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Chapter 578

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Although I am a hero in the world, I can't even eat beef, it's a bit depressing to think about it.

However, in the following time, I heard that the little old man in the store said something:
In the valley beyond Li Xu, there is a small village with a size of a hundred people; the few cows raised in the village naturally dare not be killed.

But there are a lot of chickens and ducks. Some fishermen can catch some fish and shrimps every day, and even some big families raise some goats. If they can afford the money, it will not be a problem to buy them for cooking.

Immediately, Hu Biao also threw the piece of silver in his hand to the old man.

Let him go ahead and get some slaughtered chickens, ducks, a sheep, etc., and serve them together with fish, shrimps, and fresh melons and vegetables after they are cooked.

Anyway, they have a lot of big-bellied men here, so they are not afraid of being wasted if they can't finish eating.

Even the kind of cloudy rice wine whose alcohol content is not much higher than the beer in the modern plane, you can bring up a few jars first, let them drink some to relieve fatigue.

If that one silver coin is not enough, it is a big deal to give him some more.

The reason why Hu Biao said the above words so boldly is that he has enough confidence and a strong waist.

Among the official members of the team, almost everyone carried three to five catties of industrial silver, in order to use it as some daily pocket money in the early stages of time travel.

After all, this thing belongs to hard currency, which can be spent as money in any dynasty in ancient times.

In addition, such as glass beads, handicrafts, pearls, these high-value things that were quite valuable in ancient times, but they are also not less.

And after taking that piece of silver, he instinctively bit out a tooth mark on it, after confirming that it was the best silver.

The old man in the store didn't know that today he met a group of rich and wealthy customers, and the money he made from them was probably enough for several months.

Immediately, he was overjoyed and at the same time confessed:

"Gentlemen, wait a moment, the little old man will go to the village to buy ingredients, and call his family to help with the cooking; it's not that the little old man is bragging, my old lady's craftsmanship is well-known in the nearby ten miles and eight villages good."

After speaking, just as he was about to run out in a hurry.

In Ali's mouth, she asked crisply: "That's right! Old man, where is this place?"

"Back to these little ladies, about a mile and a half to the north, there is an old ferry called 'Wantou', so everyone calls this place Wantou Ferry."

After the old man heard the words, he answered like this...

Not long after, the little old man in the store had already returned, with two fat chickens in his hands, and several people followed behind him.

It is said that he has his wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law, and a twelve or thirteen-year-old daughter.

The burdens carried in the hands and shoulders of these people are also filled with various ingredients, rice wine, etc. that are common in the countryside.

When such a family of six arrived at the small shop, they immediately became busy with division of labor.

Some were boiling water, some were killing chickens and sheep, some were washing melons and vegetables, and their hands and feet were quite dexterous.

When the sky completely darkened and a round of bright moonlight gradually rose, the chicken and duck meat that was first cooked and served in large pots was already on the table.

Don't say it!The old woman who is the chef looks a little ugly.

But the skill of preparing the meals with one hand is actually pretty good; with the ingredients such as chickens and ducks from this year, the quality is naturally excellent.

The smell of meat lingering in the nostrils for a while made everyone couldn't help but move their index fingers.

But before everyone started to move, on the dirt road outside the small shop, a few figures had already come under the moonlight.

In a small shop, far away, one of them shouted in a rough voice: "Shop, shop, hurry up and prepare a big pot of rice for me, stir-fry a few bowls of vegetables, and add a dime of wine.

I've been walking all day, and I'm starving to death~"

It was also after the five people who walked together in this group walked into the small shop aggressively; Hu Biao and others looked at them, and both of them were suddenly a little surprised.

Because they discovered that they could be said to be some acquaintances with each other.

If Hu Biao remembers correctly, there is a man with a big beard in the lead, and behind him are four younger brothers who are only in their twenties.

They are all on Jiangnan West Road, and the one in Fuzhou Prefecture is called 'Ditangmen', which is regarded as a member of the pocket-sized sect.

That bearded man is called Bao Buqiu, and he is the master of one of the gates; because Sanshi wields a knife with one hand, people in the Jianghu gave him the nickname 'Dwarf Tiger'.

The remaining brothers are all his confidant disciples.

But what is the specific name? Although it seemed to have introduced one or two before leaving yesterday, Hu Biao had long forgotten a clean one.

For miscellaneous fish, you don't need to know the name.

We are all sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes. After meeting, Hu Biao and Bao Buqiu naturally exchanged warm greetings.

After learning that several of them also planned to go to the Sacrificial Flag Slope outside Xiangyang City to participate in Yang Guo's actions; seeing Bao Buqiu's disciples following behind, although they did not speak, they were all swallowing carefully and secretly. Drooling appearance.

Hu Biao is such an open-minded person, so he immediately asked everyone to work together to form a long table from the tables in the store.

Then, it was natural to invite the other party's five masters and apprentices to sit down and eat and drink together; after Bao Buqiu said a few polite words, he also agreed with his mouth.

But I don't know if the moon is shining brightly tonight, so that there are more people traveling at night.

Bao Buqiu and the others sat down, before Hu Biao had time to greet them, everyone drank a bowl of cloudy rice wine first.

Suddenly, on the dirt road outside, there was another sound of footsteps, and at the same time, a voice began to sound after a dozen steps:

"Store, cook some plain noodles with green vegetables, and prepare a pot of tea."

In a blink of an eye, after the man walked into the room, the expressions on the faces of both parties were once again stunned.

Why?Because a skinny man in his 40s who walked in alone, Hu Biao and others also met once in the valley yesterday, but they didn't exchange a few pleasantries.

But at this moment, the appearance of this skinny man is a little different.

Yesterday's bunt was replaced by a washed-out Taoist robe, and he was holding a cover in his hand, with a big word written on it: The iron mouth broke straight.

Thinking about this man's career in the rivers and lakes, he is a fortune teller or something.

Afterwards, the two parties naturally exchanged a few words on the scene after the ceremony. At such a time, everyone knew that this fortune teller named Bao Cheng had the same purpose as theirs.

But thinking about it a little bit, it is normal for such a scene to appear.

Because the dirt road in front of me is the only official road leading to Baling City, the heroes who were in the valley yesterday, if they plan to go to Xiangyang City, they basically have to take this road.

It is quite normal to meet a few here.

And in the ensuing quarter of an hour, two more people came, one was three people walking together, and the other was a father and son hurrying on their way.

They have one thing in common, they all met once in the valley yesterday.

In line with the principle that one sheep can be chased, and a group of people can be let go, Hu Biao called all these people to sit down together, and packed a small shop to the brim...

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"What the hell! These people's stomachs are all made of iron, why are they so edible?"

Mu Ping, that is, joined the team this time, the 200-jin obese college student brother, with a huge shock in his heart, silently complained about this sentence.

Not to mention the unscrupulous thing about going to the toilet in the middle of the night and being sent to the mission world by the unscrupulous system.

He can have the current body shape, and he usually asks himself that he is not inferior to others in terms of eating and drinking.

Results?Today he really opened his eyes.

Hu Biao and other veterans of the team, after eating and drinking without worrying about the consumption of limited emergency rations, immediately turned into human-shaped idiots, and the scene was terrifying.

For example, the guy who is called the fat yellow by the old birds, after holding a fat and oily chicken leg in his hand.

After two bites, there is only one bare chicken bone left in my hand.

And this chicken bone is not as cheap as a local dog raised by a shop at cheap feet; no matter the native dog's tail is shaken like a propeller at this moment, it is directly stuffed into his mouth.

After chewing a few mouthfuls of 'Kaka~', I just swallowed it directly. That digestion ability is quite scary.

However, considering the physical consumption of these people in the state of crazy cultivation, it seems somewhat normal to be able to eat so much.

After all, the oil burning situation between a large truck that can pull dozens of tons and a small car that can only pull a few people is completely different.

What puzzled him was that compared to Hu Biao and others, they ate a bit more because of physical exertion.

Including that Bao Buqiu, after the group of heroes sat down and set off, they still ate more aggressively; to be more precise, it seemed that they hadn't eaten meat for an untold amount of time.

A piece of chicken and duck the size of half a palm, or a piece of mutton the size of a child's fist, is almost a piece in one bite.

A bowl of rice wine in a large earthen bowl is often drunk in the last "gudong" after picking it up.

The chopsticks in his hand were so close that they were about to fly off, and at the same time his mouth was full of oil, his face was full of satisfaction from the bottom of his heart.

It made Mu Ping even more, thinking that the life of these heroes in the rivers and lakes did not seem to be so affluent.

Before these people entered the store just now, they shouted out that among the food prepared by the store, it seemed that there was only one scrambled egg that could be considered a meat dish, and the rest were vegetables.

Even the wine was only ordered for a dime, which was just over a catty.

Such a tight-knee style completely doesn't match his impression of the heroic image of those heroes who eat meat and drink in big bowls.

It's just that Mu Ping still has a few tricks, knowing that he is still a rookie.

If he wanted to survive in the mission world, he had to embrace the thighs of a group of veterans, so he resisted the urge to ask a question in his heart.

But such doubts suffocated in his heart, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, apart from him, Hu Biao and others seem to be aware of the above thoughts.

Hu Biao actually wanted to ask a question, they are all heroes in the world, why are you so poor while others are so chic?
But he also knew that if he really wanted to ask such a question, he might offend the person on the spot.

For this reason, he secretly sent a look to the concubine, Zhan Xiang, and Ali who were sitting beside him; let these three more suitable girls open their mouths and ask...

After receiving the look, the imperial concubine first gave Hu Biao a vicious look.

In the following time, Zhan Xiang and A Li took off the same cloak with tulle on their heads like Wu Miaoyu.

After they poured a bowl of wine and picked it up, they already had flowery smiles on their faces, and their eyes were indescribably coquettish and greedy.

The hero Bao Buqiu didn't notice it for a while because he was busy drinking and eating meat.

But when the imperial concubine spoke first, she said delicately:

"The little girl and the other three have always admired Bao Daxia and other heroes of the rivers and lakes, but Xuan Geying and I have been living in seclusion in the mountains, and rarely have the opportunity to travel in the rivers and lakes.

It's rare to see it today, and I would like to invite all heroes to give you a face, so that the little girls can toast a bowl each. "

What needs to be explained is that in the Song Dynasty, in terms of weapons and blades, except for the crossbow, other knives, guns, bows and arrows were not prohibited to be owned and carried by the people.

But the armor, especially the Xuan Ge Battalion team, such a high-quality iron armor, is definitely a contraband.

Because after walking out of the mountain forest, Hu Biao and others took off the armor on their bodies one after another and put it in the backpack behind them for storage.

In order not to cause some trouble for no reason after being seen by people in the government when passing through the state in the future.

In addition, considering that even Wu Miaoyu's beauty can be called the number one beauty in Xiangxi in Wulin, the three girls in the team are not bad.

So just like the scholar Wu Miaoyu, she got a white gauze hat and put it on her head, which can be regarded as covering up their appearance.

Even when eating before, this bamboo hat has never been taken off.

Now he suddenly took off his bamboo hat, revealing a different style from wearing a helmet yesterday.

Sure enough, just as Hu Biao and others expected, Bao Buqiu and others saw these skin care products in the modern plane and the three beautiful girls who would be raised under the superior life.

That kind of huge impact was like when Hu Biao and the others saw a girl whose beauty had reached the tenth level on the Internet for the first time.

In an instant, Bao Buqiu and other heroes were all captured by the beauty of the three of them, and they felt a little at a loss for a while.

In the end, it was forced by these three girls who are all good drinkers. Each of them downed five or six bowls of wine, and there was obviously some alcohol on their faces.

At such a time, the imperial concubine asked:
"This is the first time for a little girl to walk in the rivers and lakes. There are many things I don't understand and I want to ask the heroes. If there is something wrong, please don't mind."

"The heroine of the Xuange camp is welcome to ask, Bao will definitely not mind."

After Bao Buqiu and the others heard the words, they immediately patted their chests to reassure them; it's just that they obviously didn't know what questions the other party would ask.

Because in the blink of an eye, the imperial concubine asked a question:
"Before entering the rivers and lakes, the little girl has heard many times that the heroes in the rivers and lakes are all angry horses and fresh clothes, and their lives are so chic and heroic.

But I don't know why, they seem to be a little bit tight, and they all seem to have not eaten wine or meat for some time.

Could it be that the rumor the little girl heard was wrong? "

Hearing such a sentence, the faces of Bao Buqiu and the others, who were originally flushed under the stimulation of alcohol, suddenly became redder.

It was completely suppressed out of shame and dryness.

What the hell!It's like in the modern world, who can stand up to having a beautiful girl and tell you to your face that you are poor.

After opening his mouth, Bao Buqiu originally wanted to find some excuses to distinguish, for example, the food looks a little ugly today, but it's just that the journey is too hard.

I didn't expect that this country shop actually had so much wine and meat for sale, so I ordered some vegetables to satisfy my hunger.

But in the end, after a dejected smile.

In a tone full of loneliness, he said some truths:
"All the good guys in the Xuan Ge camp laughed at me. It's been a long time since I waited for the master and apprentice to eat and drink so happily; in fact, it's not just us, most of the heroes in the world are like this.

Eating big meat every day, drinking in big bowls, and riding fast horses recklessly, are just rumors.

If you really have so much money, it's not good to be a rich man living happily at home. How many people are willing to risk their lives and work hard? "

The voice fell, after the fortune teller took a sip of wine for himself.

With more orderly words in his mouth, he continued: "The rumors of those heroes from the Jianghu are just good-looking words.

But to put it bluntly, most of them are just ordinary people who walk outside the laws of the court in order to make a living.

Of course there are knights and big men in bright clothes and angry horses.

They are basically decent disciples of famous families. After they have strong martial arts, no matter where they go, someone will send them a toll.

Or it may be that the powerful in some places have a lot of profitable industries under their hands, so they can be so happy without worrying about money.

For others, like me, martial arts can only be said to be better than ordinary people, and walking in the world can only rely on lip service to get some money and barely eat.

I went to fight for that medicinal snake yesterday, and I hope that after I have made great progress in martial arts, I will be able to stand out~"

Hearing this, Hu Biao finally couldn't help asking:
"Since that's the case, why do you guys still want to take the risk at Jiqi Slope? Wouldn't it be better to stay here and earn more money?"

This time, it was a man holding an eyebrow stick in his hand, who answered loudly: "Sect Master Hu's words are wrong, we are waiting to walk in the rivers and lakes, relying on a word of righteousness to be the first.

If Condor Hero hadn't made a move yesterday, I would have died in the chaos long ago; although I robbed a rich man a few months ago, I am still being hunted down by the eagle dogs of the six doors.

But just to repay the great favor of the Condor Hero, no matter whether it is a mountain of swords or a sea of ​​fire, he has to go up the sacrificial flag slope, not to mention the joyful and beautiful event of Kangyuan~"

"Indeed, it was Hu who said the wrong thing, and here is a bowl of punishment." After Hu Biao said something, he immediately picked up a bowl of rice wine and drank it in front of everyone.

Every time more dogs are slaughtered in righteousness!This point is even his current understanding of these so-called heroes of the rivers and lakes.

(End of this chapter)