Chapter 9: Fenzhou Wuding City
Fenzhou is one of the eight states leaving the country, with a rich economy, and is second only to Yongzhou, where the capital is located. There are two merchant gangs in the country, one of which is the Fen Shang.
There are countless waterways, lakes and canals in Fenzhou, and Wudingcheng is one of dozens of cities that divide the city into large and small cities.
The city is like spring all year round, and it rains for half a year. Nine of the city's ten streets are waterways, and most of the stone arch bridges connect the two sides. Boats and small bridges connect the entire Wuding City.
There are many beautiful women in Wuding City, all of them are as soft as water, and as gentle as water, it is a place where many literati have sung throughout the ages, and many love has been born.
On this day, outside a wharf outside the city, a small boat was slowly sailing, and the boat was set up by an old man in black cloth and a hat. The old man paddled his oars, and the boat passed by the pier, and did not stop, but slowly sailed along the waterway into the city.
The waterway gradually changed, and after a while, it could only accommodate two boats in parallel, and there was an endless stream of people entering and leaving the city.
The old man docked the boat in front of a row of bamboo rows, then lifted the curtain of the boat, and said, "Childe, Wuding City has arrived." ”
After the old man finished speaking, a young man with clear eyebrows walked out of the cabin. The young man looked to be fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in moon-white clothes, with a hosta on his head and a smile on his face.
This boy is Yu Ne.
After Yu Nee destroyed the ghost general, he found a place to breathe, and after he finished his exercise, he found that his bottleneck had loosened a little, and immediately took advantage of the success of the gong to hit the foundation, and sure enough, he succeeded in building the foundation, and Aoki succeeded in reaching the fourth layer, of course, this Avatar Pill was also used.
After building the foundation, it is true to take off the mortal body, and only when you practice here can you be regarded as entering the Tao.
Yu Nie entered the Dao, and immediately returned to follow the fate of the heart of the light, plus Master Jinguang did not know whether it was good or evil, so he planned to visit his Jinguang Temple.
This road is a long way, if it is a wilderness, it will set up the Heavenly Frost Sword to fly, if there are people, come down and walk slowly. In this way, Yu Ni entered the realm of Fenzhou, and the fame of Fenzhou, he also heard from his master. When you get here, there is no reason not to go shopping, there is a lot of water in Fenzhou, so I simply chartered a small boat and experienced a life on the water.
The old man said carefully: "Son, there is a lot of smoke and rain, bring an umbrella." ”
Yu Ne answered lightly, took the paper umbrella, got off the boat, stepped on the bamboo raft, and went ashore.
There is a lot of smoke and rain in Wuding City, and most of the porters and hawkers are wearing hats on their heads, dressed neatly, and those who look like poor scholars are wearing paper umbrellas that have been repaired thousands of times, and pay attention to appearance. Merchants are carried by sedan chair drivers and travel back and forth. If you say that the most leisurely, it is an indefinite woman, holding a flower umbrella of different colors, from the west to the east, to the north to the south, which is a beautiful scenery of the uncertain city.
Yu Ni went ashore, looked around, saw the scenery on all sides, smiled slightly in his heart, and integrated into it with an umbrella.
The umbrella he played was slightly damaged, and the umbrella surface was patched with a few black cloths, which was out of place compared to his clothes. However, the umbrella is a gift from the old man and must not be discarded. For him, an umbrella is good to cover the rain, but not good.
Yu Ni walked slowly, looking around all the way, savoring life, and the experience of red dust is also very important in terms of cultivation. He saw an inn on the opposite street, so he looked for the nearest stone arch bridge and walked slowly up.
The stone bridge spans both sides, and has been trampled by thousands of people since it was built, but it has always been silent and has done its duty. Yu Ni got on the stone arch bridge and looked down to see a boatman rowing the boat into the bridge hole in front of the oars.
Suddenly, he felt a coldness, inexplicable. Yu Nie turned around, and a very cold woman gradually walked from the other side of the bridge with an oil-paper umbrella. Look at the woman, with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, condensed skin and slender neck, and her eyes are fluctuating, charming and bewitching. She wore a wide-sleeved gauze dress, an embroidered cape, and a white plain skirt, and her figure was delicate and exquisite, as if she was shrouded in a cold and cold atmosphere, which was daunting.
The woman got on the bridge, glanced at Yu Ni very casually, and then held an oil-paper umbrella and quietly left.
Yu Nie came back to his senses, this woman was beautiful, but it was too cold, and he vaguely felt a strange aura from her.
Yu Ne thought for a while, and suddenly laughed at himself, could it be that he had reached the age of estrus?
Yu Nie arrived in front of the store, took the umbrella, walked in, and a shopkeeper flicked a towel to greet him: "Childe, do you want to stay in the store?"
Yu Nie looked around, the hygiene was not bad, and said, "Live in the hotel, give me an upper room." ”
"Okay, Childe, please go up to the second floor. ”
The shopkeeper smiled and greeted Yu Ne to the second floor.
Yu Ne casually paid the deposit, and after looking at his room, he left the inn, and although the inn also provided food, the taste was certainly not as good as the restaurant.
Immortal cultivators are jealous of appetite, and although Yu Ni did not inherit this, he inherited another point - pickiness.
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"Xichun Building" is located not far from "Huiyuan Inn", which is a large restaurant with three floors. This building is also a restaurant in the row of restaurants in Wuding City, with fine wine and food, and prosperous business. It assists each other with the Huiyuan Inn, some guests go to the Huiyuan Toudian, put down their bags and go out to enter the Xichun Building to have a beautiful meal; there are people who come to eat, and after they are full of wine and food, they can go to the Huiyuan Inn to have a room to rest. The two sources of customers combine with each other and make a fortune together.
At this time, it was noon time for dinner, so Xichun Building was busy, and people came together from time to time. A few shopkeepers were so busy that they had just beckoned the guests to sit down, and they had to hurry up to serve food to the other table.
Pedestrians passing by on the street outside the restaurant can smell the strong aroma of wine and food wafting from the restaurant, which makes people salivate and very tempting, attracting many people who smell the fragrance. After a while, there were people sitting at the tables from the first floor to the third floor.
In the compartment by the window on the third floor, a young man sat at a table, with some signature dishes of Wuding City on the table, as well as a bottle of Wuding's most famous wine, Wuding Lengchun, this young man is naturally Yu Ni.
Before he left the inn, he asked the shopkeeper where the food was delicious, the shopkeeper introduced him to Xichun Building, he went out to see, the street on both sides of the street is the largest restaurant, if you want to find, you have to go far, he saw that the business of this restaurant is good, and he simply came in.
Yu Ni picked up a knife in one hand, held chopsticks in the other hand to press a brocade shrimp, the knife gently scratched the shrimp shell, the shrimp meat will pop out of the shell half an inch, and then use chopsticks to clamp, the meat will be separated from the shell, and then the shrimp meat is dipped in a carefully prepared sauce, which is the famous dish of Fenzhou "brocade shrimp shelling". Most of the food is elaborate and complex, so the dishes are fresh and hot. At that time, Yu Nie was very surprised when he saw it, and after Xiao Er left, he started to move.
Yu Ni sandwiched the shrimp meat dipped in the sauce, put it in the mouth, the eyes were blurred, the shrimp meat just out of the shell was steaming, the temperature dropped after dipping the sauce, the soft shrimp meat was a little more elastic, the fragrance of the sauce matched with the freshness of the shrimp, the refreshing taste, full of fragrance. This dish is only available in Fenzhou, and only the brocade shrimp pieces in Fenzhou are large, the meat is sufficient, and the shell is not sticky.
Yu Ni tasted the brocade shrimp, and then tasted two other famous dishes - "Fish Kiss Jiaoshi" and "Eel Swimming in the Lotus Root Cave", which really have their own taste.
Although the person who cultivates the immortals says that he should be pure and has few desires, and is taboo to eat and drink, but how old is Yu Nie, and the cultivation is only more than ten years, his heart beats off, and he grows freely in the view, even if he comes out occasionally, he must be restrained by the master.
After eating a few bites of food, Yu Ne poured himself wine, held the wine glass, and learned the movements of the people who had been in the past. At this time, on the street outside the building, there was a sudden cheer.
Yu Ne was curious, and looked down from the window and looked condescendingly in the direction of the sound, but there were three performers not far away.
Two Taoist boys wearing yellow clothes with pigtails in their hands held swords, and they jingled into a fight, only to see that between the two people, the sword light and sword shadow, tossing and turning, the two weapons were danced into two cold lights, not colliding together, it was difficult to distinguish between them.
Although the onlookers couldn't see the high and low, they only felt that the fight between the two was very lively and beautiful, and when they saw the wonderful danger, they burst into cheers for a while.
After a while, the two Taoist children separated, their faces were not red or panting, and they looked like they were eight or nine years old, which was really remarkable.
At this time, I saw that the boy on the left raised the knife like another person slashing at the head, and the person did not dodge as if he was stupid, so frightened that the onlookers couldn't help but widen their eyes.
"When", the knife slashed heavily on the head of the Taoist boy, making a loud sound, the child slapped his head, nothing happened, and the onlookers made a "wow" sound.
Another Dao boy with a sword raised his sword and stabbed at the Dao boy with a knife, "ding", the sword stabbed on the Dao Tong's body, the sword body bent, it can be seen that a lot of strength was used, and the Dao Tong did not have anything.
The onlookers let out another "wow".
The two Dao Tong slashed each other a few times, and then collected their swords, and one of them said: "The two of us and the family teacher passed by here, and the entanglement was exhausted..."
Before he finished speaking, one of the people below said, "Be rewarded," and threw out a few copper coins as he spoke.
Others also said: "I'll wait to know, I don't need to say more", and then threw out some copper coins.
For a time, the copper coin fell to the ground.
At this time, another boy sighed and said, "You have misunderstood, we are not people who sell arts, but people who subdue demons and eliminate demons. ”
As he spoke, the third person who had been standing behind him stepped forward, but it was an old man. The old man opened his mouth and spewed out a raging fire, and then stretched out his hand, and the flame swirled and jumped in his hand.
After a while, the old man collected the flame and said: "The poor road and the little apprentices passed through the noble land, and the entanglement was exhausted, so I plan to sell a few talismans, and everyone will buy them back and stick them on the wall, so that the evil will retreat and protect the family and people." ”
He said, the two Taoist boys walked to the crowd, took out a few talismans, and said: "The law is not passed on lightly, talismans are not sold cheaply, one or two pieces of silver." ”
There was a humane in the crowd of onlookers: "We want to watch the fight, not the trick." ”
There are also humanitarians: "One or two pieces of silver, you might as well grab it!"