Chapter 44: Abu
The noodle stall was steaming, and several people were eating noodles by themselves.
The table, bench, bowl, and bucket were all replaced, presumably by Mrs. Cui who paid the girl.
A middle-aged man is cooking noodles, and on the desk, there are chopped green onions, garlic, chili sauce, pickled radish, rice vinegar and other accessories. To add or not to add, to add more or to add less, it's up to personal preference.
A customer eats good noodles, puts the noodles money in a bamboo basket by the stove, pats his butt and leaves.
The middle-aged man cooked the noodles, and two men and a woman came over to continue cooking.
Cang'er asked Haishang in a low voice: "Sister, where do you see this stall singing?" β
Haishang smiled: "The stall owner is not here, and it will be open as usual." Eat noodles and cook them yourself, and the noodles money will be given as usual. β
"It's hard to see a girl." Cang'er felt very deeply.
Two men and one woman cooked noodles and talked about them while eating.
The older man said, "It's been a few days since Grandma Abu had an accident, right?" β
Cang'er and Haishang glanced at each other: the girl's name was Abu.
The younger man said, "Yes, I heard that Grandma Abu broke her right leg this time, it's so pitiful." At a young age, it is not easy for Abu to take care of his grandmother and make money to support a group of orphans. β
The woman took over: "Grandma Abu has adopted a group of orphans of the same age, and life has become more and more difficult. As soon as Abu became sensible, he took over his grandmother's noodle stand. Take it all your own. The neighbors are full of praise. The noodle stall used to be only a morning market business, but now it has been on fire for 12 hours. β
The woman talked a lot, just so that Cang'er and Haishang could understand it.
"Brother Feixian. No," the seacoat's eyes rolled, "and now you're going to have to catch your head." β
Cang'er was embarrassed: "Sister, let's call me brother." β
"Okay, Brother Cang'er, let's take care of Miss Abu's business too."
Cang'er's face was embarrassed, he had just arrived in the Tang Dynasty, and he had just taken office, he was destitute and couldn't afford a bowl of clear water.
Haishang is rich and generous: "Little sister has a treat, and Brother Cang'er has enough to eat." β
It turned out that Haishang took the time to go back to the Hibiscus Soup House once and retrieved the savings stored in the tent. She exchanged part of the silver for copper plates, and part of it for the box. A beautiful girl like her may marry herself anytime and anywhere, and she must prepare a decent dowry in advance.
Haishang met Wu Erniang in the Furong Soup House, and Wu Erniang's face was as ugly as it was. Haishang deliberately lit up the iron rope to convey to Wu Erniang that she was a dignified Beijing master and a fast catcher. Wu Erniang said "congratulations", but in her heart she scolded the sea fox for being a fake tiger, and she didn't know what to do.
Someone has a treat, of course, to give enough face. Cang'er happily cooked noodles, and Haishang had to sit aside and wait relaxedly.
β» One person holds a bowl of noodles and eats for a long time.
The people who ate the good noodles dispersed one by one, but there was still no shortage of noodles in this person's bowl. He didn't eat the noodles one bite at a time, but swallowed them one by one. How many sticks are there in a bowl of noodles? Guess he'll give you a precise answer.
"Tailor Guo, you eat slowly, I'll go first." Of the two men and one woman, the older man greeted him.
Tailor Guo smiled bitterly.
He was waiting for Abu.
On the day of the morning market, when Tailor Guo saw Abu, his spiritual world almost collapsed, and Abu looked like the woman he had dreamed of.
When the tailor Guo Da left his woman, the woman was already pregnant. It's been ten years, and if she was born a girl, she would be Abu's age.
Will Abu be his child? He was a tailor, and her name was Abu. Invisibly, some kind of bond binds them together.
Guo Da tailor lost the love of his life with a single thought. Remorse went deep into his bone marrow and broke his liver and intestines. The more he wanted to escape, the more he couldn't forget, and the more he wanted to see women.
Abu became his comfort, but for several days, the tailor did not see Abu. A bowl of steaming hand-made noodles relieves his lovesickness.
After eating the last few noodles in the bowl, he wanted to go to the Mobei Horse Gang to negotiate a business.
The noodle stall came to a man and a woman to patrol and arrest, and the Tang Dynasty patrolled and reappeared in Beijing, and the last few noodles of Guo Da Tailor were tasteless.
β»Cang'er and Haisheng came back from patrolling, the sky was raining, the raindrops kept knocking on the windowsill, Cang'er opened the window, the sky was hazy, and Cang'er's heart added a little melancholy.
Today, Chang'an Street walked around, quite a harvest, not only saw the wine pool of the East Helmsman of the Feiqian Gang, but also saw the fairy casino of the Flying Money Gang West Helmsman, the three-year undefeated Golden Bud Tea House of Gancuicui's ancestors, and the location of the Mobei Horse Gang.
As for whether the Mobei Horse Gang and the Taoduling Horse Gang are the same horse gang, it remains to be verified.
There were two people who attracted Cang'er's special attention: one was a mountain man who sold wine, and the other was Guo Da tailor who ate noodles.
The former held a full jar of wine without mud seals, and collided with the seacoat, but the wine in the former's arms did not overflow at all. The latter ate a bowl of noodles one by one slowly and tirelessly to the realm of selflessness, and when he saw him and Haishang, he had no intention of eating noodles and couldn't sit still.
Unusual people, unusual things.
How to carry out the next step, Cang'er's mind is blank.
Cang'er made a pot of tea, and was about to send it to his mouth, when there was a "pop", a moth fell into the clay pot, and Cang'er was surprised: How can there be a moth in this season?
Before he could come to his senses, there was another "pop", and the second moth pounced into the pot.
Now Cang'er saw clearly, the moth flew in from the window.
Cang'er stretched out his fingers to clip the moth, and took a closer look: where is the moth, it is a flower bud.
The flower buds enter the water, half stretched and half spread, tender yellow oval, extremely charming, it is the yellow chamomile that is expensive as the "four gentlemen in the flower".
There was a virgin fragrance in the room, and Cang'er was curious: why did the buds of yellow chamomile run into his casserole for no reason?
Cang'er sucked at the moment, only to feel refreshed, and the turbidity in his heart was swept away.
While he was intoxicated, Cang Er heard the slightest sound of breaking wind, and he grabbed the flower buds that flew in from the window.
Cang'er unfolded his palm, and what surprised him was not the flower buds, but the white notes that were crumpled together. Cang Er was stunned, opened the white note, and it was written:
"The head catcher likes tea, and the gentleman's friendship is as light as water, which is the way to maintain health in the world. Today to send Tongxiang of the fetal chrysanthemum king, this fetal chrysanthemum is the first bud of the chrysanthemum picked on the occasion of the first frost. Often drink the fetal chrysanthemum king, and it is not invasive. β
Cang'er smiled dumbly, and he couldn't imagine that the girl in the sea dress would take the flower tea of Niu Zhengshan, the former chief catcher, and play hide and seek with him. After thinking about it, Cang'er felt that it was wrong: there were no chrysanthemums planted in the courtyard of the patrol house, where did the first chrysanthemum bud come from? Besides, the sea dress does not have this strength.
The font is a little messy, and it is written in a hurry. Cang'er couldn't think of anyone else who would have this Yaxing, and looked around the window at the moment.
In the vast smoke and rain, a figure flashed by.
It's definitely him! Cang'er had an arrow and flew out of the window.