Buddhist Cultivation: Starting from Divination

Chapter 57 So You Are Such a Bird
Zhao Huai's culinary skills are not top-notch, but at least he has the ability to cook a table of dishes.

After half an hour of busy work, all the dishes were finally served.

"It smells so good, as expected of your husband."

Yu Qinghan couldn't help sniffing, then smiled and praised.

Zhao Huai wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, and said with a smile, "Eat it while it's hot, this fried fish with black bean sauce is guaranteed to satisfy your appetite."

When Pei Xiangyun saw the dishes on the table, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

She didn't expect what her sister said was actually true.

I have grown up so much, except for servants, I have never seen a few men who can cook.

Now, she seemed to understand why her sister liked him.

Because even her mother and concubine basically didn't cook. A few years ago, her father was sometimes away from home during the war, and the two of them rarely ate together, let alone cooked for each other.

At first, she thought her sister was wasting her time learning to cook, but now she is so naive.

Pei Xiangyun picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of steaming snow-white fish, put it in his mouth, and tasted it carefully.

What's going on, the taste is surprisingly good.

"How is it? Your brother-in-law is good at cooking, right?"

Yu Qinghan smiled sweetly.

"It's really okay." Although Pei Xiangyun didn't want to admit it, the delicious taste in his mouth lasted for a long time, and it was difficult to lie.

In order to restore my sister-in-law's dignity, Pei Xiangyun added another sentence, saying: "But I heard that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen, don't you know? Or is it that you are not a gentleman at all?"

After finishing speaking, there was a smug look on the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Huai smiled lightly, with a very indifferent attitude: "That's why you don't understand."

"This sentence was said by the ancient sage, Master Meng. The whole sentence is 'a gentleman stays away from the kitchen, seeing his life and can't bear to see his death'."

"The meaning of this sentence is that when a gentleman encounters a slaughtered creature, he only hopes to see it alive and cannot bear to see it die. This is the reason why a gentleman stays away from the kitchen. What he really admires is a benevolent heart."

"My husband's knowledge is really profound." Yu Qinghan said in admiration from the side.

After the explanation, Pei Xiangyun was stunned, dumbfounded!
Originally wanted to make things difficult for this bastard, but was killed? !

Seeing her like this, Zhao Huai couldn't help laughing.

His nine-year compulsory education was not for nothing.

In the following time, the three of them ate slowly.

Zhao Huai and Yu Qinghan ate and chatted, talking and laughing.

Only Pei Xiangyun was sullen, and was eating food on the sidelines.

She felt that she was superfluous, and she suffered a thousand blows in her heart.

dong dong dong.

When Zhao Huai was packing up the dishes, there was a knock on the door of the pawn shop.

"Husband, let me come, you go and open the door."

"it is good."

Zhao Huai is also used to it, and the number of times he has been knocked on the door at night is not uncommon.

When I opened the door, I saw a shirtless man and a 50-[-]-year-old aunt.

It seems that they should be ordinary people, and there is nothing special about them.

"Shopkeeper, we are here to pawn. Let's see how much this jade is worth."

With an anxious face, the aunt hurriedly took out a piece of muddy jade from her bosom and handed it to Zhao Huai.

"This is my family's ancestral gem, I will bet it on you first, and I will rush to buy a coffin for my son to bury."

"Okay, please wait a moment."

Zhao Huai also encountered this kind of special situation. Suddenly, there was a big change at home in the middle of the night. There was not enough money for medical treatment, he lost all his gambling, and when someone died, he had no money to bury him.

These are understandable.

Zhao Huai took over Baoyu and launched Jianbao's fate.

After a cursory glance, I found that it was just an ordinary piece of low-quality jade, with nothing in it, and a lot of flaws, which belonged to the lowest quality jade.

Sell ​​it for dozens of taels of silver at most.

"About 50 taels of silver."

Zhao Huai finally gave the price.

When the aunt heard this, she begged: "Shopkeeper, can you do me a favor and charge more, my son is buried, and I don't have much money to buy food recently, this jade is the last hope, can you add another five taels of silver?" ?”

Zhao Huai listened to the aunt's words, thought for a moment, and said slowly:
"Looking at your family's funeral, it's really not easy, so let's count it to 55 taels for you."

The aunt finally knelt down as if she had received amnesty, and said gratefully:
"Thank you shopkeeper! Thank you shopkeeper!"

"Remember, the interest will be paid according to the normal rate, and you can't lose a penny."

Zhao Huai reminded me.

He is in business, not a philanthropist, so naturally he can't be too soft-hearted.

Those who can help will naturally help, but they will not cross that line after all.

"I understand this rule."

The aunt nodded vigorously, and left in a hurry after taking the money.

Seeing that the shirtless man behind hadn't left yet, Zhao Huai asked in surprise, "So you are not in the same group?"

The shirtless man shook his head, and replied, "Of course not, but we also handle funerals. Recently, some brothers from the Spirit Mine died, so I will handle funerals for them."

"This is a spirit stone. The shopkeeper will see how much the pawn is."

The shirtless man took out a shimmering spirit stone.

When Zhao Huai saw the spirit stone, he understood it very well, and gave the price at a glance: "100 taels."

Then he asked very curiously: "Are you all workers in the mine?"

"What happened recently, many people died?"

"Yes."

The shirtless man nodded solemnly.

"The shopkeeper doesn't know, a strange thing happened outside the city recently, but anyone who passes by that hillside late at night will die for no reason the next day."

"My brothers are all on night shift, working overtime. When they go home in the early morning, they have to pass through the hillside, and they all died the next day."

"If I hadn't asked my brother's wife, I wouldn't have known about it. It's probably because of that aunt just now."

After hearing these words, Zhao Huai frowned deeply, and couldn't help thinking.

Could it be another monster?
Or the Heifeng grandma who escaped?
"Shopkeeper, let me know when the money will be given to me. The coffin shop is asking for a deposit urgently."

The shirtless man broke Zhao Huai's thinking and couldn't help but say.

"Okay, I'll give it to you right away."

Zhao Huai walked into the shop, took two ingots of silver, and handed them to the man.

"Thank you shopkeeper."

The shirtless man took the silver and left quickly.

Zhao Huai glanced at the spirit stone in his hand, shook his head and said, "The recent monsters are really worrying."

"Chirp!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of birdsong in the shop.

Zhao Huai took a closer look, isn't it the starling he bought back?

Now it actually made a sound, is it true or false?

He hurried to the front of the birdcage, and found that the starling, who had been lazy before, now had a small head poked out, and his bean-like eyeballs were full of longing.

Staring at the Lingshi and Baoyu in his hand.

Zhao Huai obviously noticed this too, so he handed over the thumb-sized Lingshi to see what would happen.

As a result, it was just sent over.

This starling swallowed the spirit stone in one gulp!
Looking at it, Zhao Huai was slightly taken aback.

But after a while, the starling spit it out again.

Obviously it was still the spirit stone just now, but the aura inside had disappeared.

"I Zhuo, so you are such a bird, return my spirit stone!"

Zhao Huai immediately stood up, pointing at the starling and cursing impolitely.

"I blanch, I blanch."

Soon, the same words blurted out from my starling's mouth.

The degree of correctness of this word is not much different from what he said.

Looking at the starling in front of him tilting his head and looking at him, Xiaodouzi's eyes are big and innocent.

Zhao Huai really wanted to beat him up.

(End of this chapter)