Chapter 60: Yao Pingguan (1)
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The western border of the Zephyr Dynasty is subordinate to Jiannan Province.
Although it is called Guan, after a hundred years of development, it is no less than the scale of a small city, and it is quite prosperous and rich.
In the past, this pass was built by the Han and Tang dynasties, when the relationship between the Central Plains court and the eight thousand mountains was extremely bad, and later it was more tense, and even carried out several large-scale battles, and the two sides lost tens of thousands of soldiers, and there was a great fight to the death. It wasn't until the civil strife in the Central Plains that dozens of anti-kings rose up, and Luo Wu retreated into the 8,000 mountains.
Yaopingguan was the first barrier for the Central Plains court to defend against the Luo Wu people, which cost countless manpower and material resources. But decades have passed, and the dark-skinned Luo Wu people have no intention of going east, but just stay in the depths of the jungle honestly, without a trace of coveting the flower world in the east.
After years of precipitation, things are not people, and since the West Wind Dynasty took charge of Jiannan Dao, the relationship between the two sides has also undergone subtle changes. Many Han people in Guanli married the spicy and bold Luo Wu girl. The tribal leader in the mountains also brought back a fair-skinned woman from the Central Plains as his wife. Even General An Yuan, who was ordered to be stationed here, has a slender black beauty at home.
It can be said that the relationship between the two sides has been the most harmonious period in history.
Are the people living in Guanli more Han or Luo Wu people? It is estimated that even the master of Changshi, who is proficient in arithmetic, cannot figure it out.
It was nearly noon, and the sun was thick.
In a rather magnificent restaurant in the city.
Xiao Er, who was wearing a white scarf, held his chin with his hand that had just grown a lot of beard, and looked at the pedestrians on the road with sleepy eyes.
"It's been this hour, why aren't there any customers yet?" Although Xiao Er was a little sleepy, he was still worried about the business in the store.
"If no one comes in, I'll probably have to be sprayed with saliva by the fat and ugly proprietress later. Thinking of this, he slammed a cleverness, and there was a feeling of vomiting in his chest.
When Xiao Er was upset, a man in his twenties came in at the door.
I saw that he was dressed in a round-necked and narrow-sleeved blue robe, with a pair of dark pointed boots on his feet, tall and thin, and his skin was delicate and fair, which was different from many locals in the city.
The strange thing is that he carried a bamboo pole with more than a foot on his shoulder, and his whole body was glowing with dark purple.
Xiao Er didn't wait for the man to sit down, he trotted over, showed a sincere smile, and asked earnestly: "Guest officer, what do you want to eat?"
The man spoke an authentic Xifeng official dialect, and said with a little surprise: "Sauce beef? Didn't the imperial court order that ploughing cattle should not be killed? There is even a law that stipulates that cattle slaughterers will be sentenced to one and a half years and distributed 1,000 miles. ”
Xiao Er smiled and explained, "Little brother, you just came to the local area, right? That's the law of the Central Plains, and it has nothing to do with us, the emperor is far away, who has the heart to care about this little thing? Let's Yao Pingguan, the first thing that works is General An Yuan, and the second thing that works is the Jiang family's Tusi who is closest to the locality, Lord Jiang Le. Other people, even if they are prime ministers of high rank, can't care about the affairs of our Yao Pingguan. ”
Hua Wuyan looked at Xiao Er, who could speak well, smiled lightly, and ordered: "Five catties of beef, and then get some good vegetables, plus ten cakes." ”
Xiao Er only felt that he was slightly baring his teeth, and under the strong sun, he felt a little dazzling.
Xiao Er's heart was full of joy, and he replied loudly: "Okay!"
For this kind of diner who doesn't ask about the price or the dish, Xiao Er let out heartfelt joy, and even raised his voice a little higher than usual. On the way to the back kitchen, he secretly decided in his heart that when the food was served, the guest would only steal a little bit of what he ordered, and would never add any other "condiments" to it.
At this moment, several groups of customers came in the store one after another, filling the relatively spacious store to the brim.
Xiao Er, who had just walked out of the kitchen, saw such a scene, sighed lightly, and his heart was happy and sad.
I'm glad that the business in the store is so good, I definitely won't be fired, and I don't have to go back with those stinky men to mud the wall.
The sad thing is that the proprietress who slammed the door has just dismissed the other two guys, and there is only one guy left in the store, and he is not three-headed and six-armed, serving so many customers, some of them must be busy.
Hua Wuyan rubbed the Nanshan Zizhu in his hand, looking at the shopkeeper with a complicated expression, but he kept figuring out the meaning of Tuoba Baishi in his heart.
The specific location of the Daxue Mountain, I have just asked someone to find out the distance, it is thousands of miles away from here, and on the way, we have to pass through the deserted Gobi and the vast grassland.
Not to mention the difficulties and obstacles on the road, I am afraid that the delay of the road alone will take several months.
For such a long time, it does seem a bit long for me who wants to take revenge urgently.
And after so many twists and turns, it was actually to send a thin letter for himself, and I don't know what Tuoba Baishi meant, who had a gloomy face all day, meant.
Hua Buxian touched the letter on his chest and thought, "I don't know what medicine is sold in the coffin face gourd, why don't you open it and take a look?"
However, thinking of the terrifying skills of the black-faced man and the face of his wife who had died all day long, Hua Wuyan still shuddered and immediately dispelled his thoughts.
As the dishes came one after another, he smelled the sauced beef on the plate, mellow and fragrant, and tasted it with chopsticks, it was smooth and salty, and it did have a unique taste.
The other customers in the restaurant are also warm and noisy, and the restaurant looks like a flower.
Outside the door, there was the crisp sound of several horses' hooves trampling on the ground.
Horses are not very difficult to see in the Central Plains, but they are a rare object in Yaopingguan. It's not that horses are expensive, but in this pass, which is full of rugged mountain roads, there is almost no use. There are only a few straight and flat dirt roads, and once you get out, you are surrounded by muddy and potholed paths, and the sharp stones all over the road can easily scratch the horses' hooves, and the horses are almost useless except for the consumption of white flowers and silver.
So except for the government and the children of the family who like to show off, no one buys this useless thing.
The sound of the horse's hooves gradually slowed down, and disappeared at the door of the restaurant.
With the neighing of a horse with a few "Yu Yu" sounds, after a few breaths, a young man stood at the door.
This man was about twenty years old, not tall, dark-skinned, with flat facial features and a pair of mung bean eyes, wearing a red and white silk robe, holding a horse whip inlaid with gold wire, and looking at the diners with a proud face.
The horsemen entered the shop and stood respectfully behind him.
An older middle-aged man saw that the store was already full, and asked the young man with a flattering smile on his face: "Childe, there is a lot of chaos inside, why don't we change it again?"
The young man who was called Gongzi frowned, raised his chinless cheeks, and said arrogantly: "Forget it, this Gongzi is too lazy to move, so I will eat a few bites here." Later, I will have to practice martial arts with the masters of Nanyu, and if I am late, I will probably be punished by my sister again. ”
He is full of local accents, but he has to speak the official dialect of the west wind between the lines, which makes people feel very uncomfortable when they hear it.
The middle-aged Hu hurriedly agreed after hearing this, and kept looking at the store.
Seeing that there was only one young man in a green robe on the wide table, the middle-aged man walked to the table with a big stride from his eyes, and his face that greeted him just now instantly became arrogant, and he shouted loudly: "Housheng, give up a place." ”
Hua Wuyan was throwing off his cheeks to taste the first meal of sauced beef in his life, and after hearing the words, he looked around blankly, and found that more than a dozen tables of guests were selected, and he cursed in his heart: "Thief bird!"
However, like this extremely obvious gentleman, he didn't want to provoke, so he beckoned Xiao Er over, ready to move the dishes and chopsticks to the table with others.
Xiao Er was a little close to Hua Wuyan, afraid that he would provoke right and wrong for no reason, so he whispered in his ear: "Childe, endure the calm for a while, his father is a small leader of the Jiang family, and his sister is the most beloved concubine in General Anyuan's family, and he is the number one person in Yao Pingguan, so Childe should bear with it." ”
"It's really not small...... Hua Wuyan sneered, patted the kind Xiao Er's shoulder, and chuckled: "Thank you." ”
Just as Hua Wuyan left the table, he heard someone shouting two words.
"Wait!"
The swarthy young man, who was far away at the door of the store, had already paced over and shouted with a long epilogue.
Hua Wuyan's sword eyebrows were raised, and he didn't know what this guy with no chin wanted to do.
The young man's mung bean eyes kept looking at the purple bamboo in Hua Wuyan's hand, showing a greedy face, and after a while, he said arrogantly: "This son loves fishing, and he just lacks a good wood in his hand, your bamboo pole seems to be very good, how much silver, you can make a price!"
Even though he cursed in his stomach, Hua Wuyan still smiled brightly on the surface, and said with neither humility nor arrogance in his mouth: "I'm sorry, Zizhu is a family heirloom, and it really can't change hands." In this way, Childe, you can leave me a mansion location, and the next time I enter the city, I will bring you a better root, what do you think?"
The meaning of Hua Wuyan's words is very clear, not for sale.
Of course, they also gave each other a step down.
The young man tilted his head, stared at the handsome guy in front of him, and said sharply: "Don't talk nonsense, you can't sell it!"
Hua Wuyan shook his head firmly.
Brother Gongzi, who had no chin, walked around the stubborn Hua Wuyan a few times with his hands behind his back, and said arrogantly: "Do you know that in Yao Pingguan, my Ye family Liangchen has a hundred ways to make you unable to live!"
Hua Wuyan exclaimed: "Ye Liangchen, good name! The beautiful scenery of Liangchen is not like this, is it a good sentence that your sister sold her body in exchange?" (To be continued.) )