The nobles in Zhongzhou City were paying attention to Lin Xi's actions all the time.

However, after staying at the Leaf Inn opposite Di Choufei's mansion, Lin Xi's performance was still very calm.

After having an early dinner in the Leaf Inn and tasting the most famous pork ribs stewed in a pot at the Leaf Inn, he slowly walked out of the inn with a big iron box on his back and wandered in the evening of Zhongzhou City.

He is like a real traveler from afar, along the streets, visiting the places of interest along the way of Zhongzhou City, and from time to time walking into the most lively streets and alleys of Zhongzhou City.

He went to the plum blossom dock in Zhongzhou City, where the plum blossoms were the most beautiful and colorful.

He walked through the Yellow Sparrow View where Ni Henian fought with Zhongcheng and Nightingale.

After walking in front of the Yellow Bird Temple, he came to Dafeng Lane again, and saw two tall maple trees at the entrance of the alley that had grown for thousands of years.

Even though the dark red maple leaves were weakly curling in winter, Lin Xi had never seen this kind of maple tree as tall and thick as the ginkgo tree that had grown for hundreds of years.

Not far from these two miraculous maple trees, there is a stone pillar for tying cattle, and an old well.

Whether it is on the stone pillar or on the edge of the bluestone well of the old well, the deep ravines strangled by hemp rope make Lin Xi deeply wrapped in the vicissitudes of life.

This is also the place where Dean Zhang defeated Mo Hong, the great sword master of Zhongzhou, after entering Zhongzhou City.

When the night was very dark, Lin Xi walked into the very famous Hezi Lane in the night market in Zhongzhou City, and in the light of the lanterns, he walked to a century-old shop called Xiao Chen Ji, which has the most famous braised pork ribs and fish balls in sauce in the whole Zhongzhou City.

Xiao Chen Ji's boss is called Chen Changcheng, who has passed his 70th birthday, but his body is still strong, although the skills of killing fish and chopping meat have been passed on to his two sons, both of which are made by the two sons, but the final seasoning is still controlled by him, and he is still the same as usual, standing at the door of the shop by the steaming big iron pot to welcome customers.

As early as noon, this thin but very clean old man had already heard that Lin Xi had arrived in Zhongzhou City, and when Lin Xi appeared in front of him through the white heat curling at the door of the store, the old man almost immediately recognized that this was Lord Xiaolin, whom all Zhongzhou people respected and admired very much.

The old man, who stood beside the iron pot that was always boiling and watched every white fish ball get out of the pot, was in awe for the first time and felt a great honor.

Lin Xi bowed slightly as he usually saw the old man.

From Lin Xi's politeness and calmness at the moment, this old man with cloudy eyes, but who had seen too many people and sophisticated people, saw a certain emotion that made his heart tremble, so he just greeted guests as usual, smiled sincerely, and piled up more wrinkles on his face: "Lord Xiaolin, do you want to try the braised pork ribs and fish balls in our store?"

"I heard that the sour and spicy cabbage and bean dregs cakes in the shop are also very good, and I have a large appetite, so I can also try some. Lin Xi smiled and nodded, and sat down in the empty seat not far from the door.

The old man did not discriminate.

The same braised pork ribs as ordinary guests, fish balls drizzled with thick marinade, stir-fried hot and sour vegetables and golden bean dregs floating in the fresh soup were placed in coarse bowls and pans and spread out in front of Lin Xi.

It tastes really good.

With some white rice, Lin Xi swept away all the food in front of him.

"Do you want more?" asked the old man.

"Okay. Lin Xi smiled slightly, "You can also have a copy of them all." ”

The exact same dish was served on the table in front of Lin Xi again.

It's just that this time looking at Lin Xi, who was quietly looking at a pair of chopsticks in front of him, the old man finally couldn't help it, and asked softly with concern: "Lord Xiaolin, this time you came to Zhongzhou City, what you have to do is very troublesome?"

Lin Xi looked at the old man with a wrinkled face and worried eyes, nodded, then glanced at the two sons of the old man who had become a little restrained and nervous because of his arrival, smiled, and asked, "They have already done a good job, what else are you worried about?"

"It's not that I'm not at ease, I'm just used to it. The old man was slightly stunned, turned his head to look at his two sons who were still busy, and said with a smile: "What can I do when I am free, I have been in the shop for a long time, and I am always friends here. ”

Lin Xi thought for a while and said, "I thought you were more concerned about this shop and its reputation. ”

"That's something they need to care about more. The old man looked at his two diligent sons, then turned his head to look at Lin Xi and said, "At my age, if there is anything that can't be left behind before entering the ground, it can only be some people in this city." ”

Lin Xi nodded silently, ate all the things in front of him, and then raised his head, looked at the old man, and said slowly: "Actually, I came to Zhongzhou City this time to avenge my friend." He fought on the front line, but he was betrayed from behind by his own people. ”

The old man was slightly sluggish, and he finally understood why Lin Xi was in such an emotion.

"This person who betrayed him is in Zhongzhou City?" the ordinary old man looked at Lin Xi and asked.

Lin Xi nodded, and looked at this old shop full of fireworks again, "You have guarded this shop, for so many years, it must have been very hard, have you ever done a good job, but was suspected by others, and your reputation was damaged?"

The old man's expression became more solemn, he thought quietly, and then nodded: "Yes, in the twenty-sixth year of the founding of Yunqin, there was something wrong with a batch of fish, and the person who sold it to me didn't know, and then the person who ate the fish balls here vomited and diarrhea, and fell ill a lot. There were people who were originally wrong with me, and they took the opportunity to release rumors, saying that I made fish balls, and they were all dead fish that were secretly chopped at night. ”

Lin Xi said: "What happened later?"

Later, the business plummeted, and it was all taken care of by the old customers, and they still did the same as before, and then they naturally got through it slowly. ”

"You didn't try to make fish balls from dead fish, so that people can taste different from fish balls made from fresh fish?"

"Nope. If you want to doubt you, you will eventually doubt, even if the taste is obviously different, you will suspect that you have done something. Those who believe in you will eventually see your goodness. ”

"You have a good taste of these things, I am very filled, and thank you for saying so much to me. Lin Xi slowly raised his head in such a conversation, looked at the old man, and nodded with a smile.

Seeing that Lin Xi was about to leave, a trace of worry reappeared on the old man's wrinkled face, "I'm just an old man who has half a body into the ground, but I am still familiar with this Zhongzhou City, Lord Xiaolin, if you want to go, I can help you if there is a problem in Zhongzhou City." ”

"You should be able to help me a lot. Lin Xi seemed to have completely figured out something, and the smile on his face was a little cold, but he was more confident, "Don't sell things to the people of Di Mansion." ”

The old man was slightly stunned when he heard this, wondering if he had heard it wrong.

However, Lin Xi had already looked at him and said seriously: "This place is already far away from Vermilion Bird Avenue, but maybe the people in Di Choufei's Mansion will also come here to buy things... I don't want to sell something to the people in Difu. ”

This hundred-year-old shop is naturally not Lin Xi's, but the old man's, at this moment, Lin Xi's words did not have any request, it seemed a little domineering, but the old man was cold in his heart, and bowed slightly in honor, "Unless I die... Otherwise, there wouldn't be a single thing in the shop that would be sold to the people of Difu. ”

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Lin Xi left Hezi Lane and walked back to the Leaf Inn in the deep night.

In the early morning of the next day, he ate a bowl of fried fish covered noodles in a noodle shop next to the inn, and then wandered in the streets and alleys of Zhongzhou City like a tourist, looking at the scenery of Zhongzhou City and the fireworks in Zhongzhou City.

Not only places of interest, but also rice shops, vegetable markets, butchers... He was very interested in these markets.

All the nobles who were watching to see if he would do anything radical saw that he seemed to be doing nothing, just day by day, like the most idle idler in Zhongzhou City.

However, soon, when the vast majority of nobles were still cautiously waiting for his move, the people of Di Mansion were the first to notice the difference.

They found that when they walked out of Difu and walked on the streets, the streets became very deserted.

This coldness came from the avoidance of everyone along the way, just as the people who came out of the Di Mansion carried some terrible plague.

Many shop owners, when they see people coming from Difu from afar, they will close directly for various reasons.

Even the vegetable vendors in the vegetable market, when they see the people in Difu, they will directly pick up the burden and leave.

Even if there were some traders who didn't know the people of Difu, the people next to him would quietly tell him that it was the people from Difu who came over.

The people who came out to buy things in Difu began to become unable to buy anything.

On this day, after walking three blocks and six or seven miles away, and not even buying a green vegetable or a piece of meat, a loyal housekeeper who came out of the Di Mansion and was in charge of procurement finally couldn't help it, grabbed the collar of the owner of a cooked vegetable shop that he frequented on weekdays, and said angrily: "How can you bully people like this... If you don't do business, then it's fine, but if you sell your life to others and don't sell it to us, what kind of reason is this, do you want to starve all the people in our house to death?"

The neckline is all oily, more than fifty years old, and the balding deli shop owner is usually a little familiar with this housekeeper on weekdays, but at this moment, facing this Difu housekeeper who is usually quite good, the deli shop owner shook his head coldly: "I like to sell to whomever I do business, and I don't like to sell to, that's my freedom." You also have two legs, where you go is also your freedom, Zhongzhou City is so big, you can walk anywhere, why do you want to stay in the Di Mansion?"