Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Vanishing Gold
"This ...... How could this be?" Lin Jing's heart turned upside down, and he was speechless in shock.
"Where's the gold?" the innkeeper shouted at Lin Jing, "Hey, where is this gold?"
As soon as the little brother shouted like this, the inn exploded again, and the small table was full of people, talking nonsense.
"What's going on, what's going on? Get out of the way of the old lady!" a chubby middle-aged woman with a large mole on her left cheek squeezed in from the crowd.
"Ergouzi, what's the matter, where is the gold?" As soon as the middle-aged woman came in, she picked up the stone on the table, glared at the boss, and yelled at the little brother.
"Boss, I don't know what's going on, I watched him put the gold in his pocket, and when he took the money, I was also waiting in front of him, why did he change the tanuki for the prince, and the gold turned into stone. The little brother turned out to be called Ergouzi, he said with a sad face.
Lin Jing was so nervous that he was sweating all over the side, and he couldn't even say a word, he couldn't hear what the proprietress and Ergouzi were talking about, and he was full of thoughts about how the gold was turned into stone.
"Hey, I said, you don't want to come to eat white food, do you?" The proprietress slapped the stone on the table with a "snap", pinched her waist with her left hand, and pointed at Lin Jing with her right hand, and said, "You Taoist priests are the most eccentric, that gold can't be conjured up by your tricks, right?"
When the second dog heard this, he came to his senses: "Yes, yes, yes, little Taoist, do you want to come to our Hongyun Inn to eat white food?" he said as he rolled his sleeves up to his arms and put on a posture that he was ready to do at any time.
"I ...... I'm not juggling...... How is this ...... I just didn't do juggling. Lin Jing was wronged by the proprietress and the second dog for "eating white food", and he was extremely aggrieved, and he was crowded with people, which made him feel like he was locked in a cage.
Lin Jing gasped for breath rapidly, almost suffocating.
"Now, if you don't figure this out, you'll want to get out of the inn. The proprietress said fiercely: "Ergouzi, how much is his meal?"
"It's four pieces of silver. The second dog said: "Who is your master, if you can't afford to pay for food, I will call your master to see what you do! It's nothing to eat white food, what are you still arranged! ”
Lin Jing couldn't say a word, he clutched the corners of his clothes tightly with both hands.
"Hey, little Taoist, speak!" the second dog became impatient and reached out to grab the package from his back.
"Don't move!" Lin Jing was startled and wanted to turn around to dodge, but he hit the table and broke a plate.
"Good guy, if you turn against you, you dare to drop things, and if you don't give you some color, you don't know what your surname is!" The second dog swept over, and Lin Jing shouted loudly in fright.
"Hey, wait!"
The second dog's raised hand was caught.
"Who?" Ergouzi turned around and saw a young man in Chu Yi standing beside him with a smile, he struggled hard, but he didn't break free.
"Be forgiving and forgiving, this little Taoist priest hasn't done anything wrong, so why be rude. After the young man in Chu Yi finished speaking, he let go of his hand, and the second dog looked down and saw that there were five deep red marks on his wrist, and he couldn't help but be furious, and was about to get angry, when he saw that he was holding the handle of a Tang knife in his other hand, he was startled, and he pressed the idea of getting angry.
"Thank you...... Hey, it's you!" Lin Jing gratefully teary-eyed, looked up and saw the face of the young man in Chu Yi, and found that it was actually a young man riding a horse that he had met on the street before!
"Yes, meet again. The young man in Chu Yi smiled and pulled Lin Jing up from the table, and gently helped him dust off the leftover soup splashed on his clothes.
"Yo, you two know each other, then you gave him this money?" The proprietress watched from the side, and when the young man in Chu Yi appeared, she was also startled, and only then did she dare to speak, but her words were much gentler, for fear of annoying the young man in Chu Yi.
"Here, even his broken dishes, and my food. The young man in Chu Yi took out a small ingot of broken silver from his arms, handed it to the second dog, and said, "Don't look for it!"
The proprietress made a look, and the second dog understood, bit it with his teeth, stepped on it on the ground, and wiped it with a tablecloth, then handed it to the proprietress and said, "It should be true." ”
The proprietress took the silver, pinched it, and said, "Okay, since the money for this meal has been settled, then there is nothing to do, so please do it." As she spoke, the proprietress waved her hands and shouted at the crowd: "It's all scattered, it's all scattered, there's nothing to see! ”
The excitement was gone, and the crowd immediately dispersed.
"I ...... I really don't know how to thank you!" Lin Jing looked at the young man in Chu Yi with a grateful look on his face.
The young man in Chu Yi shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't thank me, my horse frightened you before, this is even if the two of us are straight, no one owes anyone." ”
"Still. Suddenly, the young man in Chu Yi lowered his head, leaned against Lin Jing's ear, and said, "Do you want to know how your gold turned out?"
"Do you know?" asked Lin Jing in surprise.
"Naturally I know!" Chu Yi said with a smile, and suddenly he looked around and whispered: "There are many people here, let's talk in another place." ”
Lin Jing nodded, picked up the baggage, and followed the young man in Chu Yi to the outside of the store, seeing that his horse was eating forage, remembering that Xiaobai had not eaten yet, he asked timidly: "This big ...... Uncle, can you give me some forage. ”
"I'm not much older than you, just call me Ah Lang. Ah Lang said with a smile, his smile was like a spring breeze, which made Lin Jing's heart warm. However, at this moment, a girl suddenly occurred in his mind.
The mysterious girl she met in the thatched house, like Ah Lang, always likes to smile at the corners of her mouth.
Could it be that Ah Lang knows the mysterious girl, or is it her own brother?
Lin Jing couldn't help but look up at Ah Lang's face carefully, and immediately knew that he had guessed wrong. Ah Lang's green face is full of vicissitudes that do not match his age, although he is handsome, but he is very different from the mysterious girl: Ah Lang's sword eyebrows are into the sideburns, and his eyes are thin and slender, while the mysterious girl is a pair of big Danfeng eyes, and the difference between the eyebrows and eyes of the two is obvious, and it is impossible to be a family.
"What, what's on my face?" Seeing that Lin Jing had been staring at him, Ah Lang couldn't help but touch his cheek with his hand and asked.
"Ah...... No, it's not!" Lin Jing came back to his senses, his face was crimson with embarrassment, he took the forage from Ah Lang's hand, and said, "Brother Lang, thank you for the forage." ”
"Brother Lang?" When Ah Lang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a gust of cold wind coming, and said: "This title sounds strange, so let's call me Brother Lang." ”
"Brother Lang, my name is Lin Jing. Lin Jing nodded and said. To be honest, he didn't notice Ah Lang's embarrassment, when he was on Ling Mountain, Ma Xiaoling always called himself "Brother Lin", and he was already used to this title.
"Well, Brother Lin, let's talk as we go!" After speaking, Ah Lang untied the reins of the horse, held it in his hand, walked side by side with Lin Jing, and walked out of the town. And Lin Jing also took advantage of the time to take Xiaobai out of his arms and feed it forage.
"Brother Lin, your rabbit is a little peculiar! Where did you get it?" Ah Lang saw that Xiaobai in Lin Jing's arms didn't move, and the forage was sent to his mouth, so he opened his mouth and swallowed the forage, which was too much to behave, which was completely different from ordinary rabbits.
"Xiaobai was picked up by me from the mountains, and I am usually very lazy and don't like to move. Lin Jing said that he has been with Xiaobai for a long time, and in his opinion, Xiaobai is indeed different.
Lazy like no other.
"Oh. Ah Lang nodded thoughtfully, looking at his contemplative appearance, he didn't seem to believe Lin Jing's words.
"Brother Lang, you just said that my gold was confiscated by someone, what the hell is going on!" Lin Jing asked. Thinking of Fang Cai's predicament at the Hongyun Inn, he was afraid for a while, if Ah Lang hadn't appeared in time, he didn't know what kind of torture he would have suffered. Thinking of this, he became more and more grateful to Ah Lang.