[Chapter 18: Life in Building a Cottage I]
It's noon again.
There is still sunshine.
The weather in September, although not as hot as a steaming summer day, is not really a cool autumn day.
On the loess path, horses are galloping.
There were people running right away.
The man who gallops on the horse, and the horse that is the mount, are all covered in dust and sweat. Throw a large section of the loess trail behind you. Leave one field after another behind you. He also threw one cool forest after another behind him. The horse that is ridden gets tired, and in the same way, the person who rides the horse gets tired. The race was not a race, and it ended with a small thatched pergola in front of a two-forked intersection.
The horse stopped, and Waliuyun and Dao Wuji also got off the horse's back and let the horse go to graze by itself.
"I'm tired and tired, I'll never race horses in the future, really, it's better to fight faster than light work, boss lady, herbal tea and cold water are on casually, it's cold."
Du Liuyun suddenly fanned the fan, while complaining about the stupidity of this horse racing, this trip down, her whole person was going to be turned upside down, seeing that there was a bucket of cold water next to the herbal tea shop, I didn't want to think about it, picked up the scoop, and splashed it on my face. God, at last alive.
"You're so heroic." Dao Wuji said this, but his subordinates didn't slow down for a few seconds, he took the water scoop in Liuyun's hand, drew the gourd in the same way, and also gave himself such a look. This horse race is not only about the speed of the race, but also the degree of embarrassment, and no one is getting any better.
"Compared with image, I value small lives more." Wiping the water from his face, Wataru spread it out on the table, waiting for the herbal tea to come up.
The toothless old grandmother was amused by the two young men, walked over with a pot of tea and two cups, poured them tea, and brought them simple dry food and side dishes by the way.
"Young man, look at your journey, there is a village not far ahead, if you want to find a place to rest, there is an inn in the village. If you miss this village, you won't see it until after dark. The old grandmother kindly suggested.
It's no wonder to miss the lodging, it's not strange to miss the lodging, anyway, I'm used to sleeping in the open and looking for a big tree to sleep on, Du Liuyun smiled: "Thank you old man, we'll think about it, but before that, rest enough before you talk about it~" Anyway, now she doesn't want to move away from the chair, she even thinks about it, just don't ride a horse, and the rest of the road is all about running lightly.
"Excuse me, I don't want to use my legs as a means of transportation yet." Dao Wuji saw through her purpose at a glance, and without hesitation, he strangled her idea in the cradle: "Horse racing is your proposal, and now you know that it's not too late to be tired." ”
"Hawkers, Brother Dao, don't expose me so shamelessly, you know, martial arts can only be quickly improved in continuous use~"
Having said that, if she was given the choice, she would rather ride a horse and grind slowly, or ...... Looking for a place to buy a carriage? Well, forget it, it's too embarrassing, it's insulting to the eyebrows of the Jianghu people.
In the end, they didn't decide to rest in the village, or chose to go all the way, until they were tired, they just found a broken temple and a big tree to stay, as long as they didn't catch up with the pouring rain, everything was fine.
The sky will be dark, and the setting sun will dye the sky a golden red, which is particularly beautiful.
The rugged mountain road could not allow the horses to gallop any faster, so the two slowed down and walked slowly. Suddenly, on the mountain road ahead, a large tree crossed the mountain wall. It just so happened that the entire road surface was blocked.
The two turned over and dismounted, looked at the big tree, and saw at a glance that it was not caused by the force of nature to collapse, but artificially cut off, that is, the cut part, the stubble is a little old, should it be ......
"Fence it off!"
With a shout, a group of bandits in black clothes, black turbans, and big knives poured out from the slopes of the mountain where the tall miscanthus grass grew.
"This road is open for me, this tree is planted for me, if you want to cross here, leave the road to buy money."
The one who spoke was a tall fat man wearing colorful and colorful clothes, and this fat man stood there, probably able to block the tall and tall Dao Wuji from his height and body shape......
"Poof......
Du Liuyun couldn't hold back, and was shocked by this colorful fat man and burst out laughing.
Laughter is contagious, Dao Wuji was originally tense, but the Du Liuyun next to him smiled too happily, causing him to almost break his work, so he hurriedly turned his head away, and forcibly twisted out a serious face, but no matter how he looked at it, the corners of his mouth were twitching.
"Stop, stop, alright! Don't laugh! ”
The fat man stomped his foot angrily, and his big belly, which was full of fat, trembled up and down like a spring, and the ground seemed to shake as if he was about to step on an earthquake.
"Poof...... Ahem, ahem, ahem! Du Liuyun simply laughed enough, although she didn't mean to laugh at the fat man, but the scene in front of her really made her can't help but laugh. Finally, she laughed enough, and then threw out a complete sentence: "I said, this old man, the current situation, is it that we were kidnapped by bandits?" "Then she really has to feel for this group of little thieves...... Sorrow from the heart.
She smiled too happily just now, causing the group of thieves to also be infected and laughing, and the fat man turned his head angrily and glared at these little minions who didn't have long faces. The little minions hurriedly pretended to be serious and tightened their faces, and the fat man turned his head with satisfaction, and said to Duliuyun: "What kind of bandits and bandits kidnap tickets, how can I be so unstylish, I am the king of the mountain!" ”
"Oh, aren't the kings of the mountains all very rich and rich, why did they come here to rob the road, could it be that all your money was robbed?"
Du Liuyun dangled his fan, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a pampered nobleman, and he couldn't tell that he was a martial arts person at all.
Load, you load. Dao Wuji helplessly watched her play with the bandits here, this thing was so happy.
Well? Wrong!
Du Liuyun's ears moved, and he didn't care about playing anymore, so he hurriedly asked: "I said that you are the king of the mountain, when you threw the tree down just now, did you involve something else?" ”
"What?"
The fat man looked at the little boy wearing gold and silver on the other side inexplicably, and wondered: "What else?" ”
"I'll just say, you three-legged cats, don't rob here, you're going to die......"
With a finger on her head, the gravel fell from the mountain wall above her head, and it was like a drizzle, and then a huge mountain rock with the power of thunder rolled down, and it seemed that it was about to smash them into meat sauce.
"Brother Dao, I'll leave this kind of little matter to you."
After throwing out an umbrella of unknown material, she steadily blocked all the rubble, and she patted Dao Wuji's shoulder, not looking at the few bandits who were about to be scared silly.
"Heh, you're going to get me some work."
Dao Wuji chuckled, the desolate leopard thunder knife started from the back of the sheath, and the person rose from the ground, the sky was crisscrossed by knife light, and in a moment, the boulder had turned into dust, as if a drizzle was flying, rolling up countless dust and smoke, eliminating the invisible.
From the shot to the recruitment, it only took a few breaths before and after, until the dust fell, this group of thieves blocking the way, as if they had seen a fairy, crackled and knelt on the ground, kneeling and worshipping, but the knife Wuji was so frightened that he almost jumped up: "What are you doing?" ”
"I know, I will worship you as an immortal."
Du Liuyun put away the umbrella, walked to the fat man with a smile, and easily lifted the person by the collar: "Okay, it's okay, you can't die, he is not a god, we are just ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, I said, I will beat you if I kneel down again!" ”
The fat man looked at the Liuyun first, and then at the knife Wuji, the hand of the knife Wuji was already very shocked, I thought that this little boy who looked young was a noble scholar who had no power to tie the chicken, and I didn't expect the other party to lift himself up like a chicken, no wonder these two people didn't care about their own robbery trip at all, now that they think about it, they dare to walk on the road like a mobile jewelry library, how can they do it without a little effort.
Leaving this dangerous mountain road, Hua Fat Man explained to them why he wanted to rob here, and at the same time reported his real name, it turned out that this person was really surnamed Hua, and he was fat since he was a child, so he really named Hua Fatzi.
The fat man explained very seriously that there was indeed a wave of bandits here, all kinds of murder, arson, and robbery, but once he passed by and wanted to rob him, so he did it in turn. But he thought that if he was gone, it wouldn't be more troublesome to leave a bunch of little thieves and become thieves, so he simply stayed here and led them. Originally, he just wanted everyone to plant fields in the mountains, grow vegetables or something, and life could be passable, who knew that nothing could be grown in this broken place, so he had no choice but to take a group of small thieves here to collect some road fees from the people who crossed the mountains. After all, he beat away the original bandits, and he also said the past. As for the amount of road cleaning fees, it is arbitrary, those who have money will charge more, those who have no money will charge less, and those who are about to starve to death have to be posted upside down, and the most terrible thing is that most of the villages in this vicinity are old, weak, sick and disabled, and he has to take a group of younger brothers to help people work as volunteers...... As a result, the days passed more and more unlucky, but unfortunately at the beginning, I couldn't give up.
Well, this is really a sad and sad history, it seems that this fat man with big flowers is not bad. Du Liuyun and Dao Wuji glanced at each other, and the latter wanted to take out the silver ticket from his pocket, but was held down by Du Liuyun: "Brother Dao, no." She paced in front of the fat man and raised her head to look at the huge fat man: "Brother Hua, how about taking us to your stockade?" ”
"Huh? Two heroes, this ......" Hua Fat Man wanted to say something, and a small minion beside him said hesitantly: "Boss, we just promised to send some rice noodles to the village today...... This ......"
"Oops, shut up, haven't you ever died?" Hua Fatzi hit the little minion on the head with a violent chestnut, and then awkwardly rushed across Liuyun and Dao Wuji and smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll take the two of you to have a look." "Just kidding, do you dare to agree, these two want to shoot him to death, it's a matter of seconds.
Helplessly wiped his face, Du Liuyun casually threw a silver ingot to the little minion: "Ride my horse, go to the larger market to buy rice, and send it to the village you said, if you dare to run away with the money, hehe." She stretched out her thumb, compared her neck to the other party, and made a horizontal stroke, and the other party broke out in a cold sweat: "Don't dare, don't dare, don't dare~ Thank you, son, I'll come when I go~"
Dao Wuji looked at Du Liuyun in wonder, she didn't let herself leave money to this fat man, and she wanted to go to other people's cottages to see it, what did she want to do?
"Oh, you have to know, farming, it's not difficult to say, it's not easy to say, you expect these rough bandits who dance knives and swords to be able to farm, that's strange, it depends on how I do it, don't worry, it won't take too much time, Brother Dao, you can see how I turn decay into magic, this is magical magic."
Shaking the feather fan extremely godly, he knocked on the arm of the fat man by the way: "I said, King Hua, lead the way." ”
Hua Fatzi obediently led the way in front, and walked to his own cottage with Du Liuyun, he was afraid that one would accidentally anger these two, and he would not be able to draw his village down, he was full of more than 130 people up and down the mountain, and it was estimated that it was not enough for this fan to knock ~