Hundred miles of five kinds of incense: knocking bamboo

Not long after, the Jiao family's tea shop opened in full swing.

In order to cut off his son's idea of taking the fame test, Boss Jiao also let go, and spent his coffin book all the time. Some tea sets, tables and chairs were purchased, especially a well was dug in the house to make tea.

In the early morning of the beginning of winter, a layer of hoarfrost formed on the ground. According to the yellow calendar, it is not an auspicious day. But Jiao's tea shop "Baili Five Fragrances" is open.

The crackling cannonball kept thinking, and the ground was covered with a layer of fiery red cannonball skin, and the frost and red flowers on the white background were particularly eye-catching. But on the wild road beside the mountain, few people stopped to watch. On the tall tree of the tea shed hangs a conspicuous banner - gold on a red background and blue edge. In this piece of withered yellow woods, it is particularly eye-catching, and the five big words on it are "Hundred Miles and Five Fragrances". The words were written by Brother Jiao, and Mrs. Jiao embroidered them with brocade thread, which was not very delicate but it could be seen that the embroiderer was serious and careful. It's rare to hang something on the outside that is made like this in the wind and sun.

Eight square poplar tables were set up in the tea shed, each with four benches. On the table, there are stoneware teapots, cups, and chopstick cages. The shed faces north and south, facing the east-west wild road leading to Pinggu County and Pingyang County.

Behind the tea shed is a wooden house. There is nothing else in the house, just as a room, the three members of the Jiao family boil water, steam steamed buns, and burn gruel here, and the most special thing is that there is a well in the house.

The reason why the well was dug in the house was to prevent the dust and fallen leaves of the cars on the road from falling into the water, but in fact, it was mainly to prevent gangsters, bandits, and red-eyed people from drugging in the well and ruining the reputation of the Jiao family.

The most interesting thing is that Jiao Ge'er tied two miscellaneous dogs on the wooden stakes on the east and west sides of the tea shed, named "Taste Food" and "Report to the King". The main purpose is very simple, that is, to take care of the home and let the Jiao family in the back room know when the guests come, and then let the diners who are not at ease with the food safety now feed the food on the plate to the earth dog to see what is wrong with the dog. After all, it's a tea shed opened by a thief, so it's always a good idea to be careful.

The store name of "Hundred Miles and Five Kinds of Incense" is a bit loud, because the total length of this wild road is only thirty miles, and the official road that turns left and right is also eighty miles. But no one is serious about it. After all, it's a gimmick, who can't chew words for this.

This Dongjia tea shop only sells five things - tea, gruel, steamed buns, steamed buns, and fruits. What kind of fruit is sold depends on what fruit is picked up on the tree. Ask if these five incense are fragrant, don't say it's really good.

Although the tea is a stick catechu, that is, a low-grade tea made from the petioles or young stems of the tea tree, it is indeed not bad for people who have traveled for a long time to drink a pot of tea with a dry mouth or a penny! It's all done by Mrs. Jiao herself. At the end of the day, a family of three is naturally happy, compared to the thieves who rely on the wind and the sun to eat, they can indeed earn a lot of peace of mind. In fact, the happiest thing is that Brother Jiao'er has been whitewashed since then.

Gradually, "Hundred Miles and Five Kinds of Incense" became a well-known and extremely eccentric place.

Pedestrians stop here to drink tea, the laborers who cut down the trees and open the stones rest here, and the nearby bandits watch the passers-by here...... This small tea shed has become a gathering place for all kinds of people.

As soon as Boss Jiao got busy, he also looked much younger. The brown coat was stained with some firewood and grass smoke, and on his left shoulder he was forever drooping a linen cloth that was not white and gray, and he didn't know whether it was a rag for wiping the table or a handkerchief for wiping his face. Boss Jiao is also on the aisle, and when he sees so many people who have well water and river water, he also turns a blind eye and does not ask about his own business. If his peers asked if there were any meat tickets for spending money here, Boss Jiao would just laugh haha, and he didn't know what to ask. Just want to do your own business with peace of mind.

I don't know how many months have passed, Brother Jiao didn't even go to the county seat to take the township exam twice, so he was disheartened and honestly opened a tea shop at home, married a wife and became a family, and his children were five or six years old. Boss Jiao and Mrs. Jiao were also buried in their own mountains and woodlands. The business of the tea shop is still as good as usual, and there are several other tea shops competing with each other, but they have all closed. Only Jiao Ge'er's family is prosperous, and the reason is that even if the Jiao family is really responsible, they are dedicated to doing business, and they don't want to collude with thieves and put condiments in the tea of pedestrians.

One day, at the end of the day, that is, from nine to eleven o'clock now, there was a majestic image, a beard and a dark night, a beard and a chest scholar dressed like a person hurriedly came out of the Pinggu County Post House, and there was a slight smell of alcohol all over his body, he was not someone else but the new Pingyang County Commander. This person's name is Dong Ping, and he is also a perennial scholar, five years ago, he was admitted to the same school, and he has been waiting at home for the appointment of the imperial court.

Yesterday, I passed by Pinggu County and lived in a post house, and after hearing the Pinggu County order, he immediately prepared drinks and food for Dong Ping. The two counties of Pinggu and Pingyang are clothed with water, and the two county orders will also help each other in the future, so last night, in order to exchange feelings, the wine was three rounds and the dishes were five flavors, and they still persuaded each other to drink, and the cups were empty. All of a sudden, he was with Dafa, and the Pinggu County Commander stayed in the yamen for the night, and asked to go to the court in the third pole of the day. Dong Ping was carried back to the post station. The sun shone on his butt before he woke up, washed his face and hurried on the road.

Dong Ping was anxious to go to Pingyang County, because yesterday he thought that he would be able to reach the county government this afternoon, so he sent a letter and ordered someone to arrange people to greet him, but now it is almost noon, and his own people are still in Pinggu County, how can he be dishonest if he has not been a county magistrate for a day.

As soon as Dong Ping walked out of the door of the post station, he immediately stopped a carriage and sat on it, allowing the coachman to rush to the Pingyang County Government within two hours. When the coachman heard this, he understood: this old scholar was in a hurry, and Lao Tzu could slaughter him ruthlessly. The carriage didn't move, and the coachman turned to the scholar and said, "This is not cheap, the road chief doesn't say it, run fast and destroy the horse, this business doesn't have 200 yuan, you can't run down!"

Dong Ping was indeed shocked, but two hundred yuan was too much, enough for him to live a beautiful life for seven or eight days, but now that he was in a hurry, he couldn't care about so much. So Dong Ping agreed. Urge the driver to hurry up and don't delay the future.

The coachman couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and he often walked the official and wild roads of Pinggu and Pingyang. But whoever buys his time, he will drive along the official road, because the long road takes more time, and the driver earns more money. In the past, the official tax was paid by the buyer. If a scholar is in a hurry to negotiate the price in advance, he will drive to the wild road, although he will pay for the thieves himself, but he will make more money than taking the official road. Walking on the wild road can usually cost a hundred yuan to make a round trip, and now this foreigner spends two hundred yuan to run a trip, of course, the driver is very happy.

The coachman's whip was also wielded diligently.

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