Chapter 144: Liaohua in Shu (Medium)
I didn't go far away, that is, I took a large tent of leather felt specially prepared for taking care of the guests in the camel shop, and then moved a table and a few benches from Chaotian's room, which can be regarded as a place where guests can be cleanly entertained.
The meat dishes boiled out of the big pot in Chaotian's room were served in two large bowls as usual, and the piggybacker also called two quick camels to overturn a fat sheep. The sheep's trotters, sheep's heads, and sheep's water were quickly stewed in a small pot, and a bonfire was quickly lit outside the big tent of leather felt, and a large piece of mutton was drenched with blood on the clean fire hook, and salt flowers and chili peppers were sprinkled on the fire, and they were served in after being roasted!
I don't know where the Tao Xing came from in the room of the sky, but in this cold day, I can still touch a dozen tender cucumbers, carefully cut the cold salad with a flower knife, and then match the beef jerky that is always available in the camel row, so I can make up four dishes that can be served on the table and drink.
There are always spirits in the camel shop, one is to wash the wound with the spirits when there is an injury, and the other is to drink two sips to warm up the body when the weather is cold. The sealing mud on the wine jar was slapped open and simmered next to the bonfire, only smelling the aroma of wine wafting over, you can know that this is the burning knife of the old store in Ganquan thirty miles outside Zhangjiakou, the price of a piece of ocean sixteen taels, and the famous camel heads can afford to drink!
After pushing again and again, Lu Lao finally sat on the first seat, and next to him sat Xie Menshen and Yan Xu, who bowed his head and snickered, and sat down side by side on the bench at the back door.
Holding up a bowl of hot burning knives, Lu Lao stood up very proudly, holding the wine bowl and making a circular gesture to everyone on the seat: "Ladies and gentlemen, the old man is clumsy, and he can't say anything in his heart, let's talk in the wine." I'll do it first! ”
Seeing that Lu Lao drank a bowl full of spirits with his head, Xie Menshen, who was sitting on the side, suddenly picked up his thumb and shouted, stretched out his hand and copied the wine bowl in front of him, and also stood up and drank it all.
Holding three fingers and picking up the wine bowl, Yan Xu raised the wine bowl in a regular manner towards Lu Lao, who had already shown the bottom of the bowl to everyone, but slowly drank the bowl of wine in front of him. Only then did he smile at Old Boss Lu and said, "Boss Lu, I am a little inconvenient here, so I can only accompany you here, you bear with me!" ”
Together with the nine monkeys, they held the wine bowl with both hands, but the leopard and the nine monkeys just held the wine bowl and touched their lips, but gently put the wine bowl back on the table. The nine monkeys even stood up, quickly picked up the wine jar placed aside, and first filled the empty wine bowl for Lu Lao.
Let everyone eat a few mouthfuls of food to suppress the wine, but Old Lu turned his head and hugged his fist towards Yan Xu, who was sitting beside him: "This gentleman." I'm going to say wrong, but you can bear with me - you're afraid of stealth craftsmanship? ”
Dafang returned a salute to Old Boss Lu, and Yan Xu responded to Elder Lu very calmly: "Boss Lu, you have traveled south and north, and you have seen a lot, this little thing I have on my body that is not in the flow really makes you laugh!" As far as the steward outside came over to the road, I wasn't embarrassed to show my bottom yet. According to the rules of the scene, I really offended the steward."
He reached out and stroked his gray goatee. Old Lu smiled and said to Yan Xu: "Since this gentleman has stealth skills hanging on his body, then I won't ask for your name and name." You're in charge of accidents too. The identity of the Green Gang hanging on my body, in the final analysis, is also the identity that I have made up for in order to be able to eat a peaceful meal and use money to make up for it, just like the donor officials who spent money in the Qing Kingdom for a while-looking at the big generation and the fame, if this is really more true, who cares about such a bad old man as me in the mouth of the Youth Gang in Sijiu City?! ”
Raising his finger, he pointed to the steward of Chaotian's house, who had brought in the stewed haggis soup at this time. Old Lu said to Yan Xu very playfully: "Just this kid, he said that he has the name of the manager of the dark kiln of the Green Gang, but isn't it also a bitter child left behind by our gang of camels?" This man, don't take the two of us who spent money to buy the void seriously, the identity of the Green Gang. It's just playing with bluffing."
Carefully put the fragrant haggis soup on the table, and the person in charge of the Chaotian room also hugged his fist towards everyone seated: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am also a bitter person in the camel row on weekdays, and I didn't expect to have a distinguished guest today!" The greetings are not good, everyone is more forgiving! I'm here to salute all of you! ”
Seeing that the Chaotian room manager poured a large bowl of wine and drank it all, Lu Lao turned his head and pointed to the Chaotian room manager with a big smile: "I know that you are hungry for my wine!" How's it going? ”
He smiled and wiped his lips with the back of his hand, and nodded neatly to the steward: "The sheep have all entered the pen, and the little hundred cows have also taken a closer look, and five of them have injured their hooves." The camels are all fine, but two of the horses have collapsed and one has injured its hooves, so I am afraid that it will not be saved! It's a pity that it's all pack horses with proper mouths! ”
Nodding slightly, Lu Lao took a sip of the warm burning knife with the wine bowl in his head, and then raised his head and said to the steward of the Chaotian room: "According to the old rules, the cow and Ma Ming'er who injured their hooves were washed and sent to the soup pot." It's good that this job can go like this. Tell the guys outside that they are not allowed to go to the town tonight, and stay away from those people, so as not to be wrong! ”
Seeing that the steward of the house was leaving, Xiang Youbao hugged his fist at Lu Lao's head: "Lu Lao's head, I'll ask you more here-the Xiye who followed your camel team all the way, do you find out?" ”
Waving his hand towards Xiang Youbao, Lu Lao said very happily: "What Xiye, that's an Oriental!" I haven't learned Chinese yet, so I left it in our camel team to fill the city masters. I have only been following the caravan for two days, and I have seen several tricks! ”
They looked at each other, and they hurriedly asked, "Then this Oriental man is all the way"
Stretching out two fingers, Lu Lao turned his head unhurriedly towards Xiang Youbao and said, "Two things!" One is to stare at us and transport back the three bullocks with Longmen horns as ancestors, and the other is to ponder the camel road that our camel team has walked! ”
As soon as they heard the word 'camel road', except for the nine monkeys who were pouring wine with a wine jar in their hands, everyone else was shocked. But at the same time, they laughed!
There are four valuable things in the camel shop - the head, the camel road, the fast horse, and the big gun!
Needless to say, fast horses and big guns, with these two things, running fast and fighting fiercely, ordinary bandits dare not touch the edge, and naturally they can keep the camel team safe all the way.
And the experienced leader is the character who slowly boils out with years and experience, water, grass, and camps along the way. The time of day and the direction of the wind are all in the heart of the camel line. Speaking of the end, sometimes the net worth of the first 100 people in the camel team is all in the hands of the leader!
As for the camel road, it is a secret that is not passed down in the camel industry!
Since the beginning of the camel line, there will always be some clever characters every once in a while, and I feel that I have followed the road several times, and I have already remembered this road in my heart, so I want to stand on my own and do it alone, and I have also passed the addiction of being the leader. Piggybackers can also make a lot of extra money.
But when I had to lead the large group of people and horses out to the halfway point, I clearly remembered the valley that could replenish the water, but now it was full of yellow sand, and the horses went out twenty or thirty miles to the front sentry, but I still couldn't see the sweet water well that had been poked in the valley earlier!
And in the hard ground of the Pingchuan River, which I had just walked through in June, and in August, I led the big cattle to the top, and before I had gone out of the twenty miles, I saw a big animal kneeling trembling under the legs, and the hooves were full of cracks made by stones. Seeing that going back can only be the life of the soup pot!
At this time, I pulled the floating soil on the ground and took a look, and under the thin layer of sand was a fist-sized stone. I don't know where it came from?
It is only at this time that those self-proclaimed clever characters can suddenly realize that the camel road of feelings is not just a road, but a living creature that constantly changes with the direction of the wind and the potential of the water!
I can really know that these new masters of the camel road are all old masters who have accumulated years and feel that they can't do this business, so they will call the most intimate apprentices and nephews to their side and teach them quietly.
Just by following the camel caravan back and forth. I thought I could figure out the number of roads on the camel road
The Japanese who changed his name to Xiye is really crazy!
Reaching out and taking out a small book with a hard shell from his arms, Yan Xu lit up the small book in his hand towards Lu Lao's head: "Lu Lao, this is really my trouble!" Just now, I had an itchy hand, and I took this thing out of the arms of the happy man, and looked at the pictures drawn on it full of twists and turns. What could it be? After a long time, he just wanted to follow the camel road drawn down, and also get a camel team to go a few times to trade? ”
took the small notebook with a hard shell handed over by Yan Xu, Lu Lao turned his head slightly, but raised his hand and put the small notebook aside: "This painting looks like a geographical map of mountains and rivers, but if you really follow the map he draws, I am afraid that there are 200 small people, and they will have to fill in the quicksand - this time the work is tight, forcing me to lead the big guy to walk a trail in the quicksand, but the trail changes every two months, and even I have to be careful to finish!" ”
Standing up quickly, Yan Xu hugged his fist slightly towards Lu Lao's head: "Lu Lao's head, I'll borrow a foot power from you, just come when you go?" ”
Raising his hand and stuffing the small notebook back into Yan Xu's hand, Lu Lao also arched his head: "Are you planning to send this thing back to that Xiye?" You're busy, I'm here for you! ”
Picked up the wine bowl and drank a big sip of the warm burning knife, and listened to the sound of horses' hooves outside the felt tent flying away, so he put down the wine bowl in his hand and hugged his fist towards Lu Lao's head: "Lu Lao, I still have something to ask you here - in addition to the three bulls that gave birth to Longmen horns, do you have any good bulls here?" ”
also drank a large sip of the warm burning knife, and the old man nodded very slyly: "The rule in the camel line is to prepare one every three times, I am afraid that if there is a mistake on the road, the number of strangled livestock will not match the tenon!" After drinking this bowl of wine, let's go and see the bullock I ambushed! (To be continued......)