A knife in love

Chapter 1099

After Li Qiufeng finished speaking, he cupped his hands towards the man behind the counter, turned around and walked out the door.The Dongchang fanzi who surrounded him did not dare to stop him, so they gave way.Li Qiufeng walked to the door and stopped suddenly.Seeing this situation, the Dongchang fanzi who stood behind him and blocked the door thought that Li Qiufeng had moved a little bit, and raised the long sword that had been put down.

Li Qiufeng didn't care, and said to the person standing behind the counter: "There is one more thing I want to tell my father-in-law. I came here by boat from Chongqing Mansion early this morning. I only ate a few mouthfuls of dry food on the boat, and my mouth faded away. The bird is here. This time I went ashore to buy some wine and food on the boat. But just now I entered this long street, and the shops on both sides have closed their doors to refuse customers. If I can’t buy wine and food, I don’t have the energy to leave Yibin by boat tonight. Therefore, I have to find a tavern and buy some wine and food to take back. I also hope that my father-in-law will tell my friends in Dongchang not to embarrass me."

The man behind the counter smiled sullenly, and said: "We have good wine in this restaurant, and some food in the back kitchen, you can take it away as you like."

After he finished speaking, he was about to instruct his subordinates to prepare wine and meals for Li Qiufeng, but Li Qiufeng shook his head and said, "Don't bother me with such trivial matters, I'd better find another restaurant." .”

The man behind the counter had a clear heart, knowing that Li Qiufeng was afraid of him, for fear that he would be poisoned in the food and drink, so he politely refused.He didn't force it anymore, and said to Li Qiufeng: "The taverns and tea shops in the nearby alleys are closed. If you want to buy wine and vegetables, you have to go farther."

Li Qiufeng cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for reminding me, father-in-law, let's leave now."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left the tavern.Dozens of Dongchang fans guarding the outside and on the roof retreated one after another, and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.Li Qiufeng thought to himself that his behavior had been revealed, so there was no need to hide his head and tail.What's more, these fans are not trying to embarrass themselves, nor do they need to hide.So after he got out of the tavern, he figured out the direction, walked into the intersection, and turned to the north side.

Li Qiufeng calculated in his heart that Dongchang set up an ambush at the pier, naturally because people traveling from south to north must get on and off at the pier.Therefore, Dongchang heavy soldiers must be ambushed around the wharf.Most of the taverns and tea shops here were ordered to close by Dongchang, and the few remaining shops that were open were traps set by Dongchang. Naturally, I couldn't buy wine and food in the store.Only if you go north, if you go far away, you can find a restaurant that is safe and secure, and buy some wine and food for the master to bring back.Then pull the anchor and set sail, stay away from these fans, and try to keep your ears clean.So he walked to the intersection without any hesitation, and went straight to the north.

Sure enough, after he walked through two streets, he arrived at the intersection of the third street, and saw dozens of officers and soldiers holding torches, knives and guns, guarding the street, preventing the people from going south.Li Qiufeng thought that Dongchang was going to make a big move at the pier, so he must have mobilized the officers and soldiers of the guards of Yibin Prefecture, and set up defense lines in the east, north, and west of the pier, preventing people from going south to approach the pier.After passing this line of defense, they will naturally find the tavern.It's just that it is troublesome to pass through the defense line of officers and soldiers.If the officers and soldiers obstructed them, they had no choice but to use Jin Yiwei's badge to get past them.

As he thought about it, he walked straight ahead.I saw many people standing in front of the officers and soldiers, pointing to the direction of the wharf behind the officers and soldiers and whispering, presumably they were discussing the closure of the wharf by the officers and soldiers.Li Qiufeng walked forward slowly, only thinking about how to deal with the officers and soldiers' interrogation.Unexpectedly, Kankan walked behind the officers and soldiers. The leader of the officers and soldiers saw that Li Qiufeng was coming from the side of the pier, and immediately ordered his soldiers to make way for him.

Li Qiufeng was startled for a moment, then he thought about it again, Dongchang was so famous that the officials all over the place feared it like snakes and scorpions.Fanzi from Dongchang ordered Yibin Prefecture to send troops to close the pier and let Fanzi do business at the pier.Since I came over from the side of the pier, and there was nothing unusual around me, these officers and soldiers only thought that they were also from Dongchang, so naturally they dared not stop them.The set of rhetoric he originally thought of was useless, and he was relieved and a little funny.When he walked past the sergeant leader, he deliberately pretended to be arrogant, and said in his mouth: "We have been ordered by the second-rank leader to go out to do business, and we will be back soon, so don't miss us then!"

The sergeant's head was full of smiles, he clasped his hands, and said in his mouth: "The villain knows, the villain knows, the lord just goes. When the lord turns around, whoever dares to stop the lord without seeing Taishan, the villain will beat him first." Let's talk about twenty army sticks."

Li Qiufeng smiled, ignored him, and walked straight forward.The common people who watched the excitement saw that the officers and soldiers who were still vicious just now looked like this in front of Li Qiufeng, and knew that this person had a very strange background, so they hurriedly backed away.Li Qiufeng walked a few steps quickly, came to an old man with a goatee, and said in his mouth: "Old man, do you know any nearby taverns that serve good wine and meat?"

Seeing Li Qiufeng approaching, the old man couldn't dodge in time, thinking that he had accidentally offended this person, he was shocked and just wanted to turn around and slip away.Although hearing Li Qiufeng speak like this, he didn't mean to embarrass himself, but he was terrified in his heart, and just stared at Li Qiufeng in a daze for a while, but couldn't speak.

Seeing him like this, Li Qiufeng knew that the old man was terrified, so he had to say it again.The old man came to his senses now, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord wants to drink and eat meat. There is a Huahong restaurant not far from here to the north. The food and wine are not bad."

Li Qiufeng thanked him, and went straight to the north.After walking more than a hundred steps, I saw a restaurant on the right side of the road, with two red lanterns hanging at the door, and a wine flag hanging from the eaves. By the light of the lantern, you can see the three gold characters "Huahong Restaurant" embroidered on it. .

Li Qiufeng turned his head and looked behind him, only to see five or six idlers following him all the time, pointing at him.He just saw Li Qiufeng turn his head to look at him with majesty in his eyes.These few idlers originally wanted to follow Li Qiufeng to watch the excitement, so that they could go back and brag to the common people.At this moment, Li Qiufeng glared at him, and immediately became frightened, turned around and fled into the distance.

Li Qiufeng didn't want to scare these people, but he was just worried that there would be Dongchang's fans around, tampering with his food and drink, which would inevitably cause troubles.At this time, seeing that there were only a few idlers following him, he didn't take it seriously.After these idlers had scrambled and fled far away, he turned around and walked into the Huahong Pavilion.

The Huahong restaurant was several times larger than the tavern where Li Qiufeng met the Dongchang fanzi just now. At this time, there was a lot of people in the room, and the twenty or thirty tables were full.Several waiters were walking back and forth between the tables, all of them were sweating from exhaustion.A middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper standing behind the counter saw Li Qiufeng coming in, and hurriedly walked around the counter to greet him, and said with a smile: "The guest officer is here. Look, our place is full. If you are willing to wait for a seat, please wait a moment for the guest officer. If you are in a hurry to eat, I have no choice but to ask you to go to another house."

While looking around the room, Li Qiufeng said, "I'm not waiting for a seat. You bring me a jug of good wine and two roast chickens, and I'll just take it away."

The shopkeeper nodded and bowed in agreement, and while instructing the waiter to quickly prepare fine wine and roast chicken for Li Qiufeng, he went to the counter and brought a chair for him, asking Li Qiufeng to sit outside the counter and wait.Li Qiufeng asked the prices of the wine and roast chicken, took two pieces of silver and handed them to the shopkeeper.The shopkeeper smiled and said: "Guest officer, wait a moment, I'll go and cut up the silver, and send you the recovered silver."

Li Qiufeng nodded, and the shopkeeper went to work on his own.At this time, there were seventy or eighty drinkers sitting in the store, some of them were whispering to each other, while others were drinking loudly.Li Qiufeng looked at the situation in the store and thought to himself, Li Taibai's poem said that the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.It is also fortunate that central Sichuan is surrounded by mountains, the roads are difficult to travel, and the traffic is blocked. When the Central Plains were in chaos, central Sichuan could be a little safer.Look at these drinkers in the store, all of them are carefree, drinking and eating meat.Compared with the people in the Central Plains, life is much more carefree.

While he was thinking about it, he heard someone whispering: "You are wrong! The reason why the imperial court sent a high official is because King Ning was invited by the three kings in the middle of Shu to join the soldiers of the three kings in the middle of Shu." , will fight a family, raised the flag in Chengdu to rebel, and seized the emperor Jiajing's world. I heard that King Ning's big ship will berth at our Yibin pier. , Heads rolling around. Tsk tsk, so I advise everyone to leave this place as soon as possible, and find another suitable place to rest."

(End of this chapter)