Into the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 18: Chinese New Year's Eve
"Let's go?"
The little proprietress was a little surprised, twisted her eyebrows and looked at the young man, and nodded, "Yes, this time is not busy, I will give you a few days off, take a good look around the city, but don't run too far!"
"It's not. ”
Ye Feng raised his hand to interrupt the little proprietress and shook his head to explain:
"I don't want to rest, I mean, I want to leave Longyou City, or even leave this Great Song Kingdom, I want to... I want to see somewhere else..."
As soon as the words fell, several other people at the table stopped their movements at the same time and put down the dishes and chopsticks, and turned their heads to look at Ye Feng in unison, with a look of incomprehension in their eyes.
For this decision, Ye Feng himself actually hesitated for a long time.
It has been more than half a year since he came to this Longyou City, and since that time he drank some spring water contaminated with immortal qi in Shilipo, the two cultivations of the young man have been staying in the early stage of the second realm of physical training and the middle stage of the third realm of qi training.
After that, no matter how hard he tried, his cultivation never grew.
When he was separated from Leng Nuan, the swordsman in Tsing Yi only told himself that he would find a way to settle here after finding Longyou City.
But now that nearly half a year has passed since the immortal qi descended into the world, and this Longyou City has always belonged to the agricultural city of the Great Song Kingdom, and there are not too many martial artists or martial arts families, so it is impossible for Ye Feng to learn any martial arts and mental techniques here.
"Do you have to wait here for the next incarnation of the immortal qi after three more Jiazi?"
The teenager often asked himself.
In other words, this immortal qi incarnation is completely random and uncertain, and it can only be calculated by means of the signs of heaven and earth when it is about to descend.
So Ye Feng guessed that Leng Nuan only pointed out the first step to himself at that time, and as for how to go after that, it was up to the young man to choose for himself.
"Have you thought about it?"
The bookkeeper rubbed the golden plum in his hand, and his brows were twisted into Sichuan characters.
"Hmm!"
Ye Feng nodded affirmatively.
"I said Xiao Ye Feng..."
A face full of philistines in the running hall was crowded together as if constipated, and he said:
"Do you know how big the world is? Do you know how big the Great Song Kingdom is? Do you know how fierce the beasts are in those mountains and rivers? Do you know how unpredictable the human heart is? Do you know all this?"
After that, he took the wine glass and drank it all, turned his head to look at the flaming red lantern hanging at the door and ignored Ye Feng.
The bald chef on the side also wanted to say something when she saw this, but she didn't want to be stopped by the little proprietress raising her hand, she blinked her apricot eyes and stared at Ye Feng seriously, shook her head slowly at the cook, and said softly: "Don't stop him..."
And Ye Feng has been quietly watching the reactions of everyone in the room, without words, he stretched out his chopsticks with a smile and put a dumpling in his mouth to chew slowly, savoring it.
After a while, the young man smiled and said to everyone:
"Actually, I know that none of you are ordinary people, you are all martial arts cultivators, and your realm is not low. ”
The little proprietress was surprised when they heard this, they looked at each other and looked at each other, and were just about to open their mouths to explain to Ye Feng, but they were interrupted by the young man raising his hand.
After sorting out his thoughts, Ye Feng looked down indifferently and rubbed the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, and quietly revealed the secret that had been held in his heart:
"Actually, the first day I came to the inn, I knew that you were all good people, so I became a young man here. At first, the cook asked me to get up to fetch water, to be honest, I was quite unhappy, but later, I found that I had to spill half of the water when I returned to the inn from the very beginning, and almost not a drop of water would be spilled after a month, so I understood his good intentions.
The accumulation of carrying water made my lower leg strength more and more stable, and even once let me escape from death in an almost certain situation, and turned defeat into victory, and there was a runaway, that time there was a drunk drunk and vomited on the ground, he sat there and gnawed his fingers and refused to clean up by himself, so he had to instruct me to do it,
I've loved cleanliness since I was a child, I can't stand this at all, I endured the nausea to do this, and I even had a trace of hatred for running the hall in my heart, but then I thought about it carefully and realized that he was trying to teach me to forbear, to let me know that joy and anger are invisible, in this world of the jungle, you must be bullied if you are weak, if you want not to be bullied, you must first know how to forbear. ”
Speaking of this, the young man looked up and glanced at the four petrified little proprietresses, smiled faintly, took a sip of water from the teacup and continued to say to himself:
"There is also the account room, I think you should know that I got a little chance when I was born into the world of immortal qi, but there seems to be something wrong in the middle, my cultivation has not only declined, but also no matter how I cultivate after that, it will not increase. I don't know how the account office used to know about my changes, but since then, there will be a plate of unknown herbs in our dishes every day, and you don't eat this dish, so the account office only forces me to eat alone, I think, it should be the account room to find a way to help me regulate my body. ”
After speaking, Ye Feng threw a grateful look at the account room, although he did not speak, his feelings were sincere.
The latter came back to his senses after being stunned, picked up the golden bottle on the table and covered his face shyly, "giggling" and snickering.
"What about me, what about me?"
The little proprietress on the side couldn't wait to ask, put her hands on the table to support her chin, and looked at Ye Feng expectantly.
The corners of the young man's mouth were slightly raised, his eyes were like two crescents, he cleared his throat and said:
"As for the little proprietress , although her personality is pungent..."
As soon as the words came out, Ye Feng felt a little chill in his back, and turned his head to look, only to see the little proprietress staring at him coldly with a pair of beautiful eyes, and holding a pair of broken bamboo chopsticks in her hand.
swallowed his saliva in a panic, and the young man hurriedly changed his mouth wittily:
"Ahem, although the little proprietress is a little impatient, she is actually a very kind person, although she is only willing to give me thirty yuan every month no matter how I want it, but I know that she actually saved the rest of the money for me, I should be afraid that I will spend money at a young age, oh, it is in the money bag on her waist!"
As he spoke, Ye Feng raised his finger and pointed to the waist of the little proprietress's skirt.
When everyone heard this, they all subconsciously looked at the position of the little proprietress on her waist, and sure enough, you can see through the clothes that there is indeed a small bag bulging there.
"That's right! But there is no reward. ”
The little proprietress put down the bamboo chopsticks in her hand and clapped her hands, smiling.
After a moment of silence, the cook, who had not said a word, slapped the table with both hands and hummed:
"With Xiao Yefeng's mind, you can go out and break through!"
With that, Wu got up and walked towards the kitchen with the empty bowl.
"When are you leaving?"
The little proprietress turned her head to look at Ye Feng.
"Tomorrow..."
“.....”
On the Chinese New Year's Eve night of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the front hall of the inn was empty, and in the empty bowl used by Ye Feng on the table next to the stove, three copper coins were quietly placed...
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ye Feng in the small bedroom sat on the bed neatly folded with quilts.
Carefully wrapped the jade plaque of Nie Li's travelogue and Taishang Jiuzhou Island in oiled paper and put it in his arms, the young man got up, picked up the back basket in the corner of the wall, stuck the short stick in the back basket, and beckoned Yuan Bao to jump in.
Finally, he hid the silver short sword in his sleeve and helped the unsightly sugar man inserted in the back basket, Ye Feng slowly glanced around the corner of the room, turned around and walked out.
went downstairs, and there were only two people in the front hall, the little proprietress and the bookkeeper.
Seeing Ye Feng come down, Mr. Bookkeeper smiled embarrassedly at the young man, scratched his head and said, "The two of them who ran the hall may have been too tired recently and didn't get up..."
"It's okay..."
Ye Feng shook his head with a smile, turned around and walked towards the little proprietress who was sitting at the counter with her head bored.
Syllable~
The latter threw a purple money bag on the counter with a shake of his hand, and said coldly: "It's a hundred taels of silver inside, save some flowers!"
After that, he bent down and took out a bag from the counter and threw it next to the money bag, and continued to be angry:
"Inside are two pairs of mille-feuille shoes and a thick jacket, this year's winter should be a bit long, pay attention to keep warm on the road. ”
After a pause, he lifted the green silk in his ear, looked away, and added:
"We'll be here in four or three years, and if we don't work, we'll be back. ”
From beginning to end, the little proprietress did not look at the teenager once.
"Hmm. ”
Ye Feng smiled and responded, picked up the bag and money bag and waved his hand to the account room on the side, turned around and walked outside the inn...
"Little proprietress ~ Your makeup technique is really good! Don't wear it in the future! It's ugly!"
Ye Feng, who had walked to the street position, suddenly turned his head and shouted, and then strode wildly and ran away.
At the counter of the inn, the little proprietress looked at the empty street farthest from the door, wiped the drops of water from the corners of her eyes with her slender fingers, and wiped her makeup but didn't seem to know it, just smiled stupidly.
In the kitchen, the bald chef squatted alone in the corner, holding a basket of vegetables and picking vegetables, his dull face expressionless.
On the second floor of the front hall, on the other side of the small bedroom where Ye Feng lived, the guy in the running hall was lying on the bed with his legs between the quilt, looking at the opposite wall with his eyes open, like a wood carving.
...
In the northernmost part of the Great Song Dynasty, at the junction with the Jin Kingdom, there is an important pass called Ziwu Pass.
Although the four major dynasties of the Dongliu Continent have the support of the four major sects behind the scenes, there is still frequent friction between their borders.
Without him, interests dictate.
Ziwu Pass, the five major passes of the Great Song Dynasty ranked second.
The people here are fierce, suppressing literature and promoting martial arts, and the martial arts hall and the Jianghu school occupy half of the pass.
It is also rumored that nine times out of ten, those Jianghu schools are the eyeliner spies planted in Ziwu Pass by the cunning little emperor of the Jin State who has just ascended the throne, in order to one day be able to lead the iron cavalry of the Jin State to rush through the pass and wave the army south, swallowing the Great Song Kingdom that only knows how to dance and write.
Three hundred miles to the south of Ziwu Pass, is a layer of undulating Weiyan Mountains, the mountains are mostly fierce beasts and spirit pets, many people who practice martial arts and cultivation have come here to capture spirit pets, looking for opportunities, but most of them are buried in the belly of fierce beasts, and they have not left a whole corpse behind.
There is a mountain peak in the mountain range for Yeyun Mountain, which can be said to be the most dangerous, it is rumored that there is a leopard that has become a spirit hidden in the depths of this mountain, and there is a colorful tiger that has been cultivated for hundreds of years, the two beasts are divided into mountains here, and all the passers-by and birds and beasts who do not know whether they are alive or dead enter the mountain and never come out again.