Chapter 53: The Road Seeks the Lord of Cloud Mountain
In the early morning, the sky was just light. In the backyard house of Yunxian Ju, the fat shopkeeper Zhang Yida woke up. Although he was busy until late at night last night, the shopkeeper Zhang Da, who was not confused, was still in good spirits. Dress and fold quilts, wash and sweep. After Zhang Yida tidied up his own room, he leaned at the door and listened carefully to the movement outside. Hearing the sound of 'rustling' sweeping the floor in the courtyard, Zhang Yida nodded with satisfaction, cleaned up his clothes and pushed the door and walked out.
When the servant who was cleaning the courtyard saw the shopkeeper going out, he immediately stopped the broom and bowed down to say hello. The shopkeeper Zhang made a reserved 'um' and then instructed: "The two people who live in the West Chamber are distinguished guests, and they are quick to work with their hands and feet, don't disturb others clumsily." Seeing that the servant nodded in response, the big shopkeeper waved his hand and let the servant go to work by himself, and began his first routine inspection of the day.
This Yunxian Residence has only been open for two months, but the rules have been approved in black and white early. In addition to the reward and punishment system, the way of treating all guests is clearly written. Its level of meticulousness, even for a person like Zhang Yida, who has been an innkeeper for many years, can't help but be dumbfounded. Although Zhang Yida has always been conceited and eye-catching, what guests are rich, what guests are delicate and expensive, and what kind of guests are swollen and fat, with his more than 20 years of experience in reading people, he can distinguish seven seven or eight at a glance. And the rules that the boss put down were really for his eyesight, just take the two ladies from yesterday, one old and one young, even if there is a power to cover it, just by virtue of his figure and speaking bearing, Zhang Yida immediately determined that this was from a noble family. This kind of person pays attention to identity pomp, so Zhang Yida did not hesitate to report the best room in the store, and sure enough, he hit the weakness of the two people, although the price is 30% more expensive than ordinary rooms, but he still accepted it without hesitation. But then the coachman's arrangement was beyond Zhang Yida's understanding.
According to Zhang Yida's previous experience, even if such a coachman is a domestic servant who knows the roots, he can arrange a shop at will when he goes out. If the conditions are worse and the owner is stingy, the whole shop does not sleep directly in the stable. But the rules written by the boss are good, divided into categories, and each has its own arrangement. Originally, Zhang Yida thought that this was an extra move, so he didn't remember it in his mind after reading it. Who knew that I really met yesterday and couldn't remember the details all of a sudden, but I still secretly looked at the rules and said, but I didn't expect to really earn the price of an ordinary room for nothing.
Alas, there are people outside the people. Zhang Yida, who was deeply shocked, memorized all the rules of the book last night, and he learned a lesson. I thought that this boss's family was farming, and they didn't know anything about this kind of store business, but who would have thought that people would arrange it more thoughtfully than his old business. Since the opening of this Yunxian Residence, business has been booming, and the boss's vision is really good. The distance from this location to Chang'an and the state city is not far or close, and the fast horse can barely move forward at the city gate, and if you take a car, you will inevitably suffer outside the city gate all night. Now there is such a fair-priced, well-conditioned inn in the middle of the road, as long as it is not really urgent, it is inevitable to covet comfort and stay here for a night.
Zhang Da shopkeeper walked leisurely according to the patrol route, the sky was bright, there were guests who got up early and hurried to get up, met the guests on the way, Zhang Da shopkeeper went up one by one to say hello, the smiling and courteous appearance was twice as flattering as those servants. To say that the third master of the Li family, the owner of Yunxian Residence, has taken a fancy to Zhang Yida's temperament. So in the past two years, when the business in the county was bleak and unsustainable, the old shopkeeper was invited. Facts have proved how wise this choice is, Li Zhencai and Zhang Yida chatted about business experience and smelled like each other, so they almost clasped their hands and shouted, 'Confidant!' ’
"Oh, Dao Chang got up early. How did you get a good night's rest? If there is anything you are not satisfied with, just bring it up, and the shop will correct it immediately. By the way, breakfast in the shop starts at the end of the day every day, and if the Taoist chief is hungry, just go to the lobby to eat. You can also say hello to the buddy and ask the Taoist to send him to the house. Shopkeeper Zhang saw Sun Simiao from a distance, and hurriedly walked a few steps over to say hello, he didn't forget that this old Taoist priest was going to Yunshan today, if he neglected him, he would mention it in front of the boss at that time.
Sun Simiao, who was practicing the Five Fowl Opera, didn't expect Zhang Yida, who was smiling in front of him, to be a villain, and he didn't care about Zhang Yida's politeness, he saw it just now, basically Zhang Yida would say it once when he saw any guest, not specifically for him. After receiving the posture, Sun Simiao saluted to Shopkeeper Zhang, and then asked: "Shopkeeper Zhang, there is something I want to ask about Poor Dao, I don't know if that little brother was in your store yesterday?" ”
"Oh, that's a nephew of our boss. The boss occasionally asks him to help with some of the paperwork, and yesterday was the same. As a rule, the owner or a few of his nephews would visit the store regularly to check on the situation. Zhang Yida's eyes rolled and he felt that there was nothing to hide from this matter, so he told the truth.
Sun Simiao thought for a while and asked, "I wonder if the 'Brother Yun' that little brother said has also come to your store?" ”
"This ...... I only know that the boss has four relatives and nephews, but I have only seen the first three, but none of these three have the word 'Yun' in their name, and as for the fourth, I have only heard the boss mention that it is called 'Yun'er' but have never seen it. ”
Hearing this, Sun Simiao knew it in his heart, and went back to the room politely, thinking in his heart: "Living alone and no longer showing up in front of outsiders, if there is anything unspeakable, there is really something unseemly." This Li Luoyun ...... Looks like I'm really going to see you today. ”
"Oh, yes. The road is long, and the road is long and walks slowly. Zhang Yida turned around and suddenly remembered what Li Chenglin had explained yesterday, turned around, moved his slightly obese body with two thick legs, and trotted to catch up with Sun Simiao.
"What's the matter with the shopkeeper?"
"It's okay, it's okay. No, no, there is something. Yesterday, the San Lang asked me to tell the Taoist chief that the car for Yunshan to deliver grain would arrive at two o'clock, and asked the Taoist chief to pack up and salute in advance. ”
"Ao, Poor Dao knows, thank you for telling the shopkeeper. Poor Road does have some salutes to bring, but it is troublesome to travel to and from Yunshan, can you temporarily store it in your store? ”
"No problem, no problem. Otherwise, I still keep the room for the Taoist, and I will let the guy register the gift items, and if there is damage or loss, the store will compensate according to the price. ”
"So...... Trouble shopkeeper. ”
"It should be, it should be."
Yunshan Nuan Yutan Sanmu Cottage.
The sunlight shone on Luo Yun's face through the window lattice, the burning stinging eyelids, the sleepy Luo Yun rubbed his eyes and rolled over, muttering in his mouth: "Xiao You, it's dawn." What to eat today? ”
When Sun Simiao took the return ox cart, he swayed into the gate of Lijiazhai Valley. The news of Li Luoyun's visit, which was 100 meters and 11 seconds 4 seconds, quickly spread to the ears of everyone in the Li family. To say that this Lijiazhai belongs to a barren mountain, in previous years, except for relatives to return to their parents' homes, there were not a few visitors a year. Although since last year, Li Jiazhai has a great reputation, and almost all of the Li family's brothers have reached the age of marriage, so the number of people who come to propose marriage has increased exponentially recently. But this person who came today is amazing, if you want to say that he proposed to Luo Yun, it's not that I haven't seen it, but I really haven't seen Luo Yun's 'friend' visit.
Who is Li Luoyun, who doesn't know that this person has grown up so big, except for a few times when he was a child, he went to the county a few times, but he couldn't live for a few days, how can he still go out of the mountains over the years. Now someone came to see Li Luoyun, this person is still an old Taoist priest, so it is impossible for everyone not to think nonsense. Could it be that he didn't leave back then, and now an old immortal has come to pick him up in person?
No matter what kind of thoughts everyone has, in short, everyone up and down is very curious about this 'legendary Taoist priest'. So when Sun Simiao walked up to Yunshan, crossed the walled gate, and came to the front of the Li family ancestral hall. I saw the two old ladies of the Li family as the leaders, Li Zhencai and Li Huan, plus Li Chenglin, who led Sun Simiao all the way. There were 100 onlookers, men, women and children. This welcome posture was not so grand when the king came.
Sun Daochang is a profound Taoist, and he is not surprised or happy when he sees this scene, and he looks calm. But his temperament, combined with his ordinary, but revealing Zhongzheng's natural appearance and temperament, made everyone in the Li family admire in their hearts. If you want to be a Taoist, everyone in Lijiazhai has seen a lot, and the most common ones are those Taoists who practice in the Taoist temple on Shouyang Mountain. However, although those Taoist priests have various immortal wind and Taoist bones, and the appearance of Taoism is profound, none of them can make every move like the old Taoist priest in front of him, who is dressed in sackcloth and has a short hoe at the waist, and every word makes people's hearts cleansed and their hearts and spleens are smooth. If Luo Yun is here, he will definitely comment on Sun Simiao: The Tao is natural, back to the basics, like a spring breeze. This is a cultivator, those mediocre people who nest in front of the Dan furnace and blindly seek immortality are just slaves of the ore Dansha. I only know how to ascend to immortals but I don't know how to cultivate.
The Li family looked at Sun Simiao up and down carefully, and then Mrs. Li greeted him and waved his hand to ask gently: "The Tao has been hard for a long time, please go to the cold house to drink a cup of coarse tea and rest your legs and feet." ”
Sun Simiao returned the salute: "The layman is polite, the poor road is here to see Li Luoyun again, and ask the layman to tell me where to go?" ”
Old Man Li didn't expect Sun Simiao to be so straightforward, and he didn't know what to do for a while. Behind him, Li Zhencai saw that his father was stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to answer and said: "The Taoist chief first invites the family to rest, my nephew likes to play in the back mountain, and I don't know if he has come back, so I will ask him to come and see the Taoist chief." ”
Sun Simiao thought that it would be good to also know about Li Luoyun's reputation in the village, so he nodded and agreed, but still said: "On the way, I heard from the small living room that Li Luoyun has relatives in the village, and the poor road does not dare to take the liberty of disturbing everyone, can you go directly to Li Luoyun's house to wait?" ”
Not only the two old men now, but Li Zhencai's face is a little ugly. This old Taoist priest is so unreasonable, every word is directly aimed at Luo Yun. Could it be true? Seeing that Sun Simiao insisted, although the two old men were unwilling in their hearts, they couldn't rest assured that they would go home. waved his hand to let the people who watched the excitement disperse, and the two old men led the way and took Sun Simiao to Luo Yun's house.
Seeing the three of them leaving, Li Zhencai grabbed Li Huan, who was about to leave, and asked urgently: "With such a big movement, how can Lao Wu still sit still?" Where is he? What about Cheng Mu? ”
Li Jian grinned and said: "Uncle Wu called the fourth uncle early in the morning to take Brother Kun and Mu'er into the mountains to hunt, and Brother Kun came to call me, but I didn't go." After speaking, he looked at Li Zhencai, who had a gloomy face, and asked cautiously: "It's just that a Taoist priest came, so you won't be so nervous, right?" ”
Li Zhencai sighed: "I can't understand you in a sentence or two about this." Forget it, it's a blessing or a curse, you go back and take care of your daughter-in-law, I'll follow and take a look. After speaking, Li Huan, who left an ignorant face, hurriedly chased after him.
And what about Luo Yun?
Although his martial uncle and fourth uncle both went hunting, Cheng Mu made a detour to call him, but Luo Yun didn't go. One is that it feels like cheating with Xiaoyou hunting, and the other is that thinking that Aunt Mei is at home by herself, it is better to go home and find Aunt Mei to get some delicious food. So when Li Zhencai shouted, 'Sister Sumei, there is a distinguished guest visiting' all the way into the backyard of Luo Yun's house to report some news to Aunt Mei first, he saw Luo Yun sitting on the low pier at the door of the kitchen, holding a boxwood bowl and snoring and eating water cakes. Hearing him enter the courtyard, Luo Yun's pair of dark eyes appeared on the edge of the palm-long big sea bowl, staring at him in surprise.
"You, why are you at home!" Li Zhencai really didn't expect Luo Yun to be at home, and he really didn't want Luo Yun to be at home at this time, so he couldn't help but ask Luo Yun at first glance.
Luo Yun was stunned by the third uncle's tone, almost choked on the noodles, wiped his mouth and asked inexplicably, "Can't I be at home?" ”
Li Zhencai stomped his foot angrily, he didn't have time to say more, he glanced back, walked to Luo Yun's side in three steps and two steps, and dragged Luo Yun's arm to let him hide first. Why wait for them to figure out the old Taoist's intentions.
But who knows if Sun Simiao really opened his eyes and knew that Luo Yun was here, and after entering the front hall, he politely gave up his seat to the two old men, and he didn't have any consciousness of being a guest, so he went directly through the back door and entered the courtyard. At first glance, I saw the black blue tiger sleeping in the courtyard, and as soon as I raised my eyes, I firmly fixed my eyes on Li Luoyun, who was still looking at Li Zhencai at a loss. "Farewell to Nanshan, little friends have always been good."
Sun Simiao's greeting, Li Zhencai had to let go of Luo Yun stupidly, glared at him reproachfully, and then glared at the old Taoist priest who trespassed into someone's backyard angrily. Li Luoyun looked at Sun Simiao for a long time, he was just in a hurry, and after nearly two years, he could still remember what the medicine king looked like. However, when I saw the shabby Qingdeluo and the short hoe that looked nondescript hanging around my waist, I thought about it for a long time before I suddenly exclaimed: "You are Sun Simiao!" ”
Luo Yun was very rude, but Sun Simiao didn't care, and replied with a slight smile: "It's the poor road." On the same day, I was taught by Xiaoyou, and today I came to visit Yunshan. ”
"Ahh How dare the younger generation. Luo Yun was not so arrogant that he dared to accept a thank you from the dignified medicine king just by flickering that day, and he stood up and wanted to meet him, but after walking two steps, he found that he was still holding chopsticks and holding a bowl in his hand. smiled apologetically at Sun Simiao: "Dao Chief, please go to the front room for tea first, and I'll clean up and go." After speaking, he jumped back to the kitchen with the bowl in his arms, and saw that the figure was still tilting his head and pulling the bottom of the bowl. Sun Simiao didn't think it was strange to see Luo Yun's appearance, but his heart was much more relaxed. smiled mildly at Aunt Mei and the others who were staring at him in surprise, and turned back to the front hall.
Aunt Mei looked at Sun Simiao's back, turned her head to look at Li Zhencai, and didn't let go. Li Zhencai scratched his head and shrugged at Aunt Mei: "I don't know what's going on, you have to ask Luo Yun." I thought this Taoist priest was here...... Ahem, you know ......."
"I know what a fart" Aunt Mei glanced at Li Zhencai angrily, turned around and went into the kitchen to pull Luo Yun, who was washing the dishes, and asked something quietly.
Li Zhencai was depressed by Su Mei's glance, could it be that I thought too much? Are people really just stopping by to meet?