Chapter 17: The Ma Brothers
Saving people is like fighting fire, that An Daoquan has agreed to go north, naturally did not delay a moment, Li Qiaonu and a woman, a long distance to the north, and by land, naturally it is inconvenient, although I can't wait to stay with the Na'an divine doctor every day, in the end I still stay in this Jiangning Mansion to live and wait. As for An Daoquan, he got up early the next day and went north along the road with Ximenqing and his party.
Ximen Qing's family is rich, in order to facilitate the trip, he bought a carriage in this Jiangning City, and he and that Andao all save a lot of energy, as for the time change, but also some driving ability, so as a groom, the remaining four strong soldiers, along the way is also good food and drink, and Ximen Qing promised the gold and silver benefits, that is, walking, but also much faster than ordinary people, every day or fifty or sixty miles, or seventy or eighty miles, although not as good as the waterway, but also not slow.
This way through the state, in the blink of an eye, it has been more than ten days, along the way to the sharp store, but never met half of the thief, so that Ximenqing, who has been worried, gradually settled down. Just because of the "Water Margin" in the previous life, no matter who they are, as long as they take a long road, the black shop thieves are always too numerous to avoid. Therefore, in Ximenqing's heart, this land route is really equivalent to the Tang monk's way to learn the scriptures, even if there is no eighty-one difficulty, it must be a difficult road, but I don't know that it is not the Xuanhe period, although there are people who have the courage to go up the mountain for bandits and thieves, but none of them dare to really pull the flag and rebel, most of them are gangs of dozens of people, only dare to plot some business travelers in that remote place, but there is no real posture on the official road.
At noon on this day, the group walked under a high hill. It was summer heat, and there was no cool breeze in the sky. During this half-day trip, the four healthy soldiers were already sweating and wet, and even Ximen Qing and An Daoquan, who were sitting in the car, felt depressed and abnormal in the car. In the distance, I saw an herbal tea shop on the side of the road, and everyone only felt that the bottom of their tongues was full of relish, and they walked a few steps and rushed to the shop.
Entering the shop, but three or two wooden tables, seven or eight stools, a young man in his twenties took care of business, and when he saw Ximenqing and his group coming in, he hurriedly folded up his spirit to greet him.
Everyone sat down, but after a while, seven or eight bowls of herbal tea were served, such a hot day, a bowl of herbal tea in the stomach, everyone exclaimed, and there was more mung bean soup soaked in the well water in the backyard, which was refreshing and refreshing, and eliminated most of the summer heat of everyone's body.
"Little Er, do you have food here?"
Although Ximenqing and his entourage have dry food, if they can use some hot food, it is naturally much better than dry wheat cakes.
"If you want to eat some wine and food, the guest officer must go to the front ridge and have his own good wine and meat to entertain."
As soon as Shi Qiantong's voice fell, Ximenqing on the side couldn't help but wonder in his heart. This road, the herbal tea shop in front of you, the location is excellent, if you can also run some food business, its harvest is much more lucrative than the herbal tea and bean soup, how to see that the little guy will drive the business out like this, can't help but say:
"The mountain in front of you is not low, if you want to go up the mountain, it won't take a lot of time, the little second brother just needs to deal with some ordinary food, I won't lose you!"
"The guest officer doesn't know, our place is called Jieyang Ridge, and there is a market town after the ridge, called Jieyang Town. The restaurant on this ridge is opened by a well-known local overlord, on and off the ridge, more than ten miles before and after, which one dares to rob his business! ”
The little second brother's words, Ximen Qing, who was almost bluffed, slipped to the table, and his handsome face immediately changed color, and he was waiting to ask carefully, but he didn't want two more tall and strong men to come in outside the store, and one of them shouted in a rough voice: "Little guy, hurry up and serve tea, you have to hurry after eating." ”
Ximenqing heard the word "Jieyang", and his heart trembled, but at this moment, he suddenly saw such two big men again, and he was a little frightened in his heart, and secretly thought in his heart, it is really a poor mountain and bad water out of the people, and these two people in front of him are obviously not good birds who come from a serious way.
motioned to the little two to greet others, but Ximen Qing glanced at Shi Qian beside him, and then chatted with An Daoquan on the same side, but his eyes swept over the two big men who came in from time to time.
The height of these two big men is around 1.8 meters, which is slightly taller than Ximenqing. As for the appearance of the two, they are quite similar, they should be brothers-in-law, the one who spoke earlier has a black cloth covering his left eye, and the other has a strand of white hair hanging down from the corner of his forehead.
Such a strange appearance reminds Ximenqing of a pair of brothers in "Water Margin", if it is really those two, they are fierce and domineering, I am afraid that they are much more powerful than the so-called "Jieyang Three Tyrants", I don't know what kind of excitement there will be on Jieyang Ridge today.
Shi Qian got Ximenqing's hint just now, and when he talked to Xiao Er, he circled around the two men, and when he returned to Ximenqing's side again, he had one more thing in his hand.
Ximenqing carefully avoided everyone's attention, and took the thing from Shi Qian's hand, which was a money bag, and the word "horse" was embroidered at the mouth of the bag.
With this thing, Ximenqing has seven or eight points of certainty about the identity of the brothers, and he originally planned to make a detour, but he also has a little courage to break through this Jieyangling.
The two brothers who were touched by Shi Qian took their money bags away, and when they were waiting to pour a belly of herbal tea and prepare to settle the bill, they found that the bags were empty, and they couldn't help but be embarrassed for a while.
"The tea money of the two strong men is here!"
Ximen Qing held back a smile in his stomach, but his face pretended to be Sai Meng, and he took the tea money for the two brothers with a big grin.
"If the two strong men don't dislike it, why don't you come and sit together for a while?"
The two brothers lost their entanglement, and they were distressed, when they saw Ximenqing's invitation, the two brothers sat down on the table on Ximenqing's side.
"Thanks to this official, the Xiaoke brothers are grateful!"
The tea money is not in the eyes of the brothers, but they have the most important reputation for such a man as a man, and if today's incident is about to go out, it must not sound good.
"Brother Xian has been robbed?"
When the two of them heard this, their faces couldn't help but blush slightly, and they said with some shame: "I don't know which bastard thief, if I let my brothers know, I will cut him seventeen or eighteen paragraphs!" ”
The one-eyed man was obviously more short-tempered, and he was about to cut people when he opened his mouth, but the other one was delicate, and glanced at Ximenqing without any other words.
"I have a fortune from heaven here, if Brother Xian is interested, he can take it!"
Before Ximenqing's words fell, the brothers on the opposite side glanced at each other, and the man with a strand of white hair hanging down from his forehead lowered his voice and asked, "Dare to ask this official's name?" ”