Chapter Twenty-Three: The Extra Street
When Mo Qiuci finished eating, the sun had just deflected, and it was still early, so she didn't plan to go back yet.
After a meal, it only cost her a tael of silver, she ate very much, and there were still some xiaolongbao left in the small basket drawer on the table.
Mo Qiuci stared at them for a long time, and she suddenly felt that the things here were still quite cheap, and if she was allowed to live here all the time, she could actually afford to spend them.
But that was impossible, if she stayed here, she might not be able to return home, and she didn't dare to take any chances.
So after sitting for a while, she got up and settled the bill, and when the boss accepted the one or two silvers, he took a paper bag and packaged the xiaolong that Mo Qiuci hadn't finished.
"Girl, take it. After the paper bag was wrapped, the boss handed it to Mo Qiuci.
"Thank you. Mo Qiuci took the xiaolongbao, took them and continued to walk to the other end of the snack street.
Lu Mian had been waiting in the corner, and when he saw her leave, he followed.
Because he was following Mo Qiuci, he deliberately kept some distance from her, and because they were walking on a noisy snack street now, if it wasn't for someone who was particularly alert, or if he had some kung fu, it would be impossible to notice it.
Therefore, Lu Mian didn't dodge, he followed behind Mo Qiuci as usual.
Mo Qiuci came from the place where she had just eaten, and saw a lot of things she wanted to eat along the way, she originally wanted to buy some, but because she had already eaten very much, and the weather was too hot now, things were not easy to preserve, so she gave up that idea.
Alas, why did I travel in just in time for summer!
Obviously, the other three seasons described in the book are so beautiful, there is a tea tasting and flower appreciation Wanhua Festival in spring, a wine festival in autumn to pick fruits and harvest grain, and a barbecue festival for hunting parties in winter, only in summer there is nothing but heat, but she still caught up with summer.
The more she thought about it, the more irritated Mo Qiuci became, so she scolded the author over and over again in her heart.
After coming out of the snack street, Mo Qiuci came to a strange-looking street.
The weather is not very hot today, and the breeze is blowing at this time, and it is even cooler, so it stands to reason that this street should be as lively as the snack street, even if it is not as good as the snack street, it should not be without a person!
Yes, there is not a single person on this strange-looking street.
Mo Qiuci took a closer look, every shop on the street was open, and there were people in charge of it, but no one came to this street.
She stood at the end of the snack street and observed for a while, and found that those who were eating on the snack street had not paid attention to this place at all, nor had they walked this way, and she wondered what was going on, so she turned back and found a random stall, intending to ask the owner.
However, it is definitely not possible to just ask questions and not buy things, so Mo Qiuci glanced at the things on his stall, and saw that he was selling some fruit candy, candied fruit or something, so he walked over and asked for some.
"Boss, decorate me with some mints. "Mo Qiuci doesn't like to eat candy very much, she liked it when she was a child, but when she grew up, she would have a toothache, so she didn't eat it again for a long time.
If it weren't for the boss to speak, she wouldn't have bought anything at all, and as a result, in the process of the boss filling her with mints, he actually sold her candied fruit.
"Girl, my preserves here are among the best on the street, why don't you have some?"
The boss tilted his head to look at her, and smiled extraordinarily brightly.
"......" Mo Qiuci stood there silent for a while, she stared at the boss's hand to fill her with mints, and saw that he was about to fill a shovel and want to fill it for her, so she hurriedly stopped, "Enough is enough, I can't eat so much sugar alone!"
She frowned, her face was full of anxiety, and when she saw this, the boss stopped: "Is that enough?"
He muttered a word stupidly, although it was a mumble, but Mo Qiuci heard it clearly.
She was still very determined, thinking that she would just buy some mints, but seeing that the boss was not satisfied at all, she was thinking about whether to buy some candied fruit as he said.
However, she really doesn't like to eat these things, so what should she do if she buys them back!
Mo Qiuci felt even more irritable, she stared at the mints handed over by the boss for a while, and then turned her head to look at the street over there, and finally curiosity overcame reason.
"Boss, what kind of candied fruit do you usually sell better?" she put the mints aside and stared at the preserves.
The boss was still drooping a second ago, but when he heard that Mo Qiuci wanted to buy candied fruit, he instantly became happy again.
"Girl, to be honest, my preserves here sell very well, if you ask me to recommend it to you, I can tell you, but it depends on what you like to eat. ”
Mo Qiuci thought about it when she heard this, but what he said was the same, if what he recommended was not what she liked to eat, then she wouldn't buy it, so it depended on what she wanted.
"Hmm......" Mo Qiuci stared at those candied fruits and picked them up.
She wouldn't have hesitated if it had been something else, but now she's buying something she doesn't like, so it's a bit of a dilemma.
In fact, Mo Qiuci could not buy it, but she didn't want to go to other stalls to make trouble, besides, the mints were already loaded, if she didn't buy it, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to get out of this street.
But......
I can't pick it out!
"Girl, you...... Have you picked it?"
Mo Qiuci stared at the candied fruit for five minutes, and the boss waited on the side for five minutes, who would have thought that she still didn't mean to speak, so he asked her.
"I'm ......" Mo Qiuci glanced up at the boss, and when she saw that the boss raised her eyebrows at her, she pointed to a few randomly, "Just these few, pretend to me a little." ”
"Okay, girl, wait a minute, I'll pretend to be for you. The boss quickly took the oil paper on the side and shoveled some of the same things she had just pointed out.
When he was about to install it, Mo Qiuci glanced at the street over there, and then asked him cautiously: "Boss, let me ask you a question, why is there no one on that street over there?"
"Huh?" the boss glanced up at her, "The girl is talking about that street?"
Mo Qiuci stretched out his hand and pointed to the street over there: "It's the one over there!" I went over to take a look just now, but there was no one, it looks very strange!"
The boss looked in the direction she was pointing, then retracted his gaze and looked at her with a puzzled expression: "Girl, where is the street? Isn't that the end of the snack street?"
"???" Mo Qiuci was momentarily stunned, "Isn't there a street over there?"
She turned her head to look over there, and she saw exactly a street, why did the boss say there was no street?
Which of the two of them has a problem with their eyes!?
The boss saw that she wasn't joking, so he turned his head and looked over there again.
In his line of sight, it was indeed the end of the snack street, and there was nothing but a wall.
Besides, he'd been working here for so many years, and if there really was a street over there, he wouldn't have known about it.
"Girl, are you mistaken? I've been working here for so many years, but I never knew what street was over there!"
“......”
Mo Qiuci was stunned, she didn't know what to say at this time, her mind echoed with what the boss said, "Girl, are you mistaken?"
Is it wrong?
Mo Qiuci began to doubt his eyes.
It's true that her eyesight has always been problematic, but there is nothing wrong with her brain!
Let's not talk about looking at that side here now, what it's like over there, let's just say that she walked down that street before she came to buy something!
The eye may see wrong, but it doesn't!
She had really walked down the street, and if she hadn't been a little scared at the sight of the empty picture, she would have walked in long ago.
Mo Qiuci forced herself to calm down, she didn't look over there again, but her eyes fell on the boss's face, stared at him and asked, "Boss, how many years have you been working here?"
The boss thought she didn't believe what she had just said, so he replied, "I don't remember exactly how many years, but it's been three or five years." ”
Mo Qiuci asked again: "Then when you were out of the stall, did you hear anything strange?"
The boss was amused by her words: "Girl, there are a lot of strange things here, I don't know what kind of girl are you referring to?"
Mo Qiuci glanced left and right, and after making sure that no one noticed them, he approached the boss and asked in a low voice, "Do you have any monsters here?"
"Haha, girl, you're really joking. The boss laughed even more happily, "How can we have monsters here!"
"Why not?" asked Mo Qiuci.
"Because we have divine beasts here!" the boss suddenly became proud, "Let's not say that we won't have monsters here, even if there are really monsters and divine beasts in charge, who of them would dare to run here!"
Divine beast? is it the demon beast that was imprisoned by the lord of the Youlu Garden?
Mo Qiuci didn't understand why those monsters didn't dare to come if they had it, but her real attention was not here, what she noticed, about the fact that they would definitely not come here, the boss was very sure.
Mo Qiuci suddenly smelled some gossip, but she knew that even if she asked, the boss would not be able to say it, so she turned her brain and thought of a way to come out.
"Boss, what you said is too arrogant!" Mo Qiuci looked at the person in front of him with disdain, and even his tone was full of contempt.
She thought of the agitation method, but she didn't know if it would work.
The boss was still there proudly, but when he heard her words, he suddenly put away his smile, and stared at her with a fierce expression: "Girl, what do you mean by this!"
Whew!
Mo Qiuci let out a sigh of relief in her heart, and her face was still the same: "How can you be so sure that you won't have monsters here! The monsters are so capable, I think they will definitely get in! And even if they really get in, you don't know!"
Mo Qiuci became worried as she spoke, she was afraid that after she finished speaking, she would be chased and beaten by the boss, fortunately, the boss was also a cultured person, although he was angered by Mo Qiuci's words, but he didn't mean to do anything with her.
"Girl, what you said is a bit contemptuous! I see that you are from out of town, so you will not be as knowledgeable as you, if you stay here in the future, you must not say this in front of others!"
The boss held back his anger, and he was still there to tell Mo Qiuci bitterly.
But Mo Qiuci didn't mean to listen to him, after all, she didn't know what she wanted to know!