After the grandfather and grandson left the inn, Li Longqian looked at their backs and smiled, then turned and sat next to Ling Shiqing. Ling Shiqing looked at Li Longqian with wide eyes. After a moment, the beauty smiled slightly,
He raised his mouth and said, "The meat is gone and the wine is gone. Let's see what you eat this time."
"I'm full, I won't eat anymore." Li Longqian waved his hand, raised his glass with some reluctance, and drank the remaining half of the glass in one go. After drinking, he didn't forget to lick his lips.
It seemed that there was still something unfinished about it.
"Since you can't bear it, why do you still give food and wine to others?" Ling Shiqing couldn't help but smile when she saw Li Longqian's appearance and asked softly.
"Yeah."
Li Longqian burped regardless of his appearance, then turned to look at Ling Shiqing and said: "It turns out that when the old slave was alive, I often followed him to other places to ask for drinks."
"When you see these two grandsons, do you think of your old self?" Ling Shiqing asked, raising her eyebrows.
"It's not the original me, it's me now. If I hadn't met you and I was thirsty for wine, I would have begged for a drink like the two of them just did. If I had met that nice person, even if I received a few looks, I would still be able to exchange for a drink.
Drink." Li Longqian replied in a low voice, with a heavy expression on his face.
Ling Shiqing looked at Li Longqian who was silent for a moment, and wanted to speak, but after thinking about it, she decided not to continue asking.
"I want to ask who this old slave is, right?" Li Longqian took the initiative to look up at Ling Shiqing and asked.
"Well, I keep hearing you mention it, and I'm inevitably a little curious." Ling Shiqing nodded slightly.
Li Longqian turned to look at Ling Shiqing, and subconsciously wanted to raise his wine glass. After a moment's reaction, he realized that there was no more wine, so he gently placed it on the table, then looked at Ling Shiqing and said, "Old
A slave, in fact, is a person who lives and dies for me. You call him a hero, but he often does things that no bear can do, such as begging for drinks. Ordinary beggars like to be the first to come in.
explain
It's a good thing to please the shopkeeper, so that he can give you more wine, but this is not the case for the old slave. He goes in just asking for wine. If you give it to me, I will leave without saying thank you, but if you don't give it to me,
, the old slave could stand at the door of someone's house and could scold him for three hours without taking a breath. At that time, my brother and I were hiding aside for fear that when the people in the inn came out to beat the old slave, they would also beat us both.
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Ling Shiqing couldn't help but smile when she heard this, pursed her lips and said, "He is really an interesting old man."
"Well, in the beginning, when the old slave cursed others, he was beaten and scolded a lot. Basically, he went home bruised and blue every day, but he brought wine and meat back with him every day, because even if he was beaten, the old slave would not stop talking.
, when did you give him wine, when did he
After a while, he stopped. Later, no matter which shop the old slave appeared in the town, as long as he stood at the door and curled his lips, someone would bring him wine. When delivering the wine, he would not forget to say a few polite words. The old slave kept saying
I am the most respectable beggar in the town."
"He is really overbearing as a beggar." Ling Shiqing was a little lost in thought and commented with a smile.
"Domineering?" Li Longqian was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly and continued: "The old slave always said that this is his backbone, but I think he really has no backbone. He has stipulated for himself that he can only go out and drink three times a month.
, if there was no wine at home, he could not go out, but later the old slave was really greedy and refused to go out, so he asked me to take my brother out and ask him for a drink."
"It seems that he really has no backbone."
"No! At that time, my brother and I went out almost every day to ask for drinks from him." Li Longqian nodded slightly, and then said: "Except for the drinks, the food and drinks that I went out to ask for every day were given to me and
Brother eat, if there are any left between us, the old slave will take a bite, if there are any left between us,
When there was nothing left, the old slave went out to grab food from other people's wolf dogs. At that time, I saw the old slave fighting with the wolf dogs in the town no less than three times. Later, not only the shopkeeper in the town was afraid of the old slave, but also the little ones.
The dogs in the town are also afraid of him. As long as he smiles at the pack of wolves and dogs, they will all run away."
When Li Longqian said this, the expression on his face became more and more serious, and Ling Shiqing stared at Li Longqian. How could a rich girl like her understand what Li Longqian said, if she hadn't heard it with her own ears?
How could Ling Shiqing believe that there are really people in this world who would compete with dogs for food?
But in order to survive, the old slave did indeed do this. In the eyes of the old slave, it may not have mattered, and in the eyes of Li Longqian at that time, it also didn't matter. But looking back now, it feels different.
"Every time my brother and I ask if the old slave has been fighting for food with other people's puppies again? The old slave always smiles and neither admits nor denies it. At that time, in my eyes, the old slave was a real bear.
, but now that I think about it, he is a hero, the hero of me and my brother." Li Longqian saw that Ling Shiqing was silent and continued.
"A bear in front of the world, but a hero in front of your two brothers. Do you think he is a hero or a bear?" Ling Shiqing looked at Li Longqian and asked.
Li Longqian squinted at the woman in front of him and said with a smile: "When he was alive, he was a bear, but after he died, he was a hero. Do you think he is a hero or a bear?"
Ling Shiqing smiled and said nothing.
"Old slave, I don't know how to evaluate him. Fifteen years ago, he said that he lived for my two brothers. I took it as bullshit. When I think about it again fifteen years later, it seems to make sense."
While Li Longqian was talking, he picked up the wooden sword that he placed on the table, which was obviously much inferior to the Bolang Hammer at Lu Zhengyang's feet, and walked slowly towards the room upstairs. Ling Shiqing
Sitting there, looking at Li Longqian's back, he kept imagining in his mind the appearance of the old slave who seemed to know nothing but giggles.
"Master Li, have you eaten yet?"
After Lu Zhengyang saw Li Longqian getting up, he quickly stood up and looked at Li Longqian and asked.
"Well, you guys eat slowly."
Li Longqian nodded slightly.
"good."
Lu Zhengyang nodded quickly.
Li Longqian looked at the drunken guards and smiled, then walked upstairs. When the waiter at the inn saw Li Longqian preparing to go upstairs, he quickly waved the handkerchief in his hand to greet him, smiling.
Hehehe said to Li Longqian: "Master, your guest room is upstairs, the one on the far left, I will take you there."
"Um."
Li Longqian nodded in agreement and followed the waiter's steps up the stairs.
After returning to the guest room, Li Longqian first opened the window to get some air. After all, there were many people downstairs, and he drank some wine, which inevitably made him feel a little tight. Looking at the twilight street outside, Li Longqian
Long Qian still couldn't help but think of the scene when he was in a small town, and looked at it for a while
After that, Li Longqian stretched out and prepared to take off his clothes and take a rest. But before he could take off his shoes, the door of the guest room was pushed open and Ling Shiqing walked in from the outside. Li Longqian was stunned when he saw Ling Shiqing.
After a while, he asked with a smile: "Madam, are you here to warm my bed?"
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On the main road of Bingshu City, a donkey was parked on the side of the road. An old man was riding upside down on the donkey, shaking the wine gourd in his hand with a smile. Next to the donkey squatted a young man who kept talking.
Talking about the bad things about this donkey, the young man also threw the large guzheng he was holding in his arms on the roadside. This time, the old man did not get off the donkey to pick up the guzheng, but he still relied on the young man to be so casual.
He threw it away without even a word of reproach.
"Why aren't you leaving yet?" The young man turned to look at the donkey and asked with a helpless expression.
The donkey shook his nose, looking lazy.
"If you don't leave, you haven't rested enough. Eat something first and then wait. Don't worry." The old man replied with a smile.
"Why……"
The young man pretended to be mature and sighed, then he picked up the bag on his body, took out the beef inside, put it in front of his nose, smelled it, looked at the donkey and said, "I don't know which of the beef and donkey meats is better.
Eat some?"
When the donkey heard this, he moved forward two steps, and then stopped to rest again.
"Grandpa, that man just now was really a good man. He gave you wine and meat, and also gave me some scraps of silver. That was really nice." The young man gnawed on the beef and turned back to the old man on the donkey and said.
"Haha." The old man smiled and said nothing.
"If this were normal, at this hour, I'm afraid you would have no wine to drink, and I would have no meat to eat." The young man continued.
"How much money do you still have in your hand?" the old man looked at the young man and asked.
"I don't know, but it should be enough for the two of us to find a place to stay tonight." The young man looked at his bag and made a simple estimate.
The old man nodded and said nothing.
"I can't buy you a drink with this money!" The young man seemed to have remembered something and hurriedly covered his pocket and shouted to the old man.
"Haha, part of it is buying wine and part of it is eating, what do you think?" the old man discussed with a smile.
"No, it's all reserved for eating." The young man curled his lips and shouted stubbornly.
The old man looked at the young man helplessly and said nothing. The donkey under the old man rubbed its hooves on the ground, and then started walking slowly. When the young man saw the donkey moving, he quickly put down the beef in his hand and chased after it with the guzheng in his arms.
After a while, the donkey stopped by the roadside again and rested.
"Grandpa, didn't you say that we went to the city to meet someone? When will we meet?" the young man looked at the old man and asked.
"I've seen it." The old man replied with a smile.
"When did you see it?" The boy put down the guzheng and took out the half-eaten piece of beef and prepared to eat it.
"I just saw you."
"How is that guy?"
"picture."
As he spoke, the old man still had a smile on his lips and looked into the distance.