Volume 1 Small Things in the Big City Chapter 1 If a friend comes from afar, can you still eat?
No one could resist Zhao Lanjiang's sword;
No one could resist Li Chengcheng's laughter;
In the same way, no one can resist Xiao Jinyan's cheap smile.
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Suzhou City, nameless town.
Xiao Jinyan has been in this town for two years. In the past, Xiao Jinyan once served as the leader of the martial arts league, and he was also the deputy supervisor of the Dengwen Academy, the first spy organization of the Ming Dynasty, at that time he had the wealth of the country, and at that time he was infinitely beautiful, with a mansion and a golden house, fresh clothes and angry horses, and a group of slaves, which were sought after by tens of thousands of people.
No one knows where his wealth came from, but it is rumored that he once traveled to Christ Island and brought back countless gold and treasures from the sea.
He once spent a lot of money just to see the ass of Zhao Ya, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai-because someone bet with her that Zhao Ya had a beautiful mole on her buttocks. The moment Zhao Ya took off his clothes, he lost a thousand taels of silver very happily. Later, someone told him that Zhao Ya had colluded with others to deceive him, and he laughed it off because he felt that this scam was very "elegant", just like Zhao Ya's name.
He once traveled thousands of miles to save the emergency, because the head of the Hengshan faction, Zhang Vulgar, passed the book, and the toilet wall in the mountain gate fell, so he sent three hundred taels of silver to repair. He hurried for three days and three nights and rushed to the Hengshan faction. During that time, the smell in the mountain gate of the Hengshan faction was stinking, and when he saw Zhang Shi's old face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, he paid very happily, the reason was very simple, people have three urgencies. When the new thatched toilet was built, Zhang Shu took his disciples to ask for a name, and he left a sentence that he did not need to leave a name. As a result, there are more Jinyan public toilets on the top of Hengshan Pai Mountain.
These are all the glorious deeds of the former alliance leader Xiao during his tenure, but no matter how good the cow is, there is no end to the ground, and no matter how good the body is, it can't withstand seven times night and night.
Four years ago, Xiao Jinyan scattered all his family fortune overnight and disappeared from the rivers and lakes.
Now, Xiao Jinyan only has the title of "hero" left, and he is accompanied by Lu Gongzi.
Lu Gongzi is not a human, but a leprosy donkey. Xiao Jinyan originally wanted to sell it to Lao Liu, who made Ejiao at the head of the village, but Lao Liu searched for a long time, and Lu Gongzi had no skin on his body and no scabies, so he had to give up in the end. In this way, after Xiao Jinyan was swept out of the house, the leper donkey also lived in the broken temple with him.
When the early morning sun shone through the rotten tiles of the ruined City God Temple, Xiao Jinyan got up, if usually, he usually slept until after noon before getting up, using his theory, so that he could save a meal.
But not today, because Li Chengcheng sent a message three days ago to visit him in Nameless Town.
It's a guest from afar.
If you have friends from afar, can you still eat?
Xiao Jinyan is a particular person, no matter how poor he is, he can't be stingy when entertaining guests, he must have wine and meat.
But in Xiao Jinyan's dilapidated temple, the rice jar has bottomed out, and the wine gourd on the wall has already been soaked in cold water dozens of times, and he can't feel the taste of wine.
Xiao Jinyan looked at Lu Gongzi, "Brother, the rivers and lakes are in emergency, how about contributing the tail?"
Lu Gongzi snorted hot air in his nose, ignored Xiao Jinyan, turned his head disdainfully, and used his thin body to gnaw on the door panel, which was its ten-day ration.
Xiao Jinyan said angrily, "The guy who didn't use your seed to drink is already very face-saving, don't eat me if you have the ability!"
Lu Gongzi Ang called twice and went to the yard to eat jujube leaves.
It was nearly July, and the dates on the tree had just fallen fruit, and they were very green, Xiao Jinyan thought about it, went up to the tree, picked more than a dozen dates, and put them in a broken bowl. After thinking about it again, he took out the few copper plates from his body with a broken basket, and went to the market to buy wine and food.
Li family wine shop.
The Li family liquor shop produces famous liquor, located in the depths of Baihua Lane. There are only two people in the wine shop, the boss is surnamed Li Yinyang, and it is said that he is from Yinyang. Since ancient times, Yinyang has produced famous wine, especially Chishui wine, which is steamed and brewed nine times, and the aroma is overflowing. Xiao Jinyan has never been to Yinyang, but he has drunk Chishui wine countless times, and the Li family wine shop is the most mellow.
"Xiao Daxia, got up so early today?" asked Li Ergouzi with a smile in the wine shop.
"Today, my best friend Li Tingcheng is coming, hurry up and prepare a gourd of good wine for me!" Saying that, Xiao Jinyan threw the wine gourd in his hand, Li Ergou said a word, took out a funnel bamboo spoon, and sold a gourd of wine into it, "Master, a total of fifteen Wen." ”
Xiao Jinyan said, "Record it in the account!"
Li Ergou said with a calm face, "You still owe us three hundred wen." He pointed to the sign next to him, on which was crooked and written a line of words, "This store does not give the surname Xiao on credit", and it should be from the hand of Li Yinyang, the old shopkeeper of the wine shop.
Xiao Jinyan said proudly, "Are you afraid that I won't be able to repay my debts? When I have money, I will give it away with principal and interest!"
Li Ergou said: "You have said this more than 800 times, and you haven't seen a single shadow." In a word, do you have any money?"
"No, what can you do?"
Li Ergou flipped the wine gourd, poured a pot of wine back into the wine vat, and threw the wine gourd towards Xiao Jinyan.
Xiao Jinyan took the gourd, smelled the wine in the gourd, came to the well, filled it with well water, took a sip, and nodded, "The taste is not bad, but it is a little lighter." ”
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Food market.
"Aunt Li, the vegetables haven't been sold out yet?" Xiao Jinyan said with a smile, "Do you have leftover leaves, pick up some for me?"
Aunt Li said: "You came by chance, there is still half a basket of vegetable leaves left, you can take a copper plate with you." ”
Xiao Jinyan scratched his head, "Can you give a discount?"
Aunt Li scolded, "Just a penny, you still let me give you a discount, believe it or not, discount your legs?"
Xiao Jinyan said, "Shhh, be quiet, we were also the leader of the martial arts alliance back then, don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, give some face!"
Aunt Li'er's voice became louder and louder, "What's wrong with the leader of the martial arts alliance, don't you have to give money to buy vegetables?" I tell you, don't use your number one martial arts alliance leader to scare me, I'm not scared, when Huashan was arguing about swords, Hong Laoqi of the beggar gang didn't give money to buy vegetables, I chopped off a finger for him!"
"Hong Laoqi, can Hong Laoqi compare with me? He is a begging for food!"
"Bah, you might as well be a beggar for food!"
Xiao Jinyan scratched his head, "What you say is too hurtful." ”
Everyone looked over to this side.
Xiao Jinyan couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into. He is a person who wants to save face, isn't it just a vegetable leaf, I don't want to do it!
Xiao Jinyan turned around, took the cabbage in his hand, and said with a smile, "Aunt Li is a good person, I wish you to marry again." ”
Aunt Li was so angry that she took off the soles of her shoes and threw them over, Xiao Jinyan reached out to catch them, thanked her, and ran towards the pawnshop.
The pawnshop guy was reading a book on the high cabinet, the title of the book was called "An Embroidered Shoe", and he was nervous, when someone suddenly reached out and handed over an embroidered shoe, and said, "Shopkeeper, let's see how much this shoe can be?" The guy was frightened, and when he saw the person clearly, "It turned out to be Xiao ...... Xiao, that hero, what, where did you go to pick up the corner of the wall and get a broken shoe?"
Xiao Jinyan said that it was Aunt Li'er's.
Bang!
The cabinet door was closed, and the man said, "You dare to be her shoes, and we don't dare to accept them, last time an old hen of her family ran to Rich Li's house, and Rich Li wanted to keep it for himself, and the whole house was almost demolished by Aunt Li." ”
A gourd of water wine, a cabbage, this trip is quite cost-effective. He walked home while thinking, and while there was still some time at noon, he hurried back to the City God Temple to make up for his sleep.
The joy of the world, the wine and the bed board can not be disappointed!
Pushing the door in, Xiao Jinyan immediately became alert.
Not because he was in danger, but because he saw that there was a person on the broken door he used to sleep.
A woman.
A young, beautiful woman.
A quirky young and beautiful woman with sly eyes.
This is not a good thing, the last time he met such a woman, he gambled and lost money for three days and three nights.
"Girl, you seem to have slept in the wrong place. ”
The woman smiled and groaned: "My name is Little Red Fish, Wang Banxian wants me to come to you!"
"Wang Banxian, you bastard!" Xiao Jinyan scolded, "Four years ago, you deceived me of three hundred taels of silver, three years ago you deceived me of thirty taels of silver, two years ago you deceived me of three taels of silver, last year you cheated me out of my only thirty copper plates, this year I have no money, you brought a woman over, what kind of trouble is this?"
Xiao Hongyu said, "I'll pay off Wang Banxian's debts." ”
Xiao Jinyan snorted, "Can a woman eat as a meal, or drink as a drink? If you want to come to repay your debts, then show sincerity!"
The little red fish lay on the door panel, and pulled the long skirt to the side, revealing her graceful curves, "Do you think the sincerity is enough?"
Xiao Jinyan said, "Don't come to this set, even the principal with interest, at least five hundred taels, otherwise ......"
Xiao Hongyu was so angry, she had always been very conceited about her body, and she had tried and tested against men repeatedly, but for Xiao Jinyan, this trick seemed to be ineffective, she asked, "How else?"
"Otherwise, I'll sell you in the kiln for wine!"
Xiao Hongyu jumped up, pointed at Xiao Jinyan's nose and scolded, "You are really not a good thing!" She snorted coldly and said, you wait, I will come to you. With that, he got up and climbed over the wall.
Xiao Jinyan looked at her inexplicably and sighed, "Woman!"
He was angry, not because the little red fish was not pretty, but because she snatched her bed.
Not long after, the little red fish returned, "No, I can't just leave. ”
Xiao Jinyan asked, "What did Wang Banxian ask you to do?"
"Let you protect me!"
Xiao Jinyan sighed, "I knew it was nothing good." ”
"I'm now being hunted down by the people of Yixiaotang, I met him half a month ago, and he said that only you can protect me. ”
Xiao Jinyan secretly greeted the eighteenth generation of Wang Banxian's ancestors. The number one killer organization in the world, three orders and eighteen rudders, masters like clouds, the hall master Zao Wou-Ki ranks ninth in the Xiaosheng Jianghu black list, this Zao Wou-Ki is said to have another identity, one of the eight evil kings of the Light God Sect.
Zao Wou-Ki has a deep friendship with Yuwen Tianlu, the Governor of Dadu. Yuwen Tianlu is powerful in the government and the opposition, and those who offend him generally do not end well.
"Why were you hunted down by Yixiaotang?"
"A month ago, Yixiaotang robbed a dart in the Central Plains Dart Bureau, and there was an extremely valuable thing in it, and I stole that thing. Wang Banxian said, as long as you help me, the favor you owe him will be paid off. ”
Xiao Jinyan said angrily, "When did I owe someone a favor, he owes me a lot of money!"
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Near noon, a beautiful boy and a handsome young man rode a horse and a donkey, walking on the official road. Brother Gongzi is holding a folding fan made of Xiaoxiang bamboo, with a jade flute pinned to his waist, he is not chic in his dress, he is the third young master of Jinling Li Valve, he has been handsome since he was a child, and even women are ashamed to see it, and Li Chengcheng, who is known as the first beautiful man in the world.
Today, he brought the little grass to Nameless Town to visit Xiao Jinyan, the friend of life and death.
Li Chengcheng's power is not because of his unparalleled appearance, but because of his sword - Allure Sword - the fastest sword in the world, no one in the world is faster than his sword, except for Xiao Jinyan. The two once competed once, Xiao Jinyan could cut 37 plates of shredded potatoes with one knife, and Li Qingcheng could only cut 33 plates.
"Childe, when will you get to Nameless Town? Qingcao is hungry!"
Li Chengcheng sat on the horse and said, "It's coming soon, Xiao Jinyan knows that I am coming, and he will definitely prepare good wine and meat, what about me, after all, I am from a gate valve, and I won't eat that kind of coarse tea and light rice, and it will be cheaper for you when the time comes." ”
Qingcao muttered, "I'm afraid that if I don't get to Nameless Town, I'll starve to death first." ”
Li Qingcheng spread his hands, "Green grass, then you only have the life of eating grass." ”
Qingcao asked, "Childe, you said that our Li family has countless masters, and the "Martial Arts" came out, let's send a few old worshippers to take it with you, why do you still invite Xiao Jinyan? Besides, I have heard that Xiao Jinyan is very evil, how could he agree to help you?"
Li Qingcheng said lightly, "Because he owes me a favor." ”
"What favor?"
"Three years ago, he went to Qinhuai River to drink flower wine without giving money, and was detained in the city by the old bustard for three days and three nights. ”
"And then you paid for him?"
Li Qingcheng shook his head, "No, I castrated a donkey and gave it to the old bustard." ”
Qingcao wondered, "Childe, I don't understand." ”
Li Chengcheng touched his head, "When you grow up, you will naturally understand." ”
"So you're sure he'll make a move?"
"Li Chengcheng is determined, he will definitely make a move!"
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"It's impossible to make a move, it's impossible to make a move in this life!" Xiao Jinyan had a gourd of wine mixed with water in front of him, no, to be exact, a gourd of water mixed with wine, and eighteen green dates, looking at Li Tingcheng and his scholar with a calm face, not far away, Xiao Hongyu looked at these two people with a vigilant face.
"A "Martial Scripture" is not enough to impress me. Xiao Jinyan said lightly.
Li Chengcheng didn't answer, picked up a green jujube, played with it in his hand for a while, and put it in his mouth to chew. Seeing this, Qingcao did the same, and took one before putting it in his mouth, and spit it out: "It's too bitter, is this for people to eat?"
Xiao Jinyan said: "For the donkey to eat." ”
"Lu Gongzi" snorted twice in his nose when he heard this, and he didn't understand that it was so delicious green dates, but this guy actually disliked it and walked out with his head up.
Xiao Jinyan said: "Life is bitter, and green dates with wine are like tasting all the flavors of the world." ”
Qingcao said: "I don't understand. ”
Li Tingcheng knocked Qingcao's head with a folding fan: "If you don't understand, drink wine!"
Qingcao picked up the flask, poured a glass of wine, poured it into his mouth, and spat it out again. "What kind of wine is this, it doesn't taste at all?"
Xiao Jinyan: "If you touch it carefully, it still tastes like wine." ”
Qingcao said: "Don't hesitate to drink your rotten wine, we have our own apricot blossom wine and peach blossom cake." After saying that, he got up angrily, went to the door to tie the horse to the stake to get wine, and suddenly shouted, "Ah!
Cuihua is not a human, but a donkey he rides.
"Lu Gongzi" had already drunk a jar of peach blossom wine, and the peach blossom cake was also eaten at all, drunk and staggering, and was about to do something unconscionable to Cuihua. Cuihua couldn't stop resisting, Lu Gongzi pulled his long face, and excitedly circled around "her".
Xiao Jinyan and Li Chengcheng rushed over when they heard the sound, and their light skills were on par.
Qingcao said angrily, "You lustful donkey, see that I don't skin you." ”
Xiao Jinyan grabbed Lu Gongzi's ears and asked, "Foolish, is the wine delicious?"
Lu Gongzi nodded.
Xiao Jinyan slapped the donkey's buttocks, "It's so good, don't you keep it for me!"
Lu Gongzi was in pain, but he was shocked by Xiao Jinyan's "obscenity" and did not dare to move.
Xiao Jinyan asked again, "Is the peach blossom crisp delicious?"
Lu Gongzi nodded.
Xiao Jinyan slapped him again, "It's delicious, don't you keep it for me!"
Xiao Jinyan asked again: "Is this donkey good-looking?"
Lu Gongzi nodded.
Xiao Jinyan raised his hand again, Lu Gongzi learned to be obedient this time, and quickly broke free, came to Cuihua's side, and mouthed at Xiao Jinyan, as if to say, you are the master, I will leave this female donkey to you.
Li Chengcheng stopped, "Okay, why can't you get along with a donkey?"
Xiao Jinyan smiled dumbly and shook his head.
Li Tingcheng asked, "You really don't want to make a move?"
Xiao Jinyan said, "You are my friend, you come and I invite you to drink." I'm sorry, I'm not available!" He took a sip of half of the jug's water, burped, and lay down on the door.
"Didn't you say that you want to go to the rivers and lakes?"
Xiao Jinyan said lightly, "Where I am, where is the rivers and lakes." With that, he closed his eyes, and in an instant, there was a sound of snoring.
Li Chengcheng's face was gloomy, and he slowly pulled out the sword in his waist, and the scholar Qingcao hurriedly flashed aside, he knew that whenever Gongzi made such an expression, he was ready to make a move. The little red fish also sensed the danger and fell towards the jujube tree in the yard.
He came to the temple of the city god.
Qingcao asked, "Childe, what are you going to do?"
Li Chengcheng said: "Break the four olds!"
Suddenly, the cold light flashed, and Li Chengcheng jumped up in the air, slashing out more than ten swords in the air, and the air was full of cracking silks.
Bang.
In an instant, the entire City God Temple was razed to the ground, leaving only one door standing in place, and Xiao Jinyan who was lying on the ground sleeping soundly.
It's raining.
Xiao Jinyan turned around, dragged the door panel under the jujube tree, and complained, "It's just such a piece of land that shelters from the rain, and it was destroyed by you." It seems that when you get up in the future, you have to look at the yellow calendar first. It's not a good time to welcome guests. ”
There was a knock at the door.
In the entire City God Temple, there is only one door left, and the other party still knocks on the door, which shows that the person who came is a very polite person. Xiao Jinyan looked at it, and the person who came was a twenty-four-five-year-old man, with a disheveled hair, wearing animal skins, and a knife pinned to his waist, two wooden planks to be exact, and a piece of iron between them.
The other stood in the rain like a cold knife.
The person who came was none other than Zhao Lanjiang.
Xiao Jinyan scratched his head, "Why are you here?"
Zhao Lanjiang ignored Xiao Jinyan's greeting to him, walked straight to the broken temple, reached out and took a green date, put it in his mouth, and chewed it.
Qingcao said: "That's for donkeys." ”
Zhao Lanjiang rolled his eyes, and Qingcao was too frightened to speak. He took the wine gourd, took the remaining half of the pot of water and wine, raised his head and drank it all. Xiao Jinyan said distressedly, "That's my ration for three days!"
Zhao Lanjiang wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth, looked at Xiao Jinyan and said, "You have to help me grab the martial arts!"
"Why?"
"I want to learn the martial arts above the martial arts scripture and kill a person, Yuwen Tianlu. ”
If it were someone else and said that he wanted to kill Yuwen Tianlu, Xiao Jinyan would definitely think that he was crazy, who was Yuwen Tianlu? The governor of the Ming Dynasty, the master behind the Yixiao Hall, a frightening killer organization on the rivers and lakes, was also a master of the Nine Grades. However, when this sentence came out of Zhao Lanjiang's mouth, Xiao Jinyan didn't feel strange at all.
"I don't seem to owe you anything, but you still owe me my life. ”
Zhao Baojiang said, "So you have to help me grab the martial arts." ”
"Why?"
"You saved me. ”
"I saved you, so I want to help you?"
"You saved me, if I can't get the martial arts, I can't kill that person, I will be killed by that person, then you saved me in vain. So, you have to help me. ”
Xiao Jinyan said: "What you said is so reasonable, I can't refute it at all." ”
"You promised to help me?"
Xiao Jinyan pointed at Li Tingcheng, "You go over there and line up first, I'm going to sleep." “