Chapter 245: The blood debt is ahead, the secret of Yinling
"Yinling..."
Zhou Shi closed his eyes and thought for a while, and suddenly realized: This is the place where Budu owes a blood debt!
In the fifteenth year of Tianzuo, seven babies were killed in Yinling City...
It is now Tianzuo's eighteenth year, three years ago.
"Shopkeeper, this city is not big, why don't I go in first and have a look?" Agui suggested.
"Okay... no, let's stay together and don't get separated."
Agui didn't understand the shopkeeper's concerns, but he didn't object.
The walls of this small city are less than half as high as Jiangdu, and there are only two lazy guards at the door. They let Zhou Shi's motorcade pass at a glance.
Zhou used the art of looking at the Qi and found that there was nothing unusual about the Qi veins in the city.
"Shopkeeper, let's find a place to eat first!"
"That's right, I haven't seen Oil Star in a few days!"
Zhou Shi persuaded patiently: "Let's find a place to settle the luggage and carriage first, and then eat. I'll treat myself."
"Okay!"
They walked and inquired all the way, but this city seemed to have the habit of taking a siesta, and there was not a soul on the street. Thanks to the inn's waiter's guidance, they were able to sit down at the largest restaurant in the city before noon.
"What's the biggest, it's not as good as Fengde Building." A waiter complained.
"Okay, at least there are no other customers, and there are enough seats. Storekeeper, bring the menu quickly!"
"Hey, here it comes... Sir, our store doesn't have a menu, the dishes are all hung on the wall."
Zhou Shi looked up and saw that there were only four lines written on the wall - rice, stewed wild vegetables, stir-fried pork, jar wine.
"Hey, you open a restaurant with only three dishes?"
"Don't be surprised, guests. Our Yinling City is only so big. If you, guests, don't like to eat, please go ahead. We still have business to do later."
"What do you mean, can't you drive the guests away?"
"How can you do business like this!"
When the store owner saw that they were getting angry, he casually said "If you like it or not," he walked back to the kitchen.
"Shopkeeper, look..."
Zhou Shi signaled the guys to calm down: "There's something wrong with this place."
He knocked on the table, stirring up a layer of dust.
"Look, this place is so dirty. No one has sat there for at least seven or eight days. Business is so bad, and this store owner is so confident in his words, how does he support himself?
"After all, we are foreigners. Don't cause trouble. Let's go."
The guys were so angry that they were about to get up and leave when a group of young men broke into the store.
"Old Wang, bring the food and wine quickly!"
Several people sat down on the seats that Zhou Shi and the others had just vacated. As soon as the leader let go, two paper tickets were scattered on the table casually.
"Hey, here we come!" The shopkeeper named Wang put on a smile and ran over quickly to collect the tickets, "Masters, wait a moment, the food and drinks will be here soon!"
Agui whispered in Zhou Shi's ear: "That's not a bank note."
"How can there be such a small banknote?"
When the store owner saw them standing at the door, his face suddenly changed: "You are eating but not eating, and not leaving yet. What are you doing? Don't block other customers!"
"Hey, you..." A grumpy guy rolled up his sleeves and was about to argue with him, but was pushed from behind.
"Give me! Don't block the door!"
"Old Wang, bring out the good wine and delicious food!"
"I was here first, don't grab it!"
Zhou Shi and his entourage watched dumbfoundedly as a large group of people poured into the store, filling the entire room in an instant.
These hungry diners were old and young, but there was not a woman in sight. Those who came early had a bench to sit on, while those who came later had to stand. Even so, dozens of people were blocked outside the store.
And the number of people is still increasing.
"Damn, you're late again!" Behind Agui, a hunchbacked old man holding his grandson cursed.
While Fengdelou and his party were still surprised, Agui was the first to react and said: "If we don't leave, I'm afraid we won't be able to squeeze out!"
After they struggled through the crowd and arrived at a quiet corner of the street, Chen Dayou wiped his sweat and said loudly:
"I have worked in Fengde Building for more than 20 years, and I have never seen such a battle! Shopkeeper, I don't think we should go to Beijing. We can just open a store here. Can the business in Beijing be better than here?
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Zhou Shi knew he was joking, so he waved his hand and said, "You go back to the inn first, and let Agui buy something to eat, but don't drink."
"Shopkeeper, how about you?"
"I'm going to find out if the road to the north is easy, and I'll come back later. Don't hang out after eating, and have a good rest."
Agui agreed and led the guys away.
Zhou Shi looked at the crowd pushing and shoving at the door of the restaurant, rubbed his temples, and turned into a secluded alley.
"Dashu, go to the store and see if there is anything unusual about the customers, the store owner, and the kitchen."
"Yes."
In the blink of an eye, Yin Bing Dashu came back to report:
"I didn't see the abnormality, but the food they ate was really substantial. A plate of fried pork was as big as a basin, at least five pounds! And the wine they drank was also good, very clear, and so fragrant..." <
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"How much does such a plate of meat cost?"
"What they pay is not cash or copper coins, but palm-sized receipts with words like 'meat one tael', rice one tael' and wine one tael written on them."
What are these, food stamps? Zhou Shi scratched his head and then asked: "Where is the kitchen?"
"The kitchen...there is nothing unusual. There are just a lot of pig fans hanging on the beams, bundles of wild vegetables piled at the base of the wall, and a large rice vat."
"Are you sure those are pigs?"
"Of course I'm sure, isn't a pig just... a pig? It has a fat head, big ears and four hooves. Can this be mistaken?"
I seem to be a little allergic... Sigh, everything in this world makes me nervous.
"But the clothes they wear seem a bit strange."
"Oh?"
"Shopkeeper, think about it, have you ever seen so many people wearing silk in Jiangdu City?"
"Well..." Zhou Shi carefully thought about the person he had just seen, and he discovered something was wrong:
The first few young men who entered the store had dirty hair and spoke rudely. They looked like idle men walking around the streets, but they were wearing silk clothes that only well-off families could afford.
What's going on? This Yinling City itself is not big, and it is not built on any traffic thoroughfare. How can it be so rich?
"Also, I heard those customers saying, 'Hurry up and eat, otherwise you won't be able to get a good seat if you go late.'"
"Good location? Are they going to the theater?"
"Well, maybe, in short, they flocked to the restaurant, it seems, just to eat quickly and go to the theater, and they only eat such good food on days when they go to the theater."
"Stay back."
Zhou Shi took back the big tree, released the small forest, and said to it:
"I want to release Budu, please help me keep an eye on it and don't let it play tricks."
The monk wearing a bamboo hat emerged from the yin energy, put his hands together, and bowed to Zhou.
"Amitabha, dare I ask the donor..."
Before he could finish speaking, a red wedding dress with complicated patterns was put on it.
"There's no need for polite words. If you don't cross, I order you to answer me, what's the problem in Yinling City?"
Even with the red hijab covering her head, Zhou Shi was very sure that Du was smiling.