Chapter 30: Boss Bai's Shop
The late-night yin market is far more lively than the outside world, and there is a special trade fair such a grand event, so today's yin market presents a bit of a ghost festival, the streets and alleys are full of dense "passers-by", Chen Xian took everyone to walk on the noisy and noisy streets, and it seems that he is also infected by this festival-like atmosphere, and the mood can't help but become happy.
The barbecue restaurant that Chen Xian took everyone to is located in the west of the Yin City, which is a rare high-rise building in the Yin City, and the owner of the barbecue restaurant is also a frequent customer in the old liar's grocery store, so he is also familiar with Chen Xian after coming and going.
The owner of this barbecue restaurant is surnamed Zhan Tang, although his name is like a woman, but his real body is a male human spirit, and his thick eyebrows and big eyes also have the charm of a handsome uncle.
It is said that he was also a decent person during his lifetime, but when he was young, he accidentally fell into the way of a thief, offended the government at the age of eighteen, and then was hunted down until he was thirty-eight years old......
Some people say that he died at the hands of the government.
Some say he died at the hands of his peers.
But many more are willing to believe another bizarre claim.
In a certain folk gossip news collection activity, according to a boss Ge Ci who did not want to reveal his real name, although Bai Zhantang had the experience of being chased and killed by the government for many years, he did not die in the hands of the government in the end, nor did he die in the hands of his peers-
"That night, when he walked barefoot in the city with his bare feet against the wind and flying eaves, he accidentally slipped his foot, fell headfirst from the fifth floor to the first floor, and fell to his death on the spot, you didn't see that picture at the scene, his white brains were everywhere...... "Boss Ge Ci, who didn't want to reveal his real name, said so."
Not to mention what the cause of Boss Bai's death was, Chen Xian still had a good impression of this middle-aged man who always smiled politely.
When Chen Xian led everyone to the barbecue restaurant, it was already more than four o'clock in the morning, and as soon as he entered the store, he could see a long queue of people queuing up for numbers, and roughly counted that there were at least fifty or sixty customers queuing.
"Why don't we leave?" Lu Yisheng looked at the crowd of people in the hall, and couldn't help but retreat, "When do we have to line up for so many people?" ”
For this kind of crowded scene, Chen Xian has long been accustomed to it.
"You wait for me here, I'll go and swipe my face card."
“??”
Without waiting for everyone to ask more, Chen Xian had already silently walked into the flow of people and went straight to the front desk of the barbecue restaurant.
There was a handsome middle-aged man sitting at the front desk, dressed in a very simple casual suit, he was not as busy as the front desk of an ordinary hotel, but looked extremely leisurely, holding a handful of melon seeds and snorting, and was watching the costume comedy playing on the tablet intently......
"Boss Bai."
Hearing someone calling himself, Boss Bai subconsciously raised his head.
"Ouch, rare guest!" Boss Bai had an earnest smile on his face, he didn't dare to snub a rare guest like Chen Xian, "Brother Chen, what kind of wind blew you here!" ”
Hearing this, Chen Xian smiled a little embarrassedly, and then asked in a low voice.
"Brother Bai, is there still a place upstairs?"
"Someone else must have asked, but you asked...... There must be. Boss Bai smiled, walked out from behind the counter in a few steps, and put his hand on Chen Xian's shoulder very affectionately, looking like a good brother, "Don't call me boss so angry, call me Brother Bai, or call me Lao Bai like everyone else." ”
Boss Bai was full of Jianghu from head to toe, and his words were full of that chic and frank taste.
Under his eager greeting, Chen Xian went back to call everyone and followed Boss Bai to the rooftop of the top floor.
The roof of the shop is a small open-air square, which seems to be much more modest than the opulent decoration downstairs, and many places are stacked with wooden boxes loaded with goods, like a rooftop that has been used as a warehouse.
In the corner of the east side, there is an old set of wooden tables and chairs, because the wooden floor laid on the ground is very old, so when Boss Bai leads everyone to the dining table, he can hear the creaking sound all the way.
"Shall we eat here?" Lu Yisheng looked left and right a few times, and was a little curious in his heart, although this place looked shabby compared to the hall, but if you looked closely, you could find that this place was often cleaned, and even the old tables and chairs were polished, just like the pulp.
"It's the only place in the store." Boss Bai showed a strange smile and looked at Chen Xian and blinked, "Or the old rules?" ”
Chen Xian nodded and said, "The old rule, but the number is doubled, if it is not enough, it will be ordered later." ”
"Cheng, then I'll go to the back kitchen first."
As soon as the words fell, Boss Bai went downstairs resolutely.
As the rooftop door closed, Chen Xian stood on the edge of the rooftop and took a deep breath, and for a moment he felt like he was back to when he first came to this store a few years ago.
He was the same as Lu Yisheng at the beginning.
Seeing the crowded scene in the store, he immediately decided to turn around and go back, after all, what he likes most is quiet, and he has an instinctive rejection of noisy places, but then Boss Bai took him to the rooftop.
According to Boss Bai, this place is his private place, so quiet that he can't hear half of the hustle and bustle, and standing on the edge of the rooftop can take in the entire Yin City, and he can see the different prosperity that only belongs to this underground city.
"You used to come here for barbecue, and you sat in this position?"
Xu Yanan walked to Chen Xian's side quietly, gently leaning on the rooftop to enjoy the night view of the Yin City, with excited flashes in his bright eyes from time to time, and a smile that could not be concealed on the corner of his mouth.
To be honest, Xu Yanan is really happy today, even happier than Lu Yisheng's optimist who is very happy in everything, she can't remember how many years she hasn't been like this......
"You don't look like you." Chen Xian said suddenly, as if he could see something from Xu Yanan's happy eyes, it was an emotion that made him extremely familiar, "It's not the same as what I remembered." ”
"What's different?" Xu Yanan glanced at him sideways, still with a good-looking smile on his face.
"I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much......" Chen Xian shook his head, and spoke in a very soft voice, "Seeing you is like seeing me a few years ago...... I think it's a little autistic......."
"If you can't speak, don't speak!" Xu Yanan snorted and turned his face to look at the people sitting at the table.
Mu He sat at the dining table, holding a pair of clean chopsticks in his small hands, and his eyes were in the direction of the rooftop door from beginning to end, obviously waiting for the person who delivered the food to come up, completely looking like a starving ghost was impatient to be reincarnated.
Lu Yisheng and Mr. Skeleton were sitting in the corner, the two of them didn't look so greedy, like children who had just gotten their favorite toys, fiddling with the gifts given to them by Chen Xian with a smirk, completely immersed in their respective worlds.
"Actually, I'm happy to be with you."
Hearing Xu Yanan's somewhat abrupt words, Chen Xian couldn't help but glance back at her.
"It doesn't feel like I am."
Xu Yanan looked at Chen Xian with a smile, as if he had suddenly returned to the seventeen or eighteen years, the smile on his face inexplicably revealed a trace of the unique atmosphere of youth, and he looked like an old lady was a cute little fairy, and the tone of his voice was naturally upturned.
"It's been a long time since I've been so happy!"
"Are you not happy normally?" Chen Xian looked at this lady of the sky very suspiciously, and he couldn't figure it out.
Xu Yanan, the eldest lady of the Xu family, the future head of the Xu family, wants money, money and power, and has a happy family since childhood, and has been treated as a pearl by the old lady of the Xu family since he was a child......
It is an exaggeration to say that she has reached a height that 99% of the inhumans in the country can't reach, and she has everything that thousands of inhumans dream of and have to pursue all their lives...... There are already so many things, why is she unhappy?
"Do you think people like me should be happy every day?" Xu Yanan asked rhetorically.
Chen Xian snorted, his expression was very serious: "Isn't it?" ”
Hearing this, Xu Yanan looked up at the fake moon hanging high in the sky, and the smile on her face remained unchanged under the bright moonlight, but she became a little relieved.
"In fact, the life of being used as a tool is not easy, this kind of life is really ......"
Xu Yanan lowered his head, looked at Chen Xian and smiled.
"It's really unhappy."