Chapter 12 What is the most important thing in walking the rivers and lakes?

Sifangji, located in Jiangnan Road, Jiangbei Road, Hedong Road, the intersection of the three roads, take the meaning of connecting the four directions.

There are many mountains and forests here, and the people are fierce, and all the outlaws who can't get through these three roads like to run here and hide in the depths of the mountains and forests.

The three governments passed the buck to each other, and no one bothered to send someone to find it.

In the past, the world was peaceful, and there was still some order in the Quartet, but in recent years, the world has been chaotic, and those villains who were hiding before have dared to come out.

This Quartet is also an important place for transportation, and if the caravans from the south to the north do not go here, they will have to make a long detour, so that the scene of mixing fish and dragons here has been formed.

Caravans, criminals, taverns.

Money, blood, violence.

This is the most appropriate adjective for today's Quartet.

Of course, there are always exceptions.

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There are many hotels in the Quartet Inn, only the Shunfeng Inn dares to hang the guise high and long, and the wind is waving.

On this day, as dusk approached, the lobby was full of twenty or so tables.

A few tables by the window on the east side, several caravan leaders were discussing business.

Near the gate, a dozen sturdy men with weapons and vicious spirits were calling each other brothers.

On the other side, there were also a few thugs who glanced at the caravan leader from time to time, and discussed another business in a whisper.

There were also a few children chasing and playing between the tables and chairs.

It's not lively.

A few nimble juniors were busy with their feet not touching the ground, constantly shuttling among the guests, and serving the food prepared in the back kitchen to the table.

If you go elsewhere, these grumpy villains can't stand such crowding, and they have to fight for some reason, what do you see, what do you see, and so on.

And here, although the action of drinking is still bold, and the mouth is constantly vicious, but after all, he can put his ass on the chair peacefully.

Because, as long as you have been in the Quartet for a few years, you will know.

Anyone who has done anything in the Shunfeng Inn will die in bed the next day.

Although there is no evidence to prove who did it, everyone is secretly guessing that the emaciated old man in front of him did it.

At the same time, he is also the owner of this Shunfeng Inn.

Wang Dongfeng, Wang shopkeeper.

"Lao Wang, we have been friends for so many years, you have to help my brother this time, if this batch of goods cannot be delivered on time, then all the belongings that my brother has saved in my life will be ruined!"

Shopkeeper Wang sat behind the counter, habitually touching his beard, revealing his perfect signature smile, comforting the anxious middle-aged man in front of him.

"Chen Matou, this road to the north is really not easy to walk, there are monsters, the few caravans that have gone in the past half a month are basically all dead, and none of these people in the market dare to go over now, you can wait patiently."

Chen Matou was anxious, he came here to ask the king's shopkeeper to go out and protect him, but listening to the meaning of his words, it was obvious that he didn't want to make a move.

"Lao Wang, you..."

In the middle of the conversation, he was interrupted by a call at the door, and it was a new customer.

"Little Er, come to your best room."

The shopkeeper Wang's eyes lit up, and the arrogance of what he said should be a good fat sheep, ah no, a high roller, so he immediately put aside Chen Ma's head and grabbed a little two.

"Don't take guests to Tianzi No. 1 room yet."

As he spoke, he kept wincing.

"Yes, shopkeeper, it must be arranged to the highest standards."

It was not the first time that Xiao Er had encountered such a situation, and the word "highest" slightly increased the volume to show that he understood.

In this way, Chen Matou's words were broken, and he opened his mouth but found that he didn't know what to say, sighed, raised his hand and left on his own.

When he left, he passed by the newcomer, and out of the corner of his eye, he found that these two people looked like masters and servants, one was a suave white-faced scholar, and the other was a female swordsman with a long sword hanging from her waist.

However, in the eyes of a veteran like him, who has read countless people, the dress of the scribe is full of flaws.

"I didn't expect to encounter the trick of a woman dressing up as a man."

"Probably which eldest lady ran out to play without knowing the height of the sky."

Then he shook his head, put these thoughts aside, and think about how he could get through it.

As the sun goes down, the number of customers in the store has changed several times.

What hasn't changed is the lively atmosphere.

The guests here come and go, and the most important thing is all kinds of conversations.

Recently, the trade routes to the north have been blocked, and every table is full of discussions.

"Have you heard? Zhou Laosi doesn't believe in evil, and he took his caravan a few days ago and insisted on going that way, guess what? ”

"I know this, his caravan has more than 30 good men, and only one of them survived and escaped back."

"I'm still wounded, and one of my arms is gone."

"I heard that the monster has one leg, one eye, three feet tall and three feet thick, and the big tree that only three people can hold can be broken at once."

This man spoke vividly, but the people did not believe him.

I thought about the picture described by the man for a while, didn't it have a leg on the ball?

For a moment, there was a happy laugh in the lobby.

"That's called a mandrill."

Suddenly, a disdainful voice came from the door.

The laughter came to an abrupt end.

Everyone looked at the door, and at some point, two Taoist priests came in.

One has white sideburns and a bun.

A good-looking, but short-haired.

It was from this old way that the words just came out.

Taoist? What a rarity.

Shopkeeper Wang motioned for Xiao Er to come forward to greet the guests.

"Two Taoist leaders, fight sharply, or live in the hotel."

"Eat first, and then prepare a room after eating."

Lao Dao ignored the stares of the full hall and walked straight to the empty table, followed by the little Taoist.

The two unsheathed their long swords and placed them horizontally on the long table.

"If you have any good food, you can give it to the poor..."

"Ahem." The young Taoist priest on the opposite side suddenly coughed.

The old Taoist priest's rhetoric was interrupted, and he remembered that the money he had earned before had been spent almost along the way, so he had an idea and changed his words.

"Give it all to the poor, well, report the name of the dish, and I'll listen."

In the end, the two ordered two side dishes, and of course, a pot of wine is indispensable.

Lao Dao poured himself a glass of wine, dried it in one gulp, smashed his mouth twice, very satisfied, this time in the wilderness, although there is food, but there is nowhere to buy wine.

"Boy, have you thought about it, do you really want to go back with me?"

Coldly, Lao Dao suddenly asked.

Hearing this, Li Jiuan smiled and shook his head firmly.

"Still can't."

"What's there to go to in that shabby place in Diancangshan, where is the family?"

"Not there."

"There are old friends."

"I never had a relationship."

"Then what are you doing there? Don't tell me that you want to be chivalrous and righteous, subduing demons and subduing demons. ”

Li Jiuan was stunned for a moment, recalling that saving people, killing people, and killing demons along the way was not just doing chivalrous righteousness, subduing demons and eliminating demons.

"Do you really want to learn to be a chivalrous man? As long as you have the ability, just pretend to be in front of ordinary people, kill a demon who can't make a weapon, you really have to meet a powerful person, and you don't know how to die. ”

"Do you know what is the most important thing about walking the rivers and lakes?"

The old man was extremely angry, and when he opened his mouth, he was angry.