Volume 1 The Waves Rise and Fall Chapter 56 Breaking the Sword and Slashing Chang'an (2)
The largest restaurant in Chang'an is Huamanlou located in Yong'an Fang.
This is a real century-old shop, and it is rumored that the earliest shopkeeper of Huamanlou once drank at the same table with Lu Zhengli, the sword god of the Six Daos.
For more than 100 years, not to mention the inheritance and development of folk crafts, it is a nameless small faction, and it is enough to grow into a hegemon.
But this is full of flowers, and he is still just doing his own small business. Except for the acquisition of a few properties and the expansion of the restaurant, there is no sign of wanting to grow.
Even in Chang'an City, there was no more semicolon.
Today's old shopkeeper is the fifth generation when he comes to him. The duty is divided into a lifetime, there is a inheritance of the duty, the children and grandchildren are filial, listen to his words, and never want to go outside to wander around.
He often thinks that in this life, he has lived enough, and he has no regrets when he dies.
His son often advised him that he was old and that he should live out his old age in peace. Let these tasks of service and hard work be left to the children and grandchildren and their fellow men.
The old man said that since he was born, he has been in this restaurant, and he has renovated it five times before and after the flowery building. Now that he was old, the flowers were growing brighter, and he wanted to see it again.
Accompany, his old buddy.
Today, business in Huamanlou is still booming. Not only are the people of Chang'an accustomed to this century-old craftsmanship, but also people from the rivers and lakes and visitors from outside the country come to admire the style of the sword god.
This is a rare place that can still be passed down after witnessing the style of the six sword gods.
In another place in the world, there is only Shushan Mountain, which is located within the territory of the Brahma Empire and independent of the Brahma Empire.
Inside the building, an old beggar in tattered clothes, leaning against a corner, holding a handful of melon seeds in his hand, spit out his shell everywhere, and looked around, as if he wanted to steal a plate of leftovers while no one was paying attention.
Such a foul-smelling alien exists in a noisy restaurant, which naturally attracts people's attention and disgust. Foreign rangers don't know the depths, follow the local customs, wait and see the changes, and don't make the first bird. The strange thing is that the Chang'an Laoyu, who feasts here all the year round, also turns a blind eye to this, which makes many juniors amazed.
Finally, a child of a family was not strong enough, so he secretly asked his father, and said, "Is this a beggar gang master?"
His father replied: "I don't know, but the old shopkeeper who regards this flowery building as more important than his life has not spoken, and we have less right and wrong." ”
The young man said: "The shopkeeper of a restaurant can have a lot of vision." ”
His father said: "I'm afraid that I will give you ten more lifetimes of experience, and it will not be as good as one." ”
Such dialogues appear repeatedly in this restaurant, although the words are different, but the general idea is similar.
While talking, a sturdy woman walked into the restaurant. Looking back for a week, I finally found the old beggar, walked over and said, "Eat some?"
The old beggar said, "No money." ”
The woman said, "Lonely, please." ”
The old beggar said, "You brought the money?"
The woman was stunned for a moment and said, "I was in a hurry to go out, and I forgot to bring it." ”
The old beggar smiled and said, "Wait, I see that the people at that table don't seem to be used to the taste of Chang'an, and when they leave, I'll go to the old shopkeeper to get the leftovers." ”
The woman said calmly: "Your place, listen to you." ”
The dialogue between the two is not half pretending to be free and easy, but it is very natural, just like the most ordinary words said by the most ordinary people. But if anyone recognizes one of them, they will be horrified by this statement.
Because of these two people, one is the Great Dragon Empress, who is recognized as the first person in martial arts today, Ye Yuqingtang.
The other is the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the only earth immortal in the world who is expected to soar, Shennong.
The two of them are the only human supremes in their respective fields, but now they are in a restaurant in the imperial capital, and because they have no money, they plan to pick up other people's leftovers to eat.
In the past few days, Shennong still ignored the government and did not participate in the court meeting. He was very relieved to hand over the political affairs to Zhang Xufeng. He just walked around Chang'an City, met old friends, and saw how Chang'an had changed in the past ten years.
In less than a moment, the villagers outside the table didn't know whether the food was not in harmony with the taste, or they didn't want to be stared at by Shennong like a prey, and finally broke up unhappily. The old shopkeeper himself came and invited the beggar, who was no more than thirty years old, but looked old and withered, and the swarthy and strong woman to sit down at the table.
The old shopkeeper entertained ordinary high-rollers as usual, nodded and said, "Two guest officers, you can add vegetables." ”
The old beggar said, "These are good." ”
The old shopkeeper said: "It's better to warm it up for the guest officer, the cold dishes hurt the stomach." ”
The old beggar knocked on the melon seeds and said, "It's okay, I like to eat cold, and if I eat hot food, it hurts my spleen and stomach, and I don't feel happy." ”
In a word, I saw through the trick of the old shopkeeper, if you go back to the kitchen, even if you bring out exactly the same stump, it must be a new exquisite dish.
After all, the old shopkeeper is a human spirit who has lived all his life, and he no longer annoys people with too much chatter, but he just serves a pot of green tea that is more expensive than this table of delicacies, and it is said that it is not a high crush of silver taels. The old man on the side smelled the fragrance of tea wafting and knew that not to mention the tea, it was the spring water that made the tea, which was all from the Yuquan mountain spring that was exclusively enjoyed by the royal family in the previous dynasty. After the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no tribute to say, the world's treasures are high, but only this Yuquan Mountain Spring, only the flower is full of buildings.
When the tea was ready, the old shopkeeper retreated and no longer bothered.
Shennong raised a glass to the Great Dragon Empress, and the Great Dragon Empress was arrogant, and several old men on the side felt a faint pain in their chests.
Shennong said: "How?"
The Great Dragon Empress said: "Don't quench your thirst." ”
As soon as these words came out, the Great Dragon Empress clearly felt a wave of killing intent surrounding her. The eyes of a group of old people were as awe-inspiring as peerless divine soldiers, and even some people endured it, but a stream of blood still flowed out of their mouths, and they were hurriedly carried away by their own juniors.
Shennong said: "Dalong and Dazhou are separated by two thousand miles, and there are mountains and seas to block them, and it is time to be thirsty all the way." ”
The Great Dragon Empress said, "It's okay." ”
Shennong said: "I have been gone for a few days." ”
The Great Dragon Empress said: "Four days." ”
Shennong said: "Four days ago, as soon as I was born, your Dalong received the news?
The Great Dragon Empress said: "I didn't ask, I don't care." Lonely only cares about you. ”
Shennong said: "You seem to be older than me. ”
The Great Dragon Empress said, "So what?"
Shennong smiled slyly: "It's not a good match, even if you only care about me, it's not a good match." A woman once said to me, looking for an older woman, I don't know whether to find a daughter-in-law or a mother. ”
The Great Dragon Empress said, "You want to recognize me as a mother?"
Shennong laughed and said: "I never knew that the Great Dragon Empress was such an interesting person, if I had known earlier, I would have pulled you in during the uprising." ”
The Great Dragon Empress shook her head and said nothing.
Shennong picked up another cup of hot tea, drank a cup in the eyes of the crowd, then reached out and grabbed a chopsticks white crystal carp, carefully licked a fish bone, and said to the Empress of the Great Dragon: "When I was a teenager, a woman once took me on a night tour of Chang'an. We were both penniless then, and of course I am penniless now. But at that time, I was young and greedy, and I always refused to leave when I passed by these meaty restaurants. She went to guard the shopkeeper, from the day to the third watch, and finally asked for half of the leftover sauce pork knuckle and a pot of wine. I can't remember what the elbow and the jug of wine tasted like, but I knew it must be the best thing I've ever tasted. At that time, I only felt that if I was with her, even if I begged on the street every day and ate some cold and leftover food, as long as I had her, it would be a great blessing. ”
It was him, who was fortunate in his life.