Chapter Twenty-Six: The Poplar Slope Inn
The world is closed in the twilight of the year, and the yin wind gives birth to evil villages.
The villages and towns were deserted, the cold wind swept the yellow leaves on the ground, making a "rustling" sound, and the rows of bare poplar trees, their branches piercing the night sky, as if they were struggling in pain.
The skinny wild dog, staring at the blue hungry eyes, looked at it in horror, let out a feeble moan from his mouth, and fled quickly.
The proprietress of the "Yangshupo Inn" is stepping on the threshold and knocking melon seeds.
Seeing a young and handsome descendant approaching, he immediately smiled, and threw the melon seed skin in his hand, along with the remaining little shriveled melon seeds, into the swill bucket beside him.
Then he shook the placket of his clothes a few times with both hands, and said, "Guest officer, live in the hotel?!"
"Shop, shop, get some hot water, where are all the people?" someone called downstairs.
The man ran halfway down, was stunned, and paused there, "What, the tracking is coming?!"
The guest who came in was Zhao Kuangyin, and when he looked up and saw that it was the girl in red, he smiled bitterly and said, "Girl, please don't misunderstand, this is purely a coincidence." β
"Is it such a coincidence?" she glanced at him, then turned her head to the proprietress who was looking at Zhao Kuangyin with a charming smile, and said, "Get some hot water." β
"Oh!" the proprietress came to her senses, twisted her fat ass, and stepped into the back kitchen.
"It's a good couple. Hmphββ!" The girl in red threw down an unclear sentence, turned around and walked quickly upstairs.
"You!" Zhao Kuangyin looked at her back angrily and sighed helplessly.
After the proprietress sent the hot water, she hurriedly smiled at Zhao Kuangyin, who was sitting there, and said, "The guest officer must be very hungry, what do you want?"
"If there is ready-made wine and meat, it will be ordered. Zhao Kuangyin stretched his waist tiredly.
When the proprietress prepared the wine and meat in the back kitchen and was about to serve it, she bumped into the shopkeeper who had brought in a bundle of firewood and grass.
The shopkeeper glanced at it and said, "Ah......h Wine in the ...... Did you get drugged? I'll see you...... See his back, a ...... A strong offspring, numb...... I do it well...... Make that fresh scalper...... Beef is sold. β
The proprietress pursed her lips: "There are few customers coming and going now, and the slaughter is enough to sell in the first few days, and I don't see how many silver taels he brings, so you can accumulate some yin virtue!" Then he pushed away the shopkeeper who was blocking the way, and walked to the front hall step by step.
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A gust of wind chimes rang "jingle", and a blinking head came out of the bed, pricked up its ears, listened for a while, and hurriedly dressed and got out of bed.
"What are you doing, dead ghost!" is the ...... on the head!" came the woman's dissatisfied muttering from the bed.
There was a knock on the door, and the shopkeeper walked out.
After a while, he folded it back, carrying a pigeon in his hand, giggling and caressing it with his hand.
The proprietress slashed at him with a pair of bean eyes, and shouted, "What are you tossing around again? If you want to stew pigeon meat to replenish your body, now is not the time!"
"Ah, that's it...... Ah, girl...... Don't be weird!" The shopkeeper pouted, popped out these words for a long time, his face was already red, and he walked inside.
"Spoiled!" the proprietress snorted and turned to sleep in the bed.
The shopkeeper closed the door of the inner room, lit the oil lamp, untied a thin bamboo pipe from the pigeon's leg, put it to his mouth and blew it vigorously, and a silk roll fell out of it, and he picked it up from the ground, and brought it to the lamp, and slowly unfolded it.
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A slight strange sound outside the door woke Zhao Kuangyin from his sleep, he jumped up, gently leaned to the door, and listened quietly.
"Just this one, a handsome offspring, it must be him! Why hurt him?" came the proprietress in a low voice.
"Ah, that's it...... Camel...... The third master of the camel, the flying pigeon passed the book, and asked him to ...... If you want him to die, ask ...... Ask...... Ask what?!" said the shopkeeper in a low voice, snorting impatiently.
"What kind of camel third master, the tree has already fallen and scattered, what kind of camel third master do you mention! You have a peaceful birthday in a few days, don't go to death!" The proprietress snorted lowly, followed by the sound of turning around and gently going downstairs.
After a long silence, a thin bamboo pipe pierced through the window paper and came in.
Followed by a wisp of green smoke, ethereal and misty came out of the head of the bamboo pipe.
Zhao Kuangyin understood, this is the camel old three gang again. In annoyance, he slapped his palm on the bamboo tube that put the incense, only to hear a muffled snort outside the door.
Then there was a rush of footsteps running downstairs.
Zhao Kuangyin dodged out and chased after him.
The proprietress who returned to the underground secret room and was looking for a sack to collect the corpse heard the sound of the door, turned around and leaned in, and saw her husband running in in a panic with his bloody mouth covered, and screamed.
Knowing that there was a change, he hurriedly pushed up the door. In the midst of repeated questioning, the shopkeeper just remained silent, and searched for a long time under the board with a few bloody human legs hanging from the beam, and a few miserable white skins, and found a steel knife that flashed with cold light.
There was a sharp knock on the door.
The two looked at each other in surprise and hurriedly hid in the corner.
The proprietress shook her body and forced her composure to say, "Late in the middle of the night, who is ββ?!?"
"I!Tenant, open the door and speak!" Zhao Kuangyin said sharply.
Immediately after this door is shaking more and more urgently.
The shopkeeper knew that there was no escape, so he glanced at the proprietress and sneaked to the door.
The proprietress nodded knowingly, and responded in a trembling voice: "It's coming, it's coming!"
As soon as the door opened, Zhao Kuangyin strode forward, smelling the wind in his ears, and his body flashed.
When the shopkeeper saw that he had slashed down, he dodged it, and the knife cut it horizontally.
It was too late to dodge, and in a hurry, Zhao Kuangyin stretched out his palms and forcibly sandwiched the steel knife between his palms.
The shopkeeper desperately struggled with the knife, Zhao Kuangyin sent it out, the shopkeeper stumbled, the knife flew out casually, and the sideburns of the proprietress who was watching in a daze swept by, and the sound of "Zheng" was inserted into the wall.
The proprietress screamed and slumped on the ground.
Zhao Kuangyin looked at each other when he heard the voice, and the shopkeeper took the opportunity to flee outside the door.
Zhao Kuangyin followed and came out and saw the shopkeeper running to the stable. By the time he arrived, the shopkeeper had jumped out of his horse and rode away.
Zhao Kuangyin immediately jumped into the stable, took out a horse casually, and chased after the horse like an arrow.
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When the silver-white dawn gradually showed crimson, and the morning glow reflected on the window lattice, the girl in red got up from the bed.
"Ahh β
After calling for a long time, no one answered, and when I turned my head, I saw that the bed of the two was empty.
"Huh, what about people?" muttered as he got dressed and got out of bed.
As soon as there was a knock at the door, the girl in blue came in with a basin of washing water, shouting all the way: "Get up, get up, lazy! If you are so lazy, beware that you will not be able to marry in the future." β
"Hehe!" the girl in red laughed coquettishly, "Second Senior Sister!
"I went to the kitchen to get some food. The girl in blue continued thoughtfully, "It's strange to say, why is there no figure in the store all of a sudden?"
"The figures are gone, what, are they all gone?, is the guest next door also gone?" the girl in red stopped washing her face and said curiously.
"Which guest is next door?"
"That's it!"
"You can tell me clearly whether it is a man or a woman, whether it is old or young, whether it is an adult or a child, whether it is ugly or handsome, whether it is fat or thin.
"You're just that one, I'm too stupid to guess who this person you care about is, so you might as well say it yourself!"
The girl in blue slapped her head as if in deep thought.
"Oopsββ!" The girl in red suddenly understood, she was teased by the second senior sister, "Second senior sister, you are so bad!"
I didn't care about the unwiped water on my face, and chased after him.
"Early in the morning, what are the two ghost girls making trouble!" The girl in white who had just entered the door bumped into the girl in blue, and stretched out her hand to restrain the girl in red.
The girl in blue looked at the girl in white and said, "Senior sister, have you found someone?"
"No!" the girl in white shook her head.
"That's weird!" said the girl in red, her eyes wide, and she muttered to herself.
Then he turned around and went to the bed to check the package, "Check it quickly, isn't that guy angry with us yesterday, stole things, kidnapped the proprietress, and fled together." Yesterday I noticed that the two of them were eye-browling. Hmph! Men don't have a good thing. β
After turning over for a long time and stopping, "There is no shortage of things!"
"I don't think I can eat this breakfast, so let's pack up and hurry as soon as possible. The girl in white said.
When the three of them finished cleaning up and came to the stable to lead the horse on the road, they were stunned!
What about the jujube red horse?
Then the sharp-eyed girl in red found a person poking her head outside the stable, and shouted, "What person?!"
The three men jumped out of the stable, and the man fled in a panic, tripped over a rock, and rolled to the ground.
The girl in red rushed forward and grabbed it.
"Auntie...... Plentiful...... Spare your life!" the innkeeper cried out as her feet did not touch the ground, trembling like chaff.
"Tell meββ, where is my jujube red horse......?!" said the girl in red angrily.