May we all have endless wine in our dreams, and we can live this life drunk when we wake up. .......................................................................................

"Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi, where did you die again? Do you want to be lazy again, delay business, and see that the old lady doesn't break your legs! Come and greet the guests!"

Xiao Qi, who had just secretly taken out the wine gourd in the backyard, heard the angry roar of the proprietress before he had time to enjoy it.

"Hmph, break my leg? One day I'm going to leave this hellish place and run so far away that you won't be able to see me again!" Xiao Qi thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it after all. With a flattering smile that immediately appeared on his face, he shouted "Come~喽~", ran to the lobby with a cigarette, followed the eyes of the proprietress behind the counter to the door, and guided the guests into the store with a smile on his face to sit at the table in the middle.

"Guest officer, what do you two want?", the smile on his face grew even more as he spoke.

Xiao Qi is the town with the inn of the running hall of the little two, when he was seven years old in his hometown there was a plague, his father and mother died, Xiao Qi followed the people in the village all the way to beg to the town, starved in front of the inn, the innkeeper Liu Dad was kind-hearted, so he left Xiao Qi in the store to do a chores and run hall, although it was a little hard, but at least there was no problem with food and clothing. The innkeeper's face was full of fierceness, but she had a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and from the day Xiao Qi came, she wanted to "break Xiao Qi's dog legs". Ten years have passed, and the proprietress has scolded for ten years but has never really moved.

Xiao Qi knew in his heart that if it weren't for Daddy Liu and the proprietress to take him in, he wouldn't know which wilderness he died in, and no one would know if he was eaten by wild dogs. Although sometimes Xiao Qi has resentment in his heart when the boss scolds herself, in the final analysis, Xiao Qi still treats Father Liu and the boss as his own father. Father Liu and the proprietress also regard Xiao Qi as their own family, although they usually scold on the surface, but they don't treat Xiao Qi as a little helper after all.

"In the future, you must repay Daddy Liu and the proprietress well," Xiao Qi often thought.

The inn is at the east end of the town, next to the official road, and there are all kinds of people who come to the inn to eat, but the most are the men with knives and guns. Because the world is not peaceful, so the merchants always hire martial artists to guard, or directly hand over the goods to the dart bureau to escort, and the same inn is the favorite place for the martial artists to eat, one is the same inn is next to the official road, the second is the innkeeper Liu Daddy is kind, the meal is a lot, and the proprietress brews a good sorghum wine, the wine is like its own person, enthusiastic and spicy, and it is very good for the appetite of the martial arts who make strength. Martial artists who pass by during the day have to come in and drink two bowls of sorghum wine even if they don't eat, and when they meet those who live in the restaurant, they always have to drink until midnight.

Xiao Qi grew up in such an environment since he was a child, and he also likes to drink, and likes to listen to martial artists tell some strange things on the road and swords. After drinking too much wine at night, Xiao Qi always had to lie in bed and stare into the darkness for a while, dreaming that one day he would be able to follow the martial artist to the north and south, thinking that he would also be amused by his dreams, because he was just a thin trot, Xiao Qi who barely survived by Daddy Liu's kindness, and was a little ant who would still not care if he died.

"If I die, will anyone be sad" Xiao Qi thought again, "Maybe only Daddy Liu and the boss lady will be sad", thinking about these things, Xiao Qi couldn't help but laugh dumbly: In his life, maybe he can only go to the end of the world with a sword in his dreams. Every time he thought of these things, Xiao Qi would get up from the bed and grope for his wine gourd in the dark and pour a few sips until he was drunk.

Bell Bell ......

There was a sharp knock on the door in the hall. "Who is it in the middle of the night!" Xiao Qi groped for the fuel lamp in the dark, and came to the front hall with the lamp in his hand very reluctantly, because he was drunk and drunk, he stumbled on the steps, and thought in his heart, "Grandma's, in the middle of the night, who is still knocking on the door, and not letting people sleep."

As he spoke, he came to the antechamber. Bell, bell, bell... Bell Bell ...... The knock on the door was quicker. "Who?" asked Xiao Qi tentatively. Bell, bell, bell... The people outside didn't talk either, just knocked on the door by themselves, and knocked until Xiao Qi was upset.

"Don't knock, knock again to wake up the proprietress, she broke your dog's legs" Xiao Qi became angry and scolded unhappily.

The annoying knocking finally stopped, but the people outside still didn't speak. "Could it be that this person is dumb?" Xiao Qi pondered, "Then I am really rude."

Xiao Qi thought like this, and was about to step forward to open the door, but the person outside the door finally spoke: "Shopkeeper, I am a pedestrian in a hurry, I walked greedily and missed the inn in Laolongling, I didn't think that I arrived here in the middle of the night, I just ate something casually, find a room to make up for the night, leave early in the morning, and bother the little brother to open the door to take care of it." Although the words of the person who came were polite, the voice was always cold, as if it was not from the mouth of the person, but from the mouth of a corpse or a ghost without temperature, word by word went straight from Xiao Qi's ears to his heart, and until Xiao Qi's heart was put in the ice cellar.

When the words fell, a gust of wind blew through the hall, and the shadow of the oil lamp was sufficient, Xiao Qi came to his senses, and quickly held the wick with his hand, waiting for the lamp to burn vigorously again, and couldn't help but shiver when he looked at the door. "Could it be that the old man in the town really talked about the wild ghost that digs out people's hearts" Xiao Qi thought again, "Hey! scare yourself, what kind of ghost is there in this world", although Xiao Qi thought so, but after all, he didn't move a step under his feet.

"You better go to other places to take a look, we don't have anything to eat in the store, and the rooms are all occupied", Xiao Qi was afraid of himself at the end of his heart, and wanted to let the people outside leave.

"Little brother, don't worry, I'm not a bad person. You just give me some leftovers and let me spend the night in the lobby, and I'll get a lot of money" The tone of the person who came to speak this time was much warmer, but it was clear that he was also trying to make his words less cold.

"Then tomorrow morning, you explain to the proprietress yourself, it's not that I want to snub you, it's you who insist on living" Thinking of the boss's scolding, Xiao Qi tried to discuss with the visitor.

"Little brother, don't worry, I'll leave as soon as it's dawn tomorrow, I won't say a word to others, if the boss lady has to ask, I also say that I have to live. The person said.

"Okay, but let me make it clear to you first, there are only some cold beef and cold rice in the store, and there are no guest rooms, but the room money and meal money can't be less" Xiao Qi didn't want to refuse again, so he had to make conditions.

"No problem, that's enough" arrived.

Xiao Qi had no choice but to open the door tremblingly, pull the bolt of the door, and the moment he opened the door, Xiao Qi was stunned: where is this person, it is clearly a lonely ghost who asks for his life......

"Hell!" Xiao Qi blurted out. Fix your eyes and look at the outsiders, the beard is silver, the face is pale, and he is dressed in a white robe, and he is alive and well like the white impermanence of the gods and ghosts that the martial artists love to tell and ask for people's lives. Xiao Qi suddenly felt excited, and most of the wine was gone, only to feel that from head to toe, from chest to back, it was already cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and it seemed like being doused with a basin of cold water in winter. Xiao Qi wanted to hide back, but his legs didn't seem to obey him, and the more he tried to escape, the more difficult it was to move.

Surprised, the visitor had already flashed into the lobby, holding his right hand and reaching out to Xiao Qi. Looking at the hand again, it was also miserable white, without the slightest ruddy color.

"It's over, it's over, Bai Wuchang has come to ask for his life" Xiao Qi only felt scared in his heart, "I think I'm young and haven't done anything bad, but I didn't expect to be strangled to death by this impermanence ghost claw today." Xiao Qi wanted to shout, but his throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't make a sound.

The old man's hand stopped more than seven inches away from Xiao Xiao, and the clenched fist slowly opened, revealing a gold ingot that was dangling in his hand.

"Go, get some wine and meat," said the old man coldly.

Xiao Qi slowly recovered from his fear, and looked at it again with courage, the person who came was not Bai Impermanence, because he remembered that the martial artists said that black and white impermanence all go together, and they all have long tongues that are exposed outside their mouths and droop to their necks. The person who came was just white beard, white hair and white clothes, and his face was pale, Xiao Qi was sure that the person who came was an old man and not a ghost, and his courage came back a lot, and he could finally speak in his throat.

"Hey, you... You... You sit for a while, and the little ones go." As he spoke, he was finally able to move his feet, and he immediately turned around, just wanting to escape from the lobby as soon as possible.