Taiping Inn

The three of them walked northward.

At first, in addition to asking Li Xuandu about the difficulties in cultivation, the little girl would also ask Yu Qingning some questions like "Where is the Jade Girl Mountain or what does the Emperor Girl Peak look like". Later, when she approached Longmen Mansion, which was once known as the "Eastern Capital" and the "God's Capital", she became silent. The little girl is still young and is not good at disguising her expressions and hiding her emotions. Since she met Li Xuandu, she has been very close to this brother who is not related by blood but is better than blood. Now that she has arrived in Longmen Mansion, it means that she is about to part, so how can she not feel sad.

However, Li Xuandu did not do anything to comfort her, and he seemed to let things take their own course.

After walking for another two days, they finally arrived.

Standing on the wide official road, you can look up and see the towering city walls of Longmen Mansion. After all, this was once the ancient capital of several dynasties. In terms of scale and regulations, it is actually not inferior to the current imperial capital.

Li Xuandu stopped and looked.

It's a really big city, but it's a little old, and a little bit decadent. After years of accumulation, it still has three-tenths of wealth and three-tenths of honor, like the king of flowers, the peony, which has bloomed and withered for more than a thousand years. However, one leaf can tell the coming of autumn, and one can imagine how magnificent it must have been in its heyday. It is worthy of being the capital of thirteen dynasties.

After waiting for a while, Yu Qingning asked softly: "Zifu, shall we enter the city?"

Li Xuandu came back to his senses and said softly: "Enter the city."

Longmenfu, as the ancient Central Plains, is also the "Central Plains" mentioned by the people of Jianghu. Only here can the word "Zhong" be added. Other places are either the Western Regions, the Northwest, or Jiangnan, Lingnan, or Jiangbei, Liaobei. Even if the capital of a country has moved to the north, for the people of Jianghu, this is still the center of the world. After all, for ordinary people of Jianghu, they have always kept a distance from the court. The Imperial Capital is more like a place that is quite far away and they try not to set foot on it. Therefore, this place has become a holy place in the minds of countless ordinary people of Jianghu.

Especially in Longmen Prefecture City, in addition to the Wanxiang Academy of Confucianism, almost all other sects, whether good or evil, have set up branch palaces and courtyards here, including the Xiaozhenren Mansion of Zhengyi Sect, Qingping Garden of Taiping Sect, Yanyu Tower of Qingwei Sect, Qingmuxuan of Donghua Sect, Miaoyin Pavilion of Xuannv Sect, and Cainu Pavilion of Pinnv Sect, etc., without exception.

However, Li Xuandu did not intend to stay in any of the courtyards when he entered the city this time, and Yu Qingning did not force him, and accompanied him to the largest inn in the city-Mingsheng Inn.

Speaking of Mingsheng Inn, it is also famous in the huge Longmen Prefecture. It is conveniently located on the street opposite the Wanxiang Academy. In a year, no one knows how many people go to the Wanxiang Academy to study or pay homage. When they are unable to enter or wait, they wait here to see and rest. There are also many people in the academy who set up wine and talk here. Most of them are generous. It is said that even without wine and food, a pot of good tea costs twenty taels of silver. Relying on this business, he earned enough money to last for several lifetimes. Then he bought the surrounding shops one after another, connected them, and expanded the scale of the inn again and again. He also decorated it carefully, separated many luxurious private rooms by the windows on the second floor, and separated the lobby on the first floor with screens so that guests who came here could drink and talk.

At the same time, there is another interesting phenomenon in Mingsheng Inn. The good or bad business of Mingsheng Inn is related to whether there are major events in the world. For example, two great masters in the world agreed to have a gambling fight in Longmen Mansion, or famous scholars held a gathering in Wanxiang Academy. There will definitely be many people who come here many days in advance to book a private room, so that they can drink here and wait to watch the excitement. At this time, the price of both wine and food and private rooms in this restaurant is doubled than usual. The gold and silver in the counter is like running water, day and night, and the sun and moon are bright. Mingsheng Inn must rise, so people in Longmen Mansion say that the innkeeper has a good name.

This inn is also the place where Li Xuandu and Zhang Luanshan decided to meet.

Fortunately, nothing big happened recently, so Mingsheng Inn has not raised its price. Li Xuandu spent 20 taels of silver to order a pot of Junshan Yinzhen - here, no matter what kind of tea, even the tea leaves known as "Starry Sky", are also 2 taels of silver, because only by ordering tea can you get a private room.

After Li Xuandu booked the private room, he took out a "son talisman" from the "Eighteenth Floor" and burned it. The "mother talisman" was in Zhang Luanshan's hand. The two agreed in the letter that after Li Xuandu arrived at Mingsheng Inn, he would burn the "son talisman" sent with the letter, and then Zhang Luanshan would come to Mingsheng Inn to meet.

About two hours later, a man dressed as a scholar in blue and a plain-looking woman came to the lobby of Mingsheng Inn and asked if there was a guest named Li. A waiter immediately led the two through the bustling lobby and went to the second floor. There was a corridor outside each private room because there were many private rooms on the second floor. There was a door at the entrance of the corridor. At this time, the waiter stopped in front of the door outside the corridor.

Logically, the waiter should open the door and let the two in, but the waiter had no intention of opening the door. He stretched out his hand to grab the door knocker but did not push it open. He half-bent his body to block the door, with a smile on his face: "Please wait for a moment, my two guests. I will let you in and report first."

Although he said so, the waiter had no intention of moving.

The scholar in blue had lived in Longmen Mansion for a long time, and this was not his first time to come to Mingsheng Inn. Naturally, he knew that the waiter was asking for a reward, and a trace of disgust flashed across his eyes.

The woman next to her was here for the first time. She stared at the waiter and asked with a smile, "Just tell me, how much silver do you want?"

"Cheer, please see." The guy was not afraid at all and said with a smile on his face: "We have been running Mingsheng Inn for a few years. One or two silvers are always the same price."

The woman took out a piece of silver from her sleeve and threw it to the friend, saying, "Open the door."

The guy took the money, but his body was still blocking the door. He reached out and grabbed the knocker of the other door, which seemed to push but not push. Obviously, the two doors would have to be rewarded twice.

The smile on the woman's face slowly subsided, she took out a copper coin from her sleeve and threw it under the servant's feet, "It's just that much money, open the door."

The reason why this Mingsheng Restaurant dares to act like this is because it has the background of several sacrificial wines in the Wanxiang Academy, so even the guys are very arrogant. Not only are they used to eating ordinary students in the Academy on weekdays, but they are even outsiders. People in the world may be in their eyes. They have been humiliated so much. They are angry at this time. They raise their hands and want to grab the woman's clothes. But they are blurred before their eyes, but the woman grabbed her shoulder. , unable to move. Then the woman pinched the back of his neck with her other hand, broke his head over, and whispered in his ear: "Is it enough to exchange for one tael of silver for a head? No matter how you look at it, it's all you Earn."

The guy was afraid, but he was pinched by someone's neck and his words were squeezed out of his throat, but his words were a little unscrupulous: "I don't know, I dare..."

The woman was still pinching his neck, like a chicken, "I am still worried that you dare not. I want to see which school priest is trying to show off for you."

When the guy heard the woman calling the backstage of the inn, he was shocked and looked deserted, and said tremblingly: "This little lady is from the school..."

The woman let go of her hand and said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, I'm not from the Wanxiang Academy. You can go to your boss now and say that the people from the Pin Nu Sect are here to smash the situation. OK?"

When the guy heard the three words "Pinn and Female Sect", he suddenly felt that the woman was so angry and said trembling: "No, no... okay, the villain knew that he was wrong... he would never dare... not gossip."

While speaking, the guy knelt on the ground with a "thump", picked up the copper coin with his fingers and delivered it to the woman with a tael of silver from before: "Since he is a nobleman from the Female Sect, the shop naturally dares not collect money. , and you should return it all."

The woman did not reach out to pick her up and said with disgust: "Get out."

The guy was ashamed of an amnesty, but he didn't dare to greedy for the money in his hand. He first put it on the ground, then got up and hurried out.

"Stop." The woman called him again, "Do you look down on the reward I gave?"

The guy's face suddenly froze. Without saying a word, he picked up the silver and copper coins on the ground. Seeing the woman wave her sleeves, he carefully retreated.