Nancheng District, Section 3 of Longcheng Road, "Baby Shrimp" food stall.
Perhaps because it is already autumn, the production of crayfish has dropped sharply, and it is no longer plump. "Baby Shrimp" is not as crowded as Mingshu's last time, but the business of the same-grade Jianghu restaurant next door is even more prosperous.
With the mentality of "everyone has come", Mingshu parked his car outside the Jiangnan Theater after a few laps, and walked to "Baby Shrimp" with Xiao Yuan.
"The crayfish here is very famous. In July and August, the queue can line up an entire street. The car can't stop, and it can only stop a few kilometers away." Mingshu was extremely rigorous when investigating the case, but now he is boasting, but he even has a draft. Neither hit one.
Xiao Yuan laughed, "How many kilometers can you stop for me?"
"Isn't this an exaggeration?" Mingshu said, "It's just a train run, don't take it seriously."
The two walked into the store talking and laughing. After eight o'clock, it was the peak business period, and there was still space in the store.
Mingshu sat down and looked around at random, but he didn't see the boss he met during the last investigation.
A waitress ran over and put a greasy menu on the table.
Mingshu didn't ask Xiao Yuan what he wanted to eat, Ma Liu ordered a spicy crayfish, a garlic crayfish, a stir-fried eel, a cold crucian carp with chopped peppers, and finally a dish of salted edamame.
Before the dishes were served, an aunt came in with a warm water bottle and asked if she wanted to drink iced mung bean soup and iced soy milk.
Many food stalls in Dongye City are like this. Although the store provides drinks, there are still many people who live nearby come in to sell drinks. It used to be three yuan a cup, but now it has risen to five yuan. to earn.
Xiao Yuan stopped the person and asked for two cups of mung bean soup and two cups of soy milk.
The money has been paid, but when the aunt poured out the soy milk, she said "hey", "I'm sorry, this bottle is gone, you wait, I'll go back and get it!"
Mingshu smiled and asked, "Go home and get it?"
"No, it's right next to me, in my car!" The aunt said: "Three minutes, just wait for me for three minutes!"
Mingshu was not in a hurry, picked up the poured mung bean soup and took a sip, "Not enough ice."
"It's been a few months, still don't think it's ice?" Xiao Yuan said.
The shop was noisy, and the two sat in the corner again, and no one looked in this direction. Mingshu stretched out the hand holding the cup into Xiao Yuan's hand, "Then are you warm?"
Xiao Yuan held the handed paw and squeezed it hard.
This is very heavy, Mingshu was pinched in pain, and quickly retracted, "I want you to give Nuan Nuan, what are you pinching?"
At this time, the salted edamame was brought up, just as the aunt came back with a warm water bottle, "Come here, fresh sweet soy milk!"
Mingshu said "thank you".
The aunt is very talkative. While pouring soy milk, she said that the car (tricycle) of soy milk and mung bean soup she prepared is almost sold out. Bought her sweet soup soup in succession.
"You guys can try it next time." The aunt said in a low voice, "It's new, and the owner is very kind to the guests. Unlike here, it's been opened for too many years, and it's become an 'old fritters'. It tastes good or not, but …”
Seeing that someone came to serve the food, the aunt hurriedly stopped and walked to another table.
The back of the crayfish has to be cut open, and the process is complicated. The main dish on the first course is stir-fried eel.
Mingshu tasted it, "General."
Xiao Yuan smiled: "I just said that the line would take an entire street."
"Let's see how the crayfish is, the specialty here is crayfish." Mingshu put down his chopsticks and began to peel the salted edamame.
When he was a child, he especially liked to eat this stuff, and he went to Xiao's kitchen to wait in the afternoon in the summer.
Salted edamame and salted peanuts are delicious only after they are boiled and cooled, but Xiao Jincheng, Xiao Yu'an's cousin, always likes to snatch it from him. As soon as a pot of salted edamame was picked up, the two children reached out and grabbed it. Xiao Jincheng was so hot that he cried and looked for his brother. Only at this unfortunate moment would Xiao Jincheng remember that he was also hurt by his brother, and he was holding the burn. The red finger went to Xiao Yuan.
It's been so many years, and it's still funny to think about it now.
Not long after, two servings of crayfish came to the table, Xiao Yuan took off the gloves and handed them to Mingshu, "Put them on."
Mingshu said: "I'll peel it, don't move. This thing is too oily, and the gloves can't stop it at all."
Xiao Yu'an said, "I am so precious? Can't even peel shrimp?"
"Didn't I serve you?" Ming Shu smiled, and his eyebrows twitched twice, "How can I let go of such an important moment to show my boyfriend's strength, right?"
Xiao Yuan let him go, "Then I'll wait for you to serve."
Mingshu peeled one off in a few strokes and put it in Xiao Yu'an's bowl, "Come, try the shrimp that your man peeled for you."
Xiao Yuan picked it up slowly, and before he could eat it, he heard Mingshu urge: "Quick!"
"You carefully peeled shrimp, I will eat it without admiring it. Isn't it too sorry for your boyfriend?" Xiao Yuan said.
Mingshu said generously: "You can eat it, your man will continue to peel it for you!"
Xiao Yuan said after tasting it, "Ten points."
"This is a high evaluation!" Mingshu had already started peeling the second one, saying that it was for Xiao Yu'an, but after peeling it, he put it in his mouth.
Xiao Yuan looked at him and smiled.
Mingshu said: "It's just normal, Ma Xiaobu is all like this, why is it so bad here?"
Xiao Yu'an said: "Out of five points, this shrimp can get three points, and the remaining seven points are for your boyfriend."
Ming Shu was delighted, "I like to hear this."
The two chatted and ate, and it was past ten o'clock when the checkout left.
At this time, there were fewer customers in the store, and the Jianghu restaurant next to it was more lively than when it was after eight o'clock. The plastic benches outside were full of customers with equal signs.
"The business is so good, the taste should be good." Xiao Yu'an said, "Come and try it in a while?"
Mingshu shook his head: "I won't come, I won't come. Didn't 'Baby Shrimp' also queue up before? I thought the taste was different, but it turned out to be just plain delicious."
"In fact, most restaurants are ordinary delicious, or ordinary unpalatable." Xiao Yu'an said: "But the publicity work is well done, and some people praise it, that is 'more and more delicious', on the contrary, those ordinary unpalatable If someone swarms to step on it, it's 'more and more unpalatable'. This is the group effect."
Mingshu said: "Most people will choose to follow the trend. Look, we also followed the trend today."
Encountering a red light, Xiao Yu'an stopped, stretched out his hand to block it, and stopped Mingshu by his side, "Occasionally it's okay to go back to the wind, it's good that it's not bad."
Mingshu took advantage of the situation to hold Xiao Yuan's hand, and as soon as the green light came on, they walked across the street together.
The hands of the two of them can't be said to be delicate. There are many spear calluses on Xiao Yu'an's palm, which are all sharpened by the special operations team for so many years. Mingshu is not much better. .
"Where are you going tonight?" Mingshu asked.
"It's fine." Xiao Yu'an said, "It depends where you want to go."
"Did my sister bring something good again?" Mingshu said, "Then I want to go back to you."
Xiao Yuan scratched in his palm, "Where should I do my homework?"
Mingshu was choked by the oncoming wind, "Xiao Ju, in the public..."
"Some people's homework has piled up." Xiao Yu'an said.
Mingshu: "Cough cough cough—"
Xiao Yuan patted him on the back lightly, "If you don't make it up, you will fail the final exam tomorrow."
The third section of Longcheng Road was full of traffic, and the figures of the two quickly disappeared from the crowd.
Just after they left "Baby Shrimp", the guests at one of the tables on the second floor suddenly quarreled with the waiter because the ordered crayfish never came. Open back.
"I'm really sorry." The waiter apologized one after another, "I'll pay you two."
"Am I missing these two of you?" The guest clapped the table and became more and more angry. "You said that as if I had corrupted your two crayfish. I have come to your restaurant many times. I come here every year. In the past, your business was very good. You waited for an hour for a crayfish. Okay, I will wait. Are you busy today? Why do you still have to wait an hour? No, I have to doubt your attitude!"
The waiter was already a little impatient, "I said I'll pay you..."
"What's your attitude?" The customer was even more angry, "No wonder you guys can't do business now, you can't compare to the next door! Have you made enough money in the past few years, don't you take customers seriously? Okay, I'll see what you do. Time to be crushed by the next door!"
"What are you arguing about?" A woman in her 40s rushed over, pulled the waiter aside, and looked at the guests with a bad face. "If you have any grievances, talk about it. Is it necessary to make such a fuss?"
"Am I making trouble?" the customer said, "It's your store that bullies customers!"
The woman is Huang Hui, the proprietress of "Baby Shrimp". She has a fiery personality and can't afford to suffer the most. "You can talk nonsense with a long mouth, right? How did we bully you? There are two shrimps in your dish that are not open. , we have promised to make two more for you. If you are not satisfied with two, can you have four? You are making trouble here, do you want me to waive the bill for you?"
The guests were flushed with anger, and suddenly lifted the tablecloth, and all the dishes on the table that had hardly been touched fell to the ground with a thud.
All over the place.
The guests at the adjacent table also stood up, and many picked up their mobile phones to take pictures and videos.
Huang Hui didn't expect the guest to be so angry, he was dumbfounded for a while, and after reacting, he quickly shouted: "Call the police! Call the police!"
"Call the police!" the guest shouted: "I'm still afraid of you? I'll tell you today that you are being held up! Where do you think your home tastes so good? Without our old customers, you can do this today. level?"
The police arrived soon after and took the guests, Huang Hui, and several waiters to the police station.
Huang Hui cried and made a scene at the police station, insisting that the police make an excuse.
When this matter is investigated, it is the guests who act first, and the guests who are at fault.
But in the catering industry, it is often not to say things on the basis of loss or loss.
It is a big deal for the guests to compensate for the loss of "Shrimp Baby", and it will only cost hundreds of dollars.
But the real loss of "Baby Shrimp" is more than just a few hundred dollars.
In the future, customers can post online, or inform relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues that the "Shrimp Baby" store is bullying customers, and the wicked will file a complaint first.
As soon as it was passed on, the reputation of "Baby Shrimp" was ruined.
Moreover, there were many guests on the second floor at that time, and all of them took pictures.
Customers are always easy to stand in the customer's team, and few customers will stand in the store's point of view and think, who is at fault for this.
The two sides of the police mediation, the guest refused to apologize, but Huang Hui's attitude gradually softened.
No way. Recently, the business of "Baby Shrimp" has been impacted by the dishes from the rivers and lakes next door, and the number of customers is decreasing every day. The dishes of "Baby Shrimp" overlap a lot with Jianghu dishes. People are tired of eating "Baby Shrimp" and go to the side to try it. In the past, most of the people who came to eat at Section 3 of Longcheng Road came for the "baby shrimp", but now more and more people go for the Jianghu dishes.
Huang Hui has been very anxious all this time, but today it suddenly broke out, and there is also a reason for this.
At eleven o'clock, Huang Hui's husband, Qin Xiong, the owner of "Baby Shrimp", arrived and scolded Huang Hui in front of the guests. The guest's anger subsided a lot, and with some mediation by the police, it was almost twelve o'clock, the two sides reconciled and left the police station one after another.
After the commotion at night, there were only a few tables of guests left in "Baby Shrimp". At two o'clock in the morning, the last table of guests left. Huang Hui and the waiter cleaned up together in silence, while Qin Xiong sat outside smoking.
The Jianghu restaurant was still bursting with cheers, and it seemed to be open until four or five o'clock.
At this time, a group of guests left, and a man in his thirties sent them to the door, smiled and waved, "Come again next time."
Qin Xiong's eyes suddenly turned cruel, and he cursed, "Damn!"
The man is the owner of Jianghu Cuisine. His surname is Cheng. He is a foreigner. He looks white, and he doesn't look like someone who can cook at all. He smiles when he meets everyone, as if he is not selling vegetables, but faces.
"Little white face!" Qin Xiong's teeth itch with hatred.
The man turned around after seeing the guests, and his eyes just met Qin Xiong.
Qin Xiong didn't have time to put away the sullen look on his face, the man was stunned for a while, then he curved his lips in a friendly manner, and nodded to Qin Xiong.
Qin Xiong had to squeeze out a stiff smile.
When the man returned to the store, Qin Xiong's smile disappeared immediately.
In business, the source of customers is money. If Jianghu Cai robbed the source of customers from "Baby Shrimp", it was equivalent to robbing Qin's family of money.
As the saying goes, cutting off a person's fortune is equal to killing one's parents, and Qin Xiong now knows it personally.
In fact, that Jianghu restaurant has existed for a long time, but it was run by another family before, and it was only transferred to the boss surnamed Cheng two months ago. At first, Qin Xiong didn't take it seriously, thinking that the other party could not be in his business no matter how good he was. There was a storm on the ground.
Because of people's word of mouth and the praise of the media, "Shrimp Baby" has long become a famous food stall in Dongye City. Qin Xiong is a local, born in Nancheng District and raised in Nancheng District. Yiba has said several times in private that this is the territory of his Qin family.
Unexpectedly, the surname Cheng only took over Jianghu cuisine for two months, and he threatened his own business.
Qin Xiong was angry and anxious. Seeing the loss of customers, he couldn't think of a good solution, so he had to put his anger on his wife Huang Hui.
Huang Hui is not the kind of woman who beats and scolds and doesn't fight back. Qin Xiong wants to quarrel, so she will accompany her. Before the store closed, the two shouted at each other on the first floor. The waiters were all relatives of their hometown. "Baby" has been working for many years, and the business has declined. Although their wages have not been affected for the time being, Qin Xiong used to give each person a big red envelope at the end of the year. According to the situation this year, there may be no red envelopes until the end of the year. . Everyone had resentment and dissatisfaction in their hearts, but in the end, no one tried to persuade them, leaving Qin and Huang to throw bowls and stools.
"Are you guys so interesting?" A thin sixteen- or seventeen-year-old boy stood in front of the store with a gloomy expression, "Is it a joke?"
"Xiao Xu, why are you here?" Huang Hui wiped away tears, "What time is it?"
Qin Xu is the son of Qin Xiong and Huang Hui, and there is a sister Qin Ke who is two years older at home. Relying on the booming business of the past few years, the Qin family lived very well. Qin Xu, a high school student, was full of famous brands in the eyes of children of his age.
"Are you going to quarrel until dawn if I don't come? It's well known to everyone?" Qin Xu coldly spit out two words: "Shame."
Qin Xiong immediately rushed forward, with a gesture of his right hand, "How dare you scold you, Lao Tzu?"
Qin Xu couldn't avoid it, "If you have the ability, you can fight."
Huang Hui hurriedly protected his son behind him, glaring at Qin Xiong like a tigress, "Get out!"
Qin Xiong's slap didn't go down in the end, he only shouted angrily: "It's turned upside down, it's turned upside down!"
Just when the Qin family was all over the place, Mingshu and Xiao Yuan made up for their long-lost homework.
When it was almost dawn, an autumn rain suddenly fell, the wind poured in from the half-opened window, and the heavy curtains were bulging.
Mingshu slept soundly, his whole body was naked, and most of his face was buried in the quilt.
He doesn't have the habit of sleeping naked. When he is at home alone, he doesn't say he dresses tightly, at least he puts on his underwear, but every time he has sex with Xiao Yu'an, he doesn't want to wear clothes. He wants to sleep next to Xiao Yu'an naked. Fortunately, when I woke up, I found myself in Xiao Yu'an's arms.
Xiao Yu'an carefully pushed away the person who was tired of him, did not turn on the light, and watched for a while in the dim light, then lightly got up from the bed, walked to the window, and closed the window.
When returning to the bed, Xiao Yu'an was about to hold the quilt, and Mingshu leaned over half asleep as if he had found a heat source.
Xiao Yu'an pulled the quilt and hugged the person.
Mingshu didn't open his eyes, "Is it dawn?"
"Not yet." Xiao Yu'an said, "Sleep a little longer."
"Oh." Mingshu replied confusedly, and he fell asleep again.
Before dawn, the night was especially thick, and the tall figure cast a dark shadow on the ground, a pair of eyes opened, looking at everything in front of him with compassion, and then showing a sympathetic smile.
In the morning, Xiao Yuan woke up very early, just thinking about frying two eggs, he was surrounded by Mingshu from behind.
"What?" Xiao Yuan asked warmly.
Mingshu's legs have been hung up, "Don't go."
Xiao Yu'an coaxed, "I'll make you breakfast."
Mingshu puffed his cheeks, "I don't want breakfast, I want you."
Xiao Yuan smiled, "Are you sure?"
Mingshu had already been pressed into the bedding room and said vaguely, "Okay."
Half an hour later, Xiao Yuan went to the bathroom to take a shower, then came back and leaned over to kiss Mingshu's forehead, "I don't have time to make breakfast."
Mingshu covered his head and pretended that the diligent student who got up early and had to make up homework just now was not himself.
Xiao Yuan patted his waist across the quilt and set off to the bureau.
The days of autumn rain seem to be suitable for sleeping in the quilt. Mingshu listened to the sound of the rain outside, and turned over several times and didn't want to get up.
At ten o'clock, the doorbell rang.
Mingshu sat up and looked at his phone, Xiao Yuan didn't send a message saying he ordered takeout.
This house is Xiao Yu'an's private residence. Few people know about it. Who will come to the door at this time
The doorbell rang again, Mingshu put on his clothes and clicked on the video. After seeing who was coming, he unlocked it and said, "Tsk, the enemy is coming."