"Have a seat." Father Lu greeted everyone: "I just want to tell you something about the folks in this village. I just watch him collect rags on weekdays, and I don't think he is very capable."
"I might be able to do it after today. It's different." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "But we have industry rules and we can't reveal too much. Dad Lu, you have to forgive me."
Everyone came to the table, and Dad Lu took out the Wuliangye. Zhou Zhi stopped him: "Qiaoqiao said that the citrus wine here is excellent, how about we drink that?"
"Why are you so embarrassed? You are distinguished guests from the city, it is not appropriate to use country wine... ..."
"It's appropriate," Zhou Zhi ran to Lu's wine cabinet and took out the citrus wine: "I am also from the county, and I like this too."
"Dad, just listen to what you say." Lu Qiao didn't treat Zhou Zhi as a distinguished guest: "He is very picky, and we rely on him to order when we go out to eat."
"Okay, let's try ours Local products from the countryside." Father Lu couldn't resist, so he had to put Wuliangye away.
The table is full, including local chicken soup, cold chicken slices, roasted duck with konjac, braised mutton, glutinous rice stuffed with salted eggs, and perfumed fish, all of which are unique.
Cold chicken slices here are called Hanyang Chicken, which is a recipe from the nearby Hanyang Town. Compared with the Manzhou Ancient Linjiao Chicken, which Zhou Zhi is familiar with, it has less numbness and more sweetness, and is very delicious. The characteristics of Shanghebang are a little richer than Yanbang cuisine.
The soybeans used to stew the mutton. This sheep was raised in the place where Su Shi studied. It is called Zhongyan sheep. It is actually a kind of black goat passed down from the Yi area. It has a bit of odor, but this odor is The aroma of the mutton is not obvious. Instead, it becomes a complex flavor after cooking with spices and medicinal sauces. It is a bit weird, but still delicious.
If Zhou Zhi has seen the other dishes before, this is the first time he has seen the glutinous rice eggs.
And this dish is very consistent with the characteristics of palace cuisine, that is, it is made quite delicately.
Seeing that Zhou Zhi was very interested in the production method, Ma Lu introduced: "Soak the glutinous rice in water, make a small hole on the top of the salted duck egg, pour out the egg white, leaving only the egg yolk, and add the glutinous rice On top of diced fresh meat, diced bacon, vegetarian dishes can be paired with mushrooms, bamboo shoots, green beans, and tender vegetables depending on the season. Season the peas and so on, then stuff them into the eggs, wrap the eggshells with lotus leaves, and steam them in a pot. "
In fact, this thing is a bit like the salted egg yolk meat rice dumplings in the south, but the rice dumpling shells are made. It was replaced with duck egg shells, and lotus leaves were used to seal it, but the rice dumplings are not easy to serve, so this dish is no problem.
“I have to ask Master Zhang if he knows about this dish. This is a good dish that can be served on the table!”
After the dishes were served, everyone started talking about the bizarre deal Zhou Zhi and Blind Man Li Er had just made.
“In fact, in the early years, people who traveled in the world had their own way of doing business. They were called Jiayanzi in Shu.” Zhou Zhi said: “It is better to do business with an insider who understands Jiayanzi than to do business with someone who doesn’t. Jiayanzi's outsider's work They are two different methods.”
“So what blind man Li Er is talking about is Jia Yanzi?”
“Yes, maybe Brother Cheng and I also brought it to him. There was some pressure, so he talked secretly, meaning Just to test us." Zhou Zhi picked up the glutinous rice eggs and said while eating: "If we are knowledgeable, he means to tell us that he is also an 'inner disciple' with a background and is not easy to bully; Those who don’t understand family language, Then he will have no pressure at all, just wait for us to pay the price when we land. "So, is this the method of you and blind man Li Er? We don't understand it at all."
"Actually, the routine is not complicated." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "If the family words are right, it means that everyone is an insider, just like the internal price of cultural relics in the national industrial and art system, and the antiques are everywhere. The dealers also have their own internal prices.”
“Of course, this also shows that everyone is an expert. Even if you want to cheat the sheep by setting up a cooking pot, or bully those who don’t have enough eyesight to pick up these things, you can avoid them all. "The next step is very simple, identify the goods, negotiate the price, it will work, or it will not work."
"Then what do you mean by talking about Uncle Cao Guo and Han Xiangzi?" Zhang Cheng found that this child was really a treasure, and he knew all the rules in his early years.
“This is the first step in pricing, the pricing level.” Zhou Zhi said: “In the past, the price of cultural relics was not very expensive, and everyone set the price level based on the ranking of the Eight Immortals.”
"There are many rankings of the Eight Immortals. Our industry is based on the Ming Dynasty Wu Yuantai's "Journey to the East": Tieguai, Li and Li Xuan are first, followed by Han Zhongli, Zhongli Quan, Zhang Guo, Zhang Guo, Lu Dongbin, Lu Yan, He Xiangu He Qiong, Lan Cai and Xu Jian, Han Yu's nephew Han Xiangzi, Cao "Uncle Cao Jingxiu"
"But we are in reverse order, Tieguai Li is Wen, followed by Shiwen Baiwen, Lu Dongbin is Guan, followed by Shiguan, Baiguan, Qianguan, Wan Guan, the lowest-ranked uncle Cao Guo, represents the highest one, 100,000 guan."< br>
"At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the country became a modern ocean, and Cao Guojiu represented the level of one hundred thousand oceans."
"Now..." Zhang Cheng counted: " When the old man said Cao Jingxiu, he meant that the plate should be in units of ten. Ten thousand is calculated, and you said that Cao Jingxiu is too old and Han Xiangzi is about the same, which means that this plate should be counted as ten thousand. "In the end, blind man Li Er said that Han Xiangzi was too poor to cross the sea, which is what he said. The business cannot be negotiated." Lu Qiao also understood.
"That's what I mean." Zhou Zhi smiled.
Ma Lu was even frightened: "That plate on the coffee table, is it worth one hundred thousand yuan?!"
Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "This is a fixed price, I just said it is more than one hundred thousand yuan!" , so one hundred thousand is also the level of Cao Guojiu, and nine hundred thousand is also the level of Cao Guojiu."
"What if it is higher than this?" Lu Qiao asked: "I read the news, there are many. The treasures can be worth millions or tens of millions."
Zhou Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This set of words disappeared after the founding of New China. Now it is a bit out of touch with the times. If it were changed to the Republic of China. , if it exceeds 100,000 oceans, it needs to be priced according to gold bars. That is another system. The three immortals in Shangdong represent bars, ten bars, and one hundred bars.”
"One hundred gold bars was already the highest unit at that time. In order to exchange for Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Outing", Zhang Boju sold his Gongxian Hutong house covering an area of 10,000 square meters and scraped together 220 gold bars. This national treasure was protected from being lost to foreign countries."
"And Zhang Daqian also did this. Five hundred gold bars were spent in exchange for another national treasure, "Han Xizai's Night Banquet." It can be seen that one hundred gold bars was already the largest unit of cultural relics trading at that time. "
What would a 10,000-meter mansion be like? It looks like everyone here can basically only rely on their imagination. That is really a lot of money...a lot of money.
"But why did Ouyang Xiulin and Jing get involved again later?" Lu Qiao asked.
"After the price level is determined, of course we have to start talking about the large number." Zhou Zhi said: "There is a very important porcelain in the cultural relics world, which is a set of twelve pieces..."
< br>
"Twelve Flower God Cup!" Zhang Cheng understood immediately. (End of this chapter)