After eating, Lin Manliu told the caravan steward that he wanted to go to the city alone to buy some items he needed on the road, so he went back to his room and changed into a clean shirt with a strip of black cloth on his back and went out, and walked to the market he saw when he entered the city just now.

Most of the fairs in Juzhou are ironware, and the vendors on the street are shouting from time to time how useful their farm tools are and how practical they are. The young man in the short shirt who went out to hang out finally found a pastry shop in these shops, the façade was very small, only a small door was open, there was no plaque, and there was a small sign at the door that said "Yue Ji Zhai".

Lin Manliu thought that it was good to go out, and when I went out, the master gave me some money to look at on the road, so he walked into this inconspicuous pastry shop, which was dimly lit, only a little sunlight at the door illuminated the counter in the house, and behind the counter was an old woman who was closing her eyes and resting.

Looking around, I was about to say hello to the old woman and ask about the price of the pastries, when I heard the old woman's deep voice spread throughout the house: "There are no good snacks in the house, let's take a look...". On the second floor of the counter, there was a steamed bun with a bright golden butter and soft style, and he looked at the small words "Golden Souuffle" in front of the bun, Lin Manliu's eyes lit up, and he immediately wanted to mention the golden soufflé, put the silver money on the table and left the room. The old woman looked at his back as he exited, and the strip of black cloth on his back stared at him for a long time.

After buying the pastries, the short-shirted boy seemed to be in a much better mood and returned to the streets of all kinds of ironware. He thought as he prepared to return to the inn.

Suddenly, a black shadow rushed out of the crowd, and the half-squatting posture shuttled quickly between the crowds, and instantly collided with the short-shirted boy who had no time to dodge, and the black shadow directly snatched the pastry after hitting it, and when Lin Manliu got up and saw that the black shadow was about to escape into the crowd with his pastry, he didn't care about jumping up and grabbed the black shadow, the black shadow obviously didn't know how fast he reacted, and the figure that was about to enter the crowd was caught by the short-shirted boy.

Lin Manliu saw that he caught the thief who grabbed his pastry with his bare hands, and was about to reason with it, when the other party's right hand drew a black knife and stabbed the short-shirted young man's heart, and the sudden attack had to let go and retreat to avoid the other party's attack.

The crowd hurriedly retreated but didn't seem to be flustered, maybe this situation was not very unusual. Armed fights caused by quarrels in the city, and street fights caused by sectarian conflicts in some places are all things that will happen here, so that one-on-one heads-up seems to be a small fight.

The black shadow that pierced the target was a thin little boy holding the pastry of the short-shirted boy in his left hand and the knife in his right hand, and was staring at Lin Manliu at this time, as if he still didn't give up, ready to attack again. The boy in the short shirt looked at the boy who gave up running away and thought to himself, good guy, he didn't run away if he was caught stealing people's things, but he was not ready to back down at all because the other party looked younger than himself.

"If you still want to entangle, don't blame me for being rude......" The little boy waved his knife at the short-shirted boy in front of him.

The boy in the short shirt was about to say something cruel to scare the little boy, when he heard the words of others.

"This person is the little son of the Qiao family, his personality is too stubborn, and he is a bad problem taught by some mountain people, and he will do all the bad things he steals and robs here."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the scourge of that family, relying on the bad things of a father who is worshiped in the big sect, and when you grow up, don't turn Juzhou upside down."

......

The little boy became more and more angry when he heard these words, and stomped his feet at the short-shirted young man in front of him: "What are you going to do, if you want to entangle with me, I will kill you!" ”。

In this situation, Lin Manliu looked a little sad and then smiled, not long ago when he came here, in such a busy street, when so many people were surrounded by water, others talked without scruples, and the target of the verbal attack was not this little boy.

It's me. But at that time, the master who was wearing a black robe and hat and spoke coldly walked into his field of vision, protecting him from being pointed at by others, and also protecting his expectations for the beauty of this world.

"You put the knife down, I won't embarrass you and give you the pastry, don't steal what you want in the future, don't take a knife with you or point the knife at someone else at any time" The short-shirted young man said to the child like an adult in the tone of concern for the younger generation, Lin Manliu didn't think that he was just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy.

"I ...... I don't need your preaching, are you my father or the master of the school, see how you wear your clothes, have you ever entered the school, and you are worthy of teaching me? The little boy's hand holding the knife danced more and more vigorously, and his head tilted away, not wanting to look at the young man in the shabby shirt in front of him.

"Yun Nian, Yun Nian, are you messing around again...... Why are you still holding the knife, don't you put it down quickly, see if I don't teach you a good lesson, I'll take you down the mountain to buy some food, you are doing nonsense here" A woman's voice came closer and closer, and when she arrived behind Lin Manliu, her voice suddenly became louder and longer, with a little anger.

The short-shirted young man turned to look at the woman walking behind him, it was the handsome woman in the inn just now who was wearing a big ponytail and a strong suit, she was about to reach out to grab the little boy's ear, and happened to see Lin Manliu looking at her, she looked at the short-shirted young man as if he had seen him somewhere and looked at him with a sword on his back, and immediately hugged his fist and signaled: "My brother has a stubborn personality, I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused to Shaoxia, he must be Shaoxia's thing in his hand, I'll take it here and return it to Shaoxia."

"It's okay, I've already given him the pastry just now, don't be embarrassed, his child is just a little lively," the short-shirted boy said with a fist in return.

The little boy saw that this person didn't sue in front of his sister, obviously afraid of himself or knowing his father's name, and immediately hardened a lot: "Even if you kid has some knowledge, do you have any ideas to run errands for this young master in the future, and then just eat and ......drink with your young master and me."

Before the little boy finished speaking, the woman twisted his ears and was about to pull a circle, the little boy could only shout pain and then cry a little, this face change speed is really fast, the last sentence is still painting a big pie to show his status, and the next sentence began to brew the sad look in his heart and the attitude of being willing to change his life.

The woman had to nod her apology to Lin Manliu and smiled awkwardly at him.