Chapter 24: The Ghost Hunchback
In the city lord's mansion, a hunchbacked old man walked into the flower hall with his head down, and when he passed by Huo Weicheng, he paused slightly, didn't look up, and didn't greet anyone, as if everything had nothing to do with him, and walked straight to the city lord's side.
I don't know how he found the city lord with his head down.
Huo Weicheng's eyes were cold when the hunchbacked old man walked over, and the cold light shone directly, but this change was instantly hidden by Huo Weicheng, and everyone's eyes were on the hunchbacked old man, but they didn't pay attention to the change in Young Master Huo.
The hunchbacked old man seemed to have eyes on the top of his head, and the changes in an instant seemed to be captured by him.
The old man didn't speak, nor did he have any expression, let alone any movement, just hunched over, step by step, without any pressure in the flower hall, Huo Weicheng was sure that the hunchbacked old man definitely noticed his changes, but he still walked so calmly.
A servant of this status should be very restrained on such an occasion, but this old man didn't seem to take everyone here seriously, and walked over and whispered in the ear of the city lord that everyone couldn't hear clearly.
"City ...... Lord, the fourth elder of the Lin family...... , said it was Lin Haotian...... Move out of town, right in ......"
Ouyang Zan tugged at the front of his clothes to make it look more flat, picked up the wine glass on the table with one hand, and drank it all.
At the same time, he restrained his excitement caused by Master Mei's refining treasure book, and sat back in his chair, listening to what the hunchbacked old man said.
The heads of the two families of Muyang looked at what news the hunchbacked old man was passing on to the city lord, and whispered in a low voice, not listening very clearly, intermittently.
Standing in the center of the flower hall, Huo Weicheng, who was pretending to be drunk, pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
What the hunchbacked old man said, everyone didn't hear the reason, Yang Ye, the head of the Yang family, stretched his neck, listened hard, a little impatient, and just opened his mouth to ask, he saw the city lord nodding there, and said loudly at the same time:
"Oh, don't do it yourself, we haven't done it yet, they are in a hurry first, since they are so anxious, then I will help well, you go and take the shadow kill, hide in the shadows, and wait for the opportunity to act. ”
After saying this brainless sentence, Ouyang Zan raised his head and glanced at Huo Weicheng, this look was not tight, but it made Huo Weicheng's face blush, it seemed that he had been discovered, and he no longer pretended, raised his hand and threw it into the air, and the sword in his hand fell smoothly back to its original place.
After Ouyang Zan finished speaking, the hunchbacked old man did not leave, but looked directly at Huo Weicheng's method of throwing out the sword, and immersed himself in his own thoughts.
Looking up like this, everyone saw the appearance of the hunchbacked old man clearly for the first time, how to say, there was a feeling of cold wind, the sparse hair split the head and covered the face, one by one, some scattered in the ears, nondescript, the face was dark, the eyes were like pools, and they looked angrily, such a pair of eyes, on such an ordinary face, it looked even more amazing.
Especially Huo Weicheng, who was stabbed chilled by this sharp gaze, calmed down his embarrassment, and didn't care what Ouyang Zan was whispering to the hunchbacked old man, he asked directly:
"City Lord Ouyang, I don't know who this hunchbacked old man is?"
Everyone was surprised, even the hunchbacked old man was obviously stunned, his body under his shirt was trembling slightly, everyone didn't expect that Huo Dashao, who was still drunk a moment ago, would ask such a sharp question at this moment, to be honest, walking on this decisive continent, who has no secrets, this sudden question, but Ouyang Zan was caught off guard.
Everyone focused their eyes on Ouyang Zan and the hunchbacked old man beside him, feeling a sense of schadenfreude, waiting for the reply of the city lord Ouyang Zan, they were all thousand-year-old foxes, who couldn't see the way, just asked or not.
"Haha, Huo Da Shao has woken up! This old man is just an old servant in my back garden who helps take care of the flower garden!"
Ouyang Zan is giggling nonsense, avoiding the important and light, just not to say it thoroughly.
"Haha, Ouyang City Lord is really joking, but Young Master Ben doesn't have a hobby of inquiring into other people's privacy, even if you, the servant, are the famous 'ghost hunchback', what does it have to do with me!"
Huo Weicheng stared at the hunchbacked old man without any worries and said, this time he didn't look at Ouyang Zan, but at this hunchbacked old man who made him shiver all over, he wanted to stare at this hunchback and find clues from this hunchback.
If it is really as he guessed, this old man is really a "ghost hunchback", then he will have to remake his plan, otherwise I am afraid this place is the place where his bones are buried.
The three words "ghost hunchback" were said by Huo Weicheng so easily, what were the expressions of the other people present, I don't know, but Mu Yang and the two family heads were directly stunned, cold sweat broke out on the top of their heads, the wine they drank before had already been frightened and dried up, at this time they were unusually sober, and their trembling hands unconsciously grabbed their son, at first glance, there was a feeling of escaping from the city lord's mansion.
Having said so much before, they were not as scared as they are now, and at this time they really wish they were drunk and misheard, instead of being so sober.
This fear seems to be deep-rooted, at this time, they regret swallowing bitter water, if they had known that there were such ruthless people as "ghost hunchbacks" in the city lord's mansion, even if they exterminated their clan, they would not have come to this banquet.
More than 50 years ago, this person was famous in the Great Qin Empire, what is the specific name, no one knows, the name of "ghost hunchback" was given by later people, this person is like a murderer, and he is obsessed with killing.
The most significant feature of the "ghost hunchback" is the hunchback, it is said that if you walk by its side a little, you will also be killed for no reason, his reason is that people passing by are laughing at his hunchback, which is not terrible, the most hateful thing is that he has a habit of killing people, he will not kill people directly, but give the killed person a drug that increases people's pain, and then, scrape off the flesh of the person one by one, until he bleeds to death or is scared to death, and even some of them die of pain.
Good at using knives, two ghost knives, so that the supernatural, cultivation is even more unfathomable, and then committed public anger, several major families set up a ghost killing alliance, is preparing for the way of heaven, as a result, the "ghost hunchback" disappeared for no reason, how can I not find anyone, and then the legend is suicide, and it is gone.
Fifty years ago, he was already a martial artist ninefold, and now I'm afraid he has reached the king!
The two heads of the Muyang family were painfully entangled in their hearts, if they could, they would definitely not say a word, get up and leave, but this is unrealistic, if they leave at this time, I am afraid that the next day, the city gate of Mochizuki City will be hung with the dry bones of their clan.
"Haha, Young Master Huo said with a smile, I don't know the 'ghost hunchback', don't think that I, the old servant, am hunchbacked, just think that he is a 'ghost hunchback'. Ouyang Zan continued to say with a smile, his treacherous gaze looked at Huo Weicheng, and at the same time, he glanced at the head of the Mu Yang family.
"It doesn't matter if it's not, you can know it in your heart, what Young Master Ben cares about now is what your old servant said to you!"
Huo Weicheng found out that the hunchbacked old man was abnormal at the beginning, and he could be sure that this hunchback was a "ghost hunchback", and secretly scolded the old fox, it seems that this Ouyang City Lord's plan is not small!
"Of course, this kind of liveliness, how can there be less Huo Dashao, just now my old servant said, tonight, Lin Haotian, the old head of the Lin family, is ready to transfer the descendants of the next generation, if you really let the descendants of the Lin family go out of the city, it will be difficult to find them!"
Ouyang Zan said pointedly, and Huo Weicheng's face darkened with Ouyang Zan's words.
"Hmph! It seems that this Lin family doesn't know how to lift! I have to go in person, bad luck!"
Huo Weicheng's heart was in a mess, and an unlucky feeling permeated his heart, he turned his head to look at his sister who was sitting next to Ouyang Yichen, and thought of the "ghost hunchback" he had just seen that had disappeared for fifty years, and his heart was indescribably irritable.