Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 34 "One Product"

When Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai walked up to the second floor, there were more than ten eyes staring at them in the lobby on the first floor, and took note of their appearance.

These people, without exception, are all from the martial arts world.

Among them, there are invitees who came to participate in the Young Heroes Meeting like Sun Huang, some seniors who came to Luoyang to watch the excitement, and some local snakes... and the reason why they took a look at this is because they all understand this. The "upstairs" of the non-return building are not so easy to go to.

Anyone who knows the business knows that there are three floors in this Bugui building.

The lobby on the first floor is the busiest place on weekdays. If you have money, you can sit down and eat, but the price is really not cheap.

The second floor is called "Zhixian Pavilion". There are several private rooms and a huge kitchen that is set up separately from the back kitchen on the first floor. On weekdays, most of the time, the second floor is empty of guests. , because there is a rule for eating on the second floor - you have to pass the three levels of "first product", "one eye" and "one word" before you can eat the food on the second floor.

If you don't go up, it's fine, but if you go up, but you don't pass the third level, then I'm sorry; not only will you not be entertained on the second floor, but you won't be able to enter the first floor in the future, you will be considered as up This does not belong to Lou's "blacklist".If you dare to come again, you will be thrown out directly at the gate.

You want to ask why?It's simple because you're overwhelmed.

Bosses who don't return to the building hate this kind of overreaching people the most.

Of course, if you want to argue with the boss, that’s fine, the boss is on the third floor; the third floor is named "Sifeiju" by him, where the boss lives and eats. If you want to "complain", you can go up and talk to him yourself. Boss chat.

Anyway, in these years, there are not a few people who go in vertically to complain, and come out horizontally and express "very satisfied".

Even if those famous people in Luoyang City come, they still have to abide by the boss's rules, without exception; that is to say, no matter how rich you are, as long as you can't pass the third level, you are not worthy of sitting on the second floor, so you have to be obedient Stay on the ground floor.

Over time, the people who went up to "bring shame on themselves" basically disappeared.

As for the distinguished guests who can go up to the second floor, there is no doubt that they are very capable people, such as... Shen Youran, who can go to Zhixian Pavilion to eat at will; however, most people at his level are very busy, If you don’t have time to go here every day, if you have time, you may not have so much spare money... After all, the food on the second floor is more expensive than the one on the first floor.

However, tonight, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, two Jiang Husheng faces who looked like they were only seventeen or eighteen years old, actually walked up like this.

There is no doubt... those who saw this scene in the lobby on the first floor were already waiting to see their jokes.

"These two boys must not understand the rules here, or they are ignorant and fearless. I guess they will be kicked out without much effort." ——This is the vast majority of people present... No, it should be said that everyone noticed them people have the same idea.

This conjecture is actually not wrong, but... the world is unpredictable.

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"Two guests, please sit here for a while, and the villain will go and inform the gentleman." The person who welcomed the guests led Sun and Huang to the second floor, and left them in a place similar to the front hall, and then Turn around and leave.

Here, although there are seats and small tables for teacups, no one serves them tea, and there are no fruit bowls, snacks and the like.

"What the hell?" Sun Yixie was a little annoyed at the sight of the other party leaving, "What's the matter with this restaurant? I come to have a meal and see 'Mr.'? Don't you have to pass the exam before eating ?”

What he said casually, he was probably right.

"I don't know either." Huang Donglai continued, "But I took a look around on the first floor just now, the food here is really good, maybe we went into that kind of very awesome restaurant, so there are many rules? "

"Hmm..." Sun Yixie thought for a while, "You put it this way...it seems to be possible, but if you open the door to do business, can you still set up rules that prevent others from consuming?"

"It's hard to say." Huang Donglai is still a martial arts family after all. Even though he hasn't been to the rivers and lakes, he still has heard of some strange people and strange things. "I really heard that there is a store that sets a threshold for consumption. There is one called "Zhuangyuan Building". The best banquet in it can't be bought with money, so you have to exchange it with poems or pairs. "

"Get lost!" Sun Yixie curled his lips, "Did I go to a private school seriously?"

The two of them were chatting like this when they suddenly heard footsteps.

Not long after, a thin figure came from the direction where the greeter left.

The man was about 40 years old, not tall, with a beard, white face, and rosy nose. He was dressed as a literati, with a paper fan in his hand, and his steps were light. When he spoke, he heard a Shaoxing accent: "My lord, Xue Tui, the word light official , I donated the number one 'Little Dezu', I haven't asked for advice yet..."

Maybe it was stimulated by Huang Donglai just now, or maybe it was because he heard that the literati greeted him in a very forceful way. Sun Yixie was also on a whim, and he opened his mouth and said: "It's easy to say, and Sun Yixie, the word 'Yifeng', is called 'Neptune'."

Huang Donglai was listening, and almost laughed out loud, but after thinking about it, it was quite amusing, so he jokingly continued: "Then I am Huang Donglai, whose name is 'Gongren', and whose name is 'Old Immortal Xudong'." .”

After hearing the self-introduction of the two illiterates, Xue Tui was startled.

He murmured in his heart: "Where did these two guys come from? They came up to make fun of us? I don't know where we are here? Or did they come up on purpose to find trouble?"

I think so, but he won't turn his face in just a few words.

Xue Tui thought for a few seconds, and still said in his slightly arrogant tone: "Okay, since Mr. Sun and Mr. Huang have come up, it shows that you are also prepared, and I will not say more about the rules... He paused, and glanced at the two of them, "Then, who of you two has come to this 'First Grade' pass?"

Here I have to explain that the three levels of "Yipin", "Yiyan" and "Yiyan" of Zhixian Pavilion do not have to be completed by one person; because one private room here can accommodate eight people to eat at the same table, so As long as some of these eight people can pass these three levels, it doesn't matter whether you pass three levels alone, or three people each pass one level; but one thing remains the same... Each level can only be challenged once, If you fail, you can’t start over with a replacement, and after you fail, all eight of you at the same table will be blacklisted in the future.

"Uh..." When they heard this sentence, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai both recalled it a little bit - it seems that they guessed it just now and they guessed it right.

But the matter has come to this point, the face-loving grandson must pretend to be understanding and swollen his face to pretend to be fat. So, after a short hesitation, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and took a step forward: "I'm coming!"

"Heh..." Xue Tui sneered in his heart, as if he had read something from the expressions of the two, but he didn't say anything, but continued calmly, "Okay, this way please."

After finishing speaking, he turned around leisurely with his hands behind his back, and led the two of them along the corridor.

After turning two corners, the three of them came to a fairly spacious teahouse, where an old man was already waiting.

Sun and Huang just glanced at it, and they knew that the old man was a cook, and he was a famous cook.

In Dazhu, people pay much attention to their clothes. Generally speaking, the colors are red, green, blue, gold, blue, soap, tea, and white; , towel; of course, there are actually far more than these 64 [-] kinds of correspondence, here is just a general list of some of the most common combinations.

Most of these common colors and styles have certain symbolic meanings. They can not only symbolize status, professional characteristics, and sometimes refer to the five elements, directions, or characters... These characteristics are widely used in today's opera stage. There is a certain inheritance, but there are not many people who are interested.

Cooks, in those days, were regarded as a relatively humble profession, and they were supposed to wear green; but if cooks were famous and rich, they could also wear red, because the Stove King belongs to fire.

And go up one level, the imperial chef has a special official robe, and a "fire skirt" around the official robe is used for work.

If the imperial chef quits one day...the ones who are kicked out don't count...the few who can leave the palace safely will not be allowed to wear official robes, but the fire skirts can be kept.

In addition, the waist badges used by cooks in the palace can also be brought out.

The waist card is divided into Yin and Yang parts, on which two carp tails are engraved, with one tail facing upwards and the other facing upwards. The sunken one is the negative card; in the palace, the in and out and the palace guards each hold one, and the two cards can be passed through when the two cards fit together during the inspection, which is very ingenious.

When the cook leaves the palace, he can take the yang card with him, and the yin card will be destroyed directly; after leaving the palace, this waist card will be your status symbol as an imperial cook... Of course, this operation requires money, and the eunuchs and guards will be more expensive. You have to be filial, or they will take your badge away.

Right now, the old man in front of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai has a waist badge and a fire skirt around his body, so his identity is self-evident.

"Old man Yuan Fangzhi, I have met the two sons." After Xue Tui's brief introduction, Yuan Fangzhi also bowed, and then asked, "I don't know... what kind of ingredients does Sun Gongzi want to 'taste'?"

When Sun Yixie heard this question, he realized that the so-called "Yipin" meant to taste food, and he replied, "So how many kinds can you choose?"

"Heh..." Yuan Fangzhi had exchanged glances with Xue Tui just now, knowing that the two boys in front of him probably came in by mistake, so he replied with a somewhat arrogant attitude, "Heaven and earth, mountains and seas, birds and beasts , Mizuki fruit flower...anything is fine."

When Sun Yixie heard this, he thought that this old guy was very arrogant, he was jumping at my face, and he was already a little hungry, so he couldn't help getting a little bit evil: "Oh... that is Said, those who fly, those who run underground, those who swim in the river, those who jump in the grass nest... can be all right?"

His passage is a word in a cross talk, and Huang Donglai has heard it before, and knows that once the other party agrees, Brother Sun will have to say "wipe the ass paper" next.

Huang Donglai felt that being arrogant would not help them eat faster, and if the other party really took out the butt wipes for Sun Ge, Sun Ge might suffer severely, so he hurriedly stopped: "Okay, okay... Sun Brother, do me a favor, Bie Nima is dead, okay?"

His vulgar words made Xue Tui and Yuan Fangzhi frown, but Sun Yixie really listened: "Okay."

Sun Yixie took another deep breath, paused, and then said to Yuan Fangzhi: "Then I... will choose 'fish'."

"Oh?" When Yuan Fangzhi heard the word "fish", his expression was a little subtle, and he immediately smiled, "Heh...Okay, okay, my lord, wait a moment." After speaking, he turned and ran to the kitchen.

In less than a cup of tea, Yuan Fangzhi returned with a large tray.

On the tray, there are five small plates, each of which contains something; at first glance, each plate is fish, but it is obviously impossible to know what they are just by looking at them.

Yuan Fangzhi quickly stacked the plates on the table next to Sun Yixie's seat, then stood aside, looked at Sun Yixie with a smile and said, "Mr. Sun... please."

Obviously, in Yuan Fangzhi's mind, Sun Yixie has already brought his own destruction to this test.

You said that if you choose pork, tofu, etc., you may have a chance to guess the origin of the ingredients, or at least guess how they are made; like black pigs, white pigs, Jinhua pigs, fried and boiled in the south and north, most people Still heard.

fish?With the aquatic knowledge and fishing techniques of that era, even the fishermen sometimes couldn't figure out what they were catching; taking a step back, even the fish that the public is familiar with are extremely diverse... So, this Arguably the most difficult choice.

But Yuan Fangzhi never expected...

"Heh...that's it?" Sun Yixie hadn't moved his chopsticks yet, but just glanced at the contents of the five plates, and showed a disdainful smile on his face.

This time, the smile on Yuan Fangzhi's face disappeared instead, because he faintly felt that the other party was not bluffing.

Tuk Tuk.

Sun Yixie lazily picked up the chopsticks, shook them on the table twice, and then tasted them one by one: "Anglefish liver, boiled with white wine." Before he finished speaking, his second chopsticks After going out, the aftertaste of the previous piece of fish was still in his mouth, so he ate the second dish, "Puffer sashimi, let's add a few drops of soy sauce." Then, the third bite, "Barracuda Dried, marinated with chili, salt, cooking wine, onion, ginger, garlic, etc." The fourth bite, "Mackerel, steamed until softened and mixed with tempeh." Finally, when the fifth bite of fish was put into his mouth, he again Smiled, "Heh... As for the method of the last whitebait, let's make do with it; considering that you cooked five kinds in such a short period of time... Oh no, dried barracuda should be ready-made... Four kinds of fish were cooked , It is indeed difficult, so the cooking method is rough, so I don't care about it."

Huang Donglai wasn't surprised by Brother Sun's pretense, after all, they knew each other well.

But Xue Tui and Yuan Fangzhi are stupid...

Xue Tui was stunned there, thinking: "Did I miss it? Could it be that they were deliberately nonsense when they reported their names just now? Wait...he seemed to say that he is 'Sea King' just now?"

Yuan Fangzhi was even worse, his face was crooked; Sun Yixie not only said what fish he took out of the "five grades" and how to do it, but also mentioned the term "sashimi" which he had heard for the first time. As if he knew better than him.

Yuan Fangzhi thought to himself: I was not educated like this when I was cooking for the emperor's empress?What is this called?
But his idea is actually a dead end - what does the emperor know about this?They don't even know how much an egg costs per catty, and they don't even know how to make meat out of water, so of course they can't challenge you; but Sun Yixie has been dealing with the fish market for two lifetimes, you are hypocritical with him ?It's like a human swimmer discussing diving with an Atlantean.

"Hmph...the tone is not small." Sure enough, Yuan Fangzhi pondered for a while, but he was still not convinced, "It is true that Mr. Sun guessed what my five-flavored fish are, and passed the level of 'Yipin', but you have to say The old man’s way of doing the whitebait is still ‘just enough’, but the old man wants to ask you a question or two.”

The translation of this sentence is: "You said I can't do it, right? Then you can you up, and you can show me one."

In fact... it's a bit of a nonsense.

But Sun Yixie doesn't mind fighting against the other party in this kind of situation that is sure to win: "Okay, come on, where is the kitchen?" He got up while talking, and turned his head to Huang Donglai by the way He said, "Brother Huang, come here together. I'll make an appetizer for us first."

(End of this chapter)