Agui shouted and quickly put down what he was doing and rushed forward.
"Second boss, you are finally back!"
"Ahem, go and ask the chef to cook some vegetables for me, and then open a jar of good wine!"
"Well, Master Chen may have taken a rest..."
"He dares! Go tell him, if I can't eat something hot, hey! He won't even want to eat the food from Fengdelou!"
Zhou Shi narrowed his eyes and looked coldly at Zhu Benshan who was acting crazy.
This man was in his twenties, an age when men should have sought fame and started a family, but he had contracted a lot of bad habits and didn't look like he was the master of the family at all.
At this time, he also saw Zhou Shi standing behind the counter.
He pushed Agui away who was standing in front of him, took a step forward, pointed at Zhou Shi's nose and cursed: "I told you why you smelled a smell when you came in, and the dog you chased out ran back again."
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"Second boss, listen to me, Shopkeeper Zhou is..." Agui stopped between the two again, trying to smooth things over, but was pushed away by him again.
"Straight bitch! If you hadn't been greedy for the money on the counter, I wouldn't have been detained! Pack your bags and get out, or else I'll sue the government and let you spend a few days in jail!"
The pungent smell of wine made Zhou Shi frown. Although Zhu Benshan was usually arrogant, he didn't hate him as much as his brother. It seemed that he hadn't sobered up yet.
Zhou Shi was scolded so badly by him that he didn't feel any emotion in his heart. He ignored the index finger pointing at him and said to Agui: "Help the second boss to go back and rest."
"Hey! Second boss, come on, go this way..."
"Don't stop me! That thief who is greedy for my ancestral property, I must teach him a lesson!"
Zhu Benshan was led out of the front hall by Agui while he was cursing. After a while, Agui came back and said with a mocking smile to Zhou Shi:
"Shopkeeper, look at this..."
He knew in his heart that Fengde Building was in a critical moment, and it could only be sustained by Zhou Shi. He was afraid that the shopkeeper would be scolded by his second boss, and he would get angry and go back to the countryside. Fengde Building was really lucky.
It’s almost over.
"It's okay if you're drunk. I'll argue with him tomorrow." Zhou Shi waved his hands and said, "The most important thing now is tomorrow."
How could Zhu Benshan's tricks, which he learned from the scoundrels in the market, be hidden from Zhou Shi, who had been born in two lifetimes? He could tell at a glance that the little bastard knew how embarrassing it was to be detained by a brothel, so he didn't
Dare to confront the shopkeeper and pretend to be drunk and get away with it.
"I'll educate him tomorrow. If he goes crazy now, I'm afraid it will delay the opening of the inn in the evening."
Zhou Shi and A Gui discussed the details of tomorrow's business together and settled the accounts. Finally, Zhou Shi said to A Gui in a discussion tone:
"From now on, when you go out for shopping and negotiation, please bring Liu Xiaosi with you."
Agui said doubtfully: "What are you taking him for? I can do it by myself."
"Let him learn from you, and I will take the time to teach him how to read and arithmetic. This little guy is very capable and honest. He has been working here for several years. He can't spend his whole life being a waiter."
"Well... I don't care, just don't delay the business of the store."
"No, haven't we found a few new waiters? There must be someone waiting in the waiting room." Zhou Shi added, "No, the people you hired can't even serve food, right?"
Agui smiled and said: "How can that be possible? Well, I will have a helper from now on."
Zhou Shi had been thinking about giving the fourth boy a promotion and a raise in salary before, but he suffered from the fact that the boy was dull, illiterate, and couldn't do other jobs. So he asked Agui to be his teacher.
"Liu Xiaosi is not stupid, and he is diligent. As long as he can learn half as much as Agui, he can be a big waiter in other restaurants."
After Zhou Shi and Agui discussed it, Agui went to rest first, while Zhou Shi read the account books at the counter for a while. After hearing the clock update, he went to the backyard and went around the room to make sure everyone was asleep.
After that, he returned to the room and sent a message to Mr. Mo in the secret room, saying that everything was ready.
At midnight, the ghost comes to the table.
The inn was a bit deserted tonight, with only two tables of ghosts except for a few people who had capsized.
The guys who capsized the boat were cheerful, and Zhou Shi took the opportunity to ask them about some things on the boat. After all, he was about to do business at the dock, so it would be good to know something about it.
"The most dangerous part of this big river is the Three Gorges. Even we old boat drivers have to be very alert in that canyon... But the mountains on both sides of the canyon are really beautiful. I have been there before.
I'm in the north, but I've never seen such beautiful mountains..."
The eldest one among them was quite talkative. Although he was illiterate and couldn't speak any elegant vocabulary, listening to his description, Zhou Shi felt that the majestic rivers and mountains were right in front of him.
"We who run boats are actually not afraid of rain, but afraid of the sun. There was not a single cloud on the sky that day, and the sun shone brightly down, making the river water as hot as if it was about to boil. Some young people don't know what the sun can do.
It's so scary that you can get dizzy in the sun on a boat, fall into the water and drown..."
He was talking with great joy, and the boatmen around him also cheered from time to time, which was quite lively.
Finally, the old boatman sighed: "Well, I used to think that running a boat was hard, and I thought about when I would save enough money to go back to my hometown and marry a wife. Now that I am dead, I want to run a boat again and see the beautiful mountains again...
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Everyone sighed. Zhou Shi said:
"You guys just landed in the river and became one with the river. Aren't you able to go and see wherever you want? You can also go all the way to the East China Sea and sit in the Dragon Palace!"
Hearing what he said, several crewmen became happy and drank a lot of wine.
The Yin wine that Ruan Hunxiong sent last time is about to bottom out, but fortunately, the Yin wine they made will be ready soon.
At three o'clock in the morning, Mr. Mo shouted, and the ghosts left through the door one after another.
What was left behind was a tall and thin man wearing a long gown.
At Mr. Mo's signal, Zhou Shi sat next to him and said kindly:
"My dear guest, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
The man seemed startled and stammered: "Who are you? Where are you?"
"Guest, this is the Yinhun Inn. I am the shopkeeper here, and my surname is Zhou."
"Yinghun, could it be that... I am dead?"
Zhou Shi nodded confidently.
"This..." The man bit his lip and seemed to curse in a low voice, "Oh, I haven't finished this matter yet, why now... Oh!"
Seeing that this guest seemed unwilling, Zhou Shi said quickly: "Don't worry, if you need anything, I'll do it for you. That's what we as walkers do."
"Help me..." The man thought for a while and said, "This is the only thing we can do. In this case, you have to go..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Zhou Shi, who had accumulated a little experience, smiled and waved his hand, "You have to tell me first how you died and what you did before you died."
The man said warily: "Is this necessary?"
"Yes."
"This...is like this, I remember I was copying books for someone in the house..."