Chapter 20 The wife and sister of the county
If a person is unlucky enough to reach a certain level, he can bump into ghosts while wearing a Taoist robe.
Xiao Ding didn't wear a robe, and he even bumped into an unlucky ghost. He came to Xiangmanlou to sell wolves, but he caught up with the shopkeeper who was not here today. If you don't marinate the wolf meat in time, it is very likely that the wolf meat will spoil tomorrow.
"Why don't the two guest officers carry the wolf to the back kitchen and wait for a while? Our shopkeeper comes almost every day, and today is estimated to be delayed, maybe he will come over after finishing his work. The shopkeeper saw that Xiaoding put the wolf at the door, worried that it would affect the business of the restaurant, so he made a suggestion.
Xiao Ding thought about it, only Xiangmanlou was the largest in Nancheng District, and if he wanted to sell it in other large restaurants, he had to carry it to other urban areas. It's better to wait here for a while, if you wait for a while and the shopkeeper doesn't come, then go to the market and sell it casually.
"Okay, let's go to the back kitchen and wait for a while." Xiao Ding responded.
When the shop guy took Xiao Ding and Zhao Laixi to carry the wolf to the door of the back kitchen, he suddenly saw a young lady and two maids coming from the backyard of the restaurant.
"Miss, why are you here? Is the master here? The shopkeeper hurriedly trotted a few steps forward and bowed, and said to the young lady in the goose-yellow skirt.
The young lady was wearing a goose-yellow scattered flower pleated skirt, only sixteen or seventeen years old, her skin was white and delicate, her eyebrows were like the moon, her eyes were like stars, there was a small red mouth under her small nose, the corners of her mouth were slightly curved upward, and there were a pair of small dimples on the cheeks on both sides of the mouth. The whole body exudes youthful vitality.
"I have a distinguished guest from the capital at home, and my father is accompanying the guest." The young lady said in a whisper, her voice was very crisp and good, "My father asked me to come to the restaurant to see if there are any special ingredients, and let Chef Liu personally make a few good dishes." ”
"Wouldn't it be better to let Chef Liu cook a few of our restaurant's signature dishes!" The guy said.
"No, it won't. Listen to my father, the guest is a noble person, he has eaten all the delicacies in the capital, and his mouth is very tricky, and the specialties of our restaurant are not rare at all. The young lady explained.
"Ah, that's a bit of a problem! Oh, by the way, he happens to have a wolf here, and let Chef Liu cook a few wolf meat dishes, maybe he can satisfy the customer's appetite. The guy pointed to Xiao Ding and said.
"You're going to sell it, wolf?" The pretty young lady beckoned to Xiao Ding behind her, signaling him to come closer. She had already seen Xiao Ding and Zhao Laixi behind the guy, but she hadn't had time to ask yet.
"Exactly, I don't know that the girl is the shopkeeper of Xiangmanlou?" Xiao Ding took a few steps forward and came to the young lady and said.
"Hehe, I'm not the shopkeeper. How? Do you have to sell this wolf to the shopkeeper? The young lady covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Oh, no, no, I'm listening to the guy say that the restaurant accepts wolves, and it needs the consent of the shopkeeper. If the girl wants to buy it, as long as the price is reasonable, I will naturally sell it. Xiao Ding explained that he did not know what the relationship between this young lady and the restaurant manager was.
"Tell me, then, how much are you going to sell this wolf for?" The young lady asked Xiaoding with a smile.
"This ......" Xiao Ding hesitated, he really didn't know how much this wolf was worth. The prices he knew were all from Zhao Laixi. In the county government, because he was cheap, he said more than the number, and as a result, he got into the pit. Now this young lady asked, if you say less, you are worried that you will lose money, and if you say more, you are worried that the young lady is too expensive. How much to say?
Zhao Laixi said that if the wolf is sold to a rich man in the county seat, it can be sold for ten taels, or else, I will say ten taels? Little Ding pondered. Looking at this young lady's dress, I know that she is from a rich family, and she should not be short of money, so I should ask for more.
After making up his mind, Xiao Ding said, "This wolf, I want twenty taels of silver!" He thinks that twice as much as Zhao Laixi said, it should be a lot, if it is more, people may not want it.
"How much?" The young lady asked again, as if she had not heard clearly.
"Two, twenty taels ......" Xiao Ding said confidently, thinking, is it too much!
"Hehe......" the young lady laughed, covering her mouth.
"How......?" Xiao Ding frowned, is it really too much? Do you want to take the initiative to reduce the price?
was hesitating, so I heard the young lady say to the shopkeeper: "Wang Er, you go and tell Chef Liu, we will accept this wolf, and let him use wolf meat to make a few specialty dishes in a while......"
The guy answered and went into the kitchen.
The young lady then said to the two maids beside her: "I thought such a big wolf would be so expensive, but I didn't expect it to be only twenty taels of silver, it's really cheap!" Little red and green, do you two have any silver on you? If you don't bring it, you will go to the account room of the restaurant and pay twenty taels to this ——, to this strong man......" As she spoke, she looked at Xiao Ding and the others again.
When Xiao Ding heard this, he regretted it in his heart! The heart said, is there really a disease in the brain? Don't say more when you should say more, and say more when you should say less. Why didn't you dare to say fifty taels just now? How dare you say fifty taels when you are in the county office? Alas......, sometimes people's sorrow is actually self-inflicted.
After a while, Yahuan Xiaolu took twenty taels of silver from the account office of the restaurant and came back, and the young lady asked Xiaolu to hand it to Xiaoding, and said to Xiaoding with a smile: "This strong man, you are a hunter in the countryside around the county, right?" If you catch any prey in the future, just send it to Xiangmanlou. If the restaurant doesn't accept it, you can send it directly to my house......"
"Then thank you girl, I don't know what to call her? Where is the mansion? Xiao Ding took the silver in Yahuan's hand and put it in his arms.
"You don't know who I am, do you? Hehe, interesting! Interesting! Hehe......" The young lady covered her little mouth and laughed again. At first glance, she is an optimistic and cheerful girl.
"I really don't know ......," Xiao Ding said.
At this time, Wang Er, the shopkeeper, walked out of the kitchen, and happened to hear the conversation between the two, so he hurriedly stepped forward and introduced: "This young lady is the youngest daughter of our restaurant shopkeeper Han Lao, named Han Lu'er, and her eldest sister Han Yao'er's father-in-law is our county commander Hu Zhi County in Luoxia County." ”
Her eldest sister's father-in-law is Hu Zhi County, so isn't she Hu Zhi County's sister-in-law? To put it in layman's terms, she is Hu Zhixian's sister-in-law!
Xiao Ding looked at Han Lu'er fixedly, thinking about what Hu Zhixian said to him before: "I have a wife, gentle and virtuous, with a very beautiful face, and I just got ...... this year" Well, the age can be matched, and the appearance is not bad, but this gentle and virtuous ...... doesn't seem to be seen yet, and it can be seen a little bit of liveliness and cheerfulness......
Then Xiao Ding's mind turned again, since this young lady named Han Luer is the daughter of the shopkeeper of the restaurant, then the shopkeeper of the restaurant is not Hu Zhixian's father-in-law, Lao Taishan, no wonder Hu Zhixian said that he wanted to invite himself to Xiangmanlou for dinner! It turns out that they are all a family!
"I don't know what this strong man is called?" Han Lu'er saw Xiao Ding staring at herself, looking silly, a little uncomfortable, and at the same time feeling a little funny, so she asked casually. But in his heart, he comforted himself by saying that he was just a hillbilly who had never seen much of the world!
"Oh, in Shimoda Xiaoding, people usually call me Xiaoding, and I also have a nickname called Tian Fool." Xiao Ding didn't know which string was wrong in his head, and he even told the nickname to others.
"Little Ding...... Tian Fool...... And there are such names...... Hahahaha! Han Lu'er finally couldn't help laughing, and her waist bent down with laughter.
Xiao Ding, who was on the side, was not angry because of the other party's ridicule, but thought: This Han girl is really beautiful when she laughs!