Chapter 10 0010

Shorty Shi Er hurriedly nodded like a head-knocker; he had to nod, because if he didn't nod again, his neck would be locked by the collar, making him unable to breathe.Xiang Lao San loosened his hand, Shi Er dwarf quickly took two breaths, and said to the Lao San, "Brothers, don't be so crazy, okay? It's hard to tell if it's real or not." "Do you know who she is?" Only then did Xiang Lao San calm down, and said angrily, "She is the sister-in-law of the Wan family, so you can save yourself some trouble. If you are so talkative, tell the Wan family to listen to you." Watch out for your head!" Shorty Shi Er stuck out his tongue in front of the third child, and when he turned around to enter the store, he immediately winked and made a face at the big bear and said, "Even if she is a princess, she can't be sealed behind her back." What does the aunt of the Wan family have anything to do with my surname Shi?... Unless she doesn’t marry in this life, she will be a magnetic Buddha.”

The big bear doesn't care about Shi Er's gossip, his eyes seem to meet magnets, and he is sucked on the last lit sedan chair. Qifang's lit sedan chair is really a precious sedan chair, with all 24 sedan chair handles on Sapphire blue tight-fitting satin trousers, tied with a ribbon of the same color at the waist, and colored glaze lace on the chest and cuffs; the decoration of the sedan chair is more elegant than that carried by the Changfang sedan chair, which is strung with blue colored glaze beads. The completed picture of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea is the main color, with rolls of white smoke and clouds, it looks like a vivid picture from a distance.On the top of the sedan chair, there are five colorful phoenixes standing, needless to say, it means five phoenixes facing the sun. Each phoenix is ​​four feet long from head to tail. The colorful tail hangs outside the eaves of the sedan chair. Wrapped with gold leaves, there are hundreds of lights in the belly of the phoenix, which illuminate the phoenix body from the inside to the outside. , nodding his head, flapping his long tail, as if spreading his wings into the clouds.

"Hey, brother," Shorty Shi Er snatched a bystander from the porch: "Where will the race start?" "On the empty field at the crossroads." The man said, "Can you let go of your hand?! My sleeve is about to tear you apart." Shi Erbai let go of his hand, and let his elbow touch the big Xiong's thigh: "I said, let's avoid the transfer, (Yan Xiao secretly said that eating is called the transfer.) Put the rabbit's legs in your arms, each with a pot of water, I will go over there." "Hush——" Big Bear said, "Have you forgotten all about what Eighth Master told you? We're just hanging around here. If you get up early tomorrow, you really will stay all night." Don't sleep?...Besides, we brothers have a pair of buttocks, so it's better to walk less. When the tune is right, we'll have sex with each other." (Yan Xiao code words, meaning sleep after gambling.)

"Let's just walk for a while," Shorty Shi Er almost begged, "Wanjialou is so big, and the lights are brightly lit in all the streets and alleys. If there is no company, I'm afraid I will get lost there. Let's just keep our mouths shut and not cause trouble. Already?!" "I'm not going." Big Bear said. Immediately behind the bright sedan chair was the Huaguhui of various families, and the drum beats rumbled like a torrential rain. Shorty Shi Er couldn't hold back and said, "Big bear, to be honest, if you really don't want to go, I will go alone gone."

"Short ghost, are you really going?!" Big Bear said, "Be careful that Eighth Master will kidnap you!" In fact, Guan Baye didn't know at all that Shorty Shi Er had slipped away. Wanliang's shop was a place he knew well; the owner, Wan Liang, was also a walker. In addition to the salt tax collected by the tax card, there is also a salt tank in the town. (The salt store that bought new salt) Wanliang collects salt tax. The trough never cuts off the legs of all gangs and all walks of life. (There are many salt troughs relying on local power to forcibly collect private salt from passing roads at a lower price. Zehu seller.) Transiting the border, according to the intention of leading the legs, leaving some 齁er, (the salt owl’s code word, another name for salt.) for the consumption of thousands of families and various farms; and the market opened on the trough, It's always higher than Huxi.

When Guan Baye left the animals, someone from the shop would lead the barley mule to the trough to refill. Cheng Qingyun, the old accountant of the Wanliang shop, wearing a blue satin cap with melon skin and a neat long robe and mandarin jacket, hurried over to welcome the guests, clasping his fists. Seeing Guan Baye, he bowed and said: "Wanjialou is a small place. It's really rare to have someone like Baye come here tonight. The head of the Caicai clan came to take care of him. He asked us to serve Baye carefully. Baoye will come later." Instructing Lei Yipao to put the sixteen legs under the corridor for a while, Guan Baye then provoked Men Lian'er into the shop.Wanliangpu is a large-scale shop that receives business travelers and also serves food. The front row is an open house with five rooms. A high wall encloses a wide courtyard, with a row of long sheds on the east wall for livestock and a row of long sheds on the west wall for parking various vehicles; The park lights were lit all night, and there was another flower hall through the side door by the long wall from the east road. The old accountant Mr. Cheng walked beside Guan Baye and said, "Baye, please go over there. Baoye has already set up two The table wine can be regarded as cleaning up the dust for you, Ba Ye; tonight, there will be a competition in the town, and Bao Ye may not be able to spare time, so I invite Zhen Ye from the seventh room to accompany the guests. I will come to pick you up to watch the game..."

"Master Bao really values ​​his brothers!" Guan Baye said with emotion. Guan Baye looked at this spacious mansion, which was displayed under the lanterns hanging from the eaves of the long sheds in the east and west. Flowers are still flowers, trees are still trees, everything is still the same as it was more than ten years ago, I don’t know how many nights Well, the Liuhe Gang relies on their legs here, and it is Mr. Cheng who welcomes guests.Now I recognize him, but he may only recognize Guan Baye, the old man who escaped from prison and went to Kanto, but he doesn't recognize the young man who pulled the cart back then, Guan Dongshan. Guan Ba, who has borrowed his false name, is not the cart boy who bumped his head into a black lacquered coffin and shouted at the heavens and the earth.Guan Ba ​​Guan Ba, have you really become a hero in people's eyes? !The enemy who murdered the Liuhe Gang didn't step on the ground, and the jailer Qin Zhen's daughter is missing, and he hasn't been able to repay his favor. How can he be a hero? !

"Master Zhen, Master Zhen!" Mr. Cheng rushed into the flower hall first and shouted, "Baye Guan is here." "Oh, Master Ba," said Master Zhen before he could speak, "Wan Shizhen admired Master Ba's name for a long time, and our brother, Master Bao, admired Master Ba very much! Today we finally met. " Master Zhen picked Lianzi out, held Guan Baye tightly with one hand, pulled out the other hand to pick Lianzi to let Guan Baye into the room, and then said: "Master Cheng, please take care of the leg masters outside. Brothers, let’s go in for a drink together, I’m afraid we’ll miss the match if we’re late.”

Most of the people who have stayed in Wanjialou know all about Mr. Zhen in Qifangli. Although he is the oldest among his peers, he is in his forties, but he still has the same playful spirit as a boy in his twenties; He walked with a limp on his left leg, which was broken when he was learning to ride a horse many years ago; there was a scar next to his ear, which was caused by the kid jumping back and chopping it when he practiced throwing a knife into a stone pillar; Play those things again.It would be unfair to say that Mr. Zhen is naturally timid. In fact, Mr. Zhen's physique is weaker and he is not suitable for playing with those wild ones.Master Zhen has put in a lot of effort in studying books, he understands "how much" the classics and history, and he has written a "three-point" Wei stele. The thing that Master Zhen is best at is raising flowers and horses; these two things, Not only is there no one in Wanjialou, but even the counties in the Northland, Master Zhen is really a leader in this aspect.Apart from flowers and birds, what Grandpa Zhen is most interested in is the competition.

"I'm talking about Mr. Zhen, I have to say something presumptuous, so let me explain it first," Guan Baye said, "Brother, today I will take a few legs from the Liuhe Gang to cross the border, and I will be rewarded with a seat by some respectable men from Wanjialou. I can't thank you enough, Guan Ba ​​thanked those brothers face to face. I've already told you that tomorrow morning, I'll get out of bed. I see Master Zhen, it's going to be a competition, no... no..." "Where's the word," Master Zhen said, "we'll just detain you softly for three days, and then let Ba Ye go on the road after the game is over.... You won't be able to get out of prison this time, you must watch this game." .”

"I don't really care," Guan Baye smiled wryly, "It's just that the wild brothers under my command are alive and kicking like monkey spirits coming down from Huaguo Mountain. It's not easy to explain." At the banquet, Guan Baye checked the number of people, and there were two missing out of sixteen people. Lei Yipao said: "These two guys slipped away behind their backs in a blink of an eye. They must have gone to watch the game." "Look at Baye," said Zhenye, "my guess is right. Since you guys want to watch the game, you should eat your meal early. After a while, I am afraid that Baoye will come over soon. Shicaibao My master told my sister Hanying about you coming to the town, and my sister asked me to ask you to do me a favor and look at the sedan chair she personally decorated." After Wan Shizhen finished speaking, Guan Baye whispered into Lei Yipao's ear, "Brother, I want everyone to talk about it later. It seems that if the four judges come across, everyone is ready to protect themselves." It's..." The clouds that had receded during the moonrise gathered again, and the wind that had stopped for a while reappeared on the torch head.Seven bright sedan chairs lined up on the square in front of the high-rise building. Outside the sedan chairs, seven groups of gongs and drums circled into seven rings, beating novel drums alternately; perhaps some people were really worried that Zhu Si would appear on the venue before the competition. When the judge came, he shot at each other shockingly and caused a big accident. After the meeting, he realized that worry was unnecessary; The huge shadow was lifted high into the clouds amidst the flames and lights, which can't help but make people feel at ease. It makes people think that judge Zhu Si can't shake this tall building, even if his gang finally decides to move it, they can't move it. A big rock in the foundation! Shorty Shi Er carried the jug and put half of the leftover rabbit leg in his bosom, and followed the rolling crowd towards the square. Next to the legs, shoulders against the shoulders, that smell of anger, a smell of sweat.Shi Er was so short that he seemed to have fallen into a human pit. Even though he stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck, he still couldn't see anything to see, except the lantern on the top of the pole and some human heads that were shaking.Since the high place can't take advantage of it, he turned his head to the low place, and Shorty Shi Er lowered his head and sprinted forward from the waist of others. "Dwarf, oh, Shier Shorty, whose crotch did you get into?!" Obviously hearing the voice of a big bear, the gongs and drums broke into several pieces: "Hey, I saw him rushing over just now. Really saw a ghost?!"