The rain was too heavy, and the luggage of the group was already wet and transparent. There were no dry clothes to change on, so everyone had to gather around the fire and wait for the clothes on the fire to be dry.

During the time when the shopkeeper was picking up people, the proprietress ran to boil some water for the group. It is estimated that it is not enough to take a hot bath for each person, but when the previous person washes, the next person continues to burn, except for the trouble, there is basically no problem.

Tang Ning's status is relatively noble, so his treatment is naturally the best. The guards first had to dry his clothes, and the first one to take a bath was naturally Tang Ning.

It had just rained heavily, and it was cold. After drinking a bowl of ginger soup, my stomach was warm. At this time, when he came to take a hot bath again, Tang Ning only felt very comfortable up and down.

Squinting his eyes and humming a song, when he was almost done, Tang Ning got up. I took the towel from the post station and wiped my body clean, and finally took a clean towel and wrapped it around my head, got dressed and went out.

Fortunately, this post station has a special structure, and there is a place similar to an employee passage, which can lead directly to the firewood room and bathroom, otherwise, it will be poured into water by the rain outside just after washing.

When I came out of the shower, my clothes were almost dry. Wrapped in the shopkeeper's winter coat, Downing chatted with him by the crackling fire.

"Look at the clothes of the few of you, it should be a military master, right?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile holding a cup of hot tea.

Tang Ning nodded and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, your eyes are really poisonous." ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "You can see it if you don't look at the dress, you can see it even by looking at the boots." Such good leather boots may not be able to be worn by the county lord.

Hehe, do you know when was the last time the villain saw such good leather boots? It was almost half a month ago, and the officers of the Zhenguo Army, good guys, wore armor and weapons with them, and they were envious and scared when they looked at them. ”

"How?"

"Of course I envy them for dressing so well! To tell you the truth, the villain used to be a big soldier for a few years, and then ......" said the shopkeeper, and pulled up the placket of his shirt.

This move startled Qi Fu, who was watching from the sidelines, he was afraid that the shopkeeper was disguised as an assassin, and wanted to find an opportunity to get close to Tang Ning so that he could kill Tang Ning with a knife.

Although there was nothing wrong with the ginger soup just now, the shopkeeper came out in the heavy rain to pick up a few people into the post station. But be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, after Qi Fu ate the bitter fruit caused by his carelessness a few times, he no longer dared to be as careless as before.

So he rushed to Tang Ning's side with a brisk step, and the shopkeeper and Tang Ning were startled.

Tang Ning pulled Qi Fu to the side and said, "It's okay, you bake your fire." ”

Seeing that the shopkeeper just wanted to show his belly, he didn't have any martial arts

With the device on his body, Qi Fu let out a sigh, turned his head and sat down to continue the fire.

The shopkeeper glanced at Qi Fu thoughtfully, and then pointed to the scar on his stomach with the length of his forearm and said, "Do you see this scar?" The thief of the dog day almost took Lao Tzu's life with this knife.

Fortunately, there was a military doctor sent by the imperial court that time, and this can be regarded as getting his life back. But after that time, to make you laugh, the villain will no longer have the courage to go to the battlefield.

With that injury, the villain retreated, relied on the relationship, and now makes a living at the post station. ”

The shopkeeper said as he sat down beside Tang Ning. All eyes were on Downing's boots, and it was clear that he really liked them.

Tang Ning pursed his lips, patted him on the shoulder and said, "When people are afraid, this is nothing. The first time I went to war, I was also trying to hide backwards.

Although in the eyes of some people you are a coward, you see, isn't the post station you are doing now quite good? ”

The shopkeeper said with a wry smile: "That's so, but if I had known that even the treatment of being a big soldier is so good now, and the villain is desperately dying on the battlefield, I can earn more pensions for this mother-in-law." ”

"Don't say these useless words." Tang Ning frowned and said: "Being alive is the most important thing, what kind of hero is a hero when he dies?"

Besides, if you think that the treatment of being a soldier is good now, it is just for the Zhenguo Army. Every soldier in the Zhenguo Army, not counting himself, the cost of the equipment on his body alone is about ten taels of silver, can other troops compare with them?

They really crushed the enemy with silver. ”

The shopkeeper was very surprised, blinked at Tang Ning and said, "It's really fake." ”

"Nature is true, what am I lying to you for? There are many weapons that you can't think of are now equipped in the Zhenguo Army, and now they are different from the beginning, very different. ”

The shopkeeper had never heard of this, and wanted to ask again, but someone on the side took the clothes and said to Tang Ning: "Master Hou, the clothes are dry." ”

"Master Hou?" The shopkeeper looked at Tang Ning suspiciously.

Tang Ning took the clothes, touched his nose and said, "My surname is Hou." ”

The shopkeeper blinked his eyes, and felt that something was wrong. Judging from Tang Ning's proud look when he talked about the Zhenguo Army just now, and the needle-like eyes of the guard, could it be that he is the commander of the famous Zhenguo Army Ma Bujun, Danyang Hou Tangning?

Thinking of this, the shopkeeper couldn't help but be excited. However, he quickly suppressed his emotions - in order not to cause trouble, people just said 'My surname is Hou', even a fool knows that he shouldn't bother people at this time.

After picking up the clothes, Tang Ning went upstairs, and the shopkeeper, who was cleaning the room upstairs, hurriedly carried everyone in

house.

The biggest difference between a post station and an inn is that most of the time the post house provides services to people in the government, while the inn does not refuse to come.

At the same time, there are always problems in inns, such as stealing customers - I mean physically.

Since it always provides quality service to people in the government, there are not so many guests at the inn. What's more, most inns have only one stable at all, a lobby for tea or rest, and there is no accommodation at all, so there are no guests staying here.

The seven or eight rooms were empty, and it happened to be cheaper than Tangning's others. Qi Fu was about to negotiate the price with the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper waved his hand and said with a smile: "I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

Qi Fu looked him up and down, didn't say anything, turned his head and went to take a shower.

Tang Ning changed his clothes and sat at the window drinking tea, and the window opened a gap, from which he could see the rain outside like fog.

I haven't seen such a heavy rain for a long time, as the shopkeeper said, if this rain continues to fall so unscrupulously, the Yellow River on the east side of the river will flood again, and I don't know how many people will leave their hometowns and their families will be ruined.

Taking a sip of tea, Tang Ning tried not to think about these things. He now has only one goal, that is, to recover the land of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and then immediately throw the black gauze hat to the ground, throw off his sleeves and go back to Rooster Ridge to be a savage.

The bad things between him and the envoys of the Liao State have made Tang Ning completely desperate, he once had hopes for the ministers in the court, and he also wanted to turn things around with them, revive the Great Song Dynasty, and create a prosperous era.

But reality tells him that people are selfish. In the face of their own interests and the interests of their family and country, a large part of the people resolutely abandoned the latter.

Tang Ning didn't know how Zhao Xu felt, maybe Zhao Xu had already seen through all this. But Tang Ning is undoubtedly unacceptable, he has paid too much for this country for so many years, sacrificing his family and sacrificing his youth, and he has given everything he can to this land.

But that's how the people of the land repaid him.

I have read a lot of Confucian classics, but Tang Ning prefers "The Year of the Bamboo Secretary". At least the people recorded in the "Year of the Bamboo Secretary" are all living people.

Unlike in the Confucian classics, everyone is high up and has a condescending sage face.

They will never make mistakes, and they will always have a heroic feeling of compassion for the heavens and others. Forgiving those who hurt them seemed to those saints as simple as drinking soup.

Downing couldn't be so magnanimous, at least not yet.

Closing the window and finishing the last sip of tea, Tang Ning let out a long sigh.

Kimono lay on the bed, closed her eyes and prepared for sleep......