Chapter 20: A Bowl of Gold
Walking on the wide street, ignoring Tuoba Huai and Chacha's mood agitation, Tuoba Pifu chatted with the young man by himself, and inquired about the affairs of Donglai City, but he really couldn't inquire, because he found that he had changed too much in the years he had been away, and his cognition was outdated.
The young man has no tuba, people call him Xiaoqi, fifteen years old this year, he is smart, and his head is also lively, so he started to do this business of leading the way and running errands, specializing in receiving those who came to Donglai City for the first time, and the guests who were not familiar with the place of life, and they did not have to worry about eating and drinking when they lived.
If you want to do this business, the first quality is to know the Donglai City well, and Xiao Qi is one of the best, which can be called a jack of all trades. As the conversation deepened, Tuoba Pifu gradually got to know the city again.
From Xiao Qi's words, Tuoba Pifu gradually understood that the forces of Donglai City were really complicated.
On the surface, the strongest power is the city lord's mansion, the city lord is the feudal official of the empire, and his personal strength is also unfathomable, it is said that he is a powerful person who knows his fate, and has been sitting in Donglai City for hundreds of years.
Under the City Lord's Mansion, there are also the four major families of Xi, Fan, Peng, and Lang, which are also cultivating families with a long heritage, and their power is huge.
In addition to these, there are a few great geniuses, a few great evils, a few great obsessiveness, and so on, Tuoba Pifu didn't take it to heart at all.
It is worth mentioning that the fat man who bought the steel shed is the young head of the Fan family among the four major families, named Fan Tong, but people call him a rice bucket in private. For this kind of person can become the head of the young family, Tuoba Pifu said that he was very puzzled, and Xiao Qi explained to him that it was really not because of how outstanding the fat man was, it could be said that he was useless except for the fat outstanding. He can become the head of the young family, just because the Fan family is a lone seedling in a thousand acres of land in his generation, and the uncles and brothers of a large family are all girls, and he is the only boy, so it is not surprising that he can be the head of the young family.
While talking, passing by a teahouse, looking at the excitement inside, he beckoned Tuoba Huai and Chacha to go in and sit together, under the courteous greeting of the shopkeeper, let the old scalper wait outside the store, the four of them came to the second floor to find a window position to sit down, ordered a pot of tea at will, and then looked at the street scene, while listening to the noise of the store.
The shopkeeper put on the tea and snacks, Tuoba Huai took a sip, then gently put down the teacup, Cha Cha ate a snack, just spit it out as soon as he entered his mouth, and never stretched out his hand, and Tuoba Pifu didn't even raise his hand.
The three of them didn't speak, Cha Cha didn't want to speak, Tuoba Huai couldn't speak, and Tuoba Pifu was too lazy to speak. Only Xiao Qi was chattering there, talking about strange people and strange things in the city from the east.
Listening to Xiao Qi's narration casually, after the freshness passed, even Tuoba Huai and Cha Cha felt a little bored, and just wanted to settle the bill and leave, but a person who walked in at the staircase slightly aroused their interest.
The man was a young man, about twenty years old, handsome and dashing, but very arrogant between his eyebrows. These things naturally couldn't attract the attention of the three Tuoba Pifu, what attracted their attention was the cultivation of this young man, who was young, and actually had the cultivation of the late stage of the perception realm, which was really rare.
Although Tuoba Huai and Cha Cha's cultivation far surpassed him, the two of them couldn't be reasonable. Tuoba Huai is born with a Taoist heart, born without confusion, and naturally far beyond the world. And Cha Cha has experienced the pain and torture that ordinary people can't think of, coupled with the improvement qualifications of resentment, so that he can not be confused for ten days, and enter the cave for another five years, and the idle people, at the age of twenty, can have the cultivation of the late stage of the perception realm, which is enough to make people dumbfounded.
The young man walked looking forward to his own life, and entered the private room by himself, completely ignoring the uproar in the hall.
Tuoba Pifu was about to ask Xiao Qi about the origin of this person, when he heard a lot of whispers, and from those whispers, it was easy to know the identity of this young man.
"This is the Lang family, one of the four major families. ”
"Isn't it, I heard that this Lang Saburo has already realized the late stage of the realm. ”
"I heard that this Lang San Lang is a second-grade spiritual root, no wonder the cultivation speed is so fast, how good it would be if I also had such a good spiritual root. ”
"Just your nine-rank spiritual root, isn't it the same as nothing?
"If you want to say that this second-grade spiritual root is of course good, but it is also inseparable from personal efforts, have you forgotten, the young master of the Fan family is also a second-grade spiritual root, what do you think he is cultivating now?"
"Hehe, that rice bucket, such a good qualification was wasted, and now it is still a new acquaintance. Compared with this Lang family Saburo, it's really mud that can't support the wall. ”
"But the Fan family is also a bit of a genius. ”
"You mean the overlord flower of the Fan family, too, she is really powerful, and she is beautiful, but her temperament is really a little irritable. I don't know who can subdue her and marry her into the door. ”
"The Fan family doesn't know what bad luck they have taken, the girls in the family are more beautiful than the other, and their qualifications are better than the other, but they just gave birth to such a rice bucket, and they are still the only men, which is really sad. ”
"But no, in my opinion, the Fan family doesn't have hope for that rice bucket anymore, and the reason why they still support him is just to let him pass on the ancestry. ”
A few people listened and listened, and gradually understood the general idea of the matter, it was nothing more than the old-fashioned things that those families fought for, so they naturally didn't pay so much attention to it, but today they appeared again and again in front of the three Tuoba Pifu masters and apprentices, and the fat man in their ears aroused the strong interest of the three of them.
Tuoba Pifu said, "That fat man is very interesting." ”
Tuoba Huai smiled and nodded, Cha Cha was noncommittal.
The four of them checked out, continued to shop, passed by the money bank, exchanged gold coins under the guidance of Xiao Qi, rewarded Xiao Qi with a gold coin on the spot, and said goodbye to him in Xiao Qi's thanks, and the three of them continued to wander.
It was noon, the three of them came to the front of a mansion that looked quite spectacular, this mansion was called the Mansion of the Lords, which was a place to recruit monks, and Tuoba Pifu observed for a while, and knew that the reason why this Mansion appeared must be those old guys behind the scenes, and its intention was just to inspire the people's hearts to the Tao, but he didn't care, they tossed it, and he just had to do his own thing.
Opposite the Fengjue Mansion, there was a small restaurant, Tuoba Pifu saw the restaurant, immediately stopped leaving, and said to the two apprentices: "I am hungry, I want to eat." ”
Tuoba Huai was speechless, remembering the hard years when he was a child for fear that his master would starve to death, so he practiced his cooking skills hard, and when he grew up, he knew that even if his master didn't eat or drink for 10,000 years, he wouldn't lose a single hair, so he practiced cooking hard, just to satisfy his appetite.
Cha Cha was also speechless, speechless about the master's behavior of living a good life without eating, but there was no shortage of three meals a day, and occasionally a supper, but when he thought of the food made by his senior brother, he immediately understood the master, and stood on the master's side without hesitation.
The master wanted to eat, and the apprentice had to obey, so the three of them walked to the restaurant.
But when I went in, I found that it was empty, only a shopkeeper on the counter hung his head listlessly.
Seeing a guest come in, the shopkeeper raised his head and said to the guest: "I'm sorry everyone, the shop has closed down, please move elsewhere." ”
Tuoba Pifu was stunned for a moment and asked, "It's closed, how can it go out of business?" I think there is a lot of traffic in this area, and the business should be very good." ”
The shopkeeper replied: "Alas, it's not because of the Fengjue Mansion, since the Fengjue Mansion was built, most of the people who come to this street are monks, so naturally they won't come to my small shop to eat, and over time, they will naturally not be able to support it." ”
After listening to him, a thought suddenly came to his heart, and he could do it if he wanted to, so he asked, "Then do you sell it in this store?"
Of course, the shopkeeper wanted to sell, so he said: "Of course it is sold, what, does the guest officer want to buy it?" But the ugly thing is ahead, doing business in this area is much more difficult than in other places. ”
Tuoba Pifu smiled: "That's okay, let's say, how much do you want to sell." ”
The shopkeeper tentatively quoted a price: "1,000 gold coins." ”
"Okay, give him the money, we bought it. Tuoba Pifu waved his hand cheerfully.
Cha Cha asked, "Master, what are we buying him for?"
"Naturally, it's a restaurant. Tuoba Pifu replied as a matter of course.
"But why are we going to open a restaurant?"
"Don't you think it's funny? We don't have anything else to do anyway, so let's find something to do. ”
Cha Cha didn't speak, Tuoba Huai didn't speak, Master can do whatever he wants, he can't control it, and he doesn't want to care.
I just exchanged a thousand gold coins, rewarded Xiao Qi with one gold coin, and nine hundred and ninety-nine, and there is still one short, which was erased by the shopkeeper.
The two sides signed the contract, and after only half a moment, the small shop has changed hands. When the shopkeeper walked out of the store, he still felt that he was still in a dream.
The three of them looked at their small shop, the place was not big, there were only eight square tables, and the decoration was antique and somewhat emotional. Behind the store, there is a courtyard, a two-story building across the yard from the small shop. All of a sudden, even the place to live was solved.
Tuoba Pifu swung his chaise longue into the courtyard, lay down, stretched comfortably, and said to the two apprentices: "Xiaohuai, go cook, Cha Cha will clean this place inside and out." ”
If outsiders knew that a great power who knew the fate realm was cooking, and a monk from the cave realm was cleaning, they would definitely think it was a fantasy, but here, it happened so naturally, because there was a master of Tuoba Pifu.
Soon, Tuoba Huai used the ingredients left by the shopkeeper to cook, and Chacha had already cleaned the inside and out, and it was spotless.
The three of them sat down at a square table in the hall and began to eat their first meal in Donglai City.
During the banquet, Tuoba Huai asked, "Master, we really want to do business." ”
"yes. ”
"What kind of business?"
"Open a restaurant. You're such a good cook, it's a pity not to open a restaurant. ”
"Oh. Tuoba Huai stopped talking.
Cha Cha asked again: "Is it too cheap for those people to eat the food cooked by Senior Brother?"
Tuoba Pifu thought about it and thought it was right, so he said, "Then set the price of the dish higher." ”
"How tall?"
"A bowl of gold. ”
"Okay, I'll change the signboard when I go back. ”