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Chapter 328 Chapter 327. Experience at the dumpling restaurant

Dumpling House.

There was no door, no plaque, not even a wine flag, but it was almost full of guests.

Yang Denghuan decided on this dumpling restaurant after asking several old men.

According to several old men, this dumpling restaurant is the most delicious dumpling restaurant in Jiangan Hutong and even in this area. Some people are willing to go across four or five alleys to have a meal of dumplings from this restaurant. So even if one or two new faces appear in the dumpling restaurant, no one will notice.

The reason why he chose the dumpling restaurant is that Yang Denghuan himself believes that the favorite food of Guandong people is dumplings. Of course, it would be better if it has some braised pork.

The shop is not big, with only four tables in the middle. Against the wall is a circle of large wine tanks, with a round wooden board placed on it, which can also be regarded as a table.

The shop was obviously old, and the walls were yellowish. There was only one window on the west gable, so the light in the shop was very dim.

Three of the four tables were occupied, and the large wine vat against the wall was filled with people sitting in twos and threes. Some of these people were friends gathering, and some might be sitting at the same table without knowing each other. .

The boss is a middle-aged fat man with a round face full of wealth. He is constantly busy inside and outside the counter, making jokes with everyone, but he does not delay serving food, wine and dumplings to everyone.

Apart from the middle-aged fat man, there was only a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, who was busy doing chores without touching the floor, following the shouts of the diners.

Aiya entered the dumpling restaurant, her brows furrowed slightly, as if she didn't even dare to leave.

Yang Denghuan wiped the bench hard again and again until it was shiny with oil, and then asked Aiya to sit down.

Although Aiya looked troubled, she sat down without hesitation when she heard Yang Denghuan speak and looked at the people around her uneasily.

"It doesn't matter how good the place is, but the dumplings here are very delicious!" Yang Deng said with a smile.

"Yeah." Aya nodded cautiously.

"Where do you usually eat dumplings?" Yang Denghuan took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick cage, wiped them clean carefully, and then placed them on the small plate in front of Aiya. Aiya glanced at Yang Denghuan gratefully.

"Home." Aya whispered.

"Have you never been to a restaurant to eat dumplings?" Yang Denghuan asked curiously.

Aya blushed and shook her head.

"This store was when I was in school. One of my classmates brought me here to eat. It has been here for several years." Yang Denghuan looked around and said with a smile.

Aiya also looked around curiously and found that several people in the dumpling restaurant were looking at them curiously. She quickly looked back and lowered her eyebrows.

"The shopkeeper, half a catty of radish and half a catty of cabbage stuffing." After Yang Denghuan finished speaking, he asked loudly: "Is there any fennel stuffing today?"

The fat shopkeeper came over with a smile and said with a smile: "Hey, this man is a big eater. It is a bit rare to eat dumplings stuffed with fennel now! But you two are here today. We have fennel stuffed dumplings at home. !”

The fat shopkeeper looked quite proud when he spoke, and Yang Denghuan also smiled and said: "Okay! Then I'll get half a pound of fennel stuffing!"

Yang Denghuan looked like he was a glutton and asked with a smile: "I remember you had braised pork here before, is it still available now?"

Although Yang Denghuan had never eaten at this dumpling restaurant, almost all dumpling restaurants in Old Beiping also sold braised pork. This had almost become a rule, so he asked calmly.

"You said it before, that feeling! I'm not bragging. The braised pork ribs in our store are no worse than Tianfuju's! Our braised pork recipe was passed down from the palace! My grandfather thought he was a sou in the Forbidden City. Made!" the fat shopkeeper said proudly.

"That's great! Pick up the fatter ones and give us a pound of elbows!" Yang Denghuan said in surprise.

"That's not possible now! Ask around in Beiping City, who else can get elbows? I think Tianfuju is about to close! Can Tianfuju without elbows still be called Tianfuju?" The fat shopkeeper sighed with a bitter look on his face. He said with a breath.

"Then what do you have here?" Yang Denghuan asked.

"There's only pig head meat. How about some meat jelly? Other than that, there's nothing fishy at all." The fat shopkeeper said.

Yang Denghuan and Aiya were dressed in exquisite clothes and had bright faces. The fat shopkeeper naturally did not dare to neglect them and said quickly.

"Pork head meat? Do you have smoked fish?" Yang Deng asked with a smile.

Aya blushed and said, "Didn't he say that there is only pork head meat? How could there be smoked fish?"

Yang Denghuan laughed and looked at the fat shopkeeper. The fat shopkeeper raised his thumb at Yang Denghuan and said, "Okay! You are a big eater! There is no smoked fish, just ordinary pig head meat."

"Then I'll have one with shredded meat, one with jelly, and the dumplings I just ordered." Yang Deng said with a smile.

"Okay! Mix three shreds, pork skin jelly, thirty radish, thirty cabbage, thirty fennel..." the shopkeeper shouted loudly in a long voice.

The shopkeeper turned around and left, and Aya asked in a low voice: "What does smoked fish mean?"

"Smoked fish is actually pig head meat, but it's just the forehead part, a few thin and sinewy slices. Those who know how to eat will basically order that part." Yang Deng said with a smile.

"What did the shopkeeper mean when he called thirty-thirty just now? Don't we want half a catty?" Aya asked again.

"Half a catty is thirty dumplings. If you have more dumplings, wouldn't it make the customer lavish? That's why the shopkeeper calls it thirty, but it's actually half a catty." Yang Denghuan said with a smile.

Aiya nodded and said with a smile: "It's so insightful to go out to eat with you, I thought it was a real fish!"

"What kind of knowledge does this have? In fact, I'm just greedy." Yang Deng said with a smile.

After a while, the boy brought the mixed Sansi and Pork Skin Jelly. Aya was shocked when she looked at the two plates that were as big as her own face, and blurted out: "So much? Have we finished eating! You want another pound?" There’s half a dumpling!”

Yang Denghuan laughed loudly. Originally, the two of them dressed up a bit out of place in this small dumpling restaurant, but Yang Denghuan's smile attracted everyone's attention.

"This is too much for us? The last time I ate here, I met a few Northeasterners. They ate so much that they were called too much!" At this point, Yang Deng asked Aiya with a smile: "Guess what they eat?" How much does one person eat?”

Aiya doesn't care how many dumplings Yang Denghuan said these Northeasterners ate. What does it have to do with her?

But since Yang Denghuan asked him to guess, he had to guess carefully. Aiya said with a smile: "How much can you eat? One person can eat up to half a catty."

"Half a catty?" Yang Denghuan shook his head and said, "No, guess again."

"Six taels?"

"wrong!"

"Seven taels?"

"No, you need to be braver!" Yang Deng said with a smile.

"Then... nine taels?" Aya thought for a moment and answered seriously. Before Yang Denghuan could answer, a short, wretched-looking man beside the big wine vat, who was already drunk, interrupted and said, "Nine taels is not enough! Those wild donkeys are at least one and a half kilograms each, two kilograms each." It’s all possible!”

When Aiya heard someone interrupt, she was so frightened that she quickly shut her mouth and stopped talking.

Yang Denghuan glared at the short drunkard with disgust, looking unhappy.

The fat shopkeeper looked around, frowned and said: "Qi Laosan, what nonsense are you talking about! Why are you interrupting in our chat? It's like you saw it!"

When the drunkard Qi Laosan heard what the fat shopkeeper said, he immediately became anxious and said with blood-red eyes: "Why didn't you see it? Why didn't you see it! Are there people from the Northeast in our Jiangan Alley? Aren't they the people in No. 95 Courtyard? !”

People in Peiping like to chat and like to chat in groups. No matter whether they know someone or not, as long as they know something about them, they will start chatting immediately. Often by the end of the conversation, no one can remember who brought up the topic in the first place or why. The conversation is not finished until the next topic comes up.

Sure enough, the drunkard Qi Laosan brought up the topic of No. 95 Courtyard, and someone immediately said: "Hey! Don't mention it, I remember that this group of people used to come to this store to eat dumplings, but they haven't come here for a while!"

"I heard they have moved away," said an older man.

"This group of people is interesting. Every time I eat dumplings, they eat up all the dumplings here! Every time I see them when I come in, I wipe my head and leave immediately. The wait is in vain. As soon as they come, I will definitely get a dumpling." There aren’t any left!” A tall and strong man laughed.

"I heard that these guys are carrying ice for people in Bingku Alley. Good guy, how can you eat less?" One person laughed.

Bingku Alley? Yang Denghuan remembered secretly.

"Bingku Alley? It's not there a long time ago!" The strong man said loudly: "I also carried the big guys in Bingku Alley. I haven't seen them in some days." At this point, the strong man sighed and said: "Now The work in the icehouse alley is getting harder and harder! I can hardly afford to eat anymore, so who still uses ice! If I had my way, I would be dead!"

"Then why don't you talk about it? It means you are still making money." The fat shopkeeper said jokingly.

"Me? What the hell! Now I have to work hard but I have to help others. People like me can only take jobs at home! They are a bunch of brothers over there, and they can't go anywhere!" The strong man sighed.

"Then you follow them! After all, we were neighbors, right..."

The fat shopkeeper just said this, but before the strong man could answer, Qi Laosan cursed drunkenly: "Bullshit neighbors! Those grandchildren don't even recognize their own father, how can they still recognize their neighbors?"

When Yang Denghuan saw Qi Laosan swearing for no reason, he first looked at Aiya cautiously, and then glared at Qi Laosan with disgust.

The fat shopkeeper saw this and quickly stopped: "Qi Laosan, if you drink too much cat urine, just go home and lie down. People have provoked you, so why are you scolding them!"

Qi Laosan's drunken eyes were squinting. He reached out and grabbed the wine glass. After searching for his mouth for a long time, he put the glass over, but did not drink directly. He stuttered and said: "He didn't recruit me, Qi Laosan, but he did recruit Xiaobai Shoes!"

As Qi Laosan said these words, the dumpling restaurant became lively in an instant, which showed that everyone here was quite familiar with Xiaobai Shoes.

"Qi Laosan, what's going on? Tell me quickly, why did you offend Xiaobai Shoe!"

"Hey, there's still this story? I've learned a lot today!"

"So there is a story with Little White Shoes?"

Several drinkers coaxed and said, Qi Laosan's face was full of color.

"Qi Laosan, don't talk nonsense!" The fat shopkeeper glanced at Yang Denghuan, fearing that he would not be happy, and said quickly.

Yang Denghuan looked unconcerned. He didn't seem to hear the fuss over there, and just whispered to Aiya. Yang Denghuan pointed at the dumplings with chopsticks from time to time, probably trying to persuade Aiya to eat the dumplings.

"I'm talking nonsense! I saw that with my own eyes! But I don't care about saying it!" Qi Laosan said shaking his head.

"No! Let's talk about it and let's listen. It can be fun!" a drinker said excitedly.

"The food and wine are gone, what can I say?" Qi Laosan muttered.

"Shopkeeper, give Mr. Qi two taels to burn the knife..."

"Two taels are not enough for me to drink!" Qi Laosan said shaking his body.

"Virtue!" A half-year-old man who looked quite neatly dressed laughed and cursed, waved his hand and said loudly: "Shopkeeper Zhou, all the wine Qi Laosan has today is mine!"

"Yes, Fifth Master." Shopkeeper Zhou said quickly.

"Fifth Master is grand!"

"Fifth Master has already spoken, but Qi Laosan, are you still trying to make excuses? Quickly talk about Xiaobai Shoes...and those Northeasterners."

There was another round of booing, and Qi Laosan said with embarrassment: "The key is that there is no food, I am a man of few people and I can't drink."

The Fifth Master laughed again after hearing this, and said to Shopkeeper Zhou: "Give Mr. Qi some mixed Sansi."

"Okay!" Shopkeeper Zhou agreed loudly.

Qi Laosan turned around, smiled flatteringly at Fifth Master and said, "Fifth Master, thank you for the wine and food. It would be even better if we had some jellyfish."

"Shopkeeper..." Fifth Master called out again lightly.

Qi Laosan was very excited after hearing this. He was gearing up and stared at Shopkeeper Zhou as he stung himself.

"Please remove all the food and wine, Qi Laosan doesn't want to eat!" said the Fifth Master.

"No! I'll eat, I'll eat!" Qi Laosan exaggeratedly protected the table and said vaguely.

The drinkers in the dumpling restaurant laughed again. Many people ridiculed Qi Laosan and made a joke.

"If you don't drink a toast, you'll get a fine drink." The fifth master was obviously in a good mood and said jokingly.

Qi Laosan coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention, and then lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious: "Everyone, everyone knows about the white shoes at the bottom of our alley, right? I am a pauper. I don’t know her very well, unlike Master Wu’s family, who has a big business, and she is a frequent visitor to Xiaobai Shoe’s family…”

After hearing this, Master Wu immediately blushed and cursed in a low voice: "Qi Laosan, what nonsense are you talking about! You are a frequent visitor to Xiaobai Shoe's house!" Everyone burst into laughter again.

Qi Laosan showed a lazy look on his face and said with a smile: "I would like to become a frequent visitor to Xiaobai Shoe's house, but they don't like me! They only like those silly roe deer from Guandong!"

Aiya heard the conversation there was very lively, but she couldn't understand some of the words. She lowered her voice and asked Yang Denghuan: "What are the white shoes they are talking about?"

Yang Denghuan naturally knew that the white shoes mentioned by Mr. Qi must be the famous "ajar door" in this area, but how should he explain this to Aiya?

Yang Denghuan was in trouble for a while. But what makes Yang Denghuan happy is that he finally touched the tail of the "Jingzhe" group.

(End of this chapter)