Once upon a time, there lived an old rich man in the Loess Mountain, surnamed Wang, named Yuan, insatiable, and interested in profit. Long-term workers are often deceived.
One year, Wang Yuan wanted to hire a chef on only one condition: he had to be able to cook everything he ordered. As for the wages, they are more than twice as much as they are hired elsewhere. An honest chef, Li San, worked as a cook in the county government and can cook several famous dishes. was deceived by Wang Yuan's rhetoric, so he became a cook for Lao Cai.
During the year, Li San got up early and was busy all the time, hard work, hard work, and hard work, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the root of the year. Wang Yuan called Li San closer, and said with a smile: "At the end of the year, I will invite a few literati to our house as guests, and you can buy some vegetables with a few copper coins and make a table of 'poetry dishes'." Li San asked puzzledly: "Dongjia, what is 'poetry and vegetables'?""Wang Yuan dragged his voice and said: "Poetry dishes are poems in dishes, and the dishes you make must contain an ancient poem." Li San thought about it, but he couldn't come up with a score of "poetry dishes", and a few copper coins couldn't even make an ordinary table of dishes, let alone make "poetry dishes", so he had no choice but to reply to the owner: "Owner, I really don't know how to make 'poetry dishes', please change it!""Wang Yuan widened his eyes and shouted, "What do you say, you can't make 'poetry dishes'?"When I hired you, the contract was clearly written, and I had to be able to cook all the dishes I ordered, and if I couldn't do the 'poetry dishes', I would have no wages for the year!"Li Sanhao's rhetoric was useless, and a year's hard work was in vain.
In the spring of the following year, Wang Yuan hired a cook on this condition. The locals don't fall for it. A down-and-out talent from another county actually came to the door to work as a cook, and his kind neighbors advised him not to suffer for himself, but he smiled disapprovingly: "It's okay." In this way, Wang Xiucai became Wang Yuan's second chef.
Unconsciously, it was the end of another year, and in order to repay the debt, Wang Yuan made another year's loss trick, gave Wang Xiucai a few coppers, and asked him to make a table of "poetry dishes".
Wang Xiucai bought two eggs and started to make "poetry dishes", he boiled all the eggs and cut them in the middle without damaging the yolk. First plate: Put in two egg yolks and a tender green onion in the middle;The second plate: Carefully remove the white film that is attached to the eggshell, make a flock of flying egrets according to the pattern of "egrets", and put them on a plate with a cyan backgroundThe third plate: cut the whites of two eggs into small mountains, strange peaks and strange mountains. The mountains and mountains are connected, and they look covered in silver, with thousands of postures;Fourth plate: Add half a load of water to the plate, put a few empty eggshells with some mixed shallots each, put them on the plate, and float on the water.
After a short time, Wang Yuan brought his four gentlemen and sat around a table. Wang Yuan squinted the corner of his eyes and called the chef to serve the dishes, and the four dishes were all served, Wang Yuan slammed the chopsticks on the table with a "horn", and shouted viciously: "What is this 'poetry dish' is simply making fun of me, 'poetry dish' can't do it, this year's wages don't think about it, you don't want to get out of here!."Wang Xiucai was not angry, looked at everyone present, and said slowly: "Distinguished guests, this dish contains poetry!"Wang Yuan rolled his eyes and faced everyone: "If any of you can tell the ancient poems in this dish, even if he can do it, his salary will be doubled." ”
Among the guests was an old master, surnamed Zhang, whose name was Xiang, who was the most learned old gentleman in the locality, and he was as vicious as an enemy, and had long hated Wang Yuan, an insatiable old man, so the old master Zhang stood up and pointed to the first plate with his hand and chanted: "Two yellow orioles singing green willows."", "The window contains the snow of Xiling Thousand Autumns","The door is berthed in the Dongwu Wanli ship"。Wang Yuan looked down at the dishes on the table, only then did he wake up, his face was flushed with shame, and he paid Xiucai double his salary on the spot.