After taking a bath, Qi Qi went upstairs and went to sleep, and in the second half of the night, Liu Shuang'er's mother and daughter didn't come to disturb him again.

The next day, according to the time agreed with Liu Shuang'er, he got up and began to help with the inn. Not long after the store opened, there were more customers.

Liu Yue'er went to the study school in the city, and there were Qi Qi, Liu Shuang'er and a few shopkeepers in the store.

The customers were quite a little bit said about the sudden addition of Qi Qi in the store, a man in white with crepe. One is to look at his dress temperament should not be a shopkeeper, but should read some books, take a imperial examination or something, and the second is that the proprietress looks at him with a look that seems to be quite meaningful, then this can't bear it. Why can you let the boss lady be like this? So many of them have worked hard for so long, but they can't get the boss lady to take a second look. As a result, these people began to deliberately make things difficult for the man in white, either deliberately knocking over the dishes he served, or accidentally getting the food and tea on him.

Seeing this, Liu Shuang'er frowned slightly, walked up to these people, and scolded, "You can eat if you want, if you don't want to eat it, get out!

Several people hurriedly laughed, "Shuang'er, don't be angry, don't be angry, we didn't mean it, carelessly, carelessly, hehe, hehe." ”

Liu Shuang'er's eyes were cold, "Don't think I'm joking, let me see it again, none of you will want to step into my store half a step in the future!"

"Why?!" A lean and swarthy man stood up and said loudly, "Who are you, Shuang'er? Why are you so protective of him? We are so many people here, you don't look at it much, but you like him with such a little white face, what's the matter, it turns out that you are so good?"

Liu Shuang'er's face turned gloomy, "What are you talking about?"

Qi Qi smiled faintly at Liu Shuang'er at this time, took her hand and retreated, intending to stop entanglement with these people.

However, the thin man also grabbed Liu Shuang'er's hand, "Shuang'er, you have to explain to the big guy here today, why you got involved with this little white face, otherwise, we won't give up!"

Liu Shuang'er twitched her hand twice, but she couldn't break free, although the lean man looked weak, but his strength was surprisingly great, "What are you doing?!

The thin man looked at Qi Qi with a gloomy look in his eyes, "If you don't give us an explanation, I won't let go!"

Qi Qi retreated at this time, and easily took away the lean man's hand that Liu Shuang'er couldn't get rid of, "Men don't do anything to women, especially if it's obviously not interesting to you, it's only very cheap." ”

"Qi Qi..."Liu Shuang'er was shocked by Qi Qi's sudden release of tough momentum.

The lean man was stunned for a moment, and then his face became gloomy, "Okay, if I don't teach you a lesson here today, you really don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick!"

When the words fell, a punch smashed into Qi Qi's door, the speed was so fast, it was obviously a practitioner.

Liu Shuang'er's face was shocked, and it was too late to pull Qi Qi between screams, so she could only watch the thin man's fists continue to rush in.

The surrounding customers also showed their eyes to see the show, this lean man is nicknamed Dry Monkey, don't look at the shape of the bones, because of the practice of martial arts, the strength is surprisingly great, this little white face has a good meal today, hehe.

However...

With a slight sound, this is Qi Qi's head on one side, avoiding the dry monkey's punch, and then pointing at the dry monkey's chest, forcing the dry monkey to take a few steps back.

The crowd was shocked.

The dry monkey was furious, straightened up, shouted "bastard", and was about to hit Qi Qi again, when he suddenly felt a pain, and couldn't help grinning his teeth, curled up, and covered his heart with both hands.

The people around showed puzzled eyes, how did the dry monkey become like this?

Qi Qi said lightly, "Sit and rest for a while, I'll mess up your qi and blood, otherwise you won't be able to breathe in the future." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Liu Shuang'er and wanted to go back.

At this time, several people stopped in front of him and Liu Shuang'er.

"Boy, you hit someone, and you want to leave?"

Qi Qi said lightly, "He made the first move, why can't I fight back?"

Several people glanced at each other and sneered, "We don't want to talk nonsense to you, the rules of the rivers and lakes, beating people, cutting down the place where you hit people, and apologizing, this matter will be over." ”

"What kind of bullshit rules are you-" Liu Shuang'er didn't finish her words when she was stopped by Qi Qi.

Qi Qi looked at a few people and smiled lightly, "What if I say no?"

The expressions on the faces of several people disappeared and paused, "Then die!"

In the midst of the angry shouts, several people came in unison with their fists at Qi Qi.

Liu Shuang'er was so frightened that her face was pale, Qi Qi pushed her behind her, and when a few people's fists arrived, she threw her arms up and swept away a few people, and several people were also forced to retreat a few steps under the counterforce, and after stabilizing their figures, their faces were shocked.

The customers of the entire inn had already put down the food in their hands and looked at this side.

A few shopkeepers also shrank at the counter and shivered, they were just little people who made a living, but they didn't dare to wade into this troubled water.

Several people were stunned for a moment, and said, "Hehe, there are two hits!" The words fell, and they all drew their knives and slashed at Qi Qi.

"Scared?!" Liu Shuang'er looked shocked.

Qi Qi twisted and moved, avoiding the attacks of several people in the small space between the tables.

Several people were furious and slashed again.

Qi Qi saw it clearly, and then hid. However, although his body was ethereal, the space was narrow, and these few knives avoided a knife, slashing through his waist and cutting through his clothes, leaving a blood mark that was not deep but not shallow.

Qi Qi and Liu Shuang'er both saw it, Liu Shuang'er exclaimed "blood", and Qi Qi's eyes became cold.

At this time, there was a snort, and the third wave of several people slashed at each other.

And at this moment, a long strip on Qi Qi's back was also rolling down, revealing its true face.

A handful of black sheaths.

At this time, with a bang, several knives came in unison, and the white knife light cut Qi Qi's face into several parts.

"Qi Qi!" Liu Shuang'er exclaimed.

Zheng!

Suddenly, a loud sword chant rang out, and everyone felt that it was dark in front of them, as if the sky had darkened in an instant.

In the next moment, there was a "clang", and I saw that the man in white had an extra long sword in his hand at some point, swinging away the long knives of several people. Several people were forced to retreat, and all the weapons in their hands were broken in half and fell to the ground.

The audience was shocked.

Several people looked at the broken knives under their feet, and their faces changed.

"Do you want to continue fighting?" Qi Qi asked lightly.

Several people looked up at Qi Qi, the anger on their faces visibly turned into fear, gritted their teeth, didn't say anything, and consciously retreated.

Qi Qi looked at everyone and said loudly, "If you want to eat, you can eat, you can drink, if you don't eat or drink, it's okay to go, there's no need to target me, and there's no need to embarrass the boss." If you have anything in your stomach, do it, and don't be suspicious. Because..."

"It really doesn't make sense. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone continued to eat, Qi Qi and several shopkeepers also continued to serve food and wine, and Liu Shuang'er also returned to the counter under Qi Qi's comfort.

Gradually, the customers also finished eating and left, but soon Qi Qi, Liu Shuang'er and others found a strange thing, after the seats in the store were empty, there was no one to take over. Usually, there are many people waiting in line outside, and when someone finishes eating, someone picks them up.

A few people just thought that today's situation might be a little special, and they didn't think much about it.

But in the next two days, the business of the store was obviously a little out of business, and the number of customers gradually changed from not as many as before, to almost none, a huge inn, with only a few people sitting.

Liu Shuang'er's complexion is also becoming ugly day by day. At noon that day, she was playing abacus at the counter, Qi Qi came over, glanced at the abacus, and asked, "Is it still the same?"

Liu Shuang'er looked at him, nodded and said, "Well, the income is less than a hundred taels of copper coins." ”

When Qi Qi heard this, he also fell silent.

A plate of meat and vegetables in the store costs twenty or thirty taels of copper, forty or fifty taels of expensive, and a pot of wine also ranges from a few taels of copper, and the income is less than a hundred, which means that there are no patrons at all.

At this time, Qi Qi said, "I'll go outside and take a look, you stay here." ”

Liu Shuang'er glanced at him, nodded and said, "Hmm." ”

Because he has been in the store for a while, some frequent customers Qi Qi also basically remembers that most of the people who come to the store to eat have a livelihood in the city.

"Brother Tai, why haven't you been to the store to eat recently?" Qi Qi was a blacksmith in front of him, and he was striking iron.

Dahan glanced at him, continued to strike iron, and said casually, "I've been busy lately, so of course I don't have time to go." ”

Qi Qi smiled, "I see that you used to go there a lot, so you should be able to spare a little time, right?"

Dahan didn't look at him and said, "If you don't go, you don't go, there's not so much why." ”

Qi Qi smiled, looked at the many iron tools placed on the Dahan shop, threw down a hundred taels of copper coins, bought an ordinary iron sword, and asked, "What now?"

Dahan was stunned when he saw it, and then a touch of embarrassment flashed on his face, "You are like this, it is difficult for me to do it..."

Qi Qi said with a smile, "If you don't do business, it's even more difficult to do." ”

The big man looked at him, was silent for a moment, sighed, and said, "Actually, it's nothing, you know more or less that the big guy went to the inn to eat not because of the wine and food in the shop, it was entirely because of the proprietress of the shop." Because of your appearance, the big guy's thoughts were broken, and the big guy held a grudge against you, but because of your strong martial arts, you couldn't help it, so you spread rumors everywhere, saying that the proprietress had a bad reputation, a widow and a scholar got together, the food was not clean, and the food was unlucky, and in the end almost no one went. ”

Qi Qi nodded, these words of the big man were actually not much different from the conjecture in his heart, and now that they were confirmed, he said, "Thank you, but who are the people spreading rumors?"

Dahan shook his head dryly, "I don't know. ”

Qi Qi smiled faintly, dropped another hundred taels of copper coins, and bought a second iron sword, "You know." ”

Dahan smiled honestly and took a hundred taels of copper coins, "Yes, I know." ”

Soon, Qi Qi left, and from the mouth of the big man, he asked who was spreading rumors, and what he had to do now was to beat these people, and then let them change all the words that were spread.

Although Liu Shuang'er is not familiar with him, after all, this matter started because of him, and he can't sit idly by and ignore the spread of rumors, so no matter what, he has to solve this matter.