Chapter 196: Two Errand Officers Explain Taoyuan Town
When I came to the street, I was a little surprised.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the street was still bustling, and people were coming and going.
I smiled and bought two packs of dim sum at a stall, and bought a bunch of sugar gourds, carrying dim sum wrapped in kraft paper, biting on the sugar gourd, and slowly walking towards Pear Blossom Street.
After two intersections, I saw a wooden sign that read Ewha Street, standing on a fork in the road.
Turning the corner, I found that the street seemed to be in the lively Taoyuan Town, and suddenly pressed the pause button.
There was no one and no vendors.
On both sides are the blue brick wall, stunned to form a road, above the wall, a few cornices, a few red apricots, quietly poked their heads out, kept looking at me.
I looked back at the street outside, and the pedestrians were still shuttling back and forth, and the figures were longing.
I couldn't help but smile dumbly, and walked slowly along the bluestone paved road.
After walking a few dozen meters, you will arrive at a relatively spacious venue.
I turned my head to look, and saw a dark gate behind the two big trees on the right, and two stone lions squatting at the door.
The vertical plaque on the gate reads three big characters "City God Temple", but below is a horizontal plaque, which reads "Taoyuan Guarantee", and the column heads on both sides are written in gold characters on a black background.
The snow is mighty, and the white countryside can be used for a few days;
The clouds rained from the rain, and the land was dark for a long time.
I smiled and looked to the left again.
Behind the same two big trees, there is a red door with nine rows of red door nails, and there is a simple horizontal plaque on it, with two big characters on it: Gongmen. Nothing else.
Looks like this is it.
I walked up to the door, reached out and picked up the knocker, and slapped it three times.
After a while, the door creaked open.
It was Song Wei who opened the door and brought me into town.
Seeing me, he showed a look of surprise on his face, and said with a smile: "Brother Xu finished his work so quickly?
I was stunned for a moment, and then I understood that this "Huer Hi Zai" means to eliminate clean.
It just so happened that I also wanted to ask these two people about the situation in Taoyuan Town, so I smiled and said, "Then it's disrespectful." ”
When I entered the gate, I was greeted by a snow-white wall, and there were four big characters on it: fair and honest.
I smiled, this otherworldly style is different from the human world.
Bypassing the wall, there is a courtyard of about 100 square meters, the floor of the courtyard is paved with bluestone slabs, and there are two gates on the left and right sides.
On the left and right side of the wings, two corridors lead directly to both sides of the main house, forming the courtyard into the shape of a patio.
The main house is elevated, with seven or eight steps in front. On the steps, there is a small platform, about five or six meters deep, twenty or thirty meters wide.
On both sides of the platform, two tall cypress trees are planted.
I followed Song Wei to the small platform in front of the main house, but I saw a square table and two stools behind a big tree. The golden eagle was sitting sideways on a stool, with one foot flat on the stool, sitting crookedly with a jug and pouring wine into his mouth.
In the oily paper bag spread out on the table, there was half a cooked fat goose that had eaten some, and in the other paper bag, there was a bunch of peanuts in shell.
The table was erect and crooked, and a few flasks were flicked indiscriminately.
The ground was littered with gnawed bones and peeled peanut shells.
Song Wei smiled and said, "Brother Jin, it's Brother Xu who is here." ”
The golden eagle squinted at me, but he put down the flask unhurriedly, took out the box of cigarettes from his arms, gave me one, and then smiled and put one on his mouth.
Song Wei smiled and took out a match, lit it for the golden eagle and me, and lit the cigarette.
I took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile, "Brother Jin is so laid-back." ”
The golden eagle smiled at Song Wei and said, "Don't go and get a stool yet." ”
Song Wei hurriedly smiled and said, "Oh, look at me, Brother Xu, please sit down first, I'll come when I go." ”
After saying that, he hurriedly ran backwards.
The golden eagle squinted his eyes and smiled: "This is still your blessing to Brother Xu, if you didn't bribe us, how could we afford to eat wine with our little money!"
I was slightly stunned, and then smiled again: "Brother Jin said that he was joking, I invited the two brothers to drink, that is as it should be." No, you have to trouble the two of you when you go in and out of town?"
Jin Diao said with a smile: "Brother Xu, you are a straight person, we can see this." ”
At this time, Song Wei came over with a bench in one hand and a large paper bag in the other.
Putting the stool down, putting the paper bag on the table and spreading it out, it was half a fat goose again.
Jin Diao looked at Song Wei and said slightly angrily: "Brother Xu is here, don't you move out all the food?"
Song Wei was stunned for a moment, and smiled at me with some Hao Ran: "I was in a trance, forgetting that Brother Jin bought two catties of braised beef in the morning." ”
I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "I'm not busy, I'm not busy, I just came over after eating wine in Taoranju." ”
The golden eagle said: "What is other is someone else's, and what our brothers entertain you is ours." ”
Song Wei hurriedly turned around and went inside.
The golden eagle squinted at his back and said, "He is also an upright person." ”
I smiled and didn't speak.
Song Wei took out a large paper bag and spread it out, and sure enough, it was a lot of braised beef.
The golden eagle tore off a goose leg from the newly brought half of the goose, and handed it to me with soup and water: "It's just these coarse foods, Brother Xu is not like us martial artists, so we have to use some of them." ”
I saw that neither of them used chopsticks, and it was not easy to say anything, so I took the goose leg and took a bite, but the taste was very good.
Song Wei took a cup, poured wine and handed it to me: "Brother Xu has gone to school, and his speech and demeanor are different from this Taoyuan Town. It's very much like the ...... of the kingdom of God."
He seemed to realize that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly glanced at the golden eagle, and saw that the golden eagle was holding a goose butt and was gnawing happily, as if he hadn't heard it, so he hurriedly said goodbye to the topic: "Brother Xu drinks, drinks, hahaha." ”
I raised my glass and touched it with Song Wei, and then drank it all.
The golden eagle said slowly: "This kingdom of God is not a taboo thing. Since we have followed the fairy world, we will follow him to the end, no matter how good his kingdom is, it is also someone else's, what we have is ours. ”
I saw that Song Wei's face was a little unbearable, and I said with a smile: "I happened to have a good time with the two elder brothers today, but I am confused about this Taoyuan Town, and I want to ask the two of you." ”
The golden eagle said with a smile: "This Taoyuan Town is a subordinate of Qingfeng City outside the mountain, and to put it bluntly, it is used by the old men of Qingfeng City for refuge when the alien race calls." Therefore, the control is strict, and it is only allowed to enter and not to leave, unless there is a relationship with the family. ”
Song Wei said: "There are 10,000 acres of fertile land here, producing rice and peach wine, which are very famous in the Three Realms. ”
"Three Realms?" I felt a sudden break in my heart, but I didn't want to ask too much, I just patiently listened to their explanations.
Jin Diao continued: "The Tao family of Taoyuan Town, that is, Tao Zhiran, the owner of the Taoyuan Residence you went to, was originally a member of Qingfeng City, and later returned to the field, and Qingfeng City asked him to come to guard this Taoyuan Town. ”
The golden eagle took a sip of wine, and then said: "But he didn't want to be the envoy of this town, so the city lord gave him a thousand taels of gold to live in this Taoyuan town." No one cares about the two of us now, and the city lord doesn't send more people. ”
Song Wei said: "The city lord said that Tao Zhiran alone can be a million male soldiers. He really believed it, he was obsessed with business, and turned this Taoyuan Town into a big shop, alas!"
I smiled and said, "Oh, this Boss Tao is not an official fan. ”
Jin Diao said with a smile: "He is indeed not an official fan, but he is an anagram, and he puts himself in the ring every day, saying that whoever guesses the origin of his three words Tao Ranju will give him a hundred taels of gold, and marry his daughter." ”
I was stunned, but I didn't expect that Tao Zhiran, an old thing, not only owed me a hundred taels of gold, but also owed a daughter.
But looking back, isn't his daughter that Tao Linzhi?
Immediately smiled and asked, "I don't know which girl it is?"
Song Wei smiled and said, "Which one else? Isn't it the lady Tao who has a clear wind?"
Jin Diao said: "Miss Tao, she is a good person, knowing that the two of us are alone in Taoyuan Town, and from time to time I send some food. It's a pity that life is not good. ”
I said, "Oh, what do you mean by that?"
Song Wei said with a smile: "Miss Tao was originally married to Fang Zhiyuan, the son of Fang Chenghe, the soldier and horse envoy of Qingfeng City, who knew that the Fang family had just given a dowry, and this Fang Zhiyuan was killed in front of him." ”
The golden eagle sighed and said, "This Tao Zhiran heard the story from somewhere, saying that since the dowry has been paid, it is a member of the Fang family, so he sent Miss Tao to Qingfeng City. ”
Song Wei said again: "This Miss Tao is also hard-hearted, and she doesn't want to send people under the fence, so she opened a cuifang specializing in jewelry in Qingfeng City, and in a few years, she will make this cuifang prosperous." ”
I snickered in my heart, it seems that this Miss Tao wants to do business with me, so she has taken a fancy to Li Xuefeng's jewelry, take it back and disassemble it, change it to a vest and sell it, who knows what it will look like?
At this time, the golden eagle said: "Oh, Brother Xu wants to know about this Taoyuan Town, how did we get to Miss Tao." ”
I smiled and said, "It's okay. ”
Jin Diao continued: "In this Taoyuan Town, there are 1,900 households with household registration, and of course there are only six or seven hundred permanent residents. Those vacant houses and household registrations are reserved for the lords of Qingfeng City. ”
Song Wei said: "Not including those mountain people and serfs. ”
I casually asked, "Why don't those mountain people and serfs have household registration?"
Jin Diao glanced at Song Wei, and then said to me with a smile: "Anyway, Brother Xu is our own person, so I'll make it clear." Mountain people and serfs were people who surrendered to the enemy country, but they did it anyway. If they wanted to return to Breeze City, or live in this Taoyuan Town, they would have to suffer from hard labor. ”
"Oh?" I wondered, "Then why do you have to divide them into mountain people and serfs?"
The golden eagle smiled: "This is the city lord's kindness, and he gave these traitors two choices, either to serve ten years of labor as a serf, or to be a savage in this reckless deep mountain." ”
I smiled and said casually: "Then the people of Chaoyang Temple, I don't think they want to choose these two options?"
Jin Diao and Song Wei glanced at each other, and Jin Diao said meaningfully: "I advise Brother Xu to leave the Blood Demon Gang as soon as possible." ”
I picked up the flask, filled the two of them with wine, and said with a smile: "I am not a person who is willing to be restrained. ”
Picking up the cup, the golden eagle said: "Brother Xu probably doesn't know that the people of Chaoyang Temple don't even have the qualifications to be mountain people and serfs. ”
"Oh?" I looked at the two of them questioningly.
The golden eagle drank the wine from the cup and said, "They are all aliens. In the words of the Kingdom of God, it is the humanoid race of the Protoss that changes into a human. ”
My hands trembled, what they said was the same as what Tao Zhiran said.
After drinking the wine in the cup, I said with a smile: "Don't hide it from the two eldest brothers, I also have some fairy power, why can't I see that they are of different races?"
Song Wei said with a smile: "This is thanks to the Kingdom of God, they have invented an artifact, and they can see what this spirit was like before it turned into a human." ”
The golden eagle nodded and said: "Our Taoyuan Town, the rich side, under the leadership of Boss Tao, has done business to the kingdom of God, so we also have such an artifact here." ”
I was shocked and said, "There is also this kind of artifact, I wonder if I can take a look at it next?"
The golden eagle shook his head and said, "This is really not good, brother. This artifact can only be activated by me, Brother Song, and Boss Tao inserting the key at the same time. This is the city lord himself, so, sorry brother. ”
I smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm also on a whim." On the other hand, countless thoughts turned in my heart.