Although Hong Chen had never ridden a horse, he was very strong and had deep internal skills. He held the horse's neck tightly with both hands and sat down very firmly.
It didn't take long for Hong Chen to gradually adapt to the rhythm of the yellow horse. He turned his head to look at Ji Cha next to him, and saw the blue and white robes fluttering, the black hair sliding back and forth on the fair face, and the eyes reflecting the rising sun.
The sun shines like two gems.
Ji Cha noticed Hong Chen's gaze and shouted softly: "Don't look at my face and learn to ride a horse. There is no one like you who hugs the horse's neck like a big monkey."
Xu Shiji Cha's voice was crisp and sweet. Even though he was said to be like a monkey, Hong Chen felt indescribably comfortable. He said "hmm" and followed the example of letting go of the horse's neck, picking up the reins, and suddenly fell asleep.
The oncoming ride was so cool, and the nervousness of riding a horse for the first time disappeared like smoke. I couldn’t help but shout: “It’s so fun to ride a horse.”
"Follow me, there will be many happy things to do - keep up!"
Ji Cha clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and the red horse ran in front of the yellow horse, getting further and further away from Hong Chen.
Hong Chen hurriedly urged the yellow horse: "Run quickly, run quickly." But the yellow horse could not understand what he said. Hong Chen imitated Ji Cha's example, holding the horse's belly between his legs, but the yellow horse still couldn't run any faster.
Seeing Ji Cha and the red horse getting farther and farther away, Hong Chen became anxious and reached out to slap the yellow horse on the butt. As a result, the yellow horse neighed, the frequency of its hoofs suddenly became faster, and he chased after him.
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The two horses galloped with hoofs raised, and before noon, the two of them had arrived at Wuyun City.
Leading the horse and walking on the street, when he passed a cake stall, Hong Chen's stomach suddenly rumbled. Ji Cha grinned and raised his eyebrows, and was about to laugh at him, but his own stomach also made a growling sound, and Hong's expression suddenly became embarrassing.
Chen said: "You are hungry too, I will treat you to some cake."
Ji Cha said: "Do you have money?"
Hong Chen took out two coins from his pocket, shook them and said, "Of course."
At first glance, Ji Cha just wanted to laugh at him because he only had two pennies, fearing that he could only buy half a cake. But when he took a closer look, he saw that the copper plate was a whole circle larger than the others, and the engraving was not the style of copper coins in circulation today.
He took it, observed it carefully for a while, and said: "This coin of yours is a large coin minted more than ten years ago. One penny can be worth three pence today. But this is only enough for one and a half cakes."
Hong Chen was overjoyed at first, and then said a little disappointed: "It's a pity that there were about a hundred of these coins before, but now these two are the only ones left. When buying food and asking for directions, I always count how many coins someone wants, so I just count the coins."
Give it to people. Why don’t they tell me this money is worth more?”
"If you don't take advantage of it, do you think others are fools like you?" Ji Cha stuffed two copper coins into his pocket and said, "This money is very scarce now. Just keep it for me and I'll treat you to a meal."
Don't eat at the cake stall that's been exposed to the wind and soil, I'll take you to eat at the 'Tianlin Inn' in Wuyun City."
Hong Chen asked: "Where is that place?"
Ji Cha said: "Tianlin Inn collects ingredients from Kyushu and makes Kyushu cuisine. It is said that one meal can eat all over the world. The owner is the famous 'Jianghe Gang'. There are only three cities in Yunzhou with Tianlin Inn, and there is one in Wuyun City.
.Let’s go there and book a private room, have a banquet, eat and drink well, sleep well, and then go do some business.”
Hong Chen said: "Are you going to steal again?"
Ji Cha shrugged: "Of course, what do I do as a tea picker?"
Hong Chen asked again: "Is your money stolen? If it was stolen, no matter how good the food at Tianlin Inn is, I won't eat it."
Ji Cha laughed and said, "I am a tea picker who steals knives and swords, clothes and horses, and when the mood strikes, I even steal a pretty girl for fun, but I don't steal money."
Hong Chen said seriously: "Don't lie to me."
"I'll choke to death if I lie to you."
Ji Cha said seriously.
Indeed, I never stole money, but occasionally sold stolen items for money.
The two led their horses and walked for half an hour, and finally arrived at the most prosperous street in Wuyun City. Among the many high-rise buildings, there was a nine-story building with high eaves and gold tiles and red walls that was particularly eye-catching. On the blue plaque was inscribed
Two golden characters - "Heaven comes".
Ji Cha explained to Hong Chen: "The Yu State uses gold and vermilion as noble colors, and using these two colors in ordinary buildings is arrogance. But the Jianghe Gang is a large gang that spans the Three Kingdoms and Nine States. It gives a large amount of tax to the Yu State every year, so the court can
I have tacitly agreed to decorate the Tianlin Inn with gold and vermilion colors."
When he arrived at the entrance of the store and made a gesture of entering, three waiters came out to take care of him. Ji Cha threw a large silver ingot at him and said, "One private room, all the guests from Kyushu will be served. In addition to the deposit, the rest is the tip."
One of the waiters was the first to hold the ingot in his arms and said hurriedly: "Follow me, you two." The remaining two waiters glared at him jealously before leading their horses away.
When we went upstairs, the waiter said: "How many guests do you have to wait for? If you have less than ten guests, you will have a small banquet, and if you have more than ten guests, you will have a large banquet."
Ji Cha said: "We want a big banquet. There are no guests, just the two of us."
The waiter was startled. He stared at the two of them for several seconds, but soon he started laughing again. He thought that this young master was handsome and well-dressed. He must have come from a wealthy family and liked to have peach blossoms on his sleeves.
, it is normal to spend thousands of dollars to buy a young boy’s smile...
After sitting down in a private room on the seventh floor, Ji Cha asked the waiter to go to the kitchen to get some ready-made cold dishes, and the rest of the dinner was cooked slowly. Hong Chen had never been to such a magnificent place. After putting down the bamboo basket, he couldn't help but feel
I looked around at the calligraphy, painting and curios in the private room, touched left and right, and was amazed again and again.
Seeing how he had never seen the world, Ji Cha felt funny and said, "If you've seen enough, sit down and wait for dinner. In addition to Kyushu delicacies, the Kyushu banquet will also serve nine kinds of Kyushu famous wines. Let's take a look at them later."
Taste it again."
Hong Chen shook his head: "Wine is very bitter, so I won't drink it."
Ji Cha asked: "Have you ever drank?"
Hong Chen nodded: "Yes, the shopkeeper treated me to a drink."
Ji Cha thought that he could take the opportunity to find out more information, so he asked a series of questions: "Which shopkeeper is from you? Is he from Taoyuan? What is his name?"
Hong Chen said: "The shopkeeper in Taoyuan is called the shopkeeper. He has no name."
"No name?" Ji Cha didn't believe it. "How is it possible? Don't the people in Taoyuan have names?"
"Yes, all the people in Taoyuan have no names." Hong Chen said, "Maybe they once had names, but after arriving in Taoyuan, none of them have names."
Ji Cha only thought that there was such a strange place in the world. Hong Chen must be deceiving him, but then he thought about it, this guy shouldn't be able to deceive others, so he asked: "Then what do you call each other?"
"Call it whatever you want."
"What kind of casual method?"
"Well, let me give you an example. My master and I live in a bamboo house in the north. People call my master 'the man from the bamboo house' and me 'the disciple of the man from the bamboo house'. The shopkeeper is a restaurant owner, so people call him the shopkeeper."
There was a guy who delivered fish to a restaurant, and he got into a fierce fight. People called him a fish seller."
Ji Chaxin said, "What the hell is this?", still smiling on the surface: "That's really casual. You just said that the people in Taoyuan all came to Taoyuan later? Then where were they before?"
"I don't know... out of all the people in Taoyuan, I am the last one to arrive."
When Hong Chen answered this question, his thoughts suddenly jumped back to more than ten years ago, and many blurry images appeared in his mind.
Refugees, people with knives, blood, crying, hillsides, rolling down...
Then there was a clearer figure - a man with a big belly, a big beard and messy hair, who was also his master and the only person who lived in a bamboo house in Taoyuan.
Ji Cha wanted to ask more questions, but the door to the room suddenly opened, and several waiters and maids walked in pushing a sandalwood cart with many dishes on it.
The color of the food on the plate was attractive. Hong Chen drooled when he saw it. Ji Cha was also very hungry. Before the waiters could bring the dishes, they each took a plate of cold cake to eat. After a while,
Finally, the hot dishes started to be served one after another. There were ninety-nine and eighty-one hot and cold meat and vegetable dishes in the Kyushu banquet. The names of the dishes alone made Hong Chen confused.
Ji Cha ate a chopstick of each dish and was already full when he was halfway through the meal. As for the wine, neither of them drank, and each drank two pots of herbal tea.
After eating and drinking, they each lay down on the soft chairs in the private room to catch up on their sleep. When it got dark, Ji Cha opened his eyes first and saw that Hong Chen was still sleeping, so he went downstairs to find a hut for convenience.
After going to the hut, Ji Cha returned to the private room and saw that the house was empty. Hong Chen and his bamboo basket had disappeared without a trace.