Nongmen scholar

Chapter 72
Zhou Liang glared at her fiercely, and wanted to speak, but seeing the people around him staring at him, as if they would drown him with spittle and accept the reward from Gu Xiaobei if he delays for a while, Zhou Liang was frightened immediately. Back again and again, ran far away.

Zhu Mei felt unwilling, but she had no choice but to give Gu Xiaobei a bitter look, and then left with Zhou Liang.

The crowd also dispersed slowly, Gu Xiaobei had an injury on his leg, Brother Nuomi and the others refused to let her stay to help finish packing, and asked her and Bai Qingli to go back to the restaurant first, and then talk about it after they packed all the things back say their own things.

Gu Xiaobei didn't try to be brave, he followed Bai Qingli into the carriage and went back to the restaurant first.

"Just now why did you say that someone taught me to cook that dish?" Gu Xiaobei raised the curtain in front of the carriage and asked the doubts in his heart.

"You took someone else's recipe, doesn't it mean that someone taught you? Although he didn't teach you by words and deeds, but his understanding of the dishes is written on the recipe. If you learn his recipe, doesn't it mean that he taught you? " Bai Qingli said slyly.

So it turned out that the imperial chef who wrote the imperial chef's recipes taught her indirectly. This fellow said just now as if the imperial chef really taught her, and he bluffed the old chef Zeng. Gu Xiaobei thought to himself, it's really treacherous what!After thinking about it, he asked again: "Why did that old cook Zeng admit defeat after hearing your words?"

"The person who wrote this cookbook was his master, can he not admit defeat?" Bai Qingli said with a smile.

"So that's how it is!" Gu Xiaobei suddenly realized that chefs respect the masters who teach them cooking skills, even if they are young, they dare not say that they are better than the masters.

After a few words, the carriage arrived in front of Brothers and Sisters Restaurant.After getting out of the car and opening the door, Gu Xiaobei just walked into the lobby on the first floor of the restaurant, she felt something strange, after thinking for a while, she suddenly yelled: "I've been thieves!"

Bai Qingli was still tying the horse outside, when he heard Gu Xiaobei's exclamation, he immediately ran in, quickly brought Gu Xiaobei into his arms, looked around the hall vigilantly, and then let go when he saw nothing unusual. Gu Xiaobei asked: " What's wrong?"

"All the calligraphy and paintings you drew for me were stolen." Gu Xiaobei pointed to the wall of the hall.

When renovating the restaurant, Bai Qingli specially drew several pictures for her and put some poems on them, and asked her to hang them on the walls of the lobby and boxes as facades, but now the walls are bare and nothing is left.

"Look what else is missing!" Bai Qingli reminded her.

Gu Xiaobei hastily took out her key and opened the cabinet where the restaurant's revolving banknotes were stored. Seeing that the banknotes inside were still there, she breathed a sigh of relief, followed Bai Qingli upstairs and downstairs to check everything, and found that except Bai Qingli's calligraphy and paintings were missing. , and nothing else is lost.

"This little thief really has a vision. He took my calligraphy and paintings for nothing. Although my calligraphy and paintings are not worth thousands of gold, they are still worth a hundred gold." Bai Qingli laughed.

Worth a hundred gold?Gu Xiaobei was very shocked. In the past, there were very few valuable things in ancient times. In the 21st century, when I saw a piece of jade pendant on TV and said it was priceless, Gu Xiaobei thought it was unbelievable. In ancient times, the land was sparsely populated. There are only dozens of cities. If there are so many priceless jade pendants, wouldn't the emperor's cities be bought a lot?So priceless is just an exaggeration. Things that can be worth thousands of gold are already very rare, and Bai Qingli's calligraphy and paintings can be worth hundreds of gold, which shows that his calligraphy and paintings are already top-quality.

Seeing Gu Xiaobei staring at him with glowing eyes, Bai Qingli's hair stood on end, and he waved his hands again and again: "Don't look at me with such eyes, I won't just take my calligraphy and paintings and sell them to make money. Rareness is the most valuable, no matter how good my calligraphy and paintings are, they are worth more if they are in abundance, so I will not easily sell my calligraphy and paintings."

"I didn't say I would sell your calligraphy and painting." Gu Xiaobei curled her lips. She also knew that calligraphy and painting are indeed rare and expensive. Bai Qingli's calligraphy and painting should not be buried by money, but should be given to people who understand calligraphy and painting. Only then can the value of the calligraphy and painting be realized. Thinking about it this way, Gu Xiaobei is even more worried about the whereabouts of the calligraphy and painting.

"If you lose it, just throw it away. Don't worry too much. At worst, I'll just draw for you. If you still want your legs now, you'd better sit down and rest." Bai Qingli pushed her onto the stool sit down.

"Hey, misfortunes never come singly! Your calligraphy and paintings are lost in the hands of villains, and your calligraphy and paintings will not be rare in the future." Gu Xiaobei sighed.

"The calligraphy and painting may not have been stolen." Bai Qingli looked around the hall again thoughtfully.

"Didn't it be stolen? Why didn't they disappear?" Gu Xiaobei frowned.

"See what's so special about this hall?" Bai Qingli pointed at the quiet hall.

"It's just missing your calligraphy and painting, nothing special." Gu Xiaobei was still puzzled.

Bai Qingli looked Gu Xiaobei up and down, shook his head and said with emotion: "I really don't know what you grew up on, why are you so stupid? If there is a thief stealing things, then after he enters the restaurant, he must rummage everywhere, looking for valuables. things, but in the restaurant, except for my calligraphy and paintings, everything is neat and tidy..."

"It means that this thing was not stolen by someone, but was taken away openly." Gu Xiaobei immediately said.

"Children can be taught." Bai Qingli praised without hesitation.

"But who took it?"

"Then I don't understand. I can only find out when the other people are all here." Bai Qingli said.

Gu Xiaobei nodded, and then remembered that Bai Qingli accompanied her to the cooking competition and did not teach the children in the village, so he hurriedly asked: "Do the villagers know about the fact that you accompanied me to the cooking competition? Is there any problem if you suddenly don't teach?" ?”

"It's time for the autumn harvest. From now on, I will give the children in the village a holiday. I will continue to go to school after the autumn harvest is over." Bai Qingli said.

Gu Xiaobei nodded, before their family's field in Liurongpo was trampled by someone's cattle, Gu Datian and Gu Changjue went to harvest in advance, now that so many days have passed, it is indeed the official autumn harvest It's busy season.

Soon, Brother Nuomi and the others packed up their things and came back.

Gu Xiaobei hurriedly asked them: "Why are the calligraphy and paintings on the wall gone?"

Brother Zongzi touched his head, took a step forward and said, "Little boss, I mortgaged this calligraphy and painting to the boss who delivered the ingredients to the door, because you were late this morning, and we couldn't pay for the ingredients you ordered. So I decided to find a way to let the boss who delivered the ingredients to the door postpone the payment for half a day, but Uncle Chen and I begged for a long time, and some bosses were still unwilling to postpone the payment until I gave them the calligraphy and paintings. .”

(End of this chapter)