Sword of Coming

The deputy relay station informs everyone that there is no night ban in Red Light Town. There is a Market in the west of the town. Although the sparrow is small and dirty, there are all kinds of groceries for myriad.Knowing that the Chen Ping entire group was going to purchase the items needed for the study tour, the relay station deputy 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 overcharge the price. Chen Ping looked forward to visiting Red Light Town once. Ah Liang, a man with a hat, nodded, said that he is only familiar with the scenery of the river 5 and has never been to the Market.

The relay station deputy looked at Ah Liang, two old men, with a knowing smile.

Expanding Water Bay Nearly 100 boats of various sizes, they will sail out of the water bay every night and follow the river to enter Red Light Town. After a round trip, they will return to Expanding Water Bay. During this period, men will continue to board the painting boats, both drunk and bought. laugh.

In Red Light Town, the Expanding Water Bay boat girl and the other brothel girls, although both are of the Great Li Dynasty, but the former has always been the Capital Official Brothel who is directly responsible for the household registration management, not even the County Magistrate, who is a parent official. Qualifications will change the status of a woman in a boat from cheap to good.Therefore, there have been rumors in Red Light Town that the ancestors of the 5 surnames of Expanding Water Bay were the younger generations of the Imperial Family and the younger generation of the Divine Water Dynasty.

Under the lead of the local tyrant relay station deputy Cheng Sheng, Chen Ping and the others went to the market west of the town. The more they went to the west, the street was full of people, and they learned that Red Light Town would go south by boat for 2 100 li or so. There are town stations along the way to supply supplies. Chen Ping gave up some ideas and did not buy too much food such as rice and bacon. However, in a drug store, he added a lot of ointments and medicine ingredients to deal with minor illnesses such as wind, cold, heatstroke, and injuries. Minor disaster.When it was time to spend money, Chen Ping realized that it was similar to a small town in his hometown. A whole silver ingot was a rarity, so he converted those 2 ingots of fine silver into Great Li Dynasty general copper coins, Tianhua ingots, because he had It is the best-looking silver, and the premium alone is as high as 2 100 cents, which makes Chen Ping very grateful to the beautiful girl in the blacksmith shop.

Because there is a relay station deputy Cheng Sheng by the side, everything goes smoothly. In counties and small towns, really don’t treat subordinates as officials, especially Cheng Sheng, who often deals with gentry and brigade officials throughout the year. In the eyes of the 100 surname, that is the big shot of Heavenspan.Therefore, in every shop Chen Ping they walked into, they all kept on saying, eagerly calling Master Cheng, and they wished to enshrine this master relay station deputy as Bodhisattva.

Along the way, Li Huai was very cautious, almost just daring to hide behind Ah Liang, stick one’s head around to look for, Ah Liang jokes that he is timid and can only be stubborn. Li Huai just opened his voice and wanted to fight with Ah Liang for 300 rounds, but when all around cast a curious sight, Li Huai immediately bowed his head, followed Ah Liang in a state of illness, and made Ah Liang too happy, from time to time. With a slap on Li Huai’s head, the child dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and was very aggrieved.

Lin Shouyi is still a matter of no concern to oneself with a high-hanging indifferent appearance. It is estimated that the young man is walking on the Capital Royal Road now, which is also the virtue.

Only Li Baoping carried her jade green bamboo box on his back, like a crab running rampant, with his head raised up and his chest raised, wishing that someone on the side of the road would just tell him that his little book box was made by Little Master-uncle. of.

The Market consists of two north-south streets. After visiting Gazing Mountain Street, Chen Ping and they will go through the alley to the next Rivergaze Street. They passed by a bookstore in the alley, and the relay station deputy Cheng led the way. Sheng went straight forward, but Chen Ping stopped. After greeted the relay station deputy, he said with a smile to Li Baoping 2 people: “One person can buy a book. No matter how expensive it is, as long as we affordable.”

The shop is small and the door is no more than two zhang wide. After entering, there are 2 rows of high book walls on the left and right. At the bottom of the shop, there is a youngster wearing a black gown sitting on a small bamboo chair with 2 legs slanted. , Was closing her eyes and rested her mind, holding a folded fan in her hand, tapping the palm of her hand lightly, humming a small song.

The young shopkeeper has a handsome and feminine face, without the copper stench of the merchants before.

After seeing the young girl Zhu Lu for the first time, she was stunned. It was probably that she didn’t expect to meet such a refined character in the Marketplace Lane of Red Light Town.

After the land master of Qidun Mountain got rid of the shackles, he regained his status as a deity. He changed from a white clothed short old man to an expensive Young Master like a jade tree. But in the heart of the girl, for Wei Bo, it is more sloppy. Sloppy and unbearable image.But the Young Master in front of me, the first impression it gives is too vivid.

Even Zhu He is suspicious. Isn’t this person a son of a wealthy family?Compared to the two Young Masters of his own, it is not bad.

Youngster didn’t open his eyes, and Lazily said, “There is no bargaining for books in the store. Whether you buy or lose money in the future depends on the eyesight of the guests.”

Relay station deputy Cheng Sheng and Zhu He whispered: “This shop has a small reputation in our Red Light Town. Most of the scholars who pass by here like to visit here once, but the owner has a strange temper, and all the books sold are much higher than The market price, and whoever dared to bargain, he dared to punish people on the spot, with a high temperament and not versed in general affairs. Once there was a household officer Lord who visited privately on the WeChat account, he stayed in the pillow post of this lowly one, and that Lord was just like that. I got a copy of 300 silver taels, but it was a counter-offer of 5 10 silver taels, so I was kicked out of the shop, and he didn’t leave any face. The officer Lord was so angry that he returned to the post and did not fight the fire. Ya sealed up this small shop, probably because it felt that the reputation spread out was not good enough to let this shop escape.”

Zhu He knew in his heart that he was mostly an inexperienced rotten scholar, the kind of person his Second Young Master likes to ridicule the most, and he called him the usual idle talk temperament, and he would report to the king in the face of danger. Second Young Master smiled and couldn’t tell about 200 years, and so will the Great Li Dynasty.

So Zhu He has always had a bad impression of Scholar outside.

This post road passing by Red Light Town is one of the three main post roads from the southern border of the Great Li Dynasty to the Capital. It is a small, rich and noble merchant. If you go north to a major city including Great Li Dynasty Capital, choose this one more. Road, because the other two post roads are wider, but almost every post on the way is crowded. There are not enough government officials and Military School of Thought. Don’t even think about staying at the gate. There are many officials and gentry who do not understand this, so they lose face.

The southern scholars who came to Beijing to rush for the exam, because they did not have official status, often like to choose this post road, often in small groups, they can take care of each other, the scenery along the way is beautiful, and they can also visit the immortals together.

The officials who were relegated to the south were depressed, and liked to write poems on the walls of post stations and hostels, and they also liked to take this road to the south.Once I went, the wall of the pillow post in Red Light Town was filled with poems and poems about literati and sorrows.

Li Baoping raised his head and started looking for a book. I took a glance here and there, depending on my mood. I took out a book occasionally, flipped through a few pages, and put it back when I was not interested. The little girl finally found a landscape travel book with a price tag of 300 texts. Qian, a little distressed, but really like it, so he turned his head and looked at Little Master-uncle, Chen Ping smiled nodded.

Lin Shouyi’s gaze swept across the wall of the book slowly, orderly, from right to left, from top to bottom, every time he scrolled through a book, he must have started from the title page.The boy finally fancyed a Feng Shui book with no author at the price of 400 yuan. Lin Shouyi looked at Chen Ping, who was still nodded.

After Li Huai arrived at the shop, he finally disappeared from the hustle and bustle on the street, and immediately regained his stubborn nature, just like a wild horse. He was the youngest and the shortest. He had to sit on Ah Liang’s shoulders and raise upwards. Ah Liang agreed. , But threatened that if Li Huai didn’t choose one, he would leave him on the street when he left the shop.As a result, Li Huai brace oneself picked a brand new book at the highest price. It was priced at 9 2 2 yuan. When I looked at the price, Li Huai was sneaky and was about to throw the book over, but he was in a hurry, and the book was not successfully returned. The bookshelf fell to the ground instead.

The young shopkeeper tapping the folding fan eyes opened, looking at the book that fell to the ground, said ill-humoredly: “place your bets and hands off the table, the latest edition of “Cutting Water Great Cliff”, 9 2 2 .”

Li Huai didn’t dare to talk back to a stranger at all, so she cried out and looked at Chen Ping cautiously, who asked, “Will you see it if you buy it?”

Li Huai was nodded hard.

Chen Ping nodded with a smile said: “Then buy it.”

Ah Liang asked: “Chen Ping, don’t you buy a copy yourself?”

Chen Ping, who was paying for it, shook his head quickly and said, “I haven’t recognized all of my words yet, what do I do with the book.”

Zhu He turned around and asked his daughter, “Do you have a book you want?”

Zhu Lu always stood at the door of the store without moving, glanced at the book wall obliquely, shook the head.

The young shopkeeper who was about to collect the money stood up, with an ebony hairpin tied in his hair, holding a fan-bone snow-white folding fan, his eyes passed the little girl in the red cotton-padded jacket and the cold boy, and finally looked at the timid child holding “Cutting Water Great Cliff”. It’s funny.

Ah Liang grinned.

Leaving the bookstore and heading towards Rivergaze Street, Zhu He moved his mind. Looking back, he found that the good-looking youngster was leaning against the doorpost and was watching them leave. After seeing Zhu He, the man still nodded with a smile. .

Zhu He turned his head and was frowned. After leaving the alley, he walked quickly to the man in the hat, “Senior Ah Liang, is the bookstore owner weird?”

Ah Liang helped the hat and said a genuine weird saying, “Compared to this guy, the real trouble is still to come, but it has nothing to do with you.”

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The Tranquil Clash River has the most turbulent water flow, many submerged reefs and shoals, and it is famous for its wonders. One section of the river has large and small stone pillars protruding from the water surface. It is known as spring shoots after the rain. Only a flat boat can shuttle between the stone forest. The boatman who grew up on the riverside and is familiar with water will not dare to get into the water easily, unless he is a literati who comes here and spends a lot of money to hire him.Therefore, there is another white paper boat and iron man who said that every year there will be boatmen and outlanders who die in the stone forest waterway of the Tranquil Clash River.

It’s just that Tranquil Clash River in the twilight tonight, there are many tourists.

The turbulent river water hits the stone pillars that emerge from the water. A topless man sits on top of a stone pillar, gently throwing an empty jug into the river, and there are 3 unopened wines beside him. pot.

In the distance, a red light was getting closer and closer. It turned out that a rickety old man was holding a big red lantern with the stone pillar as the step of wading. The dragonfly touches the water lightly, and it came over.

Suddenly, a majestic silhouette dropping from the sky, stepping on the top of a stone pillar, overwhelmed by the solid rock under his feet, instantly turned into powder, and he stood just like that in the river.

In the river, there is a middle-aged woman walking up against the current and strolling in the courtyard. A fist-sized Snow-White Pearl floats 3 feet above her head, which shines brightly, reflecting the river bottom as bright as day.

The woman was lazy and bored: “I have walked more than 100 miles of waterway, and I can’t pick up half of my baby. Who told me that there are flower heads under Tranquil Clash River?”

The drinking man sitting at the top of the stone pillar glanced at the bottom of the water, and said calmly, “My lord is already in Red Light Town.”

The old man shook the bright red lantern, his voice hoarse said with a smile: “The adult actually went out in person? What do we need to do with the four of us? Do you want to watch the show on the bench?”

The man took a sip and said solemnly: “I hope so.”