Chapter 14: The Tavern Theft
The next day, the morning sun was rising, and the sky was white. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lin Qingyuan is still in the yard to fetch water to wash his face and brush his teeth, in this era there is no toothbrush, you can only use the stem of the branch to peel off the outer skin, and use the fibers inside to brush your teeth.
At first, Lin Qingyuan was extremely unaccustomed to using it, and he would always make his teeth hurt, but with the accumulation of times, he also used it easily.
After washing, he wiped his face while staring at the carrier pigeon that Li Xi'er gave him last night, Lin Qingyuan lowered his body, looked at the carrier pigeon, touched the carrier pigeon's feathers with his hand, and muttered: "How do you use this thing?" Tie the letter to your leg? ”
The pigeon seemed to understand his doubts, and craned his neck and "cooed" twice. Lin Qingyuan smiled in surprise, this thing is quite spiritual.
"Brother Qingyuan, are you up?" At this time, Song Qing's inquiry came from outside the door.
"Good morning." Lin Qingyuan walked out of the door and greeted Song Qing with a smile. Song Qing ran to him, pulled his arm and pulled him up and left: "Grandpa is waiting for us at the door, let's go quickly." ”
Lin Qingyuan was suddenly shocked, thinking that he had gotten up early today. When he arrived at the door, he saw Qiao Gong Lin Qingyuan bowing and bowing, and said, "Grandpa treats him so kindly, Qingyuan is really ashamed." ”
Qiao Gong stretched out his hand to stop him: "Hey, don't say anything else, we are a family, your business is my Qiao family's business, and it is understandable to see off your family, so you don't have to excuse yourself." Hearing what Qiao Gong said, Lin Qingyuan also felt that he was hypocritical, so he arched his hand and said: "Then Qingyuan is better to be respectful than to obey his fate." ”
Qiao Gong smiled with satisfaction and said, "That's right, let's go, I'll take you to my old friend's tavern, his roast goose is a must." With that, the three of them laughed and set off for the market.
The bazaar was as lively as ever, Lin Qingyuan and Song Qing followed Qiao Gong to a tavern, with four gilded characters in front of it, and the name was: Longmen Inn.
Lin Qingyuan read it and almost flashed his tongue: "Dragon Gate Inn? That's a pretty domineering name, isn't it? "Oh my god, at this time, the famous black shop existed, and it was still open in the daytime so blatantly.
Qiao Gong smiled: "The shopkeeper of this tavern is an old friend of me, surnamed Long, and he is a good person. The three of them entered the tavern side by side, the tavern was decorated in a folk style, simple and warm, simple and unpretentious, Lin Qingyuan secretly said that the shopkeeper knew how to do business. Use a down-to-earth layout to attract customers, so that even people living in poverty will not only not feel uncomfortable with inferiority complex when they come to eat, but will also let go of eating, and the return rate is still very high.
A shopkeeper with a white scarf on his shoulders called a guest, and came over and asked, "Three guest officers, do you want to eat or stay in the hotel?" ”
Qiao Gong said to the shopkeeper: "I still bother the little second brother to find your dragon shopkeeper, so I said that Qiao Zhengyuan came to visit." ”
"Okay, wait a minute, I'll go find the shopkeeper." The shopkeeper was very enthusiastic, and after speaking, he shook his white towel and walked to the back hall.
After a cup of tea, a person staggered out of the back hall, with a big belly and a rich face. After seeing the three of them, he smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "I said Lao Qiao, you said that you haven't come to see me for a long time, don't you look down on me as a businessman, hahaha... Qiao Gong also smiled and held the hand of the dragon shopkeeper and said: "Your tavern is becoming more and more prosperous, who doesn't know your Dragon Gate Inn within a radius of a few miles, I envy you too late, how can I look down on you, the dragon shopkeeper laughed." ”
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Okay, don't think about leaving if you come today, come, I'll invite you to this meal today, and let's have a good drink." ”
Lin Qingyuan glanced at the belly of the dragon shopkeeper with his eyes, and secretly laughed to himself, with the belly of the dragon shopkeeper, he knew that it must be a wine mengzi, and his wandering eyes fell on the hand he was holding with Qiao Gong, the dragon shopkeeper had already let go of his hand at this time, and a pair of hands were wiping on his waist, Lin Qingyuan took a closer look, and it turned out that he was wiping off the dust.
Qiao Gong turned to the shopkeeper Long and introduced, "This is my granddaughter Qing'er, you know." This is my virtuous grandson, Lin Qingyuan. ”
Lin Qingyuan politely bowed to his hand, and the shopkeeper nodded and praised: "It's really a talent, where is it now?" As soon as he asked this question, Lin Qingyuan had a headache, so he had to talk nonsense: "The junior is now the apprentice of the criminal master, and he has no name. ”
The shopkeeper said "oh" and said, "That is also a very promising career, and I will have the opportunity to be an official in the future." ”
Qiao Gong said smoothly: "Qingyuan is a long way to Jinling, I came today to see him off, I don't know if there is a place here for the dragon shopkeeper?" ”
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "I see, come, I'll take you to the private room on the second floor, and we'll go there." Hehe, this time there is one more person to drink with me. ”
The shopkeeper was about to take a few people upstairs when he heard someone shouting in the back hall: "It's amazing!" Oh no, the account room was stolen... ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, he was shocked, and rushed to the back hall with his big body for the first time, Lin Qingyuan, Qiao Gong, and Song Qing also immediately followed.
When I arrived at the back hall, I saw a fat man about the same size as the dragon shopkeeper shouting in the yard, and the dragon shopkeeper hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, what was stolen?" ”
The fat man in the yard turned out to be the cousin of the shopkeeper Long, named Long San, and he has always been in charge of the account room, no wonder they all look like this... It turned out to be cousins.
Long San said: "Cousin, when I came to the account room to reconcile the accounts, as soon as I opened the door, the lock on the door had been opened, and I saw that the money in the account room had been stolen. The contents of the room were turned into a mess, and the cash drawer was also pried open, and all the money inside was gone. ”
As if he had been struck by a thunderbolt from a sunny day, the dragon shopkeeper rushed over to see that there was nothing left in the cash cabinet.
The dragon shopkeeper was so angry and anxious that he almost fainted, and said, "This, how is this good?" The dragon shopkeeper was so anxious that he clapped his hands and stomped his feet, just like an ant on a hot pot, so anxious that he was dizzy.
The shopkeeper who was in charge of the shop just now came to the side of the shopkeeper Long and said, "Shopkeeper, why don't we report to the official." The shopkeeper of the dragon woke up like a dream, pointed to the shopkeeper and said urgently: "Yes, yes, quickly, go to the official, you go quickly." ”
The shopkeeper hurriedly agreed, and hurriedly went to the yamen to report to the official.
After such a fuss, the people from the yamen have not yet arrived, and the people who watched the excitement preemptively surrounded the inn with three floors inside and three floors outside.
Lin Qingyuan stayed in place and didn't say a word. Song Qing said: "Brother Qingyuan, what do you want?" ”
"It's nothing, by the way, I'll go to the toilet and I'll tell you later." Lin Qingyuan said, and then left directly. Song Qing tilted her head suspiciously, and muttered, "Aren't the latrines all on the west side, how can he go to the east room?" ”
The shopkeeper was anxiously pacing back and forth, when he heard someone in the front shop shouting, "Where is the thief?" Grandma's land, stealing money! Don't want to live anymore? ”