[Ancient Dan] Meet the Lord

At dusk, the snow stopped.

Xiao Chong'er ran to shopkeeper Hua and said a few words to him.

"Understood, you go to work first." The shopkeeper Hua did not lift his head, and took a pen to record the account.

Zheng Yu went downstairs and leaned in front of the cabinet to watch him write. It was also weird. The shopkeeper of this inn looked effeminate, and the handwriting was sharp and sonorous, which was incredible. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it He wrote it.

Zheng Yuzheng was fascinated by his brushwork, but he didn't expect his hand to shake suddenly, and two or three fine ink splashes fell down, staining the words he just wrote.

"Ah!" Zheng Yu couldn't help exclaiming.

Shopkeeper Hua stared at his right hand for a while, then put down his pen, raised his left hand and clenched his right wrist.

"Are your hands trembling from the cold?" Zheng Yu asked concerned, but before Shopkeeper Hua could answer, she continued, "Go and warm yourself by the fire, it won't be like this when your hands are warm."

Shopkeeper Hua raised his head and smiled at her, and raised his pen again as if nothing had happened: "It's okay, I'm not cold."

Not long after, dinner was served.

Compared with the previous meal of sauced beef, dried shrimp tofu, fried pork with horseradish and old fire radish soup, this evening meal is really inferior: green vegetables, braised fish, hot rice.

When Zheng Yu looked at the dishes for the evening, he didn't have the slightest appetite, so he threw away his chopsticks in annoyance.

Without saying a word, Sun Chu got up and went to the back kitchen.

The cook, Chunlai, was washing the pot.

"Miss Chunlai." Sun Chu approached and called her.

The cold-faced cook looked back at him and said two words: "Kang Jue."

Sun Chu was startled: "What?"

The cook pretended to be indifferent: "My name is Kang Jue."

Sun Chu had no choice but to change his words: "Miss Kang..."

"Kang Jue."

"Okay, Kang, Miss Kang Jue..."

"Kang Jue."

"Kang Jue." Sun Chu's head was as big as a bucket, and she addressed her as she wished, and continued, "My wife doesn't eat fish."

"What does it matter to me that your wife doesn't eat fish?"

"I just want to say that the dishes tonight are not to my wife's liking, can I bother you..."

"No." Before Sun Chu finished speaking, Kang Jue rejected his request bluntly. She cleaned the pot with water and cleaned it. She wiped the pot and put the lid on it. it."

With a breath stuck in Sun Chu's chest, he frowned unconsciously: "You tell me what other dishes, I will cook, and if the pot is dirty, can I wash it?"

"The fire is gone, and you are still cooking Laoshizi's dishes." Kang Jue strode away from the back kitchen after leaving this last sentence.

When has Sun Chu been so angry?He wanted to teach the cook a lesson, but he was worried that she was a woman.

Going back to the front hall full of anger, Sun Chu told Zheng Yu that the back kitchen was out of food, and after coaxing for a long time, Zheng Yu finally ate with a plate of green vegetables.

Sun Chu also only ate half of the bowl, and the chopsticks he put first, approached the counter under the pretense of taking tea leaves—the shopkeeper Hua was setting the abacus—every time he saw the shopkeeper Hua, it was likely that he was trying to settle accounts, and he didn’t know that A small run-down shop, how can there be so many accounts to settle.

"Boss Hua," Sun Chu muttered for a long time, then said, "That Miss Kang Jue...has a bit of a temper?"

"Kang Jue?" Shopkeeper Hua raised his head, slightly surprised, "You mean the cook in our back kitchen?"

Sun Chu nodded, and without waiting for him to speak again, Shopkeeper Hua bowed to him. He was so surprised that he hurriedly said, "What is Boss Hua doing?"

Except for Lin Huo and Lan Cui who brought the food upstairs, everyone who was dining in the hall followed the sound.

Sun Chu looked embarrassed.

"Kang Jue, Xiaozi Chunlai," Shopkeeper Hua said, "Usually we call her Chunlai. Since Mr. Sun knows her name is Kang Jue, he must have talked to her. Chunlai is a bit awkward..." At this point Shopkeeper Hua was also embarrassed, "She is not a bad person, but her temper... oh, I can't explain it in words! Anyway, I will apologize to you on her behalf." Shopkeeper Hua bowed to him again.

Sun Chu opened his hand to stop him before he was about to speak, when he heard Gao Wuyue's laughter behind him.

Gao Wuyue said with a smile: "Since we know that she has a bad temper, why should the shopkeeper keep her? To open a shop and do business, welcoming customers with a smile is the most important thing. Let me say, it's better to send her elsewhere."

Shopkeeper Hua lowered his eyelashes, let out a long sigh, and then smiled with the corners of his mouth: "Miss Gao doesn't know why."

Gao Wuyue said doubtfully, "Oh? Let's hear it."

Xiaochong'er and Xiaowan are cleaning up the dishes used by Gao Wuyue and Yehu respectively.

The wild fox sat still and ordered a cup of hot tea.

Zheng Yu had no appetite at all, seeing that the wild fox had finished eating, she simply put down her chopsticks, determined not to be the last one to eat, so she hurriedly got up and ran to Sun Chu's side.

"Speaking of which, it happened many years ago." Shopkeeper Hua smiled again, with a gentle look on his face, "I was abandoned by my parents since I was a child. It was my master who saw me as pitiful and carried me to Tongque Mountain. He raised me up." He gave me up and taught me martial arts. I used to have a senior brother, but he was not good enough to practice martial arts, so he had to study medicine. I have few people I admire, and I only have masters and senior brothers in my life. When I was 13 years old, Master turned [-] years old and died on Tongque Mountain, and after two years, brother also died of illness, so I had nothing to worry about, so I had no choice but to go down the mountain."

Having said that, shopkeeper Hua pursed the corners of her lips, and said nothing further.

Gao Wuyue didn't like stories that ended abruptly, so she asked: "What happened next?"

"When I got down the mountain, I didn't know where to go or what to do. Because I was far away from the hustle and bustle of the world since I was a child, I don't understand the world, and I have a heart that I will never let myself suffer in everything, so I have fought a lot with people." The shopkeeper caressed his forehead, his eyes suddenly became a little far away, as if he had traveled through the time behind him all the way, and returned to the beginning, "One day, someone found me and said that he would give me a lot of money and send someone to take care of my food. Daily life, as long as I am willing to go to a place with him and sign a contract..." Shopkeeper Hua looked at the wild fox sitting not far away, and smiled slightly, "I think it's very good, so I followed that person. From the day I signed the contract, I became an assassin."

"Assassin?" Zheng Yu blurted out in surprise, she immediately looked back at Yehu, "Is there any difference between an assassin... and a killer?"

"I was hired by my employer to kill people. I only recognize money, not people." Shopkeeper Hua didn't answer, Yehu put down the teacup and said for him, "Assassins, they can do many things, killing is just one of them, but If the killing is just the death of this person, then such a task is too boring, and they will not accept it."

Gao Wuyue was afraid that Zheng Yu wouldn't understand, so she added a sentence: "For example, Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin in order to overthrow the rule of Tyrant Qin. This Jing Ke is an assassin."

Zheng Yu nodded, indicating that he understood.

"I only need to be responsible for killing people, because my martial arts are the best among all of them." Shopkeeper Hua continued, "All the people who are the most difficult to approach and kill are entrusted to me to take care of, but when I was young, I just Relying on his good martial arts, he repeatedly disobeyed the orders of the organization and ignored the uninteresting tasks. In the end, the leader was finally enraged, and he summoned all the people in the organization to hunt me down... I fled For three full months, luckily, he was rescued just before he was about to die. In order to repay this man for saving his life, after he recovered from his injury, I promised to help him with one thing, but unfortunately, an accident happened halfway , which caused me to be seriously injured and almost died. At that time, Chunlai and Xiaochong'er tried their best to save me. Even if all the doctors shook their heads and said I couldn't do it, they never gave up. Just lying on the bed like a useless person, Chunlai takes care of my diet, Xiao Chonger takes care of my daily life, this is three rounds of Spring and Autumn..."

Everyone listened in amazement and sighed.

"Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today!" Shopkeeper Hua sighed in a long voice. He took an iron stick to pick up the oil lamp, his eyes suddenly fell on his wrist, and he raised his head and smiled at Zheng Yu, " At that time, this hand was almost cut off, although it seems to be all right now, but in the end it is still not easy."

Zheng Yu stared at his hand for a long time, completely speechless in shock.

Sun Chu heard a lot of the cause and effect, and was very moved, but he still kindly reminded: "The kindness belongs to the kindness, and it is best to change Miss Kang Jue's temper. After all, 'harmony makes money'!"

"Cai?" Shopkeeper Hua was overjoyed, and laughed loudly, "I opened this inn, and that's not why I opened it."

"Shopkeeper, are you closing the shop?" Xiao Chonger asked after cleaning up the hall.

"Closed." Shopkeeper Hua replied, while lowering his head to arrange the things on the counter, "It's getting late, everyone, go back to your room and rest."

"You don't open a shop to make money, so what are you doing for it?" The person who opened his mouth coldly and asked this question was Yehu, and he didn't know when he came close to everyone.

Shopkeeper Hua looked up and saw the wild fox standing behind Gao Wuyue.

"Yeah, what are you doing for?" Zheng Yu also asked.

"Everyone is together, safe and happy is enough."

Shopkeeper Hua smiled, and then took away one of the two lamps on the counter.