frightfiction Chapter 219 This “word” is interesting!
Chapter 219 This “word” is interesting!
The innkeeper and the waiter, Amin, listened to the old man talking about the difficulties of fleeing famine and the cannibalism on the road. They lay motionless all the way, constantly stuffing slightly green grass leaves into their mouths to replenish their water.
Each scene is like a picture in my mind. It’s difficult, really difficult.
When he saw the poor people fleeing famine, he asked the kitchen to give them some coarse grain cakes and corn bread. He also thought about helping them if he could.
It seems that for this group of people, with little food and water, it must be extremely difficult for them to get all the way here from the south.
But now, I don’t know if it’s because this old man is so good at telling stories or what, but it seems like there is a specific picture.
I couldn't help but think: What a pity this old man doesn't write storybooks.
There is also the story of the scholar who slept on firewood and tasted gall in the mountain bandit camp, enduring humiliation for more than a month, and tied up the entire village of 3,000 people without hurting a single villager.
Oh my! How come after hearing this, that weak scholar in his heart is actually taller than those chivalrous men?
After careful consideration, he was clearly a weak scholar, but he was loyal, brave and resourceful. He led more than 200 people in the village along the way.
The youngest of them was also seen, and he was probably just learning to walk not long ago, which proved that he must have been even younger before fleeing the famine.
This scholar was a true hero, as he was able to bring everyone along to survive on a cannibalistic journey.
Mr. Meng swallowed the last piece of braised beef with soy sauce, and looked at the shopkeeper and the waiter opposite with their eyes becoming brighter and brighter, and flashes of admiration and yearning.
A smile flashed across his eyes, and he drank the last glass of wine.
The older you are, the wiser you get. In fact, the gentleman had long realized that although the shopkeeper and the waiter did not seem to be bad people, they just wanted to hear their stories at the beginning.
He just wanted to take advantage of the situation, because he knew that anyone who had heard about the young man's deeds would be moved, unless they were cold-hearted by nature.
By then, he can also complete the purpose of his trip: "Hey, many of the people who stayed at our inn before were dissatisfied with the fact that they had no animals to accompany them, and they put pressure on the team leader to leave their group behind.
Since you are the manager of this post station, you should know that some people in the big red card team have backers, and the team leader is also in a difficult situation. "
The innkeeper came to his senses and asked, "So what do you mean, old man?"
Mr. Meng sighed, "When I bought the animals, I saw that they had to push and pull a lot of things, and they had to push the old man who was over 70 years old, and the kids who were too small to walk.
I specially bought an extra old ox, thinking that I could let the old and the young ride in my ox cart when the time comes. But that group of people were so stubborn and polite that they wouldn't listen to any advice I gave them. I guess they were afraid of causing trouble.
We will be leaving tomorrow, so I am thinking of leaving the ox cart behind. I will ask the shopkeeper to hand it over to us after we set off tomorrow, so that the young man won’t have to refuse again.”
"It's easy to hand it over, but I'm afraid Mr. Shen will refuse to accept it. Sometimes scholars get stubborn, tsk!"
The old man smiled and said, "Don't worry about that. I left a letter here. Please pass it to him for me. He will definitely accept the cow."
Seeing that the others had thought of a way out, the innkeeper was impressed by the old man's story and agreed readily:
"Okay, no problem. I'll take care of it. My last name is Jia Chong, and my courtesy name is Shaoyan. People call me the know-it-all of Huguan County."
Emma, the surname and Chinese characters of Manager Jia, as well as what Mr. Meng observed about his personality after getting to know him, almost made the old man laugh out loud.
Mr. Meng suppressed his smile and patted Jia Shaoyan on the shoulder, saying that he was confident in leaving the matter to him and asked his waiter to go to the other side and pull the ox cart.
I won’t have anyone send it over, so as to avoid that young man exposing himself.
Shen Zhiqiu, who returned to his room, had no idea that after he returned to his room, another big drama took place in the lobby of the inn.
After he handed the wine and food to the old men, he went to look for his daughter and asked her to come out to discuss things with him.
The simple map given by Team Leader Zhou was too abstract for him to understand, so he needed to find his "living map" to study it.
But in order to prevent everyone from thinking too much, let’s have a good sleep first.
Shen Zhiqiu and Shen Youyou wandered to the kitchen door, thinking that they could see the map clearly with the help of other people's lights.
Shen Youyou and her father squatted under the window, watching the chefs who were still busy in the kitchen so late at night, and whispered in her father's ear:
It's not easy to be a chef in any era. You have to get up earlier than chickens and sleep later than dogs.
Shen Zhiqiu looked at his daughter and asked heartlessly: "Aren't you curious about why I asked you to come out?"
"Why? We were left behind. Is it because we can't understand the map given by the leader?"
"Huh?" Shen Zhiqiu exclaimed in surprise, looking at his daughter with bright eyes.
"It's only a matter of time. Actually, I think that Zhou the team leader is pretty good, but he's not the only one. Besides, all his colleagues have gray incomes. If he doesn't fit in, he'll be bullied sooner or later, even though he's the team leader.
Besides, they work for a living. They work hard and sleep in the open air for nearly a month. It is impossible for them to not get any benefits.
We couldn’t stop this kind of thing in our previous life, let alone now.”
Shen Zhiqiu looked at her daughter in surprise:
"You are a young girl who just graduated. You have never experienced the world and have seen too few evil people. I thought you were going to say, Dad, this batch of officials is not good. You won't be able to do this when you take the imperial examination and become an official."
Shen Youyou rolled her eyes: "I have never worked, and I certainly haven't experienced as much as you, but there are a lot of social skills on campus, just like our student union..."
Listening to his daughter talking about the social etiquette in their school, Shen Zhiqiu smiled. She was smart, but she was also too naive.
However, he and Jingshu raised their child in the hope that the child would be more optimistic and simpler. This also proves that they have done their best as parents and protected their child well.
But he knew that his daughter was not heartless, she was just too lazy to use her heart.
I don't want to make friends with people who are too roundabout. I prefer people who are straightforward. That's why my daughter and Arya get along best with each other.
It’s not that Daya and Taohua are bad, it’s more that Erya’s personality is more suitable for a girl’s temper.
Shen Zhiqiu took out the simple map from his arms and pointed at the places where the names of the counties were written: "We have to pass through four prefectures and nine counties. Can you understand these nine counties?"
Shen Youyou held up the circuit map and carefully distinguished the traditional Chinese characters in the light of the kitchen.
Tsk! The team leader's calligraphy this week is not good, it's crooked and even she, who has taken calligraphy classes since she was a child and can recognize most traditional Chinese characters, has a hard time reading it.
"The red circle here is the Huguan County Post Station, right? It should be where we are now.
Ah! So the county we passed by yesterday at noon is called Changping County. That’s great. I met a kind old lady who lived a long life in Changping County.”
Shen Zhiqiu has a toothache, look behind you first!
"Don't worry, we are at the Huguan County Post Station now. Tomorrow we will pass through Huguan County, and then we will go to Lu'an Prefecture."
Then we passed Li County and entered the territory of Shunde Prefecture.
Next are Lin County, Zan County, Zhengding Prefecture, Xinle County, Yu County, Baoding Prefecture, Dingxing County, Zhuo County, and Fang County, and then you will reach Youzhou, which is also called Shuntian Prefecture.
Exactly four prefectures and nine counties!