The twilight is closing, and the lanterns are starting to turn on.
After experiencing a life-and-death battle, Sikong Zhaiyue felt hungry in his belly. He ordered a large table full of dishes, which made the diners in the restaurant point and whisper, how can a normal person eat so many dishes?
Look at what he ordered: scallops and goose feet, crystal pig's trotters, braised fish wings, oyster sauce tripe strips, stewed pigeon with black ginseng, steamed evening rice, bamboo shoots stuffed with wine, braised prawns, soy sauce beef, and a big bowl of fresh shrimps. dumpling. How many people will it take to finish these dishes?
Everyone thought he couldn't finish all the food, but he just ordered it on the table to show off because he had a few banknotes in his waist.
It seems like there are some show-offs everywhere.
Sikong Zhaiyue didn't look like a rich man at all. Although his clothes were made of fine materials, they looked torn in several places and his hair was messy. He definitely didn't give the impression of a rich man. He is the owner of money, but the table of dishes he ordered is enough to feed an ordinary family for a month.
Sikong Zhaiyue didn't look like a person who could eat at all. He was frail and didn't look like the kind of person who could eat well.
It just so happens that not only is he really good at eating, he is also really rich.
He almost ate all the dishes he ordered. He took out a stack of banknotes and randomly picked one out. The smallest denominations were two hundred taels each. He stuffed a banknote with the waiter in the shop. In his hand, he smiled and said: "I'll give you the silver I found." Then he walked away amidst the countless thanks from the waiter in the shop.
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Chengdu Prefecture, a land of abundance, has experienced no major military revolution in more than a thousand years since the Qin Dynasty. It is prosperous and stable, as prosperous as the capital.
At night, the streets were busy with traffic, and King Wu couldn't help himself.
Shu people have a long history of appreciating flavor and spicy food, so most of the night markets focus on snacks.
Here, there is no such thing as working at sunrise and resting at sunset. At night, the streets are even more prosperous than during the day.
The bustling crowds, the shouts of hawkers, men, women, old and young, officials and people having fun together, this lively scene is naturally different from the elegance of Jiangnan, but it also has a different style.
Xiao Ding, Tang Qingqing, Ye Rongqiu, Zhou Ziheng and other four people had parked their carriages and horses at the inn and strolled to the market, intending to find something to eat.
As a local, Tang Qingqing naturally introduced the famous dishes and snacks of Sichuan to Xiao Ding and the others.
Ye Rongqiu was so dizzy that she hadn't decided yet what she wanted to eat, because everything she saw tasted delicious, and the air seemed to be filled with tempting smells.
Xiao Ding smiled and said: "It is said that the poet Li Bai is called Qinglian layman because there is a place called Qinglian in Jiangyou County in the middle of Sichuan. Qinglian layman loves Jiangyou's famous dish of braised and steamed duck. This dish not only maintains the The delicious taste of duck and the aroma of wine make people remember the fragrance on their lips and teeth. So after he came to Beijing to worship Hanlin, he personally improved this dish, adding Huadiao, wolfberry, Panax notoginseng and other nourishing herbs to the original dish, and dedicated it to Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. After the emperor ate it, he was amazed and admired it greatly. He was so happy that he gave the dish a name, "Taibai Duck". Jiangyou is only a short two or three hundred miles away from Chengdu, so it must have been Then layman Qinglian will often come to this land of abundance to look for delicious food."
Tang Qingqing smiled and said, "Hey, can't you tell? You know a lot. There happens to be a restaurant on this street called 'Taibai Ju', and Taibai Ju's 'Taibai Duck' is the best in Chengdu." An authentic family…”
Ye Rongqiu interrupted: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's go to Taibai Residence. My mouth is drooling all over the floor after listening to what you said."
The four of them laughed and headed to Taibai Residence...
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Sikong Zhaiyue had enough to eat and drink, and walked leisurely in the night market with his teeth in hand.
Should I find a place to drink tea or go back to the inn to sleep.
He quickly rejected the second idea. It was too early to go to bed at this time, so he might as well drink tea to pass the time.
After not walking far, he then denied the first idea. He had just eaten and drank enough, and his stomach was full. What kind of tea should he drink?
Why not go to the gambling house and play two hands? No, no, he always felt that Xuanyuan was not only watching him secretly, but also waiting for him to step into the gate of the gambling house. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the crowd around him with a guilty conscience. , he saw that as long as they were tall people, they all looked like Xuanyuan Guang.
Sikong Zhaiyue shook his head and sighed, suddenly losing all interest. He was about to return the same way when he suddenly saw a large group of people gathering not far ahead, and shouts and laughter could be heard from time to time.
"Don't these people see the excitement? Where do they go when there are many people? What fun can there be at night?" Sikong Zhaiyue muttered, but his legs moved over involuntarily.
Sikong Zhaiyue walked over and saw that someone was betting on turtles.
The world is so vast and full of wonders.
Sikong Zhaiyue has gambled on a lot of things, not counting the dice and Pai Gow gambling house. He has also competed with others in Qinggong, bet on crickets, raced horses, fought birds, and played with parrots. , I even bet with others on the color of the fish that bites the hook first, but I have never bet on the turtle.
How could he bear it when he saw such a novel way of playing, but there were too many people watching, and it was not easy to squeeze in and watch carefully.
The place where you gamble on turtles is a square pavilion. This pavilion is neither big nor small. It is surrounded by wooden fences and looks like a well-ventilated room. But there were so many onlookers at this moment that the room, no matter how well ventilated it was, was extremely hot. There were many people lying on the fence, watching from a high position. These people were the ones shouting and laughing the loudest. It seemed that the less people participated, the more they liked to follow others in making noise.
Sikong Zhaiyue rolled his eyes and suddenly had an idea. He took out two ingots of silver from his arms, raised his hands high and shouted, "Who accidentally dropped this silver? I'll just throw it away if no one wants it."
Who doesn’t like silver?
When everyone turned around to see him, he threw the silver in his hand behind him and laughed: "Go and see for yourselves who dropped the silver. Be careful next time."
Wow, it is really silver. People with sharp eyes can see it clearly. It is fifty taels of silver ingots. Two ingots are a full one hundred taels.
Those lying on the fence ran the fastest, and after a while, they cleared a path.
Sikong Zhaiyue hurriedly took the opportunity to squeeze in, regardless of whether the people outside would fight over the one hundred taels of silver he threw out. He thought it was worth it to buy a seat for one hundred taels of silver, because he originally planned to throw away a few The person who wrote the banknote just thought about the banknote and was afraid that others would not believe it. It was late at night, and others would definitely think he was joking. Who would be stupid enough to shout out after picking up a few large banknotes, but the money was not It's the same, it's something that can be seen clearly and touched, the bright silver makes a sound, and is naturally more attractive.
No one but me, Sikong Zhaiyue, could have come up with such an idea. Sikong Zhaiyue, who finally entered the pavilion, was very pleased with himself.
I saw a wooden box placed in the middle of the pavilion. The wooden box was not wide, only two feet, but almost a foot long.
Then use wooden strips to separate it from the middle and divide it into two wooden boxes, which are only one foot wide and about one foot long.
There is a turtle in each wooden box, and there is a small wooden hole at the other end of the box, which is only big enough for a finger to fit through.
Since Sikong Zhaiyue's throwing of silver coins caused a small commotion and interrupted the game, he still didn't understand how the turtle was betting and how to calculate winning or losing. Sikong Zhaiyue's curious mood at this time was like a cat scratching her heart.
"How do you gamble like a turtle?" Sikong Zhaiyue asked the man who looked like a banker.
Unexpectedly, the man stared at him and gasped, but did not answer.
"That's weird. Could it be that this man is deaf? I'm asking you, how on earth do you, a turtle, gamble?" Sikong Zhaiyue shouted in the man's ear.
The man who looked like a banker suddenly said angrily: "You are the deaf man, you are the turtle, and this is the turtle. This one we are betting on is a turtle, not a turtle. Do you understand?"
Ha ha ha ha……
The crowd of onlookers roared with laughter.
Sikong Zhaiyue touched his nose and said with a smile: "Ahem, if you bet on turtles, you bet on turtles. Why are you angry? Come on, tell me, how do you gamble?"
Sikong Zhaiyue's face was really unusually thick, and he didn't even blush in this situation.
Could it be that people who often disguise themselves can become thicker-skinned?
