Chapter 18: Xiangfeng Restaurant
Pushing open the two closed doors, the two corpses inside and Wu Jing had long since disappeared, leaving only a mess.
"Wind chimes, are you hungry?"
Opening the control core of the blue bird, looking at the red dot moving on the light screen, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry, squatted down and touched the forehead of the wind chime.
It didn't keep up with its pace before, and when Zhu Jue came back, he saw it panting and catching up with the breath he left, which made Zhu Jue feel distressed.
As for this disappeared person, there is naturally a way to recover it.
Before leaving just now, he consciously activated the blue bird, activated the tracking mode, and the target of the tracking was naturally Wu Jing, sure enough, after he was lured away, other people entered the house and took all three people away, and the blue bird followed, and its location will be updated in real time on the map in the control core.
Oh~
The wind chime rubbed into Zhu Jue's arms, humming lightly and shrinking into a ball, refusing to move again, after all, it was just a small lynx a few months old.
Who isn't a baby yet?
"Well, let's find a place to have lunch first. ”
Went into the house and picked up the weapon box and backpack, these two things were not taken away by the other party Zhu Jue was quite surprised, originally he thought that maybe he had to wait a while to come to the door to ask for it.
There are very few restaurants in the religious city of Rongxia City, and occasionally there are two old stores, Zhu Jue initially thought that it was a century-old shop, and the food in the alleys was delicious, but when he went in and took a look, he found that they were all cheap stalls, and the dishes inside were all made in advance, and most of them were vegetarian dishes, not to mention how it tasted, at least this appearance made people unpalatable.
In the end, I had to leave the religious area and go to the tourist area next to it.
As a place for tourists to carry out activities, the environment in the tourist area of Rongxia City can only be said to be one heaven and one underground compared with the religious area.
Although there are also those old lanes seen in the religious area, most of them are concentrated on the first floor, and they have been decorated externally, with some festive red shelves or repainted wall paint to cover up, and the flow of people is dense, but they are all locals of Rongxia City wearing gowns and cotton clothes, and most tourists are just passing by, and they will go to the overpass without walking a few steps.
The overpass here is not the kind of aisle-like land bridge in Zhu Jue's previous life, but a real overhead square connecting all directions, generally above three floors, pressing down the dirt and poverty at the bottom, and tourists can only see all kinds of street performances when they go up, and there is a more glamorous shop than a fair, this is their playground.
As for the environment underneath, who cares?
Zhu Jue deliberately walked a little way below, and he saw that there were many puppet shops on both sides of the street, including handmade wooden dolls, mechanical toys that could sing and dance, and even some simulated dolls, with signs hanging on the outside such as "Sustenance in this World" and "Blessings in the Afterlife".
And because this last kind of puppet is very human-like, Zhu Jue felt a little panicked when he passed by, thinking about who would be the person who came to buy this kind of puppet.
"You don't understand this, these dolls are bought back for the spring festival, and there will be a water and land dojo when the time comes, there is a custom here in Rongxia City, that is, on the day of the spring festival, find a puppet to pray, and write down the sins, resentments, resentments or some strange wishes in this life on a piece of paper and put it in, and then burn the puppet...... Hey~ That's not called a curse, they call it obsession, burning these obsessions means 'letting go', and there will be blessings in the next life. ”
There was a tour guide beside him who was popularizing science to the people next to him, and Zhu Jue listened to it.
"These dolls are made so similarly, they should be very expensive, right?"
Someone asked.
"It depends on what kind of money you buy, like here, 500 federal coins is enough, if you are elegant, you must go to a special store to buy it, I heard that some superstitious rich people are androids who buy directly. ”
"Won't you...... The Wisdom Machinery Law stipulates that the android cannot be damaged at will, he will burn it when he buys it, and if it is recorded by the android, it will be reported to the Blue Wing Machinery Group, although it will not go to jail, but there will be fines and credit stains, and it will be forbidden to buy androids in the future. ”
There are still people in the ranks of tourists who understand.
"Who do you think made the Wisdom Law? If you're not rich, those guys don't care about the Wisdom Law. ”
The tour guide seems to have a lot of prejudice against the rich, and his words have not stopped sarcastically about the rich.
Zhu Jue followed the group of people up to the overpass and through the vermilion pavilion corridor, which was not a virtual projection of the "look", but a building that was really built by skilled craftsmen.
Occasionally glancing at the position of the blue bird now, Zhu Jue was surprised to find that the red dot on it was not as far as he imagined.
"Xiangfeng Restaurant?Interesting, it would be ...... in this kind of place."
Zhu Jue looked at the plaque of the restaurant in front of him, he had eaten in Yecheng once before, and at that time, Qin Chengren also said that the Xiangfeng restaurant in Rongxiacheng was the most authentic.
Turning his head sideways, he glanced at the blue bird that was parked on the verandah outside the store, pressed down the control core, and the blue bird, which was surrounded by several children, flapped its wings and landed on Zhu Jue's shoulder.
That's right, Wu Jing is in this store.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's a good time to eat anywhere, lunch is too late, dinner is too early, so there are not many customers in the store, and there are only five or six people sitting at the tables in the huge hall, and they are all eating light snacks or pastries.
I found a place by the window to be illuminated by the sun, the sun in the deep winter is a rare thing, and now at this time, although there is no golden light from before, the orange sunlight against the brown table has a sense of gentleness.
"What does the guest want?"
With an ancient accent and dressed like a shopkeeper, the android stood at the table, making a cup of tea for Zhu Jue as he spoke.
"You have one of your signature dishes with an asterisk. ”
Zhu Jue looked at this android, thinking that the Blue Wing Machinery Group really has nothing to say about the technology in this area, if there is no ring around the temple, ordinary people can't distinguish these guys at all, right?
"Okay, wait a minute. ”
The android clerk took the menu and withdrew, while Zhu Jue began to look at the carved wooden window next to him, and began to think about how he would find Wu Jing who was hidden in this store later.
As everyone knows, he sat at the table and looked at the scenery outside, while someone else was watching him.
It's just that the difference between this situation and that poem is that the former is a lyric poem, but when it comes to Zhu Jue, it becomes a suspense story......
Somewhere in Xiangfeng's store, a few people gathered in front of the monitor screen.
"Are you sure it's him?"
An elderly man in a gray gown stroked his beard and asked the person next to him with a pipe in his hand.
"I won't be mistaken, I and Xiao Cui have seen him, it is the disciple of the Holy Spirit Sect that this person killed, fortunately one of them was rescued by me, otherwise all the clues would have been broken. ”
Nie Qingzhu pointed to Zhu Jue, who was taking out a rice paper ball from his pocket on the screen, and said in a deep voice.
"He's found our stronghold, should we find a way to ...... him?"
The girl opened the drawer, took out a mechanical arm guard, rolled up her sleeves and prepared to put it on.
"Don't worry, you just said that he killed the people of the Holy Spirit Sect, which is enough to prove that he did not collude with this cult, it is estimated that like us, they are all people who want to destroy this cult, he chased Qingzhu before, it is possible that he was an accomplice of those people of the Holy Spirit Sect, it was a misunderstanding before and it can be explained, you go out to do it now, that is a real feud, not to mention that there are still customers in the store now, you want to attract the police?"
Taking a puff of his pipe, the old man continued,
"There are still a few tables of customers in the shop...... Liu Cheng, you go to the door to hang a sign that is closed later, don't let new guests in, and when these tables of guests leave, we will meet him again. ”
The people inside had been discussing, but Zhu Jue outside had temporarily put his mind on the dazzling dishes in front of him.
In the end, it is the old shop of Rong Xia City, and the dishes here are more authentic than those in Yecheng, of course, there may be some mental effects of Zhu Jue, but this dish is really delicious.
The paper ball found from Wu Rui's house is placed at hand, the paper is some like rice paper used for painting, it is normal to think about it, Wu Rui himself is a person who paints oil in the statue museum, if he doesn't have a foundation in painting, he can't do this.
This piece of paper is also a painting, but the content is very strange, on the surface it looks very abstract, a large area is blackened, and you can vaguely see that there is a human figure on it, with a single wing on its back, and some thorn-shaped things on its body.
"Checkout!"
The voice of the guest at the table next to him drew Zhu Jue's attention back from the fried prawns that had just been served on the table, and turned his head to look, the entire restaurant was empty, and unconsciously, except for Zhu Jue, this was already the last table of guests......
After glancing at the time, it was almost four o'clock, and he turned his eyes to the door, and saw that someone was seeing off the guests at the door, and when a few guests went out, he closed the door, and the sunlight fell from between the carved doors and windows, and the man's face was hidden behind the uncertain door panel.
Turning his gaze again, there was an old man walking out slowly at the kitchen door on the right carrying a purple clay pot, followed by two young people who looked a little familiar.
One man and one woman.
"It seems to save a lot of money. ”
Leaned the weapon box to his side, and then hugged the wind chimes in his arms to his side, Zhu Jue was still thinking about how to track down Wu Jing's whereabouts before, but now it seems that they can't bear it.
"This gentleman, I wonder if the dishes in the store are to your liking?"
The old man stepped forward and poured Zhu Jue a cup of tea slowly, and a fragrance spread with the rippling of the tea.
"I'm very satisfied, if it wasn't for a Hongmen banquet, I think I would be even more satisfied...... You're not 15 at all, are you?"
Zhu Jue's gaze swept over the few people gathered in front of him, and finally stayed on the girl next to him for a while, and asked very seriously.