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Chapter 979: A Century of Literature and Art(1/2)

When the menu is completed, the things to be taken away have been planned.

Even Ning Weimin even had various canned and wines that needed to be exported from Beijing to Tokyo, with several cooperative units of the polar bear, Jimo Winery, and District Sugar Industry Tobacco and Liquor Company, and got relatively preferential prices.

The next step is to find a qualified export agency and then follow the relevant procedures.

But after spending several days to achieve such results, he almost shivered. Ning Weimin felt a little uneasy at this time.

For nothing else, it is because they have made a good menu, which fully takes into account the taste and eating habits of the Japanese, and has removed most of the mutton dishes and river fish dishes.

There are also too greasy dishes, dishes that use organs as the main ingredients, and dishes that use poultry heads and soles as the main ingredients, which are basically given up.

It is also due to the long journey, inconvenient exit, legal restrictions, and many other reasons.

Then remove bird's nest, hump, bear's paw, venison, suckling pig, pigeon, capital white duck, kale fairy rice, bracken... These high-end ingredients that reflect the characteristics of palace dishes.

Then the remaining dishes that can be used will of course look ordinary.

If I didn't order three non-stick dishes, peach blossoms, jade soup, clear soup, jasmine, boiled water, and a thunderous sound on the ground.

Just looking at fish fillets, fried shrimps, hibiscus chicken slices, diced Kung Pao chicken, sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour ridges, and dried fried croquettes, such dishes are really similar to home-cooked restaurants that mainly focus on Sichuan and Lu flavors in the next 30 years.

To be honest, Ning Weimin is not worried about whether he can easily earn a lot of yen when he reaches this point.

Money can definitely be earned.

He was a little worried that it would disappoint Japanese guests if he really followed this menu.

If the Japanese think that eating such a palace dish is deceived, it is equivalent to smashing the palace imperial meal sign overseas.

It was not his Ning Weimin's own person who lost it, but it would probably affect the reputation of Chinese cuisine.

He can't do such a thing as letting the Japanese make jokes and being poked by the people of the whole country.

So under the pressure brought by self-doubt, for the sake of caution and perfection, he must find another trip to "Zhang Dashao".

Please let me see this master and take a look.

Only after seeing this old man and thinking that he can live a good life can he regain his confidence and do things steadily.

Ning Weimin carefully prepared a gift for this.

But I didn't expect to call the Polar Bear's staff cafeteria and meet with the old man, but no one was found.

There actually told him that "Zhang Dashao" quit his job.

Ning Weimin had to call Huiminyan Hotel again and entrust Sister Tan to see the store, and asked her to bring a message to her when she saw "Zhang Dashao" and asked her to meet her and ask the old man to meet her.

As a result, Sister Tan sent the letter to Huimin Yan Hotel, but the reply method was something Ning Weimin could never have imagined.

After two or three days, Kang Shude actually sent the message "Zhang Dashao" to Ning Weimin, saying that it was easy for him to meet, so he would just meet again tomorrow morning.

Ning Weimin asked again and found out that it was only these two old men, because they were both so idle that they could not stand the boredom of life.

Since the second half of last year, the two of them have opened a small wine shop on Yangmeizhuxie Street, not far from Meishi Street, and have started a small business together.

What does it mean to be far away and near in front of you?

That's it.

After hearing this news, Ning Weimin, who was kept in the dark, complained to the old man when he was bald.

"Oh, old man, why didn't you tell me about this earlier..."

But to be honest, he really shouldn't have said this.

Because Kang Shude was even more resentful than him, he stopped asking him in just a few words.

"I'd say it earlier? I'd say it earlier, you'd listen. Ask yourself, how many days have you been at home after you've come back? You're so busy and you're thinking about big deals every day. Do you care about who I'm very much about opening a small wine shop?"

Well, the old man is even more picky.

Of course, we asked ourselves, Ning Weimin is indeed a bit of a loss.

Not to mention anything else, he hasn't found "Zhang Dashao" these days, and he is not idle either.

Like Chang Yuling, the descendant of "Grape Chang", Jiang Sanchang and Zou Qingshan, who made material utensils, Liu Yongqing, who made antique porcelain, Ma Kaiyuan, who made silk man, Zhang Chongming, the successor of "The King of Silk", Wu Yukuan, who made palace lanterns, and Li Baoshan, a wooden craftsman.

He brought gifts and sealed thick red envelopes to visit these old artists who could make money for him.

But with all his plans, he had only a handful of days with his master.

Even though the two of them stayed together, in addition to having dinner, they were talking about donated cultural relics and how to buy things from Hongguang Pavilion and Dunhua Pavilion in the future.

When it comes to filial piety, he was not as good as before. At least he accompanied Kang Shude to Tianjin for a while.

"You care, you care, of course you care. Your affairs are so great to me. No matter what you say, I am willing to listen to it."

Ning Weimin was also quite decisive and quickly admitted his defeat, and diplomatic apologies and pleasing.

But how could it be a dream? It's useless.

He is a pot of ecstasy soup that makes others do, but he can't imagine that he can do it.

As for Master, that is Master, there are ambushes everywhere!

I heard that the old man was not anxious or angry, and he was not angry, and he was seriously talking about something.

Hey, he used his own way to do it on the spot, and Ning Weimin almost stopped.

"Oh, then why didn't you tell me earlier if you want to listen?"

Listen, you can't live a life of your own sins. Who made me feel owed just now?

You can get this roast chicken big nest!

However, the two masters and apprentices have a quarrel, only offending their will, but not hurting their feelings.

In Beijing dialect, it is just a joke. This is a two-year-old and young man who are grinding their teeth and enjoying their verbal battles.

And at around nine o'clock the next morning, Ning Weimin followed Kang Shude to see the small wine shop run by the old man.

What he saw and heard this time was beyond imagination, and he could be called an eye-opener.

Not to mention the other side, first of all, the location and storefront of this small wine shop are very special and extraordinary.

You should know that the Qianmen Dashilan area is not an ordinary place, and several alleys carry rich history.

This bayberry bamboo slant street is one of them.

This street is 496 meters long, starting from Meishi Street in the east and Yanshou Street in the west.

In the Ming Dynasty, this street was named "Xijie" because of its direction.

In the Qing Dynasty, Liang Shizheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, lived here.

During the Republic of China, Yangmeizhuxie Street became a place where many bookstores, guilds and shops gathered.

Not only the World Bookstore, Zhongzheng Bookstore, Kaiming Bookstore, Guangyi Bookstore, Global Bookstore, Dazhong Bookstore, and Zhonghua Printing Bookstore are all open here.

The street is also the location of the Monetary Industry Guild, the former residence of Hubi master Dai Yuexuan, the former residence of Peking Opera martial artist Yang Xiaolou, the former residence of Pingju actor Xin Fengxia, etc.

Literary Lu Xun, writer Chen Congwen and others have all left footprints in this inconspicuous street and alley.

At that time, Chen Congwenchu, who chose to be a drifting place in Beijing, lived in the Youxi Guild Hall on this street.

He was poor and had no stove in winter. When he was sleeping, he covered everything he could with his body and wrote prose novels such as "Border Town", "The Long River", and "The Story of Xiangxi".

To put it too much, this bayberry and bamboo slanting street has been literary for more than a hundred years.

It is a real street of cultural books.

Although Ning Weimin did not fully understand these history and allusions.

But such a street has a very distinctive atmosphere and buildings.

Like Ning Weimin walked in with Kang Shude, it was almost ten o'clock, and the sun just shone on the road, and there were bright everywhere.

And because it is working hours, it feels particularly quiet when you walk in.

In an atmosphere where only one or two pedestrians walk by, or a bicycle passes by;

Paired with the withered ivy on the mottled gray brick walls, the portals with red paint falling, and several brick and wood structures, including Chinese or Western, or small buildings that combine Chinese and Western, add an indescribable unique charm to this street.

How to describe it appropriately?

In Ning Weimin's feeling, it seems that there is both the literary spirit of Liulichang and the true vicissitudes of history.

After all, all the houses here are all old houses, which are more intimate and down-to-earth than the renovated Liuli Factory.

It seems that the ancient and ancient colors here are alive and can make people read the stories here.

As for the wine shop that Kang Shude and "Zhang Dashao" are located in the middle of Yangmei Zhuxie Street, and the shop is very easy to find.

In addition to the old-fashioned shop that has to remove boards every day and hang boards.

As a storefront, the decoration of the withered beams and painted buildings in the past is still very conspicuous.

It is also because next to the store is a two-story building that is more distinctive than that.

What's special about this building is that it is towering and abrupt, and the standard is a combination of Chinese and Western styles.

The second-story small Yangmen Tower has green bricks to the top and grinding bricks to the joints, which is much higher than the shop next to it.

But the overall width of the building is unsatisfactory, and the first floor is almost just a portal.
To be continued...
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