The county magistrate treats you
Written by Song Zhaobin
My first direct supervisor, Shi ××, once told me that when he was younger, he learned cooking in the "city", that is, in the county seat. At that time, it was the early years of the Republic of China, Feicheng was still under the reactionary rule of the feudal landlords and bureaucrats, and the representative big families were the Yin family in Shiheng, the Zhu family in Hutun, and the Li family in Xifu Village. All county officials who come to Feicheng to take charge of the government, if they want to stand firm, stand firm, and do things well, must first and often visit and feast the heads of these three families.
Once, the new county magistrate invited the Zhu family's "village sage" to a banquet, and because the male host "had something", the sedan chair sent to him only picked up a lady.
The banquet at noon that day was arranged in the hotel of Shi ××'s apprentice, a huge main room, a table of eight immortals, three chairs, the invited lady sat in the north, the county magistrate sat in the east, and the "master" in the county sat in the west, that is, the director of the county magistrate's office or the secretary general.
The banquet that day was very special, the owner of the hotel and the purchasing staff prepared half a month in advance, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas were bought, and the strange fruits were fresh. On the day of the feast, starting from noon, four people took turns to serve the food, each serving two things at a time, and after the people at the table moved the chopsticks, the second person walked and put down the two dishes on the tray, and then removed the original two dishes. Just one after the other, until the dark sky.
（2022.9.30）
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About author:Song Zhaobin, male, born in 1941, a retired cadre of the Agricultural Bureau of Feicheng City, Shandong Province, once worked as an agricultural technician in a grassroots commune to create ancient style poetry, and ran websites such as "Shi Shizhai's Blog", "Ancient Style Poetry Bar", "New Rhyme Poetry Society", "Storytelling" and other websites. Eight volumes of "Voices of the Heart" have been compiled and printed, including more than 4,000 ancient poems created by individuals. There is also a volume of "Shi Shi Zhai Poems" and "Shi Shi Zhai Lianhua". In recent years, he has written four full-length physical novels "Seventy Years of Civilian Life", with a total of 1.3 million words. He is now a member of the Chinese Poetry Society and a member of the Poetry Society of this city.