"Hmmm......"

Murong Qing pondered for a moment, as if he was speculating on whether his idea was feasible, and after thinking it through, he finally said, "I hope you will cooperate with me to stage a play at my father's birthday banquet, if this is done, I can give you a reward of 100 taels of silver, how about it?" ”

"100 taels of silver?"

Hearing this reward, the first thought that appeared in Zuo Yang's heart was: I'll go to your uncle's and send it to call Hanako, right?

But even though he thought so, he knew very well that this was actually a good thing, because it meant ...... He will be able to enter Murong Villa openly and participate in this birthday banquet, and if he can achieve such a result, in fact, even if he is not paid, he will accept it.

It's just that I don't know what kind of play Murong Qing wants to play, if this play is related to his personal safety, or it will cause more trouble, especially with Lin Tiannan, the leader of the martial arts alliance, and the four great families, he still needs to think about it, after all, although his identity has not been revealed, but at any time, he still represents the Shifting Flower Palace.

And once it attracts the attention of the martial arts alliance leader and the four great families, as long as they want to investigate his identity, it shouldn't be a difficult thing to think about.

"Too little?"

Seeing Zuo Yang's reaction, Murong Qing frowned slightly and asked.

"If it's just a gesture and it won't cause me any trouble, it's not a small amount, but what kind of play are you going to play?"

Zuo Yang smiled and said.

It's better to pretend to be cowardly first, in fact, it can be seen from Murong Qing's attitude towards him and the remuneration he gave that this guy actually just treats him as an irrelevant Jianghu shrimp, since this is the case, let's temporarily play a Jianghu shrimp who has no experience in Jianghu and mix in.

As long as he succeeds in blending in, it is not something that he Murong Qing can control, so he will change Zuo Yang to act at the opportunity.

"It's very simple, you play a thief who sneaks into the birthday banquet with the intention of stealing chickens and dogs, and then I will take you down with my own hands, and I will release you after you come out, and you can leave with the pay."

Murong Qing smiled slightly and said.

"Then should I play a thief who knows martial arts, or a thief who doesn't know martial arts?"

Zuo Yang then asked.

"Is there a difference?"

Murong Qing asked puzzled, he really hadn't thought about this question.

"If it's a thief who doesn't know martial arts, it's a small role, I don't resist you just catch me and take me out, 100 taels of silver is enough, of course, there is no way to show that your martial arts are world-famous."

Zuo Yang frowned and smiled, "If it's a thief who knows martial arts, I can have a few tricks with you, if you are willing to cooperate, I can also fight with you, and finally you take me down, which will give you a chance to perform in front of many heroes...... Of course, this remuneration will naturally have to be added to it, and I will earn a hard-earned money. ”

We've just finished speaking.

"This is good, this is good! Brother, you can add some more money to let Uncle Lin and those people in the family know how powerful you are! ”

Murong Xian next to her had already shouted excitedly, this second version was obviously much more interesting than the first version, and by the way, her gaze towards Zuo Yang was less resentful, but more interested out of thin air.

"No need."

Murong Qing coldly rejected this proposal, "You just need to be caught by me honestly, and you don't have to add drama to yourself." ”

"Brother, you're so boring."

Murong Xian muttered with a pout.

"Oh, okay."

Zuo Yang just responded with a sense of service, and then asked, "But I don't understand, since you don't want to perform, why do you want to spend money to ask me to cooperate with you in such a play?" ”

"That's not what you should care about, you just have to do what I say, and come with me."

Murong Qing said expressionlessly.

……

A moment later, Zuo Yang had already entered Murong Villa with Murong Qing, and then went straight to the birthday banquet hall.

At this moment, the banquet has not yet begun, and the family and maids are carrying all kinds of fruits and vegetables in and out, carefully making some arrangements.

"You just stay here, don't move around, Xian'er, you're here...... Accompany him. ”

After Murong Qing settled down like this, he also began to get busy, commanding those family members and maids to speed up, and when he found something not good, he corrected it in time.

It seems that this birthday banquet was handed over to him to organize, who called him the young master of Murong Villa?

And the sentence "accompany him" that paused for a while, Zuo Yang felt that it could be understood as "watching him" or "monitoring him", after all, since this matter is a "play", not too many people can know about it.

And through what happened just now, Murong Xian obviously had some incomprehensible "good feelings" towards Zuo Yang, and promised Murong Qing with a mouth, and when he saw him leaving, he immediately looked at Zuo Yang with a smile, blinked and said: "Hey, I can't see that you are quite interesting, it is very different from my brother and the wood in Zhuangzi, how long have you been wandering in the rivers and lakes?" ”

"It's been a few days."

Zuo Yang replied absentmindedly while looking at his surroundings.

It is a rectangular hall, with a total of five low rectangular tables placed near the north.

One of them is placed horizontally, and there is a huge gold-inlaid "Shou" character written on the wall behind it, which is the main seat according to the custom of the Celestial Empire, that is, the place where Murong Qianqiu, the head of the family of Murong Villa, will sit for a while; The remaining four are placed vertically, if you guess correctly, it must be the position where Lin Tiannan, the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, and the remaining three major families are sitting.

The rest of the place was an ordinary round table, and the dishes and utensils on it were significantly lower than those on the square table, which should have been prepared for some less important guests and the disciples brought by these big people.

In addition to these tables and chairs, there are some colored cloth strips and lantern decorations in this hall, and the walls around it are very traditional hollow carved wooden walls and wooden windows of the Celestial Empire......

"Are there all the people in the rivers and lakes who are as interesting as you?"

Murong Xian asked with a wistful face.

"This is relative, if you are strong in martial arts, the rivers and lakes will become very interesting, but if you don't even have the ability to protect yourself, then the rivers and lakes are a hell of a nose, so I suggest that you better listen to your brother, either practice martial arts and then go out, or go out with your brother."

Zuo Yang replied very seriously this time.

In this "Jianghu", he has seen too many tragedies, and even some things in some people even if they think about it now, they still make people feel stuffy in their chests, especially a girl like Murong Xian, who has a good appearance and is not good at martial arts, has escaped the protection of the Murong family, and the probability of becoming a tragedy will only be higher.

"Cut, don't you scare me, is your martial arts very strong, aren't you still alive and well?"

Murong Xian said indifferently.

"Hehe, although my martial arts may not be strong, we are not the same......"

Zuo Yang means the way of reference.

He's a gamer, and she's a non-functional NPC with only one life, so they're naturally different, and they're very different.

"What's the difference?"

Murong Xian asked puzzledly, but there was some worship and project in his eyes.

"In short, it's just different."

Zuo Yang didn't know how to explain to her, smiled vaguely, and changed the topic and asked, "You know all the people who came in a while, right?" ”

"That's right, Uncle Lin and the uncles and uncles of the three families have a lot of dealings with my father, and I have seen them."

Murong Xian had no doubt that he had his way.

"Then you can do me a favor."

Zuo Yang said with a smile, "I've never seen any big scenes, and I haven't seen these big people, so when they come, how about you introduce them to me one by one, so that I can also have a long experience?" ”

"Naturally, but ......"

Murong Xian nodded happily, but soon his dark eyes rolled, and he immediately changed his words, and said with a sly face, "...... But if I help you, you have to do me a favor, haven't people in the rivers and lakes always paid attention to a courtesy. ”

"That's it."

Zuo Yang shook his head decisively and said.

"Hey, why are you like this, I haven't even said what I want you to help me with."

Murong Xian pursed his mouth and said depressedly.

"You don't seem to need my help other than running away from home, do you?"

Zuo Yang said with empty eyes, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in the fact that I kidnapped underage girls to run away from home, in case something happens to you, I will have to be implicated at that time, and I can't help with this." ”

"Hmph, if you don't help, you won't help, what's the big deal, if I hadn't met you today, I would have succeeded."

Murong Xian was also quite temperamental, snorted, then turned his face aside with a pout, and got angry with Zuo Yang.

“……”

Zuo Yang can only mean speechless.

……

But the little girl's family, the anger comes and goes quickly.

When the banquet started and the guests entered the birthday banquet one by one, she ran over and took the initiative to introduce Zuo Yang seriously.

The first to come in was her father Murong Qianqiu.

This is an old man who is more than half a hundred years old, but the maintenance is very good, at the age of sixty, the skin is still white, only the crow's feet at the corners of the eyes and the nasolabial folds on the cheeks have grown, if you look closely, there are some similarities with Murong Qing and Murong Xian who have seen before.

Walking side by side with him is the current martial arts alliance leader Lin Tiannan.

This person has a square face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, straight nose, tied hair, and beards on his lips and chin, a typical decent character image in film and television works.

Behind them, there are the long-standing Dongfang family, the Nangong family and the Yanmen family.

One of the most noteworthy is the Oriental Family.

According to Murong Xian, the Dongfang family is a very famous casting family in the martial arts. The people of the Oriental family only need to know the nature of all forging materials in the palm of their hands, they not only have a complete grasp of the eight methods of casting, but also create a complete new casting secret recipe, all the weapons in their hands, all of them can directly enhance the holder's multi-layer skills.

It's a pity that although the sword casting technology of the Oriental family has reached its peak, martial arts has stagnated, and it relies on the soldiers in his hands to compete with others, which is also a big problem that plagues the family at the moment.

As for the Nangong family...... The [Crystal Mirror] that Zuo Yang got from the Queen of Dry Things is from this family, and the introduction also reminds him that he must not show it in front of the Nangong family, otherwise he will definitely cause death.

After the introduction one by one.

"Cut, I've already helped you with everything you want me to do, if you want to help me, you can do it."

Murong Xian wrinkled his nose and put on a posture of "I will eat you".

"Thank you, girl."

Zuo Yang responded without firewood.

"You!"

Murong Xian's eyes suddenly widened in anger.

It was at this time.

"Shh

Zuo Yang suddenly made a silent gesture to her, and frowned as he looked at a hunchbacked old man who was bending down to pour tea for Lin Tiannan and the other three major families.

Naturally, he didn't know him, but if he looked closely, he could see some similarities with Kazuko Sato between his eyebrows......

"Do you know that guy?"

Zuo Yang gave a look and motioned for Murong Xian to take a look.

"Yes."

Murong Xian nodded.

Is it just similar? Zuo Yang thought in his heart.

But I heard Murong Xian then said, "But although I know him, I don't know what his name is, he only came to our house last month, he usually stays with my father, and never talks to other people in the family, and his father is also courteous to him, why did he let him pour tea today, there should be no shortage of people at home, right?" ”

"Is that so?"

After listening to Murong Xian's words, Zuo Yang immediately began to doubt the identity of this person again.

At the same time, he quietly took the risk of taking out the [Crystal Mirror] and looked around.

It doesn't matter.

"it!"

I saw that outside the carved wooden wall behind Lin Tiannan, the leader of the martial arts alliance, and the other three family masters, there were actually several teams of masked people holding swords, all of them held their breath and pressed their bodies tightly against the wooden wall, as if they were listening to the movement inside, ready to wait for the opportunity to move at any time.

"What is this Murong Qianqiu planning to do?"

Zuo Yang had probably guessed something, after all, these people appeared in Murong Villa, and they obviously looked like they had been arranged in advance, as the head of Murong Villa, it was impossible for Murong Qianqiu not to know.

And the old man who poured the tea, Zuo Yang had every reason to suspect that he was Sato Kenshin himself, but he was just ...... Could it be that the Murong family and the Dongying Wakou have colluded to such an extent that they actually plan to kill Lin Tiannan, the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, and the heads of the other three major families, and the family is dominant?

If that's the case, it's risky.

If it happens, then it's okay to say; But if it doesn't work, I'm afraid that the Murong family will inevitably become the mortal enemy of the entire Central Plains martial arts, and I'm afraid that it's not impossible for the Nine Clans to be even impossible!