What did Ding do for a living after being robbed by Eight-Nation Alliance?

Tianjin is the first land and water terminal in the north. All the delicious food has been here, and all the interesting things have been here. This spoiled the local rich and young people. These young masters can eat and play, eat and play, talk about eating and play, and have their own unique skills, such as Mr. Ding of Beieveryone.

Ding Jia was originally an aristocratic family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. The prince swept north to Tianjin, and his ancestors got a lucrative job by the South Canal outside the North City-the manager of Qianmen. This job is to sit by the river, and all ships 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 the copper coins can't be spent.

Ding Jia is in charge of this banknote, which is located in the north of the city and is called Beidaguan; Ding's work is hereditary, passed down from generation to generation, only for his family, not outsiders, so his family is called "big official Ding".

Although rich and powerful, his gentleman 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, keep birds, keep dogs or drink, and he doesn't like women with feet. He despises these rotten things. When a braid was still hanging behind his head, he rode a foreigner's bicycle 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 boats. 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" for foreigners. The American gave him one, and he didn't dare to try. Who dares to try without trying? Take it back and throw it in the warehouse. Hearing this, Ding was very curious, so he asked his friends in the concession to import one from the west at a high price and took it back to ride. At first, he couldn't help falling, but in less than half a month, he actually appeared in the street of clothing evaluation. It is famous all over the city. Half a year later, Tianjin Acropolis, outside the city, in the east and west of the river, and in the streets and alleys, all saw this tall and sturdy gentleman Ding, riding a rickshaw with two wheels, turning freely and as light as Xiaoyan, speeding in the street. He was the first Tianjin person to ride a bicycle, and became a sight in Tianjin for a while.

Who can-think, think-do this kind of drama except Ding Shaoshao?

Let's eat. He doesn't like to eat Deng Yinglou's fried pork loin, the Korean whitebait in Quanju Building, the silver sand purple crab in Tianfeng Garden, the fried carp whiskers in Desheng Building, and the famous dishes in Cantonese Restaurant, Ningbo Restaurant, Jingwei Restaurant and Zizhulinyang Restaurant. On this dock in Tianjin, there are all kinds of flavors and delicious things in the world. Sour, sweet, salty, salty, sweet, sour, spicy, hemp, smelly and fragrant; Sticky, crisp, crisp, soft, loose, slippery, smooth, burnt, tender, chewy and more chewy ... These things are not only unbearable to eat, but also difficult to understand. But Mr. Ding has a different taste and likes to eat the same thing. This thing is not greasy enough, but it is neither expensive nor rare. Streets and alleys can be seen everywhere, that is, sugar piles.

A bunch of hawthorn dipped in sugar, do you want to eat it? Poor people eat to satisfy their own desires, coax children to eat, and girls to eat movies. Why do all the top rich young men in the city eat this?

He doesn't care that others laugh at him as "the rich have the mouth of the poor". When you cross the clothing evaluation street in a rubber car, as long as you see a small candy piled up on the corner, you immediately stop the car, send the driver to buy one, sit in the car and chew it. Everyone in the north of the city has seen this. Don't laugh at those who are big, small and rich. He said that the candy pile was a bunch of gold, and he ate it. This lets people know that rich people can do whatever they want. Ding Shaoshao holds Jinshan Yinshan and regards this street snack as his own life. Who can?

Once, a rich young man from Beijing came to visit him. Although Beijing and Tianjin are close at hand, they have different temperaments, eat and live differently, and even speak differently. Tianjin people say eight lords, and Beijingers are Lafayette. There is a rich son of a bitch in Tianjin, and the official level in Beijing is crushed to death. When talking about sugar piles today, the capital asked Ding Shaoshao, "This sugar pile is called Sugar-Coated Berry in our capital. Galeries Lafayette also loves candied haws, do you know? "

Ding Shaoshao shook his head. A rich boy in Beijing, he said with a smile: "The Sugar-Coated Berry that Lafayette ate is the product of the gods, but it is not the same as the stuff that stands here every day." Then he added smoothly, "The bachelor who is cooking in Jiulongzhai Restaurant in front of Beijing Drum Tower has worked in the imperial chef, and it is said that he has also been touched by Galeries Lafayette's candied haws."

Beijing is as rich as an enemy, and I am glad that I have suppressed the young rich in Tianjin. I stopped talking about sugar piles and changed the subject. In fact, that's all he knows

But when Beijing was young and rich, Ding Shaoshao immediately sent two talented people to Beijing with a lot of money, found Jiulong Zhai in front of the Drum Tower, and then found a bachelor, followed by a retired chef who was short of money, and invited him to Tianjin. What senior officials in Beijing have been asked to do can be done well if they have money in Tianjinwei.

This bachelor is short, slightly fat, with small hands, feet, nose and ears. He is ugly and difficult to talk to, but he has a little dignity. If it weren't for a noble family or a stunt, I would never have such a style. When he arrived in Ding Gu's yard, he first set up a stove, put a wok on it, laid a slate and a chopping board, and then opened the two big bags brought from Beijing, spreading out all kinds of working guys and colorful, strange and delicious 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 chef!

Watching the bachelor, I made a bunch of sugar piles step by step. The first time he saw the candy pile, he could make it so beautiful, colorful and exquisite, like a string of small lanterns. He asked people to send the dipped candy pile to each room in the house, picked a novel and playful string, opened his mouth and took a bite, and immediately felt that he was Lafayette. It turns out that being an 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 Sugar-Coated Berry of Galeries Lafayette, he drove the bachelor from Beijing. On one occasion, he also held a sugar banquet at home and invited all the big people in the city who had eaten and seen. When a seat came down, all the smelly mouths that laughed at him for eating candy piles were blocked. To say that Tianjinwei can eat and play, Ding Shaoshao of the big official hall is the best.

Gradually, people gave him the title of "big official tripod" of a rich family and called him "big official tripod"

No matter what bad things are, good things will not always happen to one person, which is called extremes meet. During the Gengzi period, there was a disaster from heaven, civil strife in the imperial court, civil war and fierce fighting between China and foreign countries, followed by Eight-Nation Alliance who gathered in Zizhulin to wash the old city of Tianjin. Gu was so rich that he was completely copied by the allies. From then on, the cash cow of his family, Qianmen, stopped working. Suddenly, he fell from the sky to the ground. Things in this world are strange. People who live in the sky seem to have no way out, but ordinary people who have been to the earth do not feel this way. They should eat when they should eat, sleep when they should sleep, and work when they should work.

The city cooled down shortly after the allied troops slaughtered it. There are only a few shabby houses left at Daguandong. There are several people in his family. They are hungry, have no sleep and have nothing to sell. He refused to borrow money even when others advised him, and he refused to recover his debts. He knew that debt collection was like carrying a tombstone, and he didn't take off his body until he met a terrible man.

One day, he saw a fellow villager selling mountain red in the clothing evaluation street. He has been eating candy piles for half his life, and he can't help but be tempted when he sees hawthorn. But this time it's not a heart move, but a brain move. He only had a few copper coins in his pocket, so he bought thirty or fifty mangosteen and went to the grocery store to buy a small packet of sugar. After returning home, he cut the fruit, peeled off the core and boiled the sugar thin. 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 and sharpened them, dipped them in sugar and sold them in the street. They all said it was delicious and sold out soon. If you have money in your hand, you will buy mangosteen, sugar and sugar piles, and so you will come and go, running around, and the breath that is about to die will slowly recover.

Two months later, Guan actually stood in an alley opposite Jiangxi Guild Hall, selling candy bars. He seems to have some money. It 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 at his feet. A wooden pole wrapped in a thick circle of straw is full of brown sugar piles. On weekdays, there are always several people selling candy piles in the street, but they can pick out the best, and soon they all recognize the big ones. The sugar pile on the top of Daguan is big, solid and bright, and the sugar is wrapped thick and evenly, crisp and not sticky; Eat a bunch of him and compare with the other two.

Towards the end of the year, Ding Shaoshao had more money and began to play with flowers, which were stuffed with beans, wrapped in black and white sesame seeds and inlaid with various dried and fresh fruits. The better he does, the more wonderful and exquisite he becomes. Tianjin people have eaten sugar piles for many years, but they have not eaten these innovative sugar piles. That's weird. He is just a playful young master. Where did he get this ability?

Even the people who close the house don't know where this gentleman's skill comes from. No one expected that he saw it with his own eyes when the Royal Chef was making sugar piles at his home. How to choose fruit, remove the core, make stuffing, boil sugar, clip flowers, mix materials, cut labels, wear fruit, dip sugar, etc., are all in his eyes. At that time, he didn't mean to steal art. The bachelor was completely wary of this delicious rich young master. Mr. Wang is curious and the bachelor answers questions. Capable people have always kept their mouths shut about their abilities, so bachelors have no intimate friends in Beijing. When I arrived at Mr. Tianjinwei, everything was forgiven and I opened the river. The more you talk, the more proud you are, but you can tell that gentleman all the tricks of your life. A gentleman lives on a pile of sugar, and these words are naturally remembered. Who would have thought that every word of the bachelors in those days has become a real knife and gun in the hands of the big official Ding.

Daguanding used to eat sugar piles, but today he is making sugar piles. Eat candy piles with your mouth and make candy piles with your heart. Once you put your heart into it, your ability will double. He also changed hawthorn to Jixian in the north, yellow jujube to Zhangzhou, and reed stalk to Baiyangdian. Tianjin is a wharf, so you can eat whatever you want. Sugar-Coated Berry, who has personally eaten Galeries Lafayette, can only make that taste if he knows the taste. Tianjin has discounts and foreign goods, so he can know which one is good for foreigners. He replaced white sugar with Dutch rock sugar, which is not only sweet, but also very bright. It seems that every red fruit is covered with a glass bulb. Where do ordinary vendors know these methods? During the Spring Festival, Daguanding made a huge candy pile with a very big fruit on it. He is ingenious. He made a tiger's head with orange petals, melon seeds and green silk, and regarded a pair of grapes as eyeballs, which was fierce and gratifying. He named the sugar pile "Flower Tiger". Tiger masculine, exorcising evil spirits in the New Year, and not afraid of expensive shopping in the New Year, which made his sugar pile famous in Tianjin. At the beginning, Huali Lake was limited to three, but later one could not be bought.

Gal, big officer ding stood up again.

He grew up in the cashier's office and knew how to behave. He takes a route every day, starting from Zhen Shi Street, east longitude appraisal street and Guodian Street, and west to Dahutong. Arrive on time every afternoon. It's just windy and rainy. There are many rich people in the north gate, and they want to invite 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 clothing street. His candy pile is famous in the street of clothing evaluation, and his heart is always filled with old customers here.

So, I can see him in the street every day. When he became rich, his clothes became more respectable. Guapi hat is made of Russian material, and the coat and trousers are very clean. His face flushed and his eyes sparkled. I don't have to carry a car full of candy, but I hire someone to carry it for him. He walked ahead with a big belly, and his right hand never left a long-handled feather duster. Every time I go to an alley, I will shout into it: "Duier-"

Tianjin people never shout the word "sugar pile" when selling sugar piles, but only "pile-".

He is tall and round, with a thick voice and full of anger. A sound can go straight to the depths of the hutong. If it is a dead end, the sound of this "pile" hitting the wall will come back.

In those days, he always had something great.

No one in Tianjin belittles him any more, but admires him. If you want to be rich, you must be poor. Money is not bad, no money. Rich or poor, the world calls itself a man.