Chapter 3 Meng Po Soup

Liu Bantou chattered all the way, telling about him and Lan Lan. Later, when he saw Liu Hou's blank look, he patted him on the shoulder and passed a ghostly aura. Liu Hou was thrilled by this ghostly aura, and his mind was much more sober.

"You kid is really a lucky star." Liu Bantou said, "It has helped me achieve my wish for many years. Let's go, I'll take you to meet Lan Lan, I'm your grandfather, she will be your grandmother in the future, hehe, you should go and meet her. ”

As they spoke, they came to the front of an ancient torii. There is a plaque hanging high on this archway, which reads "Chinese Snack Street".

Through the doorway of the archway, Liu Hou saw that there was a small street inside, and the street was bustling with ghosts. Outside the torii, there are ghosts leading a team of ghosts. Liu Hou approached a group of ghosts, only to see the ghosts forming a circle, surrounding a ghost in the middle.

The onicha who was surrounded in the middle took a small flag and waved it above his head as he spoke loudly. The small flag reminded Liu Hou of the flag of the tour guide, and when he looked closely, the small flag was printed with the words "Jiayin Team", which was probably the number of their team.

Listen to the ghost again, "Everyone, pay attention, after a while, everyone enters the small street from the doorway, and the small street is lined with special snacks and drinks, everyone has been walking for so long, and they are hungry, thirsty, and tired, they can all go into these small shops to eat and drink by the way." Come to me and get a voucher with which you can order a meal at any of the shops. As you remember, after you have eaten and drunk, the waiter will give you a badge, and you must remember that you must receive it and wear it on your left chest. ”

"Then, two hours later, we were on the other side of the street, and there was a bridge there, and we would meet at that bridge. Everyone should pay attention to two things, first, be punctual, and be sure to arrive within two hours, otherwise it will be bad to delay everyone's trip. Second, I emphasize once again, you must receive a badge, this badge is the certificate for you to cross the bridge, without this badge, you will not be able to cross this bridge. Do you understand? Okay, everybody is starting to get vouchers. The ghost screamed a little hoarsely, and when he finished speaking, he began to hand out vouchers. Then he led a team of ghosts into the side streets.

Liu Hou, who had just woken up a little bit, felt very confused, why is this scene so familiar? How does it look like a tour group? Is this flag bearer a tour guide? How can these programs be like tour guides asking for kickbacks? Where am I? I'm also on a tour?

At this time, Liu Bantou came over, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hehe, I've seen enough, and the merit you have accumulated is big enough to be considered a character, so I will bring you here alone, otherwise you will have to come over with a large group of ghosts like them." Let's go. ”

Liu Hou followed Liu Bantou into the small street. There was a buzzing noise, and I saw that on both sides of the street were rows of small food shops, small restaurants, herbal tea shops, and juice shops...... Ghosts come and go in these shops, and it's not bustling.

Liu Bantou led Liu Hou to squeeze through the group of ghosts and came directly to a small shop called "Lanlan Noodles King". "Lan Lan!" Liu Bantou shouted at a busy woman in the store. The woman was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks that the guests had finished eating, and wiping the table. looked up at Liu Bantou and said in surprise: "Brother Liu, you're here, you sit down first, wait for me, and I'll talk to you after I'm done." ”

Liu Hou carefully observed this woman, and saw that although this woman was wearing a rustic blue and white cloth shirt and a white apron around her waist, she looked very simple, but it was difficult to hide the beauty of her appearance. made Liu Hou's mind involuntarily appear "Xiaofang" sung by Li Chunfang:

There is a girl named Xiaofang in the village,

Good-looking and kind,

A pair of beautiful big eyes,

The braids are thick and long.

"Oh, you get busy first, I have good news, I'll tell you later." After speaking, Liu Bantou beckoned Liu Hou to find a seat and sit down. Liu Hou looked at this small shop, and saw that this small shop was very small, with only 3 tables.

The table is in the style of the Eight Immortals Table, the table frame is made of mahogany, and the table top is a mahogany frame inlaid with this large marble. The stool is also an old-fashioned round stool, and the stool surface is also edge mahogany, with marble in the middle. The decoration of the store is also in the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and with these tables and chairs, it looks very quaint. From the decoration style of the store, it is also revealed that the owner Lan Lan is likely to be born in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There is a ghost sitting on a table, and a table is estimated to be a ghost sitting on it who has just left, and Lan Lan is cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks on it. Liu Bantou and Liu Hou sat down at the only empty table. There is a porcelain basin next to this table, and there is a faucet on the porcelain basin, just like the sun. Liu Hou has developed a good hygiene habit of washing his hands before and after eating since he was a child, so he got up and turned on the faucet to wash his hands.

At this time, Lan Lan had already finished cleaning up, and Wan Wan Tingting came to their table and called "Brother Liu" sweetly.

Liu Hou felt that his bones were crispy, and thought to himself, this Liu Bantou is really a good vision and a blessing, I don't know how many generations he has cultivated.

Liu Bantou said "hey", then pointed at Liu Hou and said, "This is our descendant of the Liu family, you can get him some food and drink, I have a happy event to tell you." ”

Liu Hou obediently called "sister-in-law".

If the ghost can blush, it is estimated that Lan Lan's face will be as red as a red apple, "What nonsense, you." ”

Looking at Lan Lan's squirming and shy appearance, Liu Hou couldn't help but feel a burst of amusement.

"What does this little brother eat?" Lan Lan asked softly.

"Uh......, I want instant noodles." Although instant noodles are cheap and not good for health, people who have eaten instant noodles will find them delicious and delicious.

Because there are a lot of monosodium glutamate, flavors, and the like in the seasoning of instant noodles. In order to cater to the taste buds and senses of human beings, various instant noodle manufacturers use modern scientific research methods to formulate the favorite taste of human beings. The taste buds that have been pampered by monosodium glutamate and flavor for a long time are likely to feel that other foods are tasteless.

Liu Hou is a typical instant noodle addict, and he doesn't feel the fragrance of instant noodles when he eats anything.

"Instant noodles? I'm sorry, but we have fried noodles, ramen noodles, knife-cut noodles, dandan noodles, fried noodles, lo noodles, lo noodles, lo noodles, cold noodles, pimple noodles, and covered noodles, but there are no instant noodles. Lan Lan frowned and said.

Liu Hou felt that even if Lan Lan frowned, she had a different style. "No, no, forget it, I'm not very hungry, do you have a drink? Give me a red can of herbal tea. ”

"We have herbal tea, but what are you talking about red can herbal tea?"

It turned out that every small shop in this snack street was run by a little Meng Po. The little Meng Po are all the subordinates of the god Meng Po, and they are responsible for making Meng Po soup into all kinds of snacks and drinks, and serving them here to the ghosts who are about to be reincarnated. As long as these ghosts eat and drink any food and drink here, they will forget the memories of their past lives.

However, these little Meng women usually only replenish their manpower once in decades. It just so happens that there has been no replenishment of manpower in recent decades, so these little Meng Po have limited knowledge of the new food and drinks that have appeared in the world in the past few decades, and many of them have only heard of it, but they don't know the specific methods, and even some new terms that have not been heard of often appear.

However, in the past few decades, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the food culture has been greatly enriched and diverse under the impact of Western civilization.

It is precisely because of this that when Meng Po was dealing with Liu Hou's problem, she took the opportunity to ask the Ten Palaces Yama King to increase the number of manpower. She plans to do her best to select a group of ghosts who know how to make modern catering from among the new ghosts, and enrich the team of Xiao Meng Po, so that they can create new restaurants to adapt to the increasingly tricky dietary requirements of the new ghosts.

Of course, Liu Hou didn't know these things, he just felt strange, "You don't know about the red can of herbal tea?" It's Jia Duo Bao and Wang Laoji, both of them are fine, and they taste the same anyway. ”

"Wang Laoji herbal tea, we have it, please wait." Lan Lan replied and ran into the backroom kitchen. "Eh, I want ice." Liu Houxian added. However, Lan Lan went in with a gust of wind, and I don't know if she heard it. After a while, she came back with a bowl of black juice and put it in front of Liu Hou. Then he pulled Liu Bantou and walked behind the counter.

Liu Hou looked at the bowl of black juice and frowned, and when he touched the bowl, it was just the temperature suitable for the entrance. "Sister Lanlan, I want to freeze."

"If you drink something cold that is not good for your body, you should drink it while it is hot." Lan Lan didn't look back, and went to the back of the counter with Liu Bantou to whisper.

Liu Hou looked at the black herbal tea on the table, looked down at his translucent ghost body, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart: "Is it good for the body?" Do I still have a body? ”

I thought again: "Why in my impression, Wang Laoji is brown and yellow, and this bowl of things is as black as Coke, so I can't take it wrong." Anyway, try it first. ”

Liu Hou picked up the bowl and took a sip carefully. "Bah, ......, this bowl of herbal tea is very bitter, and it has the same flavor as that traditional Chinese medicine, Liu Hou's face wrinkled into a bitter gourd, and he took a few sips before spitting out the herbal tea in his mouth." Why is it so bitter? ”

"There's sugar on the table, so if you think it's bitter, add some sugar." Lan Lan said.

"Be good, hurry up and finish drinking, ask Lan Lan to give you a badge, and I'll take it to the next stop." Since Liu Bantou knew that Liu Hou was a descendant of their Liu family, he coaxed him as a child.

What Liu Hou didn't know was that the authentic Wanglaoji herbal tea was made from 10 kinds of Chinese herbs, such as Gangmei, light bamboo leaves, five-fingered oranges, mountain sesame, hawthorn leaves, Jinsha vine, golden cherry root, wood butterfly, desmodium, and charcoal mother.

In other words, Liu Hou has authentic Wanglaoji herbal tea, and of course, it is also an out-and-out bowl of traditional Chinese medicine. The red pot herbal tea that Liu Hou usually drinks is just a drink with water and sugar as the main ingredients, and the ingredients of real Chinese medicine are pitiful.

Liu Hou was helpless, added a few spoonfuls of sugar to the bowl, tasted it again, still felt bitter, added a few spoonfuls, still bitter, and became anxious and directly poured all the sugar from a sugar jar into it, and the bowl became unpalatable at all - it was so sweet that it was greasy, and there was also this bitter taste of Chinese medicine in the middle. Liu Hou put a little bit into the mouth, tasted it, and spit it out.

He was about to ask Lan Lan to change a bowl of other things for him, when he looked up and saw that the two were chatting happily. I saw Lan Lan's eyes smiling into a crescent moon, and her hands grabbed Liu Bantou's hand, jumping happily.

It is estimated that Liu Bantou just told her good news. Liu Hou couldn't bear to disturb the two of them, and thought, "Forget it, I'm not thirsty anyway, just don't drink." After looking left and right a few times, I found that the wash basin was next to me, and it was within reach. So, he poured the topping Wang Laoji herbal tea on the table into the wash basin.

Not long after, Liu Bantou and Lan Lan ended their relationship and came over to Liu Hou's side. "How's it going, are you done drinking?" Liu Bantou asked.

"Drink it up, you see, how clean it is." Liu Hou tilted the bowl and showed it to Liu Bantou. He was afraid that saying that it was too hard to drink, and that if he couldn't drink it, it would hurt Lan Lan's self-esteem, and it would also make Liu Bantou, the old ancestor, lose his face, so he lied.

"Oh? Didn't you say it was too hard to drink? How did you finish it so quickly? Would you like me to make you another bowl of delicious drinks? Lan Lan said.

"No, no, no." Liu Hou hurriedly waved his hand, he was afraid that the herbal tea was unpalatable because of Lan Lan's craftsmanship, and he was afraid that she would make such a bitter thing out of the bowl again, and when the time came, he would not drink it in front of her, nor would he drink it. I couldn't help but sympathize with Liu Bantou in my heart: Marrying a woman with such poor craftsmanship will have to suffer in the future.

"You see, I drank it with sugar, and it was sweet, so I drank it quickly." In order to increase the persuasiveness, Liu Hou hurriedly opened the sugar jar and showed it to Lan Lan.

Lan Lan looked at the sugar bowl. I don't doubt him, but I wonder in my heart, why did the sugar jar that was filled up this morning empty so quickly? Brother Liu, a descendant, really likes to eat sweets.

"Okay, okay, just drink it, Lan Lan, hurry up and give him a badge. I'll take him and finish the rest of the formalities and come over to accompany you. Liu Bantou couldn't wait to say.

"Why does this so-called ancestor even have to earn kickbacks from his descendants?" Liu Hou muttered in his heart.