Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 238
"Xiuxiu? Good name..." Xu Qing wanted to say something again, but Xiuxiu rolled her eyes.

Arranged for Wang Shan to take the carriage to the north to Tanzhou, Xu Qing and the others kept a few horses, and they could take them across the river blindfolded.Xun Xueer's daughters and guards also crossed the river.At the beginning, it was Xiuxiu who asked Xu Qing to go there, and then it was Yang Cheng and the members of the dark river.

"Xiuxiu, who is this?" Xu Qing pointed to the old man, who was wearing black cloth and colorful clothes, with a vicissitudes on his face.

"His name is Lao Bu, he is an old man in my family, but he can't speak Chinese." Xiuxiu was enthusiastic and generous, and took out a bag of food from her bosom to Xu Qing and said, "Here, eat this..."

"This is..." Xu Qing opened the bag, and a familiar smell came to his nostrils: "This is betel nut!"

Xiuxiu looked disbelieving: "You actually recognize it?"

Just as Xu Qing was about to answer, a very unhappy voice rang out: "Hmph, my elder brother Xu Qing knows astronomy first and geography second, why doesn't this little fruit know?"

As she spoke, Xu Qi picked up a betel nut and threw it into her mouth to chew.Xu Qing yelled, why did this little vinegar jar turn over again, are you able to eat betel nuts?Even adults, even a betel nut can make you dizzy if you haven't eaten it.

Xu Qing hurriedly said: "Xu Qi, spit it out quickly, you can't eat it!"

"No, I can eat it," Xu Qi turned her head to ignore Xu Qing, and chewed on purpose.

Xiuxiu smiled generously: "Giggle, it's okay, this is green fruit, and the marinade I ordered is made by myself, so it's not intoxicating."

"Thank you Miss Xiu..." Xu Qing also knew that he couldn't flirt with girls anymore, so he led Xu Qi back to Xun Xue'er.

Yang Cheng rowed the scull and walked twice, he was panting from exhaustion, and took a rest, unexpectedly there was light snow in the sky.

Xu Qing muttered: "What the hell is this weather? Hey, Yang Cheng, did you bring the box for the cloak?"

"Here, there~" Yang Cheng pointed, and Xu Qing went to get all the cloaks and put them on the girls, and glanced at the two Xiuxiu over there, but they didn't have anything to cover the snow.With a heartbeat, I asked the eldest wife, the second wife, and the third wife, and they also took two spares and went over.

It's a pity that good intentions were taken as a donkey's liver and lungs, Xiuxiu sneered and scolded: "Huh, Han people are said to be timid, today I have seen it, and I have to ask my wife for a piece of clothing. Are you so afraid?"

Xu Qing said solemnly, and gave a standard answer: "This, this is not fear, this is love..."

After finishing speaking, she turned her head and left, but Xiuxiu was startled when she heard it, as if she had been hit in the face, she muttered in her mouth: This is not fear, this is love.

When Xu Qi saw that Xu Qing only asked for advice from his second and third wives, but did not talk to her as a backup wife, she became angry for a while, thinking wildly in her head.While chewing betel nuts, I suddenly felt my heart speed up, my face was hot, my chest was tight, and I couldn't breathe. I thought I was poisoned.

It's over, I'm going to die, and I'm going to be separated from the stinky Xu Qing, Xu Qi thought of this, seeing Xu Qing still teasing Xu Wen, without looking at her, Suoxin fell to the ground, crying: " Stinky Xu Qing, dead Xu Qing, I'm poisoned, I'm going to die, woo woo woo..."

Everyone looked at her, Xu Qing handed Xu Wen to Xun Xueer, picked up Xu Qi from the ground, and looked at it, what poisoning was, it should be the discomfort of eating betel nuts.

Xu Qing smiled and said, "Spit out the betel nut soon."

"Pfft," Xu Qi asked Xu Qing with teary eyes, "Xu Qing, will I die?"

"meeting……"

"what……"

In fact, Xu Qi just wanted Xu Qing to take care of him. Lying in Xu Qing's arms, she thought in her heart that she would die if she died.

Yang Cheng has already gone two more times to shake the oar, and there are also members of the dark river who have swung the oar a few times.The snow is getting bigger and bigger.

"Miss Xiu, here is the boat money. We will leave when the next boat comes..." Xu Qing handed over a bag of silver to Xiuxiu. When I picked it up consciously, I suddenly said like a dream:
"You, no, don't want money, don't want money..."

"Take it, or the Han Chinese will be seen as a stingy man in the future." Xu Qing smiled and was about to leave.

"Hey, stop!" Xiuxiu stomped her feet anxiously: "It's snowing so much, come with me to the village?"

Xu Qing faltered when he heard this, and looked at Xun Xueer and the others, who also nodded, and then said that the snow was heavy, and Xu Wen was afraid that it would be cold, so it would be better to hide in the stockade.

"Okay, then, I'll trouble Miss Xiu again." Xu Qing became more polite, and bowed his hands respectfully.

Xiuxiu threw the wallet away, and said in disgust: "Hmph, who wants your stinky money!" After finishing speaking, she jumped up and down in front of the old man and stopped talking.

When the last boat came, Yang Cheng said that everyone else had gone up Hebei and they could leave.So Xiuxiu pulled the boat into a hidden mouth without making a sound, soaked it in water, and covered it with branches and leaves.

After doing this, he walked up on his own.

Xu Qing followed, but he didn't have a carriage, only three horses he managed to get, so Xiaoyue and Huang Shimei rode one. Qi has one person and one horse, and everyone else can't do it.

The snowflakes were as dense as morning fog, and the visibility was very low. Xu Qing couldn't help following closely.

Xiuxiu is very good at chewing betel nuts. She can chew one betel nut in three to five minutes, and then chew it again after 5 minutes.But when she chewed it, she didn't have the ferocious feeling of other people, but it was a kind of ruffian beauty, a chic girl.

In less than half an hour, a low wall made of mud appeared in everyone's eyes. Xiuxiu brushed off the snow and introduced: "This is our village, called Luotou Village, and our clan is called Luozu."

"The Conch Clan?" Xu Qing asked in a low voice. He searched for the brother races of the later generations in his heart, but he couldn't think of any similar names, so he felt that the Conch Clan had merged into other ethnic groups in the thousands of years of history, right?

Later, Xu Qing found records about the snails in the local chronicles. The snails of the snails should be written as 蠃, which was excerpted from "Guoyu·Wuyu", and its people must be moved to Pulong on the shore of Yunmeng.

The Li family was a big family in the Xia Dynasty. Later, it opposed the Xia royal family and was destroyed. Only a part of the branch remained. During the escape, it was renamed the Luo family, and its subordinates changed their surnames to Luo.

"That's right, the snail of the field snail, my name is Luo Xiuxiu! Old Bu is called Luo Bu."

Xu Qing didn't know the story of the snail clan at this time, his mind brightened when he heard this, and he said with a smile: "Once upon a time, there was a poor scholar who went to the field to prepare the land, and saw a big snail, so he thought, why not bring it back Cooking at home... When the scholar returns home early on this day, he sees the snail girl and the old Wang next door on the bed..."

At the beginning Xu Qing wanted to talk about the snail girl, but the wind was too strong. Yes, it was because of the strong wind that she lost her tune while talking.

Of course the listeners quit, the servants and guards at the back were alright, they just showed disappointment, the three girls, plus Luo Xiuxiu, would be impolite, they could scold anything ugly.

Xu Qing had no choice but to change his words: "Okay, okay, after the poor scholar returned home, the Tianluo girl didn't know, the scholar couldn't help but be moved when he saw her busy, and in addition, the Tianluo girl was beautiful, the scholar couldn't help falling in love with her. After losing her...the two lived happily together..."

"Wow..." The women's thoughts were not complicated, especially in front of Xu Qing, such a simple story made them elated.

"I didn't expect that you can tell stories. I think the sisters were conquered by your broken mouth, right?"

Xu Qing laughed, and said meaningfully: "Hahaha, yes, yes..."

While talking, the earthen wall was already in front of him, and it turned out to be a village, with the inscription "Luotou".

In the village, there are rows of mud houses, and it is rare to see any brick and stone houses.The ancient fraternal ethnic groups were not so "brotherly" and were suppressed almost everywhere, so they were generally poorer, or they were like the Turks, able to compete with the Central Plains.

"Xiuxiu, are you back?" Walking into a hard-to-see brick house, a strong man jumped out, looking at Xiuxiu with a smile on his face.Xiuxiu called, cousin, pointed at Xu Qing and the others and said, "A guest is here."

"Guests?" The man glanced at Xu Qing and the others, seeing that they were foreigners, he couldn't help frowning, and asked Luo Xiuxiu, "Who are they?"

"They were passing by, and the snow was too heavy, so I invited them back." Xiuxiu welcomed Xu Qing and the others with a smile, and told Yang Cheng where the horse was.

Xu Qing paid homage to the man and said: "I'm Xu Qing, passing merchants, returning home to do business, passing through a treasure land, staying for a day, and when the snow clears, I will leave at dawn."

"Hmph, the Han people have a lot of rules, and they can't even speak well. They have to have four-character and four-character book titles." The man muttered, but Xiuxiu hurriedly said: "You don't remember what the witch mother said!"

Only then did the man put away his hostility, walked up to Xu Qing, patted his shoulder, and said, "You are a guest, sit down quickly."

Seeing those two palms slapped on Xu Qing's shoulders, others didn't know, Huang Shimei, Niu Checao and others suddenly became worried. Those two palms seemed normal, but they probably brought a lot of force!
Xu Qing stood still, smiled, said something polite, and then greeted with the hand on the shoulder that was patted, come in, it's cold outside.

Seeing this, the man couldn't help opening his mouth, and Huang Shimei also smiled proudly, saying that her heart is good, and Xiao Xuzi has made progress.

Unexpectedly, Xu Qing felt pain in his heart. When the two palms were raised just now, Xu Qing saw that it was unusual, but people fought for a breath, and Buddhas fought for a stick of incense, so Xu Qing took a breath and forced it down.

After beckoning, Xu Qing could no longer move his hand, and could only suffer silently by himself.

After entering the main room, Xu Qing found that it was only the backyard, the one he entered just now was the back door, and the front hall was locked by a gate, so he didn't know what it was for.

"Xiuxiu, I wonder if there are any elders in the family?" Xu Qing clasped his hands.

"My grandmother is still there, but she is the witch mother of the clan. She is the director of the front hall and comes back at night."

"Witch Mother? Is it similar to the identity of the patriarch?"

Xiuxiu returned with a smile: "No, the witch mother is only from our Luotou village, which is equivalent to the village official?"

It turned out to be the village head, no wonder the room is so big, Xu Qing nodded.Seeing that Xu Qing didn't ask any more questions, Xiuxiu left and went to clean up the guest room for Xu Qing and his party.

The man came over again, seeing that Xu Qing was busy with others, he ignored him, looked at Xu Qing, snorted, and had a plan in mind.He took out a jar of wine from a corner and said to Xu Qing:

"Brother, you Han people don't know. In fact, when a stranger comes to our Luo clan, he wants to have a drink with him, otherwise he is not allowed to stay overnight. I have kept this jar of wine for a long time. Come on, fuck him!"

(End of this chapter)