Chapter 4: The Red Aunt of Qingliu Xiaozhu (1)
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Thirty miles away, the old yellow wolf domesticated by a dog had good foot strength, and he was playing all the way, and in less than a quarter of an hour, he rushed to Qizhou City with Chutian.
Outside the towering city gate, several black-clad patrols were mixed in a team of state soldiers, seemingly lazy in a daze, with a pair of eyes that were more ruthless than thieves, but they were constantly patrolling in the flow of people entering and leaving the city.
The old yellow wolf, which was larger than the big bull, stuck out its long tongue, jumped out more than ten zhang away with a 'coo' sound, and landed heavily at the city gate, and several patrols suddenly straightened their bodies in shock, and their sharp eyes quickly swept over Chu Tian's face.
A middle-aged patrol with a fierce face separated the two state soldiers, walked over with a smile, and rushed to salute Chu Tian with a fist.
"Chu stall head, enter the city again, hey, Lao Huang, Lao Huang, you can be more well-behaved, last time you walked on the street, you opened your mouth and swallowed the rooster that Widow Li's house crooked......"
Chu Tian smiled and took out half a piece of silver from his sleeve and threw it out: "Please drink tea, brothers." It's okay, it's okay, swallowing the widow's big, there is a sparrow, and the widows in the world can't do anything about Lao Huang. Hmm, what's going on in town?"
The middle-aged patrolman raised his hand, and half a piece of silver went right down his cuff.
Shaking his sleeves with a smile, the middle-aged patrol patted the head of the panting old yellow wolf, and stood on tiptoe in front of Chu Tian: "Tsk, it's not a big deal, routine arrest of bandits." A fleet of the Chu clan transported 200,000 silk satins, and was forcibly collected fifty percent of the toll tax by the group of uncles in the three prefectures of the town, and the silkworm steward of the Chu clan is going crazy in the state capital, isn't it?"
"Fifty percent, isn't it twenty percent as usual?" Chu Tian's eyes widened in shock.
"Frightened, isn't it? Normally, it's twenty percent of the passage money, but the new silkworm steward of the Chu clan took a big one, and reprimanded the group of uncles with the Chu family's shelf, and made a big fuss and saw the red, is this still good?" The middle-aged patrol shrank his neck and said with a dry smile: "If you want our brothers to arrest the bandits, it depends on whether we can catch a few unlucky thieves." ”
Spreading out his hands, the middle-aged patrol officer sneered and said: "As for the uncles of the three mountains in that group, Chu is his own brother, so he naturally knows, where can we deal with it?"
Chu Tian waved his hand, laughed a few times, and licked the corners of his mouth: "100,000 silk satin, obediently, how many fish and shrimp do you have to sell?"
The old yellow wolf put away his temperament, took small steps, and carried Chutian into Qizhou City.
Faintly, Chu Tian could still hear the whispers of the next few patrols and state soldiers: "Frightened, isn't this the truth? The big scale divides gold, the small scale divides silver, the big bowl eats meat, and the big bowl drinks, these days, the official is not as good as a thief! This official skin is dressed, and he has a bright face, how much benefit can he have?"
Chu Tian smiled dumbly and shook his head slightly.
Walking through the 20-zhang long city gate cave, it is an urn city with a size of 200 acres.
On weekdays, there is no war, and the city is a spontaneously formed market, where many small traders and vendors set up stalls to sell some trivial things. Chu Tian rode the old yellow wolf, walked slowly through the urn city, and exchanged a few words with the leader of the state soldiers stationed at the inner city gate, and routinely invited them to tea, and then entered the city of Qizhou in earnest.
Without Chutian to guide the way, the old yellow wolf was familiar with the streets and alleys of Qizhou City, and a slippery and greasy smell of fat powder floated over in front of him, and on both sides of the refreshing bluestone street, two rows of exquisite small buildings were scattered, and the doors facing the street were all closed.
In broad daylight, there are no people on this street, only on the tea stall at the end of the street, there are a few hippie smiling idlers, looking around sneakily. Seeing Chu Tian coming, a few idlers wanted to come up to say hello, but they didn't dare to look like they were smiling and nodding from afar.
Chu Tian gestured to them slightly, the old yellow wolf had already stuck out his long tongue, and walked to the end of the street with a drop of water, and the huge wolf claws pushed hard towards the small varnish door of a courtyard.
This old yellow wolf has strong muscles and brute strength, and the wolf's claws pushed and shoved on the courtyard door, and he heard the 'click' of the courtyard door, and almost even the door frame was pushed down. The plaques hanging on the lintel of the four self of the 'Qingliu Xiaozhu' are even more 'quack', and a few wisps of dust fall from behind the plaque.
A sharp shout suddenly sounded inside the door: "What rotten bastard, a verbose person in broad daylight?" The door is going to be broken, the door is going to be broken, stop, stop, bastard!"
The door opened, and a woman who looked to be forty years old, dressed in red and green dress, wearing seven or eight jade bracelets on her wrists, and two or three catties of gold chains around her neck, with her hands on the waist of the bucket and glaring at Chu Tian viciously.
"Chu Tian Chu stall!" The woman's bright red lips opened vigorously, and a large piece of saliva squirted out, which frightened the old yellow wolf and jumped back, which avoided the saliva in her mouth: "Let's clear the stream and build a serious place, your ...... in broad daylight"
"Frightened, do you have to come in the middle of the night?" Chu Tian puffed out his eyes at the woman, took out a garlic strip from his sleeve and shook it.
"It's naturally okay to come to drink tea and listen to music in broad daylight!" The woman's fierce face suddenly became full of smiles, and she forcibly twisted the thick bucket waist, like a fat penguin jumping up, and snatched the garlic gold in Chu Tian's hand with one hand.
The right eye was round, the left eye was tightly closed, the woman stuffed the garlic gold into her teeth and bit it hard, and suddenly shouted softly with a smile: "Full of red gold, hey, Chu stall is rich, come in, come in, a group of short-lived mothers, don't hurry up and dress up, Chu stall head is here!"
'Hehe' laughed, and the woman twisted her round waist and shouted loudly: "Good daughters, the Chu stall you have been thinking about the most all day is here! Don't sleep, what do you sleep? When you die, you have to sleep! Here are a few living people, Chu stall is here!"
The woman waved the garlic strip of gold viciously, and her two eyes widened as she stared viciously at the delicate, empty courtyard.
"Mother Xiu just has to go, heh, I'm just here to talk to Honggu for a few words. Trouble mom to bring a pot of tea!" Chu Tian patted the old yellow wolf's neck, and the old yellow wolf gently rushed into the courtyard, and with a flick of his thick and powerful tail, he closed the two courtyard doors tightly, raised his hind paws, and hung up the door bolt.
There was no need to be greeted, the old yellow wolf walked along the verandah in the courtyard and walked to the backyard with great familiarity.
Mother Xiu laughed like a flower, hurriedly answered Chu Tian, stuffed the garlic strips into her sleeve, and jumped all the way happily.
Bypassing the large courtyard in front, I walked along a cobblestone-paved road for more than ten zhang, and several exquisite courtyards were lined up in the back.
The old yellow wolf came to the door of the first courtyard on the right-hand side, and lay down heavily on the open space outside the door, his long tail sweeping the ground indiscriminately. Chu Tian patted its head, straightened its clothes, and gently pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.