Dragon and Tiger Fighting (Folk Tales)

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, with the fiasco of the Qing government in the Sino-Japanese War, the financial burden was increasingly pressed on the people at the bottom. They hated the aggression of the foreigners and the incompetence of the Qing court, but they were powerless and had to struggle to survive in this chaotic world.

Wang Ermao, who worked in the business of pulling foreign films in the capital, was also a rich family in his ancestors, but with the changes in the world, his family fell in the middle of the road, and his livelihood became very difficult. Fortunately, he had a flexible mind, and after some investigation, he took the lead in making a living as a foreign film. Wang Ermao's foreign films are different from the big trouble Boxers, Gengzi years and the eight scenes of the capital put by other peers, his unique job is to tame cats, so the content of foreign films is also full of interesting passages related to cats. At each screening, the dozen or so tanuki cats he domesticated will also combine a few funny performances such as playing with leather balls, handstanding, pretending to be dead, etc. Therefore, whether it is the merchants and eunuchs at the top or the toiling masses at the bottom, they all like to praise him very much, and jokingly give him a nickname: Wang Er Cat.

Wang Er Cat's business is booming, the family and The United States, the little days are slowly moisturized. But recently, he rarely goes out on the street to pull foreign films, why? His tanuki cat inexplicably lost several, in order to find Elvis presley two cats traveled all over the four or nine cities, but did not find any clues.

Wang Er Cat hated the root of his teeth and swore to find out who stole the cat and found him good-looking. This wang two cat not only can tame the cat, because he was born thin and light, he has trained the ability to be as light as a swallow and walk on the wall with a cornice like a tanuki cat. In order to investigate the cat thief, he put down his business, locked the rest of the cats, and began to investigate. The first suspect is the same luggage Mazi, the reason is very simple, the peer is a wrongdoer, his business is almost squeezed by the second cat of wang, the two have quarreled more than once.

Sure enough, when Li Mazi came to steal the cat again, he was caught by Wang Er cat. "Sure enough, you did this thing, and if you can't do it for me, you will steal my cat!" Say, where's my cat? "The skinny Li Mazi was not the opponent of Wang Er cat, and he was quickly twisted with his hands and unable to move." Oh, big brother, please be merciful to your subordinates, I can't help it, the deal has let you squeeze and collapse, I also have to eat. Someone paid me to find tanuki for them. This is the money I made from stealing your cat, and I will return it to you, please raise your hand high..." "I want me to spare you, all right!" But I don't want this money, you have to tell me who made you steal it, and get the cat back for me! Did you know how hard it takes to domesticate a cat? Not to mention that the performance also needs to be cooperative! "Wang Er Cat pushed away Li Mazi's hand and did not forgive." Having said that, your cat can't be found, and it's all been made to cook! "What?" This sentence did not tighten in the ears, wang er cat was distressed and annoyed, and the green tendons on his neck jumped up one by one, "Cooking? You stole my cat for someone to make for cooking! I'm not an ordinary cat! Besides, where do you use cats to cook? ”

Seeing that Wang Er cat was furious, Li Mazi's legs trembled with fright: "That dish is called 'Dragon and Tiger Fighting', which is made of poisonous snakes and tanuki cats, and a dish is worth several silver, which is specially eaten by the dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital." Li Mazi continued in a hesitant manner: the business of pulling foreign slices that was squeezed by Wang Er cat could not be done, he lost his job, and later applied to a tangzi restaurant as a buddy. Here we offer a variety of novel food and play items, those "Tangzi dishes" are more novel than one, the most famous is this "Dragon and Tiger Fight". The boss is called She Yibing, who is nicknamed "Snake Tai Nian", whose ancestral home is Guangdong. It is said that his ancestors were famous chefs of Cantonese cuisine, and during the Qianlong period, he was introduced to Beijing by Xiangzhong to become a private chef at home. After the fall, he relied on a unique and unique work to mix in the Beijing food industry, and had the reputation of "folk imperial kitchen".

Thinking that his popular cats had become the delicacies in the mouths of the dignitaries, Wang Er Cat kicked Li Mazi a few times and shouted "roll"! Watching Li Mazi crawl away with the rolling belt, Wang Er Cat was stunned.

That snake is too old to be a good master, and looking for him to judge the cat to ask for advice can not be cheap at all. But just like this flag to stop pulling down, but really can't swallow this evil breath, and finally decided to secretly add some chaos to this restaurant, but also to avenge their cats. In order to blend into the restaurant, he returned all the money that Li Mazi gave him, saying that he was very curious about the dishes of the "Dragon and Tiger Fight", as long as Li Mazi could think of letting him see and see, the two of them would be counted as if they had passed.

Li Mazi was very hesitant, but in the end he owed it to others, so he agreed to it with a hard scalp, but he said that there were few people in this "Dragon and Tiger Fight" usually, and he had to wait for the opportunity.

On this day, the restaurant has to receive important distinguished guests, in addition to other special dishes, it is also named to be "Dragon and Tiger Fighting". Snake Tai Nian attached great importance to it and ordered the kitchen to prepare well.

When the opportunity came, Li Mazi took advantage of the need to purchase a large number of ingredients this time, stuffed Wang Er cat into the stomach of a dead pig that had retreated from hair, and mixed it into the back kitchen of the restaurant. It was really difficult enough for Wang Er Cat, the pig's stomach was so hot and noisy that he almost lost his breath. When they got to the back kitchen, Wang Er Cat hid in the grocery store for an afternoon, and about Mo sneaked out until dinner time. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was ready to perform light work, he squatted on the roof of the back kitchen and secretly looked inside. At this time, all the preparations were ready, and all kinds of ingredients were cut neatly, and the guests arrived at the stove to cook.

Taking advantage of the rest of the cooks, Wang Er Cat wanted to get a packet of laxatives prepared in advance into the ingredients, so that those corrupt officials who were making a fortune would clear their stomachs well, and then they would naturally be angry at the snake too old, and it would not be enough for this boy to drink a pot? This was the revenge plan he had been thinking about for several nights. He took out the long reed stalks prepared and went down the gap in the room. Just about to blow the laxative down, only to hear the sizzling in his ears, a dark blue snake was staring at a pair of red eyes, standing on his upper body, constantly spitting out letters, as if ready to attack. It must be a snake that he provoked in the belly of the pig, the snake that Wang Er Cat was most afraid of was the snake, and immediately "Ma Ya" exclaimed, slipped under his feet, and fell down, fortunately, he had a light foundation, and he was not injured. However, his cry alarmed the nursing home, and several people wiped their shoulders and put their arms together to tie up Wang Er Cat and give it to Snake Taiyi to deal with.

Snake Tai Nian learned that someone had actually broken into the kitchen at night with the intention of poisoning, and was very angry, and was about to personally interrogate Wang Er cat, when the housekeeper rushed in, "Lord, the guest has arrived." When the snake heard this, he immediately got up and walked out to greet the guests. The guests outside the door seemed to have arrived together with several people, greeting each other. The Second Cat Wang in the house listened to the sounds outside, and suddenly he was shocked, and one of the people outside had a very familiar voice, could it be Yang Xiu's eldest brother?

It is said that more than a year ago, Wang Er cat had just been doing the business of pulling foreign films, and one day he was setting up a stall in front of the Six Kingdoms Hotel, and a few red-haired devils looked at the foreign films he put Feng Wanzhen to fight against the Luocha people, and felt that it was an insult to them, and they wanted to beat Wang Er cat and smash his stall. Passers-by and patrol officers on the sidelines did not dare to care, only a young man came in time to break the siege, he did not know what to say with the red-haired devils in Russian, those devils skimmed their mouths and waved their fists at the king and the second cat to signal that they were not examples, and then left. Wang Er Cat paid homage to the Xie Ren one by one, and the man reminded him not to go to the foreigners to put this kind of film in the future, and now the Qing court is incompetent, the foreigners are rampant, and the most unfortunate are the people. Although the benefactor left without leaving his name that day, he kept his heart and secretly searched for it, knowing that the man's name was Yang Xiu, and he was a patriotic teacher who had stayed in the West. After this, Wang Er cat always went to Yang Xiu's school to set up a stall, don't look at the two of them identity status is very different, but they fell in love with each other, and gradually became friends. Yang Xiu was bent on saving the country, advocating the use of Western learning and changing the backward appearance of China through changing the law, although these Wang Er cats did not understand very well, he knew that Yang Xiu was a good person, and what he wanted to do was a big thing for the country and the people. I haven't seen Yang Xiu for a while, I heard that he entered the DPRK as an official, and is helping the emperor with a group of like-minded people to carry out some kind of law change movement, I heard that it was opposed by many high officials, and Wang Er cat has always been worried about what happened to him. At this moment, when he was in distress, he actually heard Yang Xiu's voice, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Wang Er cat couldn't help but blurt out: "Big Brother Yang Xiu, are you outside the door?" ”

At this time, Yang Xiu was outside the door, and it turned out that although their reform and reform method was supported by the Guangxu Emperor, it was quickly resisted by the important ministers of the imperial court, and many of the emperor's reform edicts became a blank piece of paper. The ministers even conspired with Empress Dowager Cixi to plot a coup d'état, and the Guangxu Emperor secretly ordered the reformists to ask them to ask Yuan Da, who held military power, to save them. At such a critical moment, it really seemed as if the True Dragon Heavenly Son was fighting with the great tiger of the dynasty who held great power. So they specially invited Lord Yuan to this big mansion, and through this dragon and tiger fight, they begged him to send troops and depose the empress.

Yang Xiu heard Wang Er cat's voice, happily agreed, asked for the reason, and said to the snake Tai Nian: "This person is a friend of the next jianghu, looking forward to the treasurer of She raised his noble hand." Yang Xiu pleaded, and Snake Tai Nian immediately released Wang Er Cat. Although he was a businessman, he was also a patriot who supported the change of the law, and he was a fellow with Yang Xiu. He learned that his buddy Li Mazi had actually stolen the cat used by Wang Er cat for performance, and insisted on losing money to him. When Wang Er Cat learned that this "Dragon and Tiger Fight" was going to play such a big role tonight, he was first shocked, then chagrined, he hated himself for being short-sighted, and almost broke a big thing, and said in a loud voice: "The snake is too old, no, Boss She, I am ashamed to die, I have the face to ask for this money." Several of you are doing great things, for the sake of the country and the nation, at the risk of losing your head. I...... I only have a few cats in my heart..." Thinking that although I lost the cat, I invisibly helped Yang Xiu, wasn't that a good thing I also did to save the country and save the people? At this thought, the resentment in his heart for many days instantly dissipated, and he shook hands with the snake and left the restaurant with great satisfaction.

In the following days, Wang Ermao was setting up a stall on the street, while inquiring about the progress of the restoration and reform of the law, he pondered that if this thing was done, just like Yang Xiu's elder brother said, "China is going to change the sky, remove the clouds and fog to see the sun, China is strong, and it will no longer be bullied by foreign devils!" Whenever he thought about this, Wang Er Cat felt that his waist rod was hard. But wait, wait, wait, wait for the bad news. Empress Dowager Cixi staged a coup d'état, imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor, and hunted down and killed the Reformers, but the change of law was a complete failure.

Wang Er Cat watched as Yang Xiu and many of the Restoration Party members had their heads cut off, even the Tangzi Restaurant was implicated and sealed, and the snake was too old to know where to go. Seeing that many ordinary people bought steamed buns stained with the blood of the Reformists from the hands of officers and soldiers to treat their illnesses, Wang Er cat's whole body was cold, and he knelt on the ground and could not get up.

It turned out that Lord Yuan had tipped off Empress Dowager Cixi and the diehards and betrayed the Reformists. This guy ate the "Dragon and Tiger Fight" and also agreed to the request of the RestorationIsts, but as a politician who had been floating in the sea for many years, he understood that the restoration forces were fighting with the conservative forces, and the two sides were the emperor on the one hand and the empress dowager on the other, and his position tendency was not only related to wearing flowers and plumes, but even to the life of his family. Although he was not opposed to the change of law, from the perspective of harsh political reality, he felt that the strength of the Guangxu Emperor and the reformists was far from being the opponents of Empress Dowager Cixi and the diehards. After weighing it up, he decided to defect to the party and take the road to promotion.

More than a decade later, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and after many years of fighting outside the country, Wang Ermao, who had become a platoon leader of the National Revolutionary Army, returned to the capital. One day, he heard the soldiers say that he had eaten a particularly delicious dish, called "Dragon Tiger Phoenix". Wang Er cat was shocked in his heart, and the past came to his mind, he came to the familiar mansion, ordered a signature dish "Dragon Tiger Phoenix", and then called the guy, "Go and ask your boss to come." That little second saw that he was a military master, and did not dare to be sloppy, and soon, the snake tai nian who had not been seen for many years appeared, "Military master, what do you command?" ”

"I wonder if your 'Dragon Tiger Phoenix' is the same as the 'Dragon Tiger Phoenix' Dragon tiger fight of that year?" Long time no see, She Boss! The snake taiyi recognized that the officer in front of him was actually Wang Er cat, he had not seen him for more than ten years, their hair was quite white, and the changes in the world were even more unpredictable, and they couldn't help but shed tears when they held hands.

"It's different, in addition to snake meat and cat meat, I added chicken to neutralize the sweet and sour taste." Just as the Restoration Faction, which represented the True Dragon Heavenly Son, and the Conservative Faction, which represented the Tiger, did not it still be Empress Dowager Cixi who played a key role? The two laughed with tears in their eyes.