Chapter 665: The careless toad
"National teacher, what's wrong?"
The tall palms on the side of the road were swaying the leaves in the wind, and the four people guarding the old donkey couldn't hear the ethereal voice just now, but when they saw the national teacher suddenly walking to the other side of the road, they couldn't help but take two steps and call out.
"Wait here, and I'll come when I go. ”
Lu Liangsheng raised his hand to let the four of them not talk and move around at will, held the master and put it on his shoulders, and walked to the weeds on the side of the road
"Liangsheng, that's it. ”
The blades of grass caressing in the wind were brushed aside by the scholars, and they saw a small temple with a large thigh, mottled and scarved, crawling with vines and moss, and several tattered clay pots were staggered and stuffed with mud and dust.
"Yi ..... Sith?"
Looking at the small statue with the outline of a person who couldn't see the appearance clearly, Lu Liangsheng whispered in this way that he heard the name just now, and there was no movement for a long time, and the toad Taoist leaned on Liangsheng's ear, opened one eye and glanced at it, and snorted.
"Leave it here, there's no power. ”
Lu Liangsheng squatted down, took the small statue inside into his hand, blew it, and the accumulated dust was filled, perceiving that there was indeed no mana on it, and he wondered, could it be that there was no mana as the master said?
It's true to be curious about this god, but going back to the Sui Kingdom is the most important thing, patted the statue, simply put it in his hand, got up and walked out of the grass, and put it in the bookshelf, maybe when the other party has accumulated some divine power, he can talk to him again through the statue.
Over there, the four scholars watched as Lu Liangsheng took a black stone sculpture back and put it on the bookshelf.
"National teacher, is this thing evil?"
"This statue is a deity on this side...... Since she is a god, she should not be evil, and she is also a goddess. Lu Liangsheng closed the small door of the upper compartment of the bookshelf and joked with a smile.
As soon as the four of them heard the goddess, they thought of some bad things, and they all beat a spirit, waved their wide sleeves and walked forward, muttering in a low voice: "The goddess can pick it up casually...... I don't think it's a serious goddess, it's not as good as a female goblin. ”
Lu Liangsheng couldn't hear the muttering of the four people, and took the reins handed by the old donkey with his mouth with a smile, and followed with a smile, the reason for which the four of them didn't know, and it was reasonable to say this, as for the goddess named Isis, why she was so weak, it is unknown, but most of the temples you saw on the way were dilapidated, and the clay pots were dusty.
It's just that Lu Liangsheng doesn't know why this situation happened.
Catch up with the four people who are walking in front of them, re-use the ground to shrink into inches, gradually, the road under the feet gradually becomes wider and smoother, the past business travelers, driving sheep, mule carts Egyptians more and more, seeing five people and a donkey here, can't help but look curiously, bold children, dressed in dirty children run to the front, curious to look.
The sun was shining, illuminating the city wall that was not too high, the mud bricks on it were pitted, and insects flew around from time to time, and there were no soldiers at the city gate, not even the city gate, allowing pedestrians and caravans to come and go, and many people stopped to look at the five people in strange and gorgeous clothes, among which the four scholars with their bags looked around.
"What is this Labusa?" "Why is the big city not even comparable to the county of the River Valley?" ”
"Wrong, it's half of it. ”
Entering the city, as the four scholars said, the streets were full of dust, and the footprints of people and livestock could be seen everywhere, and the occasional harp sound was heard, and the group walked through the first long street into the city.
The roadside is messy, clay pots are piled up on the low wall, and there are also street vendors like the Central Plains, holding wool blankets to sell over there, and people with swords wrapping their heads and walking through the streets, only the eyes that are exposed are fierce, and their thumbs are playing with the blades to look at Lu Liangsheng and a few people here.
Walking through a place similar to an inn, there was the smell of barbecued meat, and the toad Taoist sniffed hard through the small door, his webbed head shook and straightened, and there was a Dharma sound that only the apprentice could hear.
"Liangsheng, you see that you have also arrived in this city, and there is nothing to see in the land of barbarians, if you want to ask for directions, don't be in a hurry, let's eat first and find a place to stay?"
Looking at the mud-brick bungalows where guests enter and exit from time to time, Lu Liangsheng also smelled the aroma of wine and meat, and for more than a month, he had not slept steadily, and reached out to subconsciously touch his sleeve pocket, and his face suddenly stiffened.
The toad, who didn't wait for a reply, anxiously pushed open the small door, turned over the bookshelf, and asked while untying the rope: "Liangsheng, what are you still hesitating about......
Suddenly remembered that a few years ago, he went to a county town with his apprentice on the wrong path, and he showed this look, and the toad's face sank: "You won't forget to bring money again, right?"
"Not really. ”
Lu Liangsheng shook his head, took out a few copper coins and shook them in front of the master and the four people over there, "This is the copper coin of the Great Sui...... It shouldn't be allowed here, Master, there are some cakes here, you can fill your stomach first, I want to find a way. ”
Seeing half a rice cracker, the toad snorted, turned his face away, and crawled back into the bookshelf.
"If you don't eat first this time, you will wait for you on an empty stomach, so that you will not be able to eat the bread to your heart's content, and as a result, you will get a table of dishes out, so you will not be fooled by the teacher. ”
"Well, then Master will wait for now. ”
If you exchange some money that can be used, you won't be able to exchange that thing with others, right? Lu Liangsheng looked at the bookshelf, everything was in it, and the books were definitely not good, and then, his eyes fell on the scrolls inserted in the shelf, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a touch.
Led the old donkey to the nearby corner, simply took out the painting that was not used much before, unfolded it and hung it on a tree next to it, originally a few people were eye-catching, and now they saw ink paintings that were different from the style of this country, and they couldn't help but be curious.
The painting is just a freehand painting of the sunrise on the sea, this kind of painting is extremely rare here, and someone suddenly came up and asked Lu Liangsheng if he wanted to sell it?
"This honorable gentleman, your paintings are exquisite that I have never seen in my life, I wonder if you can sell them to me?"
"Then how much are you willing to give?" Lu Liangsheng smiled and arched his hand at him.
The man who concealed his face on the other side carefully looked at the painting hanging on the tree, firstly he was a little surprised to hear the scholar's words, and secondly, he was not sure whether the painting was valuable, but he opened his mouth out of curiosity.
In a moment, he stretched out five fingers and shook them, shaking out five silver coins with human portraits from his money bag.
"It's five solids, and you can buy a lot of things. ”
Lu Liangsheng is not familiar with the prices here, but it doesn't hurt to be familiar with it first, he reached out and took the man's five silver coins, took down the painting and rolled it and handed it to the other party, called the four scholars over there, inquired about where they could stay, and went straight over.
The inn here is almost the same as the inn in the Central Plains, and there should be a guy and a shopkeeper, but there is a big difference in the title.
'Hmm, I'll take back something similar to the Central Plains Inn. ’
As soon as I entered the room, I looked at the blankets spread on the ground, and there was not even a basin rack for washing, let alone a screen for changing clothes to cover up, and asked where to wash, the young man in the shop took Lu Liangsheng to a large bathhouse, not to mention the muddy water, and several men were soaking naked in it......
Lu Liangsheng walked out of the bathhouse speechlessly, returned to the room, and happened to be a young man with a meal, a handful of bread of various sizes, and a few cans of wine on the ground.
After the people left, the toad Taoist came out of the bookshelf, looked at the food on the ground, twitched the corners of his mouth, turned back to the bookshelf, picked up half a piece of rice cracker and bit it up, puffed up his cheeks and closed it, and smacked the cake in his mouth.
"I've been hungry for a long time, it's better to eat bread as a teacher!"
"Master, maybe this exotic steamed bun is still good, try one?"
"Don't eat it!"
Lu Liangsheng was a little helpless, he didn't know the dishes, so he ordered some at random, but he didn't expect it to be all like this.
Soon, the door creaked open again, and the young man in the store walked in again, with a basket or two baked lamb legs in his hand, forked the knife, gently put it on the ground, bowed to Lu Liangsheng, signaled that it was okay to eat, and then retreated.
"This ....."
The toad looked at the steaming leg of lamb, looked down at the remaining crumbs of the frog's flippers, twitched his shoulder, and hiccuped.
And then..... In a fit of rage, he threw the crumbs of bread to the ground and chopped them a few times with his flippers.
"Angry old man, you can't finish it together, quack!"