Chapter 12 Beizhen • Rubbing Rice
"Sue me?" the young man sat up with a sigh, his broken straw hat slipping from his face.
fell into a rather handsome and chic face, but the look on the face destroyed that chic to nothing.
"He doesn't want to think about how much business I've taken care of him over the years? This year, the caravan came a little later than in previous years, and he complained so much about eating a few of his broken vegetable buns?
"Third uncle, Yinli Gambling House is also collecting debts! Li Laoqi passed the word last night and asked you to pay the interest of the previous month first. Say yes, he's going to be unkind!" Shi Jiu said again.
Chen Shao'an raised his eyebrows and scolded: "Li Laoqi, damn it! Lao Tzu lost all the money he earned for his life! That's all he owes him a few dozen taels of silver? Leave him alone! I'm going to see what kind of unkind method he has?"
"Third uncle, if you don't gamble, how can we end up in such a situation now? As the saying goes, it is natural to repay debts and pay money...... Shi Jiu whispered.
"It's good to repay debts, but you have to be rich" Chen Shaoan's tone was a little lower.
"Oh, also, yesterday's Sister Yuqing from the Rouge Building asked someone to give you two taels of silver. I'm afraid you won't accept it, so I'll let it go. Yesterday, I saw that Li Laoqi was in a hurry, so I gave him it! But next month's interest money has not yet been settled?"
"What? What are you talking about! Xiao Shijiu, how can you take Yuqing's silver?" Chen Shao'an raised his eyebrows and stood up, his face flushed. "When did I, Chen Shao'an, extend my hand to the woman?
The young man Shi Jiuyi spread his hands and said, "I've said everything, give the silver to Li Laoqi." Now I don't even have a penny in my hand, so how can I send it back? Unless, unless we can take a job and have money in our hands!"
"You, you, you...... Alas...... I, Chen Shao'an, have lost my fame in this wilderness town! I think back then, I was also a well-known figure in the Imperial Forest Army in Shangjing, the eastern capital...... How many dignitaries and nobles in the capital have intersected with me! The gifts in my hands are all in the thousands, when have I ever been short of money?...... Hey, hey...... Where are you going? Listen, listen to me...... Ay...... Shi Jiu?"
When Shi Jiu heard him say the word "back then", he hurriedly got up and walked towards the place where the caravan came. He knew that the third uncle wanted to reminisce about the past, but he had heard it more than a thousand times this year, and his ears were calloused.
Chen Shaoan was looking up at the sky, and he lost behind him with one hand. Ang Ran looked proud and complacent. But when he saw Shi Jiu turn around and leave, he couldn't help but suffocate.
looked at Shi Jiu who was far away, and muttered a few words angrily.
Shaking his head, he brushed the hem of the robe on his body, and also walked towards the crowd.
The caravan was led by a sixty-year-old man dressed in a sauce-colored fine cotton robe. The old man had slender eyes and a few long whiskers under his chin, and he looked shrewd. At this time, he was smiling at the corner of his mouth, and he couldn't stop saying hello to the crowd.
Someone in the crowd recognized the old man and shouted, "It's the second shopkeeper of the Luo family, the third master of Luo!"
"Luo Sanye is here in person, so this deal is not small...... There was a commotion in the crowd, and they all gathered around.
This Luo family trading house runs the trade route of the grassland every year, and has trade contacts with many large tribes on the grassland. Every year, a large number of people are hired as caravan guards, and most of these people know Luo Sanye.
This Luo Sanye is also the old steward of the Luo family's caravan, and whenever there is a big deal, he leads the team to trade.
Luo Sanye first instructed a few little stewards in the caravan, and asked them to take the caravan first and settle down at the largest Fulai Inn in the town.
Luo Sanye walked into the crowd, and many people stepped forward to greet him.
Luo Sanye was originally an eight-sided and exquisite character, how could this person be poor in terms of communication?
greeted them one by one with a smile on his face, in just a dozen steps, Luo Sanye and these people either said a few words, or beckoned to each other from afar, or just a kind look. It is done in all aspects, and almost everyone has never been left behind, which shows that he is sleek and sophisticated.
Walking to the center of the square, Luo Sanye coughed, and bowed to the surroundings again.
Everyone in the audience quieted down, and Luo Sanye looked around with a smile. Then he smiled and said: "All the samurai magicians! Today, the old man has reunited with you again! So many old friends are here, I am really overjoyed! In previous years, the firm was fortunate to have your help, and when I had to settle down, the old man prepared a few tables of banquets at the Fulai Inn in the evening. I hope that everyone will not be polite, come to enjoy the light, and talk about our old feelings. The crowd agreed.
Luo Sanye said a few more words, and then said goodbye and went back to the Fulai Inn first.
Everyone knew what the purpose of the banquet prepared by Luo Sanye in the evening was nothing more than to recruit some guards. But how many guards to recruit? It is also to be negotiated during the evening banquet. So many of the people who had prepared in their hearts dispersed and went back to prepare for the evening. In the blink of an eye, there were only a few people left in the small square.
Shi Jiu looked around and said to Chen Shao'an, "Third uncle, shall we also go to the Fulai Inn at night?"
Chen Shao'an's eyes widened, and he said, "Of course I go! Didn't Luo Sanye prepare a banquet and invite us? How could I not go at night? I was worried that dinner had not yet arrived, and this banquet would come to the door by myself." Ha ha...... Just eat him first!"
"Third uncle, we haven't joined any mercenary group for so many years, we are few and strong, I'm afraid we can't do this job, right?"
"Tsk...... If we are willing to go to his caravan as an escort, he will not be able to give up his hands to greet him, will he be happy?" Chen Shaoan looked forward to himself.
"But I saw that the Golden Sword King, Li Mazi and Qian Yigun and a few groups of people are ready to do this business. There are many people under them, and there are many strong players in them. I think it's just a few of them, and they seem to have enough people?"
"You kid...... Why do you want to do so much? What does it matter if he succeeds or not? The third uncle will take you to eat a good meal from him first!"
"Goo-goo...... There was a grunting sound from Chen Shao'an's belly.
Shi Jiu opened his mouth and was about to say something more.
"Alright, alright, as soon as this belly hears that there is a banquet, it will be called first. Alright, alright, I'll go take a nap first, and we'll talk about it later!"
Lying down on the grinding plate again, Chen Shaoan patted his stomach and said, "Shi Jiu, do you know what to do if you are hungry so that you don't feel hungry?"
"I don't know...... "
"Haha, sleep on it! hehe...... You know what? When you fall asleep, you don't feel hungry. Ha ha...... Look, the third uncle has taught you a big trick again! hehe...... Don't forget to wake me up when it's dark. Grandma, I'm going to have a good meal for him at night!"
Regardless of Shi Jiu, who was covered with black lines on his face, he went to sleep by himself.
Looking at Chen Shao'an, who was getting louder, Shi Jiu shook his head helplessly. "Alas, this third uncle...... I had to sit down and secretly run the trick.
"It's been almost three years since this Aotian Jue stayed in the Fifth Realm, but there is still no sign of a breakthrough. Uncle Lu said that Aotian Jue is not the sixth level, and he must not return to the Central Plains. But if you don't go back to the Central Plains, when will the blood feud be avenged? Ignore it for now, I'll work hard to cultivate! I don't believe that I won't be able to break through?"
The sky was about to get dark, and Chen Shaoan was still lying on the grinding plate and sleeping soundly, smacking his mouth a few times from time to time. Maybe, maybe, and he's eating a delicious meal of mountains and seas in a dream.
At this time, there were already three or three samurai magicians, walking towards the Fulai Inn.
Shi Jiu had already collected his exercises, and when he saw many people depressed into the Fulai Inn, he hurriedly shook Chen Shao'an on the grinding plate awake.
Chen Shaoan opened his eyes in a daze. He cried out, "Oops...... It's a pity, Shi Jiu! Can't you call the third uncle later? It's such a big braised elbow, and the third uncle is just about to gnaw on it...... I was woken up by you. It's a pity, it's a pity...... As he spoke, he wiped the saliva that came out.
"Third uncle, if we don't go to the Fulai Inn, there will be no seats!"
"Ah...... As soon as it got dark, these cheeky guys went to eat? Why didn't you call me earlier, so that you could grab a seat close to the meat and vegetables! Oh, what are you rubbing about? Let's go!"
The samurai warriors in North Town formed small gangs with each other at first in order to be able to take on more work, and later they simply formed a mercenary group. In North Town, there are quite a few mercenary groups with more than dozens of people, and the general leader is a person with some strength.
There were four or five tables of banquets in the Fulai Inn. The head of the Tiger Mercenary Regiment, King Golden Sword, led seven or eight backbone mercenaries in the regiment and sat in the center.
Li Mazi and his group of the Flame Mercenary Regiment sat at the table by the window.
And the leader of the ferret mercenary group, Qian Yigun, occupied a table on the inside, and the seat near the door was also occupied by seven or eight idle samurai who ran orders on weekdays.
Chen Shao'an and Shi Jiu were at the door, found two vacant seats, and also sat down.
Luo Sanye and the big and small stewards of the caravan sat on the seats in the main hall. When I saw that the tables were full, there were still people coming in. Luo Sanye ordered another table of banquets.
I saw that the seats in the hall were gradually full, and there were about fifty or sixty people. Luo Sanye asked the shopkeeper to close the store.
The shopkeeper shouted, and the guys were busy from the back kitchen, delivering all kinds of wine and food to each table.
Chen Shaoan happened to see the shopkeeper, who came over with a plate of fat chicken, hurriedly greeted him, and put it in front of him.
He rolled up his sleeves first, reached out and pulled down the two chicken legs first, handed one to Shi Jiu, and the two of them opened their mouths to gnaw.
The rest of the people at the table were still a little self-contained, and they were holding some food with chopsticks. But when they saw the two men put the chicken leg in their mouth, they didn't see how to chew it, and a chicken leg bone spit out. In just a moment, the chicken was gnawed and eaten into a chicken skeleton by the two masters.
At this moment, the shopkeeper served another dish of red stewed pork head. The pig's head was stewed to the fullest, the color was red and bright, and the skin was moist and juicy. It makes people talk about it at a glance, and their index fingers move!
Chen Shao'an saw the pig's head, and couldn't speak because his mouth was full of chicken, he looked at the guy and whined twice, and stretched out his hand to signal that he would also put it in front of him.
Next to him, Shi Jiuzao reached out and took the plate from the man's hand, and he didn't use chopsticks. Stretched out his hand to divide the pig's head into two pieces, handed Chen Shaoan one piece first, and one person munched on one piece. The two of them were like two starving ghosts reincarnated, eating soup dripping and slugging.
These two people don't care about the rest of the people at the table, which dish is good, and which dish can be eaten and chewed vigorously.
The people at this table are all ordinary runners, and they don't have any money on weekdays, so this food is naturally not oily and water! The two of them were seen eating and munching, thinking that if they were holding their own identities, it would really be a trip for nothing, and they couldn't eat anything?
Looking at this shelf, this table of wine and food is not enough for these two starving ghosts to eat. Don't wait, eat now!
The rest of the people at the table were generally thinking, and they were not holding their own identities, and they were pretending to be powerful. I didn't talk anymore, I just ate and drank in my mouth.
For a moment, the table was like a herd of pigs arching the trough. I only listened to the collision of chopsticks and bowls, the jingling of plates, and the sound of a piece of bar, and there was no sound.
The rest of the tables were talking and eating, and the wine and food had not been used much. This table can be poured well, the dishes on the table are eaten cleanly, and the dishes are clean.
Everyone is holding their arms, dancing with whirlwind chopsticks, and grabbing food and drink.
When Chen Shaoan saw the rest of the people at the table, he also began to compete for food and drink. He muttered, "Shi Jiu, are we sitting at the same table with a group of hungry ghosts? How can we all eat it like this? Hey, hey, that lion head is leaving one for me? Hey, hey! What about you, Liu Heizi...... "
No one paid attention to him, they all buried their heads in eating. I think you're so thick-skinned! You're like a starving ghost grabbing vegetables! If it's too late? It's not enough for you two to eat? Can we still eat a fart?
This time, the shop guy is busy. Seeing that the wine and food on this table did not continue, he clung to the wine and food on this table.