Shu Yingran chewed a skewer of Bobo chicken and a piece of braised pork, then said loudly:
"That's because they don't know how to cook such delicious dishes. Not to mention Tongfang County, I don't think there are any in the entire Yunluo Prefecture! Don't worry, I will go and feast on them tomorrow. Those who haven't eaten are not lucky. ”
The classmate nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you are right."
"Are you students from the county school?"
Just as Shu Yingran and his classmates were planning how to let other students know the deliciousness of braised vegetables and Bobo Chicken when they go to the county school tomorrow, a middle-aged man suddenly walked up to their table.
Shu Yingran looked up and saw this middle-aged man with a humble and elegant temperament, followed by a servant with a long knife on his back and a fierce look on his face.
It’s not simple at first glance!
Shu Yingran took out the handkerchief he brought with him and wiped his mouth, and answered him: "Yes, we are all county school students."
"Can I sit here?" The middle-aged man pointed to the empty seat at their table.
"Please help yourself." Shu Yingran continued to eat braised pork, and at the same time looked at the middle-aged man curiously and said: "Your accent doesn't sound like someone from Tongfang County, nor does it sound like someone from Yunluo Prefecture. Are you from other places?"
"Today is my first time coming to Tongfang County. I heard that Tongfang County has beautiful people and outstanding people. I have long wanted to come and see it." The middle-aged man said with a kind smile.
"That's right. There are many delicious and fun places in Tongfang County."
Shu Yingran deeply agreed with his words and recommended enthusiastically: "You have to take good care of the pastries from Wuxiangzhai, the dishes from Yuelailou, the Hanlu Temple outside the city, and the braised vegetables and Bobo chicken from Miss Shen's stall. Try it and have fun with it.”
Lin Jinglan glanced at him, this guy was not here for fun.
The middle-aged man at their table is named Gan Lixin, and he is a student of First Assistant Wen Chengyuan.
He came to Tongfang County at this time, most likely to take up the post of magistrate of Tongfang County.
But with Gan Lixin's qualifications and political achievements, he is more than enough to be a prefect of a state. If he is really the new magistrate of Tongfang County, it seems that Emperor Zhaoxing's suppression of the first assistant Wen Chengyuan has already begun.
"Guest, your dishes." Shen Zhiyao placed the cold braised vegetables and Bobo chicken ordered by Gan Lixin on the table.
"Thank you." Gan Lixin moved the bowl of cold skin to the side of the seat and turned his head to look at the swordsman's servant standing behind him: "You can sit down and eat too."
The swordsman's servant said nothing and sat down on the bench half given by Gan Lixin.
On the small tabletop, for a while, there was the sound of chewing food, and the sounds of Shu Yingran and Gan Lixin talking.
What a social cow!
While selling vegetables, Shen Zhiyao saw Shu Yingran chatting happily with the middle-aged man. They didn't feel unfamiliar at all, so she sighed with a smile.
"You! New here, right?"
Shen Zhiyao had just finished weighing braised vegetables for a diner, when five figures elongated by the setting sun cast in front of her stall.
She raised her eyes and saw a familiar face among the three, then put the kitchen knife on the chopping board.
"Which of you is looking for trouble?"
"What are you looking for? This is our Master Biao, don't you know?"
Among the five people, a man about eighteen years old, with an upturned braid and a gangster look on his face spoke arrogantly.
Shen Zhiyao glanced at the man who was supported by them and was about eighteen years old.
"I don't know, I haven't heard of it."
"I didn't know that our Mr. Biao still dared to set up a stall at the pier!"
"Stop talking nonsense and tell the truth. What are you going to do?" Shen Zhiyao lost her patience when she saw the customers who were coming to buy food were blocked from the stall.
The man with braided hair stretched out his hand and said, "You don't understand the rules of the dock? It's five taels a month, please come up with it."
First money?
Oh, protection money.
"If you don't want money, get out of here and don't affect my business, or I'll report you to the government."
"Bad guy, go away!" Shen Yueya stood up from the bench, clenched his fists, and waved them away.
Seeing this, the man known as Brother Biao raised his hand and waved it very coolly: "Since you are so ignorant of promotion, brothers, smash it for me!"
"stop!"
"Ah! It hurts!"
"Well, my waist!"
When Lin Jinglan saw that those who collected the initial money were about to take action, she just shouted and stood up to help.
But I saw the four people behind "Brother Biao". When their hands just touched Shen Zhiyao's stall, Shen Zhiyao held the stall with one hand and picked up a small stool with the other hand, like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves. The five people were given waists, one waist and one bench.
Knocking those five people directly to the ground.
"Ah, this is indeed Miss Shen." Shu Yingran opened her mouth wide, thinking of the last time she was pushed by Shen Zhiyao and slid on her butt.
The little old man silently took back the poison he was about to spread.
Gan Lixin stopped wanting the swordsman to take action.
"It's just you, and you still want to take the first payment?" Shen Zhiyao held a small bench in one hand and put her other hand on her hips: "You can't even beat me, you're really inferior."
What she wanted to hold was a knife, and these people were cornered by her.
"What did you, a woman, eat to grow up? You are so strong!" Brother Biao got up from the ground, covering his waist with a livid face.
"Ah! It's you, that strangely powerful woman, Brother Biao. She was the one who sent the three of us brothers to the cell last time."
Behind Brother Biao, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy pointed at Shen Zhiyao in horror.
This boy was Da Mao among the three boys who robbed Shen Zhiyao when she first came to the county.
"Why, do you want to go in again?" Shen Zhiyao waved the small bench.
No, he doesn't want to!
Da Mao immediately closed his mouth and shook his head vigorously.
Shen Zhiyao: "Then get lost."
"Just wait for me, I...I'll come back next time!" Brother Biao put down his harsh words, called out to his four brothers, and the five of them quickly evacuated in embarrassment.
Shen Zhiyao put down the small bench and put a smile on her face again: "It's okay now. Come on, come on. If you want to buy food, come over."
"Wow! Miss Shen, you are so amazing."
"They are well-known gangsters in this area of the pier. If you deal with them, you can take out everyone's anger."
"You should show them how powerful they are. If you don't pay five taels a month, your stall will be smashed. Everyone will suffer a lot."
The diners and the vendors around Shen Zhiyao vented their anger and spoke out against Brother Na Biao and his party.
"Old man, doesn't the government care?"
Gan Lixin listened to everyone's words and looked at an old vendor who was closer to him to ask.
The old man sighed helplessly: "How can the government care about this? Those gangsters bully the weak and fear the strong. They only pick our stalls to attack. They don't dare to go to the restaurants in front of us."
"Can't you just be as tough as Mrs. Shen?" Shu Yingran held a bunch of Bobo Chicken in his hand, and his face was full of doubts: "With so many of you, you are still afraid of them when you join forces?"
The old man grimaced and said in a low voice: "I heard that when Brother Biao received the first payment, he would take some to honor the former dog officer Guo County Magistrate. With the dog officer protecting him, how could we dare to resist?"
"Don't worry, old man, this kind of thing will never happen in Tongfang County in the future."
Gan Lixin looked at the old man and solemnly promised.
