teahouse

Ren Tianqi, Tang Shengzhi, and Gong Ming each carried a sword and walked slowly on the street, and the three pairs of eyes looked around vigilantly. It's been six rounds of walking back and forth, and the three of them are sweating, dizzy, and dry.

The smokeless ditch is not long, about a thousand steps away before and after, there is a hotel, a tea shop, a grocery store, a blacksmith shop, a pawnshop, an inn, a academy, a big red door, and about 20 ordinary households; there are six flags hanging diagonally on the street; there are fourteen stone benches, three wooden benches, a towering tree, a broken shoe, a broken coat, and two small broken stones; there are nine windows along the street, but only three windows are open, and there is an open window and a black cat sleeping under the eaves, which is what the three of them can see on the street is still alive。

Ren Tianqi had already memorized everything on the street when he walked the second round-trip, and walked four more round-trips, always hoping to meet someone to ask. But the whole street was quiet, and there was not a single figure in sight, nor a single person in sight, nor a moving thing, if there was, the cat on the eaves, and everything was like a painting and calligraphy, lifelike but fake.

Although the three of them were holding long swords, with extraordinary skills, and cautious, they could look at the silence all around, and they always felt cold and shivering on their necks. The three of them knew that since this was a world-famous forbidden place, it was unusual, and it must be treacherous.

Gong Ming smiled: "How is it a dead town, where did this person run away in the daytime?"

Tang Shengzhi shook his head and said with a smile: "Although it is early winter at the moment, this year's climate is abnormal, and the weather is still so hot in the afternoon, it must be that everyone has gone to sleep!"

Ren Tianqi looked up at the sky, it was the scorching sun, big and round, emitting dazzling light. Ren Tianqi looked back at the entrance again, but saw that a large group of people were making trouble, and he didn't know what was going on.

Ren Tianqi said with a smile: "Nonsense, how can it be a dead town, you don't necessarily see that the doors of every house are wide open, the houses are neat and intact, and the streets are clean;

Gong Ming smiled and said, "Where will that person run?

The three of them stood on the street for a long time, but they still didn't see a big living person, they didn't hear a sound, not even a trace of the wind, it was really hot.

Ren Tianqi wiped his face and said, "I'm dying of heat, otherwise, let's go to the tea shop and sit for a while and drink herbal tea!"

Gong Ming added his lips and said with a smile: "I'm dying of thirst, master, what are we waiting for, don't you leave quickly!"

The three of them came to the tea shop, looked inside, and saw no one, and the three of them looked at each other and entered the tea shop.

It is a clean and tidy tea shop, which is very cool inside, and the heat outside is two worlds. In the tea shop, more than a dozen tables are placed in several rows, which can accommodate forty or fifty people to sit at the same time; the four walls are covered with word panels, dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, block letters, cursive scripts, line calligraphy, small seals, everything; there is a row of large wooden shelves on this side near the door, which are full of altars and jars, and there are some red paper strips pasted on the altars and jars, on which are written words, indicating all kinds of tea leaves in the world; in front of the wooden frame is a large long wooden table, which is full of all kinds of bowls and cups of different sizes, and several copper plates contain all kinds of herbal tea that have been brewed; on this side of the wooden table is the counter, on which is a brush, and on one side is an inkstone full of fresh and thick ink, a book of thin children, and an abacusOn the other side of the door, boiling water was boiling on four copper stoves, and the heat was shining.

The tea shop was empty.

Ren Tianqi and the three of them stood in front of the counter for a while, and coughed a few more deliberately, but still no one came, so the three of them picked a table and sat down, and their clothes were open and cool.

For a long time, no one came.

Ren Tianqi raised his head and gestured to Gong Ming.

Gong Ming understood and said loudly: "Shopkeeper, come to three bowls of good jasmine tea!"

For a long time, there was still no answer.

Ren Tianqi and the three of them have a pair of eyes, it is not that this is really a ghost shop, but where does this ghost come from.

Gong Ming couldn't sit still, got up and came to the wooden table to reach out for the bowl.

I heard a woman in the air laughing: "Come on, come on, the three masters will wait, this is coming!"

The voice was distant, as if it was really from the underworld, intermittently, although it was as tactful as a warbler, it couldn't help but sound a little cold and chilly.

The three of them were startled, and Gong Ming hurriedly returned to the table and sat down. The three of them looked around anxiously, but they didn't see any movement around.

Just when he was suspicious, he heard a squeak behind the counter, and staggered out of a yellow-haired horse monkey. The three of them were shocked, it must have been that they had met a demon.

I saw the horse monkey swaying towards the wooden frame, came to the wooden frame and stopped, turned around, and glanced at Ren Tianqi and the three of them, smacking his mouth.

The three of them widened their eyes and were curious.

I heard the woman's voice and said, "The first row is the second row, and the front is the third can." ”

The horse monkey was not tall enough, and he couldn't reach it, but he saw that the horse monkey shook his legs, and he actually flew up, stretched out his long arms, looked for the can, lifted the lid, took the tea leaves, covered the lid, and did it in one go.

The three of them were dumbfounded.

Ren Tianqi secretly screamed in his heart, he thought of the vicious dog in the man-dog array, and thought that the vicious dog and this horse monkey were as well-trained as if they were withdrawing, and they must be in the same group.

The three of them stared at the monkey with bated breath.

I saw the horse monkey skillfully pick up the copper kettle, put the tea leaves, lift the boiling water, and even brew and pour, in a blink of an eye it was the third time to fill the boiling water, and I saw that the tea had been brewed. Then he saw the monkey staggering to the wooden table again, and stretched out his hand to get the bowl.

I heard the woman laugh and scold: "You blind monkey, the three masters who came here are distinguished guests, and you want to take the jade cup on the wooden frame, do you think it is still for those country mud legs and earth rats to eat!"

The horse monkey glanced back at Ren Tianqi and the others, covering his face with his hands, as if he was embarrassed, and his mouth squeaked a few times.

The three of them were shocked.