C100 (1/2)
The street was in an uproar, the owner of the autumn moon wine shop, Tong Song, leaned on the counter, looking through the open door towards the end of the limestone street.
In front of the newly opened Mountain Note, there was still a sea of people. The normally arrogant servants in the main house pushed their way through without a care for their status, wanting to reserve a table for their young miss or their mistress on the second floor.
Tong Song knocked on the pipe in his hand, and turned to look at his own shop.
In the store that should have been bustling with noise and excitement, three old customers, who could be counted on one hand, had all come without a choice due to the lack of a seat in Mountain Note.
Da Chun wiped off his sweat, excitedly rushing out from the kitchen and presented the long plate he was holding to Tong Song: ”Boss, it's done! I was able to cook all the dishes tasted by my Mountain Note! ”
Tong Song took off the cover on the plate, glanced at it, and nodded: ”Immediately add me on the list. From today onwards, every customer that comes to the shop will send a pot of Snow Flower Eagle, two plates of Phoenix Soup, and if you order a new dish, you will get half the price, giving it away as a gift.”
”This …” Da Chun was startled, ”Boss, we are in a business where we are at a disadvantage!”
Tong Song said slowly: ”All these years, I have accumulated some experience, she is a new married woman from the Wellhead Village, I wonder if she has the strength to fight with me!”
Isn't that woman called Jin Xiaolou just some new tricks?
Tong Song took a deep breath.
No matter how new the pattern is, it will get old. Only with a thick base can it stand. His Autumn Moon Wine's Snowflake Condor and Phoenix Soup were once the best, and now that they were given to each other for free, he didn't believe that he would not be able to compete with that mere Mountain Note.
Just as he was thinking, he saw that there was suddenly a commotion at the Mountain Note entrance. The people who were originally walking towards the shop stopped and stood in front of the door, forming a group.
In the Mountain Note backyard, Jin Xiaolou was wiping the Lin'er's face with a small handkerchief.
The Lin'er knew how to crawl, and donned the tiger's head and clothes that Gui Zhi had personally sewn, and climbed on the bed using both hands and feet, with Gao Lang following behind him.
The two children, one big and one small, were playing some game of cat and mouse. Their faces were blooming. Jin Xiaolou washed the handkerchief in the warm water, wiped off the front one, and then went to wipe off the back one.
Seeing that, Gao Lang did not care that Jin Xiaolou had just wiped his face. He moved his face closer as well, and wrapped his hands around Jin Xiaolou's neck, pressing them against her body.
His wet face was stuck to Jin Xiaolou's.
Jin Xiaolou hugged Lin'er in her arms, unable to push him away. As a result, Gao Lang became even more nervous, used both hands and feet, and like a sloth, almost hung from Jin Xiaolou's body.
Gao Lang's cherry lips were right under Jin Xiaolou's nose, and all of his hot breath was spraying onto his ears, ”My wife, I want to hug you too.”
Jin Xiaolou's entire body went numb. Just as she could do nothing about Gao Lang, the door of the room was pushed open, and Huang Guizhi rushed in anxiously: ”Little Lou, it's bad, Jin Family is here!”
After she finished speaking, she could clearly see what was happening in front of her. Gui Qi's face turned red, and in the next moment, Jin Xiaolou had already shoved the Lin'er in her arms into her hands.
Pushing Gao Lang onto the bed, Jin Xiaolou rushed out.
On the bed, Gao Lang pulled the blanket over his face, and spoke in a low voice, though it was unknown if he was talking to Gui Qi or to himself, ”My wife is like this.
Gui Qi felt goosebumps all over his body. He didn't know why, but he felt like Gao Lang was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.
However, after thinking about it, with Gao Lang's looks, even if he ate Jin Xiaolou dry, Little Lou would not be at a disadvantage.
With that thought, he calmly carried Lin'er and followed the house.
Once Jin Xiaolou went out, sshe saw Madame Wu sitting outside the door crying loudly. Madame Zhou's eyes were red and swollen, upon seeing Jin Xiaolou, he immediately shouted out loud: ”Fellow villagers, when you are passing by, come over here and judge!”
”Jin Xiaolou, the owner of this shop, is the niece of my blood relatives. She was raised by us, and now that she has grown up and made a living, even though she earned money in the city, he has to break off all ties with her aunt and her grandmother!”
After Madame Zhou finished howling, he immediately gave Madame Xu a meaningful glance. It was just that the Madame Xu was the mother of the Palace Young Madame and was a person with status, so no matter what, she could not bring her face down. She just stood there like a wooden stake, not moving at all.
”How did our Jin Family raise such an unfilial thing!” Her snot and tears were flowing down Madame Wu's face, her skin and flesh that was as thin as firewood were trembling from her sobs, making people feel pity for her. ”I laid on the bed sick and didn't care about it, I didn't send any money home, what have I done to commit a sin to pawn such a granddaughter!”
The customers eating in the restaurant also surrounded them, and the entrance of the restaurant was blocked so tightly that not even a drop of water could trickle through.
The people in the crowd shouted, and all of them began to denounce Jin Xiaolou.
Jin Xiaolou did not blame them, after all, they were only looking at the scene before them.