That’s natural, things like pig offal can only be tolerated by people with unique tastes like our Scholarship Master.”
Ouyang Zishi nodded with a smile, the corners of his mouth still had the standard mocking smile, mocking Zhu Pingan’s mud legged origins.
In fact, at this point, what happened to Zhu Pingan was somewhat similar to Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms.
Although Liu Bei claimed to be from the Han family, being the descendant of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, but after all, his family had long since fallen into decline, and by the time he reached Liu Bei’s generation, he was already left with only the title of nobility, which had no real value, and he had to rely on his mother to prepare straw shoes and mats and sell them in the bazaar in order to maintain his daily living and consumption.
Therefore, this experience also led to Liu Bei often being called “mat weaver and sandal seller” in the course of his business.
For example, when Yuan Shu heard that Liu Bei had submitted a petition to swallow his chassis, he rose up and scolded Liu Bei for being a weaver and peddler of sandals.
When Zhuge Liang was ordered by Liu Bei to negotiate an alliance with Wu to fight Cao Cao, Lu Jie insulted Liu Bei by saying that although Cao Cao held the emperor in power, he was the son of Cao San, the minister of Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, who claimed to be Liu Huangshi (Uncle Liu Huang), had no trace of his lineage, so what we see is just a man who weaves and sells sandals, so how can you fight against Cao Cao?
And Cao Cao, although Cao Cao discusses heroes in wine, saying that only you Liu Bei and I, Cao Cao, can be called heroes in the world, but when he heard that Liu Bei had established himself as the king of Hanzhong, he was so emotional that he cursed Liu Bei as a weaver and peddler who dared to call himself a king, and that I would surely exterminate you, little Liu.
Zhu Pingan who came out from a farming family in the lower river village was in a similar situation, and there were not a few like Ouyang Zishi who mocked Zhu Pingan’s mud legged origins.
“Hehe, so very good, then let’s go by the way here to take a look at our first one in Daming, Scholarship Lang’s original pig’s jowl shop.”
Ma Huating was also smiling, once he thought of the dismal business of Zhu Ping An’s shop, his mood couldn’t help but feel good, the depression of eating at Zhu Ping An’s during the last sermon was swept away.
“Lord Ma please.”
“Please.”
The two men bowed their hands to each other in courtesy, smiled at each other, and hand in hand headed towards Zhu Ji Fast Food.
They had only heard that Zhu Pingan had opened a pork jerky shop on this street, saying that it was near a pier, but the exact location wasn’t very clear, but this street wasn’t that long, not to mention that there was also the pier as a point of reference, huh, if there were two or three places on this street of the pier, then with the criterion of a new shop with a dismal business, if one were to pass by it on the street, one would be able to tell at a glance, right?
The two of them were joking and talking about Yu Wang San’s embarrassing case of not being able to claim the County King’s welfare, while walking forward, their eyes also swept the shops on the street from time to time, with emotions brewing in their hearts, ready to ridicule at any time.
On the way also saw a few shops, including a shoe shop called “Zhu Ji Shoes”, business is very poor, Ma Hua Ting also laughed and flirted, just look at the name also thought that this shoe shop is our first scholar to open it.
“Oh, if this shoe shop is the Scholarship Lang words, the Scholarship Lang certainly sleep will wake up with a smile, this shoe shop business is not very good, but how it will be better than the business of pig’s feet, pig’s feet, huh, like the Scholarship Lang such a unique flavour, our Ming estimates more than a handful of it.”Ouyang Zishi pulled the corner of his mouth.
Pig offal, he Ouyang Zishi is not seen, as a child playful, once followed the steward down the farm to collect rent, on the way to meet a family to kill pigs, pig intestines and other pig offal poured in the roadside ditch, across a long distance, all smelled a stench.
People in the countryside will be pig intestines and so on dumped into the ditch, which in the capital, there are still people eating pig’s offal?
Selling pig’s offal?
Oh!
Zhu Pingan’s head was sat on by a pig, right, Ouyang Zishi was bellyaching and laughing at Zhu Pingan in his heart.
“Hehe, it smells so good, Ma Ta-Jen I don’t know if you smelled it, just now at the Qi Hua Gate that I smelled a meat scent, this time after walking into this street, this meat scent is even stronger, and the further you walk, the stronger this meat scent is.”
Walking along, Ouyang Zishi smelled the enticing meat aroma floating in the air and couldn’t help but say to Ma Huating who was beside him.
“Hehe, Ouyang you also smelled it ah, to be honest, such an aromatic meat scent is really unheard of by Ma. ‘Purple camel’s peak out of the emerald cauldron, the water essence of the plate rows of vegetal scales; rhinoceros chopsticks insatiable long time not under, luan knife wisps cut the empty stranded; yellow door flying bridle does not move the dust, the imperial chefs are sent to send the eight treasures’, this kind of scent is afraid that only the dragon’s liver, the phoenix’s medulla, camel’s foetus, the carp’s tail, the rat’s tongue, the fish’s lips, bear’s paw and the crispy cheese cicadas such a top-notch ingredient can be done out. I didn’t expect that this street would still hide this such a top class restaurant.”Ma Huating moved his nose, sniffed the scent in the air, and said with emotion.
“Haha, then we’ve really come to the right place today, Zi Shi has been much indebted to Lord Ma for taking care of him all these times, and today, I’d like to ask Lord Ma to give Zi Shi a chance, with Zi Shi being the host, to ask Lord Ma to try this Eight Precious Delicacies of today.”
Ouyang Zi Shi stopped his steps and invited Ma Huating with an arch of his hand.
“Where where, Ouyang you are overstating it, you and I are both officials in King Jing’s residence, assisting His Highness King Jing, we are just looking out for each other.”Ma Huating smiled and shook his head.
“Ta-Jen Ma is modest, if it wasn’t for Ta-Jen Ma’s many mentions, His Highness King Jing wouldn’t have attached such importance to Zi Shi. If Lord Ma doesn’t give Zi Shi this opportunity today, then how would Zi Shi still have the face to be in King Jing’s Mansion.”Ouyang Zishi insisted.
“Hey, you ah ……”Ma Huating shook his head and helplessly accepted Ouyang Zishi’s invitation.
“Hehe, Lord Ma please.”Ouyang Zishi smiled and reached out his hand to make an invitation gesture.
“Please.”
The two of them continued along the street, and after about another fifty metres or so, from afar, they saw that there was a shop in front of them that was doing a lot of business, as if the tables outside the shop were filled with people, and even so, there were still quite a number of people standing and waiting outside the shop.
“Hehe, the business of that shop in front is really good, the door is bustling with people.”Ouyang Zishi said as he walked.
“Well, it’s still true.”Ma Huating also noticed, “The guests are like clouds, there’s an endless stream of people, this shopkeeper is probably too busy.”
“I guess the meat aroma might be coming from this shop, right?”Ouyang Zishi guessed.
“Well, Ouyang has a point. However, the size of this shop looks a bit small, not as good as that Four Seas Eatery Restaurant just now.”Ma Huating nodded.
“Perhaps the shop is going for the boutique route of private dining. Oh, if Zhu Pingan were to see a neighbour with such a booming business in the shop, I wonder how he would feel? Heh heh heh ……”
Ouyang Zishi said and laughed again, thinking that Zhu Pingan must be envious and jealous of his neighbours when he saw a door to door, fiery and fat intestines from the shop, so the more Ouyang Zishi thought about it, the more his mood became more and more pleasurable.
“A bone stuck in the throat, a thorn in the back, is probably so ……”The corner of Ma Huating’s mouth also hooked up.
A distance of fifty metres, a few minutes to get there.
The closer they got to the shop, the more certain the two were that the source of the meat scent was this shop.
“Hehe, that’s right, it’s this Zhu Ji Fast Food ……”Ouyang Zishi came to the front of the shop, his heart was incomparably sure that the source of the meat aroma was this shop, so while talking to Ma Huating, he raised his head to look at the name of the shop.
Zhu Ji Fast Food!
Four words appeared openly in Ouyang Zishi’s field of vision, and Ouyang Zishi read it out smoothly.
However
Only after the four words Zhu Ji Fast Food came out of his mouth did Ouyang Zishi react with an afterthought.
Wait a minute.
What was the name of this shop?
Zhu Ji Fast Food?!
Ouyang Zishi raised his head and confirmed again, then his face turned earthy grey all of a sudden, as if he had been splashed with a pot of cold water from his head to his feet, from his heart to his legs.
There was no hint of defence.
There was not an ounce of preparation.
Everything happened so unexpectedly and suddenly.
Er!
It turned out that this shop that emitted a fragrance comparable to that of the Eight Treasures, and whose business was so hot that it couldn’t be described as anything else, was Zhu Ji Fast Food – Zhu Ping An’s pig jiaozi shop?
At this moment, Ouyang Zishi felt like a pathetic piece of paper that had been ravaged by a rude storm into the muddy water.
However, he was not alone, there was another poor piece of paper called Ma Huating beside him, being ravaged by the storm together.
