Chapter 23: Merchants and Routines
Shang Shang is a strange woman with a modern soul, while slandering Tang Xiaoyu's ability is too poor, while thinking about Xiao Yi's attitude of wanting to speak and stopping, hum, Tang Xiaoyu is not good, and his subordinates may also be blind.
Xinglong Inn is good, you have to live before you evaluate, when she got off the carriage, she still had words in her heart, and she must let Xiao Yi see what a real strong woman is.
"I went in. The merchant pushed Xiao Yi's hand away, jumped out of the carriage without help, Xinglong Inn was brightly lit, and it was particularly eye-catching against the dark background all around, just standing on the street, he could already hear the singing in the inn.
Xiao Yi withdrew his hand lightly, looked at the inn with the door closed, scratched his cheeks, and did not forget to say: "If there is anything wrong, you will run out." ”
The confident businessman waved his hand, indicating that he had seen any big scene, she smoothed her dress and pushed open the door with her head held high, and she was greeted by a strong smell of fat powder.
The merchant wrinkled his nose, the strong fragrance covered the smell, there would be nothing wrong inside, right? She quietly put down the hand that pushed the door, and tiptoed against the door frame, trying to peek into the lobby obscured by the screen, when a greasy voice came from the door.
She turned her head to see a smart-looking junior standing in the corner, and he said with a smile: "Girl, is it a tip or a store." ”
This man spoke in a strange tone, and the tail note seemed to be deliberately swirling, sticky to the ground, like a piece of chewing gum on the sole of his shoe, and he couldn't wipe it clean.
Annoying and dirty.
"Stay. The merchant hesitated, stretched out half a foot to enter the door, the little second brother shook the rag on his shoulder, and a strong smell of wine mixed with fat powder rushed into her nose, the feeling was the same as some special places.
Shang Shang muttered in his heart, but he also stubbornly entered the inn with Xiao Er, after all, she couldn't let Xiao Yi see the joke, she bypassed the screen and entered the inner hall, which was very spacious, with a two-story layout, the second floor didn't know whether it was a private room or a wing room, there were tables and chairs on the first floor, only one table of guests was drinking, and the others were empty
The lobby is very extravagant, in the center of the roof there is a person-high eight-sided painted lantern, under the lantern there is a small stage, the uncle and the girl with a red head flower sit on the stage side by side, he closes his eyes and pulls, she sings a country tune, the erhu tone is average, and the song is also loud.
The bad feeling in Shang Shang's heart became more and more obvious, she looked up the stairs, and really saw two richly dressed women reclining on the back of the chair, their shoulders were half exposed, and their hair was half combed, they did not litter as Xiao Yi said, but were hooking up with two men who behaved garbage, the picture was too beautiful, she couldn't look at it directly.
Shang Shang glanced upstairs, just in time to see a big sister twisting the waist of the water snake, disheveled out of one room, and then into another side room, the thin door panel could not stop the unbridled laughter of men and women, as the door of the house slammed shut, Shang Shang's stubborn little heart missed a beat.
"Girl, we also have a flower room and a bamboo room, which one do you want. The shopkeeper snapped the abacus twice, ignored the things upstairs, twisted the ledger with two fingers and turned back, his eyes rolled on the face of the merchant, and then said: "Girl, I see that you are alone, just live in the flower room, and there are women on the left and right." ”
The merchant squirmed her mouth, she wanted to ask the shopkeeper, the so-called women's family, is it the two who are stumbling with crooked melons and cracked dates or the one on the second floor who is difficult to explain, she didn't dare to ask, if she is stupid enough to enter the thief's den and ask the thief if he is worried about himself, then it is not stupid but wise.
The businessmen who are still rational are very contradictory, if they live, they will be stupid pigs jumping into the tiger's mouth and stupid to death; if they don't live, they will definitely be laughed at by Xiaoyi.
"Girl?" The shopkeeper knocks on the countertop.
"How much silver does it cost to stay one night. Shang Shang swallowed his saliva and began to drum in his heart, and he retreated.
"Oh, we need a hanging money for the flower word room, and half a hanging money for the bamboo word room. ”
The merchant pretended to frown, pulled his burden and said, "It's too expensive, it's bothering." After saying that, she was twisted around and walked towards the gate like a ghost, but after walking out of the door, the merchant was dumbfounded, and Xiao Yi had already left.
The town is silent after nightfall, the empty streets, the eaves that can only see silhouettes in the night, and the cornices and walls are just passing cats, all telling the merchant the fact that she is alone.
"What's the matter!" she stomped her feet in a hurry, and cursed in a low voice: "Dead Xiaoyi, I don't know what the girl is waiting for, dead bastard is lonely!"
What to do, I am not familiar with the place, the merchant looked at the quiet street, Xinglong Inn can't go back, just walk back to the Cao Gang, but where to go, just now she was patronizing and thinking in the car, and she didn't look at the road at all.
People who are stupid and angry with themselves, crying and mourning, humming and chirping in their noses, finally chose a direction to run in a negative anger, and the merchant is actually a little panicked, she is afraid of ghosts and bad people.
"Hey, be careful!" An old whisper came from the alleyway.
There was a bang, and the merchant in the trotting was cold, she was startled, and hurriedly retreated, but it was too late, the water had already soaked the long skirt, and the water beads rolled down from the skirt to the upper of the shoe.
The embarrassed merchant looked at the initiator without tears, and the old woman looked surprised and hurriedly put down the wooden basin in her hand.
"I'm sorry, the old woman is dizzy, I didn't see you, girl. The old woman was so guilty that she pulled the hem of her skirt as a cloth and wanted to wipe it clean for the merchants.
The old man leaned his back to wipe his skirt, and the merchant's anger disappeared in a second, but he felt very embarrassed: "No need, I'll just shake it." ”
The old woman even said that she wanted to wipe it, and the merchant insisted on helping the person up, and the two of them came and went, and the young and strong one won, and the old woman held the merchant's hand guiltily and moved, and said: "Girl, you have a good heart, and there will be a good reward." ”
"It's okay, grandma, don't worry, I'll find the inn later, just change my clothes." The merchant grinned at the old lady with a big grin, not forgetting to show two ingenious tiger teeth.
"Inn, girl, what inn are you looking for in the middle of the night, there is only one Xinglong Inn nearby, nothing else. The old lady still held the merchant's hand, looked worriedly at the street in the night, and said, "Girl, if you don't dislike it, live in my house, and my girl will have an empty house after she gets married." ”
"Wouldn't it be too much trouble. Shang Shang was a little moved, she bit her lower lip shyly, hoping that the other party would hold back her uncontrollable eagerness.
"What to say, it's that I can't help the girl first. ”
"That's a nuisance. She secretly made a 'yes' gesture behind her back.
The residence was solved, and the merchant followed the old grandmother, and when he walked to the door, he didn't forget to pick up the wooden basin, and the old grandmother couldn't help but praise her for being kind-hearted, oops, the merchant raised his chin beautifully, hum, she also has a halo on her.
People are good, and people do not deceive the sky.
"Granny Gan, isn't your daughter dead? On the empty street, suddenly a quiet male voice came from behind, with the silence of no one, the cold wind, which made people feel cold all over the body.
There is yin qi, the merchant who thought that the willows and flowers were bright, trembled in horror, and the person was a cold breath pulled up from the heel, and the yin and measured cold on her body came up from the wrist, penetrated into the skin, blood vessels, musculoskeletal, and went straight to the heart, and the merchant felt that his whole heart was frozen, and his breathing was stagnant.
The trance-like merchant looked at the face of the old woman hiding in the shadows, the man's facial features and the darkness melted together, and the moonlight that fell to the ground only illuminated one hand, the merchant lowered his eyes in a daze, and after seeing the hand that was holding him, he suddenly felt that the blood was flowing backwards, and he really realized that one soul was out of the body and two souls ascended to heaven.
The hand, the hand that rested on his wrist, was white and smooth, and such a hand would not appear in a fifty or sixty old woman at all.
Shang Shang's brain instantly became frozen tofu, or the hardness that can kill a dog when she takes it out, she dares to worship the god of decay, just out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den.
Panic, panic, businessman secretly comforted herself in her heart, she is a battle-hardened person, she can't admit it, can't coax it.
Almost instantaneously, Shang Shang remembered a scene, and she was overjoyed to have a brilliant idea.
"The fighters are in front of the array! The merchant shouted, and was about to turn into a demon fighter, but the old woman was so frightened that she screamed, shook off the merchant and ran into the door.
The door was slammed shut.
Shang Shang was stunned for a moment, and then ran away, but before she could run a few steps, she was intercepted, and she was so frightened that she yelled.
"What are you doing, stop fighting, it's me, Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi endured the businessman's Wang Ba punch, he was beaten and screamed and didn't let go: "Don't fight!"
When the merchant heard Xiao Yi's name, he hit harder, punching and kicking, and there was a commotion for a while, and the two of them were out of breath and quiet, standing on the street and staring at each other.
"Say, why did you leave me!" The merchant crossed his waist and gasped while accusing him.
Xiao Yi was scratched on his face, his nose was bleeding, he wiped it with his sleeve, and said, "I'm not waiting for you, how can you see me." ”
"What are you doing?" The merchant asked.
Xiao Yi spat the blood from the corner of his mouth to the ground, and explained in a few words that he led the carriage to the inn on the next street and tied it, and then went to the toilet to pay tribute: "As soon as I came back, I saw that you were deceived into the house by that old demon woman, and I came to help you immediately. ”
This time it was Xiao Yi's turn to accuse Shang Shang of his atrocities, and Shang Shang looked at the other party's face embarrassedly, and smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, there is a ghost, it scared me a lot, that old lady has a problem." ”
"How do you know there's a problem. Xiao Yi picked himself up and asked casually.
Shang Shang lowered his voice and said timidly: "She is a ghost, her hands pull out the cold, don't you know that she was just about to take me into the door, and a gloomy voice said, isn't your daughter dead?" "It's not too scary, what to do if you get scared out of the night.
Can I call an ambulance here?
"Oh, that's what I said. Xiao Yi walked to the carriage disappreciably, walked a few steps and looked back and motioned for her to follow: "Come here, there is a good inn on the street in front of you two hundred steps." ”
Shang Shang was stunned, raised his heels, and thought: If the words are said by Xiao Yi, then there are no ghosts, so it seems, as if, maybe, he was pranked, and he scared the grandmother.
Dare to play her, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and the merchant strode after her and beat Xiao Yi again.
The two of you chased after me, until they saw the carriage at the door of the inn, and the merchant was also tired, holding his stomach and panting, no longer bothering with him.
She said: "Count your fate, next time I will play tricks on the old lady, be careful that I abolish you." ”
"How can you be like my sister, do it when you have nothing to do, tigress. Xiao Yi was in good spirits and didn't forget to tease her.
The merchant really had no strength, she snorted twice, turned to push open the door of the hidden inn, the inn was still lit, and a couple walked up and down the lobby.
"Be quiet. Xiao Yi, who followed her in, reminded and pointed to the two sleeping children in the couple's arms: "This child is a night cryer, it's terrible to wake up." ”
It turned out that the child was sleeping, and the businessman knew it and walked in lightly, and the proprietress gently put the child in the cradle before coming to receive the guests.
She whispered: "Xiao Yi told me just now, there is a girl who wants to live in the hotel, it's you, the room is on the second floor, I'll take you up." ”
"Thank you. The merchant looked tired.
"Sister Pomegranate, you don't know, this girl is so stupid, when I turned back, I saw that the old demon woman next door to the Xinglong Inn wanted to trick her into the house. Xiao Yi followed the two upstairs, not forgetting to continue to count people.
"Oh, girl, how can you get in with that old witch!" After hearing this, the proprietress was shocked and frightened, and said again and again: "God bless, God bless, girl, if it weren't for Xiao Yi, you would be in trouble." ”
The merchant didn't know why, so she asked the proprietress like a baby: "What's wrong with the old grandmother?" "It can't be a ghost.
Xiao Yi muttered, "It's a big problem. "Immediately stabbed by the merchant who came.
"Girl, you don't know that you are a foreigner, as soon as you leave the Xinglong Inn, the second brother will inform the old demon woman to guard you, she specializes in deceiving foreign girls, as long as you enter the door of her house, there will be no day to see. The proprietress opened the door of a side room, invited people in, and continued: "On weekdays, there are Cao Gang and county officials watching, but they don't dare. ”
"Still a stupid fish. Xiao Yi outside the door continued to tease people.
Sky!
Shang Shang thought that he almost became an abducted girl, and suddenly felt that the blood in his brain was not enough, so he rolled his eyes and fell to the ground with a bang.