Qi is located in the north of the Central Plains, and Hongye Town is located at the foot of Qingming Mountain, the northernmost part of Yan Kingdom, Hongye Town is not a good place for wind and rain, not even the side is not much touched, almost half a year is spent in the cold wind like a knife, here the spring and autumn seasons are very short, the summer is foggy and rainy, and there is very little land that can be cultivated, except for a few crops that can withstand wind, frost, rain and snow, no matter what seeds are sown, what seeds are dug out in the coming year.

However, there are as many as 1,000 households settling in Red Leaf Town, and this is the only place where you can settle down gently within 800 miles through the Endless Green Styx Mountains. Since the resumption of trade between Yan and the Northland grassland, Hongye Town has developed from a wild slope with only a few dilapidated wine shops to a town full of people today, and it took less than 20 years for Zhang Qianshan, the owner of the wine shop, to become the largest Zhang Dahu in the town.

The dragon gives birth to the dragon, the phoenix gives birth to the phoenix, the mouse is born to make holes, after several generations of accumulation and development, the largest restaurant in the town, the inn, the freight station is already the industry of the Zhang family, now Zhang Yuanwai is the great-great-grandchild of Zhang Qianshan, he is forty years old, full of red light, the body is slightly blessed, not like other small merchants and hawkers in the town who ask for a life like the waist and back, a face of wind and frost, just married to the third room of the concubine Zhang Yuanwai is in high spirits, every day during the day to patrol and collect accounts, at night to drink and listen to music and hug the girl, the life is very comfortable.

As the sun sank into the mountain stream, the noisy town of Red Leaves gradually fell silent, and most families turned off the oil lamps early after eating and fell asleep to relieve the tired body after a hard day.

It was early summer, and the tenacious weeds had already regained their emerald green color, and with the ups and downs of the wind, the wind swept through the air with a little dampness, and the night mist blowing on people's faces was no longer like a knife.

It's dinner time, the smoke of cooking in the town is gradually rising, and the voices of people are slowly lowered, except for restaurants, inns and casinos, other places show a quiet atmosphere. For most people, it's finally over the day's hard work, it's time to treat yourself, a whole plate of game, sell two pots of soju, drink wine and eat meat, smoke and get drunk under the flattery of their own family or other women, and then toss on the kang with the strength of wine, or go to the casino in the east to play a few handfuls, how a cool word.

Yipinju is in the east of Hongye Town, the side is a casino, the building is a restaurant and a green building, the backyard is an inn, whether it is drinking and gambling money to have fun, or resting and playing in the store, it is second to none in Hongye Town, as the most high-end gold cave in the town, Zhang Yuanwai is at least 2,000 taels of silver every year, and this alone is enough for Zhang Yuanwai to live the life of a superior person.

In the private room in the far corner of the second floor of the restaurant, a middle-aged man with a fat figure was staring at the ledger by candlelight, his fingers swiping over a series of numbers, and the man's oily face was also flooded with a satisfied smile.

A quarter of an hour later, the middle-aged man closed the ledger and carefully received it in the drawer, then got up and walked to the door and shouted loudly into the corridor: "Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue!"

After a while, a thin and weak young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old came to answer the call, stopped and sang a fat promise at a distance of two or three steps, straightened up and said with a smile: "Master, what are your orders?"

The young man's face was ordinary, but his eyes were crystal clear, with a bit of agility.

"Go find the kitchen to cook me a few dishes, it's still the old rules, I've been busy for most of the night, but I'm a little hungry. The middle-aged man waved his fat hand, swallowed his saliva and said.

"Okay!" Xiao Yue bowed again, turned around and ran a few steps, but was called back by the middle-aged man.

"Well, it's not interesting to eat and drink here alone, so you can just go and ask the back kitchen to carry a table of noodles out. ”

Xiao Yue blinked in disbelief, and raised a table of seats?

But since his own staff had already spoken, he couldn't help but answer, so after being stunned for a while, he still replied quickly: "Little one, let the back kitchen send the table directly to the old man's house?"

Zhang Yuanwai said angrily: "Look at how you are usually clever, how can you ask such a stupid question...... As soon as Lao Tzu saw those women making trouble in front of me, he was distraught, and brought the table here, and you can call Butler Liu and eat with me. ”

On the way to the back kitchen, Xiao Yue was still a little puzzled, he was just a small guy under Steward Liu, Zhang Yuanwai actually wanted to invite him to eat and drink, today is really the sun hit the west out, Xu is the business of the restaurant casino these days is good, there is a large amount of money in the account outside the staff is happy, there is another possibility that the eldest lady in the family two mothers three mothers and four mothers broke out a round of infighting, outside the staff is depressed, want to find someone to eat a drunk together.

In any case, for Xiao Yue, who can only mix a full meal every day, it is a good thing to have wine and meat in his stomach, so he will not care what the antecedents are.

Of course, several chefs in the restaurant worked hard for their boss's orders, and in less than a quarter of an hour, even the wine and food were sent into Zhang Yuanwai's room.

It wasn't until all the things were arranged that Xiao Yue had to wipe his sweat, sat down carefully at the bottom of the table, and picked up the wine bowl to prepare to salute Zhang Yuanwai and Steward Liu first.

At this moment, with a bang, the door of the room was slammed open, and a man rushed in with a cloak, sat on the floor and shouted in horror: "Old, master, the big thing is not good, something happened in the house!"

Steward Liu Huo De stood up and swept his eyes to the side.

Could it be that those guys from the Northland Grassland have come to raid the border again? In a flash of thought, Xiao Yue's hand holding the wine bowl shook, and a bowl full of burnt white spilled out at once, and he quickly came to the door, closed the wooden door that had just been knocked open by the man, and then took out a short knife from behind the door to protect it.

Zhang Yuanwai's face turned pale all of a sudden, he took a deep breath, drank a bowl of white wine in his stomach, and said in a deep voice after calming down: "What's the matter, you say it slowly." ”

The man gasped and said, "After the sky is dark today, several ladies gather in the garden to eat tea and admire the moon, and then Hong'er came out to tell me, saying that the eldest lady thinks that just eating some snacks and tea is not very enjoyable, let me go to the restaurant to get some wine and food back to eat, I wondered if I want to ask a few ladies what dishes they want to eat and drink, so I went to the garden with Hong'er......"