Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty-Three

The sun slanted, and the afterglow flowed like a stream, and there was a cool breeze blowing on Laoyao Street.The season has come to the end of summer, and the temperature difference between morning and evening here has changed significantly. When the night falls, the cool breeze blowing now will turn into a cold breeze.Laoyao Street is located at the south end of Sixian Town. It is a snack street that can show local characteristics. The gravel street is narrow and filled with a long-lasting atmosphere.The snacks on Laoyao Street are mostly traditional flavors, such as stewed beef head, casserole beef tongue, oily and spicy oxtail, spicy roasted beef tendon, white water lamb head, sauced lamb chops, grilled lamb feet, braised lamb face, old ginger lamb, kiln Kengquan lamb, ground pot chicken, skewered meat, stewed dishes, etc. are very attractive, especially the haggis soup, which is famous far and wide. Every family cooks it authentically. Xiao Mingchuan and Liu Haitao often come here to eat lamb. Offal soup, oily, hot, a bowl is not clean, sweat comes out, refreshing from the inside out, very enjoyable.On this snack street, Dayaopeng, at the north end of the street, is at the top of both fame and popularity.The big kiln canopy invites guests, attracting the local atmosphere and ancestral craftsmanship.The big kiln tent is not an old house or courtyard, and it doesn't even touch the edge of the simple house. It's just a huge felt tent that has been patched, which is as high as two people. , have to go in and out.On the northeast corner of the tent, there are several cauldrons burning wood, which are steaming from morning to night, and the aroma is endless.The tables here are also very unique, they are all long wooden tables, and each table is equipped with four wooden stools, two long and two short.

At this time, on the table in the southwest corner of the big kiln tent, Guo Ziqin raised his ass, pointed to the spicy oxtail and grilled sheep's feet that had just been served, and said with a dizzy expression, oh——Guo Ziqin once came He ate it once in Laoyao Street, and that time alone, his stomach was seized by the spicy oxtail and grilled sheep's feet. Today he came here specially to enjoy this bite.I also need wine, which is the kind of local earthen shochu, which the locals call choking.The smell of choking is not choking, it just enters the stomach, and the hotness immediately becomes the most real and surging feeling on your body. It must be extremely comfortable for Han Tian to feel this hotness on his body.Choke is served in a clay pot, and poured into a clay bowl when drinking.Xiao Mingchuan thought more than once, the ancient town, the shabby tents, the old tables, the earthen stoves, the clay pots, the clay bowls, the burning, the ancestral meat-making secrets, and the unique rural charm of the big kiln tents, all of which exude a nostalgic atmosphere all at once. It naturally flowed out of the things in the city, and it was drilled into the nostrils of the people in the city. It was no wonder that Guo Ziqin didn't make a name for himself when he invited him to drink foreign wine when he came here. Mouth, otherwise, this kind of place can make his ass fall?I'm afraid I'm too lazy to take a look when passing by.Xiao Mingchuan asked Liu Haitao to get some beer, Liu Haitao was very happy, and asked Jia Xiao if he wanted to get some beer too, Jia Xiao still had a way to go, so he said that you kid is hurting your buddies.Liu Haitao poured the choke into the earthen bowls of the two leaders, then held the open beer bottle, waited for Xiao Mingchuan to throw out the opening remarks, and then blew the trumpet mouth to mouth.

Xiao Mingchuan scratched his forehead a few times and said, first drink at the bottom.Come, Guo Chu, eat and eat.Guo Ziqin had been waiting for a long time to strike. As soon as Xiao Mingchuan's words fell to the ground, he grabbed a piece of oxtail in his hand, swallowed it, his lips became greasy immediately, and muttered that it was delicious.Listening to the words that came out of Guo Ziqin's mouth, Xiao Mingchuan felt that he didn't say the four words, but that he gnawed them out word by word. He couldn't help being amused, and grabbed a sheep's hoof.Seeing that Liu Haitao was about to blow the bottle, Jia Xiao hurriedly picked up a sheep's hoof and touched the mouth of the beer bottle, come on, let's do it.Liu Haitao picked up the wine bottle, looked at the oil stains on the mouth of the bottle, then looked at Jia Xiao's smirk, wiped off the oil stains on the mouth of the bottle with his hands, and said, "You don't need to look to know who is doing such immoral things. Five hundredths is called Jia Xiao.Jia Xiao covered his mouth and laughed.There is a layer of bottom in the stomach, and the choking should be solved when it comes down, Xiao Mingchuan held up the earthen bowl and said, it is rare to invite Guo Chu to eat, and the meal is still a earthen meal, I am sorry.Come to Guo and take a big sip.The two earthen bowls collided with each other, and the four gazes above the earthen bowls collided more or less vigorously.Although it was only for a moment, in this short period of time, each of them completed some kind of emotional catharsis.Choking down their stomachs, Xiao Mingchuan and Guo Ziqin made snoring sounds from their mouths.For some reason, Jia Xiao and Liu Haitao raised the bar, and every sentence you said was trying to reach higher.Guo Ziqin put down the bone in his hand, and said, it's easy to hide with open guns, but it's hard to guard against hidden arrows, Xiao Chu, you may have heard that recently someone is making negative articles about me about the dead people in my lot.With his mouth moving, Xiao Mingchuan paused, staring at Guo Ziqin for a long time.Guo Ziqin spit out that someone used dead people as negative articles about him, which Xiao Mingchuan had never heard of before.Xiao Mingchuan's heart moved, and he realized that this guy didn't just come for the snacks today, he might have other intentions behind the ox tail and sheep's hooves.Thinking about it this way, Xiao Mingchuan stepped up his vigilance in his heart, and used the old things to find out, people's hearts are in the belly, and at that time in Liu Hezi Village, wasn't I also plotted against Liu Liezi's water cellar to death?Guo Ziqin straightened her body and said, listening to you, I'm afraid you are thinking too much about Xiao Chu, you said no matter what, can I treat you as an outsider?Xiao Mingchuan touched the soil bowl and said, yes, I didn't treat you Guo Chu as a stranger, if I treated you as a stranger, would I still be able to complain to you today?Guo Ziqin sighed and said, it seems that we are all the moving targets of some hunters.Xiao Mingchuan said that when the prey becomes a master, it will also plot against the hunter, and one day the prey will use a shotgun to hunt down the hunter.Guo Ziqin smiled and said, according to what you said, it is really necessary to buy a body armor to wear.As soon as Xiao Mingchuan heard that Guo Ziqin's tongue was loaching, he slid down and said, when you buy it, don't forget to bring me one too.

It's annoying, it's really annoying, don't talk about it, it's useless, it's depressing.Guo Ziqin waved and said, come to Xiao's place for a drink. Liu Haitao added choke to Xiao Mingchuan and Guo Ziqin's earthen bowls again.Liu Haitao put down the clay pot and was about to sit down when he accidentally saw Zhan Mi and a little nurse looking for a table over there. A burst of joy unscrewed in his heart, and he couldn't help brows with joy, so he stood up, stretched his neck, and shouted Greet Dean Zhan.The faces of Zhan Mi and the little nurse were mechanically operated, and they all turned sideways to Xiao Mingchuan's table.Both Zhan Mi and the little nurse didn't change their clothes, they were wearing white coats.Liu Haitao's voice called Xiao Mingchuan crazy, he couldn't care less about playing tricks with Guo Ziqin, his fascination was lost, and his eyes fell far away.Before Zhan Mi walked to the table, Xiao Mingchuan stood up. Although there was no lack of a smile on his face, if you look closely, you will find that the smile was forced out of his stiff skin.After saying hello, Xiao Mingchuan suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly introduced Guo Ziqin, whom he had forgotten to the back of his head for a minute, to Zhan Mi.

Zhan Mi said, Hello Director Guo.Guo Ziqin stood up and shook hands with Zhan Mi.Liu Haitao flirted with the little nurse, causing Jia Xiao to kick him under the table. Sit down and eat together, Dean Zhan.When Liu Haitao said that, he glanced at the little nurse again, and the little nurse sneaked a glance at Zhan Mi. Guo Ziqin glanced at Xiao Mingchuan erratically, and followed what Liu Haitao said just now, Dean Zhan, it's rare to know each other, if it's convenient, let's sit together. Xiao Mingchuan controlled the emotion of getting rid of, turned sideways and said, why don't we sit together, Dean Zhan, Guo Chu and I are old friends.

After some hesitation, Zhan Mi said with a blushing face, I don't want to bother you anymore, there is still something to do in the hospital, we will leave after drinking a bowl of offal soup.Eat slowly, Director Guo and Director Xiao. Liu Haitao was discouraged as soon as he heard it, but Jia Xiao seemed to have picked something cheap, shaking his head at Liu Haitao.Looking at the little nurse's face again, her complexion was not as moist as before.After Zhan Mi left, Xiao Mingchuan thought, with his mouth of the sidelines, he must find something between himself and Zhan Mi, and the words he was preparing to deal with were tight in his heart.However, after Zhan Mi left, Guo Ziqin didn't mention Zhan Mi any more. The oxtail, sheep's hooves, and burning, all talked about eating and drinking.The imagined scene didn't come out, Xiao Mingchuan's heart couldn't fall into place for a while, and there was always a worry that Guo Ziqin would suddenly pick up Zhan Mi to make a comeback.The faint twilight in the sky gradually became thicker during the time when Xiao Mingchuan and Guo Ziqin drank a clay bowl and choked on fire. In the distance of the street, the quiet houses and moving people were also faintly visible at this time. .Bang—a ball of light, like a ball of fire rolling into Xiao Mingchuan's eyes, made his whole body tense up.That glaring light was a gas lamp that had just been lit, and Xiao Mingchuan knew that several gas lamps like that would be lit in the big kiln tent later.

Hehe, we look like you, Xiao Coordination, Xiao Coordination.The middle-aged man who came to the table to chat with Xiao Mingchuan was thin, with a slightly hunched back, and a smoke gray long-sleeved shirt that did not look old or new.The slit on the pocket of the shirt was fastened with a pin, making it seem like there was a lot of money in the pocket.Looking at the middle-aged man's left armpit, there was something like a pair of shoes. Later, Xiao Mingchuan took advantage of the wind from the past and concluded that the thing under his armpit was a pair of shoes that had been worn, because Xiao Mingchuan was in that stock. The wind smelt the smell of shoes.

Yo, you!Xiao Mingchuan stood up and said, looking him up and down.Chen Liezi glanced at the table, made a grunt in his throat, and said gruffly, "Where are you eating, Xiao Coordinator?"Xiao Mingchuan looked at Lame Chen's pocket pinned to a pin, and said with a smile, I said, Old Chen, you haven't spent the mental compensation yet?Lame Chen touched the mouth of his pocket and smiled embarrassingly.Regarding the water cellar of Chen Laizi in the past, Xiao Mingchuan heard from the person in charge of the construction team afterwards that after the show ended that day, Chen Laizi was still playing tricks, but the method of asking for money changed, and he killed his wife by saying that the county police had frightened his wife to death. , there was something wrong with his nerves, and he asked for five hundred yuan for mental compensation.

When Liu Haitao saw that the difficult lame Chen was coming, he hurriedly gave Jia Xiao a wink.That wink was very special, it was the special wink that oilmen used to deal with certain villagers on the Shuimiao line.Jia Xiao stopped looking at Laizi Chen and gnawed on the sheep's hooves.As for Guo Ziqin, he lighted a cigarette unhurriedly at this time.Chen Liezi's left hand was subconsciously covered in his pocket again, hey hey for a long time before he spoke, let's take the baby here for a stroll today and buy a pair of sneakers for the baby.After saying that, he took out the things under his armpits, and Xiao Mingchuan saw clearly that they were a pair of black cloth shoes, and the smell of stinky feet pierced his nostrils.Chen Laizi glanced at Xiao Mingchuan's expression, couldn't hold back his face, clenched his cloth shoes tightly, twisted his neck a few times, locked his eyes on the target, and shouted, "Damn mistress, you're counting on getting lost!"Xiao Mingchuan saw by the stove over there, a half-grown boy who was facing a cauldron of stewing meat turned around and stayed for a while before walking this way.Xiao Mingchuan just wanted to say that I invited Lao Chen to this meal, but he didn't expect that after Chen lame glanced at him, he seemed to have taken the wrong medicine or was possessed by an evil spirit, and suddenly rushed out and cut off the half-grown boy. Halfway on the way, he grabbed the collar of his shirt, kicked him a few times without saying a word, and then dragged the third son out of the big kiln tent. In the blink of an eye, the father and son disappeared.Sitting down, Xiao Mingchuan felt uncomfortable, because he suddenly realized that Lame Chen is also a very self-respecting person.Xiao Chu, you can do it, you are familiar with everyone in this town and village.Guo Ziqin picked up the earthen bowl while talking.At this time, the big kiln tent was brightly lit, but Xiao Mingchuan didn't know when those gas lamps were turned on.He blinked, picked up the earthen bowl with a dazed expression, and touched Guo Ziqin's earthen bowl.