Datang: My father is the head bodyguard

After more than a day of driving, they arrived at Qinhuangdao without any danger. The openness and bustle of the coastal city made Yuchi Baoqi and Li Shimin unable to stop here.

"Octopus! Spanish mackerel! Haihong! Yellow clams and big razor clams are sold cheaply!"

Being hungry, Yuchi Baoqi walked to the stall selling fresh seafood and looked around with his hands behind his back. Li Shimin also followed suit and went over to take a look.

"How to sell yellow clams?"

"Twenty-five cents per pound, how much do you think it is?"

Li Shimin frowned: "You sell it so expensively? How much does meat cost per pound?"

The vendor immediately became unhappy: "Nowadays, pork and beef are sold in the butcher shop of Baoli Trading Company. Pigs, cattle, and sheep are all farmed. My yellow clams are all caught at sea. How can they be the same?"

"Besides, everyone is tired of eating meat now. Who doesn't like to buy some fresh seafood? We are close to the sea, and the price is already very low."

"We are all doing neighborhood business, why do we say it is expensive!?"

The stall owner became angrier as he talked: "Nowadays, a worker can earn nearly thirty taels of cash for one month's work. Just eating these yellow clams every day may not lead to poverty."

Yuchi Baoqi blocked Li Shimin: "Okay, okay, all old people are like this. If you are willing to save money, give me two catties, two catties. Here are five more octopuses. Can you help me deal with them?"

When the stall owner heard that he wanted to buy, his smile returned. He quickly selected five octopuses under Yuchi Baoqi's confirmation, and shoveled two kilograms of yellow clams with a wooden slotted spoon.

"Two jins and one liang are counted as two jins, and more are considered extra. Five octopuses cost about twelve cents each, a total of one hundred and ten cents. If you go to the seafood restaurant at the back If you process it, I’ll give you another ten cents.”

Yuchi Baoqi took the two wooden trays: "The seafood house in the back is..."

The stall owner didn't shy away from it: "My family owns it, and the processing fee is 30 yuan. The side dishes, rice, noodles, and steamed buns all have their own prices. If you think it's not good, just find another one."

Li Shimin pointed to the wooden tray: "Will you return this plate when you have finished using it?"

The stall owner waved his hand: "It has the logo of my stall on it. After the seafood house is finished, it will be delivered before I close the stall. Don't worry."

After the stall owner explained, Yuchi Baoqi felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he simply went to the stall owner's seafood house to deal with it.

There were quite a lot of people in the seafood house. Yuchi Baoqi and Li Shimin chose a table for two and sat down directly. When the waiter ran over, he saw two wooden trays made by his family.

"Sir, I don't know how to do these two things?"

Yuchi Baoqi pointed at the octopus: "Stir-fried octopus with mustard mustard, yellow clams, onion, ginger and soy sauce water. What do you want to drink?"

The waiter stepped aside a little and stretched out his hand to introduce to Yuchi Baoqi: "White wine, rice wine, rice wine, canned peaches, canned pears, Baoli energy water, and tea. What would you like to order?"

Li Shimin asked for a canned peach, and Yuchi Baoqi asked for energy water. The waiter picked up the tray and was about to leave, but Yuchi Baoqi stopped him.

"By the way, how long is the journey from here to Shanhaiguan?"

The waiter thought for a moment: "The ox-cart will take about a few days, and the horse-drawn carriage will take two or three days if it's faster. If you want to go to the North, it's best to go with the caravan of Baoli Trading Company. What happened on the way? Erbaoli's caravan will help."

The seafood is relatively cooked. It didn’t take long for the fried octopus with pickles and pickles to arrive. The steaming two kilograms of clams with onions, turmeric, and soy sauce were very tempting.

Li Shimin was too lazy to use chopsticks, so he picked up half a piece of yellow clam with his hands and put it into his mouth. It was so fresh that it was not afraid of being burned, and he made a humming sound from his mouth.

Yuchi Baoqi picked up a chopstick of octopus and mustard. The crispiness of the mustard complemented the crispiness of the octopus. The simple saltiness brought out the sweet and fresh taste of the octopus, which made people want it.

The waiter brought up iced energy water and iced yellow peaches again: "Sir, everything you ordered is here. Just tell me what staple food you want to eat."

Yuchi Baoqi pointed to a table nearby: "What kind of dumplings are they eating?"

The waiter didn't even need to look at it: "Oh, those are our store's mackerel dumplings. A big portion is enough for you two, but the fillings contain pork fat and leeks. Do you have any dietary restrictions?"

Yuchi Baoqi shook his head: "If you don't mind the food, please give us a big portion, please."

The waiter waved his hands repeatedly: "No need to excuse me, sir, you are very polite. By the way, sir, I heard that your accents are from Zhongyuan Road. We have special fried meat here. Do you want to order some?"

Li Shimin asked for advice and waved his hand: "Then have one!"

A diner at a table next to him started chatting with Li Shimin: "Where do you come from in the Central Plains? Come to Qinhuangdao and try our hairy clams. They are very fresh."

Li Shimin was surprised by the hospitality of the people here. He took a plate of clams. The color was very dark, and it must have been stewed in sauce.

"We, father and son, came from Chang'an and enjoyed the delicious food and scenery along the way. It was a pleasure."

Yuchi Baoqi ordered another bowl of rice, poured the clam soup and juice on the rice, and took two bites. The taste was simply amazing.

Fried meat was also served, and Li Shimin handed half of it to the diners at the next table: "It is a good idea to come and not to reciprocate. It is a good story to exchange the fried meat for clams, hahaha."

Yuchi Baoqi was even more direct and simply shared a table with the diners at the table next to him. The two eldest brothers next door were also good-tempered and ordered two bottles of white wine.

"When you come to Qinhuangdao, we meet each other. It's fate. Don't worry, you won't be afraid of fainting. The people here are honest!"

Li Shimin smiled: "You two are the only ones who can drink my son unconscious. You think so. My son is famous and can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk."

Yuchi Baoqi's head is getting big. If you say you're awesome, can you call yourself awesome? You won't drink a drop of wine. Li Shimin has pretended everything.

Will the big man from Hebei be happy? He immediately filled Yuchi Baoqi with a large bowl of sorghum liquor: "Try it, the red sorghum here is stronger than a burning knife!"

During the conversation, the two eldest brothers revealed their own situation. They were employees of a nearby factory. After two consecutive nights of night duty, they had three days of vacation. If they were not on duty, they came over to eat some seafood and drink some white wine to go home and sleep. .

"You work hard, and this seafood is not cheap. You can't eat it often, right?"

Zeng Li laughed loudly: "Who said that? Our regular salary every month is thirty-five taels of treasure notes. The night shift will get an extra five taels of treasure notes. We still have fifteen taels of perfect attendance bonus. What's wrong with eating some seafood? I can eat it. A few bucks hahaha.”

Zeng Wu agreed very much with what his elder brother said: "It's not like the hard days in the past. At that time, no one wanted the seafood. Who wouldn't eat meat if they had money? Who would have thought that in a few years, meat wouldn't even be considered delicious anymore." , Do you think it’s strange or not?”