Last night, it was three o'clock.

When Xia Zhician was still in the lobby and fighting with Nan Er.

The young shopkeeper of the old Dong family finished writing today's account book, put the pen in his hand back on the pen mountain, and gently dried the ink of the account book.

Looking at the two people who were still drinking in the lobby, he didn't speak, just gestured to the running hall junior who was still taking care of the guests, and then walked out with small steps with the hem of the Tsing Yi robe.

He walked casually, as if he had finished his normal work and left work.

But he didn't see it, Xia Zhician tilted his head and glanced at his distant back, which was quite meaningful.

The young shopkeeper in a long shirt in a green robe walked forward step by step in the dark night, dressed in white moonlight. He has a three-character scripture in his hand, just like a teacher who has just come home from a private school.

He walked around and around until he reached a small alley on the side of the street. At the mouth of the dark alley, there was a beggar curled up under the wall in rags, with a clay bowl with several broken gaps.

The young shopkeeper stopped, perhaps seeing that the beggar was really pitiful, he couldn't help but take out his purse from his bosom, and then took out several copper plates.

When it was long.

It was the sound of a copper plate falling into an empty broken clay bowl.

"Thank you, sir, you are blessed and long-lived, and your children and grandchildren will be long."

The beggar was awakened by the sound, and he didn't even look up to look at it, but hurriedly clasped his hands into fists and kept waving them, saying nice and auspicious words in his mouth.

"One piece, so that you have something to eat."

The young shopkeeper lowered his voice and said slowly.

The beggar was stunned for a moment, and then quickly picked up the copper plate in the bowl, and as soon as he put the copper plate into his bosom, he heard the same sound sound.

"One piece, so that you have clothes to wear."

The young shopkeeper put the purse back into his bosom, and he watched the beggar opposite him pick up the copper plate he had just thrown and put it into his bosom, and then picked up another copper plate from the palm of his hand.

When the long is long, the third sound.

"One piece, so you have a drink."

Accepting the third plate, the beggar picked up the wooden stick and crutch that had fallen to the ground beside him, and stood up slowly, as if one leg was lame.

The beggar didn't say a word, and lowered his head into the dark alley on the side, and the shopkeeper followed closely behind.

At the same time, an equally ragged beggar came from the side, and sat down on the same place where the beggar had been sitting. He also curled up his hands and feet, crooked to the side and fell asleep.

But the location is strange because the alley is so narrow that almost anyone who wants to get in and out of the alley has to walk in front of this inconspicuous beggar.

This is a common "pocket" on the rivers and lakes, in order to identify whether it is one's own person, so it will leave a fixed incision code, which ordinary people can't say at all.

……

Entering the alley, the young shopkeeper followed the beggar for a short time, and came to a narrow wooden door. The beggar knocked lightly, and immediately someone inside opened the door and welcomed the young shopkeeper in.

The beggar sat down on the floor directly in front of the door, fell into the corner and fell asleep.

Speaking of the young shopkeeper, he followed the others down the secret door to a cellar. There were only seven or eight strong-faced men in black with unkind faces, most of them standing on either side, and only one was sitting at the table in the middle.

The strong man sitting in the middle was holding the wine jar on the table, drinking one bowl after another, and when he saw that someone seemed to be coming, he slammed the bowl in his hand.

The light inside the cellar was dim, except for two or three oil lamps poking on the lampstand on the wall. The orange light barely illuminated a small part of the darkness in the dark environment.

"Li dogdan, why did you come here on a horse!"

The big man scolded in a loud voice.

A few strong men around are even more gearing up, looking like they are watching a good show. I thought that this Li Goudan who ran the hall was really looking for death, knowing that the fifth master had a bad temper, and dared to be half an hour later than the agreed time.

Wait and see, as long as the fifth master greets him for a while, our brothers will rush up and beat Li Goudan, so that he can know why the flowers are so red.

"Old Five, when will your loud voice be changed......

The young shopkeeper stepped out of the darkness to the light, and he removed the wooden hairpin from his bun, and stirred the wick of the oil lamp little by little.

The light in the room slowly brightened.

When the big man saw that the person who came was a young shopkeeper, he quickly stood up, smiled a little embarrassed and ashamed, and his big hand like a big fan crackled back and forth on his face and slapped several mouths:

"Second brother! How did you come in person. I said the wrong thing and made amends to my second brother. ”

None of the strong men in soapy clothes around dared to laugh at the weakness of the big man, but they all hid to the side like little chickens seeing a weasel.

It was as if the young shopkeeper was some kind of plague god.

"Okay......"

The young shopkeeper waved his hand, and the strong men around him hurriedly rushed out of the cellar as if they had received much forgiveness. They would rather drink outside and freeze than stay in the same room with this second master.

"Second brother, come on, come on, you sit."

Dahan accompanied the smiling face, not caring at all about the few big slap marks on his face that had just been fanned out by himself, and he also wiped the tables, chairs and benches diligently.

The young shopkeeper sat down, and then nodded to the big man to sit down as well.

"Old Five, this time the deal is not easy to handle. The dart team that came to stay today is too handy, and I haven't figured out the details of the other party. But be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years......"

"Second brother, I'm a stupid person. There's so much you say I don't understand......"

The big man patted his head with his hand, and he said with a smirk:

"I think they have brought enough seven carts to ride horses, but a yellow sheep that is so fat that it is enough to eat the brothers for three or five months."

"Fat is true, but bones are still meat, and you always have to take two bites to know."

The young shopkeeper picked up a clay bowl from the upside-down bowl on the table and placed it in front of him. Seeing this, the big man hurriedly picked up the wine jar and poured a full bowl of wine for his second brother.

"It's just a little difficult, that is, I see that their dart flag seems to have the word 'Longmen', so I'm afraid it's the dart team of the Longmen Dart Bureau."

"Dragon Gate Dart Bureau? Second brother, now those darts on the rivers and lakes, eight out of ten are playing the signboard of the Longmen Dart Bureau. Just the dart flags on our mountain can sew me a piece of clothing......"

The big man looked indifferent, and he picked up the wine bowl and drank a full bowl of the cow.

"No, this time it's probably true."

As soon as the young shopkeeper finished speaking, he saw the big man squirt out half of the wine he had drunk. He coughed several times before finally breathing a sigh of relief.

"Really ......"

More than ten years ago, the people of the Longmen Dart Bureau went to dart outside the gate. When passing by a place called Wild Wolf Mountain, he was robbed by bandits on the mountain, and more than a dozen dart masters died. This incident angered the big boss of the Longmen Dart Bureau, and he sent a green forest post and invited the dart masters of the thirteen dart bureaus in the south of Qi and the north to suppress the bandits together. A total of hundreds of martial arts masters were dispatched, and under the leadership of the master of the Longmen Dart Bureau, the entire Wild Wolf Mountain was leveled, and it is said that none of the thousands of bandits could escape.

Therefore, when the rivers and lakes saw the dart flag of the Longmen Dart Bureau, ordinary bandits and bandits did not dare to provoke easily. This also leads to the fact that some small dart bureaus will secretly play the dart flag of the Longmen dart board, which can avoid a lot of trouble.

But this time, whether it is a dragon or a worm can only be known if you do it.

"Old Five, you go back to the mountain immediately and tell the big boss everything I said. Leave you two brothers here, obey my orders, and I will keep you informed of any changes. ”

The young shopkeeper stretched out a hand, as slender and white as a woman's hand, covering an oil lamp at the corner of the table. A seemingly weak and clean palm doesn't know how many people's blood has been stained; A weak scholar who can't pick his shoulders and can't lift his hands, but he is the second leader of the bandit cottage in the nearby mountains.

"Second brother, you also know that I am stupid, I can't remember what you said at all, and I forgot it when I can't go back to the cottage......"

The big man smirked, he was obviously as strong as a buffalo, but in front of the young shopkeeper who was so slender that a gust of wind could blow him down, he looked like an aggrieved child.

"In short, it's just one word - wait."

"Wait?"

"Yes, wait. Wait for my news, wait for the time to start......"

The clay bowl full of wine in front of the young shopkeeper was slowly served, and he moved very slowly, although the wine in the bowl shook, but it did not spill out after all.

If you want to drink a bowl of wine very full, you can only drink it slowly and methodically. If you are in a hurry to drink like that strong man, you will be happy, but I am afraid that half of the bowl of wine will be spilled.

"Well, second brother, I remember. I'll go back to the mountains right now......"

The big man nodded, stood up and was about to go out, but he heard the young shopkeeper continue:

"Come back! I'm not done yet. ”

"Huh? It's not just one word - death and so on. Anything else? ”

The young shopkeeper took out an envelope that had been written long ago from his cuff, and he held it in his hand for a moment, but still handed it to the big man, and continued:

"This will be handed over to the big boss by hand."

"Good!"

The big man carefully stuffed the envelope into his bosom, and he didn't see the words written on it. Even if you see him, you can't read.

There was no signature on the envelope, but a simple line - if there is no news of me, open it.

……

The young shopkeeper came out of the cellar and turned out of another path into another alley, the mouth of which also had a beggar in rags.

He didn't look at the beggar, but walked straight in the direction of the inn.

Looking at the direction of the moon in the sky, I thought about the present time in my heart. At this moment, I felt a cool breeze suddenly blowing behind me, and even the cold hair stood up in an instant.

As soon as the young shopkeeper stopped, a bright steel knife came out of the shadow beside him, and it was right on his neck.

"Don't scream! Whatever we ask, you answer. ”

The man with the knife on the side scolded in a deep voice. He was afraid that the person in front of him would panic and shout, and once the soldiers who patrolled the night were induced, things would be in trouble.

The young shopkeeper did not panic as they imagined, and ordinary people saw the bright blade sticking to their neck, and even if they were not frightened to pee, their legs were weak and panicked.

But the young shopkeeper did not change his face, and he did not panic at all. He even took out the purse containing the money from his bosom:

"Friend, I still have some broken silver on me. Take it to the bar. ”

"We are not robbers......"

With a voice, a burly man in black with a long-handled broadsword emerged from the darkness. He waved the long-handled broadsword in his hand and motioned for the person next to him to take out something.

It was a Danqing painting.

The painting shows a swordsman holding a straight knife with a black sheath and a red wine gourd hanging from his waist. I can't really see the appearance clearly, I only know that it is a young man of one or twenty years old.

A long knife with a black sheath and a red wine gourd.

With these two points, the young shopkeeper suddenly thought of the young swordsman who came to his shop at dusk. The dress and appearance are extremely similar, and it seems that nine times out of ten it is him.

"There are a few lotus flowers in front of the Buddha, and there are several high-rise buildings on the mountain. Where does the brook go in front of the door, and where does the shepherd boy go to herd his sheep? ”

The young shopkeeper didn't care about the sharp blade around his neck at all, but hugged his fist very calmly, and said the incision on the rivers and lakes in his mouth.

These four sentences are like limericks, and they represent the largest forces on the rivers and lakes.

"It turned out to be a friend of the road." The burly man's eyes lit up and he waved his big hand. Motioned for the man in black with the knife to step aside.

"There are thousands of tall buildings on the mountain, and the highest is the thirteenth floor."

It means that we are the killers on the thirteenth floor.

"It turned out to be a friend on the thirteenth floor......"

The young shopkeeper nodded, and then his eyes turned to his heart. These people are looking for the young swordsman at first glance, so it is better to use a little means to let these masters on the thirteenth floor fight with the dart master of the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau first.

First, you can fish in troubled waters, and second, you can also test the strength of those dart masters.

The thirteenth floor has always been about taking money to do things, and only killing people who the employer wants. So I usually don't kill others at will, but once I kill someone, I will never be soft.

"I've seen this person, and he lives in the old Dong family's store not far from the front. But he didn't seem to come alone, he was with a dart team......"

The young shopkeeper deliberately made his words vague and did not reveal more information. In fact, he even knew which room the knife man lived in, but he didn't say it, and deliberately mentioned the dart team that lived in the big courtyard behind.

"What dart team? Can you see what is written on their flags? ”

"Uh...... It's not a well-known dart game, it seems to be called a Longtong dart game. ”

The young shopkeeper stared at him, and swallowed the words "Dragon Gate Dart Bureau" back into his stomach. Take the homonym of the dragon word and say it as the long word, and then the door word as the same word. In this way, the Longmen dart game becomes the Longtong dart game.

"Okay, thank you."

As soon as the burly man waved his hand, he led the black-clothed people to the Dong family's old store.

The young shopkeeper walked into a small dark alley nearby, leaned against the corner and waited quietly. Until there were three bangs in my ears.

It's midnight.