Just after the 9th September Double Ninth Festival, the autumn wind is getting cooler and the leaves are yellow. Every year at this season, Lijiang City will be particularly lively, with many diners coming from various provinces and states in an endless stream, rubbing shoulders and heels. There is only one destination for them, which is the first floor of Lijiang City, Wangjiang Tower. Wangjiang Tower has a famous dish in Jiangnan, "Braised Four-cheek Perch".
"Four-cheek perch" is delicious and rare in the mortal world. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao entertained ministers at a banquet, and the table was full of delicacies and delicacies, except for the "four-cheek perch." Cao Cao couldn't help but regret: "Today's high-level meeting, the delicacies are slightly prepared, and the four-cheek perch ears are missing."
With this famous dish, Wangjianglou's owner made a lot of money. Although there are several other restaurants in Lijiang City that can also cook "four-cheek perch", it is always a little worse than Wangjianglou's "braised four-cheek perch". I heard from old people in Lijiang City that there is a unique formula for soup used for cooking fish in Tagguang, without which Wangjianglou would not have become a climate at all.
That evening, a thin young man in ragged clothes disembarked from the river and followed the bustling crowd straight to Wangjiang Tower. What the thin young man did not expect was that at this time, the lights were on, and there was a long line at the entrance of Wangjiang Tower, all waiting for diners. The thin young man was slightly stunned, but still stood at the end of the long queue.
At that time, a waiter who was running out of Wangjiang Tower saw a young man in shabby clothes. The shop attendant was the master of bullying the soft and afraid of the hard. He tugged at the sleeve of the thin young man and kicked him up.
After struggling to stand up, he said to the waiter, "Please inform Boss Gao that my father's name is Wang Huiguang." After saying that, the skinny young man gave the waiter a piece of loose silver with body temperature.
I'll see if Boss Gao is here. I don't know if he has time to see you. "The clerk weighed the silver in his hand, glanced at the thin young man with disdain, and then strode into Wangjiang Tower.
After a while, the clerk came out again with a completely different face, like a naive pug, bent over and hunched his back, inviting the thin boy into Wangjiang Building. The clerk introduced the thin boy into the back room of Wangjiang Building, and Tall Guang drank tea thoughtfully in this elegant room, his eyes wandering and blurry.
As soon as the thin young man entered the elegant room, Tall Guang waved his hand and motioned the clerk out. He pulled the thin young man down and asked kindly, "What's your name?" Is Wang Huiguang in good health now?"
The thin young man's eyes suddenly flashed with a trace of ruthlessness that was not easy to detect, and then disappeared into invisibility. He said, "My nephew's name is Wang Dafei, and my father asked me to ask Uncle Gao for something."
"Oh? Brother Wang and I have been separated for 13 years, and we have not heard from each other for a long time. How can I have Brother Wang's things here?" Gao Guang stood up and looked indifferently at the rushing river water outside the window.
"Uncle Gao is really a noble person who forgets things! Thirteen years ago, my father and you were both escorts with the Fuwei Escort Bureau. When we were walking in Shandong, we met Xiangma from Taohua Mountain. If my father hadn't sacrificed his life to save him, Uncle Gao would not have seen this Wangjiang Tower. My father said that the darts were empty, and only a few carts of worthless tea leaves were stolen. The real treasure was a silk with a mysterious formula written on it. Uncle Gao, do you know the whereabouts of this silk?" A thin young man named Wang Dafei stared at Tall Guang with a tone that was neither humble nor overbearing.
Tall Guang suddenly turned around, stared at Wang Dafei fiercely, and said in a fierce voice, "Nonsense! I don't know what silk there is, where is Wang Huiguang, let him come out!" Tall Guang said while reaching his waist, although he was a little middle-aged and fat, he still didn't put down the hidden weapon kung fu he had practiced hard for many years.
Wang Dafei also stood up and slowly said, "Uncle Gao, if I dare to walk into your Wangjiang Tower, I am not afraid that I will not be able to get out. If I don't go out in one stick of incense, my father will go to the government office to report to the official, and then someone will naturally search your Wangjiang Tower!" Gao Da was stunned." His Wangjiang Tower robbed many restaurants of business, and he is a thorn in the side of his peers.
He sat back and rubbed the teacup with one hand. He said softly, "I've never seen any silk before. You and Wang Huiguang can tell me what you want from me.
Wang Dafei thought to himself. He seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Uncle Gao, I just want to go to the back kitchen of Wangjiang Tower and watch for half an hour. After half an hour, I will leave Lijiang City and never come back."
Gao Guang's heart was full of joy, the back kitchen? The back kitchen couldn't see anything! It was always Gao Guang himself who got up in the middle of the night and secretly prepared the soup in the basement according to the mysterious recipe. The back kitchen was just a place to cook fish. If everyone in the back kitchen knew how the soup was prepared, how would his Wangjiang Tower do business?
"Go, go, Uncle Gao let you watch for two hours, and after watching it, there will be no more connection between us!" Gao Guang opened the door, said a few words in the ear of the clerk, and left the elegant room.
An hour later, Wang Dafei walked out of Wangjiang Tower, boarded a boat without looking back, and left Lijiang City.
Three days later, there was a rainstorm in Lijiang City, and lightning flashed and thundered. Tall Broad was humming a ditty in Wangjiang Tower by chance, when suddenly, a bolt of lightning hit Wangjiang Tower, and in an instant, the fire soared into the sky, reflecting the night sky of Lijiang City. Tall Broad wanted to run, but it was too late. Wangjiang Tower, Tall Broad, and the famous "Braised Four-cheeked Perch" in Jiangnan completely disappeared in this fire.
A thin young man in ragged clothes sat on a lonely boat on the river. He stared at the fiery red night sky in the distance and said softly, "Father, I have avenged you and your seven uncles."
It turned out that, in order to obtain the mysterious formula, Tall Guang took advantage appearance of the horse to sneak attack the other seven injured escorts. Because Wang Huiguang was seriously injured and unconscious, Tall Guang thought he was dead before escaping. Wang Huiguang's son Wang Dafei cut off the lightning protection lead of Wangjiang Tower, and when the storm came, the lightning of Wangjiang Tower did not connect to the ground and hit directly upstairs, so Tall Guang died in the sea of fire.