Chapter Thirty-Six: The Guest
After 2 p.m., it's the hottest time of the day.
At this time, the cement pavement of Guan Kou Street rose with an unstoppable heat wave, and there were few pedestrians in the unshaded streets, even if a few people passed by by occasionally, they looked hurried, covering their faces with newspapers, fans, and various pieces of paper, and some girls who loved beauty even put up parasols and hurried around with sunglasses......
Seeing that the people on the street were gradually scarce, everyone's anxious expressions were overflowing, only Li Chuanshui in front of the stall didn't care about the eyes of others at all, just rested quietly......
In this way, more than an hour passed, and just when everyone was waiting impatiently, they had their first real business.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the two people who walked together finally stopped in front of Li Chuanshui's shop.
These two are both fat people, and they belong to the kind of people whose chest meat will tremble when they walk, and when they walked in front of Li Chuanshui's shop, they finally stopped.
At this time, these two "fat men" are rough skin and thick flesh and are not heat-resistant types, in this hot weather, the two of them are covered in sweat, from the vest to the forehead, even the pants are wet, as if they have been splashed with water.
Maybe because it was too hot, the two of them stood in front of the Zhou family's stall and stopped to observe for a long time, or maybe they were curious about the outrageous price, one of the two pointed to the piece of paper and said, "Fifty-one glass...... Why is it so expensive? β
Seeing that there was a guest hearing the news for the first time, Li Chuanshui immediately replied with a smile: "Isn't this simple? The taste of this thing is unparalleled in the world! Be...... We have made hundreds of flavors of strange tea with our exclusive secret recipe, as long as you taste a cup and it will be unforgettable! β
"Oh?!" Listening to Li Chuanshui's fierce fanning, the guest who asked the question pursed his lips and said in a very interested tone: "Is it really that amazing?" Don't lie to me. β
"What's the good of me lying to you!" Li Chuanshui replied, and then seduced the heart-touched guest and said, "What is the specific taste, don't you know if you taste it?" β
Although the guest was very interested in this because of his own hunger and thirst and Li Chuanshui's words, the fat man next to him did not show the slightest interest, and he even kept urging his companion to say, "I said brother! Don't be so naΓ―ve, okay? Do you believe in this kind of three-no product on the stall? He said it was a hundred flavors, but could you drink it? It also feels fake when you think about it. β
Listening to the ridicule of others, Li Chuanshui was not in a hurry, he just smiled and responded to the unbelieving fat man and said: "This fat brother, it's not right for you to say that!" As the saying goes, you get what you pay for, if my drinks weren't special, if they weren't rare, would I sell them at such an expensive price? β
"Rare?!" The disdainful fat man raised his head and looked at the simple pots and pans that Li Chuan had in hand, and then sneered and said, "It looks like ordinary boiled water, right?" There's not even a tea foam in it, what's so rare! β
Listening to the disdain of others, Li Chuanshui smiled, took the bright red plastic float, shook a glass of boiled water from it, handed it to the disdainful brother, and said to him: "Since the eldest brother doesn't believe our propaganda, how about I make a bet with you?!" β
"What bet?!" When the guy heard this, he still asked disdainfully.
When asked, Li Chuanshui quickly replied: "You can drink this for free, if you can't drink the taste you want, I'll give you fifty, if you drink a special taste, you give me fifty!" β
"Oh?! And this good thing?! Hearing this, the man's eyes flashed with a sly gaze, and he snatched the cup from him, and as he spoke, he brought it to his lips, gulping, and taking a few sips.
When the clear boiled water went down, the fat man's face instantly froze, and after a moment, the expression on his face was replaced by shock, and the cup he held in both hands trembled slightly.
"What?!" Seeing a strange change in his brother's face, another fat man on the side asked him curiously, "What does it taste like?!" β
After smacking it a few more times, the man replied to his brother, "It's really weird, I felt that it was lukewarm water, but after drinking it in my throat...... But it turned into ice water, and there was a smell of jasmine honey grapefruit broccoli stirring the root of the banlang. β
"What?!" The No. 1 fat man was stunned when he heard this, and immediately asked, "Jasmine honey grapefruit broccoli plate blue root?" Isn't that the unique secret recipe that our mother made when she tricked us into drinking medicine when she was a child? Why do you drink that taste?! β
"This ...... I don't know! But...... Really authentic taste. The No. 1 fat man pursed his lips as he spoke, handed Li Chuanshui a blank look and said, "You...... You thing, how can it smell so weird? β
"What's more!" Li Chuanshui put away the bowl with a mysterious smile, and at the same time encouraged another brother next to the taster and said, "Tell the two eldest brothers that the taste of our drink is constantly changing with time, place, personal taste and the type of drink you want to drink!" If you drink it today, it will be a different taste, and the taste will be different for different people! β
Listening to Li Chuanshui's praise, the fat brother who accompanied him couldn't sit still any longer, and in the hot weather, he hurriedly discharged fifty yuan from his pocket and handed it to Li Chuanshui, and immediately said: "Fifty! Get me a copy too! β
Listening to the joy of the visitor, Li Chuanshui said, "Okay! He hurriedly made a liter of drink out of a plastic water scoop and put it full in front of people.
This time, Li Chuanshui said a few more words, and he told the fat brother who was sweaty and bent on quenching his thirst: "Big brother! Good things, and limited supply, when you taste slowly, slow down to drink the real taste, in order to relieve the heat, in order to give us a publicity! β
Li Chuanshui's words made the chubby brother a lot more serious, and then he pursed his mouth and drank the liquid a little bit, a little bit.
At this time, because of the first person to eat crabs, five or six people gathered at Li Chuanshui's extremely simple but extremely expensive stall, and those people all stared at the fat man when he drank the liter of warm water that seemed to have no condiments and added to his stomach, expecting his answer.
After a while, the fat man finally stopped taste, and then he was in full view of everyone...... Thumbs up!
"Cool!" While putting down the water glass in his hand, the fat man couldn't help but yell.