Kaifeng Bistro

Chapter 30

Chen Qing called Yi Yi to stop, and asked suspiciously: "Xu Yan is Zhifeng's elder brother? What's going on here?"

Yi Yi talked to him in general, telling him that one of the purposes of Tan Zhifeng's coming to Kaifeng was to find relatives, but now "various evidences show" that the elder brother he is looking for is Xu Yan, and the two have "happily" met each other.

"Oh..." Chen Qing seemed to be half-believing. Just as Yi Yi was about to leave, he asked again: "By the way, your shopkeeper... did you ask someone out on the day of the winter solstice? Did he tell you?"

Yi Yi shook his head indifferently, Chen Qing seemed to be relieved, but at the same time seemed a little disappointed: "Forget it, let's have another candied burdock."

Yi Yi turned around and went to the back kitchen to see that Tan Zhifeng was staring at the pot of snow-white mutton soup in a daze.Yi Yi snapped his fingers next to his ear: "Tan Zhifeng, wake up quickly."

"Oh, I got it!" Tan Zhifeng frantically touched the noodles and wanted to pour them into the pot, but he touched the edge of the pot and scalded his hands. Yiyi washed his hands and cut a small pile for him. Xiaodui threw the noodles into the soup, and squinted at him: "Tan Zhifeng, why are you so worthless?"

"It's not my fault." Tan Zhifeng blew on his hand, and soon the red color disappeared.While scooping up the noodles, he said, "Xu Gan is going to buy this shop and the small courtyard next to it. Aren't you surprised to hear that?"

"Not as surprised as you." Yi Yi glanced at him, "In his mind, you are a family now, shouldn't you live together? Besides, he said he would move here."

"Yes...but..." Tan Zhifeng tried his best to put two large bowls of noodles on the wooden plate, ready to take them out, "I still haven't figured out how to face him. Besides, what if he asks me about Kuizhou? I Where can we make up a father and a mother for him?"

"Hurry up, Zhifeng, what are you dawdling about?!" Zhuozhuo also ran in, urging Tan Zhifeng to face outside, Tan Zhifeng sighed helplessly, picked up the heavy wooden plate and left the back kitchen.

"270 guan." Chen Dafu said with a mournful face, "Xu Gan, you are going too far. To be honest, if the house could not be rented out after the death of old man Zhang, my family members would never sell it. Besides, old man Zhang is not Die here, alas! You two are cheap, why are you still not satisfied!"

"Two hundred and five." Xu Gan insisted, "One of the two rooms next door has collapsed. Come and see with me."

"Oh! What a hell!" Chen Dafu patted his chest. 250 pennies was his bottom line, which meant that he couldn't earn a single copper coin, but now as long as he could get rid of Xu Gan, he was willing to pay the penny back.He took out the house deed while wiping his sweat, and then stared blankly at Xu Gan's baggage, as if he was afraid that there were stones in it.

Xu Gan sneered, and took out a few pieces of paper money with a denomination of [-] yuan exchanged from the Dasong Bank from his pocket, then took out two pieces and put them on the table, but took the rest back, and then wrapped the cloth under his feet in the He kicked in front of him: "You can count the rest by yourself."

Chen Dafu is usually domineering, where has he ever suffered such anger?But under Xu Gan's eyes that were as cold as ice, he had no choice but to swallow his dissatisfaction, sat on the ground and opened the cloth bag to count.

Half an hour later, Chen Dafu left Zhifeng Tavern resentfully with half a bag of copper coins on his back and the other two pieces of paper money.Xu Gan and Tan Zhifeng in the tavern had two house deeds in front of them, one was for the shop under their feet, and the other was for the small courtyard next to them.

"Take it away." Xu Gan pushed the two house deeds towards Tan Zhifeng's eyes.Tan Zhifeng was about to push back, but was stopped by Xu Gan's eyes.He had no choice but to call Yi Yi, and let Yi Yi carefully put away the house deed that caused a storm.

In the afternoon, Xu Gan hired a car, brought in simple furniture, took some clothes of him and Ling'er, and piled them in the yard next door.Then, I did not know where to find a few people, and began to repair the half-collapsed house in full swing.

When Tan Zhifeng stepped into the yard, Xu Gan was mixing mud in the yard by himself.He was only wearing a thin shirt with sleeves rolled up, his muscles were beautiful and smooth, and became more obvious as he exerted himself.

Tan Zhifeng walked over the messy tiles carefully, looking at the construction site.When Xu Yan saw Tan Zhifeng, with a smile on his face, he threw the clay stick in his hand aside, raised his hand to support Tan Zhifeng, led him to the small room on the east side, and said to him, "From now on, you will live here."

Compared with the dusty yard outside, this hut has been cleaned clean, like a paradise, the afternoon sun shines on the small ebony table in the house through a small window, and the beams of light coming in Floating grains of flying dust.

Tan Zhifeng looked across and suddenly thought of a serious question, "What about you?" he asked.

"Before the repair over there..." Xu Gan glanced outside, then at Tan Zhifeng: "Ling'er and I will squeeze with you first. You and Ling'er sleep on the bed. I'll just spread some quilts underneath."

Tan Zhifeng was so confused that he even forgot to refuse. Of course, Xu Gan's expression did not allow him to refuse.He walked back in a daze and said to Yi Yi and Zhuo Zhuo, Zhuo Zhuo's eyes widened excitedly: "Cohabitation! Tan Zhifeng has finally taken the first step to bid farewell to being a 3000-year virgin!"

Tan Zhifeng's face was flushed, and he pointed at Shangshang and Ling'er who were still kneading dough outside: "Listen, children! Ling'er, he can't see or hear, can you stop mentioning me...my Personal problem! I want you to help me figure out how to refuse! I don't want to live with Xu Gan!"

"You don't want to? I think you're very excited." Yi Yi said.

"I really don't want to." Tan Zhifeng was in a very depressed mood, "I admit it, he regards me as his own brother, I have thought about it when he comes in, the overall advantages outweigh the disadvantages. But living in a room , I really can't accept it."

"What are you afraid of?" Yi Yi stared at Tan Zhifeng's eyes without blinking, "Afraid that you can't help it? You underestimate yourself too much; you are afraid that he can't help it. Are you a little... a little bit overestimated? By yourself?"

"It has nothing to do with these." Tan Zhifeng was completely surrounded by Yi Yi, "I just want to keep a little distance from him." He tidied up the dishes piled up in the kitchen in frustration: "I don't want to repeat the same mistakes again. I can't Playing too much of a role in his life, otherwise it really does no one any good!"

"You are already his younger brother, what else can you do?" Yi Yi made a pun, "Is this role not important enough?"

"That's different, I'm not really his younger brother!" Tan Zhifeng scrubbed the dishes vigorously, looked out at the two children carefully, and said in a low voice, "We'll leave when Bo is killed." He said , "I think if you are lucky, this time is similar to reincarnation. Previously, his soul might have been attached to others for too short a time, and he was killed by Bo before it stabilized. This time, if he can get through this In a lifetime, his ten calamities might be over."

"What about you?" Yi Yi suddenly asked, "What are you going to do?"

"The road is facing the sky, each side goes..." Tan Zhifeng smiled lightly: "I have you."

"Zhifeng," the silence between the two was broken by Xu Gan. He walked in and said to Tan Zhifeng, "Close the shop tonight. Go buy a jug of wine and have a drink."

"No, no, I don't drink." Tan Zhifeng hurriedly said, he thought for a while, and said to Xu Gan: "Well, I'll close the shop, you and Ling'er and us, let's have a good meal together. Celebrate the deed Got it, how about it?"

"Yeah." With a smile on his handsome face, Xu Yan patted Tan Zhifeng on the shoulder, turned and left.At the door, he told Yi Yi, "All the money is with you, just take it out and use it."

As soon as Xu Yan left, Tan Zhifeng ran out, gritted his teeth and shook Yi Yi: "Why did you take his money? How much is it?"

Yi Yi pressed the thick stack of papers on his chest: "Ahem! There's not much... It's him, he earned it...you have to save some money..."

It was getting dark.The sound of the building next door bang bang bang dang dangdang is also getting smaller and smaller, leaving only a few sporadic knocking sounds.The dark blue sky is dotted with a layer of red sunset glow, and the layers of high-rise buildings and broken tiles in Kaifeng have turned into pieces of intermittent blurred shadows in this glow.The sound of the evening drum echoed in the city, long and solemn, dividing the morning and evening, the day ended and the night came.

Yiyi carried two large bags of ingredients, and walked into the room in a breath of air: "Tan Zhifeng, why do you buy so many things? And it has to be beef tenderloin. Do you know how expensive this small piece of meat is?" ?”

"The matter of renting a house is settled, shouldn't we celebrate it?" Tan Zhifeng smiled, and took all those things from Yi Yi's hand.While Changshang was teaching Ling'er to write, Tan Zhifeng went into the kitchen by himself and began to process the ingredients Yi Yi had brought back.

He had just put everything away when the door slammed again, and Xu Gan came in with a large flat-bottomed iron pot in his hand.Ling'er seemed to recognize that it was Xu Gan's footsteps, she stood up and ran over gropingly: "Daddy, you are back."

Xu Gan picked up Ling'er, went to the back kitchen and put the iron pot beside the stove: "Zhifeng, the pot you want."

Tan Zhifeng was putting the beef on the chopping board, carefully cutting it into thick slices.The piece of meat Yiyi picked is as tender as oil, with a faint luster, which is very in line with Tan Zhifeng's requirements. It is fat and thin, the thin one is bright red, and the fat one is snow-white. The distribution is very even. People have the urge to eat raw.

Hearing Xu Gan's voice, Tan Zhifeng turned his head and looked. During this period, the quality of iron pots is often not up to standard, but the pot Xu Gan brought is not bad, at least it can meet the needs of tonight.Xu Yan looked at Tan Zhifeng's humble kitchen again, and said to him, "When you and I go back tomorrow, we'll see if there's anything else we can use. Let's bring it together."

"No need." Tan Zhifeng said, "The place is too small to fit so many things. There are pots, stoves, and stoves, which are enough for the current guests."

Xu Gan nodded, and went out with Ling'er in his arms.Ling'er happily found Changshang, and showed Xu Gan all the things he and Changshang made out of dough in the afternoon.