Rain and snowmelt drip from the thatched huts. The owner of this tea shed was bored, and sat at the table with a bamboo stick in his mouth, looking at the water dripping from the edge of the roof of the shed.

"Master, come to a bowl of tea." A deep voice dragged the owner of the tea shed back to reality. He was stunned for a moment, then he shook his spirits, changed his smile, and looked at the person who was speaking.

I saw a man wearing a hat and a hat while dusting off the rainwater flowing into his underwear and walking into the tea shed. This man is of medium stature, standing obliquely, and he can't see his face clearly, but he obviously has a knife under his coat, and he looks like a man in the rivers and lakes. The owner of the tea shed of this kind of person has seen a lot, and he does not slack off, and even asks Nahan to sit down.

"I don't know which one the guest officer prefers? I have not only the thin slices, true fragrance, and montanine stone flowers in the province, but also the Longjing and Tiger Hill in other provinces......"

"Well, just mess around." I don't know if the man doesn't understand the way of tea, or he doesn't believe that this small tea shed can have so many kinds of tea.

As he spoke, the owner of the tea shed peeked at the man, but he felt that his face was dark and deep, and he didn't seem to be a person of good words, so he didn't dare to ask more. casually served a bowl of inferior tea, two plates of snacks, and watched the man's reaction.

The man didn't seem to care about the tea, and only stared at the rain curtain outside the shed with a pair of eyes.

There was no one else in the shed, and the owner of the tea shed was lonely, and felt that the atmosphere was solidified and uncomfortable, so he smiled and asked tentatively: "Listening to the guest official's accent, not like a local, do you come here to visit friends?" The villain is not familiar with anything else, but this road market is familiar. ”

The man was silent for a while, and then said, "All the way I went, I was depressed and withered. I have heard that Zhonglu is rich, but it is a little unworthy of the name. ”

When it came to the pain point of the owner of the tea shed, he sighed, with a helpless look on his face, and sat down at the table opposite the man and said, "On the way to the guest officer, have you ever heard of 'Zhao Ying'?" ”

The man took a sip of tea and said, "I've heard of it." ”

"The guest officer doesn't know. This gang of rogues named 'Zhao Ying' also came from nowhere, and they are extremely vicious. I heard that from the north of the province to Kuixi, there was no one in charge of the official army. Earlier, the good fighters such as Liangshan Tugong and Dazhou Zhang Daren fell into his hands, Dazhu, Xinning, and Dazhou were lost successively, and the invincible Yunyang Forward Battalion could only be a man with his tail between his legs, and he couldn't defend it. It is also heard that it will hit Kuidong in the near future, and Zhonglu will inevitably be affected. No, most of the local outsiders who do business have fled to other places, and the locals have closed their homes day and night, so as to appear to be withering. ”

The man listened to it, and was silent for a long time, and saw that the other party was a little embarrassed, so he said: "In this way, the master is a fat man." ”

"But how?" The owner of the tea shed was full of sadness, "The villain's small tea shed has been open for many years, even if the thieves were sacrificed to the past year, and I didn't see such a panic as Zuo Jin, and there are more than a dozen villagers and tourists who come here every day to eat tea and rest, but you are the first guest in seven or eight days." If it goes on like this, it will only take five days at most, and the villain will have to roll up and go home. ”

The two of them talked without a word, and suddenly the sound of horses' hooves rumbled outside the shed. The two of them looked out together and saw seven or eight horsemen galloping in the rain. The horsemen were very aggressive, and they were almost crashing into the shed, and only when they were very close to the position did they tighten their bridles and slow down their horses, and because of this, the messy hooves of the horses stirred up a lot of mud and snow outside, and splashed on the man and the owner of the tea shed.

The man was suddenly angry, the owner of the tea shed had seen the world, knew that it was powerful, and without waiting for him to get angry, he nodded and walked up to greet him: "How did the official family come to the villain shed today." "Greet the person on the surface, and secretly remind the man that the other party's status is noble, and he should not mess around.

Sure enough, as soon as the man was reminded, he reluctantly suppressed his anger and pretended to drink tea.

The horses parted, and one of the knights dismounted and went into the shed, and the great trumpet sat down at the table beside the man. He had tied his turban, but now he untied it, and his hair was scattered, and he shook off his soaked hair, and the water stains flew to the man's table again.

The man swallowed his anger and turned his head away. The knight glanced at him, turned to the owner of the tea shed, and said, "You guy, you said more than ten days ago that you would go home from business, why are you still there?" It's like a dogskin plaster, sticking to me. ”

The owner of the tea shed heard that he was joking, and also laughed: "The official family is serious, isn't the villain just to let the official family have a place to rest?" Besides, in this neighboring state and county, how can there be safer than Zhonglu? The villain is here, and he can sit back and relax. ”

The knight shook his hair again, and said proudly, "You old dog, you can talk nonsense." Brew tea and drink it with me. As he spoke, he looked at the man who had been silent, and added, "At this time, there are still some pus bags coming to you to sharpen them." ”

When he saw that the man was carrying a knife, he wanted to do something, but the other party let him provoke him, so he just ignored it, and he felt bored when he came and went, so he didn't pay attention to it, took the tea, drank it all, and then frowned: "What kind of smell, the old dog is afraid that I will eat He'er, so he doesn't entertain the good goods?" The so-called "eat Mo Heer" is a local vernacular, which means "eat white food".

He was slightly angry, and the horsemen waiting outside the shed actually pulled out their sabers at their waists for a while.

Of the few people who came, only the knight sat down in the tent, and the others were drenched in the rain outside without any other orders, and there was no dissatisfaction. Now the reaction is more like training for a long time. The man was secretly surprised, and he thought that the person in front of him must have a big background.

The owner of the tea shed cried at that time: "Where does the official family say, how dare the villain give the official family inferior tea." This shed is almost out of place, and those good teas are not cheap to hide and tuck. ”

The knight laughed and said, "I don't have to take it seriously when I'm joking with you. Today's hunting is a great harvest. Passing by you, I miss the fragrance of tea, so I will taste it. Yes, the taste is still authentic. As he spoke, he got up, took out a bag from his bosom, and threw it on the table, "These are rewarding you." If you can't get around, come to me, and I'll help you find a stall in the village. ”

The owner of the teashed made a promise, and when he looked up again, the knight had already mounted his horse, and disappeared into the rain with the horses.

"Who is this man?" The owner of the tea shed took his bag and weighed the inner value, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, but the man's deep voice came from his ears.

He hurriedly stuffed the bag into his bosom and explained, "He is the local ambassador of consolation. ”

"Qin Qixun's son? Qin Jinxiao is him? ”

"Exactly."

"I see." The man nodded secretly. He had heard of Qin Qixun's name for a long time, but he was now old, and he handed over all the affairs to his eldest son Qin Jinxiao to deal with, so that he also knew a little about Qin Qixun and Qin Jinxiao.

"It's raining constantly, and he's still going hunting, and he's really interested."

"The guest officer doesn't know. This hunting, not the other hunting. The owner of the tea shed smiled wryly, but deliberately stopped when he said this.

The man heard that there was something outside the words, and he came here to find out the news, and he refused to let go of this opportunity. coughed lightly twice, with an indifferent look: "If there is any good tea, just serve it." ”

When the other party heard this, he smiled, and simply sat down at the man's table, and said in a low voice: "Don't hide it, the prey he wants to fight is not a bear, tiger, deer, and roe deer, but a person." ”

"People?" Even if the man has a city government, he can't hold back at this time, and he is quite surprised, "How can you say this?" ”

The owner of the tea shed looked at him again and whispered: "Look, the guest officer is also a person who can hide his words, and the villain will tell him what he has heard." It's all hearsay, and the content of it has to be distinguished by the guest officer himself. ”

"This man is a little clever." The man thought to himself, and said, "It's okay for you to say it." ”

"Because of the geographical advantage of the border between the two provinces, there are many outsiders, but there are few natives, with five or six hundred households and less than four thousand people. This Qin Shaojun is different from his ancestors and fathers, he is flamboyant and violent, and he is not a person who guards the land. Every once in a while, they will go out to plunder. At first, he still plundered business travelers and villages, but in the past few years, the dynasty was unified, and the place was weak, so he became emboldened, and began to plunder the population, with Kuizhou and Chongqing as his main destinations. Every time he attacked, as few as three or five people, or as many as dozens of people in a village, he would drive them back like pigs and cattle to enrich the local population. The local adults of the two prefectures were afraid that he was a local official, had arms, and had the merit of quelling the rebellion earlier, and most of them dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so their arrogance became more and more arrogant, and no one could control them from far and near. ”

"There is such a thing." The man listened and thought. I knew that the southwest toast was dominant, and I didn't want to be rampant. The reason for this is not only the arrogance of the local officials themselves, but also the fact that the imperial court is very conniving at them. If you think about it this way, it is not surprising that the Banshu Rebellion a few decades ago and the Luxury Rebellion more than a decade ago would have occurred. Thinking about it again, the owner of this tea shed is just a small people in the mountains, and he dares to say such things as "the dynasty is out of unity and the place is weak", which shows that the decay of the Ming Dynasty is obvious to all.

"You are not only bold, but you also have a little worry about the country and the people. If it weren't for you in front of me, hehe, I would have thought it was a showman. ”

The owner of the tea shed said that he was a little less scrupled, and said bluntly: "The guest officer said that he was laughing, how dare the villain and the vulgar person make a boundary with the scholar?" It's just that because I often walked around in the official palace when I was young, I heard and saw a lot, and I opened the tea shed later, and I heard some rare things from merchants from all over the world, so I grew a little long-term insight. ”

The two chatted for a while, and the man felt that the owner of the tea shed had no more information to use, so he paid for the tea, picked up the knife, put on the hat, and was about to leave.

"Slow down!" Before he could take a step, the owner of the tea shed stopped him.

The man frowned: "What, but you don't have any money?" ”

The owner of the tea shed shook his head and said, "The guest officer is a foreigner, and he doesn't know my customs here." You are fine here, but if you reach the land of the indigenous people of Zhonglu and there is no one to lead you, once you are discovered, you will be beaten to the least, and you may be captured as a slave if it is serious. ”

The man's footsteps couldn't help but stagnate, and he turned to look at the owner of the tea shed: "I didn't say that I wanted to go to the indigenous ground, you have been repeatedly tempted from the beginning, what is your intention?" As he spoke, he straightened his thumb and pushed the knife out.

"Guest officer, guest officer, don't come nonsense, the villain has no intention to ......" The owner of the tea shed said with a smile on his face, and said as he retreated. When the man saw that his eyes were wandering, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The next moment, the owner of the tea shed jumped suddenly, jumped to the edge of the shed, whistled, the man raised his hand to look, and was surprised to see several horses rushing out of the forest.

"Why hasn't he left yet!" The man was so shocked that he subconsciously drew his sword, and the knight flew off his horse, lifted his leg and kicked him, right in the wrist.

Reflexively relaxed under the severe pain in his wrist, the knight took advantage of the situation to pick up the falling knife, put it against the man's chest, and said coldly: "Don't move." ”

The situation changed sharply, and the man really didn't expect it, raised his hands, stared at the knight and said, "It's just a person all the way down, and I don't know where I offended the young gentleman." ”

The knight crooked his mouth and sneered: "Now that the matter is now, there is no need to pretend to be confused. I'll tell you the truth, I noticed you three days ago. A foreigner, with neither goods nor a partner, just wanders around every day, and is either a traitor or a thief. ”

"It's unreasonable to just guess and take it down."

The knight did not answer, beckoned back, and the two attendants dismounted, and began to search the man's body. After a while, he took out a piece of silk silk from his sleeve and spread it out to see, but it depicted the local mountains and rivers, but it was not yet completed.

"What else do you say?" The knight picked up the silk silk and shook it in front of the man, "Draw a map privately and find out the news." And say you're not a spy? ”

"What's wrong with the most cloud-loving sightseeing in my next life, and at the same time recording the famous rivers and rivers?" At that time, Xu Hongzu's name had not yet been revealed, but it was not without travelers like him who were not involved in industry and only liked to travel. Zhonglu is also often visited by tourists from other places. But apparently the knight did not believe his arguments.

"You have to quibble, take it back and torture it carefully." As soon as the knight gave the order, his entourage immediately rushed up and tied up the man.

After the man had been taken away, the knight sat down in the shed and drank his tea. The owner of the tea shed bowed over and said, "Shaojun, you see what the origin of this guy is." ”

The knight tapped the table with his fingers: "This accent is neither Kuizhou nor Chongqing, let alone Benwei." Come here to find out the news, what do you say? ”

The owner of the tea shed understood, but seemed worried: "If it's really from over there, won't we catch fire?" ”

The knight was noncommittal, but smiled slightly.