The so-called cool pool is actually a very ordinary bathhouse in Chang'an City.

Chang'an is located in the northwest of Daluo, the wind and sand on weekdays are not small, except for a very small number of rich and noble places, ordinary people walk on the streets on weekdays will not be paved with green bricks, the ground is dusty, out of the rush without the protection of the curtain carriage, often will get a body of mud.

In addition, this Chang'an City is the capital of Daluo, so whether it is the local people, or the outsiders who come and go, most of them have some family background, and when they are free, they can take a hot bath, call three or five confidants, sit in a pool, talk about the world, and be happier than going to find flowers and ask willows.

The soup pool where Lao Wang stayed was already in the innermost part of the cool pool, but there were still many people in the market who would take the initiative to come and chat with him, most of them would say some meat words that men understand, and they would leave with a smile.

No wonder his popularity is so good, because the tasks of the martial arts marquis on weekdays are very rare, so when it comes to leisure time, Lao Wang will be mixed in the center of these low-level people, anyway, his temperament is like those street lazy people who are not in shape, and the dress is also a sloppy appearance, plus these people in the market are trying to make a living, and most of them don't have much to see the lively mood and time, so even if Lao Wang made a few appearances at this martial arts meeting, but after not wearing military uniforms, no one recognized the Wang brother in front of him who was soaking in the pool with a big thorn like them, and a comfortable expression was actually Lord Wuhou in the martial arts division of Chang'an Town。

Of course, even if he really wears the Chang'an Si martial arts uniform one day, maybe someone will come out to make fun of him, is it difficult to rely on a set of fake clothes to mix up and eat, if he is caught by those martial arts masters, he has to have a good meal.

In addition to Lao Wang, there was also an old man with a rosacea, steamed with hot water and a flushed face, and then a clean towel on his shoulder, sitting on the edge of the pool, putting his feet in the water, and beside him was a bottle of the cheapest roasted knife in Chang'an City, and a bowl of somen noodles without even soup, and a bowl of wide sauce toppings with few pieces of meat.

He is a coolie who begs for a living, he has never married, no children and no daughters, no worries and no worries, he is a frequent visitor to this bathhouse on weekdays, so he can directly bring food to the edge of the pool and leave no one to take care of it, and he can even assign the little guy here to help him buy these things, of course, a reward will not be less, but it is just a penny, no more, he will not be able to bear it.

The old man lived brightly, and his temperament was very generous, although he didn't have a wine glass to share the wine at the moment, he still handed over the bottle of burning knife in his hand.

"Brother Wang, take a bite?"

Seeing this, Lao Wang was not polite, he grabbed the wine bottle directly, pointed to his mouth, looked up and took a big sip, looking at the appearance, this sip drank at least a small half of the whole bottle of wine, and the old man was distressed.

There is no way, poor people, even if they drink the cheapest wine, they don't dare to buy too much, it's just two taels, and the amount of a good wine person just takes a sip.

Lao Wang didn't seem to see the painful expression on the old man's face, so he took it easy, and twisted a piece of meat with his fingers from the other party's bowl of toppings, of course, he used the best imperial weapon method to grab the meat slices with true qi, but the old man is not a martial artist, and he is old, even if he is close to him, but where can he see the doorway.

It's just that he wasn't annoyed, he just scolded with a smile: "You stinky boy, sloppy, no wonder you are at this age, and you don't even have a good girl." ”

Lao Wang slowly chewed the meat slices that were specially used to mix noodles in his mouth, so he was heavily salted, and said with a smile: "Come on, when you are old, you are just like you, alone, without worry, I think I am happy." ”

The old man shook his head, poured the bowl of salty toppings into the noodle bowl, and sighed while mixing the noodles back and forth: "You are still young, don't think so, and don't be old like me, you can only drink these eight yuan of wine and eat those five yuan of food." ”

Lao Wang leaned on the edge of the pool, put his hands on the edge of the pool on both sides casually, and said nonchalantly: "You don't understand this, the cheapest wine, the best drink, the cheapest dish, the most delicious." ”

After speaking, he suddenly turned his head, and then smiled at Lao Ge: "Oh, Brother Ge, there is a little brother here today, come on, let me introduce you, this is the new servant of the family where I work, and it is not easy to come to Chang'an from Youzhou to beg for a living at a young age." ”

When Lao Ge heard this, he put down the noodles he had just mixed, and sighed: "It's all hard work, hey, in this way, Brother Wang, it just so happens that I got a few more rewards today, I think, it's better to buy another pot of wine and a plate of snacks to accompany the wine." ”

After that, he wanted to recruit the little maid in the cool pool to buy wine and vegetables for him.

Lao Wang immediately stretched out his hand, stopped the other party, and then said: "Lao Ge, I've been rubbing your wine for several years, let me invite you once today." ”

As he spoke, he called the little guy who had been waiting beside him and would help rub the back of the guests to earn money on weekdays, and said with a smile: "Listen, you wait to go to Taibaiju first, buy two catties of the best flower carving, and then go to Dashunfang, I want three catties of mutton and haggis, half of the fat and half of the thin, don't you want to be slaughtered, remember?"

Lao Ge listened to it on the side, so he was stunned, because of the two places that Lao Wang said, in Chang'an City is not a cheap place, that Taibaiju can be said to be one of the best restaurants in Chang'an, the taste of the wine sold will not lose half a cent of the spring full of Pinjin Cave Pingkangfang, how much does these two catties of flower carving, he doesn't even dare to ask more on weekdays, and although the mutton in Dashunfang is a little cheaper, but the mutton and haggis that are slaughtered are three catties each, and they must be worth the hard work he has done for more than a month.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly wanted to stop it, after all, what to eat is not to eat, the taste of this wine is actually in the world, and the conversation is fateful, even the faint tea also has the taste of wine, and the words are not speculative, and he can't sit still if he really brings the bottle of Taibai Huadiao to the table.

"Brother Wang, don't 。。。。。。 ”

Before the words fell, Lao Wang suddenly took out three ingots of silver out of nowhere, handed them to the little guy who was still embarrassed, and instructed: "The legs and feet are numb, as for the most, it is your hard-earned money." ”

The little guy only weighed it twice, and then knew that the thing in his hand was not a fake, and immediately agreed happily, and left in a hurry as if he was running, without giving Lao Ge a chance to speak at all.

Lao Ge blocked the second half of the sentence in his throat, stayed for a long time, and then stretched out his hand back, and after slowly sitting back in his place, his tone changed a lot.

"It turns out that Brother Wang has been hiding clumsy, and it's ridiculous that he doesn't know Mount Tai with his eyes. ”

Lao Wang waved his hand and explained: "Let my brother laugh, just in time, my master is in a good mood these days, so I have rewarded some more silver, just like my brother said, I don't have a daughter-in-law and son to support, I earn this money, don't spend it on anyone?"

Lao Ge didn't speak again, and after lifting the bottle of burning knife in his hand, he suddenly put it down again, and then looked at the bowl of braised pork noodles with fungus, which he liked in the past, and suddenly lost interest.

Li Qingchen didn't care about the doorway, he walked quickly to the edge of the pool, Lao Wang saw this, and immediately quipped: "Yo, I haven't seen you for three days, this body is more than ten times stronger, I really don't know where Yuan Lao is sacred, he has such a ability, so that Lao Tzu wants to visit his old man's house, begging him for advice." ”

Li Qingchen said nonchalantly: "I disappointed Senior Wang, the family teacher has now left Chang'an and traveled the world, but if he returns soon, the younger generation will definitely say a few good words for Senior Wang in front of the family teacher." ”

Lao Wang raised his eyebrows and asked solemnly, "Boy, what you said is true?"

The question is not about good words or not, but about apprenticeship.

Li Qingchen said: "How dare you pull Yuan Lao's tiger skin?"

Lao Wang nodded and said clearly: "That's right." ”

The big people often don't necessarily care about the evaluation of the little people about them, but they are very taboo for these little people to cheat around with their names and ruin their reputations。

"Since you have apprenticed to Yuan Lao, then you should practice well, so that you can live up to this opportunity, the way of martial arts, such as sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, although I think your current strength is not much more than that Yang Chen, but you must not be proud and complacent, lazy yourself, stagnant, talent is talented, but in the end, it may not be the most talented person. ”

The conversation between the two has always been a sound transmission, so in the eyes of Lao Ge in the outside world, after the two of them looked at each other, Lao Wang was always talking about the origin of this young man to him, and the latter didn't seem to like to talk.

are all ninth-rate hard-working people, but it's a pity that this good skin, if you have the other party's five-point heroic posture when you are young, I'm afraid that now it will not be the life of drinking a bottle of burning knives here, even if it is a wealthy family, it is enough to eat and wear without worry.

On this side, hearing Lao Wang's cumbersome chatter like the elders in the family, Li Qingchen frowned slightly, but since he had already made up his mind before he came, he naturally would not back down at this time, so after Lao Wang finished speaking, he only hesitated for a while, and then asked the doubt that had been hovering in his heart and lingering.

"Why me?"