Early the next morning, I went downstairs with Hu Xiaoer to check out to the shopkeeper. Hu Xiaoer walked in front in high spirits, and although I slept on the bed last night, I was very tired with two dark circles under my eyes and yawning. The old shopkeeper returned the excess money to Hu Xiaoer, his eyes stayed on me for a long time, and then he raised his eyebrows at Hu Xiaoer, "How did you sleep last night?"

"It's okay, it's okay. Hu Xiaoer said politely.

"Young people must know how to exercise moderation," the old shopkeeper smiled ambiguously, "the coming days will be long." ”

"Yes, yes. Hu Xiaoer nodded as if he didn't understand, extremely polite, "That's what you said." ”

I glared at them and turned away with my sword in hand. Hu Xiaoer's shouts caught up from behind, and I walked faster and faster. I don't want to wait for him, who made his snoring last night get louder and louder, so that I didn't sleep well for the rest of the day.

Although my light skills are not as good as those of my master and brother, they are more than enough compared to Hu Xiaoer, who does not know martial arts. It's just that I can't bear to really leave him a powerless person, and if I really lose my trust for such a trivial matter, it doesn't seem that I am a woman. So I walked for a while, then stopped for a while and waited for Hu Xiaoer to catch up. When he caught up, he was tired and out of breath, and when he saw a tea house on the side of the road ahead, he said that he would sit there and take a break, and by the way, he invited me to eat tea to make amends.

I said okay, I was in a hurry when I came out of the inn just now, I didn't eat early, and now my stomach is empty.

"That's just right," Hu Xiaoer said without ambiguity at all, "I'll invite you to drink tea, and you will please have refreshments." ”

I gritted my teeth at him.

"What, what?" he shouted unashamedly, "It's a big deal that next time I invite you to have some refreshments, you invite you to drink tea, it's fair!"

Gotta get a guy who picks the door!

The tea house is a simple straw hut with a cart, a steamer, a stove for boiling water, and three tables to settle on. There was an old woman boiling water waiting in the tea house, and Hu Xiaoer and I sat down on one of the tables, only to hear her voice sound, "What do the two guest officers want?"

I said, "Grandma, I want a pot of tea and some snacks." ”

The old woman replied and stood up tremblingly with a wooden staff. Only then did I realize that her eyes were probably not very good, and her eyes were half-squinted, but in addition to clinging to the staff, her hands and feet were also flexible and flexible.

She came up with a pot of tea and a steaming plate, "It's a coincidence that the two guest officers came, the water has just boiled, and the steamed cake in the cage has just been cooked, try it." ”

Hu Xiaoer was so hungry that he reached out and grabbed a piece of steamed cake and stuffed it into his mouth, nodding at me with a "uh-huh, uh-huh" sound while chewing. I ate the steamed cake with tea, the soft glutinous white cake was embedded with lard and sesame filling, mixed with the sweet and bitter tea aroma.

"Grandma, you're amazing, this steamed cake is so delicious!" It was the best thing I've eaten since I came down the mountain, and I couldn't help but give her a thumbs up, even though she couldn't see it.

She laughed kindly when she heard this, "It's just a steamed cake, and I've been doing it for decades as a blind woman." It's been a long time since I've heard such a crisp voice, girl, if you don't dislike it, just call me Chai Po. ”

"Yes, Chai Po. ”

Chai Po smiled so much that the furrow on her face also deepened a little, "The little brother next to me eats slowly, I don't have anything else here, just steamed cakes and tea pipes!"

With a relieved face, Chai Po leaned on the wooden stick and went back to the stove to boil water. I drank the tea in the bowl and said to Hu Xiaoer: "Chai Po's ears are so good. ”

Hu Xiaoer ignored me and just ate the sweet and delicious white steamed cake, the plate was almost empty, I snorted and grabbed the last piece of cake with him.

After a while, Chai Po brought another plate of steamed cakes, and Hu Xiaoer and I rested on the bench for a while. During this period, there were two lean men in the tea house who helped with gray turbans, both with a stick in their hands, and one of them had a thin bamboo stick in his mouth, looking like a scoundrel.

The man with a thin bamboo stick in his mouth took the lead in sitting on the table next to him, spit out the thin bamboo stick in his mouth and put it in his hand, his face was particularly impatient, "Come on, two jars of good wine!"

Chai Po got up from behind the stove and stepped forward with a wooden cane, "Guest officer, this is a tea house, and it doesn't sell wine." ”

The thin bamboo stick frowned dissatisfiedly, and was about to get angry at Chai Po, when the man next to him pressed his hand to express relief, and his expression was like that of a pug. "The boss is angry, the boss is angry! This poor country is not a good product to have wine!" The pug persuaded the thin bamboo stick, turned his face to Chai Po and shouted, "Then serve tea to my boss, move quickly!"

Chai Po said yes, leaning on a wooden staff and holding a tea, trembling towards them. When the pug saw Chai Po's eyes, he smiled very contemptuously, "It turned out to be a blind old woman." ”

I don't know if Chai Po heard it, but she still kindly brought the tea to the thin bamboo stick, "Guest officer, the tea is here." ”

The thin bamboo stick almost snatched the teapot from Chai Po's hand, and tilted her head into her mouth in a hurry.

"Eh, guest officer, be careful of the burn—"

"Poof-" Before Chai Po's words fell, the thin bamboo stick bowed down and squirted out the tea in her mouth, coughing while spitting. The pug patted him on the back desperately, "Boss, are you okay?"

The thin bamboo stick took a sip, smashed the teapot to the ground, and howled: "You blind bad old woman, you want to burn me to death!"

One side of Chai Po's clothes was also splashed with tea, but she didn't seem to know it, her hands trembling with a wooden cane, and she said slowly: "I was about to say ...... Besides, the two of you didn't say you wanted to be cold......"

The thin bamboo stick let out a "hum" from his nostrils with angry eyes. I saw him pick up the stick on the table as if he was about to move it, and I couldn't help but clench the hilt of his sword and step forward. My right arm was suddenly grabbed tightly, and I turned my head to see Hu Xiaoer looking at me calmly with a steamed cake stuffed in his mouth. I motioned for him to let go, and he in turn took my arm and sat me down, giving me a look of silence.

The pug soothed the thin bamboo stick, "Boss, don't worry about the blind old woman!" He carefully took the stick in the hand of the thin bamboo stick, and turned to Chai Po and said fiercely, "Why don't you hurry up and give my boss a pot to cool down, bring anything delicious!"

After hearing this, Chai Po brought him a pot of cold boil and a plate of steamed cakes. After drinking the thin bamboo sticks, his face improved slightly, and the pug handed him a piece of steamed cake as if flattering. The thin bamboo skewer poked the steamed cake with the bamboo skewer in his hand in disgust, but put it in his mouth and smashed it for a while, and his brows relaxed.

"This blind old woman has two hits. The thin bamboo stick said to the pug.

The pug smiled and nodded in agreement as he ate the steamed cake, and his eyes looked around with a pair of stealthy eyes. I saw him stop at Chai Po behind the stove for a moment, then at the steamer and cart, and finally at me and Hu Xiaoer. I was busy pretending to be serious about drinking tea, but out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth. The pug suddenly spoke in dialect with the thin bamboo stick, and I pricked up my ears to hear that it was the dialect of Maoxian. In the past, when my brother traveled, he liked this place in Maoxian the most, and he whispered there in my ear, and I learned something over time.

The pug said, "Boss, you see that this place is a little tattered, but the sparrows are small and have all the organs. Let's just kidnap this tea house, kill the mother-in-law, and start a tea business. When the time comes, it's up to you to decide what you put in the tea!"

"I said why did you kid tighten it so tightly today, it turned out that he was waiting for a magnifying move, enough yin!" "The thin bamboo stick laughed and patted the back of the pug's head, and touched his chin, "There are still a pair of men and women at that table, let's solve them first." ”

"What is the boss afraid of! We have sticks in our hands and we are afraid of the man and woman, but the woman looks very thoughtful, not as good as ......us," the pug and the thin bamboo stick looked at each other, and both of them laughed wickedly.

I gritted my teeth and held my breath, although I didn't look at these two scumbags, but once they made a move, I would draw my sword, and the worst result would be a dead fish.

Hu Xiaoer on the side was still drinking tea slowly, I forgot that he didn't understand the Maoxian dialect, and I didn't know the plans of the two people. I was about to whisper to him what happened, when he was looking sideways at me with a piece of cake in his mouth and a cup of tea in his hand.

"I didn't expect a few thieves who were not on the road to be so rampant now. Hu Xiaoer spoke the authentic Maoxian dialect, and respectfully handed the cup of tea to me, "Uncle, Master, please go down the mountain to clear the traitors in the sect, this happens to meet a few people who can let you practice your hands." ”

I was slightly stunned when I heard his inexplicable words, and saw Hu Xiaoer's eyes peeking at the table with thin bamboo sticks, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, took the teacup in his hand, and also spoke the Maoxian dialect seriously, "The little nephew said yes, although the so-called sparrow is small, it is always a bird!"

"Uncle Shi, do you remember the two robbers you met on the bamboo forest road yesterday?" Hu Xiaoer deliberately said loudly, and gestured with his hand, "You look so strong, you haven't been killed by one move." These don't seem to have much meat, so why don't you leave it to my nephew and nephew!"

I drank the cup of tea leisurely and chuckled, "Little nephew, it's not that Uncle doesn't love you, it's that your skills haven't been practiced yet." It is said that the executioner's knife should be fast and the head should be sharp, and the same is true when you use the sword. Otherwise, it would be too cruel to go down with one move, not to pick off his meridians, not to pierce his flesh and blood, and to keep him breathing and enjoying the pain of separating skin and flesh. ”

There was silence on the next table, and the figures of the two men stood motionless next to each other, looking a little stiff. Hu Xiaoer nodded like pounding garlic, "Uncle Shi has taught me a lesson, Uncle Shi has taught me a lesson." He took the first step to pull out the long sword in my hand, and the blade of the sword let out a sharp "boom", "Uncle Shi's sword is going to see some blood again......

Before Hu Xiaoer's words fell, the pug jumped up, "Boss, I have a stomachache somehow, go to the thatch in front of me first." He clutched his stomach and ran quickly to the grass in front of him.

The thin bamboo sticks also jumped up, "Wait until my stomach hurts!" he scolded as he chased, "I just said that this tea is not clean, dead old woman!" They disappeared as soon as they slipped away, and even forgot to take the sticks on the table.

Hu Xiaoer and I looked at each other for a moment and laughed. I asked him, "What are you laughing at?"

Hu Xiaoer asked me in turn, "What are you laughing at?"

"My smile is pretty good, what do you think?"

He cracked his mouth to reveal a mouthful of good teeth, "Whatever Uncle Shi laughs at, I will laugh at it." ”

"Hu Xiaoer, how do you know the dialect of Maoxian?"

"Hehe, how can you be a junior in the ten-mile alley?"

I clapped my hands with an "oh" and said, "It seems that this is another skill of yours." ”

Hu Xiaoer's eyebrows flew and danced very proudly. Chai Po slowly walked up and held a plate of steamed cakes, "Is the cake enough to eat?"

I said to her, "Thank you, Chaipo, the cake is enough to eat." ”

"Then this plate will be packed in a cloth bag for you to take on the road, and Chai Po will invite you to eat it. Chai Po leaned sideways slightly, with a little suspicion on her face, "The guest officer at that table ......"

"Don't worry, Chai Po, those two people are already gone. As for their tea money, even if it's good at our table. ”

"Girl, what kind of line is this!" Chai Po waved her hand, "Don't look at Chai Po's bad eyes, she has been setting up a stall for so many years, and you can know who comes and goes with your ears." Recently, there are bandits every day, and I have no oil and water to fish when I break the tea stall. If you were able to get through this time safely, you two must have helped. ”

Chai Po was quite grateful to me and Hu Xiaoer, and decided that the two of us were some great big shots to scare away the bandits. I didn't know how to explain it to her, so I bowed my head and drank my tea.

Hu Xiaoer finished eating the last bite of steamed cake in his hand, dusted off his fingers and stood up and stretched, "I'm full, it's time to go on the road." ”

Chai Po handed over a cloth bag containing steamed cakes, "Where do the two guest officers want to go?"

Hu Xiaoer pointed forward, "It's not far away, Sunset Town." ”

Chai Po shook her head in disagreement, "Sunset Town is not close to here, and you have to climb over a mountain and walk for most of the day. ”

The sky outside the tea house had gradually darkened, and the returning birds flew farther away in a group. I've never thought about this before, and if I did, I don't know where I'm going to stay on the mountain tonight.

"Girl, little brother, Rong Chai Po and I have a lot of things, if you don't dislike it, why don't you go to my place tonight to rest for the night, and then go tomorrow after you have your spirits." ”

"Eh, Chai Po, that's a lot of trouble for your old man. Hu Xiaoer touched his nose.

"No trouble, no trouble. Chai Po let go of a hand holding a wooden staff and waved it up, and said sincerely, "I'm still worried about how to repay you two for this life-saving grace." I live in Tiangang Village at the foot of the mountain, and when the stall will be closed, we will walk a few steps away. ”

Hu Xiaoer agreed and thanked Chai Po again and again. Chai Po happily leaned on the wooden staff and slowly returned to the stove to watch the boiling water. Hu Xiaoer turned his head and was in a good mood, "This Chai Po is so good." ”

I saw Xiao Jiujiu in his eyes, "I can't live in vain! ”