Chapter X
The scorching sun was baking the earth, the weeds on both sides of the road were wilted, Li Chenyu didn't feel the heat of the sun, whipped the donkey, and hurried aimlessly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There are a few pedestrians on the road from time to time, which indicates that there is a dense population not far away. She had already inquired, and in front of her was Dawangzhuang, where to stay for a few days and add some supplies.
At this time, most people walked, carrying baskets or carrying flat burdens.
Not far away, there were a few men, wearing cloth shirts and missing arms, compared to the others, these people looked like ruffians and hooligans.
One of the thin men pointed to a donkey cart and said, "Brother Fu, look."
"That donkey is worth two dollars," said the man named Brother Fu with his hands covered with the sun.
"And that kid, it's a good thing, and it's worth two dollars," the other man behind Brother Fu said with a lewd expression.
"Let's go", Brother Fu shook his hand and swaggered towards the donkey cart.
Li Chenyu was feeding water to the donkey, and she could understand the conversation between the three people, so she didn't move, put away the kettle and waited.
"Boy, when will the money you owe my brother be repaid" Brother Fu crossed his waist and said nonsense with a fierce face.
Seeing that Li Chenyu was indifferent, the thin man stretched out his foot and kicked the donkey cart, shouting, "Hurry up, return the silver."
The other person stretched out his hand to push Li Chenyu, and as soon as he touched Li Chenyu's clothes, he shook off his hand as if he was electrocuted, and screamed miserably.
The change was too fast, and when Brother Fu and the others came back to their senses, they saw that the people were already lying on the ground and rolling.
Brother Fu subconsciously took a step back, stared at Li Chenyu with his eyes, and asked the person lying on the ground, "Tiezi, what's wrong with you?"
The thin man hurriedly stepped forward and tried to help the person on the ground, but the man kept holding his arms, rolling back and forth and struggling, he was in too much pain. The thin man gritted his teeth and didn't pull him up.
Brother Fu stretched out his leg and kicked Li Chenyu violently, and when he saw her on one side, Brother Fu almost fell to the ground.
"Boy, do you know who I am," Brother Fu said as he stood up in embarrassment.
Li Chenyu sneered, "If you don't get out, you're a dead man."
Brother Fu's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and the hand on the side of his body clenched into a fist and hit her fiercely.
Li Chenyu reached out to catch the fist that hit her in front of the door, as if he didn't need much effort, and squeezed it gently.
Brother Fu snorted, wanting to withdraw his fist, sweating profusely, no matter how he struggled, he couldn't escape from the white and tender little hand.
In the eyes of those who don't know what's going on, this seems to be a show, a duel between an adult and a child, and the crowd of onlookers not far away looks at each other and is secretly surprised.
In a few breaths, Li Chenyu let go of the deformed fist that was pinched by her, and Brother Fu took a few steps back, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and curled up on the ground with his fist in his arms, wailing loudly and trembling constantly.
She is just a little vigilant, this is not the end of the world, and there will be trouble if you kill someone.
The thin man was already dumbfounded, half-squatting on the ground and stunned, the man next to him had fainted in pain, the three big men, only one of him was left intact, he felt that his body was a little numb, squatting on the ground and unable to move.
Li Chenyu led the donkey around the three people on the ground and walked towards Dawangzhuang. Several onlookers hurriedly stayed away from her, and muttered when they saw that people were far away.
The further Li Chenyu went, the more people flowed, and he caught up with the market.
She stood at the entrance of the bazaar and looked back and forth, and from time to time someone shouted for her to give way.
"Boy, don't park the donkey cart, it's all in my way," said an old vegetable seller.
The old man spoke quickly and with a thick accent, Li Chen's general meaning was understood, so he pulled the donkey cart and walked into the crowd.
Being scolded from time to time, Li Chenyu frowned and thought, this is not the way, so he grabbed a passerby and asked, "Is there an inn near here?"
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Passers-by looked her up and down and said, "Go ahead and turn left, there is an inn on the south side of the road."
Li Chenyu nodded in thanks, and headed towards the inn.
Along the way, there are quite a few shops. Li Chenyu used his spiritual power to probe back and forth, only to find the inn located among the many shops.
Several doors of the inn were open, and there was no bustle in other shops, except for a middle-aged man sitting behind the counter fiddling with an abacus.
"Can you stay in the hotel?" asked Li Chenyu.
The middle-aged man who was in a daze smiled before speaking.
"Bring me a guest room" Li Chenyu stood by the door, still pulling the rope leading the donkey in his hand.
The middle-aged man blinked and asked suspiciously, "Just you?"
Li Chen let out an expressionless "En".
"The guest room is twenty wen a day, two meals, and a few days," the middle-aged man said.
"Two days" Li Chenyu took out the copper plate and counted out forty coins and put it on the counter.
"Okay, Wang Ergou, come here," the middle-aged man put away the copper plate and shouted loudly.
"Coming, coming" said this, and a young man ran out, with a simple face, calling the middle-aged man "shopkeeper".
"You go and lead the guest's donkey to the backyard," said the shopkeeper, glancing at the donkey sticking out his head at the door.
Wang Ergou walked to the door and scratched his head embarrassedly, Li Chenyu reached out and handed him the reins.
"You come with me, I'll show you the house" The shopkeeper took a bunch of keys and led Li Chenyu inside.
After leaving the hall and passing a door, the shopkeeper pointed to a row of houses and said, "This is the guest room, there are people living there."
Pointing to these rooms, he asked, "That, and those rooms, which one do you live in?"
Li Chenyu casually pointed to one, and the shopkeeper took the key and opened the door, "There is something called Wang Ergou, the donkey will lead you to the backyard, and feed it well."
"You're from there, I haven't heard your accent," the shopkeeper asked curiously.
"In the distance" Li Chenyu replied casually, looked around, and was quite clean.
"Okay, you can rest" The shopkeeper smiled, didn't inquire, and took the key and left.
Li Chenyu put down the burden in his hand, sat down at the table, and poured himself a glass of water.
I poured boiled water from the teapot into the basin and washed my face, and I heard my stomach gurgling, and I touched my stomach, and I opened the door without wiping my face.
There is also a row of houses opposite the room, with a large jujube planted in the middle, with cyan jujubes hanging on it, and with Li Chenyu's eyes, he saw that there were still stinging caterpillars lying on it.
Return to the hall on a long journey. Where is the shopkeeper at the counter, Li Chenyu approached, and he heard footsteps, thinking that he was looking for him and asked, "What's the matter with the guest officer?"
"Go out for a walk" Li Chenyu planned to go shopping, after walking for so many days, it was a deserted place, and the birds were fading out of his mouth.
"Today's market is very lively" The shopkeeper seems to have a smiling face, and he must laugh first when he opens his mouth.
She had experienced it when she came, and it was indeed very lively.
It was noon, there were no pedestrians on the street, mainly because it was too hot, and the surrounding vendors sat together in three or five to avoid the sun.
She found a restaurant and went in.
"Guest officer, please inside" The shopkeeper stood at the door, looked at her back and forth, and saw that she didn't look like a person who couldn't afford to eat, and greeted her warmly.
The voices were loud, the men were drinking, shouting and drinking, and there were hardly any women to be seen. The people who ate looked at her as a child and looked at her with distraction.
The shopkeeper wiped the table and asked, "What do you want to eat, our shredded meat and white noodles are crazy to buy today, chicken, duck and fish, everything."
"Let's have dumplings" She hasn't eaten dumplings for a long time, and since there are white noodles, it is estimated that there are dumplings too.
"Okay", the shopkeeper looked around her with a smile and said, "Dumplings fifteen wen".
Li Chenyu didn't have anything to say about this, so he took out fifteen copper plates and paid the bill first.
"Alas, look at what kind of life people live" Some of the people who ate inevitably said sourly.
Before Li Chenyu's dumplings were served, the shopkeeper attracted another one to sit at a table with her.
is a middle-aged man leading a child,
is about the same age as Li Chenyu.
The middle-aged man looked at Li Chenyu and glanced at his own children, and on the surface, his children were not as good as others. After looking left and right, she didn't see her family, and asked familiarly, "Child, how old are you this year?"
Li Chenyu didn't want to talk to him, glanced at him, and looked away.
The middle-aged man didn't care, and taught his children to "sit honestly".
The child sat on the bench and stuck out his tongue mischievously at Li Chen.
The dumplings are out of the pot, and the shopkeeper is holding the plate, pinching and stealing it while people are not paying attention, and he grinning with hot teeth.
"Your dumplings are coming" and reluctantly smashed his mouth when he left.
Li Chenyu's ears are so sensitive, he looked at the dumplings, didn't say anything, and buried his head in eating.
The child on the other side whispered, "Dad, I want to eat dumplings too."
"The noodles are not delicious for me, I think they are delicious" The middle-aged man ate the noodles without raising his head.
The child was holding the bowl with one hand, and it was more fragrant than his father's.
A plate of dumplings is also the bottom for Li Chenyu. After eating, he stood up and left.
"The guest officer is coming again."
At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the air was hot. People avoid enjoying the coolness, and there are the most people in the tea shed, a pot of tea, sitting together in twos and threes, chatting, napping, leisurely.
Li Chenyu walked around, saw a bookstore, hesitated and walked in. When she came to this era, she was basically illiterate, and she could only look at paintings.
The people in the bookstore were dozing off, and they were startled when they saw a person in a hazy way, and quickly straightened up and wiped the corners of their mouths.
"Buy a book"? asked disdainfully.
"Let's take a look first" Li Chenyu stood still, she thought that there were probably no comic-like books here.
"Go, go, what to see, do you look at you" The people in the bookstore drove Li Chenyu away with disdain.
She used her mental strength to quickly browse around, but she didn't see any books with pictures on the surface.
Turned around and walked out of the bookstore.
Slowly and slowly, there is nothing to see if she sees too much flowers and plants, she has no entertainment in the last days, and the most she is bored is to read books, and now she is illiterate, and she doesn't read books.
Seeing all the strange things, she bought some, and there were too many things in her arms to eat, and when she walked on the road, the vendors shouted to her from time to time.