"Wait!" One of the soldiers at the head suddenly stopped the shopkeeper, he frowned, took two steps forward, and asked, "It's still early?" Why are you closing now? ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, raised his head to look at the soldier, and asked with a smile, "Isn't your lord a local?" ”

"Isn't it?" The soldier asked rhetorically.

"That's right," said the shopkeeper, putting the door aside, and then said unhurriedly, "Your Excellency can go to the town to inquire, my inn, the closing time is always according to my mood, when there are guests, I will have more meetings, if there are no guests, then I will close the door, and go to the town to watch those old men play chess." ”

"Aren't there no guests today? I thought it was still early, so I thought about going to the town to buy a bowl of Yangchun noodles and watching those old men play chess while eating. ”

"Really?" The soldier at the head stared straight at the shopkeeper, trying to get a little "lying" expression from his face, but the shopkeeper kept a faint smile on his face, and he looked at him without fear.

"Okay, then I'll trust you." The soldier eventually backed down.

"Thank you, sir." The shopkeeper arched his hand at the soldier.

"Well, but have you ever seen a boy and a girl in town?" The soldier suddenly asked again.

"My lord laughed, there are so many boys and girls in this town, how do I know who you are talking about?"

The soldier thought for a moment and said, "I don't know much about the young man, but it should be around twenty, and if you are a girl, you are twelve or thirteen years old, and she is beautiful, and you will never forget it at a glance." ”

"Can't forget it at a glance?" The shopkeeper touched his chin, looking thoughtful, "Eh, I want to think about it, tsk, it seems to have a little memory...... But I can't remember, alas, when I'm old, my memory is just not good. ”

As he spoke, he also opened his eyes and glanced at the soldier, who had no choice, sighed, took out a few pieces of broken silver from his arms, thought about it, took back two more grains, and then handed them to the shopkeeper, and said angrily, "How is it?" Do you remember it now? ”

"Ouch, remember, remember," the shopkeeper smiled, and hurriedly grabbed the few grains of broken silver, and was too busy to identify the authenticity, so he stuffed it into his sleeve, for fear that the soldier would regret it the next moment, and asked for the silver back, and finally cleared his throat and said with a smile, "I have really seen the girl that the adult said, and she came to the small shop about two or three hours ago."

Well, I also ate a bowl of dumplings here. ”

"Where's she?!" When the soldier heard this, he suddenly became excited, and he caught the girl back, but he had a lot of merit, maybe he would be promoted to centurion immediately, if the state pastor was happy, he would be a thousand-tier!

"Don't be excited," the shopkeeper still smiled, "I said that it was two or three hours ago, I saw her go to the southwest, I guess this will, I'm afraid it's time to go to Bicheng, right?" ”

"She's the only one?" The soldier suddenly had some doubts, didn't the top say that there was a master guarding her?

The shopkeeper nodded, "It's really just her." ”

The soldier raised his head again, subconsciously scanned the situation in the inn, but the shopkeeper did not hide it, and stood aside generously, letting the soldier go inside, "Your Excellency, look at it casually." ”

The soldier took two steps forward, and when he saw that the shopkeeper still had no intention of stopping him, he retreated and said with a blank face, "Are you sure that girl went to the southwest?" ”

"Anyway, when she left my shop, she went north, and now...... It's not so clear. ”

"Okay, thank you," the soldier patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder, turned to call his companion, and ran away to the southwest.

The shopkeeper watched them go away, the smile on his face gradually solidified, and he patted the clothes that had just been touched by the soldier, turned and entered the inn, and put the last door panel up.

At night, the wind was blowing outside the house, and it looked like it was going to rain again.

Bai Jiu quietly opened the door of the next room, and saw that Ye Yuhui was asleep, so he returned to his room with confidence.

They didn't live in a room, and the shopkeeper made fun of Bai Jiu for this.

Bai Jiuyue gently closed the door, walked to the bed, threw his dagger on the bed at will, and then slowly took off his shirt, exposing his strong, muscular, but scarred upper body to the air, he turned his head to look at the wound, about an inch of wound, not deep, and it would not hurt his life, but it hurt a lot, and Bai Jiujiu ...... The most unbearable pain, he frowned, looking like he was about to cry, but he didn't have medicine and bandages on him, so he could only watch like this.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Three neat knocks suddenly came, and Bai Jiuyi grabbed the dagger, his body bent slightly, like a leopard ready to attack.

"Who

？ He asked coldly.

"Me." The voice came, and it turned out to be the shopkeeper of the inn.

Bai Jiu grabbed his clothes and put them on, and slowly walked to the door, but he didn't open the door in a hurry, he first squinted at the outside through the window paper, and only after making sure that there was only one shopkeeper did he carefully open the door.

"Is there something wrong?" Bai Jiujiu asked expressionlessly.

"Well, I brought you something," the shopkeeper handed Bai Jiu the thing in his hand, and said, "This thing will heal quickly if it is applied to the wound, and it will be better if it is wrapped in bandages." ”

Bai Jiu frowned and asked, "How do you know I'm injured?" ”

The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows and laughed again, "I not only know that you are injured, I also know who you are, and ...... Who is that girl. ”

The expression on Bai Jiuyue's face became more and more strange, and he felt more and more that the man in front of him was unfathomable.

"You...... Who the hell is it? Bai Jiujiu stared straight into his eyes.

"Me?" The shopkeeper smirked, "You should know me." ”

"I ..... Know you? Bai Jiuyue has an amazing memory since he was a child, and he will never forget anyone he has seen, but no matter how he looks at it, there is no such person in his memory.

"Maybe you don't know now, but in the future, you will definitely know." The shopkeeper said something indistinct, patted Bai Jiujiu's shoulder, and went downstairs by himself.

Bai Jiujiu took the medicine and bandages, stood at the door for a while, closed the door again, and went back to the room to apply medicine.

Twenty miles away, in Bicheng, six or seven heavily armed soldiers were now panting and rushing there, the lights inside the city were bright, but outside the city was pitch black.

The city gate had already been closed, and the soldiers stood outside the city and shouted at the castle tower for a long time, and finally a head poked out of the castle tower, looked at them and said angrily, "The city gate is closed!" I'm going to go to town and come back tomorrow! ”

They talked badly, showed their waist cards, and finally entered the city, but when they inquired, they found out that the "beautiful girl" had not come here at all.

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"That shit's cheated me out of my money!" The leading soldier said hatefully, "Look at me when I go back and don't peel him off." ”

The shopkeeper was sneezing, and he shrugged his shoulders, feeling that the hour was almost up, so he put away his abacus and went to sleep.