Peach and plum spring breeze and a glass of wine

Ever since there were these salted fish in the inn, the business in the inn has never been a problem.

Before dawn in the morning, these salted fish were waiting outside the inn door for Yang Ge to open the door for morning tea.

At night, until the moon reached the treetops, the group of salted fish left in twos and threes.

And rain or shine, these salted fish are always on time, rain or shine.

In a daze, Yang Ge, the head shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn, was forced to work as a hard worker from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Several times, Yang Ge was so annoyed that he wanted to close the door and let Xiao Huang bite these souls...

What made him even more speechless was that after Li Qing checked into Yuelai Inn, the number of Jianghu guests who poured into Yuelai Inn one after another increased to a higher level.

Although not all charlatans are salty fish.

But even if only one out of a hundred Jianghu customers is a salted fish, as the base of Jianghu customers becomes larger, there will still be more salted fishes.

There are dozens of salted fish, old and young, male and female, good and evil, poor, rich, coming from the south and north... It’s like there is some kind of strange attraction between salted fish and salted fish. Anyway, any salted fish will not be able to walk as soon as he enters the inn.

It is precisely because there are more and more salted fish in the inn that the normal Jianghu people can't get a word in at the inn.

No matter what they say, the salted fish are: Ah yes, yes, Ah, yes, yes, yes.

In addition, the two main principals, Yang Ge and Li Qing, basically used these Jianghu guests who came with various purposes as air, so that it was difficult for normal Jianghu guests to stay in the inn.

The big waves are panning for gold, and all that is left behind is sand...

Dozens of salted fishes stay in the inn day after day, drinking and joking around using various dialects and slang, bragging and bickering, laughing and scolding, dancing with cowards and dicks, all kinds of things. The old grievances and hatreds of Chen Zhizhi and rotten millet were staged in the inn in various bizarre ways...

The entire inn is like a large-scale multi-line martial arts melodrama, where everyone is the protagonist and everyone is a supporting role.

It adds a lot of spice to Yang Ge's home life. The little princess Zhao Miao, who has never seen the world, is very happy and happy to eat melons.

The inn consumes twenty kilograms of melon seeds a day, and the peels can fill a wheelbarrow!

At noon on this day, just after dinner, the salted fish in the inn were about to enter the bragging stage that they loved to see, and Hu Qiang from the right station of the Xiuyi Guard came...

Yang Ge stood behind the counter, picked up the green tea and took a sip: Ah!

Li Qing, who was sitting at the dining table by the door, also picked up the green tea in front of him and took a sip: Ah!

Yang Ge glanced at Li Qing, turned around and said to Hu Qiang with a smile: It's a good thing to be promoted. Why are you so sad?

Hu Qiang said with a sad face: Second Master, I don't want to go back to Beijing. I still want to stay with you and respect you for a few more years...

puff.

Yang Ge turned his head and spit out a mouthful of tea, coughed and cursed angrily with a smile: I'm not old yet, do I need you to honor me?

Hu Qiang lamented: I am humble enough to speak from the bottom of my heart...

Yang Ge waved his hand and interrupted his mourning: If you want to blackmail me for a meal, it's easy to say, as long as Luting has it, I can get it for you, but you kid, you have to ask me to give it to you. If you are running against the official idea, then get out of here as soon as possible. How dare you come to me for such a stupid thing as buying an official position? You haven't been punished for a long time, are you itchy?

Hu Qiang quickly replied: No, I just don't want to go back to Beijing. I want to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, your base...

Yang Ge pointed to the door: That door is there, get out of here smoothly!

Hu Qiang cried sadly and hesitated to leave: Second Master, you don't know that brothers from other places don't want to see our brothers who go to the right station. Any brother who goes out from our upper right station will be left behind to feed the horse and keep the library. I have to beg my grandpa and sue my grandma for idle work, and I have offended those Yin and Yang people in Dongchang before. They can't do anything about me in Luting, but when I return to Beijing, why don't they commit suicide after being stabbed eight times?

Yang Ge picked up his little finger and dug his ears, and said doubtfully: Are you serious?

Hu Qiang immediately raised three fingers: As long as I lie in my humble position, I will be struck by thunder and be hit by a horse when I go out!

Yang Ge thought for a moment and then asked: Who signed your promotion document?

Hu Qiang immediately came up and replied in a low voice: Song Jing, the governor of Beizhen Prefecture, I heard that he is a member of the Song family of Xinguo Gongfu, and his background is one foot higher than our Lord Shen...

Yang Ge thought for a while and vaguely guessed that maybe some people among the nobles were dissatisfied with him for not allowing them to interfere in Japan. There was nothing they could do to him, so they could only vent their anger on his former subordinates... and maybe try to disintegrate him a little bit. power, a small thought to weaken his influence.

He asked, How many brothers have been transferred out of the institute recently?

Hu Qiang replied: When you went to Japan last year, a group of brothers from our Luting Hundred Household Office were transferred away one after another. When you came back, it stopped for a while. These days The convulsions started again... The brothers who have received the transfer order are all packing their bags in the Yamen. I am sorry to bother you, but I, Lao Hu, am shameless and shameless to bother you.

He dared to trouble Yang Ge, of course, he was not just thick-skinned and shameless as he said.

As an old man who followed Yang Ge when Yang Ge was still the commander-in-chief of Luting, Hu Qiang was very sure that his old boss did have some affection for these old brothers...

Apart from anything else, they had followed Yang Ge for so long, and Yang Ge had never asked them to do anything truly risky. He would rather do it himself than use the brothers below as firewood.

Yang Ge rubbed his hands and hesitated for a moment, wondering if going to the capital to give Song Jing a slap in the face over such a thing would be too disrespectful of the emperor's face?

If this matter is ignored, it will be both disgusting and offensive...

Moreover, people like Hu Qiang followed him through thick and thin, without any merit but with hard work, and they should not suffer this kind of injustice.

I'll give you two choices!

Yang Ge thought for a while and quickly made up his mind: The first option: If you still want to continue to develop in the Embroidery Guard, then go back and tear up the transfer order from the Beizhen Prefecture Secretary, and continue to work with peace of mind, and follow up in Beizhen If the government secretary still dares to send someone here, he will be imprisoned as a thief who faked the transfer order. It will be said to the outside world that you are the personal soldiers of Lord Shen who is commanding Shen. If there is a transfer, Lord Shen needs to personally sign the transfer order... something goes wrong. I’ll carry it for you!”

Second option: If you just want to find a job that can support your family, then simply take off your official clothes and shoulder the responsibility of police officers at Luting, maintaining local security, investigating and apprehending criminals. I will give you salary for starting work, and you will get benefits for three years and two years of life. It is too much to guarantee, but at least it is more than your current salary at Xiuyiwei, and the money is still clean.

Having said this, he sternly handed over to Hu Qiang: Now that I have no official title, I can't forcefully interfere with the government's decrees. The court doesn't look good on the court, and my influence is not very good, so I can only do this. Yes, please forgive me.

Hu Qiang quickly dodged his greeting and said, Second Master, don't be so shabby and humble. Who are you? Brothers are all like Ming Jing'er. With your current position, how can you still do this? My dear, brothers, it’s not too late to feel grateful, so there will be no complaints...

Yang Ge put down his hands and waved: Then don't grind your teeth here with me. Go back and discuss it with your brothers. This is a major event in life. There is no need to rush. My door here is always open for you.

Hu Qiang sternly clenched his palm to the end: No matter what the other brothers decide, as long as you don't mind me, Mr. Hu, I will definitely follow you to make a living, no matter how hard he eats, I will go up and down the mountain of knives. Regardless of the sea of ​​​​fire, whenever I, Old Hu, frowns, he is the son of a bitch!

Yang Ge laughed and scolded: Who are you, you bastard?

Hu Qiang said Hey, clasped his hands again, turned around and rushed out of the inn, heading towards the upper right office.

Yang Ge lowered his head, picked up the tea cup again and took a sip happily: Ah!

At the right moment, Li Qing, who was sitting in the door, chuckled softly and said: Brother Yang, other people who practice Taoism only want to have a focused mind and a permanent heart. It seems that it is not enough to avoid such worldly affairs, so why do you take the initiative to get involved?

Yang Ge held the tea bowl and smiled: This is your problem... You must have grown up in the mountains since you were a child, right?

Li Qing nodded: Brother Yang knows things like a god, but Xiaodao grew up on Zhongnan Mountain since he was a child.

After Yang Ge thought for a while, he said softly: I have never practiced Taoism, and I don't know much about the essence of Taoism. Just listen to my humble opinions... I have heard that before you are born, you need to enter the world first, and you need to understand the sufferings of the world. To practice spiritual practice, you need to understand the sufferings of the world. If you want to have no distractions and keep your true heart, what you should do is not to prevent yourself from being contaminated by the world of mortals, but to allow yourself to develop a strong and unmoving heart from the world of mortals!

You grew up in the mountains, and you don't know what suffering is in the world. When you debuted, your martial arts were extremely high, and you had the backing of the Quanzhen Sect. Naturally, all the people you met were good people, and the Taoist classics you read were all self-made. I thought I understood.

Your way is like the white clouds in the sky. They appear to be spotless and carefree, but in fact they are like rootless trees and towers in the sky. They disperse when the wind blows. There is not much of your own at all!

He paused and said with a smile: Furthermore, if you are not a fish, you know the joy of fish. If you are not me, how can you know that these worldly affairs and worries and fetters are not a burden to me, but a help?

He said that Li Qing was floating in the sky with him.

And why is he not floating in the sky?

If it weren't for the ties of these friends and old ministries pulling him...he himself didn't know where he would drift.

After listening to his words, Li Qing moved the tea bowl in front of him with one hand and looked thoughtful, and did not speak for a long time.

It's amazing to say that these commonplace words he often heard from his teacher when he was on the mountain, but they always went in the left ear and out the right ear, and his response was mediocre...

But now when he heard Yang Erlang, a peer of his age, speaking such words, he suddenly thought of many people and things, and seemed to have some enlightenment in his heart.

Yang Ge's two cups of tea were finished, and Li Qing suddenly opened his mouth and exhaled a long breath of white breath. In Yang Ge's perception, the whole person's breath became much more restrained in an instant, giving him a feeling of returning to his original nature and being in harmony with the world.

He couldn't help but be secretly surprised... As expected of the Quanzhen Sword Immortal, he could achieve such great improvement with just a few words!

Li Qing turned around and slapped Yang Ge sternly: Brother Yang revealed the man in his dream with one word, and Xiaodao benefited a lot.

Yang Ge withdrew his gaze and waved his hands with a smile: It's too much praise. You can be so diligent because you have accumulated a lot of insights in the past. Now you are just accumulating a lot.

Li Qing smiled and replied: Whether it is too much or not, Xiaodao has his own sense of proportion. As the saying goes, 'A drop of kindness must be repaid, and a meal of kindness must be tasted.' Brother Yang's kindness today, Xiaodao will surely be rewarded!

Yang Ge casually replied: The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water. It would be tacky to mention something but not repay it.

Li Sin nodded in agreement.

The bragging people in the front hall looked at the two people who were complimenting each other. Although they didn't understand what they said, they were all shocked in their hearts.

Is this the world of genius?

A few words can be worth years of hard work...

Sure enough, you have to throw it away when comparing goods, and you will die if you compare people with others!

At the right time, a burly figure wearing linen clothes and rolled-up trousers rushed into the inn at full speed. When he saw Yang Ge behind the counter, he threw himself in front of the counter with a feeling of relief and was out of breath. He said angrily: Second, Second Master, something happened!

When Yang Ge saw the person coming, he stood up with a smile and patted his shoulder: It's Er Yong. When did you come back? Don't be anxious. If you have anything to say, sit down and say it. The sky won't fall!

The person who came was none other than Wu Eryong, the great deacon of Lianlianwu, who had broken through the sea of ​​​​qi at the previous time and got a ticket to Japan.

Wu Eryong vigorously shook his big head with beads of sweat on his forehead. He did not sit down, but just gasped and said: Something really happened!

Yang Ge: Don't worry, tell me slowly, what happened?

Wu Eryong slapped himself on the ear with his backhand, took a deep breath to force himself to calm down, stepped forward and whispered: Second Master, my young master personally escorted the first batch of three million taels of silver to be distributed to you northward. We just arrived at Luting, but when we stopped to unload the cargo, we discovered that all the silver in the cabin had been stolen and turned into stone!

Hearing this, Yang Ge slowly narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: Interesting... Where is Jin Chengcheng?

Wu Eryong: The young master is still at the dock, looking for the traitor!

Yang Ge unhurriedly took off his apron and threw it on the counter, shouting to the backyard: Miao Miao, Miao Miao, what are you eating again?

Zhao Miao covered her mouth and rushed out of the backyard, saying vaguely: I didn't eat secretly, I didn't eat secretly, I was working in the backyard.

Yang Ge pretended not to see the oily flowers on her lips, pointed to the counter and said: I'm going out for a while, you keep an eye on the counter, you must record clearly what these goods have taken... No zeros are allowed. !”

The salty fishes in the front hall all booed him, saying that he was stingy and careless.

Yang Ge raised his head and said, You really are the one who runs a charity here!

After saying that, he gently pushed the stunned Wu Eryong: Let's go.

Why!

Wu Eryong stepped out of the inn door in one step: The young one will lead the way for the second master.