Food for the people

Although the four main streets of Hanyang City, east, west, north, and south, cannot be compared with the metropolises of China, they are already quite prosperous in this era.

There are countless restaurants in the city, but if it is famous, it must be Yipinlou.

Yipin Building is located in the busiest part of South Street. The gate tower is particularly conspicuous among the generally low-rise buildings. It can be seen at a glance. The angled cornices, green tiles and red walls, and gold-painted plaques shine brightly in the sun. Wealthy aura that you dare not enter.

It is said that a meal there starts with a minimum of one tael of silver, flying in the sky, running on the ground and swimming in the water. Only you can't afford it, but you can't eat it without you.

Qiao Yu had always wanted to try it, but her pocket was too clean, so she just thought about it and never even passed by the door.

So when he woke up and found that he had arrived at the entrance of Yipin Building, his mood was a little beyond words for a moment.

After leaving the gate of Fengtian Mansion, he saw Lu Jincheng, and was gagged along the way, and finally fell asleep in the carriage, and only said to invite the two of them to dinner, but did not say where he was going.

Qiao Yu was in a complicated mood, but it wasn't because he didn't want to invite people in to eat, but he was a little worried. If the money in his pocket was found to be insufficient later, wouldn't it be a bit too embarrassing.

In his opinion, Lu Jincheng is a rich and powerful son of a rich family, and he certainly didn't think of this level, but he has come here, anyway, he also really wants to taste the taste of this building, so just eat it, Lu Jincheng's favors for him alone cost more than these few taels of silver.

In case you don't have enough money by then, you can go to Lu Jincheng to borrow some and pay him back when you go back.

Anyway, Lu Jincheng would definitely not laugh at him for being poor.

Qiao Yu made up her mind and calmly followed Mr. Shen out of the car.

Old Shen was familiar with the road, and the moment he entered the first-grade building, a young man greeted him, and he said, "Lanyue Pavilion."

The boy was very clever, and he knew what he meant as soon as he heard these three words. His eyes quickly looked from Old Shen to Qiao Yu, and then hurriedly glanced at Lu Jincheng who had just got off the carriage, and put his hand to his mouth. The old Mrs. Shen swallowed the words back into her stomach, bent down and said, "Please, sir."

Lu Jincheng walked over in front of him without looking sideways, Sanqi followed behind him, and winked at the boy.

The boy nodded to him quickly, ran to the front to lead everyone into Lanyue Pavilion, and then bent down and retreated.

After a while, he came up with tea again and asked, "What do you guys eat?"

This was the first time for Qiao Yu to order food in an ancient restaurant. There was no menu or anything, so he didn't know how to order, so he had to look at Lu Jincheng.

He reckoned that this gentleman should be a frequent visitor to the first-class building, but the boy who just entered the door didn't seem to know him, so he was quite puzzled, but even if he had never been to this first-class building, he should know more about the market than him. She glanced at him reassuringly, and handed over the ordering to him.

Anyway, he will be responsible for paying when the time comes.

Qiao Yu trusts Lu Jincheng very much. He doesn't worry that he will bankrupt him blindly, and he doesn't worry that what he ordered doesn't suit his appetite. In short, he lets Lu Jincheng do his best and eat whatever he wants.

As soon as he looked over, Lu Jincheng also looked over, and the eyes of the two separated immediately.Panax notoginseng, like the roundworm in Lu Jincheng's stomach, began to name the dishes.

"Eight-treasure gourd duck, roasted rabbit leg, shredded bamboo shoots in red oil, a first-grade tofu, a plate of golden silk and emerald jade rolls, and a cup of snow fungus whitebait soup."

The boy let out a hey, and cleverly closed the door of the wing room, and went down to let the kitchen get ready.

Panax notoginseng finished the teacups with quick hands and feet, and made a cup of tea for each of the three of them. The servant prepared the top-quality Shuoshan silver tip, the tea soup was green, fragrant, slightly bitter in the mouth and sweet in the aftertaste.

Qiao Yu really didn't study tea, so he could only tell that the tea tasted good.

As soon as he took a sip of tea, the servant knocked on the door again and came in. This time he brought two plates of pastries that looked very delicate at first glance. One plate was square and square like pea yellow, and the other plate was small It is a cake shape, with a layer of puff pastry on the outside, and the slag falls off when you move it. I don’t know what kind of stuffing is inside, and the top is made of flower juice or something. I ordered a round and naive dot, and it looks very interesting. appetite.

"This is a snack for the masters. A plate of pea cake and a plate of jade cake are the signatures of Yipinlou."

Qiao Yu glanced at Lu Jincheng, and said to himself: I knew you were a regular customer in this shop.Otherwise, it's fine to send good tea, how could it be possible to send free pastries, pretending that I don't know you, can I have some snacks.

Qiao Yu felt that his state of mind was very strange. Lu Jincheng's identity could not be told to him. Both of them knew this matter. It stands to reason that he should have a little bit of curiosity, but he didn't seem to have it. It's fun.

In fact, after today's Fengtian Mansion and his party, Qiao Yu felt that he could already guess the identity of Mr. Yan.

He had guessed before that Mr. Yan might be the son of some courtier's family, and this courtier might not have a low status.Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to maintain his natural aura of power and nobility.

Today in Fengtian Mansion, although the magistrate did not clearly state the official position of Mr. Shen, his attitude was very respectful. It can be seen that Mr. Shen's status is definitely not low. Old Shen, but his status may be higher than that of Old Shen.

If he is just the son of an ordinary family of powerful officials, no matter how noble his status is, he is no more noble than a courtier and veteran. After thinking about it this way, it must be that the royal family has not escaped.

And the only one in the royal family who is similar in age and identity to this Young Master Yan is the Fourteenth Prince Yan Wang who rarely shows himself in the eyes of the common people.

This Mr. Yan also said that his name is real. According to this, the word Yan Jin is probably a reference to this Prince Yan that is not known to outsiders.

Qiao Yu stared at the pastry in a daze, and cleared up Lu Jincheng's identity very clearly, then licked his teeth, pretending as usual that he didn't know anything.

Anyway, he made up his mind that as long as Lu Jincheng didn't say anything, he would pretend that he didn't know.

The boy put down the pastry and left. Qiao Yu just made up his mind when he saw a piece of crispy jade cake falling into the bowl in front of him.

He came back to take a closer look, and found that Lu Jincheng had given it to him.

"Seeing that you are staring intently, are you waiting for me to clip it to you?"

What he said was ambiguous, but Qiao Yu didn't feel disgusted for some reason. Instead, he didn't know which nerve was misaligned, and said, "I've been staring at that too, why don't you give it to me together."

Lu Jincheng: ...

He just stepped on Qiao Yu's bottom line and teased a word, but he didn't expect to be annoyed, and was teased back. He didn't know how to react for a while, his eyebrows and eyes frowned, and he took another piece of pea cake and put it together. In Qiao Yu's bowl.

Sanqi, who was standing behind her lord, took a step back silently, using herself as a static background screen, even breathing lightly.

Poor Mr. Shen just raised the cup to his mouth, when he heard the sound of the two people coming and going, taking a sip of water, either refusing to drink or froze at the edge of his mouth, he was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do.

He is so old, only one daughter is still an adopted daughter, and she has never been involved with romantic things in her life, and now she is forced to watch it, and her eyes hurt, and she cried out in her heart: He shouldn't Promise to follow, can't we talk about it when we are in love at home!It's really a decline in the world, ah, a decline in the world!

Qiao Yu's brain just twitched, and he said that casually, and he didn't know what he was bewitched by. After he finished speaking, he also felt that he had been bewitched, and then remembered that there were two people around him, and now he felt even more embarrassed. Not daring to speak anymore, he just put his head down and stuffed the cakes in the bowl into his mouth, and chewed vigorously.

Lu Jincheng's brows and eyes were full of smiles. Looking at Qiao Yu's hair twirling when he lowered his head, he felt that this person even made him like it. He poured another cup of tea and put it in front of Qiao Yu and said, "Eat slowly, I will I'll clip it to you again, don't worry."

Qiao Yu: ...

Shut up, please.

Elder Shen finally couldn't take it anymore, his old face was flushed with embarrassment, he stood up and coughed, and said, "I'll go downstairs to see why I'm so slow today."

Before he finished speaking, the servant knocked on the door outside.

"Master, your food is ready, should you serve it up now?"

Old Shen: ...

He slammed the door open and said, "Come on, come on."

He left immediately after eating, and if he stayed any longer, his eyes would be blind.

The servant got the order and hurried down to pass the dishes.

Eight-treasure gourd duck is a prepared dish in advance, and it is served faster than other dishes. The duck meat in the sauce red soup on a snow-white porcelain plate is tied into a gourd shape with two ends wide and thin in the middle, and it has been steamed for a long time. , because the skin is fried with oil, it does not taste greasy, and the meat melts in the mouth, neither dry nor firewood.Open the outside of the duck meat, and the glutinous rice, lotus seeds, scallops, and shiitake mushrooms are exposed. The glutinous rice absorbs the meaty aroma of the duck meat and the freshness of the shiitake mushrooms and scallops, forming an extremely delicious taste.

The roasted rabbit legs are obviously marinated with sauce before roasting. The fishy smell of the wild rabbit is completely removed. A few cuts are evenly cut on the outside, and a handful of powder is sprinkled. The outer skin is crispy and the inner is fresh and tender.

However, the vegetarian dishes in Yipinlou are obviously inferior to the meat dishes. I don’t know if it’s because everyone generally prefers to eat meat. The vegetarian dishes are a little worse than Qiao Yu’s imagination. Covered the fragrance of bamboo shoots.

Tofu does not have a good beany smell, and it is not as amazing as meat dishes.

The Jinsi Jade Roll is actually a spring pancake with pickled vegetables wrapped in shredded carrots and cucumbers, and the taste is not bad.

White fungus snowfish soup is a fresh soup stewed with snow-white and transparent small whitebait and white fungus. It tastes very delicious. It is just a small cup, and one bowl for three people is almost not enough.

But that's how Qiao Yu's picky mouth can taste the difference. Ordinary people are still beyond the reach of the cooks in the first-class building.

There is a reason why this first-class building is expensive, as far as the ingredients in the eight-treasure gourd duck are concerned, ordinary restaurants must not be able to afford it.

Qiao Yu ate and ate, thinking for a while that if he really wanted to open a restaurant in the future, he definitely couldn't open it in front of Yipinlou, and he didn't really want to blatantly grab the business of Yipinlou, and what he wanted to do must be better than Yipinlou. Lou's is fresher, and the model must be different from Yipinlou's. He doesn't have so many helpers, and he needs to do many things by himself.

At that time, if Mr. Yan is not as busy as he is now, he can help his restaurant manage the accounts, and he will definitely pay him every day. Maybe he can attract some female customers with his face.

Qiao Yu thought about it, looked away from the chopsticks, and glanced at Lu Jincheng.

Then I don't know why I think this idea seems very interesting, and I can't help laughing.