Volume 1 Mo Ascending Chapter 23 The road is narrow
"Wearing a green shirt in front of the mirror, the fragrance of the year is gone. Pity is all over the depths of spring, and it is rare to be useless. Guo Xiaojiu picked up the wine jug and poured it down.
After a wine hiccup, Guo Xiaojiu squinted his eyes, sat on the back of the horse, and lightly struck the scabbard twice: "Good poetry, good poetry!"
"I don't understand what you're yelling at. Zhou Ziheng was by Guo Xiaojiu's side, looking at Guo Xiaojiu with a smile: "It's been a few days, do you still remember this poem." ”
"I said that Han Changli is my good brother, he won the first rank, and the only thing I can do for him now is to remember his poem, and that's it. Guo Xiaojiu said, with a glimmer of brilliance in his eyes, as if he was the one who won the top prize.
"Tut-tut!" Zhou Ziheng naturally believed Guo Xiaojiu's words, after hearing this unfamiliar name for the first time, he had already obtained all the information about Han Changli, including a saber boy who walked with him from Henan Road to Henan Mansion.
Even, he knew everything about Han Changli and the girl named Li Yuetong in Qingliangshan, including the full identity of that girl.
Of course, at the suggestion of the old King of Luoyang, someone in the palace had already gone to the imperial capital in person and handed a secret letter to the new champion, and Zhou Ziheng did not want to find out the content of the letter.
"Look at what is the name of this poem, I also remember, when I go back to Luoyang, I will boast to them, just say that Xiao Jiu has a brother who won the first place in the imperial capital, and now it seems that he has become a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, which is amazing!" Zhou Ziheng gently clamped the horse's belly, and the white horse under his crotch jumped briskly.
"It's called "Weng Robe". Guo Xiaojiu put away the wine jug, and a small inn could already be seen in front of him, and he also urged the horses under his crotch to speed up a little.
It was a very small inn, only two stories high, and from a distance, you could only see a broken flag hanging outside the inn.
In an instant, the two horsemen had arrived outside the inn, and there were two empty tables at the door of the inn, on which a black tarpaulin was derived to protect from the rain or perhaps the sun.
A courteous shopkeeper saw that there was a visitor, and hurriedly ran out of the store, and when the two had stopped the horse, he reached out and grabbed the reins of the horse: "Two guest officers, please inside!"
"I want high-quality forage!" Guo Xiaojiu took out a few silver coins from his arms and handed them to Xiao Er.
"Okay!" the little two replied, and had already led the horse to the back of the inn.
Zhou Ziheng, who was watching, was slightly stunned, and asked in a low voice with some doubts: "What are you doing here?" Do you think that an inn in this wilderness can really have any high-quality forage?"
"What do you know?" Guo Xiaojiu glanced at him and said slowly: "This is called Jianghu Erlang's freehand romance, which was written in the books I read on the island before. I used to live in an inn with Han Changli occasionally, and I didn't have any horses, so I still rewarded my fellow with two copper plates?"
"Do you think this is Jianghu Erlang?" Zhou Ziheng raised his eyebrows with a look of disdain.
"Hey, as for you, didn't you just spend a few more copper plates, and the next time you see the little aunt, I'll help you say something good, don't say it's worth a few taels or dozens of taels, it's hundreds of taels and thousands of taels,......"
Guo Xiaojiu stretched out his hand and put his hand on Zhou Ziheng's shoulder, squeezed his eyebrows at him and said.
"Okay, okay, don't say you're it. Zhou Ziheng shook his head, and could only choose helplessly that he had never seen this thing at all.
Only then did the two of them look at the inn, which was really a little dilapidated.
"Let's rest here tonight. Zhou Ziheng glanced at this inn a few times, even if there was a lot of unhappiness, it was already a great thing to find a place to live in this wilderness, it was better than staying on the mountain to feed mosquitoes a few days ago.
"Naturally, I have no opinion. Guo Xiaojiu held the scabbard and walked into the inn with one foot, and without waiting for the people in the inn to ask, he had already said: "Boss, stay in the hotel!"
The inn was empty, only a middle-aged fat man, standing at the counter of the inn, should be the owner of the inn, he smiled at the two people who entered the inn: "Hey, two guest officers, where is this coming? Although my inn is small, but I have everything, you two just have a good rest here." ”
The shopkeeper had already led the horses to the stable, and at this time he stood behind the two people, ran to an empty table, and wiped a few times with his oily cuffs: "Two of you, please here!"
Guo Xiaojiu's days of wandering the rivers and lakes have not been long, but he is used to seeing this scene, and he is not too surprised.
Zhou Ziheng was a little dumbfounded, this small shop really didn't have those big places, so he could only follow Guo Xiaojiu and walk to the table in front of Xiao Er, and sat down.
"Two bowls of noodles and a plate of side dishes. Guo Xiaojiu didn't take off the saber, nor did he take off the saber, he reached out and gently helped it on the table, and there was a deep knife mark where his fingers had passed.
He didn't deliberately cover it, and the palm of his hand fell, which happened to cover the entire knife mark under the cuff.
"Okay, the two guest officers wait a moment. The little second didn't see Guo Xiaojiu's movements, he had already turned around and ran towards the back kitchen.
"It's probably not a peaceful place. Guo Xiaojiu saw that Zhou Ziheng was still looking around, looking at all the unsatisfactory places in the store with great dissatisfaction, and smacking his lips from time to time.
At this time, Zhou Ziheng, who heard Guo Xiaojiu's words, had already retracted his gaze and asked, "Isn't it peaceful?"
Before Guo Xiaojiu could explain, the second child hurriedly ran to the side of the table and said a little embarrassedly: "Two guest officers, our store pays the bill first and then ,......."
"Give!" Zhou Ziheng generously took out a silver ingot this time and slapped it on the table: "Even the money for staying in the hotel at night is counted in it, and the excess is regarded as a reward." ”
The little two picked up the silver, weighed it in his hand, and ran in the direction of the counter where the innkeeper was, with a smile on his face, and he couldn't stop squeezing his eyebrows at the boss.
The boss took the silver, and a smile appeared on his face, and he asked quietly, "Are they two big fish?"
"The real big fish, most of them are two children of rich families, and they have been in the rivers and lakes for the first time. Xiao Er said next to the boss's ear.
"Go, get busy first, this time, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. The boss patted Xiao Er on the shoulder and ordered.
The conversation between the boss and Xiao Er, Zhou Ziheng and Guo Xiaojiu didn't listen to it really, and their conversation, the boss standing behind the counter, couldn't hear it clearly.
I saw Guo Xiaojiu stretch out his hand and scratch the knife marks on the table again, and then stretched out his finger and pointed: "When you see this thing, have you ever thought about it?"
Zhou Ziheng shook his head suspiciously: "Knife marks or sword marks? ”
"Cut, maybe there will be a finger or two in the noodles you eat. Guo Xiaojiu smiled evilly, and stretched out two fingers at Zhou Ziheng.
"You mean this place is a black shop?" As he spoke, Zhou Ziheng's eyes blinked, as if he understood what Guo Xiaojiu meant, and all the previous dissatisfaction with this store turned into curiosity in an instant.
"Doesn't it look like it?" Zhou Ziheng touched his head, but still subconsciously put the saber back on his waist.
"Okay, okay, don't look around, be careful to arouse their suspicions. Guo Xiaojiu stretched out his hand and patted the table, and yelled in the direction of the boss: "Boss, hurry up, I've been all the way, and I want to rest early after eating!"
"Well, that's good, that's good!" the boss agreed, and had already walked out of the counter and towards the back kitchen.
It didn't take much effort, Xiao Er had already walked to the side of the table with two bowls of noodles and a plate of side dishes, and after putting the things down, he didn't forget to instruct: "The guest officer uses it slowly." ”
"Another jar of good wine. Guo Xiaojiu took off the wine bag on his waist, and it was already empty.
The little two hurriedly brought a small jar of wine from behind the counter.
When it arrives at Kaifeng, there is a smell of wine.
"Didn't you say this was a black shop?" When Xiao Er left, Zhou Ziheng stared at the wine jar in Guo Xiaojiu's arms suspiciously.
"Whether it's or not, you can't do without wine, and besides, if you want to take sweat medicine, you have to be in this side. In my opinion, they haven't gotten to the point where they're going to use sweat medicine against the two of us. Guo Xiaojiu filled the wine bag first, and then he took a bite of it.
"Why is that?" Zhou Ziheng asked.
"Most of them now think that we are two young brothers who have just entered the rivers and lakes, and those storytellers are all telling like this, which is not completely unreasonable. Guo Xiaojiu stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a mouthful of side dishes, and put them in his mouth.
Just when Xiao Er was just free, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the inn, not only horses' hooves, but also the sound of carriages. ”
The innkeeper walked out of the counter and waited inside the inn, smiling at the scene outside the inn.
It seems that his face is full of spring, but in fact, he is also muttering in his heart, he has not been able to meet one or two fat sheep for ten days and half a month on weekdays, why did two groups of people come here at once today? Looking at this, these newcomers are not ordinary people.
Guo Xiaojiu didn't know whether he glanced outside the house intentionally or unintentionally, and happened to see the faces of those people, a group of five people, and four of them he had taken pictures.
It was the two little girls who intercepted Zhou Ziheng halfway that day, as well as the melon farmer and the coachman, plus a strange man, this man looked like a son of a rich family, a little more generous than Zhou Ziheng.
After carefully confirming, Guo Xiaojiu's face flashed a wicked smile, and he tapped the table lightly, and his eyes motioned for Zhou Ziheng to look outside the inn.
Following Guo Xiaojiu's gaze, Zhou Ziheng's eyes immediately widened, and he wiped his hand with some disbelief: "It's really not that the enemies don't get together, just when they wanted to go to Longyou to find the bad luck of these guys, they had already swaggered to their faces." ”