So, fourteen-year-old Ji Ning, carrying a firewood knife on his back, went down the mountain alone.

……

Two and a half hours later.

At the foot of the mountain, Whitefish Town.

The crowd was bustling, and on the wide street, walked a boy with a young face and a thin body.

"The environment in the town has not changed at all."

Ji Ning wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked around with emotion.

The last time he went down the mountain, it was two years ago, when he was still the master's favorite little disciple, just in time for the New Year, the master took him to the town to find a tailor's shop, made him a new clothes with good fabrics, and bought rock sugar gourds, which made him very happy.

And now, two years have passed in a hurry, and his relationship with his master is far worse than before.

The clothes that I used to like so much can't be worn for a long time.

"It's not early, we have to hurry up."

Ji Ning stared at the tailor shop in the distance, looked at it silently for a long time, and finally slowly shook his head, sighed and walked towards an alley.

The most important thing for him at the moment is to send his brother's letter to the gambling house, and then return to the Taoist temple before dark, otherwise it is easy to meet monsters in the mountains when he is on the road at night.

That's right, demon.

As the border between Great Xia and the Sui Dynasty, Xiushan is more than 20,000 miles long from east to west, lying in the center of the Shenzhou continent.

Even if he crossed the Dao realm and cultivated to become a heavenly and human powerhouse, he would not dare to go deep rashly.

As for the Taoist temple, it is only on the outermost periphery of Xiushan, there are not too many monsters, and it is theoretically safe, but Ji Ning doesn't want to take this risk.

Thinking like this, Ji Ning walked into an alley, and at the end there was a lonely flagpole, and the wooden plaque had decayed, with four big characters written:

"Dragon Gate Casino."

Ji Ning's gaze fell on the plaque, thoughtful.

For some reason, the closer he got to this gambling house, the more he could smell a pungent smell of sake lees, and there was also a jar of liquor on the courtyard wall nearby, and there was no lid, it seemed that someone was deliberately using liquor to cover up a certain smell.

Say, blood.

Ji Ning smacked his lips and tasted the air carefully.

The taste is very astringent, rusty, and the blood has not yet arrived, and it is quite strong.

But a gambling house, where can there be such a heavy bloody gas?

Ji Ning walked to the door of the gambling house with doubts.

"Stop, what are you doing!"

A sturdy man in a cloth coat and mud pants stopped Ji Ning with a vicious face, he was the guardian of the Longmen Gambling House, that is, the gatekeeper.

Ji Ning came back to his senses, hesitated for a moment, and still spoke:

"I'm a disciple of a nearby Taoist temple, and I'm here to deliver a letter to Jiang Chuan."

"Heh, Master Jiang is also worthy of you!" The man rolled his eyes, his face full of disdain.

Jiang Chuan is a big man in their White Fish Town, and his business is not only a gambling house, but also a lot of lucrative transactions such as tobacco and gunpowder, and even the county magistrate of Qingquan County has to queue up if he wants to see it, let alone a hairy boy!

"I really want to see him." Seeing that the man didn't believe it, Ji Ning immediately took out the letter that his senior brother gave him from his arms.

"My senior brother owes Master Jiang money and asked me to send it to pay it back."

The man was stunned when he heard this, poked his head out, and looked suspiciously at the thin letter in the boy's hand.

Then, the man's face showed a trace of contempt, his index finger kept poking at the letterhead, and said with a smile: "Doll, do you know what kind of character Master Jiang is?" ”

"If you can talk to Master Jiang and borrow money, how can you only borrow this, are you stupid for me!"

"My brother lost money by gambling."

"Then you shouldn't be looking for Master Jiang."

The man turned sideways, pointed to the gambling house behind him, showed his mouth full of yellow teeth, and said proudly:

"This is the gambling house, of course your brother owes money and has to pay it back here."

"In this way, you can give me this letter, and I will go in for you and return the money, so that you don't have to make a trip."

The man said, licking his lips and reaching for the envelope.

Ji Ning frowned, immediately flashed a step to the side, and said vigilantly:

"I want to send this letter myself, and I can only send it to Jiang Chuan."

"You kid, you're brainless, aren't you?" The man did not succeed, his face immediately became gloomy, and when he rolled up his sleeves, he said with a slight threat:

"You've thought about it, do you really need me to help you?"

Ji Ning's face was calm, his right hand quietly held the firewood knife on his side, stared at the man and said:

"No, you don't."

"Good!" The man's teeth were itchy with anger, and when he walked down the steps, he wanted to teach this melon baby who didn't know the height of the sky.

Although Ji Ning was young, he always remained calm, staring at the big man, obviously ready to make a move.

However, just when the two were about to fight.

At the end of the alley, a soft and hoarse voice suddenly came:

"Stop."

Jiang ...... Master Jiang! ”

When the man heard the voice, he immediately stopped his movements, turned around respectfully, and bowed to the entrance of the alley.

Seeing this, Ji Ning's hand holding the firewood knife quietly loosened, and he also frowned and looked at the alley, only to see a tall woman wearing a green cheongsam and a very heavy rouge coating on her face.

With a cigarette pouch in his hand, he walked over with a smile.

"Xiao Qi, this little brother came to see me, why did you stop it?"

When the man heard this, his face turned pale, and he knelt down tremblingly and explained: "Master Jiang, the little one thinks that this doll is telling me, and he is afraid of disturbing your purity, so he wants to stop it, and he definitely has no intention of embezzling money!" ”

"Oh?" A smile rose at the corner of the woman's mouth, stretched out her left index finger, leaned over and hooked the man's head, looked carefully left and right, and then sighed and said.

"It's really hard for you to look like this and live in this world."

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult!"

The man's face was frightened, and he kowtowed his head on the ground with all his might.

"It is precisely because of an ugly person like me in the world that your beauty can be more and more prominent, Master Jiang!"

"You mean to say that I wouldn't be beautiful without you?" Jiang Chuan said with a smile, aiming the long nail of his right hand at the man's neck.

The man burst into tears, raised his head and said sincerely: In this world, whether there is a small one or not, it will not affect your beauty in the slightest, Master Jiang. ”

"In this life, I just want to accompany Master Jiang and silently appreciate your appearance for another hundred years! No, a thousand years! ”

Looking at the man with a sincere face and crying bitterly, Ji Ning was disgusted.

The Lord Jiang beside him, although he is not ugly, but the old yellow teeth and crappy lotus boots, and the black hair on his arms, are really a bit spicy, not to mention that this person has an Adam's apple.

That's a man, no, pervert!

Ji Ning quietly moved a step to the side.

Jiang Chuan was very satisfied with the man's answer, raised his hand with a smile, looked at the boy and said:

"Who are you delivering the letter for, Li Hu?"

"It's Senior Brother Li Hu."

Ji Ning lowered his head, didn't dare to look at the bewitching man in front of him, and handed over the paper with both hands.

"Senior brother said, if you want me to hand over the letter to you by hand."

Jiang Chuan didn't speak, but looked the boy up and down carefully, then smiled slightly, stretched out a hand, stroked Ji Ning's cheek, and said crisply: "It's really rare to see such a cute boy." ”

"Gross."

Ji Ning's face turned pale, and he forcibly resisted vomiting and avoided: "Please receive the letter quickly, I have other things." ”

"This letter is all Khan, how can you let me take it?"

Jiang Chuan didn't get angry, but looked at Ji Ning with a smile and said:

"Come in with the letter, and help me open it and put it on the table later."

With that, he turned and walked up the steps.

Ji Ning was uneasy in his heart, and said nervously: "I think, let's let this big brother go with you, I really have other things, so I won't ......"

"Didn't you say you were going to hand it over to me yourself?"

"If he loses the letter on this journey, your senior brother will still have to lose money."

When Ji Ning heard this, he looked at Jiang Chuan's back in the gambling house, gritted his teeth, and had to follow in.

The two of them walked one after the other, always five paces apart, passing through many gambling houses.

Eventually, they came to a secluded mansion.

Ji Ning looked vigilant.

For he found that the wall around the courtyard of the mansion was three times as high as the other gambling houses, and covered the willow trees outside, as if he was afraid that someone would climb in or escape.

In addition, there are many iron dog cages in the corners around the courtyard, and in the shadows, it is impossible to see what is locked inside, but Ji Ning is sure that it is definitely not a dog inside, because there is no dog barking.

"Liquor, iron cages, high walls, ......" Ji Ning's expression was uneasy, all of this seemed to tell him that this was definitely not just a simple gambling house.

If a gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall, maybe he should turn around and leave now.

However, at this time, Jiang Chuan pushed open the door of the gloomy house.

"Put the letter on the table and you're good to go."

Ji Ning's face was slightly pale, and after his eyes wandered for a while, he thought of his senior brother's entrustment to him, and finally walked in the door.

However, the moment he walked through the door.

With a bang, a guard man standing at the door closed the door directly!

"What are you going to do!"

Ji Ning vigilantly held the firewood knife and questioned Jiang Chuan.

At this moment, in this dark room, there was only a little red candle flame, fluttering slightly, pulling the faint green figure to grow long.

I saw that Jiang Chuan smiled weirdly, twisted his waist, took out a whip out of nowhere, hung it on his tender white thigh, hooked his fingers at Ji Ning from afar, and said with a smile:

"Young man, come to play with the slave?"