Chapter Twenty-Four: Swinging the Sword into a Cage
Uncle Wang Liu and Aunt Shen have already gone back, and Xiaoying has sent one ride after another, and she is reluctant to leave. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe gray hills are lying together on the plain, and an official road winds between the green slopes into the distance, and the far can be seen, and ten miles away is a pavilion.
Liting is a kind of imperial system, in order to facilitate the rest and supply of errands and travelers, regardless of the mountains and plains in the territory of the dynasty, there are post stations every ten miles, and the food trips of friends and guests are generally carried out in the post station, because they are separated, people are used to calling the post station Liting.
Xu Feng left the pavilion and said to Xiaoying: The farthest is where to go.
Xiaoying nodded, her delicate little face full of reluctance.
At the height of the hill, the field of vision is wide, which makes people's mood feel refreshed, Xiaoying's face finally bloomed, Xu Feng knew that at the moment of separation, Xiaoying didn't want to make the atmosphere seem too depressing.
From two little guesses to childhood sweethearts, and then to the beginning of love, in the days when Xu Feng was still crazy, Xiaoying took care of his daily life. On the occasion of separation, he told Xu Feng that the clothes were there and the shoes were there, as if Xu Feng had returned to a state where he couldn't take care of himself.
Listening carefully to Xiaoying's bland advice, looking at the eyes full of parting, Xu Feng said seriously: Wait for me to come back!
Chao Liting waved his hand again, pushed Jiang Liao, and disappeared behind the rolling hills.
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Xu Feng used modern medical techniques to conduct a comprehensive examination of Jiang Liao's condition and was very confident in his physical recovery. On the rugged mountain road, sometimes Xu Feng even felt that this stupid big man had woken up, and he just deliberately hid in a wheelchair to be lazy.
Jiang Liao's weight was more than 200 catties, and on the way, Xu Feng pushed it for a while, and then tied it with a rope around his waist and neck. A young man who looks like a scholar, another young man who is as strong as a door god, the sparsely populated wilderness is okay to say, when walking through the streets and alleys, it is a little dazzling, and passers-by have sideways glances.
Xu Feng has read it from books and calculated it himself, this world is very big, really big. Compared with the earth in the previous life, the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty was larger than the land area of the earth combined, and among the four major states and counties, the area of Zhongzhou was about the same size as the Eurasian continent on the earth. Not to mention that outside the Great Xia Dynasty, there is also the Rakshasa Kingdom, there is also Vientiane City, as well as the vast mountains and thousands of miles of sea frontiers, and even the legendary unknown places. In the same Zhongzhou County, there is also a distance of more than 1,000 places from Hengshui to Sendai.
At dusk, Xu Feng pulled Jiang Liao into an unknown town.
Although there are not many households in the town, the main street is still quite lively. Xu Feng was going to stop for a bite to eat, stay for one night, and continue his journey tomorrow.
In the remote township, there are no high-end inns, just a row of simple bungalows, lonely in the cold wind of the open intersection, giving people a feeling of desolation and loneliness.
At this time, it was already close to the north of the Great Xia Dynasty, and the climate was getting colder and colder, and there was indeed a heat wave in the inn.
This kind of inn for a few dollars and silver for a night, there is no separate room, the brick base is five or six zhang long, dozens of bunks, each bunk is placed with simple grass and reeds, the guest can use his own bedding, or he can use the bedding provided by the store that has been blackened and is almost impossible to see the original color.
Three large stoves made of yellow mud and bricks and stones are separated in front of the bunks. Inside the stove was burning cheap and hardwood, the huge chimney went straight to the outside of the room, and on the stove sat a large black iron teapot, and the boiling water vapor mixed with the smell of sweat on the tenants' bodies, the smell of their feet, and the musty smell of the covering, mixed into a strange smell, which filled the whole space.
The inns in small towns are all for the poor who go out to make a living, the coachman who drives his feet, the peddler who does small business, the poor scholar who goes to the county government or Kyoto to seek a future, and more often than not. It can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, and everyone has it.
Behind the inn was a small courtyard surrounded by a half-man high earthen wall, surrounded by sheds for carriages and horses, where some forage was stored.
Xu Feng picked up a position slightly near the door, laid out the cover, settled Jiang Liao, and prepared to make do with the night.
It's still early.
Around the fire, more than a dozen people sat around the bunks drinking and gambling, and the firelight reflected the red faces and bare shoulders of the men, creating a warm atmosphere. The inferior koji wine became drier and drier the more I drank, the stakes got bigger and bigger, and before I knew it, two hours had passed, and the night was already deep. The man who lost a few taels of silver did not give up, and shouted to start over. Although the noise was very loud, the people sleeping on the bunk were also snoring like thunder, tired of a day, filling their stomachs indiscriminately, and asking Xiao Er for a basin of hot water to soak their feet, which was very relieving. The men who didn't fall asleep and didn't want to mess with this group of gambling money, like Xu Feng, closed their eyes and thought about their own thoughts.
A man who looks like a scholar should get up at night. said that he was a scholar, wearing a robe worn by a scholar, but this robe was obviously much wider, and it was put on his body like a costume, and his body was full of mistakes, and the scarf on his head was also crooked, and he unbuttoned his trousers while rubbing his eyes.
Such inns do not have special toilets at all. The people who live in the hotel are all male guests, and at night Xiao Xie rushed to the northeast corner of the house, a fist-sized hole was made in the wall, urine was in it, and it flowed down the river into the thatched pit outside the inn. The guests of the cold winter month do not even need to go out of the house.
The scholar unbuckled his belt, rushed to the hole, closed his eyes and began to release water, and suddenly a cold wind poured into the house from outside the cave, and the scholar shivered for a while.
With a gust of wind, a man and a woman appeared on the dark avenue outside the house.
The woman said, "That kid is inside."
Another human: The master of the door just asked us to find out the reason for the matter, or not to act rashly, so as not to startle the snake, and the sky will be bright in a few hours, so we should wait.
"What Senior Brother said is also true, I have observed it during the day, but he is just an enlightened bastard, and he can't run away if he forgives him. ā
"Senior sister Gao Jian! There are not many wild cultivators who have no way or no faction these days, and tomorrow I will catch that kid just to refine your soul. ā
"Thank you, brother!"
"What do you want to thank me? Hehe, the night is long, it's better to ......"
"Senior brother, you ...... I hate it!"
The sloppy scholar heard this delicate female voice in the middle of the night, and his sleepiness disappeared all at once, and he even reacted below. It's also a lively temperament, such a weird and gorgeous thing, it's really not good for a person to appreciate, you have to find someone to refer to it together.
The scholar looked left and right, only Xu Feng was the only one among the guest officers who looked like a scholar, a scholar, of course, he had to find a scholar to look a gentleman.
The sloppy scholar hurriedly ran to Xu Feng's shop with caution, and pulled Xu Feng to come over to watch the show together.
Through the light of the fire leaking from the house, mixed with a glimmer of sky outside, the two of them saw a huge weeping willow on the edge of the avenue outside, the leaves had fallen, and the branches hung long in the cold wind.
I saw that with a wave of the long sword in the man's hand, countless branches fell from the air, and the wide sleeves rolled in the wind, and the branches of the willow tree were woven into a big cage, wrapping a man and a woman in it.
The clothes were taken off one by one, and the undulating lines of the woman in the darkness were very clear, and the man and woman began to entangle themselves with each other like two snakes, with cores in their mouths, and then the two snakes staggered, crawling on the other, and then all kinds of strange tricks were tried, and they did not stop until the light of day.
The sloppy scholar looked straight at his mouth dry, his body was as itchy as if he had been bitten by an insect, his whole body was hot, and he didn't dare to vent loudly, so he couldn't wait to run over and push the man away and replace it with himself, scratching his ears and cheeks urgently.
It was once difficult to turn the sea into water. Xu Feng in his previous life had already been trained and baptized in the university dormitory, and he had never seen any scenes. Xu Feng paid attention to the dress of the two, especially the man's action of picking willows.
When I recalled it carefully, it was exactly the same as the gray-eyed Zen master's Zen style! I didn't dare to delay for a moment, and I immediately began to think about a plan to get out in my heart. After calming down for a moment, he began to pack his things, put Jiang Liao on the cart, and prepared to go out from the back of the guest room.
The sloppy scholar was very puzzled by Xu Feng's actions. I'm going to go out before dawn!? Is this going to the Qinglou! I was so stimulated by it just after reading it, this benevolent brother is too resolute! I couldn't help but give Xu Feng a thumbs up, Xu Feng didn't bother to argue, and took out two taels of silver and slapped it on him.
The sloppy scholar's face turned white as soon as he brushed it, and there was something inexplicable in his eyes when he looked at Xu Feng. Is this to play with me!
Xu Feng didn't bother to explain, turned his head and pushed Jiang Liao out of the back door.
The sloppy scholar grabbed the silver and stood in place, and said softly after a while: You said it earlier.