Chapter 114: Fellow

Master Lingqiu changed the meeting location to Tanzhou, and the old lady happily went to the appointment, and first ordered Mu Yaqin and Xiaowan to go to Tanzhou to drink and stay in Zhangluo. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoIn order to let Long Yan see the prestige of Fangcaohui, the old lady sent Long Yan to follow. Outside Jinling City, Mu Yaqin, Ah Qiu, Chi Hai and Xiao Wan were on their way to Tanzhou City with Long Yan. Along the way, Ah Qiu kept an eye on Long Yan, and Chi Hai took care of Mu Yaqin diligently. Xiao Wan talked and laughed along the way, compared to others, she seemed to be on vacation.

Ah Qiu complained about Qingshuimen's unauthorized modification of the meeting place, and cursed from time to time along the way: "Those old things in Qingshuimen, I have to let my aunt and grandmother go back again." A few days ago, we just came back from Tanzhou...... Mu Yaqin explained: "Ah Qiu, you only have to complain all the way, since it is the old lady's will, we can just obey." Xiao Wan chuckled with a carefree look: "Yes, you can think that we are out to play!, right, Chi Hai?" Chi Hai nodded and didn't say much.

Seeing that it was getting dark, the people marched to a village. There are only a dozen families in this village, and unfortunately, there is not even a single inn. "What can I do about this, shouldn't I just sleep outside?" Xiao Wan was a little impatient. Mu Yaqin, as her senior sister, had to find a way to comfort her: "Don't panic, there is always a way." This village doesn't look big, let's see if any villagers are willing to take us in for one night......" He said, knocking on the door of a villager's house with a faint candlelight.

It's not so much a gate as a fence to enclose a house. Before the fence door could be knocked hard, it opened by itself with a "squeak". Mu Yaqin shouted as he stepped in, "Excuse me, is there anyone here?" and walked two or three steps as he spoke, but no one responded. Ah Qiu walked a few steps forward, knocked on the door and said, "Is there anyone inside?" and waited for a while, but still no one responded.

Ah Qiu gently opened the door, and saw that the room was extremely simple, with two broken bowls and an oil lamp on the table, and the oil lamp was still faintly glowing. There were ordinary clothes hanging on the four walls of the room, and vegetables and rice grains were piled up in the corners of the floor. Mu Yaqin and the others didn't feel anything, only Xiao Wan felt that it was quite difficult for her to settle in this place, so she complained: "Senior sister, do you want to settle in this place?" Mu Yaqin nodded and said: "I don't know why, the lights are on, but there is no one in this family. If you don't settle here, you'll have to find another place to go! When the family comes back, we will explain to them that if it really doesn't work, we will use silver to dredge it. ā€

Chi Hai added some oil to the oil lamp, stretched out his hand to wipe the table and chairs, and saw that they were spotless, so he said, "Yaqin, this place is very clean, this family should be not far away." Xiao Wan smiled after hearing this: "Little Master Chi Hai, look at this room is just such a bed, how can we sleep?" Chi Hai blushed, stood outside the door and said, "You can sleep on the bed, I'll sleep here!" said, pointing to the bench on the ground, "Anyway, it's just a night, make do with it!"

Xiao Wan's face was embarrassed, and she glanced at the bed, which was clearly made of several wooden planks. But considering that it was really difficult to find a better place to live in the current situation, he took the first step to lie down on the bed and turned over a few times, and lay down in the most marginal place and said: "Senior sister, I will sleep here, and you can divide the rest of the place!" Mu Yaqin saw that if this bed was lying vertically, it could only accommodate two people, and if it was lying side by side, it could lie down to three people at most. Although Xiao Wan lay down horizontally, it already accounted for one-third.

Long Yan shouted: "Hey, you're too ignorant, aren't you?" Your senior sister is the biggest in this, at least let her share it!" Xiao Wan looked Long Yan up and down, and snorted: "Don't think that wearing our Fangcaohui's clothes can yell at me." Senior Sister hasn't said anything yet, what nonsense are you talking about?" Long Yan pouted and said: "Of course I'm not from your Fangcaohui, but I'm talking about this reason! In our Qingyun Village, we all talk about dignity and orderliness, I have never seen such an ignorant person as you!" Mu Yaqin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't quarrel over such a trivial matter." As he spoke, he looked at Long Yan and said, "Miss Yan'er, Senior Sister Xiaowan has always been like this, and we will let her go up and down." You see, we can still sleep here if we squeeze in. As he spoke, he gestured on the bed, and it was indeed a little difficult to sleep with the three of them.

Ah Qiu wanted to say a few words, but seeing that Mu Yaqin was not as knowledgeable as Xiao Wan, he stopped his words and said, "Master, Ah Qiu sees that this table is good, and it should be able to deal with it for one night." With that, he put aside the bowls, oil lamps, and other utensils on the table, wiped them briefly, and lay down on the table. Fortunately, Ah Qiu's figure is not tall, and it is just right to lie down. Mu Yaqin took a quilt from the bed and spread it on the table and said, "Ah Qiu, you can spread a layer of quilt under the table." There are two quilts on the bed, and the three of us can simply cover them. Ah Qiu smiled and thanked him, and then lay down on the quilt.

Everyone lay down for a while, only to hear the sound of scattered footsteps outside. Then I heard Chi Hai say: "Who are you?" It turned out that there were five people outside, four men and one woman. These five people are dressed as ordinary people and look very simple. One of the middle-aged men asked rhetorically, "Who are you, why are you in the courtyard of my house?"

"It turned out that the owner of this house had returned. Mu Yaqin said, and everyone hurriedly turned over and opened the door. The middle-aged man was even more shocked when he saw four young girls suddenly coming out of the house: "Why are there still four girls in the house?" Mu Yaqin stepped forward and said: "This fellow is a disciple of Fangcaohui, and he wants to rush to Tanzhou to do business, passing by here." I saw that there was no inn here, so I tried to find a fellow countryman's house to stay for one night. I just pushed open the door of your house, and when I saw that there was no one in the house, we ......" said, and said embarrassedly, "I'm really sorry!"

A middle-aged woman beside the middle-aged man, wearing a flower scarf on her head, said with a smile: "This girl looks like a well-being person, and she looks rich, so she must be from a big family......! We didn't want to cause trouble for a few of us, so why don't we leave!"

The middle-aged woman waved her hand and said, "Seeing that you have all stayed, I'm afraid it's not convenient to leave again." Otherwise, you will stay at my house first, and we can go to the other folks' houses for the night. But ......," said the woman, and she stood up. Xiao Wan was a little impatient, and urged: "But what, just say what you have to say!" The middle-aged woman smiled and said, "However, although you can live in my family as you like, but for other villagers, we have to pay for some accommodation!"

"It's just that I want some silver, what should I do...... "Mu Yaqin thought, took out a silver ingot from his arms and said: "This silver ingot, is it enough to pay for the villagers' room fees?" The middle-aged woman nodded and said, "Enough, enough!" said, took the silver ingot and put it in her arms and said, "Let me introduce it to you, this is my old man, this is my little uncle......" Ah Qiu waved his hand and said: "Okay, we are very tired after a day's journey, so we will stay here for a night and leave tomorrow." After hearing this, the middle-aged woman smiled and said, "Okay, then let's go first!" and led everyone away.

"Just stay for one night, Senior Sister will spend a silver ingot?" Xiao Wan snorted and laughed, "I look at these people, I think this dilapidated house is not worth so much money at all! Senior Sister, you are so generous!" In his words, there was a lot of cynicism. Ah Qiu said: "Listening to the tone of your voice, it seems that you are a little dissatisfied? If Senior Sister doesn't pay this money, we will really sleep in this countryside!" Xiao Wan heard Ah Qiu's rebuke, and suddenly became angry, and shouted: "Stinky girl, is there still your share of talking here?"

Seeing that the two were about to fight, Mu Yaqin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Okay, Ah Qiu." Xiaowan said that he was older than you, so don't say those words. Senior sister spent money to buy a quiet, otherwise those people would be entangled. Let's get some rest, we'll have to go early tomorrow morning. So saying, they went back into the house. Xiao Wan glared at Ah Qiu and said, "Stinky girl, you wait for me!" Ah Qiu was not ambiguous, rolled her eyes and went to the table to sleep.

As the night wore on, everyone had gone to sleep. After all, Chi Hai was uncomfortable lying on the bench, and it was inconvenient to turn over left and right. In a fit of anger, he found a corner in the courtyard and slept against it. When everyone was asleep, the middle-aged man and woman who had been in front of him gradually came to the courtyard in the dark. I saw that the middle-aged man moved lightly, first slowly pushed open the fence gate, and then the middle-aged woman walked under the window in two steps. The two slowly opened the window, looked into the house, and saw that Mu Yaqin and the others had already slept.

The middle-aged man thought for a moment, picked up a slender branch from the courtyard, and reached through the window. Mu Yaqin and the other three people turned their heads to the wall and their feet rushed out of the bed. The middle-aged man gently touched Long Yan's feet twice with a branch, but told her to move her feet, then turned over and continued to sleep. The middle-aged woman took the branch and asked softly, "Senior brother, are you sure it's that woman?" The voice was the opposite of the voice of a middle-aged woman, more like a young girl in her twenties. The middle-aged man nodded, "That's right, you can wake her up gently!" The man's voice became younger. The middle-aged woman nodded and scratched Long Yan's feet again. Long Yan felt that the soles of her feet were extremely itchy, so she sat up abruptly and rubbed her soles in a daze. The middle-aged man and woman waved vigorously outside the window, trying to get her attention. Long Yan saw the shadow of a tree swaying outside the window in her sleepy eyes, and when she looked closely, she realized that it was two people waving to her.