After eating noodles and arranging the "big life event" of Niu Dan, what should you do next?
It's time to eat.
The waiter brought a large copper hot pot filled with boiling purified water.
After that, dozens of plates of freshly cut beef and mutton were served sporadically. To be honest, this was the first time for the staff leaders present to see so much meat put on their dining tables.
Niudan even regretted why he ate so many noodles just now.
This pot is also very particular. There are green onions, ginger, garlic, and Sichuan peppercorns floating on the clear water in the large copper hot pot.
It shows that Tom allows several people to have fun with employee leaders, but they must be allowed to see clearly by Tom.
Several other hot pots have various condiments to block the view so that Tom can't see the bottom.
"I just like to eat hotpot mutton."
“But to be honest, Sichuan hot pot with mutton is not good.”
"I can't even taste the mutton anymore, it just tastes mixed."
“It’s spicy, not as spicy as Hunan cuisine.”
“It’s greasy, but not as greasy as Guizhou cuisine.”
"Just randomly add a handful of Sichuan peppercorns or something to make it numb."
"For the mutton shabu-shabu, you have to eat clear soup, and at most add some onions, ginger and garlic."
"Look, it's cooked so quickly."
"The clear soup is better because of the delicious flavor of the mutton."
"Eat it too, and eat it quickly."
Tom was just talking about what to eat in hot pot? How to eat it?
That kind of good? That kind of bad?
It's all up to me to decide, you can only eat it, you can't change it.
Tom picked up a few pieces of mutton, and skillfully put the meat into the boiling water pot with chopsticks. He kept holding the pieces of meat with his chopsticks. As he swung his wrist from side to side, the meat pieces continued to dance in the pot, and the heat was more even.
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As you speak, the meat changes from red to gray and the meat is cooked.
Tom picked up the meat, put it in a bowl, dipped it in the toppings, and ate it.
After Tom finished eating, the other six people also started to use their chopsticks, imitating Tom's example, holding a few pieces of mutton and sipping them in a copper pot of boiling water.
Tom didn't make a sound, and several people didn't dare to eat too much meat. This clear water hot pot represented many things about Tom.
"This is enough for anyone. Come on, put more."
Tom directly picked up a plate with two kilograms of mutton slices on it and poured it all into the copper hot pot, asking everyone to eat more.
Tom allows you to eat more, so you can eat more.
The six Dichao employee leaders let go of their hands and ate the hot-boiled mutton in big gulps.
Of course, Tom didn't take a bite except the first bite.
Seeing that the food was almost done, Tom waved his hand again, and the waitress brought several bottles of grain liquor specially brewed by Tom.
"After the meat, there's still wine to drink."
"Here, let's drink this drink."
"Done."
"Done."
Tom took the lead and everyone drank several more rounds of white wine. Of course, Tom drank boiled water.
After they had finished their meal, Tom brought up the issue of employees again.
"To tell you the truth, my ancestors were also from the Dichao Dynasty, and they were also from Baijing, a serious family."
"Our land has become increasingly chaotic in recent years."
"First came the Dutch redheads, then the English bastards, then the Gallic barbarians, Slavic bastards and so on."
"I see, in a few years the Habsburg seeders and neon dwarves will also go to China to drink a few mouthfuls of soup and eat a few mouthfuls of meat."
"When I think of my compatriots being bullied by foreign powers, I feel really sad and heartbroken!"
"???"
"???"
The six Dichao employee leaders present here all have question marks written all over their faces. Why did this ghost guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes start making up lies?
However, some of the people working on it have experienced a little bit of the "small side of the world". If they were asked to create a "certificate of fame" as a green forest hero, they would not dare, but they have also seen some things.
Tom's "wine table culture" combo, "entry ceremony", "eating metaphor", "getting started on your own", etc., feel similar to the green forest heroes in storybooks.
These things can't be something that ghost guys know. Even if ghost guys learn it, they can't learn this taste!
"Doesn't that mean his ancestor is really Bai Jing'er's father?"
The six people thought about it again and again, and could only come up with this answer that they didn't even believe.
Especially Niu Dan, who is still relatively young. He has not gone to school for a few years and has not read many books, but he has heard and heard of many books.
Under the influence of those "wine table operations" just now, Tom in Niu Dan's mind is now the same as Timely Rain in "Water Margin".
"What do you mean, Mr. Tang?"
"Of course it is to save the people of the country from the fire and water!"
"This... our little arms and legs, can we twist that foreigner's foreign guns and cannons?"
"Who said our compatriots must defeat foreigners to save our compatriots? Your situation is too small."
Tom leaned on the master's chair, crossed his legs, and began to talk about his "wrong theory" in a pretentious manner.
"Look, the farmers in the region now, do they have human rights?"
“I get up early every day and work hard until late, but I don’t even get any salary.”
"Even if there is a slight natural or man-made disaster, you still have to sell your children and daughters."
"Even when those three old guys Kang, Yong, and Qian were in power."
"There have been hundreds of famines in all the dynasties, not to mention the selling of sons and daughters. Sometimes the sons and daughters cannot be sold, so they have to exchange sons and daughters for food."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... It's true that those who hear it will shed tears, and those who hear it will shed tears!"
As Tom spoke, he pretended to squeeze out a few tears from the corners of his eyes.
But these days there are no TV series or movies to greatly improve ordinary people's ability to identify acting skills. Now these six people are more and more convinced that Tom is the ancestor of Bai Jing'er, and he is the old Bai Jing'er.
Maybe the ancestor was still the emperor of the old Zhu family, and he was not an emperor but also a relative of the emperor.
Think about it, except for the Emperor Zhu of the Zhu family, whom the storyteller said loved his people like a son, who cares so much about the farmers who throw food into the soil?
"As for me, since I have the ability to change these, of course I will change."
"I hope the six of you will use the banner of my hero company."
"Take the tiger skin of me, a fake foreigner and a real local, and go and save our suffering compatriots from the clutches of Lafayette."
"Of course I won't treat you badly."
"As long as you bring in an adult man to work stably for more than three months, each person will receive a bonus of ten dollars! And the people you brought from California will also have this reward!"
"Five of the dollars should be given to Zhang Zhuzi, and the remaining one dollar for each of you."
"This reward is Zhang Zhuzi's reward for traveling thousands of miles and not being afraid of hardships. He set out from New York a year ago and came to California alone to bring you here."
"But from now on, each of you will do what you can to save your compatriots, and you will receive as much money from your compatriots as you can save."
Ten dollars, what is the concept of ten dollars? Around 1866, ten dollars was 15 grams of gold. According to the general gold-silver ratio in Europe and the United States, it was about 200 grams of silver, which was four city liang. Calculated according to the Manchu liang, it was more than five taels.
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"Master Tang is so righteous!"
"Master Tang is so righteous!"
"Master Tang is simply the reincarnation of Saint Kong!"
Not much else to say, the tens of thousands of local employees they brought to California alone cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of taels of silver!
Not to mention Tom's "fake and empty" scenes, with just this money, these six people have to praise Tom.
"But we have to say the ugly things up front."
"First, I don't want to be a smoker, and I absolutely don't want it."
"Second, don't let the old, weak, sick and disabled. It will take at least several months to get the old, weak, sick and disabled from China to Texas by boat and then train. If you let the old, weak, sick and disabled get on the boat, the fatigue of the boat and train will kill those people."
"Three, I will give you ten dollars per head. Ten dollars is almost four or five taels of silver. You will never allow you to accept money from ordinary people again."
"If you let me know that one of you is eating the meat from my pot and wants to think about the meat outside the house, I will let his whole family serve it together to make hot-pot meat for others to eat, do you understand?"