At noon, there were not many customers in the restaurant, with less than one-third of the seats occupied and many empty tables. Yan Liqiang entered the restaurant, glanced at the environment of the restaurant, and chose a seat by the window on the first floor to sit down.
"What would you like to order, sir?" The waiter had a good attitude, but when he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at the old clothes on Yan Liqiang several times.
How could Yan Liqiang not know what the waiter was thinking
"Don't bother, just give me an eight-treasure banquet with some fresh food stir-fried..." Yan Liqiang said deliberately in a light-hearted manner, and his talent for pretending to be cool began to explode.
"What Eight Delicacies Banquet..." The waiter looked at Yan Liqiang in confusion.
Yan Liqiang frowned, "Don't you have any here?"
The waiter smiled and said, "Sir, please tell me about this. I will tell the chef in the kitchen and maybe he can make it!"
"It's very simple. This Eight Delicacies Feast is made from beef, mutton, elk, deer, deer, pig, dog and other ingredients, including pure stew, pure mother, roasted pig, pounded delicacies, pickled stew, grated liver, roasted fat, and fat cover. It's considered a set..."
The waiter's face froze. "Well, the ingredients may not be ready at the moment. Why don't you try a few more dishes..."
"Okay, just change a few!" Yan Liqiang glanced around the store with a critical eye and said helplessly, "Then let's have a plate of fish maw stewed with matsutake mushrooms, double-flavored raw shrimp balls, fried and braised snowflake fish, bird's nest and autumn pear soup, goose feet and duck intestines in fermented rice wine, dragon snake and hundred bird soup..."
The waiter was stunned. He had never heard of these dishes before. Even if he knew the ingredients of some of them, he had no idea how to cook them. The waiter's body instantly shrank three inches, and the smile on his face became even thicker. "Sir, we do have goose feet and duck intestines in our restaurant, but I don't know how to make the goose feet and duck intestines you mentioned?"
“This is easy. Just boil the goose feet and duck tongues, remove the bones, and cook them again in chicken broth with century-old ginseng and salt. Then take them out and eat them with fermented rice wine juice or fermented rice wine oil. It’s simple to prepare and tastes good…” Yan Liqiang said calmly - he had never eaten this dish, but he had seen it. It was a dish from the Jia family in A Dream of Red Mansions.
“This… I’m afraid our shop can’t make it right away!” The waiter wiped his cold sweat off his forehead and didn’t dare to ask how to make other dishes.
"Forget it, forget it. Just bring me whatever specialties you have in your store. I'll see if there's anything edible..." Yan Liqiang said helplessly.
The waiter walked away with his shoulders hunched, muttering to himself as he walked, "Why is it that these young masters from wealthy families have started to wear old clothes and pretend to be poor these days? Isn't this just a joke?"
The waiter went to the back and talked to the store owner. The store owner did not dare to be negligent and immediately asked the kitchen to prepare a table of the store's signature dishes, brought them up, and served them carefully.
Yan Liqiang ate slowly, chewing his food carefully. While eating, he quietly watched the scene on the street outside the window and listened to the conversations of the customers in the shop.
Not far from him, there was a table of guests, who happened to be a father and son. The two men were eating and chatting at the same time. From what he heard from their conversation, he found out that the father wanted to send his son to Huzhou City to participate in the selection of disciples for the Huzhou branch of Lingshan Sect, one of the four major sects in the world.
As one of the four major sects in the world, Lingshan Sect's headquarters is not in Huzhou, but in Lingzhou, north of the Han Empire. Like these major sects in the world, they have branches or branches in many states of the Han Empire. In Huzhou, Lingshan Sect has a Lingshan Huzhou Branch, which specializes in recruiting potential disciples from Huzhou. The outstanding disciples among these disciples will have the opportunity to practice in the Lingshan Sect headquarters in the future.
After hearing this news, Yan Liqiang's heart was moved. He still remembered the pill that Lingshan Sect gave to Mr. Lu. It was indeed effective immediately. In places like Huzhou, compared to the official martial arts halls of the Han Empire, which only trained up to the level of warriors, the branches of these large sects had higher levels and greater influence. As a disciple of these large sects, becoming a warrior might just be the beginning...
If you want revenge, you must learn skills, and if you want to learn skills, you must find a big tree...
Maybe you can try it yourself!
Yan Liqiang's heart suddenly became hot.
There were people coming and going on the street outside the Yunhe Tower. In the middle of the street, there was a horse path, and from time to time people would gallop past on mounts such as rhinoceros horses.
When he was about 70% full, he saw a man riding a rhinoceros horse passing by the door. Yan Liqiang suddenly dropped his chopsticks and stood up, staring at the rhinoceros horse in the distance, his eyes widened, and shouted, "Xu San, stop right there, don't run..."
After saying this, Yan Liqiang jumped out of the window facing the street, ran after the rhino horse at full speed...
The man riding the rhino horse neither heard Yan Liqiang's shouting, nor did he know who the so-called Xu San was. He just rode forward on his horse and did not notice Yan Liqiang following him. However, even if he noticed him, he probably would not care. There were so many people coming and going on this street, who would care whether others ran or not
When Yan Liqiang jumped out of the window, the waiter in the store did not react for a long time. By the time the waiter reacted and chased him out of the store, Yan Liqiang had already run hundreds of meters away. The waiter chased him while shouting, "Sir, sir, you haven't paid yet..." Yan Liqiang acted as if he didn't hear anything and ran even faster.
After chasing for a while, the waiter found that the distance between him and Yan Liqiang was getting farther and farther. Yan Liqiang's speed was simply beyond his reach. In the end, the waiter could only watch Yan Liqiang chasing "Xu San" riding the rhino horse and disappearing in front of his eyes...
When they returned to the store and mentioned that Yan Liqiang had disappeared, even the store owner was unsure whether Yan Liqiang was dining for free or really chasing someone. In the end, he could only blame himself for his bad luck and asked the waiter to clean up the leftover food on Yan Liqiang's table.
"Boss, I paid for the meal of the young man who just left. No need to give me the change..."
Just as the shopkeeper was sighing and calculating his losses on the abacus, a customer in the store came up to him, took out a dime and gently placed it on the counter.
The shopkeeper was overjoyed. When he looked up, he found an old man in blue standing in front of the counter. This old man was also a customer of the store. He had just come to a corner on the first floor of the store and ordered a pot of wine, a plate of fried peanuts, and two side dishes, and drank by himself.
…
After paying the bill, the old man left the restaurant and looked in the direction where Yan Liqiang disappeared with a strange smile on his face...
…
Yan Liqiang ran out of the town for five or six kilometers in one breath. Then he saw a bamboo forest on the side of the road, so he turned into the forest and rested for half an hour. Only when he found that there was no one chasing him did he walk out of the forest again and head towards Huzhou City.
Since we are going to dine for free today, we naturally have to have a good meal so that we have the strength to continue our journey. Grabbing two steamed buns on the roadside is not called dine for free, that is called shame.
When the sun set, the majestic Huzhou City finally appeared in front of Yan Liqiang...
(End of this chapter)