What does Ding Boyu rely on to make a living after being robbed by Eight-Nation Alliance?
the ding family was originally a noble family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. the prince of Yan swept north to Tianjin, and his ancestors got a fat job-the director of the money gate near the south canal outside the north city. This job is to sit by the river, and all the ships coming from south to north have to pay taxes to him. Don't have to work, sit on the ground and collect money, watching Jinshan Yinshan grow up, and coppers can't spend all the flowers.
The Ding family is in charge of this banknote clearance in the north of the city, which is called Beidaguan; Ding's job is hereditary, and it is handed down from one generation to the next, only to his family, not to outsiders, so his family is called "Daguanding".
Although Guan Ding is rich and powerful, Ding Boyu, the gentleman of his family, is not ordinary people, and he is by no means a glutton. He has a unique way of playing and eating.
Let's talk about fun first. He doesn't play cards, birds, dogs, booze and women with feet. He despises these rotten things. When a braid was still hanging behind his head, he rode a foreigner's bicycle and ran outside the city, which made the whole city blindsided.
It is said that Li Hongzhang has long heard that all foreigners abroad ride this kind of thing and travel in the streets like a boat. Later, when Li Hongzhang visited the United States, he saw it with his own eyes and shouted magic. He also called bicycles "wooden cows and horses" of foreigners. The Americans gave him one, but he didn't dare to try it. Who dares to try if he doesn't try? Take it back and throw it in the warehouse all the time. When Ding Boyu heard this, he was curious, so he asked his friends in the concession to import one from the West at a large price, and took it back and rode it. At first, he could not help but fall over, but within half a month, he actually showed up in the street of clothing evaluation. This appearance is well known throughout the city. Half a year later, Tianjinwei city, outside the city, east of the river and west of the river, and the streets and lanes, all saw this tall and sturdy gentleman Ding, riding a rickshaw with two wheels before and after, turning freely, as light as Xiaoyan, speeding down the street. He was the first Tianjin person to ride a bicycle, and he became a scene in Tianjin for a while.
who can-think, think-do this kind of play except Ding Shaoshao?
let's eat. He doesn't like to eat the pot-collapsed fillet in Dengying Building, the Korean whitebait in Quanju Building, the silver sand purple crab in Tianfeng Garden, the fried carp whiskers in Desheng Building, and all the famous dishes in Guangdong Pavilion, Ningbo Pavilion, Beijing Restaurant and Zizhulin Foreign Restaurant. On this dock in Tianjin, there are all kinds of tastes in the world, and there are all kinds of delicious things. Sour, sweet, salty, salty and sweet, sweet and sour, spicy, hemp, smelly and fragrant; Sticky, crisp, crisp, soft, loose, slippery, noodles, burnt, tender in the outside, chewy, and more chewy ... These things are not only unbearable to eat, but also incomprehensible to look at. However, Mr. Ding's taste is different, and he loves to eat the same thing. This thing is not greasy enough, but it is not expensive or rare. It can be seen everywhere in the streets and lanes, that is, sugar piles.
a bunch of hawthorn dipped in sugar, is there a bite? Poor people eat to satisfy their cravings, coax children to eat, and girls eat movies. Why do the top rich young masters in the city eat this?
He doesn't care if people laugh at him as "the rich have a poor mouth". When crossing the clothing evaluation street in a rubber car, as long as you see a small candy pile on the street corner, you immediately stop the car, send the driver to buy one, sit in the car, and chew it with a big mouth. Everyone in the north of the city has seen this appearance. Don't laugh at people who are big, small and rich. He said that the sugar pile is a string of one or two gold, and he eats it. This makes people know that rich people can do whatever they want. Ding Shaoshao held Jinshan Yinshan, and took this street snack as his life. Who can?
once, a rich young gentleman from Beijing came to visit him. Although Beijing and Tianjin are close at hand, they are temperamental, eat and live, and even talk and say different things; Tianjin people say that there are eight masters, and people in Beijing are Lafayette. There is a rich son of a bitch in Tianjin, and the official level in Beijing is killing people. When I mentioned the sugar pile today, the capital asked Ding Shaoshao, "This sugar pile is called candied haws in our capital. Galeries Lafayette also loves candied haws, do you know? "
Ding Shaoshao shook his head. The capital is rich and young, and he laughs: "The candied haws that Lafayette eats are fairy products, but they are different from the street goods here every day." Then he added smoothly, "Now the bachelor who cooks in Jiulongzhai Restaurant in front of the Drum Tower in Beijing has worked in the imperial kitchen, and it is said that he has dipped the candied haws in Lafayette."
I was glad to see that I had suppressed Jinmen's wealth, so I stopped talking about sugar piles and changed the subject. Actually, that's all he knows.
But as soon as the capital was a little short of money, Ding Shaoshao immediately sent two able men with a lot of money to the capital, found Jiulong Zhai in front of the Drum Tower, and then found the bachelor, and then invited the chef of the retired imperial kitchen who was short of money to Tianjin. What has always been required to be done by high officials in Beijing can be done well with money in Tianjinwei.
This bachelor is short, slightly fat, with small hands, feet, nose and ears. He is ugly and difficult to talk, but he has a little dignity. If it weren't for a noble family or a stunt, I would never have such an air. When he went to Ding Gu's yard, he first set up a stove, put an iron pan on it, laid a slate and a chopping board, and then opened the two big burdens brought from Beijing, spreading out all kinds of working guys and colorful, strange and fragrant ingredients in the same way. This appearance made all the male servants and female servants around look blindsided. Ding Shaoshao grinned, and his family became a royal kitchen!
with his eyes on the bachelor, he made a string of sugar piles step by step. The first time he saw the sugar pile, he could still make it so beautiful, colorful and exquisite, like a string of small lanterns. He asked someone to send the dipped candy pile to each room at home, picked a novel and nifty string by himself, opened his mouth and bit it, and immediately felt that he was Lafayette. It turns out that being emperor is so delicious. But what the emperor can eat, doesn't he also eat silver? From then on, as long as he wanted to eat Galeries Lafayette's candied haws, he drove the bachelor from Beijing. On one occasion, he also put a sugar banquet at home and invited all the big people in the city who had eaten and seen. After a seat, all the smelly mouths who laughed at him for eating candy piles were blocked. To say that Tianjin Wei can eat and play, Ding Shaoshao of Daguanding is the best.
gradually, people gave him the title of "Daguanding" of his rich and powerful family and called him "Daguanding".
No matter what's bad or good in the world, it won't always happen to one person, which is called extremes meet. During the Gengzi period, there was a great disaster from heaven, civil strife in the imperial court, a civil war, and fierce fighting between China and foreign countries, followed by Eight-Nation Alliance who gathered in Zizhulin, washing the old city of Tianjin. Guan Ding Gu was so rich that he was completely copied by the allied forces. Since then, the cash cow of his family, the money gate, has not been called dry. Suddenly, he fell from the sky to the ground. Things in this world are very strange. People who live in the sky seem to have no way out, but ordinary people who have been on the ground don't feel this way. They should eat when they should, sleep when they should, and work when they should.
soon after the allied forces slaughtered the city, it became cold. There are only a few dilapidated houses left in Daguanding. There are several people in his family. They are hungry, have no sleep and have nothing to sell. He refused to borrow money when people advised him, and he refused to take back debts. He knew that taking back debts was like carrying a tombstone, and he didn't take off his body until he met the terrifying.
one day, he saw a fellow villager selling hawthorn in the clothing evaluation street. He has eaten sugar piles for half his life, and he can't help but be tempted when he sees hawthorn. But this time it's not a move in the heart, but a move in the brain. He only had a few coppers in his pocket, so he bought thirty or fifty mangosteen, went to the grocery store and bought a small packet of sugar. When he got home, he cut the fruit, peeled the core and boiled the sugar thinly. Then he pulled out a few reed stalks from the reed curtain piled in the corner, peeled them dry to expose the white stalks, cut them off and sharpened them, dipped them in sugar, and sold them in the street. They all said they were delicious and sold out immediately. With money in his hand, he went to buy mangosteen, sugar and sugar piles, so he came and went, running around, and the breath that was about to be cut off was so slowly recovered.
Two months later, Guan Dingding actually stood in an alley opposite Jiangxi Guild Hall in Appraisal Street and sold candy piles. It seems that he has some money. The weather was cold, and he actually put on a cotton-padded jacket, a felt hat without eaves and a pair of felt boots with rabbit skin lining under his feet. A wooden pole wrapped in a thick circle of straw is full of red sugar piles. On weekdays, there are always a few candy-pile sellers in the street, but they can pick out the best ones and soon they all recognize the big ones. Daguanding's candy pile is big, solid and bright, and the sugar is wrapped thick and evenly, crisp and not sticky; Eat one bunch of him and compete with two others.
Towards the end of the year, Ding Shaoshao had more money, and began to play with flowers on the sugar piles, such as those stuffed with beans, those wrapped with black and white sesame seeds, and those inlaid with all kinds of dried and fresh fruits. The better they made, the more wonderful they became. Tianjin people have eaten the sugar piles for many years, but they have not eaten the newly renovated ones like Daguanding. That's strange. He's just a playful young master. Where did he get this ability?
even the people in Guan Ding's family don't know where the gentleman's ability comes from. No one expected it, but he saw it with his eyes when the royal chef bachelor was making sugar piles in his house. How to choose fruit, remove the core, make stuffing, boil sugar, clip flowers, mix ingredients, cut labels, wear fruit, dip sugar and so on, he all sees in his eyes. At that time, he didn't mean to steal art, and bachelor was completely wary of this delicious rich young master. The gentleman was curious and asked, and the bachelor answered questions. Capable people have always kept their mouths shut about their abilities, so bachelors have no bosom friends in Beijing. When I arrived at Mr. Tianjinwei, all is forgiven, I opened the river. The more you say, the more proud you are, but you can tell the gentleman all the tricks of your life. The gentleman took the candy pile as his life, and all these words were naturally remembered. Who would have thought that every word of bachelors in those days has become a real knife and gun in Daguanding's hands today.
Daguanding used to eat candy piles, but today he makes candy piles. Eat sugar piles with your mouth and make sugar piles with your heart. Once you put your heart into it, your ability doubles. He also changed the hawthorn to Jixian in the north, the yellow jujube to Zhangzhou, and the reed stalk to Baiyangdian. Tianjin is a wharf, and you can have whatever you want. Daguanding personally ate Galeries Lafayette's candied haws, and only by knowing that smell can he make that smell. There are concessions and foreign goods in Tianjin, and he can know which thing is good for foreigners. He changed the white sugar into Dutch ice candy, which is not only sweet and fragrant, but also very bright. It looks like every red fruit is covered with a glass bulb. Where do ordinary vendors know about these methods? During the Chinese New Year, Daguanding made an extra-large candy pile, with a very large fruit on the top. He is ingenious, making a tiger's head with orange petals, melon seeds and green red silk, and treating a pair of grapes as eyeballs, which is fierce and gratifying. He named the candy pile "Flower Tiger". The tiger is masculine, exorcises evil spirits in the New Year, and is not afraid of expensive shopping in the New Year, which makes his sugar pile famous in Tianjin. At the beginning, Hualihu was limited to three, but later he couldn't buy any.
Now, Guan Ding stood up again.
he grew up in the cash register and knows how to behave. He must take a route every day, starting from Zhenshi Street, passing through Appraisal Street and Guodian Street in the east, and ending at Dahutong in the west. Arrive on time every afternoon. It's just windy, rainy and dog days. There are many rich people in the north gate, and he wanted to ask him to sell there, but he declined. He said that what he does every day is limited, only enough to estimate the old customers on the other side of Clothes Street. His candy pile is famous in the clothing evaluation street, and he always has the old customers here in his heart.
So, I can see him every day in the street. When he became rich, his clothes became more decent. The melon skin hat is made of Russian materials, and the jacket and trousers are clean. His face flushed and his eyes glowed. I don't have to carry a load of candy, but hire someone to carry it for him. He walked in front with a big belly, and his right hand never left a duster with a long handle and chicken feathers. Every time I go to a small alley, I will call out to the alley: "DuiEr-"
Tianjin people never shout the word "DuiEr-"when they sell sugar piles.
He has a round belly, a thick voice and a full stomach. A sound can go straight to the depths of the hutong. If it is a dead end, the sound of this "pile" will come back when it hits the wall.
there is always something about him that was famous in those days.
No one in Tianjin belittles him, but admires him. If you want to be rich, you have to be poor. Rich money is not bad, poor money. You can be rich or poor, and the world claims to be male.