"I understand. You invite him to the west living room. I'll meet him here."
"Okay~"
Uncle Song walked out of the concierge only for a moment and led Xu Xiake into the west living room. He stood under the corridor to shake off the cold air, opened the curtain and stepped into the living room.
"Hey, Brother Xu, didn't you say you wanted to go back to Qinling? Why did you come to Fengtian?"
Song Siyuan looked at Xu Xiake at this time. He was still wearing the same thin white clothes inside, and a black sheepskin jacket on the outside, with a large woolen cap. His fairy spirit was gone. If his face was not still fair, he would look like this There is no difference between the salesmen who go to Fengtian to buy goods. Their noses are red from the cold and they keep rubbing their hands to keep themselves warm.
Xu Xiake was obviously a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said with a smile: "I'm ashamed to say it. A few days ago, I sent Zen Master Gu Ming and Jingkong on the train. Knowing that they didn't have much money, I spent my only one hundred dollars on them. All the oceans are left to them, and the poor and the rich will have more money at least."
"In this case, I don't have enough money to go back to Shaanxi, and I can't go very far with the few yuan in my pocket. Since I'm desperate, I just came to Fengtian to have a look. I think your brother is from the Fengtian Public Security Bureau. You guys My family must be very rich, it would be better if they could support me a little."
After Xu Xiake finished speaking, he laughed a few times embarrassedly.
"It's not much money, but there are a lot of houses. You can temporarily stay in Song's house for a few days."
Song Siyuan's quirky eyes were full of smiles, and she waved to him before she finished speaking: "Why are you still standing there, come here and warm yourself by the fire."
"Farewell, I have to go back to Qinling in the next few days. I don't dare to stay outside anymore."
Seeing that Song Siyuan wanted to keep him for a few days, Xu Xiake hurriedly declined.
"Brother Xu, let me tell you this, we have to go to Shaanxi in a few days, so why don't we stay together."
Before Song Siyuan finished speaking, Xu Xiake's eyes widened: "Song Qianjin, please stop teasing me. What are you doing in Shaanxi?"
"I can't tell you this. I'm just telling you that we are going to Shaanxi in a few days. It's absolutely true."
Xu Xiake saw Song Qianjin repeatedly insisting that he wanted to go to Shaanxi. He looked at Yue Guanchao and saw him nodding in acquiescence, with a smile on his face: "That's great, I will accompany you to the end."
After saying that, he took off his dirty clothes and sat by the copper stove. He warmed his hands and put them on his nose. When his body was soaked with heat, he started talking again: "Do you have anything to eat? I'm going to town today to sell briquettes." We came in a donkey cart, but the wild donkey was slow and stubborn along the way, hungry, sleepy and afraid to sleep, which was really frustrating."
"Uncle Song, go to the stove and ask the master to bring him a bowl of shredded pork noodles and two steamed buns."
The kitchen is in the corner of the outer courtyard, not far from the west living room. Xu Xiake thought he was starving. When he heard Uncle Song's footsteps, he quickly stood up and opened the cotton curtain. When he walked through the threshold, he immediately took it and put it on his lap for a while. Suck it, I want to lick the bowl clean.
"Slow down, no one will compete with you."
After Xu Xiake finished eating two steamed buns, he burped. After eating and drinking, his mind finally became clearer. They started their trip to Shaanxi and became curious: "Song Qianjin, Shaanxi is thousands of miles away from the northeast. You guys have to travel so far." What’s the point of the long distance?”
Yue Guanchao looked at Song Siyuan. They were not familiar with Xu Xiake so far, and it was not convenient to talk to him too much, so they had to deal with it first: "We must have something to do when we go to Qinling Mountains. It will probably be in the next few days when we prepare." We'll set off when we're done, and we'll just keep company together then, and you won't need to pay for the trip."
"Then I've got a big advantage. It's at least four thousand miles from Northeast to Guanzhong. How are you going to get there? By car or something?"
Xu Xiake stopped the two of them by asking. They had been busy sorting out information these past few days and had not had time to think about this question.
"What's your suggestion? Daozhang Xu, how did you come to Guanzhong in the first place?" Song Siyuan threw the topic back again, wanting to know the best way to get to Guanzhong, and asked him which one from Shaanxi was the most suitable.
When Xu Xiake saw them asking this question, he already understood what they were thinking and immediately changed his attitude:
"Well, there's something to be said for this. You Taoist priests are really wrong. In fact, I'm just a registered disciple of Chongxu Guan. To be precise, I'm half a Taoist. I said a few days ago that I came out this time because of My master asked me to go down the mountain for a routine tour. He said that he would not formally confer the nun until he was sure that I had a connection with Taoism. In the past year, I traveled south from the Qinling Mountains to the Sichuan Plain, traveled across the Lingnan Mountains, traveled to the south of the Yangtze River, and asked about the Central Plains. The capital came out of Shanhaiguan and came to the outside of the customs!"
"If you ask me to consider it, I would definitely choose the train. Apart from the train, there is no car, sedan or horse that can take you across thousands of miles. This is only a straight-line distance and does not include detours in mountainous areas. Now that the railways of the Republic of China have been rolled out, Hu The nine-province thoroughfare in Jianghan City has a direct railway to Guanzhong. We can go to Jianghan from the northeast first, and then transfer to Xijing, Shaanxi Province. This is the most convenient."
