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Chapter 3 Squirrel Fish

When he sat down at a elegant room on the second floor, Li Luotang handed over the silver notes of 300,000 taels to Manager Sun, "There are 300,000 taels here. You can use 200,000 taels to buy grain and distribute it to poor families in the city. Another 100,000 taels, buy some fertile land, and then pay the fertile land, except for the required expenses, the rest will be used for relief. Do you understand?"

"I understand, please rest assured, my master of the boss, I will definitely do this." Manager Sun smiled.

After the facts were settled, Li Luotang left the jade shop and continued to wander around the city.

The weather was sunny, and pedestrians came and went in the streets and alleys. Hawking sounds were heard one after another on both sides of the road, including those selling rouge and powder, those selling dolls and clay knives, those selling head flower embroidery, and those selling spice towels and silk. The most attractive thing to Li Luotang were the stalls selling food and fruits.

Li Luotang was standing at the stall selling plums. After buying a few or two pieces of plums, he suddenly heard a sudden scream and the sound of horse hooves. When he looked up, he saw a fast horse galloping towards him. The woman riding the horse shouted loudly: "Get out, get out quickly, don't block the way."

Li Luotang frowned, running around in the downtown area, what does this person want to do?

Seeing the horse running towards this side, the horse's hooves were about to step on a frightened child. Li Luotang stepped on his toes and rushed over to save the person, but someone saved the child before her.

A green shadow flashed like a meteor, reached out to hug the child, turned sideways, avoiding the horse running over, and waited for the horse to pass by him, he grabbed the ponytail with his right hand and said lightly, "Hi!"

The horse was pulled from the ground by him and raised it high. The woman immediately screamed and fell from the horse's back. The man let go of the child and jumped up to catch the fallen horse. Before the onlookers could scream, they heard a female voice cursing: "The shameless little thief."

Li Luotang was stunned and did not thank him, but instead scolded others. This was too much.

However, being able to do something about horseback in the downtown area shows that it is not a reasonable person, and it is normal to be ungrateful. But the onlookers stopped doing it and shouted indignantly: "Why are you so unreasonable, a woman?"

"It's a pig, I'm going to make a comeback and make a mess."

"If this young man hadn't taken action, I don't know how many people would have been injured."

"That is, not only did they ride horses in the street, but they almost stepped on the passers-by, but they were also ungrateful."

"I don't know where the uneducated wild girl came from. She almost hurt the child and even spoke badly to her benefactor. It's really a world of decline."

The girl in red was angry with the public, but she didn't know how to restrain herself, "Shut up, shut up, do you know who my father is? No matter how much I talk, I'll let my father arrest you all and put you in prison."

This girl is domineering! And she is not very smart, so she is cheating her father.

The people did not fight with the officials, and the onlookers silenced unwillingly.

The girl in red showed a gloomy face and waved her whip at the man in blue who was saving the people. The onlookers exclaimed, and someone shouted, "Be careful, young man."

The man in green reached out and grabbed the whip. It seemed easy, but Li Luotang knew that if he had not had accurate eyes and quick action, he would have absolutely no way to do it. The man in green held the whip, narrowed his eyes slightly, and with an internal force, the whip was broken.

"Good Kung Fu." Li Luotang praised lightly.

The girl in red held the bare whip handle and was stunned. The man in blue slid his toes and flew away. The girl in red shouted at him, "Little thief, don't run away, I'll compensate me for the whip."

The man in green had already floated away, and the girl in red had no ability to chase after him, so she could only stomp her feet hatefully and said to his back: "You can run to the first day of the lunar month, but you can't run to the fifteenth day. I will definitely catch you. You little thief, I can't spare you."

Li Luotang did not stay to see the follow-up. She left while talking, walked into a restaurant by the lake, sat down at a table by the window on the second floor, ordered tea, and after ordering dishes, she supported her chin with one hand and leisurely looked at the scenery outside.

Li Luotang felt someone approaching and thought it was a guy delivering food, but he didn't want to see the man in green just now, with his eyebrows slightly frowned, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Do you mind building a table?" the man in green asked politely.

"I said I mind, will you leave?" Li Luotang asked provocatively.

The man in green sat down in the opposite position, "Bailiqian, my name."

"Are you always so familiar?" Li Luotang asked with a sneer on his lips.

"I want to know how the Que Ming whip was in your hand?" Bai Li Qian stared at her with a sharp look. He took the name of the whip, and the word "Que Ming" on the handle of the whip was engraved by him. When Li Luotang taught Li Ge and the others a lesson, he recognized it at a glance.

Li Luotang looked at him vigilantly, "How did you know the name of this whip?" Que Ming whip was a birthday gift given to her by her brother, and there were not many people who knew the name of the whip.

"I was there when my friend asked someone to create this whip, and I knew who he would give this whip to. If you tell me honestly, your lies will not deceive me." Baili Qian said in a deep voice.

"As far as I know, Li Luojie has no friends with the surname Baili." Li Luotang smiled slightly, "It's a friend of life and death with the surname Yi."

Baili Qian's lips raised and his smile was full of smiles. If he said that it was the cold winter month just now, this smile was like spring returning to the earth, warm and kind, "It seems we have to get to know each other again, right, Sister Tangtang?" Li Luojie only had a sister, no younger brother, and Li Luojie once told him that the whip was a birthday gift for his sister.

"You are the son of Ling Xu Yi Jing." Li Luotang said his real name and the nickname given to him by the Jianghu people. Ling Xu came from his unique trick Ling Xu Yizhi. The young master was because of his image. He was not like a rude martial artist, but elegant, like a young man from aristocratic family.

"I am Yi Jing. Sister Tangtang doesn't have to be so disgusted. Brother Ling and I are brothers. Sister Tangtang is willing to call me Big Brother Yi?" Yi Jing was kind to her friend's sister.

"Hello, Brother Yi." Li Luotang smiled sweetly.

At this time, the guy delivered the food to the table, "Please use it slowly, two young men."

"Brother Yi, this squirrel mandarin fish is the signature dish in the store. Try it and see if it is as delicious as written in the book." Li Luotang smiled.

The process of squirrel mandarin fish is delicate and has a unique shape. Wash the fish and remove bones, turn the fish meat outward, put diamond-shaped knife patterns, drag egg yolk paste, put dry starch into the pan oil, fry until the fish head is slightly raised, the tail is raised high and golden. Take it out and put it on a plate, pour it with sweet and sour marinade, and it sounds like a rat. The overall look is like a squirrel that is slowly walking.

"The ink moss is used to make the clothes thin, and the red plate is covered with algae tails are comfortable." Yi Jing has been squirrel mandarin fish for a long time. "This dish is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour, and delicious. It is indeed a delicious dish."

Li Luotang put a piece into his mouth, savored it carefully, frowned slightly; seeing this, Yi Jing asked, "Is it not as delicious as expected?"

"Well" Li Luotang pouted, "I didn't know the heat well, the fish was fried a little old, and the marinade was slightly salty, covering up the sweet and sour taste." It seems that the squirrel fish made in this store is not authentic. She wants to eat authentic squirrel fish and has to go to Pingjiang.

"Do you want to eat the most authentic squirrel mandarin fish?" Yi Jing asked with a smile.

Li Luotang's eyes were shiny, and when he was staring at such a pair of moist apricot eyes, Yi Jing felt a sense of sin if he did not meet her requirements. "If you are hungry, just eat something and put a cushion on your stomach. If you are not hungry, we will change places."

"I'm not hungry, let's change places." Li Luotang was not short of money, so he didn't want to betray himself. If he wanted to eat, he had to eat the most authentic ones, "My man, check out."

Before the guy came, a loud footsteps sounded, and more than a dozen strong men rushed up. The leader was the girl in red who had just rode a horse on the street, and there was a boy in brocade clothes next to her.

The guests in other seats were in bad weather and they all ran away. The guy chased them and shouted, "Checkout, guests please go to the counter to check out."

"Brother Yi, please come to the door." Li Luotang's voice was brisk. What's the good day today? Another person who practiced her was here.

"It's a good thing if someone pays the bill." Yi Jing smiled. This is also a person who is not afraid of trouble.

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Note: According to legend, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to Jiangnan and took a meal at the Songhelou Restaurant in Suzhou. The chef used carp to create bones, carved patterns on the fish, added seasoning and marinated them, dragged them on the egg yolk paste, fryed them in a hot oil pan and poured them on the hot sweet and sour marinade. It looked like a rat, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour. Emperor Qianlong was very satisfied after eating it. Later, it was reported that Qianlong had eaten fish in Songhelou, and this dish became famous in Suzhou.
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