Chapter 40: Selling Swords and Painting Sleeping in the Green Building
Xu Fengnian went to stay in the city to kill people, but he came to Flying Fox City to find people. Because Xu Xiao asked His Royal Highness the Prince to bring a message to that person, but Flying Fox City said that it was not very interesting, and it was definitely not a small one, Xu Fengnian was not familiar with the place, and it was so difficult to find a needle in a haystack.
The business of the restaurant was deserted, Xu Fengnian caught a glimpse of the inn guy looking at the charming women outside the window, tired of seeing, so he sat on the next table and dozed off, tilted his head sideways, and covered his face with a wet towel to cool off the heat, Xu Fengnian was thinking about whether to ask for another pot of tea, so he could open his mouth to ask, but he didn't expect the fat shopkeeper to look at the eight roads, and took the initiative to bring a pot of new tea to sit down, and said with a smile: " The person who came is a guest, the meeting is fate, this pot of tea when I gave it to the son, don't want money, the tea is the Ming Qian tea transported from the old Southern Tang Dynasty, I am usually reluctant to drink, and there are eight or nine taels left, but I am reluctant, and I will have a musty smell when I put it down.
The white fat shopkeeper spoke half white and half literate, Xu Fengnian hurriedly smiled and said some grateful polite words, although the little girl Tao Manwu, who was born quite well, was afraid of life, but there was no lack of courtesy, without Xu Fengnian to speak, he got up obediently and moved the bench to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper was in a more comfortable mood, and poured three cups of tea after sitting down, and did not forget to give a share to the sensible Nizi, Tao Manwu looked at Xu Fengnian cautiously, and saw him nod, then he held a cup and tasted the teaThe reason why the inn is also a restaurant is able to hang a breath and be half dead, is to rely on the support of those familiar customers who are not short of silver but have a good face, otherwise his family has long drunk the northwest wind, and there are not many others in Flying Fox City, that is, there are many green-skinned bastards, which family has done the opening of the door to make a living, and they have to bite off a piece of meat, how much pain can not be called, but a small business, can not bear six or seven forces to cut meat and pluck hair every month, these difficult little ghosts behind the butt of the Lord of Yama, do not remember the good and do not miss the grace, a bad service, you have to be able to sprinkle the scourgeIn the past, there was a restaurant opened by outsiders on the street next door, and it was said that it was a fellow villager of the brother-in-law of the concubine of the Liupin guerrilla general in the border area, and the business was so good, he didn't want to take out the filial piety silver of a dozen taels a month, and then there were dozens of bastards squatting at the door every day, and there were guests coming to the door? The owner of the restaurant is young and vigorous, and he goes to the government to cry out for grievances, and the people of Flying Fox City gather to bask in the sun and do not break the law, who is willing to take care of you? Later, he and his family moved out of the city, and they were beaten up by a group of masked men in sacks.
The shopkeeper took a sip of tea and asked with a smile, "Listen to the accent, isn't Childe a local?"
Xu Fengnian nodded and said: "The people who came to play in Gusaizhou said that they were studying tours with their families, but in fact, they were looking for opportunities to come out to see the world under the guise of looking for an opportunity, and there happened to be no elders around to nag, and when they heard about the name of Flying Fox City, they secretly rushed over." ”
The shopkeeper showed a knowing smile that all men know, probably amused by the guest's uprightness, and said: "Ha, the son is a man of temperament, not bad." There are four strange things in our Flying Fox City, one of which is that the Flying Fox Bitch is very affectionate, which is very rough, but it is also a big truth. There are seventy or eighty Qinglou Goulan in the city, all of which are bottomless pits, but a penny of silver and a penny, the Fengyue women of Flying Fox City are worthy of this price, we are local men, we can't afford to go, Lao Sun I have been there a few times when I was young, I have to die to save face, and I almost went bankrupt, if the son goes, Lao Sun can recommend a few, Jiang Bolou is undoubtedly the most famous, it is easy to want a hundred taels of gold and silver a night, the dignitaries and dignitaries of Longjiao Prefecture like to drink flower wine there, and those who can't find a way in the government are used to going there to wait for the rabbit, if you want me to say, or Jiaqing Bottle Lane Those Daqing Lou are more affordable, and the women are beautiful, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are proficient, but the score is small, mainly because the fame is not enough, there is no confidence to shout out the sky-high price, many Qing Yan young girls, as long as there are good words and songs, there are scholars to help advocate momentum, maybe a few years later it will be a celebrity in the stormy building, I know an old brother, six or seven years ago spent forty taels with a young girl in Bottle Lane for a spring supper, child, guess what, now it is the red card of the stormy building! Don't say what to do, it's just to meet and listen to a song with a bunch of people for ten taels of silver, although my brother is also considered to be a wealthy family, but he can't afford to eat her anymore, if the son has an acquaintance to lead the way, it will be twenty or thirty taels of silver a night, hey, look at Lao Sun's broken mouth, what is it called only twenty or thirty taels. In short, if the son wants to take advantage of the excitement and go home, the first choice is Bottle Lane, roughly find out the way here, and if you still have money, it is more stable to go to Fengbo Building. ”
Xu Fengnian said with a smile on his face: "Brother Sun, just say these words to you, this pot of tea will invite me, I will accept it with good intentions, but the money will be paid, just as the old brother spent a small amount of money for me, how much should I pay." ”
The shopkeeper was not polite, and stretched out his thumb and praised: "At first glance, the son is a kind person." ”
Xu Fengnian continued to ask: "Brother Sun, don't call me son, it seems to be a raw person, don't call me Xu, just call me Xiao Xu, my family is in the porcelain business, and I can be regarded as walking with you, you are all businessmen." This trip out, did not dare to bring too much money, if reckless and admired and went to the storm building, it is estimated that it will be planted a big heel, and then want to go to East Jinzhou comfortably, hanging. By the way, my brother said that there are four strange things in Flying Fox City, and there are three more things?"
Shopkeeper Sun didn't sell Guan Zi either, and said: "In addition to our side of the water and soil to raise a person, the women in the city are born with good embryos, and then if the son enters the city at the main gate, you can see that there is a hanging sword pavilion, I heard that every Double Ninth Festival, you can hear a hundred swords in unison, but I can't wait for the people to go to the city, I don't know if it's true or not, anyway, it's all said like this." The third thing is to ask Lao Sun to expose his shortcomings, Flying Fox City, men are all rich and peaceful, not angry, a hundred years since the founding of the city, there has never been a big official who can shine in the court, they are all small officials with sesame mung beans, Lao Sun looks, they are all caused by women who are too beautiful, there is a white and tender little daughter-in-law lying in the bed at home, and there are so many pink and tender green buildings outside the house, and they have no strength to toss at night, how can they have the energy to grab an official and a half position with outsiders during the day. Brother Xu, look at my grandson, in this life, I have to keep this family business with peace of mind, as long as I don't have to worry about food and clothing, I don't have the heart to earn a lot of money, I usually like to pick some good tea and taste it myself, and then drink a little wine with the old brothers, and talk about the long and short families in the streets and alleys like women. Outsiders say that we are not self-motivated and do not wronged us. ”
Xu Fengnian showed a smile and a clear expression, nodded, and said softly: "Peace is good, stability is a blessing." ”
This Flying Fox City is as big as the layout of the city, as small as the pavilions and pavilions, all of which are rare and exquisite in Beimang, and the women's posture level here is far beyond the rest of the capital cities in Longjiao Prefecture, and the little ladies nicknamed Flying Fox have both the graceful appearance of women in the south of the Yangtze River, and the tenacious roots of Beimang, so there is neither wind and moon phase, nor wind and dust, it is famous for a long time in the entire Beimang Eight Prefectures, even if it is the top brand Oiran who walked out of the dragon's waist in the Flying Fox Qinglou, the value is far more than twice as expensive as that of other counterparts. On the contrary, the men of Flying Fox City have been in the military and political worlds, and they have always been ridiculed as sissiesies, and the fat powder is so heavy that they are greasy, and the city can be seen all over the city The weak men who are boating and watching the fish in the flower port, shaking the sandalwood ancient fan and drinking tea and arguing about the self-proclaimed elegance, Flying Fox City has not yet been a frontier member above the third grade, not to mention the Biao Bing close ministers who can go to the royal court to get an embroidered pier seat and discuss with the empress to paint ashes, it is hard to imagine that it is this feminine city that has no pride at all, there is an attic that allows nearly 100 top swordsmen in the Spring and Autumn Period to retire as hanging swords, among which there is a spring to go to the queen of Xishu for the ancestors to hang on behalf of the ancestors, There is also a famous sword and candle dragon that has fought with Li Chungang's Trojan horse and cow, and there is a custom of planting a row of feng shui trees in the southern village in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Shopkeeper Sun said with emotion: "Brother Xu's eight words have explained the truth thoroughly, and he is worthy of being a scholar in a big family, unlike us who are ordinary people who drill money, who have lived for most of our lives, and we can't say such things." ”
Xu Fengnian laughed at it, he didn't take this kind of painless sycophant seriously, but asked curiously: "Brother Sun seems to have missed a strange thing." ”
Shopkeeper Sun came back to his senses and said with a smile: " Yes, yes, yes, before Flying Fox City, it should have been more than 20 years, and there was a suave swordsman, and he didn't hang his sword, but sold his sword at a high price very spinelessly, and it was sold at a terrifying price of 1,000 taels of gold at that time, I was still young at that time, and I remember that everyone in Flying Fox City was shocked, and I saw this handsome swordsman in the crowded women's pile from afar, and it was indeed a rare beautiful man, and then he used the gold to sell swords to live in the Fengbo Building for a whole year, and it was a major event that caused a sensation in the city, and the swordsman spent a thousand taels of gold, and he was penniless. He became a painter, specializing in painting portraits of women, and when he earned silver, he poured water on it, and at first he could be happy and happy, and those ladies were willing to cheer, God knows if it was his person, or his painting, but the business became more and more cold, and later, no one ever saw this man who was not a swordsman and a painter, but this strange thing of selling swords and painting and sleeping in a green building has been passed down. ”
Xu Fengnian asked, "What kind of sword can be sold for a thousand taels of gold?"
Shopkeeper Sun looked puzzled: "This old grandson doesn't know what to do, I only heard that it was sold to the city pastor, and later in the year of the city shepherd's son and crown, it was transferred to the prince." Brother Xu, it's not Lao Sun's indiscriminate boasting, this city shepherd is different from the ordinary men in Flying Fox City, heroic and brave, swordsmanship from a first-class master, he can immediately hold a three-stone bow, and the reckless sword and foot combat under the horse are even better, and it is rumored that in a few years he will go to the northern royal court to be the heir to the bell of the emperor's majesty, which is a great honor. Lao Sun's two daughters, a little older don't need to say, it is the age of Sichun, even the little girl in her early teens, she loves to die and live, every time she seizes the opportunity for the son of the world to show up, she has to run to scream with her sisters, saying that he will not marry in this life, and I am so angry that I am called a seven-hole smoke, you say that you are a little girl who is less than eleven years old, what kind of fun, with your mother and relatives look swarthy, and the face and body will grow in the future, even if the female college is eighteen changes, it is delicate to die, how to climb the city herdsman? As soon as I talked about her, she and my sister, as well as my daughter-in-law, who was a lot older, were all old and yellow, and they were also blindly coaxed, and they turned their elbows out together to get angry with me, and the three of them could ignore me for several days, alas. ”
The old man sighed from the bottom of his heart, how sad and miserable.
Xu Fengnian didn't agree, didn't squint, drank tea, just smiled and said to the shopkeeper Sun: "Brother Sun, I think my niece is not conspicuous now, and she may not be able to be slim in the future, and that city shepherd is not a shallow strange man at first glance, the world is unpredictable, who knows if it is possible for my niece, who has never been masked, to have a good marriage made in heaven." ”
The shopkeeper Sun was wondering, and when he saw Brother Xu lose a vague look, he immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly nodded solemnly and said: "Indeed, Lao Sun's daughter, don't look at me and always say that she is not, in fact, I am a father, I feel very distressed, hey, I dare not say that I have to be the son of the city herdsman in the future, and the worst thing is that I have to be a man who stands up to the sky and the earth like him, so that I can enter my house, otherwise I have to beat the broom out, hum, I wronged my daughter, but no!"
Behind the shopkeeper Sun stood a teenage girl, who had already been angry, after hearing the last words, her face turned from rainy and dark to sunny and brilliant, and she called out to her father sweetly, sat in the arms of the shopkeeper Sun, smiled so much that her little face bloomed, and said: "Dad, let my mother make you your favorite Dongling meat at night!"
Shopkeeper Sun, who escaped death, wiped his cold sweat, touched his little daughter's head with one hand, said good, and then quietly stretched out his thumb to Xu Fengnian, grateful, and felt that he should not accept the tea money for this pot of tea anymore.
Xu Fengnian smiled softly: "It's a niece, she looks really watery, and when she grows up, she will definitely be a big beauty who is shy of flowers in the closed moon." ”
Xiao Nizi hummed heavily, and then smiled happily: "It's a pity that you are too old, and you don't look as good as the son of Tantai, I don't like you." ”
Xu Fengnian was silent.
His Royal Highness was pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows.
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