34, Hongfu Inn
From Tianshan City to Sanqingguan, it takes seven or eight days to ride a fast horse, and you can't waste any time on the road. Liu Banxian www.biquge.info has already accurate the time to the hour, but he is afraid that he will not be able to catch up with the moment when the martial arts alliance leader is born, and he still hopes to go back to see his sick sister alive.
It's a pity that people are not as good as the sky, and when they walked into the wilderness dozens of miles away from Changqing Mountain, it suddenly rained heavily. The boundless rain curtain fell from the sky, and the eyes could not even see clearly a few feet away, and the ears were full of the sound of the rain.
At first, the two of them were still wearing robes and hats to walk through the heavy rain. But after an hour, the rain did not weaken, but became heavier. In desperation, the two discussed finding a place to shelter from the rain before leaving.
Looking ahead through the curtain of water in front of them, a building loomed in the rain, the two of them looked at each other, and immediately pulled their horses and walked quickly towards the building.
When I came closer, I found out that it was an inn. This inn is pitifully small, only two stories high from the outside, and its outer surface is already dilapidated, if it weren't for a broken wooden board with "Hongfu Inn" written on the door, and the faint light coming through the doors and windows, Wu Zheng would have thought that this was an abandoned and dilapidated house.
Liu Banxian banged on the door of the inn vigorously, and after a while, a thin man holding an oil lamp poked his head out of the open door, looked them up and down, and asked, "Stay in the hotel or eat?" ”
At this time, it was already approaching evening, and the rain was estimated to not stop for a while, so Liu Banxian said: "Yes!" The thin men opened the door and let them in, and then put on their robes and led their horses to the stables and tied them.
Wu Zheng removed the wet coat and hat from his body, and his eyes swept around the inn, opposite him was a staircase leading to the second floor, and there were several places on the staircase that should have staircase boards, but now they were empty.
There were three or four tables on the left and right sides of the stairs, and a woman dressed as a village girl was lowering her head, intently wiping the table with a dirty rag, ignoring Wu Zheng and the others who had just entered.
Behind the large counter on the left, the shopkeeper wearing a black scarf raised his eyelids slightly while making the abacus in his hand crackle: "Do you want to stay in the hotel?" The room fee plus three meals a day totals one tael of silver, and the horse feed is calculated separately. ”
Wu Zheng said: "Prepare an upper room for us, and we will leave when the rain is light tomorrow." Then he put the silver on the counter, and the shopkeeper collected the money, and asked the thin man who had just come back to take Wu Zheng and Liu Banxian to the second floor.
The room is quite tidy, but there is a strong earthy smell all over the house, and the thin man said that the old house has this smell on rainy days. Wu Zheng instructed him to prepare a table of food and go downstairs to eat. When the two of them came out with a change of dry clothes, the meal was ready.
Liu Banxian saw that the quality of the dishes on this table was not bad, and immediately smiled, and said, "I didn't expect the dishes made in the wilderness shop to be so eye-catching." Alas, in fact, if nothing happens to this game, I still like to play it, and you can taste a lot of delicious food here that you can't eat in the real world, and you only need to spend game currency. ”
Wu Zheng poured wine into the wine glasses of both of them, and suddenly remembered that Liu Banxian came more than two months later than himself, and knew more about what was happening outside the game than himself, so he asked, "Brother Liu, when you came in, what was the situation outside?" Are we trapped players still in our own homes? ”
Liu Banxian shook his head and said, "It's all turned upside down outside!" Don't you know, every day there are a large number of people protesting and demonstrating in front of Wanshi Company, and the police can't stop them. The company's glass doors were smashed several times, and were replaced with wooden planks. He drained his glass of wine and continued, "You players have been taken in by the relevant government departments, and it is said that they are placed in an absolutely safe place, and they are monitored by medical personnel every day. So you don't have to worry about anything going wrong with your body at all, but you should add 10,000 cautions to the game! If you hang up here, you will be brain dead directly outside the game, and you will become a vegetative person completely! ”
Speaking of which, Wu Zheng has no relatives in the real world, his parents died many years ago, and if they were still around, they would have joined the demonstrators. So he could imagine lying upright on one of the beds in a large room full of beds, covered with tubes of all kinds. Countless doctors and nurses walked back and forth in the room, checking on the patient's physical condition, and the scene was extremely busy. Someone else's hospital bed may have friends and relatives standing by the side, but their own bed is empty.
Thinking of this, Wu Zheng felt a little desolate, shook his head and brought the wine glass to his lips to drink, when suddenly the door of the inn was slammed.
The thin man muttered in a low voice, walked over with an impatient expression, opened the door and asked a few words, and then let the group in. There were about seven or eight of them, led by two strong men who were eight feet tall, and when they took off the hats on their heads, Wu Zheng immediately recognized them.
"Bear ...... Brother, Xiong Er...... Brother, what a coincidence that we actually met here! Wu Zheng hurriedly got up and hugged his fists.
Xiong Wei and Xiong Zhuang also saw Wu Zheng, and the two laughed happily, Xiong Wei said: "We can meet in such a desolate and remote place, fate is really not shallow!" Xiong Zhuang also said: "Originally, I was going to continue to scold this God for a while, but I didn't expect to meet Brother Wu, it seems that I have to change my words to thank God, hahaha!" ”
This Xiong family brother is bold and chivalrous, and he can definitely get along with him as a brother who has lived his life, Wu Zheng admires this kind of hero the most, the fly in the ointment is that their IQ is still a big difference compared to themselves.
Xiong Zhuang waved his hand, and the rest of the people scattered to do their own thing, and then the Xiong brothers arched their hands to Liu Banxian, and said hello, and then joined Wu Zheng's banquet without seeing it.
Wu Zheng introduced to Liu Banxian: "These two are the big boss Xiong Dawei and the second boss Xiong Dacheng in Heishui Village, they are big good people and big heroes!" Then he told them about the fact that they robbed the emperor of the tribute to Da Liao for the sake of the people.
Liu Banxian casually praised a few words, he only cared about when he could leave here, and he was not interested in this kind of heroic deeds at all. Wu Zheng introduced Liu Banxian again, and the Xiong brothers only thought that he was an ordinary physiognomist who told fortunes to make a living, so they didn't care.
Wu Zheng asked for two more wine glasses, filled them with wine for the Xiong brothers, and then raised his glass and said: "Farewell to Qinshan, the younger brother misses the two eldest brothers very much, come on, I will give the two brothers a glass." With that, the three of them raised their glasses and drank together.
"Huh?" Xiong Wei frowned suddenly, and spit out the wine that had been eaten on the ground, Xiong Zhuang and Wu Zheng also hurriedly spit out the wine when they saw it, but fortunately the two only swallowed a little.
Xiong Zhuang handed a look to the eldest brother, and Xiong Wei said in a low voice: "There is sweat medicine in the wine!" He has been in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, and he has rich experience, and he himself is wary of this deserted village and wild shop, so as soon as the wine is in his mouth, he immediately finds that the taste is not right, and immediately spits it out.
At this moment, Liu Banxian, who was sitting next to Wu Zheng, suddenly rolled his eyes, smashed his head on the table with a "bang", and fell asleep.
When everyone saw it, their hearts were shocked. Xiong Wei grabbed his younger brother who was about to have a seizure, and said loudly: "They are all friends who eat with knives and rice on the road, we understand the rules, but we also want face, how about giving a few thin noodles?" These words were full of anger, and every corner of the lobby could be heard clearly.
As soon as the people of Heishui Village heard the words of the owner of the village, they immediately became fully alert, and the long knives in the hands of several people were already unsheathed, and there were bursts of cold light in the dim light.
The shopkeeper behind the counter glanced at Xiong Wei seemingly unintentionally, but he didn't say anything, still looking down and counting his accounts. After a while, the thin man came up and removed the wine and food, and brought it on a new table, but the dishes were much inferior to the previous one.
Xiong Wei didn't care, he hugged his fists in the air and said, "Thank you!" Then he signaled that everyone could eat and drink with peace of mind. Wu Zheng looked at Liu Banxian who was sleeping dimly with a harazi on the side, if he hadn't happened to meet the Xiong brothers, he was afraid that he would be as unconscious as Liu Banxian at this time, then what was waiting for them next would be ruthless killing!