Chapter 9 A group of foodies
There are not many restaurants in Bailu Township. Ke Qi Niangzi's noodle restaurant usually relies on the business of the cheqi mansion. The cheqi mansion has always maintained a situation where more than 100 people are in the camp. The cheqi mansion also brings food to train and guard. They usually take turns to cook.
But a group of big men are definitely not very good at cooking.
Therefore, occasionally everyone would go to a small restaurant outside for a meal. Mrs. Ke Qi's husband was once a soldier in the carriage mansion, and later his father helped to take care of the business. Therefore, this small restaurant was maintained so that Mrs. Ke Qi's family of three could live here.
But the usual business is just like that, it is lukewarm and barely maintained.
But today is different. Many soldiers who went to war came back to receive rewards and received a lot of rewards. They were all happy, but they were rare to come to the store to be generous.
Usually, you may come to buy a pancake, but today you have to order at least two bowls without placing them.
There are even some lieutenants and the team leaders here to treat them.
The ten tables in the store were soon full. Zhang Chao followed Ke Wu and the others and set up four tables under the awning at the door outside the store.
Millet porridge, steamed cakes, pancakes, bowls of soup cakes, the store’s business is surprisingly good today.
In fact, in Zhang Chao's opinion, the food in Ke Qi's Niangzi's shop is very simple, with almost no seasonings. If you don't ask, just like what my father made in the morning, there is nothing else except adding some mutton oil and green onions. There is neither tempting toppings nor marinade, let alone poached eggs, vegetables, mushrooms and so on.
It's really a bit too simple.
But everyone was eating with relish and couldn't sit on the table, so they squatted in the snow outside the store with a big bowl, and they ate very much.
These guys are really not picky about eating.
Not only are these soldiers not picky, but they all have a good appetite. Because the soldiers of the father's team were having a free lunch for their father, they were all very unpolite.
At least three pounds of big sea bowls, each of these people had to eat at least three big bowls. There were a few foodies who even ate five big bowls in a row. There was a guy who was simply a job, and he ate seven bowls alone and didn’t support him. This made Zhang Chao very worried about this guy, whether he would be able to die. Although there was less noodles and more soup, his belly was really big.
However, for these men, having a chance to let go of their stomachs and eat hard is a rare opportunity. It is a very happy thing, so I will naturally not be polite.
I usually drink porridge and eat wild vegetables at home. Now I have soup cakes made of white flour. In the winter, the hot soup cakes are so comfortable.
"These people are really, and they will be killed if they say they treat you."
Mr. Zhang didn't care about these things, but Mrs. Ke Qi felt a little distressed when she saw it.
"It's rare to be so happy today, just make everyone happy."
"A bowl is not worth fifty cents." Now the price of Guan COFCO is high, so even the simple noodle soup is very expensive. After all, the rice is 500 cents. Mrs. Ke Qi felt sorry for her father, but after her father spoke, she stopped saying anything.
A bowl of Qingshui noodles costing 50 cents a bowl is really expensive. However, Zhang Chao also knew that as the Tang Dynasty gradually pacified the world, the order of the world gradually recovered, production began to recover, and various prices would also fall.
Under normal circumstances, it is normal to spend more than ten cents of rice.
According to historical records, by the fourth year of Zhenguan, the world had a bumper harvest for several consecutive years. At that time, the price of grain fell completely, with rice falling to two cents, and the price of grain plummeted more than two hundred times compared to the present.
After half an hour of busyness, I finally sent away most of the noodles-eating guests.
"Are you a monk?"
Zhang Chao was wiping the table, but the seventh lady's little daughter Lan'er was staring at the short hair under his hat.
"It used to be, but it's not now."
"Are you Uncle Zhang's son now?" the little girl asked again.
"Yes, my name is Zhang Chao, you can call me brother."
The eldest girl Lian'er stood a little further away, looking at Zhang Chao secretly, but did not come forward. The two sisters seemed a little curious about Zhang Chao and a little shy.
"Sanlang, let's have a meal together." Ke Shan called Zhang Chao on the side. Most of the soldiers who were eating had their fill and left. Now they finally had time to have a meal.
The two tables inside have been placed with cut cooked food and the rice wine they brought.
There were only a few plates of cooked meat, some fried beans, dried bamboo shoots, etc., but both tables said that my father had spent money today.
With wine and meat, and with soup cakes, everyone felt that it was very rich.
My father had two sons before, so he now accepted Zhang Chao as his son, so he called Zhang Chao Sanlang.
"Sanlang, come and give everyone a cup."
Zhang Chao stood up with a smile, held a full glass of wine, and greeted everyone.
"Dear uncles, I am a junior, so I will do it first."
Zhang Chao drank all the wine in the glass in one sip. The wine entered his throat and felt a bit sour. The wine tasted really strange and had a very bad taste.
But everyone was very happy to drink.
This wine was made in the village shop. Although it is not a famous wine like Xinfeng wine, it is not cheap. It can be considered a little higher and the price is much more expensive than food. A group of soldiers in the palace have few opportunities to drink.
Although the wine is not good, it is not as good as Zhang Chao. He is used to drinking later generations of wine, and this kind of wine is almost the same as beer. Zhang Chao frequently toasts, which makes everyone think that this young man is very polite. Although he just came down from the mountain and returned to secular life, he is still very polite.
After drinking and eating, Liu Gutou and the other team leaders left, leaving only the soldiers from Ke Wu and other villages.
My father was very happy today, his face was flushed, and the scar on his face that had crossed his left eye was also shining with purple light. "I plan to invite the village master, the village master, the general, the captain and the commander of the brigade, and the team leader to come to his house for a meal tomorrow. Tomorrow, everyone will witness that I will officially accept Sanlang as my son."
My father has no son, so he takes one son, and this is to be the biological son. This is a very important thing, because my father has no clan relatives here, so the fellow villagers are witnesses.
"I've held a banquet and asked my fellow village to help me get Saburo registered."
Household registration status is very important. If you don’t have a household registration status, you will be a black household. If you encounter a government investigation, you will be arrested if you don’t have it well. With a household registration, you can divide the land, which also means that you have to bear rent and labor to the state, especially for males over the age of 21.
The court checked the household registration every three years, and the village of Geli was usually responsible for the local government to investigate the omissions. The court dealt with those who concealed the household registration very strictly, especially for Cheng Ding's men. If they deliberately concealed the household registration, they would be punished and punished by flogging them after investigation, and at most one year of imprisonment was required.
"After you get the household registration, I will ask someone to tell Saburo about the marriage." The father said with a red face.
"This time the reward is relatively high, and it just happened to tell Saburo that the family is so close."
The reward my father received could be equivalent to more than 2,000 kilograms of corn. This reward was really generous when the price of grain was extremely expensive. However, at noon today, my father also gave me some blood, and everyone ate several thousand yuan. Fortunately, the noodle restaurant belongs to Qi Niang, and if it only counts as capital, it would save a lot.
However, Zhang Chao is not in a hurry to talk about marriage.
Now that I have the money and food in my hand, I should first build two new cellars, one should live in, and one should marry Qi Niang into the house, and the two should live together. The remaining two rooms are left, one should live by themselves, and the other should be lived by the girls Lian Niang and Lan Niang.
Zhang Chao even had a preliminary plan in mind that he could renovate this small noodle restaurant. The location is actually pretty good if he could innovate and make some tricks, then he should still make money.
Zhang Chao is not the kind of person who just focuses on the land to produce. Although the land is the fundamental, it is better to make money by opening a store.
When he first arrived in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Chao had no lofty ambitions for a while. He was just thinking about how to make his life more comfortable and his father also more comfortable.
Build a new cellar, put on a fire kang, build a new stove, and open a noodle restaurant.
With a hint of wine, Zhang Chao described his future plans to his father and Qi Niang and others. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and he said a lot in one breath.
Until the end, my eyelids couldn't lift up again and I fell asleep.
Before falling asleep, Zhang Chao was surprised that although the rice wine tasted sour and light, he didn't expect that the momentum was quite strong.
My father looked at Zhang Chao sleeping on the table, a little surprised.
"Why do I look at Sanlang as you said, "I have lived in the mountains with the old monk for many years without eating fireworks. I look like a businessman who travels around the world and is knowledgeable."
Ke Wu looked at Zhang Chao who was sleeping soundly and said to his father.
"This kid is pretty good."
Chapter completed!