The protagonist Gong is still reincarnated

Don't be afraid to flash your tongue!Li Erbao said in his heart.

Soon, the smell of food came from the back kitchen, and Li Erbao was overjoyed that the strange man he picked up actually knew how to cook.He had eaten enough salt in the hands of the former chef Da Zhang, it was salty and greasy.

"Brother Zhou, I'm coming la la la la!"

After running into the back kitchen, two dishes of dishes had already been prepared and placed on the kang.One dish of scrambled eggs with diced meat, the diced meat was cut so small that you can’t see how it was cut out; the other dish was even more weird, potatoes with chopped green onions, a whole potato was carved into a flower shape, and chopped green onions were placed on top.

The fire under the cauldron was very hot, and there was fish soup stewed in the pot. There was a lot of star anise in the soup, which was indescribably weird.

Li Erbao leaned over to stuff his mouth with chopsticks, reluctantly praised: "The appetizers sold in our tavern are of this level, which is enough."

"Appetizers?"

"Yup!"

"I'm afraid I won't..." Zhou Yan felt a little troubled, he came from a famous family after all, after coming to Xuanji Gate, he didn't cook mortal dishes, and he had long forgotten what food and drinks are all about.

"Are you still afraid of this?" Li Erbao didn't understand, how could he not?Isn't this all done?

"Second Treasure—!"

"Yes! The shopkeeper is calling me! If you are familiar with the stove, I will go first!" Li Erbao patted his thigh, shook the sweat towel, and ran out of the back kitchen, "Shopkeeper, here I come!"

Zhou Yan stared at the spatula in his hand for a long time, not knowing what to do next.

After a quarter of an hour, Li Erbao came back and handed him a list.

"Hot and sour potato shreds, fried peanuts, tofu mixed with shallot..." Zhou Yan looked at it, a little confused, "This is it?"

Li Erbao looked at him sympathetically, "The shopkeeper invites you to spend the night with him, to drink and enjoy the moon...the list is his list of snacks."

"If that's the case, it's not difficult." Zhou Yan made up his mind.

"Of course it's not these difficulties!" Li Erbao hammered the pillar and said, "Isn't it difficult to drink with the shopkeeper? Didn't you smell the powder on his body just now? That smell is really..."

"Thanks for reminding."

"It's okay. If the shopkeeper wants to do something to you directly, remember to shout, I will go in and find a reason to take you away, remember!"

Seeing Li Erbao worried and worried about him, Zhou Yan felt warm in his heart, but because too many people had been used and deceived before, he didn't speak out to persuade him, he just said: "Go back to the lobby first, I'll see you later Shopkeeper."

It's pretty quick to cook a few appetizers.

Zhou Yan brought the dishes to the roof, where shopkeeper Mei set up a small table, put fine wine on it, watched Zhou Yan put down the food with a smile, and sat opposite him.

"Zhou Yan, were you married before?"

"Is there a girl you like?"

"If you don't talk, I will treat you as if you are gone. You see, it is not easy for me. I manage a tavern by myself, and I need you to help me a little bit..."

"Of course you can help me!" The shopkeeper Mei moved his butt towards Zhou Yan, and gave him a few winks, "Your stature and strength are really useless in the back kitchen... "

Zhou Yan moved to another place, expressionless, "Shopkeeper, I still have work to do, let's go down first."

Shopkeeper Mei propped his chin up, and said with a smile, "You are in such a hurry to leave? I heard that your injuries are still not healed, let me see..." As he spoke, he was about to pull Zhou Yan's trouser legs.

"The shopkeeper..." Zhou Yan was helpless, if he wanted to push him away, he was afraid that he would be killed directly. Although he lost his cultivation, he retained a strength that surpassed ordinary people.She tried to evade it to no avail, but shopkeeper Mei still pulled up her trousers.

"Tsk tsk, look at your injury!" Shopkeeper Mei touched the wound lightly with his hand, his tone was quite distressed.

"If the shopkeeper is optimistic, I will go down first..."

"It just so happens that I have wound medicine here." Shopkeeper Mei proudly took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket, which contained a black plaster.

"It doesn't work..." This was Lu Yingchao's wound, how could it be cured so easily?

As soon as the leg was cold, the plaster had been applied on it, and after a burst of pain, it really felt better.

Zhou Yan opened his eyes and looked at shopkeeper Mei with some doubts, but the other party still had a flamboyant smile: "I've said it all, my sister's husband's master's master's uncle's fourth apprentice's uncle is a god! Look, you are so strange! The medicine is given to you , apply it every night, within half a month, your legs and feet will be sharp."

Zhou Yan was at a loss for words for a while, and didn't know how to thank him.

"Why, didn't you say you were going to leave? Are you really reluctant to part with your beauty?" Shopkeeper Mei continued to wink, opened the folding fan with a picture of tryst, showing off her charm.

"No... I'm leaving first." Zhou Yan jumped off the roof and staggered to the back kitchen. From a distance, he heard the shopkeeper's voice:

"Your-shoes!"

Only then did Zhou Yan realize that he had left in a hurry and left his shoes on the roof. He apologized three times, and went back to get them before leaving. The shopkeeper Mei laughed, "It seems that I am so beautiful that you forgot your shoes."

If nothing else, confidence is a good thing.

Zhou Yan thought silently.

The ointment that shopkeeper Mei gave him actually worked, as he said, within ten days, all the wounds healed and returned to normal.After losing his cultivation base, Zhou Yan's sensitivity to herbal medicine and spiritual power dropped greatly, and he couldn't identify the ingredients of the ointment. However, it seems that the relative that shopkeeper Mei mentioned really existed, and he was very nostalgic, so he gave him something.

Maybe it’s because of his physical recovery, and the life of being a chef in a tavern is not as difficult as imagined. Zhou Yan sees the shopkeeper Mei, so pleasing to the eye, that he does not forget to prepare his supper every day, and remembers the taste of his supper, shallots mixed with tofu , How thick do you need to cut the tofu, braise the fat intestines, and how much lard you need to put.Every morning when I saw shopkeeper Mei, I would force myself to give him a smile, even on sunny and cloudy days, and he would not embarrass or embarrass myself for the whole day.

If shopkeeper Mei doesn't like to eat his tofu, then he is really a good employer.

He pays a lot of money per month, doesn't pick on him for his weird cooking, doesn't dislike his many eccentricities, and stands by his side when he is being made difficult by customers, and scolds them away.

After staying in the tavern for half a year, Zhou Yan found that he was completely used to this kind of life. Living as an ordinary person, he only had to worry about the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. After all, he was in charge of purchasing the ingredients for the tavern; And Li Erbao, both of them are simple-minded and kind-hearted.An ordinary cook doesn't have to worry about someone trying to get close to him and take advantage of him.

But shopkeeper Mei started to get sick.At first it was just a cold, but soon became seriously ill and couldn't get out of bed. I asked the doctor to come and see, and the doctor directly asked them to prepare for the funeral.

This time, shopkeeper Mei couldn't come up with life-saving medicine.

He asked Zhou Yan to guard his bedside every night.

Before he was about to die, he looked at the roof with no blood on his face, leaving only Zhou Yan in the room, and said: "I have a friend whose mother... died for three days, and the body stinks. To be discovered...I don't want to be like this..."

"How can I meet the uncle of your sister's husband's master's fourth apprentice?" Zhou Yan tucked the quilt for him and asked with a frown.

"I don't know... probably died a long time ago..." He said indiscriminately, stretching out his hand, grabbing something in the air.

"Cultivators have a long lifespan... What do you want to eat, I'll make it for you..." Zhou Yan didn't want to argue with him any more, and got up to make him something to eat, but was caught Shopkeeper Mei grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"You stay..."

Zhou Yan sat down obediently again.

"hold me······"

Zhou Yan sighed, picked him up, and held him in his arms. How could he die with regrets?

Under the serious illness of Shopkeeper Mei, he took off all his fine clothes, his face was covered with heavy makeup, his hair was disheveled, his lips were bloodless, and he looked a little pitiful.

Zhou Yan despised himself a bit, thinking this way, it was a bit disrespectful to the patient.It's just that, since shopkeeper Ruomei's appearance was so clear from the beginning, he wouldn't refuse to be like a scourge.

"The second time I saw you, I fell in love with you..."

What he said was after Zhou Yan took a shower and changed his clothes, "I know."

"I planned to live with you in a small town for the rest of my life... but I got this disease... I got you involved..."

"There is no such thing as a relationship between the two of us. Zhou Yan is grateful for the shopkeeper's kindness in this life."

Shopkeeper Mei smiled bitterly, and whispered in his ear, "I know there is someone in your heart. You carve him with radishes, carve him with bamboo, and write his name with stove ash... I just think about it, no matter what you liked before. Anyone can only stay by my side from now on... Unexpectedly, I will leave too..."

Zhou Yan was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect him to observe so carefully, he felt even more ashamed, and was speechless immediately.

"No more..." Zhou Yan smiled wryly, trying his best to clear away all the scenes about Mu Qi in his memory, why did the other party want him to care about him, for the past six months, he was mostly deceiving himself, half his life was a joke, and he didn't live like Li Erbao Clearly.

"That's good." Shopkeeper Mei smiled, his breath getting weaker and weaker, and he took Zhou Yan's hand, "Look at me, I look like this...promise me one thing... ···My favorite place is Meizi Town, I will give you the tavern, and you will live there for me, for the rest of your life, and you are not allowed to go out..."

"I promise you."

"Okay, okay. I also have my eye on a piece of land in the east, you buy it for me and bury me in it..."

"no problem."

Zhou Yan agreed to everything.

Shopkeeper Mei's smile grew wider, she fell into Zhou Yan's arms completely, and swallowed her breath within a stick of incense.

According to his instructions, Zhou Yan buried him at the foot of the hillside east of Meizi Town.When the monument was erected, it was discovered that he had never told everyone his real name.I looked through the land deed and the house deed, and it only said Mei, and there was no name.

In the end, only the words "Meijia Tavern Mei Treasurer's Tomb" can be engraved.

The current tavern manager has become Zhou Yan, and he recruited a few more guys, and the business is even more prosperous. Although he can't make a lot of money every day, it is enough to make him a commoner in his next life without worrying about food and clothing.

During the period, he went to Beixiang City, which was very different from the past, with lazy guards and corrupt officials.In short, this dynasty is not upright and down, the emperor is licentious and immoral, and the officials only care about collecting money. We all know that this dynasty will not last long.On the other hand, the Yin family took advantage of the chaos and established their own Yin dynasty, dominating the northwest.

Zhou Yan heard these things by accident when he was buying cloth in Beixiang City.After hearing this, he handed the money to the boss expressionlessly, and returned to Meizi Town on the same road in the carriage pulling the goods.

It's almost Chinese New Year, it's time to make new clothes for myself and Li Erbao.

In the fourth year of the reign of the Yin Dynasty, Beixiang was occupied by the Yin Dynasty. It has been 13 years since Zhouyan came to Meizi Town.

His appearance didn't change much, he still looked like a young man, which made Li Erbao call him a living god.Regarding this, Zhou Yan just smiled and didn't explain too much.His cultivation base was taken away by the 【Everlasting Regret】13 years ago, and since then, he has never tried to absorb spiritual energy again.The original reasons for cultivating desperately disappeared, and all the longing for the world of cultivating immortals was also shattered.

In the twelfth lunar month of the fourth year of Changlong, Li Erbao asked for leave to go home to get married, and other employees in the store also returned home one after another to celebrate the New Year, leaving Zhou Yan, the shopkeeper, to stay in Meizi Town.

He thought about it, but he had nowhere to go, so he brought a jug of wine and went to visit the tomb of shopkeeper Mei.

That day when heavy snow came suddenly, Zhou Yan was wrapped in a thick cotton-padded coat, braving the wind and snow, sitting in front of the tombstone of shopkeeper Mei, and told him everything that had happened for more than ten years. Before leaving, he spilled a lot of wine.