The old man took out his pocket, took out a few copper coins, took a look, and then he was dumbfounded, looked at Lin Xiaozhu with wide eyes and said, "There are still sixteen copper plates left." ”

Lin Xiaozhu was not surprised at all. The bird's nest shark fin these days, which one is not expensive and expensive? These twenty taels of silver can last for nine days, which is beyond her expectations.

She took out the eighty copper coins in her arms and stuffed them into the old man's hand: "This money is not much, but it can still support some days when you buy rice and vegetables, you take it first." Don't buy any more ingredients, just tell me about the recipe and taste of those dishes, and then I will practice slowly when I have the opportunity. ”

Although this is not the money she sells herself, it is also the foundation of one-third of her family property, which will be the foundation for her future life. In the past, she would never be willing to take it out and give it to Old Man Xue, who regarded money as dung and spent lavishly. But during this time, the old man not only confiscated half of her tuition, but also spent money to buy countless ingredients, and carefully taught her cooking, which made her very guilty. Most importantly, in his loud reprimand, she felt a heartfelt love. Now, she has regarded the old man as her grandfather in this life from the bottom of her heart. If necessary, not to say a third of the family property, it is all of it, and she will not be stingy. In the future, she will be free, and she will definitely do her best to repay the old man.

The old man looked at the handful of copper coins in his hand, shiny and shiny, and with body temperature, obviously he had been carried by someone, his eyes flashed, and he didn't shirk it, he put it away with his big palm, and said, "Okay." He glared at Lin Xiaozhu with big eyes again, "But don't you want to be lazy, how can you just talk and not practice?" Ingredients, that's a must buy. ”

"It's not that you want to be lazy." Lin Xiaozhu made a bitter face, "I really don't have any money." In addition to these, I still have 190 yuan of money to sell my body, and that money cannot be moved. If your family doesn't come again, we still have to live, and we have to hire someone to report to your house. No matter what you do, you will need money at every turn! ”

The old man blew his beard and glared, "What did you say at the beginning?" ”

"What did I say?" Lin Xiaozhu looked at him inexplicably.

The old man knocked her on the head: "Didn't you say that everyone can eat more food under limited conditions?" Now we have so many secret recipes in our hands, and we can use it for money if we sell one casually, how can there be any reason to guard Baoshan to beg for food? ”

Lin Xiaozhu blinked: "Selling secret recipes?" It's not like she hasn't thought about it. It's just that the secret recipe belongs to the old man, and it is already a great favor to teach her, how dare she take the initiative to say that she will sell them. Besides, isn't this the point of exhaustion?

"Let's go, let's stop cooking today, let's go to the restaurant and talk to the shopkeeper." The old man stood up.

Going to the restaurant? Lin Xiaozhu became excited and followed the old man out of the door. But after thinking about it, I still called Zhang Dong. Zhang Dong is a local, and if he encounters something unreasonable and unreasonable, it is better to paste a mud in the middle and calm the conflict. Otherwise, with the old man's fiery temper and unique personality in the world, Lin Xiaozhu was afraid that he would cause unnecessary trouble.

The old man went not to the original tavern, but the largest restaurant in the east of the town, Zuifu Building. The restaurant is gorgeously decorated, and it looks like business is good, but it took a while to get to the restaurant, and there were already three tables of guests downstairs.

"Guest officer, you are here, please inside, please inside." Xiao Er saw that although the old man was wearing a common coarse cloth clothes, he was high-spirited and extraordinary, followed by a girl and a little girl, but he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Where's the shopkeeper? I'm looking for your shopkeeper. The old man didn't look at him, glanced at the building, and didn't find the shopkeeper, so he glanced at Xiao Er with his spare eyes.

"Shopkeeper ......" Xiao Er glanced at the old man without a trace, thinking about his intentions, and still smiled very happily on his face, "I don't know what this master is looking for my shopkeeper?" ”

"You call him out, of course, you know." The old man was impatient to talk to Xiao Er, so he found a table and sat down.

It doesn't look like someone who came to trouble their own house. Xiao Er didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he hurriedly called the shopkeeper downstairs.

"This guest officer, I don't know what to eat?" The shopkeeper was a chubby old man in his fifties, his eyes narrowed into a slit when he smiled, and he looked like a Maitreya Buddha.

The old man raised his head and glanced at him: "You have also eaten the food here, but it is really not good." So I'm here today, not to eat, but to make a deal with you. ”

"Oh? I wonder what kind of deal this guest officer is going to make next? The smile on the shopkeeper's face faded. There were still guests sitting in the building, but the old man in a coarse cloth green coat opened his mouth and said that the food was not good, which was tantamount to slapping the door in the face, which was quite unpleasant.

"I'll sell you a recipe for no less than two hundred taels of silver." The old man stroked his beard and said proudly.

"What?" Not only did the fat shopkeeper open his squinting eyes, but the guests next to him also looked over. Two hundred taels of silver is half a year's profit of this big restaurant. is to go to the city to hire a chef with excellent skills, and the salary is only sixty taels a year. This old man, isn't he crazy about money?

Seeing everyone staring at the old man with eyes as big as copper bells, Lin Xiaozhu, who was standing behind the old man and acting as a girl for the Zhuang façade, also felt that the asking price was too violent, and was worried that the old man would be swept out of the house by the fat shopkeeper in the next moment.

But looking at the old man's attitude, he probably thinks that his recipes are sold cheaply. In his opinion, if he can get his recipe, this restaurant should be grateful and kowtow to thank him. Two hundred taels of silver, it's too cheap for them.

After thinking about it, Lin Xiaozhu leaned over to Zhang Dong and whispered a few words, Zhang Dong nodded and rushed out.

"What? Two hundred taels of silver, and less. To be honest, I sold it to you because I was in a good mood today. Otherwise, you just kneel on the ground, holding a thousand taels of silver and begging the master to sell, and the master is not happy. "The old man has probably always been the master of money, where has he ever sold things? I couldn't stand the idiot-like gaze of these people, and glared at the table.

"Hah!" The fat shopkeeper laughed angrily, pointed to the door, and was about to invite the madman out, but a crisp voice sounded next to him: "Shopkeeper, my master's words, you seem to think it is too much when you hear it, but it is really true." After a while, you can taste our dishes and know if you are bragging. Is it worth two hundred taels of silver, why don't you taste it, what do you think? ”

The fat shopkeeper turned his gaze to the little girl standing behind the old man, the expression on his face was a little hesitant, and he put away the words that were about to be exported. There are many strange people in the world, although this old man is not wearing very good clothes, but this high-spirited momentum that looks at the world is not something that ordinary people can pretend. You can not buy the recipe, but it is better not to say anything that offends people.

At the moment, he said: "What this little girl said may be true." It's just that the small shop doesn't have a lot of capital, and it runs on a small budget, so I can't afford to buy a recipe for two hundred taels of silver. Why don't you go to another restaurant to have a look? ”

The restaurant in Qingxi Town has been tasted in the two days that the old man came. It's just that this restaurant is more decorated, and he has the financial resources to come here. Hearing that the shopkeeper seemed polite, but in fact shirked it, the old man's temper came up, and he was about to scold when he slapped the table. Lin Xiaozhu hurriedly hammered him on the back comfortingly, and said to the fat shopkeeper: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you buy it or not." Just to prove that what we just said is not a lie, and ask the shopkeeper to try the food we cooked. lest anyone think of us as crazy people who are trying to scam money. Seeing that the old man heard what she said, he calmed down, only glanced at the fat shopkeeper angrily, and no longer got up, so he added, "Besides, business is always good to discuss, right?" ”

These words not only made the old man sit in his position, but also made the fat shopkeeper comfortable. Since it is said that the business is good and the quantity is good, the price is negotiable. He was also curious, and wanted to taste what kind of recipe the old man's mouth sold for two hundred taels of silver, so he said: "In this case, why don't you go and make the dishes down, let us taste them, and also see and open our eyes?" ”

"That's it, I want to see what kind of good dishes you can make, little girl, dare to boast of such a mouth, it costs two hundred taels of silver for a mouth, and you say that the dishes made by others are useless!" A mocking voice rang out at the back door. Everyone turned their heads to see that a middle-aged man wearing an apron was staring at Lin Xiaozhu with an angry face, obviously the chef of this restaurant.