242. Estrangement
After Li Xiao went downstairs, he found that Ku Yan'er had already quietly returned to his room. Li Xiao turned into the kitchen by himself, put the wine bottle and wine cup into the sink, and then turned around and returned to the counter with leisurely steps.
There was nothing to do all night, Li Xiao leaned on the chair behind him and pretended to sleep, and when he opened his eyes again, there were already noisy people outside the house, and there were shouts from time to time. Thinking of the prosperity of Yiyi City, the peddlers and pawns had already gone to the streets and started to buy and sell their livelihoods.
At this time, someone happened to come down from upstairs, Li Xiao raised his eyes and greeted him: "Brother Qiu, it's early!" ”
"Yo, I'm afraid there is a comparison of everything, and now I see that the sky is not very bright, but it is not early."
"Hahaha, that's true," Li Xiao touched his nose, and there was no embarrassment between his words.
There was a dull sound on the stairs. The middle-aged man surnamed Qiu touched his big belly with one hand, shook the folding fan with the other hand, and walked down slowly. The middle-aged man smiled when he heard this: "Yes, if it is placed in our town, I can be regarded as the earliest to get up." He got up early in the morning to tease the dogs and walk the birds, and was more diligent than the peddlers and pawns. ”
However, he immediately pursed his lips and pointed to the outside of the inn: "Hehe, but look at the outside of the house, it is worthy of a big city, so many people have come out so early, I'm late." After speaking, he waved his hand casually.
"Dude, you can really see it." Li Xiao said with a smile. "This insight is not something that ordinary people want."
"Yo, little boss, how can you praise me. I'm not going to have breakfast at your place," the man quipped, smiling. "My friend has already made an appointment, so I will say goodbye first."
"Walk slowly!" Li Xiao replied nonchalantly, nodded, and the smile on his face did not decrease.
With the departure of this first guest, the inn seemed to come alive, and a few people came down one after another, some of whom were still asking about breakfast.
"It's served early, and you'll have to wait a little longer, if you don't dislike it, you can sit on the stool and wait for a while." Li Xiao explained with a smile.
The master in charge is the back door, in addition to Master Guo, the other party has to go to the goods and inspect the dishes very early, and buy enough for the day's needs, but because there are a few apprentices to help, it is not too busy.
Listening to the sound of pots and pans colliding from the kitchen, Li Xiao introduced several diners to the seats not far away and sat down.
Just when he was about to wake up the shopkeeper, this kid woke up in a daze. Walking out of the inner room, rubbing a pair of sleepy eyes, the boy yawned and walked to the counter.
"Did you sleep well last night?" Li Xiao asked with a smile.
"Hey, I said, it's good to sleep, but I'm not very comfortable, and I'm panicked!" As he spoke, one hand was still rubbing his eyes, but the other hand naturally grabbed the rag on his waist.
"Alright, you stinky boy, sleeping on a hardwood plank once in a while is good for your body." Seeing that the other party was cheap and obedient, Li Xiao suddenly shook his head and smiled.
However, the shopkeeper obviously didn't care about this, he leaned in front of Li Xiao and reminded in a low voice: "Brother Jiuli, what you said last night counts?" ”
Li Xiao didn't speak, first raised his hand and pressed on the back of the other party's head, and a burst of friction showed intimacy. He smiled: "No matter what, my brother won't be short of your food and clothing." Wait for the class to be handed over, and I'll take you to eat delicious food after work. ”
"Okay!"
The matter of handing over did not make Li Xiao wait long.
Soon, a young man with a burden and a loyal and simple appearance came to Li Xiao. "Hello brother," he looked at Li Xiao calmly: "This is the shopkeeper's handwritten letter." The young man handed over an envelope.
Li Xiao took it, and at the same time looked at the other party quietly. Only then did he bow his head, gently open the envelope, and take out the letters inside.
I saw that inside the kraft paper envelope was not ink-stained stationery, but a gray-brown chip embedded in a thin sheet.
"I don't know my friend's surname," Li Xiao lowered his head and opened the interface on the cabinet, and asked casually.
"Oh, brother is polite, don't have your surname Wu, a single name and a word."
While Li Xiao was asking, his fingers were operating on the interface for a while. Therefore, as the young man answered, a newly tuned interface, and the slot in the progress bar displayed on it, was being quickly filled.
"Ding! If the language system is successfully entered, please insert the advanced permission chip to confirm. ”
"Brother Wu, please wait a moment," Li Xiao didn't explain more. Since the other party was able to go to work on the first day, he was arranged by the shopkeeper for an early shift. It was clear that the young man was a skilled hand, and must have done similar work before.
"Brother, please!" The man said politely.
Li Xiao nodded, buried his head and continued to operate, first taking off the chip in the envelope, and then inserting it into the groove that popped out from the side of the "iron bar" on the counter.
"Ding! The permissions have been confirmed, and the new sub-permissions have been successfully established. ”
"Ding! Warning, please ask whether to revoke the previous sub-permissions, your accounts from last night will be reconciled, and you will not be able to change them after the reconciliation is completed. ”
"Yes!" Li Xiao said in the words of the other world. He didn't have anything to do last night, and he warmed two pots of wine in the middle of the night, one pot of wine that the guests had already given money, and the other pot of wine was still stored in the store by himself. However, this morning, Li Xiao collected a few sums of money for breakfast.
"Ding! The reconciliation begins. ”
So it only took a second for the program: "Ding! The check is over. ”
"Ding! The system is about to reboot......"
"Ding! At the end of the restart, you are welcome to use the inn butler system. ”
"Brother Wu Chuan, please," Li Xiao cleaned up his things slightly, and then took the new garbage bag on the side and replaced it, as the system rebooted over, he just finished packing his things. After all of them were put into the storage ring, Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and gave up his seat with a garbage bag.
The two didn't say much, and at this time, a passenger happened to come to the door. Wu Chuan took the opportunity to sit down and greet him.
"Hey, strange, I saw that the other party had been sitting for so long, why was the bench still cold?" Sitting on the wooden chair, the careful Wu Chuan felt strange in his heart, but he didn't say much.
At this time, Wu Chuan was familiar with the house type and price on the interface, and at the same time introduced the room with a smile.
After Li Xiao left the counter, he waved not far away, and the shopkeeper who had changed into light clothes walked a few steps. Talking and laughing, the two walked out together.
"Brother Jiuli, I heard that monks can fly to the sky and do anything, is it true?"
"Of course, but what you can see is just ordinary cultivators, and the powerhouses above the Venerable Realm ......" plunged into the flow of people, and Li Xiao was happy to open his mouth to introduce.
The powerhouse of the Venerable Realm has already made a rapid speed. Once they move, with the naked eye of mortals, they can only capture the atmosphere generated by the association.
For example, a cultivator above the Venerable Realm who casts a fireball can only see the scene of the Heavenly Fire falling in the eyes of mortals. Unless the other party deliberately makes people see, it is difficult for mortals to see.
Most people will only think that it is some strange "natural phenomenon".
"Oh, it's here!" didn't walk a few streets, Li Xiao led him to his destination.
I saw the two big characters of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing in the book - porridge shop!
"Brother Jiuli, are we in the wrong place?" The shopkeeper's face collapsed the moment he saw that it was a 'porridge shop'. He had tears in his eyes and looked miserable.
"That's right, that's it." Seeing this, Li Xiao couldn't help but smile in his eyes.
"But I want to eat roast duck." The shopkeeper waved his hand, and his left hand was clenched into a small fist and flew up and down.
"I want to eat roast duck in the morning, and you don't get tired of panicking." Li Xiao immediately smiled, and said in his heart this living treasure.
patted the other party on the back, Li Xiao said: "Let's go, this shop is quite famous." And don't look at it as just a small bowl of porridge, but there are thousands of ingredients to match, and when you taste each one, I'm afraid you'll be full. ”
After speaking, he led the young man in.
When I entered the store, the waiter greeted me as soon as possible: "Welcome to Fan Ji Porridge Shop." This boss, what porridge are you going to taste. The waiter was full of smiles, and no matter what his status, he called the boss, and he was going to introduce him after speaking. We have ...... here."
"Just ask for ordinary white porridge, just a small half bucket." Estimating the amount of food of a teenager in his heart, Li Xiao said, his eyes swept over, there were many guests who ate breakfast at this time.
Even though this porridge shop occupies an extremely large area, the first floor is almost full, and there are only a few empty tables in the corners.
"Then will you eat downstairs, or will you go upstairs to the private room?" The enthusiasm in the waiter's tone was noticeably reduced. Li Xiao's ears were sharp, and he naturally noticed it, but he didn't say much, and his attitude was still the same.
"Come to a private room," Li Xiao commanded. "If you want to go with the side dishes of the porridge, give me a little bit of it."
"What do you mean by side dishes?" Hearing that Li Xiao wanted a little bit of every dish, the waiter's heart jumped.
"It's a thousand side dishes, give me a small plate of each." Li Xiao waved his hand, looking like he was not bad for money.
"Yes, master, please!" Only then did the waiter know that the big deal had come to the door, and he was offended, so he hurriedly led the two upstairs.
When the two followed the waiter upstairs, they walked all the way, but at this time, the shopkeeper didn't dare to say anything. The boy didn't expect that a porridge shop would have such a big battle. The area of the first floor alone is enough to be the size of the three floors of the inn tiled together.
Just now, the young man thought that the plaque of this porridge shop was just a few people around him who invested some silver money and chose a good spot to hang it up, but he didn't expect it to be so big inside.
After Li Xiao and the young man were seated, the waiter turned around and went down to greet him. didn't wait long, and the dishes came up one after another.
It's just white porridge, and the porridge shop has already been boiled. At this time, fill a pot in a small wooden barrel. Li Xiao took a look, ordinary corn was boiled with well water from another world, and the rice soup was crystal thick and viscous, which made people's appetite move when they looked at it.
"Let's eat," Li Xiao pulled a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder. Put it in front of the teenager who was serving porridge.
"Brother Jiuli, will it be too much?" From the moment I heard Li Xiao say that he ordered a thousand dishes. The clever young man had a faint guess in his heart.
"You eat first, you can eat as much as you want." Li Xiao didn't explain much.
"There are plenty of side dishes here, including fried buns, flour buns, and soup buns, all of which are just as filling, so I just need a small drawer." Li Xiao pointed to the first to come up, the square cage drawer was still hot, similar to things like steamed buns and fried dumplings in the previous life.
The boy nodded. "Then you're welcome," he said, and moved his chopsticks.
"Good...... Delicious! As soon as he ate a fried bun, the boy was full of praise.
At this time, the waiter was putting food on the table, and he smiled when he heard the words. "You two really have a vision, the ingredients we have here are fresh, although the price is very expensive, but the ingredients are all high-quality."
Li Xiao nodded, and the young man on the side was busy burying his head in his mouth to deliver something. The waiter didn't dare to say much, and bowed away after finishing the food.
Li Xiao looked at the desktop silently without disturbing, and his thoughts no longer knew where to go.
The boy eats quickly, his belly is not big, and even if he is a coolie, he can't hold much.
After a while, he leaned back in his chair with his stomach in his hands.
With a slight hiccup, the young man blushed and turned his head to look at Li Xiao: "Brother Jiuli has so many things, don't you really eat them?" ”
"Ha, I only eat once every ten days," Li Xiao came back to his senses and casually came up with a reason.
"Wow, is this a cultivator? It's amazing. The young man's tone was admiring, and he looked happy and convinced.
"You little ghost...... Li Xiao didn't know what this guy was thinking, and sighed inexplicably at this moment.
"What's wrong, Brother Jiuli?"
Li Xiao didn't speak, and instead took out a few books. I shook it in front of the boy's eyes. He could see that although he didn't know the words in the book, the young man's face was a little red.
"These are a few books that you used at the beginning of your cultivation, and you can learn a lot from them if you want. However, there is one premise, which is to read and write first. Otherwise, if you leave this book in your hand, you won't be able to read a single page. ”
"Thank you, Brother Jiuli!" The young man said busily, handing his hands at the same time.
"Don't be in a hurry to thank me first, the help I have provided to you is limited to this, you have to find your own way to pay for your studies. And from now on, maybe we won't have much in common. ”
After Li Xiao finished speaking, he put the book in the young man's hand.
"Oh......" The young man nodded, his tone hard to hide his loss. He knew that the gap between mortals and cultivators, although they also lived in the same city, the faint estrangement between them could be felt.
It's like a summer insect that can't speak ice. Since cultivators cannot be popularized, many times, cultivators are deified by mortals and have a unique charm and yearning.
But Li Xiao couldn't do anything. This sense of class exists everywhere. It's like the gap between the rich and the poor in the previous life; the disparity between power and the bottom of society; Even the gap between beauty and ugliness, the so-called change of skin without heart, is the same here.
But then again, having such a gap is not necessarily a bad thing.
Li Xiao explained a few words, leaving time for the young man to think. Only then did he summon the waiter and ask for all the dishes on the table to be packed.
"My lord, this ......" the waiter's tone was embarrassed, after all, there were thousands of dishes, it could be said that it was dazzling, and no matter how much the young man opened his belly to eat, he could only eat thirty or forty at most.
Such as shrimp skin, shredded squid, beef floss, cold cucumber and the like, they didn't move at all.
Li Xiao didn't care, and said, "Please pack it." Plus three more of your most famous dim sum. Porridge also comes in five portions, and coarse grain porridge should be easier to digest. ”
After speaking, he handed over a few loose coins and said, "This is a tip!" ”
*To be continued *