October 21, nightfall.

Tonight, as usual, the Tianxianglou in Luoyang City is full of traffic, crowded, business is booming, and customers are like clouds.

In the brightly lit lobby, the guys ran around and greeted the dishes. The guests were in groups of three or five, pushing cups and changing lamps.

The staggered planning is staggered, the water and land are full of Chen, the food is fragrant, the wine is fragrant, and the upstairs and downstairs are noisy.

"When you sing about wine, your life is ......"

"Fart!"

"Bang!

Suddenly, there was a very discordant scolding from the lively Tianxiang Building.

Immediately afterwards, seven or eight men stood up violently, and one of them smashed the wine glass in his hand at the other table of guests, and smashed the cups, saucers, and chopsticks of the other table in all directions.

"What are you doing?" Several young men dressed as scholars were frightened by the sudden wine glasses, and they all got up to dodge.

"What are you doing? Lao Tzu hates you sour talents who dance and write the ink the most, you are hypocritical and hypocritical, you know how to show off your tongue. ”

"What do we have to do with you when we recite poems?" a son was angry and retorted, "Kong said to be benevolent, and Meng said to take righteousness." Is it a gentleman's act to be so domineering......"

"Look for death!"

Before the words could be finished, a rugged man had already overturned the table and rushed towards the young men with a curse, accompanied by a burst of exclamations around them, and the two sides scuffled.

"Stop fighting!

Allowing the men of Tianxianglou to dissuade them repeatedly, the group of people not only did not relent, but intensified and became more and more rampant. not only beat several sons in the face, but also turned the spearhead to the diners who were watching the excitement around, beating and scolding, and doing everything in their arrogance.

In the blink of an eye, there were already bursts of scolding and fighting in the amiable Tianxiang Building.

"Where did the madman come from, who dared to spread wild in Luoyang City......?

"Lao Tzu doesn't care what King Beixian or King Nanxian is, if you don't like it, you will fight!"

In the blink of an eye, the Tianxiang Building was already in a mess, and the guests panicked and ran around.

Occasionally, there are bold guests who want to come forward and reason with them. Unexpectedly, this group of fanatics actually pulled out the terrifying steel knife from their baggage, and without saying a word, they cut down anyone they met.

Suddenly, the strong smell of blood diffused in the Tianxiang Building.

"Quick, go to the Xianwang Mansion and call someone ......"

"You're not going anywhere!"

A fierce man blocked the door with a knife, and came to cut one and two to cut a pair.

The ferocious knife technique and sharp change of tactics show that this person is a complete martial arts practitioner.

Before and after just a cup of tea, Tianxianglou has become a purgatory on earth, this group of madmen like crazy chasing panicked, head-hugging guests, unscrupulous, killing mercilessly.

For a time, screams, wails, curses, and begs for mercy were heard...... One after another, endlessly.

......

South of the city, Donghai Tea House.

"Where's the shopkeeper?"

A shout attracted the curious eyes of many tea guests.

A burly man in coarse linen clothes, carrying a stack of tea bags in his hand, stood at the door with his eyebrows raised. Behind him, there were twenty or thirty people dressed in the same costume.

Seeing this, a guy hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand: "The shopkeeper has something to do, I don't know what the guest officials are doing?"

"The tea you sell is bad. The man threw the tea bag in his hand on the ground and said dissatisfiedly, "Instead of having the slightest aroma, drinking it is extremely sour and difficult to swallow." ”

"Is there such a thing?" the guy picked up the tea bag suspiciously, put it under his nose and sniffed it gently, and said with a smile, "Guest officer, obviously the tea is fragrant, how can it be sour......

"Don't talk nonsense! Do you drink it or do I drink it? I say sour is sour!" the man shouted, "Don't think that you can do whatever you want with the support of the Xian Wangfu behind your Donghai Teahouse, and it is shoddy." You want to bully customers, and there is no door!"

Accompanied by the man's complaints, the twenty or thirty people behind him couldn't help but echo one after another.

"No! no!" The guy was worried that the matter would be big, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Gentlemen, the little ones are just talking about the matter......

As for this, the man saw that the man was still angry, and saw that the people around him were gathering more and more, and he was afraid of affecting the business of the teahouse, so he retreated: "Since the guest officers are not used to drinking the tea of the small shop, the small one will be returned to you." ”

After that, the guy fiddled with the tea bag with his hand and calculated: "A bag of tea is fifty wen, and a bundle of four packets is two hundred wen......

The man interrupted: "Your tea is bad for our stomachs, and we don't have to pay for the soup and medicine.

The guy was stunned for a moment, and said in amazement: "According to the meaning of the guest officer, how much do you want?"

Hearing this, the man slowly stretched out a finger and shook it a few times in front of the guy's eyes.

"One or two?"

"One hundred taels!"

"Shhh

As soon as these words came out, not only the guys were startled, but even the guests in the teahouse gasped.

Until this moment, everyone finally woke up, it turned out that this group of people was not reasoning at all, but deliberately finding fault.

The smile on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by a touch of contempt and coldness, and he said dissatisfiedly: "If you want to blackmail, I'm afraid you're in the wrong place." I kindly advise you, while our shopkeeper has not returned, leave quickly, lest you go around without food!"

"Why? Refuse to lose money?" the man sneered, his eyes full of fierceness.

"What do you say?" the guy said defiantly, "The blackmail can't be successful, do you want to rob the ......?"

"Bang!"

Before the words fell, the man suddenly raised his foot and kicked the guy's lower abdomen fiercely. This kick was so powerful that it kicked the guy off guard from the door to the counter.

"Ahem...... Poof!"

The embarrassed guy coughed a few times, then spat blood, tilted his head, and stopped moving.

As if disturbed by the noise in the lobby, twenty or thirty thugs armed with sticks quickly rushed down from the teahouse.

"It's just right to come, and by the way, move your muscles and bones!"

There is no superfluous nonsense, and the two sides are fighting as soon as they meet each other.

Hugh saw that this group of men was dressed very shabby, but when they made a move, it was extraordinary, and they beat these thugs all over the ground to find their teeth in a flash, almost effortlessly.

"Sure enough, it's a big shopkeeper!" The man at the head stepped on the chest of a thug with his foot and sneered, "Now I don't want a hundred taels, I want ten thousand taels, and it's ten thousand taels per person!" If you don't give it, I will smash your black shop today!"

Having said that, he didn't give the bookkeeper a chance to answer, so he picked up a bench and began to smash it in the teahouse.

How could the tea customers have expected such a situation? Deng Shi was frightened and timid, lest he would affect himself, so that he would even forget to settle the tea money, and they could not wait to flee from the wilderness.

......

In the east of the city, Mingling Yayuan.

"Come on!

With a scream of terror, a disheveled woman stumbled out of the second-floor room and shouted downstairs despite her reserve.

"What's going on?"

Downstairs, the old bustard, who was wearing heavy makeup, was greeting the guests with great interest, and suddenly heard a cry from upstairs, his face changed, and he raised his head and reprimanded: "Daughter, what is this kind of thing to call nonsense? Let the guy throw people out the back door, don't die at home." ”

A drunken regular customer joked: "Old bustard, you have caused a lot of trouble here, who will dare to patronize it in the future?"

"Bah, bah!" the old bustard shook his peach blossom fan and said with a gloomy face, "Good luck, he is not dead yet! ”

"It is said that 'bitches are ruthless, and dramas are unjust', and today it seems that this is true!" Another guest teased, "Your girl has just been in love with other people, why do you have to ignore other people's lives and deaths in the blink of an eye?"

"Oops!" the old bustard said coquettishly, "Uncle Hugh wants to make fun of us, Mingling Yayuan is a powerless girl, and the piano singer is captured, but who can afford such a thing as a dead person?"

"Oh! Sun Gongzi is no good, come and help!"

Before the bustard could finish speaking, a woman's scream came from another room.

"What's going on again?" complained the old bustard, "daughters, can you be careful, don't make trouble for the old lady!"

"Mr. Qian is not good either. ”

"Uncle Zhou is also ......"

For a while, panicked cries sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they emerged in an endless stream.

"With so many people dying at the same time, it must be haunted!"

I don't know who shouted, and when he arrived, he was flustered and pale.

One by one, they could no longer care about the obsession with wine, and they scrambled to get up and leave, no matter how the old bustard retained, they could not stop their hasty pace.

"What's going on?" the old bustard looked at the girls who were crying bitterly with a blank face, and said in astonishment, "On weekdays, this kind of thing can't happen once in a year and a half, why do you have accidents one after another tonight......"

"Shopkeeper, it doesn't seem right!"

The man who had just led someone to throw Xu Yuanwai out the back door ran to the old bustard in a hurry, and said in a low voice: "I saw that Xu Yuanwai's face turned blue, and it seemed that it was not a wind, but a ...... Poisoning. ”

"Poisoning?" said the bustard, startled and incredulous, "how is that possible?"

"It's poisoning!" cried a girl upstairs, "otherwise it wouldn't have been such a coincidence, so many guests had an accident together." ”

"No, no, no!" At this moment, the old bustard gradually realized the seriousness of the matter, and was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth in the hall, muttering to himself, "With so many people dying at once, there will definitely be many people making trouble tomorrow, and the government will definitely investigate it...... Eighty percent of them were deliberately framed and forced to close my Mingling Yayuan ......"

"The shopkeeper, could it be a few other green buildings in the city, who are greedy for our business to be booming, so they ......?"

"Won't it? The rules set by King Beixian, each in its own way, each according to his own ability, no one can cheat and make trouble. The old bustard was entangled, "For so many years, everyone has always been safe and sound, how can they suddenly get into trouble?"

"That ......"

"No matter!" the old bustard said to the man, "Throw all the corpses out, and throw them as far away as possible." Then close the door tightly and do not accept customers for the time being, so as not to cause extraneous branches. All the girls were kept in the room, and no one was allowed to go out until the matter was settled. ”

"Got it. The man hurriedly replied, "That'...... Where's you, the shopkeeper?"

"I—where else can I go? Of course, I'm going to the Xian Wang's Mansion to ask for clarification. The old bustard said distraughtly, "Collect money from people and eliminate disasters for others." King Beixian collects so much gold and silver from us every year, shouldn't he find out this matter for us? No, no, this matter cannot be delayed, I will go now!"

After that, the old bustard hurriedly explained a few words, and then walked towards the garden without looking back.

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