Volume 2: A sudden change in the prison, a red-clothed man goes out to find a thief Chapter 177: Treating Guests Requires Politeness
On the streets of Mingzhou City, people were coming and going, and the market was prosperous. A swordsman was walking in the middle of the road, but he seemed out of place with the people on both sides.
As for Dugu Bufu, he had no idea what Li Si was thinking.
Originally, he was going to prepare for next year's World Sword Alliance at home at the end of this year, but a letter that suddenly arrived disrupted his original plan.
Li Si asked him to go to Mingzhou City to take care of the business.
Business, Dugu Bufu didn't understand, since Li Si stopped being a thief, when did he become a businessman?
But since the letter had already been delivered, he didn't mind going out for a walk. So he came, one man and one sword, just like before.
As for what Li Si's business was, he heard it was a restaurant called Qianjialou. He had never heard of this name, but Mingzhou City was not big, so he should be able to find it after searching.
"Hu." Dugu Bufu exhaled a puff of white mist from his mouth, looked at the blue-gray sky, tightened his woolen coat, and walked into the crowd with his sword in hand.
In his opinion, this winter is a little colder. He doesn't like going out in winter, and he has always been like this.
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For the women in Mingzhou City, their husbands have been becoming less and less decent recently.
They spend the whole day in Qianjialou, obsessed by the two little goblins, not doing their work and not going home. If they continue like this, their lives will be meaningless.
So some women decided to go to Qianjialou to cause trouble, so that this harmful restaurant could no longer do business.
Look, here comes another one.
She was a woman in her forties, with a fairly good figure, but her face was already showing the marks of time. She stood on the street, wearing an emerald green dress, with her hands on her waist, holding a silk handkerchief, staring at the Qianjialou sign, and after a while, she twisted her waist and walked into the store aggressively.
"Sir, what could I do for you?" In the lobby, Li Si was still greeting guests.
For the past half month, he has been following Zhang Susu's arrangement, disguising himself as a woman to attract business to the store. He doesn't know when he can change back to his original appearance.
However, the effect of doing so is indeed quite good. The business in the store has been much better these days, or rather, it is too prosperous.
Zhang Susu sat in the corner every day counting money and grinning foolishly, Lao Luo's abacus never stopped day and night, and Chef Hao was busy running around, doing the work of six people alone. In his own words, if this continued, he would die young.
"Hehe, listen to Miss Hong. Whatever Miss Hong says is what we do." The man who came was a middle-aged man. When he saw Li Si, the smile on his face could not be taken away.
This was not the first time that Li Si had been asked to place an order, so he spoke directly.
"Then a plate of fennel beans and a pot of pear blossom wine."
He didn't order too much. After all, it was not the time to eat, and she still had to entertain other guests.
"Well, good, what Miss Hong ordered must be good." The middle-aged man chuckled again, took out a few taels of silver from his pocket and put them in Li Si's hand. Before he finished, he did not forget to touch it and said, "No need to change."
Li Si's brows twitched slightly. Even though he had a good temper, he almost couldn't resist the urge to take action in this situation.
But in the end he still endured it, smiled at the man, and continued to greet other guests.
There's no way. It's not easy to make a living.
"Which one here is the red girl?"
At this time, the woman in the green dress finally walked in, holding the handkerchief in her hand , and asked coldly.
But she was probably so angry that she didn't pay attention to her feet. As soon as she entered the door, she tripped on the threshold and fell straight to the ground.
This sudden situation frightened her so much that her face turned pale. Suddenly, a red figure appeared beside her and held her body steadily.
The store fell quiet. In the middle of the lobby, Li Si half-hugged the fallen woman and asked politely.
"Sir, are you okay? I should be the red girl you are looking for. Is there anything you want to say to me?"
The woman fell into Li Si's arms, but was stunned.
She placed her hands in front of her body, tightly grasping the handkerchief. Her eyes gradually changed from anger to confusion as she looked at Li Si. She gently pursed her lips with her teeth, and her body slowly lost strength.
But the next moment, she suddenly stood up from Li Si's arms, covering her face and speaking in panic.
"No, I'm already a married woman."
After saying that, she ran out with a red face and disappeared into the streets.
Only Li Si was left standing in the hall, confused as to what was going on.
"Tsk tsk tsk." Behind the counter, Zhang Susu and Cao Wenxuan sat together. They spat out the melon seed shells in their mouths, squinted their eyes and shook their heads.
"It kills both men and women."
"It's a disaster for the country and the people."
Although they were all dressed up carefully, they had basically nothing to do because of the presence of Li Si and Ning Caihe, so they just sat aside and ate melon seeds.
The woman just now was the sixth woman who had come during this period. But as expected, none of them could cause any trouble to Li Si in the end. I believe that those who come in the future will not be a threat.
Li Si stood in the hall and came back to his senses. He sighed and walked back to the kitchen to continue moving wine and food. If he couldn't figure it out, he would stop thinking about it. He was completely busy at the moment and had no time to think so much.
Just after a cup of tea, another guest came in, sat down at a table, and placed the sword in his hand on the table.
Li Si was so busy at this time that he couldn't tell east from west and west from east. He didn't seem to care about him and walked over to order food for him.
Dugu Bufu sat in the hall and looked around the noisy restaurant, feeling confused.
Didn’t Li Si say that this place was deserted? But the scene before me didn’t match these four words at all. Did I come to the wrong place?
Before he could go out to confirm it again, a red figure appeared beside him and asked.
"Sir , what would you like to order?"
"Ah, let's have some side dishes first, just serve them as you like." Dugu Bufu replied indifferently, raised his head and looked at the person in front of him.
"A few side dishes, right? I understand." Li Si also nodded and glanced sideways at the guest in front of him.
The two people's eyes met for a moment, and then both of them were stunned.
This moment seemed very long to Dugu Bufu, long enough for him to go through an extremely complicated mental journey.
From surprise, to astonishment, to doubt, then to bewilderment, and finally to relief. His expression changed several times in succession, but he finally calmed down.
This moment seemed very long to Li Si, long enough for him to reach out, grab Dugu Bufu by the collar, and lift him from the table directly to the door...
