Two lanterns hung outside the city, and the dim lights flickered, reflecting the snowflakes that were falling one after another. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"It's snowing?" Su Xiaoqi peeked out of the carriage, followed by a plume of smoke.

The smoke pot knocked on the car board, and Su Xiaoqi thrust the white jade cigarette pouch into his waist and stepped out of the carriage.

During his time in the carriage, he moved all the items in the wishful charm to the treasure bag, which was like a tobacco leaf bag hanging on the cigarette stick.

It was already very late, and when I walked into Gongyang City, every house closed its doors and windows, and the occasional sound of people floating on the street came from the Qinglou or the gambling house.

"Knock...... Knock!

In the distance, the sound of the gong was heard.

"When the cold wave comes, turn off the lights and close the door. ”

"Three watches?" A hint of surprise appeared in Su Xiaoqi's eyes, he took a nap in the carriage for a while, he didn't expect that so much time had passed.

Playing is more than a door of knowledge, one slow and one fast, three times in a row is the drop of the watch, one knock and knock, several times in a row is the second watch, three more one slow and two fast, four more one slow and three fast, five more one slow and four fast.

The gong is played three times in a row, and you can collect the change.

The sound of the gong heard now is one slow and two fast, and it is naturally the third watch.

"Going to get something to eat?" Su Xiaoqi suggested.

The third watch day is considered to be the time of the child, this time the inn has already closed, and if you want to fill your stomach, you can only go to the vicinity of the gambling house.

Some gamblers are anxious to gamble, and often sit in the gambling house for a day, and at night they still have to fill their stomachs regardless of winning or losing, so there will inevitably be noodle stalls where there are gambling houses.

If you are lucky, you will throw a few more copper plates when you meet a gambler with good luck, and if you are unlucky, it is always a headache to pay money on credit and credit, but fortunately, you will still earn more and less in this hard work.

In the distance on the secluded street, I saw a little light flickering, and when I caught up, an old man in a torn cotton jacket was hiding under the eaves, and his half-crouched body was almost lying on the stove.

Winter is often a difficult season for the elderly, and even so, the elderly still feel that the cold air keeps burrowing into their necks.

The old man's noodle stall was a rectangular cabinet with a stove on one side and an iron pot on which bone broth was boiled. On the other side was a panel with a blended dough, a large bowl of chopped green onions, and a polished kitchen knife with a somewhat greasy handle that had obviously been used for a long time.

At the bottom of the cabinet, there are four wooden wheels, and the snow has blocked the street, and even if there are wheels, it is difficult to walk.

"Uncle, come two bowls of noodles. Su Xiaoqi stood in front of the noodle stall with a smile, looking at the white water in the iron pot, there were bones in the pot, but these two bones had been boiling for a few months.

The old man's eyes lit up, he didn't expect to come to business so early today, usually people who come to eat noodles, mostly after the fourth watch, the body does not feel cold when it moves, he is full of joy to hold the kitchen knife, familiar with the way to cut the noodles.

The old man's best skill is to cut noodles with a knife, and the dough is as thin as willow leaves, and the dough in his hand can be exchanged for others to cut out up to ten bowls of noodles, but in his hands, it is enough to produce five bowls more.

Five bowls can earn an extra ten cents!

There were also four benches and two tables under the eaves, and Su Xiaoqi shook off the snowflakes on his body and chose a table at random to sit down.

"Drinking?" asked Su Xiaoqi.

Chi Liang shook his head.

He still smells of alcohol on his body.

The noodles were quickly served, and a large handful of green onions were sprinkled, and the old man showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and said, "You guys are coincidental, and there will be no green onions to eat later." ”

"Don't have green onions to eat?" Chi Hao said curiously: "Why?"

The old man put his hands in his sleeves, craned his neck and said, "If it's too late, it will be snatched up by others." ”

"Grab the green onions?" Chi Liang was puzzled.

The old man glanced at the two of them without a trace, Chi Liang had many blood stains on his body, and he was only wearing a thin green shirt that was almost completely soaked, looking extremely frustrated.

And Su Xiaoqi, although he was dressed well, he was full of white hair, and the flesh and blood that had been devoured by the blood scales had not been replenished yet, and his face was dry and thin under the dim firelight, and he was pale as if he hadn't eaten for several months.

The old man couldn't help but sigh, these two must have never eaten noodles outside. An idea suddenly came into the old man's mind, could these two people be hungry and deliberately mix two bowls of noodles to eat?

The old man looked at Chi Liang, then at Su Xiaoqi, back and forth several times, and sighed, forget it, forget the face money.

The old man returned to the noodle stall, grabbed a handful of green onions from the bowl, sprinkled them into Su Xiaoqi's bowl, and said: "The green onions look inconspicuous, eat a little more and you can be hungry for a while, it's hard to endure in winter, and your stomach is deflated, right?"

Where could Su Xiaoqi have thought that the old man would treat him as a beggar for food, and where would he have thought that after being a flower for half a year, he had a special temperament.

"I'm hungry. "Since he came out of the Lingdao Gate, Su Xiaoqi hasn't eaten a bite of food until now, and when the noodles come, he doesn't care about the heat, and gobbles them up and picks them up in his mouth.

"Sure enough, the poor can't afford to eat. The old man's heart was even more determined, and he stuck to the burning stove with some sorrow.

Chi Liang didn't seem to be able to get off the chopsticks, waited and waited, and suddenly learned to pick up the noodles as hard as Su Xiaoqi, tears fell into the soup, and the taste of the noodles was as sour as his heart.

"Still don't have anything to say?" Su Xiaoqi stopped his chopsticks, and the noodles were already finished.

Chi Liang was silent for a long time and said, "Sister Yao and I also met on such a snowy day. ”

Chi Liang looked at the heavy snow flying like catkins outside the eaves stupidly, and said: "We avoided the snow under the same eaves that day, and now it has been three years. ”

"You never knew her identity?"

Chi Liang smiled bitterly.

Su Xiaoqi pondered for a moment and said, "Do you know that she will be taken captive to the Fierce Tooth Village?"

Chi Liang's smile was full of bitterness, and he said, "Uncle Guo found me and asked me to accompany him in a play." ”

"Why did you say yes?"

Chi Liang said: "Do you know what it means to be a good person?"

Of course, Su Xiaoqi understands, "It is indeed difficult for two people with very different lives to come together. ”

"In order to make Sister Yao die, I can only do this. Chi Liang looked down at the noodle soup in the bowl, and thought of the Guo family's wealth.

"Are you willing?"

"Of course I'm not reconciled. Chi Liang gritted his teeth and said, "So I want to get ahead." ”

"You're going to come back to her again?"

Chi Liang replied firmly: "Yes!"

"What do you want to do?"

"I'm going to Vientiane Academy to study. Chi Liang asked, "Do you know Vientiane Academy?"

Su Xiaoqi knows a little bit that Vientiane Academy is divided into earthly and outer courts.

Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, astronomy and geography, metaphysics, commerce, medicine, architecture, metallurgy, weaving, all the 'earthly' in the world are all-encompassing.

And outside the world, only talk about self-cultivation.