East of Jianyang Mansion.

A tea stall built by a tree is a little cold in this Shangyuan Lantern Festival, under the tea shed, the word square card written in thick ink sways with the cold wind.

The tea customers in the tea stall are roughly divided into two groups, four or five people sit around the side of the red fire tandoor, scorching their bodies in the cold wind by the fire of the tandoor, and the other group is far away from the crowd, a silent and mysterious guest officer covered in black robes.

The faces of the people surrounding the fire to warm themselves were different, and their words chattered endlessly, and their regrets and sighs were all in them.

The middle-aged man, who was closest to the stove and whose cheeks were swept to frost red by the cold wind, gathered his winter coat and complained bitterly: "This cripple, this stall said to throw it to me." ”

The middle-aged woman who was coated with heavy fat powder on her side waved her hand, and said angrily: "On weekdays, you have such a good relationship with Yu Cripple, are you not happy to take care of the stall for him today?"

The people on the side chimed in, "That's it, besides, the cripple is not a lazy person, if it wasn't for the old man who was lost, when would the cripple be so panicked." ”

The middle-aged man with frosty cheeks on his cheeks was even more red, and said to him, "A few old people, keep people under your mouth." ”

The red-faced man sighed: "Old brother, is this complaining that you are tired of taking care of the tea stall?"

"Although our master is not a high-spirited and bright person who understands righteousness, but it is not to distinguish between right and wrong, although this job is cold and tired, but since someone entrusts us, our master must have no complaints at all, let alone this day, even after nightfall, people ask for this, so they have to help, right?"

The red-faced man had a lot of rhetoric, but under the cold wind of this twilight spring, the man's winter coat had already been frozen, and the slightest carelessness was a loud sneeze, and the red-faced man rubbed his nose and said: "Isn't it because the old man is lost?"

The man hammered his chest lightly, and sighed: "This piece of the east of the city, he is not good friends with the old man alone in the cripple, and the relationship between our men is not bad, this cripple was favored before I heard that the old man was lost, and it is normal to be busy repaying the favor, the old brother, my heart is also full of concern, and I also want to go and see, but there is nothing to do." ”

One sentence tugged at everyone's heartstrings, "But no, the old brother and sister-in-law are kind and tight on weekdays, my mother-in-law is clumsy, and the three bedding of my son and daughter-in-law are all sewn by the old sister-in-law. ”

There are unrelated people who have just arrived here, and they don't know what happened to the noisy all morning, so "What the hell is the matter with this old brother?

"To put it nicely, it's lost, nine times out of ten it is to kill people, I heard that his old sister-in-law found the lamp pole that the old man was holding when he was leaving, and this person was hanging. ”

"I heard that the old sister-in-law is not in a good condition, and his boy invited the Chinese doctor, who has been practicing medicine in the east of the city for decades, when did he see him frowning. ”

In the tea stall, there was a sigh of sighing, "You said that he is a withered old man, with a very good temper and character, it is basically impossible to provoke the enemy, let alone kill him for money, who else can harm his life out of thin air." ”

"The government of this dog day, I don't care about such a big thing, and I lick my face and pat my chest and say that I am the parents of the people, I bah!"

Speaking of which, people

The middle-aged woman in the group raised her head and looked around, making sure that there were no living people around, so she waved her hand to let a few people come forward, lowered her head and whispered: "The government doesn't want to take care of this matter, and I don't dare to take care of it!"

"What's going on?"

"Yes, sister-in-law. ”

The woman's voice was very low, for fear of causing trouble, "Nine times out of ten, this thing was done by the warriors of the rivers and lakes. ”

"Jianghu warriors?!"

In the crowd, there were exclamations.

"Be quiet, don't kill you?"

Among the common people, these four words are very terrifying, and they are often killed in Huangquan, and the people around them scold the coarse man who was shocked.

"The sister-in-law will tell me more. ”

The middle-aged woman said mysteriously: "My old man's nephew, who is an apprentice in the tailor's shop at the gate of the city, heard him say that three or four Jianghu warriors came to the city three or five days ago, and the leader is a girl, who is very handsome!"

"Said that those people were covered in injuries, and immediately sat two and carried two, I don't know if they live or die, this matter has something to do with them!"

The red-faced man was stunned when he heard this, and said in surprise: "How can an old man get in touch with them?"

"Then we don't know, maybe those are like those storytellers who are bulls, ghosts, gods and snakes all day long, and they can't say what vicious spells those people practice to heal their wounds with human blood, maybe this old man was refined into an elixir by them to heal his injuries. ”

The middle-aged woman became more and more lively as she spoke, and at the end of her words, she forgot to lower her voice.

The conversation between the market is almost like this, there are two or three people who listen to the wind and rain, and a few people who will add oil and vinegar to the big mouth and long tongue, no matter how big or small the matter is, it will not take a few days to tell an extremely rich story.

Throughout the ages, this seeming most understated gossip has been the most invisible.

For ordinary people, the warriors of the rivers and lakes who hold long swords and big swords in the clouds to break through the void are unattainable existences, and they can't understand it at all, and this middle-aged woman said it decently, so some people believed it, and suddenly, the tea stall was full of thoughts.

The middle-aged woman felt a little proud when she saw everyone's thoughts, and her curved waist was faintly straightened, and she was extremely angry.

In this mortal stream, you and I are mortals with heads on our shoulders, and I know what you don't know, then I am more energetic than you, more capable than you, so I will be one level higher than you, this is the sense of existence is also the thin layer of clothes draped outside people's hearts, and the word vanity is written on the clothes.

The more the middle-aged woman spoke, the more energetic she became, eager to screw together all the secret rumors about the warriors in her heart, and talk endlessly with others.

'Peel the skin alive, pluck the top. ’

'Human blood is wine, and human flesh is food. ’

'One glance can scare a lynx beast to death, and a raise of hand can carry a thousand mountain stones. ’

'Make wine from babies and children, and refine medicine with human life.' ’

In the mouth of the middle-aged woman, the ferocious warriors seem to be more mysterious and terrifying than the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in the gods and monsters.

After the middle-aged woman's tirade, most of the customers in the tea stall believed it, and the color on their faces changed from worry to fear, and the atmosphere was extremely low.

Middle-aged woman

Seeing everyone's expressions like this, the smile on his face became heavier, and he smiled angrily and added a sentence that I don't tell him about this matter, for fear that they will be scared of it, if it weren't for the old people who knew me, you wouldn't have a place to listen to this secret!

When everyone's thoughts flew away, the middle-aged woman had time to rest her throat, and her mouth was dry after telling this long story, so she brought a bowl of cold tea nearby, and drank it all in one gob.

If on weekdays, this woman is pretentious, not to mention that the tea is cold, even if the tea is less, she has to noisily let the cripple change a bowl, but today is different, I can't help but be happy in my heart, and it doesn't hurt if the tea is cold.

The middle-aged woman is on the rise, and she doesn't care about the etiquette of women, she rolls up her sleeves and wipes the tea soup from the corners of her mouth with her sleeves.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, the middle-aged woman's eyes lit up, remembering the secret news she had just heard in the past few days, she cleared her throat, and said: "Actually, these are nothing, the real scary is behind!"

"Sister-in-law still knows about these warriors?"

"The eldest sister-in-law is the eldest sister-in-law, and she hides it on weekdays!"

"Well, it's nothing. The middle-aged woman waved her hand and made a very free and easy sigh, and said in a deep voice, "Old man, old man, time has passed, and my aunt and grandmother, if I are ten years old and twenty years younger, maybe I will find a handsome ranger to visit the world together." ”

No matter what others think, in the eyes of the middle-aged woman, she has already held her own value extremely high, and sighed: "These descendants of the rivers and lakes are now becoming more and more presumptuous, and they have dared to rebel against the dynasty recently." ”

"Plain rebellion?!"

The middle-aged woman enjoyed everyone's questioning very much, and said angrily: "That's not it, you know about the Holy Draft, right?"

"That's natural, this matter is noisy, and many people hand the birth date of the woman in the family to the government, just to fight for the matter of becoming a phoenix. ”

The middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows and said, "This Shengshang draft, the required birthday eight characters are extremely strange, it seems that we don't have any in Jianyang Mansion, one hundred and ten miles away from Anrui County, there is a remote mountain village that has a show girl who should be harmonious, and the child has only been handed over for a few days, and the family of four died tragically at home, and there is not even a complete corpse!"

"Really?!"

Hearing that some people didn't believe it, the woman was a little displeased, "Then you see, my aunt and grandmother can still deceive you? You are trapped in this acre and three points of land all day long, how can the news be so well-informed as mine." ”

The show girl didn't make it up, it was the woman's neighbor's relatives who talked about it when they visited the door, and the neighbor's relative was also a long-tongued and big-mouthed, and said that it was very mysterious, and said that it was related to what fierce man, saying that this fierce man had killed more than a dozen families in Anrui County one after another, among which the show girl was a family, and the middle-aged woman just listened to it casually, but she didn't expect to use it today, and the spirit in her heart was particularly strong.

The people who were guarding the tea stall had different expressions when they heard the woman's words, and most of them were occupied by anxiety and panic, except for one of the woman's faces, which was full of anxiety and fear.

In the cripple tea stall, the black-robed man who was far away from the crowd couldn't help but laugh when he heard what the woman said, and smiled softly: "The long-tongued man in this market is really damned." ”