Chapter 15: The Falling Moon Breaks the Bowels
It is said that Zhang Fan was dizzy last night, and in a hurry, he accepted two maids who came to the door, and did not stop until dawn. When he came to his senses, his intuition was sour, and when he looked up and saw that the two maidservants who accompanied him last night had left, he was slightly puzzled in his heart, and then he thought about it, and saw that the bright sunlight had entered the house, and he did not hesitate, so he quickly dressed and got up, and went out of the room.
As soon as the Bull Demon saw the sect leader get up, he hurriedly came forward to greet him and said, "My subordinates are visiting the sect leader, why don't the sect leaders sleep for a while?" Zhang Fan smiled: "The sky is already bright, how can I still sleep." Hearing this, Niu Mo smiled embarrassedly, and then said, "Sect Master, breakfast is ready, let's go into the house to eat." Zhang Fan nodded, and then followed the bull demon into the house.
This time, Zhang Fan also enjoyed a table of food, and the fragrant fragrance on the tip of his tongue needless to say. After the meal, everyone drank some tea and rested, and it was almost noon. Zhang Fan saw that the Bull Demon and the Bull King had a good chat with his wife and children, so he stood up and said, "Bull Demon, Bull King, it's not early, let's hurry up and get on the road." Hearing this, the two said in unison, "Yes, Sect Master." Then the three of them went out of the house, and came to the gate of the courtyard, and all the horses were ready.
Zhang Fan glanced around and saw that the girl in the green dress had not come back yet, so he asked Chunhua, the leader of the maids around him, "Chunhua, where is your young lady?" Why didn't we see her when we were eating and resting before, did she leave alone?" Just now, her subordinates had already called the sisters to pick her up. Zhang Fan nodded when he heard this.
After a while, three or four maidservants came to the courtyard gate with the girl in the green skirt in their arms. Zhang Fan seemed to be injured in a green dress, and hurriedly stepped forward to help. At the same time, he asked, "Wasn't you fine last night, why were you injured this morning?" the girl blushed slightly when she heard this. Then he whispered, "Don't worry, Sister Qing'er and I went to the stable this morning. After slipping the horse for a while, the horse went berserk and we fell down and suffered minor injuries. Zhang Fan heard the words and said: "Don't ride a horse at will next time, otherwise when you encounter danger on the road, I won't be able to pull away, and you won't have the strength to run, there will be danger." The girl nodded. Immediately, Zhang Fan got on the black wind horse, and at the same time let the girl sit in his arms. When everyone saw this, they were not surprised and got on their horses.
At this time, Niu Hu and Niu Leopard ran over and shouted to Niu Mo and Niu Wang: "Dad (Uncle Mo), second uncle, when will you come back from the capital this time?" Niu Mo smiled and said: "Hu'er, little leopard, you will help your mother, aunt and Uncle Niu at home, we will enter the capital this time in at least half a month, and at most we will come back in January." You don't have to worry. The two teenagers replied: "Then Dad and Uncle should go early and come back early, don't let Mom and Aunt chatter." The bull demon waved to them and motioned them to go back, and then the two teenagers glanced at Zhang Fan timidly and ran into the house.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan said, "Let's go." Then he rode down the mountain on the black wind. When the people heard this, they hurriedly followed. In a moment, Zhang Fan and his entourage disappeared at the bottom of the mountain, and at this time, three women appeared where Zhang Fan had stood just now. These three women are the wives and Qing'er of the Bull Demon Bull King. At this time, the eyes of the three of them were red, obviously a little reluctant and sad that Zhang Fan and his party hurriedly returned and left.
Zhang Fan and his entourage went down the hillside. It didn't take long for me to come to the avenue. More than a dozen horses galloped on the road between the mountains and forests, and the yellow leaves around them fell with the wind. A long fresh trail was formed behind everyone, and it was swept as if it had been deliberately swept away.
The crescent river in Liangzhou, the Great Qi Kingdom, which passes through the Great Wilderness City, flows from northwest to southeast, passes through the plateau and grassland in the west, and crosses the boundary of Sanshan Town, and enters the mountains and mountains. The crescent river is a tributary of Luoshui, a great river of Qi, which goes all the way from the northwest, passes through the plateau and mountains, forming a river valley of tens of thousands of miles, connecting Luozhou and Liangzhou of Qi, and the road leading to the northwest Rongguo is built along the river valley. At the same time, in the plains and basins formed by the perennial impact of the river, there are also some large family groups sitting in the middle.
This piece is on the edge of Luozhou, next to the road leading to Liangzhou in the northwest, not only there are many families, but also there are many bandits and bandits. One of the bandits, the "Ma Gang", is located in the Minshan Territory in the upper reaches of Luoshui, and after years of development, it has become a slight scale, and it is the leader of the bandits and families.
At ten o'clock in the evening of this day, Zhang Fan and his entourage rode a horse for the whole afternoon and came to a small town, called Luoyue Town, which means that this town is located between the Crescent River and Luoshui, which just divides the entire river into two sections.
At this time, it was already evening, and as soon as Zhang Fan came to Luoyue Town, there were not many pedestrians. From a distance, he saw a vertical plaque with several large characters in seal font "Broken Intestine Inn". Zhang Fan felt interesting, so he hurried to the front of the inn, and then dismounted, obviously wanting to spend the night here. Seeing this, everyone also dismounted, and when the innkeeper saw the guests coming, he quickly took the horse away and fed it.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan pulled the girl in the green dress and led everyone into the inn. A middle-aged shopkeeper in a green shirt saw Zhang Fan and more than a dozen people coming, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Are all the guest officials staying in the hotel?" Zhang Fan smiled: "That's natural." Shopkeeper, what kind of first-class guest rooms do you have here, tell me about it?" The shopkeeper heard this, and hurriedly said: "Guest officer, the small shop has third-class rooms for heaven, earth and people. Among them, there are nine Tianzi rooms, and as long as the small shop has them, no matter what the guest officer asks, the small shop will do its best to meet them; there are 108 ground number rooms, which take care of the guest officer's food and clothing needs, and can instruct the small shop handyman to do some trivial things; there are countless guest rooms, and the small shop will take care of the guest officer's basic wine, meat, and food. The third-class rooms cost three hundred taels of silver, thirty taels and three taels in turn, what kind of rooms do the guest officers want to book?"
Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Try to arrange first-class rooms, gold and silver are not a problem." The shopkeeper smiled from ear to ear and said, "Then congratulations to the guest officer." We have just one room left, 23 guest rooms, and 22 guest officers, but there is a place to stay. The small ones will take the guest officer to see the house. ”
At this time, all the maidservants and the Bull Demon Bull King said in unison: "Shopkeeper, we only need two guest rooms." The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard this, and said: "Guest officer, isn't it good for each of you to live in a guest room, why do you have to huddle together?" Chunhua said angrily when she heard this: "You little shopkeeper is tired of life, and you dare to disobey our words!" The shopkeeper was so frightened that he sat down. begged for mercy: "The woman is angry, the little one doesn't dare." The little one has no intention of offending the woman, and asks the woman to forgive me. ”
Seeing this, Zhang Fan had a slight doubt in his heart. Then he thought about it and was relieved, seeing that the shopkeeper was still an old and cunning face, but now he groveled, and he was a little disgusted in his heart, and he didn't want to continue to consume with him, so he said: "The shopkeeper gets up, we can make our own decisions, you don't have to worry about it." You will give us one room and two rooms, and you will be indispensable for gold and silver. The shopkeeper was overjoyed. He said in a trembling voice: "Thank you, childe, the little one will lead the way for you." ”
Seeing this, Chunhua took out three hundred and sixty taels of silver and handed it over, saying, "This is the house money, let's stay for one night temporarily." The shopkeeper saw the money and smiled: "Thank you woman, thank you woman." So saying, he quickly put the silver in his pocket, and then led everyone upstairs to see the guest room.
Next, the group went upstairs. After entering the guest room, Xiao Er brought exquisite wine and food, and everyone ate and drank before resting. Among them, the girl in the green dress unexpectedly lived with Zhang Fan. Of course, Zhang Fan didn't say much.
It was already dark by this time, and the town of Falling Moon was still relatively quiet, except for the occasional pedestrian walking in the street and the intermittent barking of dogs. Zhang Fan hasn't rested yet. Just sitting on the bed and meditating and cultivating, the girl in the green dress sat on the bed bored. But there was no sleepiness.
The girl saw that Zhang Fan had rarely talked to herself since she entered the guest room, and she had not lived with the maids before, on the one hand, because she was the daughter of a rich family. Looking down on the humble appearance of the ground room, on the other hand, she has nothing to talk to the maids, of course, there is an unknown reason, but she doesn't want people to know about it for the time being. Girls in green skirts used to have different maids as companions at home, and they would also chat with their own young mothers, and sometimes they even asked their close friends to come to the house to play, and they unconsciously finished the boring late nights. Now she is also a newcomer to the house, with little experience, and when she came to the room with Zhang Fan, she hoped to chat with Zhang Fan to pass the time. But at this time, she saw that Zhang Fan was like an elm pimple, ignoring herself as a beautiful girl in the flower season, meditating and cultivating alone, she was restless, her heart was itching, and she was a little scared when she wanted to wake him up.
When the girl hesitated, Zhang Fan felt uncomfortable. He had only lived with his wife and maid Xue'er, and the rest of the time was basically spent alone, when a young girl looked at him, and he couldn't ignore her storage, so he just fell asleep, so he pretended to meditate and cultivate. Originally, meditation and cultivation is a process of calming the mind and calming the mind, as long as the mind is free of distractions, it will naturally not be disturbed by external objects. It's a pity that Zhang Fan is a mortal in the end, and at this time, his heart is full of distractions, but he can't reach the state of spiritual emptiness of cultivating or cultivating Buddhism. As the time dragged on, he also felt uncomfortable all over his body, as if he couldn't hold on anymore.
Both of them had distracting thoughts in their hearts, but neither of them wanted to speak first, so they stalemate. The red candle on the bedside burned a lot, if the two of them didn't speak again, they could really only persist like this, and two pairs of panda eyes would be made tomorrow morning. After all, the girl's endurance was a little poor, so she had to speak: "Sect Leader Zhang, the little woman's name is Mingyue, what about you?" Zhang Fan didn't expect such words to burst out as soon as she opened her mouth, but these words also resolved the awkward atmosphere between the two. He smiled and said, "Don't you know that my name is Zhang Fan?" Mingyue said angrily: "Dead Zhang Fan, of course the little girl already knows your name, just ask casually." Zhang Fan smiled: "Aren't you looking for trouble?" The girl smiled and said, "You are the little girl's life-saving benefactor, and the little girl asks what your name is, which shows that she cares about you." Zhang Fan smiled: "Yes, why don't I remember that I saved you as the number one person?" The girl Mingyue blushed when she heard this, and said: "You used the elixir to save the people of our Shuoyue City that time, and your father praised you at that time." I was sick, and several doctors couldn't cure me, but that day my father sent someone to ask for some medicine you sent to the victims, and I was miraculously cured. Thank you, Dr. Zhang. ”
Zhang Fan smiled when he heard this, and said: "Don't say that, you came out alone this time, you don't even want a maid, relying on me, it's not the attitude you should have towards your life-saving benefactor." The girl's face turned red when she heard this, and she said with a smile: "The little girl didn't embarrass you, but she heard that you have rich experience in the rivers and lakes, so by the way, she touched your light and came out to travel, and she came to see for a long time." Zhang Fan nodded when he heard this, believing her words.
Originally, the two wanted to continue chatting, but the candle went out all of a sudden, and the surrounding black rumbled, and it was not good to disturb the innkeeper late at night, and both of them were a little embarrassed for a while. However, Zhang Fan came back to his senses first and said, "Let's just sleep casually tonight." Mingyue replied, "Okay." Immediately, neither of them spoke, as if they had a tacit understanding, and snuggled up to each other and slept in their clothes. (To be continued......)
PS: Emotions are always the bond between contacts and people.