A group of people gathered around the stove, eating beef with chopsticks in one hand and nibbling on steamed buns brought by the Chen couple in the other.

The woman is a Jianghu person, she has always been open, and she has no scruples about meat, and she only eats meat at this time.

Chen Han's family was a little restrained at first, after all, only steamed buns were produced, and the gentleman and the woman were already kind to themselves, and now they have to cook for their own family, so they really can't help it. However, Song You's cooking skills are really ahead of this era, and the food is current, and the constraints are a little less.

Song You's craftsmanship really doesn't have anything to say.

Not to mention this era, it is the previous life, the seasoning is so diverse, the ingredients are rich and easy to obtain, and the information exchange is so convenient, the level of cooking across the country is still uneven, and there is no shortage of food depressions.

Everyone is reluctant to admit that the food in their province is not good, but most people agree that people in some provinces are better at cooking.

Not to mention this era.

Song You even spent a lot of money to buy spices, these days it is mainly the rich who often use spices for cooking, and the common people even have to save salt, how can they be so particular?

"Hiccup~"

The woman drank the soup cleanly, and the Chen couple hurriedly stepped forward and took the initiative to scrub the pot.

"Let's go together?"

The woman glanced at Song You with slanted eyes: "I already knew each other, but now I have eaten and stopped by the way, if I don't go together, and wait for the next road to meet again and again, do you say hello again and again?" ”

"Reasonable."

Song You also nodded and agreed.

When they hit the road again, one person became six.

Mr. and Mrs. Chen took their children back to their hometown to see the old man, but the child's foot strength was not good, and he walked much slower than before.

The woman's personality is also very out-of-the-box.

Just met, just got along, saw that there was still a little calm, the peers had been walking for a long time, maybe they couldn't hold it back, so they showed a naughty and hyperactive nature-

Sometimes she ran to talk to the Sanhua cat, sometimes looked up and down Song You's horse, sometimes teased the children of the Chen family, sometimes rode her horse and lay on her stomach in a daze, sometimes jumped on the boulder on the side of the road and looked at the road ahead, sometimes fell alone to the back and cut grass to play, and when the children of the Chen family were tired, they hugged one and sat on her horse, and she was also a kind person.

From her, Song You saw the cute side of the Jianghu people.

In these years, the people have lived hard, girls marry early, boys are in charge early, and everyone shows a maturity that is crushed by the burden of life, and this kind of character may only be found in the rivers and lakes.

It has to be the rivers and lakes of this world.

In the afternoon, I encountered another bandit.

The woman is a person who pays attention to the rivers and lakes, and when she encounters the rivers and lakes, she naturally can't retreat, so she immediately rushes ahead and goes forward to negotiate.

This process is really interesting in Song You's opinion-

When you meet, you will give up your hands, say hard, lower your figure, and report to your home, so that is the rivers and lakes.

Those thieves can't let her come forward to talk, they have to use some hands and feet, and words are tested, and in the eyes of the Jianghu people, this seems to have become a rule, so they don't feel offensive or provocative.

When you deal with them all one by one, it means that you are indeed the same kind of person, and it also shows that you do have the ability to talk to them on an equal footing, and then there is a possibility of negotiation.

This time of year is also special.

The Liujiang Conference is close at hand, and Anqing is less than a hundred miles away, and I don't know how many people from the rivers and lakes have gathered.

In normal times, even if they are famous Jianghu people, these mountain bandits may not be easy to let go. Since you are single-handed, you have to leave something behind. However, at this time, did any of the descendants of the famous sect come here alone to attend the meeting? Don't give enough face, don't say that a group of people are surging to discuss the law, I'm afraid that other people in the rivers and lakes will listen to it and come to have a good time.

At least the gang of bandits encountered today is smart.

But the woman is not alone.

I heard the thief head pointing behind him and asking, "Who are those people?" There isn't much oil and water here, and the woman just passed by me and waited for the mountain, so do you have to take a few people away? ”

"That's my uncle and aunt, nephew and niece, as for that man, hey, it's very bitter, what do you compare with him?"

"Really?"

"I was sent by Xishan to Liujiang to participate in the meeting, and the elders and brothers of the division went to Anqing, if I didn't have relatives to pick me up, what would I do in Lingbo County, where birds don't?"

"The Xishan faction is in Yizhou, why did your uncle and aunt come here?"

"They are all hard-working people, aren't they looking for a way to live?" The woman glanced at the group of bandits, and sighed again, "It's all the heroes, if there is no way to live under the mountain, how can they run to the mountain?" ”

Regardless of whether this is true or not, it really speaks to the hearts of the bandits.

How can the grass be so chic?

Cutting the road and robbing money, you have to get some blood, the sin is deep, how can you sleep so well at night? Every year, the officers and soldiers have to cut off a stubble every time, and who knows if it will not be their turn this year?

Everyone looked at each other for a while, but still arched their hands.

"Woman, please leave ......"

"Thank you for not mentioning much, there will be a period later!"

The woman also gave up with them, and then she turned back and led the people through.

Song You passed by slowly, just thoughtfully.

What the woman said is true and false, there is still truth and falsehood, and it also reveals the helplessness of life in these years. And her words and deeds, seemingly copying the etiquette of the rivers and lakes, one board and one glance, think about it carefully, whether it is the respect given at the beginning or the deterrence of the teacher inadvertently revealed later, or the final heart-to-heart emotion, combined with each other, there is this easiest way to pass the test.

If force is used, there will be no trouble and bloodshed.

It's hard to say if you win or lose.

"This woman."

"Huh? Call me? ”

"Who else?"

"Hey! Not satisfied? ”

"You seem to prefer a woman."

"How do you know?"

"I can see it."

"How do you see that?"

"Expression, tone."

"You ...... man"

When the woman heard that this was what she had said to him last night, she grinned, and then asked:

"What do you call me?"

"I want to hear this from the mouth of the heroine."

"What are you listening to?"

"Even if you travel the world, how can you miss the rivers and lakes."

"It makes sense." The woman nodded, in approval, and said with a smile, "But this is not something that can be said in a sentence or two." ”

"I'm afraid it's going to be late tomorrow in Anqing."

"Ten cents."

"Whoa......

Song You took out a small handful of money from his arms and counted out ten cents.

The woman took it and began to speak.

Song You listened quietly and sorted it out in his mind.

Jianghu is a big concept in ancient books, as opposed to the word "finite", which means all, infinite.

Later, after Buddhism was introduced to the eastern soil, Buddhist monks had the need to preach and communicate, and often walked in the land of three rivers and two lakes, which was called walking the rivers and lakes.

Later, this concept was extended and amplified, and gradually it no longer belonged to the Buddhist monks, but to the whole world. At this time, it has become a word opposite to "temple" and "official mansion", although it is not as big as the rivers and lakes in ancient books, but it is also a big word.

Monks and Taoists are rivers and lakes, and merchants and husbands are also rivers and lakes.

The bandits and bandits are rivers and lakes, and the people in the city are also rivers and lakes.

The folk gangs are rivers and lakes, and the salt freight is also the rivers and lakes.

Even mountain hermits are considered rivers and lakes.

The rivers and lakes are all kinds of things in the world, and the people are warm and cold, and the major gangs, fighting, killing and killing only account for a very small part of them.

If you want to talk about the forces of the rivers and lakes, they are also full of flowers.

It's just that most of them are not like martial arts novels, all of them practice martial arts and teach martial arts, as if the purpose of existence and the way of continuation is to teach good fighters. Martial arts are one of the tools to help eat, but martial arts cannot be eaten directly as food, and the main purpose of the establishment of these forces is to make money, or to help themselves earn better money.

There are dart games that mainly live by darts.

There was the Cao Gang and the Salt Gang, which were initially formed spontaneously by laborers, sailors, and smugglers to protect their own interests.

There are local gangs, each with its own way of making money.

There are Taoist temples that have been established through faith, such as some Taoist temples that do not learn magic and martial arts, or learn a little bit of the same, and some sects that are established under the banner of certain gods or even illegal religions at all.

There are also martial arts mountain gates that mainly focus on martial arts and earn money by recruiting disciples to teach martial arts.

Some princes and generals will raise some Jianghu sects for different purposes, and even some Jianghu sects are not correct in blood, with the shadow of the people of the Western Regions or the people of Saibei.

It's just that the rivers and lakes are sinister, the laws are not thorough, and there are demons and ghosts, if you want to walk the rivers and lakes, in addition to understanding the rules, you also need some martial arts to be your own capital.

Xishan faction is located in Yizhou, the mountain gate is 300 miles away from Yidu, at the foot of the snow mountain, relying on the prosperity of Yizhou's economy and culture in recent hundreds of years, it is a big faction on the rivers and lakes. According to this woman, it is one of the largest forces in the rivers and lakes, and her disciples are famous for their martial arts.

However, walking the rivers and lakes, if it is not necessary, few people use knives to kill.

Can be reasonable or reasonable.

Just like these bandits, in the words of a woman, most of the thieves in the world are evildoers, and if you count them, there is no shortage of innocent people. But after all, human life is greater than the sky, such a large court sentence of death must still be reported to the central government, and then determined by the Son of Heaven himself, the crime of murder is divided into many parts, everyone shares it equally, so that they can feel at ease, who is willing to easily harm people's lives?

And those who usually come out to run the rivers and lakes, which one is not bitter and which one is not difficult, there are still families and children, and some quarrels will kill people, and the sin can be not light.

This is a common idea among the Jianghu people in recent years.

Song You pondered as he listened.

Regardless of right and wrong, just the common ideas and concepts of the Jianghu people in this era are more or less a corner of the times, which is enough for him to appreciate and harvest.

In the afternoon of the next day, we arrived at Gudu.

It is the place where Song You got off the boat before.

Chen Hangong respectfully said to Song You and the woman: "Thank you for the help of the two benefactors on this way, there are dozens of miles of mountain roads to Anqing, and the waterway is not necessarily faster, but it is much more comfortable, it is better for the two benefactors to go up with us on the waterway, under the Anqing ferry, our couple will pay some money, although it is not much, it is also a reward." ”

The woman raised her eyes and glanced at Song You:

"How do you choose?"

"Thank you Chen Gong for your kindness, but in the next place, I came by water, and if I go to Anqing, I should take the land route." Song You replied.

"Same as I thought!"

The woman smiled and hugged her fist at Chen Han: "Don't say kind words, the mountains are high and the road is far away, goodbye to the rivers and lakes, don't pass by, if I am down-and-out one day, I will pass by your door and entertain you." ”

"This villain will never forget."

Chen Han said and gave them a big salute again.

"Walk fast, go ......"

The woman did not stop him from saluting, but accepted it calmly, and only waved her hand again and again, urging him to go quickly.