Chapter Twenty-Four: Seeing a Gentleman, Yunhu Dislikes
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"No! I must go to that guy to settle accounts!" In the wing room called the Bafang Inn, Sun Daren slapped the table and stood up.
There is a way to further broaden the sky, and the more you take a step back, the more angry you become, this is the seventh time that Sun Daren has been deceived and started.
"Alright. Wei glanced at him and said, "One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, besides, it's an old man, if he doesn't give it to you, can you still kill him?"
"Damn! Grandpa Sun has walked the rivers and lakes for so many years, but he has never been deceived!" Sun Daren still said angrily.
Long Xiu on the side wiped his rusty sword, glanced up at the sturdy young man, and lowered his head again, as if he was used to the other party's babbling.
Liu Qingyan squatted aside, carefully sorted the herbs from Wang Daoan and put them away according to the number of servings, thinking that when the time came, he would boil them for Wei Lai.
At that moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Who!" asked Sun Daren, who was holding back his anger in his heart, angrily.
The people outside the house were obviously also shocked by Sun Daren's angry questioning, and they were stunned for a while before they whispered: "I'm bringing food to all the guest officials." β
It was getting late, and it was already time to eat, and everyone didn't have the heart to look for a restaurant on the street, so they simply ordered some food in the inn.
Wei Lai got up, glanced at Sun Daren as if warning, asked him to suppress his anger, and then opened the door, only to see a boy who was only thirteen or fourteen years old standing outside the house with a food box, looking at the cowering appearance, it seemed that he was frightened by Sun Daren's roar.
"I'll do it. Wei Lai stretched out his hand to take the food box from the other party's hand, and thanked him with a smile, afraid that the boy would think too much, Wei Lai also relieved: "My friend was born with a big voice, little brother should not be afraid......"
Hearing this, the boy's expression slowed slightly, he nodded, and was about to retreat, but he seemed to remember something, and he paused to leave, and looked at Wei Lai hesitantly, and stopped talking.
"Is there anything else going on with the little brother?" Wei Lai asked again when he saw that he was reluctant to leave.
"What else can I do, ask for money. Sun Daren on the side is used to seeing such a scene, whether it is the second child of the inn or the little guy in the gambling house, most of them will have such a bad habit of asking for some money.
Wei Lai also reacted when he heard this, he smiled, and took out three copper plates from his arms to hand them to the boy. But the boy retreated, as if unwilling to accept the money.
"Too little?" Sun Daren raised his eyebrows and asked unhappily.
Wei Lai smiled wryly, he is not the kind of person who will be full of sympathy at any time, but seeing that this child is a little younger than him, and he is working as a handyman in the inn, he will not be too good to come to his family. Wei Lai didn't want to embarrass him, and Sun Daren's several drinks scared the kid somewhat, so after thinking slightly, Wei Lai took out three pennies from his arms, handed it over, and said, "It can't be more." β
But who knew that the child still didn't take the money handed over by Wei Lai, which made Wei Lai frown, and secretly said that this child was too greedy.
Sun Daren on the side was even more furious, he stood up, a pair of eyes the size of copper bells widened, as if he was ready to pour out his anger at the child in front of him who had been deceived and taken away a full hundred taels of silver today.
Perhaps because Sun Daren's appearance was too shocking, the boy who had been silent, finally swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked in a low voice when Sun Daren stood up: "I heard the conversation of the guest officers outside the house just now...... The guest officials are talking about the old man of the Wang family in the south of the city?"
"Are you eavesdropping!?" Sun Daren was even angrier, pointing at the boy and scolding.
The boy was obviously not courageous, shrank his head again, and whispered, "I just accidentally heard it." β
Seeing that Sun Daren was about to say something, Wei Lai turned his head and glared at him fiercely, and the sturdy young man sat back on the table and stool with a sigh of relief.
"Brother, do you have any advice?" Wei Lai asked when he saw that Sun Daren had settled down for a while, then turned his head to look at the boy.
Compared with Sun Daren, the boy was obviously more willing to contact Wei Lai, he came up again, and said with a palpitating face: "Childe, that old man is very evil, the adults in the city say that he is a monster, Childe, you must not provoke him!"
"Hmph!" Sun Daren on the side seemed to have something to say, but after Wei Lai glared at him again, he could only let out a muffled snort, and then shut it up stupidly.
"Oh, where do you start?" Wei Lai then turned to look at the boy and asked with a smile.
Seeing that Wei Lai seemed to believe his words, the boy also felt a little more confident, and continued: "I heard from the shopkeeper that the old man was like this when he was a child, and more than forty years have passed, and the old people of his age have died twice, but he is still alive. In the words of the oldest man in the city, Wang Daoan is at least 160 or 70 years old, how can a person live that long?
"The little kid doesn't know, the crowd is the same, there are many people who have lived for thousands of years in this world, what is one or two hundred years. Sun Daren seemed to be deliberately trying to oppose the boy, and as soon as the boy's voice fell, he sneered.
The boy's face suddenly turned red, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't know if he couldn't convince Sun Daren in the dark, or if he was just afraid of Sun Daren's muscles, so he finally swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. Wei Lai shook his head again and again, he patted the boy's shoulder with relief, and said, "We know, little brother, don't worry." β
The boy's face turned red slightly when he heard this, and he nodded: "Well, it's always the sons who are careful." By the way, my name is Lu Bai, if the son has anything to do with me, I'm here, don't believe that Lu Wu, that's a well-known scoundrel in our city. β
With that, the boy waved his hand at Wei Lai, and then turned to leave.
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Wei Lai carefully checked the condition in his body, and there was nothing serious, but with the injection of golden power in the Divine Gate, the shackles leading to the second realm became more and more obvious. He looked at the golden thing entrenched outside the Divine Gate and only the size of a grain of rice, although the speed of the eighty-one golden threads to convey the golden power was a little faster than before, but if he wanted to completely enter the second realm, this was far from enough, he took out the demon bead from his arms, and sensed it carefully, secretly feeling that the power in this demon bead was still abundant, but he didn't know if it was enough for him to impact the second realm. Although yesterday's approach was risky, Wei Lai also basically mastered the method of breaking through the second realm, especially the ratio of injecting golden power into the divine gate and devouring the spiritual energy.
From this point on, as long as the golden power was sufficient, Wei Lai was confident that he would break through to the second realm within two or three days.
It's just that what this golden power is, and why it is poured from those eighty-one golden threads, Wei Lai has no clue, he remembers that the demon once said that this thing is divinity...... But what is divinity? Wei Lai thought carefully about the records he had read about the yang god and the yin god, and it seemed that the word divinity had never been mentioned in it.
He checked the eighty-one golden threads again, and the method of swallowing the dragon was still operating, without any signs of stagnation, and experienced the battle of Wupan City. The old snake had already noticed the method that Wei Lai had planted on him, but he didn't know if it was the old snake's understanding that was not only biased, but he also didn't find the method to crack it. The old snake only blocked Wei Lai's way to use the power of the river god again, but there was no way to stop Wei Lai from secretly devouring his power, so even now, those eighty-one people, including Sun Daren, can still use Wei Lai to borrow the power of the snake to continuously refine the flesh and condense the divine blood.
Thinking of this, Wei Lai put away the method of internal vision, opened his eyes, and the door of the inn was empty-Sun Daren shouted to recover today's losses, and after Wei Lai asked him to repeatedly promise that he would not go to the old man for trouble, Sun Daren took thirty taels of silver and walked out of the inn with great ambition.
There was a sound of waving swords in the small courtyard outside the inn, and you didn't need to look at Wei Lai to know that it was Long Xiu who was practicing swordsmanship. Although Cao Tongyun confirmed the truth of what Long Anyang said, the requirements put forward were not simple, and Long Xiu also knew that his cultivation was not surprising, even if he condensed the seventh divine blood today, he could be squeezed into the Hanxing list, but it was far from enough to achieve a good ranking in the Hanxing Conference.
Only there was no trace of Liu Qingyan, Wei Lai was a little puzzled, and said in his heart that Xiao Nizi's heart should not follow Sun Daren to the smoky gambling house, so where could she go alone?
After thinking about it, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Wei Lai turned to look, only to see a girl in a long green dress carefully carrying a bowl of soup and medicine slowly walking into the door.
The sides of her face were stained with a slight amount of ash, and her eyes were a little red, as if they had been smoked by something.
She didn't realize this, and when she caught a glimpse of Wei Lai, she raised her head and smiled sweetly and said, "Brother Alai, drink the medicine." β
When Wei Lai heard this, he was stunned at first, but he quickly reacted to the reason for the embarrassing traces on the girl's face.
He took the bowl of soup, looked at the girl, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, I'm already fine, no need to ......"
"No!" But before she finished speaking, the always docile girl stomped her feet, stared at Wei Lai with wide eyes, and said extremely strongly: "You want to drink! The doctor said that it will take three drinks to heal." Brother Alai, don't listen to those people's nonsense, I think that old man is a good person. At least ......"
"At least it won't hurt us. β
Wei Lai didn't have such a firm opinion on where the girl came from, he just felt the concern between Liu Qingyan's words, his heart warmed, and asked, "Where did you boil the medicinal soup?"
"The kitchen of the inn! I told the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper lent me the kitchen. Liu Qingyan didn't notice Wei Lai's abnormality, didn't think about it, and responded truthfully.
Wei Lai did not drink the medicine bowl, but stared at the girl with an inexplicable expression.
Liu Qingyan blinked, and soon noticed the strangeness of Wei Lai's gaze, her cheeks flushed, her eyes wandered, and her voice was much quieter: "Brother Alai, drink the medicine quickly, look at it...... Watch what I do......"
Wei Lai didn't seem to hear Liu Qingyan's inquiry, and suddenly stretched out his hand towards Liu Qingyan at that time.
A trace of panic flashed in Xiao Qingyan's eyes, the face on her cheeks turned crimson, and when Wei Lai's hand touched her face, the girl's body trembled, and the crimson color on her face became more and more intense, almost spreading to the root of her ears.
It wasn't until Wei Lai reached out on both sides of her cheek and shook his dusty fingers in front of the girl's eyes that Liu Qingyan came back to his senses.
"Next time, I'll do these things. Wei Lai said.
Only then did Liu Qingyan realize that she seemed to be wrong, and the shame in her heart overflowed her eyebrows, her face turned redder, and her head was lowered to her chest.
Wei Lai didn't think much about it, he drank the decoction in one go, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said, "My little Qingyan is so beautiful, you can't stain your face with these things." β
The girl who heard this raised her head again, and her crimson face was matched with a face that was immature but already had a bit of a rudimentary beauty, which was a beautiful scenery.
It's a pity that the young man in front of him didn't seem to have any intention of appreciating, he turned his head to look out the window, it was still early, and he said with a smile: "Let's go! Brother Alai will take you to this ancient Tong City for a walk!"
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"Damn!" Looking at the dice that appeared after the dice Gu left the table on the table, Sun Hall scolded angrily.
His gambling luck seemed to have been exhausted in Huanglong City, and today he was no longer brave of the day, and the thirty taels of broken silver he brought out were lost in just half an hour.
Looking at the silver taels in the hands of the dealer, Sun Daren was unwilling.
"Hurry up, hurry up, the next handful, buy it and leave!" The dealer collected the money and began to shake the dice again.
The surrounding gamblers bet one after another, and Sun Daren, who was standing in front of the gambling table, was hit hard by the man behind him, and the other party said dissatisfiedly: "Play or not, don't play and get out of the way, don't block grandpa from winning." β
Who is Young Master Sun? That's the leader of Wupan City, how can he stand this anger.
At that moment, the blood was hot, and he pushed away the man who was squeezing behind him, and shouted: "Play! Why don't you play!"
As he spoke, he took out a stack of thick silver tickets from his arms - after Sun Bojin died, he left Sun Daren a very rich inheritance, and the silver tickets alone were three or four thousand, and the young master Sun was so cool, most of them were left to Xue Xinghu, so that he could keep them for the construction of Jinniu Town, and he took more than 100 taels of silver tickets that he won in Huanglong, a total of more than 300 taels of silver tickets with Wei Lai.
With the price of the Great Yan Dynasty, a family of three is a big fish and meat, and they can live extremely comfortably with only thirty silver on their faces. These three hundred taels are definitely more than enough for Wei Lai and his party, even if he was deceived into one hundred taels today, the rest can still be called an extremely rich wealth.
Sun Daren, who was holding more than two hundred taels of silver tickets, had blood-red eyes, and directly threw the twenty taels of silver tickets on the gambling table. The gamblers around have never seen such a generous person, and they all looked sideways, and the dealer was even brighter, but he was silent on the surface.
"Buy it and leave!" he shouted again, and put the dice on the table heavily.
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The dealer is obviously a veteran and knows a good thing about it.
Give Sun Daren some sweetness first, output a little, and then step by step, always let Sun Daren secretly think that he can win back the capital, one by one, Sun Daren seems to have lost his mind, keep calling, and the silver ticket in his hand will gradually become thinner unconsciously.
It wasn't until the last silver ticket was taken away by the dealer that Sun Daren woke up like a dream. He looked at his empty hands, and then looked at the gamblers who were still noisy around him, and for a while Sun Daren seemed to be in an unreal dream.
He shuddered, a kind of fear welled up in his heart, he was thinking about how to go back and explain to Wei Lai - although the money was his own, but when he left Jinniu Town, he Sun Daren patted his chest and said that he had all the food and drink along the way, if he went back and was known by them, it would be difficult to make a difference, and secondly, he would not be able to hang on the face of his young master Sun!
"Master Lu has good luck today!"
"Haha, it's my dad who blesses me on it. β
At this time, not far away, there was a rather familiar voice from Sun Daren, Sun Daren subconsciously looked up, and suddenly his eyes were fixed - he saw a thin man with sharp ears and monkey cheeks, standing at the door of the gambling house and talking to others with a smile. Sun Daren's heart was shocked, if the secret path could recover the defrauded hundred taels of silver, it would be enough for the group to spend on the road.
"Alas, you stop me!" Sun Daren shouted at this point.
Lu Wu, who was happy to make a small profit tonight, looked sideways when he heard the words, and caught a glimpse of Sun Daren's red eyes, he had lived for so many years in this ancient Tongcheng by being abducted and abducted, and he was naturally extremely alert, and when he saw Sun Daren's appearance, he knew that he was looking for his trouble, Lu Wu did not hesitate at all, and he didn't care about saying anything to others, so he spread his feet and ran towards the outside of the gambling house. How could Sun Daren follow him, and he also chased after him at that time.
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"Brother Alai. Holding Wei Lai's hand, Liu Qingyan, who was walking on the streets of Gutong City, suddenly looked up at the young man beside him.
"Hmm, what's wrong?" Wei Lai asked with a smile unaware of him.
"I heard Brother Sun say that you and Sister Longxiu have been married in the Huanglongzhai worship hall, is it true?" the girl asked, staring at Wei Lai with big black eyes.
Wei Lai was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "Why did you remember to ask this?"
The girl quickly lowered her head, not letting Wei Lai see the look on her face: "That's it...... It's just curious, why did Brother Alai suddenly ......"
"Fake. Wei Lai smiled: "It's just a chance, Long Xiu wanted to ...... at that time"
Wei Lai simply told Liu Qingyanzai what happened carefully, and after listening to Wei Lai's words, the girl raised her head again, and said without opening her eyes: "I know that Brother Alai is not such a casual person. β
Wei Lai saw that Liu Qingyan's mood had improved a lot recently, and he seemed to have come out of the previous incident, and he secretly mentioned that she was happy in his heart.
He smiled and nodded at Liu Qingyan's head, and said: "People are small and big, you, you were really taken by Sun Daren." β
Liu Qingyan wrinkled his nose and said a little angrily: "I'm not small! Don't treat me as a child!"
I have to say that Liu Qingyan's pouting appearance is extremely cute, which makes Wei Lai laugh dumbly, he shook his head and said, "But you are a child!"
"I'm thirteen years old. It's only three years younger than Brother Alai!" Liu Qingyan stomped his feet and said one after another, with a posture of wanting to correct some of Wei Lai's "wrong" understandings.
Wei Lai was a little helpless, he nodded: "Okay, okay, my little Qingyan is an adult!, okay?"
"Hmph! perfunctory!" Liu Qingyan broke free of Wei Lai's hand, clasped his hands around his chest, and turned his head to say dissatisfied.
Wei Lai was a little overwhelmed when he saw this, and he asked distressedly, "What does Xiao Qingyan think is not perfunctory?"
Liu Qingyan glanced at Wei Lai with slanted eyes, and suddenly sighed angrily: "You don't understand what you said." β
Wei Lai's eyes widened, being commented on by a little girl was something Wei Lai had never thought of, and he didn't know how to deal with it, but Liu Qingyan pretended to be old-fashioned and said, "Forget it, I'll tell you later." β
As she spoke, the girl handed her hand back and took the initiative to take Wei Lai's hand.
From anger to discouragement, a series of changes made Wei Lai unprepared, and the boy couldn't help but think of what his father once said - women, whether they are sixty or seventy-year-old old women or teenage girls, as long as they are women, you should never try to guess what they are thinking.
Wei Lai suddenly felt that among the many truths his father had taught him, only this truth was really impeccable......
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"Brother Alai. The two of them were already about to return to the Bafang Inn where they were staying, and Liu Qingyan suddenly called Wei Lai again.
"Huh?" Wei replied, looking ahead.
"The Tiangang Mountain you mentioned last time, is it powerful?"
"It must be pretty impressive. β
"Then Brother Alai is going?"
"Not necessarily. β
"Then I'm not going either. β
"Why?" Wei Lai asked.
"Because ......" the girl's head lowered again, her face flushed slightly, she was silent for a few breaths, and then she mustered up her courage, gritted her teeth and said, "Because I want to be with ......"
Before she could finish her words, she stopped violentlyβand while she was talking, the boy holding her hand suddenly stopped, and the hand holding her hand seemed to tremble. The girl who noticed such a strange look looked up at Wei Lai, and asked strangely, "Brother Alai......?"
This time, she didn't have time to finish her question, Wei Lai turned his head to look at her, made a silent gesture at her, and then stretched out his hand and pointed to the inn not far ahead, where many figures were sitting in the hall at this moment. Two handsome men sat on either side of the wooden table, a woman in a red gauze skirt who didn't look down on her face sat in the middle, and several figures stood respectfully behind the three of them. Among them, there is an old man, with white eyebrows and long hair, wearing a cyan brocade robe, this person Liu Qingyan knows - the "immortal master" of Qiankun Gate who escaped from Wupan City alive, Sima Guan!
"They can't be looking for us, right?" Liu Qingyan realized the seriousness of the matter as soon as he recognized Sima Guan, and turned his head to look at Wei Lai and asked.
Wei Lai frowned and stared at that place, secretly thinking in his heart, he also had such worries, and looking at the appearance of that group of people, the Sima official of the Four Realms cultivation did not even have the qualifications to go to the table, so in this way, the identity of the three people sitting there should be good cultivation. And without Ah Cheng, Wei Lai can't borrow the power of Jiang Shen, don't say anything else, that is, Sima Guan is enough to kill a few of them over and over again more than a hundred times.
"Then Brother Sun and Sister Long Xiu won't have fallen into their hands, right?"
Wei Lai shook his head and said: "They don't know Long Xiu, and Long Xiu shouldn't be in any danger, but I don't know if Sun Daren has come back...... If so......"
Wei Lai, who said this, did not say any more, but the meaning could not be more obvious.
"Then what should we do now?" Liu Qingyan was young after all, and he couldn't help but panic at the moment.
"Let's take a look and don't act rashly. At least we have to make sure that Daren is in their hands or not. Wei Laiyan said, reaching out to take Liu Qingyan's hand, and was about to retreat to the shadow of the street corner.
"Ahh
Sun Daren's deep voice passed through the night, crossed the long street, and went straight to the Bafang Inn in front, sitting in the inn and saying something, everyone looked outside the inn when they heard the words.
Wei Lai and Liu Qingyan's bodies froze in place, and they raised their heads to look at the inn, their eyes about to meet the people in the inn, of course, these eyes also included the old man named Sima Guan.
"Ah, I'll tell you! I just met the guy who lied to us today! That guy ......" Sun Daren stretched out his hand and patted Wei Lai on the shoulder, panting and said.
But in the middle of his words, he didn't see Wei Lai responding, he felt strange in his heart, so he put his head in front of Wei Lai, but saw Wei Lai and the two of them looking sluggish, so he teased and asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you see me handsome again for a while?
But the two of them faced Sun Darentian's shameless jokes but they didn't hear it, and in confusion, there was a sound of footsteps behind them, Sun Daren looked back, and saw a large group of people walking towards here, and the leader was a girl in a red gauze skirt.
The girl should be about the same age as Wei Lai, her face is crystal clear, her skin is as bright as snow, and her eyes are like talking, flickering, although it is late autumn at the moment, the girl is wearing a red long skirt and a tulle coat, revealing her delicate and proud figure, and if you look carefully, you can see that under the tulle, a piece of crisp breasts is like clotted white jade, half covered and half hidden, and the plain waist is a bundle, and it is not a hand.
She walked with steps, her waist swaying, although she didn't speak, but the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, like a smile but not a smile, there were all kinds of amorous.
It's just that Wei Lai didn't have the intention to appreciate the beautiful scenery in front of him, he stretched out his hand and dragged Sun Daren and Liu Qingyan behind him, and then stared at the woman who came vigilantly, his waist arched slightly, like a vicious beast before the storm.
Finally, the woman stopped only a foot in front of Wei Lai, and she wandered back and forth with interest to her gaze on Wei Lai, and only after a while did she ask, "Are you Wei Lai?"
Wei Lai's clenched fists under his cuffs faintly overflowed with sweat, and he nodded, but in his heart he had already begun to think about how to fight for his life against the group of people in front of him whose combat power was higher than his ignorance.
But the girl didn't do anything to him as Wei Lai imagined, after she got Wei Lai's response, she suddenly sneered, even if she knew that the other party might be the enemy who took her life, but at that moment, the laughing girl still made Wei Lai's heart turbulent, like seeing the spring breeze transiting, like watching the autumn moon into the pool. Everything seemed to be eclipsed at that moment, and all that was left in front of me was the woman's picturesque smile.
The girl's body leaned forward, her hands were tucked behind her back, she was very close, and almost put the incomprehensibly beautiful face in front of Wei Lai's eyes, and a faint fragrance came from the girl's body, only to hear the girl's words at that time.
"Hello, Gongzi Wei. β
"My name is Ji Huanxi. β
Wei Lai's expression was a little dazed, and he muttered the name: "Ji Huanxi?"
"Yes. The smile on the girl's lips deepened, and the squinted eyes curved into crescents. She stuck it to Wei Lai's ear, with bright teeth and red lips, and her breath was like an orchid, and at that time, she said again in a voice like a warbler's cry: "When I see a gentleman, Yunhu doesn't like it." So the concubine is called Ji Huanxi. β