Chapter 1 Yan Ge Town, Hua Sanniang
The Fanzhou tribe can end, and hunt the Yellow River at dusk. Yan Ge is not broken, and the grass is green on the side of the herd of horses.
Yange Town is the entrance of the desert of thousands of miles of wild sand, and then to the west, there is the yellow sand in the sky, and the Gobi Desert with thousands of miles of red land, and to the north, it is the vast grassland.
Because of this, merchants and passers-by from the north and south will settle here to replenish supplies, and many merchants will set up shops here to complete large transactions, such as Monti's skins, beef and sheep tendons and wool, dried fruits, sweets and minerals from the frontier, coal and iron from Gansu, salt from the Sichuan Salt Pond, and tea, silk, cotton and cloth transported from the Central Plains, as well as various household utensils, will all converge here, making this place particularly prosperous.
At that time, Yange Town was known as one of the four major towns in the northwest, and it was even more lively than ordinary small cities.
Because of this, there are quite a lot of forces here, but because of its importance, after seven or eight years of fighting, no one around can swallow it, but an agreement has been reached, and taxes are collected by several big forces in proportion, and many rules have been set.
The town also built a town office in style, hired the town mayor and the township regiment to maintain order, so as to obtain relative peace and tranquility, and thus became more and more prosperous.
Because there are rules and there is no chaos, people from the surrounding areas are willing to come here to do business.
On this day, at the Shuanglin Inn in the east of the town, a dusty man came.
The man led a white horse, and after handing the white horse to Xiao Er, he asked for a single room on the counter, then sat down in the hall and ordered food and drink.
Hua Sanniang, the proprietress of Shuanglin Inn, looked at the man behind the counter, and saw that the man was not very old, and his face looked very tender, not like a person who was busy outside the plug all the year round, but looked like he was from the mainland.
However, this person doesn't look like a weak reading talent, with empty hands, and he doesn't look like a person who does business and runs goods.
The little brother's eyes were quiet, his momentum was calm, and he gave people a vague feeling that he was not easy to mess with, which made her really a little incomprehensible.
But his horse is really good, except for a touch of ink on the nose, the whole body is snow-white, without a trace of stray hair, even if it is a long way, but it is still very powerful, fat and strong, oily and slippery, and it is very attractive.
And the breed of the horse looks like a famous breed, and it is not an extraordinary thing.
Riding such a good horse, coming to the northwest and wandering outside, this person either has a problem with his brain, or he has real skills.
And in any case, she had to find out, after all, this guy was going to stay with her for two days, and if something happened, she couldn't afford it.
Others don't know, but Hua Sanniang is clear - although over the years, Yange Town has lived a good life, and it seems to be calm on the surface, but in fact, there is an undercurrent surging underneath.
The forces of all sides are fighting very hard here, and the slightest mistake is a matter of death.
She wants to open this inn for two more years and raise her pension money on the hour, so she has to be even more careful.
She looked at her side for a while, and then the curtain of the back kitchen was lifted, and Brother Xiao Erying came out with a plate, Hua Sanniang hurriedly stopped him and asked, "Who's?" ”
Brother Ying tapped the young man sitting in the corner with his chin and said the brother on the white horse.
It was freezing at this time, and there were no people on the street outside, but the hall was full of people, more than a dozen tables, full of seats, Brother Ying was so busy jumping up and down, Hua Sanniang saw it, and said with a smile: "Give it to me, I'll serve the food." ”
Brother Ying smiled and said that it was naturally good, but Sanniang, don't you fall in love with that little brother with fine skin and tender meat, right? When the time comes, the shopkeeper will come back, but he will kill someone.
Hua Sanniang glared at him, and said that your mother, keep your mouth shut, do you know?
Brother Ying saw that she was angry, and he didn't dare to laugh anymore, so he handed the tray to her.
Hua Sanniang took the tray, twisted her waist, and walked towards the white horse brother in the corner of the store.
She is twenty years old, and when she is in the boudoir, she is one of the most beautiful women in Yange Town, although she has been busy and hard working all these years, and she has lost the posture and agility of a girl, but there are many more women's charm and maturity.
When Hua Sanniang walked over, some familiar old customers ridiculed one after another, saying Ouch, Sanniang, you personally serve the food, which one is blessed?
These people not only made amusements, but some even reached out and couldn't help but touch their buttocks and waists.
Encountering these, Hua Sanniang looked very fierce, and scolded the regular customer who was playing hooligan, and the person who was scolded was not annoyed, but grinned and looked very happy.
In this northwest town, such laughter is also a rare entertainment.
Hua Sanniang twisted her waist and came to the table of the little brother on the white horse, put the five catties of cooked mutton, a big bowl of mutton soup and two pit naan in the tray, and then asked him: "Guest officer, there is food and no wine, it is really boring, we have a good burning knife here, it is brewed by the Zhang family of Li's shop, and the well of their house is absolutely delicious, come to our Yange Town, if you don't drink the burning knife of his old Zhang family, it will be considered for nothing-you, do you want to have a pot?" ”
The little brother raised his head, glanced at Hua Sanniang, smiled, but gently refused: "Thank you, no need." ”
Hua Sanniang tried her best to sell, but the little brother finally couldn't stand it, nodded and said, "Okay, let's have a pot." ”
Hua Sanniang listened, very proud, and said: "I will definitely not harm you if I listen to people's advice to eat a full meal, you inquire, in Yange Town, I Hua Sanniang spit a nail, how can I ever deceive anyone?" ”
When she said this, the person next to her immediately dismantled the stage for her: "If you talk about your ability, you Hua Sanniang is like a fish in water in Yange Town, this is not fake; But you've done it anyway - last year you told me to wait for you in your stable, and the two of us went to have a good time together, but I waited for a snowman and didn't see you coming......"
Hua Sanniang listened, took a sip, and scolded: "Ma bald, you donkey day, the toad wants to eat swan meat, even if the old lady jumps from the gatehouse at the entrance of the town, she will not sleep with you." ”
Ha, ha, ha......
The people around listened to it and burst into laughter, and Hua Sanniang opened this inn, accustomed to the scene, but she was also a person who could afford to joke, scolded the bald man a few words, and then called Xiao'er to send wine.
There were a lot of people here, and although she had the heart to chat with the little white horse brother more, she was not too eager, poured the wine, and then retreated.
She went back to the counter, still focusing on the other side, and saw the young man begin to eat.
The young man didn't look delicate, but he really could eat it, the stewed mutton was crispy, bite by bite, without stopping, and the big pit naan, he bit it so much that it looked like he had been hungry for several days.
Looking at the way he was eating, Hua Sanniang felt a little hungry.
Most of the guests here at the Shuanglin Inn are merchants from the north and south, and there are also all kinds of people, but this young man is still quite eye-catching, because he knows at a glance that he is not from the northwest.
When Hua Sanniang served the food just now, many people looked over there, but after waiting for a while, a rough-faced man came to the white horse brother.
The man, dressed in a sheepskin jacket with a red belt around his waist and a quick knife stuck obliquely on it, stood at the table, looked at the little brother condescendingly, and then said in a rough voice: "Hey, child, the white horse is yours?" ”
The little brother was a little busy eating, and when the man asked him, his mouth was full of mutton, so he swallowed it vigorously, and drank another mouthful of delicious mutton soup, and then said, "Yes." ”
He said very little, but after he finished speaking, he grabbed the naan again and didn't pay much attention to the other party.
The rough-faced man saw that the little brother didn't like to take care of him, but he was entrusted by others, but he still stubbornly said: "Hey, child, as the so-called 'relying on parents at home and relying on friends when going out', everyone is wandering outside, with many friends and multiple roads - my name is Ma Bentang, and I am from Ningxia Ma Jiaji, what is your name?" ”
The little brother finally sensed that something was wrong with the other party, so he put down the pit bag, looked at him for a while, and then said: "The surname is Gan, and his name is Gan Thirteen." ”
The rough-faced man listened and asked with a smile, "No big name?" ”
The little brother said, "No." ”
The rough-faced man breathed a sigh of relief, then sat directly opposite him, and said with a grin: "That's the case, my young lady just saw your white horse, and I like it very much, so I asked me to come over and ask you, how much is it, you make a price, and our Ma family store buys it." ”
When he said "Ma Jiaji", he deliberately accentuated his tone.
Obviously, this Ma Jiaji's reputation in this area is still quite big, and the rough-faced man hopes that he has heard of it, so it will be easier to do things.
Not far away, a girl in a flower dress with a bunch of pigtails was looking at this side expectantly.
But it was obvious that the little brother hadn't heard of any horse family sets, and he didn't have the idea of selling horses, so he shook his head and said, "Don't sell them." ”
The rough-faced man tried to persuade a few words, but the other party ignored it completely, he was immediately annoyed, slapped the table, and scolded violently: "Boy, you don't give face, do you?" Believe it or not, I let you live out of Yange Town? ”
As soon as his words came out, Hua Sanniang couldn't sit still, and shouted: "Ma Laoqi, don't be prestigious to me, you can't use force in the town, believe it or not, I'll go back and sue you to the town office?" ”
As soon as the rough-faced man was told by her, he looked at the little brother who was unmoved before he met, and went back stupidly, muttering and scolding in his mouth.
The little brother on the white horse didn't care and continued to eat, while the girl in the flower dress not far away was full of grievances.
The rough-faced man cautiously explained to her.
At this moment, the curtain of the inn was lifted again, and with the gust of cold wind, a man with short hair but handsome walked in.
The man's eyes wandered around the hall, and found that it was already full, and he was a little disappointed, and then he saw a little white horse brother sitting alone, thought about it, or walked over, and asked politely, "Can you share a table?" ”