Chapter 5 The Teahouse
For the next month or so, Xiao Nan spent most of his time wandering around Wuxiang City every day, and he gradually recognized this new world and began to have real feelings.
But in this world, he doesn't have a life of his own, and he wants to find a way to live his own, which is exactly what he has been seriously considering during this time.
Xiao Nan walked out of the courtyard gate, and as usual, small insects scurried into the placket of his clothes and hid in a loose small bag specially sewn for him in Xiao Nan's clothes.
Now the various conditions of the insect make Xiao Nan a little unbelievable, its food is extremely incommensurate with its size, and it likes to eat meat the most, and the amount of food it eats is particularly amazing, and it is about to catch up with Xiao Nan, an adult.
But it's such a small thing that can be eaten, more than a month later, its body shape is still the same as when Xiao Nan first saw it, only the length of the index finger, not a single cent.
Of course, there are still some changes that Xiao Nan noticed, such as its body color began to change from pink to a faint green. The scales are tighter and shinier.
The most amazing change for Xiao Nan is the speed of the insect, whether it is jumping or running, the insect can be under Xiao Nan's attentive gaze, and the small figure is just a few flashes, and it can disappear under Xiao Nan's nose.
"Whatever, since coming to this place, there are few things that I don't find weird, and there are few things that I can figure out. This is a sentence that Xiao Nan often says to himself in his heart.
However, he still figured out some simple things, such as Sun Ju's home, which is where he lives temporarily, is in the east of Wuxiang City, called "Niuwei Lane".
There are thousands of families living in Niuwei Lane, most of whom are civilians who sell their labor to support their families. There are craftsmen such as carpenters and blacksmiths, and hunters and fishermen who hunt and fish, but more often there are miners who have been mining for long periods of time.
"Brother Xiao, are you going to the teahouse to listen to books again?"
As soon as he walked not far, Xiao Nan saw a person walking out of the roadside courtyard, dressed as a hunter.
This person was met by Xiao Nan when he was listening to books in the teahouse, and he was a hunter named Wu Qingshan. He is in his early fifties and has two sons. The eldest son, Wu Xianlin, was eighteen years old and always wanted to become a cultivator, and the youngest son, Wu Xianyun, had just turned ten years old.
"Uncle Qingshan, didn't you go up the mountain today?"
"I went the day before yesterday, I was busy in the mountains for a day and a night, and I went home yesterday when it was almost dark, and today I am going to take a day off and go to the teahouse to listen to books. ”
Xiao Nan knew that this uncle would go to the teahouse whenever he had free time. Uncle Aoyama likes to listen to books, and he also likes to talk to people in the teahouse, and occasionally hear some anecdotes about the city and outside the city.
This uncle is easy-going, and he and Xiao Nan are neighbors not far away, so whenever the two meet in the teahouse, they will always move together and listen to books and chat at a small table.
In the hall on the ground floor of the teahouse, an old man in green clothes was telling the story of heroes and beauties on the stage.
Xiao Nan and Uncle Qingshan, who came with him, sat opposite each other at a table near the window, with people listening carefully and a few people chatting quietly in one place.
Xiao Nan listened to the old man's storytelling as if listening to a myth, and most of the content in the story was related to what powerful and righteous magic cultivators, what great coincidences, and what natural treasures and divine weapons.
The first few times he shared the table with Uncle Qingshan, Xiao Nan would ask in a low voice: "Is there any basis for these things? Is there such a magical person and magical thing? Is it made up by the storyteller?" ”
Uncle Qingshan would always look stunned when he heard his question, "How could there be no such cultivator's method, everyone has seen it with their own eyes." More than 300 miles away from us, there are two sects, one is the Tongyang faction and the other is the Qingfeng faction, and there are such capable people in them. ”
So in the next hour or two in the teahouse, Uncle Qingshan would let Xiao Nan listen to him whisper.
At this time, Xiao Nan was hearing the confusion, and Uncle Qingshan leaned towards him.
"Do you know, the cultivator he just said about killing the giant python is the head of the Qingfeng faction, the head of Qin Haotian Qin......
Uncle Qingshan began to annotate the story of the old storyteller to Xiao Nan again, saying how Qin Haotian killed the Quartet when he was young, and how he founded a sect when his prestige spread far and wide.
"Uncle, hearing you say this, how can this Qin Haotian Qin Sect be hundreds of years old now. Xiao Nan drew a message from Uncle Qingshan's description that Xiao Nan felt very absurd.
"Around five hundred years old, my grandfather has also seen this Qin master, at that time, Qin Zhangmen would come to this city every three or five years, and no one in the ordinary people had ever seen him. Uncle Aoyama took a sip of his teacup.
"Cultivators are no better than ordinary people. We ordinary people are all born for a hundred years, and cultivators ....... Hey, by the way, speaking of the Qingfeng faction, I remembered that the eldest of my family will go to the Qingfeng faction tomorrow, and it is to bet on a trip with the Xiangyun Dart Bureau. ”
"Isn't it dangerous?" asked Xiao Nan curiously.
"Of course it's dangerous, that kid Xianlin always wants to go to the dart bureau to do something, just because of the danger, so I haven't agreed. But this kid has a strong temper and is unwilling to go with me to the mountains to go to school to hunt and collect herbs for a living. ”
Uncle Qingshan frowned, looking helpless.
"The child is older, and I can't twist him, so I have to agree, but tomorrow's trip is for the Qingfeng faction to escort medicinal materials, and there will be absolutely no danger, and no one dares to touch the things of the Qingfeng faction. ”
"Can I go with your family Xianlin?" Xiao Nan asked.
"I'm not just about to say this, you're tall and big, you must be okay, you don't have a regular business in Oxtail Lane, and you are idle, and you can make a little money with this dart. ”
"Then Uncle Qingshan must help me talk to Xianlin and take me on a trip. "Xiao Nan has really been idle this month, most of the silver left by Sun Ju has been used, and most of the half used is for small insects to eat.
Uncle Qingshan smiled slightly, nodded appreciatively, and was about to speak.
"Look, what's going on over there?" Uncle Aoyama could say before he could be interrupted by a man's surprised tone.
Everyone looked out of the teahouse, and on a street corner in front of them, a group of people came one after another.
Xiao Nan learned from many people's conversations that the corner of the street is a place where only people with very wealthy families go to have fun.
Compared with the street where Xiao Nan is now, there are also shops, restaurants, teahouses, brothels, and casinos, but the specifications and grades are too high, and of course, the consumption is so expensive that ordinary people smack.
Few people like them who came out to have some fun in Oxwei Alley didn't have anything to do around that corner, and it was a place that was several levels above them.
Who wants to go to a place that regards themselves as mustards? If you are careless or unlucky, and cause a little trouble, how can you have the slightest ability to resist except to pray for mercy from the other party?
The people who turned the corner had already approached, and many people who were listening to the books had come out of the teahouse and gathered around to watch the excitement.
Xiao Nan could see more clearly through the pane that there were two men carrying a wooden plank, a person lying on it, and a woman was whimpering and crying on the side of the plank.
A moment later, the planks were carried into Oxwei Alley, and the people who had gone out to see the excitement also re-entered the teahouse. Xiao Nan knew that a broadcast was about to start, but it was certainly not a happy anecdote.
"Alas, it's miserable!" a young man in his twenties shook his head and lamented.
"I know this person, and I have dealt with him a few times in the few years since he moved to Oxwei Lane. surnamed Zhang, he is a fisherman, and he has had good luck over the years and has saved some money. ”
"Hehe, if the luck is bad and the family is poor, this will not happen. ”
"What the hell is going on?" asked the middle-aged man in the corner with a frown.
"The man who was carried just now was beaten by the young son of the Qian family, and he only had one breath left, and he probably won't survive today. ”
"Why did you beat him?" several people asked the same thing one after another.
Xiao Nan remembered this Qian family the most, and when Uncle Qingshan chatted with him, he knew that the person who forced him down the river last time was the eldest son of the Qian family, and this Qian family was the largest family in the city of five phases.
"It's because the family has a little money, this Zhang family has a daughter, an adult, good-looking, and found a mother-in-law who has a decent family background, and is ready to get married after a while. Xiao Nan, the person being described, also knows, is a literate teacher, and usually writes contract letters for others.
He continued, "So I wanted to buy some decent dowry, and the things over there must be better than the things here." Mr. Teacher pointed to the corner of the street.
"Yesterday, the Zhang family took their daughter to buy a dowry over there, but who would have thought that this family happened to be bumped into by the little son of the Qian family when he went to the brothel opened by his family to have fun. Mr. Teacher shook his head at the crowd staring at him.
The girl was ruined that night, and the Zhang family was stopped at the door of the brothel and knelt all night. Today, when the two of them saw the little son of the Qian family walking out of the gate and leaving, they were about to break into the brothel, trying to find their daughter. The steward of the brothel came out and said that their daughter was now a member of the brothel, and told the Zhang family to get out, how could the two of them be willing to die, so the Zhang family was beaten by the people in the brothel. ”
"Alas, this happy event has become a mourning. Someone sighed.
"Uncle Qingshan, does the government care about this kind of thing?" Xiao Nan leaned into the uncle's ear and asked.
"The government, the government is doing things for the Qian family, and it's too late to tie up with the Qian family. ”