As soon as Xia Qing's roar fell, a lean black figure suddenly burst out of the back kitchen.

I saw that the young man was six feet long, with a bronze complexion, thick eyebrows, clear eyes, a high nose bridge embedded in the goose egg face, a small wooden chopstick simply inserted in the bun of his hair, a rag and a wooden basin in his hand, and a small white tooth was smiling at Xia Qing.

Seeing Liu Yi's witty and naïve expression, Xia Qing couldn't help laughing, stepped forward quickly, and patted his buttocks, "You kid laugh at a fart, work quickly!" Be careful when working, if the object is broken, see if Lao Tzu doesn't discount your legs! ”

"Okay, Boss Xia, look at it, I can keep my legs!"

Liu Yi moved his hands together, was familiar with the road, and casually answered Xia Qing's joke.

Xia Qing, who was over forty years old, glanced at Liu Yi dotingly, retracted her hand into the coarse cloth robe, took out half a chicken with peony sauce and two grilled fish from the back kitchen, accompanied by two Hu cakes and three dishes of pickles, shook her head, and walked straight to the Dongfang grandson who was resting in the guest seat.

Coming to Dongfang's grandson, Xia Qing's face was full of smiles.

"Oops! Oriental old man, you and this clever girl, today really make me wait for a feast! Especially this Oriental girl's sheng, it is really ear-catching and refreshing. With a little practice in the future, he will definitely be a talent comparable to the five major musicians of Phantom Paradise! I take the liberty to interrupt today, and I hope the old man will forgive me. Come on, come on, eat the vegetables, eat the vegetables! Xia Qing opened the conversation box and said endlessly.

After all, Xia Qing is a businessman, and everything is based on profit. Dongfang Chunsheng recited more than half of the book, although the people in the audience were still interested, but they were already drunk and had no intention of listening to the book, it was better to leave the second half of the book, and make another wave of money the next day.

Dongfang Chunsheng heard Shopkeeper Xia's praise for his granddaughter, and the original complaint about Shopkeeper Xia's interruption for no reason also disappeared, and he laughed loudly, "It's okay, it's okay!" Our grandchildren have traveled here, and they should be guests as they please, and the shopkeeper Xia does not think my grandchildren are despicable, and they seek a livelihood for my grandchildren, and it is too late to thank them, so why not say it quickly? My granddaughter is also chasing ducks to the shelves, where can she afford such praise from the shopkeeper Xia! ”

Dongfang Chunsheng, who is up and down in the sea and crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, is familiar with the past, and in the face of praise, he naturally shows the elegance of famous scholars and the humility rooted in the bones of the Chinese people.

In fact, Dongfang Chunsheng and Xia Qing did not meet in Pingshui, and his friendship with Xia Qing was by no means as simple as everyone saw on the surface, but this is all a later story.

On the contrary, it was Dongfang Yu, who was childlike, after hearing his grandfather's words, the cherry mouth pouted, and seemed to be a little unhappy, and I don't know if it was Xia Qing's dissatisfaction with suddenly interrupting his grandfather's reading, or he was displeased with his grandfather's humble words.

After the meal, the two sides exchanged a few polite greetings, Xia Qing took the opportunity to retire, arranged a place for the grandfather and grandson in the restaurant, and took care of the mess with Liu Yi.

About an hour, the toad climbed the tree, and the stars were on the top.

Xia Qing and Liu Yi had stains on their chests and soaked clothes, and after some back and forth, they finally put the mess on the floor properly. At this moment, the two were sitting at the staircase on the third floor, eating surplus meals and gobbling them all by the light of the branches.

"Little Liu Yi, you came to me at the age of eight to find an errand, and it has been three years and four months until today! It's not very old, but it's an old man in this store! Xia Qing said that her mouth was stuffed with vegetables and she was slurred.

"Of course, we have been in the industry for many years! Boss Xia, your little tricks to fool the drinkers, I am very familiar with them! If you have money in the future, let's open a Wangnan Tower in Taihao City, the capital of Quzhou, and the business will definitely be more prosperous than yours! Liu Yi was also eating his meal and said vaguely to Xia Qing.

Xia Qing stretched out her right hand as she spoke, and gave Liu Yi a chestnut fiercely, teaching her like an elder, "I, how can a gentleman stand up if he is not determined?" Are you so ambitious? Your drunkard dad has been reading on the desk since you were six years old, just so that you can do these eight trades when you grow up? I have a lot of intersections with your drunkard father, which can be called irreversible, so that you come to do some errands every time you come to the big set, and it can be regarded as helping old friends, but it is by no means asking you to do this cooking thing after being crowned, you have to learn more from the past and the present, not to mention being the secretary of state and the central government in the future, but also to get a state pastor or general. Do you hear that? ”

Liu Yi rubbed his head and complained aggrievedly, "In this peaceful and prosperous world, there are no natural disasters and no military disasters." Where are so many pies in the sky? Filial piety is controlled by the big family every year, and it is not attached to the family gate, the poor want to come out, the sun and the moon want to change the sky, how easy is it! ”

Xia Qing hurriedly swallowed the food in her mouth, covered Liu Yi's mouth, and made a silent gesture, "Shh, child, you can just talk to Lao Tzu about this, don't use these words to spread joy everywhere, you don't know what our Lingyuan's sky is like, if you don't get it right, your life will be easy to lose!" ”

This Xia Qing and Liu Yi's father are like brothers, and they are very helpful to their father and son on weekdays, Liu Yi then respects Xia Qing as his biological father, although he does not agree with Xia Qing's groveling attitude towards the high-ranking magnates, but in the end he still did not refute, just snorted slightly, then bowed his head and said nothing, the two only opened their mouths to eat, and were silent for a long time!

"Still staying here tonight?" Xia Qing opened up again.

Liu Yi was a little annoyed that Xia Qing asked knowingly, and pouted impatiently, "Yes, except for the thirty years of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every fifteenth year of the new year, aren't they all here with you Boss Xia!" ”

"On the first day of every month, your drunkard dad has really become a ghost, and there is no trace of him coming and going, I don't know if he is drunk alone, or if he has a private meeting with his lover under the moon, he is really relieved to leave you a little guy who is lonely! That's it, let's rest early! I'll be busy tomorrow! ”

With that, Xia Qing got up and stretched her waist, and slowly walked into the account room.

After Liu Yi cleaned up the leftovers, thinking of the world where wolves eat meat and dogs eat, he felt a trace of annoyance in his heart, and immediately became helpless, so he simply walked into the T-shaped guest seat on the third floor, leaned on the windowsill, supported his chin with his arms, and looked at the moon from a distance.

Will there be a fairy on the moon as beautiful as my mother?

Why does my father only say that my mother is beautiful, but never tell me about my mother's past?

Well.... Boss Xia asked me to make meritorious deeds, but in fact, what he said was wrong.

My father told me to read so many books, and I know that officialdom is like a battlefield, mixing temples and rivers and lakes, and I don't know when I will be killed.

Liu Yi stared at the bright moon in the sky and muttered to himself: What's wrong with being a summer cicada, it's so cold in winter, why do you have to talk about ice!

Thinking about it, a small footstep pulled Liu Yi back from the dream, and when she looked at it, there was a pair of tiger head shoes and a flower cloth coat, which was the Dongfang Yu, at this moment, she was staring at a pair of wonderful Ruifeng eyes and looking herself up and down.

Liu Yi was an ignorant young man, his eyes were looking at each other, his cheeks were slightly red, and he was excited. On weekdays, in addition to being locked up at home by his father to study, he is jumping up and down with Li Erniu, Wang Sanbao, Huangfulu and other friends next door, even if he comes here to look at the North Building, he is just drinking in the back kitchen, the first time he has the same age and the opposite sex looking at him like this, Liu Yi has a different taste in his heart.

Well...... what to say! Is this a feeling of wanting to stop? No, maybe it's the beginning of love.

After rubbing his hands and scratching his head for a while, Liu Yi laughed, learned from Xia Qing's appearance, hugged his fist to Dongfang Yu, and said in a dignified manner, "Dongfang girl, under Liu Yi, I have heard of the name for a long time, and when I saw the girl's demeanor today, it was really extraordinary!" ”

Dongfang Yu's 'tiger head and tiger brain', behind his hands, he shook and walked towards Liu Yi, "Brother Tai really has a good vision, look at you so discerningly, you will be the dragon and phoenix in that person in the future, don't forget Gou Fugui, Brother Tai will fly in the future, don't forget me!" ”

The two of them stand on both sides of the windowsill, you say a word to me, and praise each other, but there are some little adults who look like little adults.

Liu Yi chatted until he got up, and pretended to be bold and said, "What the girl said is very true, if you have wine in hand, you will make up your mind to drink with the girl......"

"Yikes! Coincidentally, what do you see? ”

Dongfang Yu took out half a pot of Jiang rice wine from his back hand, and it seemed that he secretly came out of the back kitchen.

"It's... This, this, Brother Dongfang, I... Never drunk! ”

Liu Yi, who had never drunk alcohol, suddenly felt embarrassed, perhaps feeling disgraced, his black face instantly turned red, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Oh, come on, come on, sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, how can you not drink! Come on, come on, once raw and twice cooked. Come on, whole! Dongfang Yu knelt on the rabbit fur soft couch, poured the pottery bowl full of the old way, and beckoned Liu Yi with his little hand.

Liu Yi saw that this Dongfang Yu was so 'heroic', and he no longer twisted, didn't he just drink! It's not about doing anything unreasonable!

So, he mustered up his courage and said loudly, "Come, let's get drunk and rest!" ”

Two children, learning to grow up in the young, drink each other in small sips under the moon.

"I said Liu Yi, are you really drinking for the first time? The first time I drank it, it was spicy and I burst into tears. ”

"That's, the first time you can still deceive people? But you, how old are you to drink? Little wine Mengzi! Liu Yi drank it all, and some choked on his throat, but for the sake of face, he swallowed it and wiped the corners of his mouth.

"I'm ten years old! Also, my grandfather said that it is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles, I have followed my grandfather since I was a child, traveled to the north and south, traveled the rivers and lakes, and there was no sword and wine in the rivers and lakes, how boring it should be! Look at the heroic and righteous people in the world, they don't get drunk with a thousand cups at every turn, how enjoyable! Dongfang Yu's cheeks were flushed, and he looked yearning.

"Walking thousands of miles may wear out the soles of your feet, and a thousand glasses of not getting drunk may also be mixed with water in wine. It's better to nest in a small restaurant, three meals a day, and not worry about the four seasons. Liu Yi said with a smile.

Dongfang Yufeng's eyes were raised, and he glanced at Liu Yi, "You are really a piece of wood, you haven't been out of Huaxing County at a glance, have you ever been to Yanzhou and Bozhou?" A cold day is approaching, a winter snow is pressing down on the mountain, living there, it is not possible to drive away the cold without wine! ”

The two of them were crooked on the couch, looking at the moon, the time was coming, the lively and lively market during the day had long been gone, there were few people on the street, and the rest was only a poor person with a lonely canopy and a broken lamp.

Liu Yi's face was red, drunk, and a little drowsy, "The farthest place I've ever been to is to visit Uncle Deng Yan with my father every year. Oriental girl, you, Gui Geng? ”

"Dead Liu Yi, still Gui Geng? Are you reading too many books or haven't read them yet? This woman is only ten years old, didn't she just tell you? Dongfang Yu, who was jumping around, said to Liu Yi with his teeth and claws.

"Good! Good! A glass of wine to see the truth, we will be brothers in the future, he I saved enough money, opened a Wangnan Building, every day to find you to read books, when the time comes, ......"

Before the words were finished, Liu Yi snored.

Dongfang Yu glanced at Liu Yi again, "Grandpa said that what he said after drinking is the most untrue, hum." ”

So, Dongfang Yu carried Liu Yi on his back and fell asleep peacefully.

Half a pot of wine was drunk to the end, and there was still half a pot left.

......

In the middle of the night, Xia Qing, who was thin, finally finished clearing the day's accounts.

He walked to the small window, a pair of small eyes narrowed into a slit, glanced out the window, touched the white jade five baht on his waist, sighed lightly, and said to himself, "Big brother, big brother, I think our brothers were also powerful people back then, and now one is a restaurant shopkeeper and the other is a teacher, but the vicissitudes of the world are sighs." That's it, the hero doesn't mention the courage of the year. I don't have the idea of being so loyal to the monarch and serving the country, it's enough to guard this Wangbei Tower for the rest of my life, and I'm not confused when I'm past the year, what are you still tossing? You are in this home in Lingyuan, if you don't go back, you won't go back, it's not your home anyway, hey. Sleep, sleep! ”

On the first day of September, leaning on the building to watch the bright moon, the family appreciates the autumn reward.