Chapter 250: Backhand (2)
Downstairs, a splendid carriage stopped, followed by a carriage full of boxes, and the horses walked slowly, obviously containing valuables.
It's just that the box is tightly locked, and the ropes are obviously returned by the original gift, and the person who gave the gift still didn't even look at the box, which was extremely embarrassing.
The shopkeeper didn't expect this to be slapped in the face on the spot, looking at the scene downstairs and not knowing how to answer, he blinked and hurriedly went to look at the corridor outside the room, feigned anger, and scolded:
"These boys are more lazy than the other! I ordered hot water and food to be delivered immediately! This kind of time hasn't come yet, so I immediately went down to urge it, and the guest officer didn't have to wait. ”
"Hey! You're not! Ah Qian still wanted to stop people, but the store had already smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and immediately slipped away, and there was no shadow in a blink of an eye.
Ah Qian stammered:
"The people in this inn are all talents."
"It's just that it's just opening the door to do business, and it's already exquisite, and it's just a matter of talking about people and talking nonsense, so you don't have to care."
Sang Ling's eyes slowly fell on the carriage under the window, looking at the familiar palace bell, a little surprised.
"Yes...... Heavenly Dao Sect? ”
Thinking of the shopkeeper's description of the female cultivator who had a floor upstairs just now, Sang Ling had a little guess in her heart.
Soon, the carriage had stopped, and the curtain moved, revealing a delicate beauty like a fairy from the Moon Palace, but the beauty was in a bad mood, her face was slightly cold, and her pace accelerated towards the inn.
Sang Ling raised her eyebrows, and her eyes fell on the familiar face downstairs.
"It turned out to be you, Heavenly Dao Sect, Lu ...... Towards Yan. ”
Suddenly, the woman who had entered the building stopped, and immediately looked up, but there was an empty window, and there was no one in the window.
A disciple next to him hurried forward and asked:
"Senior sister, what's wrong?"
“…… It's okay, I guess I heard it wrong. Lu Chaoyan didn't care about the human words that were disturbed by the wind just now, and directly raised his feet and entered the inn.
However, at this moment, a veiled face reappeared in the originally unmanned window, it was Sang Ling.
Her eyes turned around where Lu Chaoyan had left, and then looked at the other disciples who were still standing outside the store. Among them, there was a face, it was the man who had purchased medicinal herbs before, and they turned out to be people from the Heavenly Dao Sect.
What did the Heavenly Dao Sect do by pretending to buy so many medicinal materials? Lu Chaoyan has been hovering in Yunluo City, and he has been giving gifts to the city lord twice in three days? When did her Heavenly Dao Sect lower her breath and be so short? All these things add up to look weird.
Downstairs, the gorgeous carriage was quickly led to the backyard, and another disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect came out, unloaded the boxes on the other carriage at the door in the same way, counted them one by one, and put them into the storage bag as they were.
Sang Ling watched them make a gift-giving posture with great fanfare, and knew that the Heavenly Dao Sect and the city lord of this Yunluo City were just face-saving, and their faces and hearts did not match.
In this way, the whole thing looks even more suspicious.
That compartment.
Lu Chaoyan entered the inn and asked directly about the matter:
"How are the herbs purchased?"
The disciple hurriedly followed, squeezed away the little two who wanted to step forward, and led Lu Chaoyan to the elegant seat on the second floor:
"It's all done, but there is a city where the mortals don't have eyes, so I can only buy a few. They thought I was maliciously hoarding goods and sent people to follow me, but I didn't expect to be discovered immediately, and instead asked about their purpose. ”
Lu Chaoyan sat down, took a sip of tea, and washed away the boredom of being rejected by the city lord of Yunluo City several times. After carefully looking at the storage bag full of medicinal materials handed over by the disciple, the coldness in the center of his eyebrows finally dissipated a little, and he put the storage bag away, and said in a gentle tone:
"Yes, with this preparation, even if the city lord of Yunluo City is stubborn, I will have a way to deal with him."
The disciples didn't know Lu Chaoyan's plan, but the disciples who had accompanied Lu Chaoyan to Shenjia Village before all drove back, and sent him to lead his subordinates over, so they were better than one characteristic, obedient. Hearing this, he didn't ask, and said directly:
"Senior Sister Lu, if you have any other orders, I will do my best!"
Lu Chaoyan listened to his loyal words, and the corners of his lips hooked with satisfaction:
"Pay attention to the whereabouts of the city lord of Yunluo City in the past few days, this puppet sends a disciple to welcome me into the door every time to entertain me, and then under the pretext of cultivation, he throws me in the flower hall to drink tea, and his face is not revealed, hmph, this time I will directly block it to see if he has any reason to refuse to meet."
“…… Be! ”
The disciple was stunned for a moment and quickly replied. I didn't expect this Yunluo City Lord to have such great courage to dare to hang the Heavenly Dao Sect like this.
Lu Chaoyan picked up a cup of tea, and was not in a hurry to drink it, only grabbed it in his hand, and looked at the Yunshui River facing outside the window, the weeping willows on both sides of the bank were green, the shadows of the trees were mottled, and the tourists were weaving.
Such a beautiful scenery falls into the eyes, but there is no superfluous indulgence. After the nine-story tower was destroyed, the master did not pursue it again, just for the arrangement of Zhongzhou. Zezhou is entrenched in perennial families, and the power has long been intertwined, and it is not easy to enter at all, and the only breakthrough point is Zhongzhou. Along the way, she bribed the deterrence alliance and secretly won a lot of cities, and the task was completed very well, but she ran into a wall here in Yunluo City alone.
It's been five days, she's been here for five days, and she hasn't even touched the face of the city lord. Although some cities are also unwilling to return to the Heavenly Dao Sect, they are not as difficult to bite as Yunluo City.
Thinking of the special in-laws in Yunluo City, she looked down at the tea in her hand, smiled coldly, and snorted the cup on the table with a "snap".
In-law? Married to the family, why don't you take my Heavenly Dao Sect in your eyes like this?
"Pay attention to the lady of the city lord, when the two of you appear together, report to me."
The disciple didn't know why this plan was related to the city lord's weak and short-lived new lady, so he hurriedly pressed down his doubts and only responded:
"Yes!"
Soon, Lu Chaoyan really found an opportunity and had a chance encounter with the city lord who went out.
On this day, the sky is refreshing, the water is clear and the grass is green, countless tourists come to the Yunshui River, and the monks and mortal children all have smiling faces, shuttling through the river to play and go green.
The city lord was eight feet tall and had a burly figure, but he carefully protected the woman in his arms, stepped on a flat grass, and waited for the painting boat in the river to dock.
He looked at him with a bad temper, and there was a deep fold in the center of his eyebrows, like a third eye born out of thin air.
"There are the most people in this heaven, why should they come out to suffer?"
The city lord's wife has a slender body, a weak willow to support the wind, and she looks at her health is not good, and she wants to open her mouth to refute when she hears the words, but she suddenly takes a breath of wind and coughs for a long time:
"Ahem, ahem...... I want to come out, ahem, come out and breathe. ”
The city lord stretched out his hand to pat his wife on the back, but his palm was raised, and he hesitated for a moment but took it back, and sighed:
"Your body looks like a glass, forget it, I think it's better to go back to the house first."
As he spoke, he was about to turn around and leave, but the city lord's wife behind him was startled, and despite the appearance of still choking, she stretched out her hand and wanted to pull someone. It's just that the main body of the city is large, and she is a monk with advanced cultivation, where can she hold it, but she stumbled and was about to fall to the ground.
The city lord noticed the movement, turned around and saw that he couldn't stop it.
"Lan Xin!"
Suddenly, a hand stretched out and held the person by the hand.
Madame slowly opened her nervous eyes, but met a pair of smiling eyes.
"Are you alright?"
The person who came was a woman with a light veil, and her cultivation was not high with a little bitter medicine fragrance around her body, but her eyes were kind and gentle, and she looked at it as a good-tempered doctor.
Madame hastened to thank you:
"Thank you, Miss."
Sang Ling shook her head:
"Nothing."
The city lord hurriedly came over, checked his wife's body first, and was relieved to see that he was fine, nodded at Sang Ling casually, and left straight away with his wife.
Sang Ling didn't care about the city lord's negligent attitude, and nodded goodbye to the lady who quietly turned her head and thanked her gently.
Countless voices of discussion quietly floated next to him:
"This city lord and the new lady look really good."
"What's good, the character of the city lord, others don't know, I don't know yet. Hey, don't believe it, one of my younger brothers is a disciple of the City Lord's Mansion! This city lord's temperament is well known, domineering and conceited, and he is very manly, when have you ever seen him bow down like this, and turn behind a woman's ass? It's just for the sake of the mother's family behind the woman. ”
"This new lady looks so delicate, and her aura cultivation is so low that she can't do it, how can this mother's family be powerful?"
Ah Qian behind him took a few steps forward and added in a low voice:
"Miss, I was hidden in the crowd just now, and I already heard about it. This is the city lord of Yunluo City and his new wife, this new lady looks not in good health, but she is from a high-class family in Zezhou, and she is quite powerful. ”
The surrounding people suddenly hid their voices, and when their eyes intertwined, an obscure surname was mentioned, which corresponded to the name of the Zezhou family that Ah Qian said.
Sang Ling thought of the city lord's knee-jerk reaction just now, and felt that the unhappy fake marriage between the two in the eyes of the world was not true, and the city lord had love for his wife.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in front of the crowd, and a group of people came out of the crowd and stopped in front of the city lord, and the person in the head was in a pearlescent dress, which was Lu Chaoyan.
Sang Ling's steps that were about to walk away immediately stopped, and she quietly approached in the crowd, looking lively.
After all, she is now a weak, pitiful and helpless kind doctor, and the things that fight and kill are not suitable for her.
However, she didn't expect that even though the original ceremony had been returned, the Heavenly Dao Sect and Yunluo City, whose faces and hearts were not in agreement, Lu Chaoyan could still hide this breath, saluted with a smile, and said politely:
"City Lord, in the Lower Heaven Dao Sect Lu Chaoyan, you are polite."
The city lord inevitably hummed lightly, preparing to bypass the people and leave.
Lu Chaoyan stretched out his hand to stop him, but he didn't let him go, but this time the topic was around the new lady.
"This is Miss Wu? On the day of the newlywed, although he was in Zhongzhou, but there was a delay and could not send a congratulatory gift, in order to apologize, he sent his disciples to run all over several cities to prepare good medicinal materials, nourishing the body and warming the spirit, which is the most suitable for the physique of the young lady. ”
As he spoke, a storage bag in the shape of a delicate sachet was handed over and stretched out in front of the city lord's wife. She frowned, but shook her head and refused softly:
"If you don't catch up, you have to give a gift, it's not ours to take this gift, Fairy Lu should take it back."
The nails that grabbed the sachet turned slightly white, and Lu Chaoyan's smile did not change at all, and he only said with a smile:
"In the end, it is from the Wu family, a high-class family in Zezhou, and the gift of our Heavenly Dao Sect is not eye-catching."
"I ......" The city lord's wife wanted to open her mouth to argue, but the sachet in front of her was suddenly taken back.
Lu Chaoyan turned his head and talked to the city lord, as if nothing had happened just now.
The city lord was patient with the people of the Heavenly Dao Sect and the mud, but the folds between his eyebrows were getting deeper and deeper.
Suddenly, his eyes froze on the somewhat ugly face of the lady next to him, and then he paused, and immediately looked at the position of Sang Ling in the crowd:
"You're a doctor? Not yet! ”