Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

A day later, Zhao Xiongwei came again and told Chen Lang that the county magistrate had agreed to his request and allowed him to cook only the dishes for the main table.

Zhao Xiongwei deliberately emphasized the word "request".

Chen Lang was too lazy to argue with Zhao Xiongwei about this word.

Because after this meal, the county magistrate would most likely report directly to the underworld.

There is absolutely no need to argue with the county magistrate about whether to "request" or "demand" at this time.

When Chen Lang first heard Shi Liguo asking him to be a chef, he was very angry, but then he thought that this might be an opportunity.

Get rid of Shi Liguo and support Fan Cheng to take the throne, so that no matter where he goes in the future, his base will at least be safe.

In a while, I will have to set out to take the annual exam, and I will have to leave Nanhe County for at least a month.

If Shi Liguo was still the magistrate of Nanhe County during this period, the tofu shop would definitely not survive.

It is unlikely that Fan Cheng would confront Shi Liguo head-on just for a shop.

The most he could do was to protect Chen Lang's family.

Therefore, in order to be able to take the exam with peace of mind, the best way is to pull Shi Liguo down from the position of county magistrate.

Or you can do it in one step and send him to reincarnate directly!

This meal gave Chen Lang such an opportunity.

Killing people with food is nothing new. There are similar plots in many suspense novels, film and television dramas.

Killing people with food is not simply about poisoning the food, but about using the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint between ingredients to kill people.

Chen Lang had watched a related movie in his previous life. In the movie, the male protagonist cheated on his wife and kept a mistress. When his wife found out, she was not angry. Instead, she made different kinds of lunch boxes for the male protagonist every day and even taught the mistress how to cook to make him happy.

The man spends the day at home with his wife and nights with his mistress, and he feels like he lives the life of an emperor.

A month later, the man was completely paralyzed, and the mistress abandoned him without hesitation and looked for another partner.

The wife sold the house, transferred all the property, and left the city by plane.

The man lay on the bed, wailing and waiting to die.

The reason for his paralysis was that the food prepared by his wife and the food prepared by his mistress had incompatible properties. If they were consumed for a long time, toxins would accumulate in his body. When the accumulation reached a certain level, it would induce various diseases, leading to paralysis or even death.

Chen Lang planned to borrow the killing method from the movie.

Of course, it would take a very long time to achieve the effect in the movie, and Chen Lang couldn't wait that long.

So in addition to the incompatibility of the ingredients, Chen Lang had to add something else.

For example, strong liquor.

Chen Lang found Liu Jun and asked him to build a set of distillation equipment.

After the equipment was completed, Chen Lang bought several jars of Yulouchun and used this equipment to purify it, eventually obtaining liquor with a concentration of about 42 degrees.

This is the limit of purification. If you want to increase the alcohol content of liquor, you not only need to improve the distillation equipment, but also start brewing directly from the source.

The tofu shop currently has several projects and cannot expand further.

What's more, brewing and selling wine requires approval from the government, and Chen Lang doesn't have the time for that now.

In addition to wine, Chen Lang also made ice cubes using saltpeter.

Drinking strong liquor mixed with ice cubes not only makes the taste smoother, but also makes people die faster.

For the next two days, Chen Lang was busy purchasing food.

These ingredients were carefully selected by him, and consuming them with white wine would allow the county magistrate to pass away peacefully.

On the day when the county magistrate was entertaining guests, several constables came from the yamen and escorted Chen Lang to Zuixianju.

Shi Liguo would not spend his own money to treat the guests, so he gave this "honor" to Zuixianju.

Except for the dishes on the main table, the dishes on the other tables are provided free of charge by Zuixianju.

The shopkeeper of Zuixianju was angry but dared not say anything. After all, according to Shi Liguo's request, this dinner would cost at least two hundred taels of silver!

It is equal to Zuixianju’s revenue for half a year.

But he did not dare to disobey the order of the county magistrate, and could only comfort himself by saying that by preparing this dinner, he was also clinging to the support of the county magistrate.

When they arrived at the kitchen of Zuixianju, there was a special stove for Chen Lang to use.

For every dish Chen Lang made, the constable would let him take a bite first to prevent Chen Lang from poisoning it.

Even though the entire cooking process of Chen Lang was open and transparent, the constable insisted that he do so.

After confirming that it is non-toxic, let Chen Lang deliver it personally.

This was also Shi Liguo's request. He wanted to convey a message to all the guests present in this way.

Although Chen Lang was close to Fan Cheng, he had to do as the county magistrate asked him to cook.

Nanhe County is still my, Shi’s, world!

Chen Lang braved these mocking and ridiculing looks and calmly walked to the main table with the dishes in hand. He said, "Sir, this is braised lamb with carrots. Please enjoy."

Shi Liguo took a bite and said, "Chen Tongsheng's cooking skills are quite good. Even if he doesn't pass the imperial examination, becoming a chef wouldn't be a bad idea."

"Boss, what do you think of Chen Tongsheng coming to your restaurant to work as a cook?"

The shopkeeper of Zuixianju said with a smile: "If Chen Tongsheng is willing to come, I will let him be the head chef."

Shi Liguo said: "Did you hear that? Hurry up and thank the shopkeeper."

Chen Lang clasped his fists towards the shopkeeper of Zuixianju and said, "Shopkeeper, I've kept this in mind. If I really come back later, please don't deny it."

The shopkeeper of Zuixianju said, "If Chen Tongsheng doesn't believe it, we can sign a document."

Bursts of laughter rang out all around.

Only one person couldn't laugh out loud, and even sighed: "I thought that after winning the first place in the government case, I would have some dignity, but in the end I am still such a scoundrel."

"It's really like a piece of mud that can't be helped."

The person who spoke was Xu Mengru from Xu's Cloth Shop.

Previously at a poetry reading, Chen Lang’s two poems shocked the entire audience. At that time, Xu Mengru was worried that Chen Lang would take the opportunity to retaliate against her.

But Chen Lang did not do so, which changed Xu Mengru's impression of him.

Later, Chen Lang ranked first in the county examination and even took the first place in the prefectural examination. Xu Mengru was wondering, if Chen Lang continued to come back to pursue her, should she agree or not?

If you win the first place in the provincial examination, you have already stepped half a foot into the ranks of scholars, and the probability of passing the imperial examination is more than 50%.

Such a person is more than suitable for me.

Although the Xu family had several successful candidates in the imperial examinations, none of the male members of the family had passed the imperial examinations in recent years. If the family couldn't produce a few more scholars to support the family, it would be difficult for a woman like me to protect this huge family business.

Although Chen Lang was a bit shameless in the past, his future is very bright after he corrected himself. It is not unfair to be with him.

But Chen Lang's performance today disappointed Xu Mengru.

A scholar is so spineless.

If I marry him and want to climb up the social ladder in the future, I'm afraid that he will use the entire family property as a bargaining chip and give it away to others.

Alas, in this world, why is it so difficult to find a husband of your dreams?