Chapter 161: Be Careful Under the Eaves of Others
The smoke waves are not moving, and the blue color is not as deep as the emerald color. Lin Manliu and Ning Ke finally rushed to the town where the Yuezhou River Crossing Post Station was located on the evening of July 17 after a day and a half of teaching.
Outside the forest mountain road along the way, behind the shadows of the trees, you can already see the vast lake, maybe these days have not been the wind movement, at this time the lake is calm, the opposite bank of the mountains and mountains are reflected in the bottom of the lake.
Looking at the red sun in the twilight reflecting in the lake, Ning Ke looked at the scenery that kept passing by, and didn't know what he was thinking.
She suddenly said aloud: "Now that it's here, what is the way to find it?" The short-shirted young man was on the side, and it didn't take long for him to groan and say: "Those three people are here to stay in the bandit horses in the station, and the first direction is naturally the river station..."
"Are you going to ask the post man or the shopkeeper?" Ning Ke asked.
"Brother Ning, don't be funny... You must also know that this place must be where the power of the Wind and Snow Grand View Tower is located, and the post station is naturally like this, the cause of the incident is that I and the Moon Girl killed two of their disciples, and then after the caravan returned to this place, their whereabouts are unknown or they were killed and died, so now I can still come forward to ask directly? Lin Manliu said angrily, why is this Ning Ke still burying himself like this.
"Nerd... You can also inquire about your whereabouts through other things! Who is missing a root and asks someone directly, the three people I know are dead, have you seen it? Ning Ke looked at the young man with a disgusted expression.
Lin Manliu didn't answer for a while, just waved his hand and sighed on the side. The two of them were talking, and they were about to enter this post town, and when the people and young men who came and went here followed the caravan, there were only a lot more, but the gray-robed swordsmen who patrolled and stationed here were much less than before, and the young man secretly thought to himself, probably because of the heavy damage suffered before, there was less control here?
It's also convenient for you to do things yourself. The short-shirted boy did not go directly to the river-crossing station, but found an inn on the edge of the town, and after arranging the horses, the two went upstairs and entered the house.
Lin Manliu opened one side of the window, although the location of this inn is far from the location of the river crossing station, here can only take half of the town into the eyes, but it is enough, after the two of them walked all the way to the town all the way to see it, together with now sitting on the window and watching, roughly touched the range of activities of the disciples of the Wind and Snow Grand View Building here.
Every hour, two gray-robed and sword-hugging Daguanlou disciples will come out from the ferry and the post station, and they will patrol the town, and the two will alternate positions in about half a pillar of incense, and those who were originally in the post station will return to Yuezhou City by boat, and those who come from the ferry will enter the river crossing station.
"If you haven't entered the inn when you and the caravan passed by here before, why don't you go to the inn later?" Ning Ke suggested on the side.
"It's feasible, those disciples of the Wind and Snow Great View Building here, just use themselves, try not to quarrel with the other party later..."Lin Manliu agreed to Ning Ke's proposal, but also reminded.
"Brother Lin forgot, who am I? Am I not just a poor scholar now, and I have quarrels with these Jianghu people? Ning Ke waved his hand and said, and patted the coarse linen clothes on his body as he spoke.
"There are also shops selling cloth or sewing clothes on the road these days, why don't Brother Ning rush to make clothes like before..."The young man in the short shirt looked at Ning Ke, who looked poor and sour, and was a little puzzled.
“... No money, what's wrong? Let's go, go to the river crossing post station to have a look" Ning Ke straightened the hairpin on his head with both hands, and turned around and walked directly towards the house.
This Ning Ke is so strange, openly and secretly he thinks that the clothes he bought are not good, but he has never changed them... Lin Manliu didn't dig deeper, so he followed Ning Ke out of the door and headed towards the river crossing station.
The two of them walked in the town by the lake, from time to time they would see some wanderers dressed as scholars, walking on the street together, talking about the scenery on the lake today, how to make people poetic, and before they fell asleep tonight, they would write a poem, and invite you to enjoy such words tomorrow.
There are also some Jianghu rangers, the swords behind them make people look afraid to approach, the scholar who talks and laughs first, when he notices that there are these Jianghu knights in front of him, he also avoids them on the side, so you come and go, but it is also harmonious.
Then there are the vendors who stop here, from time to time between the two shouting in their own shops, delicacies, small objects, a quiet and peaceful scene, who would have thought that some time ago, in the city of Yuezhou on the other side of the river and outside the city, there were many battles for life.
But before the two of them could enjoy the evening sunset, someone broke the silence of the place, and a gray-robed man with a sword walked out of the crowd in front of him, and retreated directly to those who stopped him along the way, showing no mercy at all.
Some of those who wanted to speak out saw the clothes on the person's body, but they could only remain silent, and retreat to the side until the person disappeared from the place.
It was the patrol disciple of the Wind and Snow Grand View Tower, and it seemed that he was the one who came from the ferry, and he shouted in his mouth
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, if you don't want to get into trouble, hurry up and get out of the way..."It seems that he is going to patrol the town as soon as possible, so that he can go to the post station to rest.
After the man had walked away, the boy looked at the figure that had disappeared into the crowd, stared at it for a moment, and then began to ponder.
"Brother Ning, you said that this slaughtering evil sect is disturbing the stability of the rivers and lakes or the stability of the rivers and lakes sect..."Lin Manliu looked at these scenes and suddenly said softly.
"Don't you have some pity for the evil slaughter sect in your heart? Think they're doing something wrong? If you think so, I don't mind disciplining you for my uncle? Ning Ke said casually on the side, but what he said was questioning the young man beside him.
"It's me who is abrupt...", the short-shirted boy raised his hands and kneaded his face, forcing himself to refresh himself and stop thinking about these unrealistic things.
"It's useless to talk too much, it's good to think about it, with?" Ning Ke did not continue to criticize Lin Manliu's previous words, and asked him to speak out.
"Well, let's take a look," the boy nodded. The two of them walked among the crowds on the street, secretly following the disciple of the Fengxue Daguanlou who had gone to the post station earlier, preparing to follow him into the post station to investigate.
It may indeed be because of the ferry station, which is more lively than anywhere else in the town, with caravans shouting here waiting to enter the house to rest, and there are more literati and, holding a pot of pure brew in their hands, leaning under the roof on the side of the post station, and talking about the poetry in their hearts with three or two friends.
It didn't take long for Lin Manliu and the two of them to enter the post station, and found a vacant spot in the hall on the first floor.
It didn't take long for a post station guy to trot to the table, and he kept compensating Ning Ke, as if in the eyes of the post station guy, Ning Ke was the sour Confucian scholar who came here to travel, and Lin Manliu was a scholar who followed his own husband, and they all worked hard for others all their lives, of course, they didn't have a good face for this scholar.
"This son... Recently, there are more people who have come here to cross the river, please take care of it, you need some food or wine, and you will call the back kitchen to serve it to the son..."
"Just serve some local ordinary wine and food" Ning Ke took out some silver coins from his sleeve and put them on the side of the table, and the post house guy immediately understood that this kind of silver money thrown out before the meal was to signal himself to intercept some of it, so that the kitchen could serve the food as quickly as possible.
"Well, this little boy is going to go!" The post man got the advantage, immediately put away the money and walked in the direction of the back kitchen, and before he was halfway through he shouted at the back kitchen to prepare wine and food, and then continued to work towards the other tables.
The disciple of the Wind and Snow Daguanlou that Lin Manliu and Ning Ke had noticed before did not stay in the hall, but walked directly upstairs, which made the two of them cut off from the idea of seeking information from the gray-robed sword-hugging man, but they were not here just for the person's clues, and they could also be found from other places later.
It didn't take long for Ning Ke's wine and food to come up, a simple four-plate side dish and two pots of wine, she poured herself a small bowl and looked at the young man: "Let's go?" ”。
In response, it was Lin Manliu's head that shook like a rattle, and Ning Ke squinted his eyes and whispered: "I can't drink wine, how boring Brother Lin should be...".
The short-shirted young man just used chopsticks to pick up some food and put it into his mouth, his mind was always on the disciple of the Fengxue Daguanlou who had gone upstairs before, and as long as the hour came later, after the man walked out of the post station, he would definitely find a way to get some clues about the three caravans from him.
Just when the two of them were sitting idlely, a man dressed as a scholar at a table not far away from him talked about the recent incident of slaughtering the evil sect and the alliance of heaven and earth from the previous lake swimming.
"Brothers, can you hear about the recent battle between the Heaven and Earth Alliance and the Evil Sect in the dense forest of Qianzhou!".
"I've heard of it! The wind was destroyed under the competition between the two sides, and a famous landscape in my heart was gone, hey...".
"The previous slaughter of the evil sect was not in Yuezhou, but also with the wind and snow...". Before the man finished speaking, someone immediately slapped the table and stopped his speech, and Lin Manliu also glanced over.
"On the human ground, you dare to argue about right and wrong! I don't know if someone came here to ask for some horses and belongings, and they were taken away! ”。
Horses, belongings... If so, it really has nothing to do with the wind and snow Grand View Building.
"Thank you, brother... I forget what it was like that day, the three men came here to ask for horses, and then they were gone... It must be difficult to get advantage in the hands of those few people...".
"Don't talk about it anymore! Don't burn yourself! ”。 Then the scholar at the table stopped talking about the matter, and began to continue to chat about other trivial matters, the short-shirted young man and the poor scholar who were eating vegetables glanced at each other, and after the two nodded to each other, they did not say anything, and after the food on the table was finished, they walked out of the river crossing station together.