Chapter 1 First arrival in Yangzhou
"I'm so hungry..."
Yangzhou City, Vermilion Bird Gate, bustling with people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the crowd, a young man was dressed in coarse linen clothes and stepped on torn straw sandals.
The mangled hat on his head was cut by the sword and a long notch.
On the coarse linen clothes on his body, several neat notches could also be seen, which were obviously cut by the sword.
The boy pursed his dry lips, touched his growling belly with his hand, and stopped again, tightening the waistband of his trousers.
The boy's name is Liu Suifeng, and he comes from a small island in the far east where the peach blossoms are undefeated.
A few days ago, on the mountain road near Yangzhou City, he encountered a group of extremely vicious horse thieves, about dozens of people.
"I jumped up the tree and dodged, but a family of five people who were traveling in the opposite direction from me were not so lucky, so I had to jump down again, and after a bloody battle, all the horse thieves were destroyed, but ......"
Liu Suifeng, who was telling the story, suddenly paused, and his face showed a little guilt.
"It's just that I'm incompetent, and I can't take care of myself in the face of dozens of horse thieves, so that a family of four died under the horse thieves' knives, and only a little daughter who is only about fifteen or sixteen years old is protected.
Perhaps out of guilt, or out of compassion, I took the girl to a nearby town and found a few reliable-looking dart masters to escort her to her mother's home.
These reliable dart masters are a bit unreliable in terms of price, and they spent all my silver taels.
So ......"
"So, that's why you don't have money and still want to eat meat buns?" Liu Suifeng was about to continue, when a rough voice interrupted Liu Suifeng's narration.
Combined with the context, it is clear that the conversation between the two takes place at a stall selling steamed buns.
On one side is Liu Suifeng, who is growling with hunger, and his eyes are staring at the steaming meat bun on the steamer.
In the steaming heat, the vegetarian white noodles and the meat-filled meat should have been perfectly combined, like the harmony of yin and yang gossip.
However, because of the producer's skill and lack of heat, this meat bun that should be a perfect combination of meat and vegetables is nondescript.
"Gollum"
But even in the face of this slightly bad meat bun, Liu Suifeng still moved his throat and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Because, hungry!
The uncle who sold the meat buns on the other side frowned, with an impatient face, "One penny!
At the same time, he waved skillfully in his hand, like driving away flies, and just wanted Liu to get out of the wind quickly.
Because, money!
Only the little brother who sells fritters on the side can look at this matter with an objective attitude, with a little appreciation, and the head is a comment, "Compared with those beggars who beg for food with one mouth, your innovation is not bad, through the packaging of the story, coupled with the three-dimensional performance of demeanor and action, with the situation that the people like to see, let the image of a down-and-out chivalrous man jump on the paper."
Especially the abrupt pause in the middle of the previous speech, the expression is in place, which fully shows the guilty and complex heart of a chivalrous man, which is simply the finishing touch of the whole performance, but ......"
Halfway through the comment, the fritter brother changed his words, "But your story has a little flaw, although it chooses the main theme of the current Dahua Kingdom, the martial arts routine of drawing a sword to help each other when the road is uneven, rubbing the hot spots, and the rhythm and foreshadowing of the story are also good, but there is a little problem in logic, which makes people feel a little unreal."
I would suggest that you change the dozens of horse thieves to three or four horse thieves, which is more convincing. ”
"Uh..." Hearing the suggestion of the fritter brother, Liu Suifeng was a little unsure of what to say.
"But it's already very good, the acting talent is good, the creativity is good, compared to other beggars who sell their bodies to bury their fathers for treatment, sell miserable amputations and intellectual disabilities, students' tuition fees, and wandering singers who insist on their musical dreams, you are a down-and-out chivalrous storyteller, it is simply a clear stream in the beggar world.
The young man is very good, it just so happens that my uncle is the head of the Yangzhou branch of the beggar gang, do you want me to introduce you to the company? Now their company is facing a severe business bottleneck, I think your new ideas will help them complete the transformation and upgrading of industrial products, overcome the bottleneck, and become bigger and stronger. ”
"......" faced with the kindness of the fritter brother, Liu Suifeng was speechless.
In the face of Liu Suifeng's silence, the aunt who sold soy milk on the side also said, "Okay, although there are still some small flaws in the story you made, it's still quite interesting, forget it, you tell us another story, and I'll give you a cup of soy milk." ”
I saw that next to Aunt Soy Milk, the little kid who had listened to it with relish before was nodding vigorously with snot.
"Auntie, I'm really not telling a story, if you don't believe it, then forget it. After that, Liu shook his head with the wind, and turned to leave, only to feel that it was a mistake to plan to eat on credit at the beginning.
Hearing Liu Suifeng's answer, Aunt Soy Milk frowned, "Really, you came out to cheat at a young age, this cowhide blows, one person kills dozens of horse thieves? Only a three-year-old child will believe your words, if my son doesn't like to hear it, you don't even want to drink soy milk!"
"That is, there is indeed a group of dozens of horse thieves near Yangzhou City, but it is said that those horse thieves are all middle and low-level Praetorian Guard generals left over from the mutiny of the previous dynasty, and they are the most elite troops of the previous dynasty. ”
"That's right, I heard that the group of horse thieves in the past also killed a governor who came from Chang'an to parade, and later alarmed the imperial court, and the Yangzhou government sent a team of nearly 1,000 people to exterminate the horse thieves.
What happened later? Of the 1,000 dead and wounded, only 600 people finally fled back, and even the generals who led the team were captured alive by the dozens of horse thieves.
Kill all the horse thieves in one person?hehe!"
"This kind of fool knows the impossible, and he dares to say it to deceive people, I think it is where the second disease comes from, I have read too many novels at home, and I can't distinguish between fiction and reality, and I think I am a hero when I wear a hat, and I run out to roam the rivers and lakes......"
"Something is wrong!
But just when everyone poked the departing Liu Suifeng and pointed and said hotly, a person carrying a flat burden rushed back in a panic, and the two buckets of water carried by the flat shoulder swayed left and right and splashed out.
"What's wrong with the old man next door? In a panic, his wife ran away with someone?"
"Your wife just ran away with someone else! The gang of horse thieves entrenched near Yangzhou City are all dead!"
"Dead?" Hearing the words of Lao Wang next door, the three of them were stunned.
"I went to pick up lye water and saw it with my own eyes! There are thirty or forty corpses all over the field!
"When I was passing by, people from the government had already cordoned off the scene.
According to Cai Zhutou, who investigated the scene, there were no sword scars on the dozens of horse thieves, and they were probably solved by someone with their bare hands.
And looking at the death methods of dozens of horse thieves, all of them were shattered by internal forces and died, and similar deaths were probably all done by one person. ”
"Kill dozens of horse thieves by one person, or with your bare hands?" Hearing this, the three of them looked at each other.
"This does sound a bit exaggerated, even ridiculous, but Cai Zhutou, who has investigated no less than 100 large and small murders, you should know.
At that time, he insisted that it was a person who did it.
Maybe it was really the work of a passing hero, this group of horse thieves deserved it, and they have been rampant near Yangzhou City for so many years, and they can be regarded as being governed. ”
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I thought that the old Wang next door who heard the news and the three of them were talking about it, but he only saw the three of them looking at each other without saying a word, and couldn't help asking.
The three of them didn't answer, and looked up in unison.
I saw the back of Liu slowly leaving with the wind, there was no dragon and tiger steps of the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and there was no domineering spirit that scared people at a glance, it was very, very ordinary.
After only a few steps into the crowd, he was submerged in the crowd and disappeared.
……
"What the hell do I think! I would eat something like this!"
didn't leave for long, Liu Suifeng looked at the half of the blackened pancake in his hand, his face was full of entanglement.
Some wanted to throw it away, but under the domination of the dizzy eyes and the gurgling stomach, Liu Suifeng still stuffed the half of the pancake in his hand into his mouth.
Liu gobbled up the wind, but her face was full of shame.
After eating half of the somewhat charred pancake, Liu Suifeng's state was slightly better.
He wiped his mouth and came to a passerby.
"Excuse me, may I ask, is there anything delicious in Yangzhou?"
"Are we Yangzhou? That's a lot. "When it comes to food, passers-by are clearly a little proud.
"It can be braised or steamed crab roe lion head, the meat is ripe, fat but not greasy, and the meat is fat, and the braised silver carp head is fatty and non-earthy.
Top 10 famous spots, sanding buns, mille-feuille oil cake, double sesame shortbread, jade siu mai......
All kinds of snacks, such as Sixi soup dumplings, raw pork lotus root clips, scallion oil shortbread, bamboo shoots and meat wontons......
However, the most delicious is the Yangzhou-style top gold-wrapped silver super shrimp, ham, and lean pork mixed golden minced rice from Mochizuki Tower. ”
"Mochizuki Lou Yangzhou-style top gold-wrapped silver super shrimp, ham, lean meat and assorted golden rice?"
"Yes, but don't think about it, this thing is not something that can be bought with money. ”
"Isn't it something that can be bought with money?, so how can you eat it?" Liu Suifeng was a little puzzled.
"It's a place where diners compete for it, and only the strongest winners can enjoy this kind of food, and ordinary people don't think about it. ”
"Oh, quacks," Liu muttered with the wind.
"Can you ask how to get to Mochizuki Tower by the way?"
"Hey, hey, don't you want to participate in the competition for food, I advise you not to go, that's not a joke, wait until you don't eat, being mutilated or injured is still a trivial matter, I'm afraid you will lose your life." Passers-by persuaded.
"Don't worry, I just thought it sounded interesting and I wanted to check it out. ”
"Oh, I see, go straight until you reach the intersection where there is a stone lion in front of you, turn left and keep going. ”
"Thank you. ”
……
Yangzhou City, on the banks of the Qinhuai River.
When Liu arrived with the wind, in front of the Moon Tower, the already crowded diners of the rivers and lakes took a step back and made way for them.
He also whispered in his mouth, with a little jealousy in his eyes.
"The Tiger of Jiangdu?"
"It seems that this assorted golden rice is inedible!"
In addition to the Jiangdu Tiger entrenched in Yangzhou City, the jade-faced scholar and the drama master also came to forage for food. ”
"Is it so difficult to eat the assorted golden rice of Mochizuki Tower once?"
……
"When did I have such a name?" Liu scratched his head.
When he turned around, he found that there was a young man behind him with clear eyebrows and a bit of heroism between his eyebrows.
It was as if the man behind him was in the mouth.
In the crowd, a scholar-like person shook the fan in his hand gently, "The tiger of Jiangdu? ”
A facial paralysis also slanted a glance at the young man behind Liu Suifeng with dead fish eyes, and "cut" disdainfully.
"Zizizi!"
Just as the three of them confronted each other, Liu watched the changes with the wind, and other diners from all walks of life were discussing and watching, when the sound of incense on hot oil suddenly sounded.
"Gollum!"
Almost everyone, the moment they smelled the fragrance, swallowed a mouthful of saliva in unison.
"New fried rice?"
The diners who wanted to stand back because of the strong enemy all stopped, turned around, their eyes were firm, and there was no longer a trace of hesitation.
If it is really Mochizukilou's new fried rice, even if it gambles on the dignity of diners, it is worth fighting to the death.
The moment the fragrance overflows, it is also murderous.
But in the face of such a scene, Liu Suifeng only smiled slightly, "It seems to be ...... It's kind of funny. ”