Cen Meng was the last one to catch it. He turned the wine cup around in his hand several times, his eyes lingering on the bottom for a while, and then he expressed his guess.
"Your Highness, I have heard that each of the seventy-two famous restaurants in Tokyo has custom-made wine vessels in porcelain kilns. The more famous the wine vessels, the more exquisite the wine vessels. Looking at the wine cups, they should be from the top five restaurants."
"Pan Lou's. Last year, Pan Lou was able to customize a batch of wine vessels in Jun Kiln through the help of the royal prince. This is one of them. Look at the inscription at the bottom, 'Pan Lu Jiang Hai'. Mengzi, what did you just say?
After staring at the bottom for a while, don’t you see the mystery?”
Zhao Si asked with a smile.
Cen Meng chuckled, "Your Highness, I am just a rough guy, and I only know a handful of characters. Pan, Lu, Jianghai, I know these four characters, but I don't know what they mean."
He rolled his eyes and asked doubtfully, "It's just a little strange. Xu Ergui works in Pan Lou. It's very honorable to tell people about it. Why is he hiding it?"
Hu Luxiong and Xue Fanzi listened nearby and were also confused. "Yes, working in Panlou is not a shameful thing. Why is Xu Ergui hiding it?"
Zhao Si solved the doubt in an understatement, "Gangmengzi also said that there are seventy-two famous restaurants in Tokyo. However, they are not very harmonious with each other. Especially the first few, the overt and covert fighting is very dangerous. This
Xu Ergui is very cautious."
"Your Highness guesses that Xu Ergui is a craftsman spy sent by another family in Panlou? So he is unwilling to tell the neighbors where he works, for fear of causing unnecessary problems and exposing his flaws." Hu Luxiong analyzed along Zhao Si's train of thought.
Gao Shixuan suddenly added a few words beside him.
"No wonder. When I searched just now, I felt that the owner of the house had a lot of copper coins and cloth, which were inconsistent with the furnishings in the house. It makes sense to say that. Xu Ergui received a salary from Panlou in the open, but also secretly paid
You can get a reward."
"What time is it now?" Zhao Si suddenly asked.
"It's almost time to apply." Ming Zhaoxia, who had been silent just now, answered first.
"It's time to apply! Time is running out. Let's set off immediately and go to Panlou. Fanzi will inform Master Wang to send two people to inquire about the situation of Xu Ergui's family a few days before they disappeared."
"yes!"
Zhao Si and his group left just as quickly as they came.
When there was no sound in the alley, Liu Chuanfeng quickly broke away from the rope that had been tied, took out the ball of cloth that was stuck in his mouth, and gasped hard.
He looked at the corpses of his three companions placed side by side on the ground, feeling as if a rabbit had died and a fox had died.
Brothers, in your next life, you will be born into a good child, either a wealthy landowner or an official family. Anyway, you will not be cast into a poor family, so you won't have to work hard to earn a bite of food like in this life.
There was a soft sound, and a person came in from outside the courtyard wall. He was in his early twenties, dressed in Tsing Yi, wearing dome-shaped soft-footed futou, tiger shoes, and a sword at his waist.
As soon as he stood still, he saw Liu Chuanfeng, with an embarrassed look on his face.
"You haven't left yet!"
Liu Chuanfeng fell to his knees on the ground with a thud, "Brother, please spare me. I said everything."
Riding on the horse, Zhao Si smiled and asked Ming Zhaoxia beside him, "Zhaoxia, do you know the 72nd Floor in Tokyo?"
"I only know Pan Tower, Bailun Tower and Changqing Tower." Ming Zhaoxia's voice was as clear and sweet as a silver bell.
"Mengzi, tell me. Well, just the top fifteen."
"Yes, Your Highness."
"Mengzi, Fanzi, Master Gao, Lawyer Hu, please call me Thirteenth Lang outside."
"yes!"
"Renhe Store and Jiang Store outside the Song Gate. Yicheng Tower, Yaozhang Fourth Store, Banlou in the west wing of the city. Liu Tower next to the Jinliang Bridge in the second right wing of the inner city."
Cen Meng started talking, and he really grew up in Kaifeng City.
"The Wang family near Zhengmen, the main store of Li Qijia. The Manwang family near Caomen, the cheese Zhang family. The Eight Immortals Tower in the north wing of the city. The main store of Zhang Bajiayuanzhai with a tower gate in the south wing."
"The Changqing Tower next to the east wall of Jingling East Palace. The intersection of Mahang Street and Rendian Street, which is the Bailun Tower near Prince Jian's Mansion. The Pan Tower at the end of Panlou Street. These are the top ten of the 72nd floor in Tokyo.
Five."
"What Thirteenth Lang said just now is right. They fight fiercely with each other. Some of the younger friends have taken over a lot of jobs, all related to this. They are too old-fashioned to dare to taint Thirteenth Lang's ears.
"
"Pan House, Baifan House and Changqing House, in order to compete for the leadership of Tokyo Restaurant, they fought so hard that they really got angry with each other."
Zhao Si said slowly, "Pan Tower is currently the most popular. Because its location is excellent, just opposite the east corner tower next to Zuoye Gate of the Imperial City. I sometimes sit in the private room on the third floor of Pan Tower, open the window, and...
You can compete with Pan Qilang and Gao Erlang who are on the imperial city wall."
"The food cooked by Pan Lou is terrible, not as delicious as Bailun Lou and Changqing Lou." Ming Zhaoxia suddenly commented.
"Zhaoxia is right." Zhao Si nodded.
"The cooks in Panlou, who cook opposite the east corner tower of the imperial city, think they are the royal chefs. They are stuck in their ways and have no desire to make progress. They chant every day, the dishes passed down by my master are the ones that Emperor Taizu and Taizong said after eating them.
Okay. The food I cooked was praised highly by the temple emperor."
"Look at the chefs from Bailunlou and Changqinglou. They often travel to various parts of the country to taste the delicacies of local famous restaurants, and they also spend a lot of money to consult chefs with special skills."
Having said this, Zhao seemed to be touched and couldn't help but say one more thing.
"If you don't want to make progress, you are just like me in the Song Dynasty, who was complacent in the prosperity. From top to bottom, he likes leisure and hates work, loves luxury and hates frugality, but he doesn't know the eternal truth of 'born in sorrow and dies in happiness'."
Ming Zhaoxia listened to Zhao Si's complaints with bright eyes.
After receiving the notice from the waiter, Pan Lou, the manager, rushed to the side door to greet him.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty is here. Our Panlou is really flourishing!" The steward sang a big song beforehand, and then asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, do you have anything important to do today?"
He was a smart man, and he could tell at a glance that Zhao Si and his party were not here to drink and dine.
"Manager Pan, is there a guy named Xu Ergui in your Pan building?"
"Xu Ergui? That sounds familiar. Your Highness, please forgive me. There are more than a hundred people in this restaurant. I really can't remember so many people. Wang Gui, come here. He is an old man who has been in our Panlou for more than 20 years. He is here and there.
He knows everyone."
A middle-aged man in his forties ran over after hearing the sound.
"Steward, are you calling me?"
"Xu Ergui, do you know?"
"Xu Ergui?" Wang Gui thought for a while, "In charge, there is a handyman in the kitchen with this name."
"Has he come to work today?" Cen Meng stepped forward and asked.
"I don't know. But the old man Tan who is in charge of the kitchen is his master. I heard that he has been studying with him for ten years. They were invited from Luoyang Baidelou together last year."
"Luoyang Baidelou?" Zhao Si muttered softly.
"Your Highness, you are our old customer in Panlou, and I don't dare to hide it from you."
Manager Pan looked around and explained in a low voice.
"Over the years, Baifanlou and Changqinglou have been chasing closely behind them, and the owner has become anxious, so he sent people around to hire famous chefs. This old man Tan was hired by the owner from Baidelou in Luoyang. I heard that he was
There is a famous chef in Xijing, and his cooking is highly praised by Sima Wenzhenggong."
"Sima Wenzheng?" Zhao Si snorted coldly.
This is getting more and more interesting.
"Yes." The steward replied cautiously.
Now that the New Party is in power, Sima Gong's posthumous official position has been demoted again and again by Cong Taishi and Wen Guogong, and he has been demoted to Zhu Yajun Sihu to join the army.
But in the hearts of the people in Tokyo, they all think that Sima Wenzheng is a good man.
Zhao Si waved his hand, "Take me to the kitchen and find that old man Tan."
As soon as I arrived at the door of Panlou's backyard, I saw the helpers and servants swarming out like a group of headless flies, shouting in horror.
"Fire!"
Manager Pan's face turned pale. He grabbed a running man and asked, "Where is the fire?"
"The kitchen, there's a fire in the kitchen!" This chapter has been completed!