Swallowing Cloud Noodle Restaurant is a famous snack in Pucheng, although this is famous, but it is relatively bitter haha. But the ample portion, the spicy and spicy taste that makes you sweat, and the bowl that can also give you unlimited soup filling and condiments, are these bitter favorites.

The most important thing is the shopkeeper's unique skill of baking pot helmet, which makes these bitter hahas rush to it. The pot helmet is not only scorched and tender, the tendons carry hunger, and the weight is full, according to the catty, there is no fraud, so those coolies, often have to go on half a catty of pot helmets, and then blushing to ask the boss to serve a bowl of free noodles with condiments, squatting on the side of the road, looking left and right looking for possible customers, while in front of relatives and neighbors, showing off their food, just snoring to eat, and then with a full body of sweat, rush to the feet, waiting for today's life to come to the door.

Originally, there were benches, tables and chairs in this noodle restaurant, but there were not many people who sat there to eat and drink, and then there were these coolies who were honest, since they drank the noodle soup with condiments, they were embarrassed to occupy other people's tables and chairs, and they lost their customers. As a result, there is a different scenery here, the house is deserted, but the outside of the house is always full of people, squatting full of coolies with a large bowl of sea, which makes the scribes who are also bitter, but still want to drink wine. They disdain to fight such coolies.

Even if the rich and noble people suddenly have a little interest in trying it and having a good time, they just send people out, take a few copper coins, and come here with a big bowl to buy a bowl.

Today, the noodle shop has just opened its doors to light a fire, and two men are crowded in at the door, and the boss habitually greets him in the back kitchen with a smile: "Old brother, pot helmet or noodles?" He didn't come out, so he habitually asked again: "Bookkeeping or cash?" ”

You don't have to look outside, the people who come to your store are brothers who have been like this for many years, just ask.

Those who come here are bitter haha, bookkeeping is already the habit of this small shop, and the brothers who can't open the pot are full of food and drink, and they earn wages on the coolie field, and they will naturally come back to pay it back.

"Hahaha." The man laughed before he spoke, and then said loudly: "Come and pack five catties of pot helmets, bring two catties to eat, and then two bowls of noodles." Stopped, seemed to hesitate, and raised again: "Another pound of wine." ”

Smell the wine, this is the big customer of the store, and at the same time listen to the tone is very raw, this can no longer greet the brothers like usual, quickly wipe the face on the hand with an apron, and run out to greet the guests.

But this one ran out, and I couldn't help but be stunned, because, in fact, this guest is also a regular customer, but he usually doesn't come often, but the one standing behind this guest is a regular customer, who is smiling and hiding behind the man to see himself ugly.

"General Yang, I haven't taken care of the small shop for many days, how can I be idle today?"

Yang Fan arched his hand to the shopkeeper and said: "I started paying yesterday, so I came to your store early in the morning, bought some pot helmets, and brought them back to satisfy the hunger of the old people and children. ”

"What? Is the health center paid? This is an unprecedented good thing, congratulations. The shopkeeper immediately sincerely rejoiced for Yang Fan.

This Yang Fan is not the same as other officials, he will not use the official body of a hundred households to show off his strength and oppress the people, but often use this identity for the people, and he is deeply loved by the neighbors, that horse, although he is a broken soldier, but he is very close to Yang Fan, and he has to be taken care of by everyone.

So he hurriedly beckoned the two of them to sit down, wiped the oil and gas table with a rag, turned his head and said to Yang Fan diligently: "Except for a pound of wine, doesn't the general order a side dish with wine?" Saying this, it is not as good as the big hotel, the diligent introduction of the name of the dish, for no other reason, but to sit in this small shop, are cold people, introduced the name of the dish, but often embarrassed the other party, this is the intimate place of this small shop.

Yang Fan looked at Ma Er's head sticking out, his face full of anticipation, he couldn't bear it, he said okay, take him to have a good meal, how can he break his promise now? Thinking about it, he quietly touched his hand to his arms, pressed the dozen or so big money he had just obtained from selling the stolen goods, gritted his teeth and said, "Then cut half a catty of haggis." ”

The horse immediately became frowning and smiling, or my brother was distressed, he hadn't tasted mutton for a year.

"Okay, five catties of pot helmets are packed, two catties are eaten, two bowls of noodles, half a catty of haggis, and one catty of old wine." shouted to the mother-in-law in the back, and then smiled at Brother Yang Fan and said, "Okay, you sit first." ”

At this time, Ma Er suddenly grabbed the boss who turned around to leave, and the boss smiled and said: "Brother Ma'er, the general has brought you half a catty of haggis, you can do it, hehe." In fact, he had already seen Yang Fan's hesitation when he asked for haggis.

Also, he is a person who is paid intermittently and without any external fishing, and he still has to support a family, where can he dare to be so extravagant? It's just that I saw that my brother was greedy and ruthless, so I made up my mind, and I had to be kind, right? It's hard for him General Yang to say, so only he can say it.

As soon as the horse was told by the shopkeeper, his face turned red at that time, and he said in a sneer: "The shopkeeper misunderstood, I just want to buy a rabbit leg over there and take it back." ”

This said, the shopkeeper suddenly, self-deprecating smile, the rabbit meat over there is much cheaper than mutton, and the supply is sufficient, after the wind wax, the taste is delicious, especially over there is also ingenious to decompose the whole rabbit, so that everyone can accept more, not only the rich businessman and the giant must have every meal, but also deep in these hobbies that can not be seen in a year, three big money, you can buy a thigh, or a rabbit brain, five big money, you can buy a skeleton.

Thinking of this, but his expression darkened, he shook his head again, and walked to the kitchen, and in a moment, the wine and food came up, not only a rabbit leg, but also a rabbit skeleton, and by the way, he also brought a piece of hemp paper.

Ma Er hurriedly stood up and said embarrassedly: "Shopkeeper, I, I just want a rabbit leg, nothing else." "Sanwen, it's already extravagant, don't dare to spend more Wuwen.

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said, "It's not for you, what kind of heart do you have?" ”

Ma Er understood, there were some tears in his eyes, and he hurriedly bowed and thanked him, but the boss didn't say anything, so he said to the two of them, and went back to the back to greet the others.

Ma Er hurriedly smiled apologetically at his brother, and carefully wrapped the rabbit legs and rabbit skeleton with hemp paper with his hands and feet, looked at the pound of pot helmet in front of him, and resolutely broke it half, wrapped it together, and carefully placed it in the corner of the table.

Yang Fan smiled bitterly, it was in his twenties, when he was growing up, he couldn't eat half a catty of pot helmet no matter what, so he exchanged his catty with the horse, and divided most of the half-catty haggis.

The horse was about to be robbed, Yang Fan gave a strange look, and the horse stopped fighting, picked it up, lowered his head and nibbled it.

Yang Fan watched him eat slowly, picked up the wine himself, and squinted at the horses.

For a long time, Yang Fan said leisurely: "Couldn't the money and food sent by the Zhang family last month help her?" ”

Last month, the money and grain that had not been distributed to military households for a long time was suddenly distributed, but the officials did not say it, and those who distributed the money and food, as well as the new garrison, were always telling everyone that in fact, this money and grain was not issued by the imperial court, half of it was raised by Zhang Yuanzhang, who went bankrupt, and half of it was raised by the merchants and gentry of Pucheng, hoping that everyone would cheer up and serve the country.

At that time, Yang Fan understood that this was the pole in the north and was about to come down to attack Weinan.

In fact, the king of the north is already a household name in this Pucheng, if it weren't for the sudden arrival of the official army in the mountain pass leading to the north, now the bitterness of Pucheng haha has already rolled up the cover and fled, since everyone can't go, the heart can only look forward to it, looking forward to the king of the king to come over as soon as possible.

As a military man of the imperial court, he should have hated that King Chuang, but now in Yang Fan's heart, it is indispensable, everyone is messing around, let's mix, come, I will resist with money and food, and do my best for this Ming Dynasty, win or not, that no longer cares about the affairs of my own small hundred households.

But the brother in front of him was a little worried, so he took a sip of wine, put down the wine glass, and asked softly: "Why, with the money and food sent the day before yesterday, isn't the money for redemption enough?" ”

At the mention of this, Ma Er immediately raised his head and said with a painful face: "It's not enough, the old bustard said that the price of goods in the market has skyrocketed, and the ransom money has also risen." But he said with a look of hope: "But as long as the war starts, it will be a double salary according to the rules, and it will be enough to save for two months." ”

Looking at the horse's face, which had become hopeful because of the upcoming double pay, he shook his head helplessly, drained the wine in his hand, put a mouthful of food on the horse's pot helmet, and then put the chopsticks with the smell of haggis in his mouth and drank the wine.

Eager to fight, the same mood as he was at the beginning, but he was in order to make a contribution, it was an ethereal fantasy, and the brother in front of him was for his goodwill, the daughter of an old military household who was originally on the same street as him, and now Xiaohong, who was forced to sell herself on Flower Street.

Xiaohong also has an old lady who is spread on the bed, a younger brother who has no father, and she can't afford to support them anyway by relying on her to buy a body, thanks to the fact that the horse is taking care of her. A few years ago, Xiaohong didn't dare to say it, but the kind-hearted neighbor mentioned that he wanted Ma Er to redeem Xiaohong, and then the two of them lived a good life, which was agreed by Ma Er's nominal eldest brother Yang Fan, they are all melons on a bitter vine, as long as they can live in this world for their lives, and then give their brothers an incense.

However, even if the money for redemption is added to Yang Fan's frugality, it is far from enough, and now, he is counting on the double salary at the end of the war.

In any case, let your brother become a family.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly a familiar drum sounded in Pucheng, and all the people smelled this rapid drum sound, and all of them changed color.

The homeless beggars who fell on the corners of the streets were excited, the coolies were excited, the rich were full of panic and fear, and the soldiers walking in the streets were agitated.

The king is coming, the pole is coming, and a great battle has begun.