The shopkeeper of the noodle restaurant is from Xijiang, he said that he is from Xizhou, and his favorite food in his hometown is noodles, especially all kinds of noodles, which are delicious.

More than 20 years ago, their family went to business, and when they went to Jizhou, they encountered a disaster, and their father couldn't go back when he couldn't afford to get sick, so his mother took their brother and sister to settle down in Jizhou City.

Mother said that my father is buried here, and I can't even have a person who burns paper every year, because people are always lazy.

Li Didiu listened to the shopkeeper's chatter and couldn't help but ask: "What does this have to do with being lazy?" ”

The shopkeeper took a puff of his pipe and exhaled a thick puff of smoke, and his accent still had a slight smell of Xizhou, but it seemed very kind.

"Childe, think about it."

The shopkeeper said: "I have come all the way home, and I have an industry at home, so I am naturally more comfortable, but people, I may come back all the way to my father's grave in the first year, and what about the second, third, and fourth years?" ”

He looked at Li Diudiu and said, "It will take half a year to go back and forth, and then you will feel troublesome, so forget it...... At that time, my mother said, our family of three will live in Jizhou, I don't care if you two brothers and sisters will return to Xizhou in the future, I will go to be buried with your father in the future. ”

The shopkeeper smiled, there was no sadness, more than twenty years have passed, and the sadness has long since dissipated.

He said in a very flat tone: "Ten years ago, my mother went, I buried her and my father together according to my mother's wishes, and the two of them can finally live together again, I still remember when I was a child, they were not ashamed, and they always flirted, hehe......"

"My mother said that she didn't care about our brother and sister, and she would go back if she wanted to go back to Xizhou, but she was afraid that her father would be lonely when she went back, so wouldn't I be afraid that we would be lonely when we left?"

The shopkeeper knocked his pipe on the ground, got up, and said, "I'll go and serve you noodles, it should be all right." ”

Now it is his son and daughter-in-law who cook noodles in the back kitchen, more than 20 years ago, the old lady took their brother and sister to stay in Jizhou, they will not do any business, thinking that the noodles in Xizhou are so delicious, why not make a living from it?

Who would have thought that this bowl of noodles would feed their family.

Over the past 20 years, two of the four most popular noodle restaurants in Jizhou City have been passed down by him, and the other two are run by his sister, who married in Jizhou City, and has been very close to her for so many years.

The shopkeeper also has a son and a daughter, and his son has taken over this noodle restaurant, he could have been idle but he didn't want to be idle, so he walked back and forth every day in the two noodle restaurants managed by his son and uncle, and those words were repeated every day.

Remember, the people of Jizhou have fed us, and in every bowl of noodles, there is no shortage of noodles, and the ingredients are not reduced at all.

It is said that the people in the western Xinjiang of Great Chu are fierce, but in fact, they are also honest, and most of the things that people who recognize are not moved.

Li Didiuu said that he wanted to add meat and wanted to eat meat, but without saying a word, the shopkeeper asked his son to scoop two spoonfuls of stew that should have been put in the knife-cut noodles, and the meat was piled up.

Li Didiuu and Changmei Daoren thanked the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper smiled and said thank you, this meat is not for money.

The long-eyebrow Taoist looked at the three bowls of noodles in front of Li Diudiu, and suddenly his nose was slightly sour.

He sighed and said, "When I followed me before, I didn't know that you could eat so much, and I thought that half a piece of bread could fill your little belly. ”

Li Diudiu buried his head in eating noodles, his mouth was bulging, and his answer was slurred.

"At that time, the amount of food was small, and when I arrived in Jizhou, the amount of food was large."

The master snorted, he didn't want to say anything sad these days, so he also lowered his head and ate noodles, one old and one young, baldly eating.

When the two of them lowered their heads and only cared about eating noodles, a person stopped beside Li Diudiu, Li Diudiu subconsciously raised his head and looked, and then saw Yan Qingzhi looking down at him, Li Diudiu was stunned.

Mr. Yan put the things he was carrying on the table, looking a little tired, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.

"It took me four noodle restaurants to find you."

Mr. Yan patted the thing on the table: "I bought you a new dress." ”

After finishing speaking, he pulled a stool and sat down, and looked at Changmei Daoren: "I also bought you a suit, and shoes." ”

The master and apprentice were both stunned, the old man and the young man still had noodles in their mouths, as if they were stiff there, and they were motionless like sculptures.

Yan Qingzhi turned around and shouted to the shopkeeper: "Come to the bowl of noodles, just like what they eat, add meat." ”

Li Didiuu hurriedly pushed the two bowls of noodles that he hadn't moved to Yan Qingzhi and said, "Sir, these two bowls haven't been touched yet, eat these two bowls first, don't wait." ”

Mr. Yan smiled and said, "This is your longevity noodles, you eat them yourself, eat them all, and live a long life." ”

These words were so familiar, as if something suddenly hit Li Diudiu's heart, making his nose suddenly sore, and the corners of his eyes were slightly wet.

The shopkeeper came over, greeted him with a smile, and then asked, "Do you want this kind of noodles too?" How many bowls? ”

Yan Qingzhi said: "A bowl." ”

The shopkeeper said, "Isn't there one?" Then eat it first, and I'll cook it again, without delay. ”

Yan Qingzhi shook his head: "Don't eat him, it's his birthday today, this is his longevity noodles." ”

The shopkeeper laughed: "Okay, I'll go and let the back kitchen cook it tightly, the little boy will be blessed when he sees it, someone else's longevity noodles are a bowl of longevity and longevity, and you have three bowls in one breath, at least three hundred years old." ”

The shopkeeper can speak, and Li Diudiu smiled.

Yan Qingzhi said: "Just your bowl, if he eats it openly, he may be seven hundred years old......"

The shopkeeper said: "Don't make trouble, you can eat three bowls of noodles on the top of the son's body, let alone seven bowls, if you can eat five bowls, I will invite you, and I will never break my promise." ”

At this moment, Li Diudiu, Changmei Daoren, and Mr. Yan, the eyes of the three of them lit up.

Li Diudiu raised his head and said seriously: "Then there are four more bowls of ......"

Changmei Daoren: "Maybe, I can still eat a bowl." ”

Yan Qingzhi said: "I'll add another bowl too." ”

The shopkeeper has been doing business for so many years, and he has never looked at it, and he is very confident that he will not be wrong, but why do he vaguely feel that he may fall into the pit this time?

However, the people in the northwest are talkative, and when they turned around, they asked their son to cook a few more bowls of noodles, splashing noodles with oil and adding meat.

At the moment when the noodles came up, the panting Xiahou Zhuo came in with Ruan Chen and a few of them, and at a glance they saw Li Diudiu and them sitting there, as well as a table full of noodles.

"I've finally found it."

Xiahou Zhuo pointed to the table next to him: "Pull it over and make a table." ”

Ruan Chen and Ruan Du went over to move the table and make peace with Li Diu and their table, Xiahou Zhuo looked at the noodles on the table, wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "I'm really a little hungry, boss, just like this, give each of the five of us two bowls." ”

Yan Qingzhi said: "Didn't you not be able to eat it?" ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "Mr. Yan, look at what you asked, you asked me...... I can't explain it. ”

Originally, there were no other guests except Li Diudiu and their table, but in fact, it was already past the time to eat, so there were not many people, Xiahou Zhuo came in with four people, and the room suddenly became lively.

Before the noodles came up, there was another group of people outside, all dressed in green clothes, and there were twenty or thirty of them. Xiahou Zhuo glanced back and said with a smile: "Why are you standing there, come in and eat noodles." ”

This large group of men in Tsing Yi all came in, and the noodle restaurant was full, and each of them asked for two bowls of noodles, and they also wanted that, oily noodles and meat.

Fortunately, this noodle shop has enough ingredients, otherwise it would not be enough.

Waiting for the noodles to come up in turn, Xiahou Zhuo looked at the shopkeeper and asked, "Is there any wine?" ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said yes, there are so many men in Tsing Yi, he has already guessed what the identity of the person who came, and he didn't dare to slack off.

"Not much, one bowl per person."

Xiahou said: "I have to drink a bowl today." ”

The shopkeeper's son came out to help, holding a wine jar, pouring wine for one person and one bowl, and after the wine was full, Xiahou Zhuo stood up, he held the wine bowl and said loudly: "For my brother Li Qishou!" ”

All the men in Tsing Yi stood up and neatly picked up their wine bowls.

"For Brother Li Qi's birthday!"

Xiahou Zhuo said loudly: "It's done!" ”

"!"

More than 30 people threw up their necks and dried up the wine.

Xiahou Zhuo wiped the corners of his mouth, looked at Li Qi and said, "This time next year, I should be in the Northern Frontier Army, so I can't accompany you for your birthday, but you ......"

He pointed to those men in green clothes: "These brothers, they must be here next year, you remember what each of them looks like, come!" ”

He shouted, "Tell me brother, what are your names!" ”

Those men stood up and reported their names one by one, some were from Jizhou, some were from Youzhou, some were from Daizhou, some were from Xinzhou, these brothers all looked at Li Qi, and none of them regarded him as a child.

"Me!"

Li Qi didn't have time to drink the bowl of wine just now, so he picked up the wine bowl and said loudly: "Jizhou, Li Qi!" ”

A bowl of wine, a drink.

Xiahou Zhuo laughed and said: "It doesn't matter if you can't remember their names, just remember that they are all brothers, and the brothers in Tsing Yi are not the gangsters, those who call them brothers share life and death." ”

Yan Qingzhi was a little unhappy when he saw Xiahou Zhuo bringing so many people in Tsing Yi to see Li Diudiu, he didn't want Li Diudiu to get too close to these people on the secret road, if he didn't know that Xiahou Zhuo really regarded Li Qi as a brother, he still had to persuade Li Qi to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo.

But at that moment just now, Yan Qingzhi suddenly understood that this was Xiahou Zhuo's birthday gift to Li Qi.

Xiahou Zhuo will leave Jizhou next year, these brothers are left by Xiahou Zhuo to protect Li Qi, Yan Qingzhi knows that Xiahou Zhuo is determined to go to Northern Xinjiang, and he will not take any of these people away, just because he wants to stay in Jizhou to be Li Qi's backing.

As soon as he thought of this, Xiahou Zhuo suddenly turned around and bowed down towards Li Qi.

"I introduce my brothers to you, not only so that you can get acquainted with each other and take care of each other, but also have one more thing I want to entrust to you."

Seeing that Xiahou Zhuo was solemn, Li Qi hurriedly got up and said, "You say." ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I was only going to enter the Tsing Yi Formation because of my mother, she is stubborn and tall, and she doesn't enter the palace, I haven't dared to tell her about going to Northern Xinjiang, and I don't plan to tell her, after I leave Jizhou, without me by my mother's side, some bastards will definitely bully my mother, Li Qi ......"

Xiahou Zhuo hugged his fists and said, "Can you help me protect her?" ”

Li Qi shouted loudly: "Yes! ”

More than 30 brothers in Tsing Yi shouted loudly at the same time: "Yes! ”

Even Yan Qingzhi and Changmei Daoren didn't know what was wrong, so they all followed softly...... Yes.