Chapter 169: Warm Soup Inn
Master Gao wanted to refuse, so he said, "What warm soup?" Not yet a pot of hot water, when I don't know! ”
Chen Zhutou's face was a little unbearable, Gao Jun knew that he and Liu County Ling had good intentions, and he was busy adding, "The real warm soup in Jiaohe County is in the Longquan Pavilion eighty miles north of the county, where there are underground hot springs, which are neither hot nor cold. "I feel a little pretentious, and there is a hint of pickiness in it.
Therefore, when I heard Liu County's order say, "Mr. Gao is so familiar with the geography of Jiaohe, and when he has the opportunity one day, he will definitely accompany Mr. Gao to a real warm soup", Mr. Gao hurriedly said, "That is, to wash the smell of sweat on the body, how can there be so much attention." ”
So Liu Wu, Chen Niangu and Gao Daren, led by Chen Zhutou, walked out of the Riverside Building, and without going to the street, they passed through an alley from the backyard of the restaurant and went directly to the Wentang Hotel next to it. Liu County Lingtui said that he had official business, so he didn't come.
This is a courtyard with the word "Hui", but the "mouth" in the word "Hui" has been replaced with a "bow" type. The outer part is the guest house, and the zigzag house inside is the bathing room.
This layout design is ingenious, not only making full use of the limited space, but also helping to supply as many rooms as possible with limited hot water over short distances. Travelers staying in the surrounding guest houses have a similar distance to get to the bathing room from any guest house.
Gao Jun and the three of them followed Chen Zhutou and walked through a delicate bluestone road, which was a low stone fence with various flowers and plants planted in the stone fence. When they arrived in the courtyard, a woman in her thirties stood there to greet the visitors, and at a glance it was clear that she was past her prime, but there were no signs of aging on her face.
Master Gao could understand her and Chen Zhutou's eyebrows flickering, knowing that the two of them had long been familiar with each other. The woman said to the three pastoral supervisors, "Three adults, the head catcher has spoken in advance, and some idlers have already avoided it, and today the bathing room is only open for three adults." ”
Chen Zhutou hurriedly pointed at her and said, "Three adults, this hostel is opened by herself." ”
The woman smiled and said, "The little woman's home is not here, in Jiaohe County, there are two lives in the land and people, thanks to Chen Zhutou's rectification of law and order, multi-faceted care, and the strong and strong dare not harass, this hostel can be opened." ”
Her voice is not high, although she has the intention of sticking gold on Chen Zhutou's face, but there is no lack of sincerity in her tone, and it can be seen that she is also sincere. Gao Daren and the others knew this, and they didn't ask much. Then I heard her say, "The three adults will call me Lilani in the future, and if you can get by here, please visit me more...... Please come with me. ”
Chen Zhutou was sent here and immediately bowed down and stopped walking inside, so the three of them followed the woman and walked into a small but gorgeously decorated room.
Facing a counter, behind which sat a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, with a somewhat similar appearance to Lilan. Lilan pointed and said, "This is my sister Lirong, who only came to see me from Tingzhou two days ago and fought here." ”
Gao Jun didn't seem to know how to usher in the gift of sending her, after her sister said it, she just sat there and nodded, there was no round pass of her sister between her fingers, and she still bent her slender fingers to play with an abacus, and the abacus sound of "crackling horn" only appeared to stop for a moment.
On the south side of the room are two large windows that are almost to the ground, and purple velvet curtains hang from the sides. When Gao Jun was still looking at this beauty, five women stood up on the bench by the curtain, they were sitting there just now, they were well-behaved, not talking and moving, thinking that the proprietress was usually well-trained, all in their twenties, and their size was generally well-proportioned, but they were not noisy.
Lilan smiled, "I'm here for all the sensible people, please choose one of the three adults who are pleasing to your eyes, and let them go in and wait." ”
When Liu Wu saw it, he first blushed and said, "Why don't you take a hot bath, why is this still ......?"
Before the others could speak, Lirong in the counter snorted inadvertently, seemingly with some disdain. The tall man looked at her, and saw that she was buried in the account again.
Her sister hurriedly said, "I only came here to relieve my fatigue, but most of the newcomers are not familiar with the interior layout." There were guests who had been lying in the pool for a long time, and they were embarrassed to call people. Isn't it careless that the hot water is scalded? There is a way to follow the local customs, and it is better for adults not to shirk it. ”
This was reasonable, and the three of them had nothing to say, and Chen Niangu and Liu Wu turned their heads to look at Master Gao together.
Gao Jun chose the best-looking one among them, and pointed at Liu Wudao, "You, just ...... Go and get Lord Liu," the woman stood beside Liu Wu. Chen Niangu didn't wait for Lord Gao to speak, and casually pointed to a person, "It's you." ”
Master Gao said, "Just come to someone with some sharp eyes, put the water away, don't burn me." When Lilan heard this, she hurriedly nodded her hand and called one of them, "Red girl, I have you to work." Another girl answered.
The men were all picked up, and three adults were brought in. Lilan then blamed her sister and said, "You haven't come to see me once for more than half a year, but it's finally here, please suppress your little temperament, don't mess with my business, thank God!" ”
Lirong snorted and said, "I've already given you a lot of face, I can't be angry when I see these mediocre officials who are full of food all day long and have nothing to do, and I don't have to ask for him like you, and there is no need to be respectful to them like the Red Girl in order to make a living." I did my thing, and it made your heart beat again, didn't it? ”
She looked down to settle the score, her eyelashes down, and she couldn't see the big eyes, only a dangling nose and a pursed red lip under the hair hanging down from her forehead.
Her sister said, "I won't say much about you, I just hope to find you a home that can accommodate you earlier, so I am relieved." "Let's go out and do my own thing.
Lirong settled the account here, and after a while, the red girl hurried out and sat down on a chair, her face a little uncomfortable. Seeing that her hair wasn't wet, Lirong asked, "So fast?" ”
The red girl looked at the only two people in the room, and then said, "Miss Rong, I think that tall man seems to be a person who doesn't like women, does he have any habit of breaking his sleeves, do you want to talk to your sister?" ”
Just as Lilan stepped in, she reprimanded when she heard this, "My sister was angry with me just now, and you are talking nonsense!" Let Lord Gao hear it, don't smash our hotel. Looking at the official robe on his body, he must be a senior official above the fifth grade, we have searched the entire Jiaohe, but have we seen the second one? You must have annoyed people by not serving well! Oh my God, how can this be good? ”
After turning around twice as he spoke, he said, "What's good?" ”
Lirong smiled, "Look at what scared you, there is Chen Zhutou covering you, I have never seen you so at a loss, why don't you just call the young man who boiled water behind him to try it according to what the red girl said." ”
Her sister said, "Is this a casual thing?" also said that Chen Zhutou, his black clothes are okay to scare the hawkers who carry burdens on the street, but you can still say it! ”
He took two more steps back and forth on the ground, "Chen Zhutou said that they are guests invited by Mrs. Liu...... How is it good? "If such a person is unhappy, how can the business be opened in the future?
Her sister rarely saw her sister behave like this, and she was a little worried about her, but she didn't know anything about the scene, so what could she do? Thinking of my sister alone in a hotel on top of the Jiaohe, I realized today that it was not easy.
She couldn't help but say, "Then why don't you ask for yourself?" (To be continued.) )