The shopkeeper was an old man, seventy or eighty years old, with deep-set eyes and loose sparse hair, and he served wine and food to Xu Qiu and the others. After drinking, he didn't leave, cleared his cuffs, and sat down, he looked at Xu Qiu and then at Lou Sanqian and Duan Sanlang, and suddenly smiled: "Hou Sheng, there is no way ahead, where are you going to hurry." ”

"Old man, wine and meat can't stop your mouth, are you and I waiting for a few people to be blind, can't you see that there is no way ahead?" Lou Sanqian ate meat in one bite and said foul language.

The old man didn't bother with Lou Sanqian because of Lou Sanqian's = vulgar words, in fact, Lou Sanqian's heart is not bad, and he can let this old man sit down and eat together.

The old man handed over a plate of beef, which was handed to Xu Qiu, and he asked Xu Qiu with a smile: "Later life, how is the old man's craftsmanship?"

Xu Qiu politely: "Very good!"

"Housheng, this is to..."

Before the old man's words could be spoken, Lou Sanqian took over, "One bite and one offspring, you are really happy, do you know that the old man is a little older than you." ”

The old man was still neither angry nor angry, he smiled and said nothing.

Xu Qiu gave Lou Sanqian a noisy look, Lou Sanqian was instantly unhappy, and shouted: "Hey, you kid, when did you learn to turn your elbows outward, and you glanced at outsiders and masters, you are deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors! ”

Xu Qiu stopped the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and asked Lou Sanqian with a smile: "Let me ask, the desert is vast, and the land that can give you wine and meat may find a second place?" Lou Sanqian, accumulate a little bit of morality." ”

Duan Saburo echoed on the side, "That is, when you hear the conversation, you know that you are a vulgar person and insulting to Sven." ”

The three of them are used to cutting mountains, and they have to fight a few mouthfuls wherever they go, and after a while, Lou Sanqian and Duan Sanlang pinched each other, Lou Sanqian shouted to dig Duan Sanlang's ancestral grave, and Duan Sanlang said that he had slept with other men in the morning, and he couldn't have a relationship.

Xu Qiu chuckled and said to the old man: "Laugh, the beef tastes very beautiful, but is there more?"

The old man hurriedly said: "Yes, there are few passers-by here, and I haven't seen a few in the past few years. ”

With that, the old man went into the house.

Suddenly, Xu Qiumei looked in the sea, and the turtle San said: "Boy, this old man is weird, I'm afraid it's not a simple thing, be careful, by the way, this beef is really so delicious, throw a few pieces to the deity!"

In fact, Xu Qiu had already seen that this old man was not an ordinary person, how could an ordinary person stay here to do business? Now that Xu Qiu had experienced the peach shadow slave in Jiangcun, Punan, he understood a truth, "there is a destiny in the dark", "the sky does not fulfill people's wishes", and as for whether the old man is good or bad, he doesn't care. But if he moved to kill, Xu Qiu would not panic, there were three thousand Lou here, presumably he would not be able to make any time, if three thousand Lou could not defeat him, it would be simpler, death.

Turtle San also agreed with Xu Qiu's guess, after all, what he said made sense.

The old man brought out ten catties of beef and ten stalls of rice wine.

Xu Qiu and the three of them feasted and applauded.

Duan Sanlang didn't fight for Lou Sanqian, and the last piece of beef with three taels was stuffed into the belly by Lou Sanqian, and with a mouthful of authentic rice wine, he burped three times, reached out and took out a stack of straw paper from his sleeve, slapped it in front of the old man, and called out in a high-pitched voice: "Old man, this is a thousand dollars." ”

The three thousand buildings of the dog day are really not people, they are prostitutes everywhere, whether it is a white prostitute looking for a woman to spend the night in the Qinglou, this wine and meat is also a white prostitute, commonly known as "white prostitution!"

Lou Sanqian took a bamboo stick with one hand, picked his teeth, lifted his feet and put it on the stool, stretched out his body, and climbed high and looked into the distance.

When the old man saw the thousand coins on the table, he didn't move.

Xu Qiu was waiting for the old man to collect the money, if his expression was slightly wrong, it proved that what the turtle San said was good, the old man was not an ordinary person, he could see the trick of Lou 3,000, but if he accepted the 1,000 money stupidly, then there was no need to worry. The old man opened his mouth to thank him, "A thousand dollars, the guest is generous." Anyway, the old man directly covered a thousand dollars with one hand, and he was about to put it in the cuff, Xu Qiu shook his head slightly, he already had a conclusion in his heart, and he saw that he was busy when the old man collected the money, and stopped with one hand. The old man raised his eyes, this was Xu Qiu's eyes with him, he gave Xu Qiu a very special feeling, a pair of cloudy eyes could not see the boundary between black and white, but he could faintly see some unusual places, for example, the wisps of dark lines covered it, such as snakes and worms.

"Old man, you can't take this thousand dollars!"

The old man raised his eyebrows, glanced at Lou Sanqian, and said: "How can there be such a generous person in the world, fifty yuan is good, and the old man doesn't dare to accept a thousand yuan." ”

Xu Qiu chuckled: "It's not necessary, a thousand dollars is still a thousand dollars." It's just that I invited this meal, and you don't want to accept the 1,000 yuan he gave, just take my 1,000 yuan. ”

As soon as the words fell, Xu Qiu took out the 1,000 money he had extorted from Turtle San's hand, and respectfully put it in the palm of the old man's hand, "Take it." With a quick gesture, he threw back the original 1,000 yuan to Lou 3,000.

The old man smiled and accepted a thousand yuan, patted Xu Qiu's shoulder, and said kindly: "Housheng, yes! If you can't find the way ahead, remember to turn around and eat a sip of rice wine." ”

Xu Qiu and the three of them left the "Earth Fish Station" and still went south.

On the way, Lou Sanqian scolded all the way: "Lou someone has been galloping the world for several years, how can you not see that this old man is not ordinary." You kid is too cowardly, just an old man who rides the wind will scare you, there is a teacher by your side, what are you afraid of?"

Xu Qiu raised his eyes to look at Lou Sanqian, and sighed, "Yo, when does someone in Lou also have the ability to see people." Let's give you a look at this, I don't care if you don't give money to those dusty women in the Qinglou, but this old man has worked hard to set up a stall, you can't just eat it, and throw it away with a stack of straw paper. Let's not talk about whether he has cultivation or not, even if he is really a mediocre person, you must give this thousand dollars. San Lang, what Xu said is reasonable?"

San Lang, an old yin and yang man.

"Xu Shaoxia, what he said is reasonable. But after all, the predecessors of Lou have walked the world a lot, and they have developed an uninhibited temperament, and they don't matter, in short, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt. ”

Duan Saburo's words in this paragraph can be described as leaky.

Lou Sanqian snorted coldly after hearing this, and then stopped the action of pulling out the gun stick under his crotch, and Duan Sanlang was relieved.

Xu Qiu smiled: "Let's go, how long is the road ahead?"

As he was talking, Lou Sanqian was also puzzled, and he muttered, "Hiss... No, if it's ordinary, this should be a ban, a hundred years ago, the old man went to the ground and the fish was here, but why is it gone?"

Duan Sanlang echoed: "Yes, it is also here for five hundred years, and Duan also walked here back then." ”

Xu Qiu was stunned.

Thousands of miles of yellow sand, the sunset on the long river.

Lou Sanqian was puzzled: "Could it be that he is on the wrong path?"

The three of them thought about it and decided that there was something strange here. Xu Qiu stood still, Lou Sanqian took off and left, first looking for the way, Duan Sanlang also volunteered, but was left behind by Lou Sanqian, he said, "Beware of the old man of the 'Earth Fish Station', you stay here to protect some of this kid, if there is any threat, you shout three times into the air, Lou Sanqian, the old man will come back!"

Lou 3,000 was not verbose, and his footsteps were so fast, and he disappeared immediately.

Xu Qiu thought carefully about the old man, especially some of the beginningless words he said when he was eating meat just now, and specially explained to Xu Qiu, "If you can't find the way, remember to come back and eat wine and meat".

After a quarter of an hour, Lou Sanqian still didn't come back, it seemed that he had found a distance, Xu Qiu didn't wait for him, he said to Duan Sanlang, and left a message here, "Just say go first, see you at the fish station!" Duan Sanlang dared to disobey Lou Sanqian's words, he was a little embarrassed, and said to Xu Qiu: "This... Senior Lou has explained, let's go, it's a little bad, or wait for him. Besides, what if that old man really had any bad intentions? ”

Xu Qiu patted San Lang's shoulder with one hand: "Don't wait, if Lou Sanqian can find the way, he will be back a long time ago." If that old man really had evil intentions, he wouldn't have set up such a cumbersome move, and it would be good to poison his flesh directly, so why bother. San Lang, it's okay to practice more, don't always mix with Lou Sanqian, look at your current appearance, thief eyebrows, I'm afraid that the blood of the year has been lost a long time ago. ”

Turtle San said: "Mess with me, phew, learn from me!"

Xu Qiu stepped forward and went to the Earth Fish Station.

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The old man was rocking on the bamboo chair, very leisurely.

The nose moved, the eyes opened slightly, Xu Qiu and Duan Saburo were rushing over, the corners of his mouth raised a subtle arc, and he greeted early: "Housheng, are you back?"

Xu Qiulian walked in front of the old man, respectfully, and got straight to the point, "Shopkeeper, as you expected, there is really no way ahead." ”

The old man smiled but said nothing.

The old man got up and beckoned Xu Qiu to sit down, he went into the house, and when he opened the curtain, he turned around and explained, "Housheng, don't worry, old man, I already knew that you were going to turn back." ”

Xu Qiu was not in a hurry, after listening to the old man's instructions, he sat down quietly, and beckoned Duan Saburo to sit down together, "San Lang, don't always have an iron face, it's not good-looking." If you show three layers of strength for women, maybe people will be more polite to you. ”

The old man under the curtain walked out, holding a bowl of steaming things to make dumplings, he put the dumplings in front of Xu Qiu, and said with a smile: "A few dishes of beef, a few jars of rice wine, where can it be worth a thousand dollars, I am ashamed of it, old man, so I thought about preparing another dumpling for you, because the beef in the store is air-dried, and the dumplings are not good, so I picked some wild vegetables." In the next life, it will be eaten hot. ”

Xu Qiu didn't move his chopsticks for a long time, but Duan Sanlang couldn't stop it, his throat fluttered, he hadn't tasted dumplings for five hundred years, Xu Qiu pushed the dumplings to Duan Sanlang, and said softly: "You eat." ”

Duan Saburo: "Xu Daoyou, don't you eat?"

The old man smiled: "Don't worry, the old man has prepared four bowls, all of which are in the pot, so I will bring them." ”

Xu Qiu didn't know why he asked: "The old man, plus the ploppy man who went to find the way, there are only three people, when will the fourth person come?"

When Xu Qiu asked this, he already had some faint premonitions.

In the blink of an eye, the old man pointed to Xu Qiu's shoulder, and he said to Xu Qiu: "This one, don't you eat?"

[To be continued.] 】