Chapter 44: Changyuan Liu
Just when the two of them were talking, a gust of wind swept in the window, and then a black shadow quickly fell into the guest room, and the person who came was Xiao Hachi, who came back from the road, and when he saw that it was Xiao Hachi's figure, Xiao Yu'er jumped down from the bed happily, and ran over to hug his legs.
With a grin, he said, "We ate so many delicious things!" You Zifang saw that Xiao Hachihara had come back originally, and his expression flashed with a hint of relief, and he was unconsciously worried about this kid, and You Zifang himself was frightened by himself.
"It's good that you're safe," Hachi rubbed Xiao Yu'er's head and walked straight to the door.
"I'll go find Shopkeeper Liu, and I'll talk about it later," Xiaoba went downstairs.
The number of customers on the first floor gradually increased, and the shopkeeper was busy, his eyes glanced at the stairs, ouch, the young man came back, he threw the rag in his hand to his shoulder and walked over quickly.
"You can count it back" At this moment, the shopkeeper was full of smiles, and this courteous attitude made Xiaoba a little unbearable.
"Hurry, hurry! I'll show you the way."
"Hungry, huh? I'll call the back kitchen to send you upstairs later" Xiao'er bent over to lead the way in front, and kept talking, but Xiaoba didn't say a word and just followed.
When he arrived in the room where he had talked to the shopkeeper Liu, Xiao'er dragged away the chair for Xiaoba to sit down, and put the kettle for boiling water on the bamboo charcoal to heat, and he retreated to the door.
"I'm going to call Shopkeeper Liu over, you wait again!"
After a while, the sound of hurried footsteps came, and the middle-aged man with a rich face walked in, and when he saw Xiao Hachi sitting on the chair, he smiled and spoke.
"Brother, I'm back so soon, we ordinary people can't come back barefoot," the happy shopkeeper Liu sat on the opposite seat, began to clean the tea set, and put the cleaned teacup in front of Xiao Ba.
"Brother drink tea first, drink a few cups of tea!"
"Let's get some new good goods here, let's soak in the products!" As he spoke, he took out a cake of tea leaves from the small drawer under the tea table, which was very carefully wrapped, opened little by little, and used a special utensil to pluck the dark brown tea shreds.
The tea cake is wrapped and put back in place, the tea shreds are put into the teapot, the hot water of bamboo charcoal is poured in, and a strong fragrance wafts out in an instant.
"Try it!" Shopkeeper Liu looked at Xiaoba with hope, watched him take a sip, and waited for his reaction.
"It's really good tea" got Xiao Ba's response, and the shopkeeper Liu poured it for himself with a satisfied face, in fact, Xiao Hachi didn't understand tea, all the tea in his mouth had a taste, but this situation had to be pretentious.
After a few cups of tea, my stomach was warm.
"How? Brother" Shopkeeper Liu's face became solemn at this moment, looking at Xiaoba and waiting for the other party to say what he saw and heard.
"The missing person in Xiaoshi Town is indeed dead, and it was done by an old man who is good at weird spells," Hachi said with a flat face.
"Who is so vicious, is that person still on Little Rock Mountain?" Shopkeeper Liu's face was solemn, and his eyes showed a look of horror, for their ordinary people, this kind of thing was already terrible.
If Shopkeeper Liu was at the scene at the time, I am afraid that he would be scared and fainted on the spot, the real scene is really terrifying, and people like Xiaoba will feel uncomfortable.
"It's gone, it's dead," Hachi said with a calm face
"Yes, did you do it?" Shopkeeper Liu asked cautiously in a low voice, the young man in front of him made him feel a trace of fear in his heart.
"Yes" only one word of the answer, filled in the question mark in the heart of the shopkeeper Liu, but the fear in his heart was even worse, the person in front of him was so calm, killing people was like drinking water, it can be seen that this person has experienced some extraordinary things.
Xiao Ba only said that the gray-robed old man killed the townspeople of Xiaoshi Town, but he didn't mention the iron slave refined by the old man and the terrifying evil arts, and he didn't even say the two stone men on the mountain, not to mention the details about the gray-robed old man because he didn't want to scare Shopkeeper Liu.
If those things get out, I'm afraid that people in this small stone town will be panicked, and everyone will be in danger, and he doesn't say anything about the stone people because he thinks that those two stone people are not bad, but they are just spiritually imitating human beings, and they are the most simple compared to people.
If these people knew about the stone man, he was afraid that they would cause some trouble, so he didn't say anything about it.
"Well, in that case, I won't ask more, the promised thing is here" Shopkeeper Liu took out a money bag on himself, which was the twenty taels of silver he promised at the beginning, and put it in front of Xiaoba. Shopkeeper Liu is not stupid, Xiaoba will naturally say what he wants to say, and he will never say what he doesn't want to say, if he is interested, don't talk too much, so as not to get burned!
Seeing this, Hachi was not polite and picked it up directly and put it in his arms.
"I wonder where my brother wants to go next?" Shopkeeper Liu suddenly asked again, as soon as the words came out, he regretted it a little in his heart, why do you have to talk more, where are people like this going, can you ask casually, if you make the other party unhappy, maybe you will have to return to the West Road tonight.
Shopkeeper Liu looked at Xiaoba and was worried.
"I don't know yet, I'm just going to the south" Shopkeeper Liu was worried about this, but Xiaoba said his true thoughts plainly, he really had no purpose for the time being, just went all the way south to Bazhou.
"Go south, there will be a passage through Qucheng" Hearing that Xiaoba was going south, Shopkeeper Liu thought for a while, and suddenly thought of Qucheng, which must be passed on the southward route.
"Great, we are really fated, there is a restaurant opened by my cousin in Qucheng, called Huaixiang Restaurant" Shopkeeper Liu talked about his cousin with his eyebrows.
"If you need to, you can take this, my cousin will arrange to receive you" Shopkeeper Liu got up and took out a round wooden card in a drawer of the bookcase, and the words Changyuan Liu and others were written on the sign, and put it in front of Xiaoba.
"This is the proof of my Changyuan Liu clan, when I see the card, I will see the clan, and I will definitely take care of my brother" Shopkeeper Liu smiled and hoped that Xiaoba could accept it.
"Thanks!" Xiaoba clenched his fists, picked up the wooden card on the table, held it in his hand and looked down, the back of the sign was engraved with the three words Liu Yongxing, and it was the full name of the shopkeeper Liu.
Seeing that Xiaoba put away the wooden card, Liu Yongxing was very happy and also hugged his fists.
"Little Changyuan Liu, Liu Yongxing!" Shopkeeper Liu is reporting to his family, and Xiao Ba had no choice but to say when he saw this.
"In Xia Jiangba" because he couldn't think of a surname, what suddenly flashed in his heart was Xiao Yuer's surname, Jiang Xiaoyu, so he subconsciously said the name Jiang Ba.
"Jiang Shaoxia! The villain runs a restaurant here, and our Changyuan Liu family has been doing business for generations, and it is also a little famous in this area, and the wife and daughter of the family are living in Rongcheng, which is further south of Qucheng."
"If Shaoxia goes to Rongcheng in the future, I will arrange for my wife and daughter to entertain you at home, I hope you don't dislike it!" Liu Yongxing said sincerely, Xiao Ba could also feel that he was indeed sincere, but there was still a trace of fear in the depths of his eyes.
Hachi didn't care, so he bowed his hand here.
"Thank you" He wrote down these in his heart, but there were no words of promise on his lips, the future path is uncertain, and the future will be talked about later.