The road is muddy, and you walk barefoot. The three-flowered cat also followed Song You's side, taking small broken steps, and every foot poked in the mud was a small hole, and the small footprints like plum blossoms in the hole were there.

Mud put a pair of shoes on her feet.

"Yikes!" Sanhua Cat blinked her eyes, it was Song You who raised her feet and splashed the muddy water on her face, so she ran diagonally with small steps, a little away from Song You, and continued to move forward together.

There are people in front of them. After the rain, the city was gradually seen in the morning mist. Song You suddenly stopped.

The three-flowered cat stopped with him, glanced up at him, and followed his gaze, looking at the people in the distance suspiciously.

Several thatched houses, with a front field and a back soil, next to a cherry tree. A couple of kids are stealing cherries. Cherries are known

"The first branch of a hundred fruits" is only in March, but it has already matured, and the strings of red pearls between the green leaves are full of branches.

Two children climbed up the tree, the other two were pulling their clothes under the tree, and one child was in charge of watching the wind.

When the Taoist stopped and looked at them, they looked at the Taoist as well. It was this negligence, and a figure came out of the grass hut behind him, and the child who looked at the wind did not notice it.

"What a baby!" A shout startled the children. The three under the tree turned around and ran, and the two on the tree also jumped down from the tree in a hurry, but fortunately there were no shoes to wear, otherwise they would have to run away.

The old man chased after him with a cane as a stick. Song You looked at this scene with a smile. I suddenly remembered the countryside in my previous life, and it was the same when I was a child, and when the melons and fruits were ripe, it was the time for children to show their skills.

The right and wrong consequences of this behavior are not studied here, but later it was as if a different world had been changed, and there were no more children to steal the fruit from the trees, and even the birds that came to peck at the fruit were much less, and only the old man was left sitting under the fruit tree, lamenting the time and the years.

A child ran up the road and ran past him. The old man didn't chase too far, only stopped scolding. The children shrank their heads, ashamed, and did not dare to answer, avoiding the eyes of the old man and the eyes of this person, and only quietly glanced at the three-flowered cat beside the Taoist.

Unexpectedly, the Taoist smiled and begged them for cherries to eat. There was a bold child, who came over with cherries, stretched out his black dirty hand, grabbed a large handful, thought about it, and loosened his fingers again, leaking some of them, and then put them in the hands of the Taoist.

"Thank you."

"This is the cat you fed?"

"It's the cat with me."

"Doesn't it run?"

"She's with me."

"Where are you going?"

"Nanhua County."

"It's up ahead."

"Thank you."

"Hahaha......" The children swarmed and walked on a path, walking on the mud with unusually brisk steps, jumping as they went.

Song You looked down at the cherry in his hand. It had just rained, and it was still wet. It doesn't have to be removed from rain or dew, and it doesn't have to be washed whether it's dirty or not, but it is passed on to the mouth.

Perfectly ripe cherries, even pinched on the fingertips have to be carefully pinched, put in the palm of the palm to feel they tremble, put it in the mouth, you don't have to force, gently sip it and it breaks.

It's not sour, it's not very sweet, it's full of juice and cherry fragrance, and you almost can't feel the presence of the flesh, which is very refreshing.

Song You naturally didn't forget Sanhua Niangniang: "Do you want to eat Sanhua Niangniang?" ”

"Cats don't eat fruit."

"It's called a cherry."

"Cherry~"

"Do you want to eat?" The three-flowered cat wanted to say that cats don't eat fruit, but suddenly remembered that they had eaten fruit, so they thought about it and asked, "Is it delicious?" ”

"Delicious."

"Is it the same as hawthorn?"

"Of course not."

"Is there anything special?"

"What's special about it is that it's a cherry."

"It's a stolen cherry."

"I asked for it."

"They stole it."

"yes."

"That's not right!"

"Of course, Sanhua Niangniang should not do such a thing." Song You sipped the cherry, and only one seed was left, so he spit it out to the side of the road, and continued to say to the Sanhua cat: "But Sanhua Niangniang is upright for cats, right and wrong are clear, and there is no need to remind you if you want to come." ”

"That's right!"

"Do you want to eat it?"

"Don't eat it!"

"It's delicious."

"Taste one, then."

"Is it delicious?"

"It's not as delicious as a mouse."

"Forget it."

"You seem to be very powerful...... one person and one cat slowly walked towards Nanhua County, still stepping on the mud, but one person and one cat didn't care.

If the mind is quiet, it will not be annoying, and if the heart is pure, it will not be dirty. …… The county town of Nanhua is built on a flat land, the streets are paved with stone slabs, except for a short section of the road that has just entered the city and there is some mud, the rest of the place is very easy to walk, plus it is not big, it does not take long to go around.

Song You asked two inns, found one that was more satisfactory, and booked a room for five days first. The shopkeeper found water and washed their feet.

Song You rinsed himself first, and asked the shopkeeper next to him: "When I first came to Nanhua, I am not familiar with the place, I don't know what delicious and interesting things are here?" Or a taboo to watch out for? ”

"Where is the gentleman from?"

"Xuzhou is coming."

"We are next to Xuzhou, in fact, it's not much the same, to say special, our soup cakes here are very good, but the small shop has them, and they are also doing very well. In addition, our southern painting is rich in cloth, and the cloth of our southern painting is the best in the whole Pingzhou and even Dayan, and the gentleman can buy some if he wants. The shopkeeper pondered,

"If you want to talk about something interesting, I can't think of it for a while."

"What's the no-no? I'm afraid that the newcomer will be offended by something. ”

"Hey, what's so taboo! Everyone in the world is human, not much the same, no matter where you are, be careful, don't expose your wealth, don't go out at night, and walk around when you meet people. ”

"What the store says is very reasonable."

"Would you like a bowl of soup cakes?"

"How much?"

"Twelve Wen, a soup of bones."

"Have a bowl."

"Okay!" Song You washed his feet, and as soon as he stretched out his hand to the three-flowered cat, the three-flowered cat obediently lifted his foot and stretched it out to him.

"Heh......" Song You shook his head, carefully washed it, and didn't miss it in the flesh pad: "I called Sanhua Niangniang on horseback, and I don't have to step on my legs full of mud, look at it, I have it all on my body." ”

"It's just mud." The three-flowered cat said as she let him wash it. Although she didn't resist, she had to stare intently, even when she was washing her hind feet, she had to turn her head and stare with her own eyes, not looking.

"Sir, give you a rub." The shopkeeper also brought them foot cloths.

"Thank you." After wiping it clean, put on shoes and socks, put things back in the upstairs room, and when I came down, I went out and cut three taels of raw meat to feed the cats.

Soup cakes are noodles, which are varied, wide and thin, thick and thin, and most of them are called soup cakes. The soup cake here is a thin and wide noodle, like a paddle noodle or trouser belt noodle, without much other seasoning, just a bowl of broth, spread out in the soup cake, sprinkled with green onions on top.

"Sir, use it slowly."

"Excuse me."

"Huh?"

"Yesterday, I was in a hurry, and it rained, and my luggage was wet, I wonder if it is convenient for washing and drying clothes here?"

"Does Mr. want to wash it himself or ask Huanyi Niang to help wash it?"

"Wash it yourself."

"You can wash it in the backyard, and the drying is also there, and there are many hemp ropes, as long as the gentleman sees the idle, just put it on it. It's just that Mr. pays a lot of attention, although it is not easy to be stolen, but if you lose the small shop, you will not be able to compensate. "The shopkeeper smiled,

"It's just that the little old man has been sitting here, and the people who come in and out can also see it, and they will help you pay attention."

"Thank you." Song You had already picked up the chopsticks and ate the soup cake. The soup stock is thinned with noodles, and the taste is like that anyway, so there is not much to say.

This side is very tough, thin and wide, and has an excellent taste, which deserves the word "specialty". Seeing that the shopkeeper was sitting at the door of the store, not far from here, Song You asked casually, "Does the shopkeeper know that there is a Li Daguan in the city?" ”

"Which Li Daguan?"

"The very imposing one."

"Little Lao'er, how do you know ......" The shopkeeper obviously lowered his voice a little. It's not necessarily how terrible that person is, it's more likely that the shopkeeper is a habit of dealing with people, that is, ordinary neighbors, as long as they don't have good words, will subconsciously lower their voices.

Song You said while eating: "Yesterday, I met that Li Daguan on the road, and when he saw that I was alone, he took some money from me, saying that it was an emergency for gambling money, and asked me to come to the city today to find him to get it." I know that this money may not have been borrowed from me, but it is indeed almost exhausted, so I want to ask if I can ask the Li official to recover this money, and whether it will be a hardship. ”

"Don't think about it, sir." The shopkeeper said,

"If there are other witnesses, it is still possible to report to the official."

"That Li Daguan is very vicious?"

"......" the shopkeeper sat in with a bench and whispered, "The one you are talking about is tall and big, with a mole at the corner of his eye?" ”

"Exactly."

"That's not easy to mess with."

"How?"

"It's hard to say, it's hard to say......"

"That Li Daguan has already obtained my wealth, so it is impossible to harm my life again, right?"

"Not really! It is easy to harm people's lives, so is there still a royal law? The shopkeeper said,

"But that's a bully, rich and powerful, tall and powerful, there are many fox friends and dog friends, and he has other skills, if you annoy him, you will have to suffer some hardships, and you will be light."

"Tell me more about it."

"What's the ...... to talk about"

"I've got three pieces of silver here."

The "......" shopkeeper sat down in front of Song You with a bench: "That Li Daguan's family lives in the west of the city, he was originally born in a broken household, and later he became a bit of a bully in the city, and now he is a famous bully in the city, and he is the best at bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and many people are either afraid of him or annoyed him." If you are powerful or have other abilities, he may not dare to do anything to you. But when Mr. first arrived, if he had any other ability, he didn't say anything, if he didn't, the money he lost was not much, it would be regarded as being stolen, otherwise, Li Daguan and those under him really didn't dare to beat you to death, but they could embarrass you, and I was afraid that I would suffer a lot of guilt. ”

"Have you ever killed someone?"

"I haven't heard of it, but after doing this kind of thing for a long time, how can it be better than harming people's lives?"

"I've heard that there's a great immortal with some agility."

"They all say that."

"That's the rumor."

"Yes, it's a rumor."

"I like to hear rumors the most."

"Whether we paint in the south, or the counties next to it are like this, there are always people who quietly offer some side gods, saying that they are more spiritual than those in the temple." The store itself was quieter, and suddenly it was quieter.

"These bullies in our city basically have a person named Sensitive Daxian, and I don't know where they are, in short, with this Daxian, many nobles don't want to offend them easily."

"Elaborate."

"That's all I know."

"Tuk tuk ......" the silver rattled on the table. The shopkeeper immediately showed an uncomfortable expression: "Mr. is not here to ask for money, is he?" ”

"I want to ask him to do good."

"I'm afraid it's not easy to persuade."

"It's not persuasion."

"That's ......"

The "Tuk Tuk ......" shopkeeper looked uncomfortable again, squinting at the small piece of silver. It's really bad to gossip.

But what can be done?