Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 65 Getting People Drunk (Two in One)

Seeing that the father and daughter were about to go off on a tangent, Gu Ping'an hurriedly explained, "The banknote is real! It's just that it costs twenty copper coins to exchange for the silver. Dad is just worried about the copper coins!"

Gu Tang: ...She was so scared! She thought the banknote was fake!

"It's only twenty copper coins, not too much. I'll take you for a walk in the mountains later, and I'll give you the copper coins back."

This comfort is not sincere at all.

Gu Lianshan didn't want to pay attention to her words and handed over the purse. "Here is twenty taels of silver in cash, all in loose coins. It's a bit scattered, but it's suitable for us."

"I know, I know. Loose silver is more convenient to use. If I were to use silver ingots, I wouldn't even be able to find the change when I spend them at the market."

Grinning, Gu Tang took it, stuffed it into her sleeve, grabbed her father's sleeve and walked east.

"There's a restaurant up ahead. I think it looks quite impressive! Let's go there and have a good meal today. Don't you like wine? I'll give you a bottle of green wine for a hundred coins today!"

Gu Lianshan hadn't drunk alcohol for several days. It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it, but as soon as he did, the alcohol bug in his stomach instantly came up and his mind was full of alcohol!
The unhappiness just now disappeared at this moment, and his legs moved faster than anyone else!
When they arrived at the restaurant, Gu Lianshan looked up at the restaurant's facade. Well, his daughter was right, it was indeed very grand!

Such restaurants generally don't look down on others. The waiters who greet customers at the door are specially picked. They are about thirteen or fourteen years old, with round faces and heads, very pleasing smiles, and their words are sweeter than each other.

No matter whether the guests were dressed in silk or linen, the servants treated them all equally.

Therefore, when they saw the three members of the Gu family walking towards them, the boys raised their little faces and greeted them very skillfully.

Faced with the boy's enthusiasm, except for Gu Tang who was watching with great interest, Gu Lianshan and his son Gu Ping'an felt very uncomfortable.

After entering the lobby and choosing a table to sit down, the tense expressions of the father and son finally relaxed.

As soon as I sat down, a waiter came over with a long-spouted kettle to pour tea.

The teacup on the table was empty, without any tea leaves, so Gu Tang thought it was just water.

But when the water in the kettle flowed into the bowl, she found that it was actually yellow tea soup with some black residue in the middle, which must be broken tea leaves.

After the waiter left, Gu Tang quietly asked her father, "Isn't the tea in this restaurant freshly brewed?"

"Instant brew? How do you brew it?" Gu Lianshan gave her a surprised look. "Dad once told you that tea should be brewed over high heat. Where did you hear that?"

Gu Tang: ...So the tea here needs to be brewed over high heat.

She collected her expression and shook her head. "I forgot where I heard it from, I guess it was just nonsense. When we made tea at home, the milkman always chased us away. I've never seen that before, so I just believed what the person said."

Gu Lianshan snorted coldly and cursed in a low voice, "She herself is a bad person, so she thinks everyone is bad. Not only is she on guard against you, she's on guard against your uncle too!"

Ok?
Gu Tang's eyes widened with curiosity: "Why is my grandma so wary of my uncle?"

"Your grandma..." He was about to say two words when he caught a glimpse of a man coming towards him from the distance. Gu Lianshan quickly stopped talking and changed the subject, "I'll tell you in detail when we get back!"

After he finished speaking, he sat up straight, with a serious face, waiting for the shop assistant to come over.

"My three guests, what would you like to order? The names and prices of the dishes are on the wall behind the counter. If you're too lazy to look, just tell me what you want and I'll read you the menu."

Gu Lianshan stiffened. He had never been to school and had never eaten any decent food. If you asked him to explain it now, he wouldn't be able to name a single one.

Gu Tang, who was standing by, came to the rescue and said, "My father is a very picky eater. He only likes to drink and eat meat. Tell us a few of your signature meat dishes and let us hear them. If you like any of them, please write them down."

Just as she was about to finish, she remembered something and quickly added, "No pork! We're not used to that kind of meat."

The waiter agreed with a smile and then read out a series of dishes: "Steamed lamb with wine, lamb trotters with bamboo shoots, roast goose, roast chicken, steamed salted duck, roasted squab, roasted venison..."

After announcing the dishes, the waiter started to announce the wines: "We have green wine, yellow wine, rice wine, and fermented rice wine..."

There were quite a few kinds of liquor, and the shop assistant listed more than ten of them in one breath.

Gu Lianshan had only ever tasted green wine, yellow wine, and rice wine. The former was bought by his daughter as a gift to him, and the latter two were tasted when he was drinking with others outside.

Especially rice wine, he often drinks it, just because it is cheap, he can't bear to buy expensive ones.

He lowered his head and asked his daughter: "Do you want Huangjiu wine?" It is a little more expensive than rice wine, and it is the most suitable drink here.

But Gu Tang disagreed: "I've already said it before, today I'll let you drink as much green wine as you want!"

After comforting her father, Gu Tang began to order: "Steamed lamb with wine, roast goose, roast chicken, roast pigeon, and three bowls of rice. As for the wine, bring up three pounds of green wine first. If it's not enough, we can add more!"

"Okay! Please wait! The food and drinks will be served soon!"

The shop assistant smiled happily and bowed repeatedly, then turned and went to the kitchen in the back.

When Gu Tang ordered the first dish, Gu Lianshan almost jumped up!
As Gu Tang ordered several "hard dishes" in succession and asked for three pounds of green wine, he became more and more disappointed.

How much money does this meal cost? !

After the waiter walked away, he could no longer hold back and started yelling in a low voice: "Silly girl! There are only three of us! The food and wine you ordered, even a landlord can't afford it! How much money will this cost?!"

"Don't worry, I calculated it, it's just over one or two taels, less than two taels."

Gu Lianshan was stunned. "Don't try to fool me! The waiter only told me the name of the dish, but didn't quote the price! How did you calculate that?"

Gu Tang pointed to the wall behind the counter and said, "The master who taught me how to pick herbs also went to school for a few years. He taught me for several years and didn't let me tell anyone else. Now, I can recognize words and do math!"

It wasn't easy! The characters here were in traditional Chinese. She guessed and managed to learn about 50% to 60% of them, but she just couldn't write them.

My daughter can actually read?!
This surprised Gu Lianshan more than the extra 100 taels of rice money.

Thinking of his daughter's master, Gu Lianshan sighed that this master is better than his biological father!

"Your master is a good man. When we visit his grave at the end of the year, we must burn some paper money for him..."

"Of course! This year I'm going to burn piles of paper money for him!"

This cheap master whom she had never met had secretly taken countless blames for her. If the paper money was not burned well, she was afraid that the old man would come to her in her dreams at night and scold her.

Seeing that his father's attention was diverted by his second sister, Gu Ping'an frowned in confusion, not knowing whether he should remind his father that their meal would cost more than one or two taels of silver!
He himself was frightened by the way his second sister spent her flowers.

Fortunately, he didn't have to worry for long, and the food and drinks they ordered were soon served one by one.

Seeing the table full of food and wine, Gu Lianshan slapped his forehead and remembered the quarrel just now.

He pointed at Gu Tang and yelled again in a low voice: "You almost fooled me! Just for this meal, we spent more than one tael of silver! Even the county magistrate's family can't eat like this."

"Of course the county magistrate doesn't eat like this! They don't even look down on these things. They eat bird's nests, bear paws, venison and other things that every household has, so they don't care about them!"

This was a bit of an argument. Gu Lianshan was speechless and choked.

Gu Tang ignored his nagging and distributed chopsticks and spoons to them. Then he picked up the wine pot and poured a glass of green wine for her father and handed it to him.

"It's cold! The food will soon get cold after it comes out of the pot, and then it won't taste good. If you keep dawdling, Ping An and I won't wait for you to start eating."

As he spoke, Gu Tang already had the chopsticks in his hand, testing the roast pigeon.

Gu Lianshan immediately shut up, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a chopstick full of steamed mutton and stuffed it into his mouth.

Gu Tang wasn't particularly interested in mutton. She picked up a roasted pigeon and eagerly took a bite. The roasted, slightly salty meat was fine to chew. The flavor wasn't as complex, but it wasn't fishy either.

In short, it tastes better than what she makes herself!

Gu Ping'an didn't know what to eat, so he just followed Gu Tang's example and picked up a roasted pigeon.

After finishing a roasted pigeon, Gu Tang’s empty stomach was half full and he was almost full.

The father and son next to them were still enjoying their meal.

The way he ate it was exactly the same as the rabbit meat she cooked. Gu Tang couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "How does it taste?"

"Good, good! This is what it tastes like!" Gu Lianshan gave a greasy thumbs up!

Gu Ping'an did the same thing, but there was too much meat in his mouth and he couldn't speak for a while, so he could only nod continuously.

Gu Tang put down his chopsticks, called the waiter to bring a pot of hot tea, and poured a cup of hot tea for Gu Ping'an and placed it in front of him.

"Eat slowly and don't choke. If you like it, as long as you listen to me in the future, I will bring you here often."

Mmmmmmm!
Gu Ping'an continued to nod!
He listens to his second sister! He listens to his second sister all his life!

Gu Ping'an's reaction made Gu Tang very satisfied. He raised his hand and tore off a chicken leg and put it in his bowl.

She wiped her hands, quietly replaced the wine cup in front of her father with a large bowl, picked up the wine pot, and poured a full bowl of wine.

"Dad, don't just focus on eating. You have to drink this wine too! It's three pounds of wine. Even if you can't finish it, they won't give it back."

Hearing his daughter's words of urging him to drink, Gu Lianshan hurriedly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

Just as he was about to put down his bowl, Gu Tang refilled it for him.

She patiently counted how many mouthfuls of meat her father ate, and then started to urge him to drink again.

Gu Lianshan was extremely happy at this time. After living for decades, this was the first time he could eat meat and drink wine to his heart's content!
Therefore, he accepted all the drinks and drank whatever bowl Gu Tang asked him to drink.

Soon, half of the three pounds of green wine was gone.

The alcohol content of the wine here is not high, so there is no need to worry about alcohol poisoning. Gu Tang stared at her father for a while, and seeing that he was a little drunk, she slowed down the speed of pouring the wine.

Gu Ping'an saw all of this, stopped gnawing on the chicken leg, and lightly touched Gu Tang's foot with his foot under the table.

Gu Tang, who noticed the movement, turned his head and glanced at him.

Gu Ping'an pointed at his father secretly, then at the wine pot, and asked her with his mouth: What are you doing? Are you deliberately forcing Dad to drink?
Gu Tang raised his finger to his mouth, signaling him not to reveal this.

Gu Ping'an was puzzled. Why did he force his father to drink for no reason?

Gu Tang didn't have time to explain to him, so he tore off the other chicken leg and handed it to him, telling him to continue chewing it and not to ask any other questions.

After Gu Lianshan finished chewing the last piece of sheep bone, Gu Tang also smiled and poured him the last bowl of wine.

After drinking this bowl of wine, it should be enough, probably enough for her father to sleep for a whole day.

So I can’t look at houses or do anything today. I can only go back to the inn to rest and talk about it tomorrow.

Very good, she gained another day.

You can continue to sign in at the bank tomorrow!

Gu Lianshan was already drunk and a little confused. Seeing that the wine bowl in front of him was full again, he subconsciously picked it up and drank it all in one gulp.

Then he lay down on the table and didn't move.

Gu Ping'an looked at this scene dumbfounded, and the chicken leg in his hand fell.

Gu Tang shook the wine jug, and there was very little wine left in it.

Her father can drink a lot!

Glancing at Gu Ping'an, Gu Tang asked him, "Are you full?"

“…I’m full.”

Just be full.

Gu Tang waved to the waiter in the distance and asked him to come over to settle the bill.

The waiter came forward and took a quick look. Seeing that there were no new dishes or drinks, he gave a figure: "The total is one and a half ounces of silver. The money for three bowls of rice has been paid for."

"Okay!" Gu Tang took out a silver coin and handed it over, asking the waiter to take it for weighing.

The shop assistant took the silver with both hands and called another waiter over before leaving.

Gu Tang didn't understand what was going on. She only heard the waiter ask her with a smile, "Sir, would you like to pack up the food and drinks on the table and take them away, or should we clear them away?"

Hey? Do you have takeout service here?

Gu Tang was interested and wanted to see how they packed it, so he said, "Pack it up and take it away. Also, go find a car. My dad is drunk and needs someone to take him home."

"Do you think a donkey cart would work?"

"Any car will do." Gu Tang took out a string of copper coins and handed it over. "This is the fare. The extra is for you."

The young man was surprised and bowed repeatedly to Gu Tang to express his gratitude. He turned around and called two young men to help.

One of the guys went out to look for the car, and the other went to the back to get something.

Not long after, the guy who went to the back to get something came back quickly, holding a few yellowed papers and a rough little wine bottle in his hands.

Gu Tang was quite curious about those pieces of paper. She reached out and touched them, and they were greasy.

"This is oil paper, used to wrap these dishes. When the food is wrapped in oil paper, the soup inside the dish will not leak out." Seeing that Gu Tang was curious, the waiter explained.

"No wonder you said you could wrap it up. It turns out you could use wax paper. What a great idea!"

Gu Tang sighed, who said the ancients were stupid, they were not stupid at all!

The two waiters were very efficient and quickly packed the food and placed it in front of Gu Tang.

The wine in the jug was not forgotten either, and the small wine bottle that the waiter brought came in handy, and all the remaining wine in the jug was poured into it.

The small wine bottle has a wooden cork and a tied rope. After putting the cork in, you can carry the rope and walk away.

After the food and wine were packed, the guy who had gone to weigh the items earlier came trotting over and handed the copper coins he had found back to Gu Tang.

The silver coins that Gu Tang gave weighed two taels, and he got back exactly five hundred copper coins in change.

After collecting the copper coins, the donkey cart arrived at the door of the restaurant.