Chapter 133 Visitors

"What's wrong with Brother Zhuzhu?"

After Xu Damao ran away in embarrassment, cursed a few words at the door and ran away, Li Yuan looked at Silly Zhu with a depressed expression and asked.

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

Li Yuan said cheerfully: "Why don't you say that you are picky? One moment you are too fat, another moment your hair is too short, another moment your legs are bow-legged, and another moment you are too dark... all because of others' bad words. If I were a girl, I would let you do it. Take a picture of yourself by soaking in urine."

Silly Zhu was furious and said: "My... what's wrong with my conditions? Two large north houses, a formal factory worker, and a cook, thirty-seven and a half yuan a month! Brother, in these days and months, all the time Do you believe it or not that the cook is hungry?”

Li Yuan laughed and said: "I believe that. Logically speaking, the conditions are really good, so people are willing to meet you once they hear your conditions. But the people you like don't like you, and you don't like the people they like. Forget it, you can take care of this matter yourself from now on. Among the three aunts and six wives, the matchmaker is the most difficult to be. Don’t do it anymore!”

Silly Zhu was discouraged and sighed: "Okay, I won't embarrass you anymore..." He hesitated and asked Li Yuan: "Yuanzi, tell me, is our family really... Look, my... Grandpa, he ran away with the widow. My unlucky father also ran away with the widow. Out of nowhere, a biological uncle appeared. Hey, he even lived with the widow and her children. He talked to his wife in all directions. 'You'! What kind of life are you living here? Do you think I will... be my life?"

Li Yuan chuckled, looked at Silly Zhu and said, "Brother Zhuzi, you're leaving me alone to ambush you, right? What's going on, which widow have you set your sights on?"

Silly Zhu hesitated when he heard the words, and then he became embarrassed and blamed: "I mean Yuanzi, you are too smart, you are boring!" Then he rubbed his hands again, hehehe became silly, and said : "How about you? I'm really impressed by how smart you are!"

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

Silly Zhu's old face actually turned red, and he frowned and said, "You also think she and I are a good match?"

Li Yuanha was so happy that Silly Zhu became anxious and said, "Why are you laughing so hard? You should tell me!"

Li Yuanzhen said: "Do you think she looks like a person who lives her daily life?"

"this……"

Silly Zhu hesitated, his face full of tangles, as if he was very concerned about the troubles of living after marriage.

Li Yuan couldn't help laughing. The relationship between men and women in this era is really pure...

After thinking for a long time, Shazhu sighed again and shook his head: "Forget it, it's really hard to say. Look at what she's wearing... she's definitely not from the same place. My family is a poor farmer for three generations! Come on, let's not talk about it anymore. I'm here to see you today. I just wanted to ask, is there any food?"

Li Yuandao: "Why do you think of asking this?"

Silly Zhu whispered: "If you don't have enough, don't hold on, just say something, I still have some. Your wife is pregnant, and she is still eating steamed buns in front of the sky. How can this be done? I tore apart half a chicken. When you come back, you will still be a hen. You can use it later to replenish your wife’s stew pot..."

Hearing this, Li Yuan looked at Shazhu for a while and then smiled and said: "It's not easy to accept good intentions. Let the rain make up for it."

Silly Zhu said unhappily: "What's she getting? Even if she's 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's born to be thin. Fa'er. Go get it later, you know how to stew it."

Li Yuan thought for a while and said: "Let's keep the chicken. The day after tomorrow, Sunday, I will take you to a place. Xiao'e and I will go together to visit a gourmet. In this stall, good things are rare, so you can't just take it casually. have eaten."

Silly Zhu didn't believe it: "Really? What kind of delicacies in Sijiu City don't I know? Back then... my unlucky father sent me to Fengzeyuan to learn the art through his connections. Do you believe it or not?"

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

Silly 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 be able to name the truly top ones."

Li Yuanle said: "But he is not a cook, he is a gourmet. Of course, his kitchen skills are also quite good and exquisite. This person is not ordinary. He was originally from a scholarly and prestigious family, but he just plays around and loves all the hobbies of the dandy in the capital. But his play is different from that of other dandies who play with things to lose their spirits. Mr. Wang's play is outstanding.

Bamboo carvings, gourds, paintings, cricket jars, pigeons, pigeon whistles, bird food jars, cooking, eagles, badgers and dogs... In short, he has thoroughly enjoyed playing with all the things in the Forty-Nine City, and he has played extremely well! "

As he said this, Li Yuan became envious again. This way of living is the real way to play in the world and enjoy life.

Silly Zhu was stunned when he heard this, blinked and said: "Is there such an expert in these four-nine cities?"

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

Silly Zhu said happily: "That's OK! Then I'm happy to go! But... if you don't take guests with you, I will go with you. Isn't it a bit unethical?"

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

Silly Zhu wondered: "Then who am I... You are not asking me to be a cook for others, are you?"

Li Yuan clicked his tongue and said: "What are you talking about! I mean, you are not an ordinary guest, you are an expert! Go show your skills, I will also cook a dish, and Brother Wang will probably cook one too .The master is the real master. He never cooks dragon liver, phoenix and gallbladder, but uses the simplest raw materials to make the most delicious dishes. Last time he made a stewed onion dish, it was amazing! The table was full of people Everyone praised it, it’s more delicious than another chef’s Nanyang Nyonya chicken!”

Silly Zhu was dissatisfied: "Just simmer the onions... cut the scallions into several sections and simmer them for a while. Is it more delicious than the Nanyang chicken made by the chef? I don't believe it!"

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

If you go to Zhu's house, it will definitely be difficult to take people with you.

But Wang Shixiang is different. He is really easy to make friends with traffickers and pawns. Of course, he is a capable trafficker and pawn.

I feel that this man is the one who truly came to the world to savor the fireworks, and is also the direction of Li Yuan’s future life...

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On a rare warm sunny day in winter, in the small courtyard of Fangjiayuan, Wang Shixiang told Li Yuan, Lou Xiao'e, Shazhu, Zhu Jiaxin, and Zhu Chuanrong about the past. Wang Shixiang's wife Yuan Quanyou looked on with a smile.

If you don't speak out some things and keep them in your heart, you will get sick.

Silly Zhu was furious when he heard this and cursed: "It's so fucked up by his grandmother! Aren't these a bunch of bastards? They don't do things like this!"

Several other people laughed. Literary men like Yuan Quanyou and Zhu Jiasu couldn't use such foul language, but they felt relieved after hearing it!

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

Zhu Jiaxin knew that he was promoting narrowness and said angrily: "When I was selling grain in a mountain city, I joined the Kuomintang. Later I worked in a museum. I'm glad they didn't kill me."

Wang Shixiang laughed loudly and said: "It's amazing! We still have a Kuomintang here!"

Zhu Chuanrong, Zhu Jiaxin's daughter, said angrily: "Uncle Wang, haven't you ever done anything for the Kuomintang?"

Wang Shixiang was not afraid and said happily: "There are many people who have worked for the Kuomintang. Most of the people in Haizi have done so."

Li Yuan seriously advised: "Brother Wang, it's better not to mention those unlucky things in such a good time and beautiful scenery. You can't laugh at Mr. Zhu for being a second minister, right? It's too unkind."

Wang Shixiang laughed so hard that he kept saying "Yes, yes, yes" over and over again. Zhu Jiazhu shook his head and said with a smile: "I think you two are in the same boat! The old one only talks bad things, and the younger one is even worse. He says both bad and good things!"

Wang Shixiang suddenly said happily: "Speaking of Erchen, I remembered that there is an Erchen Mansion in Nanluogu Lane."

Silly Zhu and Lou Xiao'e were all listening to the book from heaven, while Li Yuan and Zhu Jiasu smiled and nodded.

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 Courtyard No. 59, on the side of Heizhima Hutong. We are Courtyard No. 95, not far away."

Zhu Jiazhu sighed and said: "After the defeat in Songshan, I feel miserable. I am as pitiful as a prisoner of Chu. The Zhu family only has hatred today and endures death to live as a second minister."

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, someone cleans the toilet, someone cleans 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 minds. Wang Shixiang, Zhu Jiasu and Yuan Quanyou quickly understood Li Yuan's good intentions, and the three of them laughed knowingly.

Wang Shixiang smiled and said: "This little brother of mine, although narrow-minded, has an exquisite and benevolent heart."

Zhu Jiaxin said: "Whether it is benevolence or kindness, it's hard to say."

Wang Shixiang smiled and said: "Shuowen says that good people are good luck. Guoyu also says: Goodness is the foundation of virtue. And benevolence is the foundation of goodness, benevolence is the body, and goodness is the use. There is no contradiction."

The two people’s Chinese studies are fully demonstrated.

Seeing that Lou Xiao'e and Silly Zhu's eyes were starting to sparkle, Li Yuan chuckled and said: "Okay, this is the end of elegance, it's time to become vulgar. You two are elegances, and we are all ordinary people. We can't keep up. .”

Wang Shixiang and Zhu Jiazhu laughed loudly when they heard this. 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 have made friends outside It’s all bullshit, so what should we do?”

Li Yuanle said: "Then it's Brother Zhuzi's fault. He admires and praises these two gentlemen as soon as they meet."

Silly Zhu blushed and shouted, "You told me everything I said?"

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

Silly Zhu was a little nervous and asked: "What is 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 past 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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