thirty-one

Along the way, there are always countless new and interesting things that attract this Zhu Shou: eating delicious food, drinking good wine, cockfighting, dog fighting, fighting fish, and fighting shrimp.

When he saw someone playing monkey on the street, he robbed the monkey at ten times the price, and after playing for a few days, he felt bored and threw it on the street again.

Seeing that someone was playing tricks, he went up to challenge again. If the man is punched or kicked by him, he will give him a tael, and if the man struck him or kicked him, he would give ten denarii.

Along the way, for fun, I don't know how much time was delayed. Because of the exposure of wealth, how many people are targeted.

But fortunately, they have no goal and no deadline for this trip, so they are not in a hurry, so they let the birthday celebration go crazy.

On this day, as soon as the three of them entered an inn, they heard a noise coming from the second floor of the inn.

I only heard one person say: "This guest officer, it stands to reason that you are a guest, and we shouldn't treat you like this, but we are a small business, and you have no money, which really makes us very embarrassed." ”

I heard the guest say: "Xiao Er, although it is called Mei Qian below, it is indeed Mei Qian." But it's all temporary, and I'll have money in two days. ”

When Xiao Er heard it, why was this so familiar?

Many customers have said this before, but the result is that either these people were carried out of the gambling hall, or they were caught on the spot in the compound of a deep house.

"I'm sorry, you eat good and good every day, and if it doesn't suit your taste, you have to go to another place to customize, and you really can't afford to do it on a small budget. Why don't you see what valuable things are around you, and I'll mortgage it on the counter for you, and then redeem it when you have enough money in two days. ”

"You, the second child, will say that if you are a small business, then the other businesses in this city can only be regarded as stalls. Who doesn't know that your proprietor is also the owner of the biggest pawnshop in the city, and if I put this thing on the counter, when I redeem it, it will be ten times the price. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Shou couldn't help laughing: "Why do you have to wait until two days later to get the money on you every time." ”

Hearing Zhu Shou's voice, Mei Qian instantly became angry: "Xiao Er, you have returned this guest room for me, I want to change to a better room and order the best banquet." ”

"Ahh

"Don't do it, my gold lord has arrived, quickly change my room. ”

Xiao Er won't change his room because of his words. But judging by the tone of his voice, it seems to be serious. So I was stunned for a while, and I didn't know what to do.

"All the people in the world are your masters, so I don't know who you are talking about. Zhu Shou downstairs asked.

"Of course it's you, who else here is qualified to be my benefactor besides you. ”

"I didn't go out today and didn't turn over the yellow calendar, how did I meet such a spender like you. ”

"Your family is rich all over the world, and you are afraid to pay me this little expense. ”

"Okay, okay! ”

With a "duang", a large piece of silver fell on the counter.

"Little Er, this money is not enough for four upper rooms. ”

"Four upper rooms, please!" Xiao Er shouted loudly.

This business is indeed the largest inn in the city, as Mei Qian said. The first and second floors are for eating, the third floor is for tea rooms, and the fourth and fifth floors are for guest rooms.

As soon as Xiao Er's words were finished, three servants came over to guide them.

Lunch was in a private room on the second floor, and I ordered a large table full of dishes.

"You should have listened to me and replaced your retinue with a beautiful woman. ”

As soon as he sat down, he said to Zhu Shou when he had no money.

This man is not simple. Water Moon Shadow, Hualien Core Secret Road.

From the content and tone of their words, the two not only knew each other, but Mei Qian even knew Zhu Shou's identity.

"Don't you think it's more imposing to go out with a male guard than to bring a woman?"

"You can't say that, your own Zhu Wuyi went out, that is with many girls, is there no momentum. Mei Qian retorted.

"He's a waste of resources, I can be like him!"

Lunch ends in this relaxed and cheerful atmosphere.

"Where are you going next? You came before me, you should know. ”

"When you are full, go to smoke a cigarette, as the saying goes: a cigarette after a meal, happy like a fairy." ”

"Smoking, it's boring. ”

"Smoking is just an ancillary item, mainly listening to people chatting. ”

"Is there a doorway to this chat?"

"Words are happy locks, words are roadblocks. Speaking is a science, a word can make you laugh, and a word can make you dance. It's a place for people to chat, where you can hear all kinds of news from the north and south, and you can hear all kinds of comments from those people. Listening to people chatting there, those who can chat make you laugh contentedly, those who can't chat make you laugh, and those who can't talk can really make you angry with him on the spot. ”

"It's a fun place, let's go there. As he spoke, Zhu Shou pulled Mei Qian out of the house.

saw Mei Qian hesitate for a moment, looked back at the two women, and said, "That place is a place for men to go, not for women." ”

Hualien Xin was unhappy when he heard it: "Is there any place we can't go, even if it's a green building, we can also disguise ourselves as men to see and see." ”

"Let's go together, but you have to remember the way back, and we won't take it over when the time comes. ”

"Humph!"

In front of me, there is a soup house, that is, a public bath.

"That's where you say you smoke and chat?"

"In this place, there are three religions and nine streams, and when you take off your clothes, you don't have any identity, and if you say it, you won't admit it when you go out. ”

As she spoke, Mei Qian turned to Shui Yueying and Hualien Core and said, "Two, do you remember the way back?"

At this time, the faces of the two women changed color, and without saying a word, they turned their heads and left. Behind him, only the gloating laughter of Zhu Shou and Mei Qian remained.

Entering the soup house, the two took off their clothes and handed them to the runner, asked him to wash and iron the clothes, and then rewarded some broken silver and went to the pool.

Soak in the pool, and then steam in the small room, that's called a pleasure. The fatigue of the past few days made the bath take a break, and the whole person was refreshed.

Put on the single clothes prepared in the soup house, and the two came to the rest hall on the second floor.

It's a lively place, with gossip, laughter, and grumbling about something. In short, all kinds of news from the south to the north can be heard here.

As soon as they got into bed, someone came to the two of them, handed over a menu, and asked, "Second master, what do you want?"

Zhu Shou took the menu and saw that it was three pieces of paper glued together, sandwiched between two thin wooden boards.

At the beginning of the menu, the three sheets of paper are divided into top, middle, and bottom.

Zhu Shou naturally ordered the top grade, but he was also curious about what the other two were, so he opened them and watched them one by one.

The next product is some local fruits, or dried fruits that cannot be sold, tea powder, and low-cost dry tobacco.

The mid-grade stuff was better, some of the fruits came in from other surrounding towns, the tea leaves were replaced with high powder, and the hookah was added to the smoking utensils.

The top grade is even more amazing, the fruits from all directions are chilled, and if you want to eat them, you can get them immediately, tangerine peel, plum, candied fruit, etc., can also be called. The tea leaves are picked this year, and the worst will not be a year. The smoking utensils are even more extravagant, white marble, jade, ivory, coral stone, and tobacco leaves are also imported well.

The one who ran the hall, seeing Zhu Shou first looked at the menu, felt that he didn't have much money. When he carefully read the top-grade menu, he felt strange, if he had money to enjoy, why not go to the private room on the third floor?

After reading the menu, Zhu Shou handed him back to the running hall, turned over and took a small burden from the small cabinet under the bed.

This small burden, when entering the door, let the counter count it, put the designated bed at the counter, and the key was kept by Zhu Shou.

He put a small ingot of silver in his bag on the menu in his hand and said, "Just a few fresh fruits and two eight-treasure sweet soups." Also, I don't want anyone else to use that smoking device. ”

"The little ones understand, the little ones understand. ”

After a while, the things that Zhu Shou ordered were served.

Zhu Shou took the cigarette stick and saw that the cigarette pot in front was made of purple gold, the cigarette stick in the middle was made of fine agarwood, and the cigarette holder was jade.

Sure enough, it's a penny, you get what you pay for, such a good thing, put it here once, and just mention it next time, and others will send it up with interest, not to mention how much there is a spectrum.

Smoking dry tobacco, eating thirst-quenching fruits, tasting sweet soup with eight treasures, and listening to people from the south and north talking about all kinds of strange things, Zhu Shou not only sighed: "How good it would be for me to be a rich man's son, carefree every day, just eat, drink, play and have fun, and don't have to worry about the future." ”

Mei Qian has seen Zhu Shou who is angry with the people below, and Zhu Shou who has no scruples about playing novelties, but he has not seen Zhu Shou, who is worried about the world first, and happy after the world. I couldn't help but ask, "You have something on your mind." ”

was asked like this, Zhu Shou once again became the one who put fun first: "If there is wine today and drunk tomorrow, it doesn't matter who owes him tomorrow." ”

This kind of activity is very novel, so Zhu Shou was here for three days in a row.

But no matter how fun the place is, there are times when you get tired of playing, and today, Zhu Shou wants to change his tricks to play.

While he was still eating, he asked for Mei Qian.

"When you're full, go for tea. ”

"It's so boring to go upstairs and drink tea. ”

"Whoever said to drink tea must go upstairs to drink. Although this is the largest inn in the city, when it comes to drinking tea, of course, I went to Mingjing Building. ”

The teahouse that can be respected by Mei Qian is bound to not be too simple. A soup house can allow Zhu Shoulian to play for so many days, and this teahouse must not be far behind.

Although Mingjing Building is called Mingjing Building, it is not clear at all. On the contrary, it's very noisy. In the distance, I heard all kinds of shouts.

And to enter this teahouse, it is not like a general teahouse, which is entered from the main entrance, but into an alley, and enters through the back door of a courtyard inside.

After entering the door, there is a walkway in front of you, which leads to the main entrance of the teahouse, with a courtyard wall on the left and a brick wall on the right.

On the other side of the wall, there were cats, dogs, chickens, and other meows.

Zhu Shou was very curious when he heard it, but there was no window on the wall, and he didn't know what was next door.

"Don't go over the wall, or it won't be fun. Seeing Zhu Shou's eagerness to try, he hurriedly reminded without money.

Entering the main entrance, there is another horizontal corridor in front of you, and there is also a door in front of you.

However, no money did not go through this door, but turned left and went up the stairs.

Just at the turn of the stairs, Zhu Shou saw a person coming to the corridor from that door, walking towards the other end, turning a corner and disappearing.

To say that this teahouse, in terms of construction style, is not much different from ordinary teahouses. It's just that these guests didn't pay much attention to tasting tea, and they all lay on the railing to look at the first floor, and there were cheers from their mouths from time to time.

Zhu Shou finally couldn't help his curiosity, and squeezed through the crowd to look down.

I saw that the tables and chairs downstairs were placed on the outermost part to form a circle, and in the center of the hall, there was a large iron net. In the net, two monkeys are fighting each other.

After the measurement, the neck, limbs, and tail are tied with red and yellow ribbons. Every effective attack by the two monkeys was rewarded with cheers from everyone.

"There are even fighting monkeys in this teahouse. ”

"Not only fighting monkeys, fighting cocks, fighting dogs, but also fighting birds and fighting fish upstairs. ”

"It turns out that on the other side of the courtyard wall, these animals are raised. ”

"Yes, you can place a bet on the animals they arranged, or you can go to the yard over there and pick a bet for yourself. How about it, do you want to check it out? ”

"Forget it, I'd like to see the bettas. ”

"Then you have to go up two floors. ”

Without waiting for Mei Qian to lead the way, Zhu Shou took the lead and rushed to the stairs.

This betta game really meets Zhu Shou's appetite, and the things that he usually uses to watch or take to eat can still come up with such tricks.

Perhaps out of sympathy for the animals, the two women never followed.

In this way, Zhu Shouyou played for several days, and then he had fun.

[The author has words: tobacco was introduced to southern China through the Philippines from the end of Jiajing to the beginning of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and then quickly promoted and planted throughout the country, and the number of smokers increased geometrically, and smoking has become a basic hobby of Chinese people in the Qing Dynasty. 】

The above is taken from the encyclopedia, and I don't know the specifics. If that's the case, then there shouldn't be a smoking thing at this time.

But you don't have to worry too much, because in the future, the author and I are ready to let myself go......