Sword comes

Yicheng told everyone that there is no night ban in Hongzhu Town, and there is a square market in the west of the town. Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of internal organs and all kinds of groceries.Knowing that Chen Pingan and his group were going to purchase the necessary items for the study tour, Cheng Sheng offered to act as a guide, saying that it would save a lot of trouble, at least those merchants would not dare to ask for prices. Chen Pingan hoped that he had been to Hongzhu Town Ah Liang, the man in the bamboo hat nodded, saying that he was only familiar with the scenery on both sides of the river, and had never been to Fangshi.

Yi Cheng looked at A Liang, and the two old men smiled knowingly.

There are nearly a hundred large and small painting boats in Shishui Bay. Every night, they sail out of the bay, enter Hongzhu Town along that river, and return to Fushui Bay after a circle. laugh.

In Hongzhu Town, although the Fushuiwan boat girl and the other brothel girls are from Dali, the former has always been directly responsible for the management of household certificates by the Jiaofang Division of the capital. Qualification changed the identity of a woman on a boat from humble to good.Therefore, there have always been rumors in Hongzhu Town that the ancestors of the five surnames in Fushuiwan were once the royal children and meritorious families of the Shenshui Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Cheng Sheng, the local snake post, Chen Pingan and the others went to the market on the west side of the town. The further west they went, the more crowded the streets became. The town post station could provide supplies, so Chen Pingan gave up some ideas and did not buy too much food such as rice and cured meat. However, in a pharmacy, he bought a lot of ointments and medicinal materials to deal with minor illnesses such as wind, cold, heatstroke, and falls.When it was time to spend money, Chen Pingan realized that a whole silver ingot was a rarity, similar to the small town in his hometown, so he converted the two ingots of snow-patterned silver into Dali general-purpose copper coins, Tianhua Yuanbao, because he had a high-quality silver ingot. For the best silver, the premium is as high as two hundred Wen, which made Chen Ping'an very grateful to the beautiful girl in the blacksmith's shop.

Because Cheng Sheng, the postman, was by his side, everything went smoothly. In small towns and counties, it is really important not to treat subordinates as officials, especially Cheng Sheng, who often deals with rich gentry and officials all year round. In the eyes, that is a big shot with hands and eyes.Therefore, in every shop that Chen Ping'an and the others entered, they all called out to Mr. Cheng attentively, wishing to enshrine this Mr. Yicheng as a bodhisattva.

Along the way, Li Huai was very reserved, almost only daring to hide behind A Liang, poking his head. A Liang joked that he was timid and only snarky.Li Huai just opened his voice and wanted to scold A Liang for three hundred rounds, but when curious eyes were cast from all around, Li Huai immediately drooped his head and followed A Liang sickly, making A Liang very happy. A slap was slapped on Li Huai's head, and the child dared not speak out, feeling aggrieved.

Lin Shouyi still had a nonchalant air of indifference. It is estimated that the young man is walking on the royal road in the capital now, and he also has this virtue.

Only Li Baoping carried her green bamboo box on her back, like a crab running rampant, with her head up and her chest puffed out, she wished she could just pull up a random person on the side of the road and tell him that her little book box was made by my uncle himself .

Fangshi is composed of two north-south streets. After visiting Guanshan Street, Chen Pingan and the others were about to cross the alley to the next Guanshui Street, but they passed a bookstore with no business in the alley. Cheng Sheng went straight forward, but Chen Pingan stopped. After greeting Yicheng, he smiled at Li Baoping and the three of them: "One person can buy one book. No matter how expensive it is, as long as we buy it worthy."

The shop is very small, the door is no more than two feet wide. After entering, there are two rows of tall book walls on the left and right. In the farthest part of the shop, there is a young man in a black gown sitting on a small bamboo chair with his legs crossed. I was resting with my eyes closed, holding a folded fan in my hand, tapping the palm of my hand lightly, humming a little song.

The young shopkeeper has a handsome and feminine face, without the copper smell of those shopkeepers before.

The girl Zhu Lu was stunned when she saw it for the first time, probably because she didn't expect to meet such a romantic person with such a refined temperament in the market place of Hongzhu Town.

After the land master of Qidun Mountain got rid of the shackles, he regained his status as a god, and transformed from a little old man in white to a noble son with a beautiful tree and wind, but in the girl's heart, Wei Bo still had a more unsightly image of slovenliness.But the young man in front of him, the first impression he gave was too vivid.

Even Zhu He was full of suspicion. Could this person be the son of a wealthy family who had fallen into poverty?Compared with the two sons of his own family, he is not bad at all.

The young man didn't open his eyes, and said lazily: "The books in the store will never be counter-priced. Whether you make a profit or lose money later depends on the eyesight of each customer."

Yicheng Chengsheng said softly to Zhu He: "This shop is very famous in our Hongzhu Town. Most of the scholars who pass by here like to visit here once. It's just that the shopkeeper has a weird temper and all the books he sells are much higher than The market price, and whoever dares to bargain, he dares to drive people out on the spot. He has a noble temperament and is ignorant of common affairs. There was once a master of the household department official who visited privately in a low service, staying in the pillow post of the villain, and the master fell in love with him. I bought a rare copy priced at 300 taels of silver, but it was only a counter-offer of 50 taels of silver, so I was kicked out of the shop without saving any face. I entered this small shop, probably because I felt that the reputation spread out was not good, so this shop escaped disaster."

Zhu He knew in his heart that he was probably a rotten Confucian ignorant of worldly affairs, the kind of person his second son likes to ridicule the most, calling him the one who usually talks about his heart with nothing but dying in danger to repay the king.The second son still smiled and said that he couldn't say 200 years, so will we Dali.

Therefore, Zhu He has always had a bad impression of scholars outside.

Passing through this post road in Hongzhu Town, it is one of the three main post roads leading to the capital from the southern border of Dali.

For major towns including the city, choose this road more, because although the other two post roads are wider, almost every post station along the way is overcrowded. Don't even think about going in. Every year, there are many officials and gentry who don't know this way, so they lose face.

Scholars from the south who came to Beijing to take the exam, because they are not yet official, prefer to choose this post road. They often go in twos and threes, so that they can take care of each other, the scenery along the way is beautiful, and they can also visit the secluded and immortal together.

The officials who were relegated to the south were depressed and unwilling, and liked to write poems on the walls of post stations and inns, and they also liked to take this road to the south.After coming and going, the walls of the pillow post in Hongzhu Town are filled with poems written by literati and poets complaining.

Li Baoping raised his head and began to look for books, glancing here and there, all depending on his mood, occasionally took out a book, opened a few pages at random, and put it back if he was not interested, the little girl finally found a book of landscape travel, priced at three Baiwenqian felt a little distressed, but he really liked it, so he turned his head to look at the little uncle, and Chen Pingan nodded with a smile.

Lin Shouyi's eyes flicked slowly across the wall of books, orderly, from right to left, from top to bottom, every time he picked up a book and flipped through it, he must have started from the title page.The young man finally took a fancy to an unauthorized Feng Shui book, which was priced at [-] Wen.Lin Shouyi looked at Chen Pingan, who still nodded.

After Li Huai arrived at the shop, he finally lost the hustle and bustle of the street, and immediately recovered his stubborn nature, just like a wild horse. He was the youngest and the shortest, and he had to sit on A Liang's shoulder to pick books, and A Liang agreed. , but threatened that if Li Huai didn't choose one, he would be left alone on the street when he left the shop.As a result, Li Huai bit the bullet and picked a brand new book at the top, with a price tag of nine taels and two dollars. When he saw the price, Li Huai was so frightened that he was about to throw the book there, but he was in a hurry, and the book was not successfully inserted. Returning to the bookshelf, it fell to the ground instead.

The young shopkeeper who tapped on the folding fan opened his eyes, looked at the book that had fallen to the ground, and said angrily, "I'll buy it and leave it. The latest edition of "Broken Water Cliff" costs nine taels."

Li Huai didn't dare to talk back to a stranger at all, so he had to look sadly at Chen Pingan, who asked, "Will you read it if you buy it?"

Li Huai nodded vigorously.

Chen Ping smiled and nodded, "Then buy it."

A Liang asked: "Chen Pingan, don't you buy a copy yourself?"

Chen Pingan, who was taking out the money, quickly shook his head and said, "I haven't read all the words yet, what are you doing buying books?"

Zhu He turned his head and asked his daughter, "Is there any book you want?"

Zhu Lu stood at the door of the store without moving, glanced sideways at the book wall, and shook his head.

The young shopkeeper, who was about to collect the money, stood up, tied his hair with an ebony hairpin, and held a folding fan with snow-white fan bones. He glanced at the little girl in the red padded jacket and the stern boy, and finally looked at the child timidly holding "Broken Water Cliff", smiling. Interesting.

Aaron grinned.

Leaving the bookstore and walking towards Guanshui Street, Zhu He's heart moved. He looked back and found the handsome young man leaning against the doorpost, watching them leave. After seeing Zhu He, the man nodded with a smile regards.

Zhu He turned his head, frowned, walked out of the alley, and walked quickly to the man in the bamboo hat, "Senior Ah Liang, is the owner of the bookstore weird?"

A Liang helped the bamboo hat, and said something really weird, "Compared to this guy, the real trouble is yet to come, but it has nothing to do with you."

----

The Okinawa River is the most turbulent, with many hidden reefs and dangerous shoals, and is famous for its wonders. In one section of the river, large and small stone pillars protrude from the water surface. Grown-up boatmen who are familiar with water do not dare to take a boat into the water easily, unless they are literati who come here admiringly, and spend a lot of money to hire them, they will travel.That's why there is a white paper boat and iron boatman saying that every year, boatmen and foreigners die in the stone forest waterway of the Okinawa River.

It's just that there are many tourists on the Okinawa River in the twilight tonight.

The turbulent river was pounding against the stone pillars. A topless man sat on top of a stone pillar and gently threw an empty jug into the river. There were three unopened jugs beside him.

In the distance, a red light is getting closer and closer. It turns out that there is a rickety old man carrying a big red lantern, using stone pillars as steps to wade in, and darting toward the water.

Suddenly, a majestic figure descended from the sky and stepped on the top of a stone pillar. The solid stone under his feet was overwhelmed and instantly turned into dust. He stood like that in the river.

In the river water, there is a middle-aged woman going up against the current and strolling in the courtyard. Three feet above her head, there are snow-white beads the size of a fist floating, shining brightly, and the bottom of the river is as bright as day.

The woman said lazily and boredly: "Walking more than 100 miles of water, I can't pick up even half of the treasure. Who told me that there are flower heads under the Okinawa River?"

The drinking man sitting on the top of the stone pillar glanced at the bottom of the water and said calmly, "Your Excellency is already in Hongzhu Town."

Waving the bright red lantern, the old man laughed hoarsely and said, "Your Excellency actually went out in person? Then what do you need the four of us to do? Watch a show with a bench?"

The man took a sip of his wine and said in a deep voice, "I hope so."