July Flowing Fire.

It's still hot, but it's starting to get cooler. There was a light rain last night, and it's even cooler today.

In the afternoon, on the street outside Chang'an West City, there was a flow of people, horseback, cars, and walkers, and everyone was in a hurry.

Kang An was walking down the street on a donkey, and there was a man in front of him leading the donkey. This donkey is rented, that is, to rent this man, there are many special donkey renters in Chang'an West City, you can rent a donkey for a little money, it is very convenient to carry people and goods, and even rent a donkey will have a man to lead the donkey, and this man will also act as a guide in Chang'an City.

As a Sogdian merchant in the Western Regions, Fu'an has only been in Chang'an for several years, and he will only return to the Western Regions once every three years, where he also has his own shop, for Chang'an, a city where he has lived for more than ten years, he has become more and more accustomed to him, and he likes him more and more.

He likes the splendor of this Chang'an the most, and likes the liveliness here, which is not seen at all in Kangguo in the Western Regions.

Sometimes, he would also give up the business in the shop and hand it over to his sons, and then instead of riding his own horse, he would rent a donkey from the donkey renter in Xishi and walk around Chang'an City slowly.

Looking at the scenery of Chang'an, and also looking at the people who come and go in Chang'an, Lao Kang'an watched many Hu merchants from the Western Regions enter the city, and always remembered the scene when he first entered Chang'an City with his father more than ten years ago.

He likes Chang'an, and after more than ten years, he feels more and more like a Tang person, a citizen of Chang'an. He wore Han clothes, spoke Han language, and even found a gentleman to learn Han Chinese writing, read Han Chinese books, and even believed in Han Taoism a few years ago.

With a lot of copper coins and some sesame oil in the burden on his back, he planned to visit Chang'an City as usual, but he was a saint.

"Lao Kang, go to Zongshengguan again?"

walked through an intersection, where several Wuhou shops greeted him. has been here for a long time, and Lao Kang'an is also very familiar with these martial marquis.

He smiled and nodded, "I'll have time to go fishing when I go back!" ”

The donkey man walked very fast, tall, with a big beard, a high nose, deep eyes, blond hair and blue eyes, although he was also dressed in the same Tang Dynasty, but in fact, this person was also a Hu from the Western Regions, but he was not exactly a Hu person, his mother was a Hu Ji from the Western Regions, and later got along with a small officer who came to Chang'an, and then the officer returned to Jiangnan after the fan, but the Hu Ji found out that she was pregnant.

A few months later, she gave birth to a son, a Hu-Han mixture. He grew up in Chang'an when he was a child, and now he is in his twenties in a blink of an eye, and he is even more familiar with Chang'an than Lao Kang'an. Lao Kangan rents his donkey every time, and he is also a regular customer, so he doesn't need to ask to know where Lao Kangan is going.

"Stone, I heard that you recently fell in love with a girl?" Lao Kangan asked.

The tall half-breed was rough, but he was actually very young, only in his early twenties, just looking old. He turned his head and grinned, blurting out a double authentic Guanzhong dialect.

"Yes, it's the daughter of the old man who sells chicken feathers in the West Market, and she's not bad."

Lao Kangan smiled, "Since people don't look down on you as a mongrel, then hurry up." If you have enough money in your hand, if you don't have enough, you can come to my shop to fulcrum, we are also fellow villagers in the Western Regions, and my interest will not be more than yours. ”

Shi's mother's surname is Shi, from the country of Shi in the Western Regions, and his father is said to be also surnamed Shi, but he is from Runzhou, in the south of the Yangtze River, after his father left Chang'an twenty years ago, he never came back, and there is no news. Her mother actually only knew that he was in Runzhou, Jiangnan, but she didn't know where it was at all, maybe for the officer surnamed Shi, it was just a romantic past when he was in Chang'an.

Shi is working hard to make money now, just to save enough money to marry a wife as soon as possible. His donkey, which was also bought with money borrowed from Lao Kang'an, has not been paid off yet, but since he bought his own donkey, his income has obviously increased a lot.

To Lao Kang'an, the stone is very grateful. This fellow villager takes good care of his fellow villagers in Chang'an, and if it is difficult to borrow money from this fellow villager, he can generally borrow it, although it also requires interest, but after all, people are willing to borrow.

"Kang Lao, I recently found a new part-time job, and the newly opened Chang'an newspaper in the south of the city asked me to help them sell newspapers, which can also have a little extra income."

"By the way, do you want to have a copy, Mr. Kang, it's very good, many people have said it's okay."

"What newspaper?"

"Is it a kind of paper?" Kang Lao asked.

"It's a book." Stone scratched his head and said, "But it's not like a normal book." This book is very cheap, dozens of pages, the word is relatively small, but a copy is only fifty yuan, if there is a discount on a monthly or annual subscription, there can be a minimum of 20% discount. ”

Stone is a little clumsy to recommend, usually lead the donkey full of Chang'an's turn, send newspapers is good, sometimes by the way to sell newspapers to guests, if you sell a copy, you also have a commission. For someone like him, this part-time job is quite suitable for him.

Helping to deliver newspapers is a fixed income, how much is it to send a point, and then if you sell the newspaper, you will get a commission.

Only fifty yuan a book, this price makes Lao Kangan a little puzzled, he has been busy in the store these days, his shop is dealing in spices transported from the Western Regions, and by the way, he also does some business of borrowing money from fellow villagers Hu people. I have been in Chang'an for a long time, and my business is honest, and I am usually very busy.

He hadn't heard of the newspapers.

Shi took out a booklet from his bag and handed it to Lao Kang An, "Kang Lao, you can take a look first, it doesn't matter, by the way, this newspaper also comes with a list of gods, this is serialized, I have heard people read it, the story is wonderful, there are many Taoist immortals in it." ”

Lao Kang'an was a believer, and as soon as he heard that there were Taoist immortals, he did not refuse the newspaper handed by the stone and took it.

As a Hu businessman who has stayed in Chang'an for more than ten years, Lao Kangan has made a lot of money by selling spices and lending money over the years, and he invited a special gentleman to teach him to read and write, so the level is actually quite good.

"Fengshen Bang, King Shang, hey, it turns out to tell the story of King Yin and King Yin in ancient China." After Lao Kangan looked down, he found that there was still a king of Shang, and he still knew a little about Chinese history, after all, he had read a lot of books of the Tang Dynasty.

But looking further back, there were ancient immortals such as Nuwa and Fuxi, Emperor Yan, and Xuanyuan, who were the ancestors of the Chinese people, who were the rulers of the human race in ancient times, and later became saints and immortals. As for Nuwa, it is a goddess with a snake body who created human beings.

Lao Kangan felt that this story was a little interesting.

Shi couldn't help but spoil on the side, "That King of Shang is a lewd tyrant, and he dares to write obscene poems against the myth of Nuwa Niangniang, blaspheming the gods!" ”

Lao Kangan pouted, he didn't like this kind of spoiler very much, but he didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued to sit on the donkey and bury his head in reading.

"Hey, this king of Shang, no wonder he died later, he really died." Although it was spoiled, he couldn't help but scold when he read that King Shang wrote obscene poems.

The stone couldn't help but spoil it again, "When Nuwa Niangniang came back, she was very angry, took out a treasure gourd of the fairy family, summoned all the demons in the world, and said that she would punish Shang Xuan." ”

In this way, Lao Kang couldn't stand it anymore.

At this time, the stomach rumbled, but it suddenly rained yesterday, and the night turned cold, Lao Kang didn't come for a while to keep warm, but he caught a cold, and now his stomach seems to be galloping.

"Stone, hurry up and find a public toilet in front of me and stop, I'm going to squat in the toilet."

When the stone heard this, he hurriedly led his donkey to rush forward, fortunately, there are public toilets on all streets in Chang'an, especially at the intersection.

In the distance, I saw a brand-new public toilet, and there was an apricot yellow pennant standing in front of it, with the four big characters of grain reincarnation written on it.

As soon as the donkey stopped, Lao Kangan couldn't wait to jump off the donkey, holding his abdomen in his hand and burrowing into the public toilet, and even forgot to return the stone newspaper.

Hurriedly rushed into the public toilet, there were about twenty seats inside, fortunately there were vacant seats at this time, hurriedly went over and squatted down, and untied his clothes.

After a rumble, Lao Kangan breathed a sigh of relief, this is cool.

Squatting on the pit, bored for a while, Lao Kang thought of the list of gods that he hadn't finished reading just now, so he opened it and continued to read.

Looking at it, seeing the wonderful points, I couldn't help but read it out loud.

“······ When the generals heard this, they said: "When I hear that the king is right, then the ministers will go to foreign countries." Now the lord is light and virtuous, and when he sees the chaos, if he goes out of the court song and defends a country, he can protect the temple and protect his family. At this time, Su Hu was in a rage, and when he heard this, he became conscious, and he didn't even think, so he said: "The husband can't do things that he doesn't understand!" "Called left and right, take the four treasures of the study, and inscribe poems on the wall of the noon gate, expressing my intention that I will never go to business. The poem says:

"The monarch is bad and the ministers are outlined, there are defeated five constants, Jizhou Su Hu, and the ······· of the dynasty and merchants will be forever"

This paragraph is the end of the first chapter of the Fengshen List serialization, preaching about the inscription poem of Hou Su Huwumen in Jizhou against the song of the court.

In this paragraph, the plot of the faint monarch forcing the loyal ministers to rebel is really angry, and Su Hu's rebellion is also enjoyable.

But when I was having a good time, there was a sentence at the end, "If you want to know what will happen next, please listen to the next chapter breakdown!" ”

Lao Kangan felt a little unfinished.

He sighed, and a dozen sighs echoed in the public toilet.

"That's it?"

"What about the back?"

"That's right, did this Su Hu succeed in reversing the song?"

"Did he return to Jizhou safely?"

"Has Su Hu's daughter been snatched into the palace by the faint king?"

·······

Lao Kangan was a little dumbfounded, and when he heard the question every other paragraph, he never expected it.

"No, that's all there is to this newspaper, and there will be more later, but it seems that we have to wait for the next issue."

Someone asked, "Which story is this, and how come I've never heard it before?" ”

"The serialization in the Chang'an News Newspaper is heard to be published every ten years."

"Chang'an News, I don't think I've heard of it."

"What's the name of that story?"

"God List!" Lao Kangan replied.

In the public toilet, a group of friends who squatted in the pit continued to interact······