Tang Xiaohao knew that what the watchman said was right, according to the distance between Xinzheng County and Ruiyang County on the original map, he had to walk for a whole day at the earliest, but this place was really infiltrating, and it was not suitable to stay for a long time.

Tang Xiaohao asked again: "Little brother, how far is the nearest village?" ”

"Village?" The watchman smiled when he heard this, "If there are still villages around Xinzheng County, there is no need for county sacrifices." ”

So, what exactly does the prefectural festival mean? The crowd was still confused, and Gilda and Bao Meng realized that what they thought of as a sacrifice was completely different from the county sacrifice that the watchman was talking about.

Tang Xiaohao pulled Su Mu aside and said, "What should I do?" You can't live in the middle of nowhere, can you? Moreover, we have been running for a day and a night, and the five of us will starve to death if we are not tired to death, and we will die of thirst if we don't starve, and we will die of thirst if we don't die of thirst......"

Su Mu directly interrupted Tang Xiaohao: "I understand what the colt meant, don't do whatever the colt says, but ......" Su Mu peeked at Chirda and lowered his voice and said, "It's difficult to hold a knife now." ”

Although Su Mu said it very tactfully, Tang Xiaohao immediately understood, you must know that along the way, Su Mu was very wrong. Therefore, he understood that what Su Mu was trying to convey was that if any danger arose, not only would he not be able to help, but he would most likely become a burden.

Tang Xiaohao immediately relieved: "It's okay, there is me." ”

Su Mu said solemnly: "It's because of you that I'm worried." ”

Tang Xiaohao said: "What do you mean? If it weren't for me, that weird thing would have taken care of you all. ”

Su Mu explained, "I mean, I mean, you and the princess are both daughters, and now you are taking care of us, I feel ashamed. ”

Tang Xiaohao deliberately looked Su Mu up and down: "I really didn't see that you even showed a little bit of shame all over your body." ”

Su Mu was about to kneel down when he heard this, but was supported by Tang Xiaohao: "Don't, I'll just say that, don't worry, this is not in the palace, there are not so many rules." ”

Everyone didn't know what the two were muttering next to them, and the watchman turned around and was about to leave, but Tang Xiaohao stepped forward to stop him.

Tang Xiaohao took out two silver dragons and quietly stuffed them to the watchman: "Little brother, do us a favor, find us a place to stay, if we can get some more food and drink......" Saying, Tang Xiaohao took out two silver dragons again, "It would be better." ”

Although the watchman didn't care about it on his face, he honestly took the four silver dragons in his hand: "I also know that it's not easy to go out, come with me." ”

The watchman walked forward as he spoke, Tang Xiaohao turned to look at the others, showing a smug expression, which means: Did you see it? With me, don't worry.

A few people slowly followed behind the watchman, and Gerda said: "Sure enough, there is money that can make the ghost grind." ”

Tang Xiaohao understands this more thoroughly than anyone else: "Of course, having money can not only make ghosts grind, but also old men can push ......" Before the word "car" was spoken, he realized that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly shut up.

Su Mu and Gelda naturally knew what he was going to say, and they also knew that this Shendu No. 1 scumbag had nothing good to say, so they could only pretend not to care.

On the contrary, the two girls Little Bell and Baomeng were very curious.

The little bell asked, "Say, what else can you make the old man push?" ”

Bao Meng also looked at Tang Xiaohao with big eyes that were extremely curious.

Su Mu glanced at Tang Xiaohao and sneered, wondering how Tang Xiaohao was round, even if he said it completely, the two girls still had to ask what it meant?

Tang Xiaohao coughed twice: "The old man can also add fuel to the fire." ”

Bao Meng was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

The little bell is also tattooed: "Yes, what do you mean?" ”

Chirda who walked at the end endured it, and Su Mu, who was at the front, was full of schadenfreude.

Tang Xiaohao knew that the two men before and after were waiting to see his jokes, so he was directly anxious: "Don't laugh at the two of you, how can you say that Little Bell and Princess Baomeng are my wives, what's wrong with me saying some meat jokes in front of my own woman?" Isn't it possible? Jealous? ”

Bao Meng, who is extremely simple and extremely ignorant of this aspect, asks: "What does it mean to be a meat joke?" ”

The little bell naturally knew what the meat joke meant, so he also guessed that Tang Xiaohao was about to express the meaning before, so he stepped forward and kicked it.

Bao Meng was stunned for a moment, in her cognition, even if the little bell was Tang Xiaohao's woman, she was also a personal maid with a humble status, and she dared to raise her foot and kick it directly? You must know that the status of Huayuan women is far inferior to that of Rouyuan women.

The little bell whispered a general explanation to Bao Meng, Bao Meng's face immediately turned red, and after being shy, he was angry, and stepped forward to give Tang Xiaohao a kick.

At this moment, Childa couldn't hold back and began to laugh.

Bao Meng turned around and glared at Gelda, Childa immediately shut up and forbeared, although Su Mu didn't laugh so wildly, he still held back and trembled. At the same time, Su Mu also felt much more comfortable in his heart.

Su Mu, who grew up in Xuan, rarely laughed from the bottom of his heart, and moreover, on the premise that he had lost his martial arts and almost became a waste, he couldn't help but secretly glance back at Tang Xiaohao.

This colt is really different from other people I know. Su Mu sighed while thinking like this.

Everyone didn't notice that the watchman in front of him was always expressionless, and from time to time he would secretly turn his head and glance at it.

Finally, the watchman stopped in front of an inn with the "Grinding Iron Inn": "You guys will stay here tonight, the boss here has returned to the countryside and has not opened the door to do business, but I know the boss well, and he will help me take care of the key before leaving." ”

As he spoke, the watchman took out a key tied with a red rope and stepped forward to unlock the door and push open the door.

When the door opened, you were greeted by the dark lobby of the inn.

The watchman walked in with a lantern, took out a candlestick from behind the counter, lit it, placed it on a table, and said, "You guys rest, I'll go and see if there's anything to eat in the kitchen." ”

Tang Xiaohao and the others walked into the lobby, looked around, and found that this inn was quite large, it didn't look smaller than the Four Seas Inn in Shendu, and there were three floors in total, which should be regarded as the largest inn in Xinzheng County.

Su Mu walked around slowly, perceiving the surroundings, and found that there was still no breath of any living creatures, and he didn't know what was going on, but at least it could mean that there was no one else here.

Gilda stood beside Bao Meng at all times, grasping the hilt of the knife with one hand, keeping his eyes on the edge.

The little bell was more interested in the name of the inn: "What does the grinding iron of the Grinding Iron Inn mean?" ”

Bao Meng said on the side: "It should be taken from the allusion of the iron pestle sharpened into a needle, right?" That is to say, as long as you are determined and willing to work hard, no matter how difficult things are, you can succeed. ”

After speaking, Bao Meng sighed again, although some things can be achieved through hard work, but love is not.

Tang Xiaohao smiled evilly beside him: "Do you know? There is another meaning of grinding an iron pestle into a needle......"

Before he finished speaking, Tang Xiaohao saw Little Bell looking at him with a serious face, because Tang Xiaohao had already told Little Bell about another layer of meaning.

The little bell grabbed Tang Xiaohao's ear: "There is nothing else in your mind except those things?" ”

Tang Xiaohao endured the pain and looked at the little bell with affection: "And you." ”

The little bell said angrily: "Scumbag! ”

When the little bell let go of Tang Xiaohao, she realized that she was actually flirting with Tang Xiaohao by doing this, which would make Bao Meng, who was Tang Xiaohao's wife in name, very embarrassed, but Bao Meng was not embarrassed now, but full of sadness, naturally because she remembered Sang Luo.

Tang Xiaohao glanced at the little bell and hurriedly excused himself to leave: "I'll go to the kitchen to have a look." ”

Before Tang Xiaohao left, he specially handed the treasure chest to Su Mu, and deliberately said loudly: "Zhongguan Su, help me hold the box, if I lose it, I will ask you." Then he lowered his voice and said, "The fire rune gun is in the dark compartment at the bottom. ”

Su Mu knew that Tang Xiaohao naturally couldn't rest assured that Chierda, since Su Mu couldn't even hold a knife now, the fire talisman gun was the most suitable for him. This move also let Su Mu know that Tang Xiaohao trusted him, otherwise, he would not hand over the weapon he used for self-defense.

Tang Xiaohao had just not walked into the kitchen, but he smelled the fragrance, and then heard the sound of stir-frying. When he walked into the kitchen, he saw that the watchman was working alone in the kitchen, and he was very skilled.

Seeing Tang Xiaohao enter the kitchen, the watchman wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Wait a minute, soon." ”

Tang Xiaohao nodded silently, but realized that something was not quite right, because this person who played the watch was dressed as a showman, and he knew so much about things in the kitchen? You know, these Confucian students never go into the kitchen.

Tang Xiaohao deliberately asked: "Little brother, what year are you a showman?" ”

The watchman replied while busy working: "I am not a showman, although I have studied for a few years, but my family is poor, I can only learn some cooking skills from the master, except for the watch, most of the time I help in the inn kitchen, I dress up like this, just to remind myself, don't study hard in your spare time, and get famous." ”

Although it sounds like there is no flaw, Tang Xiaohao still feels strange, you must know that Tang Xiaohao also learned from the Tang Mansion chef Gongsun Fu, the imperial chef apprentice, and he knows very well that the skill of beating people is definitely not as simple as helping the cook, the method of cutting vegetables, the amount of oil used in stir-frying, and the oil temperature controlled are not so familiar overnight.

When you think about it, the only question is why there is no one here on the day of the prefectural festival. Also, why do the watchmen say that this is Wangzhuang and not Xinzheng County?

Taking advantage of the fact that the watchman continued to stir-fry, Tang Xiaohao also raised his own questions.

The watchman sighed and said: "Originally, this was the real Xinzheng County, during the Shunhe period, a plague broke out, and the people of Xinzheng County were almost dead, and a few years ago, that is, in the early years of Longding, the year when the new emperor ascended the throne, Liangcheng was too guarded to be gracious, and a new county seat was built next to the site, and we all moved from Liangcheng later." ”

There are three emperors from the Dachang Dynasty to Ji Chengying, the year name of the emperor of the Kai Dynasty is Dingyuan, and the year name after that is Shunhe, and the year name after Ji Chengying ascends the throne is Longding.

According to the legend of the beater, the original Xinzheng County was in a certain year of the reign of Emperor Shunhe broke out of the plague, the original Xinzheng County people died, and in the year of Ji Chengying's accession to the throne, Liangcheng Taishou rebuilt a new Xinzheng County next to the original Xinzheng County, and the people here are all migrated from Liangcheng.

Tang Xiaohao nodded and said: "The so-called county sacrifice is the meaning of the county sacrifice?" ”

The watchman smiled: "Yes, there will be seven days of county sacrifice every year, just to pay tribute to those who died in the old county town." The current new county seat is called Xinzheng County, and the old county seat, which is where we are now, is called Death Village, which is the death of death, and the reason why it is called the surname king is just to avoid it. ”

Tang Xiaohao chuckled in his heart when he heard this, and immediately: "Even if there is a plague, everyone will die, and after the plague, so many houses will be empty?" ”

The reason why Tang Xiaohao chuckled in his heart was because what the watchman said was contradictory to their position.

Tang Xiaohao pretended that nothing had happened, but continued to ask quietly, and the corner of his eye stared at the sharpened kitchen knife on the vegetable cutting pier next to him.