Chapter 5
"Now, you're still honest with your buddy, by the way, what about the cotton beef you just mentioned, why haven't you served it yet? As he spoke, the middle-aged man picked up the teacup on the table and drank it dry, as if the tea could satisfy his hunger, and poured another cup after drinking.
"Okay, Mr. Lin, you wait a while, I'll serve you food right away" Lian Chen's heart was full of joy, although he still had many doubts in his heart, but when he thought that he would be able to go to Zhongzhou immediately, the momentum of doing things was different. After a while, a large plate of cotton beef came out of the back kitchen, looking at this posture, why not two catties?
To say that the cotton beef in Lanzhou, it is a must, especially the cotton beef taste of Yongxin Inn in Hongyan Town is more authentic, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, the entrance is dense, almost like a meat cake, but it is not stuffed with teeth and not sticky to the mouth, it tastes fragrant and fragrant, it makes people have an endless aftertaste, I can't help but want to eat a few more pieces, I saw that a large plate of beef will see the bottom after a while, the scribe seems to be a little unfinished, and the little girl covered her small mouth, covered her belly, seemed to be eating, in order to hide her embarrassment, whispered a few words to the scribe, and I don't know what the scribe heard, chuckled for a while, and said to Lian Chen: "I've eaten this and I've done it, let's stay here for one night today, and you can arrange two upper rooms for us." Saying that, he got up and went upstairs with Lian Chen, and when the gang saw the scribe's father and daughter leaving, they also saluted with fists at their backs, and Lian Chen looked back and thought, will he be so respected in the future?
Not to mention that in this box, Lian Chen led the father and daughter upstairs, accompanied the left and right, and tried his best to please the horse and the dog's legs. Over there, the shopkeeper Li hummed a little tune, took the wine and food, and sent it to the bandits, serving carefully, but the smile on his face couldn't help but flow out, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, please use it slowly!" Seeing that the gang members were sitting in a circle, eating energetically, and were about to leave, I heard the black-faced squad leader say, "Don't hurry to leave, the shopkeeper has something to ask you about." When the black-faced squad leader asked, he actually had the mentality of trying it out, and even had a little caution on his face. If it had been placed in the past, such a small shopkeeper would have been frightened by his tiger body and fell down, where would he still have the right to stand and talk? But now it is different from the past, haven't you seen that the son of the other person has been favored by the secret magician of the Holy See, and since then he has jumped into the dragon gate?
"I don't know what the adults have to ask?" the little one must know everything," the shopkeeper Li respectfully turned around and replied, although his cheap son had good luck and worshiped the "immortal" as a teacher, but he was still just an innkeeper, there was nothing to be proud of, if he got carried away once he gained power, and he didn't know how thick the sky was, then in the northern land where he ate people and didn't spit out bones, he would not be far from death.
"It's not a big deal, it's just asking you for a book. The squad leader stared at Shopkeeper Li deadly, as if he was afraid of missing a trace of detail, paused, and added, "To be precise, it is a secret book." ”
"Books, cheats, don't make fun of the small ones, where did I get the books from this little broken inn? "Indeed, with Li Xiaoer's decades of experience in his life, he has never encountered such a problem, if he wants to say literacy, he has also learned a few, but it is limited to 24678, Zhang Wang Li Zhao Qian These numbers, names or something, are used for bookkeeping, shouting people or something, if you want to say that it is used for reading, hum, it is still a thought. Don't ask why, although the Great Yan Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time and the people's lives are stable, but reading and literacy is still the patent of the rich people, and the admission fee of any school is not something that ordinary people can afford. So even Sanya is twelve years old, and she can't even write her own name.
"Really not?" The team leader wondered, thinking to himself that there was a mistake in the intelligence? Is the order wrong? In fact, when he asked the shopkeeper Li, the team leader had already regretted it, after all, this whole thing was very strange, how could an innkeeper in a small town on the border of the North have something to do with the cheats that their Blood Wolf Gang has been tracking down since its establishment for more than ten years? Look at this little old man's appearance as an ignorant ordinary person in the market, where does he have the slightest appearance of literacy and hyphenation? Not to mention holding the cheats and being responsible for cultivation.
Others don't know, but our squad leader knows very well about the little kinship in the upper echelons of the Blood Wolf Gang behind him. The Blood Wolf Gang was not originally a gang, it was the regular army of the Empire, a group of wounded soldiers who originally retreated from the Qingzhou battlefield to change their defenses, and because the main general offended the big people in the imperial capital, they had to move to the mountains and forests, and it was also because they were looking for something that they had to hang up the name of "Blood Wolf Gang" to facilitate their actions. And this kind of thing is said to be a secret book, and it seems to be related to the previous generation of the deans of the Tianwu Academy. How could such a precious thing fall into the hands of the shopkeeper of a small and remote shop?
Speaking of which, the captain of the Blood Wolf Gang is really pouring blood mold today, early in the morning before dawn, he is still wandering between the pair of strong twin peaks of his mother-in-law, a command arrow - Blood Wolf Order, shot into his own door with a "duh", so scared that he almost can't lift his "head" in his life, but there is no way, the gang rules are strict, and the blood wolf order is easy not to come out, as soon as it comes out, it is a hundred thousand urgent and urgent matters, and if it is delayed, it is not as simple as being whipped, and if it is not good, it will lose its head. Our squad leader didn't even have time to put on his pants, so he jumped out of bed bare-chested, and took down the arrow on the pillar of the room that was still shaking because of the remaining strength, but what he saw was these words: "Hongyan Town, Yongxin Inn, cheats." ”
Then he ignored his mother-in-law's complaining eyes, beckoned a few of his subordinates, and left in a hurry. I didn't think about it, but there was a strong wind on the way, and the yellow sand was all over the sky, and people couldn't stand, and horses couldn't walk. I had no choice but to find a small dirt bag in the leeward, and I hid for a long time, until I finally arrived at this dilapidated inn in the afternoon, and I wanted to shake off the majesty, and by the way vented the resentment in my heart, but I kicked on the iron plate, and met a passing mystic who was collecting apprentices here, and I was fortunate to run up to show the sign and pull hatred, this is really a lantern in the toilet - looking for (death)! I can't help but sigh that my year is unfavorable, unlucky, unlucky~
Wait a minute, mystician, cheats, and apprentices, these things don't seem to be related on their own, but they look like they're connected in tandem, and there's a lot of article in them. How could a poor boy in the poor countryside of the Northland have a relationship with such a great mystic who is thorough through the world? How could a Holy See mystic who was supposed to enjoy the prosperity of the imperial capital and the worship of mortals take a fancy to a shopkeeper in this dilapidated little shop? Unless...... Unless the cheats are in the hands of this kid, and this mystic master doesn't know through what channels he knows about it, he has come from thousands of miles away, and the apprentices are fake, and the secret book is true to be captured! Thinking of this, the black-faced squad leader was deeply impressed by his reasoning, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what he had deduced was the truth of the matter. But he seems to have forgotten one thing, since the shopkeeper of this small shop doesn't know the cheats, then how can we know the protagonist of the shop, the second and third girl, or Lian Chen, who doesn't know a big word? But no matter what, once a martial artist like them determines one thing, that is, the nine cows can't be pulled back, and at the same time, the eyes of the innkeeper are also filled with pity, after all, who knows that his son who has been raised for more than ten years suddenly one day with a nobleman and even his own father kicks away, then he will not be angry? At this time, in the eyes of this team leader, Lian Chen has become a white-eyed wolf! And Lian Chen definitely didn't tell Shopkeeper Li about getting the cheats, otherwise, with Shopkeeper Li's unprofitable face, how could he not react when asked? They didn't consider the possibility that Shopkeeper Li would deceive themselves, after all, the prestige of the Blood Wolf Gang was there, although they didn't dare to touch him now, it was because of the presence of the secret master, and in the future, when the people left, there would be a chance to settle accounts after the autumn.
However, since they know that the secret book is in Lian Chen's hands, and they may even have given it to the master of the secret master as an apprenticeship gift, what should they do?
What should I do, I thought about it and thought about it, it seems that the only way to make sure is that the cheats are still in the hands of the kid, if so, then you can still find a way to get it back, if it has been handed over to the mystician, then you can only return with a feather and make another plan. In addition, the captain of this squad still has the hope in his heart, that is, this mystic master did not come for the cheats, but simply took him as an apprentice because of this child's qualifications, after all, these religious fanatics are all eccentric and cannot be treated with common sense. Although this doesn't make sense, it's a possibility, if this thing is done well, it can be regarded as a great achievement, you know, this is their blood wolf gang's long-cherished wish, whoever can complete this thing, then whose status in the gang will immediately rise with the tide.
But no matter what the possibility is, he has to call more people to come, and he is really not enough to see, and it is not enough for others to clean up with one hand. Didn't you see that just now they casually knocked over everyone present? I thought that it was just a small shop owner, and a few people could do it, and everyone could get a little more credit, but I didn't expect to kill halfway to bite the gold, which added a bit of twists and turns to this "little thing". Thinking of this, the captain could only wave his hand and send away the shopkeeper Li.
How did he know that this shopkeeper Li had already broken out in a cold sweat when he turned around?