Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

"Wu Feng hasn't sent the message yet. We don't have a base in Su Shui County, so we should use the pigeons sparingly. He probably won't report unless it's something serious." Wu Huo replied.

"What's the news from Wuyun?"

"Wu Yun said that everything is going smoothly. If we try it a few more times, we should be able to find out the truth."

"Very good." Gu Xu closed the magazine in his hand.

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After working in the fabric shop for five or six days, Gu Yue angrily fought for six taels of silver. He passed the test of the Marquis's wife and officially joined the most prosperous restaurant in Sushui County - Hongcheng Restaurant, as an errand boy.

He found an opportunity to go back to Gujia Village and almost forgot about his chickens and vegetable fields.

The chicks were packed and taken away, and the vegetable garden... couldn't be taken care of for the time being. Things were changing too fast. He thought he would have to stay in the novice Gujia Village for a few years like other farmers in the field.

Come to think of it, other people's protagonists have capital and golden fingers, and they also know various skills learned from short videos. But ordinary people like him who are unprepared and whose knowledge only slides through their smooth cerebral cortex still need to practice to gain true knowledge.

Gu Yue took away some spare clothes and the box containing the money, as well as a set of the four treasures of the study, then locked the gate and left.

I went to the martial arts hall in Liuli Town on the way, but I didn't see Gu Xu.

Wu Shouming came out to greet him and said that Gu Xu and some students who had made rapid progress had gone out for field training.

Gu Yue was a little disappointed. He wanted to see if Gu Xu had gained weight. He left all the money he had earned in the past few days and his property to Gu Xu, briefly explained his current situation, and left with the chicken, clothes and quilt.

People like them who worked long hours were assigned houses. Of course, the quality of life was not as good as Gu Xu's in the martial arts hall, but there were still six or seven people in one room, with a big bunk bed, simple but sufficient meals, and sometimes leftovers. He had no objection to such a good thing as free food and accommodation.

The Marquisate probably wanted to go the business route. After all, several generations of descendants had failed to pass the imperial examinations, and the title of Marquis would be taken back after a few more generations. Previously, Brother Gu and his wife seemed to be very successful in their business, but it also brought them disaster. Even if the county magistrate led people to suppress the gang of roaming horse bandits in the next few years, the dead could not come back.

With money, he can use his connections to donate a small official position to his promising descendants, and at least the safety of the Su Shui County area will be guaranteed.

This generation of marquis was not good at studying, but he was very good at enjoying life. The chefs of Hongcheng Restaurant were all hired by him from all over Northern Qin during his travels. The special dishes were varied and simple, unlike the Luoyang Restaurant, which pursued gorgeous and expensive ingredients.

Therefore, the price is reasonable, and ordinary people with some assets can enjoy it occasionally.

Gu Yue was a relative of his family, so few people deliberately made things difficult for him. The manager even took the initiative to buy his chickens at the market price. Although Gu Yue felt sorry, he still handed over the chickens. Raising chickens alone would be very conspicuous.

After working as a waiter for a few days, Gu Yue began to try to make reports.

There was almost no one at breakfast, and they didn't sell breakfast here.

More people eat at noon. People who go to restaurants generally don’t eat staple foods. The dishes are a combination of meat and vegetables. At the end, they will order steamed buns and dumplings at most. Grain wine sells the best.

The night is the busiest time of the day for restaurants, as they sell almost all kinds of dishes and even more alcohol. The Northern Qin dynasty was at its peak, and no one had rebelled for nearly thirty or forty years, so the curfew was set at midnight.

But children and girls would not be brave enough to go out on the street alone late at night.

Most customers in Sushui County like spicy food, such as stir-fried mushrooms, pork belly with peppers, etc. Most of the dishes have their own elegant names, and most of them can be compared with the current specialties. Sushui County is located near Luoyang, and the variety of dishes can be regarded as a collection of the best of all.

Gu Yue originally thought that this was a routine operation in restaurants, but when he found two days off and visited other restaurants, he found that it was not the case. Other restaurants were still limited to local dishes, and there were also dishes that were stolen from Hongcheng, but the taste was obviously not good or something, and basically no one was interested.

Let's talk about the takeaway business he had thought about. Although it was very promising in Beiqin, it was still limited by the lack of convenient communication. Richer families had their own servants, and they could just order the servants to line up and buy whatever they wanted; ordinary families rarely had a chance to eat at a restaurant, so they naturally wouldn't choose delivery. Instead of going to a restaurant to order food, why not just take it home?

Although the business plan was temporarily shelved, Gu Yue was not too depressed. After all, he was not the protagonist and there was no need for him to do something that would make the readers instantly successful and famous.

It was a sunny day, and Gu Yue had some free time. He took the manuscript of the immortal cultivation document that he had polished over the past few days and went to the Su Shui County branch of Shanghang Dou Bookstore.

This was a sunny shop, not very big, with an inner room inside and bookshelves outside the storefront, all of which contained popular literary books, including many masterpieces that Gu Yue had heard of.

Even in Sushui County, the literacy rate was not very high, and people read newspapers by word of mouth. As a result, the shop was deserted. There was only a waiter lying on a rocking chair, covering his face with a book, and sleeping soundly.

Gu Yue walked closer and saw that the book was called "Biography of Du Fu".

"Boss?" Gu Yue asked respectfully.

"Hmm?" A lazy response came from under the book.

"My name is Gu Yue, and I'm here to submit an article to the bookstore." Gu Yue said.

"Oh? What kind? My bookstore doesn't accept pedantic poetry... Eh?" The waiter took the book off his face, revealing a face with sharp eyebrows and delicate eyes. He looked at Gu Yue with some interest in his eyes.

Gu Yue was speechless.

Should we say that appearance is one of the recruitment criteria of Hangzhou Dou Bookstore, or is it that the law of this world treats people as fools?

If the waiter didn’t know that the protagonist of the world was Gu Xu, he would have thought that this was some kind of protagonist.

Don't be too obvious, right?

There are only a few words missing from your face: "I am an important character"!

"Let me see it." The waiter, or the shop owner, stretched out his hand.

The hand was white and slender, with obvious calluses on the fingers.

"It's a book about cultivating immortals, and it also contains a few unsolved mysteries of the world that I made up." Gu Yue handed over the manuscript, "Do you know me?"

"No, it's just that you don't look like someone who can write articles, so I think I should gain something today." The shop owner said with a smile.

Gu Yue probably understood that it was probably because of his burly figure and the scar on his forehead.

He was serving dishes at the front desk, and those impatient and angry customers dared not say a word when they saw him.

The shop owner looked at it carefully, raised his beautiful eyes, and looked at Gu Yue with interest: "Would you like to talk later?"

"Okay." Gu Yue felt relieved.

The shop owner walked to the door, hung a sign saying "temporarily closed", and installed the door panels one by one, and the room became dark. He took Gu Yue to the back room, which was an ordinary room with only a bookshelf and a table and chairs.

The shop owner held the vase and turned it, and the bookshelf opened, revealing a dark secret room behind it.