"Don't say that! We are all enjoying it, and you have been working hard. It is only because we are embarrassed! It is so late, and it has delayed your rest from get off work! I'm sorry! It's all my fault."
Zhou Shukang's "apology" opening remarks were very pleasant.
The sour eyes that had taken off their eye makeup showed a clear smile and answered:
"It's like this. I've eaten noodles at Jiu Shi before, and it's the same as what I ordered today. It's very delicious!"
"Um, so what?"
Sour still maintained his smile and continued to ask.
"I am Muyi, the master of magic. That's what my two apprentices call me there. They are 'Jiaoyue' and 'Yaoqiao'. They built the nearby 'Minghuo Department' and other places. And we once We went to "Jiushi" for dinner together. That night, I heard a girl say this:
'Although they are both fish, their properties are different and their uses are also different: the meat-eating ones can only be eaten by people to satisfy people's stomachs. This is called 'looking practical', which is not good-looking, but delicious. , which can be regarded as his advantage.”
"'It looks beautiful, but its meat is not delicious. It is used for ornamental purposes and is naturally treated favorably. Only if it is beautiful enough can those who look at it feel beautiful, happy and relaxed!' Next, isn't it? That’s what I said? Am I right?”
Suansuan picked up the second half of the sentence accurately, and Xinwu heard it really well. This voice was the voice of the beautiful girl who was the "taster" of the first girl that day.
"So, you are not the female assistant of 'Nine Foods', but the 'taster', right?"
Zhou Shukang corrected his judgment.
"Yes, she left with someone else."
Suan still smiled brightly, but the chef behind him put his hands deep into his two trouser pockets and pinched himself tightly, as if a thin layer of ice had formed on his face.
"Then, can I ask who she left with?"
Zhou Shukang asked.
"This is the person who wrote the couplet."
Suansuan rolled his eyes up to the ceiling, looked at Zhou Shukang squarely, kept smiling, and replied.
"Is it that couplet? The first couplet is 'Fish forget each other in the rivers and lakes'."
Zhou Shukang read out the first couplet.
"'People forget each other in Taoism'."
Sour and memorized the second line.
"Yes! I have seen this couplet, but who wrote this couplet?"
Zhou Shukang asked.
Xin Wu on the side has been sweating since he heard "fishes forget each other in the world"; and Wang Li in Eva's watch is even more excited and wants to break through the dial and jump out.
"yes……"
Suan Suan, who had been answering fluently, suddenly became hesitant, as if she had something to hide. She turned around and glanced into the eyes of the chef.
The chef, on the other hand, became visibly nervous. What was just "indifference" and "ice" seemed to have turned into fear and confusion.
"It's... a man named 'Emperor Minghuang'. Originally, all the properties in that area belonged to him, and he has always been very kind to the people here. I also work under him, and I am responsible for providing food to each restaurant." Restaurant, carry out the work of 'selecting meals and tasting'.
At that time, he would give a couplet to every new store he moved into. And this couplet was written by him and specially given to 'Jiushi'. "
"Then, what does that 'Emperor Minghuang' care about? Why did the female assistant leave with him later?"
Zhou Shukang asked.
"It was very prosperous there before there were any 'open fire places' or 'dark embers places'... there were two centers in Minghuang: the administrative and cultural center was in Mingqi; the economic and trade center was in Xinghuang.
In Xinghuang, logistics and business are very lively, and the river network and highway transportation are developed:
Especially the water and land terminals are extremely busy! That is, later on, it was near the store location of 'Jiu Shi'.
There are "Jiu Shi" as the center. There are two bridges in the west of Cambodia. From east to west, there are bamboo shop, carpenter shop, blacksmith shop, tobacco shop, department store, Nanhuo, groceries, sugar shop and hardware store. Rice shops, bookstores, theaters, hotels, restaurants with various specialties, sesame cakes, deep-fried dough sticks and crispy cakes, pharmacies, clinics, hospitals; there are also banks, post offices, photo shops, cloth factories, dyeing shops, barber shops, tofu shops, and sewing shops. shop. There is Gongjiatang in the south, Zhangjiacun in the east, Beimiao Bridge in the north, and Daxing Bridge in the west. How prosperous it was!
However, it was not until later that a man named "Da Ni" came and I don't know what he said to this "Minghuang Emperor". As a result, everything here was demolished; the river was filled in, the shops were moved, and the The only people left were those who drove cars and could still make a few 'errands' money, while other businesses and people moved away one by one. The place became deserted and deserted, and I didn’t know how to survive. "
"Then, this 'Emperor Minghuang' is too brainless! He has done this, why does the female assistant follow him?"
Zhou Shukang asked.
"This has to be asked about Dumu, Da Ni's apprentice. It was he who convinced her that she completely lost confidence in whether the chef still had a future, and turned to work for the Minghuang Emperor. The Emperor Minghuang took a fancy to her ability and gave her the care of Xinghuang. The master was angry and had a fight with him. As a result, he was completely kicked out of Xinghuang. ; And there is no business in Mingqi, it is all officials and employees, and there is no place for him.
I thought he was pitiful, so I brought him here. That's it. What else do you want to know? "
Having said so much in one breath, Zhou Shukang felt regretful and said:
"That's such a pity! I know about Da Ni, and I'm not surprised that he can do this; but this 'single tree'..."
'Dumu, you were once my apprentice; I'm sorry! I didn't know he would bring you such a result! "
After all, Xinwu couldn't sit down and just be a "listener" anymore. He stood up and answered:
"I am Taoist Master Xinwu. Dumu has been my disciple before he met Da Ni. I arranged for him to practice in the country of 'Shiyi', but I don't know how he ended up in that 'Interesting World'. Based on his character, he will not let himself be 'idle': As for being successfully accepted as a disciple by Da Ni, it is indeed because I did not tell him more about 'what is good' and 'what is evil' ; This missing lesson, during the days when he was 'picking up lost things', he probably saw too much evil in his eyes and accumulated it, so he had some bad thoughts! It's mine that he went astray later. Wrong! I apologize to you here!"
"What are you talking about? It's obvious that this 'Emperor Minghuang' has a soft ear, doesn't know right from wrong, and doesn't know what's good or bad!"
Wang Li secretly expressed his dissatisfaction for Xin Wu in Eva's watch.
Xin Wu felt it, and when he apologized to Suan Suan and Master Shifu, he lowered his head and quickly glanced at Eva's watch.
"Ah! Let me tell you, it's already three o'clock in the morning! You don't want to come and apologize here. Why don't you just come here today and go to rest, and we can talk again tomorrow when you are free, okay?"
Eva misunderstood, thinking that hard work was making her make excuses, and breaking this "embarrassing" scene, she quickly raised her watch and looked at the dial, interrupting the question and answer session.
