The Stairway to Immortality

As soon as I entered the city, it was really lively, it was really full of people, cars and

cars mixed with pedestrians, Zhao Shiyu and his partners turned their heads back and forth, looking at the loud shouting of the stalls on the street, the little two at the door of the major restaurants picked up and greeted, the bustling street market made them dizzy, they had never seen this kind of scene, they had never seen so many people, this little brother was a complete eye-opener.

There are old people on the street who set up stalls to tell fortunes, there are juggling troupes who perform wonderfully, there are brothel girls who twist their waists upstairs and shake their hands to greet guests, children chase and fight, sell candy balls, sell sugar gourds, there are people everywhere, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a sea of people.

Only Zhao Shiyu here has heard all this from the stories that Mo Lao told him, his eyes are constantly watching with joy in his heart at this time, and the old man in the iron hat can't laugh anymore when he looks at the children like this, and his little heads are like chicks in the nest, constantly looking around, his eyes are full of freshness and surprise.

The convoy walked from the east gate to the west gate, where there was a caravan station, as soon as they arrived at the gate of the station, everyone got off the car, Zheng Lao and Songtao were greeting the caravan bosses of various countries, and the five children got off the carriage and looked at the huge building in front of them in shock.

"It's such a big house, it's still practiced, I can see it, my God, it's too big," the dog said with his mouth wide open.

Xiao Chai pursed his lips, swallowed his saliva

and said, "There can be a lot of people living in it, everyone in our village can live in it, it's too big!" The old man in the iron hat slowly walked to their side and said, "You go with Elder Zheng, he will arrange a place for you to live, I will tie up the horses and put the cart, and I will be back in a while."

Zheng Lao stretched out his hand not far away to beckon Zhao Shiyu and a few of them to come over, and the convoy was busy unloading, only Zheng Lao walked in front with his back hand, and the five children behind him followed.

Entering the post hall hall, the first sight is to see a wine table full of people from various caravans, drinking, eating, laughing and playing, the hall is placed more than 20 tables, two account offices on the counter are playing abacus, and a plaque on the top of the head is gilded with big characters "Ancheng is home".

Zheng Lao hadn't walked to the counter yet, a middle-aged man in the counter walked out of the counter with a smile, clasped his hands into fists and said, "Zheng Lao, hello Zheng Lao, it's good to haven't seen you for many days, the room has been booked for you, all of them are Xiangyang guest rooms, and the good fragrant tea in the house has been served, are there any other requirements?"

Zheng Lao nodded with satisfaction and said, "Add one more Tianzi four-person room, it's better to be closer to my room." "

Well, I'll do it for you, please wait a minute, how about you on the right hand side, between the number one of the flowers?" said the middle-aged man with a deep salute, and took out a small wooden sign from the counter.

Zheng Lao led the children to his own room, which was extremely spacious, with a large round table, eight round stools, two wide chairs against the wall, a bath barrel with a screen on the side, and a wardrobe and containers.

"Sit down, children, there is tea on the table, drink it when you are thirsty" Zheng Lao sat on a wide chair, picked up a bowl of covered tea, opened the lid and blew it gently with his mouth, and immediately the fragrance of tea overflowed.

Zheng Lao slowly lowered his head and took a sip of tea and said, "Qian Yunli, you prepare, I will take you to your fifth uncle's inn in a while, and I will rest assured that you will be settled." Looking

at the dunzi of hope, he was looking at the decoration of the house, and when he didn't hear Zheng Lao's words, Er Wang kicked on the buttocks of the dun and scolded in a low voice, "What are you looking at? Zheng Lao wants to send you to your fifth uncle's house."

Dunzi's face turned red and replied, "I'm bothering you all the way, I'll just have a small burden, and I can go."

Zheng Lao nodded slightly, and then said, "That's good, that's good, Zhao Shiyu, you also go out with me, it's good to lend me your token?" Zhao Zhan, Qian Ye, Qian Liang, you go back to the house to rest, we will stay in Ancheng for three days before leaving, and go out to have fun in these two days." The three of them wanted to follow, but they were afraid that Zheng Lao would be angry, so they agreed to go back to the house to rest.

At this time, the guy at the door knocked on the door, and the guy said outside the door, "Mr. Zheng, the flowers for you are next door as soon as you go to the room, and you can move in now, what are the requirements?"

"Okay, I'll arrange it in a while," the guy should go down, and hurriedly went downstairs to prepare.

"The five of you go to your room first, I'll look for you later, don't run around" The five people went out and walked to the door of the next guest room, and when they looked up, a door sign said "Hua Yi", this is their room.

The door was open and I looked inside, this room was bigger than Zheng Lao's room, and the two big beds were just four people to live in, and Shi Zi asked the brothers to sit down for a while.

The innkeepers carried the large wooden barrel from the house, and brought in a larger wooden basin, and four or five men were carrying hot water, and were adding hot water to the large wooden basin, and soon the bath water was full, and then they poured out the door and closed the door casually.

After the door was closed, Zhao Shiyu and they breathed a sigh of relief, some outsiders were a little nervous, Zhao Shiyu sat on the chair and said, "Dunzi, you go to your fifth uncle's house to live well, we have to go to a farther place, there is a chance that our brothers will meet

again" "Dunzi is in the place, he has gained a little weight after eating in the past few days, and his face is obviously round, more and more like a pig haha" Erwang also said.

Dunzi's face was full of reluctance, and he really didn't want to be separated from everyone, but he said, "You are a pig, my face is round, your ass is also round, and your belly, touch it yourself, like a big fat rabbit." As soon as Er Wang raised his foot, he kicked the pier, and then the two of them started fighting.

"Come down, don't make a fuss, hurry up! You leather kids don't know how to make a little noise," Songtao shouted downstairs.

Shizi took out the token from the bamboo box, and then closed the bamboo box, Dunzi had already stood at the door waiting with a small burden on his back, and when the two went out, Dunzi turned around and looked at the dog, Xiaochai and Erwang, clasped their fists with both hands and turned around to go out, and the two went downstairs to Songtao's side.

Songtao took them out of the post station, and had already inquired about the seat of the fifth uncle's inn in Dunzi, and a coachman next to him drove the carriage to call them up, Zheng Lao waved the carriage forward, and came to an inn "Zhoujia Inn" through the streets and alleys.

"Call your boss to come and discuss something, let's go" Song Tao didn't wait for the guy to speak, and spoke directly.

The four of them entered the four tables downstairs of the inn, there was a guest house on the second floor, the store was extremely clean, and after a while, a chubby middle-aged man walked quickly, and the stone looked like this person and the pier was very open, and there were two small mustaches at the corners of his mouth and it was pleasing.

"What is the matter with you, officer, I am the owner of our shop," said the man.

Zheng Lao smiled and said, "This is your sister's letter, this child is called Dunzi, I don't need to say more, you

really look like it" Dunzi looked back, his fifth uncle, Dunzi's fifth uncle smiled and hurriedly said, "Your name is Dunzi, quickly ask your uncle to take a good look, hey, it's so high, not bad."

Dunzi said honestly and deeply, "Hello fifth uncle, my parents asked me to help you here, let me learn my skills and be a boss like you."

"Okay, you don't have to do anything, just stay with your uncle, I'll talk to this old gentleman first, and I'll take you to the backyard to live in a while" Uncle Dunzi said with a smile.

Zheng Lao chatted with Dunzi's fifth uncle for a while, and then got up to say goodbye, Zhao Shiyu and Dunzi were separated, and Dunzi kept watching the carriage leave at the door, and was always reluctant to enter the house.

Zhao Shiyu and they sat in a carriage, turned a few corners, and came to a soft couch leather goods store, with a purple fur couch cushion hanging at the door, and a beautiful young woman at the door stepped down the steps, twisting the waist of the water snake, and the dark white shirt and blue bamboo skirt on her body.

She walked gently with a round fan in her hand, with a sweet smile on her mouth, and said softly, "Ah, isn't this Zheng Lao?" Brother Songtao is also here, rare

guest, rare guest" Zheng Lao stepped forward and said politely with a fist, "Boss Li's business is prosperous

, do you sell the leather we sent?" "Okay, good, very good, the leather goods you brought have been sold, I look forward to you coming every day" Boss Li said with his eyes looking at Songtao.

Song Tao also smiled, but his eyes looked back and forth on Boss Li's face and chest, Song Tao touched his chin and said shyly, "Boss, let's take a look at the goods in the car, this time there are a few precious skins, good ones, the hair is bright and smooth and complete, you can do anything." "

This Li boss is called Li Jinxiu, born beautiful and delicate but famous Kefu, it is rumored that the four ministers were killed by her, all of them died accidentally, the last prime minister was the boss of this cloth shop, after her death she took over the shop, her reputation outside no one dared to marry, she simply no longer mentioned marrying, as the days went on, she made an appointment with a few good people, Songtao is one of them.

Most of the cars are rabbit skins and fox skins, the color is still good, there are a few mountain leopard skins and a mountain pattern tiger skin, Li Jinxiu touched each skin, stretched out his hand to beckon the guy, looked

at Zheng Lao and said, "I want it, Zheng Lao, do you think it's good?" Zheng Lao is the reincarnation of the fox spirit, his eyes stared at Li Jinxiu's flattering eyes, and he said hesitantly, "This is not good, I came to your house first for the sake of Songtao's face, this batch of goods is a few goods, how can I explain it with my old customers?"

Songtao came up to cater to it, this pair is a good partner, walked to Li Jinxiu's side with a smile and said, "Zheng Lao, give me a face, put Xiu'er down, she won't lose our family."

Zhao Shiyu looked at the three of them as if singing, almost laughed, this way I heard a lot of Zheng Lao's story of the profiteer, the skin was accepted by Li Jinxiu, Songtao was left to wait for the money, and then talk about the next order of the skin, Zheng Lao asked the coachman to go back to the post station first, and he took Zhao Shiyu to a salt store, touching his beard while walking, smiling and smiling like an old treacherous and cunning look.

"Girls Gou Yehan, don't go home that night," Zhao Shiyu said with a smile.

Zheng Lao looked at Zhao Shiyu and said, "You little ghost, you know everything, you are really a little ghost," Zhao Shiyu

scratched his head and said puzzledly, "I also heard the aunts and aunts at the entrance of the village say, I guess this is the case, but I don't know the consciousness in this" Zheng Lao laughed after hearing this.

The salt shop has arrived, as soon as you enter the door, you will see the same big façade as the inn hall, which is full of salt, an old man who is so fat that he walks panting for breath greeted him, and two bodyguards with knives followed, he walked over and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this old brother, buy salt or use salt road?"

Zheng Lao smiled and hugged his fists and said, "I am the shopkeeper of the Zheng family's caravan to bring in more than a dozen loads of salt, can you always give the goods?"

The two old men are both discerning and thoughtful people, and they can just say it directly.

As soon as the fat old man stretched out his hand, the bodyguard walked away, picked up a string of golden prayer beads

in his hand and played with it, looked Zheng Lao up and down and said, "Can there be an official token, or a salt token?" Zheng Lao turned around and asked Zhao Shiyu to take out the token, Zhao Shiyu handed it to Zheng Lao, Zheng Lao slowly handed it to the fat old man with a token in his hand, the fat old man looked at it, immediately nodded solemnly and smiled, and after looking at it, the token was handed to Zheng Lao and said, "In Xia, Wu Fangyuan is the boss of the salt store in the city, dare to ask Brother Taigui's surname?"

Zheng Lao smiled and touched his beard and said, "In Xia Zheng Hao, the Zheng family caravan is mine, can the old man do this deal with Boss Wu?"

Wu Fangyuan said with a smile, "Yes, I will ask someone to write a salt agreement, come on, sit down and taste the mountains and rivers of Zhao Kingdom, this is my baby."

After the two elders sat down, Zhao Shiyu sat next to Zheng Lao, and the salt shop guy came up with a pot of tea, this pot is very good with the outer skin of the gold skin, the purple sand mud liner, this teapot teacup is not luxurious at a glance, the tea is fragrant everywhere, drink a mouthful of bitter sweetness full of fragrance, Shizi does not understand the food, but I think it is very delicious.

After a stick of incense, the account room took the agreement and sent two carrier pigeon cages, Zheng Lao stretched out his hand to take the agreement and

the pigeon cage and said with a smile, "The carrier pigeon is a good baby, Brother Wu, you have broken the fee, you have broken the fee, hahaha" Wu Fangyuan nodded and replied, "This is the salt pigeon, every time you go to a country, you can exchange for the carrier pigeon, this is the guarantee of sheltering the caravan, but also to ensure that everyone makes a fortune smoothly."

Zheng Lao picked up the agreement and nodded, Wu Fangyuan also asked someone to bring the ink, the two sides wrote their names on the agreement, pressed the five-finger handprint on the back, and then asked Zhao Shiyu to take out the token and smear the ink on the front and back of the agreement, and all the processes could be completed.

Zheng Lao got up to say goodbye, set to load the goods in three days, Zhao Shiyu felt that he was being used and couldn't speak, Zheng Lao took Zhao Shiyu into the iron shop, and then to the cloth shop, wandering around the market for a long time, although the market was very lively, but Shizi felt more and more bored in his heart.

When it was dark to the post station, Zhao Shiyu went directly back to their flower room No. 1, Goudan Xiaochai and Er Wang were eating, a table of delicious food, Zhao Shiyu saw that there was something delicious and rushed to eat, after the meal, the four of them washed in the big bathtub and washed it clean, and the hot bath in the big bathtub was also the first time, much cleaner than washing in the river.

Zhao Shiyu and his partners frolicked all night, forgetting all the bad mood of being used during the day, the four of them lay on the soft and big bed and fell asleep, and Zhao Shiyu quietly hid the token before going to bed.