Chapter 281: Cultivator of Neighboring Countries
"Nothing. Li Ge shook his head and replied, and then opened his mouth to ask about the scene he saw at Huanyue Restaurant.
Through Hanyan's explanation, Li Ge understood why there are so many small shops in Huanyue Restaurant, and the flow of people is so large.
Originally, the restaurant was just a small shop in the wind chime street, but because the people who opened the restaurant made excellent dishes and knew a lot of craftsmanship, the business became better and better, and the reputation became bigger and bigger, and the store was later expanded.
After the death of the first generation of the founder of Huanyue Restaurant, his two sons naturally inherited his shop and continued to run Huanyue Restaurant.
As time went by, from generation to generation, and more and more descendants, the scale of this restaurant has grown, and so have more and more shops in it. Until now, this Joy Restaurant has formed its current size.
Because the variety of dishes in Huanyue Restaurant includes almost all the dishes available in Zhou Kingdom, and the quality and low price, it is famous in this renegade city. Later, some people also wanted to join the Joy Restaurant, and the younger heirs in the restaurant discussed with each other, and finally built such a large scale and rented out many other shop stalls, which is why the current Joy Restaurant is born.
When Hanyan explained to Li Ge why Huanyue Restaurant had such a large scale, the four of them also returned to the Liu Mansion in Liuding Street. At this time, it was also close to dusk.
Back at the Liu Mansion, Li Ge and Hanyan prepared a dinner together, and when the four of them sat down at the dining table to eat, Li Ge opened his mouth to ask about the incomprehensible thing he saw at noon today.
"Senior Sister Hanyan, I encountered a strange thing at noon today, I don't know if you know why?"
"If there is something Senior Brother Li said, if I knew, I would tell the truth. After hearing Li Ge's words, Hanyan responded with a smile, and then put a chopstick dish in Li Ge's bowl.
"Thank you, Senior Sister Hanyan. With a word of thanks, Li Ge put the tea in the bowl into his mouth, and after chewing it, he said, "This is the thing, today at noon I saw a funeral procession on a street near the west outer city, because the procession was all dressed in white and carrying a coffin. ”
"The funeral procession is still carrying a coffin?" Senior Brother Li, what else?" Hearing Li Ge stop in the middle of speaking, he couldn't help but ask in a voice.
"Actually, I don't know if it's a custom here, I'm just strange, the coffin carried by the funeral procession is not big, and at first glance it is just an ordinary wooden coffin. However, the wooden coffin was carried by more than a dozen people, and the more than ten people seemed to be particularly difficult. Expressing the doubts in his heart, Li Ge continued, "In addition, there were no mourners in the funeral procession, except for the people who carried the coffin and the people who blew and beat. ”
"Ah, there are no mourners in the funeral procession?" Linglan at the dinner table asked very puzzled after hearing this.
"It's still difficult for more than a dozen people to carry a coffin together?Uncle Li, it's not a person who should be carrying it in the coffin, right?"
"Senior Brother Li, as far as I know, in Renegade City, there is no custom that relatives and friends cannot go to mourn and see off after no one dies, and I don't understand what you said. After his two apprentices finished speaking, Hanyan also spoke.
"There is no such custom? Could it be that it is not a funeral procession? But I saw that what they were carrying was a coffin. After hearing this, Li Ge recalled what he had seen at noon, and a wave of doubt rose from the bottom of his heart.
Because of a puzzled question, the four people in the room who were eating dinner stopped at the same time and thought about what Li Ge said.
After a while, Li Ge, who was in doubt, saw that the three masters and apprentices of Hanyan had stopped the chopsticks in their hands, and couldn't help but say, "Senior Sister Hanyan, Lingxi, Linglan, I just asked casually, since you don't know, don't think about it too much, eat quickly, otherwise the food will be cold." ”
When the three of them heard Li Ge's words, they came back to their senses at the same time, and then they didn't say more, and continued to pick up chopsticks and eat dinner.
After dinner, since they were going to set up a fortune stall in Huanyue Restaurant tomorrow, Lingxi and Linglan did not chat in the hall for a long time like yesterday, but went back to their rooms early to rest. In the hall, only Li Ge and Hanyan were left sitting quietly.
After a moment of silence, the sound of tea boiling on a stove on a wooden table in the hall was heard. Then Hanyan took out the purple spirit tea brought down from Yangling Mountain, made two cups of tea, and handed one of the cups to Li Ge, who was sitting at the table opposite him.
"Senior Brother Li, I didn't think about what you just said, but just now I suddenly remembered something that my master had said to me. After handing the tea to Li Ge, he opened his mouth with a cigarette.
"What did Uncle Jingzhi tell you?Senior Sister Hanyan, what is the matter?" After Li Ge heard this, he immediately became interested and asked.
"Master told me about this a long time ago. Hanyan thought for a moment with a look of reminiscence, and then said, "There is a Yan country next to our Zhou country, but I have never been to that Yan country, but according to my master, she has seen a strange custom there. ”
"Oh, Senior Sister Hanyan, tell me, what is the custom?" Seeing Hanyan pause, Li Ge asked curiously.
"My master said that when she was traveling in the Yan Kingdom, she saw such a custom when she passed through a place. That is the monastic there, and when they die, they wrap their bodies in clay and bury them in coffins. You should know that Pei soil is a kind of extremely heavy soil, you have seen during the day, more than a dozen men carrying a coffin are struggling, presumably the corpse inside should be wrapped in Pei soil. Hanyan slowly said what he was thinking.
"Pei soil? I have seen this in the book of the Tibetan Reading Pavilion, and it is recorded in the book that the weight of this soil is extremely high, and if the corpse inside is wrapped in Pei soil and is being buried, then it makes sense. And if there is the corpse of a cultivator from a foreign country inside, then there is no one to be buried. After listening to Hanyan's words, Li Ge nodded in agreement.
"I just said what I knew, as for what Senior Brother Li, you saw during the day, I don't know if it was a monk from Yan Kingdom in his coffin. Hanyan added, and then said, "Senior Brother Li, you said that there are a lot of people in the funeral procession, and there are more than ten people carrying the coffin alone, I think if it is really a cultivator of Yan Kingdom, it should not be an ordinary cultivator." ”