Chapter 45, dare to ask where the road is
The scholar was a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with blank eyes, a pale face, a square scarf tied to his head, a washed white green shirt, and an old paper fan in his hand, which he opened and swayed gently regardless of the weather.
Tang Bai also studied with his master for a while, and the first thing he learned was etiquette, knowing that the appearance of a scholar was so coquettish, so he practiced the etiquette of a scholar.
The scholar hurriedly accepted the paper fan in return, and said: "It turns out that Brother Tai is also a scholar, and he is disrespectful." β
Tang Bai hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare." After speaking, he said: "Little brother Tang Bai, I don't know what to call Brother Tai." β
The scholar said: "Xiao Ke's surname is Luo, and his name is Bu Yu." β
Tang Bai was stunned for a moment, and said secretly: "Gong mends the pot! β
Yan Feifei was so disgusted by the sourness of the two of them that she burst into sour water, and when she saw the scholar report her name, she laughed with a 'poof'.
Although the scholar is a scholar, I don't know why she laughs, obviously a straw bag; and then look at Yan Feifei's appearance, although she is in rags, but when you look closely, you find that her eyebrows are picturesque, her nose is like Qiong Yao, her lips are like fire, and her neck is creamy.
Tang Bai coughed, and the scholar woke up, knowing that he had been frivolous just now, and hurriedly said, "It's rude and rude." β
The two were polite again.
Then, at the invitation of the scholar, the two thanked the villagers, and at the invitation of the scholar, they turned the path, and within two steps they saw a wooden house inside the fence wall, and a woman came out of the wooden house with a bamboo rose.
When the woman saw the scholar, she put down the bamboo carrot, came over and opened the bamboo door, and called Xianggong.
The scholar waved his hand and said, "I have two guests here, stay here at noon, and go and kill the old hen in the chicken coop to accompany the wine." β
The woman looked puzzled, "But the hen keeps the eggs." β
The scholar's face was ugly and said, "Hugh has a lot to say." β
Tang Bai knew that the poor family, eggs were used to exchange money for rice and grain; although this writing was a straw bag, whether it was true or righteous or generous, or a good face, at least it was not too bad, he couldn't help but say: "Brother Tai don't need to be like this, my sister and brother are from the mountains, and they have eaten a lot of wild meat, and it would be better if some wild vegetables were tasted." β
The scholar also happened to borrow the donkey from the slope and said apologetically: "How can this work, how can this work." β
Tang Bai said: "Xiao Ke passed by here, really to ask for directions, I don't want my brother to be so hospitable, I really have something to ask for, can I ask my sister-in-law to help me go to the village to ask, there are more than clothes, shoes and socks, we can buy it with silver?" After speaking, he picked out a purse from his bosom, took out a silver nude from it and handed it to the woman.
The scholar looked at it and said busily: "What kind of money are those coarse linen shirts worth, and the people of this silver naked village can't replace them." β
Tang Bai said: "A lot of money is the money for our sister and brother's food." β
The scholar wanted to say more, but the woman happily pulled Yan Feifei and walked out, so angry that she screamed: "This ugly woman, how can you know shame." When I came back, I decided to leave her, so as not to spoil the integrity of the reader. β
The woman didn't know the temperament of a scholar, but her mouth was skillful, and she got closer to Yan Feifei in a few words. She had her own calculations in her heart, took out the clothes she wore when she was a girl, and took half a blue egg to her uncle's house to change into a set of her cousin's short shirts, so that the silver nude would be all her own. It is said that a penny can solve a hundred worries, and a thousand dollars can go to all sorrows, but it is not unreasonable.
Tang Bai and the two of them combed and straightened their hair, one was handsome, one was beautiful, one was like a golden boy, and the other was like a jade girl. This village is extremely remote, it is rare to see strangers, some villagers and children also come to watch; the scholar and the woman have no reason to feel inferior, and they have become much more restrained; the two have no choice but to eat some wild vegetables and rice, bid farewell to the villagers, and go to Zhangjia Town. The two have been away from home for a long time, and the incident happened suddenly, and they don't know how anxious the family is. Now out of the predicament, eager to give birth to wings, rushed home non-stop, although the speed of the two was not slow, but the pace of the two walked forward, it took an afternoon, until the sun went down, before rushing to Zhangjia Town.
Zhangjia Town is not big, but it is the only town market in Fangyuan Shili and Eight Villages, and there are many people, such as cars, horses, cattle, sedan chairs, porters, and huntersγγγγγ There are all walks of life, very lively, there are teahouses and restaurants on the main street, there are brothels and gambling halls, there are pawnshops and clothing shops, there are many inns all the way, there are many hawkers, there are all kinds of eating and drinking, it is really a sparrow although it is small, and it has all five organs.
The two looked for an inn, and asked Xiao Er to help find a carriage, and when they paid the deposit, the gold and silver in the purse accidentally fell white, and Xiao Er of the inn looked at it properly. Seeing that Tang Bai and Yan Feifei were armed with weapons, they were both teenagers, and they couldn't help but think; when they were silent at night, they wanted to use the 'Seven Breaths of Ecstasy' to charm the two of them and rob the money; they didn't want to have a coincidence, there was a couple living next door to the two, and for some reason, they suddenly made a noise, and the woman cried and made a fuss, and scared the little two away. The next day, Tang Bai and Yan Feifei went to buy some change of clothes and clothes, and bought some daily necessities to eat, and left Zhangjia Town in a carriage; For a while, he wants to start from his heart, and evil is born from the side of his guts, not to mention that he has blood in his hands, where can he know a word of fear. He called two 'brothers' who drank together on weekdays, picked up two pig-killing knives, and went to the shortcut.
The road to Xiangcheng is not easy to walk, Zhangjiazhen is more than fifty or sixty miles away from Xiangcheng, it rained a few days ago, many ravines and ravines are full of stagnant water, hurry up and bump to go through the damage, hurry up and take more time; fortunately, the driver is an old coachman, about forty or fifty years old, not much to say, but the skill of driving the car is very skillful, the horsewhip is like a baton, the horsewhip is a crisp sound, the horse understands what he means, his every move, are so natural, people feel that his every move should be like this. This is the realm of the craftsman. Craftsmen are not only talking about the realm of martial arts, but there are craftsmen in all walks of life, but they don't fight fiercely.
Yan Feifei was eating pancakes in the carriage, and she hadn't stopped since she got into the carriage. When she was in Zhangjiazhen, she was afraid of being pointed at and endured hunger, but at this time she didn't care about it, but as she wished, the carriage suddenly stopped and almost threw her out, and as soon as she opened the car door, she saw three men with masked faces rushing over from the road with bright sharp knives. Her heart was furious, and she took the hammer that was placed beside her and rushed out, and as soon as she got out of the carriage, she saw a sharp knife stabbed at her chest. Yan Feifei's hammer shook the sharp knife out as soon as it was blocked, and then kicked it out, hitting the bandit in the chest. She hated these robbers very much, how could she do it, this kick directly kicked the bandit away, hit a stone three or four feet away, and the whole person was smashed into a pile of flesh, this is the first time she was stained with human blood, but she was not frightened, but there was an inexplicable excitement. At the same time, Tang Bai stopped the other two, these two people were also fierce, one stabbed Tang Bai in the chest with a knife, and the other used a knife to split Tang Bai's brain, which had no intention of sparing people's lives at all. Tang Bai was also not polite, one person and one sword, fast and accurate, assassinated the two of them, and the blood flowed all over the ground. Picking up the face towel of one of them, it was the second child who stayed at the inn last night. He thought that Tang Bai didn't know about what happened last night, but he didn't know that Tang Bai and Yan Feifei came out of the mountains, and they were always vigilant and discovered his misdeeds. The two didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so they let him go. Humanity is that there is no way to go in heaven, and there is no way to get it from the earth. At this time, he still had a breath, his mouth was slightly open, and he wanted to ask for his life, but he didn't want Tang Bai to be like Yan Feifei, he didn't know how much to hate these bandits who blocked the road and robbed, and pierced his heart with a sword.
The old coachman had never seen such a scene, his horsewhip was unsteady, his teeth were chattering, and his mouth murmured: "Murder, murder." Tang Bai inserted the sword back into the scabbard and said, "Uncle, they don't die, I don't know how many people will suffer later." The old coachman saw that the two were not the kind of fierce and evil people, and he was no longer so afraid, opened his mouth, and then whispered: "You have to spare people and spare people." But he didn't think that if those three people succeeded, he was afraid that he would not let him go. Tang Bai smiled, everyone's behavior is different, so why change other people's minds.
The old coachman insisted on burying the three men, and he said, "Death is everything, and we must not let them become beast rations in the wilderness." Tang Bai didn't refuse, the three of them were busy for a while, and the old coachman was a little bolder, and couldn't help but say: "Young man, you must have a sense of reverence for life, good things and bad things, God is watching from the sky." When Tang Bai heard this, he didn't defend it, he just laughed. Yan Feifei stopped doing it, and said: "Uncle, how do you know that God doesn't like them and uses our hands to eliminate harm for the people?" After all, the old coachman was a little afraid of the two magic stars, and the courage he had just gathered collapsed without a trace in an instant, which is the characteristic of honest people, more things are better than small things, and being kind to others, but he doesn't know the truth that 'people are good at being bullied by others, and horses are good at being ridden by others'.
After this incident, the old coachman's words became even less, and he waved the horsewhip vigorously, regardless of whether the potholes on the road would damage the carriage, and the speed was twice as fast as at the beginning; this bump almost broke the bones of Tang Bai and the others, and the two knew that the old coachman did not want to see him in his heart, and perhaps he was afraid, so he wanted to rush to Xiangcheng as soon as possible. However, it was very good to speed up and get to Xiangcheng before dark, when entering the city, a familiar figure flashed in front of Tang Bai's eyes, Tang Bai said lightly, but it happened to be heard by the person, and he turned his head to look over.