Father Shi hasn't thought that Shi Qing would steal his money, because Shi Qing hasn't done it before, but it only aggravates his doubts and doesn't make him ignore this detail.
Shi Qing, he shouldn't have taken any wrong way to get the money, right?
Because of his guilty heart, father Shi didn't want to see an official.
Father Wu didn't think so much about it. He was just the thought of ordinary people and didn't want to deal with officials easily. Haven't you heard the saying, "since ancient times, the Yamen has opened to the south. If it's reasonable and you don't have money, don't come in." how can you regard the Yamen as the gate of the village head's house? If you want to go in, just go in?
On the one hand, Shi Wang's two families are making trouble to report to the government. On the other hand, Shi's father and Wu's father are standing in the way. In addition, the three members of the Liu family don't know what's good. This somewhat remote alley is very lively.
While the two sides were arguing, Shi Qing and Wu Liang followed Jin Laosan and Yu Laolao for several days to a place they had never heard of before: Cangcheng.
The farthest place Shi Qing and Wu Liang went in their lives is the county seat. At most, they occasionally think about the day when they have saved enough money and go to the capital to have a long experience. They know nothing about other parts of the country. At most, they have heard about some big and famous places, but Cangcheng obviously does not belong to this kind. Shi Qing and Wu Liang have no impression of this city.
Shi Qing is still riding on a donkey. The strange combination of four people and one donkey makes the passers-by of Cangcheng look at them curiously.
Because Shi Qing's appearance is obviously not the most important of the four, but only he doesn't have to walk by himself and can walk by donkey.
As Jin Laosan and Yu Laosan enter the city gate, the accent of the people in the city is different from them. Shi Qing and Wu Liang both said a few words, but the local people looked at them with strange eyes and shut their mouths.
Jin Laosan and Yu Laosan are different. When they talked to Shi Qing and Wu Liang, they had the same accent. But when they greet the soldiers at the gate of Cangcheng, they can't recognize the local dialect at all, as if they were Cangzhou natives.
Shi Qing and Wu Liang were so surprised that they kept peeping at them all the way.
Jin Laosan was staring at his back and getting cold. When there were few people around him, he whispered to them, "you two, if you can't speak local, don't talk. Be careful to be noticed. You two haven't grown up yet!"
When he said this, Wu Liang nervously covered his mouth.
Shi Qing is better than Wu Liang. He drags down Wu Liang's hand which covers his face like a toothache. Really, is it inconspicuous to cover your face like this? It's more conspicuous. Do you have it!
If it wasn't for keeping his mouth shut now, Shi Qing would like to give a lesson to this brother who is not in the right mind. He will walk like a thief.
Jin Laosan and Yu Laolao are familiar with each other and take Shi Qing and Wu Liang into an inn.
The donkey was put outside the shop, and Wu Liang helped Shi Qing limp inside.
This inn is much more reliable than the one that stayed in the middle of the night before. The first floor is also used as a restaurant. The tables and chairs are wiped clean. On one side of the wall, there are two rows of small signs, on which are written the dishes that this inn can order.
It's not time for lunch, so there are few people in the shop. Only the shopkeeper is sitting behind the counter with an abacus, and the second child is trying to pad his toes to wipe the sign that's a little higher.
Gold old three familiar with the shopkeeper to say hello: "shopkeeper, there are rooms?"
The shopkeeper looked at him lazily, met familiar customers, and was not too polite. He just said with a smile, "yes, there are so many people living in the shop at this time. You can have any kind of room you want!"
Jin Laosan said: "then come to two rooms. They should be next to each other."
The shopkeeper answered and asked the little two to take the donkeys to the backyard to feed them, and then take them to the two rooms.
Xiao Er immediately gave up to wipe the top row of small signs, ran to lead the donkey, and soon returned from the backyard to show them the way.
The stairs of this inn are not like the one that stayed in the middle of the night before. They creak as soon as you step on them, which makes people worried all the way. It seems that as long as you step a little heavier, you will be trampled down at any time. It's solid and reassuring to step on them.
The second child led them outside a room, opened the locks of two rooms, indicated that this was their room, and then said with a smile, "if you have something, please call me. I'll be downstairs. I'll be there as soon as you call!"
When Jin Laosan looked into the room, the table and chair were clean, the quilt and mattress were neatly placed on the bed, the window was still half open, and the sunlight was pouring in from the window. The room was bright and comfortable.
So he said with satisfaction, "OK, there's nothing for you right now. Go and do your own work. We'll call you when we have something to do."
"Good!" The second child answered and went downstairs.
Several people are empty handed and have no luggage. Of course, they don't need to pack up. Jin Laosan and Yu Laosan call Shi Qing and Wu Liang to their room first and give them some advice.
"You two, just try not to talk for a while. If you can't, just pretend to be dumb. If you have something good, you can tell us when there is no one, OK?"
Shi Qing couldn't help asking: "brother Jin, are you from Cangcheng? Then why can we still talk about our side? "
In ancient times, transportation was underdeveloped. Sometimes across a river, the accents on both sides could be different. Cangcheng and Shiqing were not far away from their hometown, but their accents did have some obvious differences.
Hearing his question, boss Yu couldn't help laughing: "don't ask this later. If you are doing business like this, don't be too careful about some things. We don't ask you, and you don't ask us, so that you won't be caught by the government when you get there, and you'll be called up all the time."
Jin Laosan also laughed and said, "we are neither from your side nor from your side. To say why we can speak local dialect is to learn one word."
Boss Yu continued: "outsiders are always more conspicuous. You'll know when you walk more. When you get to unfamiliar places in other places, try not to open your mouth. Learn to speak the local dialect slowly. If you can't learn it well, it depends on your talent. We used to meet a person who didn't know how to do it for several years, so we had to pretend to be dumb all the time."