Chapter 3 Showing the edge
Pengcheng, one of the five countries of Shenzhou, the smallest country, but there are many forces in the rivers and lakes, the first major faction of Wuyang Hall in Shenzhou is located here, since the founding of Pengcheng, there are many countries that have tried to plot the land of Pengcheng, but they have been beaten by the people of the rivers and lakes of Pengcheng, and they are embarrassed to return, and over time, no country dares to covet the land of Pengcheng, and the people here have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, creating countless wealth for Pengcheng. Therefore, although Pengcheng is small, it is the richest country among the five countries.
In the capital of Pengcheng, people come and go in the market, the sound of hawkers, the sound of restaurants soliciting customers, the sound of officers and soldiers patrolling the streets, and the sound of juggling gongs all together, lively and noisy. In a restaurant with a simple and atmospheric decoration, the guests were full, and the little second brother was busy greeting the guests, and at this time he was walking to a group of businessman-like guests.
At first glance, this group of guests is a well-informed person who has traveled from south to north. After talking to the second brother, one of them was dark and thin, and the man with a sparkle in his eyes asked, "Second brother, who is this young man sitting by the window?" ”
The second brother peeked at the young man by the window, lowered his voice and said to the guest: "You can also see it? This guest officer has been coming almost every day recently, ordering only a pot of tea and a plate of kidney beans at a time, and sitting from noon until evening. ”
The guest asked again, "Didn't the shopkeeper think about driving him away?"
The second brother smiled, "Master Hak, in our territory, all the people who come from the south and go to the north are customers, how can there be a reason for those who open a store to drive customers away?
After speaking, the little second brother turned around and went to greet the other guests.
The conversation between this group of guests and Xiao Er was very low, and it was in a noisy environment such as a restaurant, so it stands to reason that it would not be heard, but the young man who was sitting by the window and looking at the street seemed to know what they said, so he took his eyes back from the window, stared at the black and thin man who had just talked to Xiao Er, stared at it for a long time, and then withdrew his gaze and said, "Little Er, settle the bill!"
"Hey!" the little second brother quickly ran to settle the bill, and the young man walked out of the restaurant, merged into the flow of people on the street, and soon disappeared.
It was only at this time that the thin black man who had been stared at for a long time breathed a sigh of relief: "But let's go, little second brother, how do I think this kid is still carrying a strange sword? That look is scary enough." ”
The little second brother came over and promised: "You are a few outsiders, you may not know, we are in Pengcheng, there are so many people in the rivers and lakes, I guess, that guest master should be a disciple of a big faction, who came out of the mountains to practice." ”
"That's ......"
The night of Pengcheng comes later than in the mountains of Wuyang, and Pengcheng is still lively after nightfall, with dotted lights spreading from one end of the long street to the other, and people are looking for a satisfactory juggling team to take a look at it in groups of three or five, adding some shining embellishments to their long night.
But there were also places where the lights didn't spread, and in one of the dark alleys, a young man with a dark sword and a whole body shrouded in black shadows was confronting several ruffians with bruised noses and swollen faces and collapsed on the ground. It's not so much a confrontation as an interrogation. The young man leaned lazily against the wall of the alley and asked unhurriedly, "I ask you, why do you poison the well water?"
The flat tone sounded like thunder to a few ruffians, who knelt on the ground and trembled, scrambling to say, "It's not what we want to do, it's someone who made us do it......
"Who is it?"
A few scoundrels, you look at me, I look at you, they don't want to speak, the young man saw this, raised his voice, "Say!"
Several scoundrels trembled in shock, some of them were cowardly, their pants were already wet, and they said a name intermittently: "Wu... Big... Great good man. ”
Hearing this name, the young man seemed to get the answer he wanted, jumped up, and soon disappeared into the night, leaving only a group of ruffians on the ground who could not stand up.
This young man is naturally Mei Xiao, he came to the capital of Pengcheng as soon as he got off the mountain, and when he was touring at night, he found a few sneaky people secretly sprinkling something into the well, and for several days in the tavern heard the news that the people in the city had diarrhea and poisoning symptoms, and the rich people were quickly cured of their illnesses, and the poor patients could only wait for death at home, Mei Xiao couldn't stand it, so he took advantage of the darkness to catch them and interrogate them.
The darkness gives people not only a deep fear, but also a ubiquitous protection under the darkness. Mei Xiao, dressed in black, was squatting lightly on the beam of the famous Wu Dashan house in the city at the moment, listening to the conspiracy coming out of the secret room below.
"How's it going? How has the business of the hospital been lately?"
"Isn't there your medicine, how can it be bad?" said in a smooth voice, "Are the boys who sprinkled the medicine reliable?"
"Don't worry about them, it's useless for them to report to the officials, the government is full of our people, besides, which government will believe the words of a group of ruffians?"
"Then I'll be relieved, but will we be detected if we use this medicine for too long?" The oily voice was a little solemn, making people feel like they were choking on food.
A contemptuous sneer came, "It's okay to be cowardly, don't worry, I've prepared a new medicine, this year, where haven't there been a few plagues?"
The two people in the room seemed to have some kind of comfort, and the atmosphere became relaxed, and they talked about which girl from the Qinglou was the best.
On the beam, a terrifying gleam flashed in Mei Xiao's eyes, he hesitated slightly, jumped off the beam, and went straight to the secret room.
The next day, the city's government received a report that the famous Wu Dashan in the city had been killed in a secret room of the Wu family along with Doctor Li, who had opened all over the city, and even several martial artists hired by the Wu family did not notice it. The news spread very quickly, and soon, the people in the city added fuel to the fire and spread the news, some said that Wu Dashan was discussing with Dr. Li Shen to buy medicine to help the poor people in the city when he was slaughtered by the enemy, and some said that the family was dissatisfied with Wu Dashan's money, so they killed the person in an attempt to monopolize the property...... For a while, there were different opinions, but they didn't say that Wu Dashan was not good, after all, Wu Dashan often gave porridge and medicine in front of the mansion before his death, and most of the people in the city had received his favor.
Mei Xiao, who was sitting in the corner of the restaurant, had a complicated expression that was not easy to detect, and said softly, "Wu Dashan?" ”
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it was another night, Mei Xiao took the antidote found from the secret room of Wu Dashan's house and sprinkled it all over the city's wells, as long as the patients in the city drank the water in the wells the next day, they would be cured.
Under the cover of the night, Mei Xiao's light and vigorous figure was hardly noticed by anyone, but there were exceptions, a pair of sharp and fierce eyes stared at him in the darkness that he couldn't see......