Chapter 779: Useful People
"It's just ......," the emperor said, "we have to find out where the Wuliang Mountain is first." If the journey is too far, I think we might as well take the most direct method and go directly to Murong Yan and negotiate with him on terms. ”
Rong Yunxi nodded and said, "Wait and ask Brother Xia Jun to see if he knows where Wuliang Mountain is...... If you can find a reliable reader and draw us a map of the snow country, it will be easier to do things in the future. I think we'd better go out and walk around first, if there is a place to write and paint. ”
Thinking of what happened next, the emperor and Rong Yunxi had no heart to rest. The emperor neatly put on his big cotton jacket, put on his cloak, and said: "It's just that it's getting late at this time, and I don't know if the shops in the market can be opened." If it goes well, come back and see a tailor's shop that is still open, and make a few more cotton clothes. ”
Rong Yunxi frowned and said, "The silver tickets on my body are all silver tickets of the gale, and they will be useless if they leave our wind country." It is better to save some of the money you have on me. ”
The emperor smiled and rummaged in the package. I saw that in a small cloth bag tightly wrapped by a few clothes, there were a few pieces of paper with strange patterns. The emperor opened it, shook it in front of her, and said, "What do you think this is?" ”
"It's ...... Where did you get that? Seeing that the emperor was holding the silver ticket of the Snow Country in his hand, Rong Yunxi was pleasantly surprised.
"Naturally, I have my way. I went back and found a ticket number to redeem it. "The emperor said.
Rong Yunxi smiled, didn't ask curiously, and didn't have any worship, but just said, "It's from Linlang Pavilion again, right?" "The Yunguo silver tickets that were given out before were taken from Linlang Pavilion, and these ones are naturally no exception.
"It's a shame that I caught up", the emperor said, "If I don't follow you, I am afraid that you and Chu Xia will not even be able to survive along the way!" ”
"What's so hard about that? Without you, we wouldn't have spent so much, just the silver we exchanged in the Windy Nation would be enough! Rong Yunxi said. Feeling that such an argument was too powerless, he said, "When you arrive in the Snow Country, what can you do but give us enough silver?" In the end, it is Jun Ziye who helps us the most, you are at best the icing on the cake, not to the extent of sending charcoal in the snow. ”
The emperor pointed at her, but he didn't hold back a word for a long time. I had to urge: "You hurry up!" ”
Rong Yunxi also knew that it was getting late, and they might not be able to find anything when they rushed out at this time, and if they continued to rub it off, they would have to run in vain.
Seeing that Rong Yunxi was in a hurry to get dressed, the emperor said: "Actually, Linlang Pavilion has a place to settle down and transit in the Red Blood City. Every time they came to Snow Country, they didn't go to Fulong City, but to Red Blood City. ”
Rong Yunxi stopped his hand in the padded jacket and looked at the emperor: "Then didn't you say it earlier?" ”
The emperor shrugged his shoulders and said, "You didn't give me a chance to say it...... You first said that you were going to ask Jun Ziye, and you said in a hurry that you would go to the market to find it, but you didn't give me a chance to show it at all. ”
Rong Yunxi smiled: "I know that you are the best, let's go!" ”
The emperor was most willing to listen to Rong Yunxi's praise of him, and he didn't complain about anything anymore, and obediently grabbed the cloak and put it on her.
In fact, he was hesitating just now, whether to show the identity of Linlang Pavilion in the snow country. After all, the people who come and go with Linlang Pavilion in the Snow Country are also big merchants, if this big family secretly has anything to do with the imperial court, it is not good to find out that they came this time and secretly leak their whereabouts.
But after thinking about it, Lin Lang Pavilion had to find out the basics in advance when selecting people related to his business dealings, and at least made sure that they would not sell the news of their business dealings to the Snow Country Imperial Court, so that they would intersect with him, and he chose to believe in the ability of his subordinates, and planned to go directly to the transit joint to get it at once. Moreover, in such a clueless situation, it is not a good thing to attract the other party to strike first.
The emperor took Rong Yunxi around in the Red Blood City, and finally stopped at the penultimate house in the penultimate alley in the west of the city, and knocked on the courtyard door gently.
From the outside, this is just an ordinary house, compared to the surrounding people, it can't even be called rich, it's just an ordinary people's house. But it is said that those who can knock on this door are either rich or expensive in the snow country. People from other countries, only the Linlang Pavilion guys from the Wind Country can find this side and knock on this door.
A hunchbacked old man came to open the door for them, and when he saw that it was two people he didn't know, he couldn't help but raise his vigilance and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”
The emperor didn't say anything, and directly showed the Linlang Pavilion waist card in his hand. The old man saw it, but he didn't let them in immediately, but after looking up and down, he hesitated to let them into the courtyard. But instead of entering the house at once, they were told to wait outside the door of the main house. I thought that he himself went to report to the master first.
After a short time, the hunchbacked old man came back and respectfully asked, "I'm tired of waiting for two distinguished guests for a long time, please come in." ”
The emperor still gave the old man ten taels of silver as a reward according to the rules of Linlang Pavilion. The old man took it, and bowed even more, thinking that he had just apologized for the offense.
Rong Yunxi followed the emperor into the house, but in this main house, there is a special cave. It is not like the regulation of a small hall in the middle of an ordinary room and a small room on the left and right, but it is opened, and it is just a spacious hall. The marble floor, vermilion lacquer walls, gilded counters, and shelves are all kinds of rare things, just like a pavilion. It's just that compared with Linlang Pavilion in terms of scale, it is still a lot worse.
A chubby rich man in his early forties walked around from behind the counter and said with a smile: "I don't know if a distant guest is coming, and I don't know if I miss the distant welcome, so it's not strange to look at a distant guest." ”
just laughed and said this, and did not give them a gift, it can be seen that they thought they were the guys sent by Linlang Pavilion to procure, and he was the shopkeeper, so naturally there was no need to give a gift.
"Two little friends, please ......" The shopkeeper made a gesture of please, and led them downstairs, without saying where to go, without any politeness or explanation, as if they should understand. It can be seen that this is the rule every time the people of Linlang Pavilion come here.
It's cold and snowy outside, but inside it's warm like spring. Entering this house, a sentence suddenly sounded in Rong Yunxi's mind, "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road." Although she didn't see the smell of wine and meat in this house, it was much warmer here than in the inn. You don't need to go under a heavy quilt, and your body is already warm as if you are in a quilt with a warm water bag.
With the shopkeeper went underground. Originally, in this icy and snowy place, the underground must be cold, but as soon as I entered this small underground room, it was like surrounding the bonfire, and a heat wave came to my face, which made people feel comfortable for a while, and I thought that I would stay here for the rest of my life to stay warm and not leave.
"Please." The shopkeeper made a gesture of invitation to the two of them, and instead of waiting for the guests to sit first, he sat on the main seat at will.
The emperor and Rong Yunxi sat on the left and right of the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper asked, "Why have there been people moving around in the in-laws this year?" ”
The emperor said with a smile: "There has been no change in the family, and those who come and go around the family have not come out this year." We are relatives of the Lang family within five suits, and because we have something to do with the snow country, we came here under the name of the Lang family, hoping to have a convenient ...... here."
As he spoke, he handed the waist card in his hand to the shopkeeper, meaning to let him take a closer look. The shopkeeper took it, took a closer look, and hurriedly got up and saluted: "It turns out that it is a relative and not a domestic servant, there is a lot of offense, a lot of offense......
Rong Yunxi was surprised in her heart, thinking how she looked at the waist card, and suddenly changed her attitude? Didn't they also show this waist card to the old slave before, but the old slave didn't have any special reaction? Could it be that this is not the same when seen up close and from a distance?
The emperor also got up, returned the salute to the shopkeeper, and said with a smile: "It's okay." It turned out that my husband and wife bothered Ouyang's shopkeeper. ”
"What's the bother? I was idle all day, and with distant guests coming to talk to me, life was better. The shopkeeper heard that the emperor could call his surname, and he couldn't help but be more enthusiastic.
The emperor said politely: "Ouyang Shibo loves to joke, if this is a quiet place, there will be no busy business in the world." ”
"The ...... who has won the award has won the prize," the shopkeeper politely said, and asked, "I don't know who the virtuous nephew is from the Lang family?" ”
"That's the little nephew's uncle's family, a great-grandfather's uncle." The emperor said.
"It's so close. I don't know what happened when my nephew came here? Shopkeeper Ouyang asked.
In fact, Rong Yunxi heard that the relationship between the emperor and the emperor was not close, but naturally it was not far away. This kind of relationship that is not far away or close makes it easier to make the next excuse believable.
The emperor told the story of an aunt who eloped to the snow country in the early years of the family, and he still told it in a very detailed and true way, and his feelings were quite abundant. After listening to the story, the emperor sighed: "It's not that the little nephew is not filial, it's just that my aunt has been away from home for nearly ten years, and the journey is so difficult. ”
Ouyang shopkeeper also sighed: "If you don't have some real skills, if you want to cross Fulong Snow Mountain, how easy is it?" How many people in the snow country yearn for the outside world? But no one dared to rashly cross the natural danger of Fulong Snow Mountain. Among ordinary people, there are those who can't survive and want to go outside to make a living, and most of them are gone...... It's not that they don't want to return, but they can't go out at all, and most of them die on Fulong Snow Mountain. ”
The emperor sighed: "It's just that my father's health has become worse and worse in recent years, and I remember that if I hadn't blocked my aunt's marriage so much, my aunt might not have done such an impulsive thing." Therefore, since last year, we have been chattering non-stop, and we have to bring a few loyal servants with some skills in the family to the snow country to find my aunt. In fact, I originally thought that as long as I crossed the Fulong Snow Mountain, I would definitely be smooth after arriving in the Snow Country. But I don't want to, our snow country is also so vast. How easy is it to find someone in this vast territory? ”
"I don't know if my nephew knows my uncle's surname?" Shopkeeper Ouyang asked.
The emperor shook his head and said, "Presumably, Shibo is well-informed, I wonder if I can bother Shibo to help draw a map of the snow country for my little nephew?" To let the little nephew know about the magnificent mountains and rivers of the snow country? came out in a hurry, but forgot to ask the uncle for this thing. But if you want to come to the vast snow country, even if the uncle and his friends have been here once or twice, they have not been able to fully appreciate it, and it is not easy to draw it. ”
I can't talk to him anymore, I'm afraid I'll show my stuffing if I talk too much.
"The virtuous nephew is lifted," the shopkeeper said with a smile, "If I am asked to draw it, it will not be easy." I haven't seen much of the great rivers and mountains in this snow country......"