Chapter 4 The third time Lin Taiping

Every month, Yan Qi would sneak out two or three times by himself, no one knew where he went, let alone what he was doing.Every time he came back, he always brought back one or two strange things. What he brought back might be a new pair of socks, an embroidered handkerchief, a pot of braised pork, or a jar of home-made glutinous rice wine. Sometimes he even brings back a tabby cat, a canary, and a few live fish. But whatever it was, it wasn't as strange as what he brought back this time. This time he actually brought someone back. A real person. This person is called Lin Taiping, but since he came, no one's life has been peaceful.

Some people like winter very much, because in winter, they can enjoy the snow and plum blossoms, eat hot hot pot, read forbidden books and sleep well under the hot blanket. These fun are not enjoyed in other seasons. Of course, people who like winter will never be poor. Winter is the worst day for poor people. Poor people hope that winter will come later, and it is best never to come. It's a pity that winter for the poor always comes very early. It is already winter. The snow in the courtyard of Fugui Villa is as white as other places, and there are also a few plum blossoms.But if a person is still wearing thin spring clothes, and if his stomach is still filled with Yangchun noodles that he ate yesterday, the only thing he still has the mood to appreciate is something that can be swallowed from his mouth to fill his stomach. It is Baixue plum blossom.

Guo Dalu looked at the Baixue plum blossoms in the yard, and murmured: "It would be nice if the plum blossoms were peppers." Wang Dong said: "What's good?" Guo Dalu said: "Look, isn't the snow all over the ground just like flour, with a few red peppers, isn't it just right to make a bowl of spicy hot noodle soup?" Wang Dong sighed, and said: "You are so vulgar, if Lin Bu heard what you said, he would definitely die of anger." Guo Dalu asked, "Who is Lin Bu?" Wang Dong said, "You haven't even heard of Lin Bu?" Guo Dalu said: "I've only heard of dried meat, whether it's dried pork, dried beef, or dried venison, it's all good to go with wine."

Wang Dongdao: "Lin Bu is Lin Junfu, that is, Lin Hejing, a great hermit in the Zhenzong Dynasty of Song Dynasty. He lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of West Lake. It is said that he did not go down the mountain for twenty years. Apart from planting plums and raising cranes, he did nothing. It is called "Plum Wife and Crane Son" in the world; there are two lines in the poem chanting plums that are "sparse shadows, horizontal slanting water, clear and shallow water, dark fragrance floating at moon and dusk", which have been recited through the ages." Guo Dalu said leisurely: "In this way, Mr. Lin is indeed a master."

Wang Dong said: "Extremely high." Guo Dalu said: "But if his stomach is as hungry as mine, will he be so tall?" Wang Dong thought for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "At your time, I think he might be even more vulgar than you." Guo Dalu also laughed. He suddenly found that no matter how cold or hungry a person is, he always feels much more comfortable when he smiles. At this moment, Wang Dong suddenly jumped up from the bed and said loudly, "When I think of Lin Hejing, I think of something." The thing that can make Wang Dong jump up from the bed is really no small matter.

Guo Dalu couldn't help asking: "What do you remember? Do you also want to make Meihua your wife?" Wang Dong said: "My plum blossom is better than my wife, it's wine..." Guo Dalu's jaw seemed to drop immediately, and he murmured, "Wine? Where did you get the wine?" Wang Dong said: "It's just under the plum blossoms." Guo Dalu smiled wryly: "Taking Meihua as his wife is already crazy enough, but this person is even crazier." But there is indeed a jar of wine buried under the plum tree. Wang Dong said: "I buried this wine more than ten years ago. I just heard the story of Lin Hejing and fell in love with plum blossoms that year, so I made a jar of wine and buried it under the plum tree. I wanted to drink some plum blossoms. aroma."

No matter where you bury a jar of wine, if it has been buried for more than ten years, the wine will definitely smell very good. Guo Dalu shattered the mud cover that sealed the altar, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and sighed: "This is not a fragrance, it is simply a fairy air." Wang Dong said with a smile: "You should be grateful to Mr. Lin now. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have buried this jar of wine; if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have thought of having this jar of wine." Guo Dalu had no time to talk, and when he was drinking, his mouth would never do anything else.

He picked up the wine jar and wanted to pour it into his mouth. But Wang Dong held him back and said, "Wait a minute." Guo Dalu said: "What are you waiting for?" Wang Dong said: "Yan Qi has been out for two days, and it is almost time to come back, we should at least wait for him." Guo Dalu said: "How long will we wait? We may have frozen to death when he comes back." He didn't have to wait so long. Yan Qi's voice sounded from outside the wall, saying: "It is best for you to die, I am happy to enjoy this jar of wine alone." Wang Dong laughed and said, "This man not only has long ears, but also has a long nose. I already knew that he would come back as soon as he smelled the smell of wine."

Guo Dalu also laughed, and said: "But I don't know what this long nose brought back to serve us wine?" Yan Qi said: "I didn't bring back the drinker this time, only brought back a drinker." Lin Taiping is indeed a drinker.Anyone who saw him for the first time would never believe that he could drink so much alcohol. Guo Dalu couldn't believe it when he saw him for the first time. Lin Taiping is very delicate, very delicate, and very beautiful.If Yan Qi looks a bit like a girl, then he looks like a girl in disguise. His mouth is very small, even if it is described as "cherry mouth", it is not an exaggeration.

When Guo Dalu saw him for the first time, his mouth was tightly shut, his lips were blue in color, and it took a lot of force to pull his teeth open to drink the wine. He was half frozen to death, and he was starved to death. Guo Dalu couldn't imagine that there would be someone colder and hungrier than him in the world, so he smiled wryly, "Where did you bring this person?" Yan Qi said: "On the way." Guo Dalu sighed, and said: "The first time you brought back a cat from the road, and the second time you brought back a dog, and now you actually picked up a human being. If this continues, next time you will bring a cat from the road. Gorilla back?"

Wang Dong laughed and said, "It's best to be a female orangutan, who can just make a pair with you." Guo Dalu was not angry either, he said with a smile: "It would be bad if it was a female monkey, do I have to call her Mrs. Wang?" He is tall and tall, at least a head taller than Wang Dong, which has always been the thing he is most proud of.If someone made fun of him with this incident, not only would he not be angry, but he would also be very proud of it. He always thinks that this is the only way to look like a man. Yan Qi had already found a broken bowl, scooped up half a bowl of wine, forcefully opened Lin Taiping's mouth and drank it down. After drinking the second bowl, his pale face gradually turned red, but his eyes were still closed, and he swallowed the remaining half sip of wine slowly before saying: "This It is 30-year-old Zhuyeqing." This is the first sentence Lin Taiping said. Wang Dong laughed, and Guo Dalu also laughed. Based on these words, they already regarded Lin Taiping as a friend. Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, this friend is a big connoisseur of drinking." Lin Taiping slowly opened his eyes, saw the broken bowl in Yan Qi's hand, immediately frowned, and said in a broken voice, "You guys use this kind of bowl for drinking?" He spoke as if he saw someone eating with his nose and holding chopsticks with his feet. Guo Dalu said: "If you don't use this kind of bowl, what can you drink with?" Lin Taiping said: "You should use emerald and jasper cups to drink Zhuyeqing. Drinking from this kind of bowl is a waste of good wine." Guo Dalu said with a smile: "I think you should just order it, as long as you close your eyes, a broken bowl is no different from a jasper lamp." Lin Taiping thought for a while and said, "That's not bad, but I'd rather drink it from a jar." The wine jar was right in front of him, and he actually picked it up, raised his head and poured it into his mouth. Guo Dalu was watching from the side, his eyes were straightened. Lin Taiping didn't wipe his mouth until half a jar of wine was down, and said, "Good wine, where's the food to go with it?" Guo Dalu said, "Snacks?" Lin Taiping said: "Don't you need food and drink when you drink?" Guo Dalu smiled and said, "You don't understand that, people who really drink don't even need food when they drink." Lin Taiping thought for a while, and said, "This is also reasonable." He raised his head again and actually drank the remaining half jar of wine. If a jar of wine has been buried for more than ten years, the wine has been concentrated, and there is only half of the jar left, but the strength of the wine is stronger than that of ordinary two jars. Lin Taiping still didn't change his expression, he asked: "Is there any wine like this?" Guo Dalu could only smile wryly, and said: "I'm very sorry, this jar of wine is not only all the food for the three of us today, but also all of our property." Lin Taiping was startled, and said: "You usually just drink and never eat?" Guo Dalu said: "I seldom eat it." Lin Taiping sighed, and said: "It seems that you are really drunkards, you must know that just drinking is the most harmful to your stomach, and you should eat something occasionally." He stretched himself, looked around, and said, "Do you usually sleep on this bed?" Wang Dong said: "Yes." Lin Taiping frowned and said, "Can this bed also sleep people?" Wang Dong said: "At least it's better than sleeping on the road." Lin Taiping thought for a long time, and said with a smile: "This is also reasonable, what you said seems to be quite reasonable, it seems that I can make friends with you." Wang Dong said: "Thank you very much, I dare not do it, I dare not do it." Lin Taiping said: "But now I'm going to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I don't like people to disturb me. You'd better go out for a stroll." He yawned, lay down on the bed, turned over, and fell asleep immediately. Guo Dalu looked at Wang Dong, smiled wryly and said, "It seems that not only he can drink better than you, but he is also better at sleeping than you." Yan Qi looked at the empty jar, was startled for a long time, and murmured: "Is it a person I brought back? Or a horse?" Guo Dalu sighed: "A horse can't drink so much wine." Yan Qi said: "Why don't you want him to drink less?" Guo Dalu said: "Even if I am poor, at least I am not a cheapskate." Wang Dong suddenly said: "I think this person is very interesting." Yan Qi said: "Interesting?" Wang Dong said: "You saved his life, and he drank all the food for the three of us today, and occupied the only bed in this room. But instead of saying a word of gratitude, he even picked three Pick four, and feel that making friends with us is a great way to give us face." He smiled, and continued, "Such a person, where can you find the second one?" So Lin Taiping also stayed. So if you talk about "Fugui Mountain Villa" in Jianghu, you don't just mean an empty house near a cemetery, with a chimney that never smokes, and sometimes even has no lights. As long as you talk about Fugui Mountain Villa, people in Jianghu will understand that you are talking about a wonderful group - an empty house and four people, the kind of kind, happy and fraternal stories that happened between them, and their That great and wonderful camaraderie of four people. There seems to be a strange tacit understanding among these friends, that is, they never ask about other people's past events, and never tell others about their own past events. But on the night when Yan Qi brought Lin Taiping back, Guo Dalu broke this rule. That night, the snow had begun to melt. Lin Taiping was still soundly asleep, Wang Dong was certainly not to be outdone, Guo Dalu had no choice but to drag Yan Qi down the mountain to "hunt". Hunting means looking for opportunities to make money. No. When the snow melts, it is colder than when it snows.Going to bed when you are full is the smartest way to deal with the cold.There were hardly any people to be seen on the street. Guo Dalu and Yan Qi were like two lonely ghosts, walking in the mud with one foot high and the other foot low, Guo Dalu was always looking at Yan Qi's boots. At last he couldn't help but asked, "Are your boots put on the soles again?" Yan Qi said: "Yes." Guo Dalu said: "I never asked you how the soles of those shoes were worth thousands of taels of silver, did I?" Yan Qi said: "Yes." Guo Dalu said: "I never asked how you died seven times, did I?" Yan Qi said: "You really didn't ask." Guo Dalu's eyes were full of hope, and he said, "What if I ask? Are you willing to tell me?" Yan Qi said: "Maybe yes... But I know you will never ask, because I have never asked you anything." Guo Dalu scowled, gritted his teeth hard. Yan Qi suddenly asked again: "What kind of person do you think Lin Taiping is?" Guo Dalu said with a straight face, "I don't know, and I don't want to ask." Yan Qi smiled and said, "Of course we won't ask him, but it's okay to guess for yourself?" Yan Qi said again: "He may have slipped out of the house for something. The clothes he wore were very thin, which meant that he must have come out from a very warm place. He didn't bring anything with him, which meant that he He must have been in a hurry when he came out, maybe he escaped." Guo Dalu said: "Unexpectedly, you are very careful." Yan Qi smiled and said: "One person must not be able to last long if he suffers from cold and hunger in such cold weather." Guo Dalu sighed and said, "At most, it can only last for three or two days." Yan Qi said: "If you can only support it for three days, he can only support it for a day and a half at most." Guo Dalu smiled and said: "That's right, I'm used to it, but he is a pampered young master." Yan Qi said: "In this kind of weather, no one can go far in a day and a half." Guo Dalu said: "Do you mean that his home is not far away?" Yan Qi said: "Yes." Guo Dalu said: "Are there any wealthy families nearby?" Yan Qi said: "There are not many families, even fewer martial arts families." Guo Dalu said: "Why does it have to be from a martial arts family? Could it be that someone as gentle as he is also good at martial arts?" Yan Qi said: "Not only does he know martial arts, but also his martial arts are not weak." Guo Dalu said: "How did you see it?" Yan Qi said: "I just saw it." He didn't wait for Guo Dalu to ask again, and then said: "As far as I know, there are only two martial arts families nearby." Guo Dalu said: "Which family is named Lin?" Yan Qi said: "Both families are not surnamed Lin. Lin Taiping is not necessarily surnamed Lin. Since he escaped, how could he tell others his real name?" Guo Dalu said: "Which two do you know?" Yan Qidao: "The family's surname is Xiong, and the owner is called 'Tao Li Man Tian Tian' Xiong Shuren, who is the master of the family's big martial arts field. Although peaches and plums are all over the world, he is a bachelor, not only has no children, but also has no wife." Guo Dalu said: "Is there another family?" Yan Qi said: "There is another family named Mei. Although there is a son and a daughter, but the son 'Shiren' Mei Rujia has been famous in Jianghu for a long time, so he must be much older than Lin Taiping." Guo Dalu said: "Why did he name it Shiren?" Yan Qidao: "It is said that this family's martial arts are very strange. The weapons and hidden weapons used are all made of stone, so his father is called 'Stone God', and he is called 'Stone Man'." Guo Dalu laughed and said, "Then what will his son be called? Will he be called Shigou?" This is a quiet mountain city with narrow and steep streets. The structure of the houses on both sides is also very ordinary.Although it hasn't started yet, the lights of most people's houses have been turned off, and most of the people who do business have closed their doors. Even if there are still lights shining through some windows, the lights are still very dim.Few people burn two lamps in one room, and even fewer use candles, because lamp oil is always cheaper than candles. Guo Dalu sighed, and said: "This is really a poor place, if people stay here for a long time, not only will they become poorer and lazier." Yan Qi said: "You are wrong, I really like this place." Guo Dalu said: "Oh?" Yan Qi said: "No matter where I am, I always feel very nervous, and only here can I feel free and unrestrained." Guo Dalu said: "Because people in this place are so poor that they can't even take care of themselves, so they never have time to meddle in other people's business." Yan Qi said: "You are wrong again, this place is not poor at all." Guo Dalu smiled and said, "Compared to us, of course we are not poor, but..." Yan Qishiding cut off his words, and said: "You see that the people in this place are poor, it's just because they don't want to show off. For example, the pawnbroker Wang Dong knows, he is not only not poor, but also Must be a very talented person." Guo Dalu said: "What's the background?" Yan Qi said: "In my opinion, even if this person wasn't a gangster before, he must have been a well-known figure in martial arts. I don't know if he hid here because he was avoiding hatred or disaster, or because he was tired of the world." He went on to say: "There are many people like him here. If I want to retire in the future, I will definitely live here." Guo Dalu said: "Based on what you say, isn't this a place where a crouching tiger hides a dragon?" Yan Qi said: "Not bad at all." Guo Dalu said: "Why can't I see it?" Yan Qi smiled and said: "If a person has died seven times, he will naturally see more than others." Guo Dalu said: "But you still haven't seen Lin Taiping's origin. Since he is not the son of the Mei family, nor is he a descendant of the Xiong family, you have been talking about it for a long time, but it is not in vain." Yan Qi was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "Have you ever heard of the name 'Land Dragon King'?" Guo Dalu smiled and said: "Only the deaf have never heard of this name. Even if I am ignorant, at least I am not deaf." Yan Qi said: "I heard that the Land Dragon King also has a villa nearby." Guo Dalu said: "Do you doubt that Lin Taiping is his son?" Yan Qi said: "It's possible." Guo Dalu said: "It is impossible, absolutely impossible." Yan Qi said: "Why?" Guo Dalu said: "In Jianghu, everyone knows that the Dragon King of the Land is a man of seven feet, how could he give birth to a son like a little girl?" Yan Qi said coldly: "Whether a person is a man is not determined by his appearance." Guo Dalu glanced at him and said with a smile, "Of course not, but..." He suddenly closed his mouth, and the whole person seemed to be stunned. There were already no pedestrians on the street, but at this moment, a person walked over Tingting. When Guo Dalu saw this person, his eyes straightened. The one who can make Guo Dalu's eyes straight is of course a girl, a beautiful girl. This girl is not only beautiful, but extremely beautiful. Although she was wearing coarse cloth clothes, no matter what clothes she wore, she would look good. Guo Dalu had never seen a woman with such a good figure. She carried two large baskets in her hands, and whoever carried two such large baskets would walk like a crab. But her walking style is still so beautiful, enough to make people's eyes straighten.If she hadn't carried the basket in her hand, Guo Dalu might have seen it so much that his eyes would have dropped. The girl didn't notice them at first, but when she saw Guo Dalu's distraught look, she couldn't help pursing her lips and smiling sweetly. Guo Dalu's heart immediately jumped up like a drumstick, until the girl had turned the corner, he was still standing there stupidly. After a long time, he sighed deeply and said, "It seems that this place is indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon..." Yan Qi smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's not a hidden dragon, but a Tibetan phoenix." Guo Dalu said: "That's right, that's right. The ancients said that within ten steps, there must be fragrant grasses. This proverb is indeed true." He suddenly puffed up his chest and said, "What do you think I look like?" Yan Qi went up and down, looked at him a few times, and replied: "Not bad, tall, with big eyes, and he is quite popular when he smiles." Guo Dalu said: "If you were a girl, would you fall in love with me?" Yan Qi pursed her lips and smiled, "Maybe..." Guo Dalu suddenly saw that his smile was not only very charming, but also very girlish, so he couldn't help laughing and said: "But if you are a girl, there is no man in the world who can bear it." Yan Qi frowned, and said, "I'm afraid there are not many women who can stand you." Guo Dalu said: "Why? Didn't you just say that I'm pretty?" Yan Qi said: "But you are dirty, lazy, and unreliable. Women will never like this kind of man." Guo Dalu smiled and said: "That's because you are not a woman, in fact women like this, this is the true nature of a man." Yan Qi seemed about to vomit, and said with a bitter face, "Do you think that girl fell in love with you just now?" Guo Dalu said: "Of course, otherwise why is she smiling at me?" Yan Qi held back her laughter, and said: "Girls have many kinds of smiles. They will laugh when they see a person who is stupid, and they will also laugh when they see toads and Zhu Bajie." Guo Dalu was so angry that he almost cried out, "Do you think that I..." He suddenly closed his mouth again, because the girl just now turned out from the corner of the street again. The empty basket she was carrying was now full, so she seemed to be struggling.The ground was full of mud again, her feet slipped suddenly, she fell forward, and the basket in her hand flew out. Fortunately, she met Guo Dalu and Yan Qi. Yan Qi's reaction was always quick, and Guo Dalu's reaction was not slow either. As soon as her foot slipped, she shot out like an arrow. Before the basket fell on the ground, Yan Qi stretched out his hand to catch it; before the girl fell down, Guo Dalu stretched out his hand to support her. She panted for a long time before she came to her senses, and suddenly found that a strange man was still supporting her, and her face immediately flushed. Guo Dalu's heart was also beating, he murmured, "Is the girl alright?" The girl blushed, lowered her head, and said, "I... really don't know how to thank you." Yan Qi already discovered that the basket was full of food, including roast chicken, beef, and oil cakes that were baked until both sides turned yellow. He really wanted to say, "It's very easy for you to thank us, all you need is a chicken and two pies." But seeing Guo Dalu's affectionate attitude towards others, how could he lose his friend? What's more, Guo Dalu has already rushed to say: "This is a trivial matter, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." The girl suddenly looked up at him, smiled again, and said, "You are really good people." Although she said "you", her eyes were only on Guo Dalu. Guo Dalu's heart was also weak, and his body was also weak, he said in a smug way: "Miss, you...you...you need...you don't need to be polite...you are welcome." The girl had already taken the basket, and suddenly she turned her head and smiled sweetly, before she lowered her head and walked forward. If it is said that Guo Dalu's soul is still there, this smile really made his soul fly away. Although his person is nailed there like a nail, his soul seems to have been carried away in a basket. Yan Qi said: "With such a good opportunity, why don't you hurry up and chase after it?" Guo Dalu sighed, "Do you think I'm really a pervert?" Yan Qi said lightly: "Even if it's not, it's about the same." The girl had already walked a long way, but at this moment she stopped again, turned her head and said with a smile: "I bought a lot of vegetables, would you two give me the honor to go back and have a drink?" This kind of request from the mouth of a beautiful woman is probably ten times better than the best music in the world when it is heard in the ears of two cold and hungry people. If someone refuses such a request, it is not a fool. Yan Qi is not an idiot, and Guo Dalu is not. Although he was still saying: "Why is this so embarrassing?" But his feet had already taken big strides and followed him. Alas, why are heroes always sad about the beauty pass? Why didn't Guo Dalu ask where the girl was taking them? It seems that even if she wants to take them to sell, Guo Dalu will follow.