Chapter 13: The Black Shop
Li Zhifu of Cangzhou Mansion was quite enthusiastic when he got Yan Song's letter, entertained Chen Di with good wine and food, and promised to send ten officials to escort Chen Di out of Cangzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At noon the next day, Chen Di was ready to go on the road.
Liang Erhei came as promised. The short and fat squad leader of Cangzhou Mansion also waited for Chen Di in front of the post station with more than a dozen servants.
Chen Di saw Liang Erhei coming, and asked him, "Liang Erhei, what else do you know besides fists and feet?" ”
Liang Erhei scratched his head and said: "We practice martial arts in Yunshan Township, and fists and feet are just basic kung fu. I can also use swords. ”
This made Chen Di overjoyed. I was warmly entertained by Governor Li in Cangzhou, and I got this martial arts master, this Cangzhou is really not in vain.
The head of the Humpty Dumpty squad said to Chen Di: "Lord Chen, the villain is blinded by eating, I offended the adult yesterday, don't remember my villain's fault." ”
Chen Di said: "Haha, it's okay. Because of his young age, Lord Ben was mistaken for a pretended court official along the way. If you want to make amends, you have to make amends to Liang Erhei, obviously it was the second master Xu in the south of the city who provoked him first, but you locked him up! Give your waist knife to this Liang Erhei, even if it is an apology, how about it? ”
The head of the team said: "The villain listens to Lord Chen!" ”
The team leader handed over the waist knife to Liang Erhei.
Chen Di said: "Liang Erhei, you play a set of knife techniques to open the eyes of Lord Ben." ”
Liang Erhei got the order, took out his waist knife and played the knife technique. I saw that the knife was flashing, the blade was sharp, and an ordinary official with a knife was actually played by this Liang Erhei.
Chen Di praised: "Good! ”
The officials and the old housekeeper Yan also praised: "Good! ”
Chen Di looked at the sun, it was not early, and said, "Okay, let's go!" ”
More than a dozen Cangzhou officials have been escorting Chen Di out of the Cangzhou border.
After more than ten days, Chen Di finally arrived at the border of Henan.
The further south you go, the more shocking the sight becomes.
It's autumn season, and it's supposed to be harvest season. But along the way, there were abandoned farmland and people fleeing the famine. Countless people died of starvation on the roadside.
Further afield, it can only be described as Chidi Qianli.
When I arrived at the territory of Anyang Prefecture, it was already night.
Chen Di said to Mr. Yan: "When you arrive in Anyang, you can reach Qinyang County in two or three days." ”
Old Butler Yan said: "It seems that I can't catch up with Anyang Station today." Where to stay at night?
Chen Di said: "It seems that I can only find an inn on the side of the official road to spend the night!" ”
Old Butler Yan shook his head: "I see it difficult." This Anyang is full of fleeing people, how can anyone stay in what inn? Those who opened inns are probably all changed their ways. ”
The three of them walked for another half an hour, and the sharp-eyed Liang Erhei shouted: "My lord, do you see if there is an inn in front of you?" ”
When Chen Di took a look, he saw that there were seven or eight earthen houses on the side of the road, surrounded by a fence outside, and a bamboo pole with the "Shilipo Inn" on it.
How could there be such an inn in this barren mountain and wilderness? Chen Di thinks Shilipo is so familiar? Cough! Isn't the black shop opened by Sun Erniang in the Water Margin called Shilipo Inn? This is not also a black shop, right?
Forget it, you can't sleep in the wilderness, let's go and have a look first.
As soon as I entered the inn, a shopkeeper with a wicked smile came out of the counter.
"Three of you live in the hotel?" The shopkeeper asked.
"Well, stay at the hotel." Chen Di replied.
"Little Er, go and get ready to go to the room!" The way of the shopkeeper.
Chen Di smiled in his heart, what kind of room can there be in the inn composed of these adobe houses?
Chen Di and his party walked for a day, hungry and thirsty. Chen Di asked, "Shop, do you have anything to eat?" ”
The shopkeeper said: "There is only a nest head." ”
The old housekeeper Yan said: "Do you see that this master of our family is used to eating nests?" Give some good food and meat! Money will never lose you! ”
The shopkeeper said, "In this year of famine, where is there any good food and meat?" By the way, I have rice meat here, will you eat it? ”
The old housekeeper Yan said: "Why don't you hurry up if you have meat?" ”
Chen Di was taken aback. Where would Old Butler Yan and Liang Erhei know that the so-called rice meat is another name for human flesh. The history books talk about the year of the catastrophe, cannibalism, and the change of children eats. He used to think it was just a few cold sentences in the book. But if it really happened, there are only four words to describe his mood at the moment. And that is: shocking!
Chen Di almost vomited when he heard the shopkeeper say rice meat. He said to the shopkeeper, "Forget it, let's go to the nest!" If you can fill your stomach, it's done. ”
Liang Erhei also thought to himself, this Lord Chen is really incorruptible, and he didn't blink an eye when he gave me money to bury my old lady. On the way, he didn't even want to eat meat, he was really a good person.
The shopkeeper led Chen Di into an adobe room and arranged for Old Butler Yan and Liang Erhei to live in the next room.
Chen Di entered the room and kept an eye on it.
Ye Shi said that most of the black shops have secret channels. The exit from the dark passage is often the bed in the guest room. When the moon is dark and the wind is high, the gangsters will go directly to the guest's bed along the dark passage and get out, and the guest will rob the finances with a knife.
Such an adobe house does not have a wooden bed, but an earthen kang.
Chen Di knocked on the kang with his hand and was surprised!
"Knock knock", the bottom of this soil kang is actually hollow!
He lifted the bedding and mat on top, and saw that there was a hidden compartment with a wooden plank underneath, and there was a handle on it.
Pull the handle and open the dark grid, and there is clearly a bottomless dark passage inside!
Oh my God, I'm really in a black shop!
Chen Di hurriedly called in Liang Erhei and Old Butler Yan.
Chen Di told the two of them what he had discovered.
Liang Erhei said: "Bold thief! So I went out and slaughtered the treasurer. ”
Chen Di whispered: "Not busy! I estimate that there will not only be two people in this black shop, the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, they must also have helpers. ”
Chen Di looked at the adobe house, which had a stove in it.
Chen Di instructed the old housekeeper Yan: "You go get some water and put it on the stove to boil!" ”
Then, Chen Di said to Liang Erhei and Old Butler Yan: "Let's pretend to sleep now!" I lay on the kang and listened to the movement under the wooden board, as soon as there was movement, Steward Yan, you poured the boiling water under the dark passage! ”
The three of them lay down and pretended to be asleep, and Liang Erhei even pretended to snore.
Outside the adobe house, the innkeeper listened to the movement under the window sneakily, and then went to a field next to the inn.
In the wilderness, there were six or seven fierce men. The leader has a big beard and an axe in his hand.
"All asleep?" The bearded man asked the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper said: "Don't worry, big brother, these three people sleep like dead pigs." However, these three people are very attentive, and they don't live separately, they all live in the middle room. ”
The bearded man said, "That's just right, I can catch them all!" The third child, is this handful of pigs fat? ”
The shopkeeper said, "Look at that little boy wearing silk, he is definitely a rich man!" ”
The bearded man smiled: "Good! When the time comes for everyone to get rich, they all listen to me, the old rule, four people enter from the tunnel, and leave four outside. If the people in the tunnel don't succeed, the four outside will rush in again! ”