Chapter 2 Tea Shop
The tea shop on the official road has disappeared for more than a few days, except for the past merchants, the knights on the rivers and lakes never dare to rest here, most of the tea shops on the official road are set up by powerful people here, the purpose is not for people to rest, earn a meager tea money as simple, this must be followed by an unsightly conspiracy.
Merchants are forced to helplessly, do not dare to walk the deep dense sheep intestine path, where most of the strongmen rob the road, rob money and try to live, let those merchants no matter how big the family business, but also afraid that their lives will not be guaranteed, leaving a huge family property so that the strongman can enjoy the blessings, and the ghost will hate the itchy teeth.
The tea shop disappeared for a few days as if it were a trick, and then stood firmly in the early morning light.
The guy in the tea shop still had a cold face, which was incomprehensible. There are tables, chairs and benches on the terrace outside the tea shop for people to rest and drink tea, no matter how big or small you are, whether the family property is rich or not, enter the tea shop, cook tea and pour tea to find a seat, he will always be the smoke-colored half-worn clothes, sitting alone on the top of the terrace, listening to the passers-by tell about the fighting and killing of the rivers and lakes.
The first tea customer to enter the tea shop today was a convoy of fine silk, they stopped in front of the tea shop, and the man who looked like a man walked into the tea shop and looked inside.
The guy suddenly said leisurely behind the man: "If you want to drink tea, cook it yourself, you don't serve people here, what you want, it all depends on your own hands, and the silver taels are placed in the hat in front of the door, more or less, I will weigh it." ”
The man was startled by the sudden sound behind him, and he was cold and braved the cold wind, took two steps back, and with a "bang", the hat standing outside the door fell to the ground, and the poisonous scorpions inside were about to crawl out one after another, and there were more than ten of them.
The man hurriedly bent over to apologize, and his speech was in a trance.
"This is for the little brother, right...... Don't stop, bumped into your hat. I'll clean it up for you. ”
The man knew very well that this poisonous scorpion was powerful, and he could not be easily touched by outsiders, so he stood in front of the man. Quickly bent down and quickly picked up the poisonous scorpions scattered on the ground.
A middle-aged man dressed as a shopkeeper walked in, he didn't know why, looked at his buddy, and looked at the tea shop guy who bent over to pick up poisonous scorpions.
When the man saw the shopkeeper coming in, he hurriedly retreated behind the shopkeeper, like a frightened child, and did not dare to raise his eyes.
The tea shop guy cleaned up the poisonous scorpion in the hat and squinted at the shopkeeper. Look up and down.
The shopkeeper saw the intention, reached into the left cuff with his right hand, obediently took out a silver ingot, dragged the hand of the tea shop guy on his own initiative, and put the silver ingot in the buddy's hand.
The smile on his face was piled up like a hill of folds, and in this fold was his shrewdness.
"This silver ingot bought some wine for the little brother to drink, and asked the little brother to accept it, this is a little bit of old thought, my guy is afraid that he is blind and bumps into the little brother, and please don't blame the little brother." ”
The tea shop guy looked at the silver ingot in his hand, and his eyes were smiling. Take it in your hand and weigh it, and it will be true silver.
The tea shop guy secretly glanced at the silk convoy outside, and then looked at the shopkeeper's dress, and naturally his heart was happy.
"If you have any command, just ask, the small one will accept the silver, and the little one will thank the shopkeeper here, and the shopkeeper has a heart. ”
This sweet remark made the shopkeeper happy. The tea shop guy still peeked at the silk convoy parked outside the tea shop from time to time.
The shopkeeper seemed to have something unspeakable, rubbing his hands repeatedly, and the tea shop guy could see that the shopkeeper was cramped and uneasy. If you take people's money, you have to share people's worries.
The tea shop guy took the silver ingot into his arms, and a light smile finally appeared on his face.
"The small one looks at the shopkeeper seems to have something unspeakable, I don't know if the small one can help, as long as the small one can do it, there is no other word, by the way, the small one is called the stone lock, and the shopkeeper will be called in the future. ”
The shopkeeper's heart was still hanging, and finally with the eager help of the stone lock, the shopkeeper decided to gamble.
The shopkeeper whispered in the ear of the stone lock.
The silk convoy had been resting in the tea shop until dusk and sunset, and had no intention of continuing on their way, for they were waiting for the night to come.
The night may not be able to see the sinister nature of the human heart, and it may not be able to understand the root of good and evil.
Shi Suo has been suffering all afternoon, usually leisurely, time flies quickly, but today is extremely difficult.
The dark night slowly climbed into the official sky, and the candles in the tea shop were hazy, adding a strange color to the dark night. The men of the silk convoy ate tea and wine, chatted, and completely lost their guard against the silk transported.
Shi Suo counted the hour with his fingers, midnight had come, the men were already drowsy, Shi Suo swaggered close to the carriage carrying silk, and poured all the living creatures in the hat into the silk.
Living creatures emit the fragrance of hibiscus flowers, and when the fragrance is the strongest, it is when it is difficult to save a small life.
In this dark night, calculating the conspiracy, Shi Suo is not the only one who is awake.
On the second day, Shi Suo was very diligent, making tea for the men of the convoy, unusually, talking and laughing with those men, and telling them to be careful in everything.
The shopkeeper called the stone lock to the back of the tea shop, looked left and right and no one noticed, and took out a sandalwood box in his arms.
"Brother Shi, there is a sandalwood box here, which is temporarily stored here for you today, where I go, I don't know if I will return here alive, three days later, if I don't return here, then I will bother Brother Shi to hand over this sandalwood box to Manna Seed. ”
Seeing the shopkeeper's solemn appearance, Shi Suo didn't seem to be lying, so he took the wooden box in the shopkeeper's hand solemnly.
"The shopkeeper is going to Zisu Villa to seek revenge? That Sima Yuebai, with such high martial arts, ordinary people are not his opponents at all, but I am afraid that he will ...... when the time comes. ”
The shopkeeper looked up at the sun, the hour had come, and the back of the tea shop blocked most of the morning sun, but the heat was in full swing, and there were naturally countless troubles in his heart. The shopkeeper smiled weirdly, and a hint of evil came to his brows.
"Brother Shi, you can open the wooden box and see, everything is in the wooden box, the ups and downs of this world, and the greedy human heart, are all resolved in this wooden box. ”
Shi Suo looked embarrassed and put the wooden box back in front of the shopkeeper.
"The shopkeeper, I can do what I am entrusted with, but this wooden box is a precious thing, and it must not be opened to look at it. ”
"Brother Shi is really a first-class kind-hearted person, Wan is really admired. Na Wan opened the wooden box, and when Ganluzi asked about it, Brother Shi could deal with it easily. ”
The shopkeeper put the wooden box back in his hand, and then couldn't wait to open the wooden box slowly, and at the moment when the wooden box immediately saw the morning sun, the shopkeeper covered the box tightly.
Wan Mou was so deceitful, and the evil smile at the corner of his mouth was already stained with the entire wrinkles.
"Brother Shi, do you have anything else to explain? After today, presumably the two of us will not see each other again. ”
Shi Suo took a step back, and Lang smiled: "After Brother Wan opens the wooden box, it will not be too late for Brother Shi to explain!"