Chapter 29: A Treat

Guan Yuan is planning for the braised meat in the future, and the Li family in Yunxian County is also lively for the braised meat. When Xiao Zhang brought the braised pork back to Li's house with apprehension, Old Man Li was playing chess with his old friend. Seeing Xiao Zhang coming back, he asked eagerly, "Xiao Zhang, have you bought the fish back?" ”

Xiao Zhang made a bitter face: "Old Li, those two children said that there were no fish in the river, and they sold braised meat instead, do you want to taste it, this braised meat is very delicious."

Li Lao looked disgusted when he heard this: "We haven't eaten braised pork yet!" The time-honored brands touted by the heavens in the capital are not just like that. ”

When the old man opposite him heard this, he said to Xiao Zhang: 'Bring me the braised pork and I'll taste it, I'll take this bite.'" Xiao Zhang hurriedly brought the braised pork to the kitchen and asked them to cut it, and put it on a plate and brought it to Zhao Lao.

Zhao Lao took a bite, first for a meal, and then quietly put down his chopsticks and said to Li Lao, "You really don't eat?" Then all this meat will be mine! ”

Li Laohu glanced at the old man opposite suspiciously: "You old ghost, I am still reluctant to order such braised meat?" It's all yours, it's yours!"

Zhao Lao hurriedly stood up and asked Xiao Zhang to bring out the braised pork: "I can't play chess today, I have to go back to eat."

Li Lao left him: "Let's eat here, you have never known how to be polite, why do you know how to be polite today!" Zhao Lao laughed a few times and didn't speak, turned around and left, and the pace was so fast that he was close to running.

Li Lao muttered: "This guy is getting more and more weird" At this time, a child's happy voice sounded at the door of the house: "Grandpa, I'm back"

Hearing this voice, Li Laoxiao's face was wrinkled, and he hurriedly stood up and walked to the door and hugged the little guy: "Grandpa's good grandson is back, is there a good guy today." ”

The little guy nodded busily: "I'm good today" The woman behind heard this: "Dad, don't listen to him, this kid ran away when I didn't pay attention when I was on the street, and I was easy to find."

When Li Lao heard this, he said: "You can't even look at a child as an adult, so you are embarrassed to say it." Fu felt that this was really dangerous, and said to the child: "Xiaoxin, you can't do this again in the future, you have to listen to your mother, do you know?"

The child nodded simply: "I will definitely listen to my mother in the future, grandpa, I am eating delicious and delicious meat today, I bought it for you, Mom, give me some quickly"

The young woman reluctantly tore a small piece of braised pork and handed it to the little boy, and the child took it and fed it to Li Lao's mouth: "Grandpa, eat"

The little grandson has filial piety, and Li Lao happily curled his beard: "Good, good, I'll eat, I'll eat" opened his mouth and ate the meat, and before he entered his mouth, Li Lao paused, this meat! asked his daughter-in-law: "Yuling, where did you buy this meat?" ”

Wu Yuling replied: "There are two children's stalls, which are in the free market." After listening to this, Elder Li asked Xiao Zhang, "Did you also buy it from those two children?" Zhang nodded.

Li Laoyi patted his thigh: "I said that this old ghost Zhao left so early today, and his feelings are to ignore my flesh" Xiao Zhang twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this, this is what you said yourself to let people take away. When I turned around, I saw Li Lao saying to Li Xin with a smile on his face: "Good grandson, let's eat those meats for grandpa!" ”

The other people who bought the braised pork and went back all rushed to eat the braised meat.

Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu didn't know this, so today they still marinated about 30 catties of meat as they did yesterday. Unexpectedly, as soon as the stall was put up, it was surrounded by a group of people, you two catties and I three catties, and I bought all the braised meat in a hurry, and it was not sold for an hour.

Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan knew that this was their braised meat that had made a reputation.

The two returned to the pork stall and said to the meat seller that they wanted two pig's heads, other pig's ears, and twice as much pork belly. The uncle who sold the meat looked at the two children as if he were looking at a diorama: 'I said that you don't buy the meat back and sell it again, but it is not right to be a second seller.' ”

Zhao Shenggu smiled: "Uncle, we bought it back to make braised meat, and it was sold out today, so I will reserve a little for you to taste in the future."

The uncle who sold meat laughed: "You kid can talk, haha, today's meat is enough for you, but there is so much meat, can you move your back?" ”

Zhao Shenggu said: "It's okay, I have a lot of strength" After the two bought meat, they bought some bits and pieces to go home, and after resting for a while, they began to stew meat, and when the sun set, a large pot of braised meat was also ready.

The two of them were lying on the kang, with a smell of meat lingering on the tip of their noses, and Guan Yuan sighed with satisfaction: "Brother, I think this kind of life is very steady." ”

Zhao Shenggu picked up Guan Yuan and put it on his body: "I think if you rely on me like this, I will be steady." Although what Zhao Shenggu said at this time did not mean that aspect, Guan Yuan still made a big red face, buried his face in Zhao Shenggu's arms and shyly did not speak.

After a month like this, Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan's braised meat stalls have become famous in Yun County, and they can't buy them when they go late, so there will be people lining up early every day to buy them.

Zhao Shenggu looked at the crowded crowd and was more motivated, he was responsible for cutting the meat, Guan Yuan was responsible for collecting the money, and the two cooperated tacitly. Now they have become the biggest customers of that meat stall, buying almost 100 catties of meat every day.

It's just that business is good and it will always get in the way of other people's eyes, and when Zhao Shenggu and them went to sell braised meat the next day, they found that their stall had already been occupied.

Zhao Shenggu pulled Guan Yuan to the person occupying their stall, "This big brother, I remember that you weren't in this place yesterday. ”

The middle-aged man snorted, "You don't care where I was yesterday, I'm willing to be here today, what can you do with me!" ”

Zhao Shenggu remained silent: "I have been setting up this stall here, and you quietly occupy it without saying a word, it's not good!" ”

The middle-aged man laughed twice: "Boy, you said that this stall is yours, did you buy it, do you call it and it will agree?" In fact, the middle-aged man is right, this free market is chaotic, and he doesn't pay any management fees, so there are no fixed stalls. But it is obviously immoral to occupy someone else's stall without saying a word.

Zhao Shenggu also knew that there was no result in pulling with him, so he had to find a new stall to put the braised pork on the table. Guan Yuan squinted, quietly flicked into his tofu, and then followed Zhao Shenggu to the new stall casually.

Although the change of stalls had a certain impact on the old customers, in the end, it was only an hour of delay to sell out all the braised meat.

When passing by the middle-aged man who sold tofu, several customers were arguing with the man: "How do you do business, this tofu is all rancid!" ”

"That's it, it's really a loss of conscience, just because you added your tofu, a good fish was poured out in a pot of soup."

The man hurriedly defended: "Why is it my fault, my tofu is grinding today, and it is still hot." ”

"If you don't believe it, eat and see for yourself"

The middle-aged man didn't believe in evil, he took a bite by himself, his face changed several times, it was indeed a problem with the tofu, so he had to apologize to people in a low voice, and returned all the money he collected.

Guan Yuan looked relieved, but Zhao Shenggu walked over without changing his face.

After leaving the stall, Zhao Shenggu asked Guan Yuan: "Xiaoyuan, did you do it" Although the question was clueless, Guan Yuan still knew what Zhao Shenggu was asking,

Guan Yuan nodded: "I did it, brother, do you think I shouldn't do it?" ”

Zhao Shenggu sighed: "Where should you not do this, what I'm afraid is that you are not secretive enough, and if you are caught, you will be in trouble." ”

Guan Yuan didn't care: "It's time for me to be careful enough not to be caught, okay, I know you're worried about me, I will definitely not take it lightly in the future, okay, hehe." ”

Zhao Shenggu looked at Guan Yuan's two rows of millet teeth, and burst out laughing: "It's going to be naughty." Guan Yuan happily let Zhao Shenggu lead him.

It is undeniable that he has "lived" for a long time, but he doesn't care, as long as he is in front of Zhao Shenggu, he doesn't mind being a child forever, he likes Zhao Shenggu's same attitude as before, he likes the feeling of being held in the palm of Zhao Shenggu's hand, if a person can only be a child forever, it means that there must be someone who can spoil him forever.

Zhao Shenggu was afraid that Guan Yuan would be tired of walking, so he carried Guan Yuan on his back and walked home slowly. Under the sunset, the shadow of the two of them pulled the elder, Guan Yuan knelt tightly on Zhao Shenggu's back, listening to him talk about future plans.

"Xiaoyuan, I think we should have a storefront in the county seat, so that we will have a fixed storefront, and things like this will not happen today."

Guan Yuan nodded: "I really should buy a house, the house is very cheap now, no matter how much it is, it's not too much, but I'm worried that if we buy a property now, the people of the Guan family will definitely come up and take a bite of it."

Hearing Guan Yuan say this, Zhao Shenggu also frowned, indeed, the Guan family must get rid of it, otherwise there will be a fight in the future.

"Brother, if I don't go and add some medicine to the people who manage the household registration, they will naturally do it."

"Nonsense, I don't allow you to take risks, you can't do it alone behind my back, you know" Zhao Shenggu said to Guan Yuan sternly.

"Got it," Guan Yuan replied.

"Xiaoyuan, nothing is as important as you, understand, we'd rather take our time, I don't want you to do anything."

Guan Yuan also knew that Zhao Shenggu was for his good, so he nodded: "En"

Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan were both thinking hard about how to completely break away from the Guan family, but they didn't expect this opportunity to come soon.

It turned out that there were more people buying braised meat in Zhao Shenggu's stall, and they would always go around the surrounding area, and the business of the surrounding stalls was much better, but since Zhao Shenggu's stall was occupied by the tofu seller, the surrounding stall business has also been depressed. This is unbearable, and the tofu seller is often sneered at by the surrounding stall owners. In the end, he had no choice but to invite Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan back.

Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan were putting the braised meat on the table, and Li Guofeng took Zhao Lao over with him.

"How about it, I said that these two babies are good", Li Lao pointed to Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu and said to Zhao Lao, Zhao Lao nodded after taking a closer look, "It's really good"

Although Zhao Lao talked less than Li Lao, he looked more kind, and he said something to Zhao Shenggu kindly, and the two quickly became acquainted.

"Your name is Zhao Shenggu, your brother's name is Guan Yuan, aren't you brothers?" Zhao Lao asked Zhao Shenggu in surprise.

Zhao Shenggu nodded.

Zhao Lao sighed, "You two are not brothers who can rely on each other so much, it can be seen that the heart is good, today we came out to buy meat and take a walk by the way, I will buy five catties today, Lao Li, how much do you buy?" ”

Li Lao snorted: "Whoever is as small as you, I'll buy ten catties." ”

Zhao Shenggu's neat meat cutting is overweighed. Guan Yuan rolled his eyes, "Two grandfathers, do you think my braised pork is delicious?" ”

Li Lao originally liked children, and seeing Guan Yuan's well-behaved smile, he hurriedly showed a big smile: "It's delicious, this is the best braised pork I've ever tasted."

"Then if there is anything more delicious, do you want to eat it," Guan Yuan said sweetly. Elder Li and Elder Zhao glanced at each other, "What else do you have to eat?" ”

"You guys go to my house as a guest, I'll let my brother make something delicious for you"

Zhao Shenggu didn't know what Guan Yuan was going to do, but he knew that Guan Yuan must have his reasons for doing this, so he said yes: "Yes, we live in Guanjiatun, not far from here, the scenery there is not bad, you can also go and have a look, as for the cooking skills, it is passable, if you go, you will naturally have to entertain a meal."

At this time, Li Lao and Zhao Lao were both interested: "Okay, let's go and see Guan Jiatun, and try your good craftsmanship by the way." ”

When Guan Yuan heard this, he happily showed his two tiger teeth, and he could see that these two were kind people, if he went and learned about two lonely and helpless children who were bullied by his family, what would they do, I hope he wouldn't guess wrong.

The business of the braised meat stall is good, and Li Lao is also interested in it, and he also made a cameo appearance as a cashier. When the braised meat was sold, Li Lao and Zhao Lao followed Guan Yuan and them to Guanjiatun.

Guanjiatun is surrounded by mountains, the Moon River winds through Tunzhong like a jade belt, Zhao Lao is a scholar, seeing such a scene, he can't help but be poetic, and he chanted a few poems intoxicated.

Li Lao looked disgusted: "You have to get it, don't read your poor and sour poems, my teeth are sour when I hear it." Zhao Lao glared angrily: "What does an illiterate person who can't read a basket of big words know!"

Along the way, Zhao Lao and Li Lao kept bickering, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu were used to it, and they didn't react much at this time, leading the two to the Guan family's courtyard.

Zhao Lao and Li Lao thought they were going to enter the Guan family, but they didn't expect Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu to go straight back from the courtyard. Li Lao hurriedly asked, "Little doll, this is not your home?"

Guan Yuan shook his head, with a bitter face: "Our home is in the back." Zhao Lao and Li Lao saw that something was wrong at this time, and they both closed their mouths and followed Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu.

When I came to the backyard, I saw the stove outside, the quilt hanging on the rope between the two trees, and a vegetable field not far away.

Although the place is small, the whole environment is clean and comfortable.

Zhao Shenggu invited the two old men to sit in the room, Guan Yuan was busy making tea for them, in order to achieve the goal, Guan Yuan made a lot of money, and added a drop of spiritual spring water to each of the two cups of tea.

Zhao Lao took a sip, and he felt a cool feeling rushing to his head, and the taste was long. I couldn't help but squint my eyes and exclaimed: "Good tea, good tea!" ”

Mr. Li is a big old man, and he usually doesn't like to comment on tea and poetry these delicate things, pour the tea into his mouth in one gulp, and around him, no matter how old and coarse he is, he also drinks this tea is really good, and it is rare to praise it: "It's really good tea"

Zhao Laobai glanced at him: "Cow chews peony!" ”

Li glared at him angrily, "Whoever is like you will pretend to be Sven." While they were talking, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu were already busy outside, and after a while, there was a seductive smell of vegetables.

Li Lao didn't have Zhao Lao's reserve, and walked out along the door, "Fragrant, oops, it's so fragrant", Zhao Shenggu is making a Northeast stew, and the dish is the newly grown cabbage. Then I made mapo tofu, braised pork, and fried green vegetables. Ma Li opened the table, and at this time, the sun was just right at noon, so Zhao Shenggu put the small table he made outside.

Li Lao took a bite and praised it, and later saw that Zhao Lao was silent and ate more than him, and he stopped talking, and accelerated the speed of eating, eating a meal like a locust transiting, and every plate was extremely clean.

After eating, Zhao Lao could barely maintain his image, and Li Lao was just spread out on the chair, basking in the warm sun, Li Lao felt emotional: "The race fairy who has lived this day"

However, Li Lao is thick on the outside and thin on the inside, and after he came to his senses, he looked at Guan Yuan with a smile: "Say, little baby, what are you so hospitable today?" ”

Guan Yuan had already thought of a way to deal with it in his heart, and at present, it seemed that this old man Li was not bad. After brewing for a while, Guan Yuan sobbed and said, "Grandpa Li, save me." ”

Elder Li and Elder Zhao glanced at each other when they heard this, "Tell me, what's wrong, aren't you doing a good job, why do you want me to save it?"

At this time, Zhao Shenggu also understood Guan Yuan's plan, and grabbed the conversation and said about their situation in the Guan family: "Grandpa Li, Xiaoyuan really can't stay in the Guan family anymore, we just want a home of our own and not be disturbed by anyone." I know it's a lot of trouble, and if you don't want to help, it's okay, I'll figure it out on my own. ”

"You figure it out yourself, what can you think of?" Li Lao asked Zhao Shenggu with interest. Zhao Shenggu shook his head and said in a low voice: "There will always be a way to take your time." Guan Yuan hugged Guan Yuan's thigh with tears in his eyes, and his shoulders twitched.

Zhao Lao couldn't look at it, "Okay, Lao Li, you can help these two children, such an obedient but such a family, hey, it's also a hard life." ”

Li Lao threw him a roll of the eyes: "How do you know that I won't help, just pretend to be a good person." He looked at Guan Yuan, who was crying and tearful, and said: "Okay, little baby, your brother protects you like an eyeball, and he is also blessed, I can indeed help you in this matter, but if the matter is not what you said, I still have to go to investigate, if it is really done, how can you thank me?" ”

Zhao Shenggu hurriedly thanked Li Lao when he heard this: "Thank you, really, you can say anything, as long as I can do it." ”

Hearing this, Li Lao snorted proudly at Zhao Lao: "It's nothing, it's just that if there is any new food to eat in the future, you have to be the first one to taste it." ”

Zhao Shenggu thought that he was going to say something difficult, but he didn't expect it to be this, so he immediately nodded hurriedly: "No problem, you are our great benefactor, and this little thing can be done." ”

Guan Yuan also hurriedly wiped away his tears and thanked Elder Li: "Thank you, Grandpa Li." ”

Li Lao couldn't help but touch Guan Yuan's head: "Well, good"

After sitting for a while, the two old men wanted to go to Guanjiatun to go around, and by the way, they asked if what Zhao Shenggu said was true, Guan Yuan and they didn't follow them, and when the mountain fell in the afternoon, the two old men came back.

Li Lao and Zhao Lao's faces were not good-looking, Zhao Lao touched Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan, and sighed: "Baby, I've hurt you." Li Lao Rongma has been a horse all his life, and he has even more pity for Zhao Shenggu, a heroic junior, "Don't worry, I will do this when I go back, and you will come to my house tomorrow after selling meat."

Guan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, this was the best, and sincerely thanked the two old men in front of him. When Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan sent the two old men to leave and walked to the door of Guan's house, there was a lot of noise inside, Yang Xiucui was scolding Li Yuezhi and Zhao Xiulian with her waist sinking, Li Yuezhi was not convinced and was returning the mouth, the children were also crying, and the family took off and jumped up.

Li Lao and Zhao Lao both shook their heads, don't spoil two good children in such a family.

Sent away Zhao Lao and Li Lao, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu slowly walked back, Guan He was listening to the quarrel in the house and walked out of the door bored, saw Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan, and smiled, "Shenggu, what kind of braised meat have you sold in the county for more than a month."

Guan Yuan didn't hear it, Zhao Shenggu snorted coldly, and walked away with Guan Yuan. Guan He, who was behind them, squinted his eyes and made you crazy, as long as you are still in this family, how much money you earn will be brought to you when the time comes.

After returning to the backyard and closing the door, Zhao Shenggu smiled: "Xiaoyuan, it's okay now, if Li Lao can really move your household registration out, I can take you to another place." ”

Guan Yuan was so happy to see Zhao Shenggu, and he laughed out loud, but he still didn't feel at ease in his heart, he was alone for too long, so he didn't trust others much from his heart, and he only looked at tomorrow.

Early the next morning, the two went to the county seat as usual, and Xiao Zhang also waited there early, "Li Lao asked me to wait for you here" Now Xiao Zhang has become a frequent visitor to this braised meat stall, and every day he will see him buy meat for Li Lao, and then buy himself a pound with a painful face.

"Thank you, Brother Zhang"

Once they got busy, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu didn't stop at all, Xiao Zhang saw that they were too busy, so he helped to pass the scales, and two hours later, all the braised meat was sold.

Xiao Zhang was in a hurry because of the first time, and he was sweating after being busy. "Shenggu, I see that you are usually not too busy, why are you so tired when I take it over?"

Zhao Shenggu laughed: "I'm skilled, Brother Zhang is naturally a little rusty when he does it for the first time." Guan Yuan touched the bulging purse, and his smiling eyes narrowed.