Strange Tale of Qingluan

At dusk, the four of them entered a large city together. Peng Zuo and Peng Zuo were still vigilant, and they wore scarves over their heads, half covering their faces.There are several inns in the city, there are also large inns that are very lively, and there are also small inns that are a little deserted, but Li Xuan led the other three people into a small inn.

At this moment, the waiter in the inn was cleaning the lobby of the inn at leisure. When he turned his head and saw four figures coming in one after another, he couldn't help being overjoyed and hurried up to greet him. He said enthusiastically, "Four guests, do you want to stay in the inn?" Looking carefully at Li Xuan and Su Zhongming I am even more delighted to see that it is a robe of silk and silk.

Su Zhongming asked: "How many vacancies are there now?"

The shop waiter smiled and said: "Guest officer! Even if you want four rooms, this shop is more than enough!"

Su Zhongming asked again: "Then how much is it for a night here?"

The shop waiter replied: "This shop is a small shop. Most of the people who come to stay here are scholars, martial artists, and wandering performers. The price is also cheaper than that of a big shop. It only costs six yuan a night."

Su Zhongming said happily: "Your business is quite honest! Then I want four rooms!"

Li Xuan interrupted with a straight face: "Don't make up your own mind, we only need two rooms."

Su Zhongming was dissatisfied: "Six cents for one night..."

Li Xuan glanced back at the nervous looking two people behind him, and gave the reason: "It's more convenient and safer for two people to share a room."

Su Zhongming had no choice but to act according to Li Xuan's words, and said to the waiter: "Two rooms..."

The shop waiter still had a smile on his face: "Four guest officers! This way please!" He led them up the stairs to the second floor.

When we reached the third room on the left, the clerk stopped and explained: "Guest officer, this room and that room are all vacant."

Su Zhongming chose the second room on the left based on his intuition, walked over, and pushed open the door.

The waiter in the shop added: "Guest officer, the price of lodging in this shop is cheap. The owner of the shopkeeper is afraid that the customers will slip away in the middle of the night, so he has something to say - all guest officers who come to stay in the shop need to pay a deposit of [-] Wen per person."

Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment: "I still need to pay a deposit..."

Li Xuan didn't say a word, just quietly took out [-] Wen, handed it to the shop assistant, and walked into the room where Su Zhongming opened the door.Seeing this, Su Zhongming had no choice but to follow Li Xuan into the room.

In the dead of night, Li Xuan gently knocked on the door next door, Zuo Dashu opened the door in response, but rubbed his sleepy eyes with one hand, fixed his eyes on Li Xuan, and cheered up.Li Xuan said nothing, just pointed to his room with an index finger, and then went back to the room, Zuo Dashu immediately woke up Peng Sandun, and walked into the next room.

There was a table and a lamp, but there were four people sitting in front of the table, discussing important matters in secret in the middle of the night.

According to the dictation of Peng Zuo and Peng Zuo, Li Xuan drew the topographic map of Yanling on the paper, and marked the place where the officers and soldiers of the Shaole and Lechang people who were forced to labor - the labor factory.

Su Zhongming looked at the topographical map, frowned, put the topographical map on the table, and said simply: "Just! Let's send a letter to Yangui Island or Yanjiabao, and invite all those who are good at martial arts, maybe it will be done soon." solved!"

Li Xuan had no choice but to tap his head lightly, and replied: "It's too hasty to scare the snake! This matter, haste makes waste, and this is the grievance between Shaole people and Lechang people, and has nothing to do with other people." , we have to come up with a plan ourselves!"

Zuo Dashu agreed with his lips: "The king is right! You must rely on yourself to save the people!"

Su Zhongming expressed his own opinion: "However, the terrain of Yanling is really too complicated! The labor factory is also like a prison cell! The officers and soldiers are guarded in shifts every night. How can we save this?"

Li Xuan thought for a while and suggested: "Why don't you distract the officers and soldiers first?"

Su Zhongming asked: "How to distract?"

Li Xuan replied: "We must create an accident, so that the five hundred officers and soldiers will defect to the trap we set!"

Su Zhongming pondered for a moment, and imagined: "If the palace under construction collapses, how many officers and soldiers will rush to find out the truth?"

Peng Sandun blurted out: "Those officers and soldiers are very strict in guarding, and they never act rashly!"

Su Zhongming stared at him for a moment, and only asked: "Then how did you escape from the labor factory?"

Peng Sandun was about to open his lips, but Zuo Dashu took the lead and said: "It was late at night, and the officers and soldiers were all drinking the imperial wine that had just been delivered! It was given by the king! The officers and soldiers were very happy! They all had a good drink Yes! At that time, we were the only two brothers in the Shaole Brothers who were not asleep, so we sneaked out, and when we saw the sentinel, we said, "The head of the soldier told the two military masters to go in for a drink! He said that he has sent a successor, and he will arrive soon!" 'As soon as they leave, our two brothers will run faster than a rabbit! There is no way! This is an escape!"

After hearing this, Su Zhongming laughed out loud, and blurted out bluntly: "I didn't expect you to be good at acting! It's an Oscar for Best Actor!"

Zuo Dashu was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion, "Grandfather! What is this 'Oscar'? What is 'Protagonist'?"

Su Zhongming knew that he couldn't explain it to them no matter what, so he said cheerfully: "It's just a metaphor, just a metaphor, don't take it too seriously!"

Li Xuan interjected: "We can try to destroy the palace and lure all the officers and soldiers there! Moreover, it must be in the dead of night!"

Peng Sandun was worried: "However, with the strength of the four of us, how can we destroy the palace?"

Li Xuan replied bluntly: "Use gangster medicine!"

Su Zhongming nodded in agreement: "Yeah!"

When Peng and Zuo heard about this product for the first time, they immediately said in unison: "The gangster drug?"

Su Zhongming smiled and said: "When the time comes, you will know the power of this thing! When Qishaole people are gathered and an army is established, we will use it to attack Kou Xin!"

Just do what you say, Li Xuan took the pen, drew on the topographic map, and planned: "Zhongming! You and Dashu are responsible for arranging the gangster medicine in the palace and igniting the gangster medicine. And Sandun and I Take advantage of the chaos to save people! After the explosion of gangster drugs, some officers and soldiers will stay to guard the Shaole people strictly, but with Sandun and I, we should be able to deal with it. At that time, Sandun will lead the Shaole people from here This mountain road is full of rocks, which can hide everyone's whereabouts, and then lead everyone into the woods."

Peng Sandun asked: "So many officers and soldiers have come to the place where the palace is built, what will Su Engong and my brother do?!"

Su Zhongming replied: "Behind the palace, there is a river! After the gangster's drug ignited, Dashu and I jumped into the river and escaped by water!"

Li Xuan added: "Before implementing the plan, Sandun and Dashu must learn swordsmanship with me for five days! And Zhongming is in charge of preparing gangster medicine!"

Su Zhongming nodded: "Yeah!"

Li Xuan said again: "Let's start at dawn! At dawn, I will personally call Dashu and Sandun."

When Peng Zuo heard the words, they couldn't help blurting: "Ah?! It's so early! It's only half an hour before dawn!"

Li Xuan crossed his arms in front of his chest, and said calmly: "So, go back to sleep now! After half an hour, I will call you personally."

Peng and Zuo were terrified, stood up quickly, ran out of the house, and ran back to the room. After a while, there was no sound from the next room.

Li Xuan put away the topographic map, stood up, passed a pair of slender and powerful arms around Su Zhongming's back, and urged: "It's getting late, let's sleep too."

Su Zhongming turned around and asked with a smile: "You want to take them to practice swordsmanship against those officers and soldiers, then I... can always sleep in a book suit?"

Li Xuan replied: "You don't have to get up at dawn, but you must get up before the sun rises!" After saying that, he lifted Su Zhongming up and sent him to the couch.

When I woke up from the dream, there was already a golden light shining in front of the window, but the surrounding area was still empty.

Thinking that Li Xuan took the two of them out to practice swordsmanship early in the morning, Su Zhongming didn't worry about it. He got up slowly, washed and washed leisurely, and when he turned around, he found that Li Xuan had already carefully prepared breakfast for him—a few steamed buns were randomly placed together In an old bowl, beside the bowl is a water bag.

Su Zhongming picked up a steamed bun casually, and couldn't help but slightly raised the corners of his lips. Unexpectedly, the steamed bun was still warm.He took a bite of the steamed bun and took a sip of the water in the water bag. The noodles of the steamed bun seemed to be mixed with goat's milk. Although it was not sweet after the mouth, it was full of goat's milk fragrance.

In the afternoon, Su Zhongming left the inn alone, and asked around for the largest medicine house in the big city. After an hour, he came to the medicine house. As soon as he entered the shop, he saw three medicine boys busy, one of them was using a scale in front of the medicine cabinet. The sons weighed the medicinal materials, one was distributing the newly entered medicinal materials, and the other was grinding the medicinal materials with their feet.

Su Zhongming went straight to the medicine cabinet and asked, "Can you get the medicine?"

The drug boy who was holding the scale stopped and opened his lips and said, "Of course it can! As long as there is a prescription!"

Su Zhongming said frankly: "I don't have a prescription, I just want to make a medicine to nourish my body."

The medicine boy asked, "What kind of medicine do you want to make? I'll grab it for you."

Su Zhongming replied: "Bitter nitrate and sulfur! Ten catties each!"

Yaotong was taken aback: "Ten...ten catties?!"

Hearing the words, the other two drug boys couldn't help but stop and looked back at Su Zhongming.

The medicine boy continued: "Guest officer. You want ten catties, which is too much. I'm afraid it will hurt you if you use it by yourself."

Su Zhongming hurriedly told a lie, and replied: "There are six people in my family, and we all need these two kinds of herbs. If your store really doesn't have enough, you can give me as much as you have."

The drug boy said: "The ten catties that the guest officer asked for are also available. Last month, the store just bought more than [-] catties. Please wait for a while." From a drawer under the medicine cabinet.

Su Zhongming probed his head and saw a cloth bag that was almost full in the drawer.The drug boy untied the rope, opened the cloth bag, scooped up milky white saltpetre like rice grains with an iron ladle, put it into the iron pan of the scale, weighed it, poured it into a paper bag, and repeated, It took a while to pack ten catties of saltpeter, a total of ten square thick paper bags, and put them on the table.

Then, the drug boy went to the center of the medicine cabinet and pulled out another drawer. Su Zhongming stood on his left side, vaguely seeing the gold-like sulfur powder in the bag.

After filling the ten square paper bags, the drug boy tapped the beads again, settled on the price, and opened his lips: "Guest officer, it's a total of one, two, and eighty cash."

Su Zhongming took out the money and looked at the money in his hand. Although he couldn't give up, he still handed it over. After paying the bill, he returned to the inn with ten paper bags in each hand.

By chance, Li Xuan also came back to the inn, only a cup of tea earlier than Su Zhongming. He drank tea in the room and heard the creaking sound of the lattice door. The other end of the body is naturally those heavy medicinal materials.

He stepped forward, took the herbs, put them gently on the ground, then grabbed Su Zhongming's hand and looked at it, then looked into Su Zhongming's eyes: "There are marks all over the hands, are they heavy?"

Su Zhongming replied: "It's nothing, it just cost one, two or eighty Wen."

Li Xuan only said: "Money is not a serious problem, as long as you are fine." He rubbed several red scars on Su Zhongming's hands, but before smoothing the scars, they became warm.

Su Zhongming said: "There is still charcoal left, where should I find it?"

Li Xuan replied without hesitation: "The clerk in the shop boils water every day, just ask him, there should be."

Su Zhongming said bluntly: "We need a lot of charcoal, and it may not be enough from the waiter in the shop."

Li Xuan suggested: "Then go to the mountains to find more dry firewood, and then burn it, and there will be charcoal."

Su Zhongming nodded, expressing his agreement, then raised his eyes and looked into Li Xuan's eyes, which were a pair of calm eyes, which were also calmly meeting his gaze.

After staring tenderly for a moment, the two of them were silent, Li Xuan suddenly only touched Su Zhongming's fingers tenderly, and the fingertips of each other gradually became tender, but suddenly, Su Zhongming threw himself into Li Xuan's arms, wrapping his hands around Li Xuan's. Li Xuan's body area, resting his head lightly on Li Xuan's shoulder.

As for Li Xuan, he gently embraced him with one hand, and gently touched his back with the other hand.