I have to say that this is a very successful publicity. I believe that after today, coffee will definitely become famous, and wealth will flow into Master Li's pocket exponentially. Of course, the two counties will benefit the most, and this is also the case for Master Li.
The reason why Qi personally came forward to promote coffee, otherwise, he would not be so high-profile. Li Qi believes that in this world where transportation is still semi-closed, once coffee becomes popular, the revitalization of the two counties will be just around the corner, and it is unpredictable.
.◎∑w.
But no matter what, I finally came to the Privy Councilor's Mansion for a meal, and I had to eat this dinner before leaving anyway.
After nightfall, the guests moved to the hall again, and the whole hall was brightly lit by candlelight. Because he had to take care of coffee at noon, Li Qi mainly served light Cantonese food, but there was no need to care about this at night, so dinner
It is very rich, with sour, sweet, spicy and salty dishes, and there are dishes of all kinds of flavors. Everyone who eats them will never want to return.
Except for one person, that person is Gao Yanei. He is usually the most high-profile guy, but today he has a depressed look on his face. He doesn't even move his chopsticks. He just sits there drinking, and...
"Chai Cong, eat quickly, eat quickly, you are the slowest eater here."
I saw Gao Yanei pulling Chai Cong's sleeve and saying half begging, half urging.
But this seriously affected Chai Cong's pretense, and he said angrily: "Ya Nei, please don't keep pushing me."
"Xiaojiu, eat quickly, eat quickly."
"....!"
Li Qi came over with a cup of tea and was about to toast. When he saw Gao Yanei urging them to eat quickly, he was surprised and said: "Yanei, are you in a hurry?"
Gao Yanei glanced sideways, snorted and ignored him.
Li Qi asked in astonishment: "What?"
Gao Yanei said: "Li Qi, have you been avoiding me this afternoon?"
"This --- Yanei. Why do you say that?"
Fan Shaobai said: "This guy lost everything this afternoon, so he wanted to borrow some from you to repay his losses, but he couldn't find you after searching for a long time."
If it were you, you would hide too! Li Qi looked surprised and said, "Really? I really don't know, I've been upstairs."
Gao Yanei suddenly turned around and said, "Are you going upstairs?"
"yes?"
"Why don't you take me with you?"
Gao Yanei looked at Li Qi angrily.
"Well...!"
Li Qi said angrily and humorously: "I'm just here to offer you a cup of tea as the host."
"Tea, who did you lie to?"
"You can go too, I'm not stopping you."
"If my mother hadn't been here, I would have gone a long time ago and lost everything." Gao Yanei muttered.
Li Qi patted Gao Yanei on the shoulder and said: "Yanei, there are winners and losers in this gambling, so why should you take it to heart? Losing now does not mean losing for the rest of your life. Just move back next time."
Gao Yanei nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, that's what I thought, so I asked them to eat quickly and go to my house to continue later. I just thought about it for a long time and finally figured out why it was so hard to lose today. I'm sure
It’s because I don’t have enough money today and I don’t have much confidence. When I get to my house later, I will kill everyone.”
"So this is ah!"
Li Qi wiped cold sweat and suddenly found that the red flower on the temples of this idiot was extremely delicate and beautiful. He clearly remembered it clearly. The red flower on the temples of this idiot had already drooped and had lost its color long ago. The remaining flowers were ruined.
How could Liu. be so beautiful? Could it be that human sweat can really nourish the flowers? More importantly, the flower looked familiar, so he asked: "Ya Nei, where did this flower come from?"
Gao Yanei said: "Oh, I accidentally broke the red flower I was wearing this morning, so I just broke a random one in the garden."
I just said that it looked so familiar, so I dared to ---. Li Qi looked unhappy and said: "I mean, this flower is my wife's favorite, and you just cut it off like this. Damn, did you worry about me?"
feelings.”
Gao Yanei curled his lips and said: "I lost so much money from you, it's just a flower, please don't be so stingy."
Li Qi rolled his eyes and said, "I didn't win a penny from you."
Gao Yanei acted rogue and said: "Then what do you think we should do? They have already been broken."
Shameless!
Li Qi took a deep breath and thought to himself, if it weren't for Brother Qiu's sake, I would definitely ask someone to throw you out. He whispered: "Forget it, forget it, be careful when you go out later, don't let me
Madam saw it."
"Don't worry, we'll leave shortly."
Gao Yanei waved his hand carelessly and asked: "By the way, which lady are you talking about?"
Li Qi said cautiously: "Why are you asking this? Just don't see it."
Gao Yanei said: "I just want to ask if your wife likes me. If it's Shi Niang who likes it, you let me wear it, but I won't wear it anymore. If it's Feng Niangzi, hehe ---
."
Li Qi gritted his teeth and smiled: "So what?"
Gao Yanei smiled dryly and said: "Nothing, nothing."
Li Qi said angrily: "Get out of here after you finish eating."
Gao Yanei immediately said to Chai Cong and others: "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? The master has issued an order to expel guests. Why don't you eat quickly?"
omg!
Li Qi slapped his forehead. This was really his nemesis. His good mood was completely ruined. He was not even in the mood for a toast and left directly with the tea cup.
.......
.......
It was late at night, and the Privy Councilor's Mansion, which had been bustling all day, finally calmed down and fell into the embrace of the night.
But the kitchen was still brightly lit, and Li Qi was seen walking alone in the kitchen, picking up a kitchen knife from time to time, first looking at both sides, then scraping the blade with his thumb, and then picking up a plate and using his hand.
Gently rub it on...
Suddenly, a long and narrow figure suddenly shone into the kitchen. Li Qi turned around and saw a beautiful woman walking in from the outside, it was Wang Yao.
"How did you come?"
Li Qi looked at Wang Yao in surprise.
Wang Yao smiled and said: "Qiniang and the others were playing mahjong. I had nothing to do, so I came over to take a look. I didn't expect you to be here."
Li Qi wondered: "It seems like you expected me to be here."
"You can say that." Wang Yao smiled softly: "In the past, every time you finished cooking, you would come to the kitchen and stay for half an hour. I didn't expect that this habit has not changed yet."
Li Qi snorted and said, "I didn't expect that you would discover this habit of mine."
"It doesn't seem hard to find."
Wang Yao smiled and said: "It's just that I didn't expect that now that you are the Privy Councilor, you would still be so nostalgic for the kitchen."
Li Qi sighed softly, shook his head and said, "I can't say I'm nostalgic. I've just developed a habit since I was a child. If I don't come to see you, I always feel like there's something unfinished."
Wang Yao asked with a hint of curiosity: "A habit developed since childhood?"
Li Qi nodded and said: "When my father taught me cooking when I was a child, he always used force to force me to clean the kitchen. What's more terrible is that he would make surprise inspections. If the kitchen was not cleaned, the consequences would be really serious."
Wang Yao's face looked a little strange and said: "Oppression by force? I thought you had liked cooking since you were a child. You came here just to find peace. After all, there are too many disturbances in the outside world. People like Bachelor Su and others will Choose to go sightseeing and relax yourself.”
Li Qi smiled and said: "So you think I just turned the beautiful mountains and rivers into a kitchen?"
Wang Yao nodded.
"You're only half right."
Li Qi smiled and said: "I have not been fond of cooking since I was a child, which is funny to say. In fact, I hated the kitchen very much when I was a child. I even wanted to burn down the kitchen at home."
This surprised Wang Yao. She thought Li Qi liked cooking very much, and asked in surprise: "Why is this?"
Li Qidao: "Have you ever heard of a saying? Where there is oppression, there is resistance."
Wang Yao shook her head gently.
Li Qidao: "I have been learning cooking since I was four or five years old. I know what I know at that age. It must have been requested by my parents. Like Xiaoliuzi, the first thing I learned was to clean the kitchen, including washing dishes. So every time When I saw my father sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed and taking a nap, and I was faced with a pile of dirty dishes and chopsticks, I wanted to set the kitchen on fire."
"Four or five years old?"
Wang Yao said with pity: "That's too young."
"Who says it's not true?" Li Qi said, "I also resisted and deliberately smashed the bowls at home to pieces."
Wang Yao smiled and said: "Then you are too naughty."
Li Qi chuckled: "I remember that my father did not use such warm words to describe me at that time. He scolded me for being an unfilial son."
Wang Yao said curiously: "This doesn't seem to have much to do with being unfilial."
Li Qidao: "I thought so too at the time, but after listening to my father's explanation, I felt that this was what happened."
"Is this what your father explained again?"
"My father is also a chef, and for chefs, bowls and chopsticks are tools to make money. If I smashed the bowls and chopsticks, wouldn't I have smashed his job? I also smashed my job. Isn't that right? What is unfilial piety?"
Wang Yao smiled softly upon hearing this and said, "What your father said makes sense. I believe your father must have punished you severely."
Li Qi smiled and said: "I remember he also cooked a big meal for me, called 'Stir-fried Pork with Bamboo Shoots'."
Wang Yao wondered: "Strange, since your father thinks you are an unfilial son, why does he still cook a big meal for you?"
Li Qi chuckled: "You really thought it was 'fried meat with bamboo shoots'? This is just an adjective used by my father to cover up domestic violence. In fact, it was just a slap on my ass with a bamboo stick."
Wang Yao was stunned for a moment, then chuckled and said, "I see, your family is indeed a family of chefs."
Li Qi rolled his eyes and said, "But I don't think any father would use his son to cook a big meal."
Wang Yao shook her head and said: "There is an ancient saying that a filial son emerges from a stick. Your father must be doing it for your own good. If he hadn't done this in the first place, how could you have become the King of Kitchens with the Golden Knife."
"This may be the only way I can comfort myself."
Li Qi shook his head with a wry smile.
Wang Yao added: "But I can see that you like cooking."
"That's for the future."
A smile appeared at the corner of Li Qi's mouth and he said: "I remember when I was in junior high school - oh, it also means elementary school. Anyway, I was thirteen or fourteen years old. At that time, when we went to school, we all brought our own lunch. But in At that time, I liked a girl in the school. Oh, girls in our hometown can also go to school."
Wang Yao nodded and said: "I also went to school when I was a child, but I didn't expect you to be so young - no wonder you are so romantic."
In fact, in the Song Dynasty, many children of nobles had to go to school, whether they were boys or girls.
Sweating! It seems like I said too much. Li Qi said awkwardly: "It's just a simple liking, it's different from what you thought."
Wang Yao asked curiously: "What then?"
Li Qidao: "At the beginning, I just liked it secretly, but later on, my classmates all found that the food I brought was very delicious. Every time I had lunch, they would surround me and flatter me, hoping to
I ordered some food, including that girl. At that time, I felt that cooking is really a good thing. It can make me powerful and superior, which satisfies my vanity very well. It is precisely because of this that I have a good relationship with you.
We started to get acquainted with that girl and became a good friend that we can't help talking about."
Wang Yao said: "In this case, you should ask your parents to come to propose marriage."
Proposing marriage? Shit, I was only in the first year of junior high school at that time, so I came to propose marriage. The parents of the other party had to be beaten to death. Madam, you must be evil, right? Li Qi said sarcastically: "It's not as exaggerated as you say.
, that girl and I were just good friends. Later---we just became very good friends."
Wang Yao didn't believe it. Judging from Li Qi's previous crime records, this was very unlike his behavior. She shook her head and said, "I don't believe it."
Li Qi smiled bitterly and said: "It's true. In fact, I have been a busy person since I was a child. This is also thanks to a pair of excellent parents. My father never cares about my studies. He only cares about the progress of my cooking skills, while my mother has never cared about my studies.
Regardless of my cooking skills, she only cares about my academic performance, and I must be fair, so I have to practice my cooking skills and study hard."
"Study hard?"
Wang Yao glanced at Li Qi strangely.
Li Qi said angrily: "What do you think of me? My writing is just a little bad, but that's just because I spend more time holding a spatula than a pen. I'm quite knowledgeable."
"
Wang Yao chuckled and said, "I didn't say anything, you said it yourself."
Li Qi curled his lips and continued: "I thought I was very busy, but I didn't expect that girl to be busier than me. When I was in elementary school, she was also in elementary school, but when I was still in elementary school, she already wanted to
I'm preparing to take the Gao---Imperial Examination."
Wang Yao hummed and said, "Can women also participate in the imperial examination?"
"No, no, no, I mean she has already reached that level. Anyway, she is no longer on the same level as me."
Li Qi explained vaguely, fearing that Wang Yao would continue to delve deeper, so he quickly continued: "So she and I are just good friends, and neither of us meant anything in that way. And I also knew later that she was definitely not me.
The kind of woman I like.”
Wang Yao asked curiously: "What kind of woman is she?"
Li Qi hummed: "She is the busiest woman I have ever seen. She is simply a workaholic. If you want to invite her to dinner, you have to make a reservation seven days in advance. I have to pay for it. It's a shame that she is a friend. If she is a lover, I have to
It was crazy, but she let me know that cooking is actually very useful. From that time on, I fell in love with cooking. Later, I thought about it, I am not against cooking, and I also like cooking very much.
The reason why I want to burn down the kitchen is because I am unhappy with my father's tyranny. At the same time, I also understand that if I want to get rid of my father's tyranny, I have to be better than him and let him know that there is nothing to teach me. That way I can get rid of it, so
I studied cooking even harder. When I was about sixteen or seventeen years old, my father thought he had nothing more to teach me, so he let me go freely. From that time on, I was the head of the family.
Yes, because it’s me who has the final say on what to eat.”
Having said this, Li Qi smiled proudly.
Wang Yao rolled her eyes at him and said, "What's there to be proud of? But just now you said I was only half right, what did you mean?"
Li Qi snorted and said: "You are right about the second part of your sentence. I really like to stay in the kitchen. Here I can forget about the hustle and bustle of the world and calm down. I even thought that I was lucky at one time. , because when a chef is not very good at making enemies with others, the chef faces only firewood, rice, oil and salt, until --- until an old man appeared, and I discovered that there are many dirty things hidden behind the chef."
Having said this, he frowned slightly and said with a wry smile: "I thought the kitchen was just for cooking delicious food, but I never thought that the kitchen is actually a battleground for military strategists. The benefits are greater than I imagined, but now I I now fully understand that this has been the case since ancient times.”
Wang Yao frowned and said, "Old man, are you talking about the Grand Master?"
Li Qi shook his head and said: "No, but this old man's status in my hometown is not low. After I won the King of Kitchen Competition in my hometown, he waved a token in front of me and said that as long as I accepted this Token, then I can have extremely high power and wealth."
Wang Yao looked at Li Qi with a hint of surprise and said, "Then do you accept it?"
Li Qi sighed: "I accepted the token, but I didn't immediately agree to his request. I just said I would consider it, but the old man has a deep connection with my family. I really can't refuse him, and I don't have the strength, but I I don’t want to tie myself down, so I can only use delaying tactics and live one day at a time.”
"Is that why you came to Tokyo?"
"ah?"
Li Qi was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile and said, "That's exactly it."
Wang Yao sighed quietly and said, "Then you must be very disappointed."
Li Qi asked in astonishment: "Why do you say that?"
Wang Yao said: "Don't you also have supreme power now?"
Li Qi chuckled: "This is different. In my hometown, even if I have no power, as long as I have money, I can still live a carefree and unrestrained life, but it is not possible here. If I have no power, how can I protect You, everything I get now is not given to me by God, but I fought for it with every drop of sweat. This is of my own free will. No one forces me. Of course, God is not kind to me, because Many people in the world work harder than me, but the rewards they get are not equal to their efforts. But in my case, I got everything I wanted."
Wang Yao nodded and said: "Then your parents are still alive, and where is your hometown?"
She had never asked about Li Qi's family affairs before because she felt she was not qualified and didn't want to know, but it was different now.
Li Qi smiled, took Wang Yao's hand, and said, "Do you want to meet your parents-in-law?"
Wang Yao blushed and whispered: "I was just asking."
Li Qidao: "Of course my parents are still alive, but they travel around the mountains and rivers. The dragon has never seen its tail, so I guess I won't meet it. My hometown is a very far away place overseas. I also happened to come here. Even if I go back The road can no longer be found."
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