Chapter 7: Strange Couples
The top three Wusheng have also been elected, and among the six, only Chai Shaoning was selected from the village. In contrast, there is a big gap between the education of children from poor families and those in the city.
Another day later, Song Changgeng set up a banquet for the students who were selected to go to the provincial capital for scientific research.
Chai Shaoning reluctantly bid farewell to his sister Lin Zhimei, her teacher and her wife, and together with her classmates, under the leadership of Chen Zhongshou and four officials, she marched to Taiyuan, the provincial capital.
Leaving the quaint Yatou Pass, passing through the majestic Ningwu Pass and the steep Yanmen Pass along the way, the terrain in front is gradually flattened, the crops are no longer all terraced fields, and the farmhouse hut has also changed from the cave where Chai Shaoning is used to living from a small house to a bungalow, and there are more mountain villages built facing the river, and the chickens and dogs bark in the morning, and the smoke curls up.
Seeing this beautiful village scenery of small bridges and flowing waters, the six students who had never left the mountains all became excited, and the nervousness of going to the provincial capital to participate in the scientific expedition disappeared, pointing and laughing loudly, full of the joy of the journey.
Half a month passed in a flash, and this morning everyone passed through a mountain covered with dense forests, and the endless plain suddenly appeared in front of them, and a large number of houses were located in the middle, and the green trees were fertile, as if they had broken into a fairyland.
As soon as everyone inquired, it turned out that they had arrived outside a town less than fifty miles away from the provincial capital Taiyuan. The town is called Beiping, and there is a large lake in the east of the town, through which the official road leading to the provincial capital passes.
Chai Shaoning and others came to the entrance of the town along the official road, and in the midst of the crowd, a three-story restaurant appeared on the side of the road.
The restaurant is built near the lake, the bucket arch cornices, it is originally very imposing, but it melts into the background of the green mountains and green waters in the distance, and immediately becomes delicate and lovely, and there is an indescribable beauty.
Outside the eaves of the third floor of the restaurant, a wine flag is raised high, with three big characters of "Immortals Coming" written on it, with gold characters on a red background, lined with yellow velvet silk spikes, giving people a feeling of being as sweet and mellow as old wine.
Looking at this restaurant, Chai Shaoning and the others' originally dry throats felt even more hungry and thirsty.
Chen Zhongshou saw that the provincial capital was already in sight, and he was not in a hurry to hurry, so he beckoned everyone to dismount and go into the restaurant to rest and eat.
The shopkeeper standing outside the door of the restaurant greeted a servant who walked in the front and beckoned, "The official is here, please!" bent down and waved his hand, signaling everyone to go downstairs under a pergola built by the lake.
Seeing this, the official said angrily: "He is a coffin board, do you look down on your uncle?"
The shopkeeper hurriedly gave up his hands and said with a smile: "Official, it's really unfortunate, some local gentlemen with heads and faces have chartered a restaurant, and they are picking up a group of VIPs inside, and I hope that the official can be a sea or two." ”
Chen Zhongshou looked at the pergola, it was built on the square in front of the building with a continuous piece of yellow cloth with wooden piles, the shed was very spacious, although it had sat in three tables, but it was still half vacant, and the cool breeze blowing from the lake passed under the shed, and it was refreshing and pleasant in the hot summer.
Chen Zhongshou didn't want to cause trouble, so he called back the official and asked the shopkeeper to take care of the horses, ordered wine and food, and settled everyone to sit down in the pergola.
Chai Shaoning, Chen Zhongshou and two officials sat at one table, and the other five students gathered around the other table.
After a while, the wine and food were all ready, and the big guy was about to eat and drink, Chai Shaoning suddenly heard laughter from the other three tables of guests under the pergola and said: "Big brother, I heard that although the little girl is young, she is extremely beautiful." I have heard that the dragon swordsman is alone, if this chick is really the descendant of the dragon, then the dragon swordsman is afraid that he is also an old and disrespectful person. ”
Ever since he knew that he was the descendant of the Dragon Swordsman, Chai Shaoning had great respect for the Dragon Swordsman in his heart, and he was eager to know everything about the teacher. At this time, he suddenly heard someone mention the dragon swordsman, Chai Shaoning unconsciously turned his head to watch, and saw that the other three tables of guests in the pergola were all gray clothes and gray pants, with a single knife hanging from their waists, they should be gangs in a certain gang, or maybe they were the thugs of large families.
The man who was called the eldest brother had a black face and black beard, and a brutal cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said with a smile: "But any man, who doesn't love this tune? It's just that you and my brother can just talk about it, if it gets out and lets the Dragon Swordsman come to the door, our brother can't stop a little finger of his old man. ”
The person who spoke before had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, looking like he was hunched over and a habitual slave, and he echoed when he heard the words: "What the eldest brother said is that Lao Li, who watches the village, is honest on weekdays, who ever wanted to learn to run secretly to **, was broken by someone, and actually had to fight with people." It's just that he doesn't have the means of a dragon swordsman, so he was beaten in vain, and even the little ladies in the brothel looked down on him and stopped receiving him. ”
The two of them gradually deviated from the topic when they spoke, and their mouths were full of foul language. The people at the table interjected in every word, and from time to time burst into bursts of obscene laughter.
Chai Shaoning listened to the other party's words and no longer talked about the dragon swordsman, got up and wanted to go over to talk, but was pulled by Chen Zhongshou.
Those people are subordinates, and they dare to make jokes about the dragon swordsman in their words, there must be some origin. Chen Zhongshou shouldered the responsibility of escorting the students into the provincial capital to participate in the scientific examination, and of course he did not want to cause more trouble.
Chai Shaoning didn't want to embarrass Chen Zhongshou, and as soon as he sat down, the sound of hooves came from the dry and hard ground in the distance that was dried by the noon sun as if it was about to crack.
Chai Shaoning turned his head in the direction of the voice, and saw two healthy horses, one red and one white, on the official road, and a woman sitting on the red horse, wearing white clothes and white pants, wearing a sunshade hat, and the light gauze hung down along the brim of the hat, and she couldn't see her face, but the two long legs were obliquely attached to the horse's body, red and white, and she was extremely beautiful.
Riding a white horse is a young man, also dressed in white, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a slightly pointed chin, a knife-like face that looks shrewd and resolute, and the body that sways with the horse's body exudes a tall and agile momentum, as if the sword is about to be unsheathed, there is an explosive sense of movement.
The young man and woman, both with long swords in their hands, dismounted in front of the building and ran to the bottom of the pergola.
When the shopkeeper saw it, he saved himself from being verbose, and hurriedly went up to take the reins of the horse and asked someone to take care of it.
Chai Shaoning heard that the group of gray-clothed people in front of him suddenly stopped talking, and when he looked back, he found that these people were all staring at the white-clothed woman who was walking under the pergola in a daze.
The woman in white can hardly hide her delicate figure when she is on the horse, and this dismount and walk is even more infinite. The tall crisp breasts, slender waist and legs, swaying between steps, elegant like a dance, make people feel excited.
At this time, there was only the last small table left in the pergola, which was located next to the table where Chai Shaoning and the others were sitting.
After the two of them sat down, the woman in white reached out and gently lifted the sunshade hat on her head, which immediately caused an uproar.
The woman's slender eyebrows flew obliquely into the sideburns, the bright apricot eyes looked forward to shining, the cherry lips opened slightly, and she first took a breath of fairy air at the steaming tea surface, and then pursed her lips and sipped lightly, sitting there with her back to the lake, there was such a mortal Linbo fairy.
Knowing that everyone was looking at her, the expression on the face of the woman in white was unwavering, and there was a kind of cold arrogance hidden in her beauty, like Chanjuan in the sky, and her temperament was unattainable.
Everyone only felt that the entire pergola contained a fairy aura because of the arrival of the woman, and they couldn't tell whether it was in heaven or on earth?
Just as everyone was intoxicated, the grunt of swallowing saliva suddenly came. The gray-clothed man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks exclaimed: "Oh my God, if you can ask this fairy to accompany me for one night, even if you die immediately, you are willing." ”
The rude sentence is not only a big insult to the scenery, but also extremely insulting to the woman in white.
The woman in white raised her eyebrows, and was about to stand up when she slapped the table, and the young man in white beside her hurriedly reached out and pressed the back of the woman's hand, signaling her companion not to be reckless.
Everyone's eyes were naturally attracted by the slender palm of the woman in white pressed on the table, and her ten fingers were delicate and slender, white as jade.
The black-faced man who was called the eldest brother couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and said jealously: "How many lifetimes of blessing has the kid cultivated?
This naturally refers to the young man in white sitting next to the woman in white.
Seeing that even the eldest brother no longer concealed his good impression of the woman in white, the gray-clothed man with a sharp mouth and cheeks said with a lewd smile: "Don't you just touch it, in my opinion-ah-cough!" As soon as he said this, the gray-clothed man suddenly hummed and retched.
In the sound of "bang", a tea bowl fell to the ground and shattered, and the tea in the bowl and the mouth full of broken teeth were swallowed into the stomach by the gray-clothed man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks.
With a "hula", all the accomplices of the man in gray stood up, drew their swords and stepped forward, forming a circle behind the young man in white who made the move, just waiting for the eldest brother's order to make trouble.
"Da Gong!" the beaten man in gray pleaded with his eldest brother, but he had no teeth and his mouth was full of wind, and the word "brother" was very disrespectful.
The black-faced eldest brother relied on his identity, stood up slowly with a cruel smile, and before he could speak, the cries of "Ahhh
The gray-clothed men and women in white stood on the ground one by one, holding their wrists.
The rustling sound of returning the sword into the sheath came slowly, and the young man in white slapped the sword lightly on the table. The sound was not loud, but it shook the gray-clothed people around them.
They didn't even know when the young man in white drew his sword, and he had already been picked off by the other party!
Chai Shaoning could see clearly from the side, and the young man in white took out nine swords in an instant, picking the wrists of every gray-clothed person. The speed of the sword and the accuracy of the starting part are the first time Chai Shaoning has seen it since his debut.
The black-faced brother was also frightened for a while, and his mouth was about to speak halfway open, and he couldn't close it anymore.
The gray-clothed man who reacted quickly turned around and ran towards the restaurant outside the shed, apparently to report and ask for help.
The woman in white seemed to be accustomed to all this, took a sip of tea, and whispered to the young man in white: "It's here!"
The young man in white glanced at the lake, intentionally or unintentionally.
Chai Shaoning turned his head to look at the young man in white, and saw that he didn't know when? A small boat floated on the lake, and a fisherman sat in the boat.
The fisherman was dressed in a very funny costume, wearing a robe on a hot day, a wide hat covering his face, and a fishing rod in his hand and fishing at the bow of the boat. The strange thing is that when other people are fishing and not moving, for fear of scaring the fish away, this fisherman is fishing, but the boat is still slowly swinging towards the lake.