Volume 1: The Past in the South, The Old River(1/2)
After traveling through half of the outer city of Saluci, he rushed all the way. Lanwen and Alvin finally arrived at this "Old River" restaurant.
The store is also a bit old. Of course, the store's store is not as good as "Lu Zheng". It has not been renovated for many years. The brown paint surface has been tossed by the long-term sun and rain, and is full of cracked traces. However, the name is "Old River", so it is naturally considered as the situation.
Lan Wen pretended that she didn't see the suspicion and disgust in Alvin's eyes, so she pushed the door and went in. Alvin had no choice but to follow him in.
As soon as Fang entered the store, Alvin felt something different. Unexpectedly, the restaurant was very good and it was so crowded that there was almost no seats.
The moment the two of them pushed the door and came in, they attracted many strange gazes.
"It looks like two young nobles who meet in private." Everyone thought in confusion, "Otherwise, why would you come here to eat?"
The main reason is that Lanwen is too eye-catching, and the diners still look up at her from time to time.
Lan Wen didn't care about everyone's eyes, and walked in with Alvin's sleeves. He found a newly vacant seat by the window and immediately occupied it.
"What do you two have to eat?" The young waitress came up with a refreshing smile. She had a burly figure, a little cheekbones, and the freckles on her cheeks were covered by the redness of the plateau. Alvin thought to himself that this should be the girl from Zham Plateau.
"Two bowls of signature old river noodles, a plate of Zham beef, with Haledi sauce, a basket of carved oil pastry, and a basket of maple soup buns." Lan Yin ordered breakfast without looking at the menu on the table.
Alvin was curious about the store. He looked at the unpretentious decoration in the store carefully. Some of the oil stains on the table had already penetrated into the wood grain board and turned black. He watched the guests on the table enjoy their meals, and the steamers on the table were steaming to the ceiling.
There are still some good diners who are still watching Elvin's table. After all, few nobles will visit this restaurant.
"Wow, what kind of store is this?" Alvin couldn't help but sigh with a frown.
Lan Yin looked at him funnyly, "You must know that it is not that you can eat more than you can eat better."
Alvin nodded in agreement.
However, when he really eats it, Alvin can understand why Lanwen has so much effort to eat here. Even someone like him who is picky in his tongue can't help but taste it carefully.
"The noodle soup should have been added with pig fat, otherwise why is it so fragrant?" Alvin sniffed it carefully.
"Well, mix the noodles quickly." Lan Yen didn't look up at him, and picked up the thin noodles with chopsticks and stirred them repeatedly until each noodles were completely covered with the sauce at the bottom of the bowl.
Alvin didn't rush to mix the noodles, snapped his fingers and called the "Plateau Red" just now, and asked her for a plate of candy. The waitress widened her eyes and looked at Alvin, then confirmed again and went to the kitchen behind.
"Did you eat so sweet?" Lan Yin was quite curious.
Alvin smiled, poured all the small plate of sugar brought by the waitress into the noodles, and stirred it repeatedly.
"Of course you need some sugar to mix noodles," Alvin smiled and picked up the chopsticks and took a big bite. "Well, this noodles are very fragrant and the soup is good."
"Do you really need to add sugar?" Lan Ling looked at Alvin in confusion and took a chopstick from his bowl without any scruples. Alvin looked quite painful in surprise.
In the eyes of outsiders, this young couple should have a particularly good relationship.
Lan Wen tasted it and said with a smile, "It seems to be good. I didn't expect you to be good at eating it. Why haven't I heard of adding sugar?"
"Because I have a clever tongue." Alvin said with a smile, picking up a slice of beef and dipping it in the sauce to taste.
"Zam's beef tastes like this, it's nothing special. What's the sauce of Haleti? It seems to be different from the ordinary beef dipping sauce." Alvin tasted it carefully, and he smelled it again. "Is there any special spice in this sauce?"
"Have you tasted it? Your tongue is OK." Lan Ling said in surprise.
"It smells different." Alvin picked up another piece of beef and dipped it in the sauce to taste it.
"This is Ganrugen. Haledi produces Ganru, do you know?" Lan Ling explained to him.
"Oh, Ganru, isn't that used for magic potion? Can its roots be used as spices?" said Alvinchi.
Alvin remembered that Harlety was a city near the sea in the southern part of Maine, no wonder Lan Wen knew the material of Gan Ru very well.
"I feel that in addition to lacking magic knowledge, your understanding of magic materials is also very shallow." Lan Yin sighed, and nodded in agreement with herself after saying that.
Elvin's gas junction.
"But it's so strange. I've seen someone selling Ganru. Are there any such spices as Ganrugen in the city? I don't seem to have seen them before." Alvin frowned and thought.
"If there is nothing sold in the city, then the owner of this store is quite interesting." Alvin thought to himself, "I would rather pay to buy spices from Maine than to make up the store's decoration."
"Someone is fighting outside." At this moment, a commotion broke out in the store. Some diners had already gone outside the store to watch the fun. Some of the accounts that had not yet come, and the shopkeeper was so anxious that he chased them out.
Alvin wiped the moisture from the window glass with his palm so that he could see what was happening on the street outside.
The security of Saluch's outer city is not comparable to that of the inner city. There are city defense teams patrolling in several blocks around Phoenix Street in the outer city. However, even if people are killed in this remote neighborhood, no one will be responsible. The City Defense Department basically turns a blind eye to such things.
A strong man with half-exposed shoulders and a young man were confronting the street. A little girl was hiding behind the young man. From a distance, he looked at the girl's neck, wrists and ankles with black light.
The huge arm that was half-exposed on the strong man, and the exaggerated muscle shape indicated that this was no longer an ordinary arm, it was simply a chicken leg. The dense black runes on the "chicken leg" flashed with brilliance. Obviously, this arm had been completely transformed by magic. Otherwise, it would be strange if the arm was exposed outside and not frozen to death.
The young man rushed to the strong man's head with a golden light on his fists, and he punched the strong man's "chicken legs", cursing and looking very ferocious.
The strong man didn't care at all, just raised his arms to defend himself, without taking a step back.
The young man obviously didn't expect the other party's arm to be so powerful. He looked at it hesitantly. At this moment, the strong man exerted force with his feet, raised his huge arm and slapped him with his backhand. The people present could not imagine such a strong and burly person who could be so fast, and obviously the young man didn't expect it.
When he saw the rough palms about to slap him, the young man flew his arms to resist with his long-term combat memory. However, the gap in strength was too big, and the young man flew out immediately when he received this palm.
With a "bang", the young man had already flew into a street in the next moment, his limbs facing forward, and his whole body was directly embedded in the wooden railing under the glass window of the "Old River". It was unbiased, just like Alvin's table.
Fortunately, Alvin and Lanwen also reacted surprisingly quickly. Just as the person flew over, Alvin picked up his bowl of noodles and a plate of beef. Lanwen quickly tried to move a floating technique toward the remaining meals on the table. So only the poor dining table was suddenly knocked out by the young man, and then he hit a stronger counter and completely disbanded in the aisle.
Alvin held the noodles in one hand and beef in the other, lowered his head and looked at the extra hole in the wooden wall, where the young man was embedded, "Wow, this is too exciting, you won't die, right?"
Alvin raised his head and glanced at Lanwen as if inquiring.
"Forget it, it seems that this meal will not be eaten." Lan Ling sighed secretly, stopped the spell in her hand, and a few dishes of food were ruthlessly thrown to the ground. She squatted down and tilted her head to take a closer look at the young man, and found that the other party still had a breath.
"It should be that I can't die. I just broke a few ribs. Have I suffered some internal injuries and my face was swollen." Lan Yin glanced at the man who fainted with his head hanging down.
Alvin looked at the young man's face and was really swollen. His cheeks were obviously bruised, and his cheekbones and forehead were swollen. His lips should be turned up and down, but the curve was a little larger. The whole face was already swollen and a little funny.
Didn’t he just blocked his arm? Why was his face so whispered like this? Alvin couldn’t help but be frightened by the strong man’s magic reinforcement arm.
"Brother Xia Ye, Brother Xia Ye..." The little girl standing behind the young man was frightened by the palm at first, and then she realized, ran to the young man with her legs spread and fell to the ground, shouting loudly.
Through the glass, Alvin saw clearly that the little girl's neck was a rough craftsmanship of copper collar, and the black runes were shining on it. The hands and ankles were also copper bracelets and leg rings, and naturally there were black runes engraved on it.
It turned out that the girl had been given a slave contract and was a female slave. Elvin looked at the copper rings and thought. Once the slave contract was signed, the girl was the main party's private property. Unless the person voluntarily terminated it, no one could do anything about it.
"Brother Xia Ye...Brother Xia Ye, I've said everything, don't worry about me." The little girl looked at the seriously injured young man, but did not dare to move him, so she could only swallow and sobb.
The strong man didn't expect that he would slap the other person like this with one palm. He hesitated for a while before walking towards the little girl.
The young man woke up quietly because he heard the footsteps of the strong man or the little girl's call.
"I won't let you take her away... don't even think about it." The man named Xia Ye said with difficulty, and his hands struggled to support his upper body and moved out little by little.
"Don't fight with him anymore, don't fight again, Brother Xia Ye, you have done enough for me..." the little girl cried and begged.
Xia Ye glanced at the little girl gently, patted her hand, and signaled that the other party not to worry. Then he leaned against the glass window, stood up little by little, and stared at the strong man walking in front of him.
"No..." the little girl screamed, spreading her arms to block Xia Ye, and shouting at the strong man with a crying voice, "I'll follow you... I'll follow you, don't beat him anymore, you'll die if you hit him..."
Xia Ye's face turned pale, of course he couldn't have any other colors. He wanted to use his hand to push away the little girl blocking in front of him, but then he raised his hand and made him breathe heavily.
The little girl turned around, held the man's hand that was stretched out, and looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Don't hit him again...Don't...Brother Xia Ye, don't worry about me anymore...You have done enough."
"I promised... I must protect you..." Xia Ye said gasping, pulling up the only moving corner of his mouth, smiling at the little girl as comfortingly, then pushing the little girl away, looking up at the strong man coldly, as if he was about to fight with the other party.
There were some people watching the street, and many people in the store also surrounded Alvin's table. After hearing the young man say this, everyone looked at the little girl crying and looked disgusted, and couldn't help but look worried and moved.
"Look at him, he's like this. Do I want to pick up beef for him?" Alvin leaned into Lan Ling's ear and whispered.
Lan Weng, who had a faint expression, almost laughed out loud after hearing this. Fortunately, she covered her mouth quickly, and finally glanced at Alvin with anger.
The strong man came over and didn't rush to have an attack. His face was calm. He looked at the little girl next to him and then at the young man leaning against the window glass.
"She is already my slave." The strong man looked at Xia Ye with a expressionless face, as if he was discomfortable at his unreasonable entanglement.
This is why everyone stood by. After all, this little girl is already a private property of others in terms of law, and this strong man did nothing too much.
"I don't care about so much... I won't watch you take her away anyway." After saying that, the man named Xia Ye set up a pose and was ready to fight again at any time.
This seemed a bit unreasonable, and many people present shook their heads.
The strong man ignored him and walked straight to the girl, crossed his huge arm and picked her up and threw it on his shoulder. The girl screamed "ah" and obviously hadn't reacted yet.
"You..." For a moment, tears came back and forth, and she couldn't speak. The girl had to fold her waist and lie down, stand upside down, and patted the strong man's strong back with both hands, trying hard to straighten her body. The strong man was afraid that she would fall down with trouble, so lucky that he would tie her thighs with the other hand.
Tsk, what a soft waist, Alvin thought to himself.
"Beast, please put her down." The young man was not willing to see the little girl being bullied, and shouted and drained her last strength to attack the strong man.
The strong man was obviously tired of it and punched him with a backhand. Naturally, he knew that if he had to go all out, the other party might have died on the spot, and of course he had stopped.
Even so, the young man couldn't eat and stay with this punch, and was knocked away again, and was stuffed into the hole just now. He still didn't stop his momentum. He knocked over several onlookers watching the fun in the store and stopped. This time, the window glass was also broken a large piece.
The strong man turned around and hugged the little girl and walked out of the crowd without even looking at it. The little girl lay down and looked at the direction where the young man fainted, and shouted anxiously, "Brother Xia Ye..." before he could finish his shouting twice, but saw his hands tightly holding the collar, as if he could not breathe.
Alvin knew that it was the strong man who tightened her collar with a slave contract. He had been in various mansions for so long, so of course he knew some ways to play the game.
The shopkeeper of "Old River" glanced at the strong man's departure back, then looked at the strange giant arm, shivered, and gave up the idea of asking the other party for compensation for smashing the store.
Lan Yin glanced at the fainted young man and cast a high-level healing technique with his hands. Although the trauma of the face and ribs cannot be cured, the damage to the internal organs should be controlled.
After a while, Xia Ye slowly woke up again.
Alvin looked shocked and exclaimed to himself, "This person's body is so good, can he wake up again?"
"You...didn't you want to see him be beaten away again?" Alvin supported Zhi Lanwen with his elbow, covered his mouth and quipped softly with Lanwen.
Lan Ling thought about it and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
To be continued...