Ancient Foodie Survival Guide

The heat gradually receded. A few days ago, the prince handed a message to the government to let them handle the troubles impartially. The merchants who wanted to make troubles retracted into the turtle shells. Only the owner behind the largest restaurant in Beijing, Zuixiao Building, was unwilling. .

After the snack street became famous, no matter it was the dignitaries or ordinary people, they went to the snack street to wander around. The restaurant’s business has suffered a loss, not very serious. After all, most people still come to the restaurant to talk about banquets, but this is not about fighting for profit, but about making faces.

The forces behind the rest of the restaurant will fear the prince, but the Zuixiao Tower will not. The owner behind them is Lord Kang, the younger brother of the saint, why should he be afraid of the prince?

Originally, they didn't intend to fight against the Lin family, but when the prince came forward, Lord Kang felt that this was because the prince did not give him face and had to find a place.

To suppress the limelight of the Lin family, the people under his staff would naturally not resort to those tricks, and would directly attack Qi Cun, starting from the food itself. After some investigation and discussion, I finally found a suitable opportunity.

Lin passed the stage of morning sickness and returned to a state of vigor. It just so happens that the snack street needs to add new shops and food items. She plunged into the snack street again, busy, personally, and sometimes even live directly. In the street inn.

Although Lin said that he would pay attention to his body, Jiang Shuyao was worried that she would be busy all day long despite her pregnancy, so he planned to quietly go to the snack street to see her.

Jiang Shuyao hurried to the snack street before the evening and took the Zhou clan who was suffocated in the mansion by the way.

At this time, it was just before the meal, the snack street had not yet become lively, there were not many people, Jiang Shuyao and Zhou Shi went to the snack street.

The weather has cooled down, and some cold drinks have been withdrawn, and new foods have been replaced, such as braised cooking, oden cooking and so on.

Jiang Shuyao and Zhou bought a taste one by one. After the last taste adjustment, the taste of the food became more in line with the tastes of the ancients. Zhou kept praising them while eating.

The two of them didn't explain to Lin that they were coming. Naturally they thought that Lin didn't know, but the shopkeeper recognized Jiang Shuyao, turned around and told the steward, and the steward told Lin who was resting at the inn.

Lin likes the atmosphere of the snack street. She goes out for a walk every night to relieve her fatigue. Now that she heard that Jiang Shuyao is here, she immediately dispelled the thought of going out for a stroll and stayed in the inn to rest.

When the snack street became lively, Lin still did not come out.

Jiang Shuyao went to the inn and took a look, and saw that she was resting on the bed with her bun removed. It didn't look like she was going out, so she was relieved.

The inn was well-furnished, and the conditions were not much worse than those in the wing of Xiangyang Bofu, but it was not happy to go back to the house. Jiang Shuyao did not persuade her to stay in the inn.

After bidding farewell to the Lin family, Jiang Shuya left the inn and met with the Zhou family who had had a good meal. He was about to go back to his hometown. Before stepping out of the snack street, he suddenly heard a noise.

Jiang Shuya frowned, with an ominous premonition in his heart.

She seemed to be in bad luck. When she didn't come to the snack street, it was calm and there were people making trouble.

This time was not the last time a small mess. Today happened to be a new meal. Prince Kang sent a competent officer over. Without any scheming, he bought the cook from the stewed restaurant and went to the market. Before yelling, he shouted out the food and ingredients sold in the market.

Originally, the diners came here enthusiastically to try something new, but they encountered this as soon as they arrived at the door of the shop.

"The food sold here is all dirty ingredients, pig intestines, pig lungs, and hearts!" The cook of the stewed restaurant carried a large plate in his hand and threw it into the street. The **** heart, lungs and intestines fell to the ground. , Smelly.

Pig intestines and pig lungs need to be put into vegetables. Special attention should be paid to the food processing. Pig intestines need to be torn off the fat, constantly scrubbed, and then blanched to remove the strange smell. The same is true for pig lungs. After blanching, the water in the pot is turbid. It is conceivable that the unprocessed ingredients were thrown in front of the diners brightly and the impact was so great.

"These things are too much to be fed to the dogs, and they are sold in dishes. This is fooling everyone." The cook got a stink on his body, boiled the cooked stew, and passed it forward. "Look, everyone. Can you see what these are made of?"

Everyone looked into the bowl, and saw that the bowl was piled up with chopped and sliced ​​reddish brown ingredients. Except for the butcher, few people knew what these were.

Most of the diners who come to the snack street are not extremely poor people, and they will not consider using pigs to make vegetables. The poor people want to taste meat and will not buy offal, just because they do not know how to deal with it. The food has no meaty smell, only a disgusting smell.

At this time, the shop next door selling lo-mei also stood up and sighed, “Not only does your shop sell those dirty ingredients, I am not here yet. Look at what these are, chicken feet, pig’s feet, The claws and hoofs of poultry do not know what they have stepped on. They are the dirtiest parts of the whole body. Now they are used to make vegetables and put them in their mouths."

The diners looked at each other.

"When I ate grilled skewers a few days ago, I seemed to have some meaty but not meaty ingredients, but they tasted good, and I didn't ask what they were. If these..."

"But the store is not deceiving us. As long as we ask, they don't tell us the ingredients. A few days ago, they still fried rice in front of the big guys. They are not afraid of the craftsmanship being learned."

It doesn't mind, and some people who are particular about eating are a little bit mindful.

"Pork, lamb, chicken, duck, fish, and meat are so many, why choose disgusting ingredients?"

"Exactly, is it that these ingredients are cheap, and the Lin family wants to make some unscrupulous money?"

This is a matter of concept. The manpower sent by Lord Kang has been investigating here for a long time, and finally caught such a small handle. For those of them who are arrogant and expensive to eat, using dirty ingredients into dishes is indeed an insult.

A group of people couldn't help arguing while feeling that something was really happening, and at the same time feeling that it was worthless.

"Okay, don't eat if you don't like it!" It was the first time that Zhou met someone making trouble. He couldn't bear to hear people slander the Lin family so much. He squeezed out of the crowd and said, "What kind of hat!"

She had a sharp look in her eyes, and she spotted King Kang's men at a glance, and said to them: "I ask you, did the Lin family stuff your mouth to eat or cheat you to eat? Eat it if you like it, if you don’t like it, it’s too serious. Similar."

She followed Jiang Shuyao to learn how to cook, and she also studied the handling of ingredients. Pointing to the ingredients on the ground, she said: "These ingredients look dirty, but they need to be cleaned and processed a lot when they are served. It takes a lot of work and the taste is not as good as it is. Poor meat, on the contrary, there is a strange fragrance, and the price is cheap. It is incomprehensible to say that the Lin family makes black-hearted money!"

She was a little unacceptable to Jiang Shuyao using these ingredients for cooking, but after Jiang Shuyao showed her, her heart was completely clean, and when she finished eating, she fell in love with using these ingredients. Cooking.

"I think you are talking nonsense here because you don't know how to eat. The most important thing in eating is the taste, not the fineness of the ingredients. The method is not particular. If you don't understand this, I think your restaurant is open for nothing!"

King Kang was taken aback: "Don't talk about it, why do you open a restaurant? What is our business?"

Zhou ignored it and continued: "Furthermore, you said these things are dirty, isn't it because they are cheap? At this time, I dislike nausea. Why don't I say nausea when I eat monkey brains, antlers, and goat whips? Up?"

The material of Zhou's clothes looked like a noble lady, but when he spoke so sturdily, King Kang's men couldn't help sweating again and again, and they were momentarily dumb.

"If you want me to say, don't care about what these foods are made of, how they are made, what's the meaning of these fallacies, let's just taste the taste." She snorted and said with disdain, "You think the people eat with you. Isn’t it the same? It’s not about food, it’s about being careless."

Zhou ran over and said to Jiang Shuyao: "Brothers and sisters, we don’t have to spend a lot of time with them, we just cut these braised and braised flavors into small bits, and if you’re curious, you’ll try something fresh. I promise they will want to eat after a bite Second mouth."

King Kang's subordinates sneered at Zhou's statement, these ingredients are so dirty, he believes that no one wants to taste it, no matter how delicious it is.

Jiang Shuyao had this intention. After Zhou's words, she called the steward. The steward asked Xiao Er to bring out a few small bowls. Each small bowl was decorated with stewed stew. The same goes for the stewed market, which separates some chicken feet and small pieces of pigs. Hoof, for diners to taste.

After the food came out from here, Zhou went to the front again, squinting at Wang Kang's subordinates sarcastically.

King Kang didn't care about it, and didn't think anyone would be willing to taste the food after seeing the ingredients.

But he is King Kang's deli subordinate, and he is used to living a good life. Naturally, he doesn't understand the people's life. Those who come here are either greedy or desperate to find good and cheap food. They care more about the taste of food.

If you can buy something as delicious as meat for less money, a fool would be unwilling.

Someone stood up and picked up a bowl of stew.

The marinade is still hot, the soup is clear and not muddy, and the marinade is fragrant. It is cooked with fire and pig intestines and pig lungs, and fried tofu slices, marinade, topped with garlic juice, soy tofu juice, noodles Sprinkle a layer of cilantro, it smells like not smelling, there is a strange fragrance.

The few people who tasted the dishes looked at each other, stretched out their chopsticks and tasted each.

Although the internal organs on the ground have been cleaned up, they still have a smell, so when they put the stewed in the mouth, they naturally still have doubts and responses in their hearts.

As soon as I entered, my mind changed.

It is very chewy. There is some intestinal oil left in the field. It tastes mellow and rich. It is smelly, but it is not smelly at all. It is a strange and plump fragrance. Then there is pig. The lungs are soft and thick. It is full of meat and fragrant chewing; the fire is full of the soup, and it is transparent and not sticky, and the edges are still a bit crispy, but the inside is very watery and soft. The soup is a bit salty, sauce, garlic and spicy. The medicinal scents of various spices are fused together, and the rich scent hits forehead.

They put down their chopsticks, frowned, thinking about how to describe the taste.

Seeing someone ate it, King Kang suddenly felt a bad feeling. For them, eating is more expensive, and if these cheap ingredients can be delicious and attractive... he dare not think about the consequences.

Over there, some people are rushing to eat the braised chicken feet and pig's feet. The taste of braised meat is easy to describe. No matter what the diners taste, there is only one word of fragrance.

The leaders of King Kang had no idea that things would develop in this way. How did they go completely against their expectations?

Why would anyone want to eat that chicken feet? It looks strange and disgusting.

The leader was not convinced. He squeezed into the group and took a chicken feet. The chicken feet were boiled soft and rotten. The stewed pork skin and other gummy ingredients were put in the stew. After being boiled, it was melted in the brine, and the marinade became It's sticky and easy to hang on ingredients.

He shook when the chicken feet entered the entrance, thinking of the strange appearance of raw chicken feet, but the next moment, his mind was blank.

The chicken feet are very tender. The brine will stew the skin and meat until it becomes crispy. It melts in the mouth. When you sip it gently, the meat is squeezed down. The mixture of sticky marinade and crispy meat exudes the smell of meat and medicine in the mouth. , A bit salty, fat but not greasy, rich in brine.

This... is this the taste of chicken feet?

Not reconciled, he picked up another pig's hoof and put it in his mouth.

Compared with chicken feet, pig's feet have a firmer taste. The skin is elastic and the meat is soft and waxy. The lean meat in it is thin and thin, and the fatty aroma spreads in the mouth. It is a bit thicker than the pork belly. The meat fragrant is not worse than meat.

He was stunned to feel the bittern incense in his mouth, waiting to move his chopsticks, but was stopped by the shopkeeper.

"Let's just ask everyone to have a taste. If you want to have a good taste, please enter the store." The shopkeeper laughed, "You can take it away. We also have braised elbows and braised pork belly. It is just right to take it back for a drink."

He was fainted by his completely failed plan, and he nodded faintly. He didn't react suddenly until he got out of the crowd and was overtaken by his men.

Zhou looked at it from a distance, very happy in his heart. When he was about to return to the place to find Jiang Shuyao, he was suddenly photographed for fear. Looking back, she was a bright and beautiful woman with a big belly.

The woman looked at her up and down, and gave a very satisfied smile: "I think you are very talented, how about doing business with me?"

This woman is Lin's.

Since she wanted to work with her grandson as a cook, Lin found another pleasure in addition to running a food business-recruiting women to work under her own hands.

Shipping has its own arrangements by the Lin family, but eating is different. She is the only one to worry about. She has been recruiting staff recently.

Zhou’s going out today is no other hairpin. It’s just that the clothes are more expensive. But now that it’s dark, Lin did not see her identity, and because he was hiding from Jiang Shuyao, he didn’t dare to look in front of her, thinking that Zhou would stand up and speak up. Later, I found Jiang Shuyao's plan again, and after listening to her words, she seemed to have a lot of experience with the ingredients, so she became solicitous.

"I..." Zhou's mouth wanted to explain, but Lin's carelessly interrupted.

"You don't need to give me an answer right away." She dragged Zhou to a higher place. "Look at this snack street, such a long street, so many shops, and there is an endless stream of diners. I only ask you, how can Beijing Find a second place like this?"

Zhou shook his head.

"Do you know why I fancy you?"

Zhou continued to shake his head.

"Just because of the look I saw you just now, I suddenly thought of myself. Back then, eh, not back then, just a few months ago, I was still languid, shrinking in the mansion all day to spend time, like walking dead, but now I am Looking at this street, I can’t remember how I felt a few months ago. There is only comfort and pride in my heart. I don’t know why, I always feel that you can see both the shadow of me in the past and mine now. shadow."

"This lady..."

"I know you would think that I suddenly fell in love with you. It sounds ridiculous, but I have always been like this. I believe in my instincts. Once my sister and I ran to the pier and seized the shipyard when the master’s house seized power. The momentum and intuition are the same today. When my daughter wrote to me mentioning the idea of ​​a market and a snack street, I had that intuition again, and sure enough, I did something again. Now my intuition tells me I, I can be bigger and stronger in the food industry, and even change the appearance of the food industry, so I choose to follow my intuition."

Zhou did not speak this time and listened quietly.

"When my daughter wrote to me telling me that these weird ingredients can be used in dishes, I really had a hard time believing it, but I chose to believe her, and I wondered if it was really successful, wouldn’t it be possible to change something? People can’t eat it. These can be eaten from meat. Just like the shops in the docks, the food of the poor people only asks for fullness, not for delicious, but I can let them use the same copper to buy both full and delicious meals. Seeing them ate happily and satisfactorily, my heart is extremely satisfied and happy." She watched the people wearing common clothes hesitate to walk into the market, counted the copper plates and bought some meaty vegetarian food to take away, with a smile on her face. "This is not the same as making silver. Even if the Lin family ruled shipping back then, it was not as happy as I listened to the people's praise on the day the market opened."

She patted Zhou's: "Would you like to be with me? The wages are guaranteed to be sufficient, and you don't need to sign the contract with you, you don't need to look at people, just need you to keep the kind of comfortable, happy and hopeful heart with me tonight Keep Lin's food and eat."

Zhou looked at her, and suddenly felt that the first time he saw the letter from Lin and Jiang Shuyao came up again, a little excited, a little longing, and it seemed that there was a beam of light that illuminates the dim dawn into the world.

"it is good."

Lin took her hand and said, "Okay!"

The two of them had not continued to speak, and a faint question came from behind them.

"……What good?"

Jiang Shuyao looked at the hand held by them and the bright smile on their faces, a little speechless and a little confused: "Mother, second sister-in-law, do you know?"

Lin blinked and didn't react for a while: "Second, second sister-in-law?!"

Zhou scratched his head and said in embarrassment, "You have never given me a chance to introduce myself..."

Jiang Shuya approached, and the two quickly let go.

"Mother, why did you run out again with a big belly? What can I do if there are so many diners that crowd you?"

Lin shrinks his neck guiltily.

"And second sister-in-law, just now I heard my mother say something about not signing the contract to work, why did you agree?"

Zhou shrank his neck with the same guilty conscience.

Jiang Shuya didn't want to wait for an explanation, but said: "It seems that you both misunderstood the identity of each other. Now that you know, the misunderstanding just now can be clarified."

The two nodded.

Jiang Shuyao turned his head and said to Zhou family: "Second sister-in-law, let's go back to the house." Then pretending to be fierce and said to Lin family: "Mother, if you run like this, I will get angry."

Lin mumbled: "I know."

Jiang Shuya bid farewell to her and led Zhou away.

Zhou clan followed her obediently, and when he was walking, he suddenly looked back and collided with the Lin clan who was staring at her.

Two women with similar fate to some extent read each other's eyes at this moment and couldn't help but smile at each other.