On both sides of the main street in Xicheng District, there are many shops, but both the layout and decoration are more like returning to Ping'an County.

Li Wen walked into a small shop as usual, intending to ask for a side dish to try.

Before he could speak, the man came over with a smile on his face and pushed him out.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this son, our store...... Ahem, for the time being, if you want to eat, it is recommended that you walk three hundred meters ahead, there is a Wang Ji soup cake shop, sorry, sorry ......"

Li Wen was surprised, retreated, walked out of more than ten meters, and entered the second house.

This time the proprietress came out.

"Little sir, you can only be tired, go further, don't go to other houses, there is a Wang Ji rotten cake shop in front, and his family has food to sell. ”

Li Wen was even more surprised, and turned around to come out, but suddenly stopped, turned his head, and looked at the only customer in the store.

It was a teenager, dressed in black, wearing a patched shirt and pants, sixteen or seventeen years old.

He didn't ask for anything, he sat quietly in the corner, bowed his head slightly, and felt Li Wen's gaze before he looked up at him.

Li Wen frowned slightly.

Good boy, there is a terrible large scar on his face, which extends from his left forehead to his mouth.

In this era, there is no stitch technology, and the open wound looks shocking.

The reason why Li Wen noticed him was because just now in the previous store, there was also a young man with a scar sitting in the store, also sitting silently at the empty table, but there was obviously another guy in his waist.

"Interesting. ”

Li Wen came out and walked another house, and when he entered the door, he saw another young man with a scar, who was sitting in the store, but he was younger, not yet fifteen years old, and the wound on his face was also new, and there was pus and blood flowing down.

Walking further, I finally saw Wang Ji soup cake shop.

A very small and shabby shop, with a black face, standing at the door to pick up customers, a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, timidly beckoned to enter the store to eat.

Li Wen walked into the small shop, there were a lot of people inside, it was estimated that they were customers from the same street, and they were all forced to come here to eat.

Li Wen seemed to remember that the soup cake was an ancient noodle, and when he went in, he found that it was not, it was broth and dough.

There were more than a dozen of them in the junior two, all of them fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys, they were really not well dressed, but fortunately they were very clean, and they were very enthusiastic to greet them to sit down, some people wiped the table, some people asked what to eat, and some people brought hot water.

After asking for two bowls of broth and two flatbreads, Li Wen and Wang Yishan sat opposite each other at the dirty small table, staring at each other, no one wanted to try this black broth, a big dough cake like a discus.

People come and go, the small shop is busy, the two people are becoming more and more conspicuous, and the diners who don't eat are still too special.

After a long while, the little owner of the cake shop came out of the back kitchen in person, accompanied by a smiling face, and walked to the table.

"Two gentlemen,...... But what's wrong, the little one is at your command. ”

Wang Yishan raised his eyes and remained silent, and the little boss realized that Li Wen was the main one, turned his smiling face around, and asked again.

Li Wen blinked, shook his head and said, "Very good, there's nothing wrong, let's wait and eat." ”

The little boss obviously didn't believe it, hesitated and tried two more sentences, and saw that Li Wen just shook his head, so he had to leave.

Wang Yishan asked impatiently, "Boy, what are you waiting for?"

Li Wen smiled: "He is not the main master. ”

A moment later, the Lord came.

A man came out of the back kitchen. He was not tall, sixteen or seventeen years old, and wore clean black shorts.

On a very delicate face, a terrifying scar hung from the corner of his forehead, cutting half of his face. It makes that face look extremely vicious.

A very quiet young man, with his head slightly lowered and two good-looking eyes, glanced in the dining hall, and walked straight towards Li Wen.

Unlike the other little Scarfaces, his bearing was obviously wrong, and around his waist was an iron chain, which was locked to his waist by a large lock, and the other end of the chain was locked to a wide saber.

The saber is upside down on his back, the hilt is downward, hanging down at his waist, and as soon as he stretches out his hand, the handle will come into his control, and his palm is always habitually hanging down from the hilt.

Coming out of the back kitchen, he walked directly to Li Wen's table, pulled a chair, and sat opposite Li Wen, staring at Li Wen with two beautiful eyes, not speaking, just staring at each other.

Li Wen cheered for this young man in his heart, there was something in this young man that deeply attracted him.

He didn't speak, took a sip of white water, and looked at him with a smile on his lips.

Wang Yishan was very impatient with this kind of childish trick, if he wasn't afraid that the scar-faced boy would hurt Li Wen, he would have gone out and stayed.

"Li Wen, brother, what do you call it?" Li Wen nodded slightly.

The young man's brows moved slightly, obviously thinking about the meaning behind the name Li Wen, but after thinking about all the enemies, and the few forces near the left, he had no impression.

"Scar, the soup cake is fine. ”

There was not a trace of a smile on the young man's face, and his eyes looked straight over, and his calm gaze was full of heavy warning.

Li Wen shook his head solemnly: "It's very problematic." ”

Say. ”

"I don't want to eat soup cakes, that's the biggest problem, I want to eat something else. But other stores are closed, this is very excessive, this rotten cake makes me feel very bad, today's incident, if you did it, you should apologize to me, for this broken shop, let other stores have no business, so that customers can't eat what they want to eat, it's too unfair and overbearing!"

Li Wen reasoned.

Tianscar's brows tightened, "I'll ask for this meal, is this okay?" ”

Li Wen shook his head.

"The soup cake is not to your liking. ”

"So you're looking for trouble......"

"Nope. Li Wen shook his head seriously.

Tianscar suppressed the anger, "Go out from here, no more than two miles to the east, it is Zhao Si's territory, and you can eat anything." ”

Li Wen was silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled.

"Money can't be made like this, this is called killing chickens and taking eggs, you think, I will definitely hide here when I go to the street in the future, try not to come if I can, and in the same way, others will think the same. Your behavior today affects the entire street business, and this shop, in fact, should not exist, who would want to spend money on such food, isn't it, so, I suggest that you redeem this shop and do a business that is more suitable for you, such as concentrating on being your own ruffian, it is very promising. ”

Skyscar stood up suddenly, one hand on the hilt of the knife, and the green tendons on his hand were slightly exposed.

Li Wen laughed, pointed at Wang Yishan, shook his head and said, "You don't have to try, you can't beat him." ”

Wang Yishan snorted coldly: "I don't care about your bad things." ”

After saying that, he got up and walked out.

Li Wen was stunned, what kind of nerve is Lao Wang, this kid on the other side has a big knife......

"What the hell are you trying to do?" Scar ran out of patience.

Li Wen put away his smile.

"Seeing that you are also a smart person, I am just curious, you do this, obviously the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Skyscar suddenly got up.

"Please Brother Li take a step to speak, there are many guests, and it is not good for us to occupy a seat. ”

Li Wen got up and shouted to Wang Yishan at the door: "Old Wang, let's go to the back." ”

Wang Yishan snorted and didn't even look back.

The two of them crossed a narrow road and came directly to the backyard, where a large pot of broth was boiling in a large pot in the backyard, and more than a dozen scar-faced teenagers were busy in a soup pot and a cake pot, some were burning the fire, some were turning the cakes, and some were serving the soup, and they were busy.

When Scar came in, they all respectfully called Brother Scar and went to work.

Li Wen hesitated, but couldn't help it, and walked to the big soup pot to take a look.

The soup is undulating and has a thick layer of foam floating on it. The smell is extremely poor, the smell is fishy, and the people are disgusted.

"This soup is for you, do you want to eat it?" Li Wen said with a cold face.

Several Scar Boys laughed.

"Otherwise, I'll try and make a pot of soup that can be eaten, how about it?" Li Wen glanced at the sky scar.

"You know how to make soup?"

"At least I can eat it. ”

"That's good. ”

Skyscar gestured.

Li Wen immediately ordered a new pot, after the water was boiled, put in a new beef bone, after turning it over, sweep out the foam, boil a few times, then replace the soup entirely, add water again, add salt, add green onions, ginger and peppercorns, add a large radish, add half a chicken, and begin to boil.

In less than half an hour, a mellow aroma was already floating in the courtyard.

Li Wen stood in front of the panel again, used warm salt water to live the noodles, kneaded them and woke them up, rolled them into a large dough cake, chopped shallots, poured them down with vegetable oil, rolled them up, cut them into small pieces, twisted them into flowers, rolled them into round cakes, and then put them in the oil pan to cook.

The sweetness of the scallion pancake makes the little scar face on the fire swallow saliva.

Sprinkled the beef bone soup with coriander and oily flowers, and sent it out with two scallion pancakes, and after a while, there was a cry in front.

"Bring me one,"

"I want it too. ”

"I'll have another one. ”

The front yard and the back yard are busy in an instant.

A pot of soup quickly bottomed out, so I had to pour boiling water, and the cake kept burning, and the shallots were soon insufficient.

Wang Yishan was full of food and drink and ran over from the front.

"Stinky boy, Miss said she was hungry!"

Li Wen, who was busy with sweat, remembered that he was a big foodie at home, and hurriedly scooped up two thigh bones, found two reed pipes from the pyre and inserted them into the bone marrow.

"Tell Miss, it's for sucking,"

A big bowl of soup was served, with some beef tendon slices in it, plus three scallion pancakes, and handed it to Wang Yishan.

"Please send it back. ”

Wang Yishan said coldly: "Aren't you going back, you haven't stayed enough in this broken place." ”

Li Wen smiled: "Lao Wang, the place I came from is much worse than here, you go back first." ”

Wang Yishan left, and Li Wen continued to make soup with baked cakes, while guiding those scar-faced teenagers.

It's a pity that the teenagers obviously don't like to cook, and no one wants to learn this except for the shopkeeper surnamed Wang.

Tianscar has been silently observing Li Wen, and Li Wen is also silently waiting, an opportunity, also placed in front of the two of them, many years of recall, I have to admit that this moment back then is really the most important moment in their lives.