Volume 1 Living Yama Temple Chapter 2 The Dirty Beggar
Ten years later, Luocheng, Yunzhou.
Luocheng is now unprecedentedly prosperous. It seems that things in the Yunzhou area had never happened ten years ago. Luocheng is adjacent to Yunzhou City, with developed rituals and music. Talented men and beautiful women prefer to come to Luocheng instead of Yunzhou City, the capital of a state.
The best dish in Baili Restaurant is a dish of thyme, which tastes tender and delicious, like meat but not meat. Before you can taste it, you may order a plate if you eat it easily. The restaurant manager Li never mentions the ingredients used for this dish to anyone. Even their daily vegetables must be sealed in boxes, for fear that people will know the trick.
Thyme has been protecting the wealth of the restaurant for a hundred years. I don’t know whether it can protect the storekeeper Li for a hundred years. He just hopes that he will not make any mistakes in his hands.
Today, the sun was still not coming out, and the car for transporting vegetables had arrived. Manager Li still got up early like the unloading helper, staring at the workers, unloading the delivery box in the alley behind the restaurant. He was full of energy, with his hands behind his back, wearing a green jade ring on his hand. According to his words, this ring is more expensive than this kind of helper.
The helpers were busy, and no one walked around the alley. The neighbors knew that when they came out, they would be scolded by Manager Li and peeping at their restaurant secret recipe.
Suddenly, a noise came from the straw pile next to the back door.
Manager Li happened to be standing in front of the haystack.
Manager Li was clever. Could it be that the villain was hiding here? Are the restaurants around him really unable to stand it? Their own business is too big. They want to know how Thyme is made? Then do they still have to bring powerful tools? If they are held on their necks with a knife, would they say, or not?
The middle-aged shopkeeper Li was mostly fat. He moved uneasyly, constantly touching the green jade ring on his right hand, and did not dare to look back at the haystack. He had been pampering for many years and had just turned his heart like this, and he was sweating all over the place. He felt a hard object on his back against his back. This feeling was very real. This time, Boss Li didn't think this was his fantasy, and his whole body was trembling.
"I said..." A somewhat dull voice came from the haystack.
As soon as the man spoke, Manager Li knelt down and shouted, "Good man, please spare me,
This thyme is actually a mushroom, it is a mushroom. After the mushroom is fried in duck oil, it will be..." Manager Li was still talking about the secret recipe of thyme. The helpers around him were also shocked. He really thought that some bad guy was coming.
The man in the haystack behind him turned out. The haystack was more than half a person tall. The man behind him fell and rolled twice. When he stopped, he and the various helpers around him could see clearly what this man looked like.
This is a beggar dressed in a shabby manner. Even if he says he is not a beggar, it is difficult for ordinary people to believe that the man's clothes are covered with ragged patches. Judging from the position on his clothes straps, it is possible that this man's body may be covered with patches. His hair is messy and his chin is a bit shattered. It can be seen that he has not been trimmed for a long time.
If he eliminated these, he would pretend not to see the mud on his face and the straw in his hair. This man had thick eyebrows and big eyes. Unfortunately, this man's eyes were also very dim and he was drunk. The helpers around him thought that they would almost have a few drunk jars from the pile of hay.
Manager Li knelt a little embarrassedly, even embarrassed. He slowly stood up, and the beggar on the ground looked up at him, burped and said, "I said... do you still have any wine in your restaurant?"
As soon as he spoke, he was even more drunk.
"Hey, you drunk beggar, if you really give you wine, will you have the money to pay the bill?" Manager Li's face turned red at first, and then a little purple. He could feel the helpers were secretly happy, and he had no choice but to question the beggars on the ground loudly.
"I don't have money, so I can't say this." The beggar hesitated and really answered Manager Li's question.
Manager Li then shouted loudly: "You heard the first half of the secret of thyme by you today. You must make you pay the debt when working here. I see that the wine you drank last night was stolen from our restaurant. I want to see how many jars of wine you have here, how much work you can pay back. Even if you pay back the money for the wine, you will not be allowed to say anything about my secret recipe for thyme in the future. You can't say a word." Then Manager Li hesitated, and the helpers around him were laughing and laughing at him. He made up his mind and walked towards the haystack. He wanted to flip through it himself, how much wine the drunkard drank, and he must count on the highs, scaring these helpers and not being laughed at.
"I advise you not to move the haystack." The beggar smiled and showed a white teeth that was countless times whiter than the mud on his face: "Because there is still someone inside."
Boss Li's heart was empty again. Is it true that this person is the real bad guy?
"Who is inside?" Boss Li asked calmly.
"A person who has neither drunk nor will he say the word "your specialty" is the best dish in your house." The beggar said slowly.
"Who are you?" Boss Li didn't believe it. Can there be someone hidden in this haystack less than half a person tall?
"My name is Tang Qian, um... I can only say so much, and there is a beggar here." Tang Qian was still lying on the ground and thrust towards the pile of straw.
"You..." Boss Li could already hear the laughter of the helpers around him. The beggar was teasing me. He suddenly stepped forward, stretched out his fat hand, pulled apart the haystack, revealing a person inside. The man was lying, motionless. Even if Boss Li slapped the grass on his face, he didn't blink.
"And he is dead." Tang Qian was still very calm, even with a smile on his lips.
Boss Li took several steps back, and the beggars there were also dirty clothes. The haystack was peeled off and the alcohol smelled even louder. It turned out that more alcohol smell came from the beggar. The man's eyes widened, with a smile on his face, which was a bit flattering. This man had been dead for a long time. He had a broken porcelain bowl at his hand, probably the guy who was usually used to beg for.
Boss Li pulled open the straw and touched the porcelain bowl. The porcelain bowl slipped out of the beggar's hand. In the porcelain bowl, there was half a bowl of porridge that had not been completely drunk. Every grain of rice in the porridge was more crystal clear than the common porridge, and it was even a bit beautiful. It was not like rice, but like some kind of pearl and jade treasure. Even if it was half a bowl of porridge that had long been cold.
A whispered by the wall of the restaurant courtyard.
Tang Qian lay on the ground, his eyes still dim, but his man had already turned over the wall of the restaurant the next moment, and even the strong men who worked as assistants couldn't see clearly how this beggar dressed in a beggar did it.
Boss Li's hand with the green jade ring was still trembling, and Tang Qian's people had already chased him out.
Chapter completed!