Chapter 29: The Pot-Packed Meat (16): The City of Ice and Snow
After Peter and Andre finally had enough food and drink and left with satisfaction, another carriage was parked outside the Zhenweiju. An old man with gray hair walked down with an old servant.
"Father!" Zheng Xinwen greeted him.
"Grandpa is here!" "Grandpa!" The children also wanted to step forward, but Anna brought them back.
"I already know the situation. I'll give you two days to clean up the valuable things in the store. Let's go to Harbin to join your uncle and ask whoever the chefs and guys in the store are willing to follow them. If you don't want to, you will give a severance fee." Although Zheng Mingquan is old, he is still so decisive when speaking to his son, and there is no doubt.
"This...but, the ambassador of Rakshasa Kingdom has helped solve this matter..." Zheng Xinwen hesitated. It was his years of hard work for Zhenweiju, and it was really hard to give up.
"I'm confused! Who is the ambassador of Rakshasa Kingdom? Are they going to stay in the capital for the rest of their lives and never go back!" Zheng Mingquan said with a glaring eyes.
Zheng Xinwen shrank his head a little guiltyly.
At this moment, Hao Xian felt as if he had seen the boy who had gone from house to house again in three days and couldn't help but smile nostalgic, but with a hint of sadness in his smile.
The task is completed and it is almost time to part.
Zheng Mingquan glared at his son and sighed, "If you offend such a person, we can't handle it. Not only will we stop the store, but we can't stay in this capital. Even if he cannot deal with you openly because the ambassador of the Rakshasa Kingdom cannot deal with you openly, some secret methods will make you unable to survive in this Sijiu City. If you leave late, your family may be destroyed!"
Seeing Zheng Xinwen hanging his head and full of entanglement, the old servant Fu, who came with Zheng Mingquan, opened his teeth-less mouth and persuaded him in a leaking voice: "Master Wen, Master Wen, you are more reluctant to leave than you. The Zheng family's family's family business has been in the capital for several generations, but now, you can't leave!"
Zheng Xinwen looked up at Uncle Fu who was about to die, looked at his old father again, and finally nodded: "I understand..."
He returned to Zhenweiju and explained to the chef and the guys that the Zheng family was about to move to the Northeast, which caused an uproar. But after the initial chaos, he also had no choice but to understand the boss's approach, especially when he remembered the sinister look of Xiao Dezhang's smile when he left, which made everyone very scared.
Most of them asked Uncle Fu to receive the severance payment and left on their own. From then on, they focused on making a living. In the end, only fourteen chefs who had received careful guidance from Zheng Xinwen were left willing to follow the Zheng family to Harbin to explore.
Migration is not easy, especially such a large family. However, the Zheng family took only two days to pack all the valuable items, leaving only a few people and some trustworthy loyal servants in the capital to continue to arrange their arrangements. The rest are about to take a car to travel.
Outside the city gate, the cold wind blew across the official road where cars came and went. Except for Anna's parents' home, not many people dared to see off for the Zheng family, who offended Xiao Dezhang.
Anna's father said that compared to the climate in Beijing, Harbin actually made them more comfortable in Lucians. He decided to move to Harbin to reunite with his daughter after a while, so there was not much sadness in the farewell scene.
No one knew that there was another time traveler from a distant time and space who was also seeing off the Zheng family.
Anna waved her father hard, and Zheng Xinwen held her shoulders and whispered comfort.
The carriage gradually faded away and disappeared under the distant mountains.
Anna's father looked at him for a long time, and he turned back to the city reluctantly until he could not see anything.
Hao Xian still looked at the northeast direction motionlessly, as if he had seen through time and space and illuminated the future.
Harbin, the distant ice and snow city, is about to welcome her chef master. This master will bring her cooking skills that she has trained in the capital for more than 20 years to the Ice City, and will completely change the dining tables of Harbin people in the next thirty years.
When he went to Chenyang to do business, he would transform a pot bun with tomato sauce, which led to the later northerners who argued endlessly about whether to add tomato sauce to pot bun, but he didn't know that his founder actually wanted both.
He would create crispy yellow vegetables and use a copper spoon to teach apprentices who call crispy yellow vegetables shredded eggs. But in fact... that is shredded eggs. He just dared not let anyone mention the word "egg".
He will also support his son Zheng Yiling to reopen Zhenweiju in Harbin so that his cooking skills can continue to be passed on...
"Ah, it's snowing."
Hao Xian raised his hand and wanted to grab a snowflake.
The snowflakes passed through his palms and slowly fell to the ground.
Hao Xian sighed.
After all, he is not a person from this era, so it is time to go back and return to his family.
"Peng Zu Chef Sutra" opens the wheel of time and space again. This time, Hao Xian took the initiative to step in and seemed much more skillful...
...
"puff!"
Xiao Dezhang on the hospital bed spit out a mouthful of black blood.
Since the incident of wading the fruit with peace of mind a month ago, his health has been deteriorating.
He thought he was beaten up by the envoy of the Rakshasa Kingdom and suffered internal injuries, but no matter how the imperial doctor helped him with treatment, there was no sign of improvement.
He invited several monks and Taoist priests to do this, but one of the old Taoists turned around and wanted to leave at first sight.
Xiao Dezhang asked the guard to catch the old Taoist back and asked in every way. The other party said that he saw that he had a strong evil spirit on his body. He vomited blood and was not sick, but was possessed by evil!
He immediately asked the old Taoist to exorcise him evil spirits. After a while, the old Taoist took him two potions. Xiao Dezhang really felt that it was much better.
However, when two days later, when he started vomiting blood again, he wanted to find the old Taoist, but he had disappeared without a trace.
"Catch all the monks and Taoists in the city and exorcise our family!" Xiao De Zhang shouted at the little eunuch who served him with a ferocious face, and then coughed violently.
While coughing, he continued to vomit blood, and stopped for a while.
His face was as pale as wax, suddenly felt much more relaxed, and his whole body was fluttering.
He found that the little eunuch who served him was kneeling in front of the bed, trembling, and was about to laugh and scold him, but he saw black blood all over the ground.
I vomited so much blood?
Then why am I still alive?
Xiao De Zhang rolled his eyes and leaned back, ending his twisted and sinister life.
Soon, another eunuch will inherit his name as "Little Dezi" and become the new favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi. In the future, Li Lianying will serve as the last eunuch in the Qing Dynasty. After the founding of New China, he will accept the transformation of the Republic - to sweep the streets.
His death did not have any impact on the development of history, and the butterfly would not flap its wings for an existence that was too humble...
...
Hao Xian walked out of the Wheel of Time and Space and was stunned for a moment.
He thought he would return to his warm room, but he didn't expect that what appeared in front of him was a snowy street, and the pedestrians on the road were wrapped in thick clothes.
"Is the mission not over yet?"
Just when Hao Xian was confused, he heard the conversation between two men passing by:
"When will it take to drive the Japanese away? It's been six years, and it's been six years!"
"Be careful, don't say this outside, don't want to live?"
Hao Xian's originally relaxed expression immediately became tense, and he already understood where he was.
Harbin, 1938, 7 years before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Chapter completed!