Zhao Huai's cooking skills are not top-notch, but he is at least capable of cooking a table of dishes.
After half an hour of busy work, all the dishes were finally served.
"It smells so good, you are worthy of being a husband."
Yu Qinghan couldn't help but sniff it, then smiled and praised.
Zhao Huai wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and said with a smile: "Eat it while it's hot. This fried fish with black bean sauce is guaranteed to suit your appetite."
Pei Xiangyun's eyes flashed with surprise when he saw the dishes on the table.
She didn't expect that what her sister said was true.
As long as I have grown up, apart from servants, I have never seen many men who can cook.
Now, she seemed to understand why her sister liked him.
Because even her mother-in-law rarely cooks. A few years ago, her father was sometimes away from home during wars. The two of them rarely had meals together, let alone cooking for the other party.
At first, she thought it was a waste of time for her sister to learn to cook, but now this idea is so naive.
Pei Xiangyun picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of steaming snow-white fish meat, put it into his mouth, and tasted it carefully.
What's going on? It tastes surprisingly good.
"How's it going? Your brother-in-law is good at cooking, right?"
Yu Qinghan smiled sweetly.
"Indeed it's not bad." Although Pei Xiangyun didn't want to admit it, the delicious taste in his mouth lingered for a long time and it was difficult to lie.
In order to restore his sister-in-law's dignity, Pei Xiangyun added, "But I heard that a gentleman lives far away from the kitchen. Don't you know that? Or are you not a gentleman at all?"
After finishing speaking, there was a hint of pride on the corner of his mouth.
Zhao Huai smiled softly and said indifferently: "It's because you don't understand."
"This sentence was said by the ancient sage, Master Meng. The full sentence is 'A gentleman is far away from the kitchen and cannot bear to see his death'."
"The meaning of this sentence is that when a gentleman encounters a slaughtered creature, he only wants to see it alive and cannot bear to see it die. This is the reason why a gentleman stays away from the kitchen. What he truly respects is a benevolent heart."
"My husband is really knowledgeable." Yu Qinghan said with admiration from the side.
After the explanation, Pei Xiangyun was stunned and dumbfounded!
I originally wanted to make things difficult for this bastard, but ended up being killed? !
Zhao Huai couldn't help laughing when he saw her like this.
His nine years of compulsory education were not in vain.
The next time, the three of them ate slowly.
Zhao Huai and Yu Qinghan chatted and laughed while eating.
Only Pei Xiangyun was unhappy, eating food.
She felt that she was redundant and suffered thousands of blows in her heart.
Boom, boom, boom.
When Zhao Huai was putting away the dishes, there was a knock on the door of the pawn shop.
"Husband, let me do it. You open the door."
"good."
Zhao Huai is also used to it, and he has been knocked on the door a lot at night recently.
When I opened the door, I saw a shirtless man and an aunt in her forties or fifties.
They looked like ordinary people, nothing special about them.
"Shopkeeper, we are here to pledge. Let's see how much this jade is worth."
The aunt looked anxious and quickly took out a piece of turbid jade from her arms and handed it to Zhao Huai.
"This is my family's ancestral jade. I'll keep it with you first. I'll rush to buy a coffin for my son to bury."
"Okay, please wait."
Zhao Huai has also encountered this kind of special situation. Suddenly a big change occurred at home in the middle of the night. There was not enough money for medical treatment, he lost all his money in gambling, a person died and he had no money for burial, etc.
These are understandable.
Zhao Huai took the jade and activated the treasure fortune teller.
After a cursory glance, I found that this was just an ordinary piece of low-quality jade. There was nothing inside and it was very flawed. It was the lowest quality jade.
At most, it can be sold for dozens of taels of silver.
"About fifty taels of silver."
Zhao Huai finally gave the price.
When the aunt heard this, she begged: "Shopkeeper, can you be kind and give me more money? My son is buried. I don't have much money to buy food recently. This jade is my last hope. Can I add five taels of silver?" ?”
After hearing what his aunt said, Zhao Huai thought for a moment and said slowly:
"Looking at your family's funeral, it's really not easy, so I'll give you fifty-five taels."
The aunt finally knelt down like Meng Dahe and said gratefully:
"Thank you, shopkeeper! Thank you, shopkeeper!"
"Remember, the interest rate is based on normal rates, and no penny should be lost."
Zhao Huai reminded him.
He is a businessman, not a philanthropist, so naturally he cannot be too soft-hearted.
Those who can help will naturally help, but in the end they will never cross that line.
"I understand this rule."
The aunt nodded vigorously, took the money, and left in a hurry.
Zhao Huai saw that the shirtless man behind him had not left yet, and said in surprise: "So you are not in the same group?"
The shirtless man shook his head and replied: "Of course not, but we are also responsible for funeral arrangements. Recently, several brothers from the Spirit Mine have died, and I will take care of their funeral arrangements."
"This is a spiritual stone. The shopkeeper wants to see how much it costs to pawn it."
The shirtless man took out a slightly flashing spiritual stone.
When Zhao Huai saw the spirit stone, he understood it very well and gave the price at a glance: "One hundred taels."
Then he asked very curiously: "Are you all workers in the mine?"
"What's going on recently? Many people died?"
"Yes."
The shirtless man nodded solemnly.
"The shopkeeper doesn't know that a strange thing happened outside the city recently, but anyone who passes by that hillside late at night will die without hesitation the next day."
"My brothers all worked night shifts and worked overtime. When they went home in the early morning, they had to pass by that hillside. They all died the next day."
"If I hadn't asked my brother's wife, I wouldn't have known about it. I guess the aunt just now was also involved in this matter."
After hearing these words, Zhao Huai frowned deeply and couldn't help but think deeply.
Could it be another monster?
Or is it the Black Wind grandma who escaped?
"Shopkeeper, please wait and see when the money will be given to me. The coffin shop needs a deposit urgently."
The shirtless man broke Zhao Huai's thoughts and couldn't help but say.
"Okay, I'll give it to you right away."
Zhao Huai walked into the shop, took two large ingots of silver, and handed them to the man.
"Thank you, shopkeeper."
The shirtless man took the money and left quickly.
Zhao Huai glanced at the spirit stone in his hand, shook his head and said: "The recent demons are really careless."
"Chirp!"
Suddenly, a burst of bird chirping rang out from the shop.
Zhao Huai took a closer look, wasn't it the myna he bought?
Now he actually speaks out, is it true?
He quickly approached the bird cage and found that the originally lazy myna now raised its little head, and its small bean-like eyes were full of desire.
Staring at the spiritual stones and jade in his hand.
Zhao Huai obviously noticed this, so he handed over the thumb-sized spiritual stone.
As a result, this myna swallowed the spirit stone in one gulp.
After a while, he spit out another stone.
It was obviously still the same spiritual stone as before, but the spiritual energy inside had disappeared.
"Ouch!"
"I'll blanch it, it turns out you are such a bird."
Zhao Huai immediately stood up, pointed at the myna and cursed rudely.
"I'll blanch it, it turns out you are such a bird."
Soon, the same words blurted out from myna's mouth.
The accuracy of this word was not much different from what he said.
Seeing the myna in front of me tilting its head to look at him, Xiaodouzi's eyes were wide and innocent.
Zhao Huai really wanted to beat him up.
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