Chapter 10 Cold Shop
Jiangnan, Yunyangji.
The roads and official roads connected by various states and prefectures are often intertwined, and Yunyangji is located at a three-fork in the road.
Mingyue and his party rushed to Yunyangji, and the sky had dimmed. Mr. Mingyue calculated that the snow on the ground reflected the vast twilight in the snowy day. Once it got dark, it was much faster than usual.
The messy ruts, a few wisps of cooking smoke, and the dilapidated eaves under the white snow constitute a unique picture in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River in winter.
The three shuttled through this Yunyang collection full of wind and frost and the breath of life. On the contrary, there are not many people who know each other. Most of them are merchants from south to north, facing each other and passing by each other.
There is no need to pretend to be a smiling face or deliberately pay attention to others. This is exactly why Mr. Mingyue feels that Yunyangji looks noisy and lively, but in fact, he is still lonely and peaceful in his bones.
Most people are hurried passers-by, just like meteors passing each other in a long night, suddenly meeting and leaving.
The color ring said, "Let's go to the last room we stayed in. It's clean and refreshing."
Langdie Dance nodded and said, "It's very good. It's much warm to stay overnight and get a big car on the road tomorrow."
When she arrived at the door of the store, Mingyue found that the "well" store owner was a woman over half a hundred years old. She saw the two girls from afar and waved her hand and said, "Hey! Little girls, it's full. Let's live somewhere else.
Lan Diewu frowned and said to Mingyue, "Brother Xiancao, you can't live here. It's more convenient for you to find a family. It's more clean."
Mr. Mingyue laughed and said, "Okay! You just wait here and I'll look for it.
The distribution of Yunyang Village is surrounded by three fork roads, a long row of houses, private houses and shops for business, but there are only a handful of inns.
When Mingyue walked to the brightly lit inn, she only heard five shouts and six cheers inside, and even a few rough laughs and scolded. Mingyue was stunned, but she looked in, but she was not a mountain village and wild man. They were all carrying blades with them. At a glance, they were Jianghu people.
Mr. Mingyue passed by quietly without making a sound, but the people in the room suddenly stopped talking. They all turned their heads and stared at Mingyue up and down.
The eyes of the Han are all vigilant eyes, with some vague hostility.
The bright moon smiled and secretly said that she couldn't live here. She paced away, and there was a lively sound in the room again.
The end of the long street is sparse, and it looks much quieter and desolate in the twilight. Mr. Mingyue came over and saw a wine flag shaking slightly in the wind, the shadow of the lights shaking, and the faint sign said: Yang's Inn.
When I pushed the door and entered, it was really cold and there were no guests. Only the second child of the shop was wiping the table. He did not look up at the bright moon. When he heard the door ring, he asked, "Do you want to hit the top or stay in the hotel?"
Mr. Mingyue said, "I want to stay in the hotel. There are two female guests. Do you have two rooms?"
The shopkeeper nodded: "Yes!"
Mingyue said happily, "Okay, wait for me to call them."
Cai Huan'er looked at Xiancao Jun and walked quickly and said from afar, "Brother Xiancao! Is there a cleaner place to live?"
Mingyue smiled and said, "If you find it, come with me!"
The two women followed the bright moon through the end of the long street, and the road gradually became desolate. Caihuan said strangely, "How can the inn be such a remote place? Can you make money?"
Mingyue said, "I don't think I can make any money. I didn't even find anyone except Xiao Er in the store."
Landie smiled and said, "It's clean enough."
Mingyue said again, "I found that there are many Jianghu people coming and going in Yunyang. They all seem to be silent and are on guard against me everywhere."
Cai Huaner said thoughtfully, "They may see Brother Xiancao's qixuan, as if they are looking for a scene, and they have to be on guard."
Mingyue smiled bitterly and pushed the door into the Yang's inn. Seeing that the second child had lit candles, he looked at the three of them and said, "guests, follow me upstairs and choose a room."
Mr. Mingyue said strangely, "Where's your shopkeeper?"
The shopkeeper smiled at the bright moon: "Without the shopkeeper, I am the shopkeeper."
The butterfly dance also smiled: "Oh! So, why is your store so deserted?
The second child of the store sighed, "This place is remote, and ordinary guests will only come when the market is full, so I will bear all the sundries."
Caihuaner chose the two rooms upstairs facing the street, which were also clean and tidy. The shopkeeper said, "If you want to eat something, just tell them. It's more convenient to eat downstairs."
Mr. Mingyue smiled and said, "I don't care about some wine and dishes. If we get better soon, we will go downstairs to eat."
The three went downstairs and sat down again. The shopkeeper and the second child were busy cooking in the backyard. Cai Huaner whispered, "Did you find it when you came? There was a cemetery behind this room. There were many high and low bulges under the white snow. No one dared to stay in the hotel."
Mingyue smiled and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. The barren village shop is like this. I've still slept in the cemetery."
The color ring was surprised and said, "No way? Why did the senior sleep in the cemetery? Was it forced by the master?"
Mr. Mingyue smiled and said, "Once, he was very drunk. He walked with a big stone in his arms and fell asleep in the grass. Tianming found that he was holding a tombstone, surrounded by barren tombs."
The color ring was even more surprised, "Aren't you afraid?"
The butterfly dance also smiled and said, "Oh? I saw that Brother Xiancao was stable and used to like drinking, which was a pair with Caihuan.
The bright moon smiled secretly at how old and steady she was, but this mask looked at the image of thick eyebrows and big eyes, so she said, "Really? Color ring, do you also drink?"
The color ring said, "Of course, and drink a lot at a time."
Mingyue smiled and said, "Okay! Shopkeeper, bring the wine!"
Before the words fell, the door of the inn was knocked open with a thump, and there was a burst of laughter, which was very rough and heroic: "Haha, it turns out that there are also fellow people here. It's great!"
The three were stunned and stared at it. They saw more than a dozen big men flashing in. Seeing that the three Mingyue were also stunned, the leading iron tower-like black man Hanqi said, "I heard that the wine was coming and where to return it turned out to be the prince of the family and two young ladies. There were many collisions and offensive."
Mr. Mingyue smiled and said, "It's okay!"
The color ring said unremittingly, "I don't think this black brother is right!"
The black man said, "What's wrong?"
Cai Huaner said, "You mean that my brother is not a hero?"
The black man was stunned and laughed again, "That's what I said. Your brother is extraordinary, heroic, and also a hero."
The color ring smiled and said, "That's right."
The black man also shouted, "Shopkeeper, put more wine and meat on it!" Brothers are hungry."
The store owner answered, and the black man led more than a dozen big and thick brothers around two tables. The black man asked again in a bell-like voice, "Shopkeeper, how many empty rooms are there? If not, it's okay for us to live downstairs and sleep at a long table.
The shopkeeper still said blankly, "There are still empty rooms, enough for the ladies to sleep."
Mingyue and the three people's superficial self-interested laughter did not care about them. In fact, Mingyue had been secretly paying attention to more than a dozen big men opposite them. Although they were ferocious, they were silent. They seemed to be afraid of the black-faced big man, but two strong men still glanced at the butterfly dance and colorful rings from time to time, with strange light.