This may be the difference between Chinese and Western cultures, in some highly materially developed countries in the West, people generally pursue their own spiritual realm, as long as they can realize their wishes, the material pay can be ignored. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 What's more important is that their material income is so simple, and it is an extremely cost-effective "deal" to exchange for spiritual pursuit in a simple way.

Of course, this situation in China may only be possible for a small number of people who get rich first. As for me, I definitely won't spend more than 700 yuan just because I want to eat a meal.

Now that it's settled, don't talk nonsense, and wait for the delicious dishes of "lane dishes" to be served on the table! But I waited for a long time and didn't wait for anyone to appear.

"The fragrance of the food is so overflowing, chiang, why do you smell it and not see its food? I've had a few meals of Chinese food, so there's no need to wait so long! Comrade Susan began to complain.

I used to think that this place was very treacherous, and I smelled the smell of food before I entered the door, but now, as far as Comrade Susan and I are waiting for the food to be served, we still don't see the food, which should have nothing to do with being too busy. In the end, I mustered up the courage to say, "Susan, then you wait here first, and I'll go upstairs to urge it!" ”

Comrade Susan did not object, and told me: "Chiang, I know that Chinese cuisine is very particular about kung fu. Therefore, if someone is cooking, you should not rush it, if you do, the dish may lose its heat and will not taste good! ”

I have to admire Comrade Susan for having such a profound level of "Chinese cooking", knowing kung fu, knowing how to heat and how to taste. I smiled awkwardly and said, "Okay, I'm measured!" ”

A man came to the top of the stairs. Look up. I found that the stairs were still very steep. In my impression, if you really serve food on the second floor, it is very unfavorable for the food delivery staff to make the stairs so steep. I really don't know how this staircase is made...... Climb up the stairs, every time you climb a step, the wooden stairs will make a "crunch, crunch" sound, this sound also makes me sleepy, just now the woman walked upstairs and downstairs, I didn't hear such a "crunch" sound!

But that's not the point. Since I walked into this house, I could feel the "difference" inside, so I was able to face these strange situations calmly, and what I was worried about was that Comrade Susan was by my side, and her presence made me sure to take care of her safety. So, I stood at the top of the stairs and said, "Comrade Susan, why don't we change places?" I've always felt like it's a bit of a rough patch here. ”

"Aren't they all already ordered? Isn't it a bit too immoral to change places? chiang。 You'd better ask what's going on. Comrade Susan, who was sitting in the center of the courtyard, said:

Comrade Susan didn't seem to have any intention of changing the land, so I had to go to the second floor. Walk up to the loafer hallway on the second floor. On the left-hand side is a row of rooms, and on the right-hand side you can see the courtyard downstairs. I saw Comrade Susan looking up, looking at me and saying, "Chiang, what do you say?" I looked sideways at the side of the room, and saw that each room was empty, dusty, and although it meant a private room, it had definitely not been open for a long time, and the table inside was a layer of dust. It's uncomfortable to watch. This is true for several rooms in a row. The woman's statement about the renovation of the upstairs private room was very different from what the woman told me just now. "There's definitely something weird, it's definitely not like it's been remodeled, it's like it's been out of business for a long time." I said silently in my heart:

When I got to the end of the corridor, I didn't see a room that resembled a kitchen. Could it be that it was my delusion just now, this kitchen is no longer on the second floor? I finally shouted, "Waiter." "After waiting for a while, there was no movement, and I figured that there was no kitchen upstairs, and it should be in a room downstairs.

"Chiang, didn't you find it?" Comrade Susan, downstairs, heard my call and shouted downstairs:

"It's possible downstairs. There is no kitchen upstairs. There are only empty rooms......" Before I could finish speaking, I heard a familiar voice in the corner say impatiently: "It's better to leave if you don't have the patience to wait, anyway, I didn't take your money." ”

The voice came very clearly, obviously, on the second floor. Could it be that this kitchen is still on the second floor? I tried to go to the end to see what it was, only to see that there was a half-man high door at the corner at the end, the reason why it was half a person high was because the door corresponded to the stairs that should be taken down, so the door would not be very high, I opened the door, and the stairs appeared in front of me, I tried to go down two steps, and there was a voice inside: "The kitchen is heavy, no idlers can enter!" ”

"I'm just here to urge the dishes, how long will it take to cook?" I stood on the stairs and said:

"I told you so! I haven't confiscated your money yet, so if you can't wait, you'll go somewhere else!" I have not bound you. Keep urging, don't bother! The woman inside spoke:

I was very angry at the time, can I bear it? If Comrade Susan hadn't wanted to fulfill his wish, I would have slapped my ass and left. Now that you're going to say that, I'm really going to see where you've got? How many people do you cook in your kitchen? Such a treacherous place, does it matter if you are a kitchen heavy? I'll take a look first. Thinking of this, no longer affected by the "kitchen land, idlers are not allowed to enter", straight down, at this moment, I don't know where a gust of evil wind blew, my eyes were confused, and when I barely opened my eyes, I saw the woman who had ordered us before standing in front of me with a jar of things and said: "Didn't I tell you that this is the kitchen land?" Your chicken soup is ready, why don't you hurry back to your seat? ”

The woman was holding a steaming chicken soup in front of me, in the narrow staircase passage, obviously unable to go down, under the woman's "persecution", I exited the stairs and returned to the second floor, seeing that Comrade Susan wanted to come up, I hurriedly shouted upstairs: "Comrade Susan, don't come up, chicken soup is here!" ”

Seeing this, Comrade Susan was very excited. Sit back and wait for a delicious chicken soup for 55 euros. And I went downstairs with the woman. When I went downstairs, it was strange that there was no "crunch" sound on the stairs as I went upstairs. When I returned to my seat, the woman coldly put the chicken soup on the table and said, "The chicken soup is ready!" Also, don't come upstairs at every turn, it will affect our cooking and cooking, and it will not be delicious. We don't refund money! ”

"No! Absolutely not...... You do it slowly. Comrade Susan nodded, greeted him embarrassedly, and said:

The woman walked away, I suddenly remembered something, and immediately stopped the woman and said, "I'm sorry, I'll ask a little more: Didn't you just tell us that the upstairs is being renovated and upgraded?" When I first went up, I saw that it was already dusty, and there was no decoration and upgrading? The woman gave me a blank look and said, "Isn't it okay to upgrade the decoration tonight?" Young man, eat your own food in peace, don't walk around, something happens. We are not responsible! When the woman finished speaking, she went upstairs to herself. I still pay close attention to whether there is a "crunch" sound when the woman goes upstairs, but obviously it is the "wind" that meets my eyes today, and when the woman goes upstairs, another evil wind blows and blinds my eyes, and when I open it again, the woman has disappeared on the second floor......

Just when I was still thinking about how to avoid the damn "evil wind" next time, I suddenly heard a "um" voice from Comrade Susan, I thought something was wrong, and quickly looked back, only to see that Comrade Susan had a very enjoyable expression, and there was a spoon in his hand, looking at the crockpot that had been opened, it was obvious that Comrade Susan couldn't wait to take a sip of chicken soup, only to hear Comrade Susan enjoy it very much: "It's delicious...... Chiang, why don't you hurry over and eat together, such a delicious chicken soup should not have a second serving in the world! ”

When I looked at the chicken soup in the crockpot, the layer of yellow and clear chicken fat on it was enough to see the fat of the chicken before it was killed, and the bright red wolfberries attached to the chicken were also different, different from the wolfberries I saw on weekdays. The real wolfberry is red with a little yellow, but now some wolfberry suppliers, in order to sell the appearance, some inferior wolfberry is soaked with Sudan red to turn it into a bright red color, which makes people look like "salivating". If you find that kind of particularly bright red wolfberry, wait for a question mark, this wolfberry is not proportional to the price at which it is sold? And now the wolfberries in the chicken soup are red and yellow, very natural, and those who know wolfberries are very good ingredients at a glance. It seems that this 55 euros of chicken soup is by no means "generic", and there is still a reason why it is expensive!

Just as I was about to take a sip of chicken soup, the woman suddenly appeared behind me and said to me, "Young man, get out of the way, don't stand in my way!" "When I looked back, I was dizzy, and it turned out to be two bowls of rice. I really don't dare to compliment this order of serving, you haven't finished the dish yet, just serve the rice, what kind of rule is this? Even Comrade Susan, who grew up in the West, felt that this way of serving food was a little inappropriate, if this rice was eaten, and the dish was not finished, how would this account be settled?

"Waiter, there is no problem with this meal, but at least you have to bring the other dishes over, how can we ...... this meal" Before I finished speaking, the woman ignored it and said: "Eat it or not, whatever you want!" ”

Even the best temper can't stand such humiliation, right? I immediately became angry, and stepped forward to grab the woman's arm, and then find the boss and the proprietress here, and reason about it together, but just as I went to catch the woman...... I can say here responsibly: it is absolutely very clear that between the lightning and flint, the woman has reached the second floor as if she had teleported. I'm sure I'm not mistaken, just this time, just this tossing space...... Even if you have wings and can fly, you can't get to the second floor so quickly. Seeing this, I knew that this was by no means a peaceful place, so I picked up Comrade Susan and walked to the door, but when I grabbed it, I found that although Comrade Susan was next to me, I could not catch her anyway......

"Chiang, thank you...... Help me to fulfill this wish......" Comrade Susan disappeared......

I was shocked, and immediately looked around, and found that it had been abandoned for a long time, and ran out of this house, and when I looked up, it was indeed No. 37 Jingran Lane, and I was a spirit. I saw a few old people sitting not far away chatting. Hurriedly stepped forward to inquire, "Big ...... Uncle. Is there a bar 3 in No. 37 Lane 3 that specializes in cooking alley dishes? ”

"A few years ago, I heard that this family is making alley dishes, and the business is still very good, but it is not because the fire protection facilities are not in place, the kitchen is on fire, something big happens, a fire is clean, and it is not like other places, fire trucks can drive in casually. When the fire truck arrives here, it can only be a deaf man's ear - just a decoration! As soon as the old man started chatting, the other old men also chatted, saying that due to accidents in this place, some of the families of the deceased often have to come to claim compensation, but they were burned to death, how to claim the law? Later, I found out that the heir of this house is in France, and I have never come to go through the transfer procedures, and the house has been empty over there...... The old man who chatted became more and more energetic, and some old men even said that they had encountered some unusual things here. People immediately lost the interest to listen to it. I hurriedly ran out of the alley. I hailed a taxi and went back to the Shanghai hotel. Came to the 10th floor, suddenly found, 1014 room can not be found, I rushed to the hall on the first floor, asked 1014 room, I asked the girl by me asked a little pale, I don't know what to say, next to the lobby manager saw this, hurriedly stepped forward to ask what the situation, when she learned that I was inquiring about room 1014, the hall manager said with a smile: "Sir, I'm sorry, we are here to avoid some opportunities, All floors have room numbers without 4, so the 1014 room you mentioned is not possible! ”

The lobby manager's explanation was very appropriate and irrefutable, but I saw that the girl I asked earlier looked panicked, obviously a little bit of an insider...... But because there is a lobby manager, so I didn't embarrass the girl to break the sand pot and ask in the end, I squinted and saw that there was a doorman, who was watching my conversation with the lobby manager over there, and his demeanor told me that I should know something inside, so I excused myself to leave, and then I have been waiting for the doorman's object next to him, not long after, the doorman went to the bathroom under the excuse, I followed him to the bathroom, and when I saw that there was no one around, I took out a banknote directly from my trouser pocket, stuffed it into the doorman's hand, and asked straight to the point:" Can you tell me something about room 1014? ”

The doorman is also very real, seeing that there is money to collect, he simply told me the ins and outs of room 1014: there used to be 14 floors in Shanghai hotels, and there were also rooms 04 and 14, but a few years ago, there were three Chinese Americans who came back from France to visit relatives, and lived in room 1014, and I didn't know what was wrong at the time, and was targeted by a gang of robbers, killed all three guests, and ran away with money. The room numbers have been canceled, and the original room 1014 has naturally become room 1116 (there is no room on the 4th floor, and the corresponding move back is one place, 04 and 14 are not, and the corresponding move back is two places. But even so, room 1116 does not seem to be very peaceful, the people who live in it say that there are ghosts, one or two guests say so, then our hotel can still be regarded as real money, but all say so, can only say that it is definitely not peaceful! So, over time, the room was not for sale, and there had been no one in the room for several years!

The doorman's authority can only tell you so much, I want to check the information of the three dead Frenchmen and want to go to room 1116 to see, the doorman shook his head and said: "I'm just a doorman, I can't do your request, you better ask for another master!" ”

To be honest, I couldn't accept the reality at all, so I thought of going to the Internet café Baidu, just as I walked out of the Shanghai Hotel, the doorman suddenly stopped me and said: "Brother, we have to make many things clear, you don't give a tip I also admit it, after all, we haven't reached the point where you have to rely on money to communicate, but since you give a tip, don't flirt with others, do you know this, brother?" ”

I didn't understand when the doorman questioned me, but the doorman pulled me aside, handed me a piece of money and said, "Brother, you just gave it to me in the bathroom, what's the matter?" Is it a curse on me? "When I looked at the dark banknote, I was also stunned, thinking that this doorman still wanted to blackmail me for a little money, but then I thought about it carefully, and immediately reacted, this dark money is obviously the 10 euros that Comrade Susan gave to the taxi driver! The taxi driver confiscated it and gave it to me, so I just put it away, and I didn't expect it to be a dead banknote. After thinking about this layer, I quickly apologized, then took out a 100 sheet again, handed it to the doorman and said: "I really didn't mean it, I won't tell you, I encountered a supernatural thing, which caused you inconvenience, and I hope you understand!" The doorman looked at the hundred-dollar bill for a long time this time, and after making sure that there was no problem, he asked me reassuringly: "That brother, what are you going to do now?" (To be continued.) )