Chapter 285: Defeated by the Years
Chen Jian just chatted a few words with the shopkeeper.
It's okay to talk about.
There were some things that he didn't want to say, and Jian Chen didn't plan to ask further.
As a result, at this time, several guards appeared at the door, all of them were dressed in the costumes of Northern Barbarian officers and soldiers, and they were dressed uprightly, like talents.
The officers and soldiers at the head stopped a few people.
Chu Tiannan's eyes were complex.
Yelu Feiguang also stared at a few people, extremely cautious in his heart, if anything happened.
He would definitely kill these officers and soldiers as soon as possible and leave the Northern Barbarian with the throne, but this situation must be after Chu Tiannan makes a move, otherwise all his actions will be like a startling snake, and there is no need at all.
Jian Chen wondered.
He is not like Chu Tiannan and Yelu Feiguang, he has not been to the north as a soldier, and he is not so sensitive to the appearance of the northern barbarian officers and soldiers.
It's just that seeing these officers and soldiers appear, Chen Jian didn't react at all.
After all, the realm of the officers and soldiers is not very high, and the officers and soldiers headed by them are at best the level of second-rate masters, and it seems that their status in the barracks is not high. But looking at this posture, the official score is quite big.
Just walked in the door.
The shopkeeper changed his flattering face, smiled suddenly, and pretended to be surprised, "Yohe, how many officials, you come to our inn, the shop is full of flowers, and the shop is full of flowers." ”
"No wonder the sun is shining today, it turned out that the inn was going to come to you distinguished guests, but unfortunately, I didn't have time to prepare anything to entertain you in a hurry, look, just this broken condition, what do you want to drink and eat, please feel free. ”
"Our boss has said that if there is an official in our inn in the future, it will be all free. ”
The shopkeeper said with a smile.
Chen Jian was embarrassed for a while.
Was this kid really their tourist merchant before? Why doesn't it look like that?
It's like a shopkeeper who has been a shopkeeper since he was a child, looking at what he said, it's like a little turtle hanging himself, one set after another.
It's really cold.
The shopkeeper wailed in his heart.
It's all about life.
In the adult world, there is no such thing as easy, this is all forced out.
He also wants to wanton the rivers and lakes, the spring breeze is gone, and he is lazy to lean on the slanted bridge.
But now it's not the young age at that time, the shopkeeper thinks that he has matured, and now he just wants to mix with this small shop, do his small business, wear many hats, and just take money to make a living.
He didn't bother to ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes back then.
Now that I see other officers and soldiers, what arrogance and chivalry are there?
In the years of crawling, there are only two kinds of people left who have not lost the chivalrous spirit on their bodies, the first is a special young man, who has never been in the world, has just gone out, and is full of spirit!
No matter what time you are, you will do things with the breath in your heart, and you will do it if you are unhappy, and you will help whoever is comfortable.
This kind of person, let him bow his head, it is more difficult than asking him to die.
As long as there is a breath of air, this group of people would rather die than stand up and live.
They're right, it's not wrong to do anything young.
It's just that later, with the change of age, it changed.
Often this kind of person, not to say that all of a sudden, one day a big knife is put on their neck, telling them that you have to change, otherwise you will cut off the head with a click.
I believe that if this is the case, these teenagers will never change.
They would rather die, and they are willing to hold on to the faith they believed in their youth.
Their change is to grind meat with a blunt knife.
Every day, I rub a very dull knife on my body for half an hour.
They can endure it today, they can endure it tomorrow.
After many days, I was still able to hold back.
Because this kind of blunt knife grinds the flesh, it is not fatal.
Many, many days later.
Finally one day.
They gradually got used to grinding meat with blunt knives.
Some of them became numb and lived like the walking dead, and they had little energy to deal with anything other than the blunt knife that cut them.
So alive.
With or without spirit, they just want to live.
As for whether it is comfortable or not, it is no longer up to them to choose.
There is another kind of people.
is that after years of cultivation and life torture, he is still unwilling to give up the persistence and ethics in his heart.
There are very few such people, and among the few such people, most of them have suffered the heavy blows of life and have been completely shot to death on this vast beach.
Only a handful of people are able to survive.
They either have a one-in-a-million talent, or they have unattainable connections.
Very human.
The shopkeeper knew very well in his heart that Jian Chen must despise him.
I think that a tourist businessman, how can he live such a nest, how can he be mixed into such a bird.
But the shopkeeper can't help it.
He didn't bow to life, but just silently resisted the blunt knife that life cut him like a walking corpse.
The shopkeeper is right.
The officers and soldiers coughed, not appreciating it at all.
"Less special nonsense, buddies are here today to do business! Who cares about your three melons and two dates, do you think we can't afford to pay for dinner here or what's wrong?"
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "No, no." ”
"The small one is a broken shop, where do you dare to say that a few officials are not, whatever you say is what, you can pay how you want. ”
Only then did the officers and soldiers at the head nod contentedly, "Give him a dollar." ”
The officers and soldiers in the back handed over a piece of money.
"Bring me the best food and the best wine you have here. ”
"When your official and I take care of the business, I will take the brothers to have a few drinks and eat a good meal, is this money enough?"
The shopkeeper smiled with a spring breeze on his face: "The money given by several officials, that is naturally enough, eat and drink as much as you want, we take care of several officials, and our boss lady told me before leaving." ”
"If you don't serve a few officials well, my shopkeeper can be regarded as the end. ”
"Okay, for your position, this official will reluctantly order a few meals at your house, okay, the kid has nothing to do with you. ”
"Official, I still have to check out these masters. ”
"I said it's none of your business, don't you understand?"
"Understood, understood! Official, I completely understand what you said, I'll get out of here now. ”
"I'll go down right now and help you pack up your food. ”
The official nodded with satisfaction, touched his chin and said: "This is like this, young people can do things badly, but they can't not come to trouble, your small shop, you will be responsible for the tariffs after that." ”
The shopkeeper smiled happily and retreated.
He smiled happily.
It's a lot of fun.
He is responsible for the customs duties, which means that compared with the previous taxes, the annual payment must be a lot less, not to mention, he can make a lot of money in the sewing, which is almost a win-win.
Not only can you earn money from the official, but you can also eat a sum of money from the boss's wife.
And all this is because the shopkeeper stammered a few words, these officials are much more atmospheric than the previous ones, those officials in the past, came to them to eat and take, but in the end, they didn't get any benefits.
I was complained about a few times at every turn.
I'm scared already.
The shopkeeper was very suspicious in his heart, the proprietress and the boss left this place where birds don't together, because the officials in the neighborhood didn't spend much money on eating Hesena.
It's just a little bit of the cost price.
They still make a lot of money in a day.
What annoys the proprietress and the boss should be that every time they entertain these officials, they are extremely arrogant, and they don't have the general's life, but they get the general's illness.
You can't say it directly, you have to hold it up.
I don't dare to ask these officers and soldiers for money, otherwise they will turn their faces.
It's just one word to serve.
Father!
Who wants to have a good day every day, but serve an uncle on his territory every day.
The proprietress is estimated to have stayed and flown with the boss, and she may go somewhere, except for coming back every once in a while to get money, the second little shop doesn't know anything else.
I thought I should have gone somewhere else to reopen the store.
I guess that's the only reason.
These officers and soldiers are different from the previous ones.
Taking money is taking money, eating is also eating, at least to do things, just that short sentence just now, for the interests of their small shop, it is of great help, others may not understand, the shop knows everything about it.
In the past, taxes and fees were reported by others, and they just paid them in the store.
Now it is the second shopkeeper to report the accounts, which can save the shop owner's family a lot of money, and he can also deduct a little money from it, which is almost a win-win situation.
So the shopkeeper is in a good mood.
Humming a little tune and leaving.
Chen Jian thought thoughtfully, after this trip, it seems that this tourist businessman can't continue to go now, and the matter of the shopkeeper can be regarded as a wake-up call for him, look, he was also a high-spirited tourist businessman in the past.
Now he has become an ordinary shopkeeper.
Tell me what it takes to go through to polish a person like this.
Jian Chen shuddered when he thought about it, if he became like this, he would rather die than die.
"How many of you live here, too?"
The official stared at Chu Tiannan and the others, and there was a light emanating from his eyebrows, as if he could see people through thoroughly.
Chen Jian snorted and said, "We did stay here, but we just stayed, and we are in a hurry to urge the goods at this time, so we plan to leave first." ”
The official of the Northern Barbarians said lightly, "You can't leave for the time being. ”
"Wait. ”
"We are tracking down a few heretics who pose a major threat to society, and we suspect that they have something to do with you, and not a single person staying in the hotel is allowed to leave. ”