Chapter 16 Looking for relatives and mistakenly going to Maple Town Measuring words to know Chen Baiqian
Ogawa is on the road looking for his family. Xiao Chuan once heard his grandfather say that his hometown is in Lingnan, but it is unknown where it is in Lingnan. Moreover, Lingnan is not in the territory of the Great Han Kingdom, and it is more than 2,000 miles away from the gods of the Great Han Kingdom.
However, Xiao Chuan was not worried, he carried a "huge sum of money" in his arms, two gold coins, and more than two dozen silver coins, he had never owned such a large sum of money.
Of course, Xiao Chuan didn't know that his "huge money" couldn't even buy a sleeve of the clothes he was wearing now.
"Why are you going to Lingnan?" Xiao Chuan asked in surprise when he heard Ling Zhiren's words.
"Yes, the family is going to the Lingnan Yanque Shen family, there are some things that need to be dealt with!" Ling Zhiren nodded and said.
"Do you want to go on the same road, or take the opportunity to eat and drink together!" Ling Xianzi did not forget to take the opportunity to ridicule Xiao Chuan, who made his eating look so ugly, and bit his tongue twice.
Xiao Chuan can eat one meal in half a month now, but he doesn't eat less these days, the main food is too tempting, Xiao Chuan hasn't eaten it before, and many of them have never even seen it.
"Such a meal will cost two gold coins!" Xiao Chuan thought to himself as he ate. But even if he was killed, his little head didn't dare to think that this meal was not two gold coins, but two zeros were added to the "two" and doubled.
Xiao Chuan was a little hesitant, he couldn't eat well without chopsticks, endlessly! Ling Muxian had already spent a lot of money these days, and he couldn't take advantage of others anymore.
Xiao Chuan insisted on going on the road alone, Ling Zhiren wanted to persuade him again, Ling Feiyan was already impatient, and said: "Dead little ghost who doesn't know what to do, he is willing to go by himself, so as not to drag us back." Besides, when I see his food, I don't have an appetite!"
Ling Zhiren smiled secretly, "I really don't understand the mind of this eldest lady, saying that I dislike this little ghost and look ugly." But she doesn't eat much herself, and the head of the family only eats two bites symbolically, but these days, she carefully selects every meal and fills a large table of dishes. This kind of spending money, that is, a family like the Ling family, for a small nobleman of the Great Han Kingdom, is about to go bankrupt!"
Xiaochuan rushed all the way, in the direction of Lingnan.
Now, Ogawa is alone, with no one on the road, and he has been performing the Rapid Formation Technique all the way, enjoying the feeling of galloping, and his Rapid Formation Technique is becoming more and more proficient.
"It turns out that cultivation is so simple, where, as Uncle Ren said, you must first have understanding, you must study hard, you must have great perseverance, what, what..."
"It seems like a small town up ahead, so you can ask for directions!" Ogawa thought to himself.
Xiaochuan has been in a hurry for the past two days, and he doesn't go into the city when he encounters it, so he walks when he sees the road, just running to the south.
"It seems that I have met six or seven towns along the way, right?" Ogawa couldn't remember. The night before, Xiao Chuan looked for a broken temple to rest. In less than the middle of the night, Ogawa ran out. "It's scary! It's so scary! It's clear that there's no one, and there's still movement at night. The woods are no good, and they're just as scary!" Ogawa secretly decided not to look for these places again.
Xiaochuan was reluctant to pay for the hotel, and his eyes were still red.
"Nonsense, believe it or not, I'm going to beat you!" said a hexagram stall at the entrance of the town, and an angry voice came from the mouth of a Humpty Dumpty man next to the hexagram stall.
"I say it bluntly, believe it or not, hexagram gold and a copper coin, give the money!" said another voice with a dead voice. The speaker is blocked by Humpty Dumpty, and Ogawa can't see the speaker's appearance.
"I still want money, I want to be beautiful, little bastard, believe it or not, I'm going to beat you up!" Humpty Dumpty was even more furious.
"Forget it, forget it, shopkeeper Wu, what do you care about him, it's important to find a place to rest. I just said don't listen to his nonsense, go, go..."A person next to him dragged Humpty Dumpty away.
Xiao Chuan finally saw the owner of the hexagram stall, a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, with a yellow face and thin muscles.
"Hello," Xiao Chuan said to the boy at the hexagram stall.
"Guest officer, but do you want to measure the word? In the next family physiognomy, one word to break yin and yang, Xiao Ji is fierce, and know wealth and wealth..."
Xiao Chuan waved his hand again and again and said, "I want to ask for directions?"
"Ask for directions!" The hexagram stall boy lost interest, and his body that had just straightened up retracted.
"This big brother, where is this place and how far is it from Lingnan?" asked Xiao Chuan politely with a smile on his face.
The young man from the hexagram stall glanced at Xiao Chuan, and replied weakly: "This is Maple Town, and there are still two thousand, four or five hundred miles away from Lingnan!"
"Well, how could it be?" Xiao Chuan felt that he had walked one or two hundred miles in the past two days, and how could he not be closer to Lingnan, but had become farther away.
"Where are you from?" the boy asked curiously, looking at Xiao Chuan's appearance.
"Shendu!" Ogawa replied.
"You're on the wrong path! Lingnan is just south of Shendu, and Maple Town is southwest of Shendu," the young man looked at Xiaochuan as if he had been cheapened.
"How far is it from Shendu?" asked Ogawa, a little frustrated.
"About seven hundred miles!" the young man said as he looked at Xiao Chuan with interest.
"What?" Ogawa was surprised.
"It's only been two days, and I've walked more than 700 miles, how can it be?" Xiao Chuan was a little suspicious in his heart.
"Let's test a word, just a copper coin. You can make a fortune, and I can buy a few steamed buns to pad my stomach!" the young man raised his eyebrows, looked at Xiao Chuan, and said with some earnestness.
"I want a copper coin!" Xiao Chuan was a little embarrassed, but looking at the young man's gaze, he couldn't bear to refuse.
"Write it here!" The young man saw that Xiao Chuan was a little moved, and hurriedly took out a pen and paper.
Xiao Chuan looked down and saw that a big word "go" had been written on the paper, which should have been written by Humpty Dumpty when he was measuring the characters just now. I didn't know what to write, so I was a little hesitant.
When the young man saw Xiaochuan paying attention to the words written on the paper, he said with a smile: "That person has been away from home for a long time just now, and he wants to test whether the family is safe." Alas, I am honest, he is not happy!"
"What did you say to him that made him so upset?" Ogawa asked.
"Well, I told him that his wife was stealing people at home!" the boy was a little helpless.
"Huh?" Xiao Chuan looked up at the young man when he heard this, and his face was stunned.
"The person who goes is leaving, it can be seen that his husband and wife are leaving. Besides, it was written like a cloud, and it was true that when he was not at home, his wife had a dewy relationship with someone else!" explained the boy shaking his head.
Xiao Chuan had just written down the word "Cheng", and when he heard the young man's words, his hand shook and he almost dragged the last stroke out of the paper.
"Ah, that's wrong. If the word '10,000' is missing, things will be bad. The word 'Ge' will see swords and soldiers next to him. Guest officer, I'm afraid that the road ahead is dangerous, so don't go! I see that you are well-dressed, but your life is poor, and I am afraid that you will not be rich for long, and you will always be haunted by bad luck, and your wish will not come true..."
Ogawahara didn't want to test words, but seeing that the young man had an earnest gaze, he said pitifully. Besides, I have been rolling in the market since I was a child, and I know the difficulties of the people at the bottom, although I am a little reluctant to spend a copper coin, I can help people anyway, but I didn't expect to attract such a few words from the young man.
"No wonder you can't make money, it's no wonder that fortune tellers like you don't get killed!" Xiao Chuan said secretly in his heart.
"Here!" Xiao Chuan took out a copper coin and put it on the hexagram stall, turned around and left.
"Hey, little brother, go slowly, I haven't finished yet!" the young man caught up a few steps and reached out to grab Xiaochuan.
"Little brother, don't blame me for speaking too straight, it's just that your life is really unlucky. I, Chen Baiqian, have been measuring characters for so long, and I have never seen a person like you, leaning against the wall and falling down, taking advantage of the cool trees to fold, seeing people and disturbing people, and killing ghosts and ghosts. It's better to sit down and talk in detail..."The young Xiangshi looked anxious, and his hand tightly grabbed Xiao Chuan's clothes.
"Talk about it! Should I take this crow's mouth to a place where no one is and talk to him in detail with my fists..."Xiao Chuan turned around and looked at the young Xiangshi with a smile, thinking to himself.
The young man rubbed his hands uneasily and said, "I'm not very good at talking, and I've offended many people. I also know that what I say may make you unbearable, but I really want to help you! I also know that my ability to measure words is first-class, but the ability to solve problems for people is not very good, everyone sit down and study and see if you can think of a way, I can help you!"
Xiao Chuan looked at the young man with a sincere face, not as if he was pretending, and he didn't realize that most of the anger in his stomach had disappeared.
"Goo, goo..." a strange voice came from the young man.
The young Xiangshi's face flushed slightly, and he said very embarrassedly: "This, there are too few people who have seen the appearance these days, I haven't made any money, and I haven't eaten for two days..."
I didn't expect to meet a guy who was even worse than me, Xiaochuan was a little speechless.
"It just so happens that I'm also a little hungry, let's go together!" Xiao Chuan was afraid that the young man would not be able to wipe his face, so he pretended that he wanted to eat, and invited the young man to go with him by the way.
"Wow, it's so full!" the young man touched his slightly bulging belly, and there was an extremely satisfied expression on his face.
"I'm afraid it's cleaner than the kitchen!" Xiao Chuan thought to himself when he looked at the plate on the table where even the juice was wiped clean by the young Xiangshi with steamed buns.
"Uncle, let's listen to a little song!"
"Don't listen, don't listen, go away, go away..."
Suddenly there was a commotion behind him.
The eyes of the young seishi and Ogawa were also attracted.
An old man of about sixty years old, slightly hunched over, and a little girl about fourteen or fifteen years old stood beside him, looking timid.
"Hey, Old Man Duan, why are you coming in again, hurry, get out!" Xiao Er rushed over quickly, pushing with his hand while muttering incessantly.
"Little second brother, you can do it, let's eat together..."The hunchbacked old man pleaded in a hoarse voice.
"Let's go, let the shopkeeper see it, I don't have to mess around here!" Xiao Er lowered his voice, and his tone was a little anxious.
"Little second brother, please come here, I want to listen to a little song!" Xiao Chuan looked at the hunchbacked old man's gray hair and face stained by the wind and frost of the years, and couldn't help but think of his grandfather in his heart, his eyes were a little sour, and he couldn't help blurting out.
As soon as Xiao Er saw that it was a young man in a fancy costume who spoke, he immediately smiled, and hurriedly pulled the old man and said, "Old man Duan, your luck is here, don't go over quickly!"
Xiao Er has seen a lot of people, but people like Xiao Chuan are really rare in Maple Town.
"Such a master, you can't be offended!" Xiao Er smiled on his face, thinking to himself.
"Sing a song!" "Only when he daydreams does Xiao Chuan think that he will have such a chic day.
Xiao Chuan reached out and took out a gold coin from his arms and slapped it on the dining table, the light of the gold dazzled the old man's eyes, and also made Xiao Chuan's heart keep dripping blood.
"Damn, how did you take it out!" Xiao Chuan now just wants to discount the hand that took out the money.