Raising villains in Chronicles

An old diner who often comes to Tian Rui's house to eat, approached Tian Rui mysteriously and said: "I have an old friend coming this week, can you reserve a table for barbecue in advance?"

Tian Rui just wanted to say no, but the old diner predicted Tian Rui's words and added: "He is Huang Yu, a gourmet from the capital."

The other party came to the provincial capital for a tour. The old diner had some friendship with him when he was an educated youth team. Now that there are so many delicious foods in the county town, he also intends to show off his current life to his old friends. But the other party came It was just in time for the weekend, and the kebab shop lined up very fiercely on weekends.

These old diners can wait for a bite.Those who have never eaten can't wait so long, so they consulted with Tian Rui in advance.

Tian Rui remembered this old diner, when he set up a barbecue stall, he came to report regardless of the weather.Now it has plunged headlong into hot pot restaurants and barbecue restaurants.Several store managers know him well, and sometimes when they see him coming, the store manager will give an extra dish as a gift.

Tian Rui said: "How about this, you go to the Nanwan shop and there are not many people there."

Before Tian Rui finished speaking, the old diner retorted: "I don't know who said that there are few people there, and they all crowded there."

Tian Rui said: "You go to the store manager and buy a coupon for four-person free meal fee. I only gave him five coupons a while ago. He should still have the stock in his hand, but don't say I said it."

Tian Rui's coupon was originally printed as a gift to friends.But then the store was on fire and the queue was too fierce.People who know that they have this kind of coupons want to spend money to buy them. The coupons are not cheap, and the quantity is also small. There are only five coupons per store in a month. If they are gone, they will be gone.Can't post too much, it will affect the meal of normal diners.

Strange to say, the people who bought the coupons were useless, and they usually queued up as usual if they wanted to eat. I guess they were willing to use them because they were entertained by important guests.

Only a few people know about this coupon, and many old diners who eat here all the year round don't know it.

So Tian Rui didn't let him speak out.The old diners understood, thanked them, and went to the store manager to have a soft drink.

Tian Rui thought about printing another batch next time and putting it in the safe, and then taking it out when needed.

He had a good idea. When he went back to open the safe, he found that the entire first floor was filled with gold bars, and it was quite spectacular to open it with eyes full of gold.It is estimated that it is He Yu's handwriting.

On the bottom floor are my younger brother's paintings, and my younger sister's certificates of honor from three good students.Tian Rui looked around inside, and unexpectedly found a black and white photo of Tian Rui when he was a teenager.I don't know where He Yu found it.

Tian Rui's heart softened for no reason, and none of these things belonged to He Yu himself.

Tian Rui thought for a while, and put his gold-rimmed glasses inside.

Then I went to deliver box lunch to He Yu.

August happened to be midsummer, and the sun was too strong at noon, so the workers who built the house had a rest. Otherwise, wearing such thick protective clothing and hard hats would make people suffer from heat stroke.

The old people in the county said that they haven't experienced such a hot summer in many years.

Tian Rui brought a large ice bucket directly from the milk tea shop, filled it with sour plum paste, and the sour plum flavor was very strong.

As soon as Tian Rui and the delivery man arrived, they heard the voice outside: "Brother Rui sent us sour plum soup."

Hearing this, many people ran out to watch.Sour plum juice is a good thing. It tastes refreshing and quenches thirst in summer.

People here have bought big tea mugs, scoop a cup and drink it.

"Give me more ice cubes."

When the people next to him heard what he said, they hurriedly said, "Give me some more ice."

As if they were made uncomfortable by the sky, their favorite is to chew the ice cubes in the sour plum soup dryly. After chewing the ice cubes, the ice cubes immediately melt into water in the mouth, which quenches their thirst better than eating any old popsicles.

After the ice cubes are taken out, the sour plum soup tastes stronger and tastes sweeter. Those who work and sweat all the year round like something with a strong taste.

Tian Rui had delivered sour plum soup twice, and knowing their preferences, he bought some extra ice cubes today.

Tian Rui went to the office with ease, when the people outside saw him, they greeted him with a smile and did not stop him.

He Yu is in the office, looking at the documents, the house is about to be built.There are still some inspection and quality inspection departments to come to check and accept.

As soon as Tian Rui came in, He Yu noticed it sensitively. When he raised his head, he found that Tian Rui's sharp eyes suddenly softened a little.

Tian Rui handed him a cup of sour plum soup: "When will you finish this?" Then some complained: "Now a lot of people ask about your house when they see me." Poor inside some works.

Many people in the county want to buy a house.

He Yudao: "Soon, one and a half months. I want to make a simple house." You can live in it if you move in.

Tian Rui said: "Yes, it will save trouble when the time comes. Anyway, their engineering team is ready." Besides, this is the first small high-rise building in the county. He knows how much effort He Yu has put in, and Tian Rui can't help with other things. I had no choice but to grab it hard on the food.Solve a little bit of his difficulty.

He Yu hummed, he had already made up his mind, but the future real estate tycoon Lao Meng he hired did not suggest him to do so.The income level of the county is here, and the location of the house is not the best.The cost is too high, and there are too many distributions to each household. At that time, no one will buy it. The house will be in their hands, and the capital chain will be broken. They still owe the bank a loan of 100 million.

Don't let him build a simple house, anyway, the water pipes are connected in the house, the circuit is installed, and the big white walls are painted.The homeowner can do whatever he wants.

Why add an extra sum to the original cost?

He Yu was also hesitating, but seeing Tian Rui expressing his support for him so simply, his heart relaxed a lot.

Still firm in his own mind.

Hearing the bustling sounds from outside, he knew it was time for dinner.

The food arranged by Tian Rui is really good, and three meals a day have become the greatest expectations of the workers on the construction site.

Tian Rui said: "Let's eat, think about it later!"

"Yeah." He Yu locked the file in the drawer, and after a while, someone outside brought the food.Stewed potatoes with little stupid chicken, stir-fried vegetables with minced garlic, and mapo tofu. There are three dishes in total, and the traditional seaweed and egg flower soup is not missing.

He Yu raised his eyebrows. The stewed chicken and potatoes eaten by hundreds of people can get a lot of money: "It's expensive."

Tian Rui smiled and said, "It was the meat factory who contacted me and said that some chickens were frozen in March. They forgot them in the refrigerator. They only saw it when they were packing the refrigerator, and they sold it to me at a low price." The price is half of the ordinary chicken. If you get benefits, you can't improve everyone's life.

The food at the construction site is good every day, but today's dishes are more appetizing.However, they have stewed chicken for them during the Chinese New Year, and they have never heard of anyone who can provide workers with this.Even some older workers have never seen such good food after traveling all over the world and working in so many places.

Everyone's eyes lit up when they saw Cai.

The one who lined up to eat food row worked hard.

Just look at an old man in his 50s watching from the side and swallowing.

The new logistician is face-blind, so he greeted the old man and said, "You line up." In the construction site, regardless of your age, you have to obey the rules, eat, wash your hands, and line up are all necessary!

The old man was taken aback for a moment, and then went to the back of the line.

Today's dishes are all hard dishes for dinner.Many people wanted to take two boxes, and the person in charge of logistics said: "First, take one box for each person. See if it is enough." There are rice and vegetables in one box, and if you take two boxes for the front ones, the latter ones will be gone.Although the dishes are enough, if the preparation is not enough, people will be asked to go back to pick them up, but this time is too much time-consuming.

So the logistics people spoke up, and they each took one box, and if there was not enough, they took more.

Those on the construction site are all old men, thieves can eat, and the food on their construction site is sweet and delicious, everyone can eat two boxes every time, and some people even eat three boxes to get full.

But they don't eat for free, they really work hard when they work.After working outside for a long time, I want to be lazy or something.But here one is more desperate than the other, doing a little bit of normal work is like slacking off, doing a lot, eating a lot, and sleeping well.There is nothing wrong with working here.

Even the project is not finished yet.Many people encouraged their leaders, hoping to persuade He Yu to take on more projects.

Generally, those who work on the construction site are paid at the end of the work, but He Yu is not paid every month.A few of the workers who paid the money went to the night market, got some skewers, and ate some snacks at the night market.I just want to continue working with him. There are not a few people who have this kind of thinking.

The old man in his 50s received a boxed lunch. He was attracted by the smell before, but now he was shocked when he opened the boxed lunch.

The old diner who talked to Tian Rui in the morning is not here, otherwise he would have recognized him, this person is not someone else.It was Huang Yu, a foodie from the capital.He had already taken a bus to come here, and when he arrived, he took a tricycle. The other party not only enthusiastically picked up the passengers, but also took them for a ride, saying that the houses built in the county are amazing, and there are many delicious foods.

Building a building is quite new to the people in the surrounding counties. Huang Yu is from the capital city. What is a building? He has seen the kind of high-rise building with an elevator, but he wants to come and take a look as he does as the Romans do.

It is estimated that many people also have this idea, and they also came in this direction in the next few three rounds.

Huang Yu also came here by coincidence, as soon as he arrived, he caught up with the dinner here.The box lunch at the construction site is the traditional big pot meal.As long as he can cook things well, he ate this kind of food every day when he went to the countryside as an educated youth in the early years. It was too uncomfortable for someone like him with a particularly sensitive tongue.He thought it was the same here, but he didn't expect to smell an unexpected fragrance when he walked over.

He walked a few steps and wanted to go over to have a look, but he was scolded and asked to queue up at the back.In a daze, I got a box lunch.

People around are devouring it.

He opened it and said to the people around him, "Do you usually eat this?"

A worker next to him was sitting directly on the ground, eating food with a big mouthful.I heard him ask: "I don't usually eat stewed chicken, but there is meat in Dundun. You are also a newcomer. You can count yourself here. The food we eat on the construction site is the best. The one-yuan stir-fry in the shop outside is also better. It’s not as good as ours, and we eat it differently every day.” After speaking, he took a bite of the rice.

For the workers here, this is not work at all, but for enjoying themselves. They work everywhere, and it is the first time that they are so comfortable.There are mosquito coils at night, and there are fans in the dormitory.The small wind blows for a whole night, and I don't have much energy here at home.

Recently, I am in a hurry to finish the work before September, so I temporarily recruited some craftsmen from the local area, as long as none of them want to leave.

No matter who it is, the first meal will be shocked by the food here.But it's no surprise that they came early.He told the foreman a few days ago that he planned to get his son and nephew.While doing the work, learn the craft at the same time.

I even want to buy a house here.They themselves know that with the same standard, there are two more steel bars than others.Quack strong.There is no problem with the quality of this building for 40 to [-] years.

Besides, it is comfortable in Lingshui County, as long as you have hands and feet, you can find a job.The money I earn is definitely enough to live on, and there is a night market at night. If you drink cold beer while the evening breeze is blowing, it will be a day that the gods will never change.

This worker is also enthusiastic and talkative, talking to Huang Yu while eating, without any delay, and even stood up halfway to go over there to ask for a box.

Huang Yu was shocked by this dish.Although they use sorghum rice, it has been soaked in advance and cooked for a long time. Although it is not as soft and glutinous as rice, it also has the fragrance of grain, and it tastes just right.The braised chicken nuggets are also delicious. Wine is put in to remove the fishy smell, and the soft and rotten meat is still tender.

Needless to say, mapo tofu is especially salty and spicy.Huang Yu was shocked again when she ate it. The chili powder they used was not local chili powder, which is only found in the Sichuan and Chongqing regions. It tastes not purely spicy, but spicy.There is also a little sauce in it, which is authentic.

Either Huang Yu praised it, or he came here to eat in a restaurant, and he has never eaten such delicious food.

Braised chicken nuggets, boneless and soft, spicy mapo tofu served with rice, stir-fried vegetables with garlic, and a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup.

The standard of guest houses in some small county towns is no more than that.Chicken and peppers from other places are real capital.It seems that their boss is really kind to the people below.

In the hot summer, everyone has no appetite, but these few dishes can arouse the appetite at once.In particular, there are big stomach kings everywhere on the construction site.They ate like crazy, and the people around them were also anxious, for fear that they would not be able to grab a meal when they were too slow to eat.

Huang Yu was very satisfied after eating a box.

The talkative worker just now smiled and said, "Didn't you get the sour plum soup just now?"

Huang Yu also liked to eat.I was feeling dizzy after eating, when I heard the sour plum soup, my eyes lit up.

The worker looked sympathetic: "You are new here, so you usually look at other people more often. Let's send out sour plum poplars with ice cubes at noon. If you don't make it this time, you will have to do it next time." gone."

Sour plum soup is not a good thing for Huang Yu.But after eating the box lunch, I became interested in his family's things.Just hearing this name, sour water came out of his mouth.I secretly thought that if I had a chance, I must try Tian Rui's sour plum soup.

That worker is a fan of Tian Rui's family.They work hard to make money, and the Mai Tai they make while working is even more ugly.People outside looked down on them a little bit.Occasionally, I am very moved to treat them with a normal heart.

Not to mention Tian Rui and He Yu treated them with such high standards.Like this enthusiastic worker, he talks a lot.Those who are silent are all in mind, anyway, they are comfortable working for them, even if they don't make money, they are willing to work for him.

He started praising Tian Rui again.

At this moment, when it was time to go to work, they dispersed, and everyone went to find their own group.Huang Yu fished in troubled waters.At this moment, he was afraid that others would catch him, so he had a meal and left quietly.

He has had a bad appetite recently and thought it was a stomach flu.Who knows that the stomach and intestines are very healthy, and I have eaten a large box full of meals today, and I still have more to say.

Then he went down the road to find his old buddy.

Huang Yu had never been to this county before, thinking that the province was just like that, and the county below was even worse.

But this place is different from the moment we got off the car, everyone is full of vigor.Even those who ride tricycles are all smiling, and they are full of pride when talking about their county.

Since there was a special night market in Lingshui County, stalls have become popular.Small cities don't have so many rules, as long as they don't occupy the road, no one cares.Occasionally, a few yells in a southern accent and a northern accent can be heard.

In a trance, he didn't feel that he was in the county seat, but thought it was some big cities.

Walking all the way, it feels very novel to walk there. This kind of vibrant city has only been seen in a few big cities.He is a writer and gourmet, has been to many places.I really like this kind of city where there are fragrances floating on the streets and people have smiles on their faces.

He quickly found his old friend's house, and he ran into his old friend just now.

The old diner saw a bit of surprise in his eyes: "When did you come, I was just going out to pick you up at the station."

Huang Yu said, "I just came here too."

The two had stayed in an educated youth institute for seven years before, and although they hadn't seen each other since then, the revolutionary friendship of the past has always existed.It's hard to come here, as the host, I must have good food and drink.

After finishing speaking, I will take him to Tian Rui's house for barbecue.

Huang Yu said: "I'm not hungry after eating, let's go eat at night." Indeed, he just finished eating, and just mixed a rich box lunch at the construction site.

The old diner said: "Okay, come and sit at home." Knowing that he is coming today, he asked his son and daughter to clean up the house early in the morning.Now my son and daughter are going to work.Only he is at home alone, entertaining old friends Zhengle is at ease.

The two talked to each other for a while.Huang Yu said: "The newspaper you gave me last time was quite interesting." The old eater sent half a chapter to the courier when he was writing a letter, and the other half was used by his wife when cleaning the glass, and said This newspaper is thick enough to clean the glass without leaving dust.

After the old diner said a few words, his wife got angry and bought two cream cakes before coaxing them.

Huang Yu read the newspaper and came here because he was somewhat interested in the food mentioned in it.When he was in the provincial capital a few days ago, he wanted to buy it, but he searched through the newspapers but couldn't find the newspaper. He happened to meet an old friend who couldn't help but ask him to ask for it.

The old diner smiled and said, "I know you are interested in this." After speaking, he took it out, and now the newspaper has published five issues.Many people are squatting and waiting for their newspapers, and it is becoming more and more difficult to get the newspapers now. When the newspapers are released, sometimes they have to go to several stores to get them.

Huang Yu looked at it with great interest.Originally, I wanted to talk to my old friend while watching it, but who knows, I was firmly attracted by the above content at a glance.It was already two hours after he finished turning the last page, and he said, "No more?"

The old diner said: "It's not enough for you to read five pages at a time. This newspaper is a bimonthly, and only one is published every half a month." They are all familiar, as long as they ask the other party, they will still keep it for him.But later on, it is difficult for those who want to collect, either one piece is missing or that one is missing.

Huang Yu said: "Interesting." Now a lot of scar literature, plus some local literature is popular, it is either pain or nostalgia.The contents of the newspaper are very serious. This newspaper has a lot of fireworks, travel notes, and delicious food. If you accidentally indulge in it, you don’t want to wake up after reading the last one.

Huang Yu took a look at the publication number on it: Gastronomy Miscellaneous.

Said: "Next time I will also subscribe to this newspaper."

The old eater said with a smile: "This newspaper is the only one in our county. If it is not sold, it will be distributed for free." Then he said with emotion: "But many of us hope that it will be sold. It will not be so difficult to collect." Personally funded the cost of printing It is indeed too high.But those who often go out to eat out are not short of money at all, they are willing to spend money to buy.

Huang Yu was reminded, only to notice the small print on it, which is an internal magazine that is not allowed to be sold.

He is engaged in literature, and he was even more shocked by this. The free ones can achieve such quality, and many literary works in it can be called excellent works.And the typesetting is very coordinated, and you don't feel tired after reading five pages at a time.

Huang Yu said to his friend: "We have been separated for so long, please tell me about the affairs here." Now he has a strong interest in the county and Tian Rui.

The old diner talked endlessly about his happy life. Now that he is retired, his pension is enough to spend, and he goes out in the morning to buy some steamed buns.Have a meal at home at noon.Occasionally go to the next restaurant at night. When he has nothing to do, his wife likes to go to the neighbor’s house to weave baskets. It takes more than two hours for each one to earn a dime.Their family is not short of this little money, it's just fun.

In addition to weaving baskets, there are also crochet needles, gold ingots stacked on paper during festivals, and there is always handwork.A few old ladies gathered there for a lively afternoon, and they could make some money.

After listening, Huang Yu said: "The buildings being built in your county are sold to foreigners. I find that the capital city is not interesting. I also want to hang out with you here."

The old diner didn't speak for a long time. He hadn't brought Huang Yu to experience the charm of Tian Rui's restaurant yet, so how could the other party be tempted.