"Who licked it!...There is so much oil, what a pity."
“If you’re not full, please order a few more dishes.”
"No, how can I ask for food?"
"How about I ask the waiter to go downstairs and order some snacks?"
"The flat food... doesn't seem to be particularly delicious."
"..."
After finishing six dishes and one soup in a hurry, the brother and sister couldn't eat anymore. They sat by the window and chatted lazily to eat. Su Hao recalled that he seemed to have only eaten three thirds of the entire table.
One, the remaining two-thirds went into Lu Xiuer's stomach. This was Su Hao's intention to let Lu Xiuer. After all, he had eaten countless good things in his previous life, and there was no need to compete with a poor little girl here.
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"Brother, it would be great if mom could eat with us here." Lu Xiuer began to think of Yang Gendi. She had always been a kind-hearted girl, and she would want to share some good things with her family and even friends. She just stopped to eat.
, didn’t think too much about it. After eating it, she felt a little guilty and felt that she should wait to eat such delicious food when her adoptive mother came to the city.
Su Hao said: "Let's settle down first. Once things are sorted out and my job is stabilized, I'll bring mom to live in the city. By then, we'll have better food."
"How can we eat like this all the time? I don't know if three coins is enough for this meal." Lu Xiuer said softly.
At this time, the waiter came over with a smile and bowed before saying anything. After bowing, he asked: "Two guests, have you eaten?"
"I've eaten."
"Would you like to make a pot of tea?"
"Well, if you have any free tea, make me a pot. By the way, let the counter pay the bill."
"The accounts have been settled. The food and drinks for you two total 2 cents and 7 cents of silver, and there is still 30 cents left." The waiter replied.
"For your hard work, I'll reward you with these 30 Wen." Su Hao said generously. In the Ming Dynasty, China still had a fine tradition of tipping service staff. Seeing how dedicated and smart the waiter was, Su Hao felt uncomfortable.
It just doesn't make sense to give a little tip.
"Thank you for the guest reward." The waiter in the shop was overjoyed. Customers usually tipped, but it was rare to receive a tip of 30 cents at once. He felt deeply ashamed for having underestimated Su Hao before.
The waiter went to make tea, and Lu Xiuer wanted to discuss the tip with Su Hao. She thought about it for a while, but was too lazy to open her mouth. She knew that once she said it, her brother would definitely use the same rhetoric again, about how much he earned, and so on.
Yes, she couldn't say anything about him. Since she couldn't change anything, she simply followed Su Hao's example and turned to look at the street scene.
"You two are destined to be together, would you like Pindao to divine a divination for you?"
A voice sounded beside them, and the brother and sister looked back and couldn't help but feel happy. The Taoist standing at their table with a solemn look on his face, pretending to be a ghost, turned out to be an acquaintance, that is, the man who had previously surveyed the well site in Zhegui Township.
Feng shui master Chen Guanyu.
"Hey, isn't this Mr. Chen? Why did you change your career to become a Taoist?" Su Hao asked with a smile.
"Well, it's Su Xiucai and Miss Lu..." Chen Guanyu couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he saw that the other party was an acquaintance, and an acquaintance who had made him suffer. He hesitated: "Pindao has not changed his career, Pindao has always been
He is a Taoist."
"Aren't you a Feng Shui master? Why don't you go to a Feng Shui survey instead of coming to a restaurant to tell people's fortunes?" Su Hao asked.
Mentioning this matter, Chen Guanyu almost burst into tears. He sighed and said, "It's all thanks to you, Master, that this poor man has fallen into this state."
"Hehe, please don't blackmail me, okay? It's because you're not good at studying, why are you blaming me?" Su Hao replied angrily.
Chen Guanyu nodded and said: "Indeed, Pindao does not resent the young master. However, although you did not kill Boren, Boren died because of you. Is this always true?"
Su Hao smiled and said, "You're not ready to die, are you?"
Chen Guanyu said: "Although he is not dead yet, he is not far away from it. Pindao has not earned 10 cents in half a day. If this continues, it will be difficult for him to die."
"What's going on?" Seeing that Chen Guanyu didn't look like he was joking, Su Hao said quickly: "Sit down and talk, what happened? By the way, have you eaten?"
Chen Guanyu pulled up a stool and sat down on one side, shook his head and said, "I haven't eaten a grain of rice since morning."
"Waiter!" Su Hao raised his hand and greeted the waiter: "Give this Taoist priest a bowl of noodles, and put more minced meat in it."
The waiter came over in response, first poured tea for Su Hao and Lu Xiuer, and then asked with a troubled face: "How much money does this Taoist priest have..."
"Charge it to me." Su Hao said. He found that after he finished speaking, the waiter's face turned even darker. After thinking about it, he realized what the waiter was worried about. He smiled and said: "Don't worry, I rewarded you earlier."
The money is yours, I'll pay the Taoist priest's face separately."
"Haha, what did you say? I just wanted to ask the Taoist master whether he wanted a big bowl or a small bowl of noodles." The waiter was embarrassed by what Su Hao said and quickly covered it up.
After a while, the noodles were served. It only cost 10 cents. Su Hao asked Lu Xiuer to pay the bill.
Chen Guanyu thanked him, picked up his chopsticks, and began to eat the noodles. The bowl of noodles was eaten in less than a minute. Chen Guanyu's face began to look brighter, and he felt a little bit like he had been in Longkou a few days ago.
When I was in the village, I was so energetic.
"Mr. Su, Miss Lu, you don't know something..." Chen Guanyu began to tell about his ordeal.
It turned out that Zheng Chun's attitude towards Chen Guanyu had become bad since the water was drilled from the well pointed by Su Hao. Zheng Chun knew that although he could drill several good wells with Su Hao's help, he had not drilled the well before.
With so many abandoned wells, they will definitely be scolded in front of the county magistrate in the future, and the root of all this lies in Chen Guanyu's incompetence.
When Li Xing came back from the county town, he brought an oral instruction in Korean, saying that Chen Guanyu was a liar and asked Zheng Chun to drive him away. With this sentence in Korean, Zheng Chun was emboldened, and he immediately sent Chen Guanyu away.
When Yu came to find him, he first scolded him, and then asked the government officials to steal all the money from Chen Guanyu, leaving only a Taoist robe for him. Zheng Chun also said that because Chen Guanyu did not understand the art of surveying, he deliberately
He deceived the government and caused a serious waste of government well-drilling expenses. Chen Guanyu was ordered to compensate.
Chen Guanyu was originally just an unskilled Feng Shui master. He usually helped people with Feng Shui, danced with masters, and earned some money to make ends meet. He had no savings to compensate for the cost of drilling wells. Zheng Chun didn't care about this, which was surprising.
He drove Chen Guanyu away and threatened to continue to seek compensation from him in the future. This compensation argument was just a reason made up by Zheng Chun himself. With this reason, Zheng Chun could blackmail Chen Guanyu at any time in the future, and Chen Guanyu would
It has become Zheng Chun’s cash machine.
Chen Guanyu was driven out of Longkou Village by Zheng Chun early in the morning and came to the county town hungry. He had no means of making a living and was so hungry that he had to go to a restaurant to tell people's fortunes. In fact, there was no one in the restaurant.
They would ask him to tell their fortunes, but he just used this as an excuse to satisfy his hunger with some scraps left by the guests.
Su Hao is a kind-hearted person, and there is no conflict between him and Chen Guanyu. Although Chen Guanyu tried to blame Lu Xiuer for failing to drill the well at first, Su Hao also used his own skills to drill the well later.
After seeing Chen Guanyu's face, the two sides were evenly matched. Now seeing that Chen Guanyu was in the situation of picking up leftovers in a restaurant because of himself, Su Hao couldn't bear it. This was why he would invite Chen Guanyu to
The reason a fish eats a bowl of noodles.
"Mr. Chen, what are you going to do next?" Su Hao asked.
Chen Guanyu said: "All the money I had with me was taken away by Zheng Dianli. Now I can only think about living things. Once the news about Longkou Village spreads, there will probably be fewer people asking me to do Feng Shui surveys in the future."
Oh, I really brought it upon myself. By the way, Mr. Su, why did you come to the county town in your spare time, and also..."
He didn't say anything further, but the expression on his face already hinted at his doubts. He had been staying in Longkou Village for these days, and he had paid a lot of attention to Su Hao in the past two days. Naturally, he knew the family background of Su Hao's family. Now watch Su Hao lead Lu Xiu
There is certainly a mystery to the fact that he was sitting in such a high-end restaurant to eat, and he was sitting in a private seat upstairs. Chen Guanyu made a career out of fortune-telling and dancing, and observing people's emotions was his special skill. When he saw Su
Hao is a warm-hearted person, so he is keenly aware that his bad luck may be reversed by Su Hao.
"To be honest, Mr. Chen, I came to the county town because of the well drilling matter. The county magistrate heard that I had some skills in well exploration, so he hired me as an errand in the county government to be responsible for the well drilling matters in the county." Su Hao replied.
road.
"Responsible for digging wells in the county!" Of course Chen Guanyu could understand the meaning of this sentence. He asked in surprise: "Then Xiaodao dares to ask, what title did the county magistrate give Mr. Su?"
"Master Gongfang." Su Hao said, this is not something that needs to be kept secret in the first place, so there is no harm in telling it.
"Master?" Chen Guanyu's heart was churning, and all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred were intertwined. Damn, I was ruined, but you suddenly became a master. Although the title of master can be big or small, but
After all, as a person close to the county magistrate, he will have a lot of face and money.
An idea suddenly broke into Chen Guanyu's head. He stood up, faced Su Hao, knelt down with a plop, and said in his mouth: "Chen Guanyu, please take me under your wing. I am willing to work for Master Su!"