Chapter 11 Go to Xiangzhou in the West and Xiangzhou in the East

The sun is gradually falling, the riverside at this time is extraordinarily cold, a gust of autumn wind blows, Xu Liangsheng seems to be falling into an ice cellar, unconsciously shivering, a few big men on the opposite side thought that this thin boy in white was scared like this, the first person grinned, shouted: "Don't that little guy, don't hurry up and pay the money, don't let the grandfathers stare at you straight down!"

Cao Zaidong frowned, and was about to have a seizure, but Xu Liangsheng grabbed his shoulder, glanced back at Xu Liangsheng, and saw Xu Liangsheng wave his hand to him, stepped forward, and said to a group of big men: "Xiaosheng and Meng Daju are a little familiar, can you be accommodating, let the two of us go, and there will be a good reward in the future." ”

The leader asked, "Which Meng Daju?" Xu Liangsheng replied, "Poyang Meng Daju." When the leader heard this, he laughed: "He Meng Daju is the chief of the waterway in Poyang County, and he can't control the boundary of the Yangtze River, right?"

Xu Liangsheng shook his head, and said in a flat tone: "Who knows, from Raozhou to Luzhou waterway, it is a hundred miles, and all the strong men will travel in the water one day and don't capsize in the gutter." ”

The leader's face was a little unbearable, and his eyes shook a little, as if he was weighing the pros and cons, and then Xu Liangsheng said again: "How rich officials are in Raozhou, when can the strong men go to the territory of Raozhou to do business." At this time, the leader was no longer entangled, waved his hand, signaled everyone to retreat, and Cao Zaidong followed Xu Liangsheng out.

After going away, Cao Zaidong said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Gongzi is a beautiful scholar, but he still has some connections with the rivers and lakes, but there are some careless friends, there are several kinds of bandits, but the water bandits are the least authentic, I have a deep understanding back then, and I keep robbing the rich and helping the poor, but I always take fishermen to open the knife, which is a real thing like thunder and thunder, and even people like me disdain to be with it." ”

Cao Zaidong pursed his lips, and heard Xu Liangsheng smile and said: "Where does Xiaosheng really know what Meng Daju is, it's just that the family makes a living from fishing, but Meng Daju's subordinates often come to the house to play the autumn breeze." ”

"Aren't you afraid that those bandits just now will ignore the tiger flag you pulled out?" Cao Zaidong asked.

Xu Liangsheng continued: "Just like Lord Cao said, it is indeed not authentic to be a water bandit, but listening to what you said, there are also three, six, nine and so on between water bandits and water bandits. ”

"After all, Jiangnan Dao is mostly scholars, and the people are feminine, and the Jiangnan water bandits are just like that, and the water bandits in Jiannan Dao are all masters who don't take their heads seriously. Cao Zaidong muttered disdainfully.

"Ahem. Xu Liangsheng was a little cold, coughed twice, and said weakly: "Let's hurry up." ”

At night, because of Xu Liangsheng's inconvenient travel, the two of them arrived in Lujiang County, but for some reason, Lujiang County seemed very deserted at this time, and found an inn, Cao Zaidong took out a silver ingot and smashed it in front of the shopkeeper, and said: "Two first-class guest rooms, and some delicious food!"

According to the normal situation, the shopkeeper should immediately greet him with a smile, put on a flattering look, take the two into the guest room with kind words, and then say "Wait a minute, the wine and food will come immediately". But the shopkeeper looked cautious, and asked in a slightly trembling tone: "The two are objective, can they have identity documents?"

Cao Zaidong frowned, but he didn't embarrass the shopkeeper, handed the identity document to the shopkeeper from his arms, and said, "But what's the matter?" The shopkeeper looked at it, returned the document to Cao Zaidong, and said in a low voice: "The guest officer doesn't know, there have been seven or eight major murder cases in the county recently, and the people who were killed are all wealthy businessmen with names and surnames. ”

The shopkeeper said, took out the key from the counter, and was about to guide the two, glanced at Xu Liangsheng and said: "This guest officer ......" Xu Liangsheng will also understand, but he really doesn't have that thing on his body at this time, squeezed out a smile, hugged his fists and said: "Shopkeeper, you just look at my bones, I'm afraid it will be hard to kill a chicken." ”

The shopkeeper laughed, his heart was indeed like this, and he didn't do much entanglement, so he took the two to the guest room.

As soon as he entered the guest room, Cao Zaidong looked around and said: "Shopkeeper, your inn is really good, there is no hole in the small door, let's not talk about anything else, just this table, if I am not mistaken, it is made of red pear wood, and this one alone will cost five taels of silver!"

The shopkeeper smiled: "The guest officer smiled, I am so delicate here, what do you think of two taels of silver for one night?" Cao Zaidong didn't feel anything, Xu Liangsheng twitched the corners of his eyes, and said in his heart: "It's so expensive!"

Cao Zaidong said with a smile: "My ingot of silver is full of ten taels, and the shopkeeper said that the remaining six taels of silver are not enough to buy some food?"

The shopkeeper came to Cao Zaidong with a sneer, and said in a low voice: "The guest officer wants some lovely people to accompany him for a few glasses?" The night is bitterly cold, why don't you want a girl to warm the quilt, just the so-called hibiscus tent warm ......" Cao Zaidong laughed when he heard this, and took out five ingots of silver from the baggage, pressed them on the palm of the shopkeeper's hand, and laughed in a low voice: "The shopkeeper invited two girls to come, and they wanted high-quality goods, but the master was very picky!"

The shopkeeper looked at the fifty taels of silver, smiled even more, and hurriedly left, and when he left, he also came to a serious running hall: "Guest officer~ You wait!"

Xu Liangsheng looked at Cao Zaidong blankly, and asked, "What kind of delicacies and delicacies do you want the shopkeeper to make?"

Cao Zaidong smiled: "I am doing the work of Tanhualang!"

Xu Liangsheng immediately understood, and muttered: "No wonder this guest room is so exquisite, it turned out to be a business like a leather and meat business." ”

Cao Zaidong waved his hand and said: "Hey, the son is too young to understand the taste, I don't dare to make decisions this time, and when you get to Xiliang, the prince will take you to the 'Xiaoyan Building' and 'Yihong Courtyard', and I will let the son know what the taste of heaven is." As he spoke, he smacked his lips and fell into nostalgia.

After a while, the shopkeeper came to the guest room with wine and food, and said with a sneer, "The guest officer is waiting, the two girls are freshening up." ”

Cao Zaidong waved his hand to indicate that he knew, and the shopkeeper retreated.

Xu Liangsheng took a bite of beef and asked, "Are we going to Xiangzhou first?" Cao Zaidong drank a glass of wine, smacked his lips, and said, "Exactly, go to Xiangzhou first to find His Royal Highness the county lord." ”

Xu Liangsheng didn't say a word and began to eat, but Cao Zaidong didn't move his chopsticks, and looked at Xu Liangsheng in a daze.

"The prince can not live up to the heart of His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the County Lord has a cold temperament, although the medical skills are unique in the world, but he is unwilling to act for no reason, and it is not easy for His Royal Highness the Prince to ask this time. Cao Zaidong said and took another drink.

"Scholars are confidants...... Only death. ”

Xu Liangsheng drank for the first time, only one glass, and was drunk.

In the early morning of the next day, in Chang'an, Zhang Rang sent Lan Xu and his party out of the city, and stood alone in front of the city gate for a long time and did not return.

Lantingxi's ancestral home is Xiangzhou, Shannan Province, and Lan Xu carried the coffin eastward into Xiangzhou.

Mo Zi, the lord of Xiliang County, now lives in Xiangzhou, and Xu Liangsheng then traveled west to Xiangzhou.

Both of them are teenagers, both have great ambitions, one is willing to level the world for the red face, and the other is willing to open peace for the fathers.