When Feiyun and Liangchen came to Meijing, Meijing scolded: "Why are you so slow? I have already ordered the dishes. If you are not satisfied after the dishes are served, you can order them yourself." Liangchen smiled and said: "Our taste, You also know that I believe you won’t just order your favorite dishes.”
Meimei deliberately said: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, I forgot what food you like to eat!" Feiyun and Liangchen knew that Meimei was joking, so they just smiled at her and didn't argue with her, and sat next to her respectively.
Not long after Feiyun sat down, the waiter brought tea. Liangchen then asked: "Brother, it's dinner time now, why are there so few guests?" The waiter replied: "Is this your first time here, girl? She doesn't know. It's the busy farming season, and most people are here." When working in the fields, there is nowhere to go out. There are only some transactions of buying and selling mountain products, so there are naturally no customers." The waiter saw that Liangchen was young, beautiful, gentle and kind, so he was very enthusiastic.
Liangchen smiled slightly and said: "My second brother has a good eye. We heard that the scenery on the south mountain here is very beautiful, so we wanted to enjoy it. I wonder how far it is from here?"
The waiter said: "Then you have come at the right time. The scenery on Nanshan Mountain is the most beautiful time of the year. It is about fifty or sixty miles from Nanshan Mountain. If you hurry up, you should be able to reach the foot of the mountain before dark. Tomorrow. You can go up the mountain and enjoy the beautiful scenery.”
This guy probably didn't have many customers recently, so he was very enthusiastic. Liangchen asked casually, and he replied several times. Liangchen saw that he liked to chatter, and was secretly happy. Such a person can't stop talking, and he must know that he will say anything.
Liangchen asked again: "Are there many people going to see the scenery now?" The waiter said: "People nearby are very familiar with Nanshan, so naturally they don't go to see the scenery. Only city people can hardly see such scenery, so they often Travel together.”
Liangchen said "Oh" and continued to ask: "Has a group of people passed by here today?" The waiter thought for a while and said: "More than an hour ago, a group of people did pass by. But it was not meal time at that time. Then they rode on horseback and drove the carriage straight through the town without stopping.”
Liangchen smiled and said, "I think it's a pity that the second brother couldn't do the business of dozens of them!" The boy said a little embarrassedly, "The girl is so awesome, you can see through even this little thought."
Liangchen smiled slightly and said: "This is human nature. If it were me, I would also feel it is a pity. Brother, how many people are there?"
The clerk recalled it and said, "About thirty or forty people! Hey, why is the girl interested in these people?" Liangchen sighed and said, "We originally made an appointment with others to go outing in Nanshan together. But because we were temporarily Something happened and the time was delayed. Those friends set off first, and we chased them all the way, but failed to catch up. When I heard you say it just now, I was thinking that they might be our friends, so I couldn't help but ask a few more questions. "
The clerk quickly said: "That's it. It's just that those people all carry swords and they seem to be people who often travel around the world. The carriages they drive are very luxurious. They should belong to wealthy families. I wonder if they are your friends?"
The three people in Feiyun were overjoyed. It seemed that these people were Wang Hai's group. They didn't expect that the news would come out without any effort. Liangchen said hurriedly: "Our friend is a kid from a rich family, and those people with weapons are his family's servants. We are afraid of encountering bandits, so we travel with them."
The waiter said: "That's true. There used to be no robbers in Nanshan, but recently I heard that there was some unrest in Nanshan. A group of people occupied a Taoist temple and refused to let others in." Liangchen was stunned and asked the waiter to explain. a little.
But the waiter thought that Liangchen and the others were afraid, so they asked so carefully. The waiter quickly comforted Liangchen, saying that although the group did not let people in, they did not hurt anyone. They also gave the Taoist temple a lot of money, which was equivalent to renting the Taoist temple.
Feiyun then asked: "How do you know that group of people gave money to the Taoist temple?" The boy told Feiyun that the Taoist temple was called Changqing Taoist Temple. Although it was not small in size, with twenty or thirty houses, the Taoist priests inside were not many. There were very few Taoist believers nearby, so the Taoist temple did not have much income. The original Taoist priests left one after another, leaving only five old Taoist priests struggling to survive.
More than twenty days ago, a group of people suddenly came and gave Taoist Taoist Taoist Master Qingxu a sum of money to borrow for a period of time. They promised not to cause trouble to the Taoist temple, but they did not want outsiders to enter the temple and disturb them. Changqing Taoist Temple usually doesn’t have many people going there, so Taoist Master Qingxu naturally agreed. In the past twenty days, Taoist priests from the Taoist temple often went down the mountain with the group to purchase daily supplies. The two parties seemed to get along well, but when others asked about the origins of this group, the Taoist priests kept silent.
Liangchen asked carefully about the situation of the Taoist temple and the route to the Taoist temple. Then she asked the guys to prepare the meal and they had to catch up with their friends as quickly as possible. The waiter agreed, turned around and left, going to the kitchen in the back.
After a while, the food was served. Feiyun and the others finished their meal quickly, and after settling the bill, they gave the waiter another ingot of silver. After all, this guy inadvertently provided important clues to Feiyun and the others, so Feiyun would not treat him badly. The waiter was overjoyed and respectfully sent Feiyun and the others out of the restaurant.
Feiyun and the other three left the restaurant and left the town. Feiyun glanced at Liangchen Meimei and said: "It seems that the group of people occupying the Taoist temple are extremely mysterious, and may have something to do with Wang Hai." Liangchen said, "I'm afraid this matter is not that simple. We can only be sure when we get to the Taoist temple."
Meimei was impatient and said impatiently: "What else do you want to think about? It's the right thing to get to the Taoist temple as soon as possible!" Feiyun and Liangchen looked at each other and smiled, agreeing with Meimei's opinion. The three men immediately galloped southward with their horses and whips raised.
The three of them hurriedly drove all the way for about two hours, and arrived at the foot of Nanshan Mountain that the waiter mentioned before sunset. There is only one small mountain village at the foot of the mountain, where twenty or thirty families live. These people's houses are not close together, but scattered sparsely.
The roofs of these houses are all covered with thatch, and they don't seem to be very wealthy. Some houses are separated by trees, and some have vegetable gardens or paths in the middle. There are various fruit trees planted around the house, some are peach trees with red flowers, some plum trees with white flowers, and some flower trees that Feiyun and the others don't recognize.
From a distance, you can see flowers of various colors including red, white, yellow and so on everywhere in the mountain village. This colorful spring scenery is pleasing to the eye and refreshing.
The three of them admired it for a while, then dismounted and led the horse into the village on foot, looking for an inn. But after walking around, I didn't see an inn.
