Chapter 20: The Uninvited Guest
Changyi County is one of the top ten poverty-stricken counties in Great Xia.
From a distance, a cyan jade ribbon appeared on the horizon. When you get closer, you will find that the surface of the wall is about three feet high, like an ancient city wall that has been devastated by war, and the bright and somewhat eye-catching new cyan on it looks out of place and looks very strange.
Dozens of translucent bamboo baskets hung on both sides of the tall city gate, surrounded by many huge green-headed flies, and there were many slightly rotten human heads inside!
"No! I remember the last time I came, it was an earthen wall made of yellow mud mixed with wheat straw, when was it replaced with a blue brick wall?"
Letu was a little surprised, it costs a lot of money to repair the city wall, isn't it here that people starve to death every year? How can they have spare money to repair the city wall? Now is the time when the world is peaceful.
"Go into the city to find an inn to eat, and by the way, ask the shopkeeper if it's clear?"
Although Ye Xiaochuan is a serious bun, he is also a person with a younger brother now. So in the face of almost everything that is novel, his face is still light.
The two entered the city in a dashing manner, turned around for a long time, and picked a rather secluded place - Zhang's Bun Shop.
There is only one steamed bun shop that opens at noon, and they are the only ones who eat steamed buns.
The shop is located in an inaccessible alleyway, and the store consists of only a straw hut, two small wooden tables, and a few benches.
The only advantage is that it is cheap. A thin square plank was nailed to the pillar under the shed, and the crooked handwriting on it was all single digits in copper.
After walking around a few busy long streets, the two of them realized that their money was really not enough to enter the store to spend, and the money for any meal could completely empty their family funds.
Letu couldn't understand why the county yamen didn't care about the high prices in a place where people starved to death every year?
Ye Xiaochuan took the lead in entering the grass shed, copied a bench and sat down with a big grin, and Letu, who was following him, immediately understood, glanced at the thin wooden board on the pillar, and shouted loudly: "Boss, come two cages of beef buns and two cages of mutton buns!"
"Okay, guest officer, wait a minute, I'll be here soon!" A very deep voice came from the back room, and it should be a man. Sure enough, a moment later, a stout guy with a big shoulder and a round waist walked out of the door, and a steamer stacked high covered his face.
After this guy stepped out of the door, he should have been afraid that the guests would be in a hurry, so he trotted up.
Before the person arrived, a pungent smell of fragrant rouge came to his face.
Ye Xiaochuan raised his head in some surprise, first saw a pair of delicate-skinned fat hands put the steamer on the table, and then a big face full of beards, red lips and pink cheeks came into view.
A very uncomfortable feeling arose.
Letu, who was on the side, suddenly jumped up, covered his mouth in pain and ran out, but before he could run out of the hut, he leaned on the pillar and vomited.
"......I'm so sorry! I really didn't mean to!" Looking at the shopkeeper with an apologetic face, Ye Xiaochuan opened his mouth but didn't make any sound, he really didn't know what to call the person in front of him.
The rugged appearance, the deep voice, the plump chest, the beard but the red lips and almond eyes on the face, it is really difficult to distinguish between male and female.
"The slave family Zhang Crescent. The shopkeeper seemed to see his difficulty, and directly reported to his family, and then continued with a gloomy expression: "I know that I am ugly, but the slave family has no choice......!
"Yes, I know. It's really not your fault, and I don't really care about other people's looks. ”
Ye Xiaochuan felt that she might be gushing with bitter water, so he didn't plan to give her a chance to open the gate at all, and after expressing sympathy and understanding, he continued: "However, I'm so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back now, you can go and get busy! I don't like to be stared at when I eat!"
Zhang Yueya should have been understood by others for the first time, her expression was very excited, tears flashed in her eyes, and she had a lot of words in her heart that she wanted to confide in Ye Xiaochuan, but thinking that the other party was so considerate of herself, she couldn't let her family go hungry and listen to her complaints, right?
So she finally turned back and reluctantly returned to the house.
Shortly after she left, Letu dragged his tired body into the grass hut, and said with palpitations: "Is this guy a man or a woman......?"
"Okay! Look at your little bit of interest! By the way, don't waste this bun, it's all money!"
Ye Xiaochuan pinched a bun as he spoke, put it to his mouth and took a big bite, almost biting off half of the bun, but he didn't even eat the meat filling!
Looking at the still snow-white bun in their hands, Ye Xiaochuan and Le Tu were dumbfounded, and the word profiteer flashed in their minds at the same time.
"Oops! I'm really sorry! I took the wrong one just now, these cages are all steamed buns, I'm really sorry!" Zhang Yueya brought four more steamers, and Le Tu only raised her head after she left, took her hand off her nose and pinched the buns, and when she bit it gently, the meat juice overflowed, and the entrance was spicy and fragrant, which was extremely delicious.
Ye Xiaochuan was still holding the previous bun in his hand, he tried to bite it again, and found that there was a small piece of meat in it, which was not like the steamed bun that Zhang Yueya said.
"Hey, he's really that dead fat pig! I didn't think he would dare to come!"
At this moment, an unusually harsh hoarse voice suddenly came from outside the grass hut, followed by a burst of unbridled laughter of men and women.
The moment this voice sounded, Letu's face turned white, fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and he lay on the table with his head lowered and did not dare to look up. Ye Xiaochuan glanced at the slightly trembling table, turned back to follow the voice, and his face became gloomy and uncertain.
An unruly brocade-clothed boy stood at the front with a fan, with a piece of jade in excellent condition hanging from his waist, and his handsome face was pale, obviously hollowed out by wine.
Behind him was a large group of brightly dressed men and women, all of whom were handsome and long, and it was a little abrupt to appear at the mouth of such an alley.
"Hehe, you brought such a thin boy with you this time? Le Da Shao, I remember the first time you entered the city, didn't you have a large group of people who hugged each other?" The man in brocade pretended to be surprised and said, "Moreover, how can you come to eat in such a dirty and broken grass hut?"
Leto just buried his head deeper, and the small wooden table shook even more.
The man in brocade didn't take Ye Xiaochuan in his eyes at all, seeing that Letu lowered his head and didn't speak, his original smiling face gradually disappeared, his eyes were playful, and his voice was cold, and he said: "I said last time, let me see you again, I will definitely break your legs!
Ye Xiaochuan twisted his neck with a gloomy face, making a crisp sound of bone casting, and then grabbed the corner of the table with his right hand, and with a "click", the corner of the table was broken off by him. Then, casually, he threw the corner of the table at the feet of the brocade-clad man, and the threat in his eyes was self-evident.
The brocade-clothed man and a large group of people behind him collectively petrified for a few seconds, and then burst into laughter! Many people couldn't straighten up with laughter, and in the end, it was the brocade-clothed man who forced his smile and waved his hand to silence everyone, and those people barely stopped laughing.