May in the south of the Yangtze River, it is the season of abundant rain, the light rain that lasts for several days is still dripping and dripping, the rain silk is like a light yarn blowing through the willow newly emerging tender green, in the oblique wind, the flag is swaggering, the smoke and rain are misty, and the warblers and birds are tactful.

There is a simple tea stall next to the official road, which is trampled by early travelers who are trampling on the mud. The elderly shopkeeper sat on a bench and smoked a hookah, and from time to time he knocked on the beams, urging his daughter-in-law and the girl to bring tea to the guests.

The tea at the roadside tea stalls is vulgar and difficult to eat, but the merchants who are exhausted by the cold rain are not so particular, sitting in the simple tea hut made of bamboo and wooden planks, resting, drinking a bowl of hot tea, talking about what they have seen and heard from the south to the north, and they are happy and comfortable like fairies.

"The king of Gangneung executed more than 20 rebels a few days ago, all of them were hanged in public and hung in the city tower for several days, and whoever dared to speak to the rebels and guard the corpses should be disposed of as accomplices!" The shopkeeper said the latest news while smoking a hookah, "The imperial army has been quelling the rebellion for almost a year, and the rebels have not been killed, but the lives of our ordinary people are getting harder and harder. In the past two months, there have been fewer and fewer merchants on the official road, and my small business in this tea shop can't hold on. ”

"There's still a life, so don't complain. A guest said while eating peanuts, "I came from Changsha, and when I saw with my own eyes that the king of Changsha could not catch the traitor, I added a few businessmen to the traitorous party." ”

"Ah, there is such a thing!" The crowd, who had just stopped and listened to the gossip, pricked up their ears.

The merchant who spoke before saw that everyone was listening to him, but his posture became cautious, looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "The princesses of the king of Changsha are all masters who spend a lot of money, and the treasury of the palace has already lost about the same. But the one in the capital who didn't like it the most was the prince of Changsha, and every once in a while he sent the lord of the Qin to urge him to make offerings, and forced the prince to be anxious, so he simply didn't do anything and didn't stop doing it, and took the most famous merchants in Changsha as a traitor, killed them, confiscated their industrial shops, and resisted the offerings. But then again, those big families in the south of the Yangtze River, which one is not the left-handed government and the right-hand rebels!"

When everyone heard this, they fell silent.

The rebellion for the restoration of the country, which began because of the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, burned for a year, and not only did not extinguish, but even intensified.

Although the capital has allocated a large army, every time a leader is caught, the corpse of the city tower will be hung as an example. However, although Jiangnan is a gentle nest, the people here are accustomed to dressing up and being orthodox, paying attention to "mighty and unmovable", and iron-blooded methods will only arouse more hatred. Although Tuoba Hong implemented the Huairou pacification policy for many years after the unification of the north and the south, it still could not eliminate the mustard in the hearts of the remnants of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Now that the killing has resumed, people can't help but think of the tragedy of the bloody massacre in Jinling.

Of course, for the businessmen who are sitting on the tea stall at the moment, whether they are dressed orthodoxy or not, it is not as important as making money from the goods. Unfortunately, while the beacon fire greatly increased the profits of the merchants, it also made their lives more insecure.

The mink ginseng from the northeast can be exchanged for 10,000 gold when transported to Changsha, and the silk woven from the silkworm cocoons of Jiangling can make the most noble women of the grassland tribes intoxicated, but no matter how good the wealth is, it must be consumed.

Just as a table of people was gossiping, two men and a woman came across the official road.

If it is an ordinary passerby, even if a man or a woman travels together, they will not pay much attention.

However, the two men and one woman who walked slowly at this time were so good-looking, so good-looking, as long as they saw it for the first time, they were reluctant to take their eyes off, and they couldn't take their eyes off it.

Whether it is a lightly washed light cyan gown, or a red that is too enchanting for men, or a light and tasteless goose yellow cloth skirt, wearing them, all become special, as if the painter deliberately sketched and matched, so beautiful that the merchants could not even feel the bitter taste of the big bowl of tea, but just watched them get closer and closer, from the faint silhouette to the closer.

But in the blink of an eye, two men and a woman had already walked to the tea shed.

The current woman wiped the fine sweat from her forehead and said to the man in green shirt, "Brother, let's stop and rest." ”

The sound was crisp, like a yellow warbler coming out of the valley, and the bones of the merchants were drunk when they heard it.

The shopkeeper was even more lazy before, rushed up before the three of them took their seats, and wiped his sleeves on the broken wooden stool a few times, and then said: "The lazy girl didn't wipe the table clean!"

The woman in the goose yellow cloth skirt didn't care, smiled and said, "The store is polite." ”

Her eyes were as black as tadpoles raised in mercury, but there was a faint layer of gold in her pupils, and when she looked at her, the old man even felt that his face was bright.

"Fairy ......"

Blurt out.

The girl smiled, sat down with the man who was traveling with her, glanced at the table next to her, and said, "Two plates of salted peanuts and spiced tofu are all here, and if you have tea-"

She glanced at the big bowl of tea on the table next to her, which was cloudy like urine, and changed her words: "Clear water is fine." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" said the old man, going down to prepare the side dishes.

The three of them sat down, and were about to speak, and the man in red, who looked so good that he couldn't wait to get back into his mother's belly and regenerate once, suddenly said "um", frowned, took out a golden retriever puppy from his arms, and threw it on the table.

On rainy days, cats and dogs inevitably have some fishy smell, but this golden retriever is different, it was thrown on the table it is quite spiritually and firmly standing, shaking its body, suddenly, an indescribable refreshing breath filled the tea shed, and the mules tied to the outside of the shed by the merchants are all prostrate and half-kneeling, bowing their heads, and trembling all over, as if bowing and saluting.

The little thing disdained the strangeness of the mule, raised his head, walked around the table with his little short legs, and did not find food, so he underestimated a few times, jumped into the arms of the girl in the goose-yellow cloth skirt, and took a comfortable posture by himself, squinted, turned over, and revealed his pink belly.

At this time, the peanuts and dried beans had been delivered, and the girl pinched a salted peanut, and before she peeled the shell, the golden retriever thing that was sleeping had already opened her eyes with her nose, poked her head and snatched the peanuts, chewed two bites of the shell, and spit out in disgust.

Seeing its ugliness, the man in red laughed, deliberately grabbed a handful of peanuts, slowly pinched the peanuts, put the boiled soft and delicious peanuts in his mouth, and chewed them carefully and carefully, showing off his posture.

The little golden retriever is proud, and when he saw the man in red eating happily, he turned his head away from looking. It's just that it was so young that it couldn't resist the temptation, and after a while, it turned its face again and looked at the girl in goose yellow clothes.

The girl angrily hit it, but the little thing cooperated, and a few drops of water immediately squeezed out of her golden eyes.

The girl had no choice but to move the dish of salted peanuts in front of her, pinch the shell, and feed them to the mouths of the little things one by one.

The golden retriever ate very quickly, and the pink tongue rolled a few times to eat all the peanuts in the girl's jade-like palm, and it licked its nose unsatisfied, and its golden eyes looked at the direction of the stove with an expectant look.

The girl waved to the shopkeeper and said, "How many salted peanuts are boiled in the pot?"

"There's a whole big cauldron, about a dozen catties. The shopkeeper said politely.

The girl said: "I wrapped them all in oiled paper, and I bought them all." ”

"Yes, yes!" the shopkeeper and his daughter-in-law poured out the whole pot of salted peanuts, wrapped more than 20 lotus leaf bags, and stacked them on the wooden table, crushing the lame table to crumble.

The surrounding merchants turned their heads one after another, and some merchants were already planning to sell their mules to them.

However, the girl just flicked her sleeves, and the small mountain of lotus leaf bags suddenly disappeared, leaving only the short forelimbs of the golden retriever hanging from the girl's arm, and the person stood up, looking at the table with an unhappy face, as if angry that his things were put away by the owner.

The shopkeepers and merchants were all stunned.

They had seen that this group of people did not hide the national color, so they guessed that their origin was not simple, but they never expected that they were really immortals in the sky!

"How much is it?" said the girl.

The shopkeeper knelt down and kowtowed: "It is the honor of the villain for the big immortal to pass by the small shop! Peanuts are worthless things, and they should be the offerings of the villain, how dare they collect money! I knew that Lu Dao would meet a fairy today, and the villain must buy the best red-skinned peanuts, boil the salt of Bashu with laurel leaves, and ask the fairy not to dislike peanuts and be angry with me!"

He complimented her, and the girl in goose yellow clothes looked embarrassed, and after looking at her peers, she took out a handful of copper coins from her arms and spread them on the table: "Shopkeeper, we are Taoist monks, not immortals." Is this money enough to buy your peanuts?"

"That's a lot!" the shopkeeper didn't look at the copper coins on the table at all, and said in a loud voice.

The girl knew that he didn't dare to collect money, but this was not surprising, the mortal world has always been in awe of the cultivation world, not to mention that Jiangnan Chongdao has a long history, and the people don't worship the monks.

So she estimated the money herself, put it on the table, drank the water again, and left with her companions.

As soon as they had left, the merchants at the next table came to them, and one of them said to the shopkeeper, "I wondered when this man and woman had just come in, that there was no one who had walked all night without a trace of dust on his clothes. Even if you are a martial arts master, you can't keep your clothes stained with muddy water. Sure enough, it's a fairy!"

Another person said: "You also observe other people's clothes, I see that they are better looking than the ladies in the palace, and their faces are as smooth as white jade, so you know that Lu Dao must be immortals." ”

"You say this as if you've seen a lady in the palace. His companion scoffed.

The person who spoke before was suddenly speechless, and changed the topic: "The immortals suddenly came to Jiangnan, isn't it just a good thing or a bad thing?"

"It's not that the court is perverse, killing innocents indiscriminately, and the heavens can't stand it, so they send fairies and gods to do the right thing for the sky. ”

One of them interjected and muttered, but before the words could be finished, he was interrupted by his companion and scolded: "You can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense." The national teacher and the Xuanyuan Golden Immortal are both virtuous and powerful......"

But although the words were respectful, they could not hide the color of fear.

Because of this sentence, the atmosphere is also awkward.

When the merchants saw that the rain had stopped in the middle of the night, they got up one after another and prepared to settle the bill and leave. One of them, who was well-informed, pointed to the copper coins on the table and said to the shopkeeper, "You are a blessed man." It is said that the powerful belongings of the Taoist family are all stained with immortal energy, and you make these copper coins into amulets and offer them to you. In the future, the descendants will be prosperous and rich. ”

The shopkeeper nodded and said yes again and again, and bluntly said that it was the fate of the world to be able to meet the true immortal with everyone today, and he would never accept this tea money.

The merchant was very omenous when he heard this, and while he was happy, he took out his money and exchanged a few copper coins with the shopkeeper, found the red thread and hung it close to him, and chased it in the direction where the gods were going.

Only the man who had advised the shopkeeper to settle the account and untie the mule, turned around, and went in the opposite direction to the gods.