Xiaodou, who came downstairs, still doesn't know where to wash? He looked around and wanted to ask a waiter, but strangely, there was not even a waiter in the hall in the morning, and it was better to be lively in the middle of the night.

Since last night, Xiaodou felt that Uncle Li didn't tell them the truth, Uncle Li said that there would be a lot of guests in the past two days, so there was no boat to send them away from the artificial island, but after Xiaodou arrived at the artificial island, in addition to Uncle Li and Aunt Ye, there were only those busy workers and waiters, and not even a single guest had been met.

Maybe everyone is still sleeping! Bean pondered in his heart and continued to walk towards the door of the inn, which was facing west, which meant that he was now facing away from the counter and kitchen to the east. At this moment, Uncle Li came out of the kitchen, and when he saw Xiaodou wandering in the hall, he immediately understood what he was looking for.

"Xiaodou, come with me, the bathroom for washing is in here."

"Hey! It turned out that at the corner of the counter, the design is really unique, Uncle Li, where are the waiters? ”

"They are all in the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for the day, all the ingredients we have here are prepared in the morning, in addition to the food, we will also provide the best Tianyoude barley wine every day, you must try it." Uncle Li said, stepping aside and letting Bean enter the narrow aisle. From the direction of Xiaodou, you can see that the one who walks to the end is blocked by a screen.

Xiaodou asked, "Uncle Li, what's behind the screen?" ”

"Oh, that's the bathroom, turn left in front of the screen, and the door you can see is the kitchen, and now all the waiters are gathered there."

Uncle Li said as he walked back with Xiaodou: "In addition to the kitchen work in the morning, the rest of us is cleaning, repairing and maintaining the houses and boats, and most of the men will work near the docks, while the women will work around the hotel, mainly serving customers." ”

While talking, the two of them had already walked to the door of the kitchen, Xiaodou seemed to have some mustard about the kitchen and bathroom together, but it was not easy to speak, so he stayed in front of the screen and sniffed hard, the air was just filled with a fishy smell and the smell of wine, and he couldn't smell the smell in the bathroom at all, and Xiaodou showed a relaxed expression.

"There's incense in the bathroom, and the bathroom window faces the lake, so you can't smell it," Uncle Lee explains. The reason why we put the kitchen and bathroom together is because of the structural constraints of the artificial island, so we had to arrange it this way. But you can rest assured that the inside is completely clean. ”

Xiaodou looked at the screen between the bathroom and the kitchen, and sure enough, as Uncle Li said, the upper layer was not stained, and there was no disgusting feeling at all, including part of the door frame leaking out of the bathroom, and even the cracks in the wood were wiped clean.

Xiaodou asked, "What about the waste generated in the kitchen and bathroom?" ”

"It's simple, there is a pipe under the bathroom, all the way to the bottom of the lake, and at the bottom of the bottom of the lake bottom bracket there is a specially made waste storage bin, which is fully enclosed, and the smell will not permeate the top at all. Once a month, we have a dedicated diver go down to clean it up. As for the kitchen, the cleaned animal offal, fish, shrimp and crab shells will be thrown into the lake to feed the fish, and the rest of the garbage will be packed and transported away in small boats. ”

"You've thought so well." Xiaodou praised it, Uncle Li reached out to help him move the screen a little bit, and said to him: "There are large tanks filled with water in the kitchen and bathroom, and tap water cannot be installed here, so most of the domestic water we use, except for drinking water, is obtained by filtering lake water by ourselves, and drinking water is bottled water transported from outside, which you can use with confidence." ”

"I see, thank you, Uncle Lee."

The two of them entered the bathroom and kitchen separately, and in an instant the silence at the bottom of the corridor was restored, Xiaodou and Uncle Li talked for so long, the kitchen was very strange, and no sound came out at all. Xiaodou probably wanted to finish washing up quickly and go upstairs to see Yueyue's situation, so she didn't care about the movement in the kitchen.

Uncle Li waited for Xiaodou to leave, then walked into the kitchen door, and as soon as he entered, he closed the door that was originally hidden, and did not forget to lock it from the inside, as if he was afraid that Xiaodou would suddenly break into the kitchen.

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Year 2011

The first night of Yun Yeyao's side has not passed, the time is 10:50 in the evening, on the set up stage, the song and dance performance is in full swing, the sound is noisy, and it can't be compared with the outdoor performances that Yun Yeyao has seen before.

But it's no wonder that what Yun Yeyao used to see was not a square dance show, or a casual little show. He often goes to see large-scale stage plays and plays, especially outdoor stage plays, which is his hobby. So now, under the poison of noisy singing and dancing, Yun Yeyao covered his ears with both hands and put his head in Xie Yunmeng's arms, like a hamster digging a hole in the field.

He is 1.8 meters tall, and his figure has always been quite good, and now he is curled up, although it does not affect much beauty, but the two of them are tired of being together, and it is always very embarrassing to look at the eyes of the people around him. Xie Yunmeng gently pushed Yun Yeyao's body and said, "Xiao Yao, you sit down first, I'll help you find something to plug your ears, you watch the show like this, it's very rude to the performer." ”

After coaxing for a long time, Yun Yeyao finally poked his head out of Xie Yunmeng's arms, and said: "I also know that it is very rude, that is, I can't stand such loud music." ”

At the same time as Yun Yeyao raised his head, a pair of big rough hands reached out from the side, and two small white cotton balls were lying in the palms of his hands. Xie Yunmeng looked back, it turned out that Kang Chen didn't know when he was standing beside them, and Kang Chen's dirty face had a smile on it.

He said in a very loud voice: "Yes, the sound of the night performance is really loud, no wonder Mr. Yun feels uncomfortable, and so do we, so we often bring this thing with us when we watch the performance, which is very effective." ”

After speaking, Kang Chen picked up one of the cotton balls with his right hand and stuffed them into Yun Yeyao's ear, and when his hand left, it seemed to be unconscious, swiping over Yun Yeyao's face. Xie Yunmeng instantly noticed this action, his eyes immediately became alert, and the criminal policeman's gaze swept over Kang Chen's gaze and found that he was staring straight at Yun Yeyao.

Xie Yunmeng hurriedly took the remaining cotton balls from his other hand, and the arm holding Yun Yeyao's waist tightened a little bit, and said to Kang Chen: "Thank you, please help me bring a bunch of cotton balls over." ”

"No problem, you wait a minute." After Kang Chen finished speaking, he turned around and ran towards the edge of the stage, where several women gathered together and whispered, carrying a bamboo basket in their hands, Kang Chen ran towards them, and the cotton ball should be in the basket.

After Kang Chen left, Xie Yunmeng took out the cotton ball that had just been stuffed into Yun Yeyao's ear, then pinched it a few times, and then stuffed it back. Yun Yeyao asked curiously, "What are you doing?" ”

But Xie Yunmeng glared at him inexplicably, and didn't explain, just said in a commanding tone: "Don't move!" It was obvious that he was in a bad mood.

Yun Yeyao didn't care about this, and the noise in the void made him uninterested. After Xie Yunmeng helped him close his ears, his mind was a little clearer. Yun Yeyao sat down and asked, "Xiao Meng, why hasn't Kang Chen brought the cotton ball for you yet?" ”

"I don't know!" Xie Yunmeng replied loudly: "You don't want to be like this outside in the future, if you have anything to say directly, understand?" ”

His words immediately made Yun Yeyao think that it was because he made too intimate movements outside, which disgusted Xiao Meng, so he suddenly got angry. In order to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere, Mr. Actor's eyes looked around, looked at him left and right, and said, "Xiao Meng, there are quite a lot of people here, including workers and guests, there are probably twenty or thirty people." ”

"I think these twenty or thirty people are like residents living on Bifang Island, not like guests," Xie Yunmeng said. ”

"No, Xiaomeng, have you forgotten? Uncle Li just said that there are guests in the last two rooms upstairs of the hotel, and you told me this! ”

"I know, but before I left the hotel, I knocked on the doors of those two guests, and there was no response from anyone inside."

Yun Yeyao said: "Maybe people are already asleep and don't want to be disturbed? Or maybe they had already gone out early. You can't conclude that there's no one in the room, right? Besides, there are a few guests staying at the hotel who have nothing to do with us, so there is no need for Uncle Li to lie. ”

"But I always feel very strange," Xie Yunmeng blocked his ears with the index fingers of both hands, and said, "It stands to reason that at that time just now, if you go to bed so early, you should be able to meet here, but I haven't seen anyone who looks like a guest for a long time." ”

"You stupid! Can hotel guests still see it? ”

"Of course, you see that the people who are helping to work here, the one who just set up the stage must be dirty, and before he has time to change his clothes, there are only a few waiters, including Aunt Ye, we have all seen it. The rest of the workers are also very easy to distinguish, because the people here live on the big lake, they will inevitably have a fishy smell on their bodies, and the guests who come here definitely do not have this smell, don't believe you smell your own body, clothes and hair have a fishy smell? ”

"What you say makes sense, but this kind of thing doesn't have much to do with us, Xiaomeng, don't ...... it"

Yun Yeyao wanted to say Xiao Meng, don't be so serious. But before he finished speaking, Lao Nuo's voice came from the side, and he said: "Officer Xie is worthy of being a criminal policeman, and he is careful to look at the problem, those two guests are on the stage now, and they are part of the performers." ”

"Really?" Yun Yeyao was a little surprised.

Xie Yunmeng took the opportunity to ask: "Uncle Li, there is another thing that I think is very strange, there are only six rooms in your hotel, I have roughly observed the surroundings, and there is no other place to stay." Where are so many workers and waiters going to live? They can't spend four or five hours a day going back and forth between the shore of the lake and Bifang Island. ”

"That's because they need to rebuild the house every day." Lao Nuo moved a square stool, sat down beside them, and said mysteriously.

This time, Yun Yeyao's interest was even stronger, and he asked urgently, "Why do you want to rebuild the house every day?" Let's talk about it. ”

Lao Nuo cleared his throat, it was really inconvenient to speak here, and he needed to use a very loud volume, he stretched out his head to Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng's ears, and continued: "It's because the stage is their house, but ah, this house needs to be disassembled and assembled like building blocks every day to change its appearance." Except for the hotel, our houses here are all prefabricated houses. Every day after dinner, the workers would convert their homes into stages for performances. ”

"It doesn't take long for a dozen people to do it together. Didn't you just come here and see the workers busy? But by the time you walk around my shop, the stage outside has already been set up, and it won't take you more than two hours from start to finish. If you're interested, wait until the cabaret is over, and you can stay a little longer, and you'll see the workers restoring the stage to the kitchen. ”