Chapter Twenty-Three: The Innkeeper
Xueluo was very tired, so tired that he fell asleep as soon as he lay down, and he didn't open his eyes slightly until the sun shone down, the sun was very bright, and Xueluo felt like a catastrophe and let out a long breath.
The carbon fire has been extinguished. Peng Ming was so sleepy that he was napping, muttering there that he didn't know what he was talking about.
Suddenly, Peng Qi shouted wow, and jumped up.
The snow fell and the few people who were awakened were startled.
Peng Ying woke up and cursed: "Why are you barking like a dog early in the morning?
Peng Qi looked around, breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said, "Damn, I actually dreamed that a python bit my buttocks." ”
Xueluo and the others were speechless. Lu Xueqing and Lu Manchen opened the curtain and walked out. All of them were sleepy-eyed and yawning.
was tossed by Peng Qi, how could he still sleep. Peng Ming hurriedly went to the lake to wash his face with water, sober and sober. didn't sleep all night, and Peng Ming was tired and listless like a dead pig.
Everyone went to wash their faces before starting breakfast. Or pancakes, beef, and other dry food.
Xueluo said: "Let's go to the town today to rest and rest first, so as to see what is fun." ”
Several people nodded. The horses were overly frightened and listless last night, but the snow-falling black donkey was energetic and held high, obviously not so afraid of last night's python.
Lu Manchen was surprised: "Look at this donkey, the other horses are scared and lose their spirits, this donkey is still so vivid!"
Xueluo looked at it with a smile.
Lu Manchen stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pat the donkey's head and said, "I didn't expect this stubborn donkey to be more courageous than a horse." ”
Who knew that just after two slaps, the donkey bit Lu Manchen with white teeth. Lu Manchen hurriedly avoided: "Yo... I wasn't even allowed to shoot it. ”
The black donkey was tied to the rope and failed to chase Lu Manchen and bite.
Xueluo said: "Don't play, let's go on the road, right?" Xueluo is still those things, a box behind him, a burden.
When a few people went out of the main road. The snow fell on the black donkey, but it ran after the horse that caught up with Lu Manchen, and opened its mouth to bite the horse's tail. When the horses were in pain, they went forward with all their might.
Lu Manchen was caught off guard, fell off the horse, and rolled to the side of the road in embarrassment.
When the three brothers of the Peng family saw that the snow fell on the donkey, they would actually take revenge, and the whole Lu Manchen rolled off the horse, and they all laughed forward and backward, laughing more than once.
Lu Xueqing was a little worried about whether her brother had fallen and injured herself, so she hurriedly got off the horse and helped Lu Manchen up. Xueluo patted the black donkey speechlessly and said: Is there such a thing as you?
Lu Manchen angrily pointed at Xueluo and said, "Did you deliberately instigate it?" and actually let a donkey fix me?" Lu Manchen wanted to cry! Didn't think about it
He couldn't scold the donkey, so he had to push the snow and fall on him.
Xueluo said speechlessly: "How can I use my stubborn donkey, have you forgotten that when you first met, even Xueqing was bitten by it?
Lu Manchen slapped the dirt off his body and rubbed his aching buttocks. Then he remembered, "Where's my horse?"
"Uh......" The snow fell and a few people noticed that Lu Manchen's horses had already run away.
Lu Manchen shouted: "Why don't you help me chase the horse back, do you want me to walk." ”
Peng Qihaha laughed and said, "You deserve to walk too." ”
Peng Ying slapped him on the head and said, "Why don't you chase the horse? Do you want it to run away?"
Peng Qi said angrily: "You just chased the horse, the horse is your wife and your mistress." ”
Peng Ming clutched his stomach and cramped with laughter.
Xueluo scolded with a smile: "Don't make a noise, go and chase it back, my donkey can't catch up." ”
Peng Ying couldn't help but smile and said, "Go quickly, go on." ”
Peng Qi said angrily: "You go up, my horse is tired and can't run." ”
Xueluo saw that the two of them were pushing and teasing each other, and the donkey came over, and both of them punched their heads and shouted, "If you don't chase the horse, you won't be gone." ”
Peng Qi chased after him stupidly, and scolded non-stop while running.
Xue Ding is helpless against these three people, and when you can't help it, hit them before they are willing to follow your own wishes.
Xueluo said: "Let's wait here for a while, let him chase the horse back first." ”
Peng Qi quickly led the horse back. Lu Manchen got on the horse and a few people started to hit the road again. On the road, Xueluo and Lu Xueqing were occasionally said by the three brothers of the Peng family.
Because Xueluo rode a black donkey, Lu Xueqing rode a white horse, the horse was much taller than the donkey, and when the two walked side by side, they were like a short man facing a beautiful woman.
Extremely incompatible.
The three of them said that Xue Luo was like a dwarf snuggling up to Lu Xueqing. Lu Xueqing's face was red and her ears were red.
Lu Manchen smiled and did not object to the three of them making fun of his sister and Xueluo, and occasionally helped the three of them make fun of the two together. The six of them came to this town in this way.
There are not many people in the town, and business is naturally not booming, so three or two sparse stalls are placed on the roadside.
Xueluo stopped a passer-by and asked, "Where is the inn near here?"
Passers-by pointed to the front and said, "There is one not far ahead." ”
Xueluo and a few people looked carefully, but they didn't see it, thinking that the inn's business was not good, and they didn't even hang out the signboard.
After the snow fell and thanked the passers-by, several people walked forward.
When a few people came to the door of the inn, they realized that it was really an inn. There was no big signboard hanging out at all, so they wrote the word inn on paper with a pen and pasted it on the door, and there was no store name.
Xueluo and several people dismounted, and none of them even came out to greet Xiao Er, so Xueluo and the others had to bolt their mounts to the door by themselves.
A few people walked in, and the inn was very small, with only three tables for people to eat. Lu Manchen shouted at the shopkeeper, but no one paid attention to him.
Lu Manchen muttered: "This is strange! Where have all the people gone?" ”
The snow fell and walked towards the counter inside. There was a man sleeping behind the counter. I slept very dead. He was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old.
Xueluo knocked on the counter table and shouted: "The shopkeeper ?...." shouted twice in a row, and the young man raised his head sleepily and said: What is the matter?
Xueluo said, "We want to eat, do you have it here?"
When the young man heard the word "eat", his originally listless appearance immediately changed to an enthusiastic expression and smiled: "Guest officer eats?" Okay, you sit down first. ”
Seeing Lu Manchen and a few people again, the young man's face bloomed, and he hurriedly walked out of the counter and beckoned a few people to sit down. I also went to get a pot of tea that had been cooled for Xue Tuo and others to drink.
Xueluo asked, "Do you have any food here?"
The young man smiled, "Yes, yes, you wait a while, I'll take the menu out for you to choose." ”
"Uh......" Snow fell in surprise. I even have a menu ready.
Soon the young man came out with a small book of only a few pages.
Xue Luo opened it and raised his eyebrows. There were many names of dishes written on it, and Lu Manchen and several people gathered around to watch it together.
Xueluo pointed to a dish of steamed beef and said, "I want this." ”
The young man shook his head and said apologetically: "I'm sorry officer, due to the different seasons, we don't have this dish in our store." ”
Xueluo nodded to a sweet and sour carp and said, "What about this?"
The young man shook his head again and said, "There are no carp for sale in the town recently, so there are none. ”
Xueluo raised her eyebrows and asked again. The young man still shook his head and said no.
The snow is falling. Lu Manchen also ordered a few, but there was still none.
Xueluo put down the notebook and smiled: "Then may I ask what dishes you have in this store?"
The young man thought for a while and said, "You wait, I'll go into the kitchen and take a look." The young man went to the kitchen to look at the dishes.
Xueluo smiled bitterly and shook her head at a few people.
Peng Qi said: "Don't come out for a while, don't even have any food, don't let people die." ”
Peng Ming nodded in agreement.
The young man came out, and said with a smile on his face: "There are still vegetables and vegetables." ”
Lu Manchen asked, "What dish?"
The young man laughed and said, "There is bitter gourd and pork, Chinese cabbage and pork, tomatoes and tomatoes, rice, and wine." ”
Xueluo hurriedly said: "Wait, wait, wait, wait... What did you just say, tomatoes and tomatoes?"
The young man blinked and said, "Yes, is there a problem?"
Snow falls.............
The young man said, "Since it's okay, I'll go cook." ”
A few people watched the young man leave in a daze... After being silent for a long time, Peng Qicai burst into a foul language: "I ...... it." ”
Several people shook their heads and smiled bitterly. Xueluo comforted a few people: "Forget it, what to eat, it's like going to eat dry food." ”
Who knew that a few people waited and waited, waited and waited, and they didn't see the food come up for more than half an hour. Several people asked Peng Ying to go to the kitchen to urge the young shopkeeper.
Peng Ying went to the kitchen and walked around and came back, sat down and poured a cup of cold tea and drank it.
After holding back for a while, he said angrily: "This fucking bastard shop is just stir-frying there now, and I'm ...... it." ”
A few people, you look at me, I look at you, and ask Peng Yingdao: "You didn't ask him why he went just now?"
Peng Ying said angrily: "He said he was cooking just now."
.............
Several people were hungry. The three brothers of the Peng family simply sat there motionless, not speaking in a daze.
Lu Xueqing said in a low voice: "I'm hungry!"
Xueluo said: "I'm hungry too. ”
Lu Manchen sighed and said, "What kind of inn is this! It's better to change the name to a big restaurant." ”
"Ouch, a few guest officers have been waiting for a long time, hehe, the dishes have been fried," the young shopkeeper brought two dishes in his hand and said: "Stir-fried pork with Chinese cabbage... Stir-fried pork with bitter gourd ......."
The young man put down the dishes and went into the kitchen on his own.
Xueluo and a few people looked at the two dishes on the table in a daze.
Then the young man served two more dishes, one was called fried radish with green vegetables, and the other was fried tomatoes with tomatoes as the young man said!!!
Finally, a large pot of rice came out, still steaming freshly cooked rice. And he brought a jar of wine.
The young man saw that several people were in a daze and didn't move their chopsticks, and asked, "What's wrong? Why don't you eat? It's not good if the food is cold for a while." ”
Lu Manchen pointed to the dish on the table and asked, "Are you a dish?"
The young man looked at a few dishes on the table and said, "Yes, what's the problem?"
I saw four dishes on the table... If you put too much oil, the fried pork with Chinese cabbage and the fried pork are blackened.
In particular, the so-called fried tomatoes with tomatoes look like a lump of red paste.
The young man stretched out his greasy hand suspiciously, grabbed a little bit of each dish and tried it: "The taste is okay, I didn't realize that my skills have actually improved again." ”