The shopkeeper of the noodle restaurant came from Xijiang. He said that he was from Xizhou and his favorite food in his hometown was pasta, especially various noodles, which were delicious.

More than 20 years ago, their family was in business. When they arrived in Jizhou, they encountered a disaster. My father couldn't afford to get sick and couldn't go back. My mother took the brother and sister to settle down in Jizhou City.

My mother said that when my father was buried here, I couldn’t even have anyone burning paper every year. People are always lazy.

Li Dioudi listened to the shopkeeper's chat and couldn't help asking: "What does this have to do with being lazy?"

The shopkeeper took a sip of the pipe and exhaled a strong smoke. His accent still had a little smell from Xizhou, but it seemed very friendly.

"Young Master, think about it."

The shopkeeper said, "I went home all the way. I have a property at home, so I naturally live a more comfortable life. But I am a man. In the first year, I might come back thousands of miles to visit my father. In the second year, the third year, and the fourth year?"

He looked at Li Dioudiu and said, "It will take half a year to go back and forth, and then I will feel troublesome, so I forget it... At that time, my mother said that our family of three will live in Jizhou. I don't care whether your brother and sister will return to Xizhou in the future. If I go in the future, I will be buried with your father."

The shopkeeper smiled, there was no sadness. More than twenty years have passed, and the sadness has long disappeared.

He said in a plain tone: "My mother went there ten years ago. I buried her and my father together according to my mother's last wish. The old couple finally lived together again. I still remember that when they were young, they were not ashamed and always flirted, hehe..."

"My mother said that she would go back to Xizhou if she didn't care about our brother and sister. But she was afraid that she would go back to her father. I'm not afraid that we would leave and they were lonely?"

The shopkeeper knocked his pipe on the ground, stood up and said, "I'll go and give you a face, it should be fine."

Now the one who cooks noodles in the back kitchen is his son and daughter-in-law. More than 20 years ago, my mother and her brother and sister stayed in Jizhou. They don’t know how to do any business. Thinking that the pasta in Xizhou is so delicious, why don’t you make a living with it?

Who would have thought that this bowl of noodles would support their family.

More than twenty years have passed, and the four most popular noodle restaurants in Jizhou City have been passed down by him. The other two are run by his sister, who married in Jizhou City. They have been very close to each other over the years.

The shopkeeper also had a son and a daughter. His son had taken over the noodle restaurant. He could have been idle but he didn't want to be idle. He walked back and forth between the two noodle restaurants his son and his son-in-law were in charge of each day, and those words were repeated every day.

Remember, the people of Jizhou have supported us. In every bowl of noodles, there is no shortage of noodles, and no ingredients are reduced.

It is said that the people in the western border of Great Chu are tough, but in fact they are honest. Most of the things that those who identify are clear will not be shaken.

Li Dioudiu said he wanted to add meat and wanted to eat meat. Without saying a word, the shopkeeper asked his son to scoop two spoons of stewed meat that should have been placed in the cut noodles, and the meat was piled up.

Li Dioudiu and the Taoist Changmei thanked the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper smiled and said, "What are you grateful for?" This meat is not worthy of money.

The long-browed Taoist looked at the three bowls of noodles in front of Li Dioudiu, and suddenly his nose felt slightly sore.

He sighed and said, "When I followed me before, I didn't know you could eat so much, and I thought half a piece of cake could fill your belly."

Li Dioudi buried his head in eating noodles, his mouth was bulging, and his answer was vague.

"At that time, I had a small appetite, but I only had a large appetite when I arrived in Jizhou."

The master spat, saying that he didn't want to say anything sad these days, so he lowered his head to eat noodles, one of the old and one of the young, and one of the young.

When the two of them lowered their heads and just scrupulously ate noodles, Li Dioudi stopped beside him.

When someone came, Li Dioudiu subconsciously raised his head and looked at him, and then saw Yan Qingzhi looking down at him. Li Dioudiu was stunned.

Mr. Yan put the things he was carrying on the table, looking a little tired, and there were sweat beads on his forehead.

"I found four noodle shops before I found you."

Mr. Yan patted the things placed on the table: "Buy you a new outfit."

After saying that, he pulled a stool and sat down, then looked at the long-browed Taoist: "I have bought you a set of shoes, and there are also shoes."

Both the master and the apprentice were stunned. The old and the young man still had noodles in their mouths, just as stiff as there, and as if they were still motionless as a sculpture.

Yan Qingzhi turned around and shouted to the shopkeeper: "Come on the bowl of noodles, just the ones they eat, add meat."

Li Dioudi quickly pushed the two bowls of noodles that he had not moved to Yan Qingzhi and said, "Sir, these two bowls have not been moved yet. Eat these two bowls first, don't wait."

Mr. Yan smiled and said, "This is your longevity noodles. You can eat them yourself and eat them all, and you will live a hundred years of longevity."

These words were so familiar that something suddenly hit Li Dioudiu's heart, making his nose sore and the corners of his eyes slightly wet.

The shopkeeper Liu Liudada came over, smiled and greeted him, and asked, "I want such noodles too? How many bowls?"

Yan Qing’s Way: “A bowl.”

The shopkeeper said, "Isn't this there? Then eat it first and I'll cook it, so there's no delay."

Yan Qingzhi shook his head: "I won't eat his, today is his birthday, this is his longevity noodles."

The shopkeeper smiled: "Okay, I'll go and let the kitchen cook tightly. The young master will be very lucky at first glance. Others have a bowl of longevity noodles, and you can have a hundred years of longevity. You can have three bowls of longevity at least three hundred years of longevity."

The shopkeeper could speak, and Li Dioudi chuckled.

Yan Qingzhi said: "Just your bowl, if he eats it openly, he might be seven hundred years old..."

The shopkeeper said, "Don't make a fuss. You can eat three bowls of noodles with your body. Don't talk about seven bowls. If you can eat five bowls, I will definitely treat you. I will never break my promise."

At this moment, Li Dioudiu, Taoist Changmei, and Mr. Yan, the eyes of the three of them were lit up.

Li Dioudiu raised his head and said seriously: "Then let's have four more bowls..."

The long-browed Taoist: "Maybe, I can still eat a bowl."

Yan Qingzhi said: "I'll add another bowl too."

The shopkeeper has been in business for so many years and has never seen it before. He is very confident that he will not read it wrong, but why do he vaguely feel that he might fall into a pit this time?

However, the people in the northwest kept their word and turned around and asked their son to cook a few more bowls of noodles, splashing oil on noodles and adding meat.

Just as the moment he came up, the panting Xiahou Zhuo brought Ruan Chen and the others in, and saw Li Dioudi and the others sitting there, with a table full of faces.

"I finally found it."

Xiahou Zhuo pointed to the table next to him: "Pull it over and put it together."

Ruan Chen and Ruan Mu went over to move the table over and get along with Li Diudi and the others. Xiahou Zhuo looked at the surface on the table, wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "I'm really hungry. Boss, just like this, give us two bowls each of the five of us."

Yan Qingzhi said: "Don't you just can't eat it?"

Xiahou Zhuo said: "Mr. Yan saw you asking me, I can't explain it either."

Originally, there were no other guests except Li Diudiu and the others. In fact, the meal time had passed, so there were not many people. Xiahou Zhuo brought four people in, and the room suddenly became lively.

Before the face came up, a group of people came outside, all of whom were covered in blue clothes, looking like twenty or thirty.

Xiahou Zhuo looked back and smiled and said, "Why are you standing there? Come in and eat noodles."

All the men in green came in and sat in the noodle restaurant. Each of them ordered two bowls of noodles, which was like that, splashed noodles with oil and meat.

Fortunately, this noodle restaurant has sufficient materials, otherwise it would not be enough.

After the noodles came up one by one, Xiahou Zhuo looked at the shopkeeper and asked, "Do you have any wine?"

The shopkeeper quickly said that there were so many men in blue, he had guessed what the identity of the visitor was and did not dare to neglect it.

"No more, each person has a bowl."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I'll drink a bowl today."

The shopkeeper's son came out to help, holding a wine jar, pouring wine one by one, and after the wine was full, Xiahouzhuo stood up, holding the wine bowl and shouted: "For my brother Li Chishou!"

All the men in green stood up and neatly picked up the wine bowls.

"Live for Brother Li Chi!"

Xiahou Zhuo said loudly: "Did it!"

"Dry!"

More than thirty people tilted their necks and dried up all the wine.

Xiahou Zhuo wiped the corner of his mouth, looked at Li Chi and said, "At this time next year, I should be in the northern border army, so I can't celebrate your birthday with you, but look..."

He pointed at the men in green: "These brothers, they will definitely be here next year. Remember what each of them looks like, come!"

He shouted, "Tell me what your name is, brothers!"

Those men stood up and reported their names one by one. Some came from Jizhou, some came from Youzhou, some came from Daizhou, and some came from Xinzhou. All of these brothers looked at Li Chi, and none of them looked at him as a child.

"I!"

Li Chi didn't have time to drink the bowl of wine just now, and then picked up the bowl and said loudly: "Jizhou, Li Chi!"

A bowl of wine is all in one drink.

Xiahou Zhuo laughed and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't remember their names, just remember that they are all brothers. The brothers in Qingyi are not like gangsters in the world. Those who call brothers share life and death."

Yan Qingzhi was originally a little displeased when he saw Xiahou Zhuo bringing so many people in the Qingyi array to see Li Dioudi. He didn't want Li Dioudi to be too close to these people on the secret passage. If he hadn't known that Xiahou Zhuo really regarded Li Chi as his brother, he would have persuaded Li Chi to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo.

But at that moment, Yan Qingzhi suddenly realized that this was the birthday gift Xiahou Zhuo gave to Li Chi.

Xiahou Zhuo will leave Jizhou next year. These brothers were Xiahou Zhuo who stayed to protect Li Chi. Yan Qingzhi knew that Xiahou Zhuo was determined to go to the northern border, and he did not take any of these people away, just because he wanted to stay in Jizhou as Li Chi's backing.

When he thought of this, Xiahou Zhuo suddenly turned around and bowed towards Li Chi.

"I will introduce you to my brothers, not only to make you familiar with each other and take care of each other, but I will entrust you with one more thing."

Seeing Xiahou Zhuo serious, Li Chi quickly stood up and said, "You said."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I wanted to join the Qingyi array because of my mother. She was stubborn and noble and did not enter the royal palace. I didn't dare to tell her about my trip to the northern border, and I didn't plan to tell her that after I left Jizhou, I was not by my mother's side, and some bastards would definitely bully my mother, Li Chi..."

Xiahou Zhuo clasped his fists and said, "Can you help me protect her?"

Li Chi shouted loudly: "Yes!"

More than thirty brothers in Qingyi array shouted loudly at the same time: "Yes!"
Chapter completed!