Chapter 29: Murder and Silence
No matter how much the shopkeeper didn't dare to touch him holding the sword in his hand, he was so anxious that he saw Xuan Liuyao, who was still smiling and looking at the excitement, as if he had opened his mind, he patted his thigh and shouted: "Master Guan, there is!" ”
Tie Xing Lan sat up suddenly, his gray-blue eyes lit up: "Is there a vacant room?" ”
"Nope." The shopkeeper shook his head, ignoring Tie Xinglan's hand that was clenching the hilt of the knife because of anger, and continued: "This little boy has two beds in his house, and the official master can squeeze in with him for one night. ”
Tie Xinglan's gaze slowly moved to Xuan Liuyao.
Xuan Liuyao was shocked, why, if there is no vacancy, he has to fight his idea? He doesn't want to sleep with anyone unless he has to, he just wants to sleep in a big bed alone.
I only hate myself for watching the excitement and don't know how to accept it when I see it, and I want to see how it ends. He smiled, called "Ah Jiu", turned around and went up the stairs to the second floor.
Heavy footsteps sounded behind him, and the sound of heavy objects being dragged up.
Xuan Liuyao secretly complained, and when he looked back, Tie Xinglan was dragging the man who was bound by the iron chain, and was following behind him step by step, Ah Jiu was standing at the bottom of the stairs, looking up with a sad face.
As Tie Xinglan walked upstairs, he turned his head and shouted, "Shopkeeper, take care of that dead man." I know what he has on him, and if it's missing, you will go with me to the eight gates tomorrow, and I will send that prison to you for as long as you want! ”
Turning his head again, he smiled at Xuan Liuyao: "The little real person is merciful, and he can't bear to sleep on the hard dinner table." You have to fart when you go to bed at night, and you're going to eat at that table tomorrow......"
Xuan Liuyao rushed into his room in a few steps, and there was a sound of iron chains "knocking and knocking" behind him, Tie Xinglan followed in with a shy face, threw the man to the wall, and looked left and right: "The room where the little real person lives is really magnificent, and I am not greedy for cheap, so I will share the room fee with you." ”
He reached out and touched it in his arms for a while, and took out a piece of broken silver: "Is this enough?" ”
Xuan Liuyao ignored him, and only sat on the edge of the bed and called: "Ah Jiu, go and ask for some hot water." Washed up and slept. ”
"Yes!" Ah Jiu answered by the door and went out to ask for hot water.
"More more!" Tie Xinglan chased to the door and shouted at Ah Jiu.
Ah Jiu didn't say anything.
At this time, Tie Xinglan felt that he was cheeky, if this little boy was really His Royal Highness, it would not be too good. He touched the back of his head and said with a sneer: "If the little real person dislikes it, sit by the door for one night, just watch the door for the little real person, and you can sleep peacefully." ”
When it comes to this, if you don't give face, only Tie Xinglan will be annoyed and angry.
Xuan Liuyao raised his chin angrily towards the middle room: "There is a small bed there, if Mr. Tie doesn't dislike it, just sleep there." ”
Knowing that he is always catching heads, he dares to make such a face, either he doesn't have long eyes, or he is bigger than him. Tie Xinglan knew it in his heart, thanked him, and obediently went to the middle room.
In fact, the room is also in this room, and there is only a curtain in the middle.
Hot water arrives in a moment. Tie Xinglan listened to them washing their faces and feet, the sound of the water was loud, and he raised his feet to see, he could only envy in his heart, people with good lives have hot water everywhere, and people with bad lives can't even touch half a drop of hot water even if they don't sleep with dead people. Thinking that I hadn't even eaten dinner yet, I felt hungry at this time.
There was still half a piece of baked cake in his arms, and Tie Xinglan took it out and put it in his mouth to gnaw, so dry that he almost burst into tears.
But when he heard a slight "tuk", the little boy asked outside the curtain: "Mr. Tie catches his head, and there is still some hot water, do you want to wash your face and burn your feet?" ”
"Yes!"
Tie Xinglan turned over and sat up, put the baked cake in his arms, lifted the curtain and strode out. Sure enough, a lot of hot water was left for him, but no one was waiting, Tie Xinglan burned his feet, squinted and shook his head in comfort, only to feel that he was also a good person.
A small two came in with a tray, and a burst of aroma filled his nose.
From the tray to the table was a large bowl of noodles poured with chicken juice and sliced meat, and the saliva that was so fragrant that Tie Xing Blue also overflowed to his mouth. He began to think about the question of good and bad life again.
"Mr. Tie, let's go to sleep first, you eat the noodles." Xuan Liuyao sat on the bed and shouted at him.
"The noodles for me?" Tie Xing Lan was very surprised.
"yes, you wouldn't have eaten it already, would you?"
"No, no, thank you...... Little real people. Tie Xinglan felt that tears were about to roll out again.
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There was no word all night.
After dawn, several people went downstairs to have breakfast.
Xuan Liuyao put down his chopsticks, waited for Ah Jiu to go to the counter to pay and said, "Mr. Tie catches his head, and there will be a meeting later." ”
Tie Xinglan was chewing on steamed buns, stretched out his hand, and pressed his arm: "Wait a minute, Xiao Zhenren, you go to the capital, right?" Me too. I have a horse, you will ride a horse with me in a while, rest assured, my horse is a good breed horse from Yunhu country, and it can sit for two people. ”
Xuan Liuyao smiled: "No need, I have a carriage." ”
Tie Xinglan slowly raised his head, and his gray-blue eyes looked at him shiningly: "Little Zhenren has a carriage?" ”
"Yes."
Tie Xinglan's hand was still pressed, as if he was reluctant to leave, and the words he said were even more heart-wrenching: "I'm still worrying, how to transport the hard dead back to the capital." ”
How to transport it back, what does it matter to him? Xuan Liuyao smiled without smiling: "My carriage is very narrow." ”
"Just enough to fit into most of your body." Tie Xinglan said very lightly, and leaned closer to Xuan Liuyao and whispered, "Originally, it was okay to walk down slowly, but there was still stolen money in the bottom, so I had to rush back and hand it over to the treasury earlier." I am afraid that I will be delayed on the road, and the bandits will covet it. ”
Xuan Liuyao glanced at the man with iron chains at his feet, thinking that the dead could get into his carriage, so would he have to add a living person? Although I am used to seeing the dead and the living, it is not a comfortable thing to squeeze together, especially if you have to squeeze all day.
Tie Xinglan seemed to see his concerns, and smiled slightly: "If the little real person is afraid of the dead, he will still ride with me." Let the dead man be comfortable and lie down in the carriage. Rest assured, his blood is dry and will never stain your carriage. ”
"As for this fellow," he kicked the living man at his feet, "just let him follow the horse." ”
"I'm not afraid of the dead." Xuan Liuyao quickly replied that instead of sitting in a man's arms, it was better to be with a dead man. Besides, he had never seen the chief catcher of the Eight Gates before, and if he had some motives and robbed him or killed him on the way, he wouldn't even have a chance to cry out for injustice.
"Good!"
Tie Xinglan appreciated, quickly drank the porridge in the bowl, picked up the last steamed bun in the bowl and stood up, and walked out with the living person. Obviously, he believed that Xuan Liuyao had already paid for breakfast for him, and even if he didn't pay, it was not impossible to eat for nothing.
Xuan Liuyao and Ah Jiu reluctantly followed.
The shopkeeper helped carry the dead man into his carriage, and shouted happily as if he were a plague: "Go well, guest officer!" ”
The carriage got on the road and headed for the capital. Iron Star Blue rode his horse and followed the car, and behind his horse, he stumbled after the living man. The iron chain was only a few feet long when I saw it yesterday, but now it seems to have changed roots, one end is in the hand of Tie Xinglan on the horse, and the other end is only tied to the man's hand, but it looks like it is two feet long.
Xuan Liuyao lifted the curtain next to him and looked at the iron chain, it is said that such a long iron chain is so big to put away, but last night he didn't feel that Tie Xinglan had such a burden.
Oh, after all, it was originally placed on the horse, thinking about this, Xuan Liuyao felt a little bored, and was about to put down the curtain, but Tie Xinglan turned his head and looked at him: "My iron chain is a fairy thing, it can be long or short, the chain moves at will, and you can't escape if you tie it up." ”
Immortals? Can anyone have a fairy?
Xuan Liuyao didn't know that there were immortals running all over the world now, he didn't believe it in his heart, but he just smiled on his face and didn't say anything more. When I turned around and looked at the dead body with a pair of feet resting on the wooden box, like a hardwood, diagonally in the car, I was angry.
Who did you provoke? Originally comfortable.
He couldn't help but be curious, and lifted the curtain again and asked Tie Xinglan, "What did these two people do?" ”
"Tax evasion." Tie Xinglan looked ahead and said casually.
"Tax evasion?" Xuan Liuyao was taken aback, "How much escaped?" ”
"It's a lot."
How big is the number, and is it worth the life? Xuan Liuyao was even more curious: "What are they doing to evade taxes like this?" ”
Tie Xinglan was silent for a while: "I am only responsible for arresting people in the case explained above, and I don't know anything else." ”
Xuan Liuyao poked his head out to look at the man who was following the horse, the man's hair was messy, his skin was dark, but it revealed a layer of pale, his lips were chapped, open like a salted fish, he hadn't dropped a drop of water since last night, let alone half a grain of rice.
When the man heard their conversation, a trace of anger flashed on his face, and when he saw Xuan Liuyao looking at him, he shouted with all his strength: "The national teacher deceived us into sending the entire Changming to dig gold for him, and he wanted to kill us all......"
Tie Xinglan stopped his horse and turned to look at him with a blank expression.
Ah Jiu didn't know, but still drove the carriage forward. Xuan Liuyao watched them get farther and farther away from the carriage, Tie Xinglan jumped off the horse, and with a swing of the knife, the man fell down with blood spurting.
It seems that Tie Xinglan knows about this, and he is the confidant of the Pingyang National Teacher.
Xuan Liuyao watched Tie Xinglan get back on the horse, dragging the corpse to chase after him, the long knife shining in his hand, and soon, he could see the blood droplets hanging on the blade.
Xuan Liuyao silently opened the enchantment for himself, in case Iron Star Blue stabbed him in the head.
Tie Xinglan was also at war with heaven and man in his heart at this time, if it was an ordinary little Taoist priest, maybe he would not hesitate to cut it down at this time. But at the moment, this little Taoist priest is likely to be His Royal Highness, killing His Royal Highness, that is the matter of the Nine Clans, even if no one sees it here, he is afraid that he will be in fear all day long with this great sin.
What's more, in the final analysis, although his job was given by the national teacher of Pingyang, it was also given by the imperial court. His Royal Highness can be regarded as his own master.
He looked up at Xuan Liuyao.
The carriage was bumping, Xuan Liuyao's little head stretched out of the window was slightly bumpy, and his big black and white eyes looked at him like this, but there was no trace of fear. Even if you've just seen him kill someone.
For a while, Tie Xinglan suspected that this little boy was a fool and couldn't understand what he was doing. But immediately I felt that it was unlikely, and people spoke and acted clearly. He decided to let Xuan Liuyao go first, and when he returned to Beijing, he reported the matter to the Pingyang National Teacher, as for whether the Pingyang National Teacher should be killed, that was the matter of the National Teacher.
He smiled at Xuan Liuyao.
After the horse, the man's blood flowed as if it would never dry, dragging out a trail of blood that could not be seen in sight.
Xuan Liuyao also smiled and sat back in the compartment, his face collapsed, and his smile was gone.
The national teacher of Pingyang deceived people to dig gold, and then extinguished his mouth...... This little old man not only pits the royal family, but also pits the people of the world, and he must find a way to get rid of it.
This sudden change made suspicion arise between Xuan Liuyao and Tie Xinglan, and the two were speechless all the way. Tie Xinglan regretted that he was trying to make it easier, so it was better to let the person who was originally alive carry the dead body and walk slowly, but now that this is the case, the secret revealed by that person has been heard by Xuan Liuyao.