Lianzhou, the big city in the place of the southern barbarians, the city wall is six zhang high, thousands of soldiers, located in the Datang transportation hub, more than a dozen streets criss-cross, the south gate of the city is by the sea, there is a dock, the wharf, you can see the towering mast of the big ship in the distance, at this time the sun is slanted westward, and all parts of the city seem to be coated with a layer of gold by the sun, shining. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe streets are full of pedestrians, gorgeously dressed boys, beautiful girls with beaded hair, and all kinds of vendors and ordinary people as if they are rushing to some grand event.

Li Tianqi, who left the small village, saw the town and thought it was already very big, and he almost lost his way when he came to the county seat. But he understands that the only purpose of coming here is to find out the whereabouts of his mother as soon as possible.

Li Tianqi continued to ask passers-by about the location of Zixia Villa, but no one knew. This made him wonder. It stands to reason that no one knows about such a big mountain villa?

Walking all the way thirsty, Li Tianqi reluctantly leaned on the roadside tea shop to drink some water, the stool was not hot, and a man wearing a black power suit and a straw hat sat down opposite, the straw hat was pressed very low, covering half of his cheeks.

"Shopkeeper, cool water, peanuts." The straw hat man's voice was cold.

Hey? Li Tianqi remembered someone, this mysterious straw hat man appeared in front of his eyes many times, once at the Yuelai Inn, once on the street, and the third time on the mountain peak next to Lingyun Temple, but he didn't see this person's face three times. Is that him? Li Tianqi believes in his intuition, that body shape, movements, will not be wrong, it is him! Li Tianqi has already decided. The straw hat man on the opposite side seemed to feel that someone was paying attention to him, and raised his eyes slightly to meet Li Tianqi. Li Tianqi saw the appearance of this person, his face was fierce, his eyes were like torches, his face was yellow and thin, his fiery red eyebrows were almost connected to the hairline, and the most conspicuous thing was that there was a piece of vermilion on his left cheek.

This person glared at Li Tianqi and lowered the brim of his hat again.

Finally saw this person's face, just once, Li Tianqi had already remembered it, he got up and walked away quickly, looked back at the man slightly, and found that he did not follow.

Suddenly, there was a noisy shouting beside him, interrupting Li Tianqi's thoughts, he turned his head to look, but it was a casino, thinking of his master Mengyou Heavenly Master, sighed, I wanted to walk away, I remembered what the usual master taught: If you want to find some people or clues in the rivers and lakes, in that place of three religions and nine streams, the place where Yingge and Yan Dance may have unexpected gains.

Li Tianqi took a few steps back, paused for a while, and still walked into this crowded casino. The casino was stuffy and smelly, and he couldn't understand why these people were so keen to crowd into this pickled place, take a lot of silver, and gamble their luck here. He only knows that it is not easy to make money, but it is very simple to spend money, but unfortunately there are many people in this world who are willing to do this.

"Great! Big! Big! ”

"Small! Small! Small! ”

"Buy and leave, buy and leave! It's on! ”

"Leopard!"

"Alas......"

"Win!"

There were shouts from the crowd, and there were not a few people who called their fathers and mothers.

"Oops...... Lost again! What a smelly hand! A middle-aged man in a fancy dress slapped the back of his hand and swore and squeezed out of the crowd.

"Hey! Feng Hemp! You wait, I'll go back to the villa to get the money! Don't close ****** so early! The middle-aged man suddenly turned his head and yelled at the pock-faced man who was raising his arm and shaking the dice.

"Just the salary of your purple villa, it's not enough for Lao Tzu to stuff his teeth, get out of here if you don't have money!" The pock-faced man sneered at the middle-aged man, and then continued to shout, "Buy and leave, buy and leave!" Hurry up, hurry up! ”

The middle-aged man walked to the door, kicked on the doorpost, but covered his feet in pain, and walked onto the street with a curse. Li Tianqi had followed closely behind, secretly admiring Master's experience in the rivers and lakes.

The middle-aged man walked quickly, presumably in a hurry to get his book back, but he didn't notice that a teenager was following behind. The middle-aged man quickly walked to the dock and got on a small boat, and there was an elderly boatman on the boat.

Li Tianqi also came to a boatman who was tethering a rope at this time, and said urgently: "Boatman, please help catch up with that small boat." ”

The boatman shook his head and said, "That can't be chased." ”

"Why?" Li Tianqi asked.

The boatman glanced at the afterglow of the setting sun: "It's too late, it's too dangerous to go to that place." You can't go, you can't go. ”

"Why did the ship go?"

"That's their own boat." The boatman shook his head, sat down, and mended the nets.

Seeing that the middle-aged man had become a small dot, Li Tianqi gritted his teeth, took out a few pieces of broken silver, and lit them on the palm of his hand.

"Keep up, it's yours."

The boatman's eyes lit up, which he might not have earned in a year's fishing, and without much to say, he jumped up, untied the rope from the bow of the boat, and began to paddle.

Money is not everything, but no money is everything.

Li Tianqi sighed secretly and found a place on the boat and sat down.

The boatman was really hardworking, and he could clearly see the silhouettes of the two people in the boat in front of him.

"Don't get so close." Li Tianqi saw that the boats passing by at this time were all returning to the harbor, but only a few left the dock, and he was too close to worry about being discovered by the middle-aged man.

Sure enough, the middle-aged man's boat stopped, looked back at the boat behind him, and just stopped moving. Li Tianqi secretly instructed the boatman to slowly row from the side in the other direction and not stop.

The middle-aged man didn't see the suspicious figure, so he continued walking. At this time, the sun had set, the dark sea was surging darkly, and the wide sea surface was swaying, and Li Tianqi only noticed the difference between the sea and the river at this time, and he fainted a little. Fortunately, he has been familiar with water since he was a child, and he has also obtained the twenty internal strength of the black thin dart master, so he is calm, and he quickly returned to normal.

At nightfall, the boat in front of them had already lit a lantern, and Li Tianqi and the others could only find the direction by looking at the lantern from a distance. No wonder the middle-aged man yelled at Na Feng Haozi, telling him not to close the door so early, it is estimated that the journey is too far, this round trip, and then back to Lianzhou City, it must be late at night.

After another hour of tossing in the sea, the boat in front stopped at the edge of the reef, and Li Tianqi saw a huge island and reef by the faint starlight. Presumably this is Zixia Villa.

The middle-aged man stood on the shore and waited, and faintly heard him urging the boatman, who fastened the boat, carried the lantern and led the way, and gradually disappeared into the low jungle on the shore of the reef.

At this time, Li Tianqi's boat shook here, Li Tianqi hurriedly gave the broken silver in his hand to the boatman, jumped off the boat, and the boatman turned the bow of the boat without saying a word, and rowed away in a hurry.

Li Tianqi wanted to let the boatman wait in the dark on the other side, but when he turned around, he found that the boatman was in a hurry to leave, so he shook his head and didn't speak, he walked along a narrow dirt road alone.

After walking along the dirt road in the grove for a while, he saw the light in the distance, the two stopped to talk, Li Tianqi hid behind a tree, and quietly moved forward, he wanted to see if he could hear some news about Qingshui Village from the middle-aged man's mouth.

Seeing that he was only a few feet away from the lamp, he vaguely saw that the lamp was only planted in a small tree. Just as he was feeling strange, two people suddenly jumped out from the side and pressed him to the ground at once, and his hands were tied behind the rope.

"I've been with us for most of the day. Are you tired? Ha? The middle-aged man slapped the back of Li Tianqi's head and pulled Li Tianqi, who was covered in mud, up.

"I don't want to follow you, I just want to find Zixia Villa." Li Tianqi said loudly.

"Yo? It's actually a little hairy child? Still Zixia Villa? Who are you fooling? Tough mouth? Dare to speak so loudly! Playing tricks with Lao Tzu! The middle-aged man heard the boy's voice and knocked Li Tianqi's skull again and again.

"Alright. The owner, isn't he just a little hairy child? There's no threat, just get rid of him. The boatman said.

"This kid, I don't think he's a good thing, he dares to follow Lao Tzu all the time. I'm getting impatient. The middle-aged man said viciously: "What kind of head is this, it makes Lao Tzu's fingers hurt." ”

Li Tianqi added twenty years of internal strength, although he was hit very hard by the man, but there were no internal injuries, but the epidermis felt a little hot.

He scolded and went to retrieve the lantern, and said to the boatman, "You are watching this boy here, and I will go and fetch some money." ”

When the middle-aged man walked away, the boatman said to Li Tianqi: "Little baby, what are you doing here?" ”

Li Tianqi said: "I'm here to find Zixia Villa. ”

"Zixia Villa?" The boatman asked.

"Yes, old man, but here?"

The boatman shook his head and said: "Little baby, this is not Zixia Villa, this is Zinan Garden, which originally produced purple gold silk nanmu, but was later mined, and there was a huge yard left, but it was bought by a rich master, but he never came to live, but he just sent the middle-aged man to manage it, and this place has really become his other courtyard." ”

Yes? It turned out to be a mistake. Shiro was beaten up. Li Tianqi was at a loss. The old boatman said, "I will wait for him to come, and I will intercede for you again, and I think he will be discouraged, and he will not bother with you." Alas...... I think he's definitely losing money again today. ”

"Thank you, old man. By the way, do you know where Zixia Villa is? ”

"I haven't heard of this place, if it's in Lianzhou City, it must be known to passers-by......"

Li Tianqi felt a warm current circulating in his lower abdomen, and under the guidance of his mind, he felt that his arms were full of strength, and suddenly his arms were slightly stiffened, and the rope that bound him had been broken, which surprised the old boatman standing aside.

"Old man, I'll take my leave first." After Li Tianqi finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"This ......," the old captain sighed secretly.

Li Tianqi walked to the edge of the reef, only to suddenly remember that the boat he was on had already turned back, alas, he repeatedly blamed himself for being careless. Thinking that the old boatman just let himself go, would the vicious middle-aged man blame him and be unfavorable to the old man? Li Tianqi thought of this, and returned to the low woods, and sure enough, when he returned to the area of Fangcai, he heard the sound of the middle-aged man scolding, kicking and beating from a distance.

Li Tianqi couldn't help but run, "Stop!" ”

The middle-aged man was holding a lantern in one hand and rolling up his sleeves in the other, kicking and beating the old boatman lying on the ground, and when he heard Li Tianqi running back again, he scolded viciously: "Lao Tzu is worried that he didn't start the fire, this old thing is good, let you go without permission, I am still thinking about how to find you, and you ran back to die." ”

"You scoundrel! I have endured it, this time you hurt the innocent again, how can I tolerate you! Li Tianqi scolded angrily, the middle-aged man put down the lantern, and kicked at Li Tianqi with one kick, Li Tianqi dodged sideways, flew up a punch, hit the middle-aged man's chin, and immediately knocked out three teeth.

The middle-aged man screamed, punched again, Li Tianqi flashed, a roundabout kick, kicked on the middle-aged man's stomach, and the pain was so painful that he immediately covered his stomach with his hands and lay on the ground, rolling and begging for mercy.

"Spare your life, master, don't fight. Don't fight. The middle-aged man was covered with sweat, how could he have suffered like this, and quickly begged for mercy.

Li Tianqi picked up the old boatman and asked the middle-aged man, "Let me ask you, where is Zixia Villa?" ”

The middle-aged man cried and said, "I really don't know. ”

"You're a liar!" Li Tianqi said: "When you asked me just now, I said that I wanted to find Zixia Villa, and you said, 'Return Zixia Villa?' Who are you fooling? This is obviously knowing where Zixia Villa is located in my heart, so I have this 'fool', isn't it? ”

The middle-aged man didn't think that Li Tianqi was so meticulous and secretly complained, so he had to say, "I really don't know, master." ”

Li Tianqi took out two pieces of broken silver, put them on the palm of his hand, and said, "Say it, this is yours." Don't say it, that's what happens to you. When the words fell, Li Tianqi raised his right foot vigorously, slammed it to the ground, and with a "snap", a small pit suddenly appeared under his feet.

The middle-aged man couldn't hide it, so he had to say, "Okay." He pushed the old boatman away and said to Li Tianqi: "I said, don't tell the people in the village that I said it, otherwise it will ......" He made a clicking gesture.

"Got it. Say it. Li Tianqi was a little impatient, these people were greedy for life and afraid of death.

"Zixia Villa is in Crescent Bay, twenty miles north of the city, there is an inn there, but only those who are invited can enter the village, otherwise, they can't enter. I advise you not to go to that place, there are strange people coming in and out, and one carelessly ......," said the middle-aged man.

"I have to go." Li Tianqi handed the broken silver to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man immediately smiled when he saw the silver, took the broken silver, and immediately forgot the pain on his body.

Li Tianqi picked up the lantern and said, "If you dare to deceive the master, be careful that I will go to the gambling stall and destroy you!" ”

The middle-aged man immediately weakened his legs: "Don't dare, don't dare, small one, I really don't dare." ”

Li Tianqi said: "You can stay here tonight." ”

The middle-aged man said, "But this ...... I'm going to turn it over. ”

"This is your punishment!" Li Tianqi said angrily.

The middle-aged man saw that Li Tianqi was angry, but he stopped making a sound.

Li Tianqi carried the lantern and strode over......

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