9. (ix)

Two lancets glowing with cold light flew past his ears, Su Muxian was startled, and stopped abruptly, not daring to move casually.

There was a creak, and the door behind it pushed open.

Jiang Yuanzhong pushed the door out with his clothes on, ready for battle. The breath of the person who came was not restrained, and the steps were slightly vain, he should not be a person who practiced martial arts, if nothing else, he should be able to subdue it with one move. I have already intimidated him just now, and when I catch someone, will I send it directly to the government or take him to see Su Muxian......

There were many thoughts in my heart, until I saw that familiar back-

"Shopkeeper?"

Su Muxian laughed dryly, and slowly turned his head to say hello.

"Good evening."

The cool breeze blew the sleeves of the two of them. Su Muxian and Jiang Yuanzhong stood facing each other, occasionally meeting their eyes and immediately moving away like an electric shock, and no one spoke for a long time.

It's very embarrassing to peek at someone else taking a shower and be caught red-handed.

Su Muxian stared at the small pebble at his feet, crushed it with his toes and found that he couldn't move it, kicked it away a little depressedly, cleared his throat and was about to explain the reason why he appeared here, but was interrupted by Jiang Yuanzhong's question.

He said, "Shopkeeper, you run out in the middle of the night to hang around, is it because you can't sleep?" ”

Su Muxian replied to his words, "Yes, yes." ”

Jiang Yuanzhong asked again: "Could it be that when he saw that the moonlight was just right tonight, he suddenly got up and went out to admire the moon, and as a result, he just came to me while walking, right?" ”

Su Muxian continued to nod: "Yes, yes, yes." ”

"Ahh So according to the normal development of the plot, shouldn't there be no moon today......

Su Muxian secretly prayed and raised her headβ€”sure enough, no.

Su Muxian: "......"

It's all a lie in the book!

"Do you still want to say that the moon was there just now, and it happened to be obscured by clouds at this moment?" Jiang Yuan stood with his hands on his shoulders and asked indifferently. If you don't listen to the content of the question, just look at his appearance, and he really has the temperament of a worldly master.

Su Muxian raised his head: "Oh, how do you know?" ”

"That's what you recently read on the twenty-first line of page 8 of volume 17 of "The Iceberg Villa Owner Likes Me". After saying that, he sighed and said with disgust, "What do you usually look at?" ”

"That's the crystallization of the wisdom of our ordinary people." Su Muxian rolled his eyes, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly stared into his eyes and asked, "My book is with you?" No wonder I searched the inn two days ago and couldn't find it. ”

Jiang Yuanzhong wrote lightly: "The table in the room was a little unstable two days ago, and it happened to be used to pad the table legs. ”

Su Muxian: ...... Kill you.

Although he really wanted to pull the collar of the guy in front of him and teach him a hard lesson, but after weighing the height difference between himself and him and the power of the two hidden weapons that had just crossed his ears, Su Muxian gave up this idea very cowardly.

As if seeing through her heart, Jiang Yuan skipped the topic again, and instead looked at the small hole in the window of his room and said thoughtfully: "If you just happen to go out to admire the moon and happen to come to me, what is the matter with that hole?" ”

Sure enough, I still can't hide from it.

Su Muxian honestly lowered his head, hesitated for a moment between "the wind blew out accidentally" or "the window weathered itself", which reason was more reliable, and finally said in a muffled voice: "...... I didn't do it anyway. ”

To prove her innocence, she added: "I really didn't see you in the shower!" Didn't see anything. ”

I didn't ask anything, and I didn't ask myself.

Jiang Yuanzhong: "......"

He raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it good-looking?" ”

"Huh?" Recalling that lean and powerful body, Su Muxian felt a hot nose, and raised her head in a hurry, "It's good-looking." ”

The movement of raising his head suddenly paused, and Su Muxian said, "...... Wait a minute. ”

"How?"

"Jiang Yuanzhong, you have changed, you give me back the upright, kind and shy young man who was just when he first came to the inn."

Is that the man talking about him?

It was rare to hear so many compliments in the mouth of the shopkeeper Su, Jiang Yuanzhong was a little incredulous. He plucked out his ears, the corners of his mouth curved in a loose arc, and said, "I learned it from the shopkeeper." ”

"I'm a serious innkeeper, and I never peek at other people's showers. I haven't seen anything either, so don't ask me questions like whether it's good or not. It's late at night, I'm going to sleep, good night, don't send it. After Su Muxian finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Jiang Yuanzhong watched her walk faster and faster, as if she had just seen a ghost, and couldn't help but show a smile. Bent down and took back the two lancets inserted in the wall and pinned them to his waist, picked up the small stone that had been kicked by Su Muxian before, and flicked his fingers, hitting Wang Meng's door with a crisp sound.

The seemingly unanomalous wooden door suddenly struck twice after being struck by the stone, and then closed tightly, as if the slight tremor was just a temporary hallucination.

At the same time, one of the upstairs windows closed without a trace.

Another guy who sees a good show.

Jiang Yuan snorted heavily, straightened the pot of flowers that had been knocked down by Su Muxian, pushed open the door and walked in.

There are quite a few people who haven't slept tonight.

……

Throughout the night, Su Muxian didn't sleep well.

Xiao Er's young and strong body flashed back and forth in her mind, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she would remember the scene she had glimpsed at that time. She hugged the quilt and screamed, rolling around and couldn't sleep, and when she woke up, it was the next morning.

The kitchen is still being renovated, the inn doesn't have to open the door to do business, and Su Muxian naturally doesn't need to get up early.

So when she went downstairs with two big dark circles under her eyes, she instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Tang Yuyi was the first to react, he squirted out a sip of tea, and sneered: "Shopkeeper Su, did you go to be a thief last night?" ”

Although Su Muxian looked in the mirror, he was a little bottomless when he heard him say this: "Is it really that obvious?" ”

Hu Xiaodie gently pressed Tang Yuyi's head and crushed it on the table, and said softly, "Actually, it's okay." ”

Tang Yuyi: "...... Bastard, let me go! ”

Su Muxian breathed a long sigh of relief, sat down, and said, "It's good if it's not so obvious." ”

Saying that, she peeked at Jiang Yuanzhong, he drank tea elegantly with a teacup, his eyes fell on the tea leaves floating on the water, and he didn't give anything to others, it didn't look like he didn't sleep well last night.

It looks like he's forgotten all about yesterday's embarrassment.

Well, it's better to forget about it all.

Su Muxian prayed silently, but ignored the inexplicable glance from Xiao Er.

……

Everyone in the inn was a thoughtful person, and they quickly noticed the little subtlety between Shopkeeper Su and Jiang Yuanzhong, and because everyone felt that they happened to know a little bit of the inside story, no one dared to add more beaks.

This atmosphere lasted for several days, and before you knew it, the kitchen had been renovated and the inn was back open.

Su Muxian stood in the center of the lobby, staring at the five-character warning posted on the wall and frowning.

After a while, she waved her hand and instructed Tang Yuyi, who had been standing on the stool for a long time, "Move a little more to the right." ”

Tang Yuyi still felt guilty because of the previous incident of blowing up the kitchen, and almost obeyed Su Muxian's words, obediently moved the text box to the right, and asked with some curiosity: "Shopkeeper Su, is it really useful to post this?" ”

"Of course it works." Su Muxian replied categorically, "Before the post, there were an average of four or five fights in the inn every month, and after the post, the number of fights was basically one or two. ”

Tang Yu didn't know if he had a letter, so he let out an "oh" and asked, "Then how did you come up with the idea of posting these five words?" ”

Su Muxian awkwardly glanced at Xiao Er, who was sitting not far away, and whispered, "Jiang Yuan will build it after he comes back." ”

Although it was just a joke from him, she took it seriously and felt that it was really effective, so she kept it.

After Su Muxian finished speaking, she also felt that she was awkward and uncomfortable, so she stopped looking at Jiang Yuanzhong and beckoned Tang Yu to come.

"Xiao Tang, do you know how to write? Can you do both? ”

Tang Yu was stunned: "Writing? ”

"It's calligraphy like the one on the wall? Will you write or not? ”

Tang Yu looked back at the elegant and chic five big characters, and then thought back to the font that he could only call upright, and shook his head awkwardly.

Su Muxian said in disgust: "Aren't you one of the top ten promising young people in the rivers and lakes?" Why can't you even know calligraphy, it's not as heavy as Jiang Yuan. ”

Tang Yuyi: "......"

We are serious Jianghu people, it would be good to be able to write well, who is still rushing to become a calligrapher!

Su Muxian obviously couldn't hear the slander in his heart, and waved his hand in disappointment to let him go. Seeing Jiang Yuanzhong's calm appearance of drinking tea and reading a book, she was a little entangled for a moment, and walked over with a moving step.

Although she was fooled by Jiang Yuan's heavy gag that night, she didn't remember the purpose of peeking at him, and she didn't ask questions about the two hidden weapons, but it doesn't seem appropriate to mention these things now. Besides, he doesn't seem to care about the bathing incident anymore, and she should also know each other and rot everything in her stomach......

After thinking about it for a while, he had already dragged out the stool and sat down skillfully when he came back to his senses.

Su Muxian cleared his throat, knocked on the table, and said, "Jiang Yuanzhong." ”

Xiao Ertou flipped through the book in his hand without raising his head, and responded: "Something?" ”

Su Muxian puffed out his cheeks dissatisfiedly: "Is this the attitude you should have towards the shopkeeper?" ”

Jiang Yuanzhong closed the book with kindness and looked at her: "May I ask the shopkeeper what do you command?" ”

"That's pretty much it."

Su Muxian muttered quietly, feeling as if she was not so embarrassed to face Jiang Yuanzhong, so she mentioned her so-called business: "You write me two more words, just like the one on the wall, I will paste the left and front walls." ”

The sword conference will be held in a few days, and there must be a lot of thieves in the martial arts who come. In the past, there were many accidents, but now so many people come at once, if you don't hurry up and write a few more posts to fill the inn while you are free, maybe after the meeting, this inn will only be in ruins.

Shopkeeper Su was not at all hopeful about the future of his inn.

Jiang Yuan looked at his original words, retracted his gaze, and said indifferently: "Haven't you already asked Tang Yuyi?" ”

Everyone was not far away, and if he paid a little attention, he could naturally hear what she and Tang Yuyi said.

"How can he compare to you." Su Muxian pursed her lips, looked at him flatteringly and said, "Jiang Yuanzhong, Master Jiang, you can help write it, it won't take much effort anyway." ”

Jiang Yuanzhong: "......"

Jiang Yuanzhong: "You must know that my words are hard to find." ”

Even in the past, as long as he was not happy, no amount of money could buy one of his characters. Now I just hang a frame in the inn casually, and I always feel that I have reduced my value.

Su Muxian shook his arm with a dead face: "Jiang Yuanzhong Jiang Yuanzhong, as long as you write, I will never secretly scold you for being a stupid roe deer in the future." ”

"Oh? It turns out that you usually scold me. ”

Su Muxian: "...... You must have misheard. ”

……

After grinding for a long time, Jiang Yuanzhong finally relented, and wrote a few large sheets with the sheep that he disliked in every way.

Su Muxian watched from the side and said with emotion: "It's not good to say that it's not good, but the body is very honest." ”

Jiang Yuanzhong: "......"

He put down the brush and made a gesture to tear up the work he had just written: "These few are not well written, so let's tear them up." ”

Su Muxian threw herself up to protect her: "No, no, no, I think it's good." If you didn't hear what I said, please write a few more! ”

Jiang Yuanzhong: "......"

With such a shopkeeper here, it's so difficult to be an ordinary shopkeeper.

……

There were still three days before the Sword Debate Conference, and the streets were already crowded with people.

Su Muxian happily remembered the receipts, watching one after another strong men with swords or swords walking into the inn, as if she saw countless white flowers of silver flying towards her arms, and even forgot a lot of warnings when Yang Xiaoliuzi sent her the news before.

Why can't the Sword Conference be held for only three days? The organizer can do business with them, the innkeepers, and make a share, and everyone will work together to make a lot of money.

At first glance, they don't have much business acumen.

Su Muxian shook his head regretfully, looking very disappointed.

The lobby was full of people, and a group of chivalrous people who poured in randomly picked a seat and sat down, drank a few sips of wine and began to talk. The topic is nothing more than revolving around the top ten promising young people in the rivers and lakes and the upcoming sword conference, Su Muxian listened carefully at first, but then he got tired of it and couldn't help yawning.

was holding his face in a daze, and the people in the lobby suddenly became commotion, and they stood up one by one and walked out, their eyebrows and eyes seemed to be excited.

"Eh, what the hell is this?"

Su Muxian scratched his head, feeling very strange, looking at their appearance, it didn't look like they had made an appointment to go out to fight.

She stood on tiptoe and looked out through the counter, and vaguely saw several figures running on the street, and the strangeness in her heart became more and more intense.

"Shopkeeper Su, let's go see the excitement together?"

Looking up, Fluttershy Hu stood in front of her. Today she wore a pale pink Luo skirt and a hairpin for her hair

"It's fine." Su Muxian nodded and walked with her to the door.

She looked past from the door, and the Yingxian Building at the bottom of the street was lit up with lights, and the guests were like clouds. Colorful petals sprinkled all the way, forming a carpet of flowers, extending to the front of the Yingxian Tower. On the restaurants on both sides of the road, people kept probing out to watch, discussing gossip, and faintly hearing the words "noble" and "Ouyang family".

Before Su Muxian could sigh about this, everyone exclaimed again, and turned their heads to look at the sky in the distance.

A sedan chair with feathered yarn flew from the sky, and the sedan chair was carried by four masked men wearing dark clothes, looking at all of them with high martial arts, carrying the sedan chair to make light skills steady and fast, as if carrying only a weightless feather in their hands.

The palanquin was surrounded by four beautiful maids, one with a sword, one with a harp, one with a flute, and one carrying a basket of flowers from time to time scattering petals in the air.

Su Muxian was a little speechless, looking at this extraordinary way of appearing dumbfounded, and held back two words for a long time: "Sao Bao." ”

Hu Xiaodie's expression was strange, and she said unusually calmly: "This time it's not too ostentatious, he used to have at least eight maids around him, and four of them had to sprinkle flower petals on him." ”

Su Muxian: "...... You Jianghu people have a lot of tricks. ”

Seeing that Hu Xiaodie knew a lot about this mysterious person who appeared inexplicably and played handsome on the street, Su Muxian couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is the origin of this person?" ”

"The young master of the Ouyang family, Ouyang Chun."

It was not Hu Xiaodie who answered her, but Jiang Yuanzhong, who didn't know when he appeared next to the two.

"He's rich?" Su Muxian asked.

"Rich? Sort of. Jiang Yuanzhong replied calmly, his tone sounded a hint of disdain, "You can also brag about your family background, as for himself, he is completely a-"

"Straw bales."