As the sun sets, the city of Imperial Capital that never sleeps is brightly lit.
However, the street named Chaoyang is not so bright.
Lin Ke was walking behind Butcher Zhang and could feel the strong smell of blood wafting over him.
In this way, the two of them came out of the cellar.
"Brother, have a nice journey!" Butcher Zhang grinned and patted Lin Ke on the shoulder.
"Okay!" Lin Ke nodded, walked out of the cellar, took a piece of meat wrapped in paper and walked towards the shop.
After taking two steps, Lin Ke suddenly felt something and turned his head sharply.
In an instant, a face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling came into view, not even an inch apart, with their eyes facing each other.
A delicate and fair woman’s face!
"What's wrong, little brother?" The woman covered her mouth softly and smiled.
"Nothing." Lin Ke scratched his head, turned around again and continued walking.
Halfway there, Lin Ke turned around again. The woman was nestling next to Butcher Zhang. The two of them nodded in this direction, with warm smiles on their faces.
After walking a few more steps, when Lin Ke turned back, the woman had disappeared.
And when he reached the door of the restaurant, he turned around and saw that there was no one behind the butcher shop, it was empty, as if it had been like this forever.
"What are you looking at?" The shopkeeper came out and followed Lin Ke and looked over there: "There is nothing, what are you looking at?"
"nothing."
Lin Ke pulled on his clothes that were soaked with cold sweat and clinging to his skin, and walked into the restaurant with the shopkeeper.
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When he returned to the restaurant, Lin Ke saw Bai Zhantang serving tea to the guests in the lobby.
"Hurry up and bring it to me!" Shopkeeper Tong couldn't wait and took the wrapped meat in Lin Ke's hand.
"The shopkeeper cooks it himself?" Lin Ke raised his eyebrows.
"Is there anyone else in my big restaurant?" The shopkeeper glanced at Lin Ke angrily, and then hurried to the kitchen.
Lin Ke smiled dumbly.
Too.
Just like some fairyland painting studio, although Tongfu Restaurant is called a "big" restaurant, it is actually not that big.
Just like some people always say my penis is big, please bear with it.
The bigness of Tongfu Restaurant may be reflected in the huge profits, the big belly of the shopkeeper, or the big rule of not drinking.
But it just didn’t reflect the bigness on the storefront.
There are two floors in total, the second floor is for housing, and the first floor is a place for drinking and eating meat... No, the first floor is just a place for drinking milk and tea!
There is very little meat, and the surrounding residents rarely come here to eat meat. After all, they are all poor, and who has the money to eat meat at any time?
Even today's meat was ordered by Lin Ke because there were customers. No, he asked Lin Ke to buy it on credit.
Therefore, the most people here on weekdays are people eating side dishes.
When it came time to stir-fry two side dishes, Bai Zhantang was the one doing the stir-frying. Lin Ke didn't know that the shopkeeper was actually the cook!
"How is the shopkeeper's craftsmanship?" Lin Ke curiously asked Bai Zhantang who was walking over.
"Please help Lin Ke." Bai Zhantang wiped his sweat, handed the tea kettle to Lin Ke, and looked in the direction of the kitchen: "The shopkeeper's craftsmanship is outstanding!"
"Oh?" Lin Ke raised his eyebrows: "Yijue? I heard that the shopkeeper is not a low-ranking official? The cook must be a middle-class official, right?"
Shopkeeper Tong is a generous person!
What is forgiveness?
To put it simply, they had committed crimes originally, but then because the Holy Emperor was celebrating his birthday, he was happy, he was overjoyed, and so on, and then he released a group of criminals who had not committed serious crimes.
Although these criminals were released from prison, they were saddled with the ignoble status of being pardoned.
The cook, on the other hand, is a miscellaneous person who belongs to one of the six middle classes. He is a good citizen who can do anything, not a pariah.
"That's because... Shopkeeper Tong himself is a lowly person." Bai Zhantang carefully looked at the kitchen, and then whispered in Lin Ke's ear.
Shopkeeper Tong is a lowly person himself?
wrong……
Shopkeeper Tong himself is a bitch?!
Lin Ke was suddenly startled.
Generally speaking, this nationality is related to the mother. The mother's nationality is the same as the children's nationality.
But in most cases, the mother can also deregister with the help of the father.
For example, the other wives and concubines of Minister Lin were all of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and no matter how bad they were, they were all middle-class. Only Lin Ke was of low status.
It was because Lin Shangshu hated prostitutes throughout his life that he did not deregister Lin Ke’s mother!
And what about the shopkeeper?
The shopkeeper himself is a bitch...
What this means is that the shopkeeper is not the boss because his mother is a lowly person, but because he has committed a crime and been in a prison cell, so he became a lowly person, "Emperor"!
Good guy, I'm working under a criminal... Lin Ke didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The dignified Minister of Qi actually hangs out with various religions in this street. If word gets out, he will probably be criticized to death.
"As long as you know this, I will only tell you this secret, you are not allowed to tell others." Bai Zhantang whispered to Lin Ke.
Lin Ke glanced at him immediately and immediately put a label on Bai Zhantang.
Bai Zhantang, male, waiter, has a leaky mouth, also known as a big mouth!
Can't hide a secret!
"No problem, I will never tell others." Lin Ke nodded immediately.
"Okay, okay." After saying that, Bai Zhantang continued to work.
Lin Ke began to look at the customers in the store and prepared to add tea or milk to the customers.
Two tables? It’s considered a good business.
There were three people at the beginning, who seemed to be some minor official in this area.
There was only one person at the other table, the young master Lin Ke met when he first went out.
But after just a few glances at these people, Lin Ke felt a little strange.
There were two tables of people, one more gorgeously dressed than the other.
Such gorgeous clothes should not appear in slums.
After all, this is not the future generation. Even Sicong in the future generation will go to some fly restaurants in the alleys to eat.
Here, in a place like Chaoyang Street where sewage flows across the street, is dirty and messy, and where supplies are scarce, few dignitaries would come.
And there are no time-honored or specialty stores.
At this time, the young man was holding a folding fan in his hand, opening it and looking at the words on the folding fan.
All I have to do is write "I'm here to experience life" on my face.
The young gentleman's face was rosy and he was in high spirits. Although he was looking at the fan, his eyes wandered and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The other three people didn't speak at this time, just drinking their own milk, but their eyes were sharp.
At this time, Lin Ke paid more attention to the three middle-aged people with different body types.
It can be seen that these three people should be officials with not very high positions.
But as the saying goes, the king of hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with.
This kind of petty official is the most difficult to serve.
At this moment, the young man at the other table said softly: "Waiter, come on!"
"Here we come!" Lin Ke responded, turned around, took the milk bottle, and filled the young man with milk.
He has been chopping firewood, fetching water or cleaning for a long time. This is the first time he has served someone like this, so he is a little uncomfortable, but it doesn't hurt.
He came to the young master with a milk bottle and shouted like Bai Zhantang: "Hey, sir, the milk is here!"
The young prince smiled and nodded to Lin Ke, as if he wanted to show his gentleness and elegance.
But coupled with that childish face, it just makes people feel nondescript, a bit like a child pretending to be an adult.
After feeding, the hall became much quieter.
It's just that at the table of three people, the food is ordered, and the young man calls for more milk from time to time.
It didn’t take long for the food to be ready!
"Lin Ke, Bai Zhantang, serve!"
"Here we go!"
"coming!"
Bai Zhantang's voice sounded from the backyard. It turned out that he had gone to the toilet before and was squatting now.
Lin Ke and Bai Zhantang, who didn't wash their hands, finished serving the dishes. The dishes on both tables were the same. Speaking of which, this Tongfu Restaurant only had a few dishes. Both sides ordered everything on the menu.
"Sir, the dishes are ready, please use them slowly!"
Bai Zhantang greeted, and then the two of them set the dishes and walked to the kitchen together.
"Lin Ke, you said the meat tonight seems to be very fragrant. Did the shopkeeper hold back on it before?"
As Bai Zhantang left, he asked quietly: "The ones before were not so fragrant! Did the shopkeeper say that the best dishes he cooked before were fake?"
Isn't that nonsense... Lin Ke smiled, the shopkeeper is so stingy, how can he cook the best dishes for you?
Then he replied: "That's probably not the case. The shopkeeper treats you as his brother and son, so he will definitely prepare the best dishes for you... Maybe the quality of the meat is different today."
"Brothers are brothers, and you are my son..." Bai Zhantang rolled his eyes.
"You said I am the shopkeeper's son?" Lin Ke rolled his eyes: "My father is the Minister of Rites, don't make trouble."
"You? Just you? Then my father is still the Holy Emperor!"