- The owner of the tea shop wanted to hold on a little longer, because the four customers sitting in the shop at this time, the young man who took the lead was really generous. The owner of the tea shop also counted on him to spend some more money in the shop, knowing that the shop sells more than just tea.

But the four of them sat for a long time, and they didn't drink much except for the four bowls of tea they bought at the beginning, and there was no movement after that. Not only that, but they don't even speak much.

This made the tea shop owner a little puzzled and curious.

He subconsciously looked at the clothes of these four people, and at first glance, he only felt that they looked a little like martial arts hall disciples, but in his mind, he recalled in his mind that there were all kinds of guests he saw in the inner city tea shop every day, and there didn't seem to be martial arts hall disciples in this kind of attire among them.

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 straight gaze, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. The coldness in the young man's eyes made the tea shop owner feel as if he had done something offensive to them, so he looked sluggish, and quickly bowed, as if apologizing, or just habitually holding an attitude of awe towards the strong.

In the face of the teahouse owner's respect, the young man did not reveal a word. just retracted his gaze indifferently, and then like the three teenagers here. Continue to look at the sea not far away.

The teahouse owner didn't look at the four people anymore, he went back to the makeshift tea table under the large canvas shed, there was no tea set that had been dirty because it had been left for a long time, but he picked up a clean tea bowl and a rag with some moldy spots, and wiped it vigorously.

The speed at which the bowl is wiped lap by turn. It's getting faster. Just like the change in the mood of the teahouse owner at this time.

The young man's gaze reminded the teahouse owner of a type of people: they called themselves "Jianghu people".

Among such people, the latest chapter of the ancient line of witches with better character. It is called "chivalrous", and if the behavior is violent, it is called "heroic".

A person's ability to endure thirst is much weaker than the ability to endure hunger, no matter how profound your martial arts are. Drove dozens of miles and didn't let you drink water. The stamina will be consumed at an accelerated rate.

Business done in a teahouse. Therefore, the audience is very wide. However, the service process is relatively simple. The owner of the teahouse is also because he has been in this kind of working environment all year round, so he can practice rich experience. However, it is precisely because I saw the aura of the rivers and lakes in these four people. He couldn't help but wonder again.

About thirteen years ago, security in Kyoto was at its most chaotic. A profession has emerged among the people. In the vernacular, it's called selling heads. In fact, it is to buy a murderous job.

Post notices with the government. The warrant for the arrest of the murderer is different. As long as they can afford to buy a murderer, then they hire a killer for the same thing. Kill the target for them straightforwardly, but the target person may not have worn some sin that can only be avenged with his life.

At the end of the previous dynasty, chaos abounded, and people like this kind of ignoring the laws of the court and buying murders gradually increased.

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.

And if the most assassination activities that occur in the market are concerned, they have to be in the middle level. For example, when a rich man or a minister kills a mandetta, ordinary people can often see a group of people walking halfway down the street, and suddenly draw their swords and dance their swords and fight, until their heads fall to the ground and blood is splattered on the spot.

In addition to paid killers, there are also some chivalrous swordsmen who claim to be doing the right thing for heaven and killing officials and evil officials, as well as reckless and heroic people who rob the rich and help the poor. However, in the turbulent situation, there is a serious imbalance in words and paths, and there will be manslaughter in the righteous deeds of chivalry, and it is unknown whether the heroic behavior and robbing the rich have really helped the poor.

At that time, all officials in Kyoto had to keep close guards at home, and they would take them wherever they went, and the families of wealthy families would inevitably have groups of caretakers. The Kyoto Prefecture has no choice but to let it go.

And this chaos was not gradually diluted until ten years ago, after Wang Jiajun entered Beijing. This is mainly because of the inspection of the entry and exit of the four-way city gate, under the control of the Wang family's army, it is really very strict.

When Wang Jiajun first came in, what happened outside the city, the official could not manage it particularly comprehensively for the time being, but at least the dark miasma in the inner city should be 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.

Without weapons, the work of an assassin killer would be greatly affected. The so-called "selling heads" business is also rigorous and particular in the killer business, only by cutting off the head of the target person and bringing it back to the proprietor to recognize, can you get a reward, how can you do it without the assistance of sharp weapons?

Up to now, there are very few killers in the inner city, and after continuous "cleaning and construction" in the outer city in recent years, 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.

The situation has gradually stabilized, 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, there are those who need it. At the same time, there must be a supply source, and these two types of military personnel have gradually made another special case appear in the inner city of Kyoto: the opening of martial arts halls.

But in order to obtain official permission, there are also many particularities to open a martial arts hall. In martial arts halls, 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 rarely appear in daily practice, let alone wear them on the side.

However, just now, the teahouse owner just unconsciously glanced at the black umbrella that the four people were carrying, and then found a distant sense of familiarity in the eyes swept by the young man.

Seems. This man is like he was more than ten years ago. Swordsmen are common in the streets of Kyoto's inner city, and when you want to keep an eye out for the swords they have resting on the table, their eyes 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 feeling 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. Many of them have done the job of selling heads. In comparison, the martial arts hall disciples are much more pure, practicing with wood every day. At its most violent, it's just breaking someone's bones.

If the bones are broken, they can still be picked up, but a living person gradually loses his breath and becomes stiff, and the person who killed him has to cut off his head and go back to receive the reward, and the ferocity of such a person seems to be as if they only need 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 concept, labor must be paid, so there is no need to do unpaid things, will not commit murder against non-target people, but looking at their current expression, 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, their own tea shop is afraid that it will inevitably suffer!

Although the security in the inner city is very well managed, didn't there just happen two vicious assassinations this month?

Hearing Uncle Fu Jian mention the word "freedom" again, the two teenagers no longer felt as relaxed and expectant as they did when they first heard it. They still didn't dare to answer easily, but their fear of Uncle Fu Jian at this time had deepened again.

Xiao Ling's expression didn't change much, but replied seriously: "Xiao Ling remembers." ”

Suddenly a bolt of lightning slipped through the sky, and a reddish electric light began in mid-air and slid all the way to the horizon, opening a long wound between the darker and darker clouds. However, the wound did not bleed and only "healed" after a split second.

I just don't know if this scratch, which is so fast that it leaves no trace, will leave a ravine in the depths of the clouds that is difficult to reassemble.

The red electric light also imprinted on Xiao Ling's extremely young face for a moment, but perhaps because his eyes were calm enough, most of the red brilliance was reflected in his eyes, reflected by the pupil light, which made Xiao Wu, who was looking at him upright, suddenly have a personal feeling for the first time: Xiao Ling's mental growth has far exceeded the growth of his body, and it is also far faster than himself and Xiao Sun.

He already faintly has the shadow of Uncle Fu Jian, the latest chapter of the rebirth of the eldest daughter-in-law of the noble family.

And will he replace Uncle Fu Jian with younger qualifications in the near future?

……

The pouring rain poured down immediately, although these four people learned the laws of killers, and in the future, they would only use assassination activities as a means of making a living, but after all, they only had a flesh and blood body, and there was no need to resist the forces of nature.

On the beach, I found a tea stall with the most broken cloth shed and the fewest customers, and the four of us sat in.

Four bowls of hot tea were brought to the table, and each of them picked up an enamel bowl, but did not drink it immediately. Instead, he poured the tea bowl slightly, consumed half a bowl of tea soup, and only washed his hands.

Today, the people who set up sheds to sell food and drink by the sea are all merchants from the inner city who have traveled nearly twenty miles to come here, and all the fresh water and food are transported from the inner city, which takes a lot of manpower to turnover. Wait until it's time to sell. Naturally, the pricing will be slightly higher.

The busy guys in the shop couldn't help but feel distressed when they saw the guests sitting around the table washing their hands with such expensive tea.

But seeing that the young man with three children was cheerful and generous, the man sighed secretly. I only said in my heart: No one else is distressed, what do I have to worry about and make a lot of fun.

……

Meritorious rewards, those who can get it, Xinjun has achieved accurate division at this point, and the measures are very convincing.

But after seven years in such a Taiyi Bureau, Hua Shixian was a little tired of it.

Perhaps if this state of his heart is made public, some people will definitely accuse him of whether his life is too stable and carefree, so that this kind of casual thought of not knowing how to repay the emperor's kindness will emerge. But there are definitely some people who will echo this idea, because the canary in the cage will also have the desire to leap out of the delicate and gorgeous bird's cage, and give up a full stomach and delicious food, just to fly to the open sky and spread its wings to the fullest.

It's not just that the imperial doctor has this idea similar to Hua Shixian's heart, the difference is that he only thinks about it occasionally, or gradually thinks about it every day.

Joining the Imperial Palace Ouchi Imperial Hospital, the scope of activities is fixed, and you can't go wherever you want like the medicine ghost Liao Shi, who is currently only living in legends. And the potential of the medical Tao is obviously not only in the tens of thousands of words of medical books collected by the imperial medical department, but in the vast world. Although Kyoto is a prosperous medical practitioner, it is far from enough to summarize the energy of the entire medical industry.

As a royal honorary medical officer, he enjoys a dazzling status at the top, but it is not very convenient to accept apprentices at the bottom. Medical officers have to go through a set of more cumbersome regulations to accept apprentices, because of this threshold, although the medical children who can get started are not bad in character, they will inevitably miss some seedlings of geniuses who are from low backgrounds but have a talented way of thinking and studying medicine.

The imperial doctor, appointed by the emperor, could not easily treat civilian patients, but from a side perspective, the complexity of the patients could improve the doctor's experience and medical skills. At present, Hua Shi is staying in the Taiyi Bureau, except that the medicinal materials are carefully selected before entering the palace, and even the objects of treatment services are fixed, and he can't easily have them, or he shouldn't think of new attempts at all, which really greatly imprisons his willingness to make progress.

And what annoyed him the most was that in this relatively fixed medical service group, there was an old patient like Wang Hong, the second prince.

The second prince's weakness has not been completely recovered, and the frequent recurrence of the illness has hit Hua Shixian, who is behind a famous family in the medical field.

(To be continued.) )