The rain gradually began to fall heavily, and when it really came to the point where the usual gusts of wind on the beach gradually disappeared and weakened. In previous years, most of the free time after the festival was over, it was the best time for the temporary stalls on the coast to do business, but this year, it was the turn of the festival, and most of the tourists were forced to hurry back to the city by the heavy rain not long after the festival ended.

Seeing this situation, many shops on the beach could only collect their shops and return to the city one after another. Although they did not make as much money on this day this year as they did on the same day in previous years, they did not bring back any food supplies for the first time, which can be regarded as a slight profit.

The owner of the tea shop originally wanted to hold on a little longer, because the four people sitting in the shop at this time, the young man who took the lead was very generous, and the owner of the tea shop also expected him to spend some more money in the shop, and the shop sold more than tea. But the four of them sat for a long time, except for the four bowls of tea they bought at the beginning, they didn't drink much, and there was no movement after that. Not only that, but they don't even speak much.

This made the owner of the tea shop a little puzzled and curious, and subconsciously looked at the clothes of these four people, feeling that they looked a little like martial arts disciples, but in his mind, he recalled in his mind that there were all kinds of guests he had seen in the tea shop in the inner city every day, and there didn't seem to be any martial arts disciples in this kind of dress.

The shopkeeper's gaze naturally shifted and he noticed the black cloth umbrellas of the four people leaning on the four legs of the small table. In fact, he didn't deliberately observe the umbrellas, but when his eyes moved, among the four people, the young man who looked like the leader suddenly swept sideways.

When the tea shop owner's eyes met the man's gaze, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. The young man's gaze made the tea shop owner feel as if he had done something offensive to them, and he looked sluggish, and then bowed again, as if to apologize, or just habitually hold an attitude of awe towards the strong.

Facing the respectful attitude of the teahouse owner. The young man did not say a word, but withdrew his gaze indifferently, and then continued to look at the sea not far away, just like the three teenagers present.

The teahouse owner didn't look at the four people anymore, he went back to the big canvas shed, behind the makeshift tea-making table, there was no tea set here, but he picked up a clean tea bowl and a rag with some moldy spots, and wiped it vigorously.

The speed of wiping the tea bowl round by round gradually became faster. Just like the state of mind of the teahouse owner.

The young man's gaze reminded the teahouse owner of a type of person: they claimed to be 'Jianghu people' and had better character. It is called a 'chivalrous man', and a violent heart is called a 'heroic'.

A person's ability to endure thirst is much weaker than that of hunger, no matter how profound your martial arts are, you will not be allowed to drink water after driving dozens of miles. The body is quickly consumed. The business done in the teahouse has a very wide audience, but the process is very simple, and the owner of the teahouse has also developed a wealth of experience because of this, but. It was precisely because he saw the aura of the rivers and lakes in these four people that he couldn't help but wonder.

About thirteen years ago, security in Kyoto was at its most chaotic. There is a profession among the people, which is called selling human heads in the vernacular, which is actually buying murderous work. Unlike the government posting notices and offering rewards for the murderer, those who buy murderers only need to be able to afford the price. Then they hire the killer, which is equivalent to buying a tool. Kill the target for them straightforwardly, but the target does not necessarily wear any sins that must be paid for with death.

In the last years of the previous dynasty, there were more and more murders like this. Vendetta in the market is the lowest grade, and a person who quietly disappears in the alley, and rarely anyone sees it. The assassination of the emperor and his relatives is of the highest grade, but that kind of assassination incident occurs in many palaces, and the palace people in the palace will consciously keep their mouths tight, and for ordinary people, they will still not have a chance to see it.

The most common assassination activities in the market are still in the middle level, vendettas between rich people or ministers, and it is not uncommon to see a group of people walking halfway down the street, and suddenly drawing their swords and dancing swords and fighting, until their heads hit the ground and blood was splattered on the spot.

In addition to paid killers, there are also some chivalrous swordsmen who claim to be going to kill officials and evil officials for Tianxingdao, and they are reckless and heroic who rob the rich and help the poor. However, the behavior of the chivalrous man is a manslaughter, and it is unknown whether the robbery of the rich really helped the poor.

At that time, all the officials in Kyoto had to keep close guards at home, and they would take them wherever they went, and the wealthy families had groups of caretakers. Kyoto Prefecture can't control the shape created by this real situation, so it can only let it go.

And this chaos was not gradually diluted until ten years ago, after the Wang Jiajun entered Beijing, mainly because of the strict inspection of the four directions to the city gate. What about the outside of the city, the official can't manage it particularly comprehensively for the time being, but at least the inner city has been cleared first.

All those who entered the city were not allowed to carry sharp weapons, and iron tools such as hoes and sickles for agricultural use were all certified with branding on them. In order to manage the order of the inner city, except for the addition of the patrol team, all the iron shops are also officially recorded, and it is absolutely forbidden to make weapons privately.

It's like holding the seven-inch lifeline of a poisonous snake.

If there are no weapons, the work of the assassin killer will be greatly affected, the so-called "selling heads" business, in the killer business is exquisite, only cut off the head of the target person and bring it back to the proprietor to confess, in order to get a reward, how can you do it without a sword.

The inner city is now very rare killers, and the outer city has been continuously "cleaned and built" in recent years, and the mountain bandits who used to build the stockade under the city wall have long disappeared. Or they were surrounded and suppressed by the officers and soldiers of Kyoto Prefecture, or they were put in prison, and they were still working as coolies to return their sentences, or they had already done good.

But the current emperor still retains a system that was derived from the chaos of the world more than ten years ago, that is, the family residence and the private guard. These two types of people are officially approved private arms, and under the order of restricting sharp weapons, only bureaucrats with meritorious names can wear swords with personal guards, and martial artists such as family homes can only use wooden weapons to protect themselves.

However, those who have a demand, and at the same time have a source of supply, these two types of military personnel, but gradually make another special case appear in the inner city of Kyoto: the opening of the martial arts hall.

But in order to obtain official permission, there are also many particularities to open a martial arts hall. In the martial arts hall, only wooden and bamboo weapons are used instead of weapons for practice, and of course, there are also sharp weapons made of fine iron. But these weapons are rarely used in daily practice, let alone worn by the side.

However, just now, the teahouse owner just unconsciously looked at the black umbrella that the four people were carrying, but in the eyes of the young man at the end, he found a distant sense of familiarity.

It's as if this person is like the swordsman who was common in the inner city streets of Kyoto more than ten years ago, and when you want to keep an eye out for the swords they have on the table, their eyes will flash with a sensitive and vigilant look. If you want to look at it a little longer, it is not difficult to find the seeping sensation in the eyes of the owner of the sword.

This feeling. But it's not the martial arts hall disciples who will reveal it. Most of those Jianghu people have human blood on their hands, and many of them have done the work of selling human heads, in comparison. The martial arts disciples are much more pure, they practice with wood every day, and when they are the most violent, they just break other people's bones.

If the bone is broken, it can be picked up. A living person gradually lost his breath and became cold, and the person who killed him had to cut off his head and go back to receive the reward, and the cruelty of such a person was dù, and they only needed to see through one gaze to make ordinary people tremble and avoid it.

The teahouse owner who couldn't hold back his pounding heart quickly wiped the tea bowl. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be a little scared.

Although the killer industry also has its own rules, in their mindset, labor must be paid. Therefore, there is no need to do unpaid things, and they will not commit murder against non-target people, but looking at their current expressions, it seems that they are waiting for someone! Is this the momentum to do another head business? If the slaughtered party is not a good person. Then if these two groups fight, the teahouse will inevitably suffer!

Although the security in the inner city is very well managed. But just this month, weren't there just two vicious assassinations? The killings were all two big officials, one seemed to be a good official, and after killing people, the gang of murderers also burned down people's houses! The other is the corrupt official who is about to be sent to the execution ground to be beheaded, seeing that he is going to die, and those murderers will not even give others half an hour of life in the prison car, and they must stab him in the heart before the official executioner, which is really extremely cruel!

It seems that His Majesty the Emperor has retained the privilege of officials to raise military guards, not without mature consideration.

But the first two murderous incidents happened in the homes of officials, and they had nothing to do with the people, even if those murderers wanted to rob a few windfalls by the way, they couldn't use their fists in the heavily guarded inner city of Kyoto. Let's just say that in the two murders this month, all the murderers involved were surrounded and killed by the officers and soldiers of Kyoto Prefecture and official experts, and the people's lives were not troubled.

But...... Now my own teahouse is outside the city!

If they want to use force later, even if the Kyoto Prefecture wants to send people, I am afraid that the far water will not be able to save the near fire, and the temporary patrol team set up by the sea can manage it?

The direction of the teahouse owner's thinking gradually fell into a quagmire full of horrors, he only felt that his hand holding the rag and constantly wiping the tea bowl gradually became a little numb, and his back obviously felt cold, but his palms were wet with sweat.

Until...... The young man ordered a plate of fried broad beans and a plate of pumpkin pie at the tea shop, and the teahouse owner's mind suddenly calmed down a little.

Although the young man was still sitting quietly, and two tea-accompanied snacks were served on the table, only to see the three teenagers eating, but the teahouse owner was stunned.

After all, three of these four people are still half-grown children, could it be that they are too worried? Among these four people, except for the young man's poor eyesight, maybe his personality is like this, right? But the three teenagers were all born with good faces, except for some fear of the young man's face, and at other times, they were no different from ordinary children.

Maybe this is really some kind of disciple in the martial arts hall.

Kyoto's inner city tripled in size ten years ago, and after continuous construction in recent years, the inner city has become much more populated and prosperous than before, with new shops being added every day. Although the martial arts hall is a special case, it is also an officially recognized storage zài. Maybe the martial arts hall where these people are located has just been listed to accept disciples, and they haven't integrated into the general environment of the imperial capital yet, and they haven't seen them in their own teahouse, which is normal, right?

Unconsciously associated them with those fierce outlaws, I'm really a little sorry for people, but fortunately I didn't show this meaning. Thinking of this, the teahouse owner secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the action of wiping the bowl on his hand also eased down a little.

The teahouse owner didn't know that he had just gone from suspicion to nervous deliberation. In fact, most of them are correct, but they just think wrong about the key point -- these four people are out today, and they have not taken on the task of killing people.

Otherwise, the teahouse owner's idea of killing people and smashing the shop that was still wavering in his heart just now is likely to be fully realized, and this place is not in the inner city of Kyoto. For the tea shop, it is not as simple as destroying a shed.

And the tea shop owner's action of wiping the tea bowl actually did not escape the young man at all. That is, the elders in the four young killer factions, Fu Jian Shi, paid attention.

If it weren't for the feeling that the owner of the teahouse didn't have the slightest effort, although the bowl was spinning extremely fast in his hand, his hand holding the rag was actually trembling a little unsteadily, and Uncle Fu Jian might really make an exception today to take his life - if the teahouse owner was a hidden powerhouse and saw their identity. If you try to send someone to report to the official.

Uncle Fu Jian has killed someone, although no one else can testify, but if he is taken to the official mansion, it is not difficult to deduce after a detailed investigation, because his background is all in a swamp. And the three teenagers he brought with him today. It is a new generation of killers cultivated in the faction, and if the four of them are targeted by the government, it will be for themselves. It's really troublesome.

Fortunately, the teahouse owner didn't continue to secretly watch them ponder carefully, and Uncle Fu Jian also collected his thoughts, the corners of his mouth showed a trace of disdain, thinking of the moldy rag in the other party's hand to wipe the bowls, he didn't want to move the food in the tea bowls in front of him at all.

Sit quietly in the rain and wait for the boat. The four of them were speechless at the table, and it was their identities that created their state at this time. What kind of ship are you waiting for. Naturally, they can't say much, but as long as they open their mouths, they must be easy to mention things in the industry, so it's better to avoid it! After ordering tea, he ordered two more foods, which was already the most abnormal thing that Uncle Fu Jian could do because he imitated ordinary people.

The two plates of tea snacks on the table were gradually only half left, and the remaining tea soup in the bowl was no longer hot, and the other shops around the tea shop were closing their stalls and leaving one after another when it first began to rain, and at this time there was a large empty beach around, which looked much more desolate than when I came here in the morning.

The owner of the teahouse was a little anxious, and it would be a little strange if he was the only one left on the large coastal silver beach. The most important thing is that there are no tourists on the beach anymore, and there is no business to do, so it is better to go back quickly and greet the business in the inner city store.

But he didn't know how to open his mouth to the four tea customers in the shop, to send them away tactfully? But they still reveal a little weirdness, and this is a suburb, and when they meet such a person in such an environment, the teahouse owner has always been wary of it.

Maybe they'll be gone on their own soon, too?

Just as the owner of the teahouse hesitated, he saw that not only did the four people not leave, but not far away, four people ran over in a hurry. When the teahouse owner looked closely, he saw that they were four young women who were roughly feminine in appearance - oh no, there was one of them, and it seemed that they were just handmaidens.

The reason why the teahouse owner commented that their appearance was only roughly feminine was because the mental state of these four people at this time was a bit wolf. Their clothes were soaked with rain and wet, and their hair was unkempt. The little girl is weak, and it doesn't matter if the body is still a child, and there are two girls whose bodies have just grown, and they are clinging to such a layer of wet clothes, accurately revealing a slightly germinating figure, which is easy to make people think about it.

After the four of them hurriedly ran in, they didn't think much about it, and got into the only remaining tea shed by the sea. The canvas shed was made of tree oil, and the water insulation effect was very good, and the rain that was pouring down overhead was "suspended", and the four people who were sheltering from the rain were a little relieved, and their eyes looked around, and they just met the eyes of the four people at the other table, and both sides couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

The four people who ran back to the beach were Ye Nuo and Mo Ye's party, and they didn't expect to have the opportunity to meet the teenagers who had been privately evaluated on the observation deck.

A few people on Uncle Fu Jian's side also felt a little surprised, because they had also commented on the girls in front of them in a joking tone.

It's just that their frivolous attitude, and later, there have been some changes.

Before, when Mo Ye and his party were about to leave the viewing platform, the young children among the four killers had sensitively questioned them, just because when they were queuing, their Uncle Fu Jian found that a master had approached one of the four girls. After the ceremony, the few of them also had a quick discussion on this matter, and finally judged that they could not do martial arts because of Uncle Fu Jian's judgment, and ignored this detail for the time being.

Unexpectedly, now they are back.

After the end of the shipping ceremony, it suddenly rained heavily, and most of the tourists would choose to return to the city as soon as possible in the face of this situation, but these four people chose the opposite direction...... Such an unusual move reminded the four people under the tea shed who were actually killers of their previous doubts, and the slow drinking of tea just now became slower.