Chapter 68: The rainy night is killing
Qiu Buping glanced at the shopkeeper with cold eyes, "It's about to rain this day, and I'm afraid that it will rain heavily if we walk another twenty miles, so let's let us go in on this mountain road." β
Without waiting for the shopkeeper to say anything, the few people in front of Qiu Buping pushed open the door of the inn with force, pushed the shopkeeper to the ground, and the group broke into the courtyard gate, and the eight carriages were pulled into the courtyard one by one.
The shopkeeper, who was pushed aside, stood up and said hurriedly: "Everyone, you really can't live." This inn is haunted! β
"Boom~"
A bolt of lightning slashed across the sky, illuminating the dilapidated compound as bright as day, and after a moment, it fell into a drowsy again, and Xiao Er's miserable white face looked half-human and half-ghost.
"Xiao Jiu, what are you talking nonsense again?" A hoarse voice came from the main room, and an old woman with a bent waist walked with a cane, trembling slightly: "The guests have all entered the store, and they are still not working?" β
Everyone in the courtyard was a little frightened, this situation looked weirder than the broken temple sleeping in the wilderness.
"Hehe~ Ladies and gentlemen, please, Xiao Jiu's brain has been hit a little abnormal, don't be careful. How many of them are sharpened or lived? The old woman spoke again.
"Then you need to ask? Naturally, it was a hotel. Zhao Mo was startled by this strange inn at first, but now that there were more than twenty people standing behind him, he was not afraid.
"Staying in the hotel, that's just right, there are many rooms upstairs, and there are no guests. Just enough to accommodate all the guests. Please come and settle with me. β
Qiu Buping has walked the rivers and lakes for many years, naturally he will not be frightened by this small scene, he is the backbone of everyone, and he can't show his timidity, he took the lead and stepped into the inn.
Lu Changan was carried upstairs by two people on a wooden frame, Bai Lan looked over, and nodded to him with a friendly smile.
Bai Lan watched as everyone entered the store, leaving him alone in the courtyard.
Xiao Jiu led the horses and placed a few horses, and someone on the second floor of the inn opened the window and coughed a few times and scolded: "How long has this ghost place not been inhabited?" A smell of dust. β
"Don't call, we're keeping vigil tonight, here watching the goods in the wagon. The head of the house should let us be careful not to capsize in the gutter! β
"Got it, isn't there still Zhao Wu and Xu Liu? With them staring, let's just take a look. β
Downstairs, Bai Lan relied on superhuman hearing to distinguish the conversation between the two, this group of people is still experienced in the rivers and lakes, I hope they will not be cheated.
Bai Lan turned around, walked into the inn, and saw that the old woman had not yet gone downstairs, so she sat down at the table in the hall, and gently smelled the smell of incense.
Turning his head, he saw a hidden incense candle in the counter, and in front of the incense, there was an illegible statue blocked by the cabinet door, but it was vaguely visible that it was a snake's tail.
Overhead, a python silently wandered on the beam of the house, passing by Bai Lan, spitting snake letters above his head.
At this time, the old woman finally assigned everyone a room and slowly went downstairs, and it happened that at this time she heard the young man say with a light smile: "Interesting." β
"What's interesting about this guest officer?" The old woman's voice suddenly appeared behind Bai Lan.
"Oh, I mean there's a bunch of chicken monsters in the courtyard where you pick up guests, it's interesting, I wonder if there is chicken in this Longshan Inn?"
"Oh~ The guest officer said this." The old woman was stunned for a while before she reacted, "It's a pity that there is only an old woman and a woman here, and there is also a chef, it can't be Xiao Jiu." But if you have a crush on him... It's not impossible. β
Bai Lan was embarrassed, he said casually, he didn't expect this old woman to come up with a crooked idea.
"Shopkeeper, let's serve, our brothers are tired all day, if you have any good wine and good food, just serve it."
A big man in the caravan shouted and interrupted the two men who were not chatting on the same topic.
"Hey~ Okay! Now it's time to prepare the food, are the guests eating in the room or downstairs? Although the old woman looks old, her spirit is not decadent, and when she hears about business, she is energetic.
"Our lord said that we are all eating downstairs. Hurry up and prepare your food. β
"Don't worry! I just killed a fat pig a few days ago, and I still have it, so I'll go and ask someone to prepare the food right away. β
The old woman walked to the back kitchen as she spoke, and through the long attic passage, you could see a big man in the kitchen holding a butcher's knife and chopping unknown raw meat, splashing a lot of blood.
Xiao Jiu walked into the hall at this time, and when he saw Bai Lan sitting on the table, he took out a pot of warm herbal tea from the hut and said, "Guest officer, please drink tea." β
"Yes, there are eyes." Bai Lan took the teapot and threw a piece of broken silver.
Xiao Jiu took the broken silver and smiled reluctantly, "Thank you, guest officer." β
He looked around and saw that there was no one, then approached and whispered: "If Childe is too late to leave now, there are really ghosts in this inn!" β
Bai Lan drank a cup of tea lightly and said with a smile: "The tea is good, there is a visitor." Why don't you go to greet guests? β
"Huh?" Xiao Jiu was stunned for a moment, and there was a hurried knock outside the door again, "Open the door quickly!" There is no one! Open the door! β
Xiao Jiu could only run over and open the courtyard door again, and a person took the opportunity to flee into the courtyard in panic, and was still shouting: "Help!" Help me! Someone is going to kill someone, and a bandit is coming! β
There was chaos in the house, everyone in the caravan ran out, and Qiu Buping also walked out of the house, standing on the guest room on the second floor of the hall and watching the situation below.
A group of more than a dozen people armed with machetes broke in viciously, the leader was a fat man, looking at the figure is extremely powerful, he shouted angrily: "Put down the sword for me, otherwise the sword will be blind." β
No one answered, and they all looked at the fat man.
"Lao Tzu robbed! Don't you see? The big man swept everyone coldly, waved his hand and said, "Give it to me, cut these people!" β
A group of mountain bandits rushed up one after another.
At this time, Qiu Buping on the second floor snorted coldly, and his hands popped out several internal forces like lightning, and he actually bounced the eight or nine people who rushed up in the air and flew to the ground and screamed.
"This ......"
The fat man trembled with fright, and he couldn't even hold the knife, "The hero spares his life, I don't know that I met a martial arts master, and I ask you to spare your life!"
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"Don't get out of here!" Qiu Buping said indifferently.
"Yes! Yes, the hero is right, let's go! β
A group of mountain bandits left the Longshan Inn with screams.
The old woman said happily: "Thank you for the invincible hero's invincibility and help me avoid a robbery in this Longshan Inn!" β
Qiu Buping nodded indifferently, turned around and went back to the room, as if he had just done a small thing.
The scholar who broke in was shocked, and was still thanking everyone.
Bai Lan had drama in his eyes, looking at this scholar who broke in in and escaped death, this person has at least first-class internal strength in his body!
Although he used some method to shield the perception of mortals, he could never hide it from Bai Lan.
That Qiu Buping is only first-class in terms of internal strength, and he is only a little famous in the rivers and lakes, and the martial arts people who can really spread the name of the Great Jin are at least peerless masters, although these first-class masters are famous in the county and the government, they can't even spread the reputation of a state.
After all, this is a world with the existence of heaven and earth vitality, and mortals cultivating the pinnacle of martial arts may not be comparable to cultivators.
In this small station, many human beings with stories were ushered in in one day.
"Boom~"
The weather that had been brewing for a long time finally rained, and the thunder was pouring rain. There was already stagnant water on the ground in the yard, and in the dirt there were dragons taking advantage of the rain to come out and spring, but there were no toads around to devour this delicacy!
Plates of big meat were brought to the table by Xiao Jiu, and the fragrant taste aroused everyone's stomachs.
Qiu Buping and others had already sat down at the table, and after testing that the meat and vegetables were not poisonous, they were about to start eating a big meal.
It's just that Qiu Buping sat on the table, glanced at the meat, and said lightly: "The store won't give us white meat, right?" β
As soon as these words came out, the big men present were shocked, and they could no longer look directly at the pots of fragrant meat on the table, but felt that their stomachs were turning upside down.
"Oops!" The old woman exclaimed, "How can the guest officer slander us like this? We are good shops and good people here, how can we do such a hurtful thing? β
"Really?" Qiu Buping picked up a pair of his own chopsticks from his side, swept through everyone, and nearly 20 people did not dare to put down the inn chopsticks they were holding in their hands and picked up their own chopsticks from the side.
"I hope the store can let us have a fresh meal, instead of letting us finish this meal and have to go through the sky."
"Hehe~ What the guest officer said, that's natural." The old woman replied without smiling.
"Yuxi, bring some food for your young master upstairs." Qiu Buping commanded to the stunned scholar.
"Yes! Be! Master! The scholar Yuxi hurriedly responded and filled the food and brought it upstairs.
Lu Changan, who was lying on the bed in the room, sniffed the food carefully before saying, "Fortunately, it's really not white meat." β
The scholar was puzzled: "Young master, did you hear what Master Qiu said about white meat or something just now?" What does that mean? And how did the master use their own chopsticks, don't they dislike the inn is not clean enough? β
Chang'an sighed, "Silly boy, that white meat, where is pork, but human flesh alluded to by the black store!" The black shop often uses the corpse of the customer in the store as a pig and sheep to cook for the new customers to eat, so as to save money.
Eating with the chopsticks of the inn is called eating through the sky, implying that after eating this meal, you will be sent to heaven. And with their own chopsticks, that is, the common sense on the road shows that they are also people in the rivers and lakes, called a trick fresh, usually the black shop will restrain when they see it, and they will not easily offend such people in the rivers and lakes. β
"What? And such a horrible statement? The scholar was stunned and shocked.
"In this world, the human heart is sinister, more terrible than demons. A scholar like you is stupid and naΓ―ve, just afraid that as soon as you go out, you will be eaten and there will be no bones left. β
"Young master, don't scare me. Aren't you also young, how can you know so many rules in the rivers and lakes? The scholar complained.
"Of course I know. Legend has it that Lu Lingfeng, the thirteenth generation patriarch of the Lu clan in Xiahe, has been transformed by immortals, and has reached the realm of the legendary peerless master, and thus the rise of the Lu family's martial arts fashion, so far the martial arts of Qinan Prefecture is also the most to my Lu Villa.
Many of the ancestors of the clan have traveled all over the world and have been recorded in the clan, you kid refuses to read on weekdays, where do you know this? Lu Changan got up, picked up his rice bowl and ate it in a big gulp.
Downstairs, Bai Lan ate some vegetarian dishes, but he didn't touch those meat dishes, because except for the table where Qiu Buping ate was normal meat, the rest of the dozen or so people ate all white meat!
Lu Changan's food was also served from Qiu Buping's table, so it was not white meat.
In front of Bai Lan was also a plate of white meat.
It's just that this chef is so skilled that even these people in the rivers and lakes didn't notice that something was wrong, but it tasted very delicious.
The scholar who fled for his life didn't get any meat at all, and only ate a vegetarian diet like Bai Lan.
The old woman at the counter silently lit a pillar of incense and re-applied a pillar of incense to the idol in the hidden corner.
After eating, Bai Lan led the way down to a spacious guest room under Xiao Jiu's lead, which was relatively new.
"Guest, this is a fairly safe house, once the door is closed at night, don't open the door again, no matter what movement you hear, don't go out of the door, good luck!"
Xiao Jiu said these words at the last moment before exiting the room and closing the door, and in the rainy night, with his pale and deep voice, the dim candle in the room flickered a few times, which really set off a bit of a terrifying atmosphere.
Bai Lan sat on the bed, the futon was old, not new, but quite neat.
He stood up and opened the window, and there was a rustle of rain hitting leaves in the courtyard outside, and the leaves in the darkness shook as the cold wind hit the spring night, like a demon that only chooses people to devour.
It's too strange here, he obviously perceives the existence of demons, and he can even be sure that they are monsters of the same race, but except for some ordinary pythons and small snakes, the entire inn has not found a single demon snake.
Could it be that it's a big demon who has been transformed?
However, looking at the momentum here, it doesn't look like the atmosphere of the shape-shifting demon, and it seems that this fellow clan still has some magical means.
Bai Lan blew out the candles on the table, lay down on the bed and fell asleep, but as soon as he lifted the quilt, there were already a few little ones in the futon who warmed the bed for him.
He didn't have the heart to drive the little ones away, but with a wave of his hand the snakes fell asleep on the bed, lest they run around on him at night.
"Whew~"
The night gradually became quieter, and the lights in the guest rooms were extinguished one by one, and the Longshan Inn fell into complete darkness.
"Hiss~"
There were one or two imperceptible hissing sounds in the sound of the rainy night, and a cyan python coiled around the beam, quietly burrowed into a guest room with a snoring sound, and coiled the sleeping man with a soft and tough snake body, and even his throat was entangled fiercely without a scream.
In the inn, a ghostly figure wandered outside the guest rooms, and he stuffed incense pills into the cracks of the doors, and the faint fragrance spread out in the inns.
At the counter in the hall on the first floor, the incense pillar that had been extinguished suddenly became self-evident, and a statue of the god of the snake shone under the faint red light, which was shaped like a king cobra!
(End of chapter)