Chapter 10 Doubt (2)
Inside Dongsheng Inn.
Bai Shier and Wang Jinbao were busy settling down the group of coachmen, sedan chairmen, and the guys they depended for survival by the shopkeeper Sun Ji, while Li Dali helped, or to be precise, he brought Sun Ji, who was already drunk, to Sun Ji's residence in the inn.
Everything seems normal, but if you can see Li Dali's face clearly through the dark night, then you may be curious whether it is Bai Shier, who has always been smart or Wang Jinbao, who is a little dull person:
People who have always looked like Li Dali who cares nothing and who smiles from time to time have such a solemn and complicated expression?
"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, wake up, wake up." After he could not feel Sun Ji's weight of 100 pounds, he took him to the bed casually, Li Dali turned around and walked to the door, carefully swept outside, gently closed the door, walked quickly to Sun Ji, squatted down, gently shook Sun Ji, and began to call in a low voice, as if he wanted to wake him up.
"Well, ah?" Sun Ji, who was about to lose consciousness and fell asleep, subconsciously responded, "What's wrong? Why are you calling me? Is something wrong? Did those two kids not do these little things well?" Sun Ji thought that something was wrong with Bai Shier and Wang Jinbao, and his tone became a little dissatisfied.
"It's not this," Li Dali felt relieved when he saw that Sun Ji was not drunk, and he quickly asked, "Shopkeeper, what is the identity of the owner of Yuelai Inn?"
"Hey, hey." Hearing this question, Sun Ji suddenly laughed, but his smile seemed a bit bitter in Li Dali's eyes. "We used to laugh at them as prodigal sons, and thought that Yuelai Inn would definitely close their business. Unfortunately, it was us who were ridiculous."
"Oh? So, you already know his identity, the shopkeeper?" Li Dali's eyes lit up and he quickly asked again.
"Well," Sun Ji nodded slightly, "He is Zhou Papi's cousin. Although he is already a distant relative, he is always tens of thousands of times stronger than a small person like us." Because of drunkenness, Sun Ji's mood fluctuations were a bit big. He was still laughing just now, but he couldn't help but sigh and continued to say with a certain fate, "With this relationship with Zhou Papi, I'm afraid that our Dongsheng Inn will be sad in the future."
"Zhou Papi's cousin?" Li Dali repeated in a low voice.
"Yes," Sun Ji sighed again, "and, from what I saw at the banquet today, there might be Zhou Papi behind the Yuelai Inn. Otherwise, with the relationship between the two of them, Zhou Papi would not have achieved this. In my opinion, in a few months, we are afraid that our Dongsheng Inn will close down first." Sun Ji's voice became lower and lower. Obviously, he has begun to worry about the future of Dongsheng Inn and whether he can still keep the job of the shopkeeper.
"Hey, shouldn't you be so depressed, the shopkeeper," Li Dali seemed to want to comfort Sun Ji, and quickly said, "I think Zhao Qing, the shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn, isn't you very enthusiastic about the shopkeeper today? Even if our inn is really closed, you don't have to worry about the shopkeeper. On the contrary, I, cooking is so unpalatable, and with just a brute force, I'm afraid I will have to worry about the future."
"Hmph, what do you know?" Sun Ji snorted angrily, "At first, I thought that Zhao Qing was really here to invite our boss to the banquet, and planned to get along well in the future. But when he was about to arrive at Yuelai Inn, he immediately changed his subject and began to inquire about the situation of our inn, especially the situation of you and Shier and Jinbao. I, Sun Ji, are not stupid, and can I still understand the little Jiujiu in his heart?"
"What?!" Li Dali was shocked and his face suddenly changed color. Fortunately, Sun Ji was still closed his eyes because he was drunk, so he didn't notice it.
"So, if our Dongsheng Inn is really closed in the future, you three will probably be accepted by Yuelai Inn to continue working, but I will be miserable. One inn can't tolerate two shopkeepers." Sun Ji, who did not notice Li Dali's abnormal reaction, was still talking there.
But Li Dali obviously couldn't listen. At this moment, his mind had already been filled with the previous discoveries, the various abnormalities of Zhao Qing, and the previous words of Sun Ji.
"Shopkeeper, please rest quickly, I'll go back first." Li Dali, who was confused, obviously didn't want to stay any longer at this moment. He urgently needed to return to his residence and calm down, clarify everything in his mind clearly, and then make the most correct decision.
"Hmph, I'm just concerned about my ungrateful wolf." When Sun Ji heard the sound of the door closing, he couldn't help but snorted angrily and cursed in a low voice. Obviously, in his opinion, Li Dali's hastily left because of his words. "But if you really think you can leave Dongsheng Inn so easily and jump into Yuelai Inn, you're very wrong." But immediately, Sun Ji whispered to himself again with pride.
It’s a pity that although Li Dali did leave in a hurry because of his words, he did not want to change jobs as he thought.
In Dongsheng Inn, Li Dali was in a state of confusion, and at the same time returned to his residence with great anxiety. In Yuelai Inn, Zhao Qing and Lu Xiao reported his analysis of Li Dali.
"According to the situation revealed by Sun Ji, Li Dali entered Dongsheng Inn about three years ago. At that time, the chef of Dongsheng Inn was invited to the restaurant in the city by the owner Ma Yiming, so Li Dali became the chef of Dongsheng Inn." After carefully wiping the sweat beads on his head, Zhao Qing continued.
"Li Dali is not a civilian in the town. Although according to what he said, he is from Lijia Village, the northernmost part of Xin'an County, Lijia Village was wiped out five years ago because of the turn of the earth dragon. The villagers in it have long been scattered everywhere and are difficult to check, so his identity is likely to be fake."
"Hmm?" Lu Xiao suddenly looked at Zhao Qing strangely, "How did you know about this kind of thing? Have you already inquired about Li Dali before?"
"This," Zhao Qing was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head with a look of ugly expression, "I dare not deceive the hundred households. In fact, these are all said from his mouth after I got Sun Ji drunk."
"Haha," Lu Xiao suddenly chuckled, "Zhao Qing."
"I'm here." Zhao Qing tightened his body and bowed quickly.
Chapter completed!