Chapter 20: Five Eccentrics
At the foot of the Misty Mountains, four sturdy and sturdy horses are wagging their tails leisurely eating bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest on the side of the road. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoFive men dressed in dark color and dusty faces were at a loss for a carriage of elms, or rather, the horses that pulled it. One of the five men is Humpty Dumpty, one has a goatee, one has a pair of dead fish eyes, no matter how you look at it, a little white face, and one is dry like a thin monkey. And the sturdy jujube red horse's left leg and lower limb were bleeding, panting anxiously.
Little White Face was carefully examining the horse's legs, and when he pinched the horse's legs with his hands, the horse immediately raised its legs and neighed in pain.
"Fourth, how's it going?" Humpty Dumpty asked anxiously, sweating profusely.
Xiao Baimian shook his head and sighed, "It's broken!", and the other four people wilted like frosted eggplants when they heard this.
The thin monkey stared at the Humpty Dumpty man with red eyes and asked, "What about the boss?" and the other three also looked at the big brother with blank eyes.
"The fourth child will bandage this horse first, and then we will rush forward first, and then find a way when we get to a crowded place. "If you can't go to the village and don't have a store, it's not easy to find another horse, and the 'calm and steady' eldest brother is also at a loss.
The fourth child should know medical skills, he first cut some bamboo of moderate thickness and length, and then skillfully took out some medicine bottles and white cloth strips from his baggage, first applied medicine to the injured part of the horse's leg, and then tied the bamboo to the horse's leg with a strip of cloth. In this way, when the horse walks, the bamboo will bear a certain weight, and the injured horse will be able to hold on for a while. After the bandage, Humpty Dumpty, Goatee, Dead Fisheye, and Little White Face all mounted their horses, but the fifth had to lead the wounded horse pulling the carriage.
The thin monkey looked up at the scorching sunlight in the sky and spat out, "What a fucking bad luck!", and the rest of the people laughed in their hearts, but they all pretended not to hear, and each rode slowly on his horse.
"Look, there's a tea stall in front!" The sharp-eyed thin monkey shouted in surprise, and the other four were all napping immediately, but after the thin monkey shouted like this, they all came to their senses, and they all looked at it together. There was a tea stall not far ahead, and I could vaguely see two tea drinkers in the tea stall.
"Look, boss!" said Goatee smirked at Humpty Dumpty, who and the others glanced over to see a carriage parked in the forest to the left of the tea stall. The carriage has a mahogany trunk, a top of animal skins, a curtain of brocade, and a horse pulling the cart that is pure white, with long legs and strong muscles.
"Second, third, fourth, go!" Humpty Dumpty's eyes lit up, and with a greeting, he galloped towards the tea stall with a goatee, dead fish's eyes, and a little white face.
"Wait for me!" shouted the thin monkey as he jumped to his feet, but no one paid any attention to him, and he was so angry that he dragged the injured horse hard, but the horse still limped and couldn't go fast.
The four of them galloped to the front, tied their horses to the edge of the forest, and entered the tea stall. The thatched shed is very small, and the tea is written in large letters on the banner hanging outside; there are two shabby tables on the left and right in front, each of which can seat four people, and there are already two people sitting on the right table, a stout man, a middle-aged man who is well-dressed, and there is a plate of peanuts and half a plate of beef on the table, and the two are drinking tea, thinking that they have been here for a while; and behind is the place where the shop boils water. Seeing them come in, the smiling shopkeeper wiped the table on the left and beckoned, "Please sit down, what do you want?"
"Cut two catties of beef and have some side dishes. Humpty Dumpty replied, his voice a little hoarse. As soon as a few people sat down and were pouring tea, they heard the big man ask in a rough voice, "Shop, how long will it take to enter the mountain?"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he brought the prepared beef and side dishes to the table, looked up at the sun, and replied with a smile: "You can enter the mountain in half an hour at most." ”
"Shopkeeper, why do you have to pay attention to the time when you enter the mountain?" the goatee asked suspiciously.
"The guest officer must be a foreigner, and may not know something, and two miles further on is the foggy mountains, which are full of fog, and it is difficult to discern the direction, and only the two hours of the day when the sun is the most poisonous will dissipate. There is only one shortcut way to the imperial capital from Luzhou, and it takes at most an hour to walk out of the mountain, and it is faster if you ride a horse or a car; if you detour to Qizhou in the west, you have to cross the Jinshui River, and you have to walk at least one day more. In the past, there were a lot of merchants and pedestrians coming and going here, but in the past two years, a gang of robbers has come to the mountains, and there are fewer and fewer people who dare to take this road. "The shopkeeper is an old man who has been setting up a stall here for more than 20 years, and I feel sorry to see that there are fewer and fewer people at the tea stall that used to be full of customers.
"I see!" the goatee twisted the small handful of mustache on his chin with his right hand, and then glanced at the little white face. The little white face understood, took out a small black paper bag from the baggage, handed it to the shopkeeper and said, "Youlao shopkeeper will brew these tea leaves from me." ”
The shopkeeper took the paper bag and went to the back to prepare to make tea. As soon as I opened the paper bag, a strange fragrance came to my nose. He is a person of good tea, and he has seen a lot of good tea, but it is the first time that the tea has such a sweet fragrance, and then the tea leaves in the paper bag look no different from ordinary tea leaves. When he poured the boiling water into the purple clay pot where the tea leaves were placed, the rich and indissolvable sweet fragrance filled the entire tea stall with the rising white steam. He greedily took a few puffs of the aroma and muttered in his mouth, "It's so fragrant!", and the big man and the middle-aged man on the table on the right also sniffed a few times.
After the tea was brewed, the shopkeeper came with a teapot to deliver it, and said as he walked: "Guest officer, your tea ......" Before he could say the word, he saw him bleeding and falling to the ground, as did the big man and the middle-aged man on the table on the right.
Humpty Dumpty, Goatee, Dead Fish's Eyes, and Little White Face had already covered their mouths and noses with sweat towels, and when they saw that the three were dead, they walked out of the tea stall, and at this time the thin monkey had just pulled the injured carriage to the tea stall.
"Old five, hurry up and change the car. Humpty Dumpty commanded as soon as he saw the skinny monkey coming.
"Boss, I didn't even drink saliva when I arrived, so I was asked to work. The skinny monkey licked his dry lips and complained. When he looked into the tea stall again, three people had died of bleeding from the seven orifices, and he didn't dare to drink this water for him to drink. The little white face had already driven the mahogany cart over, and the thin monkey took out a bulging sack from the wounded carriage and put it in the mahogany carriage, but he didn't know what was in the sack.
The goatee and the dead fish's eye lit a fire on the stove behind him with a stick, and threw it on the thatched roof, and the thatch burned "Bang, Bang", and the tea stall was instantly covered in flames.
People were killed, the car was changed, the tea stall was burned, and the five people hurried into the foggy mountains.