Liuxiang

Another morning, the thin mist dissipated before the sun rose.

Repeatedly, golden light spread down from the sky, illuminating most of the places in an alley.

Kidnapping belongs to yesterday, cooking time belongs to everyday.

Yi Baitang was in a good mood today, so he opened the door early, and the end of the sun passed over the lintel, and climbed up the bar in a zigzag way, illuminating a pair of slender hands that were standing on the bar.

Compared with other shops that were so busy at breakfast time, Yi Baitang's restaurant had been open for an hour and no one came in, so after repeatedly wiping the kitchen, tables and chairs spotless, he leisurely Sitting idly behind the bar to make a small ornament, he casually knocked out the shell of a duck egg, drained all the yolk and egg white inside, and cut open a mango to dig out the body and head of the chick. Insert a piece of hawthorn in the position as the red mouth, and finally put two black eyes, and then put the chick into the eggshell, it is a chick that has just broken its shell.

While sculpting this chicken, Yi Baitang gained a kind of spiritual stability and joy.

Before he could continue to use ingredients to make farmhouses and grass fences, three people suddenly entered the deserted shop, and the first one yelled loudly: "Boss, here are three bowls of wontons!"

Yi Baitang looked up at them.

The three people who came in were all stout men in their thirties. After they entered the store with a clear goal, they put together the two tables in the corner against the wall by hand. After sitting down, they looked back and forth in the store. Something, the eyes are very flickering.

Yi Baitang put down the carving knife in his hand: "You are not here to eat."

Now, the three men who were looking at the store all focused their eyes on Yi Baitang. The leader patted the table hard, stood up and snorted coldly: "You are open for business, we come to eat, do you want to eat? Things are not up to us, so should you be up to it?"

He has a ferocious face and a very loud voice, not to mention this shop, even the whole street can hear his yelling. In an instant, the restaurant at the corner of the alley attracted many hidden eyes, and a person who was originally The customers who had already walked to the front of the restaurant hesitated looking at the situation in the store, then turned and walked in other directions.

Yi Baitang glanced at them calmly, turned around and entered the kitchen without saying anything, and after a while, brought out three bowls of wontons.

In a big white bowl like a bamboo hat, with clear soup as the base, nine fat white wontons fluctuated with the water, sprinkled with a layer of finely chopped green onions and a handful of shrimp skins, and there was billowing steam coming out of the soup surface. It looks very attractive.

When the three bowls of wontons were on the table, Yi Baitang turned his back and walked back to the bar, one of the three people sitting around the table raised his hand, and there was a dead fly in his palm.

But the person who spoke first waved his hand to signal to his companions not to worry, and stirred the bowl with a spoon very confidently, and sure enough, he saw that there were still contents under the white and fat wontons, and pieces of square orange-red objects were turned out. Immediately took a bite, spit it out on the ground without tasting anything, and threw the bowl down, and yelled angrily: "What the hell are you doing, which chef would put mango pieces in it?" into wontons!"

Amid the sound of porcelain shattering, Yi Baitang was also furious:

What am I cooking?Even if you don't respect food at all, do you understand the inspiration that comes from chefs? !

"Hmm... what happened here?"

Just when the battle was about to break out, a voice suddenly came from the door, and Shang Huaiyan walked in slowly in a suit and leather shoes.

The three big men who were originally full of anger calmed down when they saw an outsider coming; then they saw that this outsider seemed a little bit difficult to provoke, and suddenly felt that today was almost the same, and they could calm down and fight again in the future.They exchanged glances at each other, and the remaining two also threw the wonton bowls to the ground and smashed them to pieces. Just now they filed out of the shop, and they didn't forget to say: "Don't think that this is the end of the matter, I'll settle the score with you later!"

Shang Huaiyan looked at the backs of these people thoughtfully, then turned to Yi Baitang: "Who are these people?"

"I don't know." Yi Baitang replied absently.

He looked at the debris on the ground in distress, thinking that it had not been two hours since the store opened, and he had to clean up again...

"I think they are a bit like collecting protection fees in this area. Have you ever come here to hint that you have to pay protection fees?" Shang Huaiyan asked according to the usual situation, but he didn't wait for an answer for a long time. Seeing that he has seriously started to clean up the garbage, sweep the ground, and mop the floor over and over again, until there is no trace of food and oil stains on the ground, then he stops his actions and takes out the garbage to throw away.

After throwing the garbage, Yi Baitang did not return to the shop immediately, but stood at the door of the shop, looked up at the name of the shop above, and remained silent for a long time.

Just when Shang Huaiyan was guessing whether the other party was worrying about the three people just now, Yi Baitang suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Shang Huaiyan: "Tell me, change the name of my "You Home Restaurant" to Red Stewed How about chicken rice or Shaxian Dae?"

"..." Shang Huaiyan, the topic turned [-] degrees without warning, he almost bit his own tongue, "Why, why?"

"In this case, the business of my shop should be better?" Yi Baitang guessed.

"Do you want better business?" Shang Huaiyan was refreshed, he thought this is his strength!

"Of course." Yi Baitang said seriously, "I have a lot of cooking ideas, but there are only a few customers who come every day, and I can't fully implement my cooking ideas, which is very distressing."

This reason seems a bit out of line with the mainstream... Shang Huaiyan felt a little strange, but he didn't think deeply about it. When it comes to business matters, he has a lot of things to say, such as location, positioning, and marketing, but he first put these boring Pressed the content into his stomach, and said to Yi Baitang: "Shall we chat while eating?"

Yi Baitang's eyes on the restaurant's signboard immediately fell on Shang Huaiyan.

There was a hint of joy in his tone: "Have you not eaten yet?"

Shang Huaiyan was also happy: "Not yet."

It turns out that besides a good tongue, the new friend also has a heart to try and a stomach that is free most of the time!

Yi Baitang felt a little secretly happy, and gave the other party a compliment. To avoid being too eager, he paused for a moment before nodding reservedly: "I just made wontons this morning, you can try taste."

Saying that, Yi Baitang walked into the kitchen, took out another bowl of wontons, and placed them on Shang Huaiyan's table.

Shang Huaiyan immediately smelled the aroma of wontons, which was vaguely mixed with a particularly sweet smell.

The sweet smell mixed in the wonton aroma was like a small hook, hooking Shang Huaiyan's rare appetite.

He scooped up a wonton with a spoon, and was about to praise Yi Baitang's craftsmanship, when he saw a piece of mango suddenly appear under the wonton.

There was a thunderbolt in the clear sky.

he:"……"

Just at this time, a couple of male and female friends passed by the store, and the woman said to the man, "Why is this store still open?"

"what happened?"

"I'm famous for always cooking dark dishes. You definitely don't want to know what I ate here last time."

"What did you eat?"

“Snail Fried Rice.”

"..."

"I ordered fried rice, and when it was served, snails were actually placed around the fried rice." The woman who spoke up to this point glanced sympathetically at Shang Huaiyan before entering the next door with her boyfriend. Inside the Shaxian snacks.

In a restaurant, Yi Baitang looked at Shang Huaiyan expectantly, urging Shang Huaiyan to eat quickly.

Shang Huaiyan paused for a while, finally mustered up the courage, and took a bite of boiled mango wonton.

he:"……"

Yi Baitang endured it, and endured it again, but he still couldn't hold back: "How does it taste?"

Shang Huaiyan: "It's...it's not that bad." Wontons are wontons flavored with mangoes. Mangoes are mangoes with salty and umami flavors. It's not really bad, but it feels weird to eat. He didn't have the courage to take another bite, so he put down the spoon without any trace, and asked Yi Baitang, "Why do you want to add mangoes to the wontons?"

Yi Baitang said without hesitation, "The mango is right by my hand."

So just add whatever you have on hand? !Shang Huaiyan's hand trembled suddenly.

Yi Baitang added: "And I haven't tried mango wontons yet."

So you add whatever comes to mind? !Shang Huaiyan's hand shook again!

He seemed to suddenly understand why someone who should be a five-star chef would appear in a small roadside shop, and he also managed the small roadside shop so that the business was bleak.

This is really—terrible!

Yi Baitang continued to look at Shang Huaiyan expectantly.

He is still waiting for this good tongue to suggest new dishes in front of him.

This time Shang Huaiyan really didn't have the idea of ​​guessing the mysterious person behind the counter at all. He was silent for a long time and asked the other party a very serious question: "This store...does it really have repeat customers?"

Yi Baitang was taken aback for a moment, and after a moment, he pondered: "Yes—yes."

Shang Huaiyan couldn't believe it.