Chapter 40 The Second Shopkeeper (1)
On one hand, the black dragon was struggling to stick himself to the mountain path, on the other hand, petrified and scarred in place, feeling like a sleepwalking man, and on the other hand, he was holding someone's tail tip and staring at the young monk at the foot of the mountain. This happened to form three subtle balance, like a solidified and static painting.
For a moment, no one moved.
The blink of an eye is infinitely lengthened. After about a hundred years, the scarred man first made moves-
His dull eyes turned, he raised his head in a daze, stared at the rugged mountain wall for a long time, and there was no living thing above his head except for the vast snow and the gloomy sky. He remembered what he had just seen, from thick to thin, with scales, and there seemed to be something else...
I can't remember it, but in short, the thing that I don't know was swaying back and forth in front of his nose a few times, and even almost hit him in the face.
But how could such a big thing disappear in an instant?
"Teacher, why don't you stop? The horse started to make trouble again?" The curtain of the carriage behind was lifted open, and someone leaned his head and asked.
The scarred man came to his senses only then. He shook his head suddenly, shook the strange thing just now out of his mind, and thought to himself: I must have been traveling for a long time, and I was sleepy and a little confused.
Thinking of this, he picked up the wine pot and poured a sip of wine. The wine did not look like it was brewed in the Jiangnan area, but it seemed to be from the north. It was strong and thick. After one sip, it was so hot that it was just heartburned. He shuddered, his hands and feet became much warmer, and his motivation became more and more energetic.
"Jiu--" The scar-faced man finally looked up and glanced at him, then whipped his whip, driving the horse to continue moving forward.
With the sound of Dada's horse hooves around this mountain road and heading towards the next level. As he gradually moved farther and farther away, the black dragon lying on the mountain road rolled his eyes and let out a long sigh.
The breathing of a true dragon is not as easy as an ordinary person when he opens his mouth and keeps his mouth shut. It can easily cause strong winds in the mountains. In order to cover up the movement and let the scar-faced man relieve his doubts earlier, Xue Xian was even holding his anger in his arms, and he didn't breathe at all, and almost suffocated to death.
The crisis was resolved, and the ancestor became alive again, as if the one who was just past the mountain road was not him at all.
He saw him leaning up, looking down at Xuan Min who was standing at his tail, and sneered: "Look, I have to come out to clean up the situation for you. If I hadn't reacted in time, the scar face would have faced with his body."
What a big face!
"..." Xuan Min was originally planning to put the tip of her tail down for him, but when she heard this, she stopped her hand and straightened her waist again.
He didn't say anything, just kept the tip of his tail and looked at Xue Xian coldly, with a meaning of "You say it again, I'll listen."
When Xue Xian saw that little bit of top guy, he wanted to chop off his tail: This hindrance thing was squeezed in his hand and played with it all day long when he shrank. He recovered his true body, but he still couldn't escape the bald donkey's claws. What's the use for it? Hum?
He stared at Xuan Min, who also held the tip of his tail and looked up at him, neither humble nor arrogant, obviously waiting for him to pick up his face.
The tail was held by Xuan Min, which was both a vital part of his body and a testimony of his embarrassment just now, and he could not allow him to continue to be shameless.
So after a moment of confrontation, Xue Xian said "tsk" unwillingly and compromised: "Okay, okay, you are amazing!"
Xuan Min asked calmly: "Who dealt with the situation?"
"..." Xue Xian rolled his eyes and stretched his tone half-deadly, "You - you've cleaned up, okay? It's almost done, let it go!"
Upon hearing this, Xuan Min bent down and let go with a faint expression, resting the tip of the evil disobedient tail on the ground.
Xue Xian felt that after living with this bald donkey for a long time, he would probably have a short life.
The two of them delayed some time because of this unnecessary confrontation. When Xue Xian used the mountain wall to block the mountain, he turned back into a human form and put on his clothes, and returned to the carriage with Xuan Min, the entire convoy happened to have finished the downhill road and was getting closer and closer to the county town in front.
The sky outside was getting darker and darker, and it was probably already evening.
"It's almost night, how long will it take to enter the city?" Shi Tou Zhang looked outside the curtain. There was no danger along the way and there was no substantial loss, but he really didn't want to stay in this "ghost carriage" anymore. He went into the city earlier and parted ways earlier.
"It's coming soon." Jiang Shining pointed to the snow outside the car. "Since I walked up this road, you can see that there are a few more layers of rut marks in this car, it's obviously not far from the city gate."
Shi Tou opened his eyes and looked at the package containing dry food, swallowed, covered his whining stomach, and asked with a bitter face: "Can we rest after entering the city? I'm so hungry that I'm so hungry."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Erqi's belly next to him also screamed.
"Are you hungry too?" Jiang Shining asked.
Lu Erqi still had a young mind. He felt that his stomach made him feel very embarrassed, so he lowered his eyes and retorted: "No, it's not me." But when he said this, his tone was cold and stubborn, but his ears were already red.
Xue Xian had been sitting for a long time and said lazily: "The snow will not stop left and right. I looked at the day before, and maybe it would be even bigger at night. Anyway, the carriages and horses couldn't walk fast, so it was not far apart sooner or later."
The one who is the most difficult to serve all said, that is, they agree.
As for the other one...
Jiang Shining and the others glanced at Xuan Min and found that he had no intention of speaking, so that was no different from default.
After about half an hour, the convoy was getting slower and slower, and a slightly messy voice came vaguely.
"It's here!" Shi Tou Zhang rubbed his hands excitedly, like a big belly and round-brained gray fly.
The county they passed by was called Huazhi County. Because it was close to the river and was closest to Guanyin Ferry, although it was located on the border of Anqing Prefecture, it was quite lively. However, this county was particularly small, and it took at most an hour to walk around the city from east to west, south and north. But even in such a small city, there were some rules to enter and exit the city gate.
Xue Xian had been here once before. If you remember correctly, Huazhi County has always checked people who have entered the city very strictly. It is the most basic thing to dismount and open the car door. Whether it is a passage or a few days to stay, anyone outside the country must register it in the name book when entering the city gate and leaving the city gate.
Sure enough, with a few short inquiries, the convoy stopped in front of the city gate. A guard was holding a famous book and counting the number of people.
When he knocked on the door of Xue Xian and the others, and leaned in to check in and register, everyone's faces became a little strange in an instant.
I saw a large piece of thick black medicine on half of the cheek, and a piece on the back of my hand, exuding an indescribable strange smell.
With this rather unpleasant medicine, the guards felt uncomfortable, and they were in a hurry to check. They only looked at Xuan Min for two more times, then closed the car door and waved them to enter the city quickly.
"Why did he stare at the master just now?" Jiang Shining said in confusion.
"Who knows, maybe he doesn't look like a good person." Xue Xian seemed to be very interested in the scene outside the car. He looked out the curtain and replied casually without looking back.
Everyone: "..." The one who looks the most reliable in this car is Xuan Min, who is well-known to say.
The scar-faced man and the others were still kind-hearted and kept sending Xue Xian and the others to the entrance of an inn before parting ways with them.
The troupe seemed to be in a hurry and was unwilling to delay for a moment, so naturally he had no intention of staying in this county town.
"If you want to rent a carriage, just say it to the inn owner. Huazhi County is small. A beam fell down and five people were killed. Three people could get involved. The boss has some ways to help you find a carriage and give him some hard work." The scarred man also gave this advice before leaving.
Naturally, Xue Xian and the others would not sit in their carriage in vain.
But everyone in this opera troupe has a weird temper and doesn't want to give money. They insist that they don't even charge cash for the show in the end of the winter months, so why do they charge this little car fee? Jiang Shining, the only person who can speak a little bit of human words, pushed and shoved them for a long time, but failed to give the money. It was really helpless.
In the end, Lu Erqi spoke with a slight voice: "Stop pulling it, I will always get it back in the future."
As he said this, he touched his wooden branches with his fingers, his expression somewhat profound.
"What have you... calculated?"
Lu Erqi didn't speak, just said, "Anyway, I won't owe it."
Even Xue Xian would not be too suspicious about what this little charlatan said, let alone Jiang Shining. The opera troupe said hello and rushed towards the direction of leaving the city, and soon disappeared into the night.
Until they sat down on the first floor of the inn and planned to order wine and food to warm their bodies, Xue Xian's attention remained on the street outside.
"What are you looking at? " Jiang Shining said strangely.
"I've seen it a lot. I've been here before. This county town is not as lively as before. There are many fewer people. And... there are signs posted by the doors of every household. Have you seen it?" Xue Xian said.
"What notice? Let me take a look." Shi Tou Zhang was so idle that he ran out of the inn door as soon as he heard this. Not long after, he came in mysteriously with his clothes covering his clothes. Their seats were relatively inclined, with red painted cylinders blocking them, so the table could not see their actions clearly.
"I don't know if this notice can be revealed, but I just picked up a piece that happened to fall off by the wall." The stone tablet was taken out from my arms and spread it flat on the table, "Look--"
Before, there was no light outside, and he didn't see clearly what was drawn on the notice. Now he opened it and saw that everyone at the table was stunned, and then he looked at Xuan Min.
"Master, this..." Shi Tou Zhang stammered, "Why did you go to the government notice? What did you do?"
Xuan Min also frowned and looked at the portrait on the notice carefully.
"I was in Ningyang before, didn't Master Liu just recognize the master as the person in the Hai Captain's document?" Jiang Shining asked in confusion, "Didn't he rejected it again?"
Xue Xian raised his hand and touched the notice, saying, "I took a look at Ning Yang's notice. Except for the monks and there was a mole on the side of the neck, the person on the painting was no longer similar to this bald donkey. Moreover, the person on the painting was much older than this bald donkey."
But now this one...
"That batch of captain documents is said to be almost full term?" Xue Xian shook the notice, "This one looks like it's just pasted for a few days."
The portrait on this notice was slightly changed than the one in Ningyang County, making the person younger, and his facial features were also adjusted. He looked... and looked sixty-six points similar to Xuan Min.
Chapter completed!