The old man nodded, turned to me and said, "Young man, two catties of pork and green onion dumplings, two cups of old white dry." ”

The girl in cotton lowered her head and said coquettishly when she heard this.

"People don't drink well, so don't drink it. ”

The old man discussed as if flattering. "Accompany the old man for a cup, you drink a few sips, the night is cold, warm up. ”

As he spoke, the old man reached out and touched the jade hand of the girl in cotton clothes. His eyes seemed to be smiling, and the folds on his face were cramped like dried walnut skin in autumn.

The girl in cotton glanced at me and quickly withdrew her hand.

Charming muttered. "How old you are, let people see the joke. ”

I was scorched by the thunder in front of me. I thought these two people were grandfather and granddaughter. Now it seems that one of Su Dongpo's poems is well written.

"Eighteen brides and eighty langs, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are made into a double night, and a pear flower presses the begonia. ”

Nowadays, the world is really declining, and I think I, a young man who has just graduated from college, is still an out-and-out single old bachelor. The skeleton spirit of the grandfather's generation in front of him actually rubbed the hand of other girls in the middle of the night.

The old man was a little embarrassed by what the girl in cotton said, and his mouth grinned, revealing a mouthful of smoked tetracycline teeth like corn kernels.

I'm a waiter, so I naturally have to increase my eyesight and can't disturb the guests to flirt. Hurriedly put away the menu, turned around and shouted to the back kitchen.

"Brother Niu, a guest is here. Two pounds of pork and green onion dumplings. ”

"Okay!"

Chef Niu Baiye's voice was like a bell, and he was still screaming to the sky, and he was full of spirit and vitality in an instant.

After about ten minutes, Brother Niu brought two large plates of dumplings from the back kitchen, with thin dough and crystal clear pink filling. I have to say that the size of this dumpling is really big, and there are many stuffed meat fillings, all of which have big bellies, like shiny ingots.

I served these dumplings with two cups of Lao Bai Gan'er, and now the plates in this restaurant are really high-tech. It should be some kind of heat-insulating glazed porcelain material, the dumplings are obviously steaming, but I don't feel hot at all when I hold it in my hand.

The old man and the girl in cotton clothes at the table were still flirting.

The old man was talking about the passions of his youth, and he only vaguely heard about his first wife, cornfields, kiln factories, and so on.

The girl in cotton listened carefully, and from time to time "uh-huh" should be reconciled. The clever smile reminded me of my first love in high school for a while.

Everyone will meet a person when they are young, and this person is destined for the first half of his life. Thinking of that beautiful and familiar face, there was a sudden tingling in my heart.

I really can't figure it out, how did this old man and young get together, could it be that this old man is a hidden multi-millionaire?

From time to time, I would sit at the counter and peek in, looking at the skeleton from top to bottom.

Melon skin hat, black Tang suit, black cloth shoes, although it can be seen that it is a new dress, the edge of the shoe is spotless. At most, it is a handmade custom of a small workshop, which is neither high-end, nor will it be a famous brand.

Looking at the old man's words and deeds, the back of his spine was stiff, the joints of his ten fingers were thick and large, and the fingernails were thick,, and gray. Damn, it's nail fungus, right?

I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.

Could it be that this girl is a stumbling girl?

This girl in cotton clothes is only eighteen or nineteen years old, simple and innocent, revealing a natural beauty. It's probably the appearance of the white moonlight in the hearts of many young people.

The old man continued to talk about his old days, the girl in cotton clothes should be very hungry, her smart eyes stared greedily at the two plates of dumplings in front of her, she didn't even use chopsticks, and suddenly stretched out her white jade hands, grabbed the dumplings and stuffed them into her mouth.

The dumplings filled the girl's mouth, juice overflowed from the corners of its mouth, and the lips were soaked with pale black oil soup.

I can't help but wonder, this dumpling restaurant is also black-hearted, probably I don't know where to get the gutter oil and lymphatic meat, why is the oil soup jet black?

The old man looked at the girl's gobbling up and smiled contentedly. He cleared his throat and took out a square tin box from his pocket, filled with rectangular cigarette paper and dry tobacco.

I saw him skillfully roll up a cigarette roll, "bang" and light the fire, and a bitter and choking smell of smoke suddenly hit the entire dumpling restaurant.

The girl frowned slightly, looking at the sparks on the old man's cigarette, her body slowly leaned back, and her eyes were slightly frightened.

"But be careful, people are afraid of fire. ”

"Yo! negligence, you girl can't see the fire. ”

The old man said reluctantly, took two puffs of cigarette and threw it into the ground.

The cigarette has not been extinguished, and the white smoke is still billowing out, and the smell should be the old dry tobacco in Kushui County, which is strong and choking.

I don't smoke because my father has bad lungs and the family never allows the slightest smell, so I'm very sensitive to the smell of smoke. I feel dizzy.

I picked up the broom from the counter, opened the glass door, walked to the old man's feet, and swept the cigarette butt straight out of the door like a golf. "Hey, let's go!"

At this time, at about two o'clock in the morning, the cold wind outside the door was rising, and the two days were just in time for the change of seasons to cool down, and the wind outside was whining, convection back and forth in the air, making a woman's sobbing sound.

I saw that the cigarette butt had swept out the door, and suddenly there was a whirlwind, and a few sparkling ideas were blown back sporadically.

I hurriedly closed the door, only to hear a scream of "wow". The cotton-clothed girl let out a miserable and torn wail.

I hurriedly turned around, but saw that the young girl in the cotton clothes was burned into a huge fireball by the spark idea the size of a grain of rice.

"It's hot, help, you're going to bake me dry, help!"

The girl's voice was sharp and painful.

"How so?"

I was stunned by the scene in front of me, cold sweat soaked my whole body in an instant, it was just a spark idea the size of a grain of rice, how could I burn a living woman like this in an instant?

The old man was indeed surprisingly calm when he saw this scene. I saw him faintly clenching his back molars, his face twitching, and his face was pale.

"It's hot, ah...... Ahhhh

The girl's screams became sharper and sharper, and the whole person was blurred in the red firelight, and only faintly she could see her pink-white, little face distorted by pain, and the oily black juice overflowing from the corners of her mouth.

Niu Baiye in the back kitchen also heard the screams in the lobby, only to hear a jingle of bells and the sound of pots and pans from the kitchen.

This was followed by the sound of water from the faucet.

From time to time, Brother Niu unhurriedly brought up a stainless steel iron basin filled with tap water.

I saw him swaggering to the side of the fire and pouring the basin of cold water directly from the top of the fire.

The fierce fire that had been raging just now was easily extinguished by this basin of tap water.

It's just that the miserable howling girl in the fire group just now is gone. Instead, there was a patch of grey water, and a few tattered confetti.

The scene in front of me was so unbelievable that a thought suddenly exploded in my mind. This girl in cotton clothes, she, she is not human.

Red padded jacket, red padded pants. Two sheep's horn braids, pink and clumpy faces, and a faint red on the cheeks.

A clear and penetrating image was instantly generated in front of my eyes, isn't this the girl who tied flowers in the paper shop?

Niu Baiye had long been familiar with this scene, and glanced at me, who was already stiff in all fours.

The hippie smiling face playfully said: "Good boy, I will stab Lou Zi on the first day of work, see how Danhong will clean you up when he comes back, and he will deduct his salary!"

The old man was still very calm, and sighed helplessly. A pair of angry eyes looked at me as if they were about to breathe fire.

"W-what the hell is this place?"

I was trembling, soaking my sweatshirt in a cold sweat.

"That woman is not a person at all, what kind of business is this dumpling restaurant doing, why is it open in the middle of the night?"

Niu Baiye stepped forward and patted me on the shoulder.

"You'll find out slowly, boy, what's the matter?"

"No, I'm quitting. ”

How I want to rush out at this moment, immediately, immediately. But my legs were like lead blocks, as if they weighed thousands of pounds, and my legs did not move on the ground, and I could not lift them at all.

The old man pulled out a wad of money from the cloth pocket of his trouser waist and slammed it on the table. When I looked closely, it was a pile of pink-green coins.