In Gu Long's books, no matter how unknown or small a town is, there will always be two things missing.
Women who sell flesh and blood and taverns and hotels where you can get drunk.
Because men in the world need these two things, either to numb themselves or to relax.
Su Yang was still wearing the ordinary linen clothes, with the all-too-common green steel sword stuck diagonally in his waist, standing on the street of the nameless town.
Diagonally opposite is an inn. You can drink in the lobby of the inn and stay in the backyard. Although it is not as impressive as the Fengyun Inn, it is still a decent place in the small town.
Although Su Yang didn't know the name of the town where Bai Yujing was staying, he remembered who owned the inn where Bai Yujing was staying.
Although Fang Longxiang was not a top person in the world, he was by no means unknown. Several people in Fengyun Inn immediately knew about this town and came with Su Yang.
There were quite a few people on the street today.
A hunchback with a tattered felt hat on his head and a tattered cotton robe on his body was sitting and dozing in the spring sunshine.
There is a big ginkgo tree at the entrance of the alley, and under the tree there is a vendor pushing a cart selling lotus root starch. He is pouring a pot of boiling water into the lotus root starch in the bowl.
There were several people standing next to the lotus root starch stall. One person was holding freshly brewed lotus root starch, squatting under the tree, sipping slowly, but his eyes seemed to be peeking into the main hall of the inn.
In the lobby of the inn, there is a woman. Judging from her back, she should be very young. Not only is she young, but she also has a great figure.
A policeman wearing a red tassel hat and a green soap coat was walking slowly from the other end of the alley, walked under the tree, and actually bought a bowl of lotus root starch to eat.
Su Yang was also holding a bowl of lotus root powder and sipping it. Su Yang would never refuse something that cost nothing and could fill his stomach.
"Brother Zhao, your craftsmanship with lotus root noodles is quite good. If you stop working on the street in the future, you will definitely make a lot of money by opening a lotus root noodle shop." Su Yang finished a bowl, handed the empty bowl back, and said with a smile: "
one more bowl."
The lotus root noodle boss said expressionlessly: "The first bowl of lotus root noodle from Taihang Mountain is free, and the second bowl costs 200 silver."
"So I said you will make a fortune even if you open a lotus root noodle shop."
Su Yang put down the bowl and said with a smile: "Do you think you can hide it from Bai Yujing by dressing up like this?"
Another guy who was drinking lotus root starch shook his head and asked, "What better way do you have?"
Su Yang smiled: "Go directly to him."
The lotus root noodle boss and several people around him stared at Su Yang as if they had seen a ghost. After a moment, they said in a sarcastic tone: "Then you go ahead."
"good."
Su Yang nodded and really turned around.
There were not many people in the lobby of the inn. Strictly speaking, there was only one table. A woman had her back to Su Yang. Opposite her, a young man sat. He looked handsome, with two sword-shaped eyebrows inserted into his temples, and a face that looked like a sculpture.
It's stylish, but gives people a gentle feeling.
There is also a sword on the man's waist. It has an ordinary scabbard, an ordinary sword tassel, and an ordinary swallow. It is even older than Su Yang's green steel sword.
But this sword is anything but ordinary, it should be called the Sword of Eternal Life.
The combination of handsome men and beautiful women is common everywhere.
It's just that they were drinking, and they were drinking from sea bowls, one bowl after another. From the time Su Yang entered the door to the time he walked to the table, he had already seen them drinking two large bowls.
Seeing a stranger suddenly appear, the beautiful woman subconsciously raised her head and asked, "Who are you?"
When she raised her head, the woman was stunned, and Su Yang was also stunned.
Seeing the front of this woman, Su Yang realized that he was wrong. She was not beautiful, but very beautiful. She was so beautiful that he was willing to spend all his fifty taels of silver just looking at her for three days in a row.
She was actually the mistress of the small courtyard where she lived when she first entered the world of ancient dragons.
Su Yang seemed not to see anyone in front of him, so he sat down and took an empty bowl from the table, and finally filled the bowl with wine.
The young man looked at Su Yang with interest and said nothing.
Su Yang said nothing, drank a bowl of wine, and then asked the woman with a smile: "You don't know me?"
The woman's pretty snow-white face had already turned an ambiguous pink color due to drinking. Her face changed slightly when she heard this. Her big watery eyes glanced at the young man opposite, and then she bit her lip and whispered softly: "I don't know you. And...
Your method of seducing girls is too old-fashioned, and couldn’t you see that there is already a man sitting opposite me, a very handsome and powerful man."
Su Yang raised the bowl, smiled at Bai Yujing, and drank a bowl.
Bai Yujing drank the whole bowl without saying a word.
The woman seemed to have just seen Su Yang's sword at this time, and suddenly realized: "I understand, you are here to compete with him! But I advise you not to do this."
Su Yang looked at Bai Yujing. Bai Yujing shook his head and smiled bitterly, but didn't say anything. Instead, he filled her head again and took the lead.
Su Yang did it again.
The woman's face was full of excitement. She was obviously talking to Su Yang, but her eyes were looking at Bai Yujing with admiration: "Did you know that he met three very powerful martial arts masters on the way here and rode past him?
When I was with you, I took away his sword."
"Then Brother Bai continued walking as if nothing was wrong. After a while, the three masters turned back and respectfully returned the sword to Brother Bai?" Su Yang said first.
"How do you know? Do you know how to count?" The woman's eyes widened.
"Of course I know." Su Yang glanced at Bai Yujing's sword and said with a smile, "Even if Boss Qinglong takes the Sword of Eternal Life, he will take the initiative to send it back."
The woman nodded heavily and said in a positive tone: "So I advise you not to compete with him, you will definitely not be able to defeat him!"
After saying that, her eyes became charming, she lowered her head and murmured: "Actually, you are a pretty good man, but it's a pity that I met him first, so you'd better go."
Su Yang believed that if the person sitting next to him was not Bai Yujing, but any of the red-haired Lao Miao, White Horse Zhang San, and Taihang Zhao Yidao, they would have already started fighting against him.
At least one-third of the fights in the world are caused by beautiful women. It would be even more serious if this woman deliberately instigated them.
But Bai Yujing is not them, Zhang San, Li, Si Wang and Er Mazi, Bai Yujing is Bai Yujing.
He finally opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Okay, Miss Yuan, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink with you today."
"Why, you promised that someone must get drunk today." When Miss Yuan said this, her face suddenly turned red.
Between a man and a woman, no matter who is drunk, something can happen.
"Because I know what he is here for."
"Isn't it a martial arts competition?" Miss Yuan asked.
Bai Yujing laughed loudly, pointed at the wine jar that was already mostly empty, and said, "He's here to drink from me."
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There are all kinds of cute and hateful women in Gu Long's novels, but I don't like this girl Yuan very much. In Sword of Eternal Life, I felt that she did take advantage of Bai Yujing's feelings.
