Zhurou

Chapter 34 Teacup
Wei Chengyan was still dissatisfied, and insisted: "Second brother, did I say something wrong?"

Li Xun said: "When did I stop you scolding Xiazhou? Why are you trying to ruin the reputation of irrelevant women? Where did you learn the bad habits?"

Only then did Wei Chengyan realize that something was wrong, his face was slightly darkened, and he couldn't see his blushing, and said: "I was talking too fast..."

Li Xun said: "I know that you are just unintentional. It's just that you are quick-spoken, which is completely different from others."

He paused, and said: "The princess is innocent. It was the first emperor who asked her to go to the capital that day, and it was also the first emperor who turned her face later. What does it have to do with her? The world is not easy now, but I have martial arts. If you can walk in battle, you are naturally fearless, but what about those who are weak?"

Then he said: "As for today, how long did you take the throne? What is the use of talking? What does his sister's family have to do with this matter? If others want to vent their anger, just talk about it, and it can come out of your mouth. Seriously, if something goes wrong, who will clean it up? Be cautious in your words and deeds, and after studying for a few years, you still don’t know how to deal with it?”

Wei Chengyan felt even more ashamed when he heard this.

He was about to seriously admit his mistake, but when the words came to his lips, Zhao Mingzhi seemed to be on the sidelines, but he stopped carefully distinguishing himself, and simply said: "What the second brother said is true, this time it is my fault!"

As for Zhao Mingzhi, seeing the two brothers having a conversation, he was really worried, but it happened because of her, and he wanted to go away, but it was abrupt, but he felt even more embarrassed when he stayed there.

In the end, she had no choice but to pretend to be dumb and deaf, and lowered her head to chew on that hard pancake for eternity.

Because of this episode, Li Xun finally did not answer Zhao Mingzhi's question.

The three of them ate lunch hastily, took a short rest, and set off again.

Although Li Xun was familiar with the road, after all, it was cold and there were many obstacles along the way. If there was one person and two horses, the horse ran behind and couldn't keep up with the speed before.

Seeing a few houses in the distance located by the road, the wine flags outside were blown up and down by the strong wind, and there was no sound of rustling in the air.

Zhao Mingzhi looked up. It was already dark, but there was still a thin white light on the ground, and fine ice particles fell from the sky—it was snowing.

The snow fell more and more, but within a hundred steps, a white layer had already accumulated on the shoulders of the person.

Zhao Mingzhi was about to lower his head to flick it down when he suddenly saw his horse's front hooves starting under the front hooves. As for the place a foot away in front, it was sporadic at first, and then piled up into hills, the bottom was black, and the top was covered with snow. The objects, all on the ground, looked familiar.

Before she could think about it carefully, the horse stepped on it without hesitation, hooved it to the bottom, and easily compacted it to the ground.

Not long after, the wine flag was in sight.

At this time, it was already past Sutou, and the doors and windows of the inn were closed, and there was no light at all.

Wei Chengyan went up to knock on the door first, and Zhao Mingzhi turned over and got off the horse. Before he could stand still, he smelled a foul smell. After careful investigation, it turned out that it was coming from the horse's front and rear hooves.

——It turned out that the balls I stepped on earlier were piles of horse manure.

She is clean by nature and has a keen sense of smell, so she couldn't help but move a few steps away to make the horse stink.

Seeing her walking around, Li Xun also looked over and saw that the horse's hooves were covered with soft black paste, and before he could speak, he heard a "squeak", and the door had already opened.

A man who looked like a waiter poked his head out holding an oil lamp, first saw Wei Chengyan outside, then saw two people standing behind him, he was about to open his mouth, but hesitated again, finally saw the six horses, and finally asked: " This is the three?"

Wei Chengyan said: "The one who lives in the hotel."

He said again: "Is there anything else to eat? If there are no other dishes to choose from, a pot of wine will be served first, and if there is any stewed or boiled meat, also cut a few catties."

The waiter hesitated for a moment, then gave up, opened the door wide, and called back: "Third brother, there are guests, come and lead the horse!"

With his yell, the curtain of the back hall was lifted, and a fat and tall man came out.

The man didn't speak, and first scanned the three of them from bottom to top with his eyes, and immediately left Zhao Mingzhi aside, and took a few glances at Li Xun and Wei Chengyan before going out to lead the horse to the backyard.

Although Zhao Mingzhi was only stared at by him for a while, he already felt that this person's staring eyes made him very uncomfortable, and his thoughts moved slightly, so he couldn't help but look back at him.

In the middle of the night, the fat tall man was actually wearing a pair of long boots. The boots were stained with mud, and when he stepped on the ground while walking, there were a series of marks printed on it. Although it was not very clear, it could be seen that it was wet.

Zhao Mingzhi just felt strange, and didn't talk much, he went in with Li Xun with his luggage, and sat down at a table.

After waiting for a while, the waiter came out with a few pancakes and a jug of wine, put them on the table, bowed his waist and said: "Today is really unfortunate, the cook has something to do at home, he is not here, only this idea is left We eat at home."

Wei Chengyan leaned his head to look, and couldn't help frowning and asked, "Only these two?"

Xiao Er laughed and said: "There is no business that I don't do, this is really the only thing."

Wei Chengyan had no choice but to grab a handful of copper coins from his sleeve and put them on the table, saying: "It's fine if there's no food, this wine is too little, let's bring a jar."

The waiter responded quickly, and was about to turn around when Li Xun called to him, "Is there any tea in the kitchen? Get a pot."

The other party readily agreed, walked to the opposite counter, immediately brought a porcelain pot over, put it on the table, and returned to the kitchen without mentioning it.

Li Xun lifted the porcelain pot, straightened the teacup on the table, poured water on it twice, first poured a cup for Zhao Mingzhi, and pushed it in front of her.

The room is cold and there is no warmth at all, but the water flowing from the spout of the porcelain pot still has some white steam.

Zhao Mingzhi reached out to touch the teacup, the cup was warm, and it was still warm.

Turning around, I saw a missing engraving placed in the corner of the room. Taking advantage of the moonlight to identify it, the time has passed.

She was puzzled, saw that there were still several porcelain pots on the counter, so she got up and walked over, and went to check one by one with her hands, and sure enough, the pots were all warm, and it probably took less than half an hour to fill them.

In addition, looking from the top to the inside, the things in the counter have been turned over in a mess, the drawers are wide open, a few account books are spread out, an abacus is placed beside it, and there are still pens and ink.

The inkstone was not covered, and the ink had dried up long ago. A pen was casually left on the table, and when I pinched it with my hand, it was filled with ink, and it was frozen and hard.

Zhao Mingzhi took a closer look, and found that the account book was copied very carefully, with neat handwriting and clean layout, and it could be seen that it was done by a well-behaved person.

Such a well-behaved person, how could he forget to pack his pen and ink?

One o'clock and two o'clock, although they are all subtleties, for some reason, it made her feel very uneasy, but she couldn't find anything else to prove it, so she went back to the table and said to Li Xun in a low voice: "Second brother, what's the matter?" Why is the inn so weird?"

She wanted to speak, but Li Xun shook his head and made a silent gesture.

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