Chapter 39 An Inn
The bazaar is remote, and it is located in the grassland, Ximing Kingdom, and Snow Sea. Shi Yue and the two of them first arrived, and they didn't know everything here, but the closer they got to it, the more they felt its prosperity.
The two of them led their horses to the dirt road, and they could see children chasing and playing on the side of the road, from three or four years old to ten years old, a large group of boys and girls. I am not afraid to see the living, I should often see outsiders, and I will get used to seeing a lot, and if I am bold, I can look at them a few times and look at the two horses.
At the entrance of the bazaar, there are two huge stone pillars, on which hangs a wooden plaque of unknown age, on which the lacquer has long faded to reveal the original color of the wood.
The wooden plaque has been seriously eroded by wind and rain, and the surrounding area has been broken and powdered, and even the middle seems to have been pecked by a woodpecker with a big hole, which looks a little dilapidated.
Dugu Yuanchen stopped, looked up at this ancient plaque, and could only barely distinguish the word "Fengyue" written on it.
Dugu Yuanchen rubbed his eyes: "Judging from this plaque, this bazaar must have a history of more than a hundred years, to say the least. ”
Shi Yue also looked up at the wooden plaque: "Probably more than that." ”
"Why do you say that?"
Shi Yue walked to the stone pillar next to him and touched the stone pillar with her hand: "This stone is not simple, it is a dragon ancient stone, and the degree of wind erosion like this will take at least five hundred years, maybe more." ”
"Long Gushi, why haven't I heard of it. ”
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it, it's a stone that only exists in a very cold place, and it doesn't grow on the ground like ordinary stones, it's buried deep underground. ”
"It doesn't sound easy. ”
"The people who built this bazaar back then were even more difficult!"
"I don't know how such a high stone pillar was erected. ”
In the early morning, the bazaar was already bustling with people leading horses, pulling donkeys, women with children in their arms, merchants buying and selling mountain goods, sellers carrying burdens, and all kinds of people crowded and noisy on a street that was not very spacious.
After walking forward for a while, it was considered to be crowded, and there were far fewer people here. Because the shops on both sides of the street are all medicine shops, feng shui, fortune telling, and so on. The two walked forward for a while, and saw a lot of noodle shops selling some food.
Shi Yue was a little attracted by the goods in the stores on both sides along the way, and kept looking left and right.
Dugu Yuanchen looked interesting: "If you want to shop, you can go shopping, and you can buy whatever you want." ”
Shi Yue's face flushed: "No." ”
"I don't know if there's an inn here, let's go ahead and take a look. ”
"What are you doing with the inn, are we going to stay here today?"
"That's right. ”
Shi Yue whispered in his ear, "You're not afraid that they will chase you?"
Dugu Yuanchen smiled: "Listen to me!"
Shi Yue scratched her head, she originally wanted to object, but when she thought that Dugu Yuanchen was injured and really needed to rest, she didn't speak. Since last night, she had always felt that she couldn't be as comfortable in front of him as she used to be, and she couldn't figure out why.
The two eventually found an inn, which was indeed an inn, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with the word "inn".
On the contrary, it looks like an ordinary house, because it is not much different from the next house in terms of size, architectural style, appearance, etc.
The difference that can be seen so far is that there is a sign hanging in front of it - "An Inn".
Dugu Yuanchen pushed the door in with Shi Yue, and there was a courtyard dam in front of him.
There is a difference between an inn and a dwelling.
At least the dwellings do not have such large yards.
In the middle of the courtyard there was a small pond in which an unknown old tree was placed for decoration, and the old tree was dead, leaving only dry wooden stakes and bare trunks. Dugu Yuanchen looked around at the clean and "poor" yard, "This tree is quite appropriate." ”
Rows of small one-story buildings were built around the courtyard, and I thought that this was the guest room.
Dugu Yuanchen and Shi Yue led the horse inside, and at the end of the courtyard dam was a room with a hidden door.
Dugu Yuanchen pushed open the door with one hand, and there was a counter inside, and behind the counter sat a woman dressed very revealingly. The woman was about thirty years old, her face was thickly smeared with some makeup to cover the wrinkles left by the years, and she was holding a book with a yellow paper cover in her hand and looking at the smoke and waves, and her face was full of spring.
When Dugu Yuanchen pushed the door, the door "squeaked", and the woman knew that someone had come in, but she didn't raise her head for fear of delaying her reading and "studying", so she yelled: "Laifu, didn't the old lady tell you to be fine, don't come to fan, me!"
Shi Yue was watching the horses in the yard, and suddenly heard such a sentence from the house, and I wanted to laugh in my heart.
Dugu Yuanchen guessed that this should be the proprietress, so he coughed twice and said, "Boss, I'm here to stay." ”
The woman didn't seem to hear him, and was still staring intently at the book.
Dugu Yuanchen knocked on the counter and said what he had just said again.
The woman still didn't look up: "Annoying, annoying, full." ”
After speaking, he waved his hand, meaning to let Dugu Yuanchen leave quickly, don't hinder her from reading.
Dugu Yuanchen quietly stretched his neck and glanced at the book in the woman's hand, only to see that a man and a woman were painted with paint, the woman was lying in front of her and the man was standing behind her, and there was a large text explanation next to her, she was looking at it at the moment.
Dugu Yuanchen hurriedly stretched back, for fear of being discovered.
"Didn't I see that the rooms in the courtyard were empty?"
"Hey, why can't I tell you clearly, those houses are all set today, if you're not afraid of death, go and live!"
This time she was finally willing to look up, and the moment she looked up, she saw that it was a handsome man, and then she looked at his somewhat blackened skin, and she knew that he was particularly energetic.
The woman changed her attitude suddenly, and pretended to twist her throat: "Guest officer, we really don't have a room here." But if you insist on staying, you might as well come and squeeze in with the slave family for a night when you arrive at night. The slave's name is Zhang Cuifang, ...... this year"
As he spoke, his hand unconsciously stuffed the little yellow book into the counter, and his arms squeezed the two lumps of flesh into the middle of his chest.
Dugu Yuanchen almost didn't vomit on the spot, but fortunately he could bear it, and finally he didn't show anything unusual. So he quickly interrupted her: "I have two people ......"
Before Dugu Yuanchen finished speaking, Shi Yue walked in. She saw that Dugu Yuanchen had not gone out for so long, so she came in to take a look at the situation.
When the woman named Zhang Cuifang saw such a young and beautiful woman coming in, her face suddenly didn't look good, and she thought, "It turned out to be two people." ”
"There is no room. ”
Dugu Yuanchen has always been soft and hard with her to make her accommodating, and during this time, she inevitably praised her with a few words like "beautiful as a flower" with her conscience.
The woman has always been gentle with Dugu Yuan, but no matter what he says, there is still no room, Dugu Yuanchen thought that it might be really full, so he planned to leave.
At this time, an old man who looked like a person came in the courtyard, and Dugu Yuanchen thought to herself that this was probably the "blessing" in her mouth.
The old man was a little rickety, dressed in rags, wearing a gray felt hat, and when he walked, a pair of cotton shoes with their soles off the ground were always dragged out of the "uproar...... ...... voice, smiled at Dugu Yuanchen and the two when they passed by, and Dugu Yuanchen and Shi Yue also smiled slightly as a courtesy.
Laifu said to the woman: "Madam, I just finished cleaning the stable, and by the way, I cleaned up the house where the old man Wang used to live in the past, and found that there are still people to live in, anyway, the old man Wang will not come, or let these two ......."
The woman's eyes rolled, "With such an eye-catching man, it's okay to stay and see two more things." ”
"Go, go, take them, and I'll do good. ”
The stable is in the backyard, and there is a door to pass, and Dugu Yuanchen and Shi Yue walked forward under the leadership of Laifu.
"Uncle, how do you calculate the money for this house?"
"Hehe, didn't the proprietress just say that she did a good deed. ”
Dugu Yuanchen also smiled: "Thank you so much." ”
The old man said, "Thank you, no." ”
"By the way, guest officer, don't come out at night no matter what noise comes from the front yard, you know. ”
"Gotcha!" Dugu Yuanchen thought to himself that some guests should have strange hobbies, and the old man was afraid that they would come out and disturb the other guests' Yaxing, so he didn't think much about it.