On the ninth day of the first month, Xingyuan Mansion.

In the early morning, there was a quiet place in the Changxing Inn, and the guys who kept yawning, rubbing their sleepy eyes, lazily removed the door panel, opened the door and prepared to start a new day's business. But he didn't expect that his front foot had just opened, and the back foot had already come to the customer.

The inn is a business, and few guests usually visit early in the morning.

Seeing this, the guy hurriedly stepped forward and asked with a smile: "Two guest officers, are you not just sharpening or staying in the hotel?"

The people who came were one old and one young, and they were a man and a woman. The old man was blind and walked slowly. The girl was childish, and she was still holding a tight guqin wrapped in rags in her arms.

They are the "Qin Demon Dancing Demon" who escaped in the ruined temple outside Luoyang City not long ago.

"Little Er, I'll ask you about someone. ”

Liu Laohan spoke slowly, and at the same time handed a few pieces of broken silver to the guy in his hand. When the man saw the windfall, his face immediately showed ecstasy, and he quickly nodded in response: "I don't know who the uncle wants to inquire?"

"In Xingyuan Mansion, how many 'Changxing Inns' are there?" asked Liu Laohan.

"Look at what you said, Changxing Inn is in Xingyuan Mansion, even if it is in the Great Song Dynasty, it is the only one, and there is no semicolon. Hey hey ......"

Liu Laohan nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "That's good, Xiao Er, let me ask you again, can you stay in your inn in the past two days, can a guest surnamed Song stay in your inn?"

"The surname Song?" the guy frowned slightly, and said with a wry smile, "The shopkeeper has instructed that we are not allowed to ask more questions about all the customers in the store, as for who is surnamed Song, who is surnamed Li, and is really ...... Not very clear. ”

"From the south, in his forties, seven feet tall, with good facial features, white and clean. Plum Blossom reminded, "Dressed well, speech and demeanor are quite elegant......"

"By the way," said the fellow, "I have met one according to this girl, but he only has an upper room in our shop, but he does not live here. He once said that he was waiting here for two friends from Luoyang, could it be...... His friends are the two of you?"

"Exactly, where is the other?" Liu Laohan hurriedly asked.

"The old man said, if you come, please go to the room for a while, let the little one eat and drink well, and let you not have to be in a hurry to find him, he will come here to find you. When the guy saw Liu Laohan admit it, he couldn't help but look happy, and thought to himself, "Another reward has been paid." ”

"Lead the way!"

Liu Laohan didn't say anything more, answered lightly, and then with the support of plum blossoms, he cautiously followed the guy towards the second floor.

The guy takes people's money, eliminates disasters for others, and behaves with extra diligence, although he walks in front and leads the way, but he turns back one step at a time, and flatters Liu Laohan and Meihua from time to time.

At this moment, a guest happened to come down from the second floor and bumped into Liu Laohan and the three on the stairs.

The person who came was a fat man nearly nine feet tall, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a bun on the top of his round head, a lock of pigtails hanging from the back, and the rest of his broken hair, scattered around at random, looking very unruly.

A big white and fat face, but the facial features are unusually small, with small eyes, a small nose, and a small mouth. In contrast, his large face was puffy and very broad. Although the facial features and face are extremely asymmetrical, the appearance is not ugly, but rather quite pleasing, not showing a bit of simplicity and loveliness, giving people a sense of joy for the Venerable Master.

Looking down further, the high and protruding belly is even more prominent than that of a woman with Liujia, and her limbs are also very fat and thick. A small arm alone is the thickness of a ten-year-old child's thigh, and five fingers are stuck in the palm of the hand like five turnips.

This person was dressed in sackcloth and linen trousers, cloth shoes, and a gray linen coat, which was much wider than his figure, so he wore it on him, but it showed that this person was not so fat. This man walked staggeringly, and from a distance, he was cute and happy.

But the most striking thing was the looming long knife that he stuck diagonally at his waist and was hidden by his robe. The length of this knife is nearly six feet, and the width is also seven or eight inches. If it is placed in the hands of ordinary people, it is definitely difficult to control the big knife, but on this person, it looks quite small, which complements his huge figure.

"Uncle, are you awake?" When the guy saw this person, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile and took the initiative to say hello, "Did you sleep well last night?"

The fat man grinned and said, "It's okay, it's just that the bed is a little smaller, and I can't roll over, and I don't sleep happily!"

"Uncle, if you can sleep, that's a blessing. The man smiled bitterly, "I don't know that after you slept last night, you were like a god descending from heaven, and the whole inn was not at peace." ”

"What do you mean by that?" the fat man asked in confusion.

"Uncle, you ......," the man explained awkwardly, "the snoring was like thunder, and it shook the heavens and the earth." The little one couldn't sleep well downstairs last night, and at first I thought it was a fight in the sky!"

"Hey...... I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The fat man's temper was quite bold, and after a few words of compensation, he casually threw a big silver ingot to the guy, and said with a smile, "Take a few jars of good wine, cut three or five catties of beef, and reward you with the rest." ”

"Okay!"

The guy was overjoyed, thinking that he really went out to meet a noble person today, and he had already received a lot of reward money after it opened.

"You rest in the lobby first, and the wine and meat will come soon!"

The guy greeted him, and then led Liu Laohan and Meihua to continue walking towards the second floor. The fat man also turned sideways to let them go with a smile on his face, and strode downstairs.

However, just as they staggered by, the fat man who was originally full of spring breeze suddenly stepped down, stood on the stairs, and subconsciously said, "Stand down!"

Hearing this, the guy, Liu Laohan, and Meihua were stunned at the same time, and the guy turned around to look at the fat man, with a layer of doubt on his face.

"Uncle, what else do you have to order......

"You two ......" The fat man ignored the guy, walked straight to Liu Laohan and Meihua, looked them up and down suspiciously with a pair of small eyes, and said faintly, "Looking at your dress, it seems a little familiar." ”

Hearing this, Meihua's face changed suddenly, but before she could make a sneak attack, Liu Laohan grabbed her arm first, and then stared at a pair of white blindness, and said with a dry smile: "This friend, you may have recognized the wrong person, Xiao Lao'er and you don't know each other, how can you talk about familiarity?"

"That's not right!" the fat man squinted his eyes, looked at Liu Laohan and Meihua carefully, and the smile on his face turned into a meaningful banter, "What is in your arms?"

"Guqin!" Plum Blossom replied cautiously.

Liu Laohan hurriedly added: "The old man and the little girl are lonely, and they can only make a living by wandering around the rivers and lakes and singing everywhere, so they ......."

"That's right!" the fat man looked suddenly enlightened, and smiled proudly, "Others don't know you, but I do." An old man and a young man, a blind man and a young girl, are nominally father and daughter who sing everywhere, but in fact they are killers who specialize in the business of human life. Jianghu people call ...... Piano Demon Dance. Isn't that right?"

Being exposed by the fat man's words, Liu Laohan and Meihua couldn't help but be shocked, but the two were not in a hurry to make a move, just waited and watched. Only the guy at the inn, after hearing the fat man's words, trembled with fright, and almost collapsed on the stairs.

Meihua looked coldly at the fat man with a wicked smile on his face, while Liu Laohan asked indifferently, "So what?"

"If it's really you, then Lao Tzu will be rich. It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. Hey hey ......"

At this moment, the fat man's naïve demeanor has long disappeared, replaced by a touch of gloomy horror hidden under a thick smile, and laughed: "Speaking of which, we are considered peers, and I occasionally do some business that collects money to buy my life." But I'm different from you, you don't pick people, and you're willing to make any kind of money. But I'm not, I work to pick people. With that, the fat man squeezed his eyes at Plum Blossom, revealing a smile that he thought was handsome.

"Oh?" Although Liu Laohan was silent on the surface, his right hand had quietly touched the guqin held by the plum blossom, and asked with a smile, "I don't know who Your Excellency picks to start?"

"It's pretty much like your father and daughter. Hehe...... the fat man replied bluntly, "You may not know how much you are worth now, do you?" Just two days ago, someone in Luoyang City offered a thousand taels of gold for the heads of the two of you. It's not simple, a head is worth five hundred taels of gold. I see that your heads are worth more than pearls and jade. Hey hey ......"

"You ......"

"Daughter is ashamed!" Without waiting for Meihua to reprimand angrily, Liu Laohan forcibly suppressed his displeasure and said in a deep voice, "I don't know what Your Excellency means today? Could it be that you really want to take off the heads of our father and daughter in exchange for reward money?"

"Unless you bid higher. The fat man smirked wisely, "If you bid more than a thousand taels of gold, then I will not trade at a loss." How's that going? I'm sincere enough, isn't he?"

"Humph!"

Hearing this, Liu Laohan couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, and secretly thought: "The one who paid the reward in Luoyang City must be the Xianwang Mansion, and you don't need to ask to know the purpose of them chasing and killing themselves, it is precisely to avenge their killing of Wang Qingshu, and then to blame the revenge of the Xianwang Mansion." As everyone knows, we are also entrusted by others to collect money and eliminate disasters for others. Luo Tianjin's action was really generous, and the benefits we got from doing this were only a hundred taels of gold. Now the opening of this guy in front of him is a thousand taels, which is simply hateful. If there really is a thousand taels, why should my father and daughter take the risk of offending Luo Tianjin?"

While Liu Laohan was angry, he also felt more and more worthless for himself. He had thought that one hundred taels of gold would be a lot of money, but he didn't expect that this matter would bring them trouble again and again, and even worry about their lives. Thinking about it this way, the price of this hundred taels of gold is still too little.

"You must know that if you work in porcelain, you also need diamonds. Liu Laohan was angry in his heart, so he threatened in a cold voice in an unkind tone, "Since you know the murderous reputation of my father and daughter, how dare you make a big statement here?

The fat man smiled, waved his hand nonchalantly, and said loudly: "If you can't even solve the two small roles, Lao Tzu won't have to mix in the rivers and lakes in the future." ”

Liu Laohan was shocked, expecting that this person was so confident that he must have superior means, so he couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Dare to ask...... Who is Your Excellency?"

"Nobody, Qin Ku!"

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