The world is heavy and late

Chapter 285 Bankruptcy
The darkness of the sky slowly rises wantonly, orange red mixed with purple, mysterious and serene.

The mountains in the distance are silent, the sound of horseshoes nearby is reckless, and the sound of wheels rolling over the mud.

Before night completely enveloped the land, Cheng Dalang finally drove into the town Xia Qing mentioned. There were no people on the street. At this time, most of them went back to eat dinner. A slightly better inn can afford a plaque.

The town is not big, and Xia Qing and Xu Zhong are all tall horses and carriages. Many people on the street looked through the cracks in the doors and windows, but Xia Qing and the others didn't stop, and went straight to their destination
The carriage stopped in one place, dark and quiet.

Xia Qing stretched out his head to take a look, and glanced around, but Xu Zhong had already got out of the car, and was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene.

Xia Qing followed and got off the driveway: "Where is that restaurant? Did we go wrong? Is this the place written in the news?"

Song Qi got off his horse and came to them, looked around and answered Xia Qing's words: "No problem, we were here last time, their wild vegetable wontons are delicious, very fresh, Your Majesty even ate two bowls."

Xu Zhong also nodded: "Xu has moved, and it's getting late, let's settle down first, if you want to see us come back tomorrow?"

Xia Qing touched her stomach and nodded deeply. She didn't eat much lunch because of this restaurant.

Xu Zhong also saw Xia Qing's actions, pointed to the inn a few steps ahead and said, "That's the one."

Yan Ping, who followed quietly, glanced at the high door plaque of the inn, and was a little tongue-tied. He saw that it was the most expensive one in the town, but he didn't open his mouth because of the embarrassing incident at noon.

There are not many rooms, two people share one room, and they are a bit expensive.

Around 40 years old, the chubby shopkeeper hunched over the food and explained carefully, this is not far from the capital, the people who come here are either going to the capital, or coming out of the capital, anyway, they are all rich and powerful people, the shopkeeper Although I am very humble when I see people, I accept it well.

Naturally, Xu Zhong and Xia Qing had a room, Song Qi and his deputy had a room, and the servant Cheng Dalang could only share a room with the other guards.

Xia Qing looked at the tall and burly Cheng Dalang, and felt that he should not be bullied casually, so he didn't say anything.

Walking into the room and taking a casual look, he sighed and said, "If it weren't for Gu Weiyun, I would definitely not be taken advantage of."

Xu Zhong had already packed up the things of the two of them, they were not very particular, they washed and tidied up, and the mistress had already gone upstairs to invite some of them to go down for dinner.

It was already very late at this time, there were only a dozen or so of them in the lobby, looking at the steaming dishes on the table, Xu Zhong reached out to hold Xia Qing's chopsticks, and everyone started to do it.

Xia Qing was already too hungry and didn't want to eat, and... the level of the cooks in this restaurant was far from worthy of its price.

Xia Qing, who took two bites and began to poke the rice grains in the bowl, looked at the attentive shopkeeper on the counter and asked:

"Shopkeeper, why isn't the small restaurant in front open?"

The shopkeeper raised his chubby face, cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Mrs. He and his family are you talking about?"

Xia Qing turned to look at Xu Zhong, Xu Zhong stretched out his hand to hold Xia Qing's chopsticks again, Song Qiyang said, "It's their family, didn't their business last year be very good?"

Hearing this, the shopkeeper sized up Song Qi and his party, making sure they hadn't seen each other before saying, "Masters, Mr. He and the others are no longer doing business."

Song Qi was a little surprised: "Isn't their business very good? Why didn't they do it?"

Xia Qing regretted that he didn't eat the wonton that Xu Zhongdu praised so much. He was a little disappointed but also stared at the shopkeeper curiously. Rao Xu Zhong didn't expect this result, and looked at the shopkeeper in surprise.

The shopkeeper looked up and saw so many people looking at this place, swallowed, and the smile on his face was a little stiff, but the ability to open a store here for so many years is not for nothing, so he quickly cleaned up his expression and said: "Well, it's no one's fault."

The shopkeeper is very talented as a businessman, because what he said can be understood by others, and he listens with gusto.

"He Laosan and his wife have opened a shop here for many years, and nothing has happened to them. They are kind, and the food is big and cheap. The little one often goes to their house to eat shepherd's purse wonton, and bites down wild onions and shepherd's purse. , mixed with some minced meat, the skin is thin and the stuffing is big, hey, that taste... I don’t know how to make the soup, it’s very fresh..."

Xia Qing looked at the rice in the bowl and felt that it was even less delicious: "Shopkeeper, let's get to the point."

Song Qi, Yan Ping and the others also swallowed their saliva, looking at the shopkeeper, their eyes were almost drained.

The shopkeeper hurriedly replied: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've said too much; He Laosan and his family are just an ordinary restaurant with better business in the town. I don't know where the customers are passing by to eat I bought something from their house, thought it was good and praised it on the spot, and the matter became more and more strange."

Xia Qing squinted his eyes and didn't speak, Xu Zhong didn't know what he was thinking, Song Qi couldn't help but said: "It's delicious, what's so strange about boasting?"

The shopkeeper took a careful look at the dozens of people in the lobby and said, "It's strange, it's rumored that Mr. He and his family are getting more and more popular, and they're getting more and more amazing. People in the town say that they must come to the town. Eat their food, and say that he is the first in the town, rumors spread all over the sky, then He Laosan and his family's business will be very good, the whole town and outsiders seem to recognize them Home, the people in the town treat their home very well."

Song Qi had also heard these rumors, and it was precisely because of these rumors that they went to that restaurant. He used his clever imagination and said, "Is it because someone was jealous, added something to their food, and then was framed to go bankrupt?" Can't do it anymore?"

The shopkeeper shook his head, and continued: "Later, the nobleman who didn't know where he came from also followed those words to He Laosan's house. After eating, he left the word Shang Ke, saying that it was delicious in the mountains, and it was not elegant. .Then……"

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper sighed and didn't continue. Xu Zhong and Xia Qing were still silent, but Song Qi turned around and looked at this and that without knowing why: "Then what happened? It’s a small restaurant, don’t they just open after hearing this?”

The smile on the shopkeeper's face also fell, and he said with some emotion and nostalgia: "The nobleman has a good temperament. The food was not good, and then a voice came out from nowhere saying that the food made by Mr. He and his wife was not only unpalatable but also expensive."

"The things in He Laosan's family are two yuan more expensive than others, but the quantity is twice as much. They used to praise He Laosan's honesty, but now they have become treacherous; they used to praise the unique taste, but now they say Difficult to swallow; I used to praise people for their kindness, but now they say that people are deep in the city; alas, after that, fewer people came to eat at their house, and people in the town threw dirty water vegetables leaves at their door. After a while, He and his wife looked at the mess and deserted stall in front of the door and left."

The shopkeeper turned his eyes to the place before, and seemed to be able to see the scene where He and his wife greeted him before, and their eye sockets were a little red.

Song Qi held back and said, "Are the people in your town sick? What others say is what they say? Didn't they promote it before? Now they are still blaming them."

The shopkeeper wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve as a cover-up and said, "Who said it wasn't? He Lao San took the younger one to eat together the day he left. He said that he lived for most of his life and didn't know what happened. The business is booming for no reason. Let's take a look." The son is gone again, and the younger one also ate the last wonton made by the couple, it obviously tastes exactly the same, alas... this person."

Song Qi felt a little uncomfortable, but couldn't explain why he just looked at Xu Zhong and Xia Qing.

Xia Qing and Xu Zhong were silent and didn't speak, and the shopkeeper wiped away the tears he couldn't hold back. They were old neighbors of more than ten years, and they left so desertedly in the end, and they were about to be buried for most of their lives. I was still away from home at that time, and I don't know if the old guy is good or not.

Song Qi felt a little pitiful looking at it, so he said: "Why don't you ask him to be the cook, I think he still has two skills in this place."

The shopkeeper shook his head and didn't speak, Xia Qing said, "It's no good, people's hearts are cold, and I can't hold a knife anymore."

The shopkeeper immediately looked at Xia Qing and nodded, "That's right, that's what He Laosan told the little one."

Xia Qing looked at the chubby shopkeeper, who was in her [-]s and [-]s and was crying like a child, her quiet voice was a little indifferent and indifferent: "People are like this, they like to make gods, but they like to see Fall to the altar."

Song Qi and the shopkeeper were a little confused, Xu Zhong stretched out his hand to hold Xia Qing's chopsticks and said, "That's why parents and officials have the responsibility to educate. Many people are unreasonable just because no one teaches them. Xia Qing, our purpose is to this."

Xia Qing looked at the dishes in the bowl for a long time, picked them up with chopsticks, and slowly put them into his mouth to chew. Everyone around them ate quietly. Although Xia Qing and Xu Zhong didn't say it clearly, Song Qi knew that the two People are not very interested in talking.

The town needs a famous place to keep passers-by, so that people in the town can earn some tolls.

It happened that someone praised He Laosan's craftsmanship, and those who cared thought that He Laosan's craftsmanship was good, so wave after wave of praise rushed away.

For a long time, He Laosan's family was the representative of the highest craftsmanship in the town. Some people were proud of such a restaurant, some looked envious, and some looked jealous and secretly envious.

It happened that the nobleman passed by, and the sentence that mountain and wild delicacies are difficult to get into the elegant hall seemed to be a key. They thought they had the opportunity to see the truth, so they pushed through the fog of He Laosan's family layer by layer. The article is the performance of the shop owner bullying customers and profiteers, and the kindness in the past must have a purpose.

Layer by layer, these people are very proud, look, it turns out that He Laosan is a vagrant, and he is the one who leads people to see the truth with his own hands.

Poor He Laosan has opened a restaurant all his life, and he doesn't know what's wrong.

But Song Qi, who has only been here once, knows that it is a small restaurant with a unique flavor, and it cannot be stopped by the praise in the face, and it cannot be resisted by the scolding from the sky.

Only the shopkeeper who ate a bowl of wontons at the end knows that the taste of this shop has not changed for more than ten years, and He Laosan is still the best craftsman in the town.

(End of this chapter)