The last time Yun Chao entered the city, he had noticed a large restaurant facing west and east at the southwest corner of Cross Street.
Red columns, gray tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, flying horns and eaves, simple and elegant...
The Lion Tower has two floors, about fifteen or six meters high, with a five-bay facade. There are two pairs of stone lions in front of the building, which is unique.
As for the shopkeeper asking him to deliver fish, it was pure nonsense. Yun Chao didn't even know who the shopkeeper was.
It's just a fox pretending to be a tiger's power, just to fool a few soldiers.
The leading soldier struggled for a long time, and finally waved his hand unwillingly: "Let's go!"
I have no choice but to dare to gamble. If I win, I will only get some money, but if I lose, I will lose my job. The two are not equal.
"Thank you, sirs!"
Yun Chao cupped his hands towards several soldiers and pointed at Wang Shitou: "Sir, this is my brother. If he delivers anything to Shizilou in the future, I won't come. Please remember him and don't cause any misunderstandings."
Straight bitch!
A few soldiers almost went berserk, but this guy is trying his best. He's not done with you yet, is he?
However, Yun Chao's temperament was not at all like that of an ignorant mud-legged man. After a long time of luck, the few soldiers could only hold back their anger and did not dare to say anything.
The bullock cart entered the city and went straight to the cross street.
To Shitou's surprise, Yun Chao actually asked him to drive the car to the front of the Lion Tower.
Leaving Shitou to wait in the car, Yun Chao jumped out of the car and walked up the steps.
"Stop, what are you doing?"
One look at Yun Chao's clothes and the restaurant waiter knew that he was not here to eat.
"I have some good fresh fish, would you like it?"
"No, let's go, don't block the road!"
As soon as he heard that Yun Chao was here to sell fish, the restaurant waiter immediately chased him away. He was also a low-level wage earner. Being able to work as a waiter at the Lion House made him feel very good about himself.
Don't think that the status of young men in ancient times is humble. It depends on who they are compared with.
Compared with those customers who have money to spend, the status of waiters is certainly not high.
But compared with ordinary poor people, being a restaurant waiter is definitely a glorious and respectable profession.
Not to mention the hundreds of villagers in Wolong Village, if they could work as waiters at the Lion House, every one of them would laugh out loud in their dreams, including brothers Lai Shouren and Lai Shouyi.
"My fresh fish are very big, weighing several kilograms each. Do you really not want them?"
Yun Chao was unwilling to leave like this. If the restaurant didn't want it, he would retail it one by one.
How can you earn money faster by doing retail than by doing wholesale?
"No, no! What's wrong with you? You can't understand people, right? Get out of here!"
The two guys got angry and wanted to beat Yunchao with sticks.
At this moment, a fat middle-aged man with a futou on his head and a leather robe came out of the restaurant.
"Ahem, why are you making so much noise for no reason in this important place of restaurants?"
Yun Chao almost didn't laugh out loud. It was a shabby restaurant, but it was still a big place. Those who didn't know it thought it was Baihutang.
The two waiters who had been chattering just now fainted when they saw the middle-aged fat man: "Shopkeeper, this country boy is blocking our restaurant!"
"Um……"
The middle-aged fat man looked at Yun Chao with his eyes: "Boy, what's the matter with you? Why did you come to our Lion House to cause trouble?"
Yun Chao was speechless. It seemed that the ability of the ancients to criticize was no worse than that of later generations. They decided on themselves without any distinction.
"Shopkeeper, I just want to ask if your restaurant wants fresh fish. I'm not causing any trouble."
"Nonsense, you didn't cause trouble and you used the bullock cart to block our wine... Well, what did you say, what do you sell?"
"Fresh fish, big and fat fish!"
No need for Yun Chao to explain, the middle-aged fat man had already smelled the fishy smell, so he walked down the steps in three steps at a time, walked to the side of the bullock cart, reached out and lifted the lid of a bamboo basket...
"oh……"
Seeing the basket full of big fish, the middle-aged fat man's eyes suddenly lit up.
In an instant, the light in his eyes disappeared again.
"Well, boy, your fish are not good, they are all dead, and they are all rotten..."
Next, the middle-aged fat man talked for five minutes, all of which was about finding faults. In short, Yunchao's fish were all bad.
Yun Chao didn't say anything or explain, and kept looking at him with a smile, as if what the other person was disparaging was something other than his own.
"I'm telling you, if you're not good as a fish, you're really not good, there won't be anyone... uh..."
The middle-aged fat man fell silent. He realized that he seemed to have done nothing but talk in vain for a long time. Not only did this country boy not feel ashamed of himself, but he looked at him and smiled with eyes that had already seen through everything.
What a boy, you can really keep your cool!
"Boy, tell me, how are you going to sell your fish?"
Yun Chao stretched out a finger: "This number."
"What? How dare you ask for a hundred pennies a pound for such a broken fish? Why don't you go and grab it?"
Yun Chao was stunned, did he mean that? He obviously wanted to say that there were a total of ten taels of silver, so why did it become one hundred taels of silver?
Four baskets of fish weigh about two hundred catties. If they cost ten taels of silver, that is fifty cents per catty.
If it is one hundred cents per catty, two hundred catties is twenty taels of silver.
Since the middle-aged fat man had twice as many misunderstandings, Yun Chaoyun would not explain it.
"Shopkeeper, you have to know that it's winter now, these fish are frozen solid, they won't go bad at all, and they will stay fresh for as long as you keep them. Even though they have some wounds on their bodies, they can be used as fish or squirrel fish. , it will not affect the appearance at all..."
The middle-aged fat man was dumbfounded. He originally thought he could speak well. Who knew that this country boy could speak better? He refuted the faults he had just picked one by one. How could this mud horse be a stupid country boy? All the monkeys are smart!
"Um, wait a minute, what is yu sheng?"
Yun Chao was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that Yusheng was the name of later generations, that is, sashimi.
What did the ancients call...
correct!
“Yu Sheng is just fish meat.”
Many people in later generations thought that sashimi was an advanced cooking method from a certain island country, but they didn't know that it was a leftover from our ancestors' long ago.
There is an idiom called 荍词population, in which 荍 refers to finely chopped raw meat, including fish.
Sashimi was called fish fillet in ancient times.
The fat middle-aged man rolled his eyes: "What is a squirrel fish? Can you do it?"
"Squirrel fish, it's simple, just take the fish first..."
Halfway through his words, Yun Chao stopped talking.
Looking at the fat middle-aged man with a smile, Yun Chao found it very interesting.
A local stick actually wants to trick you, a good young man from the heavenly kingdom. I really don’t know who gave you the courage?
The fat middle-aged man was listening with great interest when Yun Chao suddenly became silent. It was as if he woke up from a dream just after holding the beauty's hand, feeling as uncomfortable as a cat scratching his heart.
"Well, kid, go on? Why don't you say it any more? If what you say satisfies me, I can consider buying you some fish!"
