In the evening, Qin Chong and I were in the inn, bored in the face of the snowflakes flying in the sky.

The street outside was white, and there was no longer the usual bustling crowd at night, and even the palace guards who patrolled the streets at night were gone.

Shangguan Yanxi won't come, she should have slept in the warm brocade quilt at home for two days and two nights on such a snowy night.

"Young master, should we go to Guizhifang?"

Liu Dianli has been walking back and forth many times on the street, watching the snow on the ground from burying his calves to his current knees, and he stomped his feet in a hurry.

"Forget it today, this blizzard won't stop for a while and a half, you can't ride a horse, and it will take at least two hours to walk back and forth!"

I looked at the cloudy night sky and smiled helplessly.

"Pot helmet, if you can go and invite Sister Lan and them over this time, I will share half of your salary next year!"

Shamihan put his hands in the wide and hollow sheep's coat and exhaled happily.

Like me, I grew up in the dry and warm country of Khotan, and although I have been on this trade route for nearly ten years, I have never seen such snow.

Shamihan boyishly fetched a few wooden shovels from the shopkeeper and invited us to build a snowman together, like the children playing on the side of the street.

"Pot helmet, let's make a hard trip, go to Guizhifang. What if you can succeed in the hard work fee of 10 gold? ”

I happily took over Shamihan's wooden shovel, and took out the sand man who had been piling up sand in the sand by the breeze year after year, and shoveled up the snow vigorously.

While instigating Liu Dao, this guy has completely become obsessed with the dusty woman named Miss Lan.

But on this snowy night, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing if you could really drink wine around the fireplace with a group of young women!

"Pot helmet, the young master has already spoken, what are you still talking about? If you don't go, I'll go! ”

Qin Chong raised his head, wiped the beads of sweat on his face, and casually took off the fur and cotton jacket on his body.

"Alright! The young master has ordered the pot helmet to die, hehe! ”

Liu Hehe said with a smile, he really borrowed a coat and hat from the store, and went to Guizhifang to invite Miss Lan to go.

Since I was a child, I have received the true transmission of the "Chang'an Fang" Murong jade carving technique from my grandmother, and the snow carving is a piece of cake.

As I spoke, I had already used a short sword and a wooden shovel to carve out the prototype of the snowman on which Miss Shangguan Yanxi returned from riding a horse and stepping on the snowdrift.

"Young master, the pot helmet is incompetent, the snow is too deep! I can't get to Guizhifang, even if I get to other people's girls, I can't come! ”

When my snowman was finished, Liu turned back from the street in frustration and took off his coat in a hurry.

The three of us burst into laughter at his helpless bear-like appearance, and there was no other way to comfort him than a pat on the shoulder.

At that moment, three black figures whizzed down the street in the distance, as if flying against the snow, and a sliding board-like object was dragging behind them.

"Brother Yi, we're here!"

Just when everyone was stunned, the three black-clothed people stopped in front of us, and Shangguan Yanxi's familiar Yayin followed in their ears.

"Miss Yanxi! It's really you! ”

I ran forward in ecstasy, only to find that Shangguan Yanxi and the two entourages each had a long penny in their hands, and their feet had stepped on a wooden plank like a flat boat at both ends.

Could it be that you can sail on the snow, when has such a magical manned thing ever appeared in Middle-earth!

"Since I have an appointment with Brother Yi, I will also come over if there is a knife in the sky! Hehe! Shangguan Yanxi said with a smile.

"Oh! Brother Yi, this is called skateboarding in our Chang'an, and the use of ice and snow plays is passed down from the Hu people in the north. It's fun, I'll teach you tomorrow! ”

Seeing that everyone was looking at the "mounts" under their feet, she quickly explained happily while asking the two men accompanying her to deliver the wine and meat to the store's room.

This little woman was so attentive that she even prepared the wine and food for the evening party and brought it with her at home.

"Miss Shangguan, come and admire our snowman, carved by the young master! Ha ha! ”

Qin Chong on the side warmly invited, and couldn't help but laugh.

And the pot helmet Liu and Sha Mihan assisted the guys of the Los Angeles Post House to bring the wine and meat into the store.

"Wow! It's so much like me! Brother Yi, you still have such kung fu! ”

Seeing his lifelike snow sculpture, Shangguan Yanxi praised from the bottom of his heart.

"Hehe, Miss Yanxi has won the award, the descendant of the Murong jade family of Wuwei County, what a little skill of carving insects!"

Despite the humility of his words, Shangguan Yanxi's praise made me a little fluttery.

It's the first time I've been so big that someone has praised my carving skills so much.

At this time, two guys from Miss Yanxi's family came to greet us and say goodbye, and I quickly called out to them.

"The two little brothers work hard, don't pay respect, buy some wine on the way!"

I took two pieces of silver out of my pocket and stuffed them into the two guys.

On such a cold and snowy night, it was really hard for them to bring us wine and meat.

"Young Master Yi's reward, you can accept it. Go back and tell my grandma that I'll stay here tonight, and tell her not to worry. ”

Seeing that his own buddy was a little hesitant, Shangguan Yanxi smiled affectionately.

"Thank you, Young Master Yi, Miss, let's go!"

After speaking, the two stepped on the skateboard, stepped on the snow like a fly, and soon disappeared into the misty night.

That night, the five of us were in the inn of the imperial capital in a foreign land, around the stove, tasting the sheep stew and sake brought by Miss Yanxi, and telling about what we saw and heard on the way like mountains and seas.

It's like a reunion of my brother and sister, without any distractions.

Miss Yanxi said that on Long Beach in Donghai County, she saw a sea fish that had long frozen to death, the size and height of several floors.

"It's Kun, right? There are clouds in Zhuangzi and fish in the north of the underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. ”

I replied casually while drinking sake, dressed in a purple shirt and fur, Shangguan Yanxi, who was like a cloud of green silk, and regained her charming elegant voice and flower-like smile.

"Probably, but according to the local fishermen, this big fish is not called a kun, they call it a whale. It is said that such a large fish can be found everywhere in the North Sea, and it can eat the belly of a sailing ship! ”

There were no guys who sifted wine, everyone took turns pouring wine full of Qindi in everyone's cups, and listened to Shangguan Yanxi tell us one grotesque story after another.

In addition to me, Qin Chong and the others can be regarded as old men in the rivers and lakes, but they don't seem to be half as good as Shangguan Yanxi.

Or this woman is better at acting, a zombie worm on the side of the road, she can also name a mountain of dragons.

"Brother Yi, there is only one Tongque Terrace left on the shore of Zhangshui." In the interval of mythological stories, Shangguan Yanxi suddenly came up with such a sentence.

"It's a pity, the long flow of Linzhang water, and the glory of the fruit of the garden. Look up to the spring breeze and Mu Xi, and listen to the sorrowful song of a hundred birds. I must check it out when I have the chance! When the old gentleman was in my family's Qingfengze Academy, I liked Cao Gong's Wei Feng Hanfu the most. ”

I sighed and said, I recited some ancient Han and Jin songs in desperation, but I didn't expect to be able to remember a few of them after so many years, and now I have a different flavor to read.

I don't know what Chang'an and Wuwei's second brothers have become after so many years of hard work, they must already be a merry and talented man full of economy.

"Brother Yi is so literate, why don't you take the road of studying? If I were a man, I would never entrust my life to this difficult and coppery business, I would be friends with pine and bamboo, and the breeze and moon would be my companion. ”

"Didn't Miss Yan Xi also say before that doing business is the practice of this world? Shame on us that we have become brassy people! ”

Shangguan Yanxi's words stimulated me, does this little woman like a noble scholar? Instead of such a businessman like me?

"Brother Yi misunderstood my original intention! Hehe. Shangguan Yanxi hurriedly saluted me with a cup.

"What do you mean, Miss?" I asked, puzzled, slightly drunk.

Liu and Sha Mihan had already drunk too much, and they were sitting there as if they were drunk at this time, chatting with me and Miss Yanxi.

Qin Chong, who doesn't drink alcohol, keeps adding charcoal to the stove and cutting the fragrant mutton stew for us.

"Brother Yi, businessmen are like monks! Along the way, the monks carried out the almsgiving, promoted the Dharma, and fulfilled all sentient beings and their own hearts. And we businessmen do business all over the world, goods through things and things, for the benefit of thousands of families, for our own profits. But behind fame and fortune, there is a soul that has nowhere to put it! Sad, sad! Miss Yanxi said with a sad wry smile.

The soul of a businessman who is burdened by money and has nowhere to put it! Miss Shangguan Yanxi's grand remarks made me feel inexplicably surprised.