"Whew...... This damn weather, it's really terrible. ”

Early the next morning, Siyuan and his party re-embarked on the road, but because the mountain road was really difficult to walk, and this place was far away from the emperor, they naturally no longer chose to go over the mountains, but rented a carriage and walked along the road.

However, the carriage is surrounded by curtains, and it is really hot for five people to sit in it, it will only be noon, and the temperature inside is at least forty degrees, and Jiang Yue's clothes have been completely wet with sweat and watermarks, which makes Zhang Xiucai full of eyes in vain.

"Bear with me, it's almost there."

Siyuan opened a little curtain, frowned and looked at the post station just past, when he passed by there just now, there were many officers and soldiers who were setting up cards, and there were also a few brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and holding embroidered spring knives standing next to him to supervise the work, and even vaguely heard that the son was lost or something like that.

If it is really as they said, it is estimated that the prince charming possessed by Siyuan may have been exposed when he ran away from home, but the reason why they haven't started to investigate strictly is probably because even if they tell the ghosts, they won't believe that such a powerless little white face ran from Qiongzhou Mansion to Yingzhou in just a few days, and these thousands of miles of road still have to cross the sea, except for the means of immortals, I am afraid that no one can do it.

As for the old Jinyi guard who came with Siyuan, he would be very nervous every time he saw the officers and soldiers passing by, for fear that someone would come to check on him and Dansheng.

"Don't worry, the emperor is far away in this place of Yingzhou, how can these soldiers have so much heart to arrest people in such a hot day." Jiang Yue kept fanning the wind: "I'm dying of heat, how long will it take for us to arrive." ”

As he was talking, there was a sudden rumbling of horses' hooves in front of him, which could be heard from afar, and Siyuan opened the curtain and poked his head out to take a look. I found that about a kilometer or so in front of me there was a cloud of dust whisking, and it seemed that there were two or three hundred horsemen speeding towards this side.

"Huh? This is the cavalry of the Yingzhou Huwei Battalion, how can it appear here? Zhang Xiucai probed out from another window: "This is the Yingzhou Iron Horse, elite." ”

As he spoke, his eyes lit up. It seems that he is very envious of the majestic man who is riding on a horse.

"Huh? Little white face. How do you know so clearly? ”

"My father was a general of the former Huwei Battalion." Xiucai coughed and gasped: "The account room." ”

"Speak clearly, I really think you are from an official family." Jiang Yue was very dissatisfied with Chao Xiucai, who stuck out his tongue: "I hate you people who chew words the most." ”

"Xiaoyue, you have wronged me...... Xiucai looked at Jiang Yue pitifully: "I was just choked by saliva, and I didn't mean to sell Guanzi." ”

"Alright, alright, you go on."

"Except for wartime, the Huwei battalion will not go out of the camp at any time, and even if the Japanese invaders, they will only send a few people to assist the government in arresting them. Now these two or three hundred people have come out together, indicating that something has happened to Yingzhou. ”

"Are you sure?" Jiang Yue frowned and asked, "It can't be that something really happened, right?" Yingzhou is a must-pass place to go to Shandong. ”

"Eighty percent."

While talking. A large group of men and horses passed by them, but at the end a silver-helmeted young man turned back from the group, and rode in front of the carriage rented by Siyuan, and after asking the coachman to stop the car, he also got off the horse and came to the back of the car to raise the curtain.

"Are you going to Yingzhou?"

"That's right, it's going to Yingzhou. Brother Bing, is there something going on ahead? ”

"Where are you from?"

"Jinling City." At this time, Jiang Yue's identity is probably the best cover-up. She had a sad expression on her face, and said in a delicate voice: "I went to Jinan Mansion with Xianggong to worship our ancestors. ”

The young general glanced at Siyuan, the egg sheng beside him, and the old brocade guard: "What about the three of them?" ”

"This is my father-in-law's mentor. This time, he went to Jinan Mansion to give a lecture. Jiang Yue opened his mouth to talk nonsense: "The two people around me are old servants and scholars. ”

"Oh?" The silver-robed young general glanced at Siyuan suspiciously, and then he didn't care about interrogating any further, and turned around and pointed ahead: "Yingzhou is closed, you can go over through Haizhou Mansion." ”

"Yingzhou is locked down? Why? Zhang Xiucai was stunned for a moment: "Trouble again?" ”

When the young general saw that Xiucai was so resentful of the Japanese Kou, he suddenly got a lot closer in his heart. Then he sighed: "It's not a wolf, it's a monster." Now the boundary of Yingzhou is closed at noon. ”

"Monsters?" This time, it was Siyuan's turn to ask: "Is this monster extremely ugly and smelly?" Do you pounce on a living creature? ”

"Really, the Huwei Battalion is now being ordered to patrol, please make a few detours, otherwise it will be dark and you will bump into monsters, and I am afraid that the sky should not be called the earth."

"Hmm. Thank you, this military master. Jiang Yue very sensibly took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket, and handed it to Brother Bing with both hands: "The weather is very hot, please go and drink two pots of herbal tea to cool off." ”

The little man looked back and forth, quietly picked up the silver, and then said in a low voice: "Five miles ahead, there is an inn. I advise you to spend the night there, and wait until the gates are opened early tomorrow morning. ”

"Got it, thank you, Master Jun."

After repeated thanks, the young general turned over and followed the footsteps of the large army and galloped forward, and although Siyuan and his party were not afraid of monsters, the coachman who had no choice but to drive them said that he would not dare to pull them anymore, and after saying something bad and giving them ten times the usual reward, the coachman reluctantly agreed to send them to the inn.

"Xiaoyue, have you noticed?" Xiucai stood at the door of the inn and looked up at the signboard: "But most of the inns in this wilderness are called by this name, but now when I see it, it looks like a black shop." ”

After hearing this, Siyuan also looked up, and he couldn't help laughing when he saw it: "Sure enough...... Yuelai Inn, where there are people, there is this chain store, which has opened to another world. ”

"Sir? What did you say? ”

"Nothing." Siyuan smiled and waved his hand: "It's not called Longmen Inn." ”、

"Why, sir, I think the name Dragon Gate Inn is elegant and chic." Xiucai touched his chin and tasted the dragon gate that Siyuan said: "It's like the last stop on the way to Beijing to catch the exam, which has the meaning of soaring." ”

"If you're made into a meat bun, there's nothing going on." Siyuan took the lead in stepping into the Yuelai Inn, and nodded after observing a circle: "The wilderness is quite clean." ”

Just as Siyuan was judging the inn, a graceful woman came out of the back room. She carried a jar of wine in one hand and a plate of sausages in the other. When I came out, I heard Siyuan say the words "wilderness". "You don't understand this, this guest officer. The more barren the countryside, the more the windows must be bright and clean, otherwise people will look at it as a black store, and who would dare to come in. ”

"So are you a black shop here?"

"Of course." The proprietress glanced at Siyuan and the people behind him: "A few of them seem to be running the rivers and lakes, and I won't hide it, I'm a black shop." Still. Don't worry about a few, I only black money and don't kill people. There are five of you in total, and each of you will pay ten taels of silver to enter the store, and food and lodging will be calculated separately. ”

"Hey! You're stealing it! Jiang Yue was furious when he heard it: "The flower boats on the Qinhuai River shouldn't be so expensive." ”

"Little girl, I don't have an Oiran of 100,000 taels and nights, and my mother earns hard-earned money. You can't stop loving it, you can't stop it, get out of here. ”

"You!" Jiang Yue's anger suddenly came up: "Believe it or not, I demolished your broken place?" ”

"Okay, you're coming." The proprietress threw the wine and meat aside, but she didn't expect the wine jar and plate to fall firmly on the table. There was no movement other than a dull sound that was not too obvious.

Dansheng and Xiucai are both on Jiang Yue's side, looking like they are the same enemy, and their faces are full of life and death. On the contrary, Siyuan smiled on his face, stepped forward and gently put a five hundred silver tickets on the table, and turned his head and said: "The rest, it should be compensated, they are young and ignorant." ”

The proprietress picked up the silver ticket and identified it herself, then raised her eyebrows. His face suddenly turned cloudy, and he was still a spicy Wang Xifeng at first. In an instant, she became a gentle little daughter-in-law: "Come on, come on, a few guest officers sit, this is to prepare food and drink for you." ”

After she finished speaking, she twisted her waist and walked into the back kitchen. And Jiang Yue, who was sitting at the table, complained: "Sir, she is obviously a cheater, how can you give her back the money." ”

"I don't think it's a pit." Siyuan picked up the teapot, poured a glass of water, and took a sip: "Hmm." It's worth the price. ”

"Sir...... Do you have a crush on her? I think that although this boss lady is fierce, her appearance is not inferior to Xiaoyue. ”

"You're blind!" Jiang Yue's eyes widened: "If you can't speak, don't speak, get out of the way." ”

Xiucai suddenly looked like a deflated ball, silently bowing his head and saying nothing. At this time, it was not Siyuan who spoke, but a former Jinyi guard who was loyal to his duty as an old servant: "I think what Mr. said is right." ”

said. He also poured a glass of water and took a sip: "Just say this water, you taste it." ”

Xiucai was stunned, and then poured a cup, tasted it for a long time after taking a sip, and then frowned and said, "Alas? What's in the water? How do you drink it cold? ”

"A panacea." Lao Jin Yiwei said: "Since there are monsters here, eighty percent of the spring water on the mountain is contaminated with demonic energy, and people will naturally be infected by demonic qi after drinking it and get sick, and this elixir is a good medicine to get rid of demonic energy. ”

"That's right." Siyuan then added: "And don't you think it's strange? It's a monster here, such a lonely little shop, it's safe, which shows that the owner of the shop is not simple. ”

As he was talking, a few more men came in at the door, judging from their dress, they should be passing merchants, these people were not polite at all after they came in, and shouted at the top of their throats: "Sanniang!" Come out to pick up customers. ”

After a while, the proprietress walked out with two plates of freshly fried hot dishes, first glared at the man with white eyes, and then said in her peculiar delicate tone: "You are not serious, be careful that I break your legs." ”

"Hahaha, which leg are you going to break me?"

"Whichever one you want to break, I'll let you break it!"

This woman named Sanniang didn't mind opening her mouth at all, she smiled and brought the dish to Siyuan's table, but Siyuan found that her glasses had been staring at Xiaoyue's sword, and the eagerness in her eyes was like a foodie seeing a large piece of braised pork.

To be honest, the craftsmanship of this proprietress is not bad, but overall it can only be said to be average, but it is not so particular to be able to eat a hot meal in this wilderness.

As for the afternoon time, it's actually still very difficult, and there are only two groups of guests in this inn, so naturally everyone got together and chatted.

Those later men are all from Shandong, and they run the medicinal herb business on this road all the year round, and during this time, the monsters are noisy, the business is not good, and Sanniang's black shop never bargains, basically the money earned during this time is fed to Sanniang's peerless goblin.

It doesn't matter, after all, if you live here, safety is absolutely guaranteed. According to these men who are familiar with Sanniang in Shandong, this Sanniang is not a simple girl, her father used to be a famous celestial master, and her own ability is not small, if it weren't for her husband who died in a demon hunt, I'm afraid she would have already gone to the capital to enjoy the glory and wealth.

As for why she chose to open an inn in this place, she didn't say it, and the others naturally could only rely on guessing. Some say that this is the place where she and her dead ghost man first met, some say that this is the dowry left by her father, and some say that she is the mountain god in this area, specializing in sheltering passers-by. Anyway, there are all kinds of theories, but she herself has always remained mysterious.

"You old rabbit cub is talking bad about your aunt and grandmother again, aren't you?"

When Shandong Hanzi and Siyuan introduced Sanniang, the voice of the main man came from the second floor. Then the proprietress with the fragrance of a woman on her body came like this.

"Sir, I'll go rest first." Xiao Yue obviously disliked this Sanniang very much, and after seeing her coming, she rolled her eyes and got up to leave.

"Xiao Yue, wait, I'll go with you."

Xiucai naturally wants to keep an eye on his future daughter-in-law, and after he followed up, Dansheng also said that he was a little sleepy and wanted to take a rest.

"This guest officer, you look like you, where did you come from?"

As soon as Siyuan heard it, he knew that she was about to start talking, so he asked quietly: "I'm very curious, how did you, a female streamer, stay in this place." ”

"Haha, it may be that my life is hard, and the monster doesn't dare to get close."

Siyuan didn't speak, just lowered his head and picked up a peanut and bounced it at Sanniang. And this girl didn't even look at it, and her body naturally avoided this extremely tricky peanut.

"Look, it's obviously not a hard life, you're an immortal, right?" (To be continued......)