Inside the Taicang Silver Vault, there was a guard at every five steps, and a sentry at every ten steps, making the guards exceptionally strict.
Zhu Pingan silently observed the strict security of the Taicang Silver Vault while dealing with the pleasantries of Jia Langzhong and the others. After about five or six minutes of walking in the warehouse area, he arrived at the Taicang Dining Hall.
It was a large dining hall, long from east to west and narrow from north to south, inside it could accommodate about seventy to eighty people at the same time, inside it there were about ten tables set up, the tables and chairs were relatively simple.
One of the tables was set with a meal, eight dishes and two soups, four dishes and one soup to be exact, but it was a duplicate of each dish.
The dishes are very ordinary, two meat and two vegetarian, meat dishes are tofu stewed meat, cabbage fried meat, vegetarian dishes are patted cucumber and braised aubergine, soup is a large pot of gluten soup.
So eight plates of dishes and two large pots of gluten soup filled a table.
“Come, Lord Zhu please take your seat.”
Zhang Guancu stood in front of the chair that sat west to east, smiling warmly and extending his right hand to invite Zhu Pingan to take a seat.
In ancient times when banquets were held, great care was taken in the seating arrangements, partly because of the tradition of a state of etiquette, and partly because of the difference in rank and respect. For the current long east-west and narrow north-south dining room, the most honourable seating position in the dining room is sitting west to east, followed by sitting north to south, again sitting south to north, and the most honourable seating position is sitting east to west.
The seat that Manager Zhang invited Zhu Pingan to sit on was the most honourable seat in the dining room.
“Please, Senior Zhang.”Zhu Pingan shook his head with a smile and reached out to invite Zhang Guancu to his seat.
Daming was a feudal society that was very concerned about hierarchy, the most obvious manifestation of this was the seating arrangement, what seat a high ranking person would take, and what position a low ranking person would take, were all strictly regulated, to sit in a chaotic manner would be to overrun the host, and would also be suspected of committing a crime against the superior.
Zhu Pingan won’t make this kind of low-level mistake, leaving others with something to hold on to.
Moreover, Zhang Tanku is the local snake of Taicang Silver Depot, it is said that the strong dragon does not suppress the local snake, not to mention that he is not even a strong dragon, compared with the third grade officer Zhang Tanku and others, he is a sixth grade officer is at most a small earthworm.
In addition, when he was just outside the main gate of the silver vault, Jia Langzhong and the others looked at him with contempt in their eyes, not putting themselves in their eyes.
In that case, he could not let them down.
After a bit of pushing and shoving, in the end, Zhang Guancu sat on the first position, and Zhu Pingan sat on the lower position of Zhang Guancu.
Seeing that Zhu Pingan was so sensible, the crowd of Taicang officials felt even more relaxed, and it seemed to them that this incoming audit was even easier than before.
“Aigoo, there are four meat dishes, not bad, not bad, but it’s really thanks to Lord Zhu’s blessing that we are finally seeing meat.”
After taking his seat, Taicang Langzhong Zhao Dingtian swept a glance at the meals on the table, his eyes were disdainful, but on his face was an expression of surprise, fussing and thanking Zhu Pingan as if he really didn’t know the taste of meat in March.
Zhu Pingan slightly hooked the corner of his lips, huh, the performance is quite on point, if you can wipe off the smell of the bear paw on your body and the oil that puts light on your mouth, it will be even more perfect ……
Zhang Guanku glared at Zhao Langzhong, who then resentfully closed his mouth, his face full of displeasure, as if there was something wrong with him telling the truth.
“Hehe, our poor countryside of Taicang is no better than your city, it’s all rough tea and food, the hospitality is not good, please don’t be offended, Sir Zhu.”Zhang Guancu said to Zhu Pingan with a slight smile.
After the words fell, Zhu Pingan was seen looking up at Zhang Guancu and then swept a glance at the people present, his eyes deep and his eyebrows furrowed ……
Zhang Guancu and all the Taicang officials present were furious by Zhu Pingan’s eyes, especially Zhao Langzhong, who was even more furious in his heart, thinking that Zhu Pingan had seen something broken.
The next second
However, he saw Zhu Pingan’s eyes getting deeper and deeper, and his eyebrows getting more and more furrowed.
The hearts of the Taicang people present became more and more uneasy.
However, in the next second, Zhu Pingan’s deep eyes were seen to be moist, his eyebrows were together, his mouth was open and he took a deep breath, and said with a touched face: ”Lord Zhang and all the other adults are guarding the Taicang silver treasury, but they are so strict with themselves, this kind of sentiment, really makes Pingan admire them. Lord Zhang made an exception for Ping An and prepared such a sumptuous table of delicacies, how could Ping An not know enough.”
Nima Hi!
So this guy was touched by our “frugality”… Damn, I thought this kid had found something wrong.
Damn, I was worried for nothing.
I told you, how can he see the cracks it, huh, so is to worry for nothing, calf is calf, rookie is rookie! So easy to be bluffed, what bullsh*t scholar Lang, milky nerd is just not dry, this kind of people do good, but you let him do something else …… heh ……
After this incident, the crowd on Zhu Pingan is more light a few points.
Four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetarian.
In addition to Zhu Pingan, the other people at the table are not interested, basically did not move a few chopsticks.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
They just came out from the “Late Night Dining Hall”, and all they ate was bear’s paw, abalone, and delicacies of the sea, and now if they are allowed to eat this cabbage and tofu again, it is not difficult for them to get down the chopsticks.
However, Zhu Pingan is eating very well.
Zhu Pingan has not drunk a mouthful of water or eaten a grain of rice since early morning.
But this day experienced a lot of things, early in the morning to go to the Da Lisi, the results of the Da Lisi Qu Tong Yang, deputy ambassador stroke, and then heard the news of Sinan was caned, and then hoofed it to the Noon Gate.
Then with the high Rui riding to Taicang silver warehouse, the results of halfway Gao Rui “fell off the horse to hide”, he returned to the city to find a doctor.
And then again in the Taicang gate sunshine half an hour ……
Zhu Pingan has been hungry and thirsty for a long time.
In addition, Zhang Daoren and their ulterior motives introduced the “frugal package”, also gave Zhu Pingan a surprise. It looks like cabbage and tofu, but sometimes the same ingredients, after different chefs, the taste is very different.
Zhu Pingan is sure that this Taicang cook, cookery is absolutely not less than the imperial chef.
The seemingly ordinary cabbage, tofu and cucumber, the taste is surprisingly good, popular, so people can not stop chopsticks.
Zhu Pingan with a rice bucket like, eat non-stop, for Zhu Pingan’s good appetite, Taicang people despise, but also really from the countryside bumpkin ……
“Well, Elder Zhang you guys eat too, no need to take special care of me, come on, Lord Zhao, this tofu casserole tastes good.”
Zhu Pingan buried his head between meals, raised his head to look at the crowd, see the crowd does not move their chopsticks much, “touched” to persuade the crowd to use the dishes, do not need to take special care of themselves, especially special care of Zhao Langzhong, with public chopsticks to Zhao Langzhong cloth a lot of tofu stew meat, who let you just so surprised to say that you finally see meat it.
“Ahem, no, no, I’ll do it myself.”
Zhao Langzhong looked at the big slices of meat in the bowl, a burst of regurgitation, who the hell is still eating such pork, against Zhu Pingan’s enthusiastic eyes, Zhao Langzhong looked as if he swallowed a fly, and stuffed a big slice of meat into his mouth ……
