Chapter 1 (21) The Strange Yuan Great Merchant

Taught the deputy steward how to disinfect the raw cloth, and Shang Cheng had a chance to sit down and take a breath. But he wanted to catch his breath and rest, but someone didn't want him to rest, and as soon as his butt touched the ground, Yuan Da Merchant caught up with two entourages.

"Great monk is a good means!" Yuan Da merchant also learned from Shang Cheng's appearance, regardless of whether the ground was clean or not, he sat beside him with his straight shirt. "Even the chief steward and deputy steward have to listen to your ......," he said, shaking his head in admiration. He followed the deputy steward just now, and watched Shang Cheng issue so many orders in an unquestionable tone as a hired man, and the deputy steward not only did not blame but willingly carried it out, which really surprised him, a well-informed person.

Shang Cheng was so tired that he didn't want to speak, but he couldn't snub this Yuan Da merchant, so he had to lower his eyelids and say faintly: "Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter......" I wanted to recite the Buddha number again, thinking about my current identity, chanting the Buddha number is inevitably nondescript, so I simply closed my mouth.

When Yuan Da Merchant heard him say this, he was in awe. He hadn't seen the scene when Shang Cheng and the wolf were fighting, and the stories he heard from the artist Kabuki were so untrue and untrue, and it was just a whim to recruit Shang Cheng at Liu Ji Inn, since Shang Cheng didn't agree at the time, he didn't have the heart to entangle afterwards. In the next few days, he walked the same way, and he didn't see anything surprisingly outstanding about Shang Cheng, until this happened today, he saw that although the big monk in front of him was not very old, he had a lot of means, and he naturally had a pitching posture when he spoke and acted, and the most rare thing was that things were so chaotic and complicated, and the great monk was still Buddha and clear, and he couldn't help but think about recruiting again. But when I thought about what Shang Cheng said a few days ago, I felt that I was not sure. He didn't want to force Shang Cheng to be too anxious but it backfired, anyway, there was nothing to do, so he casually asked: "What is the opinion of the great monk who asked people to boil water and let people put salt?" ”

"Disinfection and sterilization. In a hurry, the first thing to do is to do it. ”

"Sterilization? What kind of fungus to kill? Yuan Da Merchant turned his finger and pointed to a few mushroom flowers emerging from a rotten wood in the corner of the cliff wall, and asked suspiciously, "Can ...... grow in the water?" Grow ...... Growing fungus? It was so unbelievable that he couldn't help but stutter.

"It's not this, it's bacteria."

"Bacteria?"

"Well, bacteria." Shang Cheng didn't bother to explain to him what bacteria were, and of course he couldn't explain what bacteria were, so he took out the wine bag of the big steward from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and poured wine and washed his hands alternately. His palms have long been full of wounds because of long-term gravity work, and just now he pulled the rope to save people, not only the old wound burst, but also half of the palm has been worn off, and there are a lot of gravel and grass clippings hanging on the red and delicate flesh skin, which can't be shaken off and can't be picked up, so he has to use this benzene method. Seeing that the palm of his hand was almost clean, he took a big sip of the wine bag, but he didn't swallow it, only took it in his mouth, re-plugged the stopper, stretched out his right arm and sprayed the wine on his arm, and pressed his left hand on his right arm and rubbed it vigorously.

Yuan Da Merchant saw that he grinned in pain, but sprayed wine and rubbed his two arms, and was suspicious for a long time, and finally took the wine bag from his arms, pulled out the stopper and smelled it, and immediately frowned and said, "This ...... Is it wine? ”

Shang Cheng nodded, of course this is wine. However, he could also see the uncomfortable expression of Yuan Da Merchant clearly, so he bared his teeth and asked, "Yuan Dongjia usually drinks this kind of wine?" But he knew right away that his problem was redundant. Of course, it was impossible for the great merchant Yuan to drink the same wine as the chief steward of the pack.

Yuan Da merchant put the wine bag at Shang Cheng's feet, took out a small bottle from his arms, went to the lid and handed it to Shang Cheng, and said proudly: "This is the famous wine in Beijing, the jade wine of the fairy building, in the past, there were lyricists who wrote a song and said: Xianfu singer Yan Ruyu, a red dress ...... herself"

Shang Cheng ignored his mansheng chanting, raised the porcelain bottle to his nose and smelled it, and then glanced at the wine in the bottle, because he smiled and said: "Fruit wine, low-alcohol wine, no wonder the first sentence of the song is 'Xianfu singer Yan Ruyu', the color of the jade is indeed not much different from the color of this wine, it is all green...... Smelling the fragrance and drinking the acid, a thousand cups are especially not drunk, and a hundred bottles can also be poured by themselves. But it can't be used to sterilize, and it can't be smeared on the arm like this wine...... and blood and bruises," he said and shouted to the mountain baby, asking him to follow his example, squirting wine on his arm, and then rubbing it vigorously with his hands.

Hearing him say this, Yuan Da Merchant took the wine bag again, twisted his brows and poured a sip of wine in his mouth, rolled up his sleeves, sprayed all the wine on his arm, rubbed it a few times and said: "Just sprayed it is cool and quiet, but after rubbing it a few times, it feels hot and unbearable, and the great monk knows what the truth is?" He rubbed his arms for a long time, shook his hand and turned his wrist, pointed to the jade wine in Shang Cheng's hand and asked, "The great monk said that this is low-alcohol wine, and that is high-alcohol wine, what kind of reasoning?" ”

Shang wanted to talk to him about the difference between sake brewing and shochu, and when he was about to speak, something seemed to bang in his head, and in an instant, it was like a symphony orchestra holding a concert in that small square area. He didn't know what these thoughts were involved in, but he realized in a trance that it seemed to have something to do with wine, but where it was with wine, his thoughts were like antelopes hanging without a trace...... Brewing, shochu, high alcohol, low alcohol, beer, liquor...... Suddenly, a crack seemed to explode in front of him, and a cloud of white light that people couldn't open to his eyes came to his face, one by one, it seemed that there was no soju in this era! As soon as this thought came to him, he felt a cold shiver all over his body. However, he immediately saw the wine bag in the hand of Yuan Da Merchant, which seemed to contain soju, but the degree was average, and according to the alcohol content, it seemed that it was not even thirty degrees. His mind was dizzy, but his mouth was messy nonsense: "Drinking dizziness starts with high alcohol, and drinking sober nature is low alcohol, drinking unclear ......" He didn't continue, turned his head to the mountain baby and shouted angrily, "Mountain baby!" Squirt wine on your arms! It's not that you spit on your arms! If you dare to swallow one more bite, I will throw you off this cliff! He took the wine bag from the hand of Yuan Da Merchant, took a sip and sprayed it on his arm, but he didn't immediately rub it on his arm with his hand, only lowered his head and carefully observed that the color of the wine was not pure transparency, but only light in color; Does it smell like wine...... He couldn't tell if it was brewing or steaming......

He raised his head and looked at the Yuan Da merchant who was still ignorant, and wanted to ask him if this was brewing, but the chief steward had already walked over, and bowed to the sky a few steps away: "Thank you monk for your help." ”

Shang Cheng had no choice but to put aside his thoughts about the wine first, and struggled twice to stand up and return the salute, but let the chief steward take two steps to stop him. The chief steward said, "Monk, sit and rest!" If you hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, these three guys would have been damaged here, this is my gift to the store, and the monk deserves it......"

Yuan Da merchant rubbed his arms back and forth in the same way as Shang Cheng, and asked the chief steward with a raised face: "A few guys are okay, right?" ”

The chief steward saluted Yuan Da Merchant again, and said: "Cheng Lao Yuan Dongjia asked, the three guys are fine, they are all some skin injuries, and they are not hindered in their movements, but they are just a little frightened." ”

"Ask clearly, what happened to those two pathfinders, and they couldn't even make a sound? What about that warning? ”

The chief steward sighed before speaking, and then said after a moment of melancholy: "The two guys who are exploring the path are young people, and they have come to the edge of the cliff here......" His words just started but closed his mouth, shaking his head and smacking his tongue, pursing his lips and frowning, but he didn't know what to say next. Yuan Da merchant smiled: "They are all people who are away from home, what is there to say?" Could it be that a teenager was naughty and accidentally got into trouble? The chief steward shook his head with a wry smile, looked at Yuan Da merchant with admiration, and said: "Things are exactly the same as what Yuan Dongjia said, one or two guys walked here, and suddenly they wanted to stand on the edge of the cliff farther than who could urinate and nourish them, who knew that there was a stone on the edge of the cliff that had long been loosened, and as soon as the person stepped on it, it dislocated and collapsed, and the other guy hurried to save it, but he didn't expect that even he was accompanied in......"

After that, Shang Cheng could guess even if he didn't see it with his own eyes. The two guys are people who are destined to be blessed, this cliff is only thirty or forty meters away, and then there is a valley dozens or hundreds of meters deep, and the guy who fell covered in blood climbed the edge of the cliff to finally snatch back a life, and the other one was not injured but fell out of the cliff, if it wasn't for the fact that there was a half-dead old mountain pine on the edge of the cliff, I was afraid that even a corpse could not be found. The warning whistle must have been made by the guy lying on the mountain pine, he just blew a sound, and was frightened off by the trembling tree trunk The whistle in his hand was also the three of them in time, and they had to bring a rope, otherwise this guy would have fallen into the valley with the mountain pine just now. As for the man later, when he arrived, he didn't see the bandits, only saw that his two companions were in a precarious situation, and this situation naturally could not be said to be a whistle warning, and time did not allow him to return to find helpers, so he could only save people first; If he hadn't decided to save people first in all his hurry, the guy who was climbing the cliff would definitely not have his life, and when Shang Cheng and they arrived, the guy who arrived later was up to his knees and said that he was still dragging a big living person in his hand, and his body was so wet that it was as if he had been fished out of the water......

When this matter was properly handled, it was almost evening, and the pack team rested on this hill that night, and the sound of the wind and the forest all night was mixed with the sound of apes and eagles and wolves and tigers from far and near, tossing everyone for a night, and beware of bandits who did not know where to hide, and finally survived until the next day, everyone was described as haggard and physically and mentally exhausted, and even the Yuan Da merchants, who wanted to attract Shangcheng, had no interest in talking, and no longer came to disturb, only brought their two entourage, listlessly followed the pack team slowly along the road......