Chapter 118: The Heart of the Grass (1)
The cold weather urges the sun to be short, the wind and waves are calm
"Looking at the weather today, it seems not very good. It is cold and windy so early in the morning, so it won't be snowing so soon." Mu Yuan put on a pergola in his hand and looked at the weather immediately.
"This is not surprising." Chu Xunyu shook his head aside, "It's cold in the north. Now in November, our itinerary is getting closer and closer to the north, so it's reasonable."
In a blink of an eye, Chu Xunyu, Mu Yuan and Wang Chen had left Xuzhou, entered Shandong, and rushed to Zaozhuang. The three of them rode their horses on the official road and looked up at the sky, with one sentence along the way, and nothing else.
"We have been leaving Xuzhou for a few days, and I don't know how Gao Wei is." Wangchen looked at the winter depression on the official road with some concern, "Can he heal when he goes to Shushan?"
"Don't worry." Chu Xunyu smiled, "There are many seniors in Shushan. Before leaving, I had already given the prescription to Elder Duanfeng. He will definitely cure Brother Gao."
"That's good." Wang Chen nodded with relief, and suddenly wondered for no reason in his heart. Why did he suddenly care about the life and death of mortals? For hundreds of years, his state of mind has long been gone. Why did he walk along the way with Chu Xunyu after going down the mountain and care about the various aspects of the world more and more? This is really strange. If he makes his mind unstable, when will he attain the supreme Taoism?
"Bang, bang..." A metal sound of sparks broke Wangchen's thoughts. Wangchen looked up curiously and saw that there was an open-air blacksmith shop next to the official road not far away. Two or three guys inside were just scheming the iron.
"Oh?" Wangchen asked curiously: "How could a blacksmith shop be installed next to the official road? Where did the business come from?"
"Haha." Chu Xunyu smiled slightly, "Senior, I don't know anything, there is a priority here."
"Oh? How do you say it?"
"Actually, there is nothing mysterious. There are always people coming and going, people who escort goods, pick up people, and rushing on this official road. There are so many people who can go there, and there are also many individual tourists in the world. So there is a blacksmith shop next to the official road, which can help people repair weapons, repair passing carriages, or help people pick up horseshoes again. From this perspective, there is still money to make money."
"So that's it." After hearing this, Mu Yuan laughed, "It's better for us to go over and take a look."
"What did we do in the past?" Chu Xunyu looked puzzled.
"Look." Mu Yuan slapped the horse's neck under his crotch, "Didn't you see it? We have ridden the horse all the way, going to repair the horseshoe, and chat with our fellow villagers."
"You're the one who has a lot of things." Chu Xunyu gave him a blank look, "Forget it, go and have a look. I can rest for a while. I've been rushing for a long time."
"Haha, the heroes have similar views."
After the discussion, the three of them took the horses and slowly walked towards the blacksmith shop. The blacksmith shop was very simple, and they built a shed in the open air. There were three young men under them, naked, and busy with a sledgehammer in front of the anvil. There were a lot of weapons and iron goods scattered around them. It seemed that the business was quite good.
Chu Xunyu saw that it was still early and it was far from time to get on the guest, so he got off the horse with a smile, led the horse in, and shouted with a smile: "Brother, the guest is here."
A young man with dark skin heard this and quickly put down the guy in his hand, turned around to meet him, rubbed his hands and shouted, "Oh, everyone is here, are you guys repairing or drinking tea?"
"Drink tea?" Mu Yuanshuan was ready to go, then came in, listening to a curious look, "What do you mean by this? Can the blacksmith shop still drink tea?"
"Haha, I laughed objectively. Others can't drink tea, but we can, but it's not a good tea. We usually make irons and set up a stall on the side of the road to supply some tea. On the one hand, we can give the guests a rest, and on the other hand, we can make some money and subsidize the household income. But now early in the morning, it's not time to get a visitor, so the tea stall has not yet been set up." The young man explained honestly.
"Oh, I can't tell that your business is very good." Mu Yuan smiled and said, "That's fine. We are both drinking tea and cultivating guys. In this way, we can help our horses get a new iron, and we can wait while drinking tea."
"Okay." The guy greeted him back, "Buy the stall and put on top of tea."
Hearing the shouts, the remaining two friends immediately put down their work, carried a wooden table, and carried a pot of boiling water and a few tea bowls. They came to the three of them to place it, brewed the tea, and then went back to do their own work.
"Stay objectively, I'll go and take a look at the horseshoe for you." The young man said with a smile.
"Well, go." Chu Xunyu nodded, then made it with everyone, handed some scattered silver, "Pick some good iron, don't worry about the money."
"Okay, look at it." The guy took the money and turned around happily and went back to look at the horseshoe. Only Chu Xunyu and the other two were left sitting at the table drinking tea and chatting.
"There is Zaozhuang not far ahead." Wangchen looked far away, "How do we go? Should we go into the city or bypass? Or should we go directly to the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to go north?"
Chu Xunyu also looked up at the end of the official road, and it seemed that people were coming and going. So he thought for a while and said, "Let's take a detour directly to the suburbs of the city, so there is no need to go into the city, so as not to cause more trouble."
"Yeah, that's it."
The three of them were chatting, and the dark young man who answered on the other side was also busy. He looked at the horseshoe while looking for tools. He just found the anvil and saw the small hammer he wanted, so he subconsciously reached out to get it.
Two other guys were smacking the iron anvil, and suddenly a spark burst out. One of the guys was so shocked that his hand shook. The hammer suddenly turned left and was hitting the dark man's hand that was touching the hammer.
"Puchi..." At this critical moment, Mu Yuan's horse suddenly farted. The young man instinctively covered his nose with his hand. With a "bang", the hammer beside him barely hit the space.
"Oh!" All this was naturally seen by Chu Xunyu and the other two. Mu Yuan said in surprise: "I can't see that my horse is like us. I am born with a kind life and have learned to save people. I really learned what I am from any master."
Chu Xunyu gave him a blank look. It was all messy, but it was thanks to Mu Yuan’s horse who came here inappropriately. I really want to admire the coincidence of fate.
"Brother Erhei, why are you always so lucky? You were so dangerous just now." The guy holding the hammer sighed from the side.
"Hehe, I don't know this." The dark-skinned young man rubbed his hands honestly, with a angrily smile on his face.
"Oh?" Mu Yuan was interested and waved his hand and shouted: "Buddy!"
"Hey! Guest, please give me the order." The young man came over and responded immediately.
"I ask you, have you ever read?"
"I can recognize a few words. When I was a child, there was a private school not far from my home, and I can recognize a few words."
"Oh, that's it." Mu Yuan nodded, "I heard that guy call you Erhei just now. Is this your name?"
"Yes, our skin is naturally dark."
"I heard him sigh that you are always lucky?" Mu Yuan asked curiously, "How do you say this? Are you always lucky?"
"Hehe, it's not a question, but it's not our turn to ordinary minor disasters or other things. It's a matter of fact that God is not bad to me."
"Oh? So awesome." Mu Yuan narrowed her eyes, took a sip of tea, and threw a peanut into her mouth. "Can you tell us? Are there any specific examples? I have no other hobbies, so I like to ask about something new. Anyway, it's still early and the guests have not arrived yet, so just tell me."
"Hi, what, it's not that new. If you really want to hear it, let me tell you while working." Erhei was happy and bent down to clean up the hammer and said the past.
Erhei was born in the city since childhood. When he was a child, his family was poor, so it was good to be able to know a few words. Later, when he grew up, he learned the skills of making irons with his fourth uncle. So, the fourth uncle worked in a blacksmith shop in the city and also built such a shop next to the official road, so that Erhei and a group of friends came to take on some business and earn a few more money.
If Erhei was lucky when he was young, it was not a joke. The villagers nearby knew that, just say this. One day when he was a child, he went to hunt in the countryside and met a wild dog. The wild dog was crazy and bitten whoever he caught and came to Erhei. Erhei was panicked and sat on the ground and threw the bow and arrow behind him out. At this critical moment, he was inserted into the right eye of the wild dog. The wild dog rolled on the ground in pain, and beat him to death by his companions who caught up behind him.
There are many such things. For example, when Erhei was a child, he was playing at his neighbor's house. The neighbor kept him for dinner, Erhei agreed, but suddenly had a stomachache and hurried back home to the cottage. As a result, when he came out of the cottage, he was stunned on the spot. It turned out that the neighbor's house had left the water, caught a fire, and killed a person. Fortunately, he came out in advance, otherwise he would have to explain it here.
Wait, there are countless such things, and I can’t finish it for a few days and nights. From life to death, to a critical moment, to trivial matters, bumps and bumps, to everything, Erhei was lucky enough to be in trouble, and there was nothing at all.
"It's true or false." Mu Yuan and Chu Xunyu, Wang Chen and the others were incredible to hear it, and they felt like they were listening to a book of heaven. "You made it very similar."
"Haha, it's fake when you say it, but this is absolutely true." Erhei squatted on the ground and nailed his palm to the horse, sighing without raising his head.
"Yes, yes." The young man next to him also echoed, "Brother Erhei has been like this since he was a child. Everyone says he is the reincarnation of the lucky star and is lucky."
“This is…”
"Waiter, come and make a pot of tea." A voice rushed in and interrupted Chu Xunyu and the others' conversation.
The three of them looked back and couldn't help but be slightly surprised. It turned out that the person here was an old man, squinted his eyes, dressed in a thick brown cloth, with a few wrinkles on his face, but his eyes were flashing with indescribable colors, as if he was confused and sighing. Most importantly, this is a cultivator with the cultivation level of Lingji Period. Although it is not worth much among Chu Xunyu and the other two, it is still somewhat curious. What did he come to this mortal tea shop for? Of course, it was definitely not for Chu Xunyu and the other three, because they had already hidden their breath. With him, a small cultivator of Lingji Period, he would definitely not be able to see his true face.
As the sky gradually approached noon, there were more and more pedestrians on the official road, and the tea shop slowly started to stir up a stream of people. Passers-by stopped, repairing things or asking for directions. Although Chu Xunyu and the other two were not afraid, they could be concluded that the old man must have intentions, because his eyes when drinking tea had never left the young man named Erhei...
Chapter completed!