Li Datou came to Su's house and waited outside the big house for a while before Mrs. Li came out of the house.
"Second sister, things are a little bad. Business is booming across the street."
"That dilapidated building has been deserted for a long time, and the business has improved after being placed in her hands. Is she the reincarnation of Tao Zhugong?" Mrs. Li had just given medicine to Su Sihai, and she was still holding the medicine bowl in her hand.
"It's pretty much the same. It came back to life within a few days. Now if you want to have a meal at the bottom of the lake, you have to queue for a long time in advance. But they would rather queue at the opposite side than come to Sihailou to eat."
Li's delicate brows furrowed, this incident was beyond her expectation. She originally wanted to marry her to Black Rock City, firstly to allow her to leave the Su family, and secondly, to open up the road from the Su family to Blackstone City, but
Who would have thought that she would be robbed by bandits on the way. Now she was given a restaurant that was on the verge of bankruptcy, hoping to drive her out of Black Rock City. Unexpectedly, she actually saved the restaurant.
It's really a dog-skin plaster, and I can't get rid of it no matter what.
"Second sister, please think of a way. If this continues, Sihailou will collapse first."
"You are really useless. You can't make the restaurant business better, and you can't ruin it either!" Li frowned and uttered three words: "Look for Du Mao!"
The word Du Mao seemed to have an inexplicable magical power. Li Datou was agitated and said: "Second sister, have you thought about it? Du Mao... But it's easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. Do we really want to have anything to do with him?"
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"Professional people do professional things. No matter what Du Mao is, he just wants money. Give him money."
Li Datou finally plucked up the courage. He took one hundred taels of silver from Mrs. Li and wrapped it in furoshiki. After leaving Su's house, he walked east along the alley, and when he saw the river, he walked north...
After walking about seven or eight miles, I saw a big locust tree in front of me.
There was a courtyard with gray walls behind the big locust tree. After Li Datou walked in, he paused for a moment before mustering up the courage to knock on the door.
"what!"
A big head poked out from the door, with a bald head and a black face, and eyes as big as copper bells.
"Looking for... looking for Mr. Du."
Datou looked around, and finally set his sights on Li Datou: "Come in."
Wrapping the blue cloth bundle in his arms, Li Datou walked into the yard. There were a row of weapon racks, stone mills, stone locks and other items in the yard. Seven or eight big men were sitting in the sun, everyone with their arms bare.
Practicing with the equipment in the yard.
"Old Scar, a brother from Youzhou will come over in two days. Please give me some support."
"What line of work do you do?"
"On the water, I just robbed a batch of goods. I plan to avoid the limelight here. I have a lot of things on hand..."
Seeing Li Datou come in, the conversation suddenly started, and almost everyone's eyes fell on Li Datou. Li Datou's body was instantly shorter by a few inches. The sun was shining brightly in the sky, but there was a sense of coldness coming out of nowhere.
There is a locust tree in the courtyard, which casts a shade, and under the shade sits a man in a white robe. He is wearing a robe and drinking tea, which is completely opposite to the naked man in the courtyard.
There is movement and silence, but this calm silence can suppress the noisy movement.
Only when his eyes were on Li Datou, Li Datou felt as if he was being watched by a tiger.
This man was Du Mao, who was named Wencai and nicknamed Lazy Big Chong. It is said that his arms were as strong as a thousand pounds and he once killed a tiger in the forest with his bare fists.
Li Datou almost moved to the other party step by step and placed the baggage in his hand on the stone table.
"Master Du, could I do you a little favor..."
Du Mao weighed it with his hands and estimated the approximate amount. He waved it to the big man with the scar on his face: "Scar, help me handle the matter."
"Come on, Master, just watch it!"
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That afternoon, two people appeared at the door of Hudilao.
"This is it."
"Business is pretty good."
"Let's go in and take a look."
The two stepped into the door and after lunch, the business was actually pretty good. The two waited for a long time before their turn came.
This is an earthen stove, with firewood filled underneath, and a flue to guide the smoke out. In this way, there is no way to arrange seats on the second floor, and there are only about thirty seats on the first floor.
"Brother Scar, the business here is so good, and the food is really as delicious as what is said outside." asked the man with a green snake tattooed on his face.
"Oh, we brothers have traveled all over the country and eaten dragon liver and phoenix marrow. It's delicious. How delicious it can be."
"There's no need to worry, we brothers will try it first and then do anything."
Su Ying was feeding pigeons in the backyard. She asked Xiaodie to go to Toad Village and raise carrier pigeons for Cheng Dalei for a few days. Finally, the three carrier pigeons were able to travel between the two places.
This is supposed to facilitate contact when there is something important, but Cheng Dalei can't write three letters a day. If there are some things, forget it, but things like "have you eaten?" "have you slept?" and "have you taken a shower" should be done every day.
Question? Now Su Ying feels that until now, she has not figured out Cheng Dalei's tricks.
In the hall, Scar and Green Snake ate huge chunks of food, sweating profusely.
The meat slices tumbled in the red soup, the peppercorns rolled to the side, and the chopsticks fell from the sky, chasing the meatballs in the soup.
"Brother Scar, please spare me this time."
"Hi, there is order between elders and younger ones."
"Boy, please add some more meat."
After having enough food and wine, the two of them fell down on the stool and burped, looking at each other as if they both remembered something.
"Wow, rat!"
Scar suddenly shouted and waved his sleeves on the pot, and a dead mouse was thrown into the pot and rolled on the bottom of the pot.
There was a big uproar, and several other guests in the restaurant screamed. When they looked through the pot and saw the dead rat with exposed teeth in the pot, they all made disgusting expressions.
Outside the door, two brothers, Liao Jia and Liao Yi, came over first.
Liao Jia looked at the two people with red faces, and then at the rat rolling in the pot, with a sneer appearing on the corner of his mouth.
"Brother, this trick is really old. You only eat the mouse at the end. You two have really bad eyesight."
"Yes, my brother's eyesight has been poor since he was a child. He ate half of this mouse."
Liao Jia was startled. The rat in the pot was clearly intact.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw Scar pull out a short knife from his body, pick out the mouse from the pot, stare at Liao Jia like a demonstrator, slowly put the mouse in his mouth, and chew the skin and bones together.
Everyone who saw this scene was shocked, and the acid in their stomachs surged up. They almost fled the restaurant, and they could hear the sound of vomiting halfway.
However, Liao Jia's expression remained unchanged and he stared at the scar until he bit down half of it and then spit out the dead mouse.
"Oh, it turns out you are... hooligans!"
"It's easy to talk about." Scar picked his teeth with a short knife, and then raised his hand to Liao Jia: "This brother is..."
Liao Jia clasped his hands into his fists, breathed out from his Dantian, and uttered two words.