Chapter 10: The Feast of the Dead
The smoke from the barbecue in the middle of the street gave me a hazy feeling, and in the hazy feeling, I suddenly saw a black shadow slowly approaching my restaurant. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
I don't know why, but the black silhouette gave me a familiar and oppressive feeling, as if it was somewhat similar to the shadow of the red eyes I saw at the funeral of the old man Yin.
Before I had time to think about it, the "shadow" had already opened the glass door of my hotel and walked in.
That...... It's an old lady with gray sideburns.
The old lady was quite old, her face was wrinkled like toilet paper, and she wore a dark red jacket, and although she was hunchbacked, she could walk quite neatly.
After the old lady in the red jacket came in, Zhao Haipeng stood up suddenly, he nodded at me from a distance, and then turned around and went into the back kitchen.
I know that the special guest waiting for tonight is this old lady in a dark red jacket.
I don't know why Zhao Haipeng values this guest so much, but I know that all the weirdness is probably inextricably linked to this very ordinary looking diner, so how dare I snub it!
Zhao Haipeng walked on the front foot, and I greeted the old lady with my back hand, and said with a smile like seeing my grandmother: "My old man! You can come, our restaurant is fried and fried, there are all kinds of fish, meat and seafood, what you want to eat, I will make it for you!"
The old lady unfolded the wrinkles like toilet paper, squinted her eyes and carefully swept around, and then said to me in a dry voice: "I'm sorry!
The old lady's words nailed me to the spot like a nail.
I can see a public toilet in such a big hotel, and this old lady's eyes are too good, or Zhao Haipeng's eyes are too bad.
Seeing that the old lady was not here to eat, my confidence in Zhao Haipeng dropped to the freezing point, so I could only stretch out my hand, point to a door opposite the side of my hotel and say to the old lady, "Old man, where is the toilet, you look at it, go slowly." ”
The old lady gave me a gleam of gratitude, then turned around and walked unhurriedly to the door of the public toilet.
At this time, I suddenly saw Zhao Haipeng poking his head out of the kitchen, he coughed at me, and gestured to the old lady with his eyes.
Zhao Haipeng's deliberate action made me stunned for a moment, but fortunately, our brains were fast enough, and I immediately remembered that this guy had confessed that after a certain guest came, if he nodded, he must be stopped and sent to a single room, delicious and drunk, and must not be let go!
Right now, this old lady must be the guest Zhao Haipeng is waiting for, although she is only here to go to the toilet, but I can't let her go!
At that time, I quickly changed my strategy, intercepted in front of the old lady in a flash, blocked her way, and said with a smile to the old lady: "Old man, you go there to go to the toilet, you have to cross the road, how inconvenient, our hotel also has a toilet, clean and hygienic, it must be more comfortable than a public toilet, you can enjoy your face, it is convenient for me here!"
My sudden change frightened the old lady, and it took the old lady a long time to react, and asked me stumblingly: "Don't lie to me, I have no money!"
I immediately replied: "No money, free toilet and free paper, you can work hard, you can enjoy your face and stay with me for a while, come on!
As I spoke, I couldn't help but pull the old lady into the toilet of our hotel, personally adjust the water temperature for others, and take out the toilet paper, then closed the door and temporarily left the Buddha.
The front hand closed the door, and I heard Zhao Haipeng's voice with a little appreciation: "I've heard of inviting people to eat and drink, but I've never heard of inviting people to the toilet, I've seen it in my life, Boss Huo, you've done a good job! ”
I turned my head, looked at the elusive Zhao Haipeng, and hurriedly opened the skylight and said, "Let's not pretend to be a ghost? I left it for you, but you should tell me, what does this old lady who is about to enter the earth have to do with the haunting of my hotel? Why do you bother so much?"
Zhao Haipeng opened his mouth, as if he wanted to tell everything he knew, but after he looked at the door of the toilet, he changed his expression again, and just said to me concisely: "There is a saying in the ancient 'Five Organs Temple', called 'Mourning wears white, shines blue, complains wears red clothes, black cloth, 'Are the little girls you see in the glass mirror all wearing red clothes?'"
I don't need Zhao Haipeng to remind me, I also remembered that the little girl I saw in the glass mirror just now was indeed wearing a red dress. That kind of blooming red makes people shudder, and it is a bewitching existence that will never be forgotten at a glance.
I asked eagerly and cautiously, "What do you mean?"
Zhao Haipeng told me: "Whether it is a human or an animal, there will be resentment after the catastrophe and death, this kind of resentment cannot be seen or touched, and it will not give up until the goal is achieved. ”
"In other words, the little girl I saw in the glass mirror was the condensation of the grievances of the dead things......" I was stunned.
"Wraith!" Zhao Haipeng continued.
After getting the exact answer, I feel bad all over, you know, I'm just an ordinary person who has never done a big bad thing, from a part-time job to a boss, I have been conscientious and conscientious, no mistakes, except for killing fish, killing insects, medicine rats, I haven't done anything out of the ordinary, to say resentment, it can only be those dead fish illusion, right?
But what kind of restaurant doesn't kill chickens and fish? How can you open a restaurant if you don't kill chickens and fish? Why is it that only my hotel has such a moth incident, while other people's homes are safe and sound? I can't explain it.
I just wanted to ask further about the reason, but Zhao Haipeng grabbed ahead of me, put his head to my ear, and whispered "reminding": "The old lady just now, you also saw it, she is also wearing red clothes, and she is ...... You can see it with the naked eye. ”
Zhao Haipeng's words made me chuckle in my heart! Then I swallowed the question I was about to leave.
According to Zhao Haipeng's theory, how much resentment is there in order to condense into a physical person and let us all see it?
I'll open a restaurant...... What kind of evil have you done?!
Although I was apprehensive, Zhao Haipeng and the old lady didn't leave me much time. It was at this moment that I suddenly heard the sound of flushing water in the toilet.
Then Zhao Haipeng patted me on the shoulder and said, "The urging master is about to come out, wait for him, and take him to the private room upstairs in a while, I am telling you the next move." ”
After saying this, Zhao Haipeng entered the back kitchen again, and then the old lady walked out with a comfortable face, gave me a thumbs up and said, "Child, the toilet in your hotel is really good! Next time I come, let my three little granddaughters come with me." ”
Looking at the old lady wearing a dark red jacket, I was scared of it, but I knew that it was so, in order to survive, we couldn't break out.
So, I concentrated my mind, laughed with me, and said to the old lady who didn't know whether it was a person, a ghost, or something else: "Old man, are you comfortable?
The old lady who had finished going to the toilet looked relaxed and relaxed, and she could not see the ghost or gloomy at all, and when she heard me so polite, she also showed her wrinkles, and said to me: "What a good young man! Hearing you say this, I am really a little hungry, you lead the way, I will eat something from you." ”
As soon as I heard that there was a door, I hurriedly took the old lady upstairs to the private room, and served a good cup of tea and water, and then hurriedly withdrew in the name of taking the menu.
According to the agreement, I slipped into the kitchen to find Zhao Haipeng, but saw that the master had already changed into an apron and started cooking. Zhao Haipeng chopped the catfish he bought a few days ago into "lychee" pieces, changed the carp that was four catties and four taels into "orchid flower knife", added olive oil to the pot to heat the pot, on the board, onions, ginger and garlic, salt bay leaves, and star anise in the pot were prepared one by one, just waiting for the oil to heat up, and then cook the fish in the pot.
After all, I am a person who has been cooking fish restaurants for five years, and I still have some understanding of fish dishes, so looking at Zhao Haipeng's skillful fire skills and regular knife flowers, we opened our mouths and said: "Is this going to be 'pot catfish' and 'sweet and sour carp'? It seems that you are a Lu cuisine cook!"
Zhao Haipeng nodded and said, "Yes, I am the Lu cuisine cook of the Confucius Palace." ”
What is the Confucius Palace, I don't know, and now the "great enemy" is not interested in asking, what I care about is that he is facing a materialized "resentful spirit", what are he doing with these fish dishes? Could it be that with these dishes, I can make my restaurant not haunted?
For my question, Zhao Haipeng said one or two sentences can't say clearly, he can only tell me briefly now, the combination of two fish dishes and a bowl of blood tofu is called "fishing dishes", this kind of dish from the Song Dynasty to the present, has always been the favorite of people fishing in the wild, think about boating on the river, cooking wine and eating fish, the fragrance of thousands of miles of comfort, it is enough to make people greedy, but also because this kind of dish has been in the wild for a long time, and the taste is good, so it is easy to "fish" out of something like "demon".
Zhao Haipeng said that this trick is a method reserved by their ancestors to cure ghosts, I heard that in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a famous minister Wang Anshi retired to Jiangning, and used this method to lead out the white fox spirit entrenched in the gourd cave of Tangshan to eliminate harm for the people.
After introducing the ingredients he made, Zhao Haipeng formally instructed me: "You don't leave a single step with the old lady for a while, I will cook a meal and bring it to him, but it will only be placed in her room next door, the old lady smells the smell of fish dishes, and she will definitely not be able to stand the temptation, he will ask you who ordered the dishes next door, so fragrant." At this time, you must say a word!"
Speaking of which, Zhao Haipeng was afraid that I wouldn't be able to remember, so he specially said word by word: "You tell her that those dishes were invited by Yin Wujia to his grandmother!"