Early the next morning, Lao Wei shouted, and the guys got up to busy their own business, and not long after, the entire convoy was ready and began to rush forward again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At noon, the convoy stopped, Hou Xiaofeng got out of the car and looked ahead, and saw that there were more than a dozen houses lined up at the foot of the mountain not far away, and near the outermost house was a two-story attic, with a colorful flag erected on the attic, and a wine jug was drawn on it, and "Heyi Inn" was written vertically under the wine jug.

Heyi Inn is located in the boundary of Baoding, Baoding has been known as the Gyeonggi important land since the Tang Dynasty, since ancient times there are "three passes in the north, nine provinces in the south, four parts of the land, and Xiongguan Zhongzhou" It is said that there are a lot of people coming and going from north to south and east and west, and the location of the Heyi Inn is the most important, not only guarding the traffic arteries that must pass through in the past, but also the only inn that can rest within a radius of more than ten miles.

At first, the Heyi Inn was not called the Heyi Inn, it was just a small teahouse without a name, but later there were more people passing by, and there were no other competitors around, so it gradually became a scale. Because there are all kinds of people here, and most of them are people in the rivers and lakes, it is inevitable that there will be some contradictions, and they often fight without saying a word, and then I don't know what method the shopkeeper used to persuade the past guests, so there is an unwritten rule, no matter what the reason for the guests who live in the Heyi Inn, they are not allowed to hurt people in the store, if there is a private grudge, then they must find another place to solve. Most of the guests staying in the hotel are tired of the journey, come to the store to be quiet, and they also silently abide by this rule, so this small teahouse is also named Heyi Inn, which means harmony and righteousness.

Lao Wei Tou asked the guys to pack up the carriage and horses, and the group walked into the Heyi Inn, because it was just in time for lunch, so there were already many people sitting in the hall.

As soon as the group entered the door, a shopkeeper with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks greeted him and shouted: "Yo, the wine master is here, please come inside." ”

Hearing Xiao Er's shout, a person wearing a gray robe, who was tall and thin, and who looked like the shopkeeper also greeted him and said, "Master Wine, you haven't been here for a few days, where are you going this time?"

Jiuqu said casually: "Go to Shaanxi, you hurry up and arrange a seat for us, the brothers are hungry." ”

The shopkeeper replied repeatedly: "Please here, please here." ”

The group followed the shopkeeper to the hall, and when he passed the dining table next to him, a person dressed as a martial artist smiled and said: "Wine leader, I knew you were coming, I wouldn't order wine, when I saw you, I couldn't drink this wine, thinking about your good wine, my heart itched." ”

Jiuqu smiled at the man and said: "Isn't this Cheng Darttou, I haven't seen you for a few days, fortunately, fortunately, I will ask someone to move you a jar of Yunshui ballads." ”

Cheng Dangtou hugged his fist at Jiuqu and said: "I haven't seen you for so long, the wine leader still remembers my good mouthful, thank you, thank you." ”

Jiuqu replied: "You're polite, you're polite, Cheng Darttou will eat first, and I'll talk to you later." ”

Cheng Dart nodded with a smile, and Jiuqu also nodded in response, and then went to the hall with a group of guys.

Hou Xiaofeng smiled secretly in his heart: "This person is still a dart, and he doesn't even know that he is being targeted by thieves." When he was talking to Cheng Darthead in Jiuqu, Hou Xiaofeng had already noticed a few people around Cheng Darthead.

Among them, Cheng Dart's head was sitting with his back to the person, who looked white and handsome, with a bookish face, but he was definitely a good thief, and there was a hairy beard and a big bull's eye sitting at the small table diagonally opposite the person, who must be an accomplice with him, these few unrelated people, outsiders naturally couldn't see anything wrong, but Hou Xiaofeng had seen a lot, so he naturally knew it. The seating arrangement of these few of them is obviously to perform a "monkey show", this "monkey show" is a way for several people to cooperate with the theft, and a few people deliberately give birth to some incidents to attract the attention of the target, and then the main thief starts, generally used when there are more people around the target, and it is not easy to start, Hou Xiaofeng and Xiaodou Sprouts used this method when stealing money from the third master Yu Pei.

Not long after Hou Xiaofeng and the guys from the good wine caravan sat down, the shopkeeper had already begun to serve the food, and since the shop was an old acquaintance with the koji, he was even more diligent and quick to work.

The hall of the Heyi Inn is very large, there is no problem with accommodating hundreds of people, and at this time it is all full, everyone is eating their own food, and they don't talk to each other much, so although there are many people, it doesn't seem noisy.

Hou Xiaofeng and a group of guys ran non-stop all morning, plus they just ate some dry food to pad their stomachs in the wild camping last night, and now they are gobbling up the sumptuous delicacies on the table.

Hou Xiaofeng was taking a big mouthful of rice in his mouth, and suddenly heard a sound of neat footsteps outside, as if a large group of people were running towards the inn, Hou Xiaofeng looked up, Jiuqu also happened to raise his head, the two looked at each other, Jiuqu smiled slightly, Hou Xiaofeng found that the others did not react in particular, thinking that he had heard it wrong, so he was embarrassed to bow his head and eat.

After a while, Cheng Darttou stood up and shouted towards the hall: "Everyone, everyone, did you hear this movement outside? Eighty percent of the bandits are coming, this house is full of passers-by from the south to the north, we are a family, if anyone is bullied later, everyone should help a little." ”

Cheng Darttou said this because the situation was turbulent at that time, and the warlord leaders relied on the fact that some people had guns, and they were divided everywhere as kings, and they were extremely looting the people, and they were rich compared to the princes, but they used the money to prostitute prostitutes and gamble happily, and these merchants who came and went from the south to the north were not less bullied by them.

Most of the soldiers in these warlords are for the sake of eating, and they are also very desperate for their lives, and they will not be too strong when they meet difficult people to deal with, anyway, there are so many people, just change one, there will always be good bullies, so the people who come and go may not be familiar with each other, but to deal with the bandits, they are still willing to form gangs, and this group of people has the most goods for medium-range darts, so he is in a hurry to Zhang Luo first.

As soon as Cheng Dangtou finished speaking, a group of people had already entered the inn, and sure enough, they were all wearing military uniforms and holding spears in their hands.

The person at the head glanced at the hall of the inn and shouted loudly: "Everyone, according to the instructions of the superiors, there will be a military exercise here soon, please retreat quickly within tomorrow, otherwise if there is any mistake, you will not be responsible!"

As soon as the shopkeeper heard this, he hurriedly ran out of the counter and begged: "This military master, looking at such a face, how to do a good exercise, you can't do my business anymore, usually we don't have a lot of filial piety to Master Cao, you have to be more accommodating." ”

The man said arrogantly: "Bad old man, do you still want to be notified of the military exercise? Who is Master Cao, Lao Tzu doesn't know, Lao Tzu said just now, if there is any mistake, he will not be responsible!" After the man finished speaking, he looked around the hall again, and then the group of people cheered out of the inn again.

When the team walked away, the shopkeeper said with a sad face: "Ladies and gentlemen, everyone has heard it, let's settle all the money for the stay tonight, and my small store will be closed tomorrow." ”

The scholar-like man behind Cheng Dart's head stood up and said slowly: "What is there to practice in this broken place, I guess eighty percent of the treasures found in this mountain, everyone, this stinky soldier actually looted us, and we also made a fortune from them, is anyone interested?"

After this man finished speaking, someone already recognized him and said: "Chen Xiucai, are you itching your hands again, what treasures are there in this barren mountains and mountains, you know a lot, tell us about it?"

When Hou Xiaofeng heard this, he secretly said in his heart: "Damn, this thief is actually a showman, what kind of world! Eighty percent is the nickname he gave himself, where is there any show talent now." ”

In fact, Hou Xiaofeng didn't know that although the imperial examination reform had already begun in the Qing Dynasty, all provinces and provinces also had primary and secondary schools, but some remote small places still retained the imperial examination until the Republic of China, so there was also the title of Xiucai, but the situation was turbulent at the time, and I don't know if this Chen Xiucai was really admitted, or because he had read some books, he was called Xiucai.