Chapter 38: Ant Gathering (II)

The poor and sick dare to die, and the rich cherish their lives.

The general nature of human beings is more or less like this.

Once there is abundance of things outside the body and the pleasures of the world, people will cherish their lives extraordinarily.

Although the fat medicine merchant did not dare to say that he had a huge fortune and was proud of his wealth, after all, he had been in business for many years, and his life was far richer than others. After many years of eating and drinking, there are old knees and children in the hall, and he often enjoys human relations, so his life experience, when he encounters a choice between money and life, where will he go, this is the answer that everyone can think of.

Hu Tan only used a small trick to bluff a shrewd businessman into half his life, and he obeyed his words. After a while, with a few words, the gold and silver that the merchant had just received in his arms and had not yet warmed it changed hands again and handed it into Hu Tan's hands, and even the ginseng on his body was not spared.

You can't blame this businessman for being too gullible and deceived.

How can ordinary people easily identify the art of ghosts and ghosts in the rivers and lakes, the method of blinding the eyes? Rao is a shrewd, knowledgeable and wise person, and when you are personally caught in a strange crisis, there is no one who is not confused. Every inch is in chaos, the puzzle is unfolded, and no one can resist to get out.

These tricks have been so powerful for thousands of years, and to this day, they still make many savvy people fall short. Otherwise, among them, there are many officials of the state, elites in the industry, and academic masters. Because the practitioner is good at seeing people's dangers and knowing people's weaknesses, there is no one who does not miss it.

The words are boring.

Hu Tan used an invincible life talisman that "my father searched for the world, spent several years of intensive research, and was extremely precious", in exchange for 2,500 taels of silver and the remaining ginseng. With the merchant's thousand thanks, he rode away satisfied.

On the way, Qin Su asked him, "What insect did you bite him just now?"

"Spotted beetle. Hu Tan said with a smile. He raised the small black porcelain vase he was holding.

Spotted worm-like tide insects, they like shade and dampness. Mostly born in swampy places, the body is as small as an ant. Although the poison is very small, but this insect is very fast, ordinary people are bitten only a quarter of an hour after the symptoms, the body is susceptible to cold and heat, and then the skin surface has a stiff feeling, but it does not kill people.

"Well, that's good," Qin Su nodded. "To deal with such mean and tricky people, it is enough to punish them lightly, they are not great evildoers, and I don't allow you to harm them with poisonous insects. ”

"Got it, auntie. Hu Tan nodded and said.

He didn't say anything about the road. The aunt and nephew rode their horses again and again, and traveled on the road for more than two hours, and finally entered the Longde Mansion at the turn of Shen You. As the morning dawned into the evening, many homes had already lit up their lamps and shopped on the street. Lanterns are hung high, and the red light illuminates the streets. As soon as Hu Tan entered the city gate, he began to arrest people to inquire about the location of Yuan Wei Zhai, and after getting guidance. I hurriedly looked for an inn, and when I was eager to find a good room, I went to eat.

Who knew that this guest room was extremely difficult to find, and the two of them searched for seven or eight inns. They all replied that they were full. I saw that in the lobby of all the hotels, there were men with rough expressions drinking wine and eating meat. Order loudly, Qin Su knows. It must have been these sudden influx of Jianghu tourists who packed the inn.

Helpless, the aunt and nephew had to find another way, and after asking the two inns to no avail, they knocked on the door of a family in the west of the city and asked for a stay. The head of the household saw that it was a young woman with a child, but fortunately did not refuse.

After settling down, Xiao Hu Tan was impatient, and the gluttonous insects in his stomach hooked him, so he pulled Qin Su to find the original flavor of Zhai. Following the guidance of passers-by, I soon found it, and about half a mile away from my residence, there was a brightly lit restaurant. The two stood at the door, and saw a nine-foot-long cyan wooden sign hanging high on the top of the restaurant, and the dragon and phoenix danced with the words "Eat the original flavor of Zhai", and on both sides of the main entrance, two strings of lanterns hung down from the top eaves, almost grounded, gold and silver spikes, warm and bright, and it was really a magnificent faΓ§ade. When I entered the door, a boy in Tsing Yi came to bow and lead the way.

Hu Tan was full of joy, looking at the atmosphere of this restaurant, and dared to write the slogan of "food stops here" on the plaque, he expected that the dishes would be extraordinary, and his heart was full of expectations for the "crispy deer breast".

The shopkeeper led the two of them up to the second floor and brought them to the front of the loose table, where there were already five people sitting around a large round table of eight immortals. When these people saw Qin Su and them coming, they only glanced up, and sat down by themselves, still silently drinking and eating meat, which was very different from the people at the other tables cheering and laughing. Qin Su looked at their outfits, they were also people in the art world, but they were so quiet, they must be single travelers, they had no companions, and they didn't travel very widely, and they didn't know the diners on the floor.

"Auntie, what do you want to eat?" As soon as he sat down, Hu Tan asked Qin Su. He saw the aroma of all kinds of delicacies on the dining table around him, and he was already salivating. Qin Su knew that the child was hungry, so he smiled and said to Xiao Er: "Bring me a plate of sweet and sour carp and a crispy deer breast." Warm a pot of wine is done. ”

"Man, wait, what are they eating there?" Seeing that the man was leaving, Hu Tan stopped him again, pointing to a plate of dishes at the next table and asked.

"Back to the guest officer, that's the three treasures steamed with wine. ”

"Which Three Treasures?"

"Yellow dogs, civet cats, pangolins. ”

"Okay, yes, give me a ...... What kind of dish is that?" Hu Tan refers to a white porcelain pot, simmering in a small charcoal stove, bubbling with a fragrant aroma.

The guy said: "That's a stewed dragon cup in secret soup, do you want a copy from the guest officer?"

"Interesting, I like the name, bring me one, and besides, do you have any fried cakes in the store?"

"There are 36 kinds of pastries in our shop, I don't know what the guest wants?"

"Thirty-six ...... Forget it, don't bother, just give me the most ordinary one, which is what people here usually eat, not too sweet. ”

The dude went down. Qin Su slowly sipped the tea, but his ears began to pay attention to the conversations of diners at other tables. When she was on the road, she faintly noticed that something was wrong, and when she was rejected to find an inn, the worry in her heart deepened. There are too many people in the rivers and lakes of Longde Mansion, there are unusually many, she estimated that five hundred people had arrived before, but now she estimates that there are more than seven hundred.

The reputation of the Broken Jade Knife will be prosperous, and it will never be possible for him to attract so many high-rollers to come to cheer for his seventieth birthday. Take a look at many sects, dozens of masters and disciples came together, and there are many characters who are usually difficult to trace. They all rushed to ...... What the hell is going on here to make these people gather like this?

Diners drink five or six. is talking about anecdotes on the rivers and lakes. It's just that it has nothing to do with the current situation. Several disciples of the "Plum Blossom Palm" sect. Triumphantly telling the table the story of their master's killing of the famous witch back then. A middle-aged man with a sound like a broken gong was laughing, he was talking about how the two of them turned enemies into friends after chasing the enemy eight years ago, and after they strayed into the territory of the Twelve Bridges and were imprisoned by the beautiful female disciple of the Twelve Bridges.

A monk sitting near the staircase is even more talking, this bald is a wandering wine and meat monk, all the temples in the world are everywhere, and the monks in the mountains and fields are liao. He also often visits, known as the iron shoe monk. At present, he is eating a leg of mutton, telling everyone how the novice of Putuo Mountain joined forces to seduce the women of good families and smoke beautiful pilgrims with drugs. How did the elders of the Wutai Mountain Jingge guard and steal themselves, sell the collected scriptures to people at a high price, and take money to raise concubines privately. How the abbot of Jiming Temple is not worthy of his name, hiding in the meditation room in the middle of the night to drink a little wine, being caught red-handed and losing his old face, how the abbot of the White Horse Temple is fame and fortune. I went to the palace to pat myself on the back and received the title of a protector mage, but in fact, the poor exercises are not worth mentioning.

Qin Su frowned when he heard this, this bald donkey had a rough voice. The words are vulgar and obscene, and they often cause the surrounding diners to laugh, which is really unpleasant. I am impatient. The wine and food ordered by the two began to be served, and Hu Tan was overjoyed. Pushed the plate in front of Qin Su and said, "Auntie eat." Qin Su had to hold his eyes and ears for the time being. Concentrate on eating.

Half of the pot of wine was drunk, and the dishes were served one after another. Hu Tan is complaining that the "little grass flower dragon" in the "stewed dragon cup" is not much bigger than the earthworm, and the grass snake is far less delicious than the poisonous snake, and the master in charge is too uninformed...... When he was grumbling indignantly, he heard a sudden commotion at the staircase, and more than a dozen people rushed upstairs with heavy steps.

The one who took the lead was a bald man, tall and majestic, with a pair of tiger eyes that strafed, not angry but mighty, with thick hair under his jaw like iron, and his roots were erect. As soon as I came upstairs, I saw the surrounding crowd of guests standing up and cheering: "Hahaha, Lei Daring, you are not dead yet?"

"Lao Lei, I heard that you were knocked over by your master's Zen staff last month, and your bones were not broken?"

"Bold, why haven't you beaten it for a month, you have itchy skin again, come up and drink flower wine, be careful that your master knows." ”

The man was full of smiles and laughed loudly: "Bastard! A group of dog thieves used to be hiding here, Lei Gongnail! Your mother! Sharp-mouthed monkey! Your mother! Lao Tzu didn't steal your daughters, is it worth hating me like this?"

Everyone laughed, and six or seven people at the table moved their seats one after another, allowing the new more than ten people to sit down in batches, add wine and meat, and reopen the table.

Hearing everyone's greetings for a moment, Qin Su understood. It turned out that this fat man was the apprentice of the crazy Zen master, known as "Lei Daring". Because of his rough temperament, he likes to make friends the most, and he has made friends from all over the world. Moreover, his teacher's name shocked the world, and his exercises were powerful, and everyone was famous and admired, so he was very popular.

After sifting through the wine, someone asked Lei Daring: "Daring, why did you come here too?" Your master's reputation is not much worse than that of Ling Feidao, let him know that you are also here to join in the fun, and be careful to beat you with a Zen staff again." ”

Lei boldly smiled: "I don't blame me, my master sent me here." The people of Shushan Gate made their public debut, which has never happened, and my master asked me to open my eyes and see what the strength of the proud disciples of Shushan Sect is. ”

Someone said: "What's the matter? Did the crazy Zen master also move his mind? Sent you to peep, did he also want to train you to become a first-class master, and then chase the rivers and lakes?"

Someone laughed and said: "That's the end, it's good to drink and eat meat boldly, if you want to fight, what can a guy who can't stand a Zen stick do." The crowd laughed and said it was reasonable.

", you rotten duck eggs. Lei boldly scolded, "Who can't do anything? If you don't accept it, Lao Tzu will let you see the power of the triple golden bell jar and the Qianjun knife! You don't want to think about it, my master's Zen cane, how many people in the world can withstand it! Your mother, Lao Tzu's skin is thick and thick, and the third golden bell jar protects his body, and he is trembling when he walks until now, let you grandsons try it? Don't talk about others, Guan Laohu, you brag about copper tendons and iron bones, and a Zen staff will beat you into a shit tiger. ”

Everyone was in an uproar and raised their glasses and drank.

After a pause, someone asked again: "Daring, didn't your master give you any task when he kicked you over this time?" Have a good time with the disciples of Shushan?"

Someone snickered and said, "You're miserable." Your master is far-sighted and thinks you are not up to the mark. I'm afraid that I will borrow the hands of the disciples of Shushan to kill you, and then I can accept the apprentices again and pass on the mantle again......"

"Fart!" Lei boldly laughed and scolded, followed the sound, and saw that it was a man in green clothes leaning against the wall talking, and said with a smile: "I said who is releasing bird anger, it turns out to be you! Chen Da Neck, it seems that you didn't clean up enough last time, you mother!" Ping Ping threw it over and landed in front of Chen's big neck. He shouted, "It's full! My master has really sent me a task, and I want to borrow my hand to kill you first!" After drinking a few big bowls with the man, forcing the opponent to forgive again and again, Lei was bold and arrogant, and stood up on the stool, his eyes looking around, shining.

"It's rare to have so many old friends here! ha. As soon as the brothers meet, how can they be worthy of not drinking? Drinking! Give me fucking drinks! Drink until you die! The one who can't die today is not my brother of Lao Lei!"

"Okay!" everyone roared in agreement, and the sound of a bargain suddenly rose. Be quiet. Someone quipped: "What? Lao Lei persuaded everyone to drink, do you want to treat yourself? We drank to death, and you have to pay the bill." ”

"Look at your stinginess!" Ray smirked. Drinking a big bowl, he said, "If you treat you, you will treat yourself! Money is nothing." Walking the rivers and lakes, isn't it about a happy story? Ten more jars of wine will be served to me at each table, and I will pay for all the guests on the second floor!" After speaking, he took out a package from his bosom, tore it open, and put five silver envelopes on the table. This is a hundred taels of snowflake silver, five hundred taels of silver, enough for everyone to drink the heavens.

"Old Lei is bold!" everyone cheered in unison, and they all stood up and invited each other to salute.

However, a few old friends who are familiar with Lei Daring know that the master and apprentice are obsessed with martial arts, have no way to operate, and have always been embarrassed by money. Ke Qing, who was called "Huangshui Tianxing" at the moment, asked, "Lao Lei, where did you get all this silver? It can't be a robbery, right?"

"My master gave it to me. Lei boldly finished the bowl with someone, wiped off the mustache, and said, "My master has recently made a windfall, give me this silver as a plate! ”

The crazy Zen master is obsessed with martial arts, and his cultivation is extremely high, which is known to everyone in the rivers and lakes. However, people's spiritual strength is difficult to use more, and the matter of indulging is often not involved in the rest, to say that a monk who is about to fall into madness after pondering the exercises in the town every day, there is actually a time to make a fortune, which is more suspicious than a horse long-horned ox giving birth to wings.

Seeing everyone's skeptical eyes at the moment, Lei boldly smiled: "I know you don't believe it." You all know about Xingzhou Tiechoumen, right?"

"Iron Chip Gate?, the matter of the fox demon?"

"Daring, are you talking about the vixen?"

Xingzhou Tiechipmen has been disturbed by fox demons for several years, and it has been sharply reduced from a hundred people to only a dozen people, this matter has been rumored in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and almost everyone here knows it. A few years ago, I didn't know what happened, but I provoked a very powerful fox demon, and then became a mortal enemy, and the fox demon pursued the traces of the people of the iron chip gate everywhere and harmed them, and almost wiped out the iron chip faction. The sect had invited many high-ranking people to help, but unfortunately it didn't work out after all. Unexpectedly, the mad Zen master would also come out of the river this time.

"That's right," Lei boldly said: "It's about the fox spirit, my master was invited to destroy the fox demon, and this money is the reward that the iron chip gate gave to my master." Everyone knew in their hearts that the mad Zen master was immersed in martial arts, dung and money, and thought that he agreed to intervene in this matter just because he was interested in the fox spirit with high mana and wanted to fight the fox demon.

For a while, everyone sighed, or said that the iron chip gate was unlucky, and it caused such a big disaster. Or that the monsters are too rampant now, and they even regard the heroes of the world as nothing, and frequently appear to take people's lives. In addition, some people are skeptical, saying that the general monsters with profound cultivation are secluded in the mountains and forests to cultivate the avenue, and they are not involved in the world, why did this fox go against the norm to chase and kill the iron chip gate, is there any unknown secret in it?

But no matter what, everyone believes in one thing, with the addition of the crazy Zen master, it is estimated that the fox demon will not survive anymore. The Wand of Howling isn't just imposing.

Everyone was chattering, and the comments began, and the topic would turn to tomorrow's birthday, Shushan, the fox demon, and the Yongxi Ping demon a few years ago. Qin Hu and the others in the corner didn't look up, they just cared about eating, and after a short time, they figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that the old man Zhao of the broken jade knife in Longde Mansion was the former senior brother of Ling Feidaoren, the head of the current Shushan faction. Back then, because some things were involved. was expelled from the door wall and opened a village in Lund Mansion by himself. Ling Fei Dao has been friends with his senior brother since he was a child. After the old man was kicked out, he did not cut off contact. Frequent visits over the years.

This time, for some reason, a message came out from Shushan that Ling Fei Daoist wanted to take advantage of Zhao Dongsheng's birthday to light a street lamp for a disciple and enter the rivers and lakes in a high-profile manner.

This is the reason why the heroes have gathered.

The Shushan faction has strict walls and never accepts outsiders, so that it has always been shrouded in mystery. It is rare to see Shushan disciples walking around on the rivers and lakes. However, the fame of Shushan has been passed down for hundreds of years. And Tianlong Temple has always been in charge of the rivers and lakes Niu Er, which everyone knows. It is rumored that the people of Shushanmen have powerful methods, and everyone has stunts. However, it is rumored that no one has ever seen how powerful it is and what specific stunts it is. Therefore, there are hundreds of schools in the world. As soon as they heard that the disciples of Shushan would open the way by burning the lamp publicly, they rushed to explore the true strength of Shushan.

Hu Tan heard everyone's comments lively, and drank a big bowl of soup. He smiled: "Is the Shushan disciple so powerful? "My eyes were rolling, and I didn't know what the hell I was thinking. Qin Su frowned at him, only worried that this little bastard would take the opportunity to make trouble. whispered a few words to him.

While he was talking, the servant boy in green clothes downstairs attracted two new guests. went to Qin Su's table and sat down. At that time, the five people at the same table had already left, and a group of people had changed. It's just that Qin Su and the others are absent-minded. Ignore it.

Among the new guests, there was a tall young man with a bright eye, who heard a sudden burst of cheers at the adjacent table, and turned his gaze to it, but after a while he turned around and returned. It seems that he did not find an acquaintance in the seat.

After ordering the meal in a hurry, the man set his eyes on Qin Su. After looking up and down for a while, the brighter and brighter his eyes became.

"In Xia Yandang Mountain, Xu Sanli, a friend sent the number "a sword flying away", and took the liberty to ask for advice, where did the girl come from?"

"We're from Gangning Province. Qin Su said lightly. She grew up in Jade Girl Peak since she was a child, with a Jiangnan accent, which is something that cannot be hidden, if she says that she comes from elsewhere, it will inevitably arouse suspicion.

The man said happily: "Jiangning Mansion! That's a good place, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, I swam once many years ago, and I still miss the scenery there." Seeing that Qin Su didn't answer silently, he said again: "Jiangnan Mountain is warm and soft, the people are also beautiful, and the girl is ......" He looked at Qin Su's appearance and praised: "The girl really deserves to be a Jiangnan character, and I have always known that Gusu women are graceful and delicate in the next day, and when I saw it today, it was really rumored!"

Qin Su frowned. This man has a flashy temperament, and is a prodigal, and when he sees a strange girl talking, he begins to praise people's appearance without saying a word. Eat in silence at the moment.

That man didn't know the opportunity, and frequently asked Qin Su's teacher and sect. Qin Su's face was indifferent, and he gave him a sniff. When he was nagging, he suddenly heard Hu Tan screaming: "Huh, what is this?"

At the dinner table, a brown ant was spinning in a circle, larger than the usual ant, with a faint white line on the back and abdomen, and there was nothing unusual about it. The man smiled and said, "Child, don't even know ants?" His eyes were bonely, and when he saw Qin Su bowing his head and eating vegetables, he seemed to be indifferent, so he suddenly turned his mouth and said, "Hey! No, this ant is very strange, I'm afraid of poison, you should be careful." He stood up and pretended to catch ants, but took the opportunity to get close to Qin Su.

Hu Tan slapped the chopsticks in his hand on the table and shouted, "Xiao Er! Xiao Er! Why are you a worm in this broken shop? The ants are all on the table, can you still let people eat?!" After speaking, he pulled up Qin Su and said, "Auntie, let's go, there are a lot of unclean things in this broken shop." ”

The man was disappointed, got up and stopped: "Why is the girl so anxious, the ants don't have ...... anywhere" Before he finished speaking, he saw Hu Tan pointing to his waist and shouting: "Look, you also have worms on your body!

Sure enough, a small worm with a red head and a black body was sticking to the robe, and its head was swinging frequently, wondering whether to go up or down.

"No, this place is so dirty, we don't eat it. Hu Tan led Qin Su down the stairs, threw a small ingot of silver to the counter, and said, "Don't look for it." As soon as I walked out of the door, I heard an earth-shattering shout from the second floor, and then the sound of dishes shattering. Listening to the voice, it was the man who had just spoken nothing.

"It's not my fault, my worm bottle fell ......" Xiao Tong looked at Qin Su innocently. "Maybe there are a few poisonous insects in there......"

Qin Suwan'er smiled and tapped his little head lightly. This little ghost, the bad guy is unlucky to run into him.

PS:I originally told my friends in the group that it was updated yesterday Monday.,But some of the plots were temporarily changed.,It took a while.,So it's released a day later.,Skip the ticket unintentionally.,Forgive me.

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