Zhou Ping heard the Jiangnan accent in the middle, frowned, and said to Zhu Lei on the side: "Listening to the accent, it is your fellow villager, it must be a poor person implicated in the Fang La Rebellion, you go and ask the store to give some food and medicine, it can be regarded as a good deed!" ”

Zhu Lei responded, got up and walked outside to the shopkeeper and shouted: "You and these two hot soup steamed buns are all counted in my family's account!" ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly answered, and shouted to the man on the ground: "Don't come over to thank this master, you can't beat the cheap bones!" ”

The man on the ground lowered his head, his body trembled a little, as if he was also sick, got up and came to Zhu Lei, and sang a fat song vaguely, and Ai Ai was speechless. Zhu Lei didn't bother to talk to him, so he took out the money from his waist and threw it to the man: "After eating, you can use this money to buy some decoction and medicine for your companions, and go back to your hometown as soon as possible!" And he turned and went back.

The man picked up the money, and the shopkeeper had already sent hot soup steamed buns over at this time, and the man first helped his companion to the corner of the wall and fed him soup, and the companion took a few mouthfuls of hot soup before he woke up and asked, "Brother Chen, where am I now?" ”

"Brother Zheng, we are in Lincai Pass!" The man surnamed Chen couldn't help but be surprised and happy when he saw his companion wake up, and said with a smile while helping him sit down: "There is hot soup with steamed buns, I broke the steamed buns and soaked them in the soup, and Brother Zheng is also good at eating." ”

"Steamed buns? Soup? Then "Brother Zheng" had gradually sobered up, frowned and asked, "Aren't we running out of money anymore?" Where did the steamed bun hot soup come from? ”

Hearing this, the man surnamed Chen suddenly showed an extremely fierce look on his face. said in a low voice: "It was given to us by the big enemy, Brother Zheng, do you remember the Zhu Lei I said?" It was the man who was good at shooting crossbows who was captured alive by the officers and soldiers, but he turned around and colluded with his wife and brother, and turned against each other and ruined the big thing, and this steamed bun and hot soup were given by that guy. ”

It turned out that these two unkempt and sloppy men were Zheng Demon King and Chen Antian, and after the two of them escaped from Bangyuan Cave that time, they didn't dare to stay in Liangzhe, so they disguised themselves as fleeing people and went all the way north. When he arrived at Lincaiguan, Demon King Zheng fell ill because of the water and soil. The two of them were exhausted, and they were already desperate, but they didn't want to meet Zhou Ping and his party.

"What a coincidence!" Demon King Zheng nodded and asked, "He's the only one?" ”

"Not really. There were twenty or thirty people in the store. It looks like he's on an errand in the government! Speaking of this, Chen Antian became angry again: "It must be the origin of the brothers in the sect in exchange for the lives of the brothers." When I bumped into this guy today, it must have been Mingzun who asked me to take his life to avenge the death of my brothers in the church! With that, Chen Antian was about to get up and go to the store.

"Wait!" Demon King Zheng stretched out his hand and grabbed the corner of Chen Antian's clothes: "There are only two people between you and me." There were dozens of them, and they were unarmed, and they were only sent to death when they went! ”

"Then wait until it gets dark and set a fire, even if you don't burn this dog thief, you have to give them a little good look!"

"I've got a better idea!" Demon King Zheng said in a low voice: "How can the blood debt of hundreds of thousands of Manichaean brothers be repaid by killing one Zhu Lei?" ”

"And what are you going to do?" Chen Antian asked puzzled.

"Then since Zhu Lei has sold so many of our brothers, he must also have an official position, seeing that the general he followed has so many people, and it is not low in the official mansion, you and I are under his command, whether it is to kill Zhu Lei, the thief or make other plans, there is a chance, isn't it far better than setting a fire?"

"But then Zhu Lei recognizes your and my appearance, won't you and I go to seek refuge for him to recognize him?" Chen Antian asked suspiciously.

"Really?" Demon King Zheng raised his head, and at this time, the messy hair on his face was blown away by the wind, revealing a severely burned face: "I'm afraid that even if you and my relatives are now in front of you and me, they won't be able to recognize you and me!" "It turned out that Zheng Demon King and Chen Antian deliberately escaped from the mountain fire in order to escape the siege of the Song army, although they escaped, their faces were burned and they were completely unrecognizable.

In the wine shop, Zhou Ping and his entourage had dinner and were about to go to the residence to rest, when the shopkeeper suddenly came in from outside and said with a smile: "Guest officer, the two beggars just now knelt at the door, and only said that they wanted to see you in person and kowtow to you to thank you!" ”

"That's it, I want to rest, you let them go to the doctor!" Zhou Ping frowned, although he had been in this era for many years, deep down he still didn't like the feeling of someone kneeling in front of him.

The shopkeeper touched the usual money in his arms, which was stuffed into him by the two beggars just now, and he decided to say it for them again for the sake of the money: "This, these two people are also very kind-"

"My lord has already said that you are not there, what are you talking about? , The arm pushed on the shoulder of the shopkeeper, where could the shopkeeper bear it, staggered back six or seven steps and almost fell to the ground, he didn't dare to say much, arched towards Zhou Ping and retreated. Zhou Ping was a little displeased by this little episode, and was about to go back to rest, when a loud voice suddenly came from outside.

"Two meals a day can buy a life, why is no one doing such a cheap deal?"

Zhou Ping couldn't help but move in his heart when he heard this, and Li Cheng on the side sneered and said, "What a minion, wait for me to pick them up!" ”

"Wait! It doesn't hurt to take a look! Zhou Ping smiled slightly, walked straight out, and hurriedly followed Zuo Ye, only to see two people kneeling outside the door of the wine shop, unkempt, vaguely the two who were driven away by the shopkeeper in front of the door. When the two saw Zhou Ping and his party come out, they knew that it was the main man who had arrived, and kowtowed three times to Zhou Ping.

"That's it!" Zhou Ping smiled: "Which one is so loud?" ”

"It's the villain!" The man on the left raised his head, and the onlookers couldn't help but scream, it turned out that the large scar on this person's face looked like a burn, and it looked extremely scary.

"Who are you, and what do you mean by that?" Zhou Ping asked.

"The villain is a Jiangnan clan, because of the Fangla Rebellion, he escaped the war and had no way to make a living. I saw that the old man was a kind person, so he wanted to sell his life to the old man to repay the favor! ”

"Oh?" Zhou Ping looked the person who spoke up and down, and saw that although his face was burned, his skeleton was thick, and there were four or five wounds on the bare skin on his arm, which looked like sword wounds, and he couldn't help but move in his heart, and asked: "The grace of a meal, you don't have to take it to heart!" ”

"It's just a meal for you, master, but it's a life for a certain family, you really have to take it to heart!" Demon King Zheng replied: "Besides, I am like this, and I am a foreigner, who is willing to take us in!" ”

Zhou Ping's eyes turned a few times on the two of them on the ground, and he suddenly smiled: "Since the two of you must take refuge, then a certain family will not shirk, what conditions do you two want?" ”

"Just ask for two full meals, two clothes in winter and summer, and the rest are sent by the master's family, even if you want your life, the villain doesn't dare to complain!" Demon King Zheng said respectfully.

"Good!" Zhou Ping said to the shopkeeper: "You take the two of them to take a bath, prepare two clothes, and the two of you will wait at the door of this wine shop tomorrow morning!" ”

"Whoa!" Zheng Demon King and Chen Antian answered on the ground.

As soon as Zhou Ping walked away, Luo She'er behind him said in a low voice: "Lang Jun, these two people are only afraid of fraud, I see that they both have scars on their arms, and they have Jiangnan accents, I am afraid that it is the remnants of the Manichi thieves, who want to approach you and wait for revenge."

"Huh!" Zhou Ping smiled: "I don't know, but now I don't know if it's just the two of them, or if there are still a lot of remnants in secret, if the two of them are taken down, it will alarm the thief party." The enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light, and I can't guard against it. It's better to pretend not to know, accept the two of them, and then secretly monitor the operation, and catch them all! ”

Hearing Zhou Ping's words, Luo She'er couldn't help but be convinced, bowed down and said: "The villain is shallow, I hope Langjun forgives me!" ”

"She'er, you have also grown, what do I blame you for?" Zhou Ping said with a smile: "The matter of monitoring the two of them will be left to you, and let everyone pay attention at night, especially the horses, be careful that someone sets fire!" ”

"Whoa!"

There was nothing to do all night, and the next morning, when Zhou Ping and his party got on the horse, Fang Demon King and Chen Antian were already standing at the door of the wine shop and waiting, both of them passed a soap-colored short shirt, with multi-eared hemp shoes on their feet, wrapped in a green towel on their heads, and a short stick with eyebrows in their hands, dressed as a footman in a hurry. The two saw Zhou Ping and hurriedly stepped forward to sing a fat song. Zhou Ping said with a smile: "You two are not very good in physical bones, I'm afraid you can't ride a horse, so let's ride a mule first." ”

"Thank you for your kindness!" Zheng and Chen hurriedly bowed down and thanked them.

Zhou Ping and his entourage hurried, and arrived at the south gate of Tokyo City at dusk that day, after entering the city, Li Cheng led everyone to find an inn to rest, and Zhou Ping led Xue Liangwu and Xue Liangyu brothers to Hanfu, at this time Han Xiaoxuan was still in the field as an official, only one of his cousins in Tokyo was still there, Zhou Ping and the three of them offered the gift of the famous thorn, Han Xiaoxuan's cousin saw the three and said a few words, and the three of them said goodbye. When the three of them came out of the mansion, Xue Liangyu suddenly smiled and said: "Brother Zhou, this is the second time we have come to Tokyo, compared to the last time we came to Tokyo, this Tokyo city is more beautiful!" ”

Zhou Ping didn't answer, just nodded slightly, he understood what Xue Liangyu meant, so to speak, in the world at that time, only a very small number of people at the top of the pyramid were living a civilized life, and the vast majority of the remaining people were just barely living. Tokyo Bianliang is a very rare exception, in a city where even ordinary poor people can share in the fruits of civilization, how precious and extravagant it is on the East Asian continent at the beginning of the twelfth century! (To be continued......)