Volume 1 The first foray into the rivers and lakes Chapter 18 The down-and-out old way
The next morning, Xu Zhaonan pushed open the window, and the bright light outside the window shone in, and the warm sun in the spring came with a trace of warmth.
The awakened Egoshi Castle has also started its new day.
Xiao Bai, who was lying on the side of the bed, also felt the temperature of the sun, opened his eyes, his shiny hair was shining golden in the sunlight, and looked at Xu Zhaonan in front of the window, Xiao Bai called softly twice, as if venting his dissatisfaction with being woken up, and then buried his head in his forelimbs, ready to continue to sleep.
"Whew......"
Suddenly, Xiao Bai let out a miserable scream, only to see Xu Zhaonan turn around suddenly, ride on Xiao Bai, shake Xiao Bai's head vigorously, and said with a smile in his mouth: "Okay, you lazy Xiaobai, how can you sleep so well, get up, it's time for us to go." β
When he was crazy with Xiaobai, somehow, Xu Zhaonan suddenly remembered yesterday's encounter in his mind, and originally planned to inform Su Yurou of his discovery, but he didn't expect to inadvertently annoy others, and he forgot to tell him about it for a while.
If you rush to the county guard to tell you, I'm afraid it's a little abrupt, and I'm going to set off today.
Downstairs, the hall was already lively, and many diners were already sitting at the table eating breakfast.
Coincidentally, no one was sitting at the empty table he had sat at last night, and Xu Zhaonan led Xiaobai to the vacant seat, which attracted the attention of many diners while walking.
Just like last night, I asked for ten catties of wine and meat and two pots of wine, and then packed some dry food for the road to eat.
While eating, Su Yurou's appearance inexplicably appeared in his mind, lingering, Xu Zhaonan shook his head with a wry smile, and said to himself: "Forget it, help people to the end." β
waved his hand to beckon the shopkeeper, and he was going to come to leave a letter with a pen and paper for the second generation to send it, but he remembered the trouble caused by letting Yixue Dai deliver the letter himself, and dispelled the idea at the moment.
Now that you're ready to help someone to the end, it's better to go yourself.
Even if it's abrupt, we won't see each other in the future anyway.
After learning from Xiao Er that the county guard mansion was the most magnificent building in the center of the city, Xu Zhaonan settled the account at the counter, packed his luggage, and led Xiaobai out of the inn.
Along the way, Xu Zhaonan finally saw what a prosperous county town should be, in addition to all kinds of food he had never seen before, there were many Jianghu people who were surrounded by the people to perform in a circle, some spit fireworks, some broke boulders on their chests, and some could hold the spear on the ground like a crescent moon just by their throats.
Every wonderful moment can always trigger a warm cheer.
Before coming to the county guard's mansion, Xu Zhaonan said politely to the guards standing on the left and right: "Please inform your young lady about it, and say that Xu Zhaonan asked to see you, and Miss Su and I met yesterday." β
"Xu Zhaonan?"
The guard looked him up and down in confusion, this name is naturally unheard, what kind of identity is his own lady, and she is as beautiful as a fairy, there are countless people who usually come to the door to ask to see, if you come to see it casually, then it is worth it?
However, he said that he met with Miss yesterday, and the guard had heard from the housekeeper that Miss had ordered the servants in the house to find someone in the city last night, could it be the one in front of him?
In case it's really a young lady's honored guest, it's not good to slack off.
At that moment, the guard who accosted him glanced at the guard standing on the other side, and then arched his hand to Xu Zhaonan and said, "Young man wait here, let me go in and report." β
"I'm tired. Xu Zhaonan arched his hand.
When the guards entered the mansion, it was naturally inconvenient to enter the backyard where the ladies were, and they were about to find a maid to report on their behalf, when they suddenly saw the young lady leading the maid's red sleeves to walk in the flowers in the courtyard, and was walking in her direction.
The guard immediately arched his hand and said loudly: "Miss, there is a young man outside the door who claims to be Xu Zhaonan who wants to see him." β
"Is that him?"
"Hmph, Deng's disciple!"
Hearing the guard's report, Su Yurou frowned and was a little surprised, but the red sleeves snorted coldly and scolded the disciple.
Su Yurou glanced back at Red Sleeves, as if she was a little displeased, Red Sleeves stuck out her tongue and bowed her head silently.
Su Yurou then asked the guard, "Can he say anything?"
The guard replied, "No." only said that he met with Miss last night, and asked his subordinates to report it for him. β
"It's hard work, you go back first. Su Yurou said softly, not saying whether she saw it or not.
"The subordinates retired. The guard clenched his fists and retreated.
Su Yurou stood in place and thought for a moment, then whispered to the red sleeves: "Let's go, let's go out and meet him and see what he wants to do." β
Red Sleeves said a little unwillingly: "Miss, that person is a disciple, see what he does." β
Su Yurou frowned and scolded in a low voice: "Don't be rude." β
Red Sleeves stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to talk back.
The master and servant came to the door, and when they saw Xu Zhaonan standing outside the door dressed up about to go out, Su Yurou walked down the steps and said with a smile: "I don't know what Xu Shaoxia is doing when he comes today?"
Xu Zhaonan raised his eyebrows, why did he call Shaoxia again, didn't he say that he was called by name yesterday, but the women he had met in his life could be counted on one hand, how could he understand so many women's thoughts, and he didn't care at the moment.
However, since people are polite, they are not easy to mess around, so Zhengse said: "I'm about to leave, I thought I would come to say goodbye to Miss Su, and by the way, I forgot to say something yesterday." β
"Oh?" Su Yurou smiled, "I would like to hear about it." β
Xu Zhaonan continued: "My nose has been better than ordinary people since I was a child. Yesterday I smelled some sweet potatoes from your horse's mouth, you know, if you eat a lot of raw sweet potatoes, it will cause poisoning in the horse, and the horse will be frightened and crazy, I wonder if Miss Su knows about it. β
Xu Zhaonan naturally wouldn't say it, because he had been learning poison with Granny Sun since he was a child, and he needed to take medicine often to distinguish poison, so that he would become sensitive to smell, and he could see at a glance that the jujube red horse was not frightened, but poisoned.
After listening to him, Su Yurou frowned, thinking that he had some wrong plans, but before he came out, he had already looked down on him a little more in his heart, but he didn't expect that he was actually here to remind himself of this matter, but it seemed that he was a villain.
It's no wonder that Hong'er, who is extremely docile on weekdays, suddenly went crazy yesterday for some reason, almost hurting others and herself.
Su Yurou kept thinking in her mind, but on the surface, she smiled dignifiedly, and thanked: "I didn't expect Xu Shaoxia to have such magical powers, I will order someone to find out what happened when I turn around, thank you." β
Xu Zhaonan arched his hand and said, "Miss Su is polite, since the matter is over, I will take a step first." β
Although he was a little inexplicable about Su Yurou's change of attitude before and after, he thought that after this parting, the rivers and lakes would be far away in the future, and he might not be able to meet him again, so he didn't say polite words that would be in the future.
stepped on Xiaobai, nodded at Su Yurou, and ran out of the city.
Looking at the back of Xu Zhaonan leaving, Su Yurou didn't do much to keep it, after all, she didn't know whether what he said was true or false, smiled lightly, turned her head to the red sleeves beside her and asked, "Did you hear what he said?"
Redsleeves nodded and replied, "I heard it, and Redsleeves immediately ordered someone to investigate." β
Su Yurou nodded, didn't say anything more, turned around and walked back to the house.
It was another day of rushing, seeing the sunset gradually falling towards the ground level, Xu Zhaonan found a place by a stream with a wide field of vision and stopped.
A man and a wolf who have been running in the mountains and forests all day without stopping are already hungry.
Although he brought a lot of dry food from the inn before leaving, it was only enough for Xu Zhaonan to eat aloneβthose things were not enough for Xiaobai to stuff his teeth.
Xu Zhaonan picked up some dead branches and made a fire, and ordered Xiaobai to go to the forest to find food, and he put the dry food he brought on the fire to add heat, ready to wait for Xiaobai to come back from hunting and start together.
After a while, the grass and trees in the forest shook, revealing Xiaobai's tall figure, and a wild deer that had died in his mouth was still in his mouth.
Xu Zhaonan smiled, touched Xiaobai's head, and said approvingly: "Good job, it seems that there is venison to eat tonight." β
Xiaobai let go of his mouth and put the venison in front of Xu Zhaonan, and rubbed his head against his hand.
Xu Zhaonan carried the wild deer to the stream, took the front out of the sheath, and flew in his hand, and then peeled off the deer skin.
When the blood stains on the wild deer were cleaned, Xu Zhaonan didn't cut it, but directly found a thick branch and inserted it into the body of the wild deer, and slowly roasted it on the fire.
The golden deer oil dripped in the fire, making a loud sound, and the tempting fragrance could be smelled from afar, and Xiaobai was lying on the side and was already drooling.
Seeing this, Xu Zhaonan picked up the dead branch at hand and knocked it on Xiaobai's head a few times, and said angrily: "Look at your impatient look, don't worry, wait before you can eat." β
"Taiyi, that Tianzun...... It's ready to eat!"
Suddenly there was a shout in my ears.
Xu Zhaonan was so frightened that his hair stood on end, and he hurriedly stood up and looked around, but he didn't see any trace of half of the people, and Xiaobai also honestly lay on the ground and kept saliva, without any abnormal reaction.
Xu Zhaonan poked Xiaobai's head with a withered branch, and said tentatively: "Just now, you were talking?"
Xiaobai stuck out his tongue and drooled, and looked at Xu Zhaonan in confusion, not knowing what he was talking about.
"Alas, it turned out that it wasn't Xiaobai Chengjing, which scared me. Xu Zhaonan patted his chest and sighed.
In an instant, he pulled out Zang Feng with a bang, looked around with a sword in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Where did the little man come from pretending to be a ghost in front of this young man, and if he has the ability, he will come out! Try that the sword in this young man's hand is not sharp!"
"Boy, the handful on your back is a good thing, why don't you throw it away, but you want to use this broken copper and iron to pretend with the poor road?"
Xu Zhaonan heard another sneer in his ears, although the voice echoed in his ears, but there was no trace of anyone in the four corners.
Xu Zhaonan frowned, and thought to himself, it seems that he has met a master, this skill of transmitting sound into the secret cannot be learned by those who are not deep in internal strength. And when this person came closer, not only did he not find out, but he even hid Xiaobai.
At this time, Xiao Bai, who was lying on the ground, also seemed to notice that something was wrong, shrugged the tip of his nose, stood up suddenly, and let out a long howl, causing the mountains and forests to shake.
"Yo, Taiyi, that Tianzun...... This white wolf is handsome, boy, how about giving this wolf to the poor road, and the poor road will give you a creation?"
I saw that this person was dressed in a tattered robe, with white hair tied at random on the top of his head, a branch that seemed to be picked up by hand was inserted in the bun crookedly, one hand was holding a few white whiskers, and the other hand was holding the white beard on his chest, and he looked at Xiaobai with a mouse's eyebrows.
"Woo......"
Xiao Bai stared at the person with big wolf eyes, and let out a roar in his throat, as long as the person dared to take another step, he would kill him.
Xu Zhaonan looked at the person who came, although he was dressed as a down-and-out Taoist priest, but he was clearly standing in front of him at the moment, but he couldn't feel his existence under his own heart, and suddenly knew that he had met a senior master.
Xu Zhaonan knew that even if he shot with all his might, he might not be able to defeat this down-and-out old man, but his greatest ability was not a sword move!
Since this person did not show hostility, Xu Zhaonan simply returned the sword into the sheath, and said with a smile: "The seniors said that they were joking, Xiaobai grew up with me since he was a child, and I am afraid that he will not be willing to be taken away by his predecessors." β
The down-and-out old man looked at him and sneered: "What? Do you think that if you collect the sword, I won't make a move? Poor Dao is a monk, but he is not a person in the rivers and lakes, and he will not talk about the rules of the rivers and lakes. β
Xu Zhaonan still smiled: "What the seniors said is bad, and the juniors know that they are not the opponents of the seniors." At this moment, the sword is retracted, all because the younger generation does not dare to make a rash move, so as not to laugh and be generous. β
After that, he shouted at Xiaobai and let him lie on his stomach honestly.
The down-and-out old man didn't care, walked towards the fire, and said: "Kung Fu is not good, but the barbecue skills are not bad." β
When Xu Zhaonan heard this, a trace of ridicule flashed in his eyes, and he invited: "This wild deer is very big, and Xiaobai and I can't eat it all, why don't you invite your seniors to share the food together?"
The down-and-out old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Taiyi, that Tianzun...... It is better to be respectful than to obey the fate. β
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