Chapter 1 The Guest Comes
The world is divided into ten provinces, the rivers and mountains are different, the folk customs are different, there are prosperous such as Chang'an Luoyang, there are also delicate such as Yangzhou Qiantang, but in these famous boundaries, the Tang Dynasty land mountains and rivers, more are some little-known small land.
Located in the west of Jiannan Road, close to the remote, there is a small town called Kemo, the town is not big, but the disease of the flow of business travelers from east to west is staggering, there are words, the world is bustling, all for profit, the world is crowded, all for profit, such a small town, but this truth is clear.
When we entered the town, the dirt and stone streets were wide enough for the horse caravan to walk in three rows, and the noise on both sides of the road was full of bargaining, the stalls made of wooden planks and wooden tables, the sheds made of linen and straw mats, and the peddlers and merchants who spoke various dialects, and I did not know whether they could understand each other, but whose voices were louder.
If you are a first-time visitor to the town, you will choke on that stall, not to mention that it is difficult to swallow when you look at it, but as soon as it comes out of the pot, it will be snatched away, and one of the three stalls is a bright knife and dagger, rope and iron hook, and the others are things that you have never seen or heard, and I don't know what to use them.
However, even if you are frightened, don't show it on your face, there are many locals in this town who make a living by stealing and stealing, just hiding in the light and in the dark, staring with a pair of thief eyes, picking the lamb that is easy to start.
There are a lot of inns in the town, from the east of the town to the west of the town, there are eight of them, of course, according to the different accommodation environment, there are high and low, if you have no money, you will go west, if you have money, you will look at the east gate of the head - Shunfeng Inn.
The sound of "grunting" stopped, just at noon, the sun was shining, a carriage leaned against the door of the inn, the first floor was open on all sides, and the guests who were drinking and meating noticed this movement and turned their heads to look.
It's not that you haven't seen a carriage, but in Kemo Town, the carriage is really rare, passing here, a few are going to play, which is not to fight the horse to go forward, to prevent thieves and thieves, who squeamishly sat in the carriage.
Holding this question, everyone watched without blinking as the curtain of the car was rolled up by the coachman, and two people jumped off from the car one after the other, and the one who got up was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, about thirty years old, with a fat figure, wearing a bright green satin robe with a round neck, and a paper fan pinned elegantly to his waist, as if he deliberately intended to imitate the scholar's dress, but he couldn't see a few drops of ink in his stomach.
He was followed by the one in his twenties, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, broad shoulders and long body, dressed in a white cloth robe, with long hair over the shoulders in a bun casually held behind his head, and holding a short sword with a foot length in his hand, which looked like a chivalrous man.
"Huh, I must have eaten enough again and had nothing to do, the work was too comfortable, and I found it here to find it when I was playing." The man who said this was not loud, but many people around him heard it, and they all agreed in their hearts.
The man in the green robe seemed to hear himself being discussed, and turned his head to look at the person with a smile, which was regarded as a provocation, and he couldn't scold a meat word, so he heard the sound of the stairs in the northwest corner, and a small man came down, laughed, and went up.
"Boss He, I'm looking upstairs, it's like your car, what's the matter, it's the end of spring, and you go out to license the goods in person?"
This voice was flattering, and the man who almost cursed just now, his face couldn't help but change, and he saw the fat man in the green robe fold the paper fan, and tapped it on the top of the little man's head, and said:
"Okay, don't ask so much, vacate four upper rooms, boil hot water, and prepare good wine and food upstairs."
"Hey, wait, there are only two rooms left in this upper room, I'll go and get out the guests in the two rooms and make room for you, why don't you go to my house and sit for a while?"
"No, I'll just have a cup of tea on this floor and wait for a few people."
The green-robed fat man led the white-clothed knight, and picked a vacant seat at the corner of the entrance on the first floor to sit, and the little man hurriedly went upstairs, and the first floor, which was still messy, immediately lost his voice.
The little middle-aged man who just went downstairs to greet people is not a shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper of this Shunfeng Inn, nicknamed "Lao Rub", this native of the local, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first snake in this guest land, you come here to live in the hotel, you also need to see the face of the person, on weekdays, this old rub is not to say that he is smiling and talking to people, that is, when the cashier, the nostrils are also against the roof.
Where did this fat man come from? Everyone was suspicious, and those who were knowledgeable guessed from the sound of "Boss He", and those who didn't know didn't dare to be presumptuous, this was a guest, when he was stabbed on the street, white and red came out, and there was nowhere to call an official.
"Grunt", another carriage stopped at the door, everyone went to see, the curtain of the car was scraped, and two people jumped out of it, and the two heads were put together, as if muttering something, and went up the steps, and then walked up the road to see the road, only to turn their heads, and heard a burst of laughter of unknown meaning in the inn.
The two people in this men's and women's clothes are generally slender and tall, and their appearance is different, the men's clothes are green, the eyebrows are clear, and the women's clothes are pink and danzhu, the red shirt is shining, and the eyebrows are flying and the nose is straight. The two of them seem to be the golden boy and girl who came out of the painting, and they don't seem to appear in this chaotic town.
On a table near the door, there were several men sitting, a man with two fluffy thick arms, sniffing vigorously when the two passed by, and couldn't help but smile evilly:
"What a pair of little girl's skins, look at those two small waists, tsk, it's really wearing men's clothes, you can't see it, what, look at what I do, isn't it a match-"
Before the words were spoken, the laughter came to an abrupt end, and the man at the same table made a few "swish" knife draws, and the lively people on the side were silent, just look at the pair of thin and boneless hands with two slender bamboo chopsticks, only three centimeters apart, and they will pierce into the pair of slightly convex eyes.
"Say, with which eye did you look at me?"
The watery young man in green clothes, pointed at by the three people with knives, a mouth, mellow timbre, mixed with some Shu accent in the tone, but it does not make people suspicious, if this man answers that it is his left eye, the chopstick will be inserted.
"Giggles," just as the crowd was watching, the red-shirted girl next to her covered her mouth and laughed, "What are you trying to scare him for?"
"Just poke the blind directly."
"What are you doing?"
The shopkeeper's old man hurriedly ran down from upstairs, and was about to scold the table with a knife and a stabbing eye, but before he could spitt out the stars, he was preempted.
"Heh, this is really called the front and back feet, the kung fu of talking, everyone is here, don't stand, come and sit." The green-robed fat man in the corner poked his head out of the corner of the wall at some point and beckoned to the pair of golden boys and girls.
"Yo, dead fatty, you're there." The girl in the red shirt walked over with a smile, and the young man in the apricot and yellow clothes threw away his spoon, glanced at the few people who raised their knives at him but did not dare to cut them down, and also went to the table to sit down.
Four people have a seat, and before they have time to greet each other, outside the inn, there is movement again-
"Gollum", when the third carriage stopped outside the inn, the people inside were no longer surprised.
The curtain of the carriage was opened, and a pair of long legs stepped out of the carriage, it was a man of tall stature, wearing a water-colored gown, with a silver belt tied around his waist, and his bearing was calm, and the strange thing was that half of this person's face was buttoned with a mask, the black and gray mask was very inconspicuous, but the hole in the eye was dark and could not see the eyebrows, which made people feel mysterious for no reason.
This man walked into the inn in a few steps, and the people in the house realized that he was not just one, behind the slender figure, there was also another one, and after entering the house, he showed a petite figure.
The girl who was about to poke the blind eye before was enough, and a little girl with white skin and soft skin came out, which made people suspect that the place they were staying in now was still not a mixed Hamo Town.
"Guest officer, are you going to eat or stay?" Lao Rub is a good person, in this town where there are thousands of people flowing every day for decades, who goes to that station, you can see the dignity and humility, which sent a few people who got knives, and they came up to make a cameo appearance in a small two.
The man did not rush to answer him, but walked a few steps inside, swept around, and as soon as his eyes fell on a table in the corner, he heard someone shout:
"Fourth Master Chang, here."
Next to the fat man in the green robe who opened his mouth to call the man, a knight dressed in white was waving at the man with a mouthful of white teeth, and the four people at the same table looked at each other and showed different smiles.
The little girl behind the man looked at the past quietly, and matched the names of several people with the same heart.
The knight in white is the thirteen swords of Yunzhou, Shen Jiantang. The fat man in the green robe is the He family, the largest tea and horse merchant in Jinzhou, and He Shaozhi, who is in charge. The woman in the red shirt was Yao Yisheng, the poisoner of Hongzhuang, the young man in the green shirt, I don't know.
A seat for four people became a seat for six people, and the little girl sat down beside the man, and looked up to see Shen Jiantang on the opposite side winking at her.
"***, what's your name, why haven't I seen you before?"
Holding back her laughter, she replied softly, "My name is Tang Yu." ”
"Tang Xiaoyu, good name, are you the sister of the fourth child?"
"No," she turned her face to look at the man in front of her, and said with a smile, "I'm waiting for the young master." ”
"It's better not that it's his sister," Shen Jiantang grinned, poured a cup of tea and handed it to her, "Why don't I recognize you as a sister?" ”
"Sloppy ghost, why are you talking so much nonsense," the girl in the red shirt glanced at him, reached out and knocked on the table, and sneered at the man opposite:
"You think we're here to play in the mountains and rivers, and we have a calling girl, you have nothing wrong with your brain, right?"
"Ahem," He Shaozhi, the green-robed robe hurriedly coughed a few times, causing a few people to look at him sideways, "What do you have to say, let's go upstairs and talk about it, okay?" ”
(Suddenly opened a new volume, no advance notice, sorry to the relatives, today I sorted out a part of the outline, and strive to present the second more at about 12 o'clock, and the new volume will be made up after the preview meeting.) )()