Chapter 5: The Butcher and the Wolf
"The end of the vast world is my love, hum hum hum .... Flowers are blooming. After saying goodbye to Ning Caichen and Yan Chixia, Zhou Bai walked along the official road all the way to the north, enjoying the original ecological scenery that has long been impossible to find in modern society. Although the tamped dirt road is not as smooth and sturdy as the modern asphalt road, it will not become hot and soften under the sun like asphalt.
Although there are many wars in the north and the people are displaced, the south is still prosperous, leaving the remote Guobei County, and there are more and more cars and horses passing on the official road. Zhou Bai's physique is not weak, but he is also a little tired, when he was resting in the shade of the roadside, a carriage stopped in front of him, Zhou Bai looked up, but saw that the horse was fat and strong, awe-inspiring and extraordinary, the carriage behind it was unusually wide, and the wind chimes of the ribbon fence were swaying. A small guy smiled: "This scholar, I don't know where to go, there is no store in front of the village, my lord saw you sweating and resting by the tree, and wanted to take you for a ride, but you can't get to the post station at night." ”
Zhou Bai was surprised, and looked at it, although he didn't see the master's face, the carriage was indeed extravagant, and there was no trace of his uncomfortable atmosphere. Xindao met a good person, and after thanking him, Yu Xiaowu sat on the rail.
The carriage is stable and does not see bumps, it should be the use of overseas bakelite shock absorption, the little guy is a little puzzled, although his own master is usually generous and has a good reputation, but not all passers-by will accept it, this scholar's clothes are soaked, his hair is slightly messy, and his face is sweaty. Although the temperament is warm, it is not an abnormal person, and scholars with this temperament are everywhere in the literati who are received by the master on weekdays. It was these eyes as clear as water that impressed him deeply, just looking at each other was deep in his mind, no contempt or contempt, just like looking at flowers and trees and looking at all things in heaven and earth. As if he had accidentally said something great, the little guy smiled. Shaking his head, he continued to drive the carriage forward.
The sun became more and more intense, "Scholar, my lord invites you to come to the carriage to rest." A girl with a double mustache poked her head out and said to Zhou Bai. "Thank you for your kindness. Zhou Bai also wanted to know where the coolness that came to him from the carriage through the curtain came from.
Entering the carriage is like coming to another world, the carved beams and paintings on the inner wall are very exquisite, very spacious, enough to accommodate seven or eight people to sit side by side. There is a charming Persian carpet on the inside of the car, a copper basin is hollowed out in the middle of the small square table, and there is a one-foot square ice cube in it to dispel the stuffy heat, a man in white clothes and black hair is half leaning on the front seat of the carriage with a smile in his eyes, two maids with hair buns are waiting, the girl in green clothes is the one who sent him a message from the probe, and her smart eyes looked at Zhou Bai who had just come in, and made a grimace at him.
"Thank you, brother. Zhou Bai thanked again.
"It's convenient for you, it's convenient for you, it's okay. After a little more about Mo cup of tea, you will arrive at Jurong Station, there is a market next to the post station, you can rest for a while. The owner of the car nodded slightly, and Zhou Bai nodded clearly, "Oh, Brother Tai is so familiar with the road conditions, he must be used to walking north and south." Dare to ask Brother Taigui's surname?" the owner stroked his beard, with a few smiles in his eyes, "My surname is Hu, Gu Yuehu, and my full name is Hu Zhou." Originally, he was a person from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and his family was a merchant who sold porcelain, so he was naturally familiar with the road conditions in the house. ”
As soon as Zhou Bai entered the carriage, he saw that the owner of the car who called himself Hu Zhou was full of luxury, but there was no trace of copper smell. Presumably, this Hu Zhou is that nonsense. Hawkers, after all, you have to be cautious when you go out, the other party kindly asked him to take the car, of course Zhou Bai will not expose it, and said with a smile, "It turned out to be Boss Hu, next Zhou Bai, a native of Yingchuan, this time he is indeed traveling to school." "Merchant, just looking at the ice cube that seems to be melting, but it is constantly condensing, there must be a treasure to help. Could such a person be an ordinary businessman?
Hu Zhou also began to observe as soon as Zhou Bai entered the carriage, and before he was in the car, he saw this person in the distance with an extraordinary temperament, although he looked like an ordinary scholar, he faintly had a sense of detachment. So I invited him to get in the car and piggyback on it. Now that you look at it up close, it's really very human. After he reported his name, his eyes flickered, he must have understood, but he didn't pierce it, obviously not the kind of book fool who reads dead books and reads dead books. This good fate is also interesting, Hu Zhou smiled dumbly.
Zhou Bai couldn't help but chuckle, but the two looked at each other but knew each other's meaning. When Pingshui met, it was fate, Hu Zhou instructed the maid in Tsing Yi to pour Jiangnan rice wine for Zhou Bai, and he even knocked down a piece of ice for Zhou Bai and put it in the wine cup.
"Please~" "Please~~" Zhou Bai drank it all, flicked his sleeves, and the bold air that was different from other literati came to his face. The two maidservants blushed and bowed their heads to look at him again. "Good wine!" "Good wine!" "Good amount of wine!" both of them admired at the same time.
The two talked happily on the road, and when they arrived at the post station, Hu Zhou and Zhou Bai suddenly stopped talking, just when the maid thought that Hu Zhou wanted to keep Zhou Bai, the two had already said goodbye. Zhou Baimu sent the carriage to fork the road, always feeling that he would definitely say goodbye to this Mr. Hu Zhou again in the future, and turned around and walked into the post station.
"Master, why don't you keep that scholar?" the green-clothed maid wondered. Hu Zhou smiled and said nothing, and the maid in Tsing Yi helped Hu Zhou peel a lychee, "Xiaohe, you are so stupid, no wonder the master likes me more." "The Maid in Tsing Yi" was originally a passer-by who met and met, and they were divided by mistake, and the friendship between gentlemen was as light as water, and there was no trace of water. It's a good fate, and if you deliberately make friends, you will inevitably fall into the inferiority. ”
"Xiao Ye is so powerful!" Xiao He stared at the green-clothed maid who was holding her head high in front of the master.
"So master, when are you going to ask me to fill the house?" Xiao Ye stared at Hu Zhou expectantly. "It's early, it's early. Hu Zhou smiled, "Wait until one day the lord is interested, find the two of you to fill the house together!" "Lord~~~" "Lord~~~~"
The little girl who pretended to be deaf outside was humming a little song while thinking about the mother-in-law at home. The carriage drove smoothly in the direction of Jinling.
As soon as Zhou Bai entered the post station, he happened to bump into a group of people around the store, and a big bearded man with five big and three thick beards was carrying two wild wolves to tell the people around him. asked for a pot of tea, Zhou Bai sat down next to him, fanning the wind while listening to the butcher's boasting.
"At that time, my heart suddenly dawned, this beast was not close to me, his eyes were blood-red, he must be a hungry wolf. The butcher took the bowl of water and drank it down, wiping his mouth. "I heard the old man in the village say that you must not be afraid when you encounter a wild wolf, the wolf is very psychic, and you will know it if you are afraid of it. Besides, the king butcher has slaughtered countless beasts under my hands, where will I be afraid, as long as it dares to come, Lao Tzu will cut it with a knife!"
"Then why are there two wolves here?" Xiao Er, who ran errands, was really a natural complacent, and the butcher had a smug expression on his face, "Don't worry, I'll tell you." I confronted the wolf for a while, and it felt something was wrong. How can a hungry wolf be so calm, you see that wild dog is hungry and crazy, he doesn't care what you have in his hand, he says that he will come up. The wolf must be fiercer than the dog, right? I was leaning my back to the stack of wood, and when I felt that something was wrong, I did not run away or retreat, but began to circle along the stack, and the wild wolf was also strange, and as soon as I turned around, it was very impatient, and always wanted to run over. ”
Butcher Wang's face showed a hint of fear, "When I turned to the back of the firewood stack, I found that there was a wolf behind it!" The surprised expressions of the surrounding audience made him very useful, "That beast is almost becoming a sperm, and he actually knows that one is holding me back in front, and the other is sneaking up from behind the woodstack! The woodstack has already made a big hole, and the other wolf has already burrowed into it with half of its body, and only two hind legs and tail remain outside." ”
Wang Butcher smiled and said, "Fortunately, Lao Tzu found it early, otherwise it would have been yin by these two beasts, this wolf is also self-reaping, and the body can't go in and out of the firewood, I was about to get the wolf in the woodstack first, but the other one couldn't help it." Coming directly to me, I was bold, and I quickly struck the past first, and with a knife in my hand, I hit the wolf's head, and then slashed at the wolf. Then he turned around and killed the wolf who couldn't get in and out of the stack. It's a pity that the first wolf, because it was cut too quickly, the fur was not preserved. ”
The shopkeeper sitting behind the counter also looked proud, his shrewd mung bean eyes glanced left and right to observe the movement in the store, touched the well-trimmed goatee, and secretly said in his heart. He took out six coins of silver from his sleeve and came to the butcher with a smile, and everyone stopped talking, "Old Wang, we will accept these two wolves, originally these two wolves are only worth four coins of silver, and it is a great thing to think that you are extremely powerful and remove hidden dangers for everyone! "So I'm in charge and I'll give you another penny!" the shopkeeper looked around at the guests, his eyes revealing shrewdness.
The king's big grinning mouth couldn't be closed, five dollars of silver! How much this is about to catch up with his income for half a month! The greasy big hand sipped on the equally greasy short coat, took five pieces of broken silver from the shopkeeper's hand, untied the belt from his waist, wrapped the silver in three or four layers before re-tying it back, touched the silver of the man, and then laughed non-stop.
"Thank you, thank you, shopkeeper. Come, I'll send you the wolf to the back kitchen. ”
"No, no, Lao Wang, you are the wolf slaughtering hero in our collection! Come, sit here and rest. Xiao Er, come and drag these two wolves to the back kitchen. Then give the king butcher a pot of tea, and on a hot day, come and go back to take a cool day. ”
The king butcher drank free tea, beaming proudly, and kept telling the new guests the story of his wolf slaughter. This is the most glorious deed of his life! Of course, he must tell more people about his bravery.
Zhou Bai couldn't help but smile when he looked at the guests around him and the proud butcher Wang who was present, what a means, the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. When the king butcher was in danger, he was thick and fine, and finally turned evil into good fortune. Originally, the transaction could be completed in the backyard, but the shopkeeper deliberately left it in the front hall to attract a large number of guests with the help of the king butcher, and I am afraid that the turnover this afternoon was more than five yuan.
The aura in his body suddenly sensed, and when he turned his head to look, it was a middle-aged scholar who came to the next seat at some point and was struggling to write. When I looked closely, I realized that it was the story of the butcher and the wolf. Zhou Bai is different, this is the world of Liaozhai, isn't it even Pu Songling who has crossed over?
When the scholar stops writing, the atmosphere of writing dissipates. So he got up and went over to make friends with him.
PS: This is not a novel that fights monsters and upgrades, it can be regarded as a travelogue of the protagonist, the protagonist of the first world has no real feeling, and suddenly left himself in a strange world, not knowing what he is going to do. And there are some plots where the protagonist can't participate.,I've already explained the strength of the protagonist before.,It's hugely lethal to demons.,But it can't cause damage to ordinary people.,At most, it's oppressed by momentum.。 The current protagonist encounters these two wolves, there is no possibility of living at all, of course, the protagonist will definitely grow, and he can only use less than one percent of the current power equivalent to one hundred percent, and he will definitely fill in the current shortcomings.