The so-called penny is not a hero, this sentence is not unreasonable, no matter how high your martial arts are, how good your swordsmanship is, as long as you don't have silver, you still can't live.

Xiong Yu is now in such a dilemma, he has no silver on his body, he can't tell the shopkeeper that his silver has been given to his friend, and the shopkeeper won't listen to it, and he won't believe it, and now the explanation won't play a big role.

If you don't explain what can you do? Xiong Yu has a sword in his hand, and his sword can easily solve a few big men in the eye, although these big men in front of him look mighty, but Xiong Yu only needs a sword to knock these big men down.

But Xiong Yu can't do this, because he has no reason to do it, he didn't have money to settle the bill after eating and drinking in the restaurant, which is not so pleasant, if he is hurting the guy in the restaurant, then what is the difference between him and the robber?

Xiong Yu's brain is running rapidly, he is thinking of a way, thinking of a way to relieve himself, but the final result is unsatisfactory, Xiong Yu has no relatives and friends in the capital, he can't take out the fifteen taels of silver, Xiong Yu suddenly sighed, it seems that he is going to lose face today.

The shopkeeper crossed his waist and said to a few big men: "Arrest this kid and take him to the backyard to be disposed of by the boss." ”

Several big men walked up to Xiong Yu and lifted Xiong Yu to the backyard, Xiong Yu did not resist, he let these big men catch chickens and lift him to the backyard.

There was an inconspicuous room in the backyard, and several big men walked to the door of the house, led by an elite man who knocked on the door lightly and said, "Boss, I'm Da Zhuang." ”

"Something came in and said. A middle-aged man's voice came from inside the house.

Da Zhuang slowly pushed the door open and then pushed Xiong Yu into the door hard, and as soon as he entered the door, Da Zhuang said in a rough voice: "Boss, I grabbed another one who ate white food in the restaurant." ”

Xiong Yu frowned, he looked forward, and saw a big rattan chair in the room, on which sat a man in his forties, this man was wearing a fox fur hat, a fox fur coat, and a pair of tiger skin boots on his feet, this man was holding a large handful of almonds in his hand and snorting.

The middle-aged man looked at Xiong Yu and waved his hand at Da Zhuang and said, "Da Zhuang, you go down, I'll deal with this person, you did a good job, go to the counter and get two taels of silver." ”

Da Zhuang's mouth grinned excitedly: "Then I'll go down first." With that, Da Zhuang turned and left.

The middle-aged man sat up and put the almonds in his hand on the plate on the side, and then the middle-aged man looked at Xiong Yu carefully and said, "You are the one who eats white food?"

Xiong Yu didn't know how to speak, he paused and said, "I just happen to have no silver on me." ”

The middle-aged man snorted softly in his nose and said, "You dare to come to Yixuan to eat white food without any silver on your body, you are not small." ”

Xiong Yu's face turned a little pale, he gritted his teeth and slowly took off the jade on his neck and put it in front of the middle-aged man and said, "Look at how much silver this piece of jade is worth." ”

The middle-aged man slowly took the jade that Xiong Yu had placed on the table in his hand, held it up and looked at it carefully: "The jade is moist and has no impurities, it is a good jade." ”

Xiong Yu continued: "According to you, how much silver this piece of jade is worth. ”

The middle-aged man tapped his fingers on the table and thought for a while, "If this piece of jade is worth hundreds of taels on the market." ”

Xiong Yu heard the abnormality in the middle-aged man's tone, and he immediately said, "What about here?"

The middle-aged man smiled, threw the jade in front of Xiong Yu and said, "This jade is worthless to me." ”

After speaking, the middle-aged man immediately explained: "I don't have a habit of collecting jade, and I'm not interested in jade, so you're probably going to be disappointed." ”

Xiong Yu frowned and said, "I really don't have any silver on me now. ”

The middle-aged man looked at the sword on Xiong Yu's waist and said, "You use a sword?"

Xiong Yu was silent, and the middle-aged man continued: "It is really rare, rare, that a swordsman would be reduced to such a state. ”

Xiong Yu's face was a little unhappy and said, "What do you want to say?"

The middle-aged man picked up the almond and chewed it in his mouth, "Since you eat white food at my place, you have to use something to pay off the debt you owe." ”

Xiong Yu said in a deep voice: "What is it?"

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Labor." ”

Xiong Yu couldn't refute it, what the middle-aged man said made him unable to refute, Xiong Yu only said in a deep voice: "Yes, I will use it to work here until I pay off the debt I owe." ”

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "I see that you are a person who practices martial arts with a sword, so I am not too harsh on you, and I would have broken his leg on someone else." ”

Xiong Yu was silent, and the middle-aged man continued: "How many taels of silver do you owe?"

Xiong Yu slowly spoke: "Fifteen taels." ”

The middle-aged man slapped the table and said: "Very good, my shopkeeper here can get three taels of silver every month, and you can even get five taels if you do well, if you do well, you only need to stay in the restaurant for three months." ”

As soon as Xiong Yu heard the middle-aged man's words, he immediately exclaimed, "Three months?"

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "What, you're still too long, if you're too long, why do you want to come and eat white food?"

Xiong Yu sighed secretly in his heart: If I stay here for three months, who will do the killing of Fan Xiuwen, but I don't have any silver on me now, it seems that I can only find an opportunity to make plans for fifteen taels of silver, and the restaurant is the most well-informed, and I just took this opportunity to inquire about Fan Xiuwen's news in the restaurant.

Thinking of this, Xiong Yu immediately said, "Okay, it's decided." ”

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Count you as a kid, I'm the boss here, you can call me Boss Meng." ”

Without waiting for Xiong Yu to speak, Boss Meng preemptively said: "You go to the back kitchen first to help wash the dishes and serve the dishes, and then you go to the front hall to do things after you are familiar with it." ”

After speaking, Boss Meng immediately added: "Press your sword here first, so that you don't run away." ”

The sound of the kitchen knife chopping board, the sound of the chef shouting, the strong smell of oil smoke, this is the back kitchen, this is also the place where Xiong Yu is about to do something, the shopkeeper led Xiong Yu to the back kitchen and pointed to the stack of small chopsticks as high as a mountain and said, "Now you wash these first." ”

Xiong Yu didn't say a word, immediately squatted down and put the dishes and chopsticks into the wooden basin to wash them, the shopkeeper looked at Xiong Yu's appearance and said with a smile: "It's all down to this step of the field, what are you pretending to be high, old man Gan, you have company this time." ”

Saying that, the shopkeeper strode out, the greasy dishes and chopsticks and the leftovers on the plate really made Xiong Yu a little difficult to start, but at this moment there was no choice, Xiong Yu ruthlessly picked up a plate that had let go of the braised fish and began to wash it.

"Is this the first time you've done this?" a hoarse voice suddenly came from behind Xiong Yu.

As soon as Xiong Yu turned his head, he saw an old man with his back slumped, white hair and trouser legs, Xiong Yu said suspiciously: "Are you?"

The old man rolled up his sleeves and said, "I am Old Man Gan, and I have been washing dishes here for more than ten years." ”

Xiong Yu sighed, and immediately buried himself in washing the dishes again, Old Man Gan couldn't help shaking his head when he looked at Xiong Yu's finished washing: "You can't wash it like this, you will definitely fail to check it after a while, let me teach you how to do it." ”

As he spoke, Old Man Gan leaned down and soaked the greasy plate in clean water first, then sprinkled baking soda on the plate, and finally carefully brushed it with a brush.

The plate almost reflected the appearance of the old man Gan, and the old man Gan brought the plate to Xiong Yu and said, "Look, such a plate is qualified." ”

Xiong Yu sighed and nodded, "I understand." ”

After speaking, Xiong Yu carefully did it in the order of Old Man Gan, and Old Man Gan couldn't help nodding and said: "It's always good for young people to be patient, and it's always wrong to be serious in everything you do." ”

When Old Man Gan laughed, his body was like a shrimp all the time, and the chef on the side couldn't help but quip when he looked at Old Man Gan's appearance: "Old Man Gan, you old boy has begun to accept apprentices." ”

Old man Gan laughed and stopped talking, this stack of bowls was enough for Xiong Yu to wash for two hours, and when he finished washing, Xiong Yu's back was almost unconscious, Xiong Yu raised his hand to see, his fingers had turned white and peeled because of who had been soaked for a long time.

Xiong Yu looked at his fingers and smiled bitterly and couldn't say anything, now these hands didn't seem to be the hands of a swordsman at all.

"I don't think you're a person who does rough work, why did you come here to do such rough work?" Xiong Yu remembered Old Man Gan's voice behind him.

Xiong Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Because I ate the food but didn't have the money to pay the bill." ”

When Old Man Gan heard this, he immediately became interested, he sat down in front of Xiong Yu and grinned: "You kid dared to eat white food here and hasn't been killed, how did you kid do it." ”

Xiong Yu frowned and said, "I don't want to eat white food, I just don't have any silver on my body." ”

Old man Gan squinted his eyes and said, "I understand, your silver was stolen by thieves." ”

Xiong Yu glanced at Old Man Gan and said, "I know you don't believe it, but I really don't plan to eat white food. ”

Old man Gan took out a dry pipe from his waist, slowly lit it a few sips, and said, "You kid doesn't look like a sufferer, what did you do?" ”

Xiong Yu looked at Old Man Gan and smiled faintly: "I am a person who does not live for myself. ”

Old man Gan frowned and said, "What kind of words are this, who do people live for if they don't live for themselves?"

Xiong Yu sighed and stopped talking, Old Man Gan looked at Xiong Yu on the ground and knocked on the dry pipe and said, "When you reach my age, you will know why people live for themselves." ”

Xiong Yu smiled and said, "Old man Gan, how many years have you been in the capital?"

Old man Gan's face immediately showed a different light: "I have lived in the capital since I was a child, I was a carpenter in my twenties, I carried a sedan chair for others in my thirties, I married a wife with the money I had saved for a lifetime when I was in my forties, and I came here in my fifties. ”

Xiong Yu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard Old Man Gan's words: "Really?"

Old man Gan nodded and said, "Of course, it's possible that I still lie to you little baby." ”

Xiong Yu suddenly said, "Then do you know Fan Xiuwen?"