Chapter 37: On the Road
Out of the Huashan boundary, Hu Fei did not enter Huayin County, and set off around the trail towards the south.
"Where should I go this time!" Hu Fei thought about it carefully, "If you go back to Miaojiang to find the blue phoenix, you will seem a little down, you have been separated from her for more than a year, you can neither take her to leave Miaojiang, nor can you stay in Miaojiang and not leave, let's go back after a while!"
"Then let's go and see what Luoyang City in this world looks like," although Hu Fei has traveled through a lot of worlds in recent years, only Luoyang can make him feel familiar, "It's all Luoyang in the Ming Dynasty, the gap shouldn't be too big!"
After paying attention, Hu Fei walked towards Luoyang.
"This time I went back to Luoyang, not only to see the customs, but more importantly, there is a person in Luoyang City, I am very interested!" Hu Fei touched the stubble on his chin and muttered to himself.
"Picking up some bandits and bandits with a bad reputation along the way to increase my popularity will be beneficial to my future actions!" Hu Fei walked towards a nearby town.
Entering the town, the green mountains and green waters, the small bridges, the small houses in the town are lined up with small houses, which looks very humane.
Hu Fei found a blacksmith shop and customized an iron mask that could cover half of his face.
"This boy, this kind of thing can be done in a small shop, but the workmanship is much worse, if you ask for any patterns, dark carvings and the like, I can't do anything. In the blacksmith shop, the blacksmith measured Hu Fei's face before he spoke in embarrassment.
"None of this is needed, as long as there is no problem with the quality of the mask, the workmanship is rougher," Hu Fei didn't care about these things, a few of those masked guests on the rivers and lakes were unknown to everyone, and even if there were, everyone also had doubts about their identities, but it was not easy to speak out, this thing was just a window paper, it seemed useless, and you couldn't be cold without it.
"Just ask for one, just make it ugly!" Hu Fei took out the silver and waited in the blacksmith shop for a while, and the mask was ready.
Taking the mask in his hand, Hu Fei played with it carefully, the inside of the mask was smooth, so that it would not cut through the skin of the person's face, and the appearance was indeed a little rough, looking like an old man with a wrinkled face.
Hu Fei was very satisfied with this mask, put it on his face directly, took out the golden snake sword from his bag, put it on his back, and said to the blacksmith with an arch of his hand: "Thank you, big brother!"
Out of the town, Hu Fei looked at the sun, and at this time the sun was already west, walking in the opposite direction of the sun, along the avenue.
This Huashan is in Shaanxi, Luoyang is in Henan, the two provinces are next to each other, as long as you go to the east, you can enter the territory of Henan in a few days.
The two provinces of Shaanxi and Henan have martial arts stationed in the country, one is Huashan and the other is Shaolin, so it is a very risky and loss-making business to rob the road in the sphere of influence of these two behemoths.
Only close to the junction of the two provinces, the influence of the two factions has been greatly weakened, there are some cottages and bandit nests here, the strongmen here are not to say that the martial arts are first-class, but they absolutely dare to fight, otherwise they will not be able to gain a foothold under the oppression of the two big factions.
In addition to these cottages and bandits' dens, if you want to suppress the bandits, you can only walk thousands of miles north to find horse bandits close to the boundary of Shanxi, and go hundreds of miles southeast to find the green forests in Hubei, which are rich in Shanxi and Hubei provinces, Shanxi produces coal, Hubei produces grain, although the Wudang faction is powerful, but it can't stop people's pursuit of interests, so there are more bandits and horse thieves.
The southwest and west of Shaanxi are Sichuan and Gansu provinces respectively, Sichuan has Qingcheng and Emei two factions, and ****** religion is prevalent in Gansu, and the bandits and bandits in the two places are free-range, which is the merit of the disciples of the sect in the future, and naturally will not let others touch it.
Hu Fei walked on the official road, but he rode a horse faster than when he came to Huashan before, this thing called light gong is really incredible.
After walking for more than ten days, Hu Fei often spent the night in the wild shop on the road, and more than a dozen hotels came down, but only one was a black shop, Hu Fei was simply incredible, of course, the black shop has now gone underground to continue trading.
"'The car and boat shop should be killed if you are not guilty' Sure enough, "Although there is only one black shop that robs people's lives these days, I have seen a lot of money from people, Hu Fei sighed, "The old saying really makes sense." ”
When they got close to the border of Henan, the number of bandits was obviously much higher, which can be seen from the fact that pedestrians always walked in groups on the road.
Hu Fei was alone on the road, and naturally he was inevitably regarded as a soft persimmon, and he encountered several groups of bandits and bandits in a row.
These bandits are not the same as the bandits encountered when they rushed to Kunming before, the bandits they met before were farmers who couldn't survive and came out to work part-time when they were slack, and the bandits they encountered at this time were all professional, with fierce eyes, and a smell of blood came out of their bodies, and they didn't know how many lives were stained in their hands.
Hu Fei traveled all the way, picked a lot of small villages with more than a dozen people, and his reputation spread in Shaanxi and Henan provinces.
On this day, Hu Fei found a somewhat dilapidated hotel on the side of the road, planning to rest.
"The guest officer is here, do you want to be sharp, or stay in the hotel!" A little old man in the hotel, when he saw someone stepping in, hurriedly greeted him, and asked with a smile on his face.
Hu Fei looked at the store and nodded.
"It's both sharp, but also live. Hu Fei threw a piece of broken silver to the little old man.
The little old man put the broken silver to his mouth and bit it, and the smile on his face became even thicker.
"Alright, well, the old lady will clean up the upper room for your guests!" said the little old man to the old lady in the back room.
The old lady replied, "I'll have it right away." ”
The little old man led Hu Fei to a dining table, wiped the bench and table with the snow-white rag on his shoulder, and then invited Hu Fei to sit down, "Guest officer, wait a minute, the room will be available soon, or the guest officer will have some food first." ”
"Okay, I'm hungry, what kind of food do you have!" Hu Fei smiled at the little old man's movements and asked.
"Guest officer, you just happened to come, I have a black dog stewed on the stove, isn't it fate!" the little old man introduced to Hu Fei with a smile, "There are pickled fat geese and good fresh fish in the shop, why don't you come too." ”
"I have a large amount of food, I come to serve it all here, and I don't have enough money to serve it again, and you have a lot of money," Hu Fei touched his stomach and said with a smile, "Since the food is ready, do you have any wine here?" ”
"We have a good self-brewed wine, not as good as the village's wild mash, but it's delicious," the little old man said, "When you have a snack, it's a big steamed bun!"
At this time, steamed bread refers to steamed buns, while modern steamed buns are called cooking cakes, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that steamed buns changed from steamed buns to the current steamed buns.
"Your steamed bun isn't a human flesh wrap, is it?" asked Hu Fei with a smile.
Novels in the Ming Dynasty were prevalent, and the little old man of "Water Margin" had naturally heard of it, and waved his hand again and again.
"Little old man, he is not a hero on the cross slope, where can he have such courage to do such a business! The little old man's face was full of horror.
Hu Fei smiled faintly, ignoring the gaffe of the younger old man, "Let's serve!"
"Come on, the old woman is serving!" said the little old man, and went to the back kitchen himself.
After a while, the little old man and the old lady came up with fat goose and dog meat, and the aroma instantly came to the nose, and the little old man took a pot of wine from the side.
Hu Fei tried the food with a silver needle, and found that it was not poisonous, so he ate it with peace of mind.
The little old man persuaded him to drink again and again, Hu Fei looked at the little old man and smiled, picked up the wine bottle and drank it.
After a while, fresh fish and steamed buns were also served, and Hu Fei swept the clouds in a gust of wind and ate all the wine and meat.
"Shopkeeper, come and help me, I want to go back to my room to sleep!" Hu Fei staggered to his feet, "I drank a little too much, don't disturb me at night, I like to kill people in my dreams." ”
The little old man had naturally heard of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so he hurriedly supported Hu Fei and said with a smile: "The guest officer is not Cao Mengde, where can he kill people in a dream! Don't scare the little old man!"
Hu Fei smiled drunkenly, didn't say anything, and obediently asked the little old man to help him back to the room.
The little old man put Hu Fei on the bed, covered him with a quilt, turned off the lights, and went out of the room and closed the door.
When Hu Fei heard the door close, his eyes opened instantly, and there was a trace of drunkenness.
"There is no doubt that this small shop must be a black shop, where can there be such good food in ordinary small shops, and it also stews dog meat and fresh fish at any time. Hu Fei sat up on the bed, "There is no poison in the wine and food, and there is no drug, so it can be seen that they are not trying to harm me by poisoning." ”
"This old couple is just ordinary people, they don't know any martial arts, they can't do it in the middle of the night when I'm drunk! That's too stupid!" Hu Fei touched the beard on his chin, "It's impossible to discharge everything, and it's also a fact that the rest is impossible, so this is a planned action, are these two old couples just pawns!"
Hu Fei turned over and got out of bed, put his bags on the bed, added a pillow, and covered it with a quilt, looking like a human figure in the dark.
After taking the golden snake sword, he flew up to the beam, leaned down, lay on the beam, and waited quietly, if there was anyone to deal with him, he would know this night, Hu Fei held his breath and waited.
In the dark room, it was as if there was no one.
After about an hour or two, Hu Fei estimated that it was a sub-hour before he heard the movement again.
"Fall asleep, boy!" said a stout male voice.
"Yes! After the boy entered the room, there was no movement at all, and the little old man listened!"
"This time we must succeed in taking this kid down. ”