Chapter 18: The Little Shopkeeper

It was almost noon, and the city of Guangzhou became more lively, and several foreign businessmen had just entered the city, and before they had time to start business, they were tempted by the aroma of all kinds of food on the street. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Following the fragrance, I saw a complete roast pig hanging outside the door of a restaurant, and the guests were allowed to choose their own parts and cut the wine on the spot. On the side, there is also a pot of fine white rice. Several merchants hesitated for a long time, but finally they were attracted by the smell of roast pig and decided to go in and eat first. The beggar on the street corner drooled at the scent, and the begging was louder.

When the sight turned from the city to the outside of the city, the long shirt was gradually replaced by a short fight, and when it reached the vicinity of the city wall, as far as the eye could see, in addition to the officers and soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, it was a sturdy man wearing a short shirt and shirtless, carrying supplies back and forth. Although the Ming Dynasty still implements a partial sea ban, Guangzhou, as a land and water wharf, has no less than hundreds of merchant ships, filling the entire Tianzi wharf.

Lifu has become a very important industry in Guangzhou, selling a day's strength and earning the whole family a day's chewing grain. It is precisely the existence of these people that can ensure that the shops in the city continue to supply goods and the daily necessities of the residents can be guaranteed. The more effort is out, the greater the appetite, and the food stalls and wine shops near the dock are busy on the stove at noon, and the aroma of the food spreads far away.

The restaurants serving these short-shirted men are naturally not as particular as those in the city, as long as the quantity is large and the price is cheap, the taste and environment cannot be mentioned. Along the city wall of Guangzhou, small restaurants composed of pergola stoves are lined up one after another, forming a long street.

Most of these stores deal in cheap and sweet fragrant meat, that is, dog meat, and each store has a huge iron cage outside the door, and the fat dogs to be slaughtered inside are huge, sticking out their long tongues, showing Bai Sensen's fangs. As soon as he sees someone approaching, he will bark desperately and slam his head into the iron cage frantically, hoping to rely on his vicious attitude to buy himself an extra time to survive. Near the iron cage, the discarded dog heads, dog ears and blood stains attached to them made the dogs waiting for slaughter in the cage even more irritable and panicked.

"Boss lady, three catties of dog meat, one catty of liquor, and five bowls of dog broth!" A few shirtless men with tattoos of various colors walked into a small roadside shop and shouted loudly. Next to the stove, the woman answered loudly, "Okay, the dog meat will be fine immediately." He let go of his throat and shouted: "Guan Qing, Gu Bai, you two decrepit boys, don't be lazy, help the old lady greet the guests!" ”

The woman who called herself the old lady was actually not very old, only twenty-three or four this year, and her hair was pulled up high and pinned with a wooden hairpin. She was wearing a pink tight-fitting jacket and a horse-faced skirt and gouache pants underneath, and her clothes were tightened for the convenience of work, showing off her bumpy figure.

The woman stood in front of the stove, lifted the lid with one hand, took the long chopsticks in the other hand and bent down to scoop up the meat. A soldier wearing a mandarin duck jacket, tall and strong, had several wine bowls stacked in front of him, and his face was red. Looking at the woman's figure, he stood up with a wine burp, came behind her with a smile, raised his nose and took a deep breath: "Boss, your meat is so fragrant, let us smell it." As he spoke, he reached under the woman's waist.

"The old lady only sells dog meat, not human flesh, but if you want to make up a pot, I will fulfill you." The woman's eyes seemed to grow behind her, and before the man's hand touched her, the foot wearing the little man's boots had already stepped on the man's foot, and when she crushed it hard, the man screamed in pain and retreated.

At this time, the woman had already scooped up the dog meat with long chopsticks, threw it on the side of the board, and then lifted the bright kitchen knife next to her. At the flash of the blade, a large piece of dog meat turned into a thin slice of meat like a cicada's wings, and when the last knife was finished, the woman slashed the knife hard at the board, and the person turned around violently and stared at the bold officer and soldier.

The sharp blade was embedded in the board, and the blade couldn't help shaking, reflecting the woman's face on the snowy knife body. This woman is not the most popular round face, but a melon seed face, according to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, this face shape is born on a woman, which is the manifestation of water-based flowers.

Under the two black willow eyebrows is a pair of bright Danfeng eyes, shining and energetic, with a towering nose bridge, slightly thick lips, and extremely outstanding facial features. The dough is not white but the color of tang purple, in such a small place, such a appearance can be called stunning, and it is no wonder that her business is the best in the whole street.

The woman is beautiful, and her figure is even more violent, so it's no wonder that the soldier drank too much and came to tease her. But at this time, a pair of Danfeng eyes were full of cold light, not angry and self-assured, which frightened the officer and soldier to shrink their necks, and the wine was half awake.

Just when a few diners thought that the woman would take advantage of the opportunity, they didn't want her to laugh, and the snow on her chest trembled with her laughter.

"Look at your little guts, you dare to come and ask the old lady for a bargain! If you sue Master Dusi, I won't reward you with dozens of military sticks. Let's eat your meat raw, and then dare to stretch out your hand and carefully cook your meat into this pot, and then I will spoil a pot of old soup, see if I spare you. After eating, go to the small shack in the city gate hole, seven copper coins can vent your fire, I am afraid that you are a silver wax lance head, and when the time comes, you will pay the account in three or two, but don't think that your money is not worth it. ”

Most of the people who drink wine and eat meat in this kind of place are vulgar men, and her attitude from all over the world is right to the appetite of this group of big men, and everyone laughs. A couple of new sailors laughed:

"Boss, you dog meat is down, you are in charge of all dragons and tigers, even if it is a soft nose, it will become a vajra, and I am afraid that if you don't pay double money, the boss won't let him walk." Immediately, there was another burst of laughter.

Guan Qing and Gu Bai were two guys, one of them hugged the wine at this time, and the other hurriedly came to serve the meat. These two people are tall and big, wearing short shirts, muscular mounds, and their arms are embroidered with various patterns, so they don't seem to be good men and women. To be able to stand in this kind of place where dragons and snakes are mixed, it will not be a tame character, just looking at the way the two guys walk, insiders can see that these two people are good families, which is enough to deter ordinary drunks and evil men.

Dog meat, garlic paste, and soy sauce were all put on the table, just smelling the aroma, several sailors couldn't help but swallow their saliva again and again, raised their big fingers and praised: "Boss, every time you go to Guangzhou, you don't eat the dog meat here, it's like you didn't come." Your people have good wine and meat, and you want to come twice when you come once. ”

A few people raised the wine bowl as they spoke, but as soon as the wine touched their lips, the man facing the door suddenly stopped moving, as if he had seen a ghost. The man opposite laughed and scolded, "What? Do you want to go elsewhere, I'm talking about the dog meat cooked by the proprietress is fragrant, if you want to be crooked, but carefully your roots are cut to make soup! ”

The man put the bowl down and scolded, "Look carefully at your mouth, look back, who is coming?" You have to check some words, readers, you can't afford to provoke! ”

Several sailors followed his gaze, only to see two young men and women walking in from the door, the woman's appearance was mediocre, and her red eyes were even more ugly and scary. The man was very handsome, sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was in his youth. If this kind of thin monkey was not in the eyes of these strong sailors, but the straight jacket on the man's body revealed his identity as a scholar, so that several sailors did not dare to speak foul words anymore, and even lowered their voices unconsciously.

Those who come to drink in such a ghost place wearing a long robe are definitely the outliers of the aliens, not only these sailors, but as soon as the man comes, the other drinkers, whether sober or drunk, have become a little restrained.

Guan Qing and Gu Bai saw the person coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Master Fan, why do you have to go into the city today?" Sister Hu, you're here too, didn't your dad come? We don't like to greet him very much. ”

The young man smiled at the two, saluted, and went straight to the pot table, smiling at the woman, "Third sister, you haven't come to visit for a long time, it's always good?" Today, I went to the city to do errands, and I came to you to take a look, and I want two bowls of dog broth, a pound of dog meat, and two cakes, so I should be cheaper. ”