Volume 14 Chapter 42

The dignitaries in Zhongzhou City pay close attention to Lin Xi's actions all the time.

However, Lin Xi's performance is still very calm after staying in the Leaf Inn opposite to dichoufei's mansion.

He had dinner early in the Leaf Inn, and tasted a pot of stewed pork ribs, the most famous dish in the Leaf Inn. Then he slowly walked out of the inn with a big iron box on his back and strolled in the evening of Zhongzhou city.

Like a real traveler from afar, he visited the places of interest along the streets of Zhongzhou city and walked into the most lively streets and lanes of Zhongzhou city from time to time.

He went to the most beautiful plum blossom dock in Zhongzhou city.

He walked through the Huangque temple where Ni Henian fought with Zhong Cheng and nightingale.

After passing by Huangque temple, he came to Dafeng Lane again. He saw two tall maple trees growing for thousands of years.

Even though the dark red maple leaves are powerless to roll in winter, Lin Xi has never seen this kind of maple as tall and strong as the ginkgo tree which has grown for hundreds of years.

Not far from the two miraculous maples, there is a stone pillar for animal tying and an old well.

No matter on the stone pillar or along the Qingshi well of the old well, the deep ravines drawn by the hemp rope make Linxi deeply wrapped by the vicissitudes of life.

This is also the place where President Zhang entered Zhongzhou city and defeated Mo Hong, the great swordsman of Zhongzhou.

When the night was very dark, Lin Xi walked into Hezi lane, a famous night market in Zhongzhou city. In the light of the lantern, he went to a hundred year old shop called xiaochenji. In this old shop, there are the most famous marinated ribs and fish balls in the whole Zhongzhou city.

Chen Changcheng, the boss of little Chen Ji, has passed his 70th birthday, but he is still strong. Although the skills of killing fish and chopping meat have been passed on to his two sons, both of them are made by them, the final seasoning is still checked by him. In normal times, he is standing by the hot iron pot at the shop door to welcome guests.

As early as noon, the thin but very clean old man had heard that Lin Xi had arrived in Zhongzhou city. When Lin Xi walked through the white heat curling up at the door of the shop and appeared in front of him, the old man almost immediately recognized that this was Xiao Lin, who was respected and worshipped by all Zhongzhou people.

This old man standing by the boiling iron pot and watching every white fish ball in the pot felt very honored at the first time.

Lin Xi, like the old man he met at ordinary times, bowed slightly.

From Lin Xi's courtesy and calmness at the moment, this old man, whose eyes are muddy but who has seen too many sophisticated people, saw some emotion that made his heart tremble, so he just greeted the guests as usual, with a sincere smile and more wrinkles on his face: "Mr. Xiao Lin, have a snack? Would you like to try our ribs and fish balls? "

"It's said that the hot and sour cabbage and bean cake in the shop are also very good. I have a large appetite, and I can also try some." Lin Xi smiled and nodded, and sat down in the vacant seat not far from the door.

Old people are not treated differently.

The marinated ribs, fish balls drenched with thick brine, sauteed hot and sour vegetables and golden bean dregs floating in the fresh soup are placed in thick bowls and pans in front of Lin Xi.

It does taste good.

With some white rice, Lin Xi cleaned all the food in front of him.

"Any more?" The old man asked.

"Good." Lin Xi smiled. "You can have all of them."

the same dish, and put it on the table in front of Albert again.

But this time, looking at Lin Xi, who is quietly looking at a pair of chopsticks in front of him, the old man can't help it. He asked in a concerned whisper, "Mr. Xiao Lin, what are you going to do when you come to Zhongzhou city

Lin Xi looked at the old man with wrinkled face and worried eyes, nodded his head, then looked at the two sons of the old man who had become a little stiff and nervous because of his arrival, smiled and asked, "they have done a good job, what else do you have to worry about?"

"Not uneasy, just used to it." The old man looked back at his two still busy sons and smiled and said, "what can I do when I'm free? I've been in the shop for a long time, and I'm all friends. I can often see my friends here at ordinary times. If I'm not in the shop when I'm free, I can't see them easily."

Lin Xi thought for a moment and said, "I thought you cared more about this shop and its reputation."

"That's something they need to be more concerned about." Looking at his two diligent sons, the old man turned his head to look at Lin Xi and said, "at my age, if there is anything that can't be left behind before entering the earth, it's only possible that some people in this city can."

Lin Xi nodded in silence, finished all the things in front of him, then raised his head, looked at the old man, and said slowly: "actually, I came to Zhongzhou city this time to revenge for my friend. He fought at the front, but he was betrayed by his own men from behind. "

The old man was a little sluggish. He finally understood why Lin Xi was in such a mood.

"This betrayer is in Zhongzhou city?" The ordinary old man looked at Lin Xi and asked.

Lin Xi nodded and looked at the old shop full of smoke again. "You've been guarding this shop for so many years. I think it's very hard. Have you ever done well, but was suspected, and your reputation was damaged?"

The old man's expression became more dignified, he thought quietly, then nodded: "yes, in the twenty sixth year of the founding of the state of Yunqin, there was a problem with a batch of fish, and the people who sold it to me didn't know. Then the people who ate fish balls here vomited and diarrhea, and fell ill a lot. There were people who were not right with me, who took the opportunity to let out the wind, saying that I made fish balls, and at night I secretly chopped dead fish. "

Lin Xi said, "what happened later?"

"Later, the business fell sharply, relying on the care of the old customers, still doing the same as before, and then naturally slowly survived."

"You didn't try to make fish balls with dead fish. It's different from the fish balls made with fresh fish?"

"No. To doubt that you will eventually doubt, even if the taste is obviously different, you will also doubt that you have done something. Believe in you, and you will be good in the end. "

"You have a good taste. I'm full. Thank you for talking to me so much." Lin Xi slowly raised her head in such a conversation, looked at the old man and smiled.

Seeing that Lin Xi is ready to leave, the old man's wrinkled face reappears a trace of worry. "I'm just an old man half buried in the ground, but I'm familiar with the Zhongzhou city. If you want to go there and where there are problems in the Zhongzhou City, I can help you."

"You should be able to help me a lot." Lin Xi seems to have figured out something completely. The smile on her face is a little cold, but she is more confident, "don't sell things to people in the mansion."

When the old man heard this, he was a little shocked and doubted whether he had heard it wrong.

However, Lin Xi has looked at him and seriously said, "it's far away from Zhuque Avenue, but maybe the people in dichou's mansion will come here to buy things I don't want to sell things to the people in the mansion. "

This hundred year old shop is not Lin Xi's, but the old man's. at the moment, Lin Xi's words also have no request, which seems a bit overbearing. However, the old man is cold and proud to bow slightly, "unless I die Otherwise, nothing in the shop will be sold to the people in the mansion. "

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Lin Xi left Hezi lane and walked back to the Leaf Inn in the deep night.

In the morning of the next day, he ate a bowl of fried fish cover noodles in a noodle shop beside the inn. Then, like a tourist, he wandered in the streets of Zhongzhou City, looked at the scenery of Zhongzhou City, and looked at the fireworks in Zhongzhou city.

It's not only places of interest, but also rice shops, vegetable markets and meat farms He has been interested in these markets.

All the dignitaries who are looking at whether he will do any extreme behavior seem to do nothing when they see him. They are just like the most idle idlers in Zhongzhou city in a day.

But soon, while most of the nobles were still waiting for his movements carefully, the people of Di Fu found the difference first.

They found that when they went out of the mansion and walked on the street, the street would become very cold.

This kind of coldness comes from the avoidance of all people along the way, just like the people coming out of the mansion are carrying some kind of terrible plague.

Many shop owners close for various reasons when they see people from far away.

Even the vegetable vendors in the vegetable market, when they see the people in the di mansion, will directly pick up the burden and leave.

Even some traders who didn't know the people in the di mansion would tell him quietly that the one who came here was the one in the di mansion.

The people who came out to buy things in Difu began to be unable to buy anything.

In this day, after walking three blocks, six or seven Li, and not even buying a green vegetable or a piece of meat, a loyal housekeeper who came out from the Difu to purchase finally couldn't help but seize the collar of the boss of a cooked vegetable shop who often visited in his daily life and said angrily, "how can you bully people like this If we don't do business, it's OK. But what's the reason that we only sell to others and not to us? Do we want to starve all the people in our house? "

The neckline is all greasy. In his fifties, the owner of the balding delicatessen shop usually knows the housekeeper a little. But now, facing the housekeeper who is a good housekeeper, the boss of the delicatessen shop shakes his head coldly: "it's my freedom to sell to whom I like to do business and who I don't like to sell. You also have two legs. Where to go is also your freedom. Zhongzhou city is so big, you can go everywhere. Why do you stay in diefu? "