You cultivate immortality, I cultivate merit

It was snowing and the road was slippery, so the carriage couldn't move very fast.

When Shi Xiaoliu and the other two arrived at the city gate, it was already noon.

After getting off the carriage, they ran straight to the city gate. Not many people were entering the city at that time.

The three of them entered the city and saw that the tea stall at the city gate had a new owner.

An elderly couple is now running the tea stall. Business seems to be pretty good and the stall is packed with people.

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two walked towards the vegetarian restaurant. When they were almost there, they saw the waiter handing out number plates.

Shi Xiaoliu walked forward quickly. The waiter knew that they were people who wanted to have a meal, so he immediately handed Shi Xiaoliu a number card.

"Brother, there are no empty tables in the store now.

If you are willing to wait a while, take this number plate and when there is a vacancy, we will come out and call a few times on this street. "

Shi Xiaoliu looked back at Shi Zelan and Xia Yu, and when he saw them nod, he reached out and took the number plate.

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two happened to be in the mood to take a walk on the street, so they walked forward. When they really reached the street, they met a group of people blocking the road.

The three of them squeezed in and saw two groups of people confronting each other. Two women stood in front, and neither of them was willing to take a step back.

At this time, the husband is right and the wife is right.

The onlookers were also talking about the situation at this time, and in short, they were half and half in support.

After listening for a while, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two exchanged glances and then squeezed out.

“You said you are a relative of the Pan family?

Haha, I am a neighbor of the Pan family. How come I have never seen you visit relatives before?"

Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan stopped suddenly. Xia Yu took two steps forward and looked back to see their expressions.

He walked over and whispered, "Yangzhou City is so big, it's not necessarily the only family with the surname Pan."

"Xia Yu, I think the Pan family they are talking about now is the Pan family we are thinking of."

Xia Yu listened to Shi Zelan's words, and seeing Shi Xiaoliu's approval expression, he could only stand on the side of the road with the brother and sister and listen to the quarrel.

"We are from the Pan family's son-in-law's aunt's family. What can you neighbors do?"

"Son-in-law of the Pan family?
Oh, are you from the cousin's family of the handsome Pan family son-in-law in the village outside the city?
I don't think you look like him. You are so ugly. Are you trying to use the title of Pan family's son-in-law?

Humph, even if the Pan family’s daughter came to marry today, I would ask her to apologize.

You bumped into me without even looking at me, and I didn't say anything to you, but you turned around and scolded me for blocking the road."

“Did I mean to hit you?
It was you who came towards me without any eyes and made me bump into you, you fat woman, you almost made me fall down. "

Shi Xiaoliu pulled Shi Zelan back, and Xia Yu followed.

When the three of them arrived at the vegetarian restaurant, the waiter was already calling out numbers several times, and just in time, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two arrived.

The waiter looked at their number plate and said, "Wait a moment. I'll call the left and right."

The waiter walked half a block to the left attentively and called out the number of the queue several times, but no one responded.

He called out the ranking numbers to the right several times, but still no one came forward to respond.

He walked over and took the number plate from Shi Xiaoliu: "You guys go in and have your meal first."

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two entered the vegetarian restaurant. There was an empty table at the back, which had just been cleared.

When Shi Xiaoliu and the other two were halfway through their meal, there was a commotion outside the vegetarian restaurant: "Waiter, we've been waiting in line for so long, why are there still no seats available?"

"Oh, it's you. I've called you several times, but no one responded. Please wait a moment. There will be an empty table soon. You can go in and eat."

"Waiter, you must not have called us loudly. We were standing on the street over there."

“I went over there and called out several times, but you didn’t respond to me.

The customers behind you heard my call and came to the restaurant with their number plates to eat. "

There was a commotion at the entrance of the store; a customer had just finished his meal, leaving an empty table.

The host came out and invited the noisy guests to have their meal at the vegetarian restaurant.

After they sat down, they kept muttering, "That waiter just now wasn't smart at all. He was just as dumb as the fat woman we were arguing with."

After hearing this, Shi Zelan whispered to Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu, "Do you think that woman is fat or has become a little plump?"

"One is rounder, and the other is too thin and doesn't look well."

Shi Xiaoliu answered very straightforwardly, and Xia Yu smiled at the side: "Brother Xiaoliu, you care about other people's health."

The three of them were already drinking the rice soup after their meal at this time. They were about to finish the rice soup and wait for the packed meals to be delivered before they got up and left.

When Shi Xiaoliu and the other two were leaving the vegetarian restaurant, they saw the quarreling party enter the restaurant, and their faces were filled with extreme anger.

"We are relatives of the Pan family. We should visit the Pan family."

"Stop talking, the guy just said that the Pan family has many relatives.

If we go there like this, others may not welcome us in.”

"You believe what the fat woman said. If she were a neighbor of the Pan family, I would be too embarrassed to go out if I were her, dressed so shabby."

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two looked at each other. When they were having dinner in the restaurant just now, a customer said that the young lady of the Pan family who liked to wear white clothes was married.

Miss Pan searched the whole city for her ideal man, but to no avail.

The elders in her family made a quick decision to marry her to the third son of a farmer's family outside the city.

The guest who was speaking said affirmatively: "The good-looking children in farmers' families are not as favored as the strong children.

But after Miss Pan got married, she found that the third son was the one she had fallen in love with at first sight.

The Pan family gave their daughter a generous dowry, and the young lady and her husband lived happily together. "

After hearing what the guest said, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two remembered the great achievements of Miss Pan in searching the city for men.

Shi Xiaoliu and two other people went to the bookstore and bought some books and some pens.

As the three of them walked towards the city gate, they heard children singing ballads on the street.

The three of them listened carefully and found that it was about the story of Miss Pan.

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two watched in amazement as the children sang from one end of the street to the other, and passers-by acted as if it was normal.

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two stopped in their tracks. They were very curious about this. Wasn't the Pan family a wealthy family in Yangzhou Prefecture?
The three of them listened carefully to the voices on the street, and finally heard someone say that there was a storyteller praising people in the teahouse.

Miss Pan is indeed a rare and extraordinary woman in Yangzhou Prefecture. No wonder she was able to marry her sweetheart.

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two walked out of the city gate with dazed looks on their faces. When they were renting a carriage at the city gate, the driver saw their expressions.

He asked with some concern: "Were you three bullied in the city?"

Shi Zelan shook her head and told the driver what she had heard. (End of this chapter)