On the street where the donkey cart passed, Zhou and Qiao Yu smiled happily from time to time, feeling happy no matter how tired they were when they made money, and they were unconsciously happy when they saw the cart full of food, and touched the bulging pockets.

"Mother, did you say that in the future, our family will come to the restaurant in the county seat to have a delicious meal?" Zhou couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Qing lowered his head and smiled, what kind of expectation is this, don't say one meal, ten meals will be eaten with them.

"Yes!"

Zhou agreed with a smile: "Well, it will be!" ”

On the donkey cart, Qiao Yu and Zhou looked down and laughed, and when they looked up, they were laughing when they saw people laughing on the street, and the two looked at each other and laughed, and they laughed for some reason, they just felt happy.

On the street passing by, two little beauties dressed in brocade clothes and fluttering clothes heard the laughter on the donkey cart and couldn't help but look back at the donkey cart.

"Sister, did you just see the donkey cart passing by? I'm not mistaken, that's from the uncle's family? The person who spoke was Qiao Shuqi.

As soon as the two sisters, Qiao Shuqi and Qiao Shuhua, came out of Xiangyufang, they heard who would be so presumptuous on the street, and laughed loudly, but they didn't expect to see the people of the uncle's family in Yaoshan Village when they turned around.

Qiao Shuhua looked at the donkey cart in the distance and the people on the car, and subconsciously quickly turned around to cover her face, and pulled her little sister Qiao Shuqi: "Hurry up, don't let that fat man see the two of us, if we go to the restaurant again, my mother and father will kill us!" ”

Qiao Shuqi hurriedly turned his back and pulled Qiao Shuhua to trot away.

While the two walked quickly, they complained: "Alas, it's really unlucky, this dead fat man is still ghostly, and I ran into it all the way I went shopping!" ”

Qiao Shuqi suddenly remembered that there were a lot of things on the donkey cart that Xiao Qing was riding in just now, and said suspiciously: "Sister, I saw a lot of things on the fat cart just now, should I ask for them from the inn again?" ”

"No, no, no!" Qiao Shuhua quickened her pace and said: "Dad and brother won't give her a penny, not to mention that the business at home has somehow been bad in the past two days, and my father and brother are annoying, let's not bother them with the fat man's business, just treat it as if you didn't see it!" ”

Qiao Shuqi nodded, and the two of them ran quickly to Qiao's inn like thieves.

When the two arrived at the door of Qiao's inn, they happened to meet the eldest brother Qiao Maosheng coming back from outside.

Qiao Shuqi walked to the door and shouted, "Big brother! ”

Qiao Maosheng was not surprised when he saw his two younger sisters, but hummed as usual, and walked quickly to the inn.

Qiao Shuhua saw her brother's solemn face, and guessed whether it would be because of the sluggish business in the store in the past two days, and her brother was annoyed.

She hurriedly followed: "Brother, what happened?" The face is so ugly? ”

Qiao Maosheng didn't reply to her, but went directly to the back of the counter and found their father Qiao Xiangmin.

After the Qiao Shuqi sisters entered the store, they looked at the sparse tables of people in the store: "Sister, brother, why do we have so many people to eat in the store, usually, don't you usually sit at the door?" ”

Qiao Shuhua pulled her, glared at her, told her to shut up, and let her see the faces of her brother and father.

Qiao Shuqi saw this and knew the seriousness of the matter, her father's face sank, and he was gritting his teeth and glaring at her.

Qiao Maosheng anxiously pulled Qiao Xiangmin to the door of the back kitchen: "Dad, in the past two days, not only our diners are poor, even Yueju Restaurant, Chijia Restaurant, and Laiyue Inn, the diners of several inns have all been reduced by half, it is said that the diners of Yueju Inn have three or four tables at noon today, and the shopkeeper can't pull people in." ”

Qiao Xiangmin was shocked, in the past few days in the city, the business of several major restaurants and inns has not been good, and now the diners are reluctant to enter the door, which shows that the situation is surprising, and there must be demons among them.

"What's going on, the diners can't all be gone all at once, what do the shopkeepers of these restaurants and inns say?"

Qiao Maosheng looked at the seven or eight tables of diners scattered in the store, he lowered his voice and said: "Dad, I went to inquire, saying that there is an inconspicuous guest restaurant near the street and lined up at the gate of the city. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Qiao Xiangmin asked in surprise: "Difficult, is it possible that all the diners in the city have run so far just to queue up?" ”

Qiao Maosheng said again: "Yes, there are even more outrageous things about my father, it is said that these people who queued up at the gate of the city, there are many families of nobles in the city, slaves, salt envoys, merchants, shops and shops, everyone is queuing. ”

Qiao Xiangmin was shocked again: "The family members of the Houmen Mansion also went to line up?" ”

Qiao Maosheng nodded with a fixed face: "Yes, it's unheard of, since the restaurant was built for more than ten years, there has never been such a scene at the door of our house, and the families of various prefectures have even run to the street to show up to queue up." ”

Qiao Xiangmin asked again: "What kind of name is the restaurant?" ”

Qiao Maosheng sighed, ashamed: "Dad, my son is incompetent, I only know that the name of the restaurant is Laibin Restaurant, as for other things, my son hasn't found out yet." ”

Qiao Xiangmin looked back at the only five tables of customers left in the store, and he was anxious, they were only at these tables at noon.

Qiao Maosheng saw that his father was anxious and uneasy, and persuaded him: "But Dad, I am inquiring with other restaurants and inns, and it is rumored that the guest restaurant has a spicy taste, which seems to be the spicy taste of Yaoshan's dogwood, but we didn't take it seriously. ”

Qiao Xiangmin had a gloomy face, it seemed that he was going to meet with the shops of several other restaurants.

Yaoshan Village

Xiao Qing asked the coachman to park the donkey cart at the door of the house, and she called Erjing and Qin, as well as the children to carry food.

She gave the driver an extra five cents and gave him some dates, which was considered to be waiting for her to pay for the car at noon.

The coachman smiled: "There will be such errands in the future, remember to call me again!" ”

Xiao Qing responded refreshedly.

Qiao Chengyi, who was in the yard, heard that his grandmother and mother were back, dropped the bamboo basket, and ran with his younger siblings to help carry the food in the car.

When a few children saw a cart full of delicious food, they just stood next to the donkey cart and smelled the fragrance, and their eyes did not know how to look at the food.

Qiao Cheng held back the hungry light in his eyes and ordered: "Brothers and sisters, take the food home together, take it carefully!" ”

A few children happily circled around the donkey cart, each picked up what they could hold tightly, took it off the donkey cart, and then ran quickly to the house, several children laughed like silver bells, very good.

After repeating this, several children ran back and forth four or five times, cooperating with Qin and Erjing, and after a while, the donkey cart was emptied.

After the things were moved, the family gathered around the small table to eat, as well as leaned on the rice, flour, oil, brown sugar and salt cloth on the small table, watching intently.