Chapter 8: Captured
There are only about 20 households in Shili Town from beginning to end, which is not too big but looks very empty. The whole street was empty, the silence was terrible, and strangely enough, the doors of all the houses were open.
Hua Jiu paid attention to the situation around and always felt that this place was strange, and the smell of roast chicken just now gradually disappeared.
She rode the white tiger to the front of a liquor store and stopped, at this time, she saw a bearded man sharpening a knife in the liquor shop.
Seeing someone coming, the seemingly rugged man stopped what he was doing, turned his head and smiled weirdly at Hua Jiu.
Hua Jiu was greeted by that smile, and asked tremblingly, "Excuse me... What is this place? ”
Seeing that she was an outsider, the man smiled even more and replied, "In an unknown town, what do you want to eat?" ”
The man who had just shown a fierce light looked honest at this time, dressed in gray linen clothes like an ordinary person, which made Hua Jiu think that he had thought too much, and the uneasiness in his heart slowly dissipated.
Then, she jumped off the white tiger, walked into the shop, and said to him happily: "One is called Hua Chicken, a bowl of rice wine, and four steamed buns to pack and take away." ”
The man replied with a good answer, and told her to wait a moment, and then walked towards the back room.
The tables and chairs of the entire wine shop are very neat, but they are covered with dust, as if no one has cleaned them for a long time. Hua Jiu supported his chin with one hand and played with the chopsticks in the bamboo tube with the other.
Could it be that this shop is just that man, and there is not even a little two? At this time, she was puzzled again, and felt more and more that there was still an indescribable strangeness here.
No, it's better to get out of here, she thought.
As soon as I was about to get up, the smell of wine and meat came to my nose.
I saw the man come out of the back room with a plate of fine wine and food, and in addition to the nine o'clock food, there were a few more delicacies.
"This is the signature dish of our store, sweet and sour fish balls, girls may as well often see if they are not to taste."
It's really fragrant, Hua Jiu's eyes stared straight at the plate of fish balls, she was tempted by the food, she had already left the strangeness here behind, and after swallowing her saliva, she grabbed a fish ball and was about to send it to her mouth.
At this time, the white tiger on the side roared, and the loud Heren directly shook off the fish balls in Hua Jiujiao.
The white tiger was already very large, and it was even more cautious to launch Weilai at this moment, only to see its body hit the table, and all the wine and food that had just been placed there fell to the ground one by one, and I heard the sound of the plate breaking after it landed.
"Xiaobai, what's wrong?" Hua Jiu was startled for a moment, and hurriedly touched its back to calm him down.
But the white tiger stared at the man with a fierce face, leaking out four tiger teeth, and the tips of the ends flashed with cold light, which made people shudder. The four teeth were intertwined up and down, like a sharp knife, as if they would bite off the neck of the man in front of him at any time.
The man seemed to be frightened, unable to speak, and stepped back step by step.
Hua Jiu hugged its body and hurriedly said to the man, "You go quickly." As soon as he finished speaking, the man ran out.
Xiaobai is not usually like this, what is the matter today, Hua Jiu touched its head with a puzzled face.
Then it bit at the corner of her coat and dragged it out, as if to signal her to leave the place.
The white tiger is a spirit beast, it must have sensed the aura of danger to have such a reaction, when Duan Jinkong found it in the Vulture Mountain, a rumored immortal mountain. Not long after being born, the white tiger was hungry and dying by a stream, Duan Jinkong saw that it was pitiful, so he took out a few pieces of bread from his body and fed it to eat, and after that, this white tiger with no relatives and no reason has been following him, seeing that it has quite aura, he decided to take it back for adoption.
Hua Jiu understood what it meant, and also realized that the dangerous aura around him was slowly approaching, and immediately pulled it and walked out of the shop.
However, it is too late to say that it is too late.
A huge net fell straight down from the sky, and a man and a tiger were immediately caught in the net. Immediately, a huge iron cage went down, and there was no resistance at all.
"Haha, someone got it!" I don't know who shouted loudly, thick and ugly.
I saw seventeen or eighteen people suddenly appear around the wine shop, including men and women. The man had a big beard, dark skin, and looked rude, with a black strip of cloth tied around his forehead. And several women were dressed in the clothes of peasant women, their hair was as dry as straw and was coiled behind their heads by a hemp rope, and their hands were crossed at the waist, looking arrogant and domineering, like a bad woman.
Only then did Hua Jiu know that this was Shili Town, the nest of thieves.
At this time, a woman came over with a twisted waist and said to Hua Jiu in the cage: "Little girl, do you have good things on you, take them out for everyone to enjoy?" ”
This woman is Shui Erniang, the most powerful person in Shili Town, and the wife of the bandit leader. After her husband died unexpectedly a few years ago, she became the head of the place.
Hua Jiu glanced at her and didn't speak, but she was thinking about how to escape.
Seeing that she was silent, Shui Erniang glanced at the white tiger staring at her next to her, only to see her say again: "This tiger is not bad, the old lady has never eaten tiger meat." ”
After speaking, the white tiger opened her bloody mouth and roared, and she was taken a few steps back by He's succession.
Just now, the man in the wine shop ran over and said, "Erniang, don't underestimate this tiger, it's fierce." ”
Shui Erniang spit at his feet, and said loudly: "Phew, it's not me Shui Erniang who is afraid!" ”
Immediately, he waved his hand backwards and said, "Go, fetch the guy, the old lady will slaughter this beast today." ”
Hua Jiuyi panicked when he heard this, and his brain was quickly thinking of countermeasures, if Xiaobai was gone, the master would definitely dismantle himself.
However, this woman is not easy to deal with, she is both domineering and unreasonable, and these people also listen to her, and now she is at a disadvantage.
She rolled her eyes and looked around.
I thought to myself, these bandits seem to be vicious, but their martial arts are not very high, as long as they can get out of this cage, they can't catch up with their light skills. However, the White Tiger must be let go first, because the White Tiger will not work lightly.
Thinking about it like this, my eyes suddenly lit up, and it seemed that I had thought of a countermeasure.
"Oh, I really have a treasure on me." She suddenly said in the direction of Shui Erniang with a bright face.
As soon as she heard that there was a baby, Shui Erniang's eyes straightened, and she hurriedly asked, "Where is it?" ”
Hua Jiu raised his eyebrows and pointed to his waist. "It's on me."
"Then take it out." Shui Erniang urged.
The rest of the dozen or so people also gathered around curiously, all wanting to see what kind of treasure it was.
Hua Jiu groped around his waist, how could there be any treasure, not even much silver.
In the end, he simply took out the bell given by the master, spread his right hand, and presented it in front of everyone.
Shui Erniang glanced at it, then her eyes widened, and she exclaimed: "Chaotian Bell!" ”
Chaos? It turned out that the bell given by the master was called this name.
Seeing that they were shocked, Hua Jiu was even more sure that this bell was extraordinary.