There were two restaurants in Chengguan Town, one was Xu Ji and the other was Feng Ji. Strange to say, Xu Ji's restaurant was always full of diners, but Feng Ji was not. Feng Youquan, the shopkeeper of Feng Ji, saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

At noon that day, there was not a single diner in Feng Ji's restaurant, but Xu Ji's was very lively. Feng Youquan stood at the door, looking at Xu Ji with a frown, and saw that the master and servant were full of wine and food and were coming out of Xu Ji.

The owner was a middle-aged man, and his actions were extraordinary, and he was not an ordinary person at first glance. He smacked his mouth and said, "Shu Tan, Shu Tan. I really didn't expect that this remote place still has such delicious food. Especially the chestnut, the noodles, the chewy, the more you taste, the more delicious it is. Delicious, delicious!"

Seeing that this man was an expert, Feng Youquan went over to salute him and said flatteringly, "I heard from you that I have a lot of research on food. I have something to ask for, and I hope you will agree." The middle-aged man asked him what he wanted, and Feng Youquan invited him into the restaurant and said, "If you can find out the difference between Xu Ji and Feng Ji, I would like to thank you for ten taels of silver."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Of course it's good to have money to earn!"

Feng Youquan told the middle-aged man about the method of chop chop. Chop chop is a kind of pasta unique to the North. It is made of white noodles, bean noodles, sweet potato noodles, and stick noodles together in a cylindrical shape, put it into the bucket of the chop bed, and then squeeze it with the wooden column above. The noodles will be squeezed out from the hole at the bottom of the bucket and become the shape of noodles, but they are more muscular than noodles. After listening to this, the middle-aged man thought for a moment and said, "We just ate Xu Ji's chop chop, but we have never eaten yours. I only heard from you that it is incomparable. You make a few bowls, and we will try it."

Feng Youquan went to the kitchen and placed a few bowls of greens. The middle-aged man picked one up with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, chewing on the side, then frowned lightly and said, "Strange."

Feng Youquan hurriedly asked, "How strange?"

The middle-aged man tasted another mouthful and then said, "At the first taste, there is no difference, even the taste of the pouring ingredients is similar, but under the fine taste, it is different."

Feng Youquan clapped his hands and said, "The blame is here!"

It turned out that Feng Youquan had spent a lot of time trying to crack the secret of Xu Ji's delicious food. He bought the Xu family's chestnuts and carefully looked at them from the noodles to the pouring ingredients, but he didn't see any way. He did not give up, and secretly asked, from the water that boiled the chestnuts, to the time it took to cook them, and even how much firewood was used to cook them, he figured it out, but when he boiled them, it was still different.

The middle-aged man suddenly became interested: "Hey, there are such wonders! I... Master Zhen, I must figure it out!" He said to the two attendants, "You go and arrange a place for me, and wait until I figure it out before leaving."

One of Master Zhen's two attendants was old and thin, with a slight hunchback, while the other was young and energetic. Hearing Master Zhen's words, the two looked at each other, and the young man said, "Master, this place is very remote, there is nothing to linger about, the scenery in front is good, the accommodation is clean, and there is a lot of food." Master Zhen waved his hand and said, "The scenery can't run away, this is the interesting thing." The thin old man echoed: "Master said yes. If you solve this puzzle, our master's wise story will spread among the people." The young man glared at the thin old man and went out to arrange.

Discover the mystery

The master and servants stayed at a house in the town. It was getting late, and the master came over to ask them what they wanted to eat at night. Master Zhen blurted out, "Gouzi!" The master replied, and called his son who was playing at the door: "Gouzi, go to your uncle Xu's house and borrow a gouge bed to use." Gouzi replied and ran out.

The owner was busy in the kitchen, first making the ingredients, and then boiling the water with the noodles. After a while, Gouzi came back with the bed. The owner put the bed on the pot, put the dough in the bucket, and pressed it hard, and the bed fell directly into the pot. Then he handed the bed to Gouzi: "Give it back!" Gouzi picked up the bed and ran away.

Master Zhen asked, "Do you have to borrow a bed to make it?"

The owner said that no one would eat tattoos every day, and it was really not worth making a bed to prepare. When you want to eat, you can borrow it from Big Brother Xu, and then return it after pressing it, without any delay. Master Zhen asked, "Big Brother Xu is the shopkeeper Xu who runs the restaurant, right?" The owner nodded and said yes. Master Zhen asked, "Does Feng Ji Restaurant also have it? Why don't you borrow it from him?" The owner curled his lips and said, "That shopkeeper Feng is not easy to talk to."

Master Zhen took a bite and immediately stuck out his tongue. He said to his master, "Do you have too many chili peppers in your house to put?" Master patted his forehead and said, "I was negligent and didn't ask if you can eat spicy food. Come, I'll pass the water for you." He reached out to take Master Zhen's bowl, but Master Zhen drank him: "Don't move!" Master Zhen took another bite of the bowl and suddenly said, "It's really strange!"

The young man and the skinny old man asked together, "Master Zhen, what's so strange?" Master Zhen said, "Have you tasted the taste of the tattoos? Are you familiar with each other?" The two of them tasted it, but they were both choked with spiciness. The skinny old man rolled his eyes and suddenly said excitedly, "I understand!" Master Zhen hurriedly shouted, "Luo Guozi, I thought of it first, you are not allowed to snatch it from me!"

The young man and the skinny old man hurriedly followed. The young man quietly asked the skinny old man, "Old Liu, tell me quickly, what did Master Zhen think?" The young man was with Liu Yong, the skinny old man, and the one walking in front was naturally the Qianlong Emperor. At this time, Liu Yong made a fool of himself: "This matter cannot be said much. Otherwise, if I steal the limelight of Master Zhen, I will have to eat and walk away!"

The three of them arrived at Feng Ji Restaurant. Master Zhen stretched out his hand to Feng Youquan, "Shopkeeper, I have cracked the secret of the delicious food in the < unk > Ji Restaurant.

Feng Youquan was very happy, and immediately took out a silver ingot, put it in the hands of Emperor Qianlong, and asked him what was going on. Emperor Qianlong said that the tweets in the Xu family restaurant were delicious, because of the popularity of Shopkeeper Xu, whoever made the tweets would ask him to borrow the tweets. The process of making the tweets is to make the pouring material first and then press the tweets. The tweets were put on the pot, and the oil and gas for the pouring material rose up and soaked the tweets. The tweets collected the taste of hundreds of houses, and the tweets that were pressed out again would have endless aftertaste.

Feng Youquan was dumbfounded when he heard that. He rolled his eyes and thought about it, and it seemed to make some sense. He immediately started, made the pouring material, and then ran to Xu Ji Restaurant, borrowed the bed, pressed it and tasted it, and the taste was indeed a hundred times stronger! The Qianlong Emperor and the two adults ate the roast, and they also felt that the taste was much better than before.

Feng Youquan can't help but feel ashamed: "I really didn't expect that Lao Xu was open-minded and made such a delicious achievement." Liu Yong said from the side: "There is another thing, Lao Xu is close to the villagers, and he will give it to whoever comes to lend it, and he will give it whenever he comes. If it is borrowed from the meal, diners can only wait until the bed is returned before eating. If you are hungry for a while, you will naturally feel more fragrant. This is Tiancheng!" Feng Youquan nodded again and again: "I wrote it down."

Emperor Qianlong got silver and took Liu Yong and He back to rest.

scramble for baby

At this time, Feng Youquan had a little thought, he thought, if he took this bed for himself, wouldn't he be able to make a lot of money? He came up with a brilliant idea, hide the precious bed, and then put his own bed on the pot, and then set it on fire.

When the fire started, Feng Youquan ran outside the door and shouted, "It's on fire, it's on fire..." Guys and neighbors rushed over and quickly put out the fire.

Feng Youquan held out a piece of wood and told Old Xu with a sad face that he didn't pay attention when he pressed the chestnut, and the flames in the stove jumped out and burned the chestnut bed. With that said, he took out a ingot of silver and stuffed it into the hands of Shopkeeper Xu, which was considered compensation for him. Shopkeeper Xu pushed the silver back to him, waved his hand and said, "What is a chestnut bed? I'll just make a new one!"

That night, Feng Youquan was happily smelling the wonderful smell on the bed when he suddenly heard a knock on the door. He came to the door and asked, "Who is it?" The person outside the door replied, "I have a conversation with Zhongtang." Feng Youquan did not dare to neglect and hurriedly opened the door.

He strode in and asked, "Where's the bed?"

Feng Youquan said, "Burn it."

He said impatiently, "Playing tricks with me? You are far from it! If you don't hand it up, I will really burn it for you, even your house!" With that , he waved his hand, and several attendants rushed over, picked up the bed, and walked away." How dare Feng Youquan offend Him? He has to eat this dumb loss.

Early the next morning, Emperor Qianlong set off with the two of them. After walking far, he saw a carriage following vaguely behind. Emperor Qianlong asked, "That carriage is always following us, is there any intention?" He hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, that is the car hired by the slave, and the car is pulling the treasure." Emperor Qianlong was immediately interested: "What treasure?"

He Busy waved for the car to come over, then opened the curtain, and saw the bed in Xu Ji Restaurant. He smiled to please Qianlong and said, "I will transport this bed into the palace, and when you want to eat the bed, you can ask the imperial chef to make it. With this treasure, the taste is not bad."

Liu Yong sighed from the side: "We took away the bed, and there will be no more delicious food in Chengguan Town for ten years." Emperor Qianlong also felt guilty and asked Liu Yong how to compensate Shopkeeper Xu. Liu Yong hurriedly said: "Wei Chen knew that the emperor must have this intention, and has done this for the emperor." Emperor Qianlong asked him how he did it, and Yu Yong said: "Wei Chen told him that Lord He He especially likes to eat his house's chops!"

He Nu said, "Why do you say I like to eat?"

Liu Yong said unhurriedly, "Lord He has a lot of face. If you say you like to eat, many people will come to eat. His business is good, and it can be regarded as compensation." He was so angry that he stared at him, but he couldn't speak.

Not to mention, after that, Xu Ji Restaurant became more and more famous, and the business was better.