Chapter 5: First Sight
He snorted, hurried downstairs to help, and fell to the ground with a thud. "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, old man, are you alright?" he subconsciously hunched over and kept apologizing.
Lying on the ground was a strange old man, also wearing a "simple" beggar suit, the old man had just eaten and was ready to sleep, he was woken up by a clumsy body, the anger just reached his mouth, and he heard the incessant apology, but he was not embarrassed to attack. Xiao Erzuo apologized, and kept looking at the person in front of him, lying on the ground was a fresh face, his hair was scattered over his shoulders, his eyes were sunken, and the clothes on his body were not patched, not that they were neat, but they were really too dense to make up for the holes one after another, as for the legs, the trouser legs that were pulled up were long and short, and he was beating Erlang's legs barefoot, not a sour cabbage smell from his feet. The child is indeed at a loss for what to do there. The old man glanced at his eyes and scolded with a smile in his heart: "Elm pimple head." ”
Fortunately, the shopkeeper and his wife heard the sound and rushed from inside and outside the building. The shopkeeper has been wandering on the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he is naturally familiar with dealing with people and things, and when he sees this embarrassing scene, he naturally has a break in his heart. Facing Xiao Er's plea gaze, he took the lead in breaking the silence, bowed his waist and said: "In Xia Xie Wen, Xiao Xiaofu is running the work in the building, this is the servant Lou Xiao Er, I don't know what disturbed Mr. As he spoke, Xie Wen's eyes kept looking at the person in front of him, and he didn't forget to add the word "domestic servant".
If nothing else, just this sentence is very pleasant to hear. And this humility is naturally the precipitation of more than ten years of sophistication, and it is also what the "elm head" Lou Xiaoer does not have. In his opinion, this living Buddha just wants to have a few meals in vain, otherwise he would not be "fishing" here. It's just that the old man is really at a loss, after all, he is lying in the only corridor of the gate of Fumanlou. As there were more and more visitors, the old man didn't say a word, Lao Xie just wanted to settle things quickly and avoid causing more trouble, so he hurriedly added: "Please come to the cold house, it should be for Xie to apologize to you, what do you think?"
The old man rolled his eyes and shouted angrily: "Cork eggs." He was conscious and took the lead in stepping through the door, as if he hadn't seen or heard the guidance of the people around him. It's embarrassing to have a thick skin. "Xie Cork Danzi" breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and looked at the building with a wry smile, and the latter ran in first with a white towel.
The old man sat in the compartment alone, the dishes were the four major Jiaqing dishes made by Lao Xie himself, and the wine was the aging wine collected by Lao Xie. Knowing that he was eating and drinking, Elm Pimple found that under the layers of linen coarse clothes, the old man had broken his right arm. He couldn't help but be a little surprised. On the one hand, it is the situation of the elderly, on the other hand, it is the shopkeeper's hospitality, in the past, every month will meet a few rubbing rice, false food, although every time Fumanlou makes concessions, but never let the shopkeeper pay so much attention, is not a hungry old man? The more he thinks about it, the more he doesn't understand, he simply doesn't want to, he shakes his head, and can't help but show a harmless smirk of humans and animals.
"How are you eating?" Xie Wen bent his waist, tied a white cloth apron, and without waiting for the old man to answer, he said loudly: "Little Er, go and clean up the private room on the third floor, buy a few new clothes for Mr., remember to have wide sleeves, and the shoes are the same." There is also to go to the Agarwood Pavilion to take ten jars of aging, to Nanyang fine willow, silver and keys to the counter to get, go immediately, by the way, in the future, Mr. will live here permanently, will not keep accounts. As he spoke, he turned around and laughed. This scene is really incomprehensible, but Xiao Er can't disobey his order in the end, so he hurriedly ran out. I didn't see the smile on the corner of the old man's mouth, and he looked more and more like a gangster.
Fortunately, everything was arranged before dark, and no matter who asked, Xie Wen shook his head in response.