Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 36

The moon took over the sky, but she was too shy to show her face, and even the dotted stars hid behind the scenes and dared not come to the front, leaving the front of the scene to the darkness.

Merchants on the street began to close their stores one after another. Guys kept coming out to hang up the baffles. The shopkeeper took out the lock and locked the door. Then, in twos and threes, they carried lanterns and dragged their tired bodies to the house.

"Xiu'er, you've worked hard today, come and eat a bowl of noodles, and I'll clean up the rest." Zhou Darong came out of the back kitchen with a bowl in his belly, and greeted his sister to eat.

Miss Zhou, that is, Zhou Xiu'er, raised her head and wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said crisply: "I'm not tired, brother is the one who has worked hard. Have you eaten yet?"

Zhou Darong cheerfully put the noodles on the table, snatched the rag from the girl, and said while wiping the table, "Don't you know me? I was already full during the dish test, and I specially made scallion oil for you." Noodles, hurry up and eat while it’s hot.”

"Hey." Zhou Xiu'er smiled and sat down at the table, picked up chopsticks and began to eat gracefully.

He yelled before eating two bites: "Brother, you said you don't need to make eggs for me, so you put them in again."

Zhou Darong smiled honestly: "It doesn't cost two dollars, we can still afford an egg. Little girl, Dabaozhang has been looking for you these two days, how do you feel about him?"

"Hmm... I don't feel much." Zhou Xiu'er swallowed the egg, tapped her chin with her chopsticks and said, "Besides, talk about the firecrackers and say you treat me like a girl."

Zhou Darong looked at Zhou Xiu'er, and sighed: "Brother, I'm a man, so of course I understand men. If Dabaozhang really only treats you as a girl, he won't always come to you."

Zhou Xiu'er's cheeks flushed when she heard this, she lowered her head and ate the noodles without making a sound.

"Brother, to tell you the truth, Da Pao is a good man and has skills, but he doesn't earn much." Zhou Darong wiped the table while saying: "If he can earn more money so that you can live comfortably, you and him There's nothing wrong with that."

"Brother." Zhou Xiu'er blushed and stomped her feet, "You are so eager to marry me off, and besides, you are still unmarried."

Zhou Darong stopped what he was doing, and raised his chest: "Can it be the same? A man should start his career first and then marry a wife. Your elder brother and I have already started our careers. Look at these two months, ang, every now and then a matchmaker will come to our door. Brother and I What are you worried about. You girls should marry at the right age, and now your parents are not here, so I, an older brother, need to help you choose a husband’s family, so there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Zhou Xiu'er poked her face with her chopsticks in distress and said, "It's not like he's the only Sun Dabao."

Zhou Darong frowned and said, "Speaking of which, who else is there? The guy from the medicine shop at the end of the street? He earns more, but he's a good gambler, not a good match. Uncle Wang's family at the street corner is not bad, but Aunt Wang is a good person." It's too bitter and mean, and it's not a good family..."

"Oh, no, you're so annoying." Zhou Xiu'er shook her head, and ate the noodles angrily.

Before Zhou Darong could say anything else, he heard a rambunctious voice outside the store: "You don't like it? That's good. If I mention someone, you two will be happy."

The two brothers and sisters hurriedly looked towards the store door, when they heard a loud noise, the closed store door was kicked open, and then a big man in black clothes walked in, followed by seven or eight men with fierce faces Stand on both sides of the lobby.

Seeing the person coming, the expressions of Zhou's brothers and sisters changed at the same time. They recognized the person as an outstanding figure among the thugs in Zhending Mansion—the nine-headed evil insect and three sons. Brother and sister are two honest people, even the rest of the rascals in Zhending Mansion are afraid of him when they see him.

Zhou Darong thought to himself that he was a man, and he couldn't let his younger sister show up, so he hurriedly bowed with a smile: "Oh, third master, what kind of wind has brought you here, I'll make whatever you want to eat. Oh yes, the shop opened two days ago I have some good wine, why don't you give it a try?"

Lai San'er pinched him with his eyelids: "No hurry, why, you didn't listen to what I said just now?"

The two little brothers behind hurriedly brought the long bench over. Lai San'er lifted up his clothes, sat down with one buttocks, raised one foot to step on the bench, put his arms on his knees, and looked sideways at the Zhou family brothers and sisters.

Zhou Darong, Zhou Xiu'er and Zhou Xiu'er saw this posture, and their hearts "thumped", thinking that they might be in trouble today.

Zhou Xiu'er tremblingly stood up, shrunk her head, and cautiously moved behind her brother, grabbing his lapel with her small hands with fear on her face.

Zhou Darong's face changed color, and finally he pulled the corners of his mouth up, and said with a smile: "Third Master, I just saw you happy, but I really didn't listen."

As the saying goes, you don't raise your hand to hit a smiling face, and besides, Lai San'er also wants to maintain the restraint of a dignified person, sits there and doesn't want to move, said "oh", patted his thigh twice, and said lazily: "Okay, then let me say it again, I will mention someone who will definitely match your sister, what do you think?"

He didn't move at all, the rogues on both sides kept staring at the brother and sister, as if they were going to eat people.

Zhou Darong's lips twitched and twitched, moved and moved, but he didn't dare to say "no", but smiled like crying: "Then...then please give me the name, let the little people listen. "

Lai San'er sat sideways, raised his hand to look, and stretched his thumb between the nails of his middle finger to pinch it: "Master Ma Yuanwai, Ma Chengye Ma Xiaoguan. How is it?"

The faces of the Zhou family siblings changed at the same time, and Zhou Xiuer's hand holding Zhou Darong trembled slightly.

Zhou Darong felt his younger sister's fear, gritted his teeth in secret, rubbed his hands and bowed his waist, and said: "Look at what you said, the villain is just a country girl, how can she be worthy of a horse, a small official, and others like dragons and phoenixes. Besides, the Ma family is What kind of family, the villain, who is not even considered a small family, how can he climb up high? Isn’t this a joke on the villain.”

When Ling Saner saw this, he turned his head and looked at Xia Zhou Darong: "Heh! You are so talkative, you fat man, you are wronged just by busying yourself in the kitchen."

Zhou Darong hurriedly squeezed out a smiling face, nodded and smiled at Lai San'er, Zhou Xiu'er even hid her body behind her elder brother, as if afraid of being seen by Lai San'er.

Lai San'er showed a sarcasm smile: "That's all right, tell your sister to play with Mr. Ma Xiaoguan, and send her back after playing, then there will be no question of whether she is worthy or not."

Zhou Darong's face was flushed red, and the fat on his cheeks kept shaking: "No way, no way! Third...Third Master, don't make such a joke, the villain is only this girl, how can it be like this?"

"What's wrong?" Lai San'er stood up, spreading his hands together: "It's your family's blessing that Mr. Ma is looking at your sister, and you don't want to be ashamed of you, a picky bastard."

Zhou Darong clenched his fists: "Third Lord, please do me a favor, let the villain's sister go, the villain... the villain's shop can be filial to you."

Zhou Xiu'er heard this, her almond eyes were moist, she quickly tugged at her elder brother's skirt, while Zhou Darong just looked at Lei San'er intently and ignored her.

Lai San'er curled her lips in disdain: "Why do I want your shop, that's fine, I don't have time to talk to you here, let your sister come with me."

As he spoke, he waved to Zhou Xiu'er and told her to come over.

Zhou Darong heard the three corpses jump violently, his temples twitched, his eyes widened, he stared at Lei San'er without blinking, he gritted his teeth and said: "Third Master, you really can't be accommodating?"

Seeing him like that, Ling San'er showed a mocking smile, then quickly changed his face and put away the smile: "Fatty Zhou, what's the matter? You think this is a business. Tell you, your sister has to go today, no You have to go!"

"You...you..." Zhou Darong trembled with anger, his whole body trembling.

When the gangsters saw him, they just looked at him with a sneer.

"I will fight with you!" Zhou Darong roared, and jumped on the spot, his heavy body made everyone standing in the room feel the shock.

Zhou Xiu'er didn't hold her back, she saw Zhou Darong clenched his fist and hit Lai San'er.

How could Ling Saner let him hit him, he dodged his fist, stretched out his foot, tripped and hooked, immediately put Zhou Darong down, and shouted at the rascal behind him: "Hit me!"

Immediately, a group of idlers rolled up their arms and sleeves and walked to Zhou Darong's side, fists and kicks rained down on him.

"Don't fight, don't fight." Zhou Xiu'er was so anxious that she was about to cry. Seeing that she couldn't stop all the rascals, she hurriedly ran to Lai San'er: "Master, please do me a favor, let them stop!" beated."

Lai San'er sneered a little, pinched Zhou Xiu'er's chin with his hands and said with a frivolous smile: "Then Miss Zhou, can you give me the honor to go with my brother to see the little official off the horse?"

"I...I'll go." Zhou Xiu'er's chin was pinched so painfully that she instinctively shook her head to get rid of Mangy San'er's fingers. Hearing her elder brother's screams and the sound of fists and feet hitting flesh, she couldn't help but shed two lines of innocence. tears.

"That's right, stop, brothers." Lai San'er nodded, not caring that Zhou Xiu'er shook off his hand, and turned to shout to a kind of rascal.

A few people over there stopped when they heard the words, straightened up and looked at it, and shouted:

"Good luck to you kid."

"You're lucky today."

The one who owed him kicked Zhou Darong twice when he left, and went up to one side to stand still.

Lai San'er stretched out his hand to compare with the outside of the house, looked at Zhou Xiu'er and said, "Miss Zhou, please~ let's go~"

"I..." Zhou Xiu'er clasped her hands in front of her chest, took half a step back and stopped.

"Little, little...sister, don't...go." Zhou Darong was severely beaten, and after hearing what Lei San'er said, he still wanted to prevent his sister from falling into the fire pit intermittently.

Zhou Xiu'er looked at Lei San'er resentfully, then at her elder brother with distress, wiped away tears, walked out with her head held high, and Lei San'er and others followed behind, and went out of the soup and cake shop again in a hurry.

The night was like a tide, gradually engulfing everyone's figures.

Some people lose their hearts and do all kinds of evil for money.

Some people are full of hesitation, holding back tears and pretending to be strong.

Someone got up from the ground, endured the pain, and ran out staggeringly, wanting to protect their relatives.

Someone came out from the corner and stuck behind him, with a sharp weapon in his body, ready to kill himself.

(End of this chapter)