Soon after coming out of Qingshi County, Liu Hua was dumbfounded, because he didn't know the way to Yangzhou at all, and asked people on the road, and others told him to turn left, turn left, turn left, and then continue to turn around.

Walking according to the route guided by the man, Liu Hua almost turned, unconsciously, he actually circled around the gate of the county government of Qingshi County twice, and after realizing that something was wrong, Liu Hua changed the route and walked in one direction, so that he finally did not circle around the Qingshi County Ya.

When he walked near the city wall of Qingshi County, Liu Hua couldn't stand it, he sat on the side of the road tiredly, looking at the unfamiliar environment around him, Liu Hua couldn't help but complain in his heart: "I'm ...... This broken dynasty doesn't even have a taxi, how can Lao Tzu go? Am I going to go to Yangzhou on foot? ”

Seeing the crowd flowing at the gate of the city, Liu Hua's eyes rolled, he ran to the side to find a discarded wooden board, and then buckled a piece of white ash from the side of the Cheng wall, and wrote on the wooden board with the white ash block, "Sincerely recruit friends who rush to Yangzhou Mansion together, men and women are not limited, I cover food and accommodation expenses, and friends only need to provide transportation tools." ”

Fortunately, when Liu Hua was in college in his previous life, he studied traditional Chinese characters, but he didn't expect that it would be useful now, and after writing, he stood at the gate of the city with a wooden board and shouted loudly: "Everyone come, take a look, take a look, don't miss it when you pass by, I sincerely recruit fellow partners, as long as you meet the above conditions, you can take the initiative to apply, the treatment is preferential, the number of places is limited, everyone hurry up and sign up." ”

After shouting a few times, many people gathered in front of Liu Hua to watch the excitement, but everyone just gathered around to watch the excitement, and did not come forward to sign up, everyone saw that Liu Hua was so small, and the clothes he was wearing were just ordinary fabrics, so he didn't believe Liu Hua's words at all.

Liu Hua also saw that these people in front of him had no intention of applying, just gathered there to watch the excitement, seeing this situation, Liu Hua couldn't help but feel a little depressed, and said in his heart: "Isn't it just an advertisement, what's so good about this?" It seems that his plan has failed, and it is estimated that no one will apply. ”

Thinking of this, Liu Hua didn't plan to continue shouting, just as Liu Hua wanted to throw away the wooden board in his hand, suddenly, a loud voice with a hint of crispness came over: "This brother, is what you just said true?" If that's the case, I'll want to go with you. ”

Liu Hua looked at the voice, and saw that this was a young man who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a sword at his waist, wearing a light blue robe, clear eyebrows, and a heroic face.

"Don't worry, I'm famous for my iron teeth and steel teeth, honest and trustworthy Xiaolangjun, and I definitely mean what I say." After saying this, Liu Hua pushed away the crowd and came to the young man's side in three or two steps: "Little brother, time is pressing, should we go to Yangzhou now?" ”

Because it was the first time he had seen a real horse with his own eyes, after Liu Hua's voice fell, he stared at the horse curiously and observed it carefully.

The young man looked at Liu Hua, pondered for a moment, he glanced towards the city of Qingshi County, and nodded his head after the most reluctance: "Okay, let's go to Yangzhou now, can you get on the horse?" Hey, hey...... What are you pulling my legs for? Depend on...... Haven't you ridden a horse before? ”

In the water town of more than 20 miles away from Yangzhou Prefecture, the sound of horses' hooves of "da-da......" came from far and near, and two young people of fifteen or sixteen years old sat on horseback, these two were none other than Liu Hua and the young man.

Through conversations along the way, Liu Hua had some understanding of the young man, it turned out that the person's name was Sun Shidong, and he was also fifteen years old this year, but his birthday was a few months younger than Liu Hua, so he had to condescend to the position of the younger brother.

Sun Shidong is a native of Shandong, his family is a martial arts family, and he is very powerful in the local area, Sun Shidong has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, but he yearns for the life of those literati and ink writers, and looks forward to being a genius all day long.

However, he has a lot of martial arts moves in his stomach, but he doesn't have much knowledge, and he has no talent in learning, although he has been studying hard for a few years, but the ink in his stomach has not risen at all.

The reason why Sun Shidong came to Qingshi County today was because when he went out alone with his family to explore the rivers and lakes, he spent all the money on his body, and seeing that he happened to come to the boundary of Yangzhou Mansion, he planned to go to Qingshi County to find Sun Guangshen to entangle.

Because the Sun County Order of the Qingshi County Ya is from the same village as Sun Shidong, and they are arranged according to the generations in the village, Sun Shidong has to call Sun County Ling Grandpa, but the young man is thin-skinned, and when Sun Shidong arrived at the gate of the Qingshi County Ya, he was embarrassed to go in, and Sun Shidong felt a little embarrassed.

So he rode a horse in the county several laps, but was never embarrassed to go in, at this moment, he saw a lot of people gathered at the gate of the city, curiosity came up, he came up, only to find that Liu Hua actually wanted to find someone to go to Yangzhou together, but also to eat and live expenses, after seeing this, he was immediately overjoyed, and then partnered with Liu Hua.

After entering Shuixiang City, it was already noon, Sun Shidong rubbed his stomach and asked Liu Hua behind him: "Brother Liu, it's noon now, are we looking for a place to eat?" Besides, we had been running all morning, and the horse was tired, and it had to eat some forage. ”

Hearing Sun Shidong say this, Liu Hua also felt a little hungry: "Okay, you find a place to make ramen, let's have two bowls of ramen each, after eating, find a place with grass to feed the horses, and then continue to hurry, strive to feel Yangzhou Mansion before dark, I still have important things." ”

"What? What did you say? Drinking ramen? After being stunned for a moment, Sun Shidong jumped to his feet: "Liu Hua, do you want to pit the dead, what are you saying about eating and drinking ramen?" Just the money for two bowls of ramen is not enough for the horse's forage.

Brother Liu, when we come out, we should eat and drink and have fun, you are so reluctant to eat and drink, thanks to my brother's persuasion, people don't eat young people blindly, brother, we are all here, don't you want to taste the delicacies here? ”

Being bewitched by Sun Shidong like this, Liu Hua was really tempted, he pondered that he had never eaten the food of the Qing Dynasty, and he didn't know what was the difference between the food of the Qing Dynasty and hundreds of years later?

In addition, he thought about the ten taels of silver in his arms, anyway, it was from Huang Baishan who asked for it, the money that belonged to the government, since it was the government's money, it was not spent in vain, and it was not distressed to spend it, thinking of this, he patted his chest boldly: "I was teasing you just now, is your brother Liu a person who has no money?"

Let's go, let's find the best restaurant, order a table of the best wine and food, and then have a beautiful meal, after eating and drinking, let's go on the road again, in addition, prepare some good forage for our horse, and treat it well. ”

After that, Liu Hua and Sun Shidong found the largest restaurant in the water town "Koi Carp House", which is a four-story building, after entering the restaurant, the beautiful scenery of the entire water town can be seen.

Liu Hua and the two handed over the horse to the shopkeeper at the door, and then walked towards the restaurant, because it was noon at this time, so the restaurant was full of guests who came to eat, looking at the luxuriously decorated restaurant, and then seeing the scene of the full seats, Liu Hua sighed sincerely: "You can see the prosperity of this place from this restaurant." ”

"What's that? This place is only far from Yangzhou Mansion, although it is very rich, but compared with Yangzhou Mansion, it is still far behind. After hearing Liu Hua's emotion, Sun Shidong couldn't help but reply.

Because the first floor was full, Liu Hua and the others were led to the second floor, at this time, although there were already many guests on the second floor, there were still some vacant places, and the two found a table near the window and sat down.

After the two of them sat down, Xiao Er next to him asked respectfully, "Two young masters, what do you want to eat?" "The chef of our restaurant has launched a new dish, called lotus root and golden carp, do you want to try it?"

After hearing Xiao Er's introduction, Sun Shidong wanted to order this dish, but he didn't know how much money Liu Hua had, and after thinking about it for a while, he pointed at Liu Hua at Xiao Er: "Report those signature dishes in your store to Brother Liu, and see what Brother Liu likes to eat?" ”

After hearing Sun Shidong's words, the shopkeeper looked at the two with some suspicion, and then shifted his gaze to Liu Hua, he saw that the clothes and fabrics on Liu Hua's body were relatively ordinary, and Liu Hua's age was not very old, so the shopkeeper couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous.

I saw that the shopkeeper looked at Liu Hua with drooping eyelids, and the previous heat was gone, and he asked with a match: "This little minister, let me remind you first, the food in this restaurant is expensive, and a table of dishes costs a lot of money."

When you order later, try to take it as leisurely as possible, and it's best to look at your wallet first so that you don't miss out on the bill. We have cold cucumbers, vegetarian fried bitter gourds, fragrant loofahs, stuffy stewed winter melons, ......"

Just as the shopkeeper reported the name of the dish here, Liu Hua took out a silver ingot weighing five taels from his arms, and then he slapped the silver ingot on the table with a "snap": "I've never liked to be a vegetarian." ”

After seeing the silver in front of Liu Hua, the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then put away the mourning face just now, piled up a bright smile, and looked at Liu Hua with a respectful expression: "The distinguished guest is angry, the little one just now has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and I hope that the guest will not be like the small one."

In addition to the previous few vegetarian dishes, the shop also has a few specialty dishes, namely steamed fish head in sauce, braised lion's head, Suti drunken shrimp, eight-treasure fish brain tofu, osmanthus whip bamboo shoots, crispy pig's trotters, ......"

Seeing that the shopkeeper reported the name of the dish was quite energetic, Liu Hua interrupted him: "Don't read it, let's have a pound of good wine first, and then all the rest of the money will be served into dishes, pick the dishes that the chef in your store is good at, remember, our horse is below, add some good forage to it." ”

After speaking, Liu Hua threw the ingot of silver to the shopkeeper, and after catching the silver, the shopkeeper shouted: "Okay, the second master waits, the little one will arrange it." As soon as the words fell, Xiao Er went downstairs to Zhang Luo for wine and food.

Liu Hua and Sun Shidong didn't notice that their actions just now were seen by a fierce man on the wine table next to them, and the big man observed Liu Hua and the others, and after remembering the characteristics of the two, he got up and left.