Su Zhuo left Jinling, crossed the Yangtze River, and went all the way to the northwest to Henan. The www.biquge.info gradually enters the north, and the scenery is naturally different from that of the south of the Yangtze River. He straddled the back of the donkey, unhurried, and traveled all the way. The two pots of good wine brought from Qin Lei's house were also exhausted. Although Su Zhuo is good at wine, he does not drink excessively, and his purse is bottomed out, so he must save some more.

Su Zhuo threw the last drop of wine from the flask into the tip of his tongue, sighed and threw the empty flask into the grass beside the road. Suddenly, I heard the sound of horses' hooves behind me, and I didn't know what was happening. He looked back, only to see smoke and dust covering the sky, and hurriedly shouted at the donkey to flash to the side of the road and get out of the way.

More than a dozen men rode past with swords at their waists, and they were in a hurry. Su Zhuo waited for the smoke and dust to dissipate before returning to the road. After walking a short distance, I saw a town, which was not big in size, but it was crowded with people. Most of the towns are inns and restaurants, and business is booming.

Su Zhuo even asked a few inns, but they were all full, and it was really unimaginable. After walking around for a long time and seeing that it was already noon, Su Zhuo walked into a restaurant called Ping'an Inn at the end of the street. I saw that the lobby was already full of people, and only an empty table was left at the door, because the location was not good, no one had to sit yet. Su Zhuo suddenly caught a glimpse of a group of blue-shirted people sitting at a few tables in the lobby, each with a steel knife in his hand, which was actually a group he had encountered on the road.

Su said in his heart: There is really a fate. Walking straight to the counter, the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man, raised his head and smiled: "Yo, guest officer, eat or stay in the hotel?"

Before Su Zhuo could speak, he strode to the counter and said loudly: "Shop, I want to stay in the store!"

Su Zhuo was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "Why doesn't this person understand the rules of first come, first served?" The shopkeeper said happily: "Okay, there is only one room left in the shop, and the guest officer, you are in a hurry, one or two silver a night!"

The man slapped the table and said angrily, "What?

The shopkeeper squinted his eyes and said, "You can't live if it's too expensive!" Anyway, the inns in the town are full, and the price will naturally rise. It's the only one, I can't live in it!"

Su Zhuo smiled secretly, stretched out his hand to look at the money bag, and suddenly his face was extremely ugly. The man was still trying to reason with the boss, but Su Zhuo hurriedly stopped him and said, "Brother Tai, brother Tai, otherwise, the two of us will share a room and share the two silvers, what do you think?"

The man hesitated slightly, a little moved. The shopkeeper shook the key in his hand, and said impatiently: "Do you want to live?"

The man was most angry with the snobbish look of the shopkeeper, slapped a piece of broken silver on the table, and said loudly, "Okay!" and went to the empty table to sit down.

Su Zhuo saw that the broken silver was only half a tael, smiled slightly, and also took out a piece of loose silver and handed it to his hand, and asked, "Boss, why is this town so lively?"

The shopkeeper understood when he heard this, and said with a smile: "This is the first time the guest officer has come here, right? Do you know that this place is called Dukou Town, and ten miles northwest is Fengling Ferry." If these pedestrians and merchants from the south to the north want to cross the Yellow River, they have to cross here, do you think it will not be lively? Moreover, the wind and water have been strong in the past two days, and there will be no ferries today and tomorrow, and people will be stranded here. ”

Su Zhuo listened to his tone with great excitement and pride, and didn't want to say more to him, so he turned his head and walked to the table and sat opposite the man. Su Zhuo glanced at the man, and saw that he was only twenty-five or sixteen years old, not tall, wearing a coarse cloth shirt, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and an honest face, and asked: "Little brother Su Zhuo, dare to ask Brother Taigao's surname?"

At this time, the shopkeeper brought a bowl of lo noodles for the man, put it in front of him, and asked Su Zhuo, "Guest officer, what do you want?"

The man on the other side did not lift it, but took out three small porcelain bottles from the baggage on the side and placed them neatly in front of him. Su Zhuo looked at him with interest, and said coldly: "Huaping." ”

Su Zhuo was stunned for a moment, only to realize that he was answering himself, and said to Xiao Er: "It's the same as him." ”

Xiao Erfeng went to the fire, and Hua Ping picked up his chopsticks, picked up the porcelain bottle in turn with his left hand, and gently shook it three times into the dough, shaking out some powder. He finished it step by step before he tossed the noodles well and ate them in a big gulp.

Seeing his appearance, Su Zhuo ate extremely sweetly, and couldn't help but wonder what was in his small porcelain bottle. After a while, Xiao Erfang came up, and Su Zhuo saw that there was a puzzle in front of him that was difficult to solve, and he felt uncomfortable. So he cheekily said, "Brother Hua, this ......"

Hua Ping looked up and saw him stretching out his hand to point to a few porcelain vases in himself, understood what Su Zhuo meant, and said, "Please." Su Zhuo was very happy, and he also picked up the three bottles and shook out some powder in the same way, only to find that it was just salt, pepper and peppercorns.

Su Zhuo smiled dumbly, and asked again: "Brother Hua, are you returning from the army to your hometown?"

Hua Ping was startled, looked up at Su Zhuo, and said, "Who are you?"

Su Zhuo shook his head and said, "I just guessed casually." Just now, I saw that you walked like the wind, and it was clearly like an errand. And you have a weathered face and seasonings with you, and it seems that you often sleep in the wild. And you speak very well, but you still have a little accent from Yanzhao, Hebei. It is on the basis of these points that I would venture to guess that you were born into the army. ”

Hua Ping was deeply impressed and said, "You are not bad at all. ”

Su Zhuo asked again: "Are you angry in the army, can't you stay any longer? I see that you don't wear a military uniform, you don't have a waist badge whistle, and you speak in a depressed and unhappy tone, you must have been dismissed, right?

Hua Ping was dumbfounded, and said, "Are you a human or a ghost? How do you seem to have seen it with your own eyes? You must have known me for a long time! Or did you send me from Niu Dutou? What do you want to do to investigate me?"

Su Zhuo was about to explain, when he heard a "pop" sound. Su Zhuo hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see the group of blue-clothed men smashing their cups, picking up their swords one by one, and glaring angrily at the other side of the lobby.

On the other side, there were also eight or nine men dressed in white, also with swords in their hands, showing no weakness. The two sides confronted each other without saying a word. As soon as the people in the store saw this situation, they also saw the opportunity quickly, and they didn't care about eating, so they hurriedly slipped out of the store.

Huaping looked at both sides, and also realized that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly packed up the burden, and when he saw that there were still a few mouthfuls left in the bowl, he swallowed a big mouthful. Who knew that he was in a hurry, but choked and his face was flushed.

People on both sides gathered in the center of the lobby and looked at each other on both sides of Su Zhuo's table. The blue-clothed man said: "What, are you all gutless rats in the Yun family?

The man in white was led by a tall young man of twenty-eight or nineteen years old, and said angrily: "Wang Ji, what kind of thing are you, you dare to fart in front of me! What about your master? Could it be that you have really become a king and shrunk into a shell?"

That Wang Ji was a thin middle-aged man, and he was not to be outdone, and said: "My eldest son and second son will arrive soon, don't leave if you have a seed!"

There was a war of words on both sides, and Su Zhuo saw that Hua Ping was leaving, so he held his hand, sat down next to him and whispered: "I just heard from the boss that I couldn't cross the river in the past two days, and it seems that I will have to stay here for a day or two." If you want to eat and live for nothing, just listen to me! These two families are clearly going to fight here, as long as we mediate and mediate, then the boss will not be grateful to us?"

Hua Ping was taken aback, and he didn't know what Su Zhuo was doing. Just as he was hesitating, two young men walked in outside the store, similar in appearance, both of them were majestic and high-spirited. And on the stairs of the store, there is also a middle-aged woman,, who still have charm.