In the hall of Hongyun Restaurant, the lanterns are hung high, and the red light is all over the ground, and the faces of every guest who eats and drinks in it shines red. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAt this moment, it was time for dinner, and the hall was full of guests, and every table was filled with all kinds of exquisite dishes and wines, but on the table to the right of the door, there was only one person, a pot of rice, and nothing else.

This made the guests in the entire large living room curious, and they couldn't help but frequently look at the middle-aged man in a gray robe, who didn't squint and only buried his head in eating.

And this middle-aged man, because there was no vegetable in the bowl, and his mouth full of bland white rice was chewed, and it was a little difficult to swallow, so he occasionally raised his head, but he did not look very far, much less, at those who were looking at him as a rare animal. He simply fixed his gaze on a fixed spot in the center of the table in front of him, staring straight ahead.

That look, like an old cow eating grass, occasionally chews a mouthful of grass, raises his head, chews in his mouth, but his eyes stare into the distance with an incomparably deep gaze. It's as if I'm thinking about a very profound truth.

Gradually, there were only a few mouthfuls left in a bowl of rice, and gradually the people in the hall no longer looked at him with strange eyes. Occasionally, only a guest who had just come in or had just left would still glance at him with a sneer and a strange look on his face when he passed by his table.

But the man who ate the white rice, the bird's beak, remained indifferent, and as if he had been looked at by a monster carved in stone.

At this moment, an old man in a purple robe with gray hair walked in at the door of the restaurant, his body was very straight, like a young man with strong blood, straight and straight. His bronzed face had some age spots, the bridge of his nose was straight and as beautiful as a mountain peak, and his lips were sharply lined, tightly closed, but he always had an elegant smile, giving people a good impression of the spring breeze.

His forehead, which was once bright and full, now has some dark brown age spots, and although his eyebrows are gray, they are as neat and handsome as they are cut. However, in the face of this old man's vicissitudes, there is one thing that cannot be changed by the ruthless years, and that is his eyes.

The old man's eyes were very bright and radiant, like those dazzling stars embedded in the sky in the dark night, and like a pure black jade that had fallen in the clear spring, dazzling and shining.

When the restaurant receptionist saw such a spirited old man walking in, he immediately greeted him. However, there is something special about this old man. He waved his hand at the hostess, which means, "I'm not going anywhere!" and sure enough, he walked straight to the table on the right side of the door, where there was only one man and only one pot of rice, and the one who sat with a bird's beak.

This made the second brother of the inn feel funny, he first glanced at the beak of the bird, who was eating with his head down and did not squint, and couldn't help but show a mocking smile. After that, with a noncommittal expression, he walked up to the old man politely, bent down and bowed his head, and whispered to him: "Uncle, don't you see? This table is already occupied, let me change your position! There is a vacant seat inside, please come inside!"

After he had finished talking so much, the old man raised his slightly angry face, looked straight at the young man, and snorted coldly: "It's here, can't you? I came here today to invite this brother to a drink and a meal!" he said, moving his angry expression from the face of the guest to the beak of the bird, who was bowing his head to eat, and with a kind face.

Hearing him say this, the host was stunned, and the bird's beak also had a surprised expression, stopped his chopsticks, and slowly raised his head. He looked at the old man calmly, "What did you just say?" he asked, "Say it again, please!" He had a mouthful of food in his mouth, and a lot of rice was stuck to his lips.

The old man was unhurried, and did not mind his forced, slightly angry expression. Still, he smiled at him gently, and said more sincerely and solemnly, word by word: "I want to treat you to the best food and drink the best wine today!"

The bird's beak was stunned, a mouthful of rice in his mouth had not yet been chewed, and three grains of rice were stuck to his thick lower lip, and he looked straight at the old man for a long time with a strange and indescribable expression. After that, he slowly chewed his mouthful of rice over and over again, until the last bite of food was swallowed into his stomach with a sweet saliva.

Only then did he blink his surprised eyes like bull's eyes, and solemnly asked the old man again and confirmatively: "You want to invite me to eat and drink?"

The old man looked at him, still nodding with a gentle smile, and said calmly, "Yes." ”

At this moment, the bird's beak habitually stretched out his bright red, silky tongue like a snail's body, and swept away the three grains of rice that were sticking to his lower lip. "Wow, why didn't you come earlier!" he said, "and I ate half a bowl of rice." ”

"So what!" the old man smiled faintly, putting the slightly serious expression he had just put into a more relaxed expression, and said, "Eat some white rice to make a base, and it will feel more refreshing to drink wine like that!"

The bird's beak sneered, as if everyone was talking seriously on the occasion of many people. Suddenly, there was a person who let out a very soft, melodious and loud fart, which made some weak-willed people can't help but laugh!

"Okay, then hurry up and serve the wine and food. After laughing, he looked at the old man with an eager expression and said.

During the whole process, the second brother of the restaurant was stunned and stupid, this was the first time he had encountered this situation since he engaged in this work. It wasn't until the old man looked at him and said solemnly, "What are you looking at, little brother?" that he came back to his senses.

So, he smiled awkwardly at the old man, "Uncle, are you sure you want to have dinner with Birdbeak here?"

The old man laughed, "Little brother, there is not so much red tape!" He said, "You will have the first ten dishes of your restaurant's good dishes, and the other good red wine of your daughter, come with twenty catties first." Be quick!"

"Okay, uncle, you will come later, right away!" said the restaurant hostess, happily shaking the tablecloth in his hand, and running briskly towards the counter. Just as he passed by the counter, the receptionist heard the shopkeeper of the restaurant Tong who was in the counter, burying his head in the accounts, and coughed at him twice: "Cough, cough!"

Immediately, this running hospitality, like a trap caught by a beast, caught the feet of a wild boar, abruptly stopped; after that, with a timid look, he smiled reluctantly at the shopkeeper Tong who was standing in the counter with a gloomy face, "Shopkeeper, what do you command?" That kind of look, as if he was worried about himself, something to do, made the shopkeeper of the restaurant feel unsatisfactory, and uneasy.

Shopkeeper Tong quickly glanced at the table where the old man and the bird's beak were sitting at the door. After that, with a malicious face, he frowned, and turned his head to look at the hostess in front of him and whispered: "You go out through the back door and tell the two people at the door of the 'Xilaiwang' jewelry store, one of them is called Lan Ning, and the other is Liu Wenfu." You just say, shopkeeper Tong asked me to tell you two that the fish has been hooked!"

The restaurant hostess listened and looked again at the table at the door, the old man and the bird's beak who were sitting there talking. At that moment, the stone in his heart fell, and his whole expression seemed relaxed, and he kept nodding to the shopkeeper of the restaurant, indicating that he understood everything he said. At the same time, he kept whispering: "Understood, understood!"

"Okay, then you can go quickly!"

So, like a nimble kitten, the hostess walked through the aisle of the three rows of tables to the right of the counter, pulled the back door shut, walked out, and closed the door with his hand. After that, a puff of smoke ran out of the alley.