The wheels of the carriage rolled in the snow and made a creaking sound, and Lao Li drove the carriage, sometimes leisurely picking up the wine jug and pouring it into his mouth to make a 'tsk' sound.

Looking back at the corner of the carriage curtain, Gu Xiao in the carriage was lying on his back and sleeping in the car, and his sleeping posture in the snow was even more exaggerated, lying on Gu Xiao's abdomen in a large shape, with a small mouth open, his pink tongue stretched out slightly, and one paw also knew that Gu Xiao's big coat should be on his belly, Lao Li doted on the one person and one mink in the car, put down the curtain, pulled the horse and chewed, and slowed down the speed of the carriage, for fear that this bump would wake up Gu Xiao and Treading Snow in the car.

As the carriage drove slowly, the outline of Liangzhou City was not seen in the distance, and the merchants and carriages on the side of the road gradually increased, Lao Li sat in the carriage and looked at the foot shop that appeared on the side of the road in front of him, turned around and said to the car: "Young master, we are still far from Liangzhou City, there is a place to rest in front, let's go eat something, and feed the horses some forage by the way to continue on the road." ”

Gu Xiao was asleep, listening to Uncle Li call himself, got up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, lifted the curtain, this time he got up and lifted the curtain, but the snow lying on Gu Xiao's belly overturned in the car, the snow rolled a few times in the car, and the snow was also dreaming, in the dream, he was in the 'paradise' where Zhou was rabbit meat, and was about to taste the delicacy of the mouth, when Gu Xiao destroyed the dream, and the snow that woke up was dissatisfied with Gu Xiao and made a "squeak" protest.

Gu Xiao looked at the way he stepped on the snow, scratched his head with shame, got out of the car, sat next to Uncle Li, and said, "Just listen to Uncle Li, let's go to the foot shop to eat something, and then it's not too late to enter the city." ”

Lao Li saw that the young master also agreed, so he raised his horsewhip and shouted "Drive", pulling the cart and the horse's buttocks hurt, so he spread his hooves and ran forward. The curled up snow tread into sleep, and was lifted by the sudden acceleration inertia of the carriage, and his head hit the carriage, and he was disturbed by the dream repeatedly, and the snow seemed to be helpless, and he did not make a sound of protest again, but just wrapped his fluffy tail around his body, and drilled his head into the two front paws, thinking about continuing his dream.

As soon as the incense was burned, the carriage had already driven to the side of the shop, Gu Xiao and Lao Li got off one after another, and the little two who greeted the guests in front of the door were stomping their feet coldly, seeing that a guest was coming, he hurriedly put on a smiling face and stepped forward: "Two guest officers, whether you live in the hotel or play the tip, the small shop has the spring drunk that only entered in Liangzhou City, and the best yellow beef." ”

Lao Li looked at Gu Xiao, Gu Xiao smiled and said, "Uncle Li just orders, I'll go to the car and wake up the sleeper who is stepping on the snow." After finishing speaking, Gu Xiao turned around and lifted the carriage curtain, and shouted softly: "Hey, stepping on the snow, let's get to the foot shop, you sleeper, you've slept all the way, get up quickly." ”

Taxue was disturbed by his sweet dreams twice, and at this moment he didn't want to give up the opportunity to fall asleep, so he ignored Gu Xiao at all, reversed his sleeping position, and snored with his back to Gu Xiao.

Gu Xiao shook his head with a wry smile, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "Alas, it's a pity, there are so many delicious foods, forget it, Uncle Li and I went to enjoy it." After saying that, he lowered the curtain and turned around to leave, at this moment, a milky white figure flashed out of the window of the carriage and rushed straight into Gu Xiao's arms, with so much strength that it almost made Gu Xiao fall him in the snow with a 'butt backwards, flat sand and falling goose style'.

Lao Li caught a glimpse of Treadxue rushing into Gu Xiao's arms from the carriage, so he turned his head and instructed Xiao Er: "Give us half a horn of spring drunkenness, a plate of yellow beef, a plate of cooked goose, a plate of vegetarian dishes, four steamed buns, and then pull my horse to the stable to feed some good concentrates." After speaking, Lao Li took out a piece of loose silver from his waist and threw it to Xiao Er as a reward.

"Well, please come inside!" Xiao Er got the reward, his smile was almost to the root of his ears, he was busy leading the way, and bowed down to open the door curtain for Gu Xiao and Lao Li.

Holding the snow curled up in their arms, Gu Xiao and Lao Li followed Xiao Er into the foot shop, the foot shop is not big, two floors above and below, and the closed guest room door on the second floor makes people feel that this Yuan Day Festival is approaching, whether it is returning to their hometowns to visit relatives, or the guests coming and going from the south to the north have become more than in the past, and the first floor is the place to rest and eat, there are more than ten square wooden tables, each table is surrounded by benches. It has not been replaced for many years, and these tables are already shiny.

There are already three tables of guests on this floor, Gu Xiao looked around, and the old shopkeeper who had to turn gray was quickly playing with the abacus in the counter at the moment, and from time to time he was holding the pen with his hand saliva, rummaging through the account book in his hand, carefully calculating the account in the store today.

There are several merchants sitting in the southwest corner of the hall, all dressed in thick velvet jackets, at a glance it is a perennial businessman, and several people dressed as hunters in the northwest corner are picking up the pasta in the bowl at the moment, and there is a lot of game at their feet.

But what attracted Gu Xiao's attention was a bearded man in the southeast corner of the shop, who was eating Haisai, in his thirties and forties, with a beard on his face.

In this cold winter season, this big man is wearing only a single coat, and the muscles all over his body seem to be about to tear the single coat. The big man is holding a roast goose in his hand, gnawing his mouth full of oil, this fat roast goose is in the big hand of the big man like a fan, it seems to be as small as a plaything in the hands of a child, the rise of the big man to eat, a mouthful of roast goose, pour a bowl of wine, and there are faint beads of sweat on the greasy face.

Feeling Gu Xiao's gaze, the big man raised his huge head, and there was a hint of fierceness in his eyes, Gu Xiao was no longer a fledgling boy in the rivers and lakes, and naturally saw that this reckless man was practicing kung fu, but after all, he was a little rude staring at others, Gu Xiao nodded with a smile, and the big man saw the young man in green clothes smiled and nodded with a smile, only saying which young man was visiting relatives and returning to the city, he had never seen the world, nor was he as knowledgeable as Gu Xiao, so he withdrew his fierce gaze and lowered his head to focus on the roast goose in his hand.

Xiao Er led Gu Xiao and the others to an empty table in the foot shop, tore off the cloth on his shoulder, quickly wiped the greasy table and stool, beckoned Gu Xiao and the others to sit down, and then said loudly to the back kitchen: "Half horn spring drunk, a plate of yellow beef, a plate of cooked goose, the same vegetarian spell, four steamed buns!" ”

Sitting down, Lao Li leaned into Gu Xiao's ear and whispered: "Young master, that big man practices kung fu outside, and at first glance he is a person in the rivers and lakes, how can he be..."

Gu Xiao raised his hand and made a silent gesture, and said softly: "The master told us not to make more trouble when we go down the mountain, we just eat ours." ”

Lao Li listened to the instructions of the young master, so he no longer cared about the big man, and after a while, Xiao Er came with food, and filled the table with beef and goose and vegetarian steamed buns, Lao Li saw this, took out two pairs of chopsticks from the chopstick cage on the side, wiped them, and handed them to Gu Xiao.

The two of them moved their chopsticks, curled up in Gu Xiao's arms, and smelled the fragrance of food, poked out their triangular heads from the big groom, and licked their pink tongues quickly on their lips, Gu Xiao smiled and scolded when he saw this: "You guy, as soon as you eat, you will wake up." Laughing and scolding, but he still reached out and tore off a piece of goose meat and fed it to Treading Snow, Treading Xue sniffed with his small nose, and hurriedly got out of Gu Xiao's big slur, and the two front paws couldn't wait to pick up the goose meat, jumped to Gu Xiao's feet, and chewed the goose meat.

Gu Xiao and the others were eating, only to hear the neighing of horses' hooves outside the door, and the sound of dismounting footsteps sounded, before anyone arrived, a loud voice first came into the foot shop: "Is there a living person, Liu Gongzi has arrived, what's the matter, isn't there a single one who can pant?" If you don't come out to greet you, Lao Tzu will demolish your place. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly picked up the second child on the side to welcome the guests, and he quickly tidied up his clothes and moved out of the counter.

The shopkeeper hurriedly held the old shopkeeper, but the old shopkeeper hurriedly said to the little er: "Fifth son, go quickly, go and greet Liu Gongzi, don't let Liu Gongzi get angry, our small shop can't be saved." ”

Xiao Er listened to the shopkeeper's words, and hurriedly rushed out of the door to greet him.

The old shopkeeper also trembled and walked out of the door, and when he passed by Gu Xiao's side, he stumbled and almost fell, Gu Xiao hurriedly stretched out his hand to support the old shopkeeper's body that was about to fall, and said: "Old man, slow down, you are so old, what kind of distinguished guests are here, such a big pomp?" ”

The old shopkeeper saluted Gu Xiao, looked left and right, lowered his voice and said: "Thank you Gongzi, the little old man has nothing to do, the son doesn't know, this 'Liu Gongzi' real name is Liu Yi, it is a tyrant in Liangzhou City, bullying men and women, doing all kinds of evil, who he likes and takes him to the house at will. Liu Gongzi's eating and drinking in Yuelai Building, Xiao Er in Yuelai Lou accidentally spilled some wine on his shoes, he broke Xiao Er's hands, and the poor child was only nineteen years old, and he was disabled. Like this kind of evil behavior, Liu Gongzi and the Liu family behind him have done an unknown number of things, and the people of Liangzhou hate and fear them. ”

Lao Li on the side slapped the table angrily when he listened: "Lang Lang Qiankun, this government doesn't care?" ”

The old shopkeeper was busy appeasing Lao Li, for fear that Liu Gongzi outside the store would hear it, and said softly: "Don't be angry, if you offend this Liu Gongzi, there is no good fruit to eat, it is said that this Liu Gongzi's maternal uncle is Gao Lian, the governor of that Liuzhou, but the big official of the imperial court, this Liu Gongzi's mother's family heard that it is a sect in the martial arts, there are many people who practice martial arts, our Liangzhou assassin history, dare not offend Gao Lian, so he turned a blind eye to this Liu Gongzi." ”

Gu Xiao was also angry when he heard it on the side, and when he was about to speak, he only heard the ping-pong sound outside the shop, and with a bang, the shopkeeper flew into the shop like a rag, and the shopkeeper flew straight to the empty table in the store, and the table was shattered by the body of the shopkeeper, and the kid vomited a mouthful of blood from the kick, lying on the ground and moaning.

It was still the loud voice, accompanied by seven or eight people in fancy clothes stepping into the store, these people in fancy clothes, all of them carried strong bows, quivers, short knives at their waists, and some dead prey in their hands, at first glance, they were people who practiced martial arts. And surrounded by everyone, 'Liu Gongzi' stepped into the store with an evil smile, Liu Gongzi tied his hair with a jade crown, wore a black brocade dress and hung a pair of lion jade pendants around his waist, and was covering his mouth and nose with a silk brocade handkerchief, only revealing the deep eye sockets on the brocade and the eyebrows pressed down. As if he was afraid of smelling the smell of this shop, one of them shouted at Xiao Er, who was moaning on the ground: "Lao Tzu said, if you want to demolish your small shop, what are you going to do when you come out?" ”

The voice is the person with a loud voice before, this person is a man with a big knife at his waist, with a fierce face, and after entering the store, he kept dusting his luxurious boots with a horsewhip in his hand, which shows that it is this person who kicked the corner of Xiao Er into the store.

Gu Xiao saw that a few people were bullying the shopkeeper so much, so he wanted to get up, and the old shopkeeper saw that Gu Xiao was thin, thinking that he was a scholar, and he was afraid that this young man would suffer, so he stretched out his hand and pressed Gu Xiao, shook his head and signaled, and then walked towards 'Liu Gongzi' tremblingly.