"Rong'er, don't worry about sleeping in the wilderness tonight."

Although there are carriages where you can stay, and it is more or less a place to shelter from the wind and rain, after all, the snow is falling, how can the temperature in the carriage be warm?

Seeing a village appear in the distance, like a drowning person, and seeing a driftwood appear in the river, "Drive-" Guo Mo waved his horsewhip and rushed towards the village.

When I got closer, I found that in fact, this village was not next to the main road, and the road was north, at least more than a mile away.

"Longwangzhuang" - the name of a village with Chinese characteristics, in the vast land of China, I don't know how many villages have such a name.

The village is not big, just a main street, and there are 100 families in Lara.

Guo Mo drove the carriage and walked back and forth twice, but he didn't find an inn where he could stay.

"Rong'er, this 'Dragon King Village' is sparsely populated and there are few households, and there is no inn to stay in, why don't we find a family? How to solve the problem of eating and drinking. ”

It's not early, it's still snowing, and I'm not familiar with the place here, so I don't know where to find people if I miss it.

Huang Rong also came out of the carriage and sat on the other side of the wheel, looking at the wind and snow, but she was eager to have a good time.

"Brother Mo, listen to you, I'm also a little hungry, and the cooking cakes and beef I brought are also hard, it's too delicious."

Seeing that Huang Rong did not object, Guo Mo whipped and drove the vehicle to the east end of the village.

When I passed by just now, I saw a very large yard there, and it seemed that it should be the richest family in "Dragon King Village".

When they came to the front, they parked the carriage, and the two jumped down from the wheel, only to see a plaque "Zhang Zhai" hanging on the door.

In ancient times, the door plaque was very particular, where the general family will have a door plaque, can hang a "house" word, must be a solid home.

"Bell, bell", Guo Mo stepped forward and knocked on the knocker.

Maybe it was because of the heavy wind and snow, and after knocking for a long time, no one came to open the door.

Guo Mo was helpless, and he couldn't care about shocking the world.

While knocking on the knocker again, he used his internal force and shouted, "Is anyone home?" Passers-by, come to disturb each other, and look at Haihan. ”

"Bell, bell, bell—"

"Coming, coming—" After a while, a man's voice was heard from inside.

Immediately afterward, there was the sound of "crunch, crunch" in the snow, and the door was opened from the inside.

A middle-aged man in his forties, who looked like a housekeeper or something, stretched out his head to look at Guo Mo and Huang Rong.

I saw two young men and women, the man was gentle and heroic, and the woman was pretty and radiant.

The middle-aged man relaxed his guard and asked, "Is there something wrong with the two of you coming to Zhang's mansion?" ”

Guo Mo stepped forward and replied: "This uncle is invited, my brother and sister are passing by here, and they don't want to get lost in the mountains, it's freezing this day, and they also missed the nightstay." ”

"If you want to spend the night in your house, you can leave tomorrow, and you will be paid according to the price when you leave. I hope that Uncle can make it convenient. After that, Guo Mo gave a deep salute.

The middle-aged uncle hurriedly flashed, but he didn't dare to give this salute, "This little brother is polite." In this way, I can't be the master, you two later, I'll go and tell my master. ”

The middle-aged man closed the door, turned around and left, and heard the sound of "crunch, crunch" stepping on the snow again, and gradually moved away.

There was not much time, and it was just the work of tea, and the sound of stepping on the snow came again.

When the door opened, it was still the middle-aged man, followed by a small servant.

"Two, just now I told the master about the two of you, and the master said that it is not easy to go out, so I promised you two to stay in the guest room for a night, and you two come with me."

Then, he opened the gate and saw that Guo Mo and the others were still driving the carriage, and hurriedly asked the little maid to drive the carriage to the backyard, and there were special people to serve them.

It seems that he is really a rich family, and he is quite exquisite.

Seeing that people were so thoughtful and polite, Guo Mo didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly took out five taels of silver from his arms and handed it to the middle-aged man.

"Thank you so much, uncle, you can take this little bit of silver first."

"The two of us haven't eaten much for a day, so Uncle Lao has prepared something to eat, and the three horses also need to be fed."

To be polite, seeing that Guo Mo was five taels of silver as soon as he made a move, the middle-aged man was also very happy, and he agreed to come down, and personally took Guo Mo and Huang Rong to the guest room.

"Don't dislike the two of you, the old man doesn't live here on weekdays, just come here to do something these days, and you two just caught up." The housekeeper was also a talkative person.

"It's a pity that no one comes to this house on weekdays, and the guest room can be occupied in this place for the time being, but fortunately, you are brothers and sisters, so you will be for one night."

As the middle-aged man spoke, he took Guo Mo and Huang Rong to a wing room on the east side of the courtyard.

Open the door, turn on the lamp, the room is very cold, but fortunately it is clean, it seems that someone still cleans it on weekdays.

"You two sit down for a while, and I'll tell the kitchen to bring dinner, and then someone to bring a charcoal basin." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he turned around and went out.

Guo Mo looked at the room, it was decent, there were two rooms inside and outside, there were all tables, chairs and benches, and even a wardrobe, but there was only one bed in the inner room.

Fortunately, Guo Mo and Huang Rong have been together for so long, and they know each other's feelings in their hearts.

Although the guest houses are all one person per room, there are many times when they sleep in the open, not to mention that in the "Daiyu Mountain" valley for a few months, it is not just a cave to live in.

There was not much time, and the middle-aged man knocked on the door again, followed by the little servant, carrying a food box in his hand.

opened the food box and brought out three dishes, two bowls of porridge, and a few steamed buns.

In the Song Dynasty, Chinese food also reached a fairly high level. Take this steamed bun as an example, the steamed bun at this time is significantly different from the steamed bun in later generations.

At this time, the steamed buns were actually the buns of later generations, which were filled with filling, divided into two types: sour stuffing and meat filling.

The sour stuffing is a vegetarian bun. During the Chongning period, the sour stuffing was also called "a bag of vegetables" (Cai) to satirize the prime minister Cai Jing.

Every year on the seventh day of the first lunar month, the wealthy and wealthy families in Kyoto will put small pieces of wood in the sour filling, on which the official product or auspicious words are written, which means that all the way up.

It's just that most of these steamed buns are still popular among the eunuchs' families or the children of scholars, and the public still eats more cooking cakes, and they don't want to see steamed buns in this small village.

The other three dishes, a stir-fried tofu, a shallot and an egg, and a chicken, are quite hearty.

"You two will just use some, there is nothing to entertain in this small village, this is still brought from the city of 'Runan'."

"Where, uncle, polite, this is already very rich." Guo Mo hurriedly thanked him.

"Uncle just said 'Runan' City, is this the boundary of Runan?" Guo Mo only thought that he was lost, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.

Runan City is in the northeast corner of Xiangyang, about 300 miles away.

When the middle-aged man saw Guo Mo's surprised appearance, he remembered that he had just said that the two of them were lost, and he was about to introduce them in detail, when suddenly a small house ran into him outside.

"Butler, butler, it's not good, the little master's illness has happened again."

"The lord asked you to hurry over, maybe you have to set up a car overnight and go to the city of 'Runan'."