"That day, I heard that I often came to the restaurant and was thieves. I wondered why there were bold mad men who dared to commit crimes in Poyang City. After asking again, it turned out that it was a misunderstanding... Li Sanlang, you really know how to do it."

"Oh, the boy acts recklessly and makes Manager Lu laugh at him... Come on, I'll give Manager Lu a full list of..."

"It's not me who said you... the fish's belly was also collected a few days ago, because of you, right? Liu Shuzuo, you should have been in the court at that time, right?"

"Oh, what did Shopkeeper Lu say? God is obvious and spiritual. What does it have to do with my nephew? Come on, come on, I have made this glass of wine."

He often came to a restaurant in a private room. Li Li invited the creditor Lu Quan to pay off his debts. By the way, the county party secretary sent a letter to assist Liu Decai as a accompanying him.

Li Li also brought his friends Wu Xiang and Liang Sen, but these two people couldn't bear it. Li Li arranged for them to have a meal in the lobby, which was considered a good meal.

Because the main course has not been served yet, the guest and host were talking at this time.

Lu Quan knew what Li Li was thinking about treating him today, but he didn't agree, because the Li family is at a loss now, and the deadline for repaying the debt is tomorrow, and the other party can't pay off the debt at all.

So even if Li Li brought the book assistant Liu De to plead with him, he would never let go.

‘Just, you, Liu Decai, are just a minor official from the county party committee. What qualifications are you to come and plead with me? Even if the chief clerk is here, it is useless!’

Lu Quan thought so, but he smiled and waited to see how these two people would plead with the attitude of watching the show.

No one dared to provoke the Poyang Palace in Poyang. He did things for the royal palace, but he not only pretended to be a tiger's power, but also wanted to show his strength so that he could move upwards.

It is better to follow the king or prince to wait for instructions, which is much better than eating leftovers in Poyang.

The king of Poyang was a fief (nominally) in Poyang County, but the king of Poyang and most of his family did not live in Poyang, and served the country like other royal families.

Either you are in charge or become an official in Beijing. It will continue to be repeated and you will not stay in Poyang for a night for several years.

Therefore, the Poyang Palace in Poyang City is more like a separate courtyard. Those who can follow the Poyang King are the celebrities in the palace.

The people in the royal palace in Poyang are more like dogs guarding the old house.

As he thought about it, Lu Quan looked at Li Li. Li's family was in Baishi Village and had a few acres of fish ponds at his home. He was determined to win, just because the fish pond was located in a good location, just near a river, and there was live water available all year round.

There is live water at any time, which is very important for raising fish.

The Li family's fish pond is like a gateway, blocking the river and other villagers' fish ponds. Only after taking them down can the other fish ponds be obtained.

Lu Quan wanted to take down the land of Baishi Village and use his outstanding performance to fight for the opportunity to climb up. In his opinion, the smiling Li Li in front of him was just a thorn in the dry rut.

No matter how hard the fish in the ruts and water struggle, they cannot escape the fate of being dried.

While the guests and guests were chatting and laughing, the restaurant served the dishes. As soon as they entered the door, Lu Quan smelled a faint fragrance. Even though he had tasted countless delicacies of mountains and seas, he could not help but be attracted by the fragrance.

I was full of expectations: What dish? I didn’t seem to have eaten it before?

Li Li, who was "alcohol test", saw that the main dish was coming, quickly got up and served Lu Quan himself.

In this era, people implemented a separate meal system for dining, each person had a meal, each had a meal, and they picked up their own dishes. Unlike later generations, when everyone sat around the dining table and shared a plate of dishes when they were having dinner together.

The four dishes were put together, Li Li returned to his position, and Lu Quan looked closely and found that the dish served was steamed fish.

Steamed fish is very common, but rice noodles are not rare. The fish that is eaten daily in various places is wrapped in rice noodles, but the steamed fish dish is different now:

The red rice noodles wrapped in pieces of fish exudes a different light fragrance.

Rice flour, that is, rice crushed into powder, has such a aroma, and Lu Quan judged that there must be seasonings, so he identified the smell of tangerine peel from it. The red fish pieces were covered with green vegetables, which looked pleasing to the eye.

He picked up a piece of fish and put it in his mouth, savored it carefully, and couldn't help but applaud.

The fish meat is delicate, tender and delicious, wrapped in rice flour, and the taste is rich. The fish smell is mixed with the aroma of rice flour, without any fishy smell.

As for rice noodles, it is unlike rice noodles used for ordinary fish, which may be processed by some method before use. The vegetables containing fish pieces absorb the aroma of fish sifted through rice noodles, and taste crisp and delicious, which is also good.

Meat and vegetables are the same dish, and fish and vegetables borrow flavors from each other, but they will not make people feel mixed. This flavor gives people a feeling, although not as strong as the delicacies of mountains and seas, it is also quite distinctive, which impressed Lu Quan.

After taking a few bites carefully, I felt the fragrance remained between my teeth.

He put the chopsticks and asked, "Is it the new signature dish here? It's interesting."

Liu Decai deeply agreed with this. He has experienced various banquets, but has never eaten such a flavor of steamed fish. I think it should be this newly launched dish that often comes to restaurants.

I'm afraid it's not cheap.

Thinking of this, Liu Decai looked at Li Li with some concern. Today, Li Li invited the creditor Lu Quan to discuss the debt repayment. He came to drink as Elder Li Li. To be honest, he was a little uneasy.

If a mere county party secretary has a letter, where can there be a sympathy to make Lu Quangao, who lends to the royal palace, be proud?

Liu De realized that this was impossible, but Li Li only said that he would ask his uncle to be a witness today and settle the debt, so there is no need to worry about the cost of drinking.

So Liu De attended the banquet with suspicion, wanting to see how this kid would pay off his debts.

After a few side dishes were served, the next one was fish head soup. This fish head soup is also a common dish in the restaurant, but the fish head soup placed before everyone's table is different:

You don’t need to make soup with crucian carp heads, but the fish soup you make can be of color, fragrance and taste.

First of all, Liu De found that the water of the fish head soup was particularly white, and he didn't know what method to use to boil it out;

The second is fragrance. In order to remove fishy fish, fish head soup usually requires ginger and cooking wine. However, Liu Decai was unable to distinguish the ginger and wine from the fragrance of this fish head soup, but there was a faint tea aroma;

An idea flashed through Liu Decai's mind: Could it be to use tea to remove the fishy smell?

Next was the taste. He savored it carefully. In addition to the flavor that fish soup must have, it also had an inexplicable umami flavor. It seemed that he used some kind of seasoning to improve the freshness. What it was, he couldn't tell what it was.

As a Shu Zuo, Liu Decai naturally won't be much higher in the banquet he attended. He just made sure that this fish head soup was very delicious, and that fish head...

The fish heads that were cut into half were very large, and they were not the crucian carp heads that were common in stewed soup. Liu Decai could recognize them as the silver carp heads.

The head of the silver carp is very big, but it is very troublesome to cook. If it cannot be cooked thoroughly, the soup will have a little bitter taste, but if it needs to be cooked thoroughly, the fish head meat will become old.

Therefore, people who pay attention to it like to drink crucian carp and fish head soup. As for the silver carp head, it is difficult to make the soup, and it is troublesome to make it delicious. Ordinary restaurants are not willing to use it.

Liu Decai looked at the fish head soup in front of him, and felt that if he wanted to make the silver carp head delicious, it would be expensive, so he couldn't help but look at Li Li, and he became more and more worried:

How can you afford this meal?

Liu Decai was worried, while Lu Quan squinted his eyes and slowly savored the soup. Li Li looked at this person calmly.

After a long time, Lu Quan opened his eyes and slapped: "Good soup! Good soup!"

He looked at Li Li and smiled and said, "Li Sanlang, how did you know that there are new dishes in the restaurants in Changlai?"

Li Li smiled but said nothing. Seeing that the atmosphere was almost done, he opened the right way: "Shopkeeper Lu was happy to eat, but the boy was relieved. This is the deadline tomorrow. The boy thought, why don't he pay off the debt today."

When Lu Quan heard this, he still smiled and said, "Oh, Li Sanlang, it turns out that you have to pay off your debt today. So, pay it back as soon as possible. I will save you and I will worry about it, so..."

He sat up straight and his tone changed: "The debt, principal and interest of your family owed a total of 40,000 yuan, and 40,000 yuan is not much, but the amount is not light, and it must be about 500 kilograms."

"Five hundred kilograms, were you wrapped in a package? Four people carried it?"

Forty thousand coins, that is, forty thousand coins, counting in one thousand coins and one sacred coins is forty ten coins. What does this amount of money mean?

A silence of money weighs at least twelve kilograms, and forty silences means that the weight is nearly 500 kilograms (including hemp ropes that can be worn for money). Li Li and Liu Decai have two young men from the same village who can't carry it at all and must be pulled by a car.

When Li Li heard Lu Quan's ridicule, he still looked up at the spring breeze and nodded to the restaurant waiter. The other party turned around and went out. After a moment, he entered alone, but it was Ma Qinglin, the owner of the restaurant.

Lu Quan and Ma Qinglin are old acquaintances. When he saw this person coming in, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

As expected, Ma Qinglin expressed his gratitude after exchanging greetings to witness Li Li's debt repayment.

Lu Quan didn't know why Ma Qinglin was involved in this matter, so he looked at Li Li and heard that money had come to the restaurant often, so he was stunned.

After a moment, Lu Quan was shocked and instantly lost his composure. He pointed at Ma Qinglin: "Old Ma, can it be you, you, let this kid stand out!!"

In fact, he didn't say anything: So bold, you dare to mess with my affairs? Don't you know the consequences of going against the royal palace?

Liu Decai, who was standing beside him, was surprised by the sudden turn, and he could hear Lu Quan's tone not being kind.

The Ma Qinglin, who was a fat man like Lu Quan, saw that Lu Quan was so beautiful that he was about to explain, but Li Li snatched it first:

"Shopkeeper Lu, don't misunderstand it. I saw that the 40,000 yuan was not easy to carry, so I temporarily placed it on Master Ma's side."

"What, let me put it?" Lu Quan was surprised again, looked at Li Li and Ma Qinglin, and couldn't believe his ears.

Lu Quan knew very well what happened to the Li Li family. The Li family has changed a lot in recent years. It is difficult for two pairs of orphans and widows to protect themselves, and it is impossible to get 40,000 yuan in a short time.

How could Ma Qinglin, who runs a restaurant, have something to do with the Li family? These two families have never had any friendship!

Lu Quan felt a little confused. Suddenly he remembered the misunderstanding between Li Li and Changlai Restaurant. He then looked at the two dishes on the table in front of him, then looked at Ma Qinglin, and blurted out: "You... have you bought a recipe with this kid?"

"Ah, yes, haha..." Ma Qinglin smiled awkwardly, and then explained: "Brother Lu, I... I didn't expect that he actually wanted to pay your debt with money."

Seeing that things were indeed as I guessed, Lu Quan felt unbelievable, and his mouth twitched and thought about what he said, but he didn't know what to say.

‘Damn it! I actually let this brat get enough money to settle the debt!’

The dream was shattered, and Lu Quan was so angry that his body trembled slightly. In a moment, he suddenly stood up, pointed at the fish head soup on the table, and questioned Ma Qinglin:

"You're crazy! No matter how delicious these two dishes are, the ingredients used are probably common, so the recipe cannot be worth 40,000 yuan!
Chapter completed!