allonlinenovel Chapter 218 Do you still want to escape my eyes?
Chapter 218 Do you still want to escape my eyes?
The waiter chuckled and said, "I think this one is better than the previous one. Didn't he sleep in the superior room? He slept on the big bunk bed with the servants."
What did he say to the waiter at that time?
Oh, right, he said: He is even more of a piece of shit. Didn’t you see that he made his grandfather, father, and mother sleep on the big bunk bed together?
There is no possibility that among that group of women there are his wives and concubines. You can imagine that a man who lives to this point and schemes to make his elders, wives, concubines, and children suffer is nothing but a piece of shit.
Even though he bargained with me pitifully, I have been running the post station for so many years, and I have seen all kinds of people. Do you think he can escape my scrutiny?
The waiter nodded and flattered him: "Boss, you are absolutely right. At that time, I heard someone calling the kid who called him daddy, "Young Master."
Oh, now thinking back to what he said to the waiter, the innkeeper felt guilty and couldn't help but slap himself on the mouth.
He thinks he has no hobbies. He doesn't drink, gamble, or seek out prostitutes. His only interest is reading storybooks, listening to gossip, and chatting.
And he always claimed that he was the embodiment of the righteous knight in the storybook.
Even though he didn't dare to rob the rich to help the poor, he was always in Cao's camp but his heart was with Han. Although he was the owner of a post station serving nobles, he often secretly helped the servants and maids who were bullied by their masters in the post station.
Of course, he would be happy if he could earn some extra money from the rich while upholding justice.
But now, looking at the four taels of silver lying on the counter, why does it feel a little hot?
The shopkeeper, who had a unique taste, turned around twice and finally called the waiter over:
"Ah Ming, tell the chef in the kitchen to tell him what I said. Get up early tomorrow morning and prepare two taels of silver worth of dry food. Just bake it over a fire. It tastes even better when eaten cold."
The waiter, A Ming, nodded in response. But the waiter is like the boss, and he is also a chatterbox. He asked casually, "Boss, which customer ordered this?"
"Forget it. Let's prepare four taels of silver worth of dry food. There are many people in the group that just arrived. Two taels of silver won't be enough for them to eat. I'll do a good deed for the day."
These words were heard by Mr. Meng who had just walked in.
The old man waited for a while after seeing Team Leader Zhou return to the room, and came here only after he estimated that Shen Zhiqiu and his group had almost rested.
I was originally hesitant, wondering if giving the cow to the shopkeeper would allow him to pass it on to Shen Zhiqiu and his group, so as not to end up giving it to the wrong person and end up giving it to someone else for nothing.
I thought about coming over and talking to the innkeeper first. He was confident in his ability to judge people.
As a result, as soon as he entered the lobby of the post station, he happened to hear the innkeeper instructing people to prepare dry food for Shen Zhiqiu and others.
The hidden meaning in their words may be just a kindness.
Before Mr. Meng could say anything, the shopkeeper and the waiter noticed him and asked, "Sir, are you alone? Do you want to stay overnight or stay the night?"
But Mr. Meng did not respond directly. Instead, he asked the shopkeeper, "I just heard you say that you were preparing dry food for the group of people who just arrived. Are they from the famine-fighting group? There are more than 200 people, and the leader is a scholar named Shen?"
"So you are here to look for someone, sir. Mr. Shen has gone back to his room. Do you want me to go and call him?"
The waiter looked like a lackey and answered directly.
The shopkeeper also nodded and said, yes, it was indeed dry food prepared for that group of people, and the guest was also looking for that scholar?
Mr. Meng waved his hand and said, "I also wanted to ask the shopkeeper to prepare some dry food for them. What? Did they order it themselves?"
The old man asked even though he knew the answer, intending to ask the shopkeeper some more questions first.
But the innkeeper looked a little embarrassed after hearing this: "That's not the case. I think it's not easy for them."
He was too embarrassed to tell the waiter about the bad things he had said about others behind their backs. It was too shameful, so he could only be vague.
The old man nodded, patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder and said, "It's really not easy. This scholar is the most loyal young man I have ever seen."
The shopkeeper who heard this immediately felt that there was something behind this, and quickly called the waiter:
"Ah Ming, tell the kitchen staff to prepare dry food tomorrow, then serve a pot of wine, two side dishes, and the treasure I just received."
He turned around and greeted Mr. Meng: "Sir, let's eat and talk at the same time. If you have anything to tell me, you can just ask the waiter to do it for you."
The waiter might have a common hobby with the shopkeeper, and he was quite efficient in his work. The old man had just sat down for a while and hadn't said much to the shopkeeper yet.
After giving instructions to the kitchen, he came up with a small tray.
It was still a pot of wine and a plate of peanuts, but the shopkeeper was obviously more generous than Shen Zhiqiu, and the other plate even had half a pound of braised beef.
The beef pieces are cut into slices and stacked neatly, and the thickness and size of the pieces are similar.
The shopkeeper paid a huge price to hear the story, and even happily told Mr. Meng secretly: "Sir, don't worry about eating it. This cow didn't die of illness."
He was the cousin of my aunt’s second daughter’s husband... Anyway, the cow was accidentally killed after visiting many relatives’ homes.
This made Mr. Meng very upset: We spent fifty taels to buy an expensive ox cart from you, but you are eating the beef that died in the fall?
In fact, the old man really wronged the shopkeeper. The cow really did roll down the hillside and die accidentally. In order to buy the dead cow, the shopkeeper looked for people with connections everywhere, just to get some distinguished guests passing by to have a bite of it and make more money.
Unexpectedly, because he wanted to hear the story, the first gift of filial piety went into the old man's mouth. Just now when Shen Zhiqiu asked him to prepare two dishes, he was reluctant to let anyone serve.
He was afraid that Shen Zhiqiu would be stingy and bargain with him for a long time, thus wasting his beef.
Although the old man complained, he really wanted to have this taste, so he picked up a piece and put it into his mouth without hesitation.
It’s true that the cooking skills of the kitchen staff at this post station are better than those of the inn where they stayed.
He always felt that the food there was tasteless, and he thought that he had gotten irritated from the long journey and couldn't eat bland food?
Now, after taking a bite of braised beef and sipping a sip of wine, the old man looked very satisfied and said, "Since you really care about them, I will talk to you.
Mr. Shen led the whole village to escape famine. You may not know that it is peaceful here, but they were so hungry that some even ate each other.
Not to mention the villagers, even my own family couldn't believe it when they had nothing to eat or water.
I have also seen some families who were forced into a corner, who wanted to live but couldn’t bear to eat their own children, so they exchanged food with other families.”
The innkeeper who was chewing beef suddenly froze. Why did he feel like he couldn't eat the piece of beef in his mouth?
The old man picked up another piece of beef with chopsticks and took a sip of wine: "Let me tell you, there is also that... So in such a difficult situation, Shen Xiucai led the whole village and did not abandon any of the children in his arms on the road.
Just think about it, is he a man of love and righteousness?"