Chapter 8: The West Lake Turmoil
It was already dusk when he was separated from Zhao Xin, and Liu Xunyi, who was in a state of turmoil, did not rush back to Tianji Pavilion, but went to West Lake Langyuan alone. Despite its unique name, West Lake Langyuan is not the residence of a powerful eunuch, but a small street full of teahouses and restaurants on the shore of West Lake. Because there are literati here from time to time who are drunk and write poems, they take the elegant name of "West Lake Langyuan".
Liu Xunyi often comes here to drink, because when he is drunk, he can forget fame and fortune, but forget right and wrong, and it is a good place for him to be quiet.
The sky is getting dark, and the West Lake Langyuan is still brightly lit and noisy.
Liu Xunyi sat near the lake, thoughtful, Xiao Er sent a pot of wine, and when he left, he took away a few copper plates that Liu Xunyi put on the table, from beginning to end Liu Xunyi did not look at Xiao Er, Xiao Er did not say much, there is only one kind of wine here, and it is only worth a price, this is the rule of West Lake Langyuan.
"Outside the mountain, Qingshan Lou Wailou, West Lake singing and dancing when will it be off. The warm wind smokes the tourists drunk, and makes Hangzhou Bianzhou. ”
On the noisy street, a voice that was incompatible with the "Glass of Wine Psalm" suddenly came to Liu Xunyi's ears, interrupting his contemplation. Liu Xunyi followed the prestige, but saw that in a teahouse built by the lake next to the wine shop, a man in black with thick eyebrows was sitting by the window on the second floor, looking at the drunken customers coming and going and laughing in the Langyuan of West Lake with disdain.
Looking at this person's appearance, he was by no means a literati, so it was somewhat strange to read this poem from his mouth, and Liu Xunyi, like the people around him, cast a curious gaze at this person.
"Who is Your Excellency? How dare you recite such a poem in Lin'an City?" Sitting at a table next to Liu Xunyi were three or five drunken literati sons, and one of them was a white-clothed man who stretched out his hand and held a paper fan high, pointing directly at the black-clothed man in the teahouse.
The man in black seemed to be extremely disdainful of these literati, and with a cold snort, he turned his head away and ignored it.
The boy in white refused to give up? He shouted again: "Where did you hear such poems and texts from a reckless man, and you dare to make a big fuss here? You only see us drinking, but you don't know the taste of being sad and even more sorrowful. ”
"Brother Tai Mo is like such a reckless man, and I see that he has heard poetry from somewhere, so he is just playing tricks. Another boy in Tsing Yi answered. Hearing this, several people looked at each other and laughed, and then continued to sit around and drink.
"A group of gentlemen, how can we use wine to kill our sorrows, Lao Tzu sees that you group of sick seedlings are simply moaning and pretending to be disease-free. The man in black in the teahouse did not shy away from making sarcastic remarks.
"Bold!"
When the man in white heard this, he stood up, glared at a pair of drunken eyes and shouted angrily: "Where did the dog dare to bark here, it's really hateful, if I don't teach you a lesson today, I'm afraid that I will really be looked down upon by you." ”
"Lesson?" the man in black laughed instead of being angry, poked his right hand out of the window and beckoned down a few times, and said provocatively, "You are all powerless, your shoulders are tight, and you look more like a woman than a woman, I want to see how you teach me?"
"Bastard thing, the feet of the Son of Heaven dare to speak disrespectfully, insulting Sven. Watch me take you to the government for questioning!"
As he spoke, a few people led by the man in white gathered the nearby literati and drinkers who hated the same enemy, and more than a dozen people rushed towards the teahouse noisily, seeing that the man in black had to be taken down.
Liu Xunyi didn't expect to encounter such an interesting thing tonight, and the depression of the day was half gone, and he picked up a glass of wine and watched the play with interest.
After a while, I saw the figure on the second floor of the teahouse, accompanied by a shout of scolding and screaming, a sound of tables and chairs overturning, and broken tea bowls followed, but this sound came quickly, but it went faster, almost a mistake The second floor of the originally noisy teahouse has been quiet again.
Just when the surrounding people were whispering, they only heard a wail suddenly coming out of the teahouse, and then they saw more than a dozen literati who had just rushed into the teahouse, one by one with a blue nose and swollen face, and many of them had their clothes torn apart.
Seeing this, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and said in his heart: "This group of sons can't even lift a sword on weekdays, how can they argue with that tiger-backed man?" Just as Liu Xunyi was about to turn around and leave with a wry smile, the crowd of onlookers suddenly let out a surprised exclamation.
"Didn't you just say arrogantly that I underestimated you? Then what are you trembling about now? Aren't you afraid?"
The rough voice attracted everyone's attention, and Liu Xunyi followed the sound, but saw that by the window on the second floor of the teahouse, the man in black was carrying the right ankle of the man in white with one hand, making him hang upside down in the air with his head and feet. Although the two-story teahouse is no more than three or five meters high, the paving under the window is a hard bluestone square brick, and the boy in white is facing down with his head down at the moment.
At this moment, the man in white had already lost his arrogance just now, his body hanging upside down in the air shook into a sieve, and the color around his crotch was darker, as if he was scared to pee.
"Just now...... I was drunk just now...... Still looking forward to ...... I hope this brother doesn't have the same knowledge as me......" The man in white pleaded with a trembling voice.
"This kind of person can't spit out ivory in his mouth, just now he called you a reckless man, but now he calls you brother, it's simply bullying the soft and afraid of the hard. Needless to say, just throw him down now and fall to his death!"
Suddenly, a joking woman's voice suddenly sounded from the teahouse, and then I saw that behind the man in black, a tall and beautiful woman in red slowly revealed, her fair skin was even a little crystal clear, with thin eyebrows in willow leaves, bright eyes and bright teeth, and under the straight nose bridge was a cherry mouth with a playful smile. Obviously, she is in the same group as the man in black.
This woman's voice is as clean and crisp as a bird, and it is very good, but the words spoken by such a beautiful voice make people feel palpitations, and she actually instigated the man in black to throw the man in white to death.
"Okay!"
The man in black smiled ill-intentionedly, and deliberately loosened his fingers when he spoke, and the body of the man in white immediately slid down, causing the crowd around the teahouse to gasp. Looking at the white-clothed boy again, at this moment, he was so frightened that the six gods were paralyzed, and he simply passed out.
"With this little guts, you dare to teach others a lesson?" The woman in red seemed to think it was extremely funny, and gently poked the stunned man in white with the sword in her hand, and couldn't help but laugh out loud for a while, "It turns out that if you want to kill your sorrows, you don't need to drink at all, you just need to turn yourself upside down." Haha...... "At this time, the woman in red was still in the mood to laugh, which couldn't help but make people embarrassed.
"This man is a man of disrespectful words and reckless deeds, but he is not guilty of death. Just as the woman in red was about to urge the man in black to let go, Liu Xunyi suddenly spoke, "What's more, killing people on the street in Lin'an City, I'm afraid that this brother and this girl will also cause a lot of trouble for themselves." Saying that, Liu Xunyi also turned his head to look around in the crowd, and said loudly: "Among those sons who have just been taught by you, there are many noble kings and grandsons in the court, I expect that they will definitely find someone to retaliate, I advise this brother that it is better to have more than one thing, or let him go earlier, and leave quickly!"
"If you want revenge, just let them come, and teach as many girls as you come. The woman in red seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with Liu Xunyi's kind words and persuasion, and snorted coldly, "It's you, where did you come from? You dare to take care of this girl's affairs? I advise you now, more things are better than less things, it's better to leave quickly!"
Although the atmosphere was quite tense, the woman in red reciprocated the other way, which made many people around couldn't help but laugh.
Liu Xunyi was not angry, he had already concluded from the words and deeds of the woman in red and the man in black that these two must be from the rivers and lakes, because in a place like Lin'an, where the powerful are everywhere, only people in the rivers and lakes dare to be so debauched and ignore the children of the powerful. What's more, the good kung fu of the man in black is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
For the people in the rivers and lakes, Liu Xunyi had a natural good feeling, and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, I just want to turn the war into a jade silk." If you wait for a moment to wait for the people from the government to arrive, won't you two be in trouble?"
"The government is full of useless wine bags and rice bags, and they are just able to move their muscles and bones when they come. The man in black sneered.
Liu Xunyi knows that the people in the rivers and lakes have always regarded themselves very highly, not only do they have no good impression of the government, but they also look down on the people in the government, thinking that most of the people in the government are mediocre, but they don't know that there are actually many good hands hidden in the government, and the martial arts of these good hands are not far behind the masters in the rivers and lakes.
As she spoke, the woman in red suddenly waved her jade arm without warning, and with a soft "whoosh" sound, a silver light shot out, and a lightning bolt crossed in mid-air, hitting Liu Xunyi directly. Liu Xunyi's eyes were quick, his body was slightly sideways, and at the same time, his right hand quickly reached out two fingers and gently clamped it, and the silver needle as thin as a hair was firmly clamped between his fingers.
didn't wait for the people around her to applaud, Liu Xunyi suddenly threw her backhand, and the silver needle flew towards the woman in red with a "whoosh", the woman in red reacted not slowly, her head quickly flicked, and when she turned around, the silver needle had been firmly held in her mouth.
The man in black stared at Liu Xunyi with deep eyes, and said with a smile: "Seeing that you are also a martial arts practitioner, since you want to save him, then I will give you a chance." ”
"Oh?" Liu Xunyi asked with interest, "What do you mean?"
"Let's see if you're fast or I'm fast!"
The man in black suddenly gave an order, and before the words fell, his five fingers had been completely loosened, and then he saw the man in white "whew" and smashed towards the bluestone ground, and the onlookers burst out with an exclamation, and many people subconsciously closed their eyes, unwilling to see the tragic situation of plasma.
But after waiting for a long time, everyone did not hear the sound of the white-clothed boy falling to the ground, when they looked with bated breath, but saw that Liu Xunyi had stood under the window of the teahouse at some point, holding the unscathed white-clothed boy with one hand, and looked at the two upstairs with a light smile.
"What a quick move!" the man in black praised, "I don't know which sect my brother is a master of, why did he come to Lin'an City?"
"I am ......" Liu Xunyi just wanted to habitually answer "Dongfu Tianji Pavilion", but after thinking about it, the people in the rivers and lakes have always rejected the government, so his tone was stagnant, and he hurriedly changed his tone and prevaricated, "In Xia Liu Xunyi, the unknown junior is not worth it, and he hasn't asked for ......advice yet."
"My name is Lin Fangda, and this is ......"
"Lin Fangda, let's go!"
Without waiting for the man in black to introduce the woman in red, the woman snorted unwillingly, interrupted Lin Fangda's words in a cold voice, glanced at Liu Xunyi with displeasure, turned around and disappeared in front of the window on the second floor.
"Brother Liu, we don't know each other, I'll invite you to drink another day!haha......"
"Brother Lin, there will be a period later!"
The man in black smiled heartily, and after saying goodbye to Liu Xunyi in a hurry, he hurriedly chased after the woman in red.
At this moment, more than a dozen messengers in the yamen hurried to the front of the teahouse, under the gossip of the people around, the messengers sent people to guard the door of the teahouse, and the others rushed into the building together to search for them, but when the messengers rushed into the lobby on the second floor with great momentum, it was already empty, except for the two cups of hot tea that had not yet been drunk on the table by the window, there was no longer a single figure.
Liu Xunyi took advantage of the chaos to leave the crowd, stood by the river and raised his eyes to quietly stare at a small boat in the center of the West Lake, thinking of Lin Fangda and the woman in red just now, the corners of his mouth first raised a smile of envy. Suddenly, he remembered his embarrassment, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and a layer of worry was again clouded between his eyebrows.
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