Dragon Cub's Bizarre Adventure

And this means that it is almost impossible for Xiao Xiao to know which county and place this is, but this doesn't matter to the little brat who is sitting in the restaurant.

Being close to a big city means that the circulation of materials is convenient. It belongs to the satellite city of a large city. Usually, such a city is responsible for providing rice, noodles, vegetables and meat to the big city, and also shoulders the important responsibility of welcoming and sending, and supplying business travel. It means that even if The county looks small, but there are still large restaurants and guest houses, and the prices are much cheaper than those in big cities.

Because entering and leaving a big city usually requires a series of work such as road guidance and investigation, which is very slow in terms of ancient work efficiency, therefore, large caravans often need to stay in places like Guobei County for a period of time, Cargo into the city.

And counties like this are usually very loose in identity verification. Xiaoxiao opened a room in an inn without much effort, and no one checked the origin and documents.

In ancient times, hotels, inns, restaurants, restaurants, and guesthouses rose in order. The lowest level was hotels or restaurants. Sell ​​some fennel beans, for example, the Xianheng restaurant in Kong Yiji is such a shop.

It belongs to the food stalls for civilians. The higher-end ones are inns. The inns have a front and back yard, but most of them are bungalows. The kind of high-end inns in martial arts dramas are not for ordinary people, but for officials and large businesses. live in the team.

Inns began to sell staple food, delicacies, and also accommodation, which is equivalent to the level of modern hotels or guesthouses.

The next level up is the restaurant. Since it is called a building, it naturally has several floors. It is usually built in a place with beautiful scenery, and the name is usually called "so-and-so building". It is equivalent to the level of a modern five-star hotel and does not operate. Accommodation, but everything except accommodation.

It is not just a place to eat and drink in costume dramas. In fact, there are storytelling, playing and singing, singing and dancing here, and even large restaurants, private rooms in the backyard and several buildings, especially the restaurants in the Song Dynasty, and even cross-street restaurants. The sky bridge connects multiple buildings on both sides of the avenue.

The so-called performing arts on the overpass, and storytelling under the overpass refers to this kind of place. It is not a simple place to eat, but a comprehensive consumption place.

As for restaurants (generally called XX villas) and hotels (such as Siyi Pavilion), the former is equivalent to a modern private membership clubhouse, while the latter is a face-to-face unit run by the state, usually receiving foreign tribute envoys, or One is to receive the emperor's imperial envoys, and even used as the emperor's palace-it is not accessible to normal people at all.

The meaning of saying so much is that since it is called a restaurant, its scale is very large, it will store a large amount of ingredients and various service personnel, and the backstage is not too small. Upscale eating place.

The mistress here is a fine person, and he is not much less than the subordinates of the yamen. Looking at the purses around the two waists, the clothes on their bodies, and the domineering manner in which they speak, one knows that they should be taken care of. What kind of standard room should I go to, and when reporting the name of the dish, from what stall should I start reporting.

The so-called 360-line line is the number one scholar, this kind of restaurant waiter is not a waste that you find casually, these are all knowledge, and the dog-eyed people in the pretentious and face-slapping texts will not appear in it because If you really have no background and no money, you should be thrown out without entering the door.

However, what Xiao Er never expected was that these two distinguished guests were even more arrogant than the caravan leaders he had met before, and even the officials who traveled far and wide. Brother, this is not a street restaurant. Vegetables and rice are at least twice as expensive as outside, and they have to be twice as expensive in winter. Although there is indeed an ice cellar and everything you want to eat, it is expensive!

"All the dishes with meat will be ordered. If you don't have enough, ask for more. What's your signature dish? Roast pig, right? One head per person, what good wine is there? Get two full tanks!"

If it were an ordinary mistress, I would definitely ask you two if you have finished eating?However, the waiter in this restaurant called "Songhe Tower" would not ask such stupid questions, but just took a deep look at the two, and thoroughly remembered the appearance and expression of the two wealthy guests.

If they come back next time, they will naturally take them to the most satisfactory room and location, arrange their most satisfactory music and service, and even the meals can be prepared without the guest saying a word, everything is naturally given to Hao like a prophet Customers are served properly, which is the basic professional quality of the top consumption place in ancient times.

Different from the hypocrisy of modern people eating two bamboo shoots with a huge plate, ancient times could

Such extravagance and waste of food is the prerogative of the tyrannical family. Spending millions of dollars on a meal and complaining that there is no place to put chopsticks is the way to show off wealth at that time.

The speed of serving food is not fast, after all, the heat of the wood-fired stove is there, but cold dishes and snacks and dried fruits are served very quickly. The so-called four-dried fruit, four candied fruits, four fresh fruits, and four cold dishes are the formal hall banquets.

"Let's eat!" The little boy didn't feel any panic or nervousness at all, as if he was eating home-cooked food, he grabbed the chopsticks and started to eat, which made Xiaoer who was accompanying him dumbfounded.

In ancient times, there were no telephones, walkie-talkies, and no plastic menus. For this kind of restaurant, it is impossible for customers to go down to order or refill. , hot towels and other services.

These people have undergone rigorous training. Generally speaking, they are well-informed and will not show such an unprofessional expression of surprise, unless...

These first dishes were put down with almost no effort. These are things for the distinguished guests to pad their stomachs or mix their mouths before talking about things. It's a big stack.

Normal people stop talking after eating a little, but you o...

The attendants couldn't figure out where these two people came from. If they were starving ghosts who came to eat Bawang's meal, they didn't look like it from the posture of eating and the attitude towards a table full of good things, and they were eating like a frame. The preface is also perfectly in line with the Tasting of these things" Page O

In ancient times, this was not something that poor beggars could understand. It had to be a habit that had been eaten, played and seen, and even taken it for granted. Are you hungry?

This contradictory performance really confuses them, what is the origin of this?

But it didn't take long, and soon all kinds of hot dishes came up one by one. Strict training made these waiters almost instinctively start to help pour wine and prepare how to eat dishes.

To be honest, it was two female guests who came, otherwise, according to the usual practice, a beautiful girl could be called to sing a tune, and a few maids could be called to help with bone removal, stabbing and so on.

However, Xiaoxiao and Zhaoxia obviously don't need other people's help to do this. Bones and fish bones in their mouths are not much more difficult to deal with than Xiaocrispbones. Seeing the legs of the waiter next to him trembling, this posture doesn't look like they are here to eat, but rather As if to eat people.

"Could it be that you caused something dirty?" This was the thought in everyone's mind, but they didn't dare to show it, because those things were even more unreasonable.

"The cooked vegetables are quite delicious, but it's a pity that the frozen vegetables are not as good as the seasonal vegetables. However, the fresh fish from this ice cave is good, very fat and tender."

All kinds of meat and vegetables came up like flowing water, and then turned into empty plates and went down. Looking at the posture, the shopkeeper began to worry about some bad customers or unclean weird things, so he quickly asked someone to call Mr. Huang's to see what was going on. What a god.

To open such a big restaurant in Guobei County, it is impossible for black and white to have no background. In addition, the current world is not very good. It's easy to deal with people in the rivers and lakes and officials, but it's not so easy to deal with those weird things.

However, they didn't find anything in the running hall where they called people. Mr. Huang's family went to the empty building, saying that they had gone to visit relatives in the countryside, but who would go to the countryside this season? The old man's family is gone, and only a few beautiful maids are left in the old man's house.

"It's broken!" Cold sweat broke out on the shopkeeper's head. Obviously, this matter cannot be solved by the government or the people of the rivers and lakes, but the two backers who could solve it ran away again, "What did they order? It's all meat? All bones Did you eat it?" The expression on the shopkeeper's face changed from surprise to panic, and finally to deep despair, "It's a disaster, maybe the tiger from outside the city has come?"

The so-called tiger is the mountain god, and also refers to the Taoist tiger, not all

Both a tiger and a tiger demon can be called a tiger, and the one who can truly be called a tiger must have the right way

Yes, the ones with temples, in other words, at least the ones with low ghosts.

It's just that it is the basic principle of human relations to be a deputy, so an ordinary tiger or a tiger with a bit of morality will respectfully call him "Tiger", and there will even be places for worship and sacrifices such as "Tiger Temple" to avoid this. A beast that eats people.

Since it is a tiger, it is naturally a carnivore, and even the bones are chewed, which is obviously something that a tiger can do. However, since a tiger has a temple and the word Jun, it means that it is at least half a god, and it is enjoyed by the gods. Shinto enshrining should at least be reasonable—reasonableness can be regarded as a lawful camp.

This made the shopkeeper heave a sigh of relief, but when he thought of the tiger's appetite, he began to feel anxious again. If the food is not enjoyable, how can it be good to eat people in the city!

Just in the midst of apprehension, the kitchen assistant rushed over, "The shopkeeper, it's not good, the back kitchen has run out of meat, and even the old bacon hanging on the stove is sent up."

"The food is gone, and there is not even much rice and noodles left. The chef asked me to ask what's going on?"

Of course, this kind of restaurant has more than one chef, but the same method of assembly line operation, so there is fatigue, but it is not too serious, and for things like roasting pigs in the cellar, not many chefs are needed, but helpers are exhausted. many.

"Then, who is going to talk to those two?" The shopkeeper looked at the others, and all of them looked mournful. Isn't this a proposition?

"This pork is okay, let me guess. It is a whole suckling pig bled, smeared with seasoning sauce, stuffed with herbs and prepared soup cubes, and then hung by chains into a well heated by charcoal fire. or in the hearth?"

The inside is in a state of high temperature and overpressure, and after the door is closed, as the charcoal fire cools down, it gradually becomes a state of negative pressure, and then the pork is cooked little by little through this waste heat and the highly insulated furnace or well wall, and the negative pressure will make the skin dry. The sauce seeps in.

And the continuous temperature will make the herbs and stock cubes in the stomach boil at a low temperature, so that the whole pig is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and has a taste inside and out. , It is indeed worthy of the level of signature dishes.

"The guest officer is indeed an expert. You will know it as soon as you eat it. Please don't talk about it outside." This kind of secret recipe is the rice bowl of people's ancestors, and tongue "dui" is very hated.

"It's okay, is there anything else?" Xiaoxiao doesn't mind, she can eat, but she can't cook, she is not a green thing who can do everything, is she?

"Here, I'll go to the back kitchen to ask." Tang Xi tried to keep his composure and ran away. These two ate at least seven or eight sheep, four pigs, chicken eggs, countless rice noodles and vegetables. How could this be human? ?

I have to say that the black-haired age/", some girls with the appearance of attendants may be half human, but the other girl with yellow eyes is definitely not human!As soon as the eyes were mentioned, the little brother was shocked all over, and he almost didn't roll down the stairs. This girl's eyes are bright yellow, how can people have such eyes.

Only the tigers I met by chance in the countryside before had these eyes, not Niu Si, the moment she raised her head just now, and the tiger Lu Jun I saw in the countryside holding an old sheep from an unknown family. exactly the same.

Indifference, cruelty, hunger and thirst" Even in the warm pavilion, it is like being in a world of ice and snow, the whole person is cold from head to toe, but last time the tiger tiger just took a look at him, and went back to eat with the sheep in his mouth, and this time This time the thing is in front of me!

"The shopkeeper!" The little brother ran to the shopkeeper and whispered in his ear for a while, the sweat on the latter's forehead was even more serious. "

"Really! I'm afraid it's not the one from the tiger master's house I saw last time... Judging by the age, it should be like that."

"Young tiger is good, young tiger is good." The shopkeeper wiped his sweat, "Hurry up and ask someone to collect a few more sheep. If it doesn't work, go ask the people of Master Hu's family. Just say that Master Shan wants it, and they will give it to you." Here it is.” Cubs don’t eat that much, and cubs generally don’t

Since he hunts and eats blood, he should not be too hungry to catch people to eat. On the other hand, if he is not well served, it will be a lot of fun.

"They seem to have gone to buy ingredients, my lord."

"Well, that's fine, just let the kitchen rest for a while." Xiaoxiao took the tea indifferently, and signaled the waiter who had almost softened into noodles to stop serving, and the latter quickly disappeared in a fleeing gesture.

"My lord, do we have enough money?"

"I don't know, it doesn't matter if it's not enough." Xiaoxiao drank tea quietly, but her amber animal pupils could be narrowed. Paying for the Hui family's meals is the greatest gift. As for how much to pay, it's a matter of fate.

Chapter 150

Chapter 150

"Let's say it's enough to eat [-]% full." Xiaoxiao began to drink tea, "Xiaoer, pay the bill"

"Guest officer, you have a total of..." Xiaoer instinctively entered the career mode, but got stuck in the middle of the conversation, just kidding, does he really dare to let these two settle the bill?

"What's the matter? Is it difficult to count?" Xiao Xiao looked at him in confusion. The little brother was sweating constantly on his head. He did eat a lot, but it's not so difficult to count.

"Forget it, that's all, let's refund more and make up less." Xiaoxiao put the bag of bounties he just received on the table, and then went down with Zhaoxia.

"Guest officer, no, there is no need to make up, enough, enough," Xiaoer said repeatedly without even counting the money in the bag.

"By the way, let me ask a question, where is there an inn or a place where you can rent a house?" The wind, snow and cold in the wild don't cause any trouble to the kid, but it's like why people take a car when they can walk. Living in a house is much better than sleeping in the wild.

"In the East Street, there is an inn!" In fact, restaurants also provide short-term accommodation services. After all, some banquets often last for several days and nights, and it is impossible to have no place to sleep.

It’s just that who would dare to let these two sleep in their own restaurant? Reverse travel is similar to a homestay.

"Understood, I'll go now" Xiaoxiao nodded, but it was a bit difficult, the inn is different from the meal, and the money needs to be deposited first, so I have to go to other places to find the money, as for the little money I brought with me , It would be nice to be able to pay for the meal.

Curse, is there a blacksmith shop here?

"Yes, yes, yes, there is a blacksmith's shop in the west market, do you want...?"

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"Ask a small question, does the yamen not care about wearing swords or selling swords?" Xiao Xiao really wanted to ask this question, if he didn't care, then opening a weapon shop would be a good way to make money. Magical casting of weapons is absolutely magical Weapons, just go to the blacksmith shop and order some ore.

"It needs to be managed, but it can't be managed." Xiaoer said honestly. Most of the officials in the yamen are helpers and ancestral servants. They oppress the people very hard, but if it comes to arresting those thieves, the gangsters probably won't be able to do it.

Of course, this does not mean that they just eat dry food. In fact, for most ordinary people, the people in the rivers and lakes are similar to meteorites falling from the sky. Those who pick flowers on the wall are the ones who threaten their lives, and these local smugglers are still very powerful in arresting these people-if they really want to arrest them.

"Understood, so, as long as you don't get caught buying and selling swords, you're fine, right?"

"Um, you can't say that I said it." Xiao Er became a little nervous, the official could not do anything to these two inhuman creatures, but there was definitely a way to take him.

"Understood, by the way, are weapons expensive?"

"I don't know if I'm small, but I've heard from the high-roller guards in the past that a good knife costs thousands of dollars at least."

It's a thousand dollars..." Xiaoxiao rubbed her chin, is the price high or low? If it's in some martial arts novels, if you pay for a simple meal with silver, then it's very cheap.

But if it is the real ancient price, then thousands of dollars is almost an astronomical figure, which cannot be spent by normal people on normal food, drink and entertainment.

For example, the famous flower banquet in Beili in the Tang Dynasty, including eating, prostitution and sleeping, after a day and a night, the personal expenses were only 300 yuan (yes, 300 yuan).

Of course, this is also because the value of ancient copper coins is actually quite high, and they have been in a state of deflation caused by money shortage for a long time, so they have to use other things as supplements. For most ordinary people, currency transactions above 400 coins are barely noticeable.

For example, with a small amount of food, if you are a vegetarian, your daily food intake is about 3 to 4 tons, which is 8000 catties of grain, which is equivalent to about 640 buckets of weights and measures in the Tang Dynasty. Only 1280 coins are enough (Gudou 2 coins) o

According to the price in the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the price was less than 300 yuan (five yuan for grain stone, 69 kilograms for one stone in Han Dynasty). Expenses do not exceed usual money.

Therefore, the price of one qian was quite scary in ancient times. A landlord family with hundreds of acres of land did not pay taxes all year round, did not eat, drink, or save seeds, and could earn four to five thousand qian at most.

That is to say, if a knife is sold for thousands of dollars, it means that a landlord family has to save a few years to save the money for a good knife to support a child who learns martial arts. You count the problem of armor, eating meat, and coaching, and you don’t have money to learn martial arts!

"So, I'm curious about where the money of those Jianghu people come from?" Zhaoxia is also very curious about this question. As a Japanese, she knows where the money of some swordsmen comes from. It refers to the method of weapons), but these chivalrous men in Middle-earth seem to have no business, and they despise being a dog for the government, so where does the money come from?

"It's the same as our money." After leaving Songhe Tower, Xiao Xiao explained in a low voice, "Part of it came from black people, for example, after the bandit village was wiped out, those

If the money is soft, they will naturally take it away, part of it comes from the pocket money distributed by the sect, and the sect's money comes from the sect's own property, such as those bald donkeys, but there are thousands of hectares of fertile land and thousands of tenants. In the end...he came in the same way as us.”

Catching wanted criminals and going to the government to exchange rewards, for the government, it is also happy to outsource law and order to these Jianghu people. After all, only those who come back alive need to be rewarded, right?It's much easier than organizing the civilian man Ding Zhuang to suppress and arrest the bandits by himself, and it's not easy to lose manpower. You only need to pay some money.

Moreover, the money was collected by local wealthy households who were harassed by heroes or bandits. It may be said that these subordinates still played a role in it. For example, the reward of 3000 yuan turned into 30 yuan in the end.

"It turns out that establishing a genre is so profitable. Should we establish a genre? Not only will we not have to run around, but we can also get a lot of money."