19. (xix)

"Hey, if you want me to say, that Zhao Yuanwai is just busy in vain."

Such a sentence suddenly came from the corner of the noisy lobby, the voice was neither light nor heavy, but it happened to reach Su Muxian's ears.

Zhao Yuanwai......

She pricked up her ears without a trace, not knowing what the men were going to talk about.

"What about Zhao Yuanwai? Didn't he say that he had found the murderer and was preparing to hand him over to the government? A rough voice said.

"Hmph, it's that simple. The unlucky guy he caught couldn't even make a sword, probably someone pushed out the punching bag, so that the old man could stop and stop. Another person said, just listening to the tone, he knew that he was very dissatisfied with Zhao Yuan's behavior in the recent days to mobilize the crowd to find the real culprit.

"Isn't it, the day before yesterday, I stayed in another inn, and a group of officials came in the middle of the night, saying that they wanted to check the details of the Jianghu people in the inn. Oh, in the end, I still didn't find anything. ”

A young man dressed in blue said indignantly: "When I enter and exit the city gate, I see that I am carrying a sword, and he specially interrogated me, God knows how his daughter died, inexplicable!" ”

"Shhh, Brother Li, be quiet, after all, they are the head snake here......"

After a few people talked for a while, their voices became quieter, obviously a little taboo against Zhao Yuanwai. It just so happened that Xiao Er came up with the dishes, so he only moved his chopsticks to eat, and no one spoke.

In the past two days, the inn has been busy, and Su Muxian has no time to pay attention to the follow-up of Miss Zhao's death.

It is often said that tiger poison does not eat children, although Zhao Yuanwai is not a good person, but he really loves his only daughter.

However, the sympathy was only three seconds, and Su Muxian waved it away as soon as he felt a sharp emotion in his heart.

The affairs of the Zhao Mansion have nothing to do with her, what does she care about.

……

Today was the last day of the Sword Conference, and although Shen Ying was very dissatisfied with Jiang Yuanzhong's decision, she still obediently stayed at the inn.

Su Muxian was also embarrassed to tell her what to do, so she asked her to help serve the dishes. Although Shen Ying practiced martial arts, she was also pampered since she was a child, and she didn't hear a word of complaint from her at the end of the day, so she went upstairs to rest after dinner.

Throughout the day, nothing happened.

It was rare for the inn to be so calm, but it made Su Muxian feel a little unaccustomed.

Although this should be a good thing, she always feels that there is someone brewing in the dark who is brewing to give her a big wave, and she is really not very reassuring.

Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, there was no accident, Su Muxian only thought it was an illusion caused by his overwork. Pick up the things and write the title on today's account - a quiet day.

The word "day" was only written twice, and the little fat man Huo Fei came back with his two guards.

"Shopkeeper Su." The little fat man politely said hello.

Su Muxian looked at his tired face, but his eyes were burning, and he couldn't help but be curious: "Young Master Huo is going to participate in the Sword Conference today?" ”

She heard that although the sword conference invited some famous figures in the rivers and lakes, others were also allowed to watch and participate. If you feel that you have the strength, you can also take on the challenge. Originally, she also wanted to go over to have a good time, but there was still an inn to manage, and she couldn't leave.

Huo Fei nodded and said, "I went, I saw a lot of heroes." ”

He counted his fingers, "There are what Ajia said about the White Cloud Hero, the Lord of the Yellow Crane Tower, the Demon Venerable, and the Lord of the Martial Arts Alliance, but I don't know anything." ”

What are these titles......

Shopkeeper Su helped his forehead, and he couldn't understand the naming style of the Jianghu people very well.

"Oh, there's a very strange thing." The little fat man stopped as he spoke.

"What?"

"I've heard some heroes say that a few of the heads who came to this conference didn't show up, and I don't know what they did." Huo Fei wrinkled his face, "It is said that they are all very powerful people." ”

I always feel a little sorry not to see it.

"Maybe the shelf is too big and I don't want to come." Su Muxian said casually.

She is usually only a little interested in rumors in the rivers and lakes, as for those old and gray-haired old men who have never paid attention to it, I don't know if it's really big, anyway, just guess casually, and don't be responsible.

The little fat man nodded, suddenly looked left and right, and saw that Xiao Er was not there, so he sneaked up to Su Muxian and handed over a booklet.

"Shopkeeper Su, isn't Brother Jiang in the inn very powerful? Can you get him to sign me? ”

When Shen Ying and Jiang Yuanzhong were talking, he deliberately chose a table near them in order to watch them closely, and happened to learn his true identity.

The young owner of Shenjian Villa, the second man in the top ten promising young people in the rivers and lakes, the legendary hero!

Huo Fei, who was popularized by the guards, became interested in Jiang Xiaoer, who looked low-key and unknown, but he didn't have the opportunity to contact him.

Su Muxian was stunned for a moment before he realized that the big brother Jiang in his mouth was referring to Jiang Yuanzhong, opened the booklet and looked at it twice, and couldn't help but be a little speechless.

Each page on it is a person's name, and the one written on the title page is Mei Hongxue, followed by some miscellaneous names, and the handwriting style is also very different. Occasionally, a few are familiar, as if they have heard it in gossip and gossip, but most of them are unheard of.

"That's what you've been doing for the past two days?" Su Muxian asked.

She knew that the little fat man had a hobby of collecting the signatures of heroes, but she didn't expect to collect so much of them in just two days, although some of them may not be called heroes at all, but at least it can be seen that he put a lot of thought into it.

The little fat man nodded happily and said, "Yes, the heroes are very talkative." ”

When I asked them for an autograph, no one refused him.

His outfit was almost the same as when he came, except that the color of his robe had been changed to dark purple, and the tassel around his waist had been replaced by a jade pendant that looked very valuable.

Su Muxian looked him up and down, and said in his heart Oh, you look like you are either rich or expensive, plus the two guards behind you who are not easy to mess with at first glance, how can those powerless passers-by be willing to offend you.

She smacked her lips and swallowed the words back into her stomach, so as not to hit this little young master who yearned for the martial arts world when she said it.

made him think that the hearts of the people in the rivers and lakes were good.

Huo Fei's signature collection has been recorded for dozens of pages, and Su Muxian casually flipped through it and found a more special name.

“…… Red Flame Real People? ”

She stared at the crooked four words and read them out word by word.

Isn't this style a little wrong? Went to the wrong set, big brother.

Huo Fei stood on tiptoe and leaned in to take a look: "This, he said that his sword name is Chiyan, so he named it after the sword." ”

Su Muxian: "...... Yes. ”

Even that, I feel very inconsistent.

Turning the page back, she pointed to the four words "I am the only one" that occupied almost the entire page of Long Fei Feng Wu and asked, "What about this?" ”

Just looking at this name is very arrogant, I don't know if I will be beaten when I report my identity when I compete with others. Even today's martial arts alliance leaders don't dare to claim to be self-respecting.

"This, he said that sooner or later he would become the first person in the rivers and lakes, so this name was used first."

This also comes with an advance of oh.

Su Muxian suddenly lost interest in the origin of other names.

She closed the autograph book, handed it back to the little fat man, and asked curiously, "Do you want Jiang Yuanzhong's signature to go directly to him?" But what are you going to do? ”

Could it be that it is really used for town houses?

Huo Fei held the pamphlet and said solemnly: "This is my proof that I have mixed the rivers and lakes." ”

Su Muxian: "...... Yes. ”

I don't think it's provable.

Of course, it is not kind to hit a small child, so Su Muxian said sincerely: "Jiang Yuanzhong will leave tomorrow, if you ask him for an autograph, it is better to go now, it is estimated that there will be no chance in the future." ”

Although Jiang Yuanzhong told her that he went home to visit his seriously ill grandmother, what is the status of the Jiang family, and what is his identity, once he goes back, he is afraid that he will never succumb to such a small inn to work for others, and it is very difficult to meet again.

The little fat man was still a little hesitant: "But I see that Brother Jiang is not very good at talking......"

Jiang Yuanzhong is not good at talking?

Su Muxian recalled seriously, although that guy didn't look as gentle and kind as Mei Hongxue, he often wore his trademark lazy smile, and he was enthusiastic and enthusiastic about doing things.

"Actually, Jiang Yuanzhong is quite good...... "She curled the ends of her hair to speak for him, "and she's not very good at rejecting people." ”

It's obviously just kind to you.

The little fat man was skeptical of her words, and only said, "Okay, then I'll try." ”

"Go, go, go."

Su Muxian waved his hand and watched him walk towards the backyard, finished the last two strokes of the unfinished "Tian", stared at the blank page and shook his head, sighed lightly and closed the notebook.

There's really nothing to write about, forget about going to sleep, and I'll not remember it today.

……

A dream is deep.

I slept in a daze until midnight, and somehow felt a little thirsty.

Su Muxian fumbled around on the bedside table with her eyes closed for a long time and didn't find a cup to drink water, and then she remembered that she had put it in front of the dresser before going to bed.

A little far away, don't want to get up.

She closed her eyes tightly and frowned in pain.

Holding the quilt and reluctantly turning over, I still couldn't resist the strong desire to drink water, I barely stretched my eyes open a slit, and I was about to sit up with my hand on the edge of the bed, but suddenly I felt as if something was wrong.

She clicked and turned her head, and a vague black figure was reflected in her hazy eyes, standing next to her bed, blocking the moonlight shining in from the window, and the whole person was like a silent shadow, terrifyingly silent.

Su Muxian was sleepy, and all the sleepiness was scared away at this time.

The third watch ran to the girl's house in the middle of the night without sleeping, she didn't think that this person had come to see her sleeping position, and it was very likely that he was the same as the killer of the bloody clothes door before......

Longevity, it's really a crow's mouth that is afraid of something.

At a critical juncture, there is often only a moment in which thoughts turn back and forth.

Realizing that something was wrong, Su Muxian immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Help-woo-"

Before she could finish calling for help, the silent man in black took out a handkerchief and covered her mouth. The handkerchief was probably coated with something like ecstasy/medicine, and Su Muxian struggled to take two puffs before he became dizzy, and the movements of his hands became more and more weak.

It's over, the crow's beak is real.

Su Muxian was so annoyed that she almost wanted to slap herself.

The man in black didn't seem to want to take her life, and seeing that she was still resisting the effects of the drug, he raised his hand and slashed directly at her neck.

Su Muxian's eyes darkened, and he could no longer resist losing consciousness.

The man in black carried her across his shoulders, burrowed out the window like a ghost, and leaped lightly onto the roof, a series of movements without making a sound.

He turned his head to look at the small courtyard, and the only two rooms were dark, and he didn't seem to notice what happened in the shopkeeper's room.

The sound of bangs in the distance was getting closer, and the man in black turned around and disappeared into the Jianghu Inn like the wind with Su Muxian.

……

Su Muxian was awakened.

I don't know if it was because the drug expired and the medicine was not strong enough, or the knife of the man in black was not accurate enough, in short, she finally regained her consciousness in the bumps along the way.

It's not a good feeling to be held on your shoulders and run wildly.

Especially when your head is down, your hair is spread out like a madman, and you are smeared with the night breeze from time to time, it is a strange torment.

Su Muxian only felt that her stomach was on the shoulder of the man in black, and the frequent impact made her almost vomit the supper the day before.

However, she didn't dare to move, for fear that she would let the man in black see the problem and make up for it again, so she quietly pretended to be a corpse.

Rows of dark wall tiles flashed under her nose, and they all looked similar, barely distinguishable.

Su Muxian originally wanted to memorize the route traveled by the man in black, but his speed was too fast, and there were no landmark buildings at the moment, so he became dizzy and uncomfortable after remembering it for a while, and he didn't know what route he had.

The side effects of the drug did not completely disappear, and she remained in this semi-comatose and half-conscious state, and after some time, she finally felt the man in black stop in a room.

"Someone brought?"

A hoarse-sounding voice asked, and the sound was like a person taking a mouthful of old phlegm in his throat, and it was uncomfortable to hear.

"Brought." The man in black carrying Su Muxian replied succinctly.

"Let's lock it up first." The previous voice said.

“……”

What was said later, Su Muxian didn't hear it clearly, but felt that the man in black was walking away with him.

Her eyes were hazy, and when she was conscious again, she was already in a dark dungeon.

Most of the people with strong martial arts walked without footsteps, and Su Muxian couldn't tell whether the person who had captured him had gone far, so he had to continue to pretend to be dead, and when he heard a slight sound of doors and windows locking in the distance, he rubbed the back of his head and sat up slowly from the ground.

The man in black who kidnapped her had no tenderness at all, and after taking her to this place where he couldn't see her fingers, he didn't even look at her and threw her directly on the ground.

Although she is in a coma on the surface, she is not dead, and it still hurts, okay!

There was a knock on his head out of nowhere, it hurt hotly, Su Muxian gently rubbed it with his fingers through his hair, only to feel as if it had swollen a small bag.

It's really a premature life, what should I do if I hit a stupid one.

Perhaps out of trust in her own drug/drug, or confidence in her ability to guard and defend herself, the men in black who kidnapped Su Muxian did not tie her hands and feet, nor did they restrict her behavior.

After sitting in place for a while, Su Muxian stood up with the object that could be supported by her.

There was no sunlight in this place, and she couldn't see anything with her eyes. But if she sat still, she didn't dare to think about what would be the result waiting for her. Now that she doesn't know if someone will come to save her, she must save herself first.

If only there was a fire fold.

Su Muxian thought with feeling.

Usually this thing is not uncommon, but it is difficult to find one at this time.

She held on to something about the wall and took two steps cautiously, but she didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, and the ground was stable, and her heart was a little more settled. After four or five more steps, I was more sure that this was supposed to be a dungeon, but I didn't know exactly where it was.

Walking and walking, Su Muxian, who had circled the entire dungeon for most of the time, suddenly felt that she had stepped on something, and she couldn't see in the dark, so she stumbled to the ground before she could react accordingly, pressing the obstacle under her.

"Ouch my mom......"

She let out a cry of pain and groped her way around the ground trying to find a support point to stand up.

In the darkness, suddenly, she felt a hand.

A warm, human hand.