Chapter 19: Companions

Tang Xu has lived by himself since he was in middle school, his parents are busy with work and often do not stay at home, there was a distant relative who wanted to come to the house to take care of him, but Tang Xu didn't like strangers to stay at home, and he did take care of everything very well, cooking by himself, washing clothes by himself, paying electricity and water bills by himself, and even repairing his clothes and pants by himself. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

"Doesn't look good?" Tang Xu spent the morning sewing a vest for himself, went to the market to buy calfskin, plus two layers of coarse linen, this weather is quite warm to wear, and two flat pockets are opened on the chest, which are used to put small gold nuggets, maps and pearls. The small medicine jar is more obstructive and difficult to put close to the body, so I made a circle around the body like a waist bag, and other vacant places can be enlarged for money. Tang Xu put all the equipment on his body and then put on the middle coat does not look strange and bloated, if you add a long coat to keep out the cold, in an instant, the original pile of cumbersome things will disappear into invisibility, Tang Xu admired himself in the house for a long time, very satisfied.

"Master Tang, lunch is ready, will you eat in the house or go downstairs to sit?" Ah Cai knocked on the door a few times.

"Let's go downstairs to eat, I've been staying in the house for the past few days, it's a little boring." Tang Xu put on his coat and opened the door and went downstairs with Ah Cai, who cleaned up a leeward table for him to sit on.

Tang Xu sat down and waited for the food to be served, and when he was bored, he took out the album that Liu Shenxian gave him that recorded the prescription and looked at it. There are a lot of recipes, if you really want to learn, I'm afraid it won't be able to do it in a year and a half, just wanted to close the album, but Yu Guang aimed at something special, and turned to the last few pages, all of them were human figures drawn with meridian acupuncture points, naked, there were men and women, Tang Xu's face was red, and he quickly put it away. I'm afraid I'm going to get caught if I look at this kind of thing in public.

"Ah Cai, bring the food upstairs, I'm a little sleepy." After Tang Xu finished speaking, he went upstairs first. Ah Cai came over with a food box, and followed Tang Xu up before he could take a breath, which was really tiring, but Tang Xu gave him a few small coins and made him very comfortable again.

Tang Xu waited for Ah Cai to leave, returned to the table and took out the album again, except for the nudity, which was a little unbearable to look at, the other contents were very serious and academic. In the spirit of study and research, Tang Xu still looked carefully without dropping a page.

"Can this thing be pointed?" Tang Xu began to think crankily again, took off all the clothes on his body, raised his index finger, and hit his Tanzhong acupoint according to the acupuncture points drawn in the book.

β€œγ€‚γ€‚γ€‚β€ Tang Xu was so painful that he couldn't speak with his mouth open, he covered his chest and fell to the ground, it was difficult to breathe, and his already not easy brain was even more confused.

"It's pretty good." Tang Xu lay on the ground and gasped for a long time before he got up, a little happy, if he learned everything, maybe he would be a martial arts master. Tang Xu was energetic, he was bored to read, and he saw the second half of the night from the afternoon until he was very tired before going to sleep.

It rained the next day, the whole sky was gray, and the sky became colder, Tang Xu sat in the lobby in a daze, and suddenly remembered Liu Shenxian's words, should he really go west?

"Master Tang!" Ah Cai ran back from outside, covered in rain, and his face couldn't suppress the excitement.

"What's wrong?" Tang Xu asked him. Ah Cai said mysteriously that it was inconvenient here, let's go back to the room to talk in detail, Tang Xu nodded and took him up.

"Master Tang, things are right, look!" After entering the house, Ah Cai took out a cloth bag from his arms, the inner three layers and the outer three layers were wrapped burlap, and finally a sign was revealed, and there were two pages of jute paper pressed underneath. Tang Xu picked up the sign and looked at it, Tang Xu's name was written vertically in the center, and a line of small characters was also written vertically in the lower right corner, probably the name of the place, Tang Xu didn't look carefully, and then went to get the pages of jute paper.

"So much." The whole three pages are densely written, when he was born, where his ancestral home is, where his family lives, who his parents are, and his life experience is all complete, accurate to the month. Tang Xu was taken aback, almost thinking that this was really his personal resume.

"Master Tang, in today's troubled times, it is better to be an official than to do business, so I got you a merchant's deed, and you can pass unhindered wherever you go." Ah Cai said.

"Really?" Tang Xu asked this funny, he was all fake, how could it be true.

"Rest assured, this is indeed a nameless lord, who has been missing for many years, and his tracks are no longer traceable, most likely dead. As long as you are sure, no one will dare to say that you are fake. However, in fact, no one has the heart to really check the authenticity, and the procedures are cumbersome. It's just that there is a voucher, and you can save yourself the trouble of staying in the hotel and traveling. Ah Cai was worried that Tang Xu would not buy it, so he quickly explained.

"Okay, I'll take this." Tang Xu thought about it, as long as he could find a place to live in the future, these things would be useless, he had lived in Liujia Village for so long, and he hadn't seen anyone to check his details.

"Haole, I'll rest assured if I'll give you something, and I won't bother you if you have a good rest." Ah Cai said that he was leaving, but he didn't move his steps for a long time. Tang Xu glanced at him, laughed secretly, and took out a few big coins and put them on the table. Ah Cai said that you are too polite, and he hurriedly brought the money over and put it in his arms.

After sending Ah Cai away, Tang Xu threw his things on the table, but he was still thinking about the question of whether he should go west. It's no problem to live all the time, the money is enough, and if you don't want to live in a guest house, you can also buy a small house and be self-sufficient. But Ah Cai also said that now is a troubled time, how can the country be home? It's unlikely that you want to live a stable life for the rest of your life, and it would be terrifying if you start a war and become a slave.

"Why don't you take the money back to Liujia Village?" Tang Xu muttered to himself, and felt that his thoughts were too naΓ―ve, didn't Liu Lao Wu say that he was still fighting a few years ago, if he really fought again, the fist-sized place in Liujia Village would be razed to the ground sooner or later.

"Going abroad?" I don't know how ancient people went abroad, Tang Xu heard that there were border stations and the like in ancient times, so if he broke through like this, most of them couldn't survive.

β€œγ€‚γ€‚γ€‚β€ I thought about it for a while and didn't come up with a reason, so I just didn't think about it for now. The rain outside the window had stopped, and Tang Xu wanted to go out for a walk again.

There was a fresh smell on the street after the rain, and the vendors who had just been put away to avoid the rain were also put out one after another. There is a lively scene everywhere, since ancient times, the people who have suffered are the people, but the people are the strongest or the most forgetful, only a few years have passed, and the traces of the war have disappeared cleanly.

Tang Xu walked to a tavern, and there was a storyteller in it, who was foaming at the mouth, and the audience listened to it with relish. Tang Xu was bored, and he also sat down and asked for a bowl of tea to listen to the book, listening to it was wrong, this storyteller was talking about the five generations of Liang Tang, and by the way, he "praised" the uncle of his old man who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light to bring peace to the people.

Now it's a late jin? The five dynasties and ten kingdoms are in chaos, and Tang Xu's history is not good, but he also knows that he will definitely have to fight again in a few years, and he must not stay any longer.

Let's go, listen to the words of Immortal Liu, and go west. Tang Xu hurried back to the inn, took out the map given by Liu Shenxian and studied it carefully, this is within the boundary of Jingzhou, where is it now, Tang Xu can't figure it out. However, judging from the map, this place is close to the border of the Later Jin Dynasty, and you can reach Lanzhou all the way to the west. I wonder if there is Lanzhou ramen now? Tang Xu remembered the ramen when he saw Lanzhou, and the halazi was about to flow out. If the brain hole is leaked, pull it back quickly, and it is important to study the map. Tang Xu felt that he was not in shape, and if he really went out like this, he would have to starve to death in a foreign land one day.

"But how do you get there?" A little distance on the map, I am afraid that I will go to the wilderness when I really walk, and I don't know how much time it took Liu Shenxian to draw such a large map. Maybe he also pieced together other people's maps? Tang Xu thought to himself. But anyway, it looks like that, and it's probably still credible.

Tang Xu felt that he might still be able to ask Ah Cai for help in this matter, help him find who was going west, and let himself hitchhike, even if he still had to have legs along the way, at least there were more people to take care of, and he was not afraid of being robbed. After making up his mind, Tang Xu immediately went downstairs to find Ah Cai, but Ah Cai didn't know where this would go, and he didn't see his figure until he found the thatched house. Probably sent out to work by the shopkeeper, after all, he was a guy in the store, and he was not his Tang Xu's follower. Tang Xu couldn't find Ah Cai, and he had nothing else to do for a while, but when he saw the evening, he was hungry, so he sat in the lobby and ordered a few dishes to eat.

"Now the war is in chaos, the business is not good, I want to get a partner, and I am afraid that the people who come will not be right and lead the wolf into the house."

"Yes, but we have a lot of things and few people, and it's too unsteady to walk, so I don't think we should wait."

"But if you wait any longer, you'll have to smash everything in your hands."

"Hey...

There were two people talking at a table in the back, sounding like they were on business and looking for someone to be with. Tang Xu was overjoyed when he heard it, and he came whatever he wanted, but he didn't know where the two of them wanted to go, Tang Xu cheekily rubbed it over with the good wine on his table.

"Sounds like you're in business, two?" Tang Xu's cups for both of them were filled with wine.

"You are?" The two didn't know Tang Xu, and when they saw him suddenly coming over, they all looked at each other, not knowing what he wanted to do?

"Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else, I just want to ask you, where are you going to do business?" Tang Xu smiled.

"You want to come with us?" One of the businessmen with a full face and a beard heard it, and he must have heard the conversation between the two just now, probably because he wanted to go on the road together. However, he was also suspicious, afraid that Tang Xu wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob.