Looking at her like this, she must have drunk a lot, so I hurriedly shouted to Boss Tang who was still cleaning up in the cafe: "Boss Tang, come here."
"What's wrong?"
Boss Tang hurriedly walked into the yard and immediately saw Tang Ling lying on the ground.
He frowned, hurriedly walked to Tang Ling, and called her several times.
Tang Ling turned over and murmured: "Mr. Zhang, I can't drink anymore... I really can't drink anymore..."
"You're so drunk! I'm your brother. Get up quickly. Girls drink like this. How unbecoming is it?"
Tang Ling opened her eyes drowsily, looked at Boss Tang, and said inarticulately: "Brother, you... why are you here? Brother, I can't drink anymore, you, please help me block the drink... Zhang
Boss, hey! Where is Mr. Zhang?"
"Please wake up, there is no Mr. Zhang here, this is at home!"
Tang Ling was stunned for a moment, then looked around drowsily, seeming to be a little more awake now.
"Brother, I'm sorry! I..."
"Stop talking, get up quickly, the ground is cold." Boss Tang helped her up and sat on the chair next to her.
Then, Boss Tang said to me again: "Brother Chen, please help me keep an eye on her while I go get her some hangover cure."
I nodded and sat down next to Tang Ling.
She really drank a little too much. She was in a daze, couldn't open her eyes, and smelled of alcohol all over her body. It was quite a contrast to see such a young and beautiful girl like this drunk.
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After waiting for a while, Boss Tang came over with a drink and helped Tang Ling drink it.
Tang Ling gradually woke up, but she was still in a daze. She could only open her eyes, but her body was still slumped.
She looked at Boss Tang, curled her lips, and said sadly: "Brother, this cooperation has been ruined again..."
Boss Tang patted her on the back and comforted her: "It's okay, just take a bath as long as you are happy. I will support you."
"But...but so many friends are following me, and they haven't gotten a penny from the beginning to now...I feel sorry for them!"
Boss Tang sighed and said, "Lingling, why don't you stop doing this? Come back and help me build a coffee shop."
Tang Ling also sighed softly and said: "Your coffee shop doesn't make money...Besides, I really want to make money with my friends!"
Boss Tang didn't seem to know what to say, so he could only say some comforting words.
Then he turned to me and said, "Brother Chen, I made you laugh. You can go and rest! It's okay."
I didn't say anything more, nodded and went upstairs.
I didn't go back to the room immediately, and I didn't feel sleepy now, so I sat on the small platform, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
The moonlight in the ancient town is so beautiful, as if it has covered the entire ancient town with a thin veil.
I closed my eyes and greedily breathed in the clean night air of the ancient town. The quiet environment gradually made me intoxicated.
I could only hear the voices of Boss Tang and Tang Ling talking under the attic.
Boss Tang was very gentle. He really cared for Tang Ling, helping her clean the vomit on her clothes, and even helped her wash her face and feet.
It wasn't until sleepiness hit me that I went back to the room, lay on the bed and fell asleep, without feeling any insomnia at all.
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The next day, I still got up early.
There is an important thing today, which is to find a Chinese medicine store to dispense some medicine.
I have to continue taking traditional Chinese medicine for this disease. I have stopped taking it for several days. I don’t want to be tortured by the disease anymore.
Boss Tang hadn't even gotten up yet, so I had to go to the ancient town to find a breakfast shop and have breakfast alone, and then wandered around the ancient town to see if there was a traditional Chinese medicine clinic.
There are quite a few Chinese medicine pharmacies, but I, a foreigner, don’t know which one is good. Chinese medicine is not like Western medicine, so I have to find a good one.
So I went back to the inn. Boss Tang finally got up and was cleaning the coffee shop, preparing to welcome the first customer of the day.
Boss Tang greeted me when he saw me, and I responded with a smile: "Boss Tang, I want to ask you something. Do you know which Chinese medicine store is better in the ancient town?"
"Do you want to buy Chinese medicine?"
"Well, I had a physical problem before, and I had to take Chinese medicine to treat it."
Boss Tang nodded, seemed to think for a moment, and then said to me: "Yes, but the location is difficult to find. I'll ask Lingling to take you there."
"Isn't it troublesome? If it is, give me an address and I can ask people along the way. Anyway, I have nothing to do."
"No trouble," Boss Tang immediately shouted to Tang Ling who was rinsing her mouth in the yard, "Ling Ling, please take Brother Chen to the Taoist class later. There is a Chinese medicine store there. You should know about it, right?"
"I know, wait a minute, Brother Chen, I will take you there after I wash up."
"Don't be in a hurry, just take your time."
Boss Tang asked me again: "Have you had breakfast?"
"I've already eaten. There are quite a few breakfast restaurants in the ancient town."
"There are many. There is a good steamed stuffed bun shop, about a hundred meters in front. It's called Longhua Steamed Bun Shop. You can go and try it."
"Okay, I'll go tomorrow morning. Are there any more unique restaurants you can recommend?"
"Yes, there are plenty of them. If you like this, add us on WeChat and I'll send it to you."
I smiled and said, "Sorry, Boss Tang, I don't even use my phone."
"Don't you use a mobile phone?" Boss Tang looked at me in surprise.
"Well, I left my phone at home before I came here."
Boss Tang gave me a thumbs up and said, "You are so awesome. You are so awesome that you can resist not using your mobile phone these days!"
I laughed and said: "Actually, I thought it would be very painful, but after coming here, I found that life without mobile phones is really different... I can spend more time observing the details around me, and I can
See the world better."
Boss Tang nodded in agreement. At this time, Tang Ling changed her clothes and walked over, echoing: "I think Brother Chen is right. The current pace is too fast. We should all slow down."
After saying that, she shrugged and said, "But for people like us, it's impossible to live without a mobile phone! Haha, let's go, Brother Chen, I'll take you to that Chinese medicine shop too."
I nodded and immediately followed Tang Ling out of the inn.
I found that she was really polite. She greeted the neighbors along the way, and the neighbors responded enthusiastically.
She also said to me: "Brother Chen, how long are you going to stay with us?"
"I don't know. It may take a long time, not necessarily, it depends on the situation."
She nodded and said to me: "We are not big here, and we are not small here. If you have any difficulties, you can tell me and my brother. We were born and raised here, and many people in the ancient town know each other."
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"Well, I will definitely trouble you then."
"No trouble, you are the first tourist we have received to stay for such a long time."
"Not before?"
"No, the longest I stayed was only a week... Mainly because there is nothing interesting here, and the scenery is just like this, not as good as places like Dali and Lijiang."
I smiled and said, "I like it here better than those commercial places."
Tang Ling sighed softly and said: "Tourists all want to go to places that are not commercialized, but those commercialized places often have the largest flow of people. We merchants also want to be commercialized."
"Your brother said the same thing yesterday."
"Most of our merchants here think so. Although we are a scenic spot, many people are very poor. Wealth is only in the hands of a few people, and the gap between the rich and the poor is extremely large."
I really didn't expect that Tang Ling, who looked like a little girl, would talk to me about this, and I could see that she had a hard work in her, which was very similar to me back then...