Martial arts talent system

Chapter 197 The Restaurant Disturbance 1
Jiuqu Yellow River is thousands of miles of sand. Over thousands of years, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River have formed a fertile alluvial plain.Although the throughput of merchant ships in the Yellow River is not as large as that of the Yangtze River, there are still many merchant ships in the areas where the water situation is gentler in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there are many people in the rivers and lakes on the Yellow River. Most of these people have the same occupation, called water ghosts.Of course they are not ghosts, but they will push people off the boat to become water ghosts.Although such an industry has been suppressed by the imperial court, it has been banned repeatedly, and the encirclement and suppression by the navy has had little effect.Some officers and soldiers even took up the role of water ghosts to make extra money.

Somewhere in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, in a small wine shop about four or five miles away from the wharf, suddenly six strange faces came to the wine shop, all of them looked like travel-worn people, and the leader was quite The most majestic, eight and a half feet in length, as for the others, they are also the shortest and no less than seven feet.This group of people are all men, three younger ones in their twenties, two older ones in their thirties, and one half-grown child.The leading man walked to the table outside the restaurant, pulled a stool and sat down, then spoke the official dialect of the capital and shouted: "Shopkeeper, please serve me a jug of wine first."

"Okay." The waiter who was waiting in the hall responded, and quickly passed the food in his hand to the table at hand, then walked to the back kitchen, and walked over with a wine jar.The waiter put the wine jar in his hand on the table, set the wine bowls for the group, and then asked: "What else do you want to eat?"

"Twenty more steamed buns, and then weigh five catties of beef." The leader took the wine jar, slapped the mud off it, and poured the wine into the bowl, looking at the slightly cloudy As for the wine, the man picked up the wine bowl and put it in front of his nose, frowning, smelled it, and tasted it again. "Bah!" The man spit out the bad wine in his mouth on the ground, poured all the wine in the bowl on the ground, then stood up with the wine jar in his hand, grabbed the waiter's shoulder and said, "Will you What kind of wine am I serving? It's like horse urine. Try it yourself."

The waiter in the store felt as if his shoulders were being pinched with a large pair of pliers. He looked at the man with a painful expression on his face and said, "Guest officer, guest officer, please let me go and get you a jar of wine." The scene that happened attracted the attention of the people who ate around, but most of them wanted to watch the excitement, but no one stood up.The shopkeeper inside heard the voice from outside, and hurried out. Seeing the vicious man over eight feet tall, he didn't feel embarrassed, and quickly greeted him with a smile, "Please, sir, please spare this blind man!" guy."

The eight-foot-tall man saw the boss coming, so he didn't make things difficult for the waiter, but let go of his hand resentfully, and said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, what kind of wine do you sell in this shop? It's so sour and bitter." The shopkeeper just smiled, and said with cupped hands: "Guest officer, you don't know, most of us here are some coolies sitting outside drinking, they have little money and are greedy, so the quality of this drink It's all bad. The waiter in this shop has only been here for a few days and has never seen a distinguished guest like you sitting outside, so he brought that kind of bad wine to entertain the distinguished guest. The little old man is here to apologize to you." The vicious man looked at the shopkeeper's face full of smiles, and the atmosphere in his heart couldn't help but disperse a little. He just reached out and took out a silver coin from his waist and threw it to the shopkeeper, saying, "Bring me good wine and good food. I have plenty." money."

The shopkeeper shook the money in his hand, he didn't care about the greedy eyes of those around him, he just put the money in his sleeve and said to the man: "Guest officer, wait a moment, I'll go and bring it to you." . " As he spoke, he turned around and patted the back of the waiter's head to teach him a few words.

The man just sat up, "seeing" a man of the same age opposite this man said such a sentence, and then realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and said again: "Brother Mu, why are you so angry today?" ?”

But the man said indifferently: "We have been eating ashes outside for so long. We thought we could have a good meal, but we didn't expect to encounter such perfunctory prevarication as soon as we sat down. It's really unlucky. How can you not?" It made me angry, it's rare to have a wine shop in a place where birds don't lay eggs, and it ended up being staged for me."

"It's not bad. It's hard to describe the taste of the wine we drank in winter when we were in the northern border." It was another man in his thirties who said.

"Old Cao, why don't you drink this wine after you say so much?" The man in charge teased with a smile, but accidentally knocked over the wine jar, and the wine flowed on the table in an instant.The man frantically raised the wine jar again, then wiped the table with his sleeve, and finally tucked his fingers on the table unconsciously, but wrote a few words with the wine: Find a local snake.Then he reached out and wiped off the water stains.

"Since the wine is good to drink later, why do you want to drink this bad wine? You say so." The man called Lao Cao laughed loudly, "I want to drink with you later Serve three big bowls, don’t be afraid.” The old Cao rolled up his sleeves and made a heroic look, but inadvertently revealed a golden chain shining brightly in the sun, but soon this However, Lao Cao felt that something was wrong, but he stretched out his hands and rolled up his sleeves again, covering up the big gold chain.

"Hmph, then don't drink and lie down under the table." But the leader smiled and took the conversation.

This group of people is Li Jianxin and his group who came out of the capital. They disguised themselves a bit, and made some modifications on their faces. They are only four or five points similar to their original appearance. It took more than ten days of effort along the way. When they arrived here, they were already covered in dust and dust, and they looked very embarrassed. People who were not familiar with them would not recognize them.They were all called by pseudonyms along the way, but they were still a little unaccustomed to it. It was Wang Jin who almost showed his flaws just now.

After about half an hour, the shopkeeper came out with the food for Li Jianxin and his party.He came over again with a jug of wine, and said: "Guest officer, it's just a ten-year vintage wine in our store. You can taste it first, and if it doesn't suit your taste, I'll change it for you." He stretched out his hand to remove the mud on the wine jar, and poured a bowl of wine for Li Jianxin. The clear hops shone in the sun, and a fragrance wafted out, "This is good wine, it's alright, put it down." Li Jianxin He waved his hand in a magnanimous manner and said.

"The little old man will go to work first, please do your own thing, sir." The shopkeeper bent over and said.

"Go, go, don't be an eyesore here." It was Li Jianxin who waved his hands nonchalantly and said, but he didn't seem to notice the hint of viciousness that flashed by the shopkeeper when he turned around.The people around watched Li Jianxin drink the bowl of wine, and couldn't help but sneer.

Everyone in Li Jianxin seemed to have never heard of it, they were just drinking and eating food, and within a short while, all the food and wine were swallowed into their stomachs.After the bartender had finished his meal, Li Jianxin felt a dazzling feeling, "This wine and food" Li Jianxin passed out on the table as he said, Lao Cao saw Li Jianxin fainted on the table, stood up quickly and shook Li Jianxin, Said: "It's all right" but immediately felt dizzy, and fell to the ground in a daze, but dimly saw his partners all fell down.

The diners around saw that the people at Li Jianxin's table were lying down, they couldn't help standing up, took out the knives from under the table, and came over one after another. "Squeeze to see what? Let me go." It was the shopkeeper who pushed everyone away and came over.All the onlookers stepped out of the way one after another, allowing the shopkeeper to come to Li Jianxin's table. "Guest officer? Guest officer, wake up." The shopkeeper stretched out his hand and pushed Li Jianxin a few times, pretending to be surprised and asking in detail.

"Okay, shopkeeper, don't pretend, your anesthetic can knock down a cow. These people have been overwhelmed after taking so long." But one of the onlookers said with a smile.

"You guys, why don't you go and be on guard first, lest someone comes over and causes trouble." The shopkeeper said and ordered a group of people to go to the forest path to guard. "Here come a few guys and carry them into the cellar." The shopkeeper ordered again.

Then a few more people came over with tendon ropes, intending to tie up Li Jianxin and the others.After tying up Li Jianxin and the five guys lying on the table, another person went to tie up Lao Cao's wrist. A gold chain, but a voice came out suddenly: "Shopkeeper, this guy is secretly taking that gold chain."

The man who stole the gold chain couldn't help shrinking his hands when he heard this, but he seemed to see Lao Cao opened his eyes, so he couldn't help rubbing his eyes and found that Lao Cao still had them closed, so he felt relieved.

"You guy, you dare to take this gold chain secretly." But the shopkeeper stretched out his hand and slapped the guy on the back of the head, then grabbed the guy by the ear and made him stand up. "Listen to me, shopkeeper, I really don't have his gold chain." The man explained.

"Do you think I'm blind?" the shopkeeper said and took out Lao Cao's gold chain from the man's waist.Everyone looked at the golden chain with greed in their eyes. "I really didn't take it." The man stammered, and he didn't know how the golden chain flew to his waist as if it had grown legs.

Although they are a partner in opening a black shop, if that person's hands and feet are not clean, he will be lit with sky lanterns. Although he usually gets a little cheap, he does it without leaving any traces. He absolutely dare not stretch out his hands. Those who reach the top of this golden chain can only touch it. "Shopkeeper, I really didn't take it. You also know that I am timid. At most, I would touch it secretly. How dare I take such a big gold chain?" The man explained to the shopkeeper.

"I saw him reach out to take it." But another sudden voice came out.The crowd crowded over again, their gazes were like knives trying to gouge out the man's flesh.

"I really didn't take it." The man was about to cry, but he didn't dare to look at the people who were about to eat people. He just lowered his head and looked at the ground, only to find that Lao Cao was blinking at him on the ground. squinting and smiling. The "manager" tremblingly stretched out his hand, but was grabbed by the arm next to him, "What else do you want to do? What else do you dare to do?"

The shopkeeper said: "Take it down, light the sky lantern, so as to warn others." The shopkeeper just waved his hand with a cold face, and what the man did was like hitting him in the face.It seems that my methods are still too benevolent, and there are still some blind guys who will jump out.

"The shopkeeper, I was wronged! That man has a ghost! Shopkeeper, I have made meritorious service for the store, and I have blocked the knife for you! The shopkeeper..." The man kept begging, but the others didn't seem to understand. The smell was average, but he was escorted to the back kitchen.After a while, there was a miserable scream.

"You, Hei Mazi, tie this guy up and carry them to the back kitchen later." The shopkeeper said casually, pointing to someone.

Hei Mazi responded, and was about to squat down to tie Lao Cao's hands, but found that Lao Cao's hands had been tied with a tendon rope at some point. "Strange." Hei Mazi muttered, then rubbed his eyes, and saw that the rope in Lao Cao's hand disappeared, and the tendon rope was thrown aside softly.

"Boss, this man has a ghost." Hei Mazi slowly stood up, turned his head and stretched out his hands, tremblingly said.

The shopkeeper Kankan, who was about to go back to the room just now, turned around, pointed at Hei Mazi's nose and said angrily: "You bunch of idiots, you can't do a little thing well." Then he slapped Hei Mazi, "Forget it, I'll do it myself." Then he squatted down, picked up the tendon rope on the ground, and wanted to tie Lao Cao's hands.

"Forget it, I'll do it myself." Another voice suddenly came from the crowd.Only then did the shopkeeper feel that something was wrong, he watched Lao Cao open his eyes in an instant, and tied his hands.

"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?" Lao Cao tied the shopkeeper's hands and feet together as he said, like a boiled shrimp.

"You..." the shopkeeper exclaimed, and the people around him all gathered around, and saw that this group of people surrounded Lao Cao and the shopkeeper with knives.

"Man, you'd better let me go." The shopkeeper said calmly.

"Let me think about it." Lao Cao pinched the shopkeeper's neck and said to the people around him, "If you dare to take a step forward, your shopkeeper will die in my hands."

"Listen to him and disperse." The shopkeeper gave everyone around him a glance, and then winked at a few of his confidants.Then everyone retreated one after another.

"Hero, how about we do this. Your friends are also in my hands. Let's make an exchange. I will exchange five of them. What do you think?" The shopkeeper said again.

(End of this chapter)