Chapter 12: Taoyuan asked
Although Hong Chen had never ridden a horse, he had great strength and deep internal strength, and he held the horse's neck with both hands and sat very firmly.
It didn't take long for Hong Chen to gradually adapt to the rhythm of the yellow horse's running, and looked sideways at Ji Cha next to him, only to see the blue and white robe hunting drumming, black hair sliding around on the white face, and those eyes reflecting the rising sun, shining like two jewels.
Ji Cha noticed Hong Chen's gaze and said lightly: "Don't look at my face, learn to ride a horse, how can anyone hold the horse's neck like you, like a big monkey." ”
Xu is Ji Cha's current voice is crisp and pleasant, although he is said to be like a monkey, Hong Chen also has an indescribable comfort, "um" sound, he loosened the horse's neck in a similar way, pulled up the reins, and suddenly felt that the style of the oncoming rush was cool, and the nervousness of riding a horse for the first time had dissipated like a cloud of smoke, and he couldn't help shouting: "Riding a horse is so pleasant." ”
"Follow me, there's a lot of pleasure - keep up!"
Ji Cha's legs clamped the horse's belly, and the red horse ran in front of the yellow horse, getting farther and farther away from Hongchen.
Hong Chen hurriedly urged the yellow horse: "Run, run." But the yellow horse did not understand him. Hong Chen learned from Ji Cha's appearance, sandwiching the horse's belly between his legs, and the yellow horse still didn't run faster.
Seeing that Ji Cha and the red horse were getting farther and farther apart, Hong Chen was in a hurry and reached out to slap the yellow horse's buttocks, but the yellow horse neighed, and the frequency of the horse's hooves suddenly became faster, and he chased after him.
The two horses galloped with their hooves raised, and before noon, the two had arrived in the dark cloud city.
Walking on the street with a horse, when passing by a cake stall, Hong Chen's stomach suddenly sounded, Ji Cha grinned and raised his eyebrows, and was about to laugh at him, but his stomach also rumbled, and his expression was a little embarrassed. Hong Chen said, "You are also hungry, I invite you to eat bread." ”
Ji Cha said, "Are you rich?"
Hong Chen took out two copper plates from his pocket, shook them and said, "Of course there are." ”
At first glance, Ji Cha only wanted to laugh at him for only two pennies, and he was afraid that he could only buy half a cake, but when he looked closely, the head of the copper plate was a whole circle larger than the others, and the carving was not the style of copper coins in circulation today. But that's enough for half a loaf of bread. ”
Hong Chen was first overjoyed, and then said with some loss: "It's a pity that there were more than a hundred of these kinds of money before, and now there are only these two left." When I ask for directions to buy food, people ask for a few pennies, and I count how many copper plates I give to others. Why didn't they tell me it was worth more?"
"Don't take advantage of it, it's a fool to be like you?" Ji Cha stuffed two copper plates into his pocket and said, "This money is very scarce now, you can collect it for me, and I will invite you to dinner." Don't eat the cake stall that has been exposed to the wind and soil, I'll take you to the 'Tianlin Inn' in Dark Cloud City to eat. ”
Hong Chen asked, "What kind of place is that?"
Ji Cha said: "Tianlin Inn, a collection of Kyushu ingredients, Kyushu cuisine, is known as eating a table to eat all the world." The owner is the famous 'Jianghe Gang', and only three cities in Yunzhou have Tianlin Inn, and there is one in Wuyun City. Let's go there and order a private room, ask for a feast, eat and drink enough, and then get some sleep, and then go to work. ”
Hong Chen said, "Do you want to steal again?"
Ji Cha shrugged: "Naturally, what do I do as a tea picker?"
Hong Chen asked again: "Did you steal your money? If it is stolen, no matter how good the food in the Tianlin Inn is, I will not eat it." ”
Ji Cha laughed and said: "My tea picker steals knives and swords, steals clothes and horses, and when the mood comes, he will steal a beautiful girl to play, but he doesn't steal money." ”
Hong Chen said seriously: "Don't lie to me. ”
"I'll choke to death if I lie to you. ”
Ji Cha said very seriously.
Indeed, he never steals money, but occasionally sells what he stole for money.
The two led the horse for half an hour, and finally arrived at the most prosperous street in Wuyun City, among the many high-rise buildings, there is a high-eaves and teeth pecked, and the nine-story building with golden tile and zhu wall is particularly eye-catching, and the blue plaque is inscribed with two golden characters - "Tianlin".
Ji Cha explained to Hong Chen: "Yu Guo uses golden vermilion as the precious color, and the use of these two colors in ordinary pavilions is arrogance. However, the Jianghe Gang is a big gang that spans the Three Kingdoms and Kyushu, and it will give a large amount of taxes to the Yu State every year, so the imperial court acquiesced to the Tianlin Inn to be decorated in the color of gold and zhu. ”
When they arrived at the door of the store, three men came out to take care of it, and Ji Cha directly threw over a large silver ingot, saying, "One private room, Kyushu will serve the whole table." In addition to the deposit, the rest is the tip. ”
A guy took the lead in holding the ingots in his arms and said busily, "Come with me." The remaining two men glared at him jealously and led their horses away.
When I went upstairs, the guy said, "How many guests do you have to wait? If you have less than 10 seats, you have to eat a large full banquet if you have more than 10 people." ”
Ji Cha said: "I want a big banquet." There were no guests, just the two of me. ”
The guy was taken aback, and stared at the two of them for a few breaths, but soon doubled his laughter, thinking that this young master was handsome, dressed and extraordinary, and wanted to come from a rich and noble family, and like to break his sleeves and spare peaches, and it is normal for his daughter to buy a young man's smile......
After taking a seat in a private room on the seventh floor, Ji Cha asked the guy to go to the kitchen to get some ready-made cold dishes first, and the rest of the table was slowly cooked. Hong Chen had never been to such a magnificent place, and after putting down the bamboo basket, he couldn't help but look at the calligraphy, painting and antiques in the private room.
Ji Cha saw that he had never seen the world before, and felt funny, and said, "If you see enough, sit down and wait for dinner." In addition to Kyushu delicacies, the Kyushu banquet will also present nine kinds of Kyushu famous wines, and we will taste them one by one later. ”
Hong Chen shook his head: "Wine is very bitter, I don't drink it." ”
Ji Cha asked, "Have you ever drunk?"
Hong Chen nodded: "Yes, the shopkeeper invited me to drink." ”
Ji Cha thought that he could take the opportunity to inquire about another wave of news, and sent out a series of follow-up questions: "Which shopkeeper is there? What is his name?"
Hong Chen said: "The shopkeeper of Taoyuan is called the shopkeeper." He doesn't have a name. ”
"No name?" Ji Cha was very unconvinced, "How is it possible?
"Yes, the people of Taoyuan don't have names. Hong Chen said, "Maybe they used to have names, but after they arrived in Taoyuan, none of them had names." ”
Ji Cha only said that there is such a strange place in the world, it must be that Hong Chen is deceiving himself, but after thinking about it, this guy should not be deceiving, so he continued to ask: "Then what do you call each other?"
"Call it whatever you want. ”
"What's the casual law?"
"Well, I'll just give you an example. I lived with Master in a bamboo hut in the north, and people called me 'the man in the bamboo house' and called me 'the apprentice of the man in the bamboo house'. The shopkeeper is the one who runs the restaurant, and people call him the shopkeeper. There was a man who delivered fish to the restaurant, and the fight was very strong, and people called him a strong fish seller. ”
Ji Chaxin said, "What is this?", and kept smiling on the surface: "That's really casual." You just said that the people in Taoyuan are all Taoyuan who came later, so where were they before?"
"I don't know...... I'm the last one to arrive. ”
When Hong Chen answered this question, his mind suddenly jumped back to more than ten years ago, and many blurred images appeared in his mind.
Refugees, people with knives, blood, crying, hillside, rolling down......
Then there was a clearer figure - a man with a big belly, a big beard, and messy hair, and his master, the only person in the peach garden who lived in a bamboo house.
Ji Cha wanted to ask more, the door of the room suddenly opened, and a few men and maids pushing a sandalwood cart walked in, and there were many dishes on the wooden cart.
The color of the food on the plate is attractive, as soon as Hong Chen saw it, his saliva flowed, and Ji Cha was also very hungry and panicked, and before the guys could bring the dishes, the two of them each took a plate of cold cakes to eat. After a while, the hot dishes in the back also began to be served one after another. There are a total of 9981 hot and cold meat and vegetarian dishes in Kyushu, and the names of the dishes reported alone make Hongchen confused. Ji Cha eats one chopstick for everything, and when he is halfway through eating, he is already full. As for the wine, neither of them drank it, and each drank two pots of herbal tea.
After eating and drinking, the two of them each lay down on the soft chair in the private room to make up for sleep. When it was dark, Ji Cha opened his eyes first, and when he saw that Hongchen was still sleeping, he went downstairs to find a thatched house first. After going to the thatched house, Ji Cha returned to the private room, only to see that the house was empty, and Hong Chen and his bamboo basket were gone.