"I'm not a businessman!" Yuan Xiucai seemed to appreciate the straightforwardness of the shopkeeper Wang, and he didn't rush away like thunder, and the shopkeeper Wang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "The proprietor is not a businessman, and the proprietor said that Mr. Stubborn Stone's temper and talent are suitable, and he can barely make people see it, so he wants to give this business to Mr. to do." ”

Yuan Xiu's talented face was blue, and the shopkeeper Wang did not allow him to speak, and then said: "Mr. Yu Miscellaneous Drama is a unique song in the world, and the owner wants to ask Mr. to write a small miscellaneous play according to the meaning of the owner, and the owner said that if anyone in the world can write her meaning one or two, it is Mr." ”

Yuan Xiucai's angry eyes couldn't go up and down for a while, and after a while, he listened to it very usefully, and he actually said one after another from the king's shopkeeper: "As for the remuneration, if a person like Mr. talks about mundane things such as gold and silver, it is really insulting for Mr. to clear his ears, and please ask Mr. to move to the Muji noodle soup noodle shop at the mouth of Mai Shao Lane outside the Gongyuan, and the reward of the proprietor is now placed in the store, and a person of great wisdom like Mr. will be able to see it when he enters." I won't accompany Mr. in the next day, and tomorrow morning, I'll wait for Mr. here, and then explain the details. ”

After the shopkeeper Wang finished speaking, Yuan Xiucai, who stood up and had a crooked nose and slanted eyes, arched his hand, turned to the counter, and while lining up for a big money checkout, he quietly took out a piece of silver from his sleeve, sandwiched it in the big money and pushed it forward, and said with a smile: "Thank you for the shopkeeper's advice." ”

"No thanks, no thanks, the officials go slowly." The shopkeeper accepted the money with a smile, this Yuan Xiucai really handed over good luck, just to inquire about his strange temper, someone was willing to spend money!

Yuan Xiucai only panted heavily, slammed the table heavily, and the shopkeeper hurriedly stepped forward to stir up the tea bowl and persuaded: "There are many such madmen who don't know the world, what does Mr. do with him?" Yuan Xiucai rolled his dead fish eyes and slanted at the shopkeeper, suddenly slammed the table, stood up with a 'whew', snatched the tea bowl from the shopkeeper's hand, raised half a bowl of tea and drank it a few sips, looked at the shopkeeper and glared: "Lao Tzu is a crazy man who doesn't know the world, how about it?! Saying, stuffed the bowl into the shopkeeper's arms, and walked away angrily, the shopkeeper looked at him with a smile, reached out and touched the piece of silver in the purse, he is a businessman, pay attention to fair trading, people give enough money, we have to help.

Yuan Xiucai held his breath, and ran to the mouth of Mai Shao Alley in one breath, standing in front of and behind the alley in a blink of an eye, he saw the dark and shiny wooden signboard, Yuan Xiucai rushed into the shop angrily, and the thirty-year-old, clean and neat Yan Yan greeted him with an amiable smile and said, "Official, please." Yuan Xiuli ignored her, stood in the store and walked around two or three times, but didn't see where the so-called remuneration was. This is an ordinary noodle soup shop!

"The first time the official came back to the shop, right?" Yan Yan had a very good temper, and neatly greeted the guests next to him, looking at Yuan Xiucai still standing in the middle of the store and looking around, he still greeted with a smile: "It's bright here, the officials sit here, drink a cup of tea from the small shop first and then go down, or will you go down now?" Yuan Xiucai flicked his sleeves and turned around again, but he still didn't see anything, hindering the sentence 'Great Wisdom People will be able to see it when they go in', Yuan Xiucai faintly felt a little embarrassed, but he didn't have the idea of the Wang shopkeeper to deceive him, the Wang shopkeeper looked too loyal and reliable.

Yuan Xiucai looked at it again, couldn't help but be a little annoyed, ignored the guidance of Yan Yan, sat down in front of the table by the door, and the good-natured Yan Yan took a cup of tea, politely and enthusiastically put it in front of Yuan Xiucai, and went straight to greet the guests, hand the tea, send the noodles, and collect the bowls.

Yuan Xiucai looked at all parts of the store inch by inch, and didn't even see the shadow of half of the remuneration, and was gradually suspicious, wondering if he had been deceived, and the stuffiness in his chest surged up little by little, only to see a thin yellow and thin, cold and shivering man in a long shirt came in, Yuan Xiucai recognized at a glance that this was Kong Xiucai, who was selling words in front of the Daxiangguo Temple, and he almost knew the poor sour literati who sold words and sold sour texts in the Gongyuan and Daxiangguo Temple.

Yan Yan warmly greeted Kong Xiucai, led him to sit in a warm place near the tea stove, handed over a cup of tea, Kong Xiucai held the cup to warm his hands, and said to a row of more than a dozen wooden signs in the shape of water droplets hanging on the east wall: "A bowl of water, heavy noodles and heavy green." ”

"Great! Rice wine or ginger hot? Today's side dish has fresh shredded bamboo shoots, do you want to try it? ”

"If the wine is hot for a while, you will have to mix the bamboo shoots."

"And with a plate of peanuts?"

Kong Xiucai nodded with a smile, Yan Yan reached out and took a water drop card from the wall and sent it in, first held a bowl of hot rice wine, a plate of dried bamboo shoots, a plate of peanuts came out, not long, and then a bowl of steaming shredded meat noodles came out, Kong Xiucai leaned comfortably on the back of the chair, slowly drank rice wine, ate peanuts, drank the wine, and then picked up the chopsticks and buried himself in eating noodles. Yuan Xiucai watched Kong Xiucai eat noodles for a while, looked away boringly, and looked at the two new men wearing thick silk cotton silk robes, the two of them picked a table and sat down, and said with a gentle smile: "Four bowls of noodles, one bowl of fried eel noodles, wide soup and young green, one bowl of big meat noodles, wide soup heavy green, and the other two bowls of spring water." ”

"The two officials sit a little wider, that's fine." He enthusiastically sent two cups of tea, collected the noodle money, and hung two water drop cards on the wall.

Yuan Xiucai looked at the wall in a daze, took down one of them, and hung two of them with a drip wooden card, faintly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Kong Xiucai, who had finished eating noodles and was drinking noodle soup with a bowl, Kong Xiucai finished eating noodles, drank clean soup, and asked for a cup of tea unhurriedly, stood up, and walked out of the small shop in the midst of the enthusiastic send-off, he didn't pay for the noodles! Yuan Xiucai's mouth opened slightly, he stayed for a moment, stood up with a 'whew', and rushed to the wall in two steps to look up.

There are four rows of hooks nailed to the wall, one row has about a dozen hooks, and on the top row of hooks, there are a few black characters the size of walnuts written: "Dripping water, Yongquan newspaper". Springs News! The spring is its own word! Yuan Xiucai's heart jumped violently, could it be that this is the reward? But the grace of this drop of water and the reciprocation of springs are too colloquial......

"This is the first time the official has come back, right?" He stepped forward to greet him enthusiastically, and Yuan Xiucai nodded hurriedly and responded: "It's the first time, what does this mean?" I saw that the show just now ate noodles and didn't give money. ”

"The official sits widely, you are looking at the sign on the wall is interesting, the little woman also thinks this thing is weird, very interesting, our shopkeeper said, this is a guest officer who often comes to the shop to eat noodles let us shopkeeper do, the guest officer every day out of twenty bowls of noodles, wine money is not limited to how much, there is a bowl of one bowl, hang twenty brands on this wall, named the water surface, but where there is a silver money on the temporary embarrassment, as long as there is a water card on the wall, come in can ask for a bowl of water surface and a bowl of rice wine, if there is a guest officer willing to add water to the wall, how much is not restricted, It was called Tian Quanshui, and the guest officer said that this was the wish of one of his friends, and that he had done this good deed for his friend, and that this good deed was strange, right? Even if you send noodles, you have to send wine, how can this wine be eaten by the poor? Alas, it's all about the rich, and we little women don't understand! The noodles in the small shop are famous for their good taste, what kind of noodles do officials want to eat? You see, there are five kinds of noodles today, and the shredded pork and sour bamboo shoot noodles have just been freshly put on the market!" Yuan Xiucai stayed for a long time before he hurriedly greeted: "Two bowls of sour bamboo shoot noodles with shredded meat, and a bowl of spring water!"

After eating the noodles, Yuan Xiucai sat for a long time before he came out with his hands behind his back, walked out more than a dozen steps, stopped his steps, turned around and looked at the small noodle soup restaurant that was very clean and refreshing, squinting his eyes and looking at it, who is this? It is easy to know that his name is Yongquan, but how does he know that he has made this wish? If he has the ability and money, let the poor scholars who live in this Great Xiangguo Temple and the Gongyuan be able to drink a glass of water and wine and eat a bowl of hot soup with dignity at any time, how does he know? The steward and the proprietor were not mortal men......

Yuan Xiucai stared at it for a long time before turning around and shaking it towards the Sang family tile with his hands behind his back.

Early the next morning, Yuan Xiucai still shook into the gourd soup shop near Sangjia Wazi, washed his face and wiped his teeth and drank Babao tea, Wang Shopkeeper waited for him to finish a bowl of tea this time, and then stood up and sat opposite Yuan Xiucai, looked at Yuan Xiucai calmly and smiled: "Mr. was satisfied with what he saw yesterday?" ”

"Your boss does good deeds, it's about Lao Tzu's!" Yuan Xiucai squinted his eyes and said, the shopkeeper Wang smiled and didn't answer, Yuan Xiucai waited for a long time and didn't see the shopkeeper Wang speak, and couldn't help but say: "I said, your boss does good deeds, it's about Lao Tzu's!"

"Alas," said the shopkeeper sighed softly, "it's a pity, the gentleman is not satisfied with the reward, so he has no choice but to bother the proprietor and leave it at that." The shopkeeper said, stood up and left.

"Come back!" Yuan Xiucai's neck was thick: "That's how you do things for the owner?" If you don't agree, you will leave? ”

"Mr. I don't know, the proprietor has an explanation, saying that Mr. is not a person in the world, and you must not treat Mr. with the humble courtesy of the world, if Mr. thinks it is okay, it is naturally okay, Mr. says no, that is no, and instructs me not to treat the laity as if I am a layman, and Mr. to let him go in vain, that is to provoke Mr. to laugh." Shopkeeper Wang explained politely.

Yuan Xiucai rolled his eyes a few times, leaned at the shopkeeper Wang, bared his teeth like a toothache and said, "Your host...... I ask you, how did your host know about my wish? ”

"Mr. Don't hide it," the shopkeeper sat down again and said with a smile: "I don't know, Mr. and our proprietor are both elegant and high-ranking people, what has our proprietor said to know the meaning of elegance by hearing the sound of strings, and in the next layman, where can he understand this?" ”