Chapter Twenty-Three: The Old Way of the Elder Guard
"Swordsman?" The old Taoist priest raised his head and said with a smile: "What kind of swordsman, is a Taoist priest who can use swords, what kind of person is your father, the boss of Yunzhou, I am a swaggering and deceitful stinky old Taoist, thanks to your father's care, I haven't starved to death." ”
"When I was young, I still had some skills to bluff people, but now that I'm old, I can fly a few mountain rabbits with flying knives, it's really just an old Taoist priest I'm lucky. ”
The words of the old Taoist priest are credible and listen to the story, and the untrustworthy is like this kind of mouth full of inaccurate numbers, which are all repeated in the same old tune. Li Wei'an was not led astray, the rabbit meat was cooked, cut off some bites, only felt that the crispy rabbit skin was full of mouth, and the stomach was not hungry a lot, knowing that the old Taoist priest was inconvenient to cut the meat, he also cut a piece and handed it over, the old Taoist opened his mouth and tilted his body, and chewed a few bites of the rabbit meat. There are a lot of mountain rabbits, there are a few of them have not yet gone to hair, the old Taoist priest feels more and more that there is less wine, and there is no taste for meat, he is a Taoist priest who has no wine and is not happy, how can he be without wine?
It's still good to Li Mansion, sitting on the wealth of the two states, eating, drinking, and having fun all day long, and how much wine and meat you want, all of which are the best grain sake.
Thinking about it, when Li Wei'an's face was drooling, was it rabbit meat? I really don't know what this old Taoist priest thinks all day long.
"Old Taoist, the knife cuts some holes are more flavorful. ”
"I don't know if I want you to say, don't I have a lot of skills, old Taoist?"
"You give me the knife, and I'll cut it. ”
"Then cut some of my one, sprinkle more salt and eat it, and it will be fragrant. The old Taoist priest said vaguely.
The tall black horse raised his neck and looked at it, then lowered his head and gnawed on the turf of an inch high, the fire burned the flying ashes, and some sparks would float high, and the fire was half a man high, dispelling the chill on the two of them.
In the distance, there was the neighing of the horse team, the sound of hooves stepping on the ground, and the old Taoist priest had a rabbit leg in his mouth and looked at it with Li Wei'an. It was a group of people, there were not many people, more than 30 people led a few old and thin ponies from afar, and there were men and women in more than 30 people.
"It's not like the Liao people, and it doesn't look like the Qiang people in the west. ”
Li Wei'an approached the old Taoist priest and said, sitting quietly with a long sword in his hand, the old Taoist looked at the team, swallowed the meat in his mouth, and said to Li Wei'an: "Let's eat ours, what do you care about so many things? ”
Li Wei'an took out his temperament as a small protector in Yunzhou City, and slapped the old Taoist priest on the back fiercely, making the old Taoist priest choke on the meat in his throat, and it was uncomfortable to hold his own throat with both hands, and it took a while to go down his stomach, and he couldn't help but glare at the slippery young boy.
These 30 or so people are wrapped in thick cotton shirts, their faces are different from those of the Central Plains, with wide foreheads and white skin, a few small dolls are like porcelain dolls, and the cold wind blows the little faces, and the dolls are swallowing saliva and being led away by their own adults.
So many people, it seems, are refugees from nowhere, their clothes are shabby, and many of them have nothing to eat, so that the faces of several men are a little yellow.
"Mother, Yu'er is tired and has a stomachache. ”
A male doll suddenly opened his mouth and said, there were tears in the corners of his eyes, and he was speaking in the Central Plains, his hair was messily glued into a puff, and suddenly four or five little dolls screamed, and they looked at the roast rabbit on the fire on the side, and the smell of meat made the stomach hurt even more, and all the adults looked at a strong man who led the team, smacking their lips, their lips were cracked, and in some places they were also broken, and there were blood scabs, all of which meant to rest.
"Come here! take this half. The speaker's voice was arrogant, and he shouted at them.
People turned around, it was a young man holding a long sword next to the fire, and pointed at the roast rabbit on the grill with the sword in the sheath, his face was too delicate, his face was white and tender, he had a pair of good-looking phoenix eyes, thin lips, and some fox appearance, so that everyone still felt that it was a little girl, and only then did he know that it was a young man who was only a teenager, with an Adam's apple, and a good-looking face.
"It's... This son, but really?" The leading man hurriedly approached and asked, his eyes were still staring at the rabbit meat, in front of him was an old Taoist priest who looked at more than sixty and a young man who looked fifteen or sixteen, the young man still had a smile on his face, his thin lips were bent into an arc, and he also held a sword more than three or four feet long in his hand, the scabbard and hilt were embedded with gold and white, the sky was dark, and it burned red in the firelight, like ivory and gold.
"It's good to walk the rivers and lakes and do a good deed. The old Taoist priest said, with meat still stuffed in his mouth, and he could barely hear what he was saying. I don't know who he said to him, the young man didn't care, the man walked in timidly, took the rabbit meat from the fire, and the half of the rabbit meat was a little hot in his hand, only to find that he pulled out a hot iron sword, his mouth opened, and he didn't say anything.
The old Taoist priest spoke: "Gongzi is kind-hearted, you can rest assured to take it, this is just the old Taoist priest's Dao sword, which was originally used to drive away ghosts and subdue demons, and it has been broken for many years." ”
The man then looked carefully, and sure enough, it was a broken sword, the old one was not the same, it was not a good short sword, the blade was wasted, and the potholes were completely decayed, and many places had lost the iron color, and there was still a little rust on one side of the handle, and there was still a line of words and gossip iron head on the handle.
The man put his mind at ease, and sure enough, it was a rotten Dao sword that had been broken, and what was written on it was: Chengsu Guan, Wei Zhengjue.
"Thank you, Chief. The man bowed down and said, using the etiquette of the Central Plains Song Land, perhaps thinking that they were Song people.
The old Taoist priest didn't care, the man put his heart down, went back with half a rabbit, and handed the scorched black rabbit meat to the competing dolls.
It's not the first time Li Wei'an has seen outsiders, just like the Northern Nu'er in the Northern Regions, they all look different from the Central Plains, but at this moment, they really look like the Central Plains.
They sat cross-legged with their wives and children, some of the dolls were just able to walk, and some were still swaddling, lying in the arms of the women, crying and babbling.
There were three or two sturdy men who were called together by the leading men to discuss the journey, and some of them stood far away and watched other places vigilantly, whether they were migrating, or a military disaster, or maybe an epidemic, in short, they had to run farther.
There were a few sensible little dolls who came together to find Li Wei'an, and there was one of the oldest male dolls among them, his face was covered with dirt and ashes, and his face was shriveled and broken, he called Li Wei'an brother with a smile, and he said a lot of words in the Central Plains, but Li Wei'an didn't understand what the male baby meant.
He turned his head to look at the old Taoist priest and asked, "Old Taoist priest, what is this doll talking about?"
The old Taoist priest ate at the moment, put his feet on the mound he had piled up and slept, opened one eye to look at him, closed it again, touched his mouth and replied to him.
"I'm not an outsider, and I don't know where they learned the broken Chinese, so how do I know what he's saying?"
Li Wei'an felt that too, the old Taoist priest had never been to Saiwai, and of course he didn't know what outsiders were saying, so he casually sent the dolls, threw his clothes and baggage to his head, and lay down to sleep.
There were still dry firewood branches burning in the fire, crackling so much that some sparks burst out, until the birds chirped, Li Wei'an opened his eyes, and the old Taoist priest woke up early, packed up his things and carried them on his back. The broken sword was also in the scabbard behind him, and the old thin face was not energetic, and he was yawning.
When Qichen, there was some fog, the two of them were one after the other, and there were thin horseshoe prints on the ground, and the previous Sai outcasts left early, because there were many old and young, so they walked on the open road.
The old Taoist recited the Taoist scriptures, carrying a cloth cloth and baggage, and the tattered Taoist sword was also carried behind his back, riding a high-headed black horse, Li Wei'an thought that it would be more suitable for him to ride a donkey, as if the black horse was also irritable and shook his head left and right, and did not deal with the old Taoist. Li Wei'an slept well last night and was very energetic, and sometimes galloped for miles with the horse's belly and then turned back.
"Old Taoist, where are we going?"
"Go and have a look. ”
"Where are the rivers and lakes, what are the rivers and lakes?"
The old Taoist priest smiled and narrowed his eyes into a slit, and said to the young man: "The rivers and lakes are in the south, this Yunzhou is too north, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, to the south, there are heroes and heroes everywhere, even the knights don't come to your Yunzhou City, just go to the south, the rivers and lakes have landscapes, heroes, courtyards, wine, and beauties." ”
Li Wei'an said with a smile on his good-looking face: "But my father didn't ask me to eat wine, he said that my appearance was not elegant when I ate wine, old Taoist priest, you are not allowed to tell my father when you go to Jiangnan to eat wine, otherwise I will beat you." ”
The old Taoist priest's face twitched like a cramp, this stinky boy, he beat people as soon as he spoke, and his good-looking face was hung with a pure smile, which really made Du Hu spoiled, no wonder, it was strange that the baby's son was not spoiled, and his face was whiter than a porcelain doll. Once he participated in the banquet of Yelu Zongzhen, the lord of Liao, the emperor of Liao liked him very much when he saw him, and wanted to leave him in the Liao Dynasty to accompany Yelu Zongzhen.
"You eat your wine, I won't tell your father, next time you can't beat people again, it's really not elegant, I'll tell your father to go." The old Taoist priest scolded and was a little discouraged.
Li Wei'an was affirmed, the smile on his face was even stronger, and he could go to Jiangnan to drink when he left home for the first time, and couldn't help shouting loudly, as if he was afraid that the green forest hiding in the mountains would not know that he had just passed, and he grabbed the reins and galloped wildly, and the young master of Yunzhou City galloped into a shadow on his horse.
"Old Taoist, how is Jiangnan?
"You don't look good, can you? Wait! Wait for me...... Stinky boy, slow down!" The old Taoist priest was in a hurry on the horse, the reins were pumping the horse's buttocks, he could ride a horse, but he could clamp the horse's belly, but the black horse was psychic, the more anxious he was, the slower he walked, and he was so angry that he wanted to take the old sword behind his back.
Yunzhou is bigger, the more south you go, the hotter it gets, take off your cotton clothes, Li Wei'an whistled at the black horse under the old Taoist priest's seat, the black horse got the order, stepped on the hooves, a leap, ran up, the old Taoist priest was caught off guard and hugged the horse's head tightly, as the horse followed, the black horse in Yunzhou was really tall, scared him and didn't dare to move.
"Li family boy, let me go down!"
Li Wei'an smiled behind him, his good-looking face couldn't impress the old Taoist, he watched the old Taoist fly past in front of him, he laughed loudly and galloped on his horse, and followed.