Kaifeng Bistro

"Master Wen Hui, my brother... Is my brother really alright?" Tan Zhifeng looked at Xu Gan's bloody body in horror, and asked uneasily.

Wen Hui looked at Tan Zhifeng with a smile in his eyes: "Benefactor Tan, you can rest assured that I am here."

After that, he stepped forward to Tan Zhifeng's ear, and whispered to him: "It's just, after today, what will happen to Xu Gan... I can't predict it for the time being...Little shopkeeper, I always like you very much , if you need help, you might as well come to Tianqing Temple to find me, I will definitely help you..."

As he spoke, he stepped back: "...Remember, I am your friend, not your enemy..."

Tan Zhifeng's heart was pounding. Before he could figure out the meaning of what Wen Hui said, Xu Gan turned around and looked at Zhan Zhao who was not far away and nodded slightly. The two seemed to have reached a consensus. All this made Tan Zhifeng even more confused. He looked up at Xu Gan, but Xu Gan just smiled slightly, and tapped his brow with his newly healed right hand: "It's okay, go home."

Tan Zhifeng also took a last look at the chaotic battlefield and the tied-up master and servant of the Chen family. His hand was tightly held by Xu Gan, who pulled him to his side and led him towards the gate of Tianqing Temple.

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"I know... Brother Zhifeng... I, I don't know who he is, he, he has been staying at the door, saying that he will wait for the adults in the family to come back... He, he, I don't think he is a bad person..." Shangshang Uncomfortably twisting his hands, he stammered an explanation.

Tan Zhifeng and Xu Gan glanced at each other, and then their eyes fell on the eaves of the door at the same time, where there was a black figure with an unpleasant smell curled up there.

"Ahhh...you...you, who are you?!" The black shadow suddenly moved, startling Zhuo Zhuo.The two short knives in her hand hadn't been put away yet, she threw the knives across in front of the man, and boldly shouted: "Hurry up, report your name quickly."

"Hehe..." The black shadow moved again, and then, stretched out a hand from the tattered cloth-like clothes. This hand was covered with black mud, and it was impossible to see The original color of the skin.The man moved, raised his hand and pulled the hood over his face, and a faint voice came from under the hood.

"Please do me a favor..." There was a hint of southern emphasis and a bit of deliberate flattery in his voice, "There are officers and soldiers outside... please take me in."

As he spoke, he lifted his hood, revealing an ordinary and even somewhat ugly face.Tan Zhifeng looked at him with a little surprise, and the others were also stunned - this person should be young, only 21, with a pale face, but two thick black eyebrows, his two eyebrows are also It was a bit too dark and thick, and it was straight across the face, with a big red nose standing in the middle of the face, and a grinning mouth with a weird smile.

He found that Tan Zhifeng was looking at him, so he smiled flatteringly again: "The shopkeeper...you must belong to the shopkeeper, right? You look like a good person, let me go in to keep out the wind and snow. Don't look at me Dressed like this, I still have some money on me, so I'm sure you won't be called the shopkeeper, you'll be at a disadvantage."

It stands to reason that on such an eventful night, the whole city was heavily guarded, and Zhan Zhao and the others were still searching for Yeli Changrong's accomplices, no matter what they said, they shouldn't have let this person in.However, Tan Zhifeng looked at this person carefully, but he felt a strange feeling in his heart.

Because, the moment Tan Zhifeng met his gaze, Tan Zhifeng was surprised to find that this slovenly and ugly man, although he was dressed in rags and looked unattractive, his eyes were very beautiful, high-spirited, clear-eyed, with a few A bit rebellious, a bit chic, and even a bit of awe-inspiring righteousness.

Although, put together with the other facial features on his face, these eyes also look a bit funny, but Tan Zhifeng's heart trembled inexplicably, this person is by no means a bad person.

Tan Zhifeng was about to call him in, but Xu Yan said in a deep voice: "No." Then he added: "Yi Yi, give him a few pennies and let him go."

Yi Yi obviously saw the same thing as Xu Yan, he took out a few copper coins from his pocket and handed them over: "Here you are. We can't afford to cause such trouble."

"Wait...wait." Tan Zhifeng couldn't help but opened his mouth. Amid the objections from Xu Yan and Yi Yi, his voice seemed very weak: "It's so cold, where should he go? He... such a day , he'll freeze to death without a place to live. Let him in."

Xu Yan looked at Tan Zhifeng sideways for a while, and found that he had made up his mind, so he said to him, "Zhifeng, you decide..." Tan Zhifeng didn't expect Xu Gan to give in so quickly.He breathed a sigh of relief, leaned over and whispered to the man: "I'll get you something to eat to keep you warm. After a while, the outside will be less chaotic, and you can go on the road again."

"You're sick again, Zhifeng?" Zhuo Zhuo muttered dissatisfiedly: "Now the city is full of arrests?! You... What if you harbor criminals?!"

"Don't yell, don't yell." Tan Zhifeng gestured to Zhuo Zhuo.He opened the curtain and pulled her in.Yi Yi stared at the man for a while before saying: "Go in."

When they arrived at the back kitchen, Xu Gan stood there silently.Zhuo Zhuo was still impatiently muttering in Tan Zhifeng's ear: "Look at the people in our room, I won't talk about you who can't carry the basket on your shoulders, and there are two children, you Are you not afraid? Even... um, even this...we all...know how to do some kung fu, but who knows where he came from these days? You can't be too sympathetic, and besides, he looks so ugly, I said you put him What are you staying for?"

"I... I see..." Tan Zhifeng interrupted Zhuo Zhuo, and took another look outside. After the man came in, he found a table in the corner and shrank back. Yi Yi was about to bring water for him to clean his face, but was caught He refused.Tan Zhifeng argued weakly: "I think he might be an unlucky foreigner. Thinking about our first day in Kaifeng, isn't it quite embarrassing?"

"You're always so kind..." Zhuo Zhuo pouted, "Tell me, this is abusive kindness..."

"Besides," Tan Zhifeng said again: "We also want to find out the truth, don't we? If there is someone suspicious, we should see what he wants to do...Are you right?"

In this battle, Tan Zhifeng felt that the relationship between himself and Xu Gan was a little different. When Xu Gan looked at him before, his eyes were mostly a brother's tolerance and love for his younger brother, but now, Tan Zhifeng always feels that he Looking at himself is much more complicated.

Just like when he wanted to take in this person of unknown origin, Xu Gan didn't seem to agree, but he still said, "You decide."

Hearing Tan Zhifeng ask him, Xu Yan squinted his eyes and looked out for a while, then repeated: "Well, you have the final say here, if you want to keep him, let him live."

At this moment, Yi Yi came in and told them: "That guy seems to be very tired and fell asleep."

The four stood together in the back kitchen, and their eyes fell on the strange man at the same time. The man was leaning against the wall with his back to everyone, and he seemed to have fallen asleep as Yi Yi said.One of his legs was draped over the chair, the other was drooping, and he was snoring with his mouth wide open, and a cane was thrown beside him.

Just now when he entered the room, he didn’t seem to be able to walk very smoothly, but Tan Zhifeng didn’t notice his cane, and thought his legs were cold outside. Now seeing his cane, Tan Zhifeng guessed that he might have some problems with his legs and feet.

"Oh!" The man suddenly woke up, and the few people who were looking at him from behind were startled when he spoke.He rubbed his eyes and shouted: "Shopkeeper, it's been so long, why haven't the food been served yet!"

Zhuo Zhuo pushed the teapot and teacup in front of Tan Zhifeng, and Tan Zhifeng had no choice but to take it out by himself, and said to the man: "Guest officer, wait a moment, I'll make you a bowl of soup and cakes, it will be ready soon."

"Soup cakes?" The man became energetic when he heard this: "How do you make your soup cakes?"

Tan Zhifeng was a little surprised and curious when he actually asked about the recipe of soup cakes.Tan Zhifeng originally planned to make him a bowl of fresh mutton noodle soup with the boiled mutton tail soup. After listening to his question, he asked, "Guest officer, where are you from? What kind of food do you want?"

"Hmm..." The man raised his thick black eyebrows, looked at Tan Zhifeng with interest, and said in a low voice, "They don't want me to stay, right? Only you...hehe, you are a good person. Oh my goodness ..."

As he spoke, he wobbled and stood up while supporting the table, pulled the cane by the wall towards him, limped and walked two steps with the cane, turned his head and smiled at Tan Zhifeng, as if to him, It seems to say to a few people in the back kitchen: "Oh, shopkeeper, don't look at me now. It's a common thing to say, 'A hero is in trouble, and the sword is covered with dust'. It's a pity, some people just follow suit, See who is well-dressed and handsome, and you will come forward, otherwise, you will be afraid to avoid it... Shopkeeper, there are fewer and fewer good people like you. I have met one before. I became a brother of the opposite sex with him, I see you, you are also very close to my eyes, how about we also become sworn brothers?"

"Huh, hero, if you are open-minded, why don't you report your name first?" Before he finished speaking, Yi Yi couldn't help but walked over from the back kitchen, stopped in front of Tan Zhifeng, and said coldly to the weird man with a cane .

"Oh, my little brother, why are you in a hurry? I was about to say it. But I am a scholar and I am very polite. If you ask me like this, I don't want to say it. You can ask me politely once, and we will exchange names. , this is considered to be in line with the rules.”

"Okay, okay," Tan Zhifeng pulled Yi Yi, who was about to explode, behind him, and said respectfully, "May I ask the guest officer's name?"

"Look at it, look at it," the man smiled and raised his cane and tapped lightly on the ground in front of Yi Yi, "Learn how to behave like your master."