Li Jiu sighed and said, "Since that day, our gambling house has started to make trouble with unclean things. ”

"What's not clean?" I took a sip of tea soup and said lightly, "You can tell me carefully." ”

Li Jiu got his life and said, "After Boss Zhou's accident that day, the business of the gambling house was not affected, and the business of the day was more than usual, and even nearly 1,000 taels more. Who knows, the next day there was news that Li Gongzi from Dongjie had just won the silver on his front foot, and he went home to drink wine on his back foot, got up to drink water at night, stumbled, and fell into the well, and when he fished it up in the morning, he was out of gas! ”

He glanced at me and continued, "The Gu butcher on North Street usually comes to gamble twice, and his luck has always been good. He won some money on the first day, and when he got up the next morning to kill the pig, the big pig didn't die with three knives, and he just broke free from the shelf, and the butcher Gu was frightened, his hand shook, and the butcher knife fell, and he cut off three toes!

Li Laohan, who sells cooking cakes, is in strong health, and the gambling money we made that day was five times more than one or two pieces of silver, and he went back happily, walking and talking well during the day, and the next day he was talking nonsense in a blur, and now he is still lying at home.

There is also Sun Wenpo at the end of the alley, she usually comes over. She has been delivering babies for nearly 20 years, and she has never gone wrong, and she went to deliver the baby that day, and then she ...... Unexpectedly...... Ay! Li Jiu said that later, he couldn't continue with a bitter face.

But even if he didn't say it, I could guess what happened.

Although this series of events did not happen in the gambling house, they all happened after the accident on Saturday. The so-called people's words are terrible, if they are rotated by people with intentions, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do a good job.

Sure enough, Li Jiu sighed and said, "Engong, after these incidents, the neighbors all said that our gambling house caused unclean things, and there were evil things, and whoever came was unlucky."

There were still unbelievers, but many of those who won money either fell out of the house or had their money stolen. Later, there were fewer and fewer people, and in recent days, a total of more than a dozen taels of silver have been received. If it has been like this, I am afraid that the gambling house will not be able to open, I knew that this is the case, and someone came to ask the gambling house if it wanted to be sold that day, and Li Jiu should discuss it with Engong. ”

Pan shop ......

I thought about it and asked him, "When does someone want to sell a shop?" ”

Li Jiu said, "On the day of Boss Zhou's accident, the boss of Juhailou across the street saw that we had an accident, so he came over and asked if he wanted to sell the store, and the business was surprisingly good that day, Li Jiu didn't pay attention to him, this is good, if something like this happens, even if you want to do it, no one may want to ask for it......"

On the day of the accident, I came to the shop, and the next day the gambling house began to have strange things......

Juhai Building...... Pan shop ......

That's interesting.

I smiled slightly, took a sip of warm tea, and asked, "Li Jiu, how much money do we still have in the gambling house?" ”

Li Jiu hurriedly brought the account book, flipped through it a few times, and said, "Back to Engong, before the accident, there were a few big guests in the private room upstairs, and there was a lot of traffic back and forth, plus small operations, after subtracting the wages of the workers in the previous days, there were still 112,500 taels on the account. ”

After speaking, he ran out, came over with a box out of nowhere, put it in front of me, and said, "Engong, there is too much silver, Li Jiu has already exchanged the silver taels for silver tickets, and there are still some future exchanges of silver in this box." ”

I nodded, reached out and opened the box, took a few pieces of silver and gave it to him, then kicked all the silver tickets into my arms, got up and said, "Let the brothers go and spread the news now, saying that Juhailou will make a porridge shed when it is applied for today, and give porridge to people for free, so that everyone can go over and receive porridge." You find two clever ones. ”

"Yes, Eun Gong." Li Jiu responded and went to do it immediately. After a while, I changed my clothes, led two strong men to stand in front of me, bowed and said, "Engong, everything is ordered." In less than half an hour, the news will be known. ”

"Okay, you come with me, I'll meet him." I nodded, took out the folding fan in my sleeve and shook it twice, and strode downstairs to the sea building across the street.

This Juhai Building, is the largest restaurant in this area, the building is four floors high, located in the downtown street, two small lions at the door to welcome guests, hang several signboard banners, the store on both sides of the deep pen stone carved a couplet, the left side reads, "go to the five lakes, cross the four seas, gather visitors from all directions." On the right side is written "Eat mountain delicacies, taste seafood, enjoy the delicious food of the world"

A huge plaque was hung between the two couplets, with three big characters on it: Juhailou.

Whether it is decoration or pomp, this Juhai Building is outstanding.

I asked Li Jiu and the others to wait downstairs, opened the folding fan with a brush, and walked into the lobby.

Xiao Er hurriedly bowed over, nodded and said, "This guest officer, please come in quickly, the new abalone and shark fin in our store is clean and fresh, and the taste is also the highest in the West Market. ”

I pretended to squint at him, "Is it really delicious as you say?" My mouth is very tricky, it's not delicious, but it's going to smash the field! ”

Xiao Er immediately accompanied him and said with a smile, "Where did the guest officer say, why did they order all repeat customers, and they all praised our dishes for being good, how about the specifics, guest officer, you will know if you taste it once." ”

"Good!" I put away the fan, put it in my hand and said, "Just take the most expensive specialty dishes in your store, and serve them first, don't save money for the master, do you understand?" ”

"Understand, understand, the little one quite understands, the guest officer, please come inside, there is a seat inside."

I nodded, followed Xiao Er to the third floor, chose a ventilated place to sit down, and just drank a cup of tea to moisten my throat, and then I was ready.

Not to mention, the dishes in this Juhailou are really good. Abalone in sauce, Jade Buddha jumping bridge, a large lobster, the best shark fin, in addition to the deep-water exquisite fish, pipa bird legs, purple ginseng and red meat, snow grub glazed rolls, the dish is perfect and flavorful, and the taste is fragrant.

I've been injured for a long time, I've been recuperating, I haven't eaten normally for a long time, and this meal, I've eaten a lot, and I've almost bottomed out.

After eating, I asked for a pot of Biluochun, and after rinsing my mouth, I stripped a broken hair from my hair and threw it on the plate at will, while shouting, "Little Er, check out!" ”

"Okay, guest officer" he answered, snapped the abacus a few times, nodded and said happily, "Guest officer, you ordered the best and most expensive dishes in this restaurant." Our table is thirteen dishes and one soup, a total of one thousand and one taels, the tea is given to you, and the odds are also wiped for you, you can give a thousand taels. ”

I nodded and said, "Well, it tastes good, a thousand taels, it's worth it." ”

"Thank you for the compliment, welcome to come back." Xiao Er hurriedly bowed and saluted, with a smile on his face, it seems that he really met a big customer today.

I paused slightly, and then continued, "It tastes good, it's good, but I can't give a single account of this account." ”

Xiao Er was stunned for a moment, and then laughed again, "Guest officer, the little one understands, you are a distinguished guest, you didn't bring money when you went out, you didn't pay attention, you say a mansion, sign a name, and pass by another day to send it, if you really don't want to send it, it's good for the small one to follow over and pick it up."

I shook my head, "You misunderstood, what I said can't be given, it's not credit, it's not a pending order, it's that I don't want to give a penny." ””

Xiao Er's face changed suddenly, he straightened his waist, and said with a slightly wrong face, "Guest officer, what do you mean by this?" ”

I smiled slightly, pointed to the broken hair at the bottom of the plate, and said, "It's not interesting, you can see for yourself." ”

Xiao Er was stunned for a moment, said Guest officer, wait a minute, turned around and took a few steps up to the fourth floor, and after a while, he led a man in purple, with a round face and a fat body with a melon skin hat downstairs, and walked straight to our table.

The man walked over and smiled at first, and then arched his hand and said, "Hello this guest officer, I am Li Wanqing, the owner of this Juhai Building." The situation Xiao Er has already told me, there is a shortage of manpower in the store today, and I am too busy at noon, and I don't take care of it, so I hope you will forgive me. ”

After speaking, he glanced at the bottom of the plate, his hair was light and fluttering, and half of it was still exposed, obviously not from the dish. Then he smiled and said, "Guest officer, although the store is big, but the store is big and profitable, if you feel that this dish affects your appetite, then this dish is given to you by the small store." Throw away this dish, this whole table, the small shop is giving you a 20% discount, what do you think? ”

Honestly, that's already good.

But......

I smiled slightly, "Boss Li said with a smile, I have just said that I will not give a single line of food on this table, how can you give another 20% discount." ”

"You!" He seemed to be working a little hard, put away his smile and said, "This guest officer, you are also well-dressed, not like you have no money, don't you, do you want to eat overlord meals in a small shop?" ”

I smiled and reached for a plate and moved it to the table.

With a "pop ......", the porcelain plate smashed down and exploded into pieces.

Although it was past noon, there were many guests in Juhailou, and when they heard the sound, they all looked back.

I smiled slightly, reached out and picked up another plate, and was just about to fall, but was grabbed by Li Wanqing.

He twisted his brows, looked me up and down, and finally bowed, "This son seems to be a little familiar, why don't you go to the back hall with my brother, you and I make a pot of hot tea, and reminisce about the old days?" With that, he took a step back and bent down in a gesture of please.

I smiled at the corner of my mouth, deliberately brushed open the folding fan, and fanned it a few times, before I got up and said, "Since Boss Li greeted me warmly, if I didn't go, wouldn't I not give face." ”

"Then thank you, Childe." A dark color flashed in his eyes, he got up and led me to the guest room on the fourth floor, first led me to sit on the top seat, and then made a pot of good white tea, and waited for me to take two sips of it slowly before he spoke, "Looking at the son's behavior, you will know that the son is from everyone." It shouldn't be missing the cost of a meal in a small shop, I don't know what Childe means today? ”

I put down the teacup and asked instead of answering, "Boss Li, this shop has been open for a long time, right?" ”

Although Li Wanqing didn't know why I asked, he still replied, "Li is a local, he started his business ten years ago, from childhood to adulthood, and it has been five years since he bought this shop. ”

I nodded, looked around, and said, "Well, five years, the store has been open for a long time." Now, it's time for a change of boss. ”

Li Wanqing's face changed, he stood up from the chair suddenly, and said in a loud voice, "Little boy, what do you mean!" ”

I wasn't annoyed, I just slowly took out a stack of silver tickets from my arms, put them on the table along the corners, and said in a shallow voice, "It's not interesting, I just want to take down your Juhailou." ”

Li Wanqing looked at the silver ticket and smiled, and said, "Little boy, you're not joking, are you?" My Juhai building is located in the downtown area, the store and decoration are first-class good, every day into the account of each 10,000 taels there are thousands of taels, not to mention that it is impossible to redeem, that is, to redeem, at least a million taels, the little boy this hundreds of thousands of taels, I am afraid that even the decoration can not be bought. ”

I nodded and said, "What Boss Li said is very true, but ......"

My expression was cold, "If yes, I'm adding a life, will you redeem it?" ”