Volume 14 Chapter 42 (2/2)
Lin Xi nodded in silence, finished all the things in front of him, then raised his head, looked at the old man, and said slowly: ”actually, I came to Zhongzhou city this time to revenge for my friend. He fought at the front, but he was betrayed by his own men from behind. ”
The old man was a little sluggish. He finally understood why Lin Xi was in such a mood.
”This betrayer is in Zhongzhou city?” The ordinary old man looked at Lin Xi and asked.
Lin Xi nodded and looked at the old shop full of smoke again. ”You've been guarding this shop for so many years. I think it's very hard. Have you ever done well, but was suspected, and your reputation was damaged?”
The old man's expression became more dignified, he thought quietly, then nodded: ”yes, in the twenty sixth year of the founding of the state of Yunqin, there was a problem with a batch of fish, and the people who sold it to me didn't know. Then the people who ate fish balls here vomited and diarrhea, and fell ill a lot. There were people who were not right with me, who took the opportunity to let out the wind, saying that I made fish balls, and at night I secretly chopped dead fish. ”
Lin Xi said, ”what happened later?”
”Later, the business fell sharply, relying on the care of the old customers, still doing the same as before, and then naturally slowly survived.”
”You didn't try to make fish balls with dead fish. It's different from the fish balls made with fresh fish?”
”No. To doubt that you will eventually doubt, even if the taste is obviously different, you will also doubt that you have done something. Believe in you, and you will be good in the end. ”
”You have a good taste. I'm full. Thank you for talking to me so much.” Lin Xi slowly raised her head in such a conversation, looked at the old man and smiled.
Seeing that Lin Xi is ready to leave, the old man's wrinkled face reappears a trace of worry. ”I'm just an old man half buried in the ground, but I'm familiar with the Zhongzhou city. If you want to go there and where there are problems in the Zhongzhou City, I can help you.”
”You should be able to help me a lot.” Lin Xi seems to have figured out something completely. The smile on her face is a little cold, but she is more confident, ”don't sell things to people in the mansion.”
When the old man heard this, he was a little shocked and doubted whether he had heard it wrong.
However, Lin Xi has looked at him and seriously said, ”it's far away from Zhuque Avenue, but maybe the people in dichou's mansion will come here to buy things I don't want to sell things to the people in the mansion. ”
This hundred year old shop is not Lin Xi's, but the old man's. at the moment, Lin Xi's words also have no request, which seems a bit overbearing. However, the old man is cold and proud to bow slightly, ”unless I die Otherwise, nothing in the shop will be sold to the people in the mansion. ”
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Lin Xi left Hezi lane and walked back to the Leaf Inn in the deep night.
In the morning of the next day, he ate a bowl of fried fish cover noodles in a noodle shop beside the inn. Then, like a tourist, he wandered in the streets of Zhongzhou City, looked at the scenery of Zhongzhou City, and looked at the fireworks in Zhongzhou city.
It's not only places of interest, but also rice shops, vegetable markets and meat farms He has been interested in these markets.
All the dignitaries who are looking at whether he will do any extreme behavior seem to do nothing when they see him. They are just like the most idle idlers in Zhongzhou city in a day.
But soon, while most of the nobles were still waiting for his movements carefully, the people of Di Fu found the difference first.
They found that when they went out of the mansion and walked on the street, the street would become very cold.
This kind of coldness comes from the avoidance of all people along the way, just like the people coming out of the mansion are carrying some kind of terrible plague.
Many shop owners close for various reasons when they see people from far away.
Even the vegetable vendors in the vegetable market, when they see the people in the di mansion, will directly pick up the burden and leave.
Even some traders who didn't know the people in the di mansion would tell him quietly that the one who came here was the one in the di mansion.
The people who came out to buy things in Difu began to be unable to buy anything.
In this day, after walking three blocks, six or seven Li, and not even buying a green vegetable or a piece of meat, a loyal housekeeper who came out from the Difu to purchase finally couldn't help but seize the collar of the boss of a cooked vegetable shop who often visited in his daily life and said angrily, ”how can you bully people like this If we don't do business, it's OK. But what's the reason that we only sell to others and not to us? Do we want to starve all the people in our house? ”
The neckline is all greasy. In his fifties, the owner of the balding delicatessen shop usually knows the housekeeper a little. But now, facing the housekeeper who is a good housekeeper, the boss of the delicatessen shop shakes his head coldly: ”it's my freedom to sell to whom I like to do business and who I don't like to sell. You also have two legs. Where to go is also your freedom. Zhongzhou city is so big, you can go everywhere. Why do you stay in diefu? ”