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Someone next to him hurriedly asked, "Stop talking nonsense, then what?"
"The iron-masked demon intercepts them along the way, and will take 70% of the 'tolls' from everyone's head." The pointed-faced man said, as soon as he said this, everyone in the seat gasped. "My friend was timid and cherished his life. When he saw something bad, he admitted that he was unlucky. They were not embarrassed. They let go after ordering the number. There were also those who refused to admit and bargain. There was no one left, and they were all killed by the man in the iron mask. The ghosts and bugs sucked into people."
Someone slapped the table in righteous indignation and said, "It's too much to deceive people!"
There was silence in the seat for a while, these people traveled south and north, like a hob, when they mentioned the mountains of gold and silver, they all looked like they were wealthy and arrogant, but at this time, they seemed to have changed their bodies and became weak and helpless people, worrying all day long. own future.
After a while, someone said: "I heard people say that the devil is not invincible. In Yongzhou, he once defeated the men of 'Nandao'."
The female guest in the corner was drinking soup, but when she heard the words, she immediately took a sip. She added a handful of spicy soup to the soup, which made her eyes turn red. She hurriedly touched the tea. She, she glanced around, quietly put the long knife on the side under the table and hung it on her waist by the side of the wall. The handle of the knife touched a purse on her waist. She thought about it and carefully He unbuttoned the purse and tucked it into his arms.
At this moment, someone in the audience sighed in a low voice: "But where are these great heroes now? You talk about this world, and the demon-destroyer will not stay behind closed doors, and will not show up for a few years. , on the contrary, demons and monsters are rampant everywhere, lest others not know his reputation... A few years ago, there were rumors that Huo Lantao, the lord of Huobao, was the culprit of killing his brother. I think it is not as good as when his old man was alive. , anyway, the big guy has a backbone, and now it's good, you said that Huo Baozhu is a hypocrite, a real villain, and those who are not hypocritical, but also do justice to the big guy."
The female guest in the corner was slightly startled when she heard these words, the spoon in her hand was hanging over the bowl, and she didn't move for a while.
Suddenly, the door of Fortune Inn opened again, and a tall man walked in.
This person did not bring any rain gear, and he was soaked with rainwater, his face was pale, and the corners of his eyes were slightly bruised. This man has a good-looking appearance, but his expression is quite nervous. When he entered the door, he stood at the door and glanced at the guests in the entire lobby of the inn with hostility. Then he tightened his shoulders and walked in with his heavy sword. Many The cowardly thought he was here to seek revenge, and the one who had spoken in a low voice also followed, but who knew that when he entered the door, he accidentally tripped over the threshold of the inn, staggered his steps, almost fell, and a big hand He leaned against the wall and took a long breath.
Looking at it this way, it doesn't look like he is seeking revenge, but rather like being hunted down.
The shop assistant hesitated for a while, then stepped forward and greeted, "Guest officer..."
The man stretched out his hand towards him, something flashed across his hand, and those who were far away could not see clearly, but the shop assistant changed his face and said respectfully, "I'm sorry, please come in."
The man waved his hand, handed over a piece of broken silver and a wine jug, and said, "No, I'm still on my way, please add a jug of wine for me, and pack some food to eat on the way, and I'll go."
The shop assistant didn't dare to persuade him any more, so he responded and took the wine jug, but he didn't take the silver tael, and ran to the back kitchen in a hurry.
The drenched man took a deep breath, reluctantly straightened his waist, and seemed to want to find a place to rest for a while, but when he looked around, all the merchants were hesitant, and they all looked away, refusing to meet him, but He glanced at him privately.
The man was quite tired of seeing it, and after a while, he saw an empty stool in the corner of the door, which was the table for the solo female guest.
He hesitated for a moment, then walked over and said in a low voice, "Girl, can I take a break from sitting for a while?"
The girl didn't say anything, just made a gesture of ease.
The man's knees seemed to have suddenly lost strength, he slumped down and sat down, the chair squeaked and screeched, and he leaned against the wall next to him. I don't know if I fell asleep or fainted.
☆、Chapter 122 Injustice
The shop's second-hand feet are very quick, so he packed up a bag of steaming glutinous rice, sliced it, and sandwiched it thickly. The pot was filled with rice wine to quench the cold and quench his thirst, and he trotted all the way to the man's side. , whispered: "Guest officer, guest officer."
The man just closed his eyes, as if he hadn't heard it.
"Hey," the young girl at the same table finally couldn't help but said, "Don't push, he's bleeding a lot, I can smell it, look, he may have fainted."
This girl was Li Yan. She was a playful person three years ago, and she insisted on following Zhou Fei and the others to leave home without permission. Even if Zhou Yitang escorted her back, she was beaten by the big boss.
Li Yan was favored since she was a child, and has basically no experience of being beaten. Unexpectedly, when she was fourteen or fifteen years old, she had a big belly. A bunch of little disciples.
Since then, Li Yan finally used a little snack in her martial arts practice. At the beginning of the year, she finally got her exit token with the achievement of four paper flowers in Xiushan Hall.
This was the first time that Li Yan went out to do business in an open and honest way. Together with Li Sheng, she wanted to walk all the way from west to east for Li Jinrong, which was a routine "checking the pulse" in the village. This is a rule that came only after the large-scale occupation of the Forty-Eight Villages a few years ago. The first one sent a batch of letters in the village and sent a few disciples. Following the route of the letters, the people who "gained the pulse" did not have to show their faces. When they need to pass through each place, they hover for a few days, and they will leave if they go, and they can leave when they see nothing out of the ordinary.
Li Yan and the others went straight into the East China Sea, and Jinan Mansion happened to be the last stop.
Even Zhou Fei, Li Sheng, and the others, when they first went out, they were just subordinates—although they changed their nature by chance—Li Yan basically just followed Li Sheng to familiarize themselves with the route this time, except for her brother. Rebuked twice, nothing to worry about.
Unexpectedly, just outside the city, Li Sheng didn't know what he saw, so he raised his legs and went to chase, and only hurriedly told her to wait in the Fortune Inn.
Li Sheng's original intention was to send herself to a small inn less than half a mile away to eat a bowl of noodles, and she would return when she went there. Who knows that Li Yan has never left the village since she was a child, except for the one time she was taken away by Yang Jin. The middle-elders and the elder brother and sister were suddenly left behind by a person, like a canary that came out of the cage for the first time in their life - I wish I could immediately flutter their wings and go to the sky to celebrate, and I was vaguely uneasy, so I tried my best to pretend to be full of experience. The calm appearance of world affairs makes Jinan's small Hongyun Inn a place for exploration.
And she really thinks what to do, but the scene of eating a bowl of noodles, actually had an "accident".
Dian Xiao Er listened to her words, jumped in shock, and cautiously reached out and shook the man, seeing his face pale and his lips turning blue, it was really bad. With this shaking, his arm around his waist fell off, and there was a smell of blood coming from his waist and abdomen. After a closer look, the blood had soaked the black clothes a little, and the injury was not light.
The shop clerk was quite troubled and didn't know what to do, so he turned his head and glanced at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper of the Fortune Inn is a little old man, with an abacus in his hand, his eyes are really restrained, and he is a master of the house.
The shopkeeper rushed to the shop's second and nodded, and another running hall stepped forward, wanting to step up to help and drag the man down.
At this moment, a sharp horse neigh suddenly came from outside the inn. There seemed to be a large group of people rushing in in the rain.
Li Yan suddenly had an inexplicable feeling of ominous premonition, and bowed her head in a hurry, three mouthfuls poured the rest of the noodle soup into her stomach. Before she had time to wipe her mouth clean, she saw several men in black with hats on their heads dignifiedly barged in. The first one had long arms, holding a token with no expression on his face, and arrogantly showed it to Everyone in the lobby watched.
Li Yan's ears were very sharp, and she heard several low-pitched gasps in an instant, and someone in the distance whispered: "My mother, why is Beidou here!"
Li Yan opened her eyes.
The token opened the way, followed by several Beidou men in black, who filed in and stood in two columns.
A middle-aged man walked in slowly, followed by a man in black respectfully holding an umbrella for him. Go straight to the court.
Li Yan has seen two of the four existing Big Dippers, but when she heard that Shen Tianshu is a one-armed man who is described as withered, and his image does not match the middle-aged man like this official master, she thought to herself: "Could it be Beidou's 'Wuqu'? 'Tong Kaiyang?"
As soon as this group of people came in, there was silence in the inn.
The shopkeeper of the walking gang didn't care about pretending to be behind the counter with an abacus. He hurriedly pushed aside the crowd in three and two steps, walked forward, and bowed to the tunnel: "My lord, the rough people are doing small business. , there is no violation of law or discipline, and what should be donated has been donated early, and it has never been in arrears.
The middle-aged man in the red robe glanced at him and said with a smile, "Why, we can't live in a hotel if we have nothing to do?"
There was a little cold sweat on the forehead of the shopkeeper, and he said with a smile: "Naturally, naturally, as long as the officials don't dislike our small shop...Hey, come here..."
"No need." The man in the official robe waved his hand, and said with a face on the official floor, "Beidou arrests the imperial court prisoners, and the idle people retreat, and those who get in the way are treated as accomplices!"
When Li Yan heard the word "imperial criminal", she immediately thought of the injury on the waist of the strange guest in front of her. She didn't have time to think about it. Relying on her hiding in the corner, she was blocked by a group of people. He poured the cold water for rinsing the bowls and chopsticks, flipped his wrist, and poured half a cup of cold water onto the man's face without any trouble.
The seriously injured man had been chased and killed for a long time, but the moment he was thrown awake, he was awake, and his eyes were like torches.
At the same time, the red-robed man shouted, "Take it!"
Li Yan's eyes flashed, and then she saw the seriously injured man suddenly turn over, the heavy sword lay across his chest, and with a "choking" sound, it swept across the chest of the first Beidou, who rushed up. He was rarely fancy. It was true that the tricks did not fail, and he rushed upstream from the Big Dipper, looking unparalleled, and rushed to the door in a blink of an eye.
The middle-aged man in the red official robe shouted, "Trash!"
After that, he didn't see much movement, and the figure flashed, and he somehow arrived at the door. The fancy saber in his hand was a little wider than the palm of an ordinary man, and he rolled over like a poisonous snake to the seriously injured man.
The injured man did not dare to take it hard, so he had to step back. The red official robe sneered and handed out three swords in succession. One move was as fast as one move, and the hem of his robe sleeves didn't move at all. People went back to the inn.
At this time, the people in the inn were already running away in fright. There were cups and plates borrowed everywhere, and the lobby seemed to be full of empty space in an instant.
The Big Dippers formed a well-trained circle, trapping the seriously wounded man in the middle.
The seriously injured man was obviously at the end of his life. He involuntarily stretched out his hand to press the wound on his waist, gasping for breath.
The red official robe said: "Liu Youliang, Your Majesty treats you well, is that how you eat inside and out?"
Li Yan thought: "So this person is called 'Liu Youliang'."
She vaguely felt that the name sounded familiar, and she thought that someone had mentioned it on the road, but she couldn't remember it for a while.
Fortunately, although Li Yan didn't remember very well, her ears were good. She heard someone with good information whisper: "Which Liu Youliang? Isn't that Liu Youliang, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army? This is really strange, why is this high official? Are you still a prisoner of the imperial court?"
Someone next to him made a "shush", and after the "shh", he couldn't hold back, and continued, "Why not, you forgot that 'General Zhongwu' surnamed Wu?"
The rustling autumn wind poured into the inn along the open door of the inn, making people chill.
Liu Youliang's cold sweat dripped down his wet temples, his lips trembled, but he didn't answer.
The red official robe swept the eyes of the ignorant watchers in the entire inn, and smiled meaningfully: "I know that Commander Liu is soft-hearted, and if it is important, he will not say it here, otherwise it will not hurt the innocent people of this inn. the people?"
Li Yan didn't realize the implication of these words for a while, but the old Jianghu's face in the seat changed quietly - Beidou chased and killed Liu Youliang all the way, apart from what he did, it must be because he knew some important secrets. The red-robed man is threatening him. If he utters a word, no matter whether the people here hear it or not, the Big Dipper will be killed!
Liu Youliang was panting like a broken bellows, and he could hear murmurs coming from his lungs.
The red-robed man sighed and persuaded, "Don't be stubborn and resist."
Before he could finish his words, Liu Youliang suddenly moved forward with his sword, and his epee shot straight at the face of the red-robed man like a meteor chasing the moon.
Seeing that it was difficult for the old shopkeeper of the Fortune Inn to do anything, he hurriedly stepped forward and waved his hand in a bow: "VIP! Two distinguished guests, please do your best, don't do anything in the store."
The red-robed man said lightly, "I'll pay you for that pile of tables, chairs and benches cut from rotten wood, old things, none of your business, get out of here!"
Seeing that Liu Youliang was about to vomit blood from the red-robed man's feint like a cat playing a mouse, Li Yan subconsciously touched the knife pinned to her waist and said to herself, "If A Fei is here, she is sure not to be watching. ."
This thought flashed by, and Li Yan quietly pushed the knife away.
But then, she wilted again. The man in red was too high in martial arts. With Li Yan's eyesight, she couldn't even see how tall he was, let alone meddle in his own business.
The people around were all shunned, and Li Yan pushed the half-inch knife and stopped again, hesitantly changed her mind: "If Li Quede knew that I dared to take care of such nosy things, I would definitely be angry. Toad/Toad... and what am I supposed to do?"
Just as Li Yan was hesitating, suddenly, the old shopkeeper who was still begging for mercy abruptly stepped forward and took out a nunchaku from his bosom!
"Clap!" With a soft sound, the nunchaku came out of the sky, and hung precisely between the swords of the red-robed man and Liu Youliang, and swirled in the air, stopping the movements of the two for a short time.
The red-robed man said angrily, "Old man, how dare you!"
With a flick of his sleeves, he easily threw off the shopkeeper's nunchaku, and the deflated old man turned to one side, stood beside Liu Youliang, and said in a low voice, "This guest has a token from my door on him, see this The owner must obey his orders, the guests are benevolent and unwilling to send, but the little ones can’t watch him and stand by. Master Tong, please forgive me.”
This red-robed man was indeed Tong Kaiyang, and he said sympathetically, "I know who I am to dare to be so presumptuous, old man, I think your inn doesn't want to open."
Liu Youliang said in a low voice, "Treasurer, you don't have to..."
Hongyun Inn is the largest inn in the area. Because the guys in the store are quick and sweet, there are quite a few signature dishes. In recent years, it has become quite famous among the tourists, and it has become a scene in Jinan Prefecture, an ordinary river and lake. Bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes, but they have passed by affecting such a large industry - this is also the reason why Liu Youliang passed through here, but only settled down, and did not seek shelter from the gang.