Although he said it confidently, as the Yudai Bridge approached step by step, the pace of several people slowed down significantly.

People come and go on the streets, and the bargaining for renting cars and horses in Qiaotou is as usual.

But is it really business as usual?

"It's Lang Jun back!"

A familiar shout sounded, rushing into the ears of Xu Maoxiu and the others through the lively and noisy crowd.

Xu Maoxiu obviously breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the brothers beside him, and he couldn't help but smile.

Jin Ge'er and Banqin had already happily taken it.

“… Why is it so slow? We've been waiting for a long time..."

"I said go pick it up, and no one was watching..."

“… Hurry up Brother Jin, set up the brazier, and burn the incense invited by Puxiu Temple..."

was surrounded by two people chattering non-stop, and the seven people felt that they couldn't listen or answer, so they only followed the smirk, and at the mercy of Banqin and Jin Ge'er, they beat their bodies with branches, stepped into the brazier, and then entered the door.

The mountains and rocks flow, the bamboo in autumn is becoming more and more green, and the hall door is opened, and you can see several screens in it, and a book is placed on several cases.

It's business as usual, it's just... There was no such figure.

Xu Maoxiu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and was a little stunned.

Actually, he's a little scared to see her...

"The lady went out and will be back in a while." Banqin said.

Xu Maoxiu retracted his gaze and nodded.

"The water is boiled, the gentlemen go to wash first, and the clothes are ready." Jin Ge'er shouted.

The lively bath, washed his hair, shaved his face, changed into new clothes, and came out, and there were two more people in the yard.

"The owner."

Li Dasco stood up excitedly.

Shopkeeper Wu smiled as easily as ever.

"Why do you look so much fatter?" He added.

"Every day, I eat and drink well, either lying down or sitting. It's no wonder if you're not fat. Xu Bang rubbed his stomach and shouted. No more. After a few days of inactivity, my muscles and bones are hard. ”

As he spoke, he beckoned to a few of the people around him.

"Walk, walk, practice, practice."

The brothers really laughed and went to the backyard, and after a while, there was a shouting and cheering.

"It's still a lot of people." Shopkeeper Wu said with a smile.

"It's troublesome, too." Fan Jianglin couldn't help but whisper.

"Trouble? Human life is a mess of numbness, how can there be a time when it is not annoying. Shopkeeper Wu smiled, "Okay." The proprietors hurry up to the store after a day off, as if they are busy with something. ”

Fan Jianglin and Xu Maoxiu's expressions were slightly stunned.

"yes, yes." Li Dasco also said, "If it's cold today, the business of the Immortal Residence is getting better and better, and they can't be busy, and if the proprietors don't come, the shopkeeper will restrict people from eating." ”

Wu shopkeeper Ha Luha smiled.

"This restriction on people to eat has nothing to do with being too busy." He said, with a bit of energy, "This is also a means." Rare is expensive"

"Then you can still make money, why don't you earn it? Only 50 tables a day. What a pity. Li Dasco said, "If it's winter, I'm afraid it's even more insufficient." ”

"If it's not enough, it's better to locate it in advance." Shopkeeper Wu said with a smile.

Watching the two discuss the restaurant business, Fan Jianglin and Xu Maoxiu both listened with a smile.

"What do you say, boss?"

Shopkeeper Wu looked at them and asked.

"The shopkeeper just said yes." Fan Jianglin said.

"The host, you are so leisurely, your restaurant." Shopkeeper Wu joked.

Fan Jianglin and Xu Maoxiu glanced at each other.

"Shopkeeper Wu, we..."Xu Maoxiu said.

Halfway through his words, Jin Ge'er shouted at the door that the lady was back, and everyone hurriedly got up and looked at the door.

The door opened, and Cheng Jianniang, who was taking off the fence by the maidservant, appeared in front of him.

Plain flower skirt, blue satin dress, white as jade.

"The brothers are back." She said, bowing her head and bowing.

Despite the desire to hide, several brothers were called from the backyard and Ai Ai entered the door.

Cheng Jiaoniang, Xu Maoxiu, and Wu Shopkeepers have already sat down separately.

"Eat at home or go to the store?" Shopkeeper Wu was discussing with them, "Even if you are at home, don't do it, let the store send it..."

"I'll do it." Cheng Jianniang said, "The brothers have returned from suffering, and being a sister should be like this." ”

"No, no, it's my sister who is suffering outside, so don't work hard." Fan Jianglin said.

"It's not hard, it's just here today." Cheng Jianniang looked at Shopkeeper Wu and Li Dasco, and smiled slightly, "Let's make a farewell banquet at that time." ”

Farewell?

Shopkeeper Wu and Li Dasco looked surprised.

Their release from prison today must be the credit of this woman, so she naturally knew about ordering them to return to the barracks, and she knew the Tao earlier than they did.

Xu Maoxiu and the others were silent, and they didn't know what to say.

There was silence in the room.

"What, why are you leaving?" Li Dasco couldn't help but ask.

"We are deserters." Xu Maoxiu said, "The deserters are all killed, and it is lucky to be killed, we have washed away our grievances and escaped the crime, so we are only left soldiers, since we are soldiers, we still have to go back." ”

Li Dasco and Shopkeeper Wu nodded suddenly, their expressions a little complicated.

"No, I could have not gone back." Cheng Jianniang said.

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the people in the room became stunned again.

"I'll prepare three big gifts for my brothers." Cheng Jianniang said, "This is the first one." ”

Is it a great gift to capture the barracks and re-establish Ding?

"Okay, thank you, sister." Xu Maoxiu came back to his senses and was the first to say.

As he spoke, Fan Jianglin and the others also hurriedly thanked him.

Xie is sincere, and there is no doubt.

"Why don't you ask?" Cheng Jianniang asked.

"What my sister did for us is good, we just need to do what my sister says." Xu Maoxiu said.

"I didn't ask you, so I made the decision for you privately, I don't know if it is in line with my brothers' wishes." Cheng Jianniang said.

Does it fit or not?

Shopkeeper Wu and Li Dasco couldn't help but glance at each other.

The days of ease and abundance in the capital are not enough, and the lowest-class soldiers who are very dangerous on the border. Is it also desirable?

"Lady. Someone outside the door said that the delivery was made. ”

Jin Ge'er's voice came from the courtyard.

"The second gift is coming." The handmaid laughed. As he got up, he said, "Let me in." ”

"The lady gave me all good things, I'll take a look." Shopkeeper Wu got up with a smile and said.

Li Dasco also got up busily.

"Then go check it out." Xu Maoxiu said with a smile.

Everyone stood under the porch in a hurry, and a man who looked like a shopkeeper outside the door was directing four or five men to enter the door.

"Bow!"

Seeing what they were holding in their hands, several brothers shouted at the same time.

"It's Gyeongju's bow!"

Another person shouted loudly, with a hint of surprise in his voice.

Hearing this, the man in charge looked over with a smile.

"Lang Jun has good eyesight." He nodded and said as he walked over a few steps. Stretched out his hand and pointed to the longbows that were brought in by the guys one by one, showing off with a bit of pride, "The bows in our store are made by the Gyeongju government, and these bows are two to three stones..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw someone pounce on him.

"The three stones are mine!"

Xu Bangmao shouted, rushing towards these bows.

It looked like it was going to eat people, and scared the guys with bows back.

"I'll use the three-stone bow, and I'll play with the other kids."

This caused the other brothers to stir up, and they also stepped forward.

“… Mallet: Can you pull the three-stone bow? Don't dodge..."

The courtyard suddenly became lively, and there was a scramble. Xu Bangmao was satisfied with the bow he wanted.

"Huh." He put on the brass wrench he had with him and pulled the bowstring hard. Let out an exclamation of admiration, "Ha, what a good bow, what a good bow, powerful..."

Looking at the bow that was easily stretched out, the shopkeeper on the side was also a little surprised.

"Oh, good man, good divine power!" He praised again and again, "Even the military masters, not everyone can easily pull these three stone bows." ”

Xu Bangmao suddenly became even more proud, shouting that he was going to shoot arrows in the backyard.

"You are less proud, he is just a little seen in the capital, which of our brothers is not easy to pull away." The other brethren dismantled the stage one after another.

The jokes and jokes in the yard are getting more and more lively.

"Third brother doesn't pick one?" Cheng Jianniang said.

Xu Maoxiu, who had been watching the brothers from the sidelines, smiled.

"You don't have to pick, as long as it's a bow, you can use it." He said.

"In other words, as long as people are powerful, good bows and bad bows can be used." Cheng Jianniang said.

Xu Maoxiu smiled.

"I'm taking it as a compliment." He said.

After the bow was verified, the shopkeeper took the money and happily retired.

"This thing is so expensive!" Shopkeeper Wu smacked his tongue on the side.

A bow costs twenty strokes! Coupled with a wrench made of horns, seven bows are enough for a small family to eat and drink for a year.

"This old man." The shopkeeper hurriedly said, "This Gyeongju bow is extremely rare, but not everyone can get it." ”

Shopkeeper Wu doesn't know much about this, and it doesn't matter if the money is made, anyway, this lady has never taken money seriously, and money is a plaything to her.

The shopkeeper took people to leave, and the noise of the brothers in the yard had not yet dispersed.

"Let my sister break the bank, and the army will also issue bows and crossbows." Fan Jianglin said.

Before Cheng Jianniang could speak, Xu Bangmao heard it and spoke.

"The bows and crossbows in the army are getting worse and worse, and they can't go into battle every year!" He shouted.

Xu Maoxiu glared.

"Then you don't have to break the bank." He said.

Xu Bangmao touched his head and smiled.

"I didn't let my sister buy it, I'll just tell you, who asked the third brother to say that it was sent in the army." He said.

"No breakdown." Cheng Jianniang said, smiling slightly, "Brothers are rich now, let alone a bow of twenty times, it is thirty times, and forty times is just a matter of words." ”

"yes, yes." Xu Bangmao nodded and smiled.

Fan Jianglin glared at him.

"It's just that the value of the bow is not the price." Cheng Jianniang continued, "Otherwise, why don't my brothers buy this good bow made by the government, but pick up some branches and hemp rope and twist it themselves?" ”

The noisy courtyard gradually fell silent.

"We're not stingy, we're ..."Someone couldn't help but say, opening his mouth but not knowing what to say.

"It's the brothers themselves, and they don't know what Lu Dao is for." Cheng Jianniang looked at him and said, "But I know it, I'll tell my brothers." ”

She lifted her feet and walked slowly down the steps, looking at the brothers in the courtyard with bows and arrows, and the joy on their faces had not yet dissipated.

"Brothers, always carry a wrench with you," she said, looking at the brass wrench on the thumb of one of the brothers in front of her, which had been polished yellow and shiny.

"I. I'm just used to it," the brother said with some restraint.

"yes, you're used to it." Cheng Jianniang said, walking in front of them one by one, "You are used to training your muscles and bones rain or shine, used to holding swords and guns to prepare for war at any time, and used to even if you lie in the place of singing and dancing, what you can listen to at any time is the gong and drum of the attack..."

With her talking, not to mention that Xu Maoxiu and the others didn't speak, even Shopkeeper Wu and Li Dasco felt a little short of breath, and couldn't help but clench their hands.

Those blood flowing in the bones are the most indelible....

“… It's just that here, there is no convocation of the barracks' orders, there is no shouting of comrades to kill and practice, and there is no roar of the enemy's iron hooves coming at any time..."Cheng Jianniang said, standing in front of Xu Bang's mallet, reaching out to stroke the longbow in his hand, "Here these bows and arrows are just decorations hanging on the wall, just toys to play with my sister and me, even if the bow and crossbow are hard to find, what is the use of holding them in your hand..."

She let go of her hand, turned around, and walked back slowly.

"The tiger is a beast in the mountains and forests, and the dragon hides the deep pool, and the bows and arrows of the brothers are only on the battlefield, only when they are shot into the chest of the enemy, they are bows and arrows worth thousands of gold, so the brothers will not buy those bows and arrows worth thousands of gold, because holding it and hanging it like this here is humiliating it."

"The tiger would rather starve to death in the mountains and forests than be fed in the iron cage, so I want to give my brothers a gift, not to sit on the mountain of gold and be a lifelong peacekeeper, but to make contributions to wash away the shame, where the brothers fall from where they get up, where they take pictures of the sludge on their bodies."

She stood in front of the steps and looked at Xu Maoxiu and the others.

"I gave this gift, I don't know if the brothers still like it?"

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The three-day holiday is over, it's painful to go to work, and I'm going to get used to it today~~~~(>_