Coquettish Rebirth

After Jia Hongjian sold Li Yan and asked Li Yan to help him count the money, the car arrived at the Red House Western Restaurant within 2 minutes.The Red House Western Restaurant is located at No. 35 Shannan Road, very close to the commercial center of Shanghai like People's Square, and not far from the Bund.Here, there is the red house, a well-known old building in Shanghai.Now the subway line of this line has just opened the subway entrance of Shannan Road, exit Maoming Road at Shannan Road Station, opposite the Cathay Pacific Cinema, that is the famous red house.

The red house, red walls, steel, and white lines outline a three-story French-style apartment, which contrasts with the century-old French sycamore, and brings people back to the era of Shanghai in the 2030s.After entering the restaurant, looking at the traditional western dining table and those old oil paintings, it gives people a feeling of traveling through time and space.When they came to the private room, the group of people sat down, and as soon as they got the menu, they listened to Jia Hongjian's introduction: "The Red House Western Restaurant here is said to be a place that Eileen Chang loved to come to, and she liked it the most. Eat the onion soup, grilled mandarin fish, grilled snails, and mustard steak. These dishes can also be said to be the signature dishes here in the Red House. Ladies, how about giving it a try?"

In this era, other ordinary people may not know who Zhang Ailing is. After all, petty bourgeoisie is not popular in this era, and the influence of traditional ideology is still there-don’t forget, the man that Ailing likes is Hu Lancheng from Wang’s puppet regime. !So this piece of Aileen herself was on the list in the so-called "History of the Crimes of Cultural Traitors" published in 1945 after the war!So in New China.A "traitor" and traitor like her, a writer, obviously won't be publicized too much!

It's the same now, the few people in front of me, even including the girl, don't know who Zhang Ailing is. At this moment, Jia Hongjian slowly introduces Zhang Ailing's life. "Just as Kafka's life was full of contradictions, so is Eileen Chang. Kafka himself was a Czech, or a Czech who belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As a Czech, he could not speak Czech, but only He speaks German. And Germany is not his motherland, he is not even like an Austrian. He has no German blood. He is also a Jew. For Kafka, he himself is a contradiction, and he is in Austro-Hungary The empire is on the brink of collapse, so he lacks a sense of identity and belonging. The same is true for Zhang Ailing. Zhang Ailing's grandfather was a famous official in the late Qing Dynasty. Grandmother was the eldest daughter of Li Hongzhang. But her mother was a concubine. She grew up with her father and aunt , Childhood was unfortunate. I found my mother. But I had conflicts with my mother, and I was not happy. I went to Hong Kong to study, and I was about to graduate. When Hong Kong fell, the university caught fire, and all the supporting documents were destroyed. She claimed to be of noble birth, But he has no money all over him, so he can only rely on writing to live a life of a petty citizen..."

"She claims to be a discerning person, and she can see the ridiculousness behind many people in ordinary life, but she is actually lonely and indifferent. Although she is well-versed in the world, she does her own way and refuses to compromise with the world... But it is her Only such a person can say such things as [Be famous as soon as possible], others will never say it..."[

Listening to Jia Hongjian's introduction, although the girls still don't understand how talented Eileen Chang is, but through Jia Hongjian's "talent", they also understand that this is a very famous and very attitude, Very unique female writer!This description immediately made them interested!Why are they interested?Because none of them are a bit like Eileen Chang?Which girl would feel that she is just a normal person?Who wouldn't want to be the most unique in the world in their most private moments?They don't want to be like everyone else, but live like everyone else.Girls are inherently contradictory.From this aspect, other female writers are so great, glorious and correct, as if they lack the kind of entanglement that girls should have, the kind of noble loneliness like a cat.

Maybe in this day and age, girls in other cities don't feel that they should be as noble and lonely as a cat, but the girls in Shanghai have almost spontaneously awakened to this kind of rush, and each of them feels that they are very special. There is arrogance in their hearts, especially when they are only children.

So Zhang Ailing likes to eat these things. Lin Yue, Zhang Qiong, and Li Lili all ordered the signature dishes Jia Hongjian mentioned.But at this time, Zhou Ruihan didn't want to "do as the Romans do", seeing her look at the menu, she looked up and asked Jia Hongjian, "You can order it for me." It seems that the girl doesn't want to order those signature dishes, too. Expensive, like saving Jia Hongjian some money?

At this time, Jia Hongjian smiled, "Let's eat the homemade dish independently developed by the Red House but still maintains the taste of French and Western food, baked clams. Several French customers I met said that this is the oriental version of baked snails. The French baked snail tastes very similar. The specific method is to wash the clam, drain it, add the ingredients and mix it, then put it in the shell, then bake it in the oven, add oil, wine, garlic paste, celery powder, "color" It's delicious and tempting... By the way, how about French onion soup? Although this is onion soup, it doesn't actually taste like onion, it's very fragrant!"

Here, when Jia Hongjian had just arranged the dishes for the girl, the waiter next to him interrupted, "Oh, brother, you know quite well, do you often come to our red house for dinner?" This waiter is not a little girl, but an aunt in her 40s.The red house is state-owned, so the waiters were hired decades ago. How can there be replacements?So she let it go, and chatted with Jia Hongjian like the aunt next door.

"Hehe, I've been here a few times, so it's not like I'm bringing my classmates to eat and have a look. Is it a new guest for our red house?" Jia Hongjian laughed.After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Li Yan, and asked in his usual sunny manner, "Li Yan, how is it, what do you want?" Li Yan hesitated for a moment, thinking about various ideas in his heart.Before Jia Hongjian sold him and asked him to help count the money, although he didn't fully figure it out, he gradually felt that something was wrong. Why did he suddenly become a bad person, and Jia Hongjian Have you become a good person?If he ordered at this time, even though he intends to order the most expensive ones, will Zhou Ruihan look down on him if he does so?After all, he just made a mistake just now... So after thinking for a long time, Li Yan finally came up with an idea that could reflect his own taste. At this time, he asked the waiter, "Auntie, do you have any hamburgers here?" ? I remember that the serious hamburgers in Western food are completely different from the fast food hamburgers in McDonald’s KFC, right?”

That's right, Li Yan has long heard people say that the hamburgers in fast food restaurants are like Chinese Roujiamo, which are street snacks, and the real hamburgers on the table are like shredded pork with Beijing sauce and Roujiamo The difference is the same-although they are all cakes with meat, but the taste and ingredients are far from it!So he thought, why are the serious burgers in this western restaurant different from those in fast food restaurants?And the hamburgers in this place are more expensive than those in fast food restaurants, right?He can eat two hamburgers for a meal, which is more expensive than some mustard steak, right?

When he was complacent and wanted to steal more money from Jia Hongjian inadvertently, he didn't expect that the waitress suddenly burst out laughing: "Pfft... Oops! Young man, Ala Hong's house is from France. Dishes. Burgers are something that people in the American countryside eat. There is absolutely no such thing as a hamburger in French cuisine...Our chef can't make this..."

As the waitress said, she was subconsciously like the mother-in-law in Shanghai, showing a kind of pride that Shanghai women are born with!Although she may not have that kind of meaning for the pride she cooperates with, she inadvertently reveals a kind of "look down" on the inside and outside!To be honest, this kind of rush may be the place where many outsiders feel discriminated against after coming to Shanghai, but in fact, isn't Li Yan also from Shanghai, isn't he still "discriminated"?This is just the aunt's inadvertent "superiority"!

To be honest, it is absolutely taboo for such a waiter to feel superior!As the saying goes, peace is the most important thing in business. What does this mean?You have to greet people with a smile, and you have to please as many people as possible, otherwise you will offend a family, and it will only take a few minutes for them to toss your business!Others don't talk about it, just talk about Jia Hongjian. If Jia Hongjian brought guests over for dinner today, and the aunt was standing next to him with a sense of superiority, it made Jia Hongjian's big client feel ashamed and humiliated. Maybe he will bear a grudge against Jia Hongjian!In order to bring back customers, Jia Hongjian might take revenge on the Red House Western Restaurant!

So, from this point of view, this aunt waiter is really unqualified!After all, this restaurant is still state-run. The service attitude of the waiters in the state-run restaurant is not good. Every day he doesn't look up and looks down, is he guilty of criticizing an acquaintance for a guest who doesn't know who it is?

But this kind of bad thing was used by Jia Hongjian at this time. In other words, Jia Hongjian didn't give Li Yan a chance to find a place!He didn't come out to smooth things over, but pretended to be stupid and looked at Li Yan. Li Yan looked pale, blue and red!There is no one to pass the steps, it is really difficult for Li Yan to step down! (To be continued..)

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