Chentan's Memories

Chapter 15

No.15 Going back to the new restaurant without incident

While Tang Yushu was washing his face with a handful of hot water, Lin Lang pushed open the door of the wing room, bringing in a burst of air-conditioning.

"Wake up very early!" Tang Yushu looked up with tears on his face, and was very surprised when he looked up to see the person who came - at this time in the past, Mr. Lin must still be lying in bed and sleeping soundly, screaming The kind that doesn't wake up; today I don't know why, but I got dressed early.

Lin Lang still had his usual indifferent face, and he pulled Tang Yushu to the door: "Look——"

In the early morning, the light in the courtyard was still dim, and I saw a thin figure busy among the neat rows of tables and chairs: "Chen Ni?"

Lin Lang nodded: "Didn't I arrange for him to sleep in my wing yesterday? ——Woke up early today, busy cleaning up, and made me so noisy that I couldn't fall asleep."

Tang Yushu wiped his face with a towel, and after washing off his drowsiness, his whole body was full of energy: "Isn't that very good, capable and smart."

Lin Lang closed the door: "You want to keep him?"

Tang Yushu nodded: "Stay!"

Let’s say that Tang Yushu twisted his foot to save Lin Lang who fell from the eaves yesterday; because Chen Ni rescued Lin Lang and helped to share his worries when the restaurant was unattended, he arranged for the child to stay in the God of Wealth Mansion first. Stayed overnight.

The next night, when I woke up early in the morning, I saw the child busy tidying up the tables and chairs in the restaurant, preparing for today's opening.But Lin Lang saw it in his eyes, but he always felt that the child had a delicate mind and couldn't figure it out: "No way - you can't keep him. If you stole it once, how can you guarantee that he won't steal it a second time?"

Tang Yushu jumped back on the bed with one foot: "But I saved your life."

"Then... that won't work either..." Lin Lang shook his head with a rattle.

Tang Yushu defended Chen Ni: "He can still do it! I taught him a lesson yesterday, and he greeted so many guests by himself."

Lin Lang grabbed Tang Yushu's words and refused to let go: "You said he is capable? You mean I can't, right?"

"I didn't mean that." Tang Yushu didn't dare to offend Lin Lang.

Lin Lang's temperament is sensitive and impatient; he was hesitant about the matter of "Chen Nian should not stay or not", but now because of Tang Yushu's boast that "he is capable", he has a confrontation with Tang Yushu: "Anyway, it's not possible!"

"...that child has no father or mother, if you drive him away, he will have nowhere to go..." Tang Yushu whispered.

Lin Lang was so angry that Tang Yushu turned his elbows away: "Oh! I gave him three taels of silver back then, so I have to take care of him for the rest of my life?"

"Isn't it..." Tang Yushu felt that Lin Lang was too stubborn to explain it. After thinking about it, he tried to pick up good things about Chen Ni: "He is quite capable..."

Lin Lang's eyes widened again: "You said he was capable again? You imply that I can't, right?"

Early in the morning, Tang Yushu felt a little tired: "I didn't mean that."

"That's what you mean!"

"I really don't have to..."

"that is!"

During the quarrel between the two... To be precise, Lin Lang's side was arguing loudly, and Tang Yushu's side was powerless to deal with it, only a sudden commotion broke out in the yard.The two fell silent in an instant, looked at each other, and opened their ears to distinguish the sounds in the courtyard.

Chen Ni's hoarse voice despite his young age scolded angrily: "Whoever dares to knock on the door again, I will smash him into a nest!"

Lin Lang quickly left Tang Yushu, who was inconvenient, and stumbled out of the wing room.

I saw Chen Ni standing alone at the side door, half-squatting his legs, leaning his upper body forward, holding a stick in a defensive posture, and glaring at the outside.For some reason, Lin Lang hastily ran down the steps a few more steps, before he could see the five or six noisy people crowded outside the door.

"Chen Ni—" Lin Lang called out.

Chen Fanhui turned his head to look at Lin Lang, then quickly turned his head back to continue confronting the group of people, and simply threw out "someone is causing trouble for our restaurant!" to explain to Lin Lang.

The group of people crowded outside the door were afraid of the brat's attitude, they didn't dare to go forward, they just stood outside the door and shouted into a mess.

In the midst of the commotion, Lin Lang vaguely heard words such as "eating a bad stomach", "seeing a doctor", "asking for an explanation", his heart beat, and he walked from the side room to the side door in a panic.

First, he told Chen Ni, who was blocking the door, to put down the weapon in his hand, and it took a lot of effort to calm down the noisy situation.Looking at the leader, Lin Lang held back his nervousness and took a deep breath: "Tell me carefully?"

The leader was a middle-aged man with beards. Seeing the shopkeeper stop Mao Boy's threat of force, he bravely stepped forward: "My family ate badly at your place yesterday!"

"What?" Lin Lang couldn't believe it: "How is it possible..."

"How is it impossible?" The man thought that Lin Lang refused to admit it, and his voice became a little higher due to the superimposed anger: "Yesterday, I ate at your house! After eating and returning home, a group of people started to eat, It’s endless! ——We went to the doctor to see, and said that we ate something unclean, so don’t deny it!”

"We didn't deny it - but our vegetables and meat were bought fresh that day, how could it be spoiled?" Lin Lang looked at the group of people, and he felt familiar: "...Is it... I eat too much Is it too spicy, and I feel sick to my stomach?"

"No!" The man said, "The doctor said, he ate something unclean!"

Just as Lin Lang finished speaking, another group of people came up not far away, and came forward aggressively: "You pay!"

"……what?"

The new group also shouted: "I broke my stomach after eating in your restaurant last night, you will pay for it!"

In the early morning, the God of Wealth Mansion was bustling with people coming and going from stalls, passers-by, and mixed into a large swath of wanton black ink in Lin Lang's eyes.

From preparing to open the restaurant to starting to implement ideas, Lin Lang planned everything from the big signboards to the small tables, chairs and dishes, but he never thought that such a thing would happen.

The noise still didn't stop, babbling and babbling turned into a sharp noise, piercing into the ear canal and turning into a loud noise that shook the ground.

Someone in the crowd yelled: "You all want to try something new? You'll have vomiting and diarrhea after one meal. If you eat more, you will die!"

"Sure enough, outsiders are unreliable."

"It's better to eat the old local restaurants!"

"Let's talk about having a taste - let's go, let's go to Xianlou today!"

——"What should I do?"

Lin Lang murmured to himself.

In the food business, let alone something wrong with the food, the whole store can easily be overwhelmed just because the taste is not good enough.Could it be that after I left home, the restaurant I had worked so hard to save would die so early?

Seeing that Lin Lang was in a daze, Chen Ni didn't know what to do, he just held a stick horizontally to prevent the troublemakers from coming forward.

The crowd of onlookers in front of the God of Wealth Mansion is getting more and more dense, and it is obvious that things have become serious.

Tang Yushu's side grabbed a stick from somewhere, limped out with support, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Seeing Tang Yushu come out, Lin Lang came back to his senses: "They ate up their stomachs..."

Tang Yushu couldn't believe it either: "How is it possible?"

"How is it impossible?" The troublemakers yelled again: "Are you trying to renege on your debts!"

"Nothing, nothing." Tang Yushu tried his best to calm down, but his voice was too low to cover the noisy voices.

At this time, a person squeezed out from the crowd: "The food in their restaurant is absolutely fine-I guarantee it!"

It was Uncle Wang.Besides, Uncle Wang has been in Chen Tan for so many years, and he is also a person who is convinced by everyone.

Although the troublemakers were still dissatisfied, they had to look at Uncle Wang's face: "Why do you vouch for these two out-of-town bastards?"

"What's the matter, you have to figure it out before you can make a judgment." Uncle Wang thought for a while, and said: "It's useless to just make noise and smash the door. Let's go home first, and give them a day to solve the problem." If you should lose money, you will lose money, and you can deal with it as you like. If you can trust me, Uncle Wang will preside over this matter for everyone, okay?"

What Uncle Wang said was reasonable, and everyone didn't want to make trouble anymore, so the leading man agreed, saying: "Okay, we believe in Uncle Wang." He called people to leave.After walking out for a few steps, he turned back to look at Lin Lang and Tang Yushu: "At first I thought it was not easy for you two brothers to work hard in a foreign country, and I introduced friends from the eight neighboring villages to eat in your restaurant. Now this... I express Uncle and his family are also sick, you have to give us an explanation!"

After sending these people away, all the people went back to the restaurant.

Lin Lang looked distressed, Tang Yushu was also at a loss, and Chen Ni stood beside the two silently.Uncle Wang paced back and forth in the wing room.

"What should I do?" Lin Lang broke the silence.

Uncle Wang scratched his chin unconsciously, and said for a while, "I have an idea, it's just..."

"What's your idea?" Tang Yushu asked eagerly.

"It's just this idea... hey." Uncle Wang stopped talking for a long time, and asked: "Are you sure that there will be no problems with the food you cook?"

Lin Lang was dissatisfied: "Uncle Wang, what do you mean?"

Tang Yushu had a bitter face: "There's nothing wrong with it—I did it all by myself."

"Okay." Uncle Wang said, "Lin Lang, go and write a notice—just say that someone had a bad stomach in the restaurant last night, and he will find out the reason as soon as possible and give everyone an explanation!"

"What a bad idea?!" Lin Lang had an incredulous expression: "Do you think not enough people know about this scandal?"

Uncle Wang said: "Believe me—since we are innocent, we are not afraid of being told about this matter. Not only must this notice be posted, but any clues that follow must be announced to everyone, and the matter will be resolved transparently along the way." Fall—this is the only chance of rescue, otherwise you may not be able to turn over."

After thinking for a while, Lin Lang gave a "tsk", dipped in the ink obediently and wrote a notice.After showing Uncle Wang a look, he went out and pasted up the notice.

After brushing off the dust from his hands, Lin Lang didn't dare to raise his head, for fear of meeting the eyes of passers-by, he walked straight into the restaurant.

When he was about to step over the threshold, a child grabbed his cuff: "Is Brother Ah Ni there?"

"Chen Ni?"

"Yeah!" The child jumped up and down.

Lin Lang looked at the child with a familiar look. "He's in—what do you want him for?"

He didn't receive an answer to his question, and saw the child bypassing Lin Lang and waving at Chen Ni's figure in the yard: "Brother Ah Ni!"

Chen Ni came out in response: "What's the matter?" Then he turned to Lin Lang and said, "Benefactor, Uncle Wang wants you in."

"Oh." Lin Lang replied lightly, and had no choice but to turn around and go back to the restaurant.Before stepping into the wing room, Lin Lang couldn't help but cast another glance at Chen Ni who was at the door, and saw that he seemed to be talking to the child.

What are you talking about?

At that moment, Lin Lang suddenly remembered that the familiar child belonged to the group who ate badly last night.

In the side room, Tang Yushu was still puzzled: "I really can't figure it out. I washed the vegetables cleaner than the ones I ate. Before the war, the wild vegetables we dug were washed in the river a few times. Just put it in your mouth. It’s from Jiangnan, and it’s very expensive.”

Uncle Wang comforted Tang Yushu: "Don't worry, we can always find out the truth."

At the same time, Lin Lang suddenly formed a suspect and the crime process that he was not sure about.Although not fully sure, it is the only explanation for the clues seen so far.

"Is the notice posted?" Uncle Wang asked.

Lin Lang nodded: "It's done."

"You can take Chen Ni to buy vegetables later."

"Still buying vegetables? Will anyone come to eat?"

"...If no one comes, we'll eat by ourselves tonight—and call the fat girl and thin lady." Uncle Wang tried his best to apologize.

A female voice came from the courtyard: "Brother Yushu...Brother Yushu? I'll deliver the wine."

"Three altars are enough for today." Uncle Wang pushed open the door of the wing room and greeted Ah Ci, "A Ci, come to the restaurant to eat hot pot together tonight?"

"Okay." Ah Ci nodded.

At this moment, Chen Ni also came back. He had an excited expression on his face, but when he raised his head, he met Lin Lang's complicated eyes.Chen Ni's eyes wandered from Lin Lang to Uncle Wang, and then to A Ci, the smile on his face disappeared completely.

But Lin Lang said coldly: "You were the one who greeted the guests last night?"

"...Yes..." Chen Ni nodded.

The look in Lin Lang's eyes was particularly cold: "This restaurant was saved by Tang Yushu and I after a hard journey, and I will protect it with my life."

The atmosphere in the whole restaurant was extremely cold.

"You were the only one who could do anything last night..." Lin Lang stepped forward and leaned over, and whispered in Chen Ni's ear from a very close distance: "If I guess right, I will also bet my life to let you Tasted the price."