Chapter 18 Overnight in a black shop
This story is pure fiction
The carriage left the city of Guanxi, drove all the way, and came to Yining County (now Anze County, Shanxi) outside the city in the evening.
The inn is a two-story small wooden building, Jingkong and Qiao'er followed Liu Yuanwai to the store, and the coachman went to park the carriage.
"A few guest officers, hit the tip, or stay in the hotel?" Before I even entered the store, I heard a special noise.
When I entered the store, I saw seven or eight tables in the store, but there was no one next to the tables. On the right side of the door is the counter, and there is a half-aged with heavy makeup standing in the counter.
"The boss, come out to pick up the guests! A few guest officers, are you staying in the hotel or sharpening? The voice came from the mouth of the half-aged again.
"It's coming!" It was an eight-foot man coming out from behind the curtain across the door from the store.
Liu Yuanwai said to the half-old: "Boss, bring us four rooms and serve a table of wine and food." Then feed the horses outside the door. ”
"Outside, just come to three rooms, and my brother and I can stay in one." Qiao'er said to Liu Yuanwai.
Liu Yuanwai felt that Qiao'er was afraid of using more money, so he hurriedly said to Qiao'er, "Childe is fine, I still have the money for this house." ”
"Outside, you misunderstood, my brother is unwell, and I take care of him." Qiao'er explained again and again.
"Oh, yes! The boy was unwell. Liu Yuanwai thought that he was taken captive by the cottage when he thought of the clear space, and he must have suffered a lot, so he didn't have a polite relationship with Qiao'er. Turning to the half-aged, he said, "That's three rooms." ”
"Okay, guest officer!" The half-old continued to snort at the three of them, and then turned to the strong man and said viciously, "Dead ghost, don't go and prepare wine and food yet." Wait for the guests to finish eating, and lead the guests to their rooms. ”
"You sit down first, and the food and drinks will be ready immediately." The strong man immediately took off a piece of cloth from his shoulder, and as he spoke, he wiped it on the nearest table outside Liu Yuanwai, and then on the chair. Turning over the bowl that was buckled on the table, he poured a few bowls of water, "A few guest officers drink some water first, and I'll go prepare the wine and food." Then he went behind the curtain. At this time, the coachman also came in, said to Liu Yuanwai, the carriage was put away, and he sat next to Liu Yuanwai.
"Why isn't there anyone staying in the hotel today?" Qiao'er deliberately asked the next half-old.
The half-old saw such a handsome little student and asked her, and then walked over, put her arm on Qiao'er's shoulder, and said in a loud voice: "Isn't this the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi just finished fighting, how dare anyone run out." So there's not much business in the shop, so I'm struggling with my dead ghost to keep the shop......"
Qiao'er pushed away the half-aged with a disgusted face, "Just talk, don't pull and pull!" ”
"Yo...... This son, he is not very old, and his temper is not small......" The half-old teased Qiao'er.
Qiao'er felt disgusted when she saw this half-old, and she didn't bother to take care of her, so she drank the water without saying a word. It made the atmosphere a little frozen. "The meal is coming!" This sound broke the embarrassing atmosphere of the scene, and the strong man came out from behind the curtain with food, and said to Liu Yuanwai and the three of them: "This business is not good, the small shop only eats these, and a few guest officers will take a look." ”
The strong man put a few side dishes and steamed buns on the table, and then went to the back of the curtain and took out a pot of warm wine. Liu Yuanwai and Jingkong and Qiao'er ate it. Liu Yuanwai wanted to pour wine for Jingkong and Qiao'er, but Qiao'er stopped him and said, "The two of us don't drink, just eat some steamed buns and vegetables." Liu Yuanwai didn't force it anymore, and then drank with the coachman.
Full of wine and food, the strong man led Liu Yuanwai and the four of them into their respective rooms.
Jingkong and Qiao'er entered a room, "Pay attention at night, there is a problem with this shop." As soon as she entered the room, Qiao'er muttered to the clear space. What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with this store? Qingkong asked cautiously. I always feel like there's something wrong with this store. Qiao'er didn't know what the problem was, but her intuition told him that there was something wrong with the store. Then he said to the clear space: "If there is something outside in a while, you quickly hide under the bed, and don't come out without me calling you." "After that, as always, let the clear sleep on the bed and sleep on the ground by yourself.
Qiao'er said this to the clear space, and he didn't dare to sleep when he got the clear space, he was afraid that he would be taken captive like the kettle, so he opened his eyes and looked at the bed tent, but he fell asleep after a while, maybe he figured it out, with Qiao'er here, he would be fine, he felt that Qiao'er was his savior.
In the middle of the night, there was a very light footstep upstairs, and the clear space actually snored. The footsteps didn't stop at the door of Liu Yuanwai, as if they had entered Liu Yuanwai's room, Qiao'er lay on the ground and listened, and then glanced at the clear space on the bed, and saw that the clear space was still snoring, so she continued to observe the movement outside. The sound of footsteps stayed in Liu Yuanwai's room for a while, and then he heard the door closed and came out, and then he went downstairs.
The footsteps were none other than the half-aged and their dead ghosts. searched around Liu Yuanwai's room and took out the valuable things. Back in their room, the two of them were about to count the belongings they had touched, and they kept tinkering: "This is a fortune, this is a fortune......"
"Bang!" The door was kicked open. The half-old and his dead ghost strong man were startled, only to see Qiao'er standing at the door of the room and looking at them coldly.
"What do you want to do?" The strong man said angrily.
"Look at your spoils!" Qiao'er looked at them with contempt.
"Boy, don't be nosy, I know you didn't drink the wine, you didn't go to your room, acquaintances, hurry up and get out of with Lao Tzu!" The strong man glared at Qiao'er viciously and shouted.
"Oops! I'm so scared! Qiao'er pretended to be pitiful and said to the strong man.
"In charge, don't talk nonsense with him, just do him and bury him in the backyard!" The half-aged said to the strong man.
"Yo, you've chosen a place to bury, then I'll send you there! Are you going to have the corpses in pieces? Or do you want to be a whole corpse? Qiao'er said coldly, and a murderous aura had ignited on her body.
The half-old stood up at this time and said coldly to Qiao'er: "Boy, your tone is not small!" I don't know what is alive or dead, on the dead ghost! ”
I saw that the strong man held two boning machetes and slashed towards Qiao'er, Qiao'er just flashed slightly, and the knife slashed deeply into the door frame, and the strong man immediately pulled out the machete, and immediately turned around and slashed towards Qiao'er, Qiao'er dodged to the side, and easily dodged. The strong man slashed twice, but he didn't even cut the shadow of the person, and he angrily raised his double knives and slashed at Qiao'er's face. I saw Qiao'er spin slightly, turned behind the strong man, and slapped the back of the strong man's head with a palm. I only heard the sound of a strong man lying on the ground and two knives falling to the ground. The strong man hurriedly got up in a daze, picked up the machete on the ground, and prepared to cut at Qiao'er again.
"Useless stuff." The half-old stopped the strong man, took out a bamboo fan from her arms, opened the bamboo fan with one hand, and flicked it down gently, only to see a sharp knife pop up above each fan bone, and flew towards Qiao'er, Qiao'er leaned back, and the fan flew through Qiao'er's face door, Qiao'er just got up, felt that the fan flew back from behind, and hurriedly bowed forward, and the fan crossed from behind and flew back to the half-old's hand.
"It seems that you don't want to keep the whole corpse!" Suddenly, Qiao'er was murderous.
I saw a cold light flashing towards the half-old, and the half-aged blocked it with a fan, but the person was not injured, and the fan was halved. "What a move!" The half-aged were a little worried that they were not Qiao'er's opponents.
The strong man saw that his mother-in-law had suffered a loss, picked up two machetes and slashed at Qiao'er, Qiao'er waited for the knife to be in front of him in a hurry, jumped up, drew an arc in the air, only heard the sound of "ah ......", the strong man lay down, but did not die, but the two arms were cut off by the brush. Struggling on the ground in pain.
"Dead ghost ......" The half-old saw that her man's arms were cut off, and roared angrily at the strong man, and suddenly threw out five flying knives from each sleeve on both sides, saying that it was too late, that time was fast, and it was a flying knife that rushed to Qiao'er's various vital points at the same time. It was also a flash of cold light, Qiao'er skillfully dodged the flying knife, Qiao'er was already standing behind the half-old, and the half-old's head fell off.
"Ah...... Ah......h At this time, a dagger flew towards the location of the strong man's back heart, and the strong man struggled a few times, but he couldn't hear the sound of the strong man.
After solving the half-old, Qiao'er buried them in the backyard, without erecting a monument, and when she went in, she said to the place where the half-aged were buried: "Be a good person in the next life, don't be a thief again." ”
It was almost dawn, Qiao'er went to the room of the half-old and took Liu Yuanwai's treasure. I went to the room to see if the clear space woke up, and the clear space was still sleeping on the bed, and I didn't know what happened last night. Seeing that the clear space was fine, he took Liu Yuanwai's treasure, came to the inn hall, found a table, sat down, and waited for them to get up.