Chapter 21: Xie Noodle Soup
Xie Tangmian smiled a little stiff today, but he was willing to do it every day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past few days, it has been more beautiful than a dream for Xie Tangmen. Yesterday morning, he listened to the monk's suggestion and moved the noodle stall to the vicinity of the Buddha Treasure Conference, not expecting that the two-day portion on weekdays would be sold out just after noon. Those people in the rivers and lakes have a really big stomach, one person is worth five or six ordinary diners, and they are also generous. At the end of the day, the heavy copper in the cloth made Xie Tang noodles particularly satisfying.
Today, Xie Tang Noodle gritted his teeth and prepared a full four days' portions, which was still yesterday's place, and more than half of it had already been sold after noon. It's a pity that there are fewer diners in the afternoon, and it won't sell out until the sun goes down. No, he put his youngest son on the cart, and hurriedly pushed the cart out of the city, trying to get out of the city before the city gate was closed, otherwise it would be a trivial matter not to get out of the city, and it would be a big deal to delay tomorrow's business.
"If only I could rent a shop in the city. Xie Tangmian wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought, "But you can make money for four days a day, or it won't be long before you can save enough money!"
When I think of the happy days in the future, Xie Tang Noodle's legs are even more energetic. Even Fang just passed by a candy seller, and his youngest son cried and wanted to eat candy, and he also satisfied his younger son luxuriously. If this is changed to weekdays, there is no sugar man, but there is a big mouth, so I asked him if he wanted a kid. Xie Tang Mian looked at his little son licking the happy appearance of the sugar man, and his heart was full of joy. He lived for more than 30 years, and he didn't know what the sugar man tasted like, and when his youngest son asked him, he said that the sugar man was not as good as the sugar man and his noodle soup. This time, the youngest son finally got his wish to taste the taste of sugar man.
"Daddy, you didn't lie to me, this sugar man is not as delicious as our noodle soup, I won't eat it, I'll give it to you!" The younger son licked the sugar man twice and stuffed the sugar man into Xie's noodle soup mouth.
"Hey, be careful, don't fall off! You kid, you're really ignorant! What about this sugar man, your dad and I work hard to sell five bowls of noodle soup for only five cents. I won't eat it after only two bites, don't think about your dad next time, I'll buy it for you again!" Xie Tang Noodle chattered, and the reproach in his words was full of concern. But when the sugar man put it in his mouth, the wonderful taste was so sweet that he couldn't speak, and his vision was a little blurred.
"Thank you, boss!" At this time, a hearty voice came from the side hallway.
Xie Tangmian turned his head and saw that it was the monk with outstanding temperament yesterday morning, and he walked quickly with a person in his arms. Xie Tangmian's eyes were sharp, and he saw that there were a few blood stains on the monk's moon-white plain clothes that had not dried, which immediately made Xie Tangmian panic.
He stammered, "Guest, guest, noodle soup, sold out." ”
The monk saw his nervousness and said straight to the point: "We are good people, we were framed by bad people, this friend of the poor monk is seriously injured, can you hide in your cart, you can push him out of the city." After the poor monk led away his pursuers, he came to you. ”
Xie Tangmian was relieved when he heard the word "good person". What the monk said will naturally not be false. Although he is not afraid of good people, he is afraid of bad people. The monk's request made him have a trace of concern.
He looked at the monk hesitantly, then at his youngest son, and in order to give his youngest son a good name to look up to, he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes." But, Master, I'd like to ask you a favor. ”
It's all at this juncture, the speed of life and death, how can Han Xing not agree, even if it is a hundred requests, he will also agree.
Seeing that the monk agreed happily, Xie Tang felt that he was a little in danger, so he didn't continue to say what he wanted, and went directly to help the monk's friend. With the concerted efforts of the two, the monk's friend was soon hidden in the cart.
Xie Tang Mian didn't dare to delay, and immediately said to Han Xing, "Go quickly!"
Hanxing nodded, turned and ran quickly in the other direction.
Xie Tang Noodle pushed the cart and continued to walk out of the city. It wasn't long before the sound of horses' hooves sounded behind him. The knight on the horse had no intention of stopping, and went straight after him.
The journey was smooth, and Xie Tang Noodle soon came to the city gate.
The city gate was not the group of soldiers on duty yesterday, but for Xie Tangmen, it was not much better.
The captain of the city gate smiled at him when he saw that Xie Tang Mian had left the city so late.
The smile of the captain of the city gate, in Xie Tangmian's opinion, is like a cat and mouse's smile. I couldn't help but get nervous. Thinking that there was a person hiding in his cart, if those bad guys were in the same group as these soldiers guarding the gate, wouldn't he be in trouble? Thinking of this, Xie Tang Mian couldn't laugh.
"Xie Tang Mian, you old fellow, you smile like a dead old lady. If we don't go out of the city so late, business is not good? We are not the Feng Da who has plucked the feathers of the geese, what are we afraid of? Our brothers are not short of your little money, if we don't accept your filial piety on weekdays, we won't be able to enter this circle, and we won't be able to stand here. Your business is not good today, and those bowls of noodle soup this morning will be worth today's filial piety. Let's go! Don't smile at us like a dead lady in the future, bad luck!
Xie Tang Noodle nodded and pushed the cart out.
"Thank you for the soup noodles!" Xie Tang Mian had just walked a few steps when he was stopped by the captain of the city gate behind him. This call startled Xie Tangmian again, he looked at the place where the Tibetan people were hidden, then gritted his teeth and turned around.
The captain of the city gate caught up and whispered, "I said, thank you for the soup noodles, how old is your second child this year?"
"It's almost three years old!" Xie Tang Mian replied truthfully.
"Then your wife has been dead for three years, right?" Xie Tangmian nodded when he heard this.
"In the past few years, you have been a father and a mother again, and you have never thought about renewing a house?"
"I've thought about it, but I don't have the money to marry. ”
"We have a distant cousin, who looks okay and is quite diligent, and has given birth to a boy and a girl, but her man died suddenly while serving in forced labor, and her husband's family agreed to her remarrying, just asking her to marry with her daughter. Let's see that you are honest, diligent, and a good person. Let's just ask my cousin, do you want to live together, if you do, the meaning of the dowry is fine, anyway, it's not the first time you have married......"
Xie Tangmian didn't expect such a good thing to fall on his head, you must know that if this family business is completed, he will become the cousin-in-law of the captain of this city gate, which can be regarded as climbing a high branch. But there was a big living man hidden in his cart, and he didn't have the heart to think about it.
After vaguely dealing with the captain of the city gate, he pushed the cart and walked out of the city.
The captain of the city gate muttered: "How can even this fool know that our distant cousin is a lame man and can't work?
It wasn't until he was out of sight of the city gate that Xie Tang Mian breathed a sigh of relief.