Chapter 22, the diligent Murong
[Next day]
Chu Haoge pushed open the door and rubbed his eyes that had not fully opened, yesterday Murong Xiaoyan was in a hurry and almost opened the entire inn, which frightened Chu Haoge, who was originally thinking of watching a good show.
I have to say that this Murong Xiaoyan is really a dead eye, the shopkeeper has already told her that there are only two rooms left, and she has to let the shopkeeper open three for her, and she has been entangled with the shopkeeper for half an hour.
Chu Haoge was so anxious by her that she said that if she really couldn't do it, she would let Murong Xiaoyan and Jiuli Qiantaro live in the same room, but Murong Xiaoyan just didn't agree, as if she had a grudge against Jiuli Qiantaro, and it was not good to talk about being in the same room with Chu Haoge.
Thanks to Jiu Li Qianyu, he said: "Then let Gongzi Chu share a room with me." Murong Xiaoyan and Chu Haoge were red-faced, and in the end, in order to prevent Chu Haoge and Jiuli Qiantaro from "something happening", Murong Xiaoyan reluctantly agreed to sleep in a room with Jiuli Qiantaro.
"Hmm." Chu Haoge stretched his waist and stretched his body a few times in front of the door, so that his entire muscles and bones woke up.
It was early in the morning, and the world was still very clean, with only some crisp birdsong and penetrating cicada chirping, which made Chu Haoge feel like he was spending the night in the forest.
He looked out the window along his door, and saw that the sky had already revealed the white of the fish's belly, and the light had covered the whole world, Chu Haoge muttered to himself: "Murong and they should get up." With that, Chu Haoge walked to the door of Murong Xiaoyan and Jiuli Qianyao, and reached over to knock on the door.
However, before he could knock on the door, he took it back again, and said in his heart: "Miss Jiuli is also here, wouldn't it be a little rude to disturb her rest." With that, he took his hand away, shook his head to himself, and walked away.
Chu Haoge went downstairs, and a guy from the inn came over to say hello, he sat down at a table on the first floor, ordered some breakfast, and thought about waiting for Murong Xiaoyan and Jiuli Qiantaro to come down while eating.
After a while, Xiao Er came up with a few dishes and said, "Guest officer, your dishes are ready." With that, Xiao Er was about to walk away.
"Wait a minute." Chu Haoge stopped him, signaled him not to hurry to go, and then took out a small silver ingot from his pocket and handed it to Xiao Er, Xiao Er looked around, because it was still relatively early, no one saw it, so he took the ingot and quickly carried it into his arms, and walked away in no hurry, looking at Chu Haoge with a smile on his face, Chu Haoge smiled, and didn't care about his ever-changing face: "I have something I want to ask you about." β
"Guest, just ask." Xiao Er approached Chu Haoge with a smile, bowed down and said, "The little one must know everything, and he must say everything." β
"Hmm" Chu Haoge replied and asked, "Is there a blacksmith shop in Luoyang City?" β
"Of course, guest officer." Xiao Er smiled and said, "Luoyang City is so big, and there are many blacksmith shops. As he spoke, he looked at Chu Haoge very strangely: "Guest officer, you are from out of town." β
Chu Haoge couldn't help but roll his eyes when he saw his expression, and said, "Of course I know that there is, I am asking if there is a master of wrought iron." β
"Oh~" Xiao Er suddenly realized what Chu Haoge was going to ask, and said: "Of course there is, there is a blacksmith shop in the west of the city, and the craftsmanship is amazing." β
"Huh?" Chu Haoge said "um" in confusion, which opened Xiao Er's chatterbox, and he said to Chu Haoge foaming: "Guest officer, you may not know that there is a craftsman named 'Black Iron Hand' in this blacksmith shop, and the ironware he creates is the best in the world. He said, as if at the climax, poked his throat, and continued: "This 'black iron hand' used to be just an unknown craftsman, and the blacksmith shop left by the family took over when he was a teenager, but the craftsmanship at that time was not particularly good, so few people went to him to make ironware. As he spoke, he changed his voice, paused for a moment and said, "Later, I heard that more than 20 years ago, he worshipped a master and invited someone to teach him to strike iron, and since then, the reputation of 'this black iron hand' has become louder. β
Saying that, Xiao Er seemed to have eaten Xuanmai, and began to explain to Chu Haoge the deeds of this 'black iron hand', what he said was spittle, Chu Haoge really felt that this person was a talent when he became an inn guy, and this thing went to talk about cross talk, maybe it was another grandfather.
Xiao Er didn't stop talking for a long time, Chu Haoge had to take him some more silver before sending him away, Xiao Er didn't go for a while, and then he saw a person coming down from the second floor, Chu Haoge took a closer look at it and it was Jiuli Qiantaro. Chu Haoge hurriedly got up and walked over to greet her, led her to the seat, and then looked behind her, but Murong Xiaoyan was never seen, Chu Haoge couldn't help frowning, and asked, "Miss Jiuli, where is Murong?" β
Jiuli Qiantaro sat down, heard Chu Haoge's question, and looked at Chu Haoge very strangely, "Didn't you see her?" Jiuli Qianyu said: "She went out before dawn, I thought she was looking for you." Saying that, she looked at Chu Haoge meaningfully.
Chu Haoge was so seen by her that his old face turned red, and he hurriedly drank two mouthfuls of porridge and said, "Miss Jiuli said that she was laughing, what did Murong come to me for." β
Seeing Chu Haoge like this, Jiu Li Qiantaro covered her mouth and chuckled, and stopped teasing Chu Haoge: "She went out with a weapon, and she should practice martial arts in the courtyard." As she spoke, she looked in the direction of the inn's courtyard with her eyes, signaling to him that Murong Xiaoyan might be there.
"Hmm...... I'll call her over for dinner, Miss Jiuli, you can eat first. Chu Haoge nodded, and without waiting for Jiu Li Qiantaro to reply, he ran in the direction of the courtyard.
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"Drink", "Ha", "Boom". Murong Xiaoyan held a whip in one hand and a knife in the other, the whip was like a long snake, and the knife was like thunder, whether it was the speed of the lancet or the flexibility of the whip, it was almost to the extreme.
Compared to her knife technique, her whip is sharper, and it can be retracted freely, it is simply not like a lifeless whip, and her lancet is glowing with a reddish shimmer, this is a combination of Murong Xiaoyan's unique knife technique and spell, and it is also a kind of qi condensing method, the glimmer of this lancet does not just make it more beautiful.
The cheeks of the onlookers around the "whoosh" wind hurt and did not dare to step forward, so they took two steps back. When Murong Xiaoyan first came out, a few men still made teases, but they were all put down by her two or three times, and after she practiced the knife and whip technique, no one dared to covet her beauty and come forward to talk.
Across the sparse crowd, Chu Haoge saw Murong Xiaoyan flying up and down, so he walked into the crowd and looked at her silently.
Looking at Murong Xiaoyan's sharp knife technique and flexible whip, Chu Haoge couldn't help but swallow and spit at the mouth, and said in his heart: "Murong this guy ......" and then secretly made up his mind in his heart, he must not provoke her in the future, otherwise if he slaughters himself, there will be nowhere to cry.
Just as Chu Haoge was wandering out of the world, Murong Xiaoyan suddenly took a step forward, and the speed was extremely fast, at this time, the whip in her hand was already on her waist, and the lancet in her other hand was directly attacking Chu Haoge.
The crowd of spectators suddenly ran away as if they were exploding, staying farther away to watch, and some of them were so frightened that they crawled and dodged.
Chu Haoge had just come back to his senses, and when he saw Murong Xiaoyan coming, he couldn't help but smile on his face, and said, "Murong, it's early." Before he could say this, he felt a silver light coming, which startled Chu Haoge, the hairs on his whole body exploded, and his smile froze there.
Murong Xiaoyan's knife did not directly hit Chu Haoge's throat, it seemed that the killing intent was not large, it was aimed at his abdomen, but the speed was extremely fast.
Chu Haoge was so frightened by Murong Xiaoyan that his face turned white at this time, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart: "I didn't offend Murong either." Without thinking much about it, Chu Haoge subconsciously dodged and narrowly avoided this knife.
The crowd of onlookers around couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that they were all sweating for Chu Haoge just now.
Seeing this, Murong Xiaoyan couldn't help but show a surprised expression in her eyes, and looked at Chu Haoge with an incredible expression, she didn't think that Chu Haoge could avoid this knife, so she had already prepared to close the knife in advance, so as not to really hurt Chu Haoge, but he actually avoided it directly, this method was too weird.
She looked at Chu Haoge, did not stop at all, turned her wrist, and slashed at Chu Haoge again, which frightened Chu Haoge dumbfounded, and said in her heart: "Murong Xiaoyan must hack me to death today." "Subconsciously raise your hand to grab it, this is a very stupid action, although there are also some masters who can take the white blade empty-handed, but Chu Haoge definitely did not reach this level.
"Slap" Chu Haoge actually grabbed Murong Xiaoyan's hand inexplicably, making her hand unable to move anymore. Chu Haoge was closing his eyes at this time, as if he was waiting for this moment to cut firmly.
"Wow" The onlookers around cheered, and some people applauded, really treating the two of them as showmen.
Murong Xiaoyan looked at him with a shocked face, Murong Xiaoyan didn't expect that he would be caught by this seemingly unreliable guy, his face was a little unbearable, and he wanted to withdraw his hand, but Chu Haoge's hand grabbed her like a plice, making her wrist hurt.
Murong Xiaoyan looked at Chu Haoge with a look of shame, but it didn't matter under this look, she only then realized that Chu Haoge was closing his eyes, gritting his teeth, and his legs were trembling, obviously suffering a lot of fright just now. At this time, Murong Xiaoyan realized that all this was not because of how strong Chu Haoge's martial arts were, but because of his conditioned reflexes, more appropriately, his instincts were strong.
"Hey." Murong Xiaoyan patted Chu Haoge's shoulder, and said a little embarrassedly, "Chu Haoge, you're okay." β
Chu Haoge opened his eyes at this time, and what caught his eye was Murong Xiaoyan's good-looking face, and then saw that he grabbed her hand fiercely, Chu Haoge hurriedly let go of his hand and shouted at Murong Xiaoyan: "Murong, are you crazy!" As he spoke, he snatched the lancet from her hand, and he was afraid that Murong Xiaoyan would give him again: "I thought you were evil." β
Murong Xiaoyan didn't say much when she saw Chu Haoge snatching her knife away, and said to Chu Haoge a little embarrassed: "That...... Chu Haoge, don't be angry, I'm just going to try your martial arts together......" Before she finished speaking, Chu Haoge shouted: "Don't you know what my martial arts are?!" As he spoke, he felt a little degrading himself, and he stopped arguing with her, and returned the lancet to Murong Xiaoyan.
The people around thought they could see something exciting, or they saw the two arguing, and the crowd of onlookers increased.
Chu Haoge looked around, pulled up Murong Xiaoyan and lined up the crowd, and walked towards the hall on the first floor of the inn.
Murong Xiaoyan was pulled by her and staggered, suddenly threw herself on her back, stood up, shook off Chu Haoge's hand at once, and said, "What are you doing." β
Chu Haoge turned around and said to Murong Xiaoyan, "I still want to ask you what you are doing." Chu Haoge said that he felt that his voice was a little louder, and lowered his voice and said, "Why have you been so diligent recently?" β
"Uh......" Murong Xiaoyan thought that Chu Haoge was angry about what he had attacked him just now, and he was a little at a loss when Chu Haoge asked like this: "I...... It's nothing...... I just don't want to waste my martial arts...... Isn't it okay? Her voice was a little slurred.
Chu Haoge saw that Murong Xiaoyan didn't answer him directly, and he couldn't ask any more, so he said to Murong Xiaoyan: "Let's go, let's go have some food, Miss Jiuli is already waiting for us." β
Murong Xiaoyan nodded, and followed Chu Haoge to the table where Jiuli Qianyu was.
Jiu Li Qianyu looked at the two of them strangely, a little inexplicable, after all, the courtyard was not a few steps away from here, and it took Chu Haoge so long to pull Murong Xiaoyan back, and she also heard Chu Haoge's voice and panicked commotion just now. However, Jiu Li Qianyu didn't ask the two of them what happened just now, she was very interested, and she wouldn't even participate if it wasn't her own business.
Chu Haoge and Murong Xiaoyan sat down, Chu Haoge found that the food on the table Jiuli Qiantaro actually didn't move, and glanced at Jiuli Qiantaro with some apologies, Jiuli Qiantaro shook his head, didn't say anything, and signaled that it was okay for him.
Chu Haoge asked Xiao Er to heat up the meal, and said to Murong Xiaoyan and Jiuli Qianyao: "I inquired just now, there is a blacksmith shop in the west of Luoyang City, I heard that the craftsmen there are very good, I am going to ask in a while." β
"Hmm," Jiu Li Qian nodded and said, "I'm going to go to the pharmacy to buy some herbs in a while." Saying that, he looked at Chu Haoge, which made him a little embarrassed: "Prepare some medicine on the road in case you need it." β
Chu Haoge nodded, went to the blacksmith shop and asked, he was enough alone, there was no need to drag two people together.
At this time, Murong Xiaoyan, who was eating, also spoke, her eating appearance was very ugly, and she said vaguely: "Hmm...... Well, it's okay anyway, I'll go with you. With that, she ate two more bites of food, and said even more vaguely: "It's boring to be alone." β
After the three of them had eaten, they went their separate ways, Jiuli Qianyao went to a pharmacy in the city, while Murong Xiaoyan and Chu Haoge went to the blacksmith shop in the west of the city.