The bustle of the world is all for profit, and those who are elegant and beautiful like Fanqing and wisdom are inevitably vulgar, and they come to the door at night because they have a plan. She mentioned the eighteen ancestral treasure knives of the Li family, Li Le was not sure if she was a drunkard or not, in short, whether it was Taihang Lou or the two treasures of the family, Li Le did not plan to sell them.

"Not for sale!" Li Le rudely interrupted Fan Qinghui's words, picked up the wine glass and stood up, with a posture of sending off guests.

Fan Qinghui has never been treated like this, she was slightly stunned for a moment, then her eyes turned brightly, she raised her chest and raised her head, looked at Li Le calmly, and said: "Mr. Li's style of speech is really direct, before I finished speaking, you will send off the guest directly, as the old saying goes, buying and selling is not benevolence, you don't look like a businessman." ”

This big girl not only looks beautiful, but her manners are elegant and moving, and it is even more rare to have a beautiful voice. Even in front of Li Le's big bowl of closed-door soup, he was not embarrassed at all, and he still dealt with it calmly, politely and politely. This cultivation alone is not comparable to Zhao Fengbo and his ilk.

Li Le was unmoved, and said firmly: "What kind of person I am, don't worry about Miss Fan, it's late at night, I won't be far away, Taihang Lou is deserted here, Miss Fan is delicate and expensive, and I'm afraid that it won't be safe to leave too late." ”

Fan Qinghui stood there without moving, smiled lightly, and said, "Although you refuse to be thousands of miles away, I can't come for nothing, there are some things that should be said or said." After a pause, he continued: "Bao Dejin is determined to win Taihang Lou, and we don't know the reason very well, what I want to tell you is our position." ”

"Where do you stand?" Li Le sat down, his hands on the back of his head, and looked at Fan Qinghui with mocking eyes that seemed to have seen through a qiē.

"The relationship between our Nanyang Yipinju restaurant chain group and Bao Dejin is only a trade partnership." Fan Qinghui said proudly: "My third uncle and three doujin luckily defeated Mr. Li in the fair and honest kitchen competition, according to the original gambling contract, your Taihang Lou Li family should sell us the double treasures of the town building, the Li family's eighteen knives and the Tiangong Eight Immortals table." ”

"Zhengda Bright?" Li Le sneered, "Defeat an old man who has cancer and almost lost his sense of taste 616161616161"

"In any case, the bet contract was accepted voluntarily by the old gentleman." Fan Qinghui interrupted Li Le's words, "At that time, the operation of Taihang Building has gone into a big problem, and the old gentleman does not want to sell the building, so he voluntarily accepted our challenge, and the bet is that if we win, he will sell the town building Shuangbao to Yipinju, on the contrary, Chunfeng Lou is closed, and Yipinju withdraws from the ancient city and even the entire North China catering market." ”

"Mr. Li Le is a well-known hero in the ancient city." Fan Qinghui paused slightly, coughed lightly and continued: "The North and South Chef King will be over for more than half a year, before because the old man was seriously ill and could not be the director, we couldn't bear to urge, and then Mr. Li Le came back, and was busy dealing with the old man's funeral, we out of respect for the old gentleman and sympathy for Mr. Li, and put this matter aside for the time being, and now, the old gentleman has passed away peacefully, and Mr. Li Le has completely taken over Taihang Building, and it is time to fulfill the original agreement between the two of us, right?" ”

These details never speak to themselves. Li Le was slightly surprised, and at the same time, he analyzed whether Fan Qinghui's words were reliable in his heart. If what she says is true, it means that the stone deliberately concealed these things from himself. With Li Le's understanding of stones, this kid doesn't have so many crooked eyes. Thinking of the old man's sneaky smile at himself before leaving and the nonsensical last words of only two words, the truth of this matter seems to be about to come out.

On such a moonlit night, being forced into debt by such a beautiful and elegant woman is a painful and happy thing for most men. And Li Le is not one of the vast majority.

The beauty is picturesque, the pink skeleton, the cruel nature of this world Li Le has seen too much.

Li Le was still thinking about guessing the ins and outs of the whole thing, but Fan Qinghui seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Li Le's attitude, and she glanced out the window impatiently. Her car, a purple Bentley Elegance 728, was parked there. There was someone waiting for her in the car.

Li Le has actually been secretly paying attention to the car, but not because it is worth 12 million. What really caught Li Le's attention was the person in the car.

Looking out from the room, looking at the dark from the light, even with Li Le's eyesight, he could only vaguely see that the man was bald. What sets this man apart is his eyes. Li Le glanced at him through the two windows, and found that the man's gaze was extremely sharp, and there was a power that pointed directly at people's hearts.

Only those who have mastered kung fu understand what such a gaze represents.

Li Le has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, working hard and achieving little success. Eight years in the army, seven years in that secret army, it seems that such characters have only met two.

"The person waiting for you outside is the top brand of Yipinju, the southern kitchen god Sandoujin master, right?" Li Le asked casually.

"Well, he's my third uncle." Fan Qinghui nodded slightly, and added, "It's my grandmother's godson." ”

Shi had said before that Chunfeng Building was opened by Nanyang Yipinju Restaurant Group, and the chairman of Yipinju was an old lady living in Nanyang, who was also said to be from the ancient city. Li Le went to Chunfeng Building to experience the catering culture of Yipinju firsthand, and knew that the other party could be called a fair trader.

Fan Qinghui is straightforward, and the three buckets of gold outside are as quiet as mountains, and neither of them looks like scoundrels.

There are all kinds of signs that the old man is really cheating. not only played a trick, but also asked Li Le to carry this black pot for him and continue to play this lai.

"Miss Fan." Li Le thought about how to phrase it in his heart, and continued with a deep sigh: "The old man left in a hurry, and when I rushed back, I didn't have time to see the last face, and the old man went to the 616161616161 without having time to explain a lot of things."

"Does Mr. Li suspect that I came to the door to play a scoundrel and blackmail your Li family's baby?" Fan Qinghui's willow eyebrows were raised, and her tone was unhappy to interrupt Li Le's words.

Li Le turned his heart and said: "Although the old man is no longer here, but people are not rotten, as long as Miss Fan can come up with enough evidence to prove that the gambling contract is true that day, I, who is a grandson, will fulfill the contract and sell the family heirloom double treasure to you." ”

These words seem to be understandable, but in fact they are extremely shameless.

On that day, Li Qianjun took the reputation of 60 years of fame in the culinary industry as a letter, and verbally promised to make a gambling contract with a pinju. The other party did not suspect him and participated as promised. This matter is obvious to the fly on the bald head, and there is almost no possibility of zài falsification. Li Le said this, which is clearly a strong word.

Fan Qinghui gritted his teeth angrily, but he was helpless, and pursed his lips: "It's really enough for a grandson." ”

Li Le got up again to see off the guests, "It's not early, I'm not very peaceful here lately, Miss Fan has a master around her to protect her, so she naturally doesn't care about this issue, but as the old saying goes, more things are better than less, so I won't keep guests." ”

Fan Qinghui finally looked out of the door, slowly moved her steps, and looked back when she reached the door, a smile appeared on the corner of her lips, with a slight contempt, "The three-hundred-year-old gold-lettered signboard of Taihang Building, Mr. Li Qianjun is a well-known figure in the kitchen industry, and Mr. Li is also a well-known man in the ancient city, I believe you will not be that dishonest villain." ”

Li Le's face was expressionless: "I am ashamed to be praised." ”

Fan Qinghui smiled slightly: "Mr. Li, I advise you not to be too paranoid, if you are poor, you will think about change, you and Taihanglou don't have much time, it is better to make a decision early." ”

She dropped this inexplicable sentence and walked away, and Li Le watched her disappear into the Bentley, and turned her eyes to the deep night sky outside the window.

The blue sky is like washing, the moon is like a transparent jade, round and smooth, through this thin moonlight, Li Le seems to see Fan Qinghui's clear black eyes, and suddenly it changes, it becomes the smiling face of the old man Li Qianjun who is a little scoundrel.

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The night was thick, and only Li Le's room was lit in the front and back yards of Taihang Tower. Shi is explaining the ins and outs of the matter to Li Le. It's roughly the same as what Fan Qinghui said. It's just that when he talked about why he didn't mention this matter before, he honestly admitted that it was from Li Qianjun's instructions under Li Le's questioning.

That's pretty much it, the old man really plans to play tricks.

This is an era of thinness and trustlessness, but there are some things that are worth holding onto. Li Le sent the stone to sleep, walked alone to the study locker, opened the cabinet door and took out a large old leather case from the inside, opened the lock, lifted the lid, and took out the heavy leather knife sleeve from the inside. The hand stroked it gently, gently and carefully. It is as if under the fingertips is the delicate skin of a lover.

Take out the knives in the knife holster one by one, the largest 'eternal', the smallest 'inch heart', until the heaviest bite is called 'Chongnuo'. The blade is one and a half feet, the back of the knife is heavy, and the blade is not visible. This knife was supposed to be the heaviest of the eighteen knives.

Pifu Yinuo, or heavy as Mount Tai, or light as a feather. The former or the latter? Li Le hesitated in his heart. Turning over his hand, he lifted the 'heavy promise' in his hand and played a knife flower. Although the knife was heavy, the wind was silent, cutting through the cup on the table. When the knife stopped, half of the wine glass stopped silently on the knife surface. The eighteen beheadings of the Li family are not in the knife, but in the person who controls the knife. Although the heavy knife has no edge, it can break the cup, and it all depends on his own swordsmanship. Li Le looked at the wine glass, and he had already made up his mind in his heart.

In the dead of night, the four fields are lonely. The wine in the bottle is empty, but people can't sleep.

Nanyang businessman Bao Dejin, Fan Qinghui and Sandoujin of Yipinju, Zhao Fengbo of the Chengnan Gang, Tang Rulin of the east of the city, Taihang Lou who runs a dismal business, the elf and eccentric little aunt, is this mess left by the old man a mess?

Then I thought, Bao Dejin wanted Taihang Building, and Zhao Fengbo took advantage of the situation to seek revenge for himself, with the calculation of killing two birds with one stone. Tang Rulin is a guy who can't afford to make a profit, and now that he has offended him, this old boy will not give up. Fan Qinghui and Sandoujin are for the two treasures of the Li family. But they indirectly helped Bao Dejin and almost forced Taihang Lou into a dead end.

Three years ago, Bao Dejin came to the ancient city to invest and spent a huge amount of money to buy most of the plots of land in the old city commercial street renovation project. Brought Nanyang Yipinju Catering Group to the ancient city for development, around the Taihang Building, high-rise buildings rise from the ground, for a long time, the business of Taihang Building has been affected by the construction of these buildings. Since then, Taihanglou's business has begun to deteriorate. There are various indications that the initiator of this qiē is the Nanyang merchant Bao Dejin.

Back to the first question, why does Bao Dejin want Taihang Tower so much?

Li Le looked up at the courtyard, the first eighteen years of his life were spent in this place, and he was very familiar with every grass and tree here. Taihang Tower has stood for 300 years and has experienced many catastrophes. Even if there is some accumulation, there is not much left so far. If there is anything that a character like Bao Dejin covets, apart from the eighteen knives in his hand and the set of Huanghuali tables and chairs, he really can't think of anything particularly valuable.

A subtle voice crossed his ears, and Li Le suddenly stopped thinking and looked up at the place where the sound came from.

In the moonlight, a figure appeared silently in the courtyard. Half of the man's body was hidden in the shadows, and the courtyard was so deep that he could only vaguely see that it was a bald head.

"I haven't slept so late." From far to near, the man walked uninvited to Li Le's window, a pair of black eyes like ink, and the divine light was sharp but like two cold lightning.

This person is unremarkable in appearance and short in stature, but these eyes are unforgettable at first sight.

The man's gaze stayed on the 'heavy promise' in Li Le's hand, and asked in a deep voice, "Which of the Li family's eighteen slashes is this?" ”

"The name of the knife is 'Chongnuo'." Li Le shook the knife in his hand slightly, stared at the pair of eyes that he had just seen not long ago, and asked rhetorically: "Yipinju, Master Sandoujin?" ”

The person who came nodded and praised: "The heavy knife has no edge, a promise of gold, it is really a good knife, and the eighteen beheadings of the Li family really deserve its reputation." ”

Li Le casually handed the knife out of the window and said, "Husband Yinuo, standing up to the sky, the Li family has no tradition of breaking promises, why are Miss Fan and the third master aggressive?" ”

Sandoujin waved his hand and refused, saying, "I'm not here for this. ”

Li Le withdrew his hand and looked at him.

Sandoujin said: "I visited all night, in fact, I came to you to discuss a big matter, the reason why I chose this time, in fact, is because there are too many eyes and ears around you in Taihang Tower." ”

"Big deal?" Li Le put down the knife in his hand and looked at the three buckets of gold.

Sandoujin simply: "Bao Dejin is determined to win Taihang Lou, in terms of financial strength and power, you don't have the strength to compete with him, this is not the era of cold weapons, as long as the handle is hard enough, others will not dare to do you how, you want to keep Taihang Lou, the best way is to find someone to cooperate." ”

"I'm afraid it won't be your turn to find someone to work with, right?" Li Le said unceremoniously.

Sandoujin didn't care, but asked rhetorically: "Why can't it be us?" He also explained: "Strictly speaking, there is no deep hatred between us, although I won a game by luck at the North and South Chef King meeting, but that was the old man himself took the initiative to admit defeat, I don't feel that my cooking skills surpass him, the old man's cooking character is what I revere, and the Taihang Building, which has been in charge of the northern school of cooking for three hundred years, is an immeasurable golden signboard, if it is cut off like this, it is a pity." ”

"We'll talk about that later." Li Le grabbed the knife holster casually, got up and went outside the house, handed the knife holster to Sandou Jin's eyes, and said, "Choose one." ”

"What do you mean, Mr. Li?" Sandou Jin was surprised and puzzled.

Li Le said: "I heard that at last year's North and South Chef King Meeting, the three masters had a quick knife incomparable, and the concocted first-hand tofu banquet skills were astonishing, although the old man lost under a bowl of salty dragon soup, but if there was no wonderful knife work you showed before, even if his old man was not energetic, he would not be so happy to admit defeat, Li family's cooking skills were passed on from the North School Wanghailou lineage, paying attention to three points of cooking and seven points of knife work, before the North and South Kitchen King Meeting, the Li family's knife not only did not lose, but also did not fight and never did. ”

Sandou Jin said solemnly: "It is said that Mr. Li is a good man on the ancient city road, but I don't know that you also know how to cook." ”

Li Le said: "When I was a teenager, I studied for a few days, and I couldn't be considered a fine way, so I could get by with a knife work." ”

Sandoujin said: "You want to compete with me for knife work?" ”

Li Le said: "The highest level of knife work in cooking is the tofu banquet, and there is a pinnacle of the tofu banquet: Ten Thousand Buddhas Dynasty, I don't know if Master Sandoujin has heard of it?" ”

Sandoujin was slightly moved, and said in a deep voice: "On a piece of giant tofu three feet square, a total of 9,999 large and small Arhat novices are carved, and worship a Buddha together, this dish was created by Gu Haichao, a master chef in the Northern Song Dynasty, and has only been seen in legends for hundreds of years. ”

"The third master deserves to be a great expert." Li Le said: "The tofu banquet of the third master at the North and South Chef King Meeting that day was very remarkable, but I want to ask you, can you make this dish with your knife skills?" ”

Sandoujin shook his head calmly and said, "I can't do it for the time being." Then he suddenly realized the meaning of Li Le's question, and asked rhetorically: "You mean that Mr. Li can do it?" ”

Li Le nodded and said, "If the old man is not seriously ill, he can indeed make this dish when he is full of energy." ”

"Mr. Li was really not in a good state that day, and I only found out about it afterwards." Sandoujin's face showed shame, looked at Li Le, and asked: "Mr. Li told me about this dish at this time, could it be that you can also cook it?" ”

Li Le said: "I think Taihang Lou has today, not lost in the level of cooking, but lost in the outdated business philosophy, tonight I plan to compete with the three masters again, just try to do the Taoist Ten Thousand Buddhas Dynasty, it is considered to correct the name of my Li family's knife, if I can't do it, or the three masters have also done it, I will lose." ”

Sandoujin looked solemn, looked at Li Le intently, and after thinking for a moment, asked, "What is the bet?" ”

Li Le said: "If I lose, I will immediately agree to all the conditions of your cooperation, if I win, please allow the third master to allow me to take back the promise of selling treasure for the old man." ”

Sandoujin was silent for a moment and then said categorically: "The tofu for making this dish needs to be specially made, and I will arrange for someone to prepare it overnight now." ”

Li Le looked up at the sky, the bright moon was hanging high in the sky, and it was already midnight. Said: "Even if Chunfeng Lou is extremely efficient in preparing things, it will take several hours, a long night, and there is nothing to do, why don't you have a drink?" ”

Sandoujin said without hesitation: "I don't drink a drop of wine in my life, but tonight I want to make an exception for Mr. Li's Ten Thousand Buddhas Dynasty." "Let's go into the house.

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