Chapter 2 Descending the Mountain
After going down the mountain for four or five miles, you can faintly see the cooking smoke wafting above the forest, Sun Fuming and his party looked for the cooking smoke and left, less than two teas, they came to a village entrance.
Everyone walked into the village, Sun Fuming also looked left and right with great interest at the few courtyards, there happened to be a villager with a hoe passing by, after explaining the intention, the villagers insisted that the village has two ploughing cows in the village chief's house, ox carts, there was one a few years ago, the village chief's daughter married far away, the cow came back, and the car was left...
Ask where the village chief's house goes, a few steps to the village chief's door, the courtyard is only larger than the average house, the courtyard wall is more than half a person high, two cattle are tied at home, it seems that they have not gone out to farm. Sun Fuming knocked on the door, but no one answered, so he pushed the door with a smile and entered, Huang Xiang didn't like it on his face, but he also followed in with a few junior disciples.
The village chief was really at home, but he didn't really hear it behind his ears, Sun Fuming approached and explained his intention loudly, the village chief nodded, and said: "The old man can't go to the fields often now, and when he gets old, he will rely on these two cows to make a living, and rent them to the villagers in exchange for some food... If you officials take one side away, life will be even worse. The village chief's eyes kept wandering on Sun Fuming's fan, and after seeing the fine jade hanging at the bottom of the fan, his eyes were even brighter.
All this is in Sun Fuming's eyes, not to mention that he is a human spirit, even Huang Go's junior disciples can see that this old man is planning to lose his face and get down from this rich child... Skin?
"I will pay five taels of silver for a ploughing ox. I don't know what my husband thinks? Sun Fuming closed the fan, squinted his eyes and said with a smile.
The village chief was pleasantly surprised at first, and instantly pulled his cheek down to the Adam's apple: "This son, I won't tell you, my two cattle grew up eating that refined wheat bran since I was a child, and now my wife is dead, and my daughter is married, these two cows are already my closest and most difficult to part..."
"Okay, I'll give you eight taels, take a taxi out overnight, we're in a hurry."
"At least nine... No, no, no, ten taels of silver, otherwise I'm sorry folks! At that time, I couldn't save an explanation: it was Tongyun who sent a big face to protect us, so he gave up a ploughing cow and hit a car to repay the immortal master. ”
Sun Fuming patted the old man on the shoulder, groped in his bag, and took out a full ingot of official silver and handed it to the village chief: "Uncle, you can take it, since it has been negotiated, arrange for us to have a light meal, don't be too rough, it's better to have wine!" However, the car should be tight, the road is bumpy, the car is stronger, don't miss the trip. ”
The village chief was overjoyed, hurriedly took the silver, and not only hesitated a little after seeing the bottom of the sample stamp, but also bit it with his teeth, hard and soft, can't be wrong, it's really a real authentic official silver! Today, I have encountered a big wrong, and it is not in vain that I give incense to the God of Wealth every year! Then he replied respectfully: "I want it!" Find someone to cook the food immediately, and the wine should go to the nearby village now, and I will find a child with sharp legs and feet to go now! ”
"I'm tired of my husband." Huang Go and the others saw the village chief leaving in a hurry with the silver, and hurriedly thanked him, and couldn't help but be confused: "After going up the mountain for 20 years, is ten taels of silver only enough to buy an ox cart?" Then the fifty taels I am about to get will be greatly depreciated..."
In fact, it's no wonder that Huang Go and others think so, the old village chief and Sun Fuming played this sharp edge, which can be understood by these few martial arts who are not deeply involved in the world, not to mention a cow and a cart for ten taels of silver, even two oxen and a cart can be bought, but the son of the Sun family is rich and lazy. So it evolved into the old village chief asking for the price to repay the money on the spot, and Sun Gongzi was responsible for spending a lot of money, that's all. It's just that this different kind of romance was shown to the four brothers, and some cows chewed peonies and ruined the scenery.
At night, Sun Gongzi and his entourage occupied a house alone, the wine had passed thirty years, although the dishes were meatless but exquisitely fried, the table tennis outside the house was banging on the ox cart, Huang Hu and others were already drunk, only Sun Fuming was still pouring himself a drink with great interest, saying that Huang Hu had never heard of strange things in their lives: no one had ever entered the tall mountains and forests south of Maruzhou and north of Tanzhou, and they could still come out alive; The emperor traveled to the honor guard, the scene was strong, a hundred selected forbidden soldiers, riding on an animal called "horse", like a cow, but extremely tall and mighty, the sound is like a dragon, a day can run three hundred miles; The third young master of Baifu in the city Baizhu, the number one gentleman in the world, countless girls and little daughters-in-law were ruined by him, and he took you to Beijing, just for fear of meeting this person on the road and being humiliated again for nothing...
As soon as Huang Hu heard that the forbidden army was coming, he hurriedly asked if it was the kind of people wearing gold armor, wearing red spikes and gold crowns, and carrying standard war knives at their waists, Sun Fuming smiled and nodded yes, Huang Go's face was excited, and asked if with his current skills, could he enter the forbidden army and be a brocade guard? Sun Fuming smiled and said that the forbidden army was all people trusted by the emperor, and they didn't pay much attention to their skills, but more importantly, their background...
Huang went a little disappointed, before leaving, he asked the master if he could show his skills in front of the emperor and seek a forbidden military position, and the master replied clearly: If you can join the forbidden army, you can also be regarded as serving the master, there are people in the court, the division will be stable, and become the leader, even if the person is no longer in the sect, he will leave his name in the ancestral hall after his death, and enjoy the incense of the future generations. But according to Senior Brother Sun, is there no hope?
Huang walked to pick up a cup and couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
With this mood, Huang went to a deep sleep, after dawn, a hurried two-wheeled ox cart has been placed in front of the door, the old village chief sat on the car to eat, watched them push the door out, immediately very dog-legged to ask if they slept well, the ox cart style is okay, and said that the villagers worked hard, did not sleep all night, and so on to set up the cattle, but also took out their own oil clothes and hats, wanted to buy and sell to Sun Fuming, this Sun junior brother smiled and took out a tael of silver, said that it was a reward for the villagers, It made Huang go even more convinced of the idea of depreciating the price of silver.
Huang Go's second junior brother Feng Shu is a more wooden person than Huang Go, he listens to the master and the senior brother for everything, rarely has his own ideas, and it is not ambiguous to listen to the senior brother let him drive down, he turned over and got into the position of the front of the car, and controlled the reins as the village chief taught, and the others also jumped on the semi-open ox cart and waved goodbye to the villagers.
In less than two hours, the ox cart saw a green lake like a mirror according to the route pointed out by Sun Fuming, Huang went to arrange for the seal to give the livestock water and graze, and drank the turbid wine that he didn't finish last night, and thought about Sun Gongzi's words last night while drinking, "What if it's drunk and nonsense?" Then he asked:
"Senior Brother Sun, what you said last night, are you serious?"
Sun Fuming was half-lying in the car, shook his head and said, "I listened to what the elders said, and I can't do it seriously." ”
Huang walked in high spirits and hurriedly asked, "Really?" Then if I go to the emperor to show my fists and feet, I will have a chance to become a forbidden army? ”
Sun Fuming sat up suddenly, clasped his arms with both hands, and said seriously: "Senior brother, nothing else should be taken seriously, but this one, I really don't want you." ”
Seeing Huang Go's disappointed appearance, Sun Fuming also knew in his heart and comforted: "Senior Brother Huang doesn't have to be like this, when I rush back to Wutong City to meet my father, I will mention my senior brother to his old man, arrange an opportunity to show his strength, and my father will help my senior brother find a way out..."
But Huang didn't take advantage of this stubble, he just played with the wine gourd by himself, Sun Fuming opened the fan and patted his body gently, and laughed.
I have a heart-to-heart relationship with you from the bottom of my heart, and when I am bragging, I can stay in Wutong City, and I will drag you by the nose.
After that, there was nothing to say all the way, along the guide river out of Tanzhou, and it was late at night when he came to the territory under the jurisdiction of Wutong City, and there was nothing to do all the way to this experience, neither the strongman robbed the road, nor the people complained, and the group felt that the master arranged this experience, it was really to accompany this Sun Gongzi to hurry, but Sun Fuming returned to his hometown, more and more high-spirited, occasionally chanting a poem, occasionally slapping the fan and humming a tune according to the beat, all of which the brothers could not understand.
"The sycamore is not endless, and it is impossible to put the topic in peace. When the young phoenix rises from the ground, who calls the Bai family to bully people? ”