"Tokyo City, Baiqian Alley. Listen to the noise of the drum board and the sound of the sheng. ”

It's night, and it's the second watch.

Outside the Imperial Boxing Gym in Tokyo City, in a grass shed wine room, the charcoal fire in the brazier was burning vigorously, and five men with bare chests and backs were sweating profusely eating hot wine and cooked food.

One of them, who was more than six feet tall, twenty-four or five years old, with three teeth covering his mouth and thin hair, and a very thin waist and broad shoulders, reached out and rubbed a flower embroidery tattoo of Chunyan Toulin on his left chest, laughed and sang with chopsticks on the wine bowl: "The flute is a good one, and the Bianhe River resounded around the beam." Liang Chengmeng, who will wake up first? Shocking clouds break through the sky, swallows are green. ”

After the man sang, his companions and his gang applauded in unison, and a man also said: "Brother Xiaoqing has done a good job of poetry, and I hope to win in a few days, earn the name of the king of Tokyo wrestling, and increase the reputation of my famous mansion Jinti Society." ”

However, another man said: "This Tokyo person is too, if you want to fight for the king of wrestling, what kind of wrestling do you have to fight, and what kind of ring you have to play, if you let those wrestlers come to fight with Brother Xiaoqing, I am afraid that I will have won four games." ”

Saying this, everyone laughed, and after a while, they saw the proprietress of the wine shop coming over with a spring breeze on her face, and said, "It's done!" It's done! The petty official, who said that the old fireworker of the Qingyunguan Courtyard, is willing to lend two guest houses to settle down with the petty official, but one costs two hundred dollars, I don't know ......"

That Xiaoqing came and shouted: "It's not expensive! Not expensive! Just add some more wine and meat, and I'll go when I'm done! ”

As he spoke, he also took out two pieces of silver bills weighing about three taels and stuffed them into the hands of the proprietress, and said, "After counting the money for wine and meat, I will pay for the ten days first, and the rest will be rewarded." ”

When the proprietress saw it, her eyebrows and eyes bloomed, and she hurriedly agreed, so she asked the guy who was watching the wine room to come up with two more jars of earth roast and a pot of cooked meat, and feast with these five men.

After a few people ate and drank for a while, a man also came to Xiaoqing's side and asked in a low voice: "Brother Yan, the elder brother of the Lu family wants me to come to the head of the Lin sect, so that I can find a background in the army, and now I want to make a name for myself like this, of course it is good to seek my own background, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to explain to the brother of the Lu family, and blame us for making our own opinions." ”

Brother Yan'er Xiaoqing glared when he heard this, so he also shouted: "I'm afraid of a bird!" When I win the Tokyo wrestling king, isn't it ordinary to vote for him again? You just have to rest assured, you won't miss a big thing! ”

Suddenly, the man was drunk, and he was silent, and several people ate and drank for a while, and ate all the roast and meat dishes, and then wiped their mouths and got up, and the proprietress also came to personally lead them to the courtyard of the Qingyun Temple to rest.

This group of people is a wrestler from the Daimyo Mansion Jinti Society, and the leader is Brother Yan Xiaoqing, and the tuba is Yan Qing. This time, the five of them came because they got the news that they were the president and junior brother of the Jinti Society, and now that they have been promoted to a senior official, they want to come to join the army and try to find a career.

The president of the Jinti Society of this famous mansion, nicknamed Jade Qilin Lu Junyi, is strong in martial arts, unparalleled in the world of sticks, and is known as the "Three Uniques of Hebei" by the people of the rivers and lakes, and his ancestral residence is in Beijing Daming Mansion (now Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province). And his junior brother, it is said that he was the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo City before, known as Xiao Li Guanglin Chong, who just got the news not long ago, and now he has been promoted to what "the palace division and all classes directly inspect the school are Yu Hou", Yan Qing and others have long been tired of staying in the daimyo's mansion, and they also rushed to the news when they got the news.

It's just that after arriving in Tokyo today, it coincided with the opening of the Tokyo Wrestling King, Yan Qing dared to try, and actually won three games in a row and got the qualification for the semifinals. The event of the Tokyo Wrestling King Ring is hosted by the Tokyo Imperial Boxing Gym, and the annual grand event is more popular among the people than Kemari Tsukuji. Therefore, Yan Qing also planned that if he won the first place and won the title of the king of Tokyo wrestling, not to mention the scenery, he would have a bright face when he went to Lin Chong again, and it would not be difficult to find a career.

But said that the five people got the proprietress to guide the way, and soon came to the courtyard of Qingyunguan, which occupies a large area, and usually allows passers-by to place orders, needless to say, they also do some fees to stay and facilitate people.

When I entered the room, I saw that the brazier was burned in the room, the bed was also hot, there was tea on the table, and there was steaming footwash water by the door, so I also felt that the house for two hundred dollars was not worse than the general inn in terms of service.

At the moment, the five people were divided, Yan Qing lived in one room with a man who was replaced by Zhu Sanlang, and the other three lived in another room.

Mo Yo slept for half an hour, the snoring was thick Yan Qing suddenly turned over, the snoring was also broken, and with a grunt in his throat, he turned over and pulled his shoes out of the house, and after spitting on the corner of the wall, he untied his pants and untied the flowers and trees in the courtyard.

But he said that he was getting better, and suddenly he heard a slight "whoosh" sound, and suddenly he also woke up and dozed off, and said secretly: "There are big insects here?" ”

Although after thinking about it, there must be no wild insects in this Taoist temple, maybe they are domesticated, but for a while he became curious. After simply unraveling it, he pulled out his shoes, went into the house and put on his winter clothes, and when he came out, he went to the roof and fled in the direction of the sound he had just heard.

After walking a short distance along the ridge of the roof, he was surprised to find several men in black standing around the roof of a courtyard. I took advantage of the night to quietly investigate, and I saw that those people were all carrying long soldiers and holding bows and arrows, and they looked very vigilant.

Yan Qing looked even more strange, so she hurriedly climbed off the roof, and then used her skills to carefully touch the bridge corridor under the eaves. Soon he also touched into the courtyard, opened a small hole in the tile from the beam of a side room, and carefully looked into the courtyard, when he was frightened, he almost fell off the beam.

I saw that there were many people standing in the courtyard, but the appearance of these people was a little strange, for example, two of them were holding a huge curtain, and by the light of the surrounding fire, you could see a strange painting painted on the curtain, which seemed to be a large pit with raging flames.

In addition, there were a few people in tattered robes, holding a light-colored cloth on their heads, sitting on the ground, and others holding cattails and fanning them.

And what frightened Yan Qing the most was that among these people, there were four people, the one in the center was one left and one right, holding two people with both hands, but his head looked like a horse's head. There was another man, but he was leaning on the backs of the three, and he seemed to be saying something to the two men who were holding the horse.

Yan Qing looked at the scene in front of her, and the first thought in her mind was that she had hit a ghost, and the person with the head of the horse was clearly the horse-faced general in the City God Temple!

And the second thought is that these people may be some kind of traitors, and now they are using witchcraft to harm people. With this thought, he couldn't help but feel a sudden tremor all over his body. (To be continued.) )