Chapter 14: Tang Meng
Seeing this situation, Zhao Wuregret couldn't help but secretly compare with the chivalrous novels he had read, in general, in this case, the other party is either a hero or a real man, do you want to accept this first little brother?
"Brother, how much silver will you sell for this knife?" Zhao Wuregret stepped forward with a smile and asked, the previous person was rejected for one or two words, but he thought that this knife should be a little higher at this price.
If the big man asks for two taels of silver, he will take out five taels himself, "No, the rest will be drunk by my brother, and there is no need to look for it." Will this big man bow his head and bow down?
"You can't afford it, and you don't know how to use a knife." That big guy is cool and authentic.
"Really?" Zhao Wuregret was really a little unconvinced, he just earned eleven taels of silver yesterday, plus about two taels of broken silver, he could be regarded as a rich family at this time, "Then tell me how much silver you want?"
"Five hundred taels, take the money, take the knife." Dahan doesn't talk nonsense either.
"Can you show me your sword?" Zhao Wuregret also became serious, if this big man is not messing around, then this knife may be really good.
In the previous life, you can buy a sword for a few hundred yuan online, but there are also priceless swords in the collection world, which cannot be generalized, if this is really a peerless sword, then five hundred taels is really not expensive, according to one or two for consistent money, five hundred taels will be about 600,000 in the later life. (Silver in the Tang Dynasty, according to the purchasing power of about 2,000 yuan, in the Song Dynasty about 1,000 yuan, the corresponding time and space in this book should be the beginning of the Song Dynasty.) Of course, if a large amount of silver flowed into China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver would only be worth one or two hundred yuan at most,)
The big man hesitated for a moment, but when he saw Zhao Wuregret and a scholar, he thought about it for a while, and nodded his head.
Seeing that the big man agreed, Zhao Wuregret reached out and took the knife in his hand, and gently pulled out a section, only to see that it was covered with traces smaller than fish scales, the cold light was shining, and his fingers were crossed, but it was as smooth as jade, and the blade was like autumn frost.
After a closer look, the material of the knife should be made of meteoric iron, and it is much heavier than an ordinary knife in the hand, "It's really a good knife," Zhao Wuregret praised, and he put the knife next to the big man lightly, "Isn't it a pity that Brother Tai is such a peerless good knife but only sells for five hundred taels?" In his previous life, he was a great connoisseur, and although swords were not his strong point, he still had this vision.
The big man looked at Zhao Wuregret with some surprise, he didn't expect a scholar to have this kind of eyesight, and just as he was about to speak, there was a sound in his stomach, which immediately made his face red.
"I happened to have breakfast here, otherwise let's find a place to sit down and chat while eating, and have a treat next." Zhao Wuregret said with a smile.
The two came to Tianxianglou not far away, looking at this luxuriously decorated restaurant, the big man looked a little restrained, Zhao Wuregret led him to a small room on the second floor, the middle of the second floor is empty, sitting here can see the street, and you can see the hall on the first floor, the location is excellent.
It's still early, but there are a lot of people sitting on the first floor, a storyteller is foaming at the mouth and talking about something, listen carefully, but it is his own Journey to the West, it turned out that he just left yesterday, Zhu shopkeeper invited a famous storyteller in Yangzhou City to come, tell them the story of Journey to the West, and suddenly they were all shocked, at this time other teahouses have not yet opened, so Tianxianglou has become the 'first talk' of Journey to the West in this time and space, of course, Zhao Wuregret said privately before does not count.
Before a guy stepped forward and could speak, Zhao Wuregret waved his hand and said, "Give me your best dish here, and bring me a few pots of good wine," Although Zhao Wuregret's clothes were half worn and the big man was even more tattered, the guy still accepted it first, but ran to inform the shopkeeper that he knew.
After a while, the shopkeeper of Tianxianglou appeared at the door of the small room, and before he came in, he said with a smile, "I said why the magpie was calling in the morning, it turned out that Zhao Gongzi was here." "Before leaving yesterday, he asked Zhao Wuregret's surname, and he was called 'Zhao Gongzi' as soon as they met.
Zhao Wuregret's later writing of 'absolute' made Tianxianglou famous, and most of these people who came in the morning were attracted by the Shanglian.
After greeting Zhao Wuregret, the shopkeeper retreated with interest, and Zhao Wuregret hugged his fist to the big man, "Under Zhao Wuregret, may I ask my brother's name." ”
"It turned out to be Zhao Gongzi," the big man also calmed down at this time, and he said politely, "In Xia Tang Meng, Guanzhong people's clan." ”
"In the next time, I have always heard that there is a good man in Guanzhong, and when I saw Brother Tang today, I saw that the rumors were true."
Hearing Zhao Wuregret's compliment, Tang Meng couldn't help but blush, and he didn't even dare to say it, a big man of about thirty had a childish expression, which made Zhao Wuregret a little unbearable.
Wine and food kept coming up, and Tang Meng was still a little sven at first, but under Zhao Wuregret's big food without any image, he also let go of his hands and feet, and the two of them were hungry for a few days, and the whole table of food was swept away.
After being full of wine and food, Tang Meng found that at least more than eighty percent of the food on the whole table fell into his stomach, Zhao Wuregret looked very fierce, but he just dipped it, thinking that he was very hungry, and he couldn't let go of his hands and feet to eat, so he showed that look, thinking of this, he couldn't help but show a trace of warmth, came to Jiangnan from Guanzhong, I don't know how much suffering he has suffered, and he has been deceived countless times, even if some people help, it is also a high-minded look, I can't wait to say it a hundred times a day, otherwise I will forget.
"Brother Tang is coming to find relatives or ......?" Zhao Wuregret asked the guy to come up with a pot of tea, and then asked.
"It's not a secret, I can't survive in Daliang anymore, so I came to Wu Kingdom to find something to eat," Tang Meng said bluntly.
"With Brother Tang's ability, how can this be?"
Tang Meng was also full of bitterness, he was a long man in the army, and he was also an 'official' if he was not big or small, but the practice in the army made him unable to look at it, and he originally joined the army with the idea of killing the enemy and serving the country, but when the Xixia people came to fight the grass valley, the army was based on the city and did not dare to meet the enemy, and the boss said that because the enemy had cavalry, it was not suitable to fight with him.
When the refugees wanted to enter the city, the boss said that they could not open the city for fear of having enemy spies, otherwise not only would the refugees not be able to save it, but the entire city would also be destroyed, so in full view, those refugees were captured by the Tangut people like livestock.
After the retreat of the Western Xia army, the boss said that he would go and get a few heads back, otherwise if he did nothing, it would be difficult to get the reward in the future, and Tang Meng was full of enthusiasm and wanted to kill a few Western Xia soldiers, but found that the boss took them to a mountain village and shouted to kill the villagers who had just escaped from the Western Xia, he suddenly understood that he had taken a few heads to take the heads of these unarmed mountain people.
Tang was furious, immediately drew a knife and chopped his boss, fought his way out of the encirclement, and came all the way to Jiangnan, but he had no other strength except for martial arts.