Jiangzhou Avenue in a state area across the mountains and bridges in all directions, neatly repaired, cars and horses travel less bumps, Wei Changpan in the car most of the people use nap to make up for the lack of sleep last night in the inn was tossed by lice and fleas for a night, even Wei Changpan who is lying in clothes, there are many itching and red swelling on the body, the more miserable Xu Xian compared to the Buddhist classics in the high monk who cut meat and feed eagles has the same thing, but the flesh and blood on the body are dedicated to lice and fleas to enjoy.

Every sharp and accurate itch, Wei Changpan stretched out the stone like lightning to pinch, and then carefully picked it up to check, but it was not as expected in his heart, and it was easy to kill a belly bulging lice, I thought it could play a role in killing a hundred people, and I was so relieved that I wanted to fall asleep, but I didn't expect that my body was still itchy, sleepy, and I barely took a nap until dawn.

The next day, Xu Xian and Wei Changpan went to the shopkeeper with two big black circles, saying that there were too many lice and fleas in this store, but the shopkeeper did not agree, saying that the beds in his store were the cleanest, and the lice and fleas must have been brought by Wei Changpan and them.

The cart shook slightly, and the two horses pulled unhurriedly, ignoring the whip that the groom blew in his ears from time to time.

Just after leaving the boundary of Wuhang County, and walking more than ten miles to the southwest, two craftsmen got off the car, making room for more than ten people in the carriage whose legs could not be stretched out to stretch their legs slightly.

Xu Xian was a lonely, and like Wei Changpan, he couldn't sleep in the car, so he pulled with him again.

"Speaking of Brother Wei, who is your name, pay attention to it. ”

"The family is far away from an elder who has a reputation for showing talent. ”

"Why don't you stay in Qishan County?"

"My family has little land, I can't feed a few people, and I can't eat enough, so I went to Wuhang City to make a living. ”

Wei Changpan lied to him on this point, otherwise he couldn't honestly tell him that he was the remnant of the so-called Yanyulou bandits arrested by the Jiangzhou government, please take it quickly, let's go to the government to get a reward of one or two hundred yuan?

Unexpectedly, Xu Xian was deeply impressed by Wei Changpan's casual reasoning, and said with emotion: "It's almost the same reason, I originally thought that I could go to Wuhang City to go to that distant relative, who would have thought that people would not have a good time this year, this can not only go back to Qishan to help my father take care of the family industry, we are born with understanding in fists and feet, and it is really embarrassing to be a bookkeeper." ”

I don't know when, snow fell in the sky again, at first it was a few pieces of scattered snowflakes, and then dozens of hundreds of pieces gradually grew larger, and then tens of thousands of pieces swept the heavens and the earth.

Wei Changpan has been born for more than ten years, and he has never seen such snow, and Xu Xian, who has been crowned, is no exception, and the old carpenter in the car also opened his sleepy eyes and looked at the snow outside the car, covering the sky, and muttered: "I haven't seen such a big snow for many years...."

"The snow is too heavy, and if the road is sealed in a while, you will have to spend the night on the avenue without a shop in front of the village or a shop, so why don't you see if there are any shops nearby?" shouted the groom to the man in the carriage behind him, whipping the two horses.

"Let's go, let's go. Xu Xian muttered, "It's really strange, when I went out of the city, I obviously said that it was a good day, why did it snow fall halfway through?"

The rest of the men in the cart had no objection, after all, there seemed to be no second way at all, and the groom tried his best to make the two horses run faster, but the horses' hooves were not wrapped in non-slip felt cloth, and although the horses were durable, they did not run fast, so the groom was so anxious that he could not make the cart run faster, but became slower and slower.

Seeing that the snow did not decline at all, the horseman was even more anxious, he knew best how powerful this weather was, if he could not advance or retreat on this avenue, and had nowhere to go to keep warm, it was not uncommon for people and horses to freeze into icy mounds.

The horse was struggling against the wind, everyone in the cart jumped down to reduce the burden of the horse, and the wealthy went up to push the cart, Xu Xian and Wei Changpan side by side, and a few young craftsmen worked together, and the snow on the road was two inches deep when it fell, and the shoes and socks of several people in the cart were soaked.

"Brother Wei's strength is not small" Xu Xian sincerely admired, several men with the same cart around him were panting, and Wei Changpan and him were just sweating on their foreheads, he lowered his voice and said: "It seems that Brother Wei is also a person who practices martial arts?"

"I know some rough fists and feet, but my strength is slightly greater than that of ordinary people, how can I be regarded as a person who practices martial arts. Wei Changpan said in a hoarse voice, leaning forward with all his strength and putting his arms against the wooden bar, and exerting strength on his waist and legs.

A few craftsmen pushed for two moments and then their strength was exhausted, so they took turns to push the cart, Wei Changpan and Xu Xian were also a little struggling, it stands to reason that they would not walk much distance on the avenue and would inevitably meet the inn wine shop, even if it was a tea shed, it was good to go in to avoid the wind and snow, but they never saw it, and there was absolutely no possibility of going back, so they had to move forward like this.

"There is a wine flag, there is a wine flag!" The person who was resting in rotation pointed to the road ahead and shouted, Wei Changpan leaned over, as far as his eyes could see, and the wine flag fluttered on the wooden pole two or three feet high, and it was only one or two miles ahead, so there was no doubt that it was a restaurant.

This discovery lifted everyone up, and the desire to warm the fire and hot pot wine encouraged the men to push the cart with twelve points of strength.

Wei Changpan tried his best to take a step forward, but he couldn't kick it down, if it wasn't for Xu Xian next to him and almost fell, when he got up, he caught a glimpse of the snow that he kicked away, it was a pothole of mud, so he greeted the horseman in front of him: "Wrong way, wrong walk, this is not on the avenue." ”

"It doesn't matter which way the fuck is on. The rough-faced young craftsman beside Wei Changpan scolded, "Lao Tzu only knows that if you push the cart here again, you will either die of exhaustion or freeze to death, and you can manage so much." ”

The old carpenter said with relief: "It's better to go to shelter from the wind and snow first, and then get your body warm before going on the road, than to go back to the avenue and find an inn, warm two pots of wine, and get a pot, don't panic." “

The wine flag looked very close, but it took nearly half an hour for everyone to push the cart, during which the wheels were also stuck in the mud several times, and it was all up to Wei Changpan and Xu Xian's strength to push it out, so when they pushed the cart to the houses with a big tree planted in front of them, everyone was exhausted.

The house with a wine flag in the open space in front of the door looked at the restaurant opened by the people of the countryside, and there was a woman sitting by the window sill in front of the door, with a Huanghong hairpin ring on her head, seeing Wei Changpan and his party trekking over with difficulty, leaning on the door to greet each other, and said: "Guest officer, go to rest, there is good wine and meat in the store, and the cart will be led to the back stable, and the forage will be served." ”

The group was in the snow before, and there was no clothes and hats on their bodies, and they sweated and dried, and the snowflakes that fell on the clothes soaked the cloth.

The groom and the old carpenter were working with the woman to bring some wine and food, and the price of the shop, but don't underestimate the usefulness of this discussion beforehand, and at least it can save a few dollars of silver, and lest you be slaughtered as a big man.

After a while, the groom and the old carpenter came back to roast the fire with a smile on their faces, saying that the woman was very good at talking, and the price was negotiable, and the woman said that someone in the nearby village and town had slaughtered an old ploughing ox, and that the slaughter of the ploughing ox was a sin with a rod of thirty rods in the law of Da Yao, so they did not dare to make a noise, and asked secretly, and there were twenty catties of good fat meat like flower cakes stewed in the back room of the stove, and the muddy wine brewed by the village, the taste was no worse than the old wine, and the more than ten people ate it and lived in the hotel for only twenty taels of silver.

Listening to the words of the twenty taels of silver, Wei Changpan touched the embroidery money bag that Sister Cui stuffed into him earlier, there were seven or eight pieces of broken silver and two small strings of big money, and the scattered copper plates were not counted, and there were about five taels of silver left, and more than one or two pieces of silver were missing at once.

Xu Xian saw that Wei Changpan was in a dilemma, so he leaned up and hugged his shoulders and smiled: "It's okay, we are fellow villagers, your share of money helped you out, if we have any difficulties in the future, don't forget to help." With that, he walked towards the long table with Wei Changpan in his arms, patted the table and shouted:

"When the beef meat is cut, it is served quickly, and the wine is warm. ”

The rest of the people in the car also sat on the cypress stool, laughing at the monkey first, and the buttocks were not yet hot, so they waited for the food to come up.

Wei Changpan thought about it, and always felt that it was inappropriate to let Xu Xian, who didn't seem to be very wealthy, come to pay the more than one or two pieces of silver, so he got off a stool and went to the back room to find the woman who was leaning against the door before, thinking that his share of wine and meat should not be wanted, and there were a few cakes baked by Mother Sun in the baggage, begging for some tea, and making do with a meal.

Opened the curtain and walked into the stove room, just as he saw the woman sprinkling some powder on the beef meat that had just been scooped up, the latter saw Wei Changpan and said with a smile: "Little brother, don't worry, wait to sprinkle this meat with some homemade spices in the store to add a little taste, and the guests who come and go will say that it is good to eat it." ”

"Not really. Wei Changpan's face flushed slightly, "That.... There is not enough silver, so it is better to have less of a person's weight. ”

As soon as the woman heard Wei Changpan's words, she was stunned for a moment and then reluctantly smiled: "The meat is all cooked, and it is nothing for one person's weight. ”

So saying, the woman beckoned to the man with a big waist and a round waist to bring the big bowl of beef meat, and she put two jugs of wine in the pot and boiled them in boiling water for a while, and then served them to the man when they were warm.

Wei Changpan was about to turn around and walk out of the door of the stove room when he suddenly remembered something and asked the woman, "Dare to ask if this place is called?"

"The deserted village and wild shop, where do you pay so much attention, but the hillside next to it is called a cross slope. ”

The woman sneered in her heart, if she was a guest who had been walking the rivers and lakes for a long time, how could she not know that sentence.

The cross slope of the big tree is not dared to be crossed by pedestrians.