Wuxi Sauce Ribs

Legend has it that in the Song Dynasty more than 800 years ago, a very sloppy beggar monk Jigong, with a disheveled head and a dirty face, wearing a broken cassock, holding a bowl in one hand and knocking wooden fish in the other, and a broken cattail fan stuck at his waist. He went to Wuxi to beg for his fortune, from Wuxi's east street to west street, and from south street to north street. Everyone thought him dirty, and did not get a bowl of vegetarian rice. Later, he walked around a Lu Ji Cooked Meat Shop, turning around again and again, countless times. A little clerk at the counter saw it and guessed that he wanted to eat meat, so he asked deliberately: "You want to eat pork?" Ji Gong nodded and sent the bowl over. The little boy gave him a few pieces of pork. Ji Gong took it and finished it within a few steps. Ji Gong turned back again, and the little boy asked again: "Do you still want to eat?" Ji Gong nodded again and gave him a few more pieces of pork. Ji Gong finished eating again in three bites, but still refused to leave. Just as the little boy was about to give the meat to Jigong again, he heard footsteps behind him. Seeing that it was the boss, he said to Jigong,"Ask the boss for it!" Jigong asked the boss for it. The boss conveniently handed him a few bones. Ji Gong didn't want it, so the boss had to give him a few more pieces of pork and murmured: "I've eaten all the meat for you. Tell me to sell the bones tomorrow!" Ji Gong replied cheerfully: "Tomorrow, you can sell the bones!" The boss became angry and said,"You are a monk and eat hundreds of rice, so your words are easy. Bones can't sell for meat, why don't you tell my family to drink northwest wind?" Ji Gong said delightedly: "Boss, what you said is unreasonable. As the saying goes: Good gold grows in the sand, and good meat grows around the bones. Bones can be sold for meat." The boss thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a word to answer Ji Gong. Ji Gong taught his boss how to cook bones while eating meat. Later, he tore off a few cattail stalks from the broken cattail fan at his waist and handed them to the boss, telling him to cook them with the bones. After saying that, he disappeared. After Ji Gong left. The boss looked at the pile of meat bones on the counter and thought, What will I sell tomorrow? His mind suddenly lit up. Tomorrow, he would follow the old monk's instructions and cook the bones and sell them! The next day, the boss did the same, and the cooked meat bones were fragrant, and residents in the entire Wuxi City smelled the aroma and came to buy the meat bones. There is not much time to sell out. Everyone agreed to eat it. From then on, the reputation of Wuxi's meat bones spread.