A leisurely life reborn in the fiery age

Chapter 133 Visitor
"Brother Zhuzi, what's the matter?"

After Xu Damao fled in embarrassment, yelled and cursed at the door and then ran away, Li Yuan looked at the silly Zhu with a gloomy expression and asked.

Silly Zhu looked unhappy, did not answer, but complained: "I said you can't introduce me to a more reliable partner? Let this grandson take the lead!"

Li Yuan laughed happily: "Why don't you say that you are picky? Sometimes you are too fat, sometimes your hair is too short, sometimes your legs are bowed, and sometimes you are too dark... It is also because of their bad language. If I am a girl, I will let you scatter Take a pee to see how you look."

Silly Zhu was furious, and said: "My...what's wrong with my conditions? Two big north rooms, regular workers in the factory, or cooks, 37 yuan a month! Brother, in this year, you can't go hungry anytime Cook, do you believe it?"

Li Yuan laughed and said: "I believe it. Logically speaking, the conditions are really good, so people are willing to meet once they hear your conditions. But the people you like don't like you, and the people who like you don't like you. Forget it, you can figure out how to deal with this matter from now on. Three aunts and six wives, matchmakers are the hardest thing to do. Don't do it, don't do it!"

Silly Zhu was discouraged, sighed and said: "Well, I don't want to embarrass you..." He hesitated, and asked Li Yuan: "Yuanzi, tell me, is our family really...Look, my Grandpa, ran away with the widow. My unlucky father also ran away with the widow. I don’t know where another uncle came out. Hey, he lived with the widow and the child. Talking to the daughter-in-law is always open and closed 'You' ah! What kind of life do you live? Do you think I will... all die? "

Li Yuan chuckled, looked at silly Zhu and said, "Brother Zhuzi, are you letting me lie in ambush? What's the matter, which widow have you taken a fancy to?"

Silly Zhu hesitated for a while when he heard the words, and then felt a little embarrassed and coy, and blamed: "I said Yuanzi, you are so smart, you are so boring, you are boring!" Then he rubbed his hands again, hehe, he became happy, and said : "Why don't I still have to talk about you? I'm really convinced by your cleverness!"

Li Yuan made a guess and said, "Chen Xueru?"

The old silly Zhu's face turned red, and he said with drooping eyebrows, "You also think I'm a good match for her?"

Li Yuan couldn't help but laugh, Sha Zhu became impatient, and said: "Why are you laughing? You said it!"

Li Yuan said sincerely: "Do you think she is a person who lives a life?"

"This……"

Silly Zhu hesitated, his face was full of entanglements, as if he was very entangled in the troubles of living after marriage.

Li Yuan couldn't help but smile, the relationship between men and women in this era is really pure...

After thinking for a while, Shazhu sighed again and shook his head: "Forget it, it's really hard to say. Look at what she's wearing... It's really not from the same way, my family's three generations of poor farmers! Well, don't talk about it, I'm here to find you today, I just want to ask, is there any food left?"

Li Yuan said: "Why did you think of asking this?"

Sha Zhu whispered: "If you don't have enough, don't hold on, just say a word, I still have some. Your daughter-in-law is pregnant, and she still eats cornbread. How can this be done? I dismantled half a chicken When you come back, it’s still a hen, and you can use it to make soup for your daughter-in-law..."

Hearing this, Li Yuan looked at Silly Zhu for a while and then smiled and said: "It's not easy to be kind, let's make up for the rain."

Silly Zhu said unhappily: "What is she making up for? Don't look at her thin, it's not that she can't eat well. I gave her all the good things I brought back from the factory. Which week did she come back without meat? She was born thin, no Fa'er. You can take it later, you know how to stew it."

Li Yuan thought for a while and said: "How about this, save the chicken, and I will take you to a place the day after tomorrow Sunday. Xiao'e and I will go together to visit a gourmet. Good things are hard to come by at this stall. have eaten."

Silly Zhu didn't believe it: "Is it true? I don't know what kind of food in this Forty-Nine City? Back then... my unlucky father was the art of the teacher who threw me to Fengze Garden to pay homage to him. Do you believe it, my royal chef?"

Li Yuan hehe said: "Brother Zhuzi, it's better to be modest. Wang Shixiang, do you know?"

Sha Zhu shook his head and said: "I don't know, but he is definitely not a famous chef! This circle is not small, but it is not big. I will definitely call the top ones."

Li Yuan said happily: "But he is not a cook, but a gourmet. Of course, his kitchen skills are also quite good, and he is exquisite. This person is not ordinary. He was originally from a scholarly and famous family, but he is just a playful kid. He loves all the hobbies of the rich in the capital. But his play is different from that of other dandies, Mr. Wang's play is brilliant.

Bamboo carvings, gourds, paintings, cricket jars, pigeons, pigeon whistles, bird food jars, cooking, big eagles, badger dogs... In short, he has played with all the things in Sijiucheng thoroughly, and he is absolutely perfect! "

Speaking of which, Li Yuan himself became envious again. This kind of living method is the real way to play in the world and enjoy life.

Silly Zhu was stunned, blinked his eyes and said, "Is there such an expert in these four or nine cities?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Of course, others respect him as the number one player in Forty-Nine City!"

Silly Zhu happily said: "That's it! Then I'd like to go! But... the guests don't take the guests, so I go with them, isn't it a bit rude?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "It's okay. Besides, you are not considered a guest."

Silly Zhu wondered: "Then what am I... You don't think you want me to be a cook for someone?"

Li Yuan made a "tsk" sound, and said: "What are you talking about! What I mean is, you are not an ordinary customer, you are a master! I went to show my hands, and I will also cook a dish. Brother Wang probably will also cook a dish The master is the real master. He never made any dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder. He used the simplest ingredients to cook the most delicious dishes. Last time he made a stewed green onion, which was amazing! The table was full of people Everyone applauds, it’s even more delicious than another chef’s Nanyang Nyonya chicken!”

Sha Zhu refused to accept: "Just stew the green onions... just cut the two green onions into a few sections and stew it and it will be absolutely delicious? Is it better than the chef's Nanyang chicken? I don't believe it!"

Li Yuan smiled and said, "I'll find out when I go the day after tomorrow."

If you go to Zhu's house, it's definitely not easy to take anyone with you.

But Wang Shixiang is different, he really likes to make friends with traffickers, of course, he is a capable trafficker.

I feel that this master is the one who really came to the world to taste the fireworks, and it is also the direction of Li Yuan's future life...

……

On a rare warm sunny day in winter, in the small courtyard of Fangjia Garden, Wang Shixiang told Li Yuan, Lou Xiaoe, Sha Zhu, Zhu Jiajin, and Zhu Chuanrong about the past, and Wang Shixiang's wife Yuan Quanyou watched with a smile.

Some things are kept in the bottom of my heart if I don’t speak them out, and I will get sick from holding back.

Silly Zhu was furious when he heard the words, and cursed: "Fucking his grandma! Isn't this a bunch of bastards? They don't do things like this!"

The others laughed. Literati like Yuan Quanyou and Zhu Jiazhen couldn't swear such foul language, but they felt relieved to hear it!

Wang Shixiang suddenly looked at Zhu's family and said happily, "Brother Jihuang, I was framed as a treasure thief because I asked Little Japan to get back the treasure. What about you, you didn't go, why are you locked up?"

Knowing that he was narrow-minded, Zhu Jiajin said angrily, "When I was selling food in the mountain city, I joined the Nationalist Party. Later, I joined the museum to work. It's fine if people don't kill me."

Wang Shixiang laughed loudly and said, "Amazing! We still have a Nationalist Party here!"

Zhu Chuanrong, daughter of the Zhu family, said angrily, "Uncle Wang, haven't you worked for the Kuomintang?"

Wang Shixiang was not afraid, and said happily: "There are too many people who have worked for the Guomindang, and more than half of the people in Haizi have done it."

Li Yuan persuaded seriously: "Brother Wang, it's better not to mention those unlucky things on such a beautiful day. You can't make fun of Mr. Zhu as a second minister, right? It's too unkind."

Wang Shixiang leaned back and forth with a smile, saying "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!"

Wang Shixiang suddenly said happily: "Speaking of Erchen, I remembered that you have a Erchen Mansion in Nanluoguxiang."

Silly Zhu and Lou Xiao'e were listening to the scriptures, while Li Yuan and Zhu Jiazhen nodded with a smile.

Silly Zhu hurriedly said: "Yuanzi, tell me, who else is there in our place?"

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Don't you know the famous Hong Chengchou and Hong Hengjiu? It's in No. 59 courtyard, on the side of Heizhima Hutong. We are No. 95 courtyard, not far away."

Zhu Jiazhen sighed and said: "The defeat of Songshan is as sad as a god, and it is as pitiful as a prisoner of Chu. Today, the Zhumen only have hatred, and they endured death and stole their lives to become second ministers."

Li Yuandao: "We still have many famous people in Nanluoguxiang. The last queen Wanrong also belongs to our area, just opposite our alley."

Zhu Jiajin said: "The wind is always blown away by the rain. In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people."

It's not that he remembers the honor of Nanluoguxiang in the past, but he is worried about the situation in the past two years.

If it is a peaceful year, even ordinary people can live a peaceful and leisurely life.

But if it goes on like this for the past two years...

Even the leisurely life of ordinary people is difficult.

Either Li Yuan can play with them, listen to the sound, he can hear the meaning, and said with a smile: "Why should Uncle Zhu be too worried?"

Zhu Jiajin said in a bad mood: "You have never suffered from those hardships, suffered from those crimes, and you put it lightly!"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "That's a bit of a stretch. Fourth Uncle, don't forget that I was born as a farmer. Even in the three-return period, I didn't ask you to do heavy physical labor, right? Fourth Uncle, Brother Wang, you The two of you may say that mental torture is more cruel... People who say this have never done farm work, especially dirty and heavy physical farm work. I have done it.

To punish people in the city, the most important thing is to clean the toilet and sweep the road.In the countryside, this is all children's work.When grown-ups poop... just think about it.People, horses, cattle and pigs, mixed together, that smell, that pickle.

In this way, after working for a long time, I don't have the energy to feel sick anymore.

Almost no one in the countryside, including women, children, and children, has never done these jobs...

What I mean by this is that city life, especially the life of intellectuals, is actually far less bad.

Even if there is a so-called "unfortunate event" one day, some people go to clean the toilet, some people go to clean the street, don't feel that the sky is falling and you can't live on.

After a while, good days are definitely yet to come. "

They are all people with clear hearts, Wang Shixiang, Zhu Jiazhen and Yuan Quanyou all quickly understood Li Yuan's good intentions, and the three of them laughed knowingly.

Wang Shixiang smiled and said, "My little brother, although narrow-minded, has an exquisite and benevolent heart."

Zhu Jiajin said: "It's hard to say whether it's benevolence or kindness."

Wang Shixiang said with a smile: "Shuowen says that goodness is auspicious. "Guoyu" also says: kindness is the foundation of virtue. And benevolence is the foundation of kindness, benevolence is the body, and goodness is used for its use. There is no contradiction."

The two Chinese studies are fully displayed.

Seeing the stars in the eyes of Lou Xiaoe and Sha Zhu, Li Yuan smiled and said: "Okay, this is the end of the elegant, it's time to be vulgar. You two are elegant scholars, we are all ordinary people, we can't keep up .”

Wang Shixiang and Zhu Jiazhen burst into laughter when they heard the words, Wang Shixiang said: "You brought your wife and friends as guests, Brother Ji Huang and I are setting up a stage for you! Otherwise, if they think you are friends outside It's all nonsense, so what should I do?"

Li Yuan said happily: "Then blame brother Zhuzi, he admired you in various ways as soon as we met, and praised the two gentlemen."

Sha Zhu blushed and shouted, "You told me what I said, didn't you?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "That's my problem. In this way, the elegant ones belong to them, and we come to the vulgar ones."

Silly Zhu was a little nervous and asked, "What's vulgar?"

Wrestling or somersaulting?
Li Yuan laughed and said: "People, it's nothing more than eating, drinking, sleeping, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea. We can't come to the elegant ones, so we come to the vulgar ones and cook a few special dishes. Let me make a head start, how about attracting jade? But Brother Wang and Uncle Zhu, I would like to ask you two questions. You said that people in the four or nine cities are very particular about food. Why didn’t Beijing cuisine enter the eight major cuisines? ?”

Zhu Jiazhen said: "If you want to form a cuisine, you can't only have good dishes, but also have a hook with the local culture, and you have to form its uniqueness. Beijing cuisine is not enough. These four or nine cities have always been you who sing and I come on stage, and go through it. The red ones come and hang the green ones, which brings together the strengths of all the families, but also loses the uniqueness of Beijing cuisine.”

Wang Shixiang nodded and said: "The capital city has always been dominated by Shandong cuisine. The famous ten halls and eight residences in the early days are all Shandong restaurants. For example, Fushoutang in Jinyu Hutong, Longfengtang in Donghuangchenggen, and outside Di'anmen Qinghetang and others."

Zhu Jiajin said: "There are also a lot of Huaiyang dishes, mainly in the Beiyang period. Most of the officials from various ministries and departments, as well as professors from various universities came from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There are twelve Huaiyang restaurants on the West Chang'an Street, which are called Chang'an Ten. Erchun, very tasty."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Forget about Huaiyang cuisine. I haven't found a famous teacher, and my taste is still somewhat different from mine. Brother Zhuzi and I learned Shandong cuisine and Sichuan cuisine. Jingbang cuisine is most influenced by Shandong cuisine. I Come to Dao Lu Cuisine and a product of tofu."

Lou Xiaoe's pretty face suddenly turned red...

Silly Zhu looked enviously at Li Yuan talking and laughing happily with such a university student...

However, his eyes paused for a moment on Zhu Chuanrong, and then he laughed at himself.

Such a woman, if he really wanted to marry him, he wouldn't even dare to marry him, there was nothing to say.

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(End of this chapter)