Chapter 13: The Strange Scholar (I)
"Officer, it's already here!" the coachman outside the carriage slowly stopped the carriage and whispered to the inside. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
He Xun lifted the curtain, jumped out of the carriage, and looked around. The bustling crowds on the roads and the wide streets all show that the city is full of energy.
I stretched my waist and breathed a breath of cool air, and my mind and body were refreshed.
"The guest officer is from Yanjing City?" the coachman asked with a smile while sitting in the carriage, smoking a dry cigarette.
"I'm here to participate in the sword forging ceremony of the Oriental Family, do you know the old man?"
"Oh!" the old man's squinted eyes opened slightly, and said: "It turns out that the guest officer is also a chivalrous man who walks the rivers and lakes! The Oriental family that the guest official said is fifty miles outside the south gate. Like the guest officer, Lao Tzutou has already sent three batches this month......"
"Didn't someone start coming more than ten days ago?" He Xun asked, turning his head. "It must have been a lively scene!"
"It's very lively?" The old coachman looked at He Xun, who was still happy there, his face couldn't help twitching, and said, "This is the first time the guest officer has come to Yanjing, right?"
"The old man can see it, it is indeed the first time ......" He Xun scratched his head and said hehe.
"No wonder, no wonder ......" The old coachman knocked on the dry pipe in his hand: "No barbarian guest officer, the old man has lived in Yanjing for decades, and this Dongfang family holds a ceremony every five years, and every time it attracts chivalrou......s guests like guest officials" The old coachman paused, and continued: "But every time you can enter the Dongfang house to participate in the ceremony, only a small part of them ......"
"Hey, why?" He Xun heard the news for the first time, and even Ling Yan didn't tell him.
"Just because I want to enter this Oriental home, I need a special invitation from the Oriental Family!"
"Invitation?" He Xun's eyes widened, he didn't know that the invitation existed, let alone had it. "That old man means that without this so-called invitation, it would be for nothing to come to Yanjing?" people won't let me in, right......" He Xun was a little disappointed, originally from Ling Yan's mouth, he learned that Yanjing City, which was closest to him, had such a grand martial arts gathering, and he was lucky, but in this way, he was afraid that he could only watch it from the sidelines this time.
Seeing that He Xun stayed in place, he didn't have the passion just now...... The old man rolled his eyes, thought about it, and said, "There is no invitation for the guest officer...... It's going to be tough. As he spoke, he lit a bag of cigarettes and smoked alone.
He Xun heard the old man's words, and his heart was even more lost, but when he looked up and saw the old man leisurely smoking a dry cigarette by himself, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said with a smile: "Dare to ask the old man, is there a way to get the invitation card of this Oriental family?"
"The guest officer is a person who walks the rivers and lakes, and I don't know how my old man ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw He Xun take out a piece of silver from his arms and hold it in the palm of his hand and put it in front of the old man. The old man stared at the silver in He Xun's hand, and immediately changed his words: "...... There is a "Juxian Residence" in Yanjing City, which is the property of the Oriental family, and the knights will rest there, and the people of the Oriental family often haunt there, and the son can go there to try his luck......"
After getting the news he wanted, He Xun threw the silver to the old man, carried his luggage and ran towards the city happily.
The reputation of the Dongfang family in Yanjing is really very big, He Xun asked a few people casually on the side of the road, and learned that the old man said to himself that as long as everyone who has lived in this city for a period of time knows, He Xun can only smile bitterly about it. When asking people for directions again, He Xun also understood what Juxianju was.
'Juxianju' is located in the south of Yanjing City, which is an industry opened by the Yanjing East family, in order to make friends with all kinds of heroes and heroes in the rivers and lakes. The wealthy Oriental family has long been customized, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes come here without charging any property, just for convenience. But this is not such a simple place, in the unwritten legend among the rangers, this Juxian residence is also set up for the selection of talents, the heroes of the rivers and lakes come here, the Oriental family eats and lives, during which someone secretly observes, if you are fortunate enough to be favored by the Oriental family, you will have the opportunity to enter the Oriental home to become a guest of the scene.
He Xun was not surprised by Juxianju's move, but he just felt that this method might not be able to find real talents.
Walking around the city, after walking for nearly an hour, He Xun found the location of the 'Juxian Residence', "It seems that I am not the only one who has this idea...... "Looking at the people around him who walk towards the Juxian Residence from time to time, He Xun sighed. There are too many of them......
He Xun walked a few steps and followed the flow of people into Juxian Residence.
There were already a lot of people in the house, sitting together in groups of three or five, chatting quietly, seeing He Xun entering, the chat paused for a moment, everyone turned their eyes to He Xun, and after a breath, everyone looked away again, immersed in the conversation with the people around them.
"Where did the young man come from?" Juxian Residence is worthy of being built by an Oriental family with a huge heritage, seeing He Xun coming alone, a servant of the Oriental family immediately stepped forward to greet him, and the young man arched his hand at He Xun and asked.
"The Chicken Song Station in the north of Yanjing......" He Xun didn't know what the other party meant, so he had to say that he was from the Chicken Song Station.
“...... The young man looked He Xun up and down, he was still wearing an old leather coat and an old leather hat, carrying a rough five-foot wooden box and a weapon wrapped in black cloth behind him, and he was also holding a long stick wrapped in black cloth in his hand, which looked strange. But he has been engaged in reception work for many years, he still buried this doubt, thought about making a gesture of invitation in the hall, and said with a smile: "That young man will sit in first." ”
"Trouble. He Xun said politely and wanted to find a corner in the hall to sit down.
When passing by others, I only heard a thin man sneering next to him, pretending not to know: "I thought there was another handsome man in the rivers and lakes, but I didn't expect it to be a mountain boy." ”
"Yes, look at his poor and sour appearance, and I don't know where the beggar is looking for a weapon to eat and ......drink," the man next to him chimed in.
"How can this deacon of Juxianju let this kind of person in. ”
For a while, all kinds of sarcasm came to the face of the hall.
On the other hand, He Xun still turned a deaf ear to these words, and walked straight to a no-man's land in the corner of the wall and sat down.
"Hmph!" After seeing that he was sneering on his side, the other party didn't react, and the thin man was also disinterested, and after looking at He Xun and snorting coldly, he began to talk to his companion again.
"Mountain boy......" He Xun sat in the corner, thinking repeatedly in his heart what the man said just now, he walked out of the forest sea, isn't he just a mountain boy! Thinking of this, He Xun couldn't help but laugh, but fortunately, the voice was very small, and the people around him did not hear it. It also avoids being ridiculed by others again.
"What are you laughing at, what a happy laugh!" He Xun was just about to raise his head, when he heard a gentle voice and asked himself. When I looked at it again, there was a person sitting across from me, looking at me with a smile on his face.
He Xun's heart turned a few thoughts in an instant. But if you look at the person in front of you carefully, a pair of slender peach blossom eyes are full of affection, which makes people fall into it if they are not careful. The tall nose and the moderately thick red lips have a dizzying smile at this time. Wearing a Confucian scarf, wearing a scholarly robe, holding a white paper fan in his hand, a scholar's dress, but unlike this temperament, this scholar was dressed in shabby clothes with patches from head to toe, compared to He Xun's old...... That's what it's called breaking ......
"What's wrong? Did you scare Brother Tai?" the scholar asked again when he saw that He Xun was looking at him and didn't speak.
"Oh oh......" He Xun hurriedly took his gaze away from the other party's eyes, and returned to his senses: "In Xia He Xun, dare to ask Brother Tai's name?"
"Vulgar, really vulgar. After listening to He Xun's self-reported name, he asked his name, and the scholar hurriedly put his cheek on his cheek with one hand to make a contempt, "I just saw that my brother was not moved by other people's words, and I thought that he was an elegant person, but I didn't think that he was also a vulgar person." ”
"Forehead...... To be honest, He Xun is really the first time he has met this kind of person. For a while, there was nothing to be done. I can only stop talking.
"Can't you date if you don't know the name?" the scholar saw He Xun's embarrassment and said casually.
"No, no, no...... That's not what I mean under that. Seeing that the scholar said this, He Xun hurriedly explained.
"Hey, that's right. The scholar glanced at He Xun, and said with a smile on his face: "I knew that you were an elegant person, so invite me to a drink!"
"......" He Xun was blocked again.
"What?" the scholar pointed to the tattered robe on his body and said, "Look down on me?"
He Xun shook his head and said with a smile: "Since Brother Tai sees He, of course I have to invite him! Not to mention that Brother Tai took the initiative to talk to me, so that I will not be so embarrassed, this wine should not only be invited, but also managed!"
"Hahaha, I knew that the two of us fell in love!" The scholar slapped the folding fan and smiled loudly, attracting the attention of many people in the hall. But the person concerned really didn't care at all.
"Hmph, another madman!"
He Xun and the scholar still pretended not to hear, and the scholar beckoned the visitor to remove the wine glass, replace it with a sea bowl, pour it full of spirits, and pull He Xun three bowls in a row.
With three bowls of wine as the beginning, the conversation between the two is obviously much simpler.
After a few more bowls, even though He Xun's amount of wine was fine, drinking so much water still made him feel a little uncomfortable.
"It's very good, the wine is less than a thousand cups of confidants, the wine of this Juxianju is too bad, you and I are familiar at first sight, why don't you drink it in another place?" The scholar went down seven or eight bowls of wine in a row, and his voice was even louder. Shouted directly.
"If the wine is not good, I still come to drink it......" I don't know who said in the hall, although the scholar was drunk, he was deaf and clear-sighted, and he listened to it without a loud voice.
"Hah, you think I want to drink here!" the scholar laughed and said, "If I hadn't met an interesting person today, I wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you." After retorting a few words to the mocker, the scholar said again: "Brother He, let's go, I'll take you to a good place to ensure that the wine is ten times more fragrant!"
"Huh?" things always come too suddenly. This has just come to Juxianju, and he hasn't seen any famous hall yet, so he is going to be dragged away?
At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves at the door of Juxianju. I saw a middle-aged man in a white samurai uniform take the lead in coming in, and only said in a loud voice: "The third son of the Dongfang family has arrived!"
The hall immediately became noisy.