Chapter 51 Chapter 51 Jinjiang exclusive, plagiarism will be investigated (catch...
So there are many reasons why the food in Taibailou is delicious. The food quality alone is far ahead of other restaurants and hotels.
It is useless for competitors to know this. Zhang's well water is their own. They cannot go to Zhang's well to fetch water. Another point is that transporting water requires manpower and material resources, which are all costs!
For a boss who is only concerned about making money, he would not agree to waste money on buying water.
Therefore, even the chefs from the rival restaurants cannot surpass Taibailou in this regard, after all, they are not the ones making the decisions.
Under the circumstance of similar prices, Taibailou is more strict in selecting ingredients than other restaurants. It is not that no one thinks that his practice has no benefit except increasing costs.
But in Zhang Mengzhi's opinion, choosing inferior ingredients when conditions permit is itself a disrespect for food.
When customers come to their restaurant to eat, they hope that everyone comes happily and leaves happily. Even if they are in a bad mood when they come, they will feel better after eating the delicious food.
As a chef, he uses the best ingredients and makes the best dishes to live up to his profession. As a boss, he never tampers with the food, ensuring that the food diners eat is safe, and he feels at ease with the money he earns.
Many chefs forget why they chose the profession of chef after becoming bosses. They only think about how to make money from diners, and they don’t consider whether the money is earned cleanly. They don’t even think about using unclean ingredients to make food, and whether the diners will get sick after eating it, or even die from severe food poisoning.
Several competitors in Guocheng have already started to have this conflict. Although he has never seen the ingredients they use, the suppliers are all acquainted with each other. Most of the suppliers of Taibailou are his relatives, so they secretly told Zhang Mengzhi that many of the ingredients used by those companies were left over from the previous night, and some of the vegetables were even rotten.
Pick off the rotten parts and use the unrotten parts to cook food. Eating too much of this kind of food will cause big problems sooner or later.
Unfortunately, there was no one in the Zhang family at the Health Bureau, and he didn't know who to talk to for a moment.
Finally, it was Cheng Jianshe who came to dinner the next day who gave him an idea, and Zhang Mengzhi suddenly realized it.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Zhang Mengzhi went to Taibai Tower to prepare lunch for Cheng Jianshe and his group.
Most of the nine dishes are steamed, with frying as a supplement.
When the final product comes out, it is usually placed in a steamer and steamed in a bowl.
Soft-fried steamed pork and braised pork with pork belly are fried first and then steamed. Other dishes are different, they are all steamed directly.
So the nine big bowls mainly require complicated preliminary work, but after they are made and steamed in a steamer, it is relatively simple.
Steaming the food takes time, so Zhang Mengzhi went to his office and lay down to take a nap for a while.
"Zhang Mengzhi, we are here!"
Bang! The office door was knocked open.
"Can't you be quiet? The door is broken, you have to pay for it."
This is what it means to make bad friends.
"Sorry, I didn't know you were taking a break."
Cheng Jianshe apologized immediately when he saw that he looked sleepy. He was a bit thick-skinned, but he knew how to correct his mistakes.
"Since you are here, please find a private room and let Xia Donghai serve you the food."
Zhang Mengzhi wanted to continue sleeping.
"No, you have to eat too."
Cheng Jianshe also wanted to build a good relationship with him so that he could ask for Zhang Mengzhi's cooking in the future. Of course, he wouldn't eat for free, he had to travel all over the country anyway, so he could use the ingredients he collected as gifts.
"Okay!"
This group of young masters would not be able to survive without someone keeping an eye on them, so Zhang Mengzhi went to Meijian with them.
"Wow, the interior is filled with plum blossom paintings. You must have spent a lot of money, right?"
Now is not the season for viewing plum blossoms, so there are no plum blossoms in the private room, but the various plum blossom pictures on the wall alone are enough to attract attention.
"Money is a small matter. Do you believe that after a few decades, they will appreciate in value? Then I will make money."
As soon as Zhang Mengzhi came in, he found a seat near the door and sat down, watching a group of people walking around in the private room admiring the plum blossom painting.
"I believe it. You have a good eye. These paintings are very good."
Cheng Jianshe is not just a foodie, he also has a great eye for food. The same goes for his friends who came with him, who were full of praise for the paintings on the wall.
"Sometimes I want to cut open your brain to see what it looks like and why you always have such good vision."
Someone said enviously.
"This shows that Zhang Mengzhi is smart. He almost got a perfect score on the exam. He is not on the same level as us."
Cheng Jianshe had no doubt about Zhang Mengzhi's ability. His academic performance was average, so he admired people with good grades very much.
Zhang Mengzhi is considered a genius among this group of people, so everyone agrees with Cheng Jianshe's words.
In this age where learning means everything, they would believe it even if Zhang Mengzhi praised the grass as being useful.
"The food is here."
As he was speaking, Xia Donghai brought up the dishes with several waiters.
“Nine bowls, oh my god!”
Cheng Jianshe and the others were no longer paying attention to the plum blossom pictures at this time. Although they were all good things, in the eyes of foodies, the most important thing was food!
"Hurry, hurry, I can't bear it any longer, my saliva is flowing down."
The group of people looked greedy, and after the dishes were served, they couldn't wait to pick up their chopsticks and start eating.
Everyone started to eat their favorite dish, and Zhang Mengzhi also picked up a piece of sand meat.
The meat with bean paste is made by putting bean paste between two pieces of uncut meat, then steaming them, turning them upside down and sprinkling sugar on the meat with bean paste. It tastes sweet but not greasy, and the glutinous rice underneath is even more addictive.
Delicious. These are the only two words that come to everyone's mind at this moment. No adjective could be simpler and clearer than these two words.
Steamed crispy pork, needless to say, is made by steaming fried crispy pork. Although it is no longer crispy, it is steamed into a soft and rotten meat, which is especially suitable for the elderly.
Steamed soft-shelled turtle is delicious and nutritious, needless to say, and the skirt part is the best.
The steamed chicken and duck were also steamed until soft and tender. They tasted light with the natural aroma of the ingredients, and were served with rich chicken and duck soup. In the end, only a few slices of ginger were left in the pot.
The steamed pork elbow is not only soft and tender, but the skin is also sticky and glutinous.
Salty pork belly, some places call it braised pork belly. But Jiu Da Wan uses bean sprouts instead of preserved vegetables. It's a bit greasy to eat alone, but it's perfect to eat with bean sprouts.
Steamed spareribs is another dish without chili peppers. The spareribs are steamed until soft and tender, and a lot of onions, ginger, garlic and seasonings are added. It is easy to separate the meat from the bones when eating. The elderly love it, and the soup can also be used to soak rice.
Zhang Mengzhi could eat two large bowls of rice with the soup.
The last one is steamed beef with rice flour, which is a slightly spicier dish among the nine dishes. This dish is made of beef, so it is all lean meat. Therefore, the tendons must be removed before cooking, and some oil should be added when seasoning and marinating. More importantly, the steaming time should not be too long, half an hour is enough.
The Nine Bowls can be said to be a time-tested dish in rural banquets. It is very popular among the elderly and young people also love to eat it.
It’s all big pieces of meat, and more importantly, the nine big bowls are not spicy at all. People who are not familiar with them would not know that they are Sichuan cuisine when they first see them.
An hour later, only a pile of bones and nine empty bowls were left on the table.
"We also had nine big bowls when we were in the provincial capital, but it was still a little bit behind what Brother Zhang had."
After all, it was a dish from Shu Province, and they had eaten it before, so it was not surprising. But to get them to say it was delicious was something that not an ordinary chef could do.
"It's not worse than the master chef in the provincial capital, and it's even better."
Cheng Jianshe also honestly expressed his feelings.
"It's probably related to the ingredients and the water. I can't compare to the craftsmanship of the masters."
Zhang Mengzhi still has self-awareness. He has only been collecting ingredients in recent years to slowly restore his cooking skills from his previous life. He cannot compare with the masters who have been cooking Sichuan cuisine for their entire lives.
Why is it that he is sure it is the ingredients and water? For example, the glutinous rice under the meat with sand must be soaked in water first, then boiled until cooked, and finally steamed with the meat with sand. Steamed soft-shelled turtle and steamed chicken also need water.
As for the ingredients, the soft-shelled turtle is wild, and the chicken is a local chicken that runs around and eats insects.
The provincial capital is very convenient, but some of the food ingredients are not very good, and the same goes for the drinking water.
In order to protect his well water, Zhang Mengzhi bought all the houses around his home.
Houses are cheap now, people can buy one for one or two thousand yuan and then move into apartments.
Zhang Mengzhi planned to tear down his house and the surrounding houses to build a small manor when he had more money. He could grow vegetables and flowers, and there would be a large yard for adults to enjoy the cool and for children to play.
Thinking of a small manor in the city center, Zhang Mengzhi couldn't help but want to move in as soon as possible.
Of course, if urban construction requires him to move away, Zhang Mengzhi will not say no. Anyway, he will be compensated if he moves away. Otherwise, the Zhang family will not agree.
However, Zhang Mengzhi still didn't guess how much importance his superiors attached to him, especially when he still had people in Guocheng. His existence had already been taken into consideration when doing urban planning.
Therefore, the higher-ups decided to allocate this entire area to him to see if Zhang Mengzhi could create a fruit city with its own characteristics.
After Zhang Mengzhi sent Cheng Jianshe and his group away, he was called away by Zhang Deming.
"Mr. Ming, what's the reason today?"
Zhang Mengxiao sat on the receptionist's sofa and asked Zhang Deming who was busy.
"Do you have any idea about the land around your house?"
Zhang Deming didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point.
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you I had no idea!"
Zhang Mengzhi had long had his eyes on the land around his home, but he was afraid that if he bought all of it, the people above him would be wary of him, so he only bought a few houses around his home, which together accounted for just over a thousand square meters.
"The higher-ups asked me to ask you. If you are interested, we will grant you all the land. We can grant you this land, but there are some requirements from above."
Zhang Deming said as he looked at his cousin who was more mature than a few years ago.
"Hmm? I know there's no such thing as a free lunch. Tell me, sir! Let's see if I can do it."
If he can't do it, he will have no choice but to give up.
“Create a unique place to visit so that people don’t want to leave once they come.”
Zhang Deming's words made Zhang Mengzhi feel relieved.
"That's possible. I can do it. I can buy the land and the house. But construction takes time, and I don't have that much money right now. And most people don't have money right now, so few people travel. When everyone has money in a few years, I guarantee that they won't want to leave once they come here."
Zhang Mengzhi was immediately delighted when he heard this request. He had originally wanted to build a manor that would combine eating, drinking, and entertainment, and at the same time allow city dwellers to experience the life of rural residents.
Do you know what Happy Farm is? Decades later, city dwellers are very much looking forward to rural life.
At that time, he would build a happy farm in the manor and invite people from the city to come and grow vegetables. They could take the vegetables home to eat, or they could ask a chef in the manor to help cook them.
Planting fruit trees and flowers made Zhang Mengzhi excited just by imagining it. He was registered in the city and had no land. So if he wanted a piece of land of his own to plant, his own yard was the only option.
The government allowed him to buy a large number of houses and turn them into distinctive manors. This was exactly what he wanted! All he needed to build his dream manor was money.
What to do if you have no money? Borrow from Jiebei. Who to borrow from? The bank!
He used his own property as collateral, borrowed a large sum of money, and bought dozens of houses in the surrounding area.
He did not force those who were unwilling to sell, and bought those who were willing to sell first.
Once other people move into the newly built buildings, those who were reluctant to sell will be willing to do so.
This batch of new buildings was built by Zhang Deming at the suggestion of Zhang Mengzhi, with the main purpose of making money for the government.
The new buildings have boosted many surrounding industries, and even the brick and tile factory that was on the verge of collapse has been revitalized.
Having reaped the first batch of dividends, the government will naturally continue to do so.
With Zhang Mengzhi around, the government conducted multiple inspections when building the buildings to ensure that the new buildings were not shoddy. In addition, the new buildings had space reserved for installing elevators in the future.
This is what Zhang Mengzhi thought of the conflicts that would arise in the future when installing elevators in old houses. Since he knew that this problem would arise, he chose to avoid it from the beginning.
With the reserved land, even if an elevator is installed in the future, it will not affect the lighting of the first and second floors, nor the noise generated by the operation of the elevator.
These advantages can increase the success rate of house sales and attract more people to buy new houses.
Because of Zhang Mengzhi's existence, Guocheng avoided more pitfalls in the building sector. And with the money from selling houses, Guocheng's planning can also proceed faster. For example, urban construction and greening, except for the provincial capital, other cities are slower than Guocheng.
After exchanging dozens of property certificates for a sum of money, Zhang Mengzhi paid more money to exchange them for one certificate, and from then on the land was his. No matter what he did in the next few decades, as long as it was not illegal, the higher-ups would not care.
"elder brother."
Zhang Mengyu jumped out of the yard.
"What?"
Zhang Mengzhi looked at her sister with a suspicious smile on her face, and always felt that there was something sinister underneath her smile.
"Hey brother, I'm already in college."
A flattering face.
"so what?"
Zhang Mengzhi already knew what his sister wanted to say.
"I'm an adult now, I can fall in love now!"
She really didn't dare to talk in private unless the big devil at home gave the order.
"No. You should focus on your studies now, and we can talk about it after graduation!"
Zhang Mengzhi refused without thinking, don't even think about being cheated by the little yellow-haired guy.
"But……"
Today, a boy who meets her aesthetic standards confessed his love to her, and she was very moved!
"No buts. If you dare to date someone secretly, I'll break your leg."
Zhang Mengzhi glared at her sister and left without looking back.
"Humph, damn brother."
With the warning of broken legs, the boy didn’t seem to be so interested anymore, and Zhang Mengyu went back to her room to do her homework.
Her major is not easy at all. If the boy hadn't been handsome today, she wouldn't have thought of falling in love.
"Mengzhi, after your sister came back today, she was laughing and dazed while doing her homework. Is there something wrong with her?"
No one knows a daughter better than her mother. Mother Zhang also noticed her daughter's abnormality.
"Don't worry, mom. It's gone."
Zhang Mengzhi had no doubt that he had completely cut off his sister's desire for love. Legs were more important than love.
"That's good. I'm going to go chat with your cousin. We can just have something simple for lunch. Don't make it too complicated."
The family has become accustomed to Zhang Mengzhi cooking when he is at home, so Zhang's mother and cousin were chatting happily in the main room, and there were even melon seeds on the table next to them!
"Sister-in-law, I heard from those who have seen it that the movie is really good. I have already bought the tickets, let's go see it tomorrow."
My cousin thought of a movie that everyone liked recently, so she talked about it with her sister-in-law.
"Sure, I have some sunflower seeds at home, and we can buy two bottles of soda and spend the day at the cinema."
Mother Zhang had no objection. She and her cousin now ate, drank and had fun every day. She was in a good mood and not irritable, and her menopause passed just like that.
Zhang Mengzhi continued to ask her cousin to accompany her mother, solving the problem of two people in the family at once, so that they wouldn't be locked up at home every day, dissatisfied with everything, and making everyone unhappy.
Sometimes it's not that people don't have patience with them, but that a housewife who has nothing to do every day doesn't know anything except the three acres of land at home, so she keeps saying the same things over and over again.
It’s not their fault, so please try to be understanding!
What Zhang Mengzhi did was very good, but her family must be rich, otherwise her aunt and uncle would not allow her to come to the Zhang family and keep Zhang's mother company.
After all, there needs to be someone to take care of the family, and the cousin is exchanging her companionship for money, which is why their children have no objection to her working in other people's homes.
To put it bluntly, money can solve everything. My cousin now eats well and dresses well. She spends most of the money she earns on herself, and occasionally gives a little to her husband. As for her children, she no longer cares about them.
My sister-in-law is right. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. The couple has planned so much for their children, but they still complain from time to time that their parents cannot give them much.
Before coming to the Zhang family, her clothes were covered with patches, with patches on top of patches. But even so, her children did not think highly of her and her husband!
Her husband was better off than her. Because he had to work, he had two sets of clothes without patches, but they were also very old. Even so, they complained about their husbands in the same way. Seeing the harmony in the Zhang family, how could the cousin not feel disappointed?
Don't say that the Zhang family is rich. Even when the Zhang family was in the most difficult times, they didn't do this! Moreover, Zhang Mengzhi is such a big boss, but he still cooks at home and takes good care of his parents and younger sister, even his married sister.
This is a question of character and has little to do with whether you are rich or not.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, so her cousin spent all the money she earned on her and her husband.
She also graduated from elementary school. She stayed at home for decades not because she was uneducated and couldn't find a job, but because her children were young and she had to take care of them.
My husband's money is enough for the family, so he doesn't go out to work.
As a result, she and her husband lived frugally to raise these few children. Influenced by the Zhang family, Aunt Zhang now knows that no matter how good she is to her children, they will never be as good as she and her husband.
She and her husband lived a good life, and after a while they came to terms with it. It is said that when things reach their extremes they will turn around, and there is some truth to that.
"Mom, aunt, it's time to eat."
Zhang Mengzhi finished cooking and called for people at the kitchen door.
"Here we are. Sister-in-law, let's go and serve the food."
Mother Zhang pulled her sister-in-law to the kitchen, and Zhang Mengyu put away her homework and cleaned the table.
"Your dad isn't coming home today?"
Cousin Zhang looked at the big clock on the wall. It was already half past twelve and her cousin had not returned yet. She couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"I'll give you a call and ask."
Mother Zhang ran to pick up the phone and dialed the number of her husband's factory.
"Hello, may I ask if there is overtime work at your factory this afternoon? Lao Zhang hasn't asked yet. What? No overtime? Everyone is off work?"
As soon as Mother Zhang hung up the phone, she ran out of the house.
"Mom, be careful."
Zhang Mengzhi put the bowl in his hand on the table and ran out.
"Xiaoyu, you stay at home and look after the house. I'll go out and look for someone."
The cousin stopped her niece and went out to look for someone herself.
It's not safe for a little girl to walk outside in the middle of the day, so it's better for her, an old hand, to go out and find someone!
“…”
Zhang Mengyu was stopped and was so anxious that she walked around the house, pacing in the house and the yard.
"dad."
Zhang Mengzhi shouted for help as he walked, and also searched the ditches as he was afraid that his father had fallen into them.
"Lao Zhang, where are you?"
"Brother, can you hear me?"
The Zhang family members split up and searched along the route that Zhang's father might have taken.
But there was no one there, so they went straight to the gate of Zhang's father's factory.
“…”
Looking at Mr. Zhang who was shouting loudly with a group of people, Mother Zhang's face immediately turned black, and Zhang Mengzhi covered her face and turned her head away.
Aunt Zhang held her face with her hands folded, watching her sister-in-law scolding her cousin without showing any sign of pity.
Damn, not going home for lunch in the middle of the day and watching others play chess, is this something a married man can do?
"Xiao Zeng, let go, it hurts!"
Mr. Zhang's wife twisted his ear and he didn't dare to fight back and could only cry out in pain.
"Now you know how to cry out in pain, what were you doing earlier? You didn't go home for lunch, but stayed here to watch people play chess. Did you forget that someone was waiting for you at home to eat?"
Mother Zhang was ruthless and twisted Father Zhang's ears until they were red and swollen.
The group of men nearby were so frightened that they dared not say a word. The same went for the two people playing chess, who dropped the chess pieces in their hands.
When Zhang's mother looked over, a group of people packed up the chess pieces, and everyone ran away in less than three minutes.
"Hey, don't, don't run, someone come and save me!"
Father Zhang watched as a group of chess friends ran away and disappeared. No one paid any attention to him after he shouted for a long time.
"You keep shouting and see who will come to save you. I will scold him too."
Mother Zhang did not twist his ears, but twisted his arms and waist instead. There was a lot of flesh in these two places, and twisting them was extremely painful.
“Hiss, hiss, hiss…”
Mr. Zhang was twisted all the way, and when he got home, his ears, hands and waist were all purple and blue.
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