Chapter 88 Why was the money only given for two bowls of noodles
? "Sister, do you know how to get to Qinglu Village?" Seeing that the two people had not finished eating, Lin Du was too lazy to sit down, so he stood and asked the proprietress who was resting at the door.
The proprietress was already quite old, not tall, with a round face and big eyes, and still had some girlish demeanor. When she heard the young boy call her sister, she smiled a little and rubbed her hands on her apron before speaking, "Qinglu Village? What are you doing in Qinglu Village, young master?"
"I heard that there are lingcong trees to eat in the village during this season."
The proprietress laughed as soon as she said this, and turned to ask the busy person, "Lao Miao, do you recognize that Qinglu Village? I can't quite remember it."
The man was cooking noodles and scooped out the noodles neatly. The white rice noodles shook twice in the air very elastically and were neatly put into the porcelain bowl. He didn't even raise his head and responded to the woman's words in the noisy store with a hoarse voice.
"You, woman, Qinglu Village is that Zhaiqian Village. Didn't your great-grandfather come from there? Before he died, he asked his children and grandchildren to bury her in Zhaiqian Village. We searched for a long time and found out that it was renamed Qinglu Village five hundred years ago."
The proprietress suddenly realized, "I know this, little master, go west out of the city, the mountain closest to the city in the west, the one at the foot of the mountain, that's it."
"This Zhaiqian Village is a village in front of the many Guzhai and mountain villages in the mountain. It is a beautiful place surrounded by mountains and rivers."
Lin Du thanked him and turned around to see Tao Xian arguing with someone.
"Didn't you eat fourteen bowls of noodles? Why did you only pay for two bowls of noodles!"
Lin Du: ... Bullies everywhere have to slander people for eating more bowls of noodles, right?
"Don't try to quibble, boss, I'm telling you, I saw it clearly, they only put money for two bowls on the table!"
The boss' wife was about to say something when she saw Tao Xian shouting, "I only ate one bowl of noodles! She also only ate one bowl of noodles, so of course she only paid for two bowls."
The boss pointed the tip of his knife at the table. It was a knife for cutting salsa, the back of the knife was black, and the blade was bright. "There were fourteen empty bowls on the table, and you still said you only ate one bowl of noodles?"
"I really only ate one bowl of noodles, you don't believe it, if you don't believe it, then I'll spit it out now and let you see it?" Tao Xian was obviously also annoyed at being slandered.
Lin Du and the other three ate quickly, and now they were all standing at the door. The twelve coarse porcelain bowls were still neatly stacked on the table in three piles. Tao Xian thought that he had ordered everything and had to finish it all, so he was a step slower.
Someone who was watching the excitement was fanning the flames, "He looks like he's wearing the uniform of a Feixing Sect disciple, but he's eating without paying."
"Don't be afraid, boss. We brothers will stop him. If he dares to escape, we won't be pushovers!"
Tao Xian got even more anxious after hearing this. "No, how can a woman and I eat more than ten bowls of noodles? Do I look like someone with such a big appetite? It's obviously her..."
He pointed outside the crowd. Mo Lin and Tian Wu were waiting at the door. Only Lin Du was still inside, with the boss's wife standing next to him. She was extremely thin and pale.
The boss turned around to look at him, with a look on his face that said, "Do you think I believe you?"
The boss's wife knew that the boss had seen it wrong, and hurried to squeeze in. The group of people who deliberately made trouble formed a human wall, and she couldn't squeeze in.
"I'll do it."
The proprietress heard this and turned to look at the sickly young master beside her.
She held a gloomy folding fan in her hand, and with a burst of energy, she gently pushed aside the crowd. People along the way felt the biting cold and subconsciously made way.
Lin Du did not leave first, "Sister, go in, I think the boss has misunderstood."
The proprietress was busy collecting money, and it was obviously because she held the proprietress that the good-hearted person went to call the boss.
The people at that table clearly entered the store at the same time as them, and it was impossible for them not to know that the twelve bowls were not for them to eat.
The proprietress was busy going in to talk to the boss, and the people surrounding Tao Xian were still chattering.
Tao Xian's face was red and his neck was thick. He explained face to face with the local who was deliberately fanning the flames like a rooster. He almost got into a fight with him, and a heavy iron folding fan suddenly crossed between the two of them.
After eating the spicy food, Lin Du's voice became a little hoarse, and he interrupted, "How do you prove that you saw my Taoist friend eat fourteen bowls of noodles?"
"I saw it with both my eyes!" The man stared at the person who interrupted, and when he saw it was a pale child, he suddenly became confident, "Why? I just want to kindly remind the boss!"
Lin Du smiled suddenly, "You saw it with both your eyes? It seems that you can't see it clearly, how about I personally give your two eyeballs to my Taoist friend's stomach and see how many bowls of noodles he ate?"
Her vocal cords were hoarse from the spicy food, the sun was about to set, the candles in the store had not been lit yet, and it was a little dim. She raised her eyes to look at the person, and her lower body was a little cold and fierce.
Noticing that the man was staring at her fiercely and a group of people gathered around her, she raised her eyebrows provocatively.
Mo Lin was holding a sword at the door. When he turned around, he saw that the junior master who was not far from the door was gone. He was shocked, "Junior master!"
Xia Tianwu also turned around quickly and reacted, "Junior master!"
She raised her hand and pushed the crowd away with her domineering aura. The proprietress over there had already finished her words and came to apologize by grabbing the boss's ear.
Mo Lin was tall and tall, taller than everyone in the store, and he found Lin Du's location at a glance.
Everyone saw a tall young man in a red robe holding a sword and staff, frowning slightly, pursing his lips, looking unfriendly, and then he pushed through the crowd and stood in front of the young boy, and said, "Uncle Master, what happened?"
The boss apologized honestly, and did not dare to offend the person who first reported to him that Tao Xianshao gave him money, thinking that he was not paying attention.
Lin Du took a closer look at this group of people. The cloth they wore was a typical blue-green printed cloth produced in the western part of southern Yunnan. There were also raincoats, brow-length sticks, steel knives, and javelins lying beside them, many of which were still dark and rusty.
One cut would at least cause tetanus and enchanted damage.
Lin Du was now sure that this group of people was definitely intentional.
"Why are you staring at us? We have good intentions. You disciples of the big sects are so great! If you have the guts, go out and have a fight!"
"Especially you, you don't look like a good person! You actually put handcuffs on a woman. Are you a fake disciple of the Seven Star Sect?"
The man said as he was about to pull Shao Fei, who had been sitting silently at the table, from behind. A long black gold stick blocked his arm.
"I am Mo Lin, the 100th generation disciple of the Supreme Sect. I am under the order of the Sect Master to escort the evildoer who hurt people. I would like to ask, fellow Taoist, did you see clearly that the forbidden spirit buckle has the emblem of our Supreme Sect?"
Mo Lin held the sword stick in one hand and said loudly, "The Supreme Sect only eliminates evil spirits and does not harm good people."
His dark eyes stared straight at the man, and there was no sign of weakness due to the poison of the snake and inability to use spiritual power. He stared at the man until he put down his hand in dismay.
Lin Du looked at the group thoughtfully, and turned the fan in his hand into a short blade. "Excuse me, fellow Taoist, you clearly knew that the twelve bowls of noodles were for the three of us, but you deliberately misled the boss that he didn't pay, and wanted to keep the two of them. Why?"
Her eyes moved from Shao Fei to the group of people in the back.
"The mutton noodles are not delicious today, so I won't eat them anymore. Let's go." Another person had been hiding in the back holding a bamboo pipe.
Lin Dufu was so happy that she asked with a smile, "Do you want to lock up the sheep?"
She wondered why these people suddenly started to cause trouble. It turned out that they were bandits from the western part of southern Yunnan.
The book said that the city of Phoenix was well-governed and that fighting, extortion and blackmail were common in the city. She thought it was an exaggeration in the book, but now it was true.
Shao Fei was a bandit in the forest before, so he naturally knew the jargon. I'm afraid that he used jargon or gestures while they were guarding the door and not paying attention to her movements. When
the gang saw that this child also understood their jargon and even directly exposed their deliberate picky eating to stir up trouble and then rob, their faces changed for a moment.
Lin Du looked at the group with a smile, "Everyone, do you want to ask our disciples of the Supreme Sect for advice?"
The group shook their heads in unison. They thought that the three were not in the same group as them, but were just ordinary children of aristocratic families. Who would have thought that they were from the Supreme Sect?
No matter how ignorant the bandits were, they would know about the Supreme Sect. They didn't want to provoke such a big Buddha.
A female voice suddenly interrupted, "Masters, don't fight here, go outside and fight in the martial arts hall!"