By the second watch, the streets of Kyoto Prefecture had fallen silent, as if all the hustle and bustle of the day had been reduced to darkness, and then the cards were reshuffled to wait for the next sunrise.

There was no one in the front hall of the Tongyuan Inn, and Jia Xiuyue also chose to give up because he couldn't think about why the mysterious person didn't come, and he even thought that maybe something happened to that person, but he was always just a small person, so small that even if he knew that something happened to the other party, he didn't know how to help the other party. So he waited in the front hall until the second watch drum sounded, and then finally gave up waiting.

This is the last drum of the winter month of Chu Li, no one will think of what will happen in the time of this last drum change, and no one believes that what can happen during this time, after all, there is only one drum time left.

"Knock knock-" A quick knock on the door suddenly broke the silence here, like throwing a stone into the calm water of a lake, the calm broke and rippled and undulated.

After a long time, there was a chattering sound from inside the door, followed by a yawning voice with a great deal of displeasure.

"Who, the shop is closed, the guest rooms are full, the drinks are gone, the meals are rancid, if you want to eat and drink, please be early tomorrow."

The words are very smooth, and it seems that he has used such words to prevaricate many overnight guests.

Although the sound came from inside the inn, the door had no intention of being opened.

The people outside the house didn't mean to open the door for themselves when they saw that the people inside the inn didn't mean to open the door for themselves, and they didn't get angry, but just said to the people inside: "I'm alone on the shore." ”

The words seemed to have a magical effect, and the man in the inn fell silent. There was silence for a moment, then there was a shudder, and then there was no more.

The people outside were a little confused, they didn't know what was going on in the inn, and they didn't know if it was their own mistake now.

He remembered that before the mission, Comber told him that if he had something to do, he would come to the Tongyuan Inn on West Street, and then say the code words he had just said to the other party, and he would make it convenient for himself. It's just that Comber didn't say that this would happen at the time.

The other party does not respond and may even leave.

The man outside the door began to wonder if he had come to the wrong place, so the man tilted his head back, looking at the plaque on his head, illuminated by the dim light of the lanterns on both sides, with the words "Tongyuan Inn" written on it.

The man said in his heart, "That's right." ”

So he raised his hand again and knocked on the door.

"Don't knock again, it's not good to knock the night watchman over." The voice came from inside the inn, as if to warn the man to be careful.

The voice fell, followed by the sound of the door being moved.

"You're late today." The voice in the inn sounded again, and it seemed that he was very familiar with the person outside the door.

Naturally, it was Jia Xiuyue who opened the door, and as soon as the second watch drum passed, he went back to the backyard and fell asleep, but he didn't sleep for long, and was woken up by Xiao Er's knock on the door. He was now feeling a little happy and expectant. It has been twenty years since he came here, and the mysterious man has also been here for twenty years, although he doesn't talk much every time, but Jia Xiuyue's heart has already regarded the other party as a person with the same fate as himself, so he has a feeling of pity in his heart. originally thought that the other party would not appear, until Xiao Er told himself that the person might be here just now, and the joy in his heart couldn't help but gush outward.

The door panel was removed, and what appeared in front of Jia Xiuyue was a middle-aged man dressed in black.

"It's not him." Jia Xiuyue's first reaction when he saw the other party was this.

Although every time the other party came, he was dressed in black and couldn't see his appearance clearly, but Jia Xiuyue was sure that the person was definitely not the person in front of him.

At that moment, Jia Xiuyue was full of thoughts, and subconsciously took a few steps back, distancing himself from the man in black in front of the door, and at the same time clenched his hands into fists, his whole body muscles tensed, ready to fight at any time.

This is an instinctive reaction of being a former soldier

"You're not him." The first thing Jia Xiuyue said to the other party was like this.

The man in black was stunned, he didn't know what Jia Xiuyue's unprovoked sentence meant.

In fact, Jia Xiuyue didn't know why he would say such a thing, he just saw that the person who appeared in front of him was not the one he expected, and he was a little disappointed.

The man in front of the door also saw Jia Xiuyue's movements, and knew that the other party was still wary of him, so he smiled indifferently, and then said, "One branch is alone." ”

Jia Xiuyue's eyes narrowed slightly, and then blurted out: "The old man is here." ”

The man in black in front of the door then said to Jia Xiuyue: "Zhang Xinghai." ”

Jia Xiuyue waved his hand to Zhang Xinghai, and then said, "Just call me Shopkeeper Jia." ”

Zhang Xinghai hugged his fist at Jia Xiuyue and said, "Shopkeeper Jia, my subordinates are injured······

Before Zhang Xinghai finished speaking, Jia Xiuyue beckoned to Zhang Xinghai and said, "Come in and talk." ”

Zhang Xinghai nodded, then gestured behind him, and then several strangers who were also dressed in black appeared in front of the Tongyuan Inn.

"Your Excellency." Several black-clothed men hugged the unconscious Qi Si and said to Zhang Xinghai.

Jia Xiuyue didn't panic when he saw that there were suddenly a few strangers, but just commanded Xiao Er and said, "Take them to the backyard." ”

Xiao Er nodded, and then took Zhang Xinghai and a few people to the backyard.

Qi Si was arranged in a side room in the backyard of the Tongyuan Inn, and Zhang Xinghai and Jia Xiuyue stayed in the house to detoxify Qi Si.

When he rushed over before, Zhang Xinghai had already taken a brief look at the poisoning situation for Qi Si, and the location of the wound was in the back shoulder. , there is only a very small pinhole, and the pinhole is purple-blue around it, but it has no intention of spreading. Zhang Xinghai understood that it should be Qi Si who sealed the surrounding acupoints with internal force after being hit, so that the spread of solitary travel slowed down.

Zhang Xinghai, as the commander of the secret guard of the Yasi Capital, his other identity is a member of the Zhang family in Yongzhou.

The Zhang family in Yongzhou was originally one of the three major families of the Northwest Poison Sect, in the twenty-fifth year of the Great Calendar, for some reason, broke away from the sect and set up their own door, and was recruited by the royal family of Chu in the same year, as the power of the government outside the Yasi Prefecture, and Lu Qing of Hezhou Baixiaotang, Zhang Xinghai was sent by the family to serve in Kyoto. He is now in charge of the secret guard of the capital.

Because Zhang Xinghai belonged to the foreign forces, Comber did not tell him the identity of the person he was looking for today, and the line of Tongyuan Inn could not be known to him, but Comber was afraid that something would go wrong in the middle so he told Zhang Xinghai and asked him to come to Tongyuan Inn. That's why we have this scene.

Zhang Xinghai did not go to the Liang Wangfu to find Kang Bo after Qi Si was injured, because he didn't want anyone to notice that the capital was investigating this matter, or that this matter had something to do with the capital. This is also the reason why Comber told Zhang Xinghai about the line of Tongyuan Inn.