Qin Shen's Inn

After the early robbery of the Dragon and Han Dynasty, the Three Realms were separated. There was a tall building tree growing on Buzhou Mountain, which could communicate with heaven, earth, humans, gods and ghosts.Tens of thousands of years later, Gonggong raged against Buzhou Mountain, and Buzhou Mountain collapsed, and the building trees were burned. The fire lasted for decades, and the three realms also lost contact for decades.

Later, Emperor Haotian built a house with the ashes of construction wood and stood it on the bank of the Santu River.

The vicissitudes of life in the world, time has changed, the battle of gods, the fall of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the gods are deeply involved in the affairs of the world, to avoid such things from happening again and affect the luck of the world, Emperor Haotian divides a part of Wangxiang and puts it into the world. Communications are restricted.

Since then, there has been Wangxiang Inn.

There was manager of inn, too.

Without the contact of the Three Realms, the Taoism in the human world gradually declined, and the human race prospered, which lasted for thousands of years and entered the Dharma-ending Age.

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The entire inn faces south and is a "Hui"-shaped building. The west side of the first floor is the staff dormitory, the north side is the financial office warehouse, etc., and the east side is the boss's living place. There are simple furnishings and daily necessities inside.

It is cool to be a boss, because compared with the staff dormitory in a single room, the four-bedroom, two-living room and two-bathroom where the boss lives is too luxurious. In the living room, there is a large floor-to-ceiling window that Qin Shen likes. The wooden platform into the water has a wide view and a beautiful environment. A house of the same size cannot be bought in the urban area for 300 million yuan.

Of course, a deserted corner of a backwoods town isn't worth much.A house can be as big as it is bold.

"We will live here from now on. Do you like it or not? You can plant trees and flowers in the yard, and you can sit on the platform and fish." Qin Shen told Diudiu earnestly, "The river is very deep, you are not allowed to go alone. Close to the river bank, you know!"

"Where are grandparents?" Because they rely on water here, the teacher told them not to play in the rivers and lakes in the first safety class at school. Diu Diu remembers it very well, so he won't make mistakes.He is more concerned about their living here. What about grandparents? He squeezed the fingers in front of him. He doesn't want to come out to live with his father. What should he do?

Diu Diu was brought up by his grandparents, and it is normal to be close to grandparents. Qin Shen doesn't want father and son to be separated forever, and he doesn't want to have any regrets if he missed the future before. Living together with father and son can better cultivate their relationship , my mother has always encouraged myself to do this. Originally, the work in the city was going well and the child would be sent to school in the city.

Now, it's just a change of place, and the cultivation of father-son relationship still needs to continue.

Qin Shen squatted down, looked at Diu Diu at the same level, and looked into his eyes, "Grandpa and grandma can live with us, of course, if they don't want to, Diu Diu can live with grandpa and grandma in the town, but Dad alone One can be lonely here too."

Diudiu lowered his eyes and lowered his head, looked at his pinched fingers, and said in a dilemma: "Okay, let me think about it."

Qin Shen rubbed his son's furry head, "Thank you, son." It's not like there's no progress at all since he's been back for nearly a year. His son didn't even want to call him when he just came back, but now he will at least think about it, right?

There is a long way to go, Qin Shen must continue to work hard.

"Let's go, let's go to see the magical place."

Diudiu looked up at his father, and when he saw that his father was not angry, he let out a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand to hold his father's big hand, and followed his father's footsteps to the northwest corner.

Never think that children do not understand anything when they are young. They have their own way of thinking and world concept in their little heads, as well as their own thinking and worries. Adults should learn to respect, right?

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Nothing is planted in the fertile soil in the atrium, and an old well stands quietly in a corner. It will be convenient for water to be planted in the atrium in the future.

Walking along the corridor, there is an upward staircase next to the room that is used as a warehouse. Qin Shen has no doubts about the unknown, and directly takes his son's hand to step up the stairs and walk up.

He believed in his grandfather, who was someone who could sacrifice a hundred years of freedom for him.

The stairs are not long, and the exit is a bit dark, as if covered with a curtain. When people pass through, the body can feel a slight stagnation, as if passing through a large piece of jelly that is not solidified enough.The air seems to have become a little thicker, with a faint floral fragrance, shallow, faint, not a pleasant fragrance, nor is it very annoying.

The "curtain" is very thin, and when you step over it, the darkness is fleeting. When you look closely, they appear in the corner of a huge building, an inn that is bigger and higher than under the Lion's Head Peak.

The inn is five floors high, and at a glance, it is roughly estimated that there are thousands of rooms.The atrium is covered by a square pool, the water is crystal clear, and there are no living things except pebbles of various colors.

After looking at the general situation of the inn, and then looking up at the sky, the sky in the atrium is blue and clear, but it feels the same as the whole inn, as if covered with a faint yellow halo, like a lightly polluted smog, but No smog pollution.

To the naked eye, everything in the distance and near looks like an old color photo that has been preserved for a certain period of time, covered with a light yellow, with traces of the passage of time.

The corner where they appear is behind the lobby of this inn. You can enter the lobby by pushing the sliding door. The decoration is similar to that of the inn under the Lion's Head Peak, but it is bigger and more open. scenery.

How should I put it, the scenery outside is very large and wide. The big river flows slowly without seeing the other bank, the source and the end point. The small waves gently rush up to the shore under the action of the wind. Sea of ​​red flowers.The filamentous petals sway gently in the wind, and the large flowers are like flowing flames. "When the flowers bloom, the leaves do not appear, and the leaves grow, but the flowers do not appear." This is the legendary Bianhua that grows beside the River Styx.

"Dad, look, it's in the sky." Diu Diu let go of Qin Shen's hand, ran to the window with his short legs, put his face on the window and looked at the sky outside, his eyes were not enough to look at, and his surprise disappeared. In any words, he is still young and does not have a rich vocabulary to describe the scene in front of him.

Not to mention children, even Qin Shen was amazed by the scene in the sky.

There are layers of floating clouds in the blue sky. I don’t know when there is a group of four or five huge fish swimming on the clouds. The black and white bodies are looming. The father and son who came from the world were amazed.

The son's entire face was stuck to the glass, and he couldn't get enough of it.

Qin Shen pushed open the door and shouted to Diudiu, "Come on, let's go out and have a look."

"Yeah." Diu Diu nodded vigorously, and ran over at a faster speed.

Going outside, the view is wider. There is only one building here on a large plain. On one side is a big river like the sea, and a large sea of ​​flowers depending on the river. , little colorful flowers.

The inn is between the two, and there seems to be a big hood covering the surroundings. Only a small piece looks like artificial planting of the other shore flower growing, and the other places are just like the atrium of the "downstairs" human inn, empty.

After coming out, the swimming fish in the sky can be seen more clearly. They are having fun in the clouds, and their big fins touch the body of their companions.

Diudiu raised his neck, the back of his head was almost parallel to the ground, and his feet kept moving to follow the school of fish in the sky.

Seeing that Diudiu was about to step into the artificially planted flowers on the other side, Qin Shen, who had been watching from the side all the time, stopped him, just to save his son from a dispute. The sword prepares for war and defends the country.

The little man held a spear that was smaller than a toothpick, and the spear head shone coldly in the sun. With Qin Shen's eyesight, he could tell that those were sharp and real ones, but they were shrunk by N times, and their lethality to humans was reduced. It's almost like being bitten by a mosquito.

But Qin Shen didn't want his son to risk touching unknown things, so he stopped him and asked Diudiu to look down at the ground.

Diudiu's eyes were wide open, his mouth was "o", and he was overwhelmed by the new things that appeared one after another.

There are hundreds of little people waiting in line at the edge of the flower bushes, clusters of them are like a group of ants ready to go.They are less than half the size of a human palm, wearing armor and holding weapons, guarding their homeland.

Because of their small size, their voices were even lower. Qin Shen and Diudiu could only hear a buzzing sound, but couldn't make out what they were saying.

The crowd split apart like Moses splitting the sea, and an old man who looked very dignified came out with the help of his attendants. He smiled kindly, and looked at Qin Shen and Diudiu without vigilance or nervousness, "The inn's Master, welcome back, shall we chat?"

Miraculously, the old man's voice clearly reached the ears of the father and son.

Qin Shen nodded after thinking about it, sat cross-legged on the ground, and stretched out his hand in front of the small crowd. The old man waved away the nervous guards around him, and walked calmly to Qin Shen's hand.

Qin Shen raised his hand, out of respect to be able to talk to the old man better, raised his hand to the eye-level distance with himself, put Diu Diu on his shoulder, and looked at the old man curiously with his father.

The old man had long hair and a snow-white beard. He was wearing a wide-sleeved gown embroidered with ink patterns and holding a cloud-headed cane in his hand. Just by looking at his clothes, he knew that he was of extraordinary status.

"You are Qin Zheng's grandson, Qin Shen. I traveled here more than 20 years ago and stayed in the inn. I even had a drink with your grandfather, and I met you when you were young."

"Sorry, I can't remember a lot of memories before I was seven years old." So it's useless to make connections and talk about friendship. It's better to directly explain the purpose of coming, such as how they are within the range of the inn.

The old man smiled and was not angry, "More than ten years ago, there were disputes in our country, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, the people were in dire straits, and natural disasters continued. In order to protect the people, I led them to the Wangxiang Inn, hoping to be protected by the owner of the inn. It’s just that the inn was closed for some reason at that time, and I could only rely on my friendship with your grandfather for many years to settle down in the Huashu with a cheeky face. This has been over ten years, and we are used to living and working here in peace.”

"You mean you want to continue living here?"

"Yes." The old man nodded, "I hope I can continue to live and get your protection."

"Yes." Without any hesitation, Qin Shen agreed to the old man's request.

The old man was overjoyed. He knew that the child he had seen would not be a cruel one. The owner of the inn came and the inn was opened, so Zhou Rao Guojing and his people could continue to develop.

Of course, it's okay to live here, but it's impossible to live in vain. Even if Qin Shen thought about it, the old man's heart is not at ease.Besides, the precautions passed to him by his grandfather said that anyone who enters the inn for food and lodging must pay equivalent things, and the flowers are also within the scope of the inn, so they should be given "year-old tribute" to the owner of the inn.

These old men had considered it all, and waved directly to let the clansmen bring up the Sui Gong that had been prepared for more than ten years.

They have lived here for 14 years and eight months. This year's annual tribute will be paid at the end of the year. The previous 14 years are not a lot at all.

Qin Shen was so curious, what exactly was the annual tribute given.

It was an eye-opener to see carts pushed out from the depths of the flowers, similar to carts pulled by oxen.

Diudiu couldn't help squatting beside the flowers to watch, while those little people nervously stood by, afraid that this human child would do anything to hurt them.

Diudiu knows how to measure and respect, and his grandparents taught him very well, so there will be no phenomenon of tossing others in order to satisfy his own happiness.

What the Jing people released were the grains they ate, the silks they wove, and the minerals they dug.

Qin Shen hasn't figured out how much the inn's "equivalent" concept is, but the old man understands the rules, so Qin Shen acquiesced in the amount of the old man's annual tribute, and he can't show his timidity in front of others.