Zhang Wenliang, who never knew how far away, had a wrong abacus, because Huang Qiang's obstruction was a hindrance, and Li Changyuan did not stay in the restaurant to rest as Zhang Wenliang wished.

When Li Changyuan left the open-air venue, the sun had almost set, and night had fallen unconsciously.

The crowd on the street gradually thinned out, and when he was about to go back to the restaurant, Li Changyuan suddenly remembered the alley he had been to before, and now he happened to pass by here.

'Why don't you go in first?' ’

With careful thoughts, Li Changyuan planned to go into the alley again. The light inside is very dark, and the alley is different from the street, where there are street lamps on the side of the road and the lights in the houses are shining brightly.

Approaching and hearing a lot of shouting and the clatter of wooden cards smashing the table, Li Changyuan could guess that those houses were all gray businesses. As for the ...... of the people inside, when Li Changyuan passed by, he deliberately glanced into the door, the inferior pungent smell of wine came to his face, and under the dim and dazzling kerosene light in the room, there were groups of gamblers shouting and betting.

'Ahh ’

Don't look away from passing by the next house, passing through another dark road, there is a restaurant in front, the door is half-open, and the light reflected inside is whiter, which seems to be soft and stable. In addition to kerosene lighting, this one is the only one that uses oil candles for lighting.

Li Changyuan has been in before.

Even if he came here unconsciously, Li Changyuan stopped in front of the door and hesitated for a moment, and then gently pushed the door in.

"Long time no see."

The shopkeeper was an old man, standing at the counter, with a straight body. Although he has gray hair and gray temples, his squinted face has a single hanging lens, and the first impression is that he looks like a kind and energetic old guy.

He remembered this young man and paid a lot of attention to him.

When Li Changyuan just probed into the house, the old man greeted with a smile.

Li Changyuan's eyes first swept around the house, and when he saw that there was no one else in the room except the shopkeeper, he responded in a low voice:

"It's only been two days, not long."

"Alas, what a good baby, Zhang Gongzi is not a master to mess with, have you offended him, if it is not good, the old man can also intercede for you."

"No, he changed his mind."

"You said you moved him?"

The old man was a little surprised, this Zhang Wenliang set a good thing, few can say that it will change, let it go...... This bet is still pressed on the handicap of the old man's Langfang.

Li Changyuan absentmindedly replied:

"I'm tired of walking, do you have anything to drink, quench your thirst."

The old man smiled, turned around and began to rummage through the wall cabinet behind him. Picking up the two teacups on the counter with his backhand, he asked calmly:

"How's the peach going?"

"If you don't want to drink, just tea."

"Then, what kind of tea grass do you want to taste?"

Li Changyuan suddenly thought of some small things some time ago, and blurted out:

"What, alpine clouds."

"Hehehe,"

After a moment of silence, he heard the joy of the old shopkeeper at the counter, and took a tea bag wrapped in butter paper in his hand, and carried a teapot and two teacups in the other hand. walked towards Li Changyuan, who was already seated, slightly bitter and a little ridiculous:

"Little friend, it's close to the middle of the night, don't bother the old man, don't talk about the clouds and mist for the time being, the scenery that has never been seen on the mountainside, how dare you open your mouth and come, this is not-"

The old man placed the things on the square wooden table and continued:

"The style of the yellow-mouthed child?"

"Hmm...... Presumptuous. ”

Li Changyuan was a little embarrassed, he didn't know that the tea he heard about at random before was actually a high-end product that ordinary people couldn't afford to drink.

"This visit is in the name of Gongzi Zhang, who came to cancel the bet?"

The old man asked while carrying a handpot to make tea for Li Changyuan.

Li Changyuan paused slightly, how could he have so many thoughts, what he was thinking in his heart, and when he should think about something, Li Changyuan himself didn't know, let alone the old shopkeeper in front of him.

"What, can you still get back the bet you made?"

After Li Changyuan's question, the old man knew that Li Changyuan was not here for this matter, poured a cup of hot coarse tea, and pushed it flat in front of Li Changyuan, the old man smiled without showing his teeth:

"For ordinary people, it would only be a joke to say this, but Zhang Gongzi's words should be another matter."

Li Changyuan suddenly felt very strange, so he asked:

"Zhang Wenliang is very face-saving?"

"No, no."

Looking back, I still ate a few meat buns for nothing to make Zhang Wenliang's friend, but in the past few days, I always feel that I haven't made a heart-to-heart relationship. Li Changyuan really doesn't know anything about Zhang Wenliang's background, this can't be regarded as a bosom friend.

"Then tell me, how much do you know about Zhang Gongzi?"

Li Changyuan suddenly asked like this, which made the old man in front of him who had just picked up the teacup a little at a loss, paused slightly, and put it back on the table before he could bring the teacup to his lips.

The old shopkeeper smiled awkwardly:

"What kind of funny festivals are there in the folklore of Xiaoyou, how can tonight be all some unrelated problems."

"I don't know."

"The news of Nankeng City usually spreads quickly, although the old man rarely goes out, but he has also heard that Zhang Gongzi once had a close friend, and now, this Zhang Gongzi's 'best friend' has come to ask an outsider about Zhang Gongzi's resume, this-is somewhat uninteresting, right?"

"Tsk, it's not what you think, listen to me......"

In the next period of time, Li Changyuan left the Iron Bull Sect and then blindly walked to Nankeng City, and met Zhang Wenliang, and told the old shopkeeper everything that happened to Zhang Wenliang in the past two days.

When he spoke, Li Changyuan also deliberately lowered his voice, for fear that someone would listen next door to the room five meters away.

"Oh, I do."

After this explanation, the old man nodded slowly, as if he understood Li Changyuan's situation.

"Recently, can you see Zhang Gongzi?"

Li Changyuan crooked his mouth:

"I don't know, the ghost knows where he went, after drinking with me, when I woke up, I didn't know where he went, asked the restaurant Xiaoer, and said that he didn't know his whereabouts."

The old shopkeeper pondered a little, and said slowly:

"I'm probably going there, and I can't come back in ten days and a half months."

"Huh? Do you know where he went? Tell me what you're doing. ”

"Hehe, little friend, the tea is cold."

The old man smiled and pointed to the teacup in front of Li Changyuan with one hand, the tea was still steaming, and now he couldn't see the temperature, and he gestured to drink tea, which also implied that Li Changyuan was calm.

Li Changyuan was quite dissatisfied with the other party's change of topic, but he still respected, picked up the teacup, raised his head and drank it all.

There was a thud.

"Please."

After drinking, Li Changyuan faced the old man and said politely.

The old shopkeeper had a little favor again, and gave Li Changyuan some direction:

"What if you ask him where he has gone, and what has happened to him, and what if you know?"

After being speechless and silent for a moment, the old man said again:

"His life has become a certainty, but he wants to find a turning point in you to change him, and your background makes him determined, you are already an outcast, so Zhang Gongzi will place such a bet on you in the old man's handicap. Later, you relied on your own martial arts and talent to let Zhang Gongzi find hope, so that he was reluctant to go fishing, this back and forth, but you have ever found that the active party has always been you. ”

These words directly woke up Li Changyuan.

'yes, why should I care about him?' ’

Seeing Li Changyuan's expression change from a sad face to a sudden cheerfulness, the old shopkeeper also smiled with satisfaction:

"It's good to be enlightened, it's good to be enlightened~"

Before you know it, the time has passed halfway, and the sound of crickets can be heard quietly outside the alley. It's late at night, and it's time to go back.

"Senior, I didn't bring any money with me this time, so if you can, I'll take credit first, and I'll make up for it when I come back next time."

Li Changyuan pushed away the stool and got up, and added:

"Also, thank you for your advice tonight."

"Alas, it doesn't matter if you have money or not, the old man doesn't lack this little money, go, go."

"One more thing."

The old man also got up and was about to clean up the tea set, and Li Changyuan asked again. The old shopkeeper took the trouble to answer:

"Just ask."

"Dare to ask the name of the senior."

"Yellow sky."

"Thank you again for the mention of Senior Huang, Li is inconvenient to bother more, and I will leave."

"Don't be verbose, let's go, let's go."

Huang Tian waved his hand and asked Li Changyuan to go back and rest as soon as possible. He knew that Li Changyuan, who was in a hurry tomorrow, still had to go to the martial arts meeting, but he couldn't stay up too late with him.

On the night road, Li Changyuan, who was ambitious, walked back to the restaurant, the black light was blinding, and he felt that the surroundings were too quiet. The kid who was still rippling a second ago didn't go far before he became vigilant about the last environment.

His instincts weren't wrong, indeed, there were a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark.

But there was no malice in the gaze, Wang Peng stopped on the roof tiles of a house, held the sword in his arms, and looked at the young figure in the dark alley with bated breath. Soon, tomorrow will be his rematch with Li Changyuan, which is Wang Peng's chance to reverse and win.

"Who!"

And Li Changyuan's intuitive gaze did not come from above in the distance, in the dark, Li Changyuan suddenly shouted, and sure enough, something flew towards Li Changyuan.

Hidden weapon!?

With a bang, it was like a sharp edge sweeping his ears, but fortunately, Li Changyuan reacted in time, and in an instant, a sideways body flashed, and at the same time, he raised his hand and stretched out two fingers, accurately clamping the hidden weapon that was shooting. In the lightless environment, the texture of the hand can be touched, this is a silver label, a dagger as small as a silver needle, and the end of the mark touches a roll of straw paper.

'Whose messenger?' ’

You don't have to think about it to know that the person who comes is not good, so it is better to leave this alley as soon as possible.

The other party threw a secret weapon but failed, and not far away, Li Changyuan vaguely heard the footsteps of the other party leaving in a hurry, thinking that he couldn't stay here for a long time, so he also quickened his pace and hurried back to the location of the restaurant.

returned to the guest room arranged by Xiao Er for Li Changyuan in advance, Li Changyuan returned to the room and closed the door tightly, and groped out the silver mark from his arms.

Unfold the letterhead at the end, but before reading the tiny handwriting, there are three large characters at the top of the letter:

'Life and Death ......'