Chapter 727: A Meal Together
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Zhu Ping'an silently observed the strict guards of the Taicang Treasury while dealing with the greetings of Jia Lang and others. After walking for about five or six minutes in the reservoir area, we arrived at the Taicang dining room.
This is a large dining hall, long from east to west and narrow from north to south, which can accommodate about seventy or eighty people to eat at the same time, and there are more than a dozen tables in it, and the tables and chairs are relatively simple.
On one of the tables, there were eight dishes and two soups, four dishes and one soup to be exact, but one was repeated for each dish.
The dish is very ordinary, two meat and two vegetarian, the meat dish is stewed meat with tofu, stir-fried meat with cabbage, the vegetarian dish is cucumber and braised eggplant, and the soup is a big pot of gluten soup.
With so many dishes, two large pots of gluten soup filled the table.
"Come, Lord Zhu, please take a seat."
Zhang Guanku stood in front of the chair sitting in the west and east, smiled warmly, and stretched out his right hand to invite Zhu Ping'an to take a seat.
In ancient times, banquets were very particular about seating arrangements, on the one hand, because of the tradition of the ceremonial state, and on the other hand, because of the difference between rank and inferiority. For the dining room, which is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, the most respectful seat in the dining room is to sit in the west and face the east, followed by the north to the south, then to sit in the south and face the north, and the lowest is to sit in the east and face the west.
The seat that Zhang Guanku invited Zhu Ping'an to sit on was the most respectable seat in the dining room.
"Lord Zhang, please." Zhu Ping'an shook his head with a smile, and stretched out his hand to invite Zhang Guanku to take a seat.
Daming is a feudal society that pays attention to the hierarchy, and the most obvious manifestation is the seating arrangement, what seats are high and what positions are low, all of which are strictly exquisite.
Zhu Ping'an would not make such a low-level mistake and leave others with any handle.
Moreover, Zhang Guanku is the head snake of Taicang Silver Treasury, and they all say that the strong dragon is not the head snake, not to mention that he is not even a strong dragon, compared with Zhang Guanku, a third-grade official, and others, he is a six-grade official at most a small earthworm.
In addition, when he was just outside the gate of the silver treasury, Jia Lang looked at him with contempt in his eyes, and he didn't take himself seriously.
In that case, I can't let them down.
After some pushing, Zhang Guanku finally sat in the first place, and Zhu Ping'an sat in the lower position of Zhang Guanku.
Seeing Zhu Ping'an so knowledgeable, the Taicang officials felt more relaxed, and in their opinion, this menacing inspection was even easier than before.
"Hey, there are four meat dishes, not bad, but it's really a blessing for Lord Tozhu, we finally see the meat."
After sitting down, Zhao Dingtian of Taicang Langzhong glanced at the food on the table, his eyes were very disdainful, but there was a surprised expression on his face, and he thanked Zhu Ping'an in a fuss, as if he really didn't know the taste of meat in March.
Zhu Ping'an hooked the corners of his lips slightly, hehe, the performance is in place, if you can wipe off the smell of bear paws on your body and the oil stains on your mouth, it will be more perfect......
Zhang Guanku glared at Zhao Langzhong, and Zhao Langzhong shut up stupidly, his face full of unhappiness, as if he was still wrong when he told the truth.
"Hehe, our Taicang is a poor and remote country, and it can't compare to your city, it's all coarse tea and light rice, and the hospitality is not good, please don't be surprised." Zhang Guanku said to Zhu Ping'an with a slight smile.
After the words fell, I saw Zhu Ping'an look up at Zhang Guanku, and then glanced at everyone present, his eyes were deep, and his eyebrows were wrinkled......
Zhang Guanku and all the Taicang officials present were furious by Zhu Ping'an's eyes, especially Zhao Langzhong, who were even more furious, and thought that Zhu Ping'an had seen some flaws.
The next second
saw that Zhu Ping'an's eyes became deeper and deeper, and his eyebrows wrinkled more and more.
The people in Taicang present became more and more uneasy.
However, in the next second, I saw Zhu Ping'an's deep eyes moistened, his eyebrows together, he took a deep breath with his mouth open, and said with a touched face: "Lord Zhang and all the adults guard the Taicang Treasury, but they are so strict with themselves, this kind of feeling really makes Ping An admire." Mr. Zhang made an exception for peace and prepared such a table of sumptuous and delicious food, how could he not be satisfied with peace. ā
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It turns out that this product was moved by our "frugality", damn, I thought this kid had found some flaws.
Damn, Lao Tzubai was worried.
I just said, how can he see the flaws, hehe, it turns out that he is worried in vain, a calf is a calf, and a rookie is a rookie! It's so easy to be bluffed, what a bullshit Zhuanglang, a milky nerd, this kind of person does a good job, but you let him do something else...... Hehe......
After this incident, everyone looked down on Zhu Ping'an a little.
Four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables.
Except for Zhu Ping'an, the others at the table were not interested, and basically didn't move a few chopsticks.
It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.
They just came out of the "late-night canteen", and they all ate bear's paw abalone, delicacies from the mountains and seas, and now let them eat this cabbage and tofu again, wouldn't it be embarrassing for them, how can they get off the chopsticks.
However, Zhu Ping'an ate very deliciously.
Zhu Ping'an has not drunk a sip of water or eaten a grain of rice since early in the morning.
But there are a lot of things to experience on this day, get up early in the morning and go to Dali Temple first, but the deputy envoy of Dali Temple Qu Tongyang had a stroke, and then heard the news that Sinan was caned, and went to the noon gate non-stop.
Then he rode a horse with Gao Rui to the Taicang Silver Vault, but Gao Rui "fell off his horse and escaped" halfway, and he turned back to the city to find a doctor.
Then he basked in the sun outside the gate of Taicang for half an hour......
Zhu Ping'an was already hungry and thirsty.
In addition, the "thrifty package" launched by Mr. Zhang with ulterior motives also gave Zhu Ping'an a surprise. It looks like cabbage tofu, but sometimes the same ingredients are cooked by different chefs, and the taste is very different.
Zhu Ping'an is sure that the chef of Taicang is definitely not inferior to the imperial chef.
This seemingly ordinary cabbage tofu cucumber tastes surprisingly good, so popular that people can't stop chopsticks.
Zhu Ping'an is like a rice bucket, eating non-stop, for Zhu Ping'an's good appetite, the people in Taicang despise it, and it is really a dumpling from the countryside......
"Well, Lord Zhang, you can eat it too, you don't have to take special care of me, come, Lord Zhao, this tofu stewed meat tastes good."
Zhu Ping'an buried his head in the interval between eating, raised his head to look at everyone, and saw that everyone didn't move their chopsticks much, and "moved" to persuade everyone to use dishes, not to take special care of themselves, especially to take special care of Zhao Langzhong, and used chopsticks to spread a lot of tofu stewed meat to Zhao Langzhong.
"Ahem, no, no, I'll do it myself."
Zhao Langzhong looked at the big meat slice in the bowl, and felt sick to his stomach, who would eat such pork, and with Zhu Ping'an's enthusiastic eyes, Zhao Langzhong looked like he was swallowing a fly, and stuffed a big piece of meat into his mouth......