Restaurant, his brother in name these days, the person who lives with him under the same roof, the one who makes hot pot and tomato egg noodles for him, the one who loves to call him for everything. The one who would spend one gold to buy him a cart of peppers.
Yin Rong saw that a smile appeared on the face of his serious young son.
The corner of his mouth is turned up, and there is a small dimple on the left cheek, which is exactly the same as his mother's smile.
"That's all." Yin Rong was instantly discouraged.
Since this kid can't stay at home, it's better to go out and have a look, so as not to spend the whole day practicing kung fu or military training.
In the end, Yin Rong only asked Song Anan to go home and visit the barracks often, so he let him go.
It was already late at that time, Song Anan hadn't returned for many years, thinking about staying overnight at home, Yin Rongben was quite relieved, but this morning, Song Anan didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he jumped over the wall and ran away.
"Little bastard!" Yin Rong scolded.
Song He took the lead and entered the boundary of Songji Workshop.Followed by several carts of sweet potatoes, a total of fourteen to five hundred catties.
"A bumper harvest! This sweet potato is really high-yield, and the least family has harvested tens of catties more. Besides ours, there are several other families that have harvested thousands of catties." Song He got off his horse neatly, and went to Song Shu and Anan. walk.
"The well cellar has been cleaned up, brother let everyone put the sweet potatoes there first." Song Shu said. More than 1000 catties of sweet potatoes is not too much, but it is not a lot, and it can do many things.
The early punches were over, and the others were moving sweet potatoes, and those who were going to start work, but Song Anan didn't leave, and asked Song Shu, "What are you doing?"
"Do you remember the hot and sour noodles you ate?" Song Shu asked.
"Yeah." Anan nodded, forgetting which time, Song Shu asked him to do extra work, so he gave him a pack of home-cooked hot and sour noodles.There were also peppers in it, so after buying the peppers, he thought that Song Shu would also make this, but unfortunately he didn't do it for a long time, which made him disappointed for a long time.
"Let's do this first." Song Shu said, he has already vacated two workshops in the workshop, dedicated to making sweet potato flour, "You go and call some people to wash two hundred catties of sweet potatoes first."
Without further ado, Song Anan went immediately.
The workers picked up water, poured it into the pre-built pool, and began to wash the sweet potatoes.
"Boss, what are you going to do with these sweet potatoes?" Someone asked when Song Shu passed by.
"Use it as a fan." Song Shu said.One hundred catties of sweet potatoes can produce about seventeen or eight catties of vermicelli, which consumes a lot of food, but it is delicious.
"What are fans?"
"Don't you make potato chips and French fries like last time?" The person who asked this question came from Xianghe Village with the Song family, and had personally experienced the grand occasion when sweet potatoes were first discovered.
"You can also make some, but there are more ways to eat vermicelli. Boiled pork slices, cold salad, stewed salted fish, or put them in a vegetable pot are all delicious, and the hot and sour vermicelli that you Nan Guanshi likes to eat is also made of sweet potato vermicelli. .” Song Shu said.
The sweet potato washing workers couldn't help but glance at Anan, and Anan was also squatting by the pool washing the sweet potatoes. Hearing Song Shu's words, his ears turned red.
It must be because of this that he refused to leave at the beginning.
Song Shu can always tempt him with all kinds of delicacies, which makes him lose his self-control, and obediently works for him every time.
After washing the sweet potatoes, Song Shu had someone throw them into a stone mill for grinding.
Two hundred catties of sweet potatoes was a lot, even if the two stone mills started working at the same time, they were still grinding until noon.
Before noon, there was a long queue at Songji restaurant. It was right next to the pipeline, and a long line of people could be seen lined up along the official road from a distance, which was very spectacular.
The stone mill is not far from the restaurant, and people in line can see it, so someone asked loudly, "But you're grinding noodles?"
"No, it's grinding sweet potatoes!" One of the noodle grinders replied loudly.
sweet potato?
Most of the people queuing up are residents inside and outside Hengzhou City, who are still very unfamiliar with the word sweet potato.
But there are also people who often come and go to explain to them, especially the grand occasion of sweet potato auction in Xianghe Village that day.
"Two pieces cost 820 Wen? My dear, this is too expensive!"
"It would be great if we could find sweet potatoes in the mountains here."
"It's just a kind of grain, why is it so expensive? Rice doesn't charge so much."
"That's not what you said. You know that the yield of this golden fruit is extremely high, and one mu of land can produce forty or fifty stones!" the man said again.
"Four, five... ten stones?"
Those who heard this were all dumbfounded.
They all have farming land in their family. It is good enough that one mu of land can produce more than one stone of grain. Even if there is fertile soil by the river, two stones is the limit.This year the barracks got very high-yielding millet seeds, and they bought some of them. It is said that if the millet seeds are sown, an acre of land can produce five or six stones.
Five or six stones!
If they didn't know Yuan Duwei's character, they would definitely not believe his words.
But now there are people who say wildly that this kind of fruit can produce forty or fifty stones per mu of land?
I'm afraid I'm not crazy!
"Really, I just came from Datu County. Many people in Xianghe Village grow sweet potatoes, and each plant can bear a dozen or so fruits, which is a lot!"
"Really?" The man spoke so confidently that some people believed it.
"Of course it is true." The man said, "I bought some on a special trip to save the seeds. Our family will also grow sweet potatoes in the coming year. With such high-yield grains, we will never be afraid of starvation again!"
Speaking of this, the few people listening suddenly stopped asking.
They looked at each other and thought to themselves, should they grow some of such good food?
"Why don't we ask?" Someone suggested.
Another person even yelled directly: "Hey - do you sell these sweet potatoes?"
"Aren't you tired from shouting so far away?" A young man asked, immediately stepped out of the queue and headed to the stone mill for grinding sweet potatoes.He can see that Song Shu, Song Ji's boss, is also here, so he has to seize the opportunity.
"Of course my sweet potatoes are for sale, but like Xianghe Village, they are auctioned." Song Shu said, "In the morning of the next day, I will take out about [-] catties of sweet potatoes for auction."
"Really? What is this auction?" the young man asked.
A few more people followed his lead and ran over, asking around Song Shu.
"Come, come, let me tell you." Pang Liulang took over the conversation and took them to the other side. "I watched the entire sweet potato auction last time. If you have any questions, just ask me."
"Tell me what this auction is first?"
"How much money do we have to prepare?"
"Why the morning after tomorrow, can't I buy it earlier?"
Auctions are common in Datu County, but people in Hengzhou City have never seen them.
Pang Liulang has a loud voice, speaks fast, and never gets bored. He can repeat a question many times.
Originally, there were only five or six people around him, but there were a lot of people queuing outside the restaurant at noon, people kept coming over, and they all understood the benefits of this sweet potato, so they also asked about the auction.
With his repeated explanations like this, more and more people understand the benefits of sweet potatoes, and more and more people know about the auction.
These people go back home and talk about it.
Siping Village, Wu'an Village, Liuhe Village on the outskirts of the city, the southwest corner of the city, Beicheng District... and other places have heard of the benefits of sweet potatoes.There are quite a few families living in the city who also have land. Like the farmers, they also want to increase the yield of their land.
"We have to wait until the morning of the next day." Two people queuing at a fried dough stick stand in the city said.
"I have to go home and prepare more money. I heard that in Xianghe Village, the two can be sold for more than 800 Wen!"
"Hey, more than 800 Wen is still good. I heard that some sold more than usual!" The stall owner of the fried dough sticks stall also interjected, obviously also concerned about the sweet potato auction.
Even those big families in the north of the city were discussing the sweet potato auction.
"Go and tell Song Silang that he wants all those sweet potatoes, and sell them at any auction, he's so petty!" A certain lord was a straightforward man, and said to the housekeeper in a calm manner.
"Master, I'm afraid this won't work. I heard that the Shen family has sent someone to ask about it, and Song Silang said it won't work."
"The Shen family? The Shen family is very polite, of course not, you can find a few strong nurses to go with you, and if you scare him, you will agree!"
"This...Master, General Yin's youngest son is shaking there. If you give me a hundred courage, I won't dare to make trouble!"
"What?!" The old man took a sip of tea, coughing until his face turned red.
Little General Yin has come back and is still watching the scene in the Song family workshop?That killing god is not easy to mess with, behind him are Mr. Yin, Mr. Yin and Old General Yin, all of whom are too tall to be messed with.
Having said that, what is the origin of this surname Song, and Yin Min is willing to condescend to show him the situation?
"You go to take pictures in person in the morning of the next day," the master said to the housekeeper, "no, no, master, I will go in person, and you prepare money and silk for me, and then prepare some gifts. The relationship between the Song family and the Yin family is not ordinary. .”
After Song Ji's incident happened yesterday, the news that Yin Jiedushi's youngest son was Song Jinan's steward gradually spread in the city.At the beginning, only a few people knew about it, but gradually it spread more and more widely, and spread faster and faster, almost to the point where everyone knows it.
Song Anan didn't seem to know that someone was looking at him, so he stood tall and asked someone to pour water into the grated sweet potatoes, while he dutifully stirred with a big wooden stick.
"The little general is stirring sweet potatoes?"
"Shh, don't be overheard."
"So what, he used to grind flour, farm the land, and dig ice in Xianghe Village!"
"Shhhhhh, the little general is here, let's go to work!"
As expected, the gossip went through extraordinarily fast.Early this morning, almost no one in the city knew about it, but it was only past noon, and the news had already spread to the streets.Hearing those people's comments, Song Shu was very helpless. What's the matter with farming and grinding flour? He even pinched his legs and shoulders!
After the pulping was completed, Song Anan followed Song Shu's instructions and ordered the staff to pour the sweet potato pulp into a bag made of fine gauze, filter it into a large tank, and add water while filtering until the starch was filtered out.
"Then let it sit and wait for it to settle." Song Shu said, "It's getting late today, so just filter it all out, and wait until tomorrow to skim the vat and leak the powder."
"Come on!" said the workers.
"Thank you for your hard work." Song Shu said to Anan.They were surrounded by crowds today, which made him a little embarrassed. He seems to be overqualified for the dignified little general to make sweet potato flour. "Let's go back and get you French fries."
Song Shu hooked Anan's neck and pulled him home.
Sanniang had already gone back by car.Song Shu and Song He each have a horse, and Song Anan is walking.Song He originally wanted to give up his horse to Song Anan, but who knew that Song Anan stepped on another horse neatly, and stretched out his hand to Song Shu: "Come up."
According to Song Anan's thinking, Song Shu's riding skills are so good, he should sit in front of him and let him control the reins.
However, he never expected that he was not tall enough!
Finally, Song Shu sat behind him, hugged his waist and shouted: "Drive!"
Song Anan: "..."
The sweet potatoes in the barracks were also harvested, Yin Rong was very happy, and ate two extra steamed buns at night.
"The steamed buns in this Songji restaurant are delicious! You can ask Xiao Min another day. If he knows how to make them, he can teach Yuan Laosan to improve the food for the soldiers in the camp." Yin Rong said, taking off another big piece The buns were stuffed into his mouth.
"I'll ask another day." Yin Heng said, taking a sip of corn porridge slowly.
"This beer duck is good, no wonder that brat refuses to come back!" Yin Rong said.After knowing that his youngest son was in Song Ji, Yin Rong asked his subordinates a lot about Song Ji, and in the evening, he asked the kitchen staff to buy many dishes from his restaurant and taste them, they were really delicious.
Yin Heng smiled without saying a word.
Why did he stay in Song's house? I'm afraid that Xiao Min himself hasn't figured it out yet. Although he is a bystander, he doesn't like to intervene too much.It's just that the last time the second younger brother disclosed his habit of breaking his sleeves, the family was full of chaos.
If it happens again, I don't know what will happen to Aye.
Xiao Min's skin is thick and rough, so it's not a problem to be beaten a few times, but don't drive Song Silang away, he's still useful.
Yin Heng figured it out, now that Song Anan's identity is clear, it will be much easier for him to cooperate with the Song family.More importantly, let Aye know the importance of Song Silang, so that he will restrain himself when things happen in the future.
"Aye, the shopkeeper Li has already been interrogated clearly. The two people who came from Qingzhou to pass the message ran away, and the other and the people they arranged in the city to instigate civil uprisings have all been arrested." Yin Heng said.
"What are you going to do?" Yin Rong finished eating the steamed buns, took a sip of corn porridge, and picked up the duck legs.
"Yi'an Zhifang is spread all over the seven states of Yicheng. It is not only Li Youhe's eyes, but also his pocketbook." Yin Heng said.
Few people know how to make paper. With this skill, Li Youhe amassed a lot of money in Yicheng. If paper was not a necessity, he would have thought of a way to drive people away.
"I heard that the Song family has a paper shop?" Yin Rong said.
"Yes, Aye, the Song family's paper workshop will be of great help to clean up Yi'an Paper Workshop," Yin Heng said.
"Understood, you just let go and do it." Yin Rong said, he has always trusted his elder son in these things, "Tell Xiao Min, let him go through the back door to order a few more beer ducks, and I will eat it every day, and I don't know how to bring some back to honor him." His old man."
Yin Heng smiled: "Understood, I will tell Xiao Min."
The sweet potato flour sat overnight and the starch settled.
Song Shu asked people to skim off all the water on the top, use a shovel to produce starch, and heat the water and noodles.This noodle is different from the usual dough. It is liquid, a bit like batter.
After reconciliation, Song Shu brought a leak.
The funnel is made of wood, shaped like a flat-bottomed ladle, but with many holes drilled in the middle.
"You scoop the noodles in like this and let it leak out. The higher you lift, the thinner the leaked strands will be." Song Shu said while demonstrating, "The leaked strands are directly put into hot water and scalded, and then scooped out. Put it into the cooling pool, hang it on the bamboo pole like this after sorting, dry in the shade indoors for half a day, and then take it out to dry for a day."
Leaking out sweet potato flour is a technical job. Song Shu gave the leaker to one of the workers. This worker is usually known for his meticulousness and strength. After a few tries, he was able to leak out decent sweet potato flour.
"Is there any hot and sour noodles like this?" Song Shu asked Anan.
Anan looked at the long fans that leaked out and nodded.
"Your sword skills are good." Song Shu said suddenly.
Of course, Anan raised his eyebrows.
"How's the knife skills?" Song Shu asked.
Anan: "..."
He didn't practice swordsmanship for cutting vegetables!
Although Chu Ning often comes to the hot pot restaurant in Hengzhou City now, he is too busy to take care of the back kitchens on both sides, and Song Shu is too embarrassed to hire people to do coolies.In the end, he found a cooking woman from Song Ji's restaurant. Although her knife skills were not as good as Chu Ning and the chopping boards in his hotpot restaurant, she could still cut French fries.
Song Shu asked people to mix ground pork and tofu together, add some seasonings such as salt and pepper, and make them into round cakes.Fried on both sides, it is a hamburger steak.
When the hamburger came out of the pan, the sweet potato fries had just been picked up from the pan, and it was served with a glass of cold beer.
Song Shu put the things in front of Song Anan: "Have a taste?"
Song Anan ate a mouthful of hamburger steak. The ground pork with tofu was very tender, and the fried skin was even more fragrant and crispy.He took another bite of the sweet potato fries. The fries were soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. They were also delicious.Have a sip of cold beer at the end, refreshing!
"Delicious!" Song Anan said.
He just took a bite of this thing, and he felt very full, dry and oily, but not greasy.
"Okay." Song Shu clapped his hands, and said to the woman cooking in the nearby restaurant, "I will add this set meal at noon today. It costs [-] yuan a piece, and only sells [-] copies." After finishing speaking, he asked Anan to put The food was taken out, and in the restaurant that was not yet open, it was eaten in a grand manner.
Song Shu sat across from him and also ate some French fries.
"Didn't you have enough for breakfast?" Song Shu asked, the way he was eating seemed to be very hungry.
"I'm full." Song Anan blushed, slowed down, and turned his eyes away, "Don't look."
Song Shu snickered.
It's not just him watching, but everyone passing by on the side of the road is watching.
"Is that the little general and Song Silang?"
"It seems to be, what is the little general eating?"
"Could it be that Song Kee Restaurant has released something new?"
"It smells good."
"It's so fragrant, what can you smell so far away?"
"Song Silang," the bold one asked directly, "What are you eating?"
"Hamburg steak set meal." Song Shu said with a smile, "One burger steak, one sweet potato fries, and a glass of beer. It will be available at Song Kee restaurant today."
"What's a hamburger steak?"
"It's made of pork and fried in oil. It's delicious." Song Shu said.
"It smells so good." The person who spoke stared at Anan, and he felt delicious when he saw how he was eating.
"If you're free at noon, come and have a taste," Song Shu said.
Those people really moved their minds.But when he asked the price, he withdrew his hand.
Fifty Wen!too expensive!
But the sweet potatoes alone can fetch sky-high prices.
The sweet potatoes were just discovered in the mountains behind Xianghe Village last year, and there are not many of them in the world. Those who have sweet potatoes in Xianghe Village also keep their own seeds or sell them as grain seeds, and no one is willing to get them to eat. .
That is to say, Song Ji has such boldness. Yesterday he was making sweet potato noodles, and today he made this hamburger steak set meal. How many melon seeds are there in Song Silang's head that they don't know about?
These people have been eating at Songji recently, and the food in Songji is really different from the restaurants nearby.The hamburger steak launched today is something they have never heard of.
There are a lot of people who think this thing is expensive, but Song Ji has a huge number of customers, so there is always someone who can afford it.There are many rich families who are willing to come to Songji to buy food in order to taste something new. Seeing that the hamburger steak set is very fresh, there are many people who buy a set or two sets.
Only twenty sets were sold out quickly.
"Song Silang, can you still cook this set meal tomorrow? My husband wants to eat it." said the servant of a big family.
"Whatever you do, twenty copies per day, each person is limited to two copies, first come, first served." Song Shu said.
As soon as the words came out, every day at dawn, the lords and wives in the city would send servants and maidservants to line up, and Song Ji's reputation for hamburger steak spread throughout Hengzhou.
"I heard that you have a hamburger steak set meal here, which is very famous?" Yin Heng came to Song Ji's workshop, and immediately a worker who knew him led him to the reception room, and called Song Anan.
The workers of Songji Workshop adapted well to Song Anan's new identity. After all, after he was exposed, he was the same as before. He should work and be in a daze.It's just that these people are still a little at a loss when they think that Mr. Yin is the eldest brother of Guanshi Nan.
"Why are you here?" Song Anan found a stool and sat down without any courtesy.
"Opening the door for business, why does it seem like you want to drive me away?" Yin Heng said.
Song Anan ignored him, and still said: "Why are you here?" Yicheng Qizhou said it was not big, but it was not small. There were many trivial things every day, and he, Aye, had no patience to pay attention to them, all of which were taken care of by his elder brother. He said, he didn't believe that this man had leisure time to go shopping.
"Aye said that the beer duck here is delicious, so you should find a way to open the back door and bring him a few more. The portion is too small and not enough." Yin Heng said, "I looked at the hamburger steak set meal. Not bad, or get a few copies, your niece likes it."
"Let's get down to business." Song Anan said, it's just a few ducks, he's just looking for someone to pass on a message, and it's definitely not for this reason that he came here in person.
"Tsk, you're still so smart. I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for Song Silang, and I've already sent someone to invite you." Yin Heng said.As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, and his personal guard pushed open the door, inviting Song Shu to come in.
Song Shu was not surprised to see that Anan was there, but just said hello to Yin Heng.
"You're welcome, Shiro, we are all our own people." Yin Heng said, bowing his hands in return, and asked Song Shu to sit down, as if he was the master here, "It's good to call me Big Brother Yin from now on."
"Brother Yin's sudden visit must be something important." Song Shu said.
Yin Heng looked at Song Shu, and then at Anan.Even what they said seemed to be withdrawn, but there was a tacit understanding.
"Does Shiro still remember the matter of shopkeeper Li?" Yin Heng said.
"Of course I remember it," Song Shu said.
"You know, Shiro, shopkeeper Li's place is not only aimed at the hot pot restaurant, but also to disturb my entire territory under the jurisdiction of the Yicheng Army." Yin Heng said.
"Of course." Song Shu was not surprised. This kind of suicide attack may be new to the ancients, but he has seen it a lot in the news. "Brother Yin thought of a way to fight back? But you want Anan to go back and help?"
The person behind shopkeeper Li is Li Youhe, who is in charge of the three regions of Qingzhou, and is also a very powerful Jiedu envoy. If the Yin family conflicts with him, it is very likely that they will go to war.
"No." However, Yin Heng shook his head, "I want to cooperate with you."
"Me?" Song Shu was at a loss. He was only doing some daily necessities and catering business, so how could they need his help in their territorial dispute.He didn't do firearms or salt transport or anything like that.
"Song Silang knows that Yi'an Zhifang is not the only one in Hengzhou City, Yicheng has seven states, each of which has a city, and there are many counties where Yi'an Zhifang controls the paper business." Yin Hengdao .
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