Zhurou

Chapter 35
After a while, the Xiao Er came out from behind holding the jar of wine.

He was not in a hurry to open the mud seal on the wine jar, he just put it on the corner of the table first, and went to get the wine jug that had been placed aside earlier, filled it up for Li Xun and Wei Chengyan, and said with a smile: "This is the way to go. It's inconvenient, it's not easy to go to the city to buy good wine, it's all homemade dirty wine in the countryside."

As he spoke, he pushed the two wine bowls closer to Li and Wei, and said, "This wine tastes ordinary, but it's also sour. You two should taste a little first to see if you're used to it."

After speaking, he stood aside and waited to say hello.

Li Xun picked up the wine bowl, but he was not in a hurry to drink, but said: "Let's boil two buckets of hot water first, and send them to the room for washing."

The little boy immediately responded, walked to the door curtain, and shouted inside.

After a while, another person answered later.

Zhao Mingzhi had doubts in his heart for a long time, and he didn't dare to touch the food. When Xiaoer went to call for someone, he lightly poked Wei Chengyan aside, and called out "Brother Chengyan" in a low voice, wanting to remind him not to drink that wine .

But before he finished speaking, he saw the other party wink at him, picked up the two wine bowls in front of him, and instead of pouring them into his mouth, he leaned against the wall and poured them slowly from the wall.

On a cold night in the middle of winter, the water mixed with wine had slowly condensed on the wall as soon as it touched the frozen wall, before it even reached the ground.

At this time, the gate was closed tightly, so that no light from the moon or white snow could penetrate, and there was only a small oil lamp lit in the hall.

Xiao Er waited for someone to answer, and when he came back again, he saw that there was only half a glass of wine left in the big bowl in front of Li Xun.

Wei Chengyan wiped his mouth and said: "The taste is too bland, it's all wine lees, that's all, don't eat it."

Xiaoer hurriedly said: "It's really impossible, the taste of the village wine is bad."

Wei Chengyan didn't speak any more, grabbed a piece of cooking cake on the table and stuffed it into his mouth. After eating in two or three bites, he picked up his luggage with the other hand, got up and said, "Let's go, where is your residence?"

The Xiao Er hurriedly led the way ahead, and soon led the crowd to the back.

It turns out that the inn is divided into the front hall and the back yard, and the wing rooms surround the middle yard, which is in the shape of "Tong".

Seeing that Xiaoer walked further and further in, until he reached the last cross of the word "Tong", he finally stood at the door of a room, opened it with the key, pointed inside and said, "I don't know who is resting here?"

He apologized again: "I'm really sorry, the three of you came late today, and the rest of the rooms are full, so we had to sleep separately."

Wei Chengyan frowned and said, "Where are the other two rooms?"

Xiao Er pointed to a room at the end, and said: "There is another room over there, and another room is at the front corner."

After speaking, he led everyone to look at it one by one.

Staying abroad, originally it was better to be as close to fellow travelers as possible, but at this time they were directly moved to three different places by the other party. The first two rooms can barely take care of them, and the last room is aggrieved and huddled in a tight corner. It is difficult to find it with a lantern. Marked wooden sign.

Knowing that there is something wrong here, but not going to the village and not going to the shop, it is really troublesome.

Zhao Mingzhi was hesitating about how to deal with it, so he heard Li Xun say, "Go to that room inside."

It was to talk to her.

Although Zhao Mingzhi didn't know the reason, he didn't say much, and obeyed the assignment honestly.

As soon as she stepped into the room, she heard footsteps behind her, and when she turned her head, it was actually Li Xun following behind.

Li Xun closed the door, and put the burden on the table in the room, then raised his head and said: "There is something wrong with this shop, I'll share a room with you, so we can take care of you at night."

Hearing his words, Zhao Mingzhi felt relieved, and hurriedly said: "Then my second brother and I will take turns on duty at night..."

He said again: "At the beginning of the ugly time, the second brother sleeps first, I am on duty for two hours..."

Just as he was about to count the time carefully and tell them both to sleep more, Li Xun laughed and said, "How can you kill a chicken with a butcher's knife? Go to sleep first, and call me again when I can't handle it."

These words are like lying to a child that he will buy you candied haws tomorrow. Zhao Mingzhi was speechless for a while, but he also knew that his flamboyant fists and embroidered legs, catching cats and walking dogs might be of some use. On the couch, go to get the washing things in it.

But Li Xun put away his bags and didn't do anything else, so he checked the small house first.

Seeing his movements, Zhao Mingzhi was about to ask curiously, when he heard a knock on the door, Xiao Er pushed the door in with a bucket of hot water.

Li Xun took advantage of the situation and leaned on the bed, sat side by side with Zhao Mingzhi, then directed Xiao Er to move the bucket in front of him, tested the temperature of the water without haste, and then asked someone to pour out a basin for Zhao Mingzhi to wash his hands and face, and made people move Go round and round.

After all the things were disposed of, he acted casually, pointed to the one-foot-square window and said, "Why doesn't that window seem to be open?"

Xiao Er was pouring water into the copper basin. When asked this question, his hands trembled for a while, and the water splashed a little. After a while, he hurriedly said: "It is cold and windy in winter, and this place is facing the outside, so there is no obstruction at all." Windy, it was useless to paste the window screens and paper, because there were many complaints from the merchants, the owner called someone to come and nail the wooden window."

He was also very considerate and added: "Guest officer, don't use too many hands, otherwise you will be blown by the wind in the middle of the night, and you will catch a cold for a while, and you will not be able to find a doctor in this area."

Li Xun nodded, thanked him, and asked him to bring in a pot of hot tea before letting him go.

This tossing has already been ugly for two moments.

As soon as the mistress left, Li Xun locked the door and moved a wooden bucket behind the door.

Zhao Mingzhi hurried to the window and tried to push and pull it with his hands, but the wooden window didn't move at all—as expected, it had been nailed from the outside, not even a single gap was exposed.

She thought for a while, took out her dagger, turned her head and asked, "Second Brother, this window..."

Li Xun cleared out the things in his luggage, shook off the outer oilcloth, covered it in the window, and said, "Hold on to this cloth."

Zhao Mingzhi did as he said, and just after a while, he heard a "click", and then, Li Xun retracted half of his body, holding the whole window lattice in his hand.

He removed the wooden window and gently placed it on the ground, rearranged the tables and chairs casually, and said: "This place can be ventilated, and Cheng Yan is beside you, so it doesn't matter, you go to sleep, I will call you if something happens stand up."

Zhao Mingzhi knew that it was useless to evade, so he simply didn't talk nonsense, held the dagger firmly, grasped the sheath with his left hand, and held the handle with his right, lying down with his head turned out and his clothes on.

She has always been on the road day and night, and she experienced so much last night, she didn't sleep well at all. Just now she washed her head and face with hot water, and was able to soak her feet after being arranged by Li Xun. At this moment, she felt warm all over her body. Hot and sleepy.

Just as he was trying to suppress the heavy sleepy bug from climbing up his eyelids, he suddenly heard a screeching sound at the door, Zhao Mingzhi immediately lost his sleepiness, and just about to sit up, Li Xun, who had been sitting by the door, got up and left come over.

His hands and feet were very light, and he made no sound at all. When he got close, he gestured to Zhao Mingzhi, and when she gave up his position, he lay down together with her.

With the slight movement of the door latch, there was a "squeak", in the darkness, the door was gently pushed open from the outside, and as soon as it touched the wooden barrel, the barrel was picked up and put aside.

Zhao Mingzhi was sleeping at the end of the bed. Hearing the movement, he was extremely nervous. He moved out unconsciously, and gently pulled out the scabbard, waiting for the opportunity to use it.

The room was eerily quiet. In the cold winter months, there were no insects or birds singing. In the darkness, although the footsteps tried their best to cover up, there was still some movement, obviously more than one person.

The visitor came to the bed in a familiar way, and stretched out his hands one after the other to touch him.

Zhao Mingzhi murmured in his heart, seeing two black shadows beside the bed raised their hands high, thinking that he had confirmed that there was someone on the bed, and was about to commit murder, he quickly held his breath, clenched the dagger and violently stabbed the person standing at the end of the bed between the legs .

The dagger in her hand felt firm just now, when she suddenly heard a shrill scream, before she could stab deeper, she heard a gust of wind passing by her side, followed by another scream, followed by two "bangs" for the second time.

Although she couldn't see anything clearly in the dark, she estimated the direction and knew that the two people must have hit a hard protrusion. She suddenly remembered Li Xun's actions just now, and only then did she realize the purpose of the other party moving the table and chairs. , and without caring about the other side, quickly turned over.

In the darkness, only Li Xun's voice sounded on the ground: "Light up the lamp."

　Thank you Qing Meishou for sending me and Zhao Xiaohong the two peace charms respectively, and thank you Xu Ge for giving me the peace charm :)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)