Chapter 71: Parallel Guide
In early spring, the weather is still cold, but there is already a little greenery between the sky and the earth.
The villagers who have survived the cold winter have finally come out of their houses and started to prepare for the spring ploughing of the new year in the fields.
The number of merchants coming and going in the city has gradually increased, and the smoke has become more and more intense.
The soldiers who collect taxes at the gate of the city cautiously keep an eye on the objects entering the city, choosing the targets who can receive rewards or extortion, and making their pockets a little bulging.
On the official road, a few horses from a distance came slowly, approaching the city, and the soldiers swept their eyes casually, and they knew that this was a guest from the gate, and they were all military horses.
This group of fighters doesn't have a good thing, they don't talk about oil and water, and they beat and scold at every turn, so they have to be carefully served.
The strong man at the head asked loudly under the disgusted gaze of the soldiers:
"What is this?"
Junding squeezed out a smile on his face, nodded and said, "Back to the military master, this is Mengzhou City." ”
"Mengzhou?" The strong man was stunned, "Didn't you run to Jingbei Road?" ”
Immediately, he turned his head sharply to look at an attendant behind him, and in a fit of rage, he raised his horsewhip in his hand, and whipped him wildly, and cursed in his mouth:
"Thief Bird!"
"Good road you lead!"
"Let's go from Jingdong East Road, Shengsheng to Jingbei North Road, and dare to say to a certain person, have you been to Kyoto?"
The attendant did not dare to fight back, and with his head in his hands, he was beaten hard, and only shouted:
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, beware of being angry!"
"The villain used to follow the caravan, but he only remembered this road, the caravan has always bought and sold all the way, and it is inevitable that there will be a detour."
"We've just gone over, and we'll go back to Kyoto by another way!"
This group of people was none other than Li Gui, who only stayed on Mangdang Mountain for two days before they said goodbye and left.
I thought that I would go west from Shanzhou, and it would not be long before I arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, but who knew that the eighty old lady was a child, and this guide was actually a parallel import, and after taking Li Gui and others all the way around, he ran in the wrong direction, and somehow, he ran to this Mengzhou.
"You flock of birds!"
"I ran to Shanzhou before, but I met a few good brothers, but now I have walked through!"
"Yizhou to Kyoto, but the journey of one month, Shengsheng was walked by you for two months, and it has not yet arrived."
"If it ruins grandpa's big thing, grandpa will cut off your head with an axe!"
Ghost Li was extremely annoyed, and in order to take care of this poor equestrian guide, he walked much slower on the road, and as a result, he didn't walk on a straight road.
Although most of them were able to reach Kyoto in the end, during this time, the second uncle didn't know how much hardship he would endure.
As long as he thought of this, Ghost Li wanted to kill someone.
The guide also knew that he was at a loss, so he didn't dare to dodge at all, and he was beaten and scolded, just begging for mercy.
The road was not very peaceful, and the things on Mangdang Mountain were just fine, and no one died in the end, but the thieves he met later, Li Gui was not so polite.
This guide saw the group of guys in front of him with his own eyes, killing people without blinking, just like chopping melons and vegetables, and never relenting.
I thought this was an official army, but after the incident at Mangdang Mountain, the guide knew that this was a group of thieves.
However, he has already boarded the thief ship, and he has no chance to get off the ship.
Li Ghost ignored him anymore, turned his head and asked the doorman: "I go to Kaifeng Mansion here, but how should I go?" ”
The guide held his head and carefully interjected: "When you get here, the villain will know the path, just go east and you will reach Tokyo." ”
Li Ghost ignored him and only looked at the soldier.
The soldier shook his head with a wry smile and said:
"The villain has never left this place, how do you know?"
"The villain only knows, go out from the east gate and go all the way to the east, which is Zhengzhou, and the general will ask again over there!"
Li Ghost thought about it, Zhengzhou and Kaifeng are not both from Henan, and the two families are quite close, so he asked:
"On the eastern outskirts of the city, is there a restaurant on the road?"
"Back to the general's words, more than ten miles outside the east gate, there is a place to go, called 'Happy Forest', Shandong and Hebei merchants come there to do business, there are 100 big inns, 30 or 20 gambling houses, there are a lot of tricks to play."
As soon as he heard this, Ghost Li knew where he was going, and immediately threw out a handful of copper coins as a reward, and turned his horse to the east of the city.
More than ten miles away, but between the teas.
I saw a forest in the distance, and there were faint noises of human voices, neighing of cows and horses, blowing and singing, etc., and I knew the place.
Sure enough, around the woods, I saw that there was a lot of traffic here, and all kinds of merchants and people were coming in and out, so that there was a prosperous scene, even more than Mengzhou City.
A few people slowed down their horses and slowly moved forward with the flow of people, and soon arrived in the forest.
I saw that at the T-junction in front, a big hotel, in front of the eaves stood a lookout pole, on which hung a wine wangzi, written in four big characters: "Heyang Fengyue".
When I turned around, there was a green balustrade in front of the door, and there were two pinned gold flags, each with five gold characters, and it was written: "The drunken world is big, and the sun and moon are long in the pot." ”
A wall of meat cases, anvils, and knives, and a wall of steamed buns for cooking firewood.
There were three large wine jars inside, half of which were buried in the ground, and each of them contained half a jar of wine.
In the middle of the cabinet sat a young woman, presumably the bartender's Hun.
There were seven or eight bartenders in the building, twenty or thirty guests, and three or two little ladies who sang songs.
When Li Ghost saw this, he knew that it was the property of the Golden Eyes of the Earth Fuxing, and the one that was later taken away by Jiang Menshen, immediately stopped in front of the store.
When the bartender in the store saw it, he hurriedly grabbed it out and greeted him with a smile.
"A few guest officers, please come in and take a seat."
Li Ghost and a few people got off the horse and entered the store, and found a window seat to sit down.
The bartender laid down the vegetables, fruits and wine, and asked, "How many guest officers, what do you eat?" ”
"If you have a local character, start with a copy of each. There is very good wine and good meat, but they can send it, and they will not have much money. ”
The bartender smiled, and went down to the kitchen to order, and the woman brought up another jar of wine, poured wine for everyone, and asked with a smile:
"How many guests do you want to listen to the music?"
"There are a few prostitutes from Kyoto, passing by here, earning some entanglements, and staying in the store, where they can serve the officials with wine."
Originally, Li Ghost was not very interested in these, but suddenly it occurred to him that since he crossed over, he had not seen the wind and moon of this world, which was really a pity, so he might as well listen to it first, how big the gap is with the young ladies of later generations, so he simply nodded and responded:
"Then call someone who is good at singing, and if you sing well, you will have to give a reward."
The woman smiled and said, "Please rest assured, this was once the top brand in Fengyue Field, if it weren't for old age and decay, and there was nothing to rely on, it would not have been reduced to this small restaurant to sing." ”
She turned and walked out of the restaurant, and after a while, she re-entered with the other two.
A woman in her thirties in front of her, and a man who couldn't tell her age behind her, with a skewer clapper in her hand and a fishing drum in her arms, all came to the front.
Look at the woman, although she does not have a very good countenance, she also has some attractive colors.
According to the eyes of later generations, this woman is just mature and not old, but in this era of Raleigh control, this can already call herself an "old woman".
The two saluted, and the man dragged a stool and sat down, and began to play music, while the woman took her handkerchief and began to sing in a pretentious manner.
This woman has a very good voice and sings very well.
But like most performers, all the effort is to throw the pretty eyes to the blind.
Li Guishang could barely hear that this seemed to be Liu Yong's words, but the others were completely ducks listening to thunder.
However, throughout the ages, most of the people who listen to music have not been concerned about the song, but about the person who sings it.
There is a wife on this cottage, these guards have tasted femininity, this time they followed Ghost Li out, and they have never been to a prostitute along the way, and they have long been suffocated.
Now when I see a woman, my eyes are almost green.
Several people ate meat, drank wine in large bowls, and occasionally aimed a pair of thieves' eyes at the woman, and entered the meat for three points.
The woman and the man behind her only didn't know what to do, and they were wholeheartedly begging for a living here.
Until a certain man couldn't hold back and reached out and grabbed the woman.