After the third watch at night, it was supposed to be the time to sleep, and the shopkeeper of Heshun Sheep Soup was tired for a day and rested in the back room. There are many diners during the day, and he has not been idle all day long, and he is full of the smell of mutton, but he gets used to it when he smells more, and he falls asleep without washing his face.

Tonight was an ordinary night, but when the shopkeeper of the Shunyang Soup House was sleeping soundly, there was a sound of slamming the door outside the door, and a rough man was shouting.

"Hey, I said! Open the door! It's time to eat, open the door! ”

These calls woke him up alive, and he walked to the main door in a daze, opened the door a gap and looked out. But the sky was too dark to see the appearance of the people outside, but it seemed that there were seven or eight people. The shopkeeper muttered in his heart, shouting, "It's already closed!" If you want to drink mutton soup, hurry up! But the people outside were very persistent, still knocking on the door and shouting, just like the urgency to go to the toilet.

The shopkeeper thought to himself, who came to dinner in the middle of the night! It's not about robbery, is it? But the people outside kept slamming the door, if they didn't open the door, they would definitely not stop, so they had no choice but to light the lamp, open the door and ask who the outside person was.

Hu Da's arms were hungry, his stomach was wrenching uncomfortably, and he would probably starve to death after a while if he didn't eat. Seeing the shopkeeper grinding and chirping to open the door, he hurriedly stepped forward and pushed the door open and said, "I'm dying of hunger, what are you rubbing?" How to open the door! ”

Looking at the sturdy figures of several people, as well as the loud and familiar voices, the shopkeeper immediately remembered that they had been here during the day, and they still occupied a table of their own nonsense without eating, and it didn't feel like a good thing to come to the door again this time, so he smiled and said, "How many people are here to eat?" Why didn't you come earlier, I closed the door early this morning, the fire was out, and the meat was not prepared, or you would come back tomorrow? ”

Hu Dabo pushed him away, directly found a place to sit, and said unreasonably: "Huh? Is your fire out? Easy to do! Re-order, the meat is gone, now slaughtered! It's too late tomorrow, I have to drink mutton soup tonight, or I'll starve to death in your mutton soup restaurant, and you can do it yourself! ”

The shopkeeper of the sheep soup restaurant is very embarrassed, how can anyone come to eat sheep soup in the middle of the night, he has been doing it for so many years or the first time he has encountered it. But when he saw Hu Da's meaty appearance, he didn't dare to provoke him, so he could only turn his head to look at the others, and suddenly found the eldest Lao Wu in the crowd, so he hurriedly walked over and said: "Big brother, you see that I am all closed, I really can't make mutton soup, why don't you come early tomorrow?" ”

Lao Wu couldn't hang his face a little, smashed people's doors in the middle of the night to eat, Hu Dafang still looked unreasonable, he couldn't say anything, so he said to the shopkeeper: "I know it's too late, and it must have disturbed your rest, but our brothers haven't eaten for a day, and now they're all hungry. After speaking, he took out a few small tickets from the fourth pocket and gave them to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper of the sheep soup restaurant stretched out the ticket before meeting, his eyes lit up, and he quickly took the money in his pocket with a smile on his face, and beckoned everyone to find a place to sit down. He went back to the back kitchen to cook a big pot of soup first, and he went to the backyard to slaughter a lamb, took it back to the back kitchen for a little processing, chopped it all down as haggis and started to cook.

"Brother, don't worry, you have to cook for a while, I'll take it out, go sit and wait." The shopkeeper wanted to cook the mutton soup quickly, but when he turned around, Hu Dabo was still standing there, looking at the steaming cauldron with his eyes, and kept swallowing saliva, looking like he was really hungry.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "Why is this strong man so hungry, and he really hasn't eaten for a day?" ”

Hu Dabian raised his hand to wipe the saliva on the side of his mouth, walked over slowly, smelled the aroma of boiled mutton and said: "Oh, this taste, but his mother is hungry for me, I want to eat it raw now, I said can I hurry up?" Oh yes, put more chili peppers and let's sweat well! ”

Although the shopkeeper used a fierce fire to cook the soup, when the pot was boiled, it was still more than half an hour later, and Xiao Qi had already fallen asleep on the edge of the table.

With the shopkeeper's "come", bowls of spicy mutton soup pancakes were served on the table, and the brothers' eyes were bright, and they were not afraid of being hot. According to Hu Dabao's meaning, there is a lot of chili powder in the mutton soup, and the layer on the surface is red, and when you drink a sip of hot mutton soup, it is warm and dry from the mouth to the stomach, and the head of the food is sweating, and the food is called a pleasure.

The back kitchen is not ventilated, and it is as hot as in the stuffy bathhouse. The shopkeeper finally cooked the mutton soup, and his whole body was soaked. He took out a small stool and sat in the doorway, blowing the cool night breeze to relieve it.

Lao Wu was in a bad mood, he couldn't eat it in a few bites, looked at the brothers around him who were about to give the bowl to eat and wear, smiled, and was about to go out to smoke, and happened to meet the shopkeeper sitting there alone.

"Brother has worked hard, come and smoke a cigarette." Lao Wu took out a rolled old dry cigarette and handed it to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper took the cigarette, but suddenly found that Lao Wu was blowing fire, he hadn't seen this kind of old thing for many years, and he also leaned over to watch him play with it. Lao Wu often used it, and after a few clicks, he blew the fire fold and helped the two light cigarettes.

The shopkeeper looked at the fire fold in Lao Wu's hand and said, "I didn't expect to use this thing to light the fire now, why don't you use matches?" After speaking, he took out a box of matches and wanted to give it to Lao Wu.

But Lao Wu didn't go to pick up the match, took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile: "I actually have a match, but I am used to using this thing, and I always feel that something is missing if I don't blow a few fire folds before smoking." ”

The two chatted very closely, and then said some other things, and the shopkeeper asked him why he came to drink mutton soup in the middle of the night, and whether he encountered something to delay during the day?

How can Lao Wu tell the truth, just say that they are the Lushi County grave relocation team, recently because of the mountain fire in the grave slope, they received an order not to move the grave for the time being, first rest for a period of time and wait for the notice, during the day because of some personal matters missed the meal, in the middle of the night the brothers were hungry, unable to do it before coming to eat.

Listening to Lao Wu talk about the mountain fire, the shopkeeper knew that it was very noisy, and he didn't let him go to see the excitement, saying that the black smoke produced by the pine burned by the mountain fire could smoke people to death. But some curious people stole to the vicinity, the fire had long been extinguished, but there were still several very large dirt pits left on the hillside, and all the trees around them were scattered and fell, like craters created by explosions. Therefore, there are rumors in the neighborhood that there was an explosion of a military factory in the mountain, which caused the wildfire, so I don't want people to know.

Lao Wu recalled the events of that day, before he fell unconscious, he did hear a few loud noises, and then was swept to the ground by a wave of air. However, there are no military factories in the mountains at all, and there are underground arsenals, and the most likely is that the army dropped bombs on the path where the mountain fire was about to spread, knocking down trees and blowing up a barrier to control the mountain fire within a certain range. Of course, the grave slope matter has passed, and it has nothing to do with them, at this moment they should think most about how to live in the near future, the money is counted, according to the fourth child's flower, it will be light in a few days, and they have to think of a way out.

When it comes to making money, the shopkeeper's eyes suddenly lit up and told Lao Wu a way to make money!

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One watch is coming!