Me and my Jianghu Tavern

Maybe this is fate?

Su Tan smiled, turned around and walked forward.

She was the only figure in the night, walking towards the northwest with a lamp.

in the tavern.

Zhang Ming looked at the paper on the table, frowned and remained silent for a long time.

Xiao Qi glanced at Zhang Ming and then at the paper on the table, wondering what Zhang Ming was thinking.

"Meow."

Zhang Ming came back to his senses, shook his head and sighed, "How could such a coincidence happen?"

Sometimes it seems that it is really arranged by God, but Zhang Ming never believes in these things.

In fact, for Zhang Ming, he didn't care about this piece of paper at all, and he didn't believe in any arrangement from heaven, but he just didn't know what Su Tan was thinking.

"Knock knock."

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Zhang Ming raised his head and looked towards the door.

The door of the tavern was still open, and the person standing at the door seemed to be obsessed with Zhang Ming, so he reached out and knocked on the door.

The monk in cassock stood at the door of the tavern without ever stepping into the tavern.

Seeing Nian An again, Zhang Ming even felt a little delusional, never thought that he would come to the tavern again.

Zhang Ming walked around the counter and walked to the door, and said indifferently, "What's the matter?"

"Come to see off the shopkeeper." Nian An said.

"Send me?" Zhang Ming asked in confusion, shook his head and said, "You're here early, I'm not in a hurry to leave."

"yes."

Nian An settled for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's the poor Taoist who came early, so I'm bothering you."

After saying that, Nian An turned around, as if she was about to leave.

Zhang Ming frowned and said, "Come in."

Nian An stopped and turned around, smiling slightly.

Zhang Ming rolled his eyes, and walked into the tavern regardless of Monk An.

There was some estrangement between Zhang Ming and Monk Nian An, and Zhang Ming was not sure whether this monk had other plans or if he could really be called his friend.

Zhang Ming didn't want to mention it again, so when he saw Nian'an, he would still treat him as the original Nian'an, only as if that incident never happened and he never said anything.

Nian'an walked into the tavern and sat down. Zhang Ming served the wine and sat down opposite Nian'an.

"Why do you want to see me off?" Zhang Ming asked.

Nian An pondered for a moment, and replied: "Pin Dao calculated the secrets of heaven, and I made a rough calculation, so I want to come and give it away."

"Forget about it?" Zhang Ming asked in doubt.

Nian'an nodded and said: "Da Dao is 49, Tianyan is [-], go to one of them. Logically, it doesn't count as anything, but the shopkeeper has gone to the mortal world, and there will be traces left. Follow the traces of this trip to count to ten." Three or four."

Zhang Ming lowered his head and poured the wine, while asking, "So what have you got?"

Nian An replied: "The shopkeeper will leave within three days."

Zhang Ming put down the jug, picked up the wine glass and poured it with his head up, and said softly, "You came early."

Nian An was silent, but picked up the wine jug on the table and poured himself a glass of wine.

"Why do you want to touch wine today?"

"Tonight is the Word."

"As you like."

Zhang Ming just thought that Monk Nian An was looking for an excuse to break the precept.

Then, Monk Nian'an didn't say a word.

Zhang Ming didn't speak either.

The two of them just sat in the tavern, drinking a glass of wine.

Until the jug of wine can no longer be poured out.

They seemed to have a lot to say, but none of them said it.

The wine was gone, and Nian An had no reason to stay here anymore, he stood up and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper."

Zhang Ming shook his head and said, "You don't need to thank me, I didn't ask you."

Nian An gave a wry smile, took out a piece of gold leaf from his bosom and put it on the table.

Zhang Ming accepted the gold leaf and sent Nian'an to the door of the tavern.

"The shopkeeper is leaving." Nian'an turned around and said.

"Ah."

Looking at the leaving figure, Zhang Ming said, "Hello, monk."

Nian An settled for a moment, then turned to look at Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming pondered for a moment, but didn't know what to say, and finally said: "Your fortune-telling skills are really not very good."

Nian'an smiled, and agreed, "I know, the shopkeeper, is there anything else?"

"No, let's go."

Nian An left here, and Zhang Ming also returned to the tavern.

It's as if nothing happened, just an unnecessary drinker.

.........

The evening wind blows into the tavern, and I feel a little chill for no reason.

Zhang Ming closed the door slightly.

The candles in the tavern were never extinguished.

Zhang Ming just sat at the counter, holding Xiao Qi in his arms and staring at the front in a daze.

He didn't know how long he stayed there. When he woke up, the wick of the candle in the tavern had almost run out.

Zhang Ming looked down, and Xiao Qiwo was sleeping soundly in his arms with his chest rising and falling.

At this time, even the sound of insects outside was much less.

Zhang Ming turned his head and glanced at the wall of the tavern. The wine word sword was still hanging on the wall securely.

He stared at the sword in silence for a long time.

After regaining his senses, Zhang Ming picked up Xiao Qi who was sleeping soundly in his arms and put him on the table. He reached out and took off the Jiuzi sword, pinning it on his waist.

"What else?" Zhang Ming muttered, as if there was nothing else.

Zhang Ming sat down and took out a piece of paper from the drawer.

Grinding ink and picking up pen.

After a while, he put down the pen, folded the paper and put it in his pocket.

He got up and blew out the candles in the tavern one by one.

With the sword across his waist, Zhang Ming picked up Xiaoqi and walked out of the tavern.

It was pitch black outside, except for the sound of insects.

"squeak……"

After closing the door of the tavern, Zhang Ming took out the paper he wrote earlier from his pocket and placed it in front of the door.

Lei Hu returned at dawn, and the key to the tavern was also left in the letter.

Turning around, Zhang Ming walked down the steps at the door and came to the official road.

Looking down at his arms, Xiao Qi was still sleeping soundly, unaware of all this.

Zhang Ming stretched out his hand to touch Xiao Qi's forehead, and smiled slightly.

He turned his head and looked towards the tavern.

The Jianghu Tavern still stands there.

Monk Nian'an did not make a mistake in his calculations, but he came a few hours earlier.

Although I am free and easy in this tavern, there are some things that have to be resolved. It's not that I will never come back again, but I just go out for a while to solve the people who need to be solved, and take a look at the mountains, rivers and lakes by the way.

People are not old, how can the heart be old.

He thought that perhaps he could also be called a boy.

Zhang Ming finally turned around and took a step forward.

Although, the moment Zhang Ming stepped out of the tavern, Zhang Ming didn't know where he should go or where he should go, but he didn't hesitate at all, and he would go if he had to go.

He may be the only one along the way, but it is enough.

Oh, no, there is this white cat in his arms to accompany him.

Chapter 288: Luoxi Mountain

In the morning, the city gates are wide open.

Lei Hu went out of the city to go to the tavern as usual, ten li was not far away, and he had to walk back and forth every day.

When I arrived at the tavern, I saw that the door of the tavern was closed.

There is also a monk in cassock standing at the door of the tavern.

Lei Hu was a little puzzled, the shopkeeper would open the door very early every day after he came back, and the monk at this door, probably a drinker, he had seen many times.

Lei Hu stepped forward, glanced at the monk, and asked, "Did you come to drink so early?"

Monk Nian'an shook his head and said, "The shopkeeper left last night, that's a letter for you."

Lei Hu froze for a moment, looked down, and saw the paper left on the ground.

He bent down to pick it up, and opened the letter left by the shopkeeper. At the same time, he also saw the key to the tavern inside, and glanced at the contents on the paper.

Lei Hu frowned slightly: "The shopkeeper... left again?"

The content of the letter is very simple, just ask him to help take care of the tavern.

In other words, Zhang Ming once again became the hands-off shopkeeper.

However, Lei Hu didn't want to stay here.

Looking at the letter and the key in his hand, Lei Hu hesitated a little.

Originally, when he came to the tavern today, he planned to ask the shopkeeper to resign.

Although Zhang Ming has kept it from him and never told him about it, he has learned about Bei Mo from other sources.

Beimo invaded and broke through several cities, until the city of Liangzhou.

Gu Qingshan once said to Zhang Ming that if there is another incident at the border, with Lei Hu's temperament, he will never be able to live in Jian'an City like he is now, and he will definitely go to the battlefield, regardless of life or death.

Monk Nian'an glanced at Lei Hu, frowned, and thought, "Fate...has changed again."

After Lei Hu read the letter, his already messy fate became muddy, this time Nian An also failed to understand Lei Hu's fate.

"Fifty Dao, [-] Tianyan, is this the only variable?" Nian An sighed inwardly.

If Lei Hu hadn't met Zhang Ming, he would have died in Liangzhou in a few days according to his fate, but now he couldn't see through it.

Nian An raised his head and looked into the distance, shook his head and sighed: "It's no wonder Kong Yue hasn't stepped into the Heavenly Prison for more than forty years."

Lei Hu opened the door of the tavern with the key in the letter.

Nian An followed him in and sat at the table, looked up at Lei Hu, and said softly: "Serve the wine, the tourists are drunk."