Chapter 8: Glamorous boss lady (Part 2)

When Locke was busy, the proprietress also came out with two plates of food. She first put the food on a table, then went back to the bar and found a candle that had burned to the size of her thumb. After lighting it, the tavern A little brighter. Xia Qian noticed the rewrapped parcel and the slightly clean floor on the bar and understood what was there, a touch of expression on her face. "Come and eat, sir." Xia Qian greeted Dolock.
"Uh... I said that you can do it if you want to do it casually? Let's eat this for dinner?" Locke pointed in surprise at the two plates of black paste on the table. Locke knew that this was roasted mashed potatoes. Locke often ate this when he had a poor harvest at home or encountered difficulties in life.
"This... this is the only food I have here. I'm sorry, sir." Xia Qian whispered with a blush, maybe it was because she had thought of something and felt like crying again.
"Forget it, I haven't eaten mashed potatoes in a long time, so it's past aftertaste." Seeing this beautiful lady boss tending to cry again, she quickly changed her mouth. To be honest, Locke is now embarrassing him as a carnivorous creature that can eat meat, letting him go back and eat roasted potatoes and mashed mashed potatoes with a little salt. Locke was curious about what the woman was going through. You know, the small thumb-sized candle on the table now, let Locke get it in the barracks for a delicious meal with meat. Candles are high-end items, most of which are used by nobles, because of the complicated craftsmanship, their prices are very high, and private use is very rare. Even the rich peasants and small businessmen with assets will use it. The lighting is also only oil lamps. As for the Locke's military account, they can only rely on torch lighting to play cards and spend the night.
"I'm just curious. You are a very famous bar owner who eats this every meal." Locke said ridiculously to the weeping boss who didn't wait to say anything, and picked up the plate of mashed potatoes When he got up, he was really hungry. He drank a lot of wine in the afternoon and ate nothing. His stomach burned until now.
The proprietress heard, wanted to say something, and saw Locke's rude eating style at this time, and swallowed what she wanted to say first. Unlike Locke’s rugged eating style with a plate, Xia Qian eats with a spoon, spoon after spoon, eating a little bit, as if she is enjoying what delicious, very graceful. Although Xia Qian gave Locke twice as much as hers, Locke quickly resolved the battle, and he still had more than he meant.
"Eating fast..." Xia Qian muttered, "Hey, I can't eat it anyway, you can help me with some more." After all, Xia Qian transferred half of the food in her plate to the Locker plate. Locke did not eat enough, watching the glamorous lady boss give him his meal, and did not say much, picked up the plate and fought.
After Xia Qian put the last potato mash in her mouth into her mouth, she looked up and found that Locke had tilted Erlang's legs, and looked at him with a smile in her eyes. Xia Qian couldn't stand the man's gaze, so she quickly got up and put away the two clean plates, and walked to the kitchen.
When Xia Qian returned again, the two sat on both sides of the table and calmed down again, except for the short candle in the center of the table, which was still swaying. "Let's say, why is life so bleak, according to your situation should not be like this." Locke broke the calm and asked first.
Looking at this man who wanted to help himself, Xia Qian resisted the excitement in her heart and told the truth, "Although my tavern can make about 30 copper dellers a day, when the business is good, it can even reach 50. Le, but the money almost didn't belong to me in the end." Xia Qian said with her head down.
"Snatched by those local bastards? Like today?" Lock asked.
"Well..." Xia Xi whispered, as if she remembered something bad again, and the beautiful lady boss's face showed distressing sadness again.
"How is it possible, these bastards? They don't know that this pub serves the soldiers in the barracks? What about your husband? Isn't he catching up with the barracks senior? Someone will solve the trouble for you." Locke puzzled, he asked in surprise.
"When people are hungry to a certain level, they don't think too much. These are poor people who can't live. Now in this town, only me and the group of women behind the tavern can receive money." Xia Qian Telling the reason, he added a shocking sentence: "And, my husband has long wanted me..."
"Well? Why?" Locke was really curious this time. The beautiful lady boss was abandoned by her husband. Was the man kicked by a donkey? Don't want such a beautiful wife.
"Since he joined your army, he has become the most powerful person in the town of Giza. All the people in this town and the refugees who have fled from other places have to stop him. How can he lack women now." Xia Qian smiled abruptly and said, "Now the group of women behind the tavern who trades in hides and skins are under his control, not to mention my wife who is a bran."
"Perhaps to compensate me, he gave me the tavern." Xia Qian brushed her hair and continued, "The soldiers who were scared of his reputation at the beginning and the soldiers who drank here didn't care how much they were hungry. Well, every time the people in my shop walk away, they come to grab the money. After many times, they also find that my husband actually doesn’t care about this pub, and the gangsters have become more and more intimate."
"Why not ask the soldiers drinking here for help? If you ask someone like me, someone should help you. After all, we have to drink here," Lock asked.
"Even if I can help, it will only help me for a while. Those scumbags will not let me go after..." Xia Qian complained sadly, "Now the ale in the tavern is saved before because of the money earned and the price The skyrocketing, I haven't brewed new wine for a long time, it is estimated that it will be sold out in less than a week of survival, I may be like the group of women at the back of the tavern outside the camp..." The sad look of the beautiful lady boss makes people pity.
"Do you want me to protect you all the time, instead of just teaching the gangsters one time?" Locke changed direction and asked Erlang with her legs raised.
Locke's sad cheeks turned red when Locke saw the trouble, and Hao teeth nodded slightly.
"If I don't say it first, I'm a small captain. I have 10 men under my hands. I have training in the camp. I don't have enough manpower to stay here to protect you. Besides, I'm not sure I will go to war one day. , Even if I am guarding you now, what happens after I leave?" Although Locke has the heart to help her, the fact is that Locke is not a person who can be easily tempted by the beauty, and she is sensible to reject the beautiful boss lady. .
Xia Qian's face was white after hearing Locke's refusal, and her eyes showed a look of despair. The candle on the table had burned to the bottom. The faint flame was crumbling, and finally extinguished after the last white smoke was burned out. Fall into darkness. Tonight, the moonlight was good, and I shot through the window. The light of the moonlight shone on the two men, who were motionless like white waxed stone sculptures.
"Woo...Woo..." The beautiful lady lady whispered again and again. The bitter woman today may have the most tears in a year. She doesn't know where her future lies. Confused is helpless. Locke has no choice but to do this. This is the world. There is no unreasonable love and no unreasonable hatred. Everyone has his own way of living. He can’t even guarantee that he can survive the war, and he has no ability to go. Take care of someone you don’t know.
"Ah... I will let a few people come to watch the pub these days. You can do business for a few days, and then take the earned money to occupy the area and lead Peters or go to relatives." Or be the boss Moved by her crying, Locke decided to help this beautiful woman and show her a way out. "I can only do this." After all, Locke got up and was about to leave. It was not early, and it was almost time to close the camp.
After listening to Dolock's words, the boss lady's crying was a little louder, and the tears made the woman's face, but she still cried as if she was helpless to the fate of fate.
Locke slowly walked to the entrance of the tavern, he no longer persuaded, cry if you want to cry, only after experience can future generations become stronger. The proprietress's cry gradually lowered, as Locke walked to the door of the tavern, preparing to remove the board from the door, a warm body hugged him.
"I can't let you help me in vain." The proprietress said hoarsely, "I have nothing but the rest of the tavern and a few barrels of wine left. I can't think of a way to repay you except myself." Locke can hear it. In addition to repaying his thoughts, the lady boss Yan also has the sorrow to the extreme to break the jar and fall.
"You don't have to be like this, we actually..." Locke hadn't finished speaking, a fiery tongue blocked his mouth, and the beautiful boss lady Xia held Locke's strong chest and kissed wantonly, blocking what he was going to say .
Locke is not a person who can bear this kind of situation. He hasn’t touched a woman in a month. The passionate kiss by Xia Qian even caused the fire to meet the firewood. He also responded to Xia violently. Qian, turned and hugged her sideways, ready to solve this charming goblin right here. "Don't, don't be here, go upstairs..." Xia Qian was also fascinated by Locke's fiery kiss, but she was still awake and urged Locke to go upstairs.