"Come, come!"

The young man agreed, dragged his weak son (shēn) and followed several strong men (shēn) into the two-story stone building.

There are three big words at the door of the stone building: Come again.

Sense (qíng) The place where so many strong men and fierce gods gather is actually an inn!

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the stone building, a foul smell of sweat came out, which stimulated the boy to almost vomit again.

A middle-aged man standing at the door who was lifting the lid of the wine barrel shook his head and smiled when he saw it: "Housheng, the head is back to our Xuangu Pass? Why isn't Lao Hu coming to deliver wine today?"

Rarely heard him ask, so he wiped his mouth and said: "Return, back to the shopkeeper, my father accidentally injured his leg when he was drinking a few times ago, but now he can't come, and I have been giving you guests to deliver wine again recently." ”

"Oh. The middle-aged man nodded slightly, and then frowned and said, "Young man, you don't have enough wine." ”

"No, no, I have called it repeatedly when I was at home!" the boy was anxious when he heard this, but he was a little dumbfounded when he approached.

When he picked out the door, it was still full of two barrels of wine, but now there were only half barrels left, and it was obvious that a lot of wine syrup had been spilled on the road by him.

The middle-aged man shook his head slightly: "Young man, you have seen it yourself, it's not that I want to embarrass you, I have to give you a discount on the food that will be there." ”

The young man suddenly said eagerly: "Shopkeeper Liu! Shopkeeper Liu! I really didn't mean it! There is indeed no food at home, you know that we have over there, and the whole village makes wine for a living, so how can there be any grain in stock......!"

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head when he heard this: "Let's go."

That's it, for the sake of your Hujiazhuang who has been supplying us with wine for so many years, this time you will be sent a full barrel, but you can't do it again in the future!

"Thank you Shopkeeper Liu! Thank you Shopkeeper Liu! You are really a living Bodhisattva!" The young man bowed again and again, and then sent the shopkeeper to kneel down and kowtow.

Shopkeeper Liu waved his hand: "You go, I'll ask the back kitchen to bring you some food in a while, you will rest in our shop today, and hurry back to your Zhuangzi in the morning." ”

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Shopkeeper Liu, it's not completely dark yet, I'd better get up here (shēn), hurry up a few steps, so that I can ...... before dark."

"Can you be a (pì)!" Shopkeeper Liu glared at him: "Boy, didn't you tell you when Lao Tzu asked you to go out? Do you dare to rush away at dusk? Do you know how many displaced people and disaster victims there are along the way? Do you know how hungry they are? Do you dare to rush back with food at dusk, believe it or not, they can not only rob you of all your food, but also roast you alive and eat you alive!"

"Ahh

Shopkeeper Liu saw that he was frightened, so he comforted him again: "Boy, I have been friends with your Lao Tzu for decades (qíng), I can't pit you, you listen to me, when tomorrow the sky is bright, you are going back to Zhuangzi, you can still see the patrolling soldiers here during the day, and the group of homeless people don't dare to make a mistake, if you leave at dusk or at night, you will not be good!"

"Yes, yes, shopkeeper Liu, I listen to you!"

Scared, he didn't take his father's words too seriously before, just thinking that his father was old and couldn't walk a long way, so he had to stay overnight when he came and went, thinking that he was young and strong, who knew that there were so many doorways in this.

"Go, go over there and find a place to nest, and I'll ask the people in the back kitchen to bring you food, there's nothing to eat, and the nest and cabbage will fill you." ”

Shopkeeper Liu waved his hand again, and the young man nodded and retreated downward.

Before he could take a few steps, Shopkeeper Liu stopped him again and said, "Boy, come back." ”

"Shopkeeper Liu, do you have anything else?"

Shopkeeper Liu said: "It's not a big deal, how old is your father this year?"

"Three, thirty-five!" the young man replied inexplicably.

Shopkeeper Liu nodded: "Well, thirty-five, I am also the one who is about to touch the nose of Lord Yama, I think he won't be able to send wine for a long time, and you will probably send it to me in the future, what is your name?"

When the young man heard that Shopkeeper Liu said that his father would not live long, the boss was immediately unhappy, but he pondered that what he said was right.

Nowadays, the world is not peaceful, the slightest illness may have to go to the coffin, and there is a lack of oil and salt in the usual meals, and there are really not many people in the Zhuangzi who can live to forty.

Thinking about it like this, the young man was also sad in his heart, so he said: "Back to the shopkeeper Liu, my name is Hu Ling, boy." ”

"Oh, okay, I remember, the next ten years are like we working together, hehe. Go, go, rest. ”

Hu Ling nodded again and walked towards the store.

The shopkeeper said it was an inn, but it wasn't like it, and the stone building could have been divided into rooms

came, but it fell into disrepair, resulting in many houses having collapsed, and now there are about three rooms that are still intact and can live in them.

That's the last room for this guest.

As for the rest of the guests, they either stayed in the collapsed room or crowded into the central hall.

There are many people crowded in the hall, and this will be a group of people who are already sitting densely, and there is almost no place to stay, Hu Ling walked over and shouted all the way to work, but what he brought back was a sound of scolding.

Hu Ling was not annoyed, knowing that the people who could come to Xuangu to live in Ke Zai were all rude foot merchants, and he couldn't afford to offend.

He didn't care about the insults, but was attracted by some movement in the collapsed house on the side.

Those half-collapsed houses could only be very reluctantly covered with a few rags, and even if they were doors, there were very primitive voices of men and women, either hurried or slow, with men's hearty scolding and women's bitter sarcasm.

Hu Ling is only fourteen years old this year, and he doesn't have a daughter-in-law yet, so when he heard such a movement, he naturally made a fuss, shy and curious, as if a small hand was scratching in his heart, and he wanted to see it clearly.

However, he was so distracted that he didn't pay much attention to the soles of his feet, and suddenly stepped on the ankle of a strong man.

"Straight lady thief, you are blind!" The strong man dressed as a merchant who had eaten a kick suddenly became anxious, jumped up and kicked Hu Ling to fight.

The boy was defenseless, and with a bang, he was kicked and fell to another strong man (shēn), and the strong man reached out and hugged Hu Ling directly into his arms.

Hu Ling lost a hug from others, so he didn't have it

There was a fall, and he hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you for this big brother." ”