On the twenty-seventh day of the winter month, auspicious.

Fortuna: Southeast; Fukujin: Due south.

Appropriate: groundbreaking, blessing, bathing,

Don't: burial, relocation.

Early morning.

In Luoyang City, the snow has been sunny for a long time.

The sun was already shining on the street, and the icicles under the eaves had begun to melt, and the smaller ones had begun to break and fall to the ground, where there was still snow. A few children who were playing in the street picked up the smaller icicles, put them in their mouths, and ran away.

It has been cold for a long time, except for these few children who are not afraid of the cold playing, there are almost no pedestrians on this street, and few shops on both sides are open.

There are a lot of people in Yipinju.

Yipinju is not the biggest and best restaurant in the city, but it is one of the best in business. Because here, there are all kinds of snacks from all over the world, and you don't have to waste time looking for them slowly on the street. You can think of almost any dish with a name, even if you can't think of it, and most importantly, whatever kind of wine you want, it's all here, and it's never watered.

Such a restaurant, if the business is not good, it is strange.

The owner of Yipinju is Hu Ba Taiye, Hu Ba Taiye's restaurant, if the business is not good, it will be even more strange.

So other stores have no business, there are already a lot of customers in Yipinju, but today's customers are not the same, it looks like some people in the rivers and lakes, of course the people in the rivers and lakes are different, at least ordinary people will not bring weapons.

There are three floors in Yipinju, there are twelve tables on the first floor, ordinary ordinary pawns and passing merchants sit at these tables, and continue to hurry after eating, no one will go up to the second floor, they have to support their families, and they have to keep hurrying. It seems that there are not many people who can stop. It is also because the second floor is a private room, which is a place for dignitaries and nobles to drink tea and chat.

The third floor is the inn, the New Year is approaching, presumably no one still wants to stay in this inn, and even if there is, it is probably just some homeless prodigal sons.

Mrs. Hu is sitting on the second floor at this time on the largest and most comfortable seat, the tea on the table is the most authentic West Lake Longjing, is his disciples and grandchildren to honor him, every year someone will put the earliest batch of West Lake Longjing with fast horses to transport, the tea set is the best official kiln firing, obviously from the hands of famous artists, even the water to make tea, is just from the small bear ridge ten miles away from the mountain spring water, it is said that the mountain spring of the little bear ridge soaked in the West Lake Longjing, the taste is the best. Mrs. Hu took a sip of tea with satisfaction and slowly chewed a petal of tea.

He is entitled to enjoy, these are all his life, eighteen years old debut has been a full forty years, more than 200 battles, every year on his birthday when he drinks to the end, he will take off his clothes to show off to others the "achievements", more than 40 wounds on the body, all kinds of wounds left by weapons, especially the battle of Taihang Mountain, and Taihang Seven Tigers fought fiercely for a day and a night, annihilating the Seven Tigers, although the second "Laughing Tiger" Peng Dameng cut off the little finger and ring finger of his right hand, but he didn't care at all.

Although he was also seriously injured, he lay for three months. But he feels that this is the most brilliant record in his life, and it is not a shame to lose two fingers, and even if he loses his whole hand, it is not a shame, because Peng Dameng is really big and fierce, it is said that he has obtained the true inheritance of the Peng family's five tiger broken door knife, besides, two fingers for Peng Dameng's life, it is quite cost-effective.

Eighth Master Hu now put his right hand, which only has three fingers, on the mahogany table in front of him, all three fingers are wearing rings, the thumb is wearing an emerald jade wrench, and the index finger and middle finger are wearing two gemstone rings, one red and one green. With such a hand, it seems that he can no longer hold the knife, but fortunately he no longer needs to hold the knife.

This is his territory, and even this street and most of the property in this city are already his.

This morning he had ordered martial law on the whole street, and no one was allowed to enter without his orders, and if one came in, one pair of feet would be cut off, and two of them would be cut off.

The children who were fighting in the street had been pulled back into the house by the adults, and there was no one walking on the street, not even a wild dog, not a single dead or alive.

Eighth Master Hu sat on a mink fur, his waist was still very straight, his hair was not yet gray, and his voice was still very bold: "Have you all arrived?" ”

There were two people standing behind Eighth Master Hu, two young people in their twenties, and two young people who were exactly the same.

With the same clothes, the same weapons, and the same appearance, these two people are actually twin brothers.

The two men were dressed as white as snow, with broad shoulders and thin waists, their clothes were well cut, their fingers were slender and powerful, and their nails were trimmed short and clean, and such hands were very suitable for holding swords.

It just so happens that both of them use swords.

The scabbard is made of authentic crocodile skin, and the sword is inlaid with valuable rubies. Presumably, the sword is also extraordinary.

The sword is on the waist, the difference is that the person on the right side carries the sword on the left, while the person on the left, the sword is on the right, and the sword is on the right hand, obviously it is faster to use the left hand to pull the sword, and it is said that there are not many people in the rivers and lakes who can use the left-handed sword.

I heard that these two brothers have a set of swordsmanship with two swords in the wall, which is extremely powerful.

In fact, they are already famous.

The Nangong family has always been rich and rivaled the country, but it has begun to decline in this generation, it is said that the master of this generation Nangong Yu has no intention of doing business, and at the age of forty, he suddenly became obsessed with alchemy. It just so happens that alchemy is a very money-burning thing. But the emaciated camel is always bigger than the horse, and the people of the Nangong family are not reduced to being the people of the Eighth Master Hu. Because Nangong Yu and Eighth Master Hu have always been good friends, he sent his brothers to help Eighth Master Hu do a big thing half a year ago.

The left-handed sword Nangong Crane is the boss, and the second is called Nangong Xun, and they are the famous "Crane Twin Swords" in the rivers and lakes recently. Even the drunken Daoist of Wudang said that today, there will be no more than five people who can catch his two brothers joining forces to use the Flying Crane Sword Technique.

Nangong He bowed and said: "Back to the eighth master, all the people have arrived, Liu Yunfei, the swordsman of Bashan, Wei Toutuo of the South China Sea, Granny Jin of Longxi, the black widow of Miaojiang in Yunnan, and Tang Qingqing of the Tang Gate in Shuzhong, are all waiting in the hall on the second floor. He paused and said, "He seems to be drunk." ”

Nangong Xun said: "This guy is the first to come in, as soon as he comes in, he will ask Xiao Er to drink, and he must have the best daughter red, someone came to report before, saying that he has drunk two or three good daughter red on the altar, eighth master, such a drunkard, what is the use of him?" ”

Eighth Master Hu smiled: "Everyone has his usefulness, there was also a thief on the rivers and lakes back then, called Sikong Xingxing, high light merit, unparalleled in the world, as long as he sees something, others can't keep it if they want to, this drunk you said dare to call the first thief in the world, of course, it should not be underestimated, you must know that a person's name may be wrong, but the nickname will not be wrong." ”

Nangong Xun said: "Yes, I have remembered. But in my heart I didn't seem to think so.

In the hall on the second floor, there are eight tables, but there are only six people.

One person at one table, no one spoke, and they seemed to know each other.

Sikong Jieyue lay on the table, his clothes were gorgeous and precious, and at first glance they came from the hands of Tailor Zhang of Jinxiu Fang in the capital, only Tailor Zhang could make clothes of this material. But it didn't seem to have been taken off and washed since it was put on Sikong Jieyue, he lay on the table, his speech was no longer clear, and he called intermittently: "Wine, bring wine, ask for good wine, good ......wine" Everyone else looked at him with disgust, only Tang Qingqing was looking out the window, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Eighth Master Hu finally walked in, followed by the Nangong brothers, one left and one right.