Shanglin Night Snow

The sky is high and the clouds are light, the sun is shining, it is a good day to go out and wander.

Seeing the two people in front of them getting closer and closer, whispering each other from time to time, Guo Kai felt an ominous feeling in his heart.

"Really?" Mu Yunqi showed surprise, motioning for Xun Miao to come forward and say.

The latter followed his words, with a look of joy on the face of a lucky man: the first time I accompanied the driver, it was inevitable to be cautious, but just now I didn't mean to say a word, which caught the emperor's attention. Dare to speak nonsense! But if you ask those who come and go around here, no one knows about this matter, no one knows about it!"

Mu Yunqi touched his chin: "This person walks around the city naked in broad daylight, but doesn't attract people to watch?"

Xun Miao sneered: "Why not?" His eyes turned: "It is said that the guy had an affair with someone, and the scandal was revealed, so he fled in embarrassment. At that time, the copper basin on his head couldn't tell the direction, and he almost smashed into the window of the Hu family's meat pie shop. Bad..." When it comes to the wonderful part, Nai's eyebrows are beaming.

"Bronze basin?" Mu Yunqi wondered, "What's the purpose of supporting that thing?"

"Block your face!" Xun Miao sneered, and in the next moment, he might feel lost, and then restrained himself a little, saying: "The so-called human face is like a tree, he doesn't want to teach people to see the face clearly. From this, people speculate about this person." The status may be unusual, but it is either rich or expensive."

Mu Yunqi's eyes lit up: "So, maybe..." He smiled gloatingly, and asked, "Will people recognize it?"

Xun Miao sincerely regretted: "It's strange to say that many people missed him that day, but they didn't see his face clearly. Later, because they suspected that he was a thief, a group of people chased him along the street to catch him, but it was a pity that he escaped in the end. .”

"That's it..." Mu Yunqi felt embarrassed when he heard the words, and turned to look at Guo Kai: "Does Guo Qing..." He stopped talking halfway, with a look of surprise on his face: "Guo Qing, what are you...why?" Cover your face with your sleeves?"

"I..." Guo Kai was stunned, and lowered his sleeves a few inches, revealing a pair of deeply disturbed eyes: "At the moment, the sun is so strong that my eyes are dazzled by the sun, so I use my sleeves to block it."

"The sun is shining?" Xun Miao scratched his head, "Why didn't I realize..." Before he spoke, he suddenly saw two terrifying and fierce lights in the man's eyes, his throat tightened in shock, and his words stopped abruptly.

"It's been a long time, but you haven't arrived yet?" Guo Kai took the opportunity to grab the words.

"It's - it's here, it's right in front..." Xun Miao raised his head and pointed, and took another look at the other person, but his face was peaceful, how could there be any trace of fierceness?It seems that just now, or dazzled.

Sure enough, the three of them went out of Zhuque Gate, turned two more streets, and arrived at the largest vegetable market in Nancheng.

After noon, there were very few pedestrians in the market, and the vendors were as listless as the wilting melons and vegetables left.However, this does not hinder the interest of the officials in "hunting for novelties". They looked around all the way, and occasionally weighed two melons and vegetables as a gesture to ask the price. Only those street vendors can tell at a glance that he is a rich man who is very bored and goes out for fun. Son, so they were all perfunctory with a few words, and didn't intend to spend too much time with him.Fortunately, Mu Yunqi didn't mind, and seemed to enjoy it.

With the driver beside him, Xun Miao was not idle either. Normally, the prices of melons and vegetables in the market would be discounted in the afternoon, so he wanted to take the opportunity to pick and buy.However, when I asked along the way, the price was not satisfactory, and I returned because it was a feather.Guo Kai said with a smile that it must be the bargaining that is not right, so he taught Mu Yunqi to hear it, and suddenly became curious, and decided to try and compare the two separately.

Xun Miao had no choice but to take him to a vegetable stall. The owner of the stall was a woman, so it might be easier to talk to her if she wanted to.When I asked about the price right now, it was almost the same as the previous ones. Xun Miao pretended to look through a few melons and vegetables, picked out the shortcomings one by one, and said that the prices of the first two were a few cents lower. Shen didn't allow him to pick any more, and said: "You little man is strange. You have already found a place to save money, but why do you still come here? Just go and buy the cheap one!" He blushed as he spoke, and fled away silently.

When it was Guo Kai's turn, the two stopped with him in front of a vegetable stall.The stall owner is an old man with pale temples and a yellow face. He looks like an old farmer in the suburbs.There was a donkey tied to a tree behind him, it should have the strength to transport vegetables into the city, and looking at the stall, there were not many vegetables left, but compared to other places, they were all fresh.

Seeing a few people stop, the old man didn't seem to be happy, on the contrary, he didn't even bother to solicit customers, obviously he concluded that he was here just for fun.Guo Kai didn't care about it, he pretended to bow his head to choose the dish, and praised him, he only talked about the benefits of this dish, a few words made the old man happy and showed off his previous indifference, he not only answered every question, but also carefully prepared for him. He chooses.At this point, Guo Kai changed the subject, and asked the old man where he lived, the family situation, etc., and the old man answered them one by one.

Picking up a vegetable with wilted leaves, Guo Kai suddenly couldn't bear it: "It's hot, and the vegetables tend to wilt in the afternoon, so it must be hard to sell?"

The old man nodded: "If you can't sell it at night, you have to drag it back and eat some for yourself. If the rest is rotten, you have to throw it away." Sighing, he asked: "If Xiaolang has a lot of people in his family, you might as well buy them all. The old man can discount them all." with you."

As soon as Guo Kai readily agreed, he stopped choosing and bought all the old man's melons and vegetables at half price.

Leaving the vegetable stall, Mu Yunqi said it was interesting, while Xun Miao admired him and asked how he tricked the old man into selling that vegetable voluntarily.

Guo Kai smiled: "Flattery is true, but it's too much to say 'spoofing'. People in the countryside are honest and loyal. I only praise him a few words, and he is happy, but what I say is also true. He is a dish It’s hard to sell after noon, and his home is far outside the city, and he has to go back before dark, unlike the vegetable vendors in the city, it’s okay to set up a stall until nightfall, and it’s not like those big shops, the remaining vegetables can be sent at night A restaurant that he frequents frequently. For him, selling the remaining melons and vegetables at a discount is the best choice, but the old man has a stubborn temper, and since there are not many vegetables left, he thinks he doesn't need to beg for them, but if he meets someone with a temper Yes, it’s another matter.”

Xun Miao listened carefully, nodding repeatedly.Mu Yunqi pondered for a while, then suddenly realized that he wanted to try it by himself.

The three of them wandered around to a meat stall, but there was not much left at the stall.The stall owner was a dark and thin man, with a cold face when he saw people, and a big black dog tied to his feet.

Mu Yunqi made that deduction in his heart, so he stepped forward and pretended to choose carefully, but he didn't know whether the meat was good or bad, and he was too lazy to praise even the living, so how could he know how to praise a bunch of dead people? Meat?Because he pondered for a long time, but it was difficult to say a word.At the end, he simply skipped the bunch of trivial words at the beginning, raised his head and pretended to look at the sky, and said: "In such a hot day, the raw meat is exposed to the sun and bitten by flies and gnats. Within half a day, it will stink, right? I see..." At this point, I saw the black and thin man looking straight in the eyes, but it was hard to say that there was any kindness in that look...

A quarter of an hour later.

The wind whistling in his ears, Mu Yunqi was already dazzled and his feet were weak, panting, but he didn't dare to stop, he was really afraid that if his footsteps slowed down, he would teach the vicious dog to jump up and bite off his neck.At this moment, I heard someone's voice behind me saying: "Don't run away...the vicious dog has gone..." Although he couldn't quite believe it, his footsteps slowed down, and he looked back cautiously while panting, but he couldn't see the black shadow on the empty street .He paused for a moment, took a long breath, but almost fell down, but fortunately, a pair of hands behind him caught him in time.

"Xun... Where's Xun Miao?" Guo Kai supported the panting man, but his face changed when he looked around.

Mu Yunqi then turned his head to look for him, but he was surprised when he didn't see him: Could it be that the vicious dog caught up with him?Then... the back felt cold, and he didn't dare to think about it.

"Wait for the minister to search around, and the lord (1) will rest here first." Guo Kai frowned and said, picked up a wooden stick and walked back.

"I... will be with you." Mu Yunqi hesitated for a while, and finally lifted his sore legs to follow.Thinking of this in broad daylight, that villain would not dare to take it seriously and let the dog do the murder!

The two walked one after the other, when they turned the corner of the street, they saw a person staggering towards them from a distance.

"Zhiwei!" Guo Kai called out, seeing the man looked up, he collapsed as if his legs and feet were suddenly weak.

Is it hurt?Mu Yunqi and Guo Kai ran forward full of suspicion.

"Xun Qing, you...is this...?" After finally seeing his body clearly, Mu Yunqi stared in astonishment.

Kneeling down opposite him, Guo Kai's eyes were three parts ashamed and seven parts sympathetic.

The man was holding a pork leg in each hand, at least twenty or thirty catties, with a thick rope hanging from his neck, a piece of white fat meat hanging from one side, and pork loin and lungs on the other side to wait for the water, and cabbage was tied around his waist. There are five or six plants in size, and grass ropes hang down on the left and right, and seven or eight radishes are tied.

No wonder he was so tired and limp: his whole body was so heavy, it was not easy for him, a weak scholar, to be able to take a step.

After a while, the person watching the other party always calmed down, looked Guo Kai up and down with a glance, his face turned cold, and he asked anxiously: "Where is the wax gourd?"

Guo Kai was startled, pondered for a while, then shook his head: "I just ran away in a hurry, or just threw it away."

"Lost it?!" Pain flashed in his eyes, "Do you know it's..."

"Don't you still have so much?" Guo Kai pointed at his waist, his tone slightly unkind: Actually, what right does he have to complain?He didn't pay a single penny for those dishes.

"Forget it, although I lost the wax gourd, but you bought a lot of new meat, it's enough to pass the time." Mu Yun prayed to recover, trying to smooth things over, "Fortunately, I didn't get bitten by a vicious dog. good."

Unexpectedly, as soon as this remark came out, the man's cheeks were twitching, and he burst into tears: "I didn't want to buy this meat!" He stretched out his legs to reveal the broken trousers, and his eyes were full of resentment: "I just ran out a few times. He taught the vicious dog to catch up with him, but the stall owner said that we are deliberately provoking, and he must teach me to finish buying his meat before giving up!" He hatefully beat the pork leg in his hand to the fat on his chest: "Fortunately, I Not enough money, so he asked me to buy these, but he was not allowed to choose, I don't like fatty meat..." Sobbing, "You must know that the two hundred cash is my expenses for five or six days!"

There was a moment of silence.

Mu Yun stroked the forehead: "Tomorrow, I will send the money to the secretary's department..."

At the end, the person who saw him smiled and jumped onto the cart, and drove away briskly, full of meat and vegetables, Guo Kai's heart lightened.

"Let's go, while it's still early, I still have one place to go." Mu Yunqi turned around and said something lightly, as if he was relieved.

"I still have to go..." Guo Kai blurted out, but after thinking that it was not his turn to make decisions, he resentfully stopped talking and followed quickly.