With the "borrowed" five taels of silver, the accommodation problem for this night was finally solved.

Hua Duxiu and Ding Qiqi found an inconspicuous inn to deal with for one night, and the next morning, the two had breakfast, bought a body outfit to change, and returned to the Lingzhu Inn in a leisurely manner.

Just yesterday, the Lingzhu Inn was only demolished on the third floor, and there was nothing on the first and second floors, at least Young Master Hua could live, and the shopkeeper and the guys could also work in the small building.

The day before yesterday, the Lingzhu Inn was still a star inn with a booming business and a high grade.

But what about today?

It can only be said that the small building of the inn has not collapsed.

When Hua Duxiu and the others came to the outside of the Lingzhu Inn, they found that the streets and yards were full of water stains and broken ice slag.

In the morning, the temperature was not high enough, and the ice on the ground had not yet melted, and if you were not careful, you would fall down if you walked on it. This is nothing, there are many ice shoots inside and outside the inn, these ice shoots are densely packed like barbs growing on the ground.

Of course, for safety reasons, most of the sharp parts of the ice shoots have been shattered, leaving only one piece of broken ice ballast.

Many officials were busy in and out, helping the shop guys deal with damaged furniture and other things, and the shopkeeper Boss Cha stood silently on the side, looking depressed.

In the inn, huge ice runs through the first and second floors, which not only seriously damages the main structure of the small building, but also completely freezes the small building.

Even at noon, when it's the warmest time, the ice won't melt.

After all, the climate of the northern plateau is cold, and now it is early winter, and the temperature is at its highest at noon, when it can just melt the thin ice.

Hua Duxiu walked behind the shopkeeper and patted him lightly on the shoulder: "Brother, mourning." ”

The shopkeeper nodded silently, suddenly his body shook, turned around suddenly, and stared at Hua Duxiu in front of him with big eyes: "It's you!

Hua Duxiu hurriedly made a silent gesture: "Brother, don't shout!

Hua Duxiu said and pointed to those officials, checked the chest of the shopkeeper, looked at Hua Duxiu with an apologetic face, and looked at the officials who were busy cleaning up, and finally stomped his feet and sighed heavily:

"Iniquity!"

At this time, a person who looked like an official saw that the two shopkeepers had different expressions, and walked over without a trace.

Hua Duxiu said embarrassedly: "Brother, there are unforeseen circumstances, you said that we slept well at night, why did the rainstorm suddenly pour?"

The shopkeeper glared at Hua Duxiu fiercely, and before he could speak, the official arrived: "What are you two talking about?"

Hua Duxiu hurriedly said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, we're chatting." ”

The official gave him a blank look: "The house is ruined like this, you two still have the leisure to chatter?"

The shopkeeper just sighed, where was he still in the mood to care about those, but he didn't catch Hua Duxiu to report to the official.

The official didn't see anything unusual, and left slowly.

Shopkeeper Cha grabbed Hua Duxiu's arm and said, "Dude, does your words count?"

Hua Duxiuqi said: "What do you mean?"

The shopkeeper said: "I know that you are a master, Gao Li comes and goes, I have seen the scene of you fighting with people, if you want to leave, I will definitely not be able to stop you." ”

Hua Duxiu said: "I don't want to leave, if I wanted to go, I would have left a long time ago, what are you going to do when you come back?"

The shopkeeper really felt like he was in tears, and grabbed Hua Duxiu's arm and said:

"You promised me that you would compensate me for my losses, and now that the inn is ruined like this, I can't live, you have to talk and count!"

Hua Duxiu: "......"

The shopkeeper almost choked up: "This is my life's savings, my entire net worth, seeing it ruined like this, my heart is really like a knife." ”

Hua Duxiu sighed and patted the shopkeeper's arm: "Don't worry, brother, my Hua Duxiu counts, as long as you don't report to the official and no one arrests me, I won't leave, and I will find a way to make money and compensate you." ”

The shopkeeper saw that Hua Duxiu didn't mean to coax him, and his slightly excited expression slowly relaxed.

Hua Duxiu looked around and said, "Don't pick up the main part of the small building, wait for the spring to warm up and thaw yourself, a few rooms in the courtyard have to be cleaned up, Qiqi and I have to live at night, what do you think?"

The shopkeeper said, "What else? If you two can't live with me, the guys and I have to stay, so that's it." ”

Hua Duxiu said: "By the way, brother, can I trouble you with something?"

The shopkeeper glanced at him: "What's the matter?"

Hua Duxiu said while gesturing: "Such a beehive, please help me buy one, it is the kind of beekeeper used to raise bees......"

After that, Hua Duxiu coughed lightly, and said with some embarrassment: "I don't know if that thing is expensive or not, please put it on first, and I will pack it for you for reimbursement in the end." ”

The shopkeeper asked strangely, "Do you want to eat honey?"

Hua Duxiu said: "No, no, I have other uses, you just have to buy it." ”

The shopkeeper said: "It's winter, and the bees will also spend the winter, I'll try it, try to find it for you." ”

Hua Duxiu said: "There is Brother Lao. ”

The two chatted a few more words, and seeing that the shopkeeper still couldn't lift his spirits, Hua Duxiu had to leave first.

However, Hua Duxiu is also relieved, although the shopkeeper was hit hard, but Hua Duxiu did not run after all, and promised to lose money, and talked with the demeanor of the young master, no matter how you look at it, he is not a rich son who is not bad for money, and the shopkeeper is all the hope on him.

The two walked towards Mud Bottle Alley, intending to find Chu Xuanji to see how he was going.

Mud Bottle Lane is at the other end of the county, in the suburbs, not close to the Lingzhu Inn in the center of the city, fortunately, Hua Duxiu and the two have nothing to do, and they bought two sugar gourds to eat all the way.

Hua Duxiu talked about some of the skills he used with swords in the past two days of fighting, and Ding Qiqi had been waiting for him to talk about sword practice, and he listened to it with relish, and asked a lot of questions.

It's a pity that the more she asked, the more she didn't understand the trick of making swords, and the more she felt that making swords was a technical job.

Of course, once it is done, it is also quite majestic.

This kind of majesty is not the same concept as the magician casting spells, you don't see, the two groups of assassination magicians before and after, obviously the strength is not bad, and Hua Duxiu who also fought in the early stage is quite embarrassed, but once Hua Duxiu breaks through the shackles, it is simply a one-sided hanging after getting close, and those powerful magicians are not his opponents at all.

That's where Takeo excels.

For this, Ding Qiqi yearns for it very much, she doesn't want to be an outsider who can only set fire from afar, if possible, wouldn't it be more exciting to charge and slash with a sword?

Near noon, the two arrived at Mud Bottle Alley.

Mud Bottle Lane is not far from the outer city wall, the buildings here are obviously low and dilapidated, and even the street is not paved with regular stones, but black gravel similar to coal gangue, and when the summer rainy season comes, I am afraid that the road will be very muddy and difficult to walk.

The two inquired all the way and found the Yuelai Inn.

Just about to enter the door of the inn, he was confronted by Chu Xuanji and walked out.

Hua Duxiu suddenly drank: "Brother Chu!"

Chu Xuanji was startled, and looked up to recognize that it was Hua Duxiu: "Ah, it's Brother Hua!"

Hua Duxiu smiled and said, "Brother Chu, hello." ”

Chu Xuanji immediately had a smile on his face, but his appearance was sloppy, his stubble and hair were messy, how did this smile look like a treacherous smile.

"Come on, come to my room and talk!"

Chu Xuanji warmly invited Hua Duxiu and the two into the inn, his room was in an inconspicuous corner on the second floor, the wooden door was pushed open, creaking, the room was very cramped, there was only a single bed inside, a small cabinet, not to mention an independent toilet, not even a table and chairs, the wall skin was peeled off a lot, it was really shabby.

Hua Duxiu smelled the smell of something in the room, and hurriedly said:

"Brother Chu, Brother Chu, I won't go in, it's noon, go, I'll invite you to dinner. Seeing your happy face, I'm afraid there is good news?"

Chu Xuanji rubbed his hands, the space in his guest room was limited, and the three of them were indeed a little tight to squeeze in.

"Okay, good, there's good news! Wait, I'll get you the scabbard!"

Chu Xuanji returned to the room and rummaged through the wardrobe, took out a cloth bag from the deepest part of a pile of miscellaneous items, took it out and handed it to Hua Duxiu: "Give!"

Hua Duxiu opened the cloth bag, and inside was the scabbard of the dragon sword.

Fortunately, the expected musty smell was not too strong, Hua Duxiu danced in the air twice without a trace, and said with a smile: "It seems that everything is going well?"

Chu Xuanji said happily: "Brother Hua is clever, he has no last resort, and last night went very well!"

Hua Duxiu handed the scabbard to Ding Qiqi and shook his head: "Let's go, let's celebrate, I'm in for a treat!"

The three of them came out of the Yuelai Inn, Chu Xuanji seemed to be very interested, took the initiative to lead the way, and led Hua Duxiu and the two to a medium-grade, but quite characteristic beef restaurant of the northern plateau.

This small restaurant mainly makes beef soup, and the dishes are basically based on beef as the main ingredient, Chu Xuanji ordered four dishes, a pot of broth, six big stick bones, and finally ordered a small pot of white wine, and warmly greeted Hua Duxiu and the two to sit down.

Chu Xuanji poured a cup of tea for each of the three of them, and Hua Duxiu asked with a smile:

"Brother Chu, Steward Song didn't make any moths, right?"

Chu Xuanji waved his hand: "Of course not!"

"Brother Hua, your back is very hard, when I heard you say it yesterday, I thought you were bragging, deliberately scaring Steward Song, I went last night, and I was worried that he would turn his face and not admit it. ”

Hua Duxiu shook his head and said: "I never say anything about the butterfly in the flower, I have always told the truth, I said that he didn't dare to mess around, he definitely didn't dare to mess around." ”

Chu Xuanji nodded, watched the wine and food serve one after another, and stretched out his hand to serve broth to Hua Duxiu and the others.

His claws on his hands, saying that black is not black, saying that white is not white, anyway, it doesn't look like it has been carefully cleaned, how dare Hua Duxiu let him serve soup?

What should I do if I have diarrhea after drinking?

Hua Duxiu hurriedly stopped and said, "Brother Chu, Brother Chu, you sit!"

Saying that, he hurriedly gave Ding Qiqi a look: "Let my little sister come! How can Brother Chu do this kind of thing? Brother Chu doesn't have to be so polite, we are all our own brothers." ”

Ding Qiqi didn't understand what Hua Duxiu meant, so he quickly took the soup spoon and said angrily: "I'll be sheng, I'll be sheng, you both sit down for me, don't stand up, don't stretch out your hand to touch, otherwise I can beat someone?"

Hua Duxiu, Chu Xuanji: "......"

Hua Duxiu smiled awkwardly and said, "My little sister doesn't have a good temper, so I'm smiling." ”

Chu Xuanji waved his hand again and again: "No, no, Miss Ding is beautiful and smart, she is really a rare and delicate person." ”

Ding Qiqi glared at him: "Don't wave your hands randomly, put your hands down!"

Chu Xuanji smiled wryly, retracted his hand under the table, and Hua Duxiu hurriedly asked, "Brother Chu, what happened last night?"

Chu Xuanji said: "Last night, Steward Song was very polite to me, saying that he fully cooperated with this cooperation, and had sent someone to send out the news of the legend of the flying pigeon overnight, and the surrounding counties with a population of more than 100,000 cities would be announced. ”

Hua Duxiu said happily: "That's really good, it seems that that dagger can be sold for a good price." ”

Chu Xuanji's words changed, and suddenly his brows furrowed slightly, and he lowered his voice and said:

"However, I see that there seems to be something else in his speech, as if it were ...... It's like he doesn't really want to deal with us more, and just wants to finish this order and end it quickly, a little bit of a sense of staying away?"