Chapter 53: The Post Station in Distress
More than half a month later.
Heavy snow has fallen in the north, and the official road leading to Hexi Town is covered with ice and snow, making it difficult to walk.
Yu Niang took out a pale cyan satin cloak with dark branches and cotton from the box and put it on Jiang Wanning.
"Why is it so cold in the north?" Yu Niang rubbed her hands and couldn't help but shiver again.
She was a girl who grew up in the south, and she couldn't stand it for the first time when she saw the cold of the north.
Jiang Wanning said in her heart: This year's winter seems to have come earlier than usual.
Lifting the corner of the curtain, the cold wind mixed with snowflakes immediately hit the face.
Seeing the guys who were escorting the car wearing hats and robes in the heavy snow, Jiang Wanning shouted: "Xiao Pan......"
Xiao Pan responded.
"What does the lady command?"
Jiang Wanning saw that his face was frozen purple.
"Find a place to stay, it's getting dark."
In fact, it was already dark, and it was already gloomy when it was snowing.
If she remembered correctly, there was a post station about five miles ahead.
Xiao Pan muttered in his heart, this place where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, don't think about the inn, I am very glad to find a broken temple.
It's all to blame for this heavy snowfall, otherwise I would have arrived in Hexi Town a long time ago.
Xiao Pan ran to find the shopkeeper Yang and conveyed the meaning of the lady, and the shopkeeper Yang said: "I can't go to Hexi Town today, so according to what the lady said, find a place to shelter from the rain." ”
After walking for more than half an hour, a few points of light finally came out of the dark night snow.
The crowd excitedly went straight to the light.
When I got closer, I saw that this was a post station.
Yang Xu went to ask if there were any vacancies?
The post keeper at the post station glanced at their team and asked, "Are you officials?" ”
"It's not."
"That's not good, we only receive the official family and the official family's family, and there are not many rooms here."
Yang Xu took out a silver ingot and stuffed it into Yicheng's hand: "There are women in the carriage, it is cold, please make it convenient." ”
Yi Cheng accepted the benefits and looked at the carriages parked at the door, and hesitated for a moment: "Okay, there are only two rooms left, and the rest of the people are crowded in the shop...... But I'm going to say it in the first place, if there are officials who come to stay later, you have to give up your room. ”
Yang Xu frowned, how can it be done?
"Leave us one anyway."
Yi Cheng said: "Come in first!" ”
"Thank you, thank you!" Shopkeeper Yang turned around and beckoned.
In the lobby of the post house, several braziers were lit, and it was hot, and more than a dozen tables were full of people.
There are all kinds of people, but there is a group of people who are particularly conspicuous.
They are not dressed as Daqi people, they speak in a lame and stiff Daqi official tone, making loud noises, as if there is no one around.
Chen Pingzhang threw a peanut into his mouth and withdrew his disdainful gaze.
"Obyss's dog mongrel, it's too arrogant."
It's really infuriating, after the fiasco of the Great Qi in the First Battle of Gubei three years ago, the lord and faction of the imperial court occupied the upper peak, and begged others not to beat us...... In the end, he signed the Gubei Treaty, which humiliated the country, ceded ten cities in the north to Dayuan, and paid Dayuan an annual tribute of 2 million taels of silver, silk, silk, tea, and porcelain.
Dayuan people come to Daqi to do business, enjoy all kinds of preferential treatment, and even have a higher status than Daqi officials, no one dares to offend them, otherwise they will go to Honglu Temple to complain.
It was the humility of Daqi that fueled the arrogance of the people of Dayuan.
I think that when Dayuan was beaten by the Marquis of Zhenbei and cried for his father, Dayuan envoys came to Daqi, and when they saw everyone, they were respectful, and they didn't dare to let go of a fart.
It's a pity that the Marquis of Zhenbei, who scared Dayuan the most, is gone, and no one can reproduce the feat of sweeping Dayuan.
Ji Yunchen took a sullen sip of wine and secretly swore that sooner or later, he would drive the people of Dayuan back to the desert.
The door to the lobby was pushed open, and a cold wind swept through, causing the heat in the lobby to cool down suddenly.
Everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to look.
I saw Yi Cheng lead a woman wearing a bib and a pale blue cloak to walk in, followed by two maids and an old woman.
Everyone didn't care much, thinking it was the daughter of an official family.
But Chen Pingzhang was stunned: "Brother Yunchen, what ...... That's Jiang Niangzi. ”
I didn't expect to see Jiang Wanning in this small station.
Where is she going? If you go back to Ningchuan, you will not go here.
Ji Yunchen squinted his eyes, also surprised.
Is she going to the capital?
As soon as Jiang Wanning entered the door, she saw the group of Dayuan people, and couldn't help but tighten the silk handkerchief in her hand, and a cold light flashed in her eyes.
Along the way, she had heard about the shameless behavior of many Dayuan people in Daqi.
They colluded with the government to harm the merchants, and dragged any girl they saw on the street to rape and commit adultery. The people sued the government, but the government did not dare to take care of them at all.
They were no longer satisfied with only harming the people of Great Qi in the north, and began to go deep into Great Qi to seize by force.
When she saw Ji Yunchen sitting in the corner, and Jiuli standing behind Ji Yunchen, Jiang Wanning's breath stagnated.
Why is Ji Yunchen here?
and the Lang Jun who was sitting next to Ji Yunchen with his back to her, looking like Chen Pingzhang.
Jiang Wanning quietly retracted her gaze and followed Yicheng upstairs.
However, there was a Dayuan man with a beard tied into a braid on his chin, stood up and staggered over, stopping Lin Ruoruo who was walking behind.
The pigtails smiled obscenely, and he reached out to touch Lin Ruoruo's face.
"The little lady is really handsome, at first glance, she is from the south, and the little lady in the south is the water spirit."
Lin Ruoruo had never encountered such a situation, and she took two steps back in a panic and dodged the dirty hand.
From south to north, it was not the first time she had seen the people of Dayuan, and she knew that the people of Dayuan could not be offended easily, so she panicked.
"What is the little lady hiding? Go with the master, let the master love you well. The tone of the pigtail beard became more and more frivolous, and he was very happy with it, and he actually stepped forward and dragged it.
Seeing this, Yang Xu, who came in later, let him be rude, and immediately stepped forward to pull Lin Ruoruo behind him, smiling shyly: "This master, you drank too much." ”
Seeing Yang Xu blocking it, Braided Hu was unhappy, revealing a fierce face: "Get out of ......"
In his opinion, Lin Ruoruo is just a servant, what's wrong with playing? He didn't tease her master, and he was already restrained.
Yang Xu's fist hidden in his sleeve was tight and loose, loose and tight, and he still had to suffer the anger of the people of Dayuan in his own Daqi land, how could he bear it?
But he had to endure it, there were about a dozen people from the Great Abyss here, all of them tall and big, and they were all sideways.
On his side, the six guys will have a little kung fu, Xiao Pan has the best skills, the problem is that they still have four female dependents to take care of.
Looking at the other people here, they are all dignified men, but they look like they don't care about themselves, eating their own meat and drinking their own wine, for fear that if they look at this side more, they will make the people of Dayuan unhappy.
Yang Xu weighed it again and again, gave up the idea of hard fighting, and smiled more humbly: "Master, don't be angry, my daughter is timid, I invited you to the wine and food today." ”
Braided Hu impatiently pushed Yang Xu away and grabbed Lin Ruoruo's hand: "Cowardly? I like to be timid, go, and go to drink with me. ”
Lin Ruoruo struggled: "Let go of me." ”
Yu Niang and Mama Wang dragged Lin Ruoruo to prevent her from being dragged away.
Seeing this, the other people of Dayuan also came up and wanted to pull Yu Niang.
What's more, they went straight to Jiang Wanning, Jiang Wanning made a scared appearance and hid in Yicheng's side, wanting to ask for help from Yicheng beside her.
When she accidentally touched Yicheng's wrist, Jiang Wanning obviously felt that he was wearing something on his wrist, the bracelet was not like a bracelet, there were pimples, and there was a slight sound.
And Yi Cheng was staring at those Dayuan people with extremely indifferent eyes, and when Jiang Wanning touched him, he seemed to be burned, and stepped back.
Seeing this, Jiang Wanning could only take advantage of the situation to fall and avoid the pull of the people of Dayuan.
The crisis is imminent.
But Jiang Wanning was not panicked.
She was sure someone would stop her.
Chen Pingzhang was about to get up as soon as he slapped his chopsticks, but was held down by Ji Yunchen.
Chen Pingzhang was stunned, could it be that Ji Yunchen was also afraid of these Dayuan people?
"Brother Yunchen, we can't ignore it."
Ji Yunchen patted him on the shoulder soothingly: "It's useless for you to go." ”
As he spoke, he stood up, and Jiuli followed.
Just when Mama Wang was picked up and thrown out by the people of Dayuan, the hands of the Dayuan man were about to take off Jiang Wanning's bib, and Yang Xu and Xiao Pan couldn't bear it anymore and decided to do it.
A cold rebuke sounded...... Stop it.
(End of chapter)