"Be merciful, be merciful, gentlemen!"

Chu Yuan's fists were raised, and the shopkeeper hurried over, clasping his fists and begging for mercy.

Chu Yuan ignored him and was about to hit him with his fist. The shopkeeper plopped down on the ground and said, "Dear gentlemen, there is only one seedling in the little old man's home. It is just a son who will inherit the incense. If I do something wrong, please forgive me."

Let me punish the little old man, huh? Let him go?"

The shopkeeper looked to be in his fifties, not like the waiter's father, but more like his grandfather, he looked very old.

Seeing him trembling and begging on his knees, Chu Yuan couldn't bear it, so he let go and stood up: "Thank you for interceding on his behalf. It's a pity that your son is not a talented person, and he molests girls at such a young age!"

The shopkeeper looked around the room and didn't see any girls, so he had a confused look on his face.

"What are you looking at!" Chu Yuan shouted dissatisfied.

The shopkeeper shook his head and replied: "No... you can't, right? Children never dare to act rashly... Besides, you don't have any girls here!"

"You..." Chu Yuan glanced at Gan Lai and swallowed what he wanted to say.

He forgot that Gan Lai was wearing men's clothes. It was so dusty that it was hard to tell that he belonged to a girl.

Xiao Sining immediately maintained the rhythm and did not allow any silence: "What your son said is 'pulling people into masturbation'!"

The shopkeeper blinked and thought for a long time, and then he understood: "You guys have misunderstood. My son has never seen the world and has been living in the countryside. Isn't it because of bad times that he picked me up to help me? He can't speak Mandarin...

…”

Chu Yuan: "What does it have to do with the official language! What we are saying is that he wants to 'get people to masturbate'!"

The shop owner had no choice but to say in the local dialect: "You guys get some people to masturbate..." and then switched to Mandarin: "Is this what the kid is talking about? He is talking about you people, how are you so naked?

Looking at people... just looking at them naked... just looking straight..."

He originally wanted to say "Why are you looking at people so stupidly", but he didn't dare, so he changed it to "directly".

Gan Lai immediately answered: "That's not right. He also said, 'Fuck you, you fool!'"

Now the waiter finally came to his senses. He was scared to death just now and almost got beaten. Now he was unwilling to give in: "Old man, I asked him what he was doing, but at that time he grabbed my neck.

My son is out of tune!"

The shopkeeper now knows why the outsider in this room is angry. There is really a woman in love!

He quickly bowed to Gan Lai: "Girl, I'm sorry. Look, even if you didn't speak, I didn't even notice that you were a girl. You, you are so dressed up... really...

Just now, my son wanted to ask why you were looking at him directly. You really didn’t mean any harm!"

Ouch!

Chu Yuan touched his nose, Gan Lai rolled his eyes and looked at the sky. Xiao Sining did not dare to laugh in front of Gan Lai, so he had to turn his back. The other boys also sat down and covered their faces with their arms.

Huh? No! Gan Lai looked at the shopkeeper again: "You get up first and answer. I ask you, if this is not a black shop, how can you give us such rotten fish? Tell me, is it drugged?"

As soon as the shopkeeper stood up, he was so frightened that he knelt back and waved his hands straight:

"No, no! It's unfair! How could it be drugged? It's true that this fish wasn't caught today, but it's also a live fish left over from yesterday. It can't be spoiled!"

Gan Lai: "Impossible? You ate it!"

The shopkeeper trembled and stood up, picked out a chopstick of fish, put it in his mouth and tasted it: "No problem, the fish is not bad! That's the taste."

Xiaobao finally interjected: "Then why is this fish so sour and fishy? It also has a smell that chokes your nose!"

The shopkeeper said with a grimace: "Last year there was a severe flood, the grain was gone, and the roots of the pepper trees were all rotten. This year everything is expensive;

If I still have some Sichuan peppercorns, I can help you get rid of the fishy smell. Isn’t it gone?

But I was just afraid that you guys would find it fishy, ​​so I specifically asked the kitchen to add mustard. I just tasted it and it was really ok, not too fishy anymore."

Xiaobao: "The sour taste... did you add vinegar? No salt?"

Shopkeeper: "Well, to tell you the truth, we can't afford salt, and even the price of vinegar has gone up. Except for the largest restaurants in the county, we can get reasonably priced salt, but we can't get it here, so we have to use vinegar instead."

"

Xiaobao was surprised: "You use vinegar instead of salt here? That doesn't have the same taste!"

Shopkeeper: "We don't use much vinegar when we eat at home..."

Xiaobao: "Isn't this Jiangnan? Isn't it beautiful and fertile? How can it be so poor?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and sighed: "Oh, those are other state capitals you are talking about, not here. The salt here was only 110 Wen per catty last year, but it increased to 150 Wen during the Chinese New Year."

, never lowers the price.”

Xiaobao exclaimed: "One hundred and fifty cents per catty of salt! A silver ring can't be more than this price!"

When the waiter saw that his father was chatting with someone, he was no longer afraid. He even said angrily: "What a silver ring! That thing is not worth half a pound of salt here!"

Chu Yuan was embarrassed at the moment because he had wrongly blamed others, so he simply brought the plate of fish and rice in front of Xiaobao to the waiter: "Brother, I'm sorry, sit down and eat, and we two brothers are chatting while eating.

.”

The waiter immersed himself in eating, pretending to be shocked: "You don't have to talk to me, don't turn around and say I molested you, Fang Laokuo, Gua Wa Zisuo? Just talk to my old man!"

Chu Yuan: "My name is not 'Fang Laokuo', my name is..."

Xiaobao: "I heard on the road yesterday that Fang Naoke was... saying that your brain is not working well, you idiot!"

Xiao Sining asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, why is the salt here so expensive? Even in our hometown, it's forty cents per pound, which is expensive."

Shopkeeper: "I don't know, but I heard that people in the north eat pool salt, right? It's cheaper, but we don't produce pool salt here. We produce well salt. It's not easy to dig wells. The salt wells are deep and boiling the salt is extremely bitter.

The cost of salt is also high and I can’t afford it.”

No matter how high the cost is, it's probably less than a hundred cents per catty. If that's the case, why bother selling salt from all over the place?

Xiaobao felt that this statement was not entirely true, but the store manager couldn't say anything else.

Chu Yuan asked: "Is the well salt you have here particularly good? Is it white and fine? Otherwise, why is it so expensive?"

The shopkeeper was confused: "No, they are all yellow and black, neither white nor thin."

Chu Yuan simply went back to the room and took out the seasonings he brought from his luggage and gave them to the shopkeeper: "Okay, take this. We will use these for cooking during the days we are here. Also, sift the rice."

Cook!”

The store owner was so anxious that he agreed: "Yes, yes!" He held a few jars of condiments and wanted to drag his son away quickly, but when he saw his son who was immersed in eating, he said: "Oh, you idiot!
Chapter completed!