"You...... You are a bully! The man's face had turned the color of a pig's liver.

The diners laughed louder, and some of them choked and coughed.

"Shopkeeper, this is Mr. Joker you specially invited, right? Is this still fashionable in noodle restaurants? ”

"It's rare to see this bustle, you have to take a good look."

Gu Qingzhu bent down and blessed: "I'm sorry, let the big guy see the joke, just ask you to be a witness for me, this gentleman doesn't want to eat gold, silver and jade in my face, I can't afford to play this small business." ”

"Don't be afraid of the shopkeeper, we don't have his bizarre idea, if you want me to say, if there is such a thing, we should really give him a family photo of ten bowls and eight bowls, a group of wives and children in white, let him shine green everywhere he goes, hahaha!"

"Also, these three pill noodles are taken from the meaning of Lianzhong Sanyuan, it is difficult to eat bowl noodles, and you have to send Xie Yuan, Hui Yuan, and Zhuangyuan, which I am afraid even the emperor can't do."

……

Funny diners come up with all sorts of words, and the dining room erupts in laughter that is completely unexpected by the men.

The man who was difficult to ride the tiger was angry, and finally revealed his true form: "Stinky girl, shameless face, if you want to open a store here, you have to pay money, didn't that dead old woman tell you the rules!" ”

Gu Qingzhu asked in a deep voice: "The tax of the noodle restaurant is paid at the beginning of each month, what do you collect?" ”

"Don't pretend to be stupid with me, either you pay the money now, or I will smash the store immediately!" The man casually lifted the bench and held it high.

"Ahh ......" The diner, who was still laughing happily just now, saw that he was extremely vicious, and hurriedly abandoned the noodle bowl and avoided the side.

"You might as well give it a try!"

This sentence came from two places, one was Fang Kui who came out of the kitchen with a kitchen knife, and the other came in through the door with a backlight, and the sunlight stretched his shadow for a long time, completely covering the man in shadow.

The man's eyes shrank, he originally thought that there were only a few girls in the noodle restaurant, he was entrusted to make trouble, and by the way he wanted to make some money, but his luck was too bad, not only was there a strong man with a height of eight feet and more than a strong force in the store, but also happened to come another tall and burly young man, and his hands holding the bench trembled.

"Cowardly, obediently put down the bench, if it breaks a little skin, I will rip off your skin!" Fang Kui flashed the sharp blade in front of him.

The man's face twitched, and cold sweat rolled down: "Second master, the little one doesn't dare anymore!" ”

"If you dare, let's go inside and have a good chat." The young man who came in from the door said coldly.

"No, no, no!" The man was almost so frightened that he peed his pants, what else was there to talk about inside? You won't make human meat buns with him!

Fang Kui grabbed him by the back of the neck and dragged him to the backyard like a dead dog.

At this moment, Gu Qingzhu, who was standing on the side, called out in surprise: "Brother Qingshan? ”

Gu Qingshan waved his hand and said softly, "You take care of the store first, and we'll talk later." ”

After speaking, he followed Fang Kui, opened the curtain and entered the kitchen.

Gu Qingzhu hurriedly greeted everyone: "Let's continue to sit down and eat noodles, everyone is frightened, all noodles will be discounted today, which can be regarded as an apology to those present." ”

"Oh......" everyone cheered, sat down again to eat noodles, and more good people asked, "Shopkeeper, another bowl, is it discounted?" ”

"As long as you eat, you will get a 20% discount at noon today!" Gu Qingzhu replied briskly.

Everyone laughed, and the laughter almost washed away the unpleasantness just now.

Gu Qingzhu saw that the dining room was back to normal, so he rushed back to the kitchen, and saw that Fang Kui and Gu Qingshan were interrogating the man in the backyard.

It turned out that this man was a ruffian near Pear Blossom Lane, and he often harassed various shops on weekdays, and some of the shops asked for a good life, so they gave him some money to send things away, Ding was a woman, and he didn't want to have anything to do with him, so he had to spend money to buy peace.

According to him, this time he went to Ding's noodle restaurant to make trouble, someone gave him ten taels of silver, telling him to destroy the noodle restaurant and drive Gu Qingzhu and others out of Nancang County.

"Who is the person who asked you to do something?" Gu Qingshan was holding a piece of firewood stick in his hand, it was a miscellaneous tree cut on the mountain, it was hard and tough, and it hurt very much to smoke on people.

The man grimaced and wailed: "I really don't know, this man just called a little beggar and sent me money and a message, and I don't know anything else!" ”

"You'd better tell the truth honestly, or I'll chop you up and feed the dog!" Fang Kui shook a knife in front of him, and the cold light refracted by the sunlight almost blinded the man's eyes.

"No, no, what I said is all true!" The man collapsed on the ground, covering his face with his elbow in fear of death.

Fang Kui turned his head and saw Gu Qingzhu coming in, so he asked, "Qingzhu, what do you say?" ”

"This kind of ruffian bully, let's leave it to the yamen to deal with, we can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." Gu Qingzhu glanced at him with disgust.

|“ Uh-huh! The man who was afraid of death nodded like garlic, and he lost all the ferocity just now.

He was afraid that one of them would be unhappy, so he slaughtered him with a knife and made human meat buns.

Fang Kui thought he was verbose, and kicked him in the stomach, which immediately made him dumb.

"Tie it up first, don't alarm the guests outside." After speaking, Gu Qingzhu turned around and went back to the kitchen.

The diners in front of them were satisfied, and one after another left, and then others came, but no one remembered to ask what happened to the unlucky man who came to make trouble.

In the afternoon, Fang Kui found two officials outside Pear Blossom Lane and told them the ins and outs of the matter, but the officials didn't say a word, and directly took away the man who was dizzy in the backyard.

"Qingzhu, think about it carefully, have you offended anyone recently?" A few people had lunch, and it was rare to be idle, Gu Qingshan asked with a twisted eyebrow.

Gu Daya shook her head again and again and said, "No, we haven't opened a store here for half a month, how can we offend people in vain?" ”

"It's not necessarily to offend people, I'm afraid that someone is jealous of our good business and deliberately finds fault and makes things difficult." Fang Kui thought for a moment.

Gu Qingzhu was too lazy to spend time on this, and spent time guessing: "I can't figure it out either, but if you think too much, it's useless after all, let's do our business as we should, and those ghosts will show their original form sooner or later." She paused, then asked again, "Brother Qingshan, I just wanted to ask, why are you here?" ”

Gu Qingshan sighed lightly: "Hey, you were kind enough to hide it and didn't want us to worry, but how many people in the village can hide things in their hearts?" Besides, my father has never stayed outside for so long in the past few years to wait for the bill, my mother is not at ease, so she went to ask others, all the people said that they were very different, secretive, I thought that something big must have happened, so I blocked Gu Qingshui in the tea garden, forced him to say, only to know the situation here. ”

"Brother!" Gu Daya was tearful and aggrieved.

Gu Qingshan touched his sister's hair: "I know that you have been frightened and scared recently, and you have suffered again, your mother and Qingchuan are also here, they are accompanying your father in the inn, I will come to look for you, I just happened to catch the troublemaker." ”

"Big girl, you and Brother Qingshan go back to the inn to accompany Aunt Sun, there is not much business in the afternoon, I don't plan to go to Dongshi today, I can handle it here." Gu Qingzhu pushed Gu Daya and said.

Gu Daya wiped her eyes, sniffed and said, "Then what's the matter, people are still counting on you." ”

"Qingzhu, my mother is probably going to live here for a few days, you just have to be busy, if I can help anything, just ask, don't be polite." Gu Qingshan said gratefully.

Gu Qingzhu has too much affection with his family, and he doesn't know what to take back.

"It's okay, let's do a few less deals today, cook five or six dishes, go back early, and everyone have a meal together." Gu Qingzhu smiled with a mouthful of teeth.

"Uh-huh." Gu Daya nodded again and again.

In the afternoon, Gu Qingshan has been staying in the store to help, he helped knead the dough and roll the skin, Gu Qingzhu felt much more relaxed for the first time, you know, she has to make more than fifty catties of flour every day, mixed with water, far more than this amount, her arm has been sore these days, and sometimes she can't recover from sleep.

On the wharf, the skeletons of the lanterns of each house have almost been completed, the craftsmen are busy pasting rice paper and lacquered gold paper, and a few are making large lantern group lights, and the outside looks at the large shelves, all covered with oilcloth, and the inside is completely invisible.

Today, Gu Qingshan accompanied Gu Qingzhu to go out to sell steamed buns, her business was still very good, and she was familiar with it, seeing the burly and upright Gu Qingshan, she couldn't help but make a harmless joke.

At this time, Gu Qingzhu always had to say seriously that he was her brother, and Gu Qingshan also helped to speak, but the more he described, the darker and darker, causing people to laugh ambiguously.

"Look at me, I can't speak, I'm causing you trouble." Gu Qingshan scratched his head, and the tip of his nose was sweating urgently.

Gu Qingzhu shook his hand generously and said with a smile; "They're just doing one thing over and over again that is too boring, just having some fun here, and they can't take it seriously."

"It's okay." Gu Qingshan lifted his coat to wipe the sweat on his face.

Gu Qingzhu sold steamed buns for a while, had to take a moment of leisure, and asked secretly, "Brother Qingshan, is the village okay?" ”

"There is nothing big in the village, I helped with the cooking of your family's tea garden and mulberry garden before I came, Aunt Qin was reluctant to waste summer tea, so she helped you pick some fresh leaves, and entrusted me to sell them together.

But this year's tea market is really indescribable, the price of fresh leaves is ridiculously low, and the total has not sold much money. ”

Hearing this, Gu Qingzhu frowned: "Didn't Gu Erni go back?" Why doesn't his fighting sell? ”

"Isn't Gu Erni in Dexing Weaving Workshop? I didn't see her go back. Gu Qingshan asked rhetorically, and then said, "As for his chickens, I heard that he was originally going to take a few to pay off his debts before the summer solstice, but because Mancang killed a few big chickens last time, he couldn't pay the difference, this time, the chickens were raised, but the gambling house manager changed his hexagram and said, don't want it for the time being, just ask him to raise it until next year's Qingming, your second uncle is scratching his liver these days, and he has nowhere to find food, as if he wants to get the chickens to sell them in the market for money, but he is afraid that the gambling house manager will know about it and trouble him, anyway, he has been having a hard time recently." ”

Gu Qingzhu was not interested in his chickens, but he was very surprised when he heard that Gu Erni did not go home, she had left the Dexing Weaving Workshop earlier, but she did not go home, and there were no great relatives in her house who could take her in, even so, such a teenage girl, could it be that she disappeared in vain? !