The Snowy Path of the Heroic Blade Chapter 401: Wen Hua without a wooden sword

Xiongcheng has the prosperity of Xiongcheng, and remote towns also have the liveliness of small towns. [Full text reading] This small town located in the southeast of Liyang has always been far away from the flames of war and smoke. If it is a peaceful and prosperous age, you still don’t feel so, but there are some signs of turmoil in the city of Zhoujun, then here it is. It seems particularly peaceful. There are some villages named after the surname near the town. When they worship their ancestors and hang paintings, they are all amazing. In Songjia Village, there is a portrait of the ancestor of the Emperor Song surnamed. The village of Xiaoguo Shangshu naturally feels that it is better than others. It's just that the ancestors of this Songjia Village are noble, and the few people whose surnames are Wen in the village can't be touched. In fact, the elders in the village, even if they have read books for a few days, even if they have carefully read the genealogy, they have no relationship with the Song emperor. They can't tell the ugly Yinmao. It is said that there was a good deed in the village who made a special trip for this. Carrying the small wooden box genealogy, I studied it with an old talented scholar in the small town, and I can’t tell you why. Who would have thought that he would end up being the least motivated young offspring in the village, a guy with the surname Wen. After wandering outside for three years and returning to my hometown, he said that after the death of the people in our village, the two characters Yinchuan were carved on the head of the tombstone. Half of the seed of reading came from Yinchuan County, and the Yinchuan Song clan was a first-class tycoon. There were many civil servants and celebrities. In the last years of Dafeng, he first established himself under the rule of the vassal and then became the first emperor of the Song clan. The ancestors came from the partial branch of the Song family's high gate in Yinchuan. The origin of this Song family village must be that after the fall of that side's separatist power, it continued to migrate in the famous Ganlu Nandu, and finally took root here. After the young man surnamed Wen sorted out the context in this way, the elders in the village understood more or less, even if they didn’t fully understand, they pretended to understand. Listen, it is both the Yinchuan Song clan and Ganlunan. It’s so grand. It can be seen that although our Songjia Village hasn’t even been a child in a hundred years, the ancestors were rich and wealthy, and they must have been too lucky for their ancestors hundreds of years ago. , Future generations of children and grandchildren have no choice but to settle down, it is no longer a fate with wealth. The young offspring surnamed Wen was originally very unwelcome in the village. Unexpectedly, after returning home with a lame leg, he looked like a completely different person. Not only did he lose the appearance of a wooden sword carrying a wooden sword. The restaurant in the town does miscellaneous work, not to mention relying on elder brothers and sisters-in-law, and even sending money to the home. What is more surprising is that the young man also married a virtuous and charming daughter-in-law. A little girl, so many young people surnamed Song, whether they are married or not, look straight.

After getting married and marrying a wife, the surname Wen stopped borrowing from the miscellaneous room in the restaurant and saved some money, so he rented a small yard and three houses in the small town. Remove the sticker on the window. The wedding room full of red festive paper-cuts, one small room is used to store sundries, the other one is not free, the bedding is brand new, and it is cleaned and spotlessly cleaned by a well-mannered woman, because her man said In the future, maybe his brother will come as a guest at home. No matter what, there must be a place to stay, otherwise it is too shameful. Besides, let a friend pay for the money to live in the inn and restaurant. She followed him, feeling the same in her heart. Although her family is not well-off today, her family background can only be considered wealthy, but she is actually a thoughtful woman. At first, she insisted on marrying him. She also gritted her teeth and did not ask her parents for anything. Fortunately, she has seen people’s hearts for a long time. Now she wants to take him back to her family. Although her parents will give some expressions, the elder brothers will more or less untie them. My heart is knotted, knowing that their father can’t let that face down, and it’s inconvenient to drink a big bowl with the brother-in-law at the wine table at home, but they have been to her yard in private, and they don’t forget to bring wine and meat. It’s already like The family is gone. She knew that when she had a child, her parents would hug her grandson and granddaughter, and then she would find the steps down, and she would be completely rid of him. It’s just that no matter how small the town is, the expenses are not small. With the help of a man working as a shop assistant in a restaurant, the two can live a good life, but once the family has a third little mouth, it’s not easy to say, fortunately her. The female celebrity craftsmanship is notoriously pretty. Some sisters have a cloth shop at home. The delicate small objects she sewed one by one stitch are placed on the counter for the customers who buy the cloth. The business of the shop is also good. Three or two points, so this month, how can she have two or three pieces of silver into the account, it is not much worse than the man in charge.

The town is lively these past two days. Before and after the heat, the Zhongyuan Festival has been in the southeast of Liyang since ancient times, and there are also some activities to worship the ancestors and welcome the autumn. Although the Zhongyuan Festival is called Ghost Festival in their dialect. It is said that the king of Yan expressed his mercy, and deliberately opened the door of ghosts during this period of time, so that the deceased can return to the hometown to see the younger generations of the sun, in order to comfort the love between Yin and Yang. In fact, it sounds a little bit infiltrating. Adults and children don’t shy away from anything. They just think they can join in the fun. Monks and Taoist priests will all start to give alms. Ordinary people will also put lights on the river lanterns, especially the young and immature children. Being able to be in the arms of your parents, stand on tiptoes on the bridge railing, or lie on the bluestone slab on the river bank, your eyes are full of colorful lotus lanterns, and your heart is happy and joyful, no less than the Mid-Autumn Festival when you can eat moon cakes. Yesterday he went to the village to pick up his nephew, intending to let his daughter-in-law take the children to go shopping. It happened that the daughter-in-law was ingenious and made two big bamboo basket river lamps, which he was going to sell by the bridge. I believe that with her craftsmanship, he will be out soon. The night tourists rushed to buy out. He used to watch her in the yard to make lights with his own eyes. There are many patterns, flowers, birds, fish and insects, Baolian turtles, cranes, dragons and phoenixes. He really didn’t know how there would be such a clever pair of hands in the world, so he was sitting on the bench. It’s so cool, it’s not easy to get started anyway. When his little nephew of the scholar arrived in the town, he was a little restrained at first. He took him to the restaurant during the day, and listened to the storytelling in the corner obediently. Many, as an uncle, I like and worry about it. What I like is the true temperament of the child, and what I worry about is that I am afraid that I am too honest, and it is easy to suffer when I grow up. The restaurant named Wen’s Xiaoer is now a well-known place in the town. Although most of the restaurants in the town now hire a storyteller to tell stories about the rivers and lakes, they are the only ones who tell stories that are always the freshest and most novel. All of this Naturally, it was his credit. Earlier, it was him who spent a few large tanks of saliva before successfully persuading the shopkeeper of the restaurant. It is the first time for the restaurant to tell about the one-night Guan Xuewu longevity of the Daxueping female martial arts leader, the first to tell about the Buddhist and Taoist debates in the northwestern Taoist ancestor Wudang Mountain, the turbulent changes in the sacred land of the rivers and lakes in Wudi City, and the hundred horses of Wu's sword tomb went north. Cool, can be described as a sensational town. After the people’s tea and dinner, they are all led by the restaurant storyteller. The restaurant business is naturally going up, but the business is booming, and the shopkeeper’s daily income, but the surname Wen is the well-deserved number one hero, the storyteller goes to He secretly paid the first travel expenses for the "learning" of the county town. He never asked for dividends from the shopkeeper. In addition to the copper money paid by the restaurant guests after drinking high, he entered the restaurant. How much it was in a day, and how much it is now, a copper coin has not risen. The shopkeeper stood behind the counter with a smile every day, watching the shop Xiaoer surnamed Wen always run errands, watching the active young man serving tea and drinking wine every day, not knowing what the old man was thinking about.

The storyteller of today’s restaurant was full of enthusiasm. He said that he was a kendo master named Qi Jiajie from Yangjing, and he was the swordsman of many dragon sons, grandchildren and aristocratic children in Tai’an City. , I don’t know why I asked the Dongyue Sword Pond with high mountains and high waters to ask for a masterpiece sword, and then the Qijiajie people first went to the foot of the Wudang Mountain in Beiliang, a town not much more famous than the town where they were located. In the small town, flying sword back, swept tens of thousands of miles, and handed a sword to the young king of foreign surnames sitting in the northwest border of the town. What's more, rising from the ground, standing proudly on the sea of ​​clouds that borders the border between Beiliang Road and Lianghuai Road, it actually blocked the flying sword that can slash the gods! The storyteller was eloquent. When he spoke to the fullest, the old man himself was stunned, not to mention that the audience in the restaurant who used the story to eat and drink, one by one, was speechless and sluggish, stopping the cup and chopsticks, shaking his mind, after returning to his mind, the story has not yet At the end, I haven’t heard the most annoying "Let’s listen

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) Back to the decomposition", of course I have to ask the restaurant for one or two more pots of wine. The nephew surnamed Wendian Xiaoer is the first time to listen to people’s storytelling, and even the first time to listen to people talking about Jianghu people. The affairs of the arena is even more stunned, listening to the heavenly book, sitting on the small bench at the corner of the wall that my uncle moved for me, clenching his fists, raising his ears, and widening his eyes. I just feel that listening to the affairs of the arena is better than reading a book of sages. More interesting.

There is always an end to the story. When the restaurant is also related to the door, the story of Mr. Storyteller is the end. It is night outside the building, and the restaurant is about to close. The shopkeeper who earns a lot of money is probably in a good mood today. Let the cook turn on the small stove, call the Xiaoer of the shop surnamed Wen to serve with his nephew, and have a good meal. This makes the children who have never seen the world happy. It's just that they are young scholars who have gone to private schools and studied. When eating, they are quite a bit of sitting righteously. No matter how greedy, they are not happy with chopsticks. Those on the dinner table are only met. Children can only eat meat and fish during the New Year’s Day. Children dare not to pick more chopsticks. The shopkeeper smiled and helped the children to pick up a lot. The children were a little embarrassed and looked at his uncle timidly. Start eating, your shopkeeper grandpa is a good man in town, very generous. The child smiled shyly at the shopkeeper. The old man laughed loudly. While pouring a glass of wine for himself and the shopkeeper, he pointed his chopsticks to the second floor and told the clever child that he would often come to the restaurant to stop by in the future. Grandpa helps you find a place next to the fence on the patio on the second floor. The old man had a drink with the shop second, and joked that this kid is not like you, and he is honestly pleased. The second person in the shop proudly said that it is lucky to have a temper with my brother. He is very good at reading, and he will be a master of scholars in the future. The child retorted Mr. Dao seriously, and it would be good if he could take the exam for a child in the future. The old man who has been the most respected scholar in his life touched the child’s head, feeling that the county test house test is a stumbling block. Grandpa the shopkeeper tells you here, and every time you pass a door, our restaurant will give you a bag. Big red envelope, in case you get a fame, whether you are a child or a scholar, don’t forget to write a plaque to our restaurant to give your grandfather your face. The child nodded vigorously and was happy with the old man. Uncle bought me a lot of paper and pen, but I am not willing to use it now. I still practice calligraphy with a branch dipped in water by the stream in the village as before, and when the cattle are put on the ground, I will dial. Plan, Mr. said that the stupid bird can make up for the clumsy by flying hard. When there is always a good word, he will write a large plaque for the shopkeeper grandpa. Probably it is rare to drink alcohol. The uncle who is the second child of the shop joked that he is good at reading, and he will have a good reading. It will be easy for those who have read books to kidnap his wife to go home in the future. The nephew who secretly liked a girl of the same age in the village suddenly flushed and glared at his uncle. The man surnamed Wen smiled at the shopkeeper, drinking and drinking.

After dinner, he asked his nephew to go home first, and he himself had to clean up the restaurant, and then met over the bridge in town.

The shopkeeper of the restaurant looked at the young people who were busy packing up the dishes, drank the wine, and said a little drunk: "When I took you in, I didn't expect such a day. At that time, I just thought that your kid was pitiful. I wondered if it wasn't. If you are forced to the road, you won’t come to my small chaotic place to eat and wait to die. How can you think of helping the restaurant to make a lot of money. To be honest, this year, the restaurant has made more money than the previous ten years."

The young man raised his head and smiled: "The good people at the shopkeeper have rewards, so they should."

The old man smiled and asked: "Should?"

The young man wondered: "Don't you think it should be?"

The old man said with emotion: "The truth is that good people have good rewards. It's just that a child like your nephew is willing to believe it. I'm such an old guy, I really can't believe it."

The old man looked directly at the conscientious second person in the shop, "Guests who come here to drink, eat and listen to books all think that your kid has no temper, but I don't think it, I always think you kid..."

The young man gags and said: "The shopkeeper wants to say that he is not promising, right?"

The old man laughed and cursed: "Fuck your mother's ass, I really don't know how your daughter-in-law looks at you!"

The young man pointed his finger at his face, and said with a hippie smile: "My father and mother gave me a good-looking child, the shopkeeper, you are really envious of this."

The old man waved his hand, "Don't talk nonsense with you, I want to tell you something serious today."

The young man smiled and stood beside the wine table with his hands folded, "The shopkeeper, just speak up if you have something to do. I, Wen Hua, have nothing to do with me, but I remember who is good to me, and I don’t dare. I don’t have the ability to repay the favor, but I have to say that every bit of grace pays a point, even if it is not finished once, I will pay it all in Wen Hua’s life. So the shopkeeper Yes, don’t be polite to me. The shopkeeper, if you were not willing to take it in, I could not decide where to cut wood and charcoal or work as a part-time job for which family, let alone marrying a wife, and I could barely support myself. Don’t let yourself starve, even if you save money to buy pen and paper for your nephew."

The old man smiled, looked up at the sincere young man, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said, "Most of the restaurant's business will be done by you alone. My shopkeeper is very leisurely every day, so the storyteller said that those who are floating The stories about the rivers and lakes, or the gifted scholars and beautiful ladies and wild foxes, are all heard in the ears. Some have been heard before, but there are a few words that I remember in my heart. Among them, there is probably no one. I care about it, but I am very attached to it, called'being kind of a person since ancient times'. The more I think about it, the more this is true. This is true of doing business and buying, and making friends with people is even more true. So later on the money exchanges in this restaurant, I also feel at ease to make friends I took care of you. At first, I didn’t have any worries. I really wanted to see if you would keep some in my pocket because of this. But I was very surprised. From beginning to end, your kid didn’t take a copper plate. The book is clear, and the bottom of the book is also clean. This is not easy. The face of wine is red, the wealth is moving, this is what Human nature, so ah, your kid is a kind man."

The young man said solemnly: "The shopkeeper, this is too much to say. My Wenhua can have a stable life today. It is the kindness of the shopkeeper. If I secretly take money from the restaurant without my conscience, I will It's not a thing anymore, I can't do this kind of thing!"

The old man nodded, "As you know, I'm not young enough, and I've been thinking about going to the county town to buy a big house for the elderly. It happened that my two daughters and sons-in-law were both begging for living there, although the old saying goes The water thrown out by the married daughters, but there are no parents who do not miss their children. My two daughters are so-so-married. It is not easy to live in the county city. This is not easy to miss me. I ordered the coffins. I want them to be more beautiful. I don’t need to rent a house and send them under the fence. As for me, I used to be powerless. This year, thanks to your Wenhua’s blessing, the old man has doubled, eight hundred silver, as long as it is not a place where the rich and powerful like Haier Lane of Qingtu Lane, it is almost enough to buy a decent house, and it happens that you have your kid in the restaurant. , I recently wondered whether to give you the wine estate..."

The shopkeeper was stunned, and smiled bitterly: "Old shopkeeper, such a big restaurant, even if I smash the pot and sell iron, I definitely can't afford it."

The old man laughed and said: "This restaurant used to be worth a hundred and eighty taels, but now it’s different from the past, how can it be valued at three or four hundred taels? You know this in your heart, of course I understand better, as for how much your kid has. Savings, I know better, so I thought of a compromise method, you think it will work. The restaurant is converted into three hundred taels of silver. You don’t need to rush out the money. You will pay dividends every year in the future. Don’t forget it, but it’s ugly. In the first place, I have already paid out three hundred taels of the principal of the restaurant, and if the restaurant still makes money in the future, this dividend, my old shopkeeper, still wants your kid to honor every year. As for the specific amount, I don’t want to force it. You kid figure it out, in short, take care of your own home first."

The young man stopped talking.

The old man waved his hand to the young man to sit down, "Don't feel that you owe me, I, be shrewd, knowing that you will definitely be able to make the restaurant business bigger and bigger in the future. With your kindness, can you pay less dividends every year? I lie in the county mansion and enjoy the blessings, so I can earn a fortune every year and make a lot of money."

The young man sat back on the bench, straightened up, "Old shopkeeper, thank you very much!"

The old man made a finger gesture and joked: "Don't talk about it, rely on it in the future

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The young man suddenly smiled and said: "Old shopkeeper, you are not afraid that I will fall back on the bill in the future, and you will not be willing to pay dividends after paying off the three hundred taels of silver?"

The old man raised his eyebrows, then pointed at the young man’s heart, and then at his own eyes, “The reason for this business is that you can trust your kid’s conscience first, and you can trust my own eyesight!”

The young man himself and the old shopkeeper filled a glass of wine, and after toasting, "They are all in the wine!"

The two drank it.

The old man finished drinking and said, "You kid hurry up and look at your wife. By the way, go to the back of the cabinet and get a pot of green ant wine that you just entered, just as I congratulate your kid that you finally have your own business." /

The young man got up and laughed: "Go!"

The old man did not forget to remind him: "Congratulations come back to celebrate, the wine money must be credited to your account! This green ant wine is not cheap, it is said that a pot from Beiliang Road only costs less than two dollars, and when it comes to Lianghuai, one or two Go up and go from Jiangnan Road to us here. Tsk tsk, it's a total of four taels of silver. Where is the selling of wine, it is almost the same for the direct selling of silver. You guys take a leisurely drink, but don't drink it and the taste will bottom out. "

The young man said hehe: "I can't bear to drink it myself!"

The old man asked curiously: "What, do you want to give it to your brother or the old man?"

The young man who went straight to the counter paused suddenly, turned his head and grinned: "Neither, keep it for my brother. Later, when he comes to my house to eat and drink, he will entertain him with this wine. Back then... for a long time. In the past, when I was fighting with him, he always said that the wine in the world was the most delicious wine. At that time, he always liked to take this to greedy me. Later, I separated. I once passed by his hometown alone. When I walked in a hurry, I didn’t drink it, and I didn’t understand what it was like."

The old man didn’t have a good air and said: “What’s the taste? It’s expensive, and there’s nothing else. I don’t like to drink. The home-brewed rice wine is a good entrance."

The young man smiled and said: "My brother is half a quagmire. He drank with a horse. Naturally, he would drink the strongest wine. Drinking the soft rice wine is not a hero!"

The old man was amused, "Yeah, you are still in the rivers and lakes, and listen to you, your kid went so far in the rivers and lakes back then?"

The young man scratched his head, "It's just going far."

The old man rolled his eyes and said: "You have suffered too much!"

The young man laughed.

The old man sitting at the wine table raises his glass for a slow drink, and looks at the shop Xiaoer who is cautiously holding the wine jug, and asks for no reason: "Wen Hua, the storyteller of our restaurant, several times said that the king of the Northwest had admitted that he had A brother who knew each other in the rivers and lakes, happened to have the same name as your kid? Then, shouldn't your brother be named Xu?"

The young man stood in the distance with a bright smile, "It's a coincidence, really!"

The old man laughed and waved: "Smelly boy! Billow!"

The old man who had no alcohol in his glass shook his hip flask, it was empty, and turned to look at the young man walking towards the restaurant’s gate. He limped, but he didn’t feel miserable or funny. The old man was abrupt. Laughed and asked: "Wen Hua, isn't your kid really that famous swordsman in Beijing?"

The young man holding the pot of green ant wine in both hands slowly turned around and made a grimace, "Treasurer, do you look like me?"

The old man smiled and did not answer, and waved again.

The old shopkeeper sat back in his seat, and there was no wine in the pot and the cup. The bored old man thought for a while, looked at the door, and laughed at himself: "Isn't it very similar, right, can I look like?"

After the young man left the restaurant, he walked quickly to the small bridge, flowing endlessly along both sides of the river. Looking around, the quiet river surface is full of lighted river lights, and the stars are like the stars in the summer night. According to the local folklore, after death, those helpless wandering spirits and ghosts can be reincarnated if they can find the river lantern with their name on the day of Zhongyuan Festival. He listened to his brother who was with a dog in the rivers and lakes said that Buddhism has people who are born with a lamp, especially the grievances and ghosts who cannot be relieved in the underworld. With the lotus lamp above the Yangjiang River, it is enough. Get comfortable. One of his guilt in this life is that he and his elder brother can only afford one person to study. His brother gave him the opportunity, but he didn’t like to read and didn’t know how to cherish it. A world of swords, lights and shadows. So now he likes to talk to that nephew more than his brother and sister-in-law. He wants his children to study hard. The paper and pen he bought for his nephew are the most expensive and best in the town. He doesn’t want his nephew to get fame in the future. What a glorious lintel, but he thought with his heart, that a man reads books, reads a lot of knowledge, writes good handwriting, every year there is no need to ask for Spring Festival couplets, or if you have a child in the future, you can go to the book to name the child. It is always heaven. Big good thing.

Practicing swords, if you want to be the number one in the world, there is only one person in the world after all. Harder than a fist, there are always martial arts masters who have harder fists. However, the truths read by scholars from books are by no means the truths spoken by the emperors and magnates and dignitaries, it will definitely be greater.

When we arrived at the familiar bluestone slab bridge, his wife had already sold out two baskets of river lanterns, and his nephew was holding the last one in her hand.

She waited until he approached, and asked softly: "Why do I want me to keep one? And write the word Beiliang?"

He smiled and said: "The young man I told you about, he is from Beiliang, and now there is a war on the west side, I want to pray for him."

The three of them walked down the bridge and came to the shore. He bent down and gently put the river lamp into the river water.

The three of them simply sat on the shore side by side. He rubbed his nephew’s head, asked the child to help hold the pot of green ant wine, raised his head and smiled at his wife: "If there is a chance to meet in the future, if that guy shouts Your sister-in-law, don't agree, you must call your sister-in-law."

Her eyes curled up, and she smiled narrowly: "You two are also arguing about this kind of thing."

He smiled happily and said: "Other matters can not be disputed, but this matter must not be compromised!"

She blushed slightly, and said helplessly: "Then you still want to become in-laws with him in the future? You said that you had set a baby relative at the time, and they agreed?"

He said boldly: "Does he dare to agree?!"

His daughter-in-law smiled. For some reason, her man doesn't care about anything. Only when it comes to his brother, she will be extremely proud.

Sometimes, she was even a little jealous.

She didn't know what her man and his brother had gone through together that year, that would make her man unable to let go.

And she knows better than anyone that this man named Wen Minghua can actually afford everything and let go of everything. Even the face that a man should care about the most is just let go.

He looked at the river and said softly: "Daughter-in-law, don't worry, I am not thinking about the rivers and lakes that I walked back then, I just miss my brother."

Then he turned his head and grinned, "I can't help it, I know the rivers and lakes without me, no matter how well he mixes, he will find it meaningless."

Look, listen, it's the same tone again.

She gave him a blank look.

He hummed: "Daughter-in-law~IndoMTL.com~ Don't believe me, who am I, who is my brother? My brothers walked in the rivers and lakes back then, that was..."

Suddenly seeing his wife looking at him with a joking smile on his face, he immediately changed his words: "That's definitely full of righteousness! Well, of course, I just got mixed up a little bit and hungry for three meals."

She pursed her lips and smiled.

He lowered his head and said to his nephew: "Your cheap uncle always likes to chant a poem, I tell you to listen to it, have you seen it in a book? The sunrise is one foot tall, and everything is as fine as a hair. The wild husband is angry at the injustice and wears the eternal knife in his chest."

The children who were only enrolled in the village school were naturally confused and shook their heads vigorously.

He raised his head again and looked at the shining water surface filled with river lanterns, the breeze blowing on his face, his face calm.

He seemed to say to himself: "Green Ant Wine will keep it for you, and the house at home will be vacant for you, Xiao Nian, if I am a brother, don't die outside Liangzhou Pass."

(End of this chapter)

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