The night is coming, the distant stars are slightly dewed around the moon, the sky is sunny and there is no cloud, who blows the willow flute and sounds, and the ethereal is the mountain chanting.

"At this moment, it is really a god's abode, uncle, what do you think?" Zhou Xihu and his uncle walked more than a dozen steps away from the others, found a big stone and sat down, facing another mountain, and said loudly.

Those who came to take advantage of it were no longer as excited as they had been, and they lay there like dead dogs one by one, regardless of whether the half-withered grass was uncomfortable or not, and they didn't care that the dew would catch a cold in the night, and they had no strength in their bodies, and their stomachs never stopped.

Originally, they thought that Cheng County's order had already been arranged, and they could have food and wine to eat when they were tired, and at the beginning, they could still hold on for a while, and then after walking for two hours, some people began to ask Cheng County's order non-stop, and every time Cheng County's order replied, 'It's fast, and you will arrive after a while'.

How long has it been walking, it has been four quarters of the hour, and after a while, that is, the time of the child, the people saw it, and faintly in front of a mountain flashed a few points of light, and the sound of the willow flute was also heard, and it was melodious at first hearing, but it was piercing at the moment.

"Cheng County Order, are you planning to kill us? Why didn't you get me some food at this point? A person lay there, looking sideways at Cheng Xianling, who also didn't have much energy, and asked.

Cheng County Commander is also tired, except for the two officials who often do things, there is no one who is not tired, the only difference is that the two four-grade officials, the government officials, the county Cheng, Zhou Xihu's uncle and nephew, and the county commander himself have eaten before, and the others have not eaten anything at all, eat some porridge in the morning, until now, and then walk the mountain road, can stick to it or because it will be farther back.

Cheng County Ling took a sip of water, "This official also heard that this side is good, who knows that Wangshan runs a dead horse, and thinks that it can arrive at dusk, miscalculated, I can't help it, adults, drink some water first, save it, when you come, you will prepare half a bag of water, not much." ”

As he spoke, Cheng County ordered the officials to send water to everyone, and the people who came to take advantage of it were all big water bladders, each of them drank a few sips, and when they arrived at the two officials in charge, they replaced them with small water bladders, and the two took it, and when they drank as usual, they were suddenly stunned for a moment, their eyes swept the others by the moonlight, turned slightly sideways, and began to drink slowly.

The two of them drank and chewed at the same time, and tried their best to control the sound of their chewing, which turned out to be a thick lotus seed porridge, which was colder, but it was better than being hungry.

The official sent it to Zhou Xihu again, Zhou Xihu opened it and smelled it, handed it over again, signaled not to use, and took out a salted duck egg from his arms and stretched it out, the official was stunned for a moment, nodded gratefully, took the salted duck egg, and turned to leave.

"Uncle, let's eat something, look at this situation, leave immediately, I have to walk for two hours to taste this scallion pancake." Zhou Xihu looked back at those who only had water to drink, chuckled, took out the cake from his arms, and tore off one for his uncle.

"It's delicious, when I was young with your father, my family was poor and couldn't eat, and one day I picked up a piece of cake on the street that someone else accidentally dropped to the ground, and I ate it with your father for three days, and the taste was similar to this, why are duck eggs so salty?"

Zhou Qi took a bite of the cake, ate a little duck egg white, and whispered to his nephew.

Zhou Xihu also ate, and took out beef jerky and put it in his mouth to chew, "There are few people who don't buy salty, Zhangjia Zhuangzi put it in the small shop here, all of them are people who don't have a lot of money to eat, usually a few people go there, ask for two dishes, and then ask for a few salted duck eggs, just eat the dishes with wine, and then eat some staple food, one duck egg is enough."

Some go inside, you need a bowl of wine and a salted egg, the egg is cheap, take a sip of salted eggs and drink a sip of wine, drink it, pick up the remaining half of the salted egg and go back, you can eat two meals, the light one is not good, so there are many people who go to his small shop to eat. ”

"I see, this is the first time I've heard of this kind of thing, but since there is a recipe over there to make the food more delicious, why not buy a place in the county and open a big restaurant?"

Zhou Wei sighed at the small shop's thoughts, and was a little puzzled.

Zhou Xihu shook his head, "I don't know, that Zhuangzi is evil, and he has always been imaginative in doing things, uncle, eat another bite of bread and drink some water." ”

Send the water bladder over and wait for the uncle to finish eating a mouthful of bread before drinking, otherwise there will be a salted duck egg smell in his mouth, and he will feel fishy.

Some people were hungry, some people were stealing food, and after a quarter of an hour, Cheng County, who had finished drinking the porridge, greeted everyone, "Everyone, the rest has passed, should we continue to move forward?" ”

"No, I can't walk, Cheng County, you can ask someone to go to the place where you live over there to get some food and come back, and I also got two blankets, don't go." The man who had spoken first was now a scoundrel, and lay there sighing.

With him taking the lead, the others were also motionless, just there, they didn't believe that Cheng Xianling dared to let them starve to death here.

Cheng Xianling thought for a moment and nodded, "It's okay, since you are willing to wait here, then the lower official and the three adults will take the first step, and when they get there, they will order someone to send the things, my lords, take care." ”

Cheng Xian Ling was about to leave as he spoke, and the three adults he said were referring to the two adults in the imperial court who came to do business and Zhou Wei, and the officials, the county Cheng and Zhou Xihu also got up one after another, and Zhou Qi and the other two had eaten, so of course they had to follow.

When a few people left and walked a few dozen steps, one of the people who was still lying down exclaimed, "It's not good, as soon as they leave, if the county order arrives at the place to prepare food and drink for the three of them first, and then think of us, wouldn't it be that something will be delivered tomorrow morning?" If I rest on the way, I will freeze to death if I don't starve, and I have to go with me. ”

As soon as the words fell, he got up and ran, he didn't see the slightest appearance of being hungry and tired, they were all forced, the others were stunned for a moment, and they reacted and followed, they didn't think that they would be frozen and starved to death, it was nothing to last for two days, but the sin would not be small.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, the corners of Cheng County's mouth turned upward, but he didn't make a sound.

The two officials are looking for a way in front of them, but fortunately, there is still a little light of the stars and the moon, otherwise everyone will really have to go until tomorrow morning.

Along the way, everyone didn't speak, there was nothing to say, they were so tired that they even had to breathe, until the end of the day, everyone arrived at the place, about 30 houses, more than a dozen households, where a torch was lit, and there were 20 people standing there waiting.

"My lord, how did you get there? Ay~! The students didn't get things done. As soon as Cheng Xian Ling showed up these people, Song Jinggong greeted him and said apologetically.

He was arranged by Zhang Xiaobao, and he didn't plan to torture people so much, but he asked Cheng County Ling to lead everyone to one place, and let Zhou Xihu's uncle secretly go to Zhangjia Zhuangzi, but as a result, Cheng County Ling was angry and made a slight change in the plan, and it became what it is now.

"You can't do this little thing? Is it so hard to prepare something to eat? Cheng Xianling's face sank and shouted loudly.

When the people who came to take advantage heard this, they understood, Cheng County Ling had already arranged for people to come here to prepare first, and it seemed that the people who came did not get things done, and the little hope just now turned into disappointment, and they would starve to death if they had nothing to eat.

Song Jinggong's head lowered, and explained: "My lord, it's not that I haven't prepared, the people here have made food, but they have to ask for money to give it, and the students didn't bring money, my lord, did you bring it?" ”

"I didn't bring it, wait for the official to ask the other adults, your lords, the food over there has been prepared, I don't know which one has the silver money on you?" Cheng Xianling shook his head and turned around to ask.

Everyone shook their heads together, who will bring money down there? is waiting to get the money back, Zhou Xihu brought it, but he won't take it out stupidly, follow the example of others, and shake his head like a rattle.

"Oops! I didn't have any money, so how could that be? It's better to take credit first, and then the official will send the money, Zijin, you go and discuss with them. ”

Cheng County Ling said in embarrassment, Song Jinggong went according to the order, and when he was young, he turned around and came back, and smiled helplessly, "My lord, it won't work, they don't believe that I will send the money later." ”

"Don't take credit, this official has a jade pendant here, press them here first, and then Cheng County Commander will help you get it back." An official was so hungry that he couldn't bear it, so he took out a jade pendant that should have been hanging on his waist from his arms and handed it over, and he was a little distressed, and he was afraid of scraping it when he went up the mountain, so he put it in his arms.

Song Jinggong took the things, went over to discuss, and after a while, the two people came back, in addition to Song Jinggong, there was an old man, wrinkles piled up on his face, his hair and beard were all white, he carried his back, and said when he approached:

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's not that the people in the village are stingy, it's really sad, the weather is dry again, and I don't know how the harvest will be in the autumn, and the people in the village are afraid, oh, the little old man is the village leader in the village, and the cheap surname is Qin.

After saying this, without waiting for others to speak, he continued: "I don't know which adult this piece belongs to, forgive the little old man's clumsiness, I can't tell whether this is jade or stone, and it may be worth a thousand gold to someone who knows how to put it in the village, it is not as good as the half bowl of coarse chaff, and please take this stone, oh no, take the jade pendant back." ”

"How is this a stone? You...... You? The official who took out the jade pendant carefully took the jade pendant into his hand, and asked the old man with a glare.

"It's not a stone, the little old man said it wrong, jade, it's jade, it's good jade, but no one in the village knows it." This Qin Cunzheng was obviously frightened, trembling and explaining incoherently, that means jade is not good, there is food, see what you take in exchange.

Cheng Xianling couldn't help but laugh, feeling that this Qin Cunzheng was really good, and came out to play the round again, "My lord, don't be angry, it's not worth seeing them in general, Qin Cunzheng, tell me, how can I wait?" ”

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