Chapter 160: Keep this money and buy a cigarette to smoke!
Hey, just these two pieces of goods, you still want to marry the princess in the Wenju exam? What's the difference between this and a toad wanting to eat swan meat? Hum!
I was dismissive and turned my head away from listening.
With a belly of wine and meat, plus a big bowl of fragrant beef noodles, my stomach suddenly became much more comfortable, Mo Lu and Wang Wu also ate well, I beckoned, "Boss, settle the bill!" ”
The owner of the tea stall came in response, "Guest officer, a total of five dollars of silver!" ”
I reached out and took a small piece of silver from my bosom and threw it to him, "No need to look for it!" ”
"Thank you, guest!" The owner of the tea stall threw his hand at me, and then said in a voice that only the two of us could hear: "Childe, the road ahead is treacherous, you need to be careful!" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked up at him, but the owner of the tea stall had already walked away as if nothing had happened.
Looking at his back, I wondered in my heart, could it be that I was hallucinating just now?
"Bi Gongzi ......!" Mo Lu called me softly.
"Ah...... Yes? I hurriedly turned my head to look at him.
"It's time for us to go!"
"Good!"
I hurriedly answered, stood up and walked out of the tea stall.
It's past noon, and the sun is starting to warm up, thanks to the fact that it's in the first month, if it's June or July, you can't roast to death in the sun!
We walked all the way along this official road, and we didn't go far before we could see the tea stall.
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This official road is easy to walk, flat and wide, just go all the way forward. None of us said a break for the whole afternoon, until it was almost sunset, and we had traveled more than fifty miles.
I looked up at the front, then at the back, and suddenly I had a feeling that I couldn't go to the village and couldn't go to the store.
"Senior Mo, let's be in such a hurry, when will we be able to get to the post station?" I asked with some concern.
"There will be a post station every two hundred miles on the official road, and we have rushed more than fifty miles in the afternoon, so we should be almost at the post station!" Mo Lu looked up at the front and replied to me.
"Oh!" I replied weakly, and then raised my feet and continued to hurry, I didn't want to sleep outside again, I was used to living in a grass hut in Peach Blossom Village for half a month, so it was really uncomfortable for me to sleep on the street in the cold.
After walking for about a few miles, suddenly there was a loud sound of horses' hooves behind us, and as soon as we turned around, we saw several big red horses running towards us.
I hurriedly grabbed Mo Lu and Wang Wu to stop their feet, hid to the side and turned my head to look.
The tall horses soon galloped in front of us, and the official uniforms they were riding on looked like official errands, but there was a bit of anxiety between their eyebrows, and it seemed that there was something urgent to do!
The fast horse passed us and sailed away!
Looking at the galloping figures of these horses, I suddenly wondered in my heart, who are these people?
The three of us drove about ten miles further, and then we saw a house that seemed to have a yard in front of us, and we hurried over, only to see that the simple wooden gate was open, and two waist-thick wooden pillars stood on both sides, and the word 'post station' was written on the beam, and the surrounding was a sparse wooden fence, which looked like that kind of simple dwelling.
I stood at the door and looked up at the two words on the door beam, and asked Mo Lu in a wooden manner, "Senior Mo, this post station ...... It's too shabby, isn't it? ”
"Hehe......," Mo Lu chuckled, "This post station is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the closer it is to the county seat and the capital, the more heroic the post station becomes, and the more it is in this poor and remote place, the more shabby it will be!" ”
"It seems that this post station was not originally open to the public, will we be kicked out if we go in like this?" I turned my head to look at Mo Lu.
"Probably not, this post station also needs external income, and the people of the government will naturally have subsidies for accommodation, but only relying on these subsidies to support, I'm afraid I can't feed the people of this post station!"
"Oh!" I seem to understand, that means that it is not bad with the restructuring of enterprises, even if the country is still nominally supporting itself, but in fact I still need to make some extra money, understand!
I lifted my feet and was about to go inside.
Wang Wu hurriedly stopped me, with a reluctant face, "Master Bi, I ...... Don't want to go in! ”
"Don't want to go in?" I looked at him curiously.
"Hmm!" Wang Wu nodded, looked at me and said: "In the past, I was just a robber, if it wasn't for Bi Gongzi to take me in, I'm afraid I would still be doing robbery now, but this post station is still from the government, I'm afraid ......!" ”
"Don't be afraid of Brother Wang'......!" I patted him on the shoulder, "Now you are a serious person, those things in the past will pass, don't mention him, since you follow me, you are a good person, what are you afraid of, I will protect you!" I smiled at him, then turned to the inn and shouted, "Is there anyone......?!" ”
"Who?" There was a voice from inside the inn, and a man in simple clothes walked out.
"We're going to stay in a hotel, uh...... No, you want to stay at the inn! I said aloud.
The man looked us up and down, and looked at me at the back, "Do you have any money on you?" I don't know if this post station can only be lived in by people from the government? Let's go ......! He waved at us.
I turned my head and looked at Mo Lu as if asking for help, Senior Mo, didn't you say that we could live?
Mo Lu winked at me, and immediately I understood what he meant!
Give money!
I turned my head to look at the man, then took out the broken silver that Situ Hong had left me from my arms, stepped forward and quietly stuffed it into him, looking at him with a smile, "What ......, you see it's dark this day, and there is no place to live in the wilderness, only you have this place, I don't have anything on me, you can keep this little silver to buy a cigarette and smoke ......!" ”
"Buy a cigarette to smoke?" The man took the money and looked up at me.
"Uh......, you just take it to buy jar wine to drink, it's very uncomfortable in this cold and snowy place, drink a sip of wine to warm up!"
"Then come in with me!" The man's face changed suddenly, and he beckoned the three of us into the station.
Phew, money can make ghosts grind! I scolded in my heart.
As soon as I walked into the yard of the post station, I saw the red horses I had seen on the road before, grazing leisurely in the stall, I turned to Mo Lu to wink, Mo Lu winked at me, did not speak.
When I entered the post house, I looked back and forth, left and right, and I didn't find those few people on horseback, right...... Did they sleep?
The man didn't say much, he prepared a simple meal for us, and looking at the food on the table, I sighed in my heart, alas, it was really given money to do things!
"Just eat well and go to sleep in the room on the corner of the second floor!" When the man had finished speaking, he turned to leave.
"Please stay!" I whispered to him.
"Anything else?" The man turned to look at me.
"Uh......, I'd like to ask if we have any horses or anything like that in this station, and if so, I'd like to buy three to hurry!" I wondered how I could find out something.
"Humph!" The man snorted, "Horses? The Marco prepared in the post station are all for the people in the government, and you want them too?! ”
"Hehe, I just asked casually, when I came in just now, I saw a few big horses in the stall that were very beautiful!" I continue to ram nonsense.
"Those horses belong to other people, I don't count what I said!" The man looked at me, "I'll go back to my room if it's okay, just eat and put it away!" After saying that, he turned around and left.
I grabbed the bamboo chopsticks and started eating, looking around while eating, and asked Mo Lu quietly, "Senior Mo, what kind of urgency do you say those people on horseback are in a hurry?" ”
"It's hard to say," Mo Lu said while eating, "The people in the official mansion may be sending letters, or they may be enemy reports, or they may be disasters, but since those people can sleep in this post station and don't travel overnight, they say that it will not be an emergency, otherwise it will be impossible to stop!" ”
"Oh!" I nodded slowly and continued to eat.
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