Chapter 47: Fried Chestnuts
There was silence all around, Linglong crossed her hands on her waist, staring at Shi Er on horseback.
Although she still lost to him in light body kung fu, they have never moved again since they first met, and if they really want to fight, they don't know who will win and who will lose. Therefore, Linglong did not scare him.
Shi Er looked at the road he came, looked at the front again, and said to Linglong: "You can't fight here, if you really want to fight, let's go to the town and finish our business." ”
Serious business?
What's the hell about the thief?
Linglong was suddenly interested, and without waiting for Shi Er's consent, she turned over and got on the horse with a whoosh and sat behind Shi Er.
"In that case, then I don't care about the villain, let's go get down to business first."
Shi Erxin said, this little thing is really a natural thief, when it comes to stealing things, he doesn't even care about the fact that he is a woman.
Under the moonlight, the two of them walked forward along the mountain road, and after walking for a while, Shi Er asked again: "You really sang that song?" ”
Linglong rolled her eyes behind him and said, "There can still be a fake, master, I am very talented and can learn from women to sing." ”
"Okay, it's boring along the way, so you can sing it to me again." Shi Ertou didn't reply, and said casually.
Linglong looked up at the moonlight, thinking that it had just been the second watch, the moon in this mountain seemed extraordinarily large, extraordinarily bright, and the cool breeze in the empty mountains was really more comfortable than in the house.
Fang Er's bad mood of being sarcastic about the thin horse had long since disappeared, Linglong cleared her throat and sang again, this time she didn't dare to sing that kind of "lewd and slutty" again, lest she make this damn guy think of something improper.
"Jiangnan is good, and the scenery is old. The sunrise river flowers are red, and the spring river is as green as blue. Can you not remember Jiangnan? …… Jiangnan recalls, the most memorable is Hangzhou. Looking for Guizi in the middle of the month in the mountain temple, the county pavilion pillow looks at the tide. When will you come back again? …… Jiangnan recalls, followed by Wu Palace. Wu wine a cup of spring bamboo leaves, Wu Wa double dance drunk hibiscus. Sooner or later? ”
Linglong spoke Wu Nong's soft language, singing tactfully and softly, although Shi Er didn't understand it very well, he could also know that this was Bai Juyi's memory of Jiangnan. He couldn't help but look back, if he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he wouldn't believe it was a man singing.
"You learned this from your teacher?" He laughed.
Linglong chirped: "I've said it many times, I'm self-taught, and so is this song." ”
Shi Er didn't bother to ask again, and there was no truth in the mouth of this little thief.
Linglong asked him again: "What kind of big man have you provoked, why do you have to wrap the horse's hooves when walking on the mountain road at night?" ”
Shi Er snorted: "You don't care, I think it's more fun." ”
After walking for a while, Zhendian finally appeared in front of him. Although Zhendian is small, it is also the territory of the Great Wu Dynasty, and the city gate has been closed at this time.
Linglong was worried about how to get in, but saw that Shi Er had already smashed the city gate. A sleepy-eyed soldier defending the city opened a crack in the city gate and scolded: "Who is looking for trouble, why are you smashing the city gate in the middle of the night, you don't want to live?" ”
Shi Er took out a small sign and shook it in front of him, and the sergeant who was still scolding the street just now opened his mouth and paused before saying: "The little one has eyes and no beads, you just think the little one just farted, please!" ”
Linglong looked at the back of Shi Er's head in surprise, and then followed him swaggering into the city gate and entering the city.
It wasn't until she walked far away, when she looked back, that she could still see a group of sergeants kneeling on the ground, one instead of one!
"What's that little sign you showed him?" Linglong asked, she didn't see it clearly, but she was sure it was a waist card.
Shi Erxu lowered his voice: "Shhh ”
Well, steal.
Linglong secretly blamed herself for forgetting that Shi Er was a thief, and the things on a thief's body were of course varied. In her previous life, she had passports from more than a dozen countries, of course, all of them were fake, even the one in her home country was fake.
"Have you been to Sioux Town before?" Linglong asked.
Sioux Town is not big, but it looks pretty good. It's already the third watch, and there is no curfew on the street, and sure enough, the emperor is far away, and the curfew is only strictly enforced in the capital.
The bluestone pavement on the street gives this town a little more quaint charm. The streets are full of small businesses lit with lanterns, selling wontons, selling tofu flowers, and fried chestnuts with sugar.
Seeing her looking around like a hillbilly, Shi Er grabbed the reins in front of the stall selling fried chestnuts with sugar, took out two copper plates, bought a bag of chestnuts, and handed it to Linglong casually.
The chestnuts were shoveled directly out of a large iron pot, separated by a layer of oiled paper packets, but they were still hot. Linglong just held the whole bag in her arms, but she didn't peel it off to eat.
Shi Er is curious, children are very greedy, he is special.
"Why don't you eat it?"
"It's too hot."
"Chestnuts are only delicious when they are hot."
Linglong shook her head: "It's going to burn your fingers." ”
Shi Er immediately understood, he was really a little thief. When the thief always treasures their hands, even such a child is no exception. I'd rather swallow the chestnuts fried with sugar than peel them off with my fingers to eat.
After walking a short distance, there was a shop selling pen, ink, paper and inkstone in front of me. The shopkeeper was directing the guy to come to the door, and the guy said to the shopkeeper while working: "The owner, the mulberry paper sent by Zhang Er's workshop this time is not as good as before, he will come again tomorrow, you remember to press the price." ”
The shopkeeper said: "This dead Zhang Er is getting more and more slippery, I have to press him tomorrow." ”
Because this is a busy city, Shi Er didn't let his horse run wildly, Kuroko walked very slowly, and Linglong listened to all the words of the master and servant. Hearing them talk about mulberry paper, Linglong's heart moved, and she remembered the mulberry paper she had found in her mother's house in the evening.
She asked casually: "Second Brother Shi, what use did you say about mulberry paper besides using it for writing and painting?" ”
Shi Er obviously heard the conversation between the master and servant, so he didn't take Linglong's question to heart, and said casually: "Of course, there are other uses, and they can also be used to kill people." ”
"Murder?" Linglong was startled, made mulberry paper into a paper knife, and stabbed people to death? It doesn't seem likely.
"How does mulberry kill people?" She asked.
Shi Er looked at Linglong's fuss and felt quite ridiculous. This little thief is like a little adult, and finally there is something that makes him fussed.
"The toughness of mulberry paper is greater than that of rice paper, cover the mulberry paper on the person's face, and then spray a layer of water, and so on, layer by layer, cover it to the fourth and fifth layers, and the person will lose his breath."
Linglong's heart was pounding, she was so lonely and unheard of, she didn't even know that she could kill people like this. And for the use of paper to be so particular, it turns out that this kind of thing can only be done with mulberry paper, other paper is not good.