Han Empire, Qingzhou, Donglai County, Huang County.

There is a strange guest in the rich house, who has never gone out since he lived in the store, and the waiter serves tea and food on time every day, and cleans up the leftover meals and chopsticks from the previous meal. The old man poured himself the rice wine, the Qingzhou rice wine tasted sour, not as good as the best alcohol, even the turbid wine in Jizhou could not be compared, the waiter was very puzzled to say that there are countless fine wines in the shop, why does Mr. love this sour rice wine?

The old man smiled kindly: "It's just this bite, even the heavenly elixir and jade liquid can't be compared, do you believe it!" ”

"Faith!"

"Does the old man like to drink this sour rice wine or does the old man drink the elixir and jade liquid?"

"Believe it all!"

The old man smiled and leaned back, and in addition to the fact that this kid had been serving very well for a few days, he beckoned to him and said, "Come here!" ”

The waiter stepped forward step by step, and the old man suddenly conjured three pieces of cake gold in his hand as if he was playing a trick, and handed it to the waiter to say how many dishes can he order? The little waiter was dumbfounded, and his mouth trembled and said that he could order a big table, but he had never touched the cake gold since he was a child, and at most he watched the proprietress take it and look over and over from a distance.

The old man looked at the waiter, who would become inarticulate even when he saw the gold, and said kindly, I only order the venison that is the signature of our store, and you can just order two dishes for me when you look at it!

The waiter shook his head with a simple face and said, "Even if you finish ordering Dingding, you can still order seventy or eighty dishes......

The old man interrupted him and said, "I can't eat too much, give me two dishes of your favorite food, and you can take the rest!" ”

The little waiter hurriedly prevaricated and didn't dare to take it, the old man changed his face and said that it was like this, and the little waiter had no choice but to go out to give the old man a meal, but he was so excited in his heart that he had met a good person.

The waiter walked out of the room, only to find a group of diners and guests standing beside the corridor leading to the main hall in the courtyard, and at this moment a group of people gathered together to whisper, from time to time casting curious glances at the old man's upper room. The waiter was not surprised by the scene in front of him, the diners and travelers in the rich and noble hall were talking about this strange guest these days, but when he was about to cross the corridor back to the front hall, he was stopped by these diners, and asked him whether the guests were old or young, the waiter shook his head, the blue-eyed and childish face could not tell whether it was old or young, and the frosty hair and white beard did not know whether it was a young white head or an old white head.

It turned out that the guest's face was blurred, and if it weren't for the waiter's close-up look, he wouldn't be able to see his face clearly, and suddenly the waiter said: "The guest is generous, there is a reward every day, and he doesn't eat the free meal of the hotel!" ”

"Have any of you ever seen a hotel without a free meal? What a big deal this must be! Many diners and tourists surrounded the waiter and sighed, but the waiter said disapprovingly: "What is this, not to mention a few days ago, just the old gentleman ordered three dishes!" ”

"Three courses?"

"Which three?"

The mystery of what the waiter said immediately aroused everyone's curiosity, and they asked one after another.

The first course: "Kirin mandarin fish!" ”

Everyone is in an uproar, this fish is a famous dish in Qingzhou, the unicorn scale is a legendary divine object, the shape is like a deer, there are horns on the head, the whole body has scale armor, and there is a tail. Therefore, the thing symbolizes auspiciousness, and this dish resembles unicorn scales, hence the name.

Everyone was in an uproar, the first dish alone was 5,000 yuan, but could you think that the second and third dishes could be average? Immediately asked, "What about the second way?"

Second course: "Whole shell abalone"

In the Han Dynasty, abalone was regarded as a delicacy, listed as the "crown of seafood", and this dish was cooked with precious abalone as raw material with shell, the original shell and original meat, the original taste, the taste was delicious, and the taste was fresh and mellow.

The third way: "Dingding to chase the deer"

First of all, Luyuan needs to cross the sea to Liaodong, and the whole process is a live deer, slaughter in the store, go to the four hooves, take the Lin meat slice and put it into the Ding to cook, the body rubs, washes, scrapes, cuts, makes it extremely clean, small open abdomen, goes to the five internal organs, and washes it cleanly, and then "slows the fire and burns", roasts until the color is the same as amber, and it is like real gold, and then takes the shoulder meat slice, and the Ding boiled Lin meat is placed in a plate with a plate, so that eating a piece of the entrance is eliminated, eating a piece of mellow and delicate, and the taste is abnormal. The rest of the venison is not wasted and is still owned by the guests, but the way of eating is the same as that of the Hu people, and it is necessary to use a knife to slice the meat from the deer body.

If the first two dishes are still sneered, the name of the third dish from the mouth of the waiter immediately made the hall silent, the third dish is rich and full of signs, the price is expensive to reach a smacking cake of gold, the shape of the cake gold is round cake, the front and back are solid but not empty, the shape is like a dried persimmon, weighing a catty.

It is difficult for some small people in the market to understand the value of a cake of gold, but if it is exchanged from the government into five baht, it can be exchanged for 10,000 yuan, which is enough to buy an acre of plastered land!

The waiter left, and selected the best fatty ingredients in the back kitchen and handed them to the back kitchen for him to cook raw.

At this time, the old man, who was being talked about by the rich diners, sat alone in the gloomy room, which he had found above the thick mulberry paper with the window, and because the light could not penetrate, he spent an extra cake of gold to exchange rooms with the original tenants.

Soon after, the waiter and a group of kitchen servants carried three dishes to the old man's room, the mandarin fish was big, the abalone was enough, and the elk was tender and yellow.

The waiter did not have the slightest treachery, and ordered the two most expensive dishes in the store except for Dingding Zhulu, the old man took a sip of wine in the room, twisted his beard and smiled, and suddenly said to himself, Zhuangzi said that the scholar stole the dead man's things for himself, and Han Zi said that the Confucian scholar used literature to mess with the law. I think there are only these children left in this world, and they still have a good heart, and the people's hearts are not ancient, and Confucianism is in great trouble.

The old man just put the mandarin fish and abalone on the side of the table, and soon swept away the dishes on the plate with relish, wiped his mouth without grace after eating, and raised his head to see the little waiter standing aside and smiling, and was extremely happy that he still had such an appetite at his old age, and when he saw that he was looking, he suddenly timidly stretched out his hand and handed back the piece of cake gold.

He took back the cake gold, let the little waiter sit down opposite, and after he knelt down, he put the untouched plate of winning deer on the table in front of him, and said with a smile: "Eat it!" ”

The waiter hesitated a little, but under the stern gaze of the old man, he still grabbed the chopsticks, ate two slices, and heard the old man say with a smile: "The old man gave you a great fortune, and won the world to compete in the Central Plains, do you want to?" ”

The little waiter put it down and looked at the old man blankly, which clearly meant that he couldn't finish the championship and chase the deer, and it would be too wasteful to order more.

The old man was aggressive: "You just need to answer whether I want it or not!" ”

"The old gentleman has already invited me to eat and win the championship, I can't ask for it again!"