I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 635 Negotiation Breakdown, Invitation

In other words, as long as Meng Xiaodong is willing.

Even though she is over a hundred years old now, she can always bring her sixty, forty, twenty, eighteen... self back to the present.

Among them, of course, there was the young Meng who had just broken up with Zhang Dong and decided never to see him again in this life.

If Zhang Dong meets Meng Xiaodong, it would be equivalent to meeting Meng Xiaodong in countless timelines, and also meeting the woman he owes the most...

Thinking about that scene, Lin Yuan, an outsider, felt his scalp tingling.

As expected, feelings are the most terrifying thing!

As for the story between Zhang Dong and Meng Xiaodong, Lin Yuan also had a rough guess.

It's nothing more than that Zhang Dong and Meng Xiaodong have a relationship that goes beyond friendship, but Zhang Dong needs to carry on the family line, and Meng Xiaodong's body has been too deeply eroded by the supernatural and he simply doesn't have that ability. Or maybe he wants to give his descendants an ordinary life, so Zhang Dong chose an ordinary woman to be with him and gave birth to Zhang Xianguang.

But no matter what the reason was, Zhang Dong owed Meng Xiaodong.

At that time, Meng Xiaodong was too impulsive and made a vow that "they would never meet again in this life". This led to the following decades, when both of them were clearly alive. In particular, Meng Xiaodong was very close to Zhang Dong's old house countless times, but they never met even once, as if they were separated by Yin and Yang.

Of course, it is also possible that Meng Xiaodong had feelings for her, but Zhang Dong only regarded her as a comrade-in-arms. He was unwilling to say it directly and hurt the other party too deeply, so he found an ordinary woman to marry and have children with, in order to hint to Meng Xiaodong.

"You seem to be thinking about something bad." Zhang Dong's voice sounded faintly.

Lin Yuan's heart skipped a beat. Although he was not afraid of Zhang Dong now, the cricket man behind him was definitely not a good sign... No, he just thought about it and didn't say it out loud.

Doesn’t this world even allow people to have wild thoughts?
Lin Yuan immediately became confident and said, "Old Zhang, you did something and I didn't tell you. How can I not think about it? But I still say that today is the last time I come here. If you don't want to stay in the store, I will take your body after your funeral. Don't blame me if I am forced to open the store."

Old Qin raised his head slightly, with a strange light flashing in his eyes.

In his memory, it seemed that few people dared to speak to Zhang Dong in this tone, and those who had said these words had basically been buried for many years, and the grass on their graves was already very tall.

However, if it is Lin Yuan, then there should be no problem.

Just as he thought, Zhang Dong didn't care about Lin Yuan's offense. Instead, he looked calm, as if he was not the one destined to be "robbed" in ten days. "After I die, what you want to do is your business."

"Okay, with your words, I know what to do."

Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction, but after taking a look at Old Qin, he suddenly said, "You go out first. I have something to say to Old Zhang in private."

"Well... okay." Old Qin was overjoyed, but he pretended to be embarrassed, then turned and left.

Lin Yuan curled his lips and said, "Old Qin's acting skills are really unmatched. He is indeed an old artist who has been acting for a lifetime. If I didn't know his situation, I would have been fooled by him."

Mr. Qin is an attempt, but it is also emotionless.

All the emotions he expressed were just skills that some people asked him to learn in order to enable him to integrate into this society, and did not mean that he had such emotions.

Just like just now, no matter how vivid Mr. Qin's expression was, he couldn't hide the fact that it was an acting skill.

"He is very pitiful." Zhang Dong said dimly.

Lin Yuan was unmoved. "There are so many pitiful people in this world, and his pity is caused by you. You can't let me pay for your actions, right? Don't try to blackmail me morally, otherwise sometimes I can be immoral."

Zhang Dong shook his head and said nothing more.

If this had happened a few years ago, he would have chatted more with Lin Yuan, or even argued with him, just like he did in the Gengshen year, or even in other time and space.

But now, his life has come to an end, and there is no point in fighting for these things.

Lin Yuan felt bored. He thought it would be a bad idea to fight with Zhang Dong for the time being, so he just took advantage of him verbally. But the old man didn't accept the challenge?

Okay, let’s talk about this later.

"I say, should we practice now? If we don't give Lao Qin a chance, I'm afraid he won't dare to contact his future self."

Zhang Dong said calmly: "Now that I know your plan, do you think I will still take action?"

"Hehe! This is not up to you, Lao Zhang. Don't refuse a toast and then drink the penalty wine." Lin Yuan's eyes became weird, and a faint mist began to gather in his eyes.

The mist was flowing, and in the blink of an eye, thick mist flowed out from the corners of his eyes, making the entire hall foggy.

"I'm dying, not dead. Since you want to move around, I'll help you move your old bones."

Zhang Dong slowly raised his hand, and a great terror began to descend. The fog that had enveloped the entire hall began to surge violently.

puff!
With a slight sound, the originally thick fog seemed to be sucked away by something, leaving a large space.

The fog around was surging, trying to fill up this space.

But this space seemed to be isolated by something invisible, making it impossible for the fog to cross a certain boundary.

With the continuous light sounds, the almost pitch-dark space became clear again, but... that was it.

At this moment, the room was completely divided into two parts.

One part was where Zhang Dong was sitting, and it was exactly the same as before, without any fog at all.

The other part, where Lin Yuan was sitting, was now completely covered by white fog. Lin Yuan's figure could not be seen, but a building could be vaguely seen in the rolling white fog.

The neon lights flickered in the mist, and the four big words "Peace Hotel" were looming.

The two spaces are separated by the middle, opposing and intertwined, but not interfering with each other.

"This is not the way to be a guest."

Zhang Dong slowly stood up and walked into the white fog alone. Outside the door, when Lin Yuan took the initiative to fight with Zhang Dong, Qin Lao had already felt it.

The terrifying spiritual aura and the fierce confrontation reminded Qin Lao:
Don't you want to connect with the future and find a new and suitable path, but are you worried that He will seize the opportunity and use your own supernatural powers to connect with Him in the future?
Now, he was restrained by Zhang Dong and had no spare energy. This was the best opportunity!

"This is the best opportunity, but is it really the best opportunity?" Old Qin had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and vague figures seemed to emerge beside him.

But soon, these blurry figures disappeared quickly, as if they had never appeared.

A few minutes later, Lin Yuan walked out of the old house, glanced at Old Qin, said nothing, and left calmly.

But that one glance made Old Qin's heartbeat seem to slow down by half a second, and then he walked into the old house.

The situation in the lobby was exactly the same as before, without any difference. It didn't look like the scene after a fight between two big guys who had already surpassed the scope of normal ghost riders.

This made Qin Lao heave a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, I held back just now."

"Yeah, luckily you held back." Zhang Dong said in a sad tone, "Go back, at least nothing will change too much before I die."

So, what happens after you die?
Old Qin looked at Zhang Dong, wanting to say something but hesitant. In the end, he couldn't say anything and left in a hurry, obviously to make some preparations.

It was early in the morning, a rare time when the Peace Hotel had no guests.

As early as the day before yesterday, after Fang Shiming came to explain the time, Lin Yuan had already asked the twins to post a notice on the billboard outside the door announcing that the business would be suspended for one day.

This notice was also reposted on the Ghost Rider website by someone with ulterior motives.

Everyone knew that the Peace Hotel would be concentrating on preparing for Fang Shiming and Guicha's wedding today, so naturally no one would waste time coming here.

At most, you can go to the commemorative coin exchange office closest to the bus stop and exchange some life-saving money as a resource for survival.

However, Li Qingzhi still went to ZS city early in the morning. It didn't matter whether the Caesar Breeding Farm there was shut down or not, but the Caesar Winery could not be shut down.

The only one who can wield the knife now is Li Qingzhi, the "surgeon", but no one else dares to touch the knife in Li Qingzhi's hand, unless they want to be torn into pieces.

Tong Qian and Xiao Ru are today's chef and assistant chef, and they must arrive at the store first.

There is also Xianglan and the pianist, a regular NPC employee in the Dahai City branch, who also came to the Peace Hotel at this moment, and entered the store every time as an employee.

The pianist at this moment was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking left and right.

But when he realized that everyone was staring at him, he stopped where he was awkwardly, not daring to move.

In fact, it’s not anyone’s fault, because no one has ever seen a piano with a face, arms, and legs.

That's right, under the cognitive influence of the "store manager", the pianist also underwent a very strange change. Unlike the others who became pure gorillas, with only some decorations different, the pianist also turned into a fluffy gorilla, but his gorilla only had a face, two arms, and two legs that were exposed.

Note that it can be exposed outside.

There is a head-sized hole above the piano keys, and the pianist's gorilla face can appear from the middle whenever he wants.

There are two holes on the left and right sides of the keys, through which two arms can be extended. The pianist's gorilla arms are very long and can completely cover the entire keys.

Not to mention the feet.

There are four legs under the piano. These four legs are very thick and open at the bottom, so you can stretch the legs and even the arms out from inside. The main feature of the piano is convenience and simplicity.

As long as the pianist wants, he can carry this ghost piano around at any time, and when he needs, he can stop and improvise a piece.

But was this what the pianist looked like when he was first brought into the store?

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. For a moment, they couldn't remember what the pianist looked like before. The image of the pianist in front of them was really too impressive to be ignored!
When the pianist arrived, he just squatted there calmly, with his arms and hands retracted, only his big furry face, expressionless, standing there.

It seems that if he didn't need to be seen by the "store manager", he would be able to shrink his face back.

However, it seems that the pianist is not the only gorilla wearing "accessories". Liu San's gorilla is wrapped in an inverted triangle, which is abbreviated as:
Orangutan Zongzi!

Lin Yuan looked at the people present with satisfaction, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Since everyone is here, let's go together. I have already called a car, let's all get in."

According to the normal wedding process, even in modern times, the groom's side is required to come and pick up the bride early in the morning.

However, everyone subconsciously ignored this process at this time. A group of people followed Lin Yuan out of the Peace Hotel in a mighty manner, leaving only some robots to watch the store.

Even Wang Xiaoming, the research maniac, was forcibly brought out by Lin Yuan to attend the wedding of Fang Shiming and the ghost catcher.

The reason is also very simple:
We are all colleagues and family.

Your colleague and family member is getting married now. If you don’t go, people will talk bad about you in the future!

Wang Xiaoming really wanted to say "I don't care", but he couldn't utter the words of rebuttal. He could only bid farewell to his laboratory with a depressed and reluctant look on his face, and boarded... the supernatural bus.

This morning's ghost bus was the first bus to arrive at the store.

The driver was naturally the veteran driver Qin Lao, not the new driver Lu Zhiwen. However, Lu Zhiwen was also in the car, and the car was empty.

All the ghosts on the train had gotten off at this stop and became the "wild game" in the Peace Hotel.

"Lao Qin, Xiao Lu, there's a family wedding in our store today. Would you like to come over and have a drink to celebrate?" Lin Yuan invited them with a smile after sitting down.

Old Qin looked back and glanced at the smiling Lin Yuan. He forced a smile and said, "Thank you, Boss Lin. However, the company is not doing well now. If we don't work harder, it will probably go bankrupt. So let's just forget it."

"Is that so? All right. But even if the store goes bankrupt, it doesn't matter. Lao Qin, you and Xiao Lu have the skills to drive buses, so your driving skills must be very good. Come to the store when the time comes, and form a car class with Xiao Guo. When there are more branches and franchise stores in the future, you can have someone to take care of them. And don't worry, the welfare benefits in the store are definitely not bad, and there is no need to rush to refuse. Think about it carefully before making a decision. There is no rush."

(End of this chapter)