During the day, the old town finally came to life, and although there were still few people passing by the streets, it was much better than it was yesterday evening.

I still can't forget what I saw last night, and after leaving the inn, I searched along the bluestone street to see if there was any trace, but to my disappointment, the street was very clean and nothing was left.

Aside from what happened last night, the quaint and tranquil atmosphere of the town is still very suitable for travel and leisure, especially for those who are busy in the noisy metropolis all day long, this relaxed and leisurely atmosphere can make people forget the stress and worries.

A lot of shops that closed the door yesterday are open, a street to do all kinds of business, there is no law at all, maybe the left side of the house is selling coffin longevity materials, the right side is selling all kinds of small meals, unlike many tourist attractions developed today, all the shops are through unified planning, jewelry street, snack street, handicraft street...... Everywhere is the maximization of commercial interests, and the original simple local atmosphere of the scenic spot has been lost.

We like this authentic atmosphere of the old town, and we walked leisurely all the way, and the whole body and mind were integrated into it. Luo Yi is like a happy little rabbit, everything in the ancient town feels very novel, every time I pass by a shop that is open for business, I have to go in to have a look, I have not forgotten the task with him, along the way whenever there is a picture worth recording I will take pictures of her, as if it has become a full-time follow-up.

The ancient town is not big, and a slightly larger village is about the same, we spent a morning, has been a few main streets of the ancient town to go through the fancy, Luo Yi did not find the origin of the bell, even the people in the ancient town did not talk to us, and they looked at us with the same eyes as the people we met yesterday, that kind of look is really too strange, I feel very bad.

At noon, we found a noodle restaurant to eat, and after a morning of shopping, we have already experienced the town's style, but we have not yet tasted the local food.

The owner of the noodle stall is a guy with a blue face, about 50 years old, with cloth clothes and shoes, and a gray turban wrapped around his head, which looks very traditional.

When we went, there was no business at the noodle stall, and the owner was staring blankly at the bluestone floor, and we sat down for a minute or two, and he was still in a daze, not noticing that there were any customers coming to the door. I coughed softly and knocked on the table before he came to his senses from his state of distraction, and when he saw us, his eyes flashed with the same strange look.

I really couldn't stand it anymore, so I asked out loud: "Uncle, why do we have flowers on our faces?" Why are you looking at us like that? ”

However, the boss didn't reply, and his eyes didn't change when he looked at us, but he began to get busy, boiling the pot, scooping the soup and putting the ingredients, and soon, three bowls of steaming noodle soup were served. During this process, the boss still didn't say a word, and after the noodles were served, he immediately retreated, and then continued to stare at the bluestone floor in a daze.

The three of us looked at each other, and we all felt an indescribably weird feeling. I lowered my voice and whispered to them, "It's not like the people here can't understand what we're saying!" Otherwise, why didn't he react at all when I talked to him just now? ”

The doctor raised his eyes and looked at the boss again, lowered his head and said, "It's possible, it's all morning, no one is talking to us, if it's not the language barrier, then there is only one possibility." ”

"What is possible?" I asked subconsciously.

The doctor took a breath and replied, "These people are all deaf, or dumb!" ”

I rolled my eyes, thinking that the doctor was joking, and I didn't bother to answer again, and I was very hungry, so I had enough to eat first.

We didn't order noodles, this is the boss directly prepared to serve, I know that some people in some places sell only one kind of food, so it doesn't matter whether to order or not, as long as you sit in the position, it means that you want to eat the things sold here, hypocritical, at most ask the boss to have less chili pepper or more vinegar. In front of us was a bowl of clear noodle soup, with little oil in sight and no ingredients, the only novelty was a layer of reddish-brown crumbs covered in the noodles, which looked like some kind of bug chopped and fried.

Eating insects is a habit of many ethnic minorities, in fact, more than 80% of the insects common in mountainous areas are edible, and have high medicinal value and nutritional value. Most of these insects grow naturally in the mountains, forests and fields, and live by eating pure natural plants, which is very healthy, and now many urban people are also pursuing a primitive life, and they will try some novel and exciting things when they travel, such as eating insects.

When I was a child, my grandmother and a few uncles would often catch some insects and come back and fry them, such as bamboo insects, bee pupa, grasshoppers and the like, which were delicious and nutritious, and were my favorite when I was a child. But I couldn't see what these chopped things in front of me were, and I didn't know how to eat them.

The doctor picked up some insect crumbs with his chopsticks, looked at them carefully, leaned in and sniffed them, and said to me, "This is a water centipede, you can eat it." ”

"Damn, the doctor is awesome! It's all chopped like this, what can you still recognize? ”

The doctor smiled faintly and said, "Have you forgotten what I did?" ”

I was dumbfounded, the water centipede I know, it is a kind of insect that grows in the water, also known as the water clip, is the larva of the dragon lice, with a pair of pincer-shaped large crows, similar to the poisonous crow of the centipede, so it is called the water centipede. The water centipede is poisonous, but after high-temperature cooking, the toxicity does not exist, because its fried taste is very good, so in many places fried water centipede is a very popular delicacy, and the water centipede can also be used in medicine, no wonder doctors can recognize this thing.

Now that we know what it is, we're not welcome, the bland bowl of noodle soup, with fried water centipede, turned out to be extremely delicious, and in the end we didn't even waste any soup in the bowl, and drank it all.

The owner of the noodle stall is a real person, and this bowl of noodles is full of weight, and I feel a little stretched after just one bowl.

When checking out, the boss still didn't speak, came to us and looked at us, I asked him how much it was in Mandarin and several local dialects, he didn't respond, just waiting for us to give money.

This situation made me feel big for a while, and after thinking about it, I took out a hundred and handed it to him, thinking that one hundred yuan for three bowls of noodles should be enough, but he looked at the money I handed over with a strange face, and looked at me again, neither accepting nor speaking.

Looking at his appearance, I thought it wasn't enough, and I said that this bowl of noodles also has some bugs, although it is delicious, it is not so expensive, right? However, looking at the situation of the boss, the economic conditions of the family should not be very good, sighed, and was too lazy to grind with him, took out another one and handed it over, and said in his heart that this should be enough!

But the boss's reaction made us dumbfounded, he still confiscated, still staring at us with strange eyes, and that look was obviously different from the one just now, and there seemed to be some fierce light in it. I sighed in my heart, my heart was broken, could it be that I met a black shop?

Just when the boss's eyes flashed with a fierce light, the table behind him was suddenly slammed, and we subconsciously turned our heads, and suddenly saw an old man with a somewhat rickety figure slapping a few pieces of colorful paper on the table. He glanced at us, his expression did not change, and then looked at the owner of the noodle stall, and when the boss saw the few pieces of paper he slapped on the table, the fierce light in his eyes suddenly dissipated, and he ran over, put away the paper on the table and carefully put it in his pocket.

The old man looked at us again, and suddenly shouted, "I don't have any money to eat, so don't go quickly!" ”

Now we look at each other even more, and if we don't understand what is going on, we should really find a pig to die. We all know that the ancient town is located in a remote area, but now it seems that where is this remote, this is simply isolated from the world!

Now I finally know why the people in the ancient town look at us wrong, the kind of paper money that the old man gave to the noodle stall owner should be the currency of the ancient town, and the ancient town is isolated from the world, it seems to be in a closed state, just now the boss showed us a bad look, eighty percent because he didn't know the money we gave, and thought we wanted to eat the overlord meal!

Oh my God! It's the twenty-first century, I didn't expect there to be such an ancient and primitive person in this world, damn it, it is estimated that except for the owner of the inn where we live knows the outside world, the other townspeople don't know what the outside world is like, alas, where is this reasonable?

After collecting the money, the owner of the noodle stall didn't bother to care about us anymore, and returned to the stall by himself and continued to look at the bluestone floor in a daze.

After the old man relieved us, he didn't even look at us, and left with his hands behind his back. I finally met someone who could talk, how could I let it go, besides, this old man paid the bill for us, although the words were a little ugly, but it was also out of good intentions, I hurriedly beckoned Luo Yi and the doctor to follow.

I caught up with the old man, he still didn't bother to look at me, and walked forward by himself, I had to follow him, and said with a smile: "Uncle, thank you so much just now, we are traveling from other places, I don't know the situation and rules here, and I thought that I would also accept the currency outside, so there was a misunderstanding." ”

The old man stopped and looked up at me, because he was bent on his back just now, and I was a little nervous because of the fierce light in the boss's eyes, so I didn't pay much attention to the old man's face, and now when I got closer, I found that the old man's face was very strange.