Volume 1 The Fledgling Three Brothers Chapter 38 Coming to the Strange City
Ji Kai glanced at it, wiped his mouth and said, "Brother, you still need to point to this, I haven't noticed it a long time ago." I'm obedient, this city is too big, and I didn't bet with me just now, saying that there will definitely be no less than a hundred restaurants in this city!"
Ji Longjun rolled his eyes and pretended not to hear.
"And it's not just restaurants, what massage rooms, taverns, barber shops......" Ji Kai snapped his fingers and couldn't help but count.
"Stop! Stop!" Ji Longjun rolled his eyes again, took a deep breath, and said solemnly:
"This city is the city of wonders. You see how prosperous and beautiful he is, it is far away in the sky, and it is close in front of me, I plan to take you two into the city tonight, and it will be time for us to meet the people of Qicheng. My brother, what do you two think?"
“...... We both looked with our eyes. Ji Kai glanced at Ji Longjun.
"Don't make a fuss, let's be serious! This is our first time in Qicheng, who knows if we will meet those big evildoers, we have to be careful!"
"What are you careful about, now it's dozens of miles away from Qicheng, and when we discuss and decide to go, I see that the sky is dawning in Qicheng! If you want me to say, let's go quickly when you're full! Brother, let's not fix those crepe things, we have all studied in the academy together for five years, why are you so good, you can do the whole word?"
Ji Kai glanced at Ji Longjun with disdain, and started packing up immediately without waiting for his orders, he really didn't want to accompany Ji Longjun here.
It's cold.
"Da Kai, you don't understand this, right? Although they are all taught by a gentleman, I listen to the lectures seriously! This principle is very simple, 'concentration makes people progress'! Only by focusing on doing one thing can we do well and learn quickly!"
"Okay, brother, can you trouble you to 'focus' and pick up all our belongings, since it is a focused work, can you babble a few words less?"
"Hey, 'bitter medicine is good for disease, and good advice is good for action', sir's sentence is indeed true. What's the use of me talking so much? Who cares, who likes to listen? Who knows my hard work?"
Ji Kai's eyes were straight, he was really almost to the point where his head was empty.
Ji Kai has already practiced the magic skill of entering the left ear and coming out of the right ear, otherwise he would really be crazy to listen to Ji Longjun's chatter every day.
In the past few days, they have caught two hares and a golden-spotted clouded leopard in the mountains. The hare was already in its belly but the fur was still there, plus the clouded leopard, and some silver taels and animal skins that had been saved before, and that was all they had to do in Strange City for the next few days.
Ji Kai didn't let go and carried the leopard on his shoulder. The brothers stepped on the fire extinguishing pile and looked at each other, Ji Longjun suddenly smiled: "Brothers, pluck up the courage to face the future, let's go!"
"Let's go!" Ji Kai shouted excitedly.
Only when you get close can you truly appreciate the majesty of this city.
The blue-gray granite is polished into huge strips of stone and piled up into a towering city wall, which has a very impregnable feeling. At the foot of the city wall, a moat several feet wide stretches straight along the root of the city wall until the end of the line of sight. Even the samurai standing guard at the gate of the city were wearing shiny armor and had a serious face, and from a distance they felt that the place was very heavily guarded, not to mention that from time to time a patrol guard of twenty people would pass by, each armed with a long sword, and the steps were neat.
There was a long line of people coming in and out of the city gates, ranging from merchants with mules and wagons loaded with goods, to ordinary people carrying cloth bags. It's just that anyone who wants to enter the city must be inspected by the samurai.
Ji Longjun and the three of them pretended to be Orion and entered the city without danger.
It turned out that the city gate seemed to be heavily guarded, but in fact, the inspection process was quite relaxed, and the three of Ji Longjun were only asked three or two sentences before they were allowed to pass, but the set of rhetoric prepared before was completely useless.
The three brothers first inquired about the leather workshop, sold the clouded leopard and two fine rabbit skins they brought, exchanged a lot of broken silver, and then found a nearby inn and swaggered in.
"Xiushui Fan Inn!" Ji Kai nodded, muttering.
"Da Kai, it's not okay to have a bit of culture, that word is pronounced 'Yuan'!
"Almost, the eldest husband is informal!" Ji Kai didn't care at all, just looked left and right, secretly looking at the furnishings and the flow of people in the inn.
"Little second brother, we want a big room, it doesn't need to be too luxurious, it's enough for three people. Ji Longjun spoke very generously, but he was very distressed when he handed over the silver.
He was afraid that he would spend money too quickly, and he would have no money to eat in the future.
However, the cost of accommodation here is very low, after all, it is only a small inn in the outer city.
"Guest, you're so lucky, there is only one room left in the shop, and you can only change one if you come later. Guest, please come in. ”
Xiao Er put away the money and politely took Ji Longjun and the three of them upstairs.
It was the first time for the three brothers to enter such a big city, and they were a little unaccustomed to staying in a decent inn. In the villages and towns I passed through before, the so-called inns were almost the same as cowsheds. There is a sheltered wooden house and a wooden bed, which is a guest room, which is really shabby.
Although this inn is small in scale and poorly decorated, it is a world away from the inns in small towns and towns outside.
The first floor here is a restaurant, the second floor and the third floor are the guest rooms for accommodation and rest, and now it is just after dinner time, many people are going out shopping, and the inn is full of people from top to bottom.
Ji Kai couldn't help but say as he looked at the people coming and going upstairs and downstairs: "There are so many people in this city! With so many people staying in the hotel, the boss hasn't made a fortune?"
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Guest officer, this is the first time you have come to Qicheng, Qicheng is the largest and most prosperous city within a radius of thousands of miles, and there are naturally a lot of people." And we are in the outer city, and most of the people who live in it are businessmen, and there are more people in the inner city, and it is more prosperous!" he briefly introduced and led the three brothers to the front of a guest room on the corner of the third floor.
"This is the room for the three of you, you put away the key, and you have something to command. ”
"Trouble to prepare three buckets of bath water for us, thanks. Ji Longjun said politely.
"Okay, guest officer, wait a minute!" said the shopkeeper and retreated.
Seeing Xiao Er go downstairs, Ji Kai fell on the bed when he entered the door: "It's so comfortable! This is called a bed! Brother, that little second brother spoke too politely just now, I'm really a little unused to it." 'Something you command', oops, it's so sour, haha, haha!"
"In the future, we have to slowly get used to the customs and customs of the rivers and lakes! This treats people and things, this etiquette of speaking, we have to learn everything we should learn! The most important thing in being a man is to be 'neither humble nor arrogant', no matter how big the other party is, or how humble the little person, we can neither slap him nor despise him, just speak without losing proportion. Like this shopkeeper, I think he is a little too humble. ”
Ji Longjun said and looked around: "No, you also put down your things, let's take a good bath in a while." Hey, if you think about it, the last time you took a shower was at that ...... What kind of village, the water in the river outside their village is really cool, but the water is also really clear. If you want to say that this treats people, it's really ......."
Ji Longjun was in a good mood, and couldn't help but start chattering again.
"Okay, okay, brother, you rest today, don't lecture. Small mouth, what to treat, what to bathe, I don't have to learn, you can go to the front if you have something. Ji Kai covered his ears in pain.
"Hey, Dakai, why are you talking, is it possible that you two will have to follow me for the rest of your life? One day you will regret not listening to me, and besides, what am I trying to do with my bitter heart......?"
Ji Longjun was tirelessly talking, and the six shopkeepers carried three buckets of water to the door, and one of them knocked on the door and asked, "Guest officer, your bath water has arrived, guest officer, can you go in below?"
"Ah, please come in, please come in!"
Ji Kai instantly came to his senses, turned over and got out of bed and opened the door to welcome the shopkeeper into the house.
The shopkeeper carefully placed the three buckets of water in the room, and politely withdrew and closed the door.
Seeing this, Ji Kai was happy again: "This service, it feels like money, it's really good!"
Ji Longjun scolded with a smile: "The fart is rich, what kind of rich people are we, take a shower!"
The three brothers have been sleeping in the open recently, and the first time they stayed in such a good inn was for fear of wasting the money they had prepaid, and they took a bath very seriously, and they couldn't wait to rub the skin off their bodies.
After freshening up, the three of them changed into a clean set of clothes and immediately looked new.
Ji Longjun lay comfortably on the bed, turned his back to the sky, looked at the ceiling and said:
"This time we come to Qicheng, let's not forget the business, we have to investigate and find out the information. Winter is coming, I think we have to hurry up and buy a few thick clothes, I'm afraid the few taels of silver we just changed are not enough! The people in the city are really treacherous, so good fur only gives these few money. It's really hard for a penny to be a hero, and it's hard to do things without money in your pocket! Alas, ......"
Saying that, Ji Longjun sighed.
"Brother, I found that you have become more and more capable of talking lately, and I have a headache when I hear you chatter, can we just talk about the point?"
Seeing that Ji Kai was not interested, Ji Longjun was a little embarrassed and said, "Ahem...... Dakai, can you be a little more emotional?"
Ji Kai was unconvinced: "I don't see where your mood is!"
Ji Longjun said helplessly: "Okay, brother won't fight with you." Let's be serious, it's not too late, and there should be a lot of stores that haven't closed yet. How about we go out and buy cotton clothes, dress warmly, and then go shopping?"
"Okay!
Without further ado, the brothers jumped downstairs, went out and turned onto the street.
The streets are bustling with people, so lively.
On both sides of the road are restaurants, inns, shops, teahouses, and theaters, and large and small shops and stalls are densely packed, hawking, bargaining, and soliciting business, and everywhere is lively and lively.
Ji Kai only hated his father and mother for giving him a pair of eyes, and he couldn't get enough of such a bustling street.
Especially the girls in the city, they are very attractive to the attention of the flowers and branches they wear one by one. Although the weather was already very cold, many girls were still wearing cheongsams with exposed calves and arms, which made Ji Kai's eyes straight, and he almost drooled on the spot.
"Brother, look at the two girls in front of you, do you think their legs are cold?"
Ji Kai smirked, and looked at the pair of small legs of the two girls in front of him with a pair of mung bean eyes.
"Hmm...... It should be cold, right? There is so much dew, I look cold on this cold day. Ji Longjun pondered.