The guy was obviously having a good time, and he felt a little angry after being scolded by the boss. He reluctantly turned his head and looked at Li Su and me, and said in unauthentic Mandarin: "I said you two should have something to eat. ?”
I ignored the guy's attitude and asked with a smile, "What do you have here?"
When the waiter heard my question, he couldn't help but frown and said, "Didn't you see the words Lanzhou Ramen written on the sign outside the door? Of course this is a noodle shop..."
Before the guy could finish his words, the boss suddenly slapped him on the head from behind.
The waiter was stunned by the boss, turned around and said, "Brother Li, what are you doing?"
The boss named Brother Li glared and cursed: "Can you still do this? Do you talk to customers like this? Get out of here and go to the kitchen!"
The guy still wanted to quibble, but he got kicked again before he could say anything.
Li Su and I didn't talk, we just "watched the show" quietly from the side. After driving away the waiter, the boss named Brother Li turned to us with a smile and said, "What do you two want to eat? In addition to noodles, our side dishes and soy sauce beef are very good here. Let me tell you two, I am not exaggerating, but my level of soy sauce beef is the best in the whole country..."
I heard this and asked with a smile: "Brother Li, is it true or not! I'm a foreigner, so don't fool me!"
Brother Li said: "How is it possible? No, you go out and ask around. My old Li's craftsmanship of soy sauce meat is passed down from ancestors. I am no more, no less, just the fifth generation."
I said: "The ancestral craftsmanship passed down from five generations, how can it be four to five hundred years ago? You have to try it."
Brother Li grinned and said: "Of course you have to try it! Are you two going to have some beef tendons? Or some tendons?"
I glanced at Li Su, and when Li Su saw me looking at her, she said softly: "I just want a bowl of noodles, and you can do whatever you want with the rest!"
I nodded, and then said to Brother Li, the noodle shop owner: "Let's do this, Brother Li! You give us two noodles first, one should be thin, the other should have chive leaves, and then mix in some shredded potatoes..."
When Brother Li saw me starting to order, he hurriedly shouted to the chef: "One thin leek leaf... one potato shreds..."
I didn't care about him yelling to the kitchen, and continued: "Then bring us a small plate of beef, a small plate of tendons, and if there are sausages, a plate of sausages..."
Brother Li nodded and shouted to the kitchen: "A small calf, a small tendon, a small intestine..."
After shouting this, Brother Li said to me: "Is there anything else?"
I said: "Two more bottles of Coke... gone, that's all!"
Brother Li smiled and nodded and said, "Okay! It'll be ready soon!"
After saying that, Brother Li turned around and was about to leave, but as soon as he took a step, I grabbed him.
Brother Li was stunned, looked back at me hurriedly, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "What? Is this brother okay?"
I looked at the noodle shop owner, Brother Li, with a smile, then pointed at the waiter who had just entered the back kitchen, and said: "This guy is very angry... You have to watch out for me, don't let him give me food." There are ingredients inside, if I find out, you..."
Before I finished speaking, Brother Li said with a smile: "Don't worry! I promise not! We are serious business people here, and we all rely on integrity to do business. How could we do such disgusting things?"
I nodded and said, "With your words, I feel relieved!"
After saying this, I slowly let go of Brother Li's sleeves. Without saying anything, he turned around and walked back to the kitchen.
In a short time, the hot noodles and beef were served. Although the portions were small, the portions of both the noodles and the beef on the plate were not small, especially the shredded potatoes. It was a big plate, no exaggeration. Said that the plate was bigger than my face.
Li Su looked at the noodles and side dishes in front of him and said with a smile: "Hu Tian, did we order a little too much? Have we finished eating?"
I smiled and said, "You underestimate my appetite!"
After saying that, I picked up a few pieces of beef with my chopsticks, threw them into my mouth, and started chewing them.
I originally thought that the boss was bragging. After all, it is difficult for a restaurant to be a century-old restaurant nowadays, let alone a recipe for soy sauce meat that has been passed down for 500 years.
But who would have imagined that when this mouthful of beef enters the mouth, the meaty aroma overflows. The beef is rotten but not woody, and an indescribable aroma goes straight to the brain.
Seeing that I was only eating but not talking, Li Su across from me frowned slightly and said, "What's wrong?"
After a while, I slowly raised my head, looked at Li Su and said, "It's delicious!"
Li Su naturally knew that I, as the young master of Yiyuanzhai, had eaten it before and had seen it, and that I could have such a reaction to a piece of beef with soy sauce, and she immediately became interested. She also reached out and took a chopstick of beef and put it into her mouth.
After a long time, Li Sucai slowly said: "The color of the soy beef is red, oily and shiny, and the small amount of beef tendons in the muscles are yellow and transparent... The meat is firm, and it remains intact when sliced and will not loosen, and the cut surface is the color of bean paste... It tastes moderately salty, rich in soy sauce, crispy and refreshing, not hard or woody. It is really the best among soy sauce beef!"
Hearing what we said, the noodle shop owner, Brother Li, came over with a smile and said, "Isn't it delicious?" holding two bottles of Coke.
Li Su and I nodded almost at the same time and said, "It's indeed delicious!"
Brother Li was not polite, he just pulled up a chair and sat next to the two of us, and said, "I've already told you, we don't cheat when doing business. My craftsmanship has been passed down for five generations!"
The more the noodle shop owner, Brother Li, said this, the more curious I became. I couldn't help but ask: "Since you are so good at craftsmanship, why is the business of this noodle shop so bad now? The market at the door is so lively, but there is not even a single person here. ?”
The noodle shop owner couldn't help but let out a long sigh when he heard me ask this question. But just as he was about to speak, the door of the noodle shop was suddenly pulled open.
I looked up and saw that there were three people coming in, two women and one man. The man was tall and strong, with broad shoulders and a broad back. He was wearing an Arc'teryx outdoor suit, and he was carrying a large package behind him. Outdoor traveller's attire.
The two women also have almost the same outdoor attire. One has long flowing hair. Although she is not very beautiful, she has the kind of smiling eyes that attract men. The other has short hair and wears a hat. Compared with the long hair, The hair girl, her face is much colder.
After the three people came in, they found a table not far from us and sat down.
Seeing another customer come in, the noodle shop owner Brother Li was obviously surprised and happy. It seemed that no one had been to his shop for a long time.
After Brother Li simply said to us, "You guys eat first," he walked to the table with his hands down and asked, "What do you three want to eat?"
The rest of the people didn't speak. The long-haired girl smiled and said: "What are you two eating? It smells very delicious! Can you give us a share too?"
The long-haired girl likes to laugh very much. Perhaps she knows that she is very attractive when she smiles, so she always smiles first no matter what.
And after she said this, she didn't forget to look at me.
She looked at me, and I naturally looked at her.
Seeing me looking at her, Rapunzel smiled at me without any pretense and nodded.
