Chapter 118: The Hidden Master (3)
Although the shopkeeper did not know his background or where he settled, he understood that this ragged beggar was not an ordinary person, and he also kept his previous agreement, no matter when the beggar came, no matter how busy the inn was when he came.
The shopkeeper will instruct Xiao Er to entertain the latter with good wine and food, and he doesn't take a penny, but this situation didn't last long, the first year was okay, every time the beggar came, everyone in the inn was very enthusiastic about him, and the shopkeeper would also politely entertain the latter,
But in the second year, the attitude of the shopkeeper changed greatly, although when the beggar came, he would still order someone to entertain him, but the shopkeeper's heart was reluctant, every time the inn was open, he wished that the beggar would not come in.
Because in his opinion, although the current prosperity of business is the credit of the beggars, but if you calculate carefully, the latter did not do anything for the inn at the beginning, but only moved their mouths, and they have to serve the beggars for a lifetime like serving their father, and the shrewd and calculating shopkeeper is very unbalanced in his heart, and he feels that this is a loss-making business
There is a more important reason is that in the second year, the business of the inn reached its peak, from the opening of the small shop to the closing of the night, no matter what time there will be many customers coming, and the beggar will sit in the most conspicuous position every time he comes, so it will inevitably be criticized and dissatisfied by the public, and the diners will point at him every time, after all, no one wants to sit and eat with the beggar,
And from time to time, he would have arguments with the guests who had come to eat, because of the beggars, conflicts like this have occurred more than once or twice in the inn,
This kind of thing affects the inn's business to a certain extent, and in the long run, it will also bring them a bad reputation, so it is difficult to tolerate the bad influence of beggars as a shopkeeper.
He forgot who helped him when the inn business withered, and when he was facing bankruptcy, and put the original agreement behind, he began to gradually snub the beggars, and no longer entertained the latter as diligently as before.
Until one day, when the beggar came again, the shopkeeper did not let him entertain him again, but very impatiently threw the beggar a pot of wine, and told the latter that the inn was now prosperous, and they were too busy to take care of themselves every day, and I was afraid that they would not be able to entertain him as before.
The meaning of the shopkeeper's words is very obvious, he just wants to tell the beggar that the inn's business is better now, we don't need you anymore, and you don't have to come again in the future.
But the beggar didn't seem to understand at all, and he would still come to patronize every once in a while, and the shopkeeper's attitude towards him was getting worse and worse.
In the future, this person will just throw him a pot of wine, and let him leave quickly after drinking, no matter what he asks, he doesn't have to care, the shopkeeper is embarrassed to give a direct eviction order, but he just wants to let the beggar humiliate himself in this way, and finally obediently leave on his own,
But the beggar is also surprisingly big-hearted, no matter how bad the shopkeeper's attitude towards him is, he will still come every once in a while, and the shopkeeper has long been dissatisfied with him.
This time he had a conflict with so many diners, and the shopkeeper couldn't bear it anymore, and in front of so many people, he directly kicked out the beggar who had helped him.
It's just that he didn't expect that this time he completely fell out with the beggar, and he would inadvertently involve the past of this inn three years ago, and also let the diners completely see the villain's face.
Everyone is talking, all of them are condemning the treacherous practices of this inn, there have been many diners who have scolded and left, they will not come to this inn again to cheer, many of the people present are businessmen, no matter which industry takes honesty as their own criterion, so they are very dissatisfied with the inn's dishonesty in people's practices,
The shopkeeper's face is like ashes, his face is ugly, the signboard of his inn is completely smashed out today, and his dishonesty will soon spread all over the city, and the inn will become infamous from now on.
The shopkeeper's heart is unwilling, his inn has withered since it opened, and now it is finally getting better, but now because this beggar inn has returned to its original shabby appearance, he knows that after this incident, the store's business will plummet, and it is likely to face closure as before.
The shopkeeper complained in his heart, and finally blamed all this on the beggar, he looked at the beggar with cold eyes, the latter was about to walk out of the door, the beggar still had an indifferent and easy-going expression on his face, and he didn't care about what happened to this inn, whether this inn flourished or withered, in his opinion, it seemed that it was only one inconsequential thing,
"Stop", the shopkeeper snorted coldly, calling the latter,
The beggar turned his head and looked at the shopkeeper and the diners behind him with an expressionless expression, with an indifferent expression.
The shopkeeper looked at the beggar and said sharply, "Old Hantou, my family's business was ruined by you today, and the kindness between us has been written off since then, I promised you to eat and drink for nothing because you brought huge benefits to the inn, but now all this has been taken back by you, then we don't owe you, in this case, you also have to return the money you have eaten and drunk here for all these years, and we will not owe each other from now on."
The shopkeeper looked at the latter and said in a deep voice, he was dissatisfied with the beggar, he wanted to make it difficult for the beggar in this way, to embarrass him in front of everyone, in his opinion, the diners have such a big opinion of them, the inn has a bad reputation, that is, the beggar is dissatisfied with their neglect, he is trying to take revenge, but he forgets that if it weren't for the beggar, his inn would have closed down three years ago,
The beggar was expressionless, with a hint of disappointment on his face, he looked at the shopkeeper's deep voice and asked, "Money, I can give it to you, do you dare to accept it",
The shopkeeper's face was pale, and he looked at the latter and responded coldly, "It's only right to repay debts, if you don't settle the account today, don't think about going out of this door",
As soon as the shopkeeper's words fell, the four little two jumped forward and surrounded the beggar, the shopkeeper's sneer, in his opinion, the beggar was thin, even if he knew some feng shui doorways, but he would never be a martial arts master, he thought that the four sturdy little two were more than enough to deal with him, but as everyone knows, how stupid his behavior was,
The beggar's face was indifferent, he sighed lightly and then looked at the shopkeeper's deep voice and reprimanded, "I helped you at first to see that you are loyal and honest, but I didn't expect you to become like this after you have money, hypocrisy, greed, this is the villain's face engraved in your bones now, I knew it was so, I shouldn't have helped you in the first place", the beggar said with some regret, his face was full of disappointment,
His words made the shopkeeper ashamed, and he immediately said angrily to the beggar, "Don't talk nonsense, you have eaten and drunk for nothing in the past three years, you have a hundred taels of silver, can you get so much money for a stinky person, if you can't pay the money today, don't want to get out of this store", as soon as the shopkeeper finished speaking, he beckoned Xiao Er to do it, "Give it to me, take him down",
The beggar shook his head, looking at the shopkeeper's eyes full of disappointment, his eyes were cold, and he was about to make a move, when a majestic voice sounded in everyone's ears,
"Stop it all",
The shopkeeper looked back, only to see that in the corner of the inn, a young man was carrying a sword, exuding the breath of a cultivator up and down, and it was Ling Cang who spoke.
Ling Cang took a step forward and put two ingots of silver on the table, which were one hundred taels, and he looked at the shopkeeper at random and said coldly, "I have paid for his expenses in the past three years, don't embarrass him anymore",
Ling Cang walked up to the beggar again, and hugged the latter with a punch, "The junior is reasonable."
The beggar's calm face was a little surprised, he looked at Ling Cang and asked with some puzzlement, "I met Xiaoyou Pingshui, I don't know why you want to spend money for me to relieve the siege for no reason."
Ling Cang said with a smile, "The seniors are full of success, don't mess up the mood because of the villain, a little money is not enough to worry about compared to the cultivation realm of the seniors, the juniors don't want to see the seniors embarrassed, so they choose to spend money on things, if there is anything abrupt, please also ask the seniors Haihan to leave"
Ling Cang turned around and walked out of the store, in the eyes of ordinary people, that ragged person was no different from a beggar, but Ling Cang understood that this person was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface, with a unique skill but able to show off his clothes, as a beggar in and out of the market, such a transcendent state of mind is beyond the reach of ordinary people, how can such an otherworldly person worry about money,
Therefore, Ling Cang understood that the huge amount of hundreds of taels of silver he paid today did not have any substantial impact on such a master, but he still couldn't get used to the aggressive villain face of the shopkeeper, and what qualifications did that kind of ungrateful person have to confront the hidden master with an extraordinary realm, so he slapped hundreds of taels of silver on the table, and chose to stop the shopkeeper's stupid behavior in this way, anyway, Ling Cang is not bad for money now, when he first participated in the martial arts alliance, Every disciple who came to participate in the alliance received a reward from King En, and he still had a golden ticket of several hundred taels of gold on his body, which was enough for ordinary people to be prosperous and rich for a lifetime, so Ling Cang was not short of money.
After he walked out of the shop, he went to the stable to find his horse, and randomly rode in the direction of the east gate of Qiancheng.
In the inn, the beggar stood for a long time, at this moment his expression was complicated, and he looked uncertain, for a long time, he took a long breath, looked at Nan Nan in front of him and said to himself, "The Qinglong Evil Star has descended, and the catastrophe of the Tang Dynasty is destined to begin after all", the beggar looked up at the sky, and his face, which had always been calm, had a shocked look on his face that could not be concealed, "Fang Qinghui, is your choice 16 years ago really correct?"
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