【005】The tiger lies on the barren hill
The teahouse is not the same as the restaurant, and the people of the old Sijiu City like to hold a pot of tea without anything, anytime, anywhere, as long as they want.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Shen You came to a scoop of tea house alone. The tea house also looks a little old, and in addition to the hall, there are several private rooms. Whether it is from the decoration or from the tables and chairs of the teahouse, there is a slight antique shelf.
When Shen You came, there were not many people in the tea house, so he found a place to the side and asked for a pot of tea to drink.
waited until almost noon, although there were more people in the tea house, but it was still not full, the point was that Shen You didn't see the people from the Tang Sect who asked him to come at all, and even the young man who sent him the letter yesterday didn't see it.
Although it is different from the restaurant, but when it comes to the meal, the teahouse provides some snacks in addition to the dried fruits and melon seeds originally served, and the people who come here are either talking about things or passing the time, and all kinds of people get together in twos and threes, holding a pot of tea, chatting all over the world.
Shen You still acted as if nothing had happened, the pot of tea on the table had been brewed three times, and there was almost no tea taste. For example, a person of Shen You's age should not have appeared in this place at all, but he didn't pay attention to the strange eyes of others, and concentrated on pouring tea for himself and drinking tea slowly.
Sitting at his table were two middle-aged people in their thirties, and there was also a pot of tea on the table of the two people, and in addition to tea, there was also a plate of melon seeds.
The two of them arrived ten minutes later than Shen You, and after sitting down, the two of them began to talk to each other about their recent situation, it is estimated that they may not have seen each other for many years, according to one of them, now his company's business has expanded to various cities across the country, and coming out to drink tea today is the time he took out of his busy schedule.
The other one is not far behind, and said with a smile that you are not in the realm now, three years ago, I was the same as you, and I was also busy with my head and feet, but since I did the north side of the business to the ** side and the east side to the stick side, I basically don't interfere anymore, and all of them are left to my subordinates to do.
When Shen You drank three pots of tea, these two people also drank three pots, and the melon seeds on the plate in front of them had been eaten cleanly, but the two of them were still chatting about the progress of their business, and no one took the initiative to raise the topic of paying the bill or finding a restaurant to eat at the point.
When the third pot of tea was drunk, Shen You did not add more water, but turned the tea bowl upside down, which was told to him by millions, generally speaking, this posture is not posed by people in the rivers and lakes, especially when talking to others.
Because of this posture, it basically means that there is no need to talk about it in the future, to put it simply, tea and wine do not enter, and there is a saying of raw tea and cooked wine on the rivers and lakes, but this bowl is a button, whether it is raw or cooked, it is impossible to drink.
Obviously, coming here early in the morning, Shen You's patience had been exhausted. What's more, today he and the millions of two soldiers were divided into two ways, and the millions began to spread the news of the jade tablets, although the other party already had Su Qingqian and Chen Qiushi two cards in his hands, God knows if they would take the millions of dollars away again in order to increase the chips. Even though the longer he dragged on in the plan, the better, but considering the safety of the millions, he still couldn't wait.
Just after Shen You turned the tea bowl upside down, the guys who were shuttling back and forth to add water had their eyes lit up and quickly walked upstairs.
Shen You waited for another ten minutes, raised his hand at the guy, and motioned to pay the bill, the two people next to him were still talking happily, and the tea had been added to the fourth pot.
Just when Shen You was about to pay, the guy said to him with a smile on his face: "Boss Shen, no, someone upstairs paid for your tea money." ”
"Oh? Is it? Shen You listened for a moment.
"Go up the stairs, in the second private room, there are two bosses waiting for you." The guy was still smiling, but he didn't take Shen You's money.
Shen You handed the money into his hand and said, "I've rewarded you!" Without looking back, he walked up the stairs.
After arriving on the second floor and the first floor, the two styles are absolutely two, the first floor can be said to be just a place for gatherings, and then the first few people who drink tea get together, but after arriving on the second floor, I suddenly feel the breeze bathing my soul, a kind of indescribable comfort.
When he arrived at the door of the second private room, Shen You didn't knock on the door, and pushed the door directly.
It seemed that he had expected him to come in, and the two people in the room did not panic in the slightest, two people sat on both sides of the table, one holding black and the other holding white, looking forward to the quiet fall.
Next to the table where they were playing chess there was a small table, on which was a pot of fragrant tea, and there were three tea bowls, arranged in a triangular shape, the two close to the two of them had full tea, and the one closest to Shen You was empty.
In front of the empty bowl was a stool, apparently already placed. Shen You didn't speak, and after getting on the stool, he poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip gently.
The fragrance of tea hit people, and the entrance was bitter and sweet, and he didn't look at the two people playing chess in front of him, but just began to look at the whole room.
I saw that on the wall of the room, there was a pair of words hanging horizontally, no one had signed the money, but the words were written extremely vigorously: a thatched house, a new fence with a number of poles, a snow-white paper window, slightly soaked in emerald color, sitting alone at this time, a tea before the rain, an inkstone on one side, a piece of Xuanzhou paper, a few strokes of folding branch tea, friends came, the wind and bamboo sounded, the more noisy and quiet.
The two people who turned their heads to look at Luozi were both forty or fifty years old, the slightly older ones wore Tang costumes and had a natural bearing, and the slightly younger ones were slightly emaciated, but naturally there was a fierce atmosphere that permeated from the inside out.
After about a quarter of an hour of meditation, the slightly longer man threw in the towel. smiled slightly: "Although the second brother's chess style is a strange horse, it is a dangerous way after all." ”
After hearing this, the thin man smiled and said, "Big brother, but you have to admit that sometimes, you can only take dangerous moves to survive." ”
The two of them spoke sharply and eloquently, not caring at all about Shen You who was sitting on the side, and Shen You did not show the slightest impatience, except for observing the furnishings in the room was drinking tea.
After chatting for a few words, it seemed that he finally remembered Shen You, and the older man said to him: "I neglected Boss Shen, Boss Shen was silent when watching chess, and he did have the style of a gentleman." ”
Shen You said lightly: "It's not that I'm silent, I don't understand, if you don't play Go but chess, I guess I would have commanded you to go a long time ago!" ”
The two of them laughed after hearing this, and the relatively serious and thin person also showed a slight smile after hearing this.
The older one arched his hand at Shen You and said, "Boss Shen is really a wonderful person, my surname is Tang, Tang Baixiang!" ”
Shen You nodded in understanding, and then continued: "If I guessed correctly, this should be Tang Qinghou's senior." I didn't expect the Tang family in Sichuan and Shu to give face so much, one Tang was invincible enough, and it actually alarmed two big shots. ”
After all, the old man of the Tang family in Sichuan and Shu does not ask about the world, although he is still nominally the head of the Tang family, but people who know the Tao basically understand that the Tang family is now Tang Baixiang, who is mainly responsible for some things, and now Tang Baixiang and Tang Qinghou are coming together, so I have to explain how much attention is paid to this matter.
After listening to Shen You's words, Tang Qinghou said: "Yes, I didn't expect to understand it so thoroughly, I was originally an idle person, I will go there if I need it, although my eldest brother is busy, but the matter is huge after all, so he is with me." Now that you can alarm the two of us, your face is not small. ”
Before Tang Qinghou could cut into the topic and ask about the jade tablet, Shen You suddenly interrupted: "I have heard for a long time that there are many heroes in Sichuan and Shu, especially our Tang family, whether it is the second uncle of Tang who used his own body as a trick when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, or the ghost hands and feet who fought when the Japanese devils invaded. ”
Listening to Shen You talk about the second uncle of Tang, Tang Baixiang and Tang Qinghou were not surprised at all, after all, the older generation of people in the rivers and lakes basically knew about this matter, but when they heard Shen You talk about ghosts, they couldn't help but be shocked.
It is estimated that there are very few people who know these things, and it is just that Shen You remembers Lu Tianxing from the codex left by Lu Tianxing. Ghost hands and ghost feet were originally more famous heroes in the Tang Dynasty, when Japan invaded China, for the sake of national righteousness, the two people changed their names and surnames, in order not to affect the family, they deliberately tattooed their cheeks, and then used their strength to assassinate the Japanese army.
Because of the secrecy they did, and the fact that they had not left a living mouth, there may be people on the rivers and lakes who know about the ghosts and tricks of the Dao, but they don't know that they belong to the Tang Sect.
"Did you do your homework? Boss Shen ...... "Tang Bai exchanged a smiling face.
"So-so, if you are blinded by a goose peck, and you don't know where the wild goose comes from, wouldn't it be an insult to the reputation of our ancestors."
"Well, our two brothers also have great admiration for the predecessors in the Thousand Gates, and they have no intention of being enemies with the Thousand Gates, we are mainly to borrow those fragments for a few days, and they all say that the fragments contain secrets, and our Tang family masters are concerned about this matter, but they have not been found, so we are deeply regretful."
Although Tang Baixiang said it was high-sounding, but Shen You was contemptuous in his heart, he naturally knew that the jade piece of the Dao Dao was something inherited from the predecessors of the Qianmen, listening to Tang Baixiang talk eloquently, there was no shame at all, he was also slightly angry, but he still said quietly: "This thing has been passed down from our Qianmen, and your Tang family wants to know too much!" ”
Since ancient times, the rivers and lakes are the ability to respect, although they all know that the thousand doors of the road are not good stubble, but for thousands of years, the time when the eight generals of the thousand doors can gather has been very few, in addition to the understanding of Tang Baixiang and Tang Qinghou, the current thousand doors are just a hairy boy holding incense, and the card of the fire general has not been hung up, and I can't help but despise the thousand doors for three points.
Seeing that Shen You's words were not revealed, Tang Qinghou smiled and said to Tang Baixiang: "Big brother, I'll just say that sometimes, the soldiers make dangerous moves, and they don't necessarily have no effect......