The old inn feels like dust is falling on its head.

The shopkeeper is not too young, and he is waiting with a rag.

"Is there a moromi in the store? Wine? ”

"But rice porridge?"

The shopkeeper listened intently to his words and replied in a very strong local accent.

Song You also thought about it after hearing this: "But the kind that will be intoxicating?" ”

"What's that thing intoxicating? No matter how much you eat, you won't get drunk, unless it's a little doll who eats too much......"

"That's it."

"As long as the wine and rice porridge?"

"Let's boil a bowl and beat two poached eggs in it, can the store do this?" Song You is ready to unlock a new way to eat for his Sanhua Niangniang.

"Know ......"

"How do you collect money?"

"Two eggs? With or without sugar? ”

"Two eggs, with sugar."

"Recently, sugar has been expensive, and I charge fifteen cents."

"Cook a bowl."

"Is this the only thing you eat?"

"Is there a special dish here?" Song You asked him, "It's just something that is only here, not in other places, delicious things?" ”

"Cat ears!"

“！”

Sanhua Niangniang, who was originally squatting at the feet of the Taoist, bowing her head and seriously licking her hands and washing her face, was suddenly stunned, looked up and stared at the store in a daze, and even forgot to put down her paws.

Song You was also stunned for a moment.

"Cat ears?"

"Hahaha......"

The shopkeeper grinned, and a few teeth were missing: "Made of noodles, cat ears, such a big one......"

The shop is comparing the size of a fingernail.

Song You smiled at this time, and the cat withdrew its gaze and continued to lick its paws.

"How do you collect money?"

"Boil it in white water and add soy sauce and vinegar, it's 12 Wen, and stir-fry a topping, it's 20 Wen, a big bowl."

"I want a bowl of stir-fry."

"Okay......"

The shopkeeper said yes and walked back.

The mashed poached eggs come first.

The shop is very realistic, and it may be that the elderly take care of the Taoist, although Song You only needs two eggs, he also brings a big bowl and gives enough mash.

"Brush!"

The cat jumped on the table and stared straight at him.

Song You took out a spoon first, scooped a spoonful of soup, blew two breaths, and put it in his mouth.

"Suck ......"

The cat stared at him without blinking.

The eyes seem to be able to speak.

Song You did receive what she meant.

"It's delicious."

Song You replied, "But the sweetness is very light. ”

This was to be expected.

Song You took out a jar from the blanket, which contained a thin texture of white and yellow sugar, which was Baisha Sugar.

But he was not in a hurry to put it away, but took out the small bowl of Sanhua Niangniang from the blanket, scooped a poached egg into it, and then scooped most of the mash in the bowl, and finally scooped the soup to fill it.

"The boiled mash is less toxic, so Sanhua Niangniang can eat a big bowl."

“？”

The cat looked down at the bowl, then looked up at him, and slowly tilted her head - her bowl was so small, and a poached egg accounted for half of it, how could it be called a big bowl? Isn't it still only half a bowl?

"After the Sanhua Niangniang finishes eating, you can give the Sanhua Niangniang another bowl to eat." The Taoist said helplessly, and then scooped a spoonful of sugar from the jar and put it in a small bowl.

The cat watched his movements closely, and tilted its head slightly in response to his movements.

"Enough, it must be sweet."

"Meow!"

"Small children can't eat too much sugar. Besides, we don't bring much sugar, until we go to Yangdu, we may only be able to buy brown sugar, Sanhua Niangniang has to save some food. Song You said as he stirred the spoon in Sanhua Niangniang's small bowl.

There was a pause in thought.

I wanted to add "And this kind of sugar is very expensive", I thought that if I said so, Sanhua Niangniang would definitely be convinced, but after thinking about it, I still didn't say it, but only said to her: "You can go to the wild to get honey and see Sanhua Niangniang's ability." ”

Sanhua Niangniang is good at admonishment, but when he put away the candy, he meowed again.

"I don't like sugar as much as Sanhua Niangniang, just a little sweetness is enough." Song You said and slowly pushed the small bowl to her, it was full of poached eggs and mash, "Be careful of scalding." ”

“……”

The cat stared at him for a long time before he came over, approached and tested the temperature of the mash, sniffed it again, and then stuck out his tongue and licked it.

"How?"

"Woo woo woo ......"

The cat is hot and eats at the same time.

Thinking about it, this bowl of hot mash brought her a whole new experience.

At this time, the shopkeeper came again with a bowl.

"Cat ears are coming!"

Sanhua Niangniang also stopped moving, raised her head, and looked at the bowl brought by the store.

"Yo!"

The shopkeeper smiled, put down the bowl, and looked at the three-flowered cat who was eating: "Mr.'s wine rice eggs are specially ordered for cats?" ”

"She loves this."

"Sir is good to the cat!"

"Thanks to her for accompanying me on my travels around the world, I can't treat her badly."

"Where is the gentleman from?"

"Yizhou comes to ......"

Song You replied as he looked at the cat's ears brought by the store.

It's a bowl full of small pasta.

It looks like the dough is cut into dices the size of a fingernail, and then pressed with your fingers, and the pasta is curled up, not much bigger than the nail cover, and there are lines on it, which come from nowhere, and when cooked, it is slightly translucent, and it really looks like the ears of small animals, maybe because of the similar appearance, so it is called this name.

It's also a full bowl with toppings on top.

It looks slippery and tough.

Song You mixed it well and tasted it.

Sure enough, it is smooth and smooth, and the taste is very good.

Song You scooped up a spoonful and handed it to the cat: "Cat ears, do you want to taste Sanhua Niangniang?" ”

The cat immediately shrank its neck back, stared at the spoon he handed him, and said nothing, but turned its head, avoided the spoon, and lowered its head to eat its own mash.

"Hehehe......"

The shopkeeper watched and laughed.

When I'm older, I'm willing to watch these too.

There was no one in the store now, so he simply sat down at the table next to him, turned sideways to the Taoist, talked to him, asked him what he was doing here, where he was going, and talked to him about some fairy gossip.

Song You was also happy to chat with him.

It wasn't until half of a bowl of cat ears was eaten that Song You was quite familiar with the shop, so he complimented: "The shop's craftsmanship is really good......

"Hey, we have a small place, there is nothing good to eat, just these few things, this thing is very hungry to eat, Mr. is used to eating."

"On the way down, I heard a rumor." Song You paused for a while and said, "It was said that a long time ago, there was a water god in the Yinjiang River, and the water god had an object that was given by someone." I'm most interested in this kind of thing, I wonder if the store has ever heard of it? ”

"That's what we're telling here!"

"Indeed, when I asked the person who told me the story, he couldn't tell me, but he also said that he heard about it from Zheng Xi, and he didn't know if it was true or not."

"It's all about ancient times, who knows if it's true or not? It's just that it's all true, and it's spread by name and surname! It is said that there are descendants of that man, and there are also names and surnames! ”

"Really?"

This old shopkeeper is much better than the one in Nanhua County, and he didn't ask Song You to buy tea or anything like that, he just adjusted his sitting posture and began to talk to him.

"It is said that there was a person in ancient times, but I can't understand when the little old man is, some say that it was eight hundred years ago, and some say that it was a thousand years ago, and that person seems to be called Boshu or something......"

"Boshu ......"

It sounds like the name of the ancients.

"That's right! Bo Shu! This person has some ability, he says that he is a cultivator, anyway, he knows magic, and he is also very faithful! The shopkeeper said to him, "It is said that one day he went fishing by the river, and the weather was hot, and at noon he slept under the tree by the river, and said that in a dream, a man came out of the river in a daze, and heard of his name, so he asked him for help or brought a letter, anyway, there was any explanation, he wanted to go to the middle of the sea, and gave him a knife, and told him that as long as he took this knife to the seashore and cut it at the sea, the water would automatically separate, and he would not drown in the water." ”

"Magical."

Song You echoed at the right time.

"It's all ......"

"Please continue."

"This person agreed in a dream, but when he woke up from a sleep, he found that there was really a knife beside him, and he was puzzled, but he agreed, and he didn't regret it, so he really went." The shopkeeper said, "When he went to the seaside, as the man in the dream said, he cut the sea water, and the sea parted, and when he walked in, the sea closed and could not drown him, saying that he was inhaling in the sea as if he were on the ground." When he arrived in the middle of the sea, he was entertained by the dragon king of the sea, and then walked back, because the road was too far, and there was miasma on the road, and he became ill halfway through, and after returning home with force, he couldn't afford to be sick, but he still told his wife and children and neighbors about it, and told his son to return the knife to the water god in the river, and died after speaking. ”

"His son didn't pay it back?"

"Exactly! His son was not as trustworthy as he was, and when he heard that the knife was so powerful, after burying Lao Tzu, he hid the knife and went to a far away place. No matter how powerful the water god is, he can't run far away from the river to find him. The shopkeeper spoke with great interest, and his eyebrows danced, "Later, the water god was furious, and the Yinjiang changed the course, I don't know how many fields were washed away, and many people were suffered, and then it was said that the water god was accepted by God, and the family returned to Zhengxi, and later became an official." ”

The shopkeeper spoke about it, and Song You also listened to it with relish.

Even if the store has a strong accent and speaks vaguely, you can almost understand the meaning if you listen to it and guess it.

This kind of story has a distinctly classical flavor to it.

The classical thing is that everything is very simple and lacks details, but if you fill it in and imagine it, it is endlessly interesting.

In the folk tales of those years, people seemed to pay special attention to the name of faith, it was very simple to trust a person, and it was also very simple to deceive a person, although there were more simple reasons for the people of that year, but there was also a part of the reason that the details were lost in hundreds or thousands of years of rumors.

It's like no one knows why the water god found Bo Shu, how he persuaded him, what interests were exchanged between the two sides, and how Bo Shu's son escaped from the water god's pursuit, and how the water god was deposed by the heavenly palace step by step.

Including Boshu going to the beach.

In the story, it seems that today will be set off and tomorrow will arrive, in fact, Song You knows that there are thousands of miles away from the sea here, the mountains and rivers are heavy, and the smoke is full of miasma, in fact, it is very difficult to walk.

When it's simplified, it becomes romantic.

Song You tasted it for a while, and then asked again: "The shopkeeper said that their family has become an official, and there are descendants who have passed it down, and they also have names and surnames?" ”

"Because the water god often changes his face without the hidden river, and there are often some water ghosts and water demons in the river who harm people, and even some even climb ashore to harm people, the family surnamed Zheng got the knife of the water god, and they can order the water of the hidden river, and the water demons and water ghosts are also afraid, and then the government made him an official and is in charge of the water of the hidden river."

"And then?"

"Later, the family became bigger and bigger, and the branches were luxuriant, but later the descendants were incompetent, and the spells of each generation were lower and lower, and the knife was not as powerful as before. Later, Taizu raised troops, saying that when he passed from here, the army was stationed outside the city, and Taizu lived in their house, and the head of the Zheng family at that time had a meal with Taizu, and then followed Taizu and never came back. ”

"Followed Taizu?"

"Is that not it?"

"From the dragon's work, ......"

"Huh?"

"From the dragon's work, he is a person who follows the emperor to fight the world, and he has a lot of credit."

"Not really!"

"Is the family still there?"

"It's still there, and now it's also the number one clan in our Zhengxi, and it's also knighted! It's just that the head of the family at that time never came back, and the knife was lost. The shopkeeper said with a smile, "So it is said that it has a name and a surname, but after so many years, the family itself doesn't know whether it is true or fake, maybe it is just a descendant who made it up, how can there be such a powerful knife to ......."

"It's funny."

Song You nodded, lost in thought.

The cat, who had already drunk half of the bowl of soup, began to eat the mash and poached eggs, heard them discussing their knives, glanced up at the shopkeeper, and soon continued to lick with her head down.

The knife was now in her coat.

(End of chapter)