Chapter Twenty-Three: Spring on the Road to Injury
On the carriage were Gui Yunhe and Ling Zitong.
"My Gui Hero, oh, Gui Brother, let's find a shop in front to rest for a while!
"Hehe, my sister Ling speaks, dare to disobey!" Gui Yunhe tightened the reins of the horse, and the front hooves of the two sturdy tall horses were raised, neighing, and stopped.
"Haha, these two brutes, if you fight in the ring with me, you won't wander around by yourself!" Gui Yunhe raised his whip falsely, but he didn't fight. The two horses walked slowly and with interest.
"Hmph, if you hit them, I'll be done with you!" Ling Zitong stopped doing it, as if he was very angry.
Gui Yunhe laughed and said: "I know that these days, the sister has added fodder to these two beasts, I dare to hit them, it's not that I have touched the mold!" He paused: "This is not far from Kyoto, we are going to abandon the horse, and the sister may have to work hard!"
"What's so hard about riding a horse, a horse in exchange for two gold leaves, it's time to try the strength of the feet. Ling Zitong became excited.
"We also have to change our outfits, otherwise, we won't be worthy of these two horses!" Gui Yunhe knew that there was something wrong with this, and hurriedly added: "My countryman's dress is extremely incommensurate with this horse!haha!"
Ling Zitong said angrily: "Hmph, it's still an acquaintance! What do you think of my business?"
Gui Yunhe looked back: a handsome, elegant, and polite young scholar appeared in front of him heroically. Gui Yunhe secretly shouted: What a 'beautiful boy'! After a moment of contemplation, "Childe, how do you think we should rest at the inn in front of us? This horse is also a little tired." He looked at his groom dressed like a middle-aged servant, and his entourage was a match for a weak scholar who went to Beijing.
"Hehe, the mouth changes quite quickly!
Gui Yunhe said in his heart: This is also very fast, I have become an old man, in fact, he doesn't know that he is an 'old elm', this 'elm' is an elm with an elm head, and the difference of one word is thousands of miles apart.
He parked the carriage at an inn called Fulai, and Xiao Er, who had his own welcome guests, took the reins of the horse and said courteously: "Guest officer, do you live in the hotel or do you want to be sharp?"
"Two upper rooms, good dishes are prepared, and there is no shortage of silver taels. Gui Yunhe threw Xiao Er a piece of broken silver of two or three taels, stretched out his hand to help Ling Zitong get off the carriage, and said, "A few eggs are mixed with the horse feed, and there is no shortage of rewards." As he spoke, he threw Xiao Er a piece and a half of broken silver.
"Of course, don't you dare to serve!" Xiao Er saw that the two foreign guest officials were a few taels of silver as soon as they made a move, and immediately smiled and flattered. The guest officer who casually rewarded half a tael of silver could not meet one or two in a year and a half.
Ling Zitong also said in a pretentious manner: "The best old wine is given to the master in the whole two jars of the house, I said old elm, the reward is not good, is our family short of that little silver?"
"Yes, yes, Childe said yes!" Gui Yunhe casually handed another piece of silver. I was so happy that I barely jumped up. Nodding and greeting, he quickly greeted and cleaned the two upper rooms.
Gui Yunhe was secretly funny, this girl is going to cause trouble again, but there is no way. Those thieves had been eyeing them for a long time. That's fine, it's better to get rid of it, and the province will have another branch. At the moment, he quietly followed behind Ling Zitong, and was guided by Xiao Er into the Fulai Inn.
This Fulai Inn is located at the junction of Shandong and Hebei, a place where three religions and nine streams are mixed, and it is said to be an inn, but it is actually no different from a big car shop. The two upper rooms they wanted were just two separate huts on the inside, poorly furnished, and if they hadn't been deliberately cleaned to remove the mildew, the inside of the house would not have been clear.
The dishes that are not on the table are just stewed in a farmhouse pot such as beef stew with sauce, pig's trotters, etc. After seeing Ling Zitong take a sip of 'Lao Baigan', Gui Yunhe frowned as he looked at a few dishes of vegetables, smiled and took out an oilcloth paper bag from his arms, and said, "Sister, let's eat this again." "When I opened it, it was a packet of crystal venison.
"Hey, how do you know, I love to eat this!" Open your mouth...... Ling Zitong smiled happily on his face, pinched a piece of venison and put it in Guiyunhe's mouth, and said, "I'll reward you with a piece!"
Gui Yunhe opened his mouth wide and chewed widely, which made Ling Zitong 'giggle'. Fang Cai said: "For a while, don't make a big fuss, just have a good time! ”
"Mm-hmm, that's all you want. Ling Zitong picked up a piece of venison and shook it at Gui Yunhe, and said, "What kind of wine is this, so spicy!"
"The girl is not used to drinking, I will let Xiao Er change the pot to be softer, but I'm afraid not!"
Ling Zitong said in a low voice: "Isn't it interesting that tonight's expenses fall on those few pieces of material, the robbers have been robbed! Hehe, it's funny to think about it!"
"I spent a few taels of silver just now, and I bought the peace of this night. ”
"Well, why is that? How do you know everything?"
"Haha, the eldest brother is nicknamed 'Rogue Thief'! They treat us as 'big fish' and run to the front branch net. ”
"Also, these eyeless things, dare to calculate 'grand thieves', they are really asking for bad luck!hey, hey!" She sighed, deliberately glanced at Guiyunhe, and sighed in a long tone. His face was like a peach blossom and he smiled brightly.
Gui Yunhe only drank wine and ate a few pieces of rough sauced beef, as if he hadn't heard anything, but he was secretly worried about those people in his heart: Who are you messing with, but you are messing with this aunt and grandmother, who knows each other a little, and will secretly let go tomorrow, even if you have a good idea! This girl has never been a big deal, and has already caused several cases, although she has not caused any deaths, she has also added a lot of errands to the state capital along the way. This time it was already the border of Hebei, and it was not far from the capital, so he didn't want to make trouble at this time. Moreover, the road was surprisingly calm, as if the Oriental ninjas had evaporated from the world. His instincts tell him that something is going to happen, and that's something he was born with.
"Big brother, you can stay with me tonight! This room is a little cold. ”
"Well, I'll add some charcoal, this northern winter is hard for you! This is also the reason why the wine in the north is mainly strong. Guiyunhe listened to the northwest wind blowing outside, and added a few pieces of charcoal to the stove.
"I've heard that it snows a lot here, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid! ”
"Yes, it doesn't matter if it snows or not, you will wear that fox velvet coat tomorrow, and this will show the dignity of our rich son!" Gui Yunhe saw that she wanted to do this again, and busily diverted her mind.
"If you return to the eldest brother, you can only do it, wear that dog skin jacket, if you wear that mink, it won't be good to make a show!
"That's, that's, a servant has to be a servant!"
"Hey, where did all these Orientals go? We swaggered all the way, but we didn't even get out. ”
"Well, as far as I can see, it seems that something happened in the capital!"
"Really?"
"When we were in Shandong, didn't we see a few officers and soldiers? But there was no war in Shandong!"
"Well, yes! I think the army is going south. ”
"Well, it's supposed to be the coast! I think the official family learned that there were Orientals infiltrating!"
Gui Yunhe knows that today's official family is not a mediocre and incompetent person, and he will definitely be alert to the chaos in the palace for several days, and not all the people in the palace eat rice, and the eunuch in Shaoxing Yanyulou should have gone to investigate this matter. Vaguely, Gui Yunhe was a little worried about the safety of his junior brother Shen Rong: I don't know how my junior brother is now......