Are the rivers and lakes far away?
Not far.
It's all around.
Is Jianghu very close?
not close.
You can't see its shore at a glance.
Li Chenan originally had great expectations for Jianghu.
But at this moment, he suddenly realized that this expectation was just like going to the ends of the earth in his previous life...the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.
Wouldn't it be better to stay in a warm room?
Even if you are traveling, sitting in an airtight carriage with a charcoal fire burning, soft cushions, warm blankets, and that pleasing girl beside you... wouldn't this be more comfortable?
But now?
The wind is as strong as a knife.
The sky was filled with wind and snow.
It seemed to be pouring out endless anger, slashing the vast earth crazily.
It seemed as if everything in the world was going to be chopped into pieces, destroyed, and then buried in this crazy snow.
Don't say that this is the New Year's Day. Even on weekdays, in such bad weather, there are few pedestrians on the official road.
But today, on this official road from Guangling City to Pingjiang City, in the midst of the violent snowstorm, five riders came facing the wind and snow.
Of course they are Li Chenan and his party.
Five horses, five strong, snow-white horses!
Five people, five men in black clothes and windbreaker hats with half of their faces covered!
But there was one horse with no one on it.
There happened to be two people riding on a horse!
Xiao Baozi has never ridden a horse, but she has ridden a donkey.
It only took her half a day's journey to learn how to ride a horse.
Li Chenan has never ridden a horse before.
He also spent half a day on foot...and then gave up riding alone.
He and Xiao Baozi rode together.
He was right behind Xiao Baozi.
He hugged Xiao Baozi's waist tightly and hid his face behind Xiao Baozi——
The wind is strong.
The snow is heavy.
With Xiao Baozi blocking him in front, he felt it was more comfortable.
It's just that the horse ran very fast, which made his butt hurt.
He suddenly trembled and sneezed again.
He never thought that someone was cursing him and cutting him to pieces in his heart.
He just felt that even this was cold.
The world is so bad!
The world of martial arts is not that easy to mess around with.
But this is just the beginning.
So, his hands hugged Xiao Baozi's waist tighter.
This made Xiao Baozi's heart tremble slightly.
She is very sensitive.
Luckily it was winter, so I had plenty to wear.
But even so, she couldn't bear it.
She is not cold.
She has a fever!
"Hello……!"
Xiao Baozi turned around and roared, and Li Chenan raised his head in excitement.
"Are you comfortable?"
"……good!"
"Don't hug me too tightly!"
Xiao Baozi's voice was very low for these four words. The horse was running fast and the wind and snow were heavy, so Li Chenan didn't hear them clearly.
"What did you say?"
He asked in a loud voice.
Xiao Baozi couldn't yell back like this, could he?
"Are you going to give up and go back?"
"……No!"
Xiao Baozi pursed his lips and smiled, this stubborn cow!
Good.
Because I am stubborn, I will not give up easily.
A group of people galloped on horseback in the wind and snow. At about noon, they arrived at a small town.
The town is small.
The name of the town is Huangping Town.
Two rows of low and dilapidated houses are on both sides of the official road. They are not long, only about thirty feet.
They slowed down the streets of the town.
Let the horse move forward slowly.
Not long after, they stopped in front of a slightly nicer inn.
Amu looked back at Li Chenan, who nodded.
The five people dismounted, Li Chenan raised his eyes and saw the broken flagpole fluttering in the wind and snow.
The four characters "Yelai Inn" are faintly visible on Liexun's flag.
Li Chenan grinned.
It seems that Yuelai Inn can be found everywhere.
He walked into the inn, where there was only a waiter-like person taking a nap around the stove.
They sat at a table, and Li Chenan shouted, "Waiter, serve the wine!"
The waiter who was taking a nap was startled, as if he had been awakened from a sweet dream, and his face was full of displeasure.
He glanced at Li Chenan and the others, but was not frightened by the fact that these people were dressed in black and masked. People in the arena had seen enough of them, so that was all.
Each of them looks cool, but in fact they don’t have two coins in their pockets.
Far inferior to the merchants.
He stood up reluctantly.
He walked to the table, took off a dark cloth towel from his shoulder, wiped the table nonchalantly and said, "There is only Hua Ping Chun, which is very expensive, ten taels of silver per pound, do you want to drink it?"
Li Chenan was startled and his eyes widened immediately.
When did my Huapingchun sell to such a shabby place?
He was curious, so he took out a piece of silver from his arms and slapped it on the table.
"One pound first!"
When the waiter saw the shining silver, he weighed it in his heart, at least ten taels!
It’s the New Year, this group of people are walking in a hurry, and the white horse outside is fat and strong... O rich man!
A smile suddenly appeared on his face. He leaned over to take out the ingot of silver and asked very casually: "What kind of food will your guest order to go with the wine?"
Li Chenan waved his hand again: "Bring some of your specialty dishes, hurry up, we have to hurry after eating them!"
"Okay! Ten taels of silver!"
"...can't you eat it?"
"No, the rules of the shop are so frightening that the so-called gangsters have tricked them. They drank, ate and ran away. What can we do?"
This makes sense.
Li Chenan took out another ingot of silver.
The waiter immediately took it with a charming smile and asked casually: "I see that you are the young master of a wealthy family... Your horses are all first-class horses. I guess they have run away." It’s a long road, so you should eat some good food...after all, horses are afraid of the cold, right?”
This also makes sense.
"Then you feed my horses too!"
"Okay, ten taels of silver."
"...horse feed is so expensive?"
"Uncle, you don't know, but now the food in Ningguo is at a sky-high price!"
"The feed for this horse is not grass! It is wheat, beans, bean cakes, etc. It is better than the food that many people eat!"
"Besides, this horse eats a lot more than humans!"
This also makes sense.
Li Chenan took out another ten taels of silver from his arms.
The waiter took it, holding three ingots of silver in his hand, and shouted happily to the back: "Boss...he's here for business...big business...!"
A fat man wearing a leather jacket ran in from the backyard like the wind.
The first thing he saw was the three ingots of silver in the little hand.
The first thing he did was to put the three ingots of silver into his arms. Then he looked at Li Chenan and others and grinned:
"Dignified guest!"
"Wait a moment."
"I will prepare a table of delicious food for all our distinguished guests!"
"Zhu Laoliu, why don't you serve the guest wine quickly!"
"Carry the stove to the guest, don't let the distinguished guest freeze!"
A jar of wine was placed on the table.
Li Chenan looked at the wine jar.
There was a piece of red paper pasted on the wine jar, with three big characters crookedly written on the red paper - Hua Ping Chun!
Li Chenan's eyes widened:
"Are you Hua Pingchun?"
The fat boss was cutting up the braised beef quickly. When he heard this, he turned around and smiled, with an honest look on his face: "It's guaranteed to be Hua Pingchun!"
What the hell!
It will cost you some money to fake it!
Huapingchun's jar is not like this.
The three words "Huapingchun" are not stuck on red paper!
It's engraved on the jar!
Still using the word Huamanting!
He patted open the mud seal, and there was no scent of Hua Pingchun's wine at all.
This is the worst quality wine on the street that costs ten cents a pound.
Wang Zhenghaoxuan suddenly laughed.
Amu's cold, knife-like face did not freeze after all, and he said one sentence:
"This is the price of joining the world for the first time!"
"You were defrauded of approximately twenty-eight taels of silver!"
When Xiao Baozi heard this, he was unhappy.
This stupid cow!
I have to get this money back!
Then, her slender eyes looked at the fat boss's back and slowly narrowed her eyes.
