Datang: Empress mother-in-law sent Li Er to test me

"This way of eating is novel, and it's the first time I've tried eating like this."

"Hahaha, who said no, but it feels pretty good."

"This is the first course. I don't know what the second course is?"

Everyone looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen, waiting for Zhang Dun to appear.

Soon, Zhang Dun came out again.

This time, he was carrying two wooden barrels in his hands.

Seeing that all the dishes on the round wooden plate were clean, Zhang Dun was stunned for a moment, "Eat so fast? The rice has just been steamed, don't you just eat it with rice?"

"..." Everyone stared at him like wolves, and someone couldn't help saying: "Stop talking nonsense, and serve the food quickly!"

Zhang Dun looked at them dumbfounded, is it so delicious?This twice-cooked pork is not authentic, and it is much worse than the modern twice-cooked pork.

But he didn't expect that the first meal he made back in Datang was quite popular.

Zhang Dun stopped talking nonsense, and put one of the wooden barrels filled with rice directly on the table.

Then he pulled out the cooking spoon from his waist, put it into another wooden barrel, and scooped out the vegetables and placed them on another row of clean wooden plates.

"The second dish is called scallion fried lamb."

"It's still an old saying, don't waste it, it's shameful to waste it, and collect money if you don't finish eating!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Dun ran back to the back kitchen with a cooking spoon in one hand and an empty wooden bucket in the other.

waste?Everyone stared at his back in silence, you just order food like this, who is enough for it?

Soon, everyone stood up, ran to the table like a fly, picked up wooden clips and empty plates, and started to pick up vegetables.

"Don't grab it, save some for me!"

"Didn't you hear what he said just now? It's shameful to waste it. Why are you taking it all away? Have you finished eating?"

"I have a big appetite, this is not enough for me!!"

Looking at the figures queuing up to grab food, Hu Guang's jaw almost dropped in shock. It's the first time he's been rushing to eat after opening a restaurant for so long!

In the next second, Hu Guang clenched his fists excitedly, rushing to eat, okay, rushing to eat means that these dishes are really delicious, so they can't come again?

Chapter 21 Zhang Dun's Department Store Wholesale

For a moment, what Zhang Dun did formed a thread in his mind, which made Hu Guang feel suddenly enlightened.

Zhang Dun sent something yesterday to arouse their curiosity so that they can come to Zuixianlou for dinner today.

And today's food is the most important thing.

As long as the diners find it delicious, they will become repeat customers.

Once they become repeat customers, the business of Zuixianlou will flourish.

What puzzled Hu Guang was that there was one thing he couldn't figure out.

Why can't these people buy the things that Zhang Dun prepared yesterday in Chang'an City?

Where did Zhang Dun buy it from?

At this time, Zhang Dun came out carrying a wooden bucket and a spoon in his hand.

All of a sudden, everyone's eyes were fixed on the wooden barrel in his hand.

Zhang Dun scooped it out of the wooden barrel onto a round wooden plate with a cooking spoon, and said loudly, "The last dish is called Pepper Chicken Ding."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Dun returned to the back kitchen with a cooking spoon and wooden bucket, and walked out quickly.

Immediately, Zhang Dun was astonished to find that there was not a single bit of diced pepper chicken left in the round wooden plate.

"Where's the food?" Zhang Dun looked at Hu Guang who was standing aside and asked.

Hu Guang couldn't help but point to the people in the lobby who were eating sullenly, and said, "They have taken it all."

Zhang Dun glanced at the lobby, and also smiled.

"good to eat!"

"This is the first time I have eaten such dishes."

"It's completely different from the food in Dingsheng Building."

It didn't take long for everyone to belch after eating, talking with a relaxed face, and at the same time giving Zhang Dun a thumbs up.

Zhang Dun smiled, walked to the piled up wooden boxes, and took out cloth bags with three large characters of "Zuixianlou" exquisitely written on them.

"Everyone, I told you just now." Zhang Dun beckoned and asked Hu Guang to come over to help, and while handing out cloth bags to everyone present, he said:

"Today, anyone who can come to Zuixianlou for consumption will get a gift from Zuixianlou."

"It's this cloth bag."

"Everything in the cloth bag is my Zuixianlou's stuff."

"There is a jar of Erguotou, candles, soap, popcorn, rock sugar, and pickles."

"There are also special gifts, white salt, toothbrush, soy sauce, toothpaste, toilet paper!"

"You can use it when you go back."

Zhang Dun said with a smile: "This is also a gift for today only. Tomorrow, Zuixianlou will not give it away. If you want these more, you can only come to Zuixianlou!"

It was said that all the people present were happy, they were full and they could bring back a gift, and everyone's favor towards Zuixianlou was doubled.

"I'll come back tomorrow."

"Prepare more meals tomorrow, I don't have enough to eat today."

"That's right, it's not enough to eat at all."

"You just prepare the meals, and you can't miss your meal money!"

As everyone said, they got up one after another, bowed their hands to Zhang Dun one by one, and then strode away from Zuixian Tower.

Zhou Ji, Zhou Jin and his son were among them.

"The food in Zuixianlou is really good." On the way home, Zhou Ji rubbed his stomach and said with satisfaction.

Zhou Jin nodded and said, "This is the first time my boy has eaten such dishes, and the taste is very strange."

Zhou Ji glanced back at Zuixianlou, tut-tsk said: "I don't know what method he used, don't ask, so as not to embarrass each other, this method is the secret of making money."

"The gift bag given by Zuixianlou, is there Erguotou in it?"

Zhou Jin opened it, took a look, nodded and said, "Yes!"

"Let's go home and drink!" Zhou Ji laughed loudly, "It's better to drink comfortably."

Back home, the two walked into the hall and sat down cross-legged. Zhou Ji took a cloth bag from Zhou Jin and poured out the contents.

As Zhang Dun said, there was a small wine jar inside, and Zhou Ji muttered: "This is enough for anyone to drink, Zhou Jin, and your share is also for the father."

Reluctantly, Zhou Jin handed him the small wine jug in his hand, saying from the bottom of his heart that he actually wanted to drink it too.

The taste of Erguotou is only served in Zuixianlou in Chang'an City, and there is no place selling this wine in other places.

It seems that I will go to Zuixianlou a lot in the future!Zhou Jin thought about it.

"What is this!" Suddenly, an exclamation sounded from beside him.

Zhou Jin was taken aback, looked at Zhou Ji who was wide-eyed, and said in astonishment, "Father, what's wrong with you?"

With a touch of eagerness in Zhou Ji's voice, he pointed to a small box on the copybook in front of him, and said in a trembling voice, "Look at this."

Zhou Jin looked down and saw a handful of white particles in the small box.

Zhou Ji said in a deep voice, "Pinch a handful and try it."

Zhou Jin hurriedly followed what he said, squeezed a pinch into his mouth and sipped it, his eyes widened a little, "It tastes so salty."

Zhou Ji said solemnly: "Nonsense, can it be salty?"

"No!" Zhou Jin reacted, his expression changed slightly: "Salt doesn't taste like this!"

"Have you tasted it?" Zhou Ji lowered his head and stared straight at the white salt in the wooden box, and said in a deep voice, "Salt really shouldn't taste like this."

"The salt sold in the east and west cities of the Tang Dynasty is green salt, which has a bitter taste when eaten."

"But this white salt is white and bright, and the color is different from green salt, especially the taste, which has no bitter taste!"

"Then explain something!"

Zhou Ji looked at Zhou Jin, and said word by word: "This white salt is better than the quality of green salt!"

"How is it possible!" Zhou Jin exclaimed.

Those who can eat salt in Chang'an City are rich families. Now that green salt is in short supply, some poor families can only live on vinegar cloth.

But at this time, white salt of better quality than green salt appeared in Chang'an City.

How did Zuixianlou do it?

"Could it be that this is the secret of Zuixianlou's delicious food?" Zhou Jin muttered to himself.

Suddenly, Zhou Jin felt a pain in the back of his head, he yelled out, and turned his head to look at Zhou Ji who hit him with aggrieved face.

Zhou Ji glared at him and said, "If you eat, you will know how to eat. Is this a matter of taste?"

"You shouldn't think about it, how did Zuixianlou get this white salt?"

"There's no way to know." Zhou Jin shook his head and said, "This is a secret, even if we tell him, Zuixianlou won't tell us."

Zhou Ji suddenly said: "If he doesn't tell us, can he not tell the court?"

Hearing this, Zhou Jin was taken aback, "Father, are you going to present this matter to His Majesty?"

"This matter is no small matter!" Zhou Ji buckled the wooden box containing white salt, took the royal official robe and Xiezhi crown brought by Zhou Jin, put the wooden box in his sleeve and said: "The matter of white salt is related to me. The land of the Tang Dynasty cannot be delayed for the sake of my father!"

"Go to the palace for my father, you are waiting at home, you are not allowed to steal those two jars of Erguotou, if you dare to steal it, you will not be spared!"

After finishing speaking, Zhou Ji strode towards the outside of the mansion with a dignified expression.

But at this time, not only Zhou Jin's family, but also the people who got a cloth bag gift from the Drunken Immortal Tower all exclaimed at home.

Chapter 22 Li Er's Shock

"This toothbrush is much better than willow branches, and toothpaste is also better than green salt."

"How did the Drunken Immortal Tower be built?"

"Why does this stuff taste so good when seasoned? Zuixianlou calls it soy sauce?"

"What does this toilet paper mean? How to use it?"

"Is the paper too small for writing?"

"Why are there so many treasures in Zuixianlou? Why don't they all have anything to do with eating?"

"Zuixian Tower, is it a restaurant?"

In each market, exclamations kept ringing out, and at the same time, the stuff of Zuixianlou was constantly spreading among the various markets.

As for Zuixianlou, after sending away hundreds of people who came to eat, Hu Guang stood at the door with his arms around his shoulders and looked at Zhang Dun with resentful eyes.

Zhang Dun laughed and said, "Brother Hu, why do you have such an expression?"

Hu Guang broke his heart and said: "Brother Zhang, we Zuixianlou have not made a single penny in the past two days, we are only losing money, do you know that?"

Zhang Dun patted him on the shoulder and said patiently: "Don't worry, tomorrow is when we make money."

"Hey, there is still time for Zuixianlou to make money?"

At this moment, a piercing voice sounded in the ears of the two of them.

The owner of the Dingsheng Building walked over with his hands behind his back, smiling, looked at the two of them and said:

"I heard that you Zuixianlou gave money to people early in the morning. If someone hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten that you run a restaurant."

Zhang Dun looked at him with a smile on his face, raised a finger, and said, "You still have a day."

The owner of the Dingsheng Building was stunned, and then he clicked his tongue and said in amazement: "You still want to steal my business from Dingsheng Building?"

"Take a good look."