Night.

Compared with the nameless town, the night in Suzhou City is more lively and prosperous. In Nameless Town, the sun set, and before the final shift arrived, the town fell silent. Except for the barking of insects and frogs, and the barking of dogs and babies, the whole town seems to be dormant.

Suzhou has been a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times, less than ten miles away from the town, but at night it is a different scene, the Goolan Washe is brightly lit, the long street is bustling with pedestrians, and the nightlife is very rich.

Suzhou people know how to enjoy, the rich have a place for the rich to go, a product of gluttony, Tianxianglou to listen to music, or take advantage of the night to hire a painting boat, prostitutes night tours, chanting poems and singing, but also not lose elegance; the poor have a place for the poor, three or five friends make an appointment to the teahouse, listen to the storyteller talk about history or discuss the world's rivers and lakes, drunk three points, boasting, but also have another taste.

Today's business of Xiaoyao Inn is excellent, near the evening, came to a few waves of Jianghu inn, maybe it is the rain during the day annoyance, maybe it is the fatigue of the journey, they have come downstairs, three or five groups, fry a few dishes, order a few corners of wine, and talk about it.

Li Chengcheng now lives in the No. 1 room of the inn, and he is the owner of the money, so Fan Wuchang naturally won't let him work. Zhao Lanjiang put the knife on Fan Wuchang's neck and "borrowed" two taels of silver to go to Tianxianglou to find Yang Xiaoxiao and ask him to help with the inn business, Fan Wuchang didn't have the courage yet.

Only Xiao Jinyan, who has a good temper and is easy to talk, was "invited" by Fan Wuchang to help. According to Fan impermanence's logic, I will give you food and shelter for nothing, and give you back your money, you can't be an idler, right?

The guests drank and ate meat at the inn, and poor Xiao Daxia did the work of mopping the floor and cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks. Xiao Jinyan is not angry, he has been the leader of the martial arts alliance, and he has also been hungry, and he regards these as life experiences, from another point of view, it can be regarded as a kind of cultivation in the world.

Xiao Jinyan finished mopping the ground, leaned on the pillar, and listened to a table of guests discussing the recent major events in the rivers and lakes.

A swordsman with a Longxi accent said, "Brother Lou, after five years, Xiaosheng Jianghu has promulgated the latest three lists of heaven, earth and people, you just came from the capital, can you reveal one or two?"

The man surnamed Lou was unceremoniously, took the wine and drank it all, raised his voice and said: "I see that Xiaosheng Jianghu is going to do something, the three lists five years ago caused some turmoil in the rivers and lakes, and this time the three lists are updated, I'm afraid it will be another bloody storm." ”

The old Xi'er swordsman asked, "How do you say this?"

The man surnamed Lou said: "Brother Zhang, you are still young and may not know much. As the saying goes, there is no first, there is no second, but whoever is famous in the rivers and lakes, who is willing to be behind the others? You said that this time the three lists, can the rivers and lakes not be chaotic?"

The swordsman nodded in understanding.

"Among the three lists, the one with the most water is the person list. The top ten masters of the heavenly list can't be faked, the thirty masters of the earth list are all characters with heads and faces in the rivers and lakes, and there must be games in the rankings, but the list of people is basically a tool for them to collect money, and it is not a secret, before this list, a collection of Xiaosheng Jianghu found me, as long as five hundred taels, I can be ranked in the top fifty of the list, not that the brothers are reluctant to give up the five hundred taels of silver, but they are really reluctant to live this life. ”

The man: "I see. However, Brother Lou is known as the nine-life civet cat on the rivers and lakes, even if it doesn't cost money, it is appropriate to rank in the top 30 on the list. ”

Someone next to him praised, "It turns out that Your Excellency is the Kanto Nine Lives Tanuki Lou Ting Lou Yuanshan, it's really disrespectful!"

The nine-life civet cat Lou Yuanshan, is a lone ranger in the Kanto region, with a nine-life knife in one hand, and is famous in the rivers and lakes outside the gate. This person is well-informed, has a close relationship with Xiaosheng Jianghu, gossip weekly, etc., and makes a living by selling news on the rivers and lakes, of course, he also secretly does some robberies and robberies.

Lou Yuanshan said: "Come on, I call the nine-life civet cat, but there is only one life." In other words, in the last list, it seems that only Li Chengcheng of the Li family in Jinling has entered the list, of course, people also have this strength, and those other people are either killed or unknown, where are there still masters. Especially that Xiao Jinyan, who was still the leader of the martial arts alliance back then, but now, he didn't even rank in the top 100 on the list, and there was no trace on the rivers and lakes. ”

Xiao Jinyan smiled bitterly when he heard this.

Li Qingcheng, who was drinking with the grass not far away, had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and looked at Xiao Jinyan with a playful expression. Xiaosheng Jianghu ranked the twenty-one-year-old Li Tingcheng thirteenth on the list this time, almost on the same level as the head of the quasi-first-class sect, and ranked among the best among the young generation of masters.

These people talked very loudly, vaguely showing off, and everyone in the lobby really listened to it. After Qingcao heard it, he said in a low voice, "Third Young Master, it turns out that you are so powerful in the rivers and lakes." That head of the family and the old worshippers of the family, wouldn't they have arranged the heavenly list?"

Li Chengcheng flicked his head and said, "What a fart, the paper of Xiaosheng's three lists is so hard, you don't need to wipe your ass." The masters on the rivers and lakes are like clouds, where is the turn to get Xiaosheng Jianghu to point fingers, you look at Shaolin, Wudang, two pavilions, three sects, and four gates, have anyone ever been on the list? The eight evil kings of the Demon Sect are at least the top ten masters of the land list, but there have been people on the list? Xiaosheng Jianghu These things, fooling the laymen, cheating the sales, you have to really believe it, you don't know when you are slaughtered. ”

Qingcao pouted, "Hmph, anyway, you are better than Xiao Jinyan, this guy has nothing to do and always bullies me, steals my wine, and robs me of food." Li Qingcheng laughed, "I don't have the ability." ”

At this time, another person asked, "Brother Lou, I don't know if you have found it, in this time in the heavenly list, there are two people in Xichu, two people in Beizhou, and one person in Dongyi, and four people in my Daming rivers and lakes, the first in the heavenly list, is actually vacant, do you know why?"

Lou Yuanshan said, "After Zhang Benchu, the first Taiji sword of the last session, jumped out of the three realms, he lost his trace on the rivers and lakes, and the remaining nine people, either for a generation of grandmasters, or for the emperor's relatives and relatives, have not really fought each other, Xiaosheng Jianghu wants to rank, I'm afraid there is no basis to be found." “

The man sighed: "Beyond the Three Realms, wouldn't that be a sword immortal on the Book Sword Mountain?

I heard someone in the corner: "That may not be, and it may become someone else's meal." ”

Xiao Jinyan and the others went along the prestige, but saw a middle-aged scholar lying on the table in the corner, wearing a gray cloth straight jacket, with patches on his shoulders and cuffs, washed white, wearing a white scarf, and carrying a scarf, looking like a reluctant man, and now he was drunk and worried, if he hadn't spoken, everyone would not have noticed the existence of this person.

Although Xiao Jinyan had never seen this person, he had already guessed the identity of this person when he saw that his divine light was restrained, and his inner breath was almost imperceptible, and there was a long sword wrapped in gray cloth in the bamboo basket under his feet. However, he didn't care about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, he only glanced at it, and then stopped looking. It was Li Chengcheng, playing with the wine glass with two fingers, staring at the man and refusing to take his eyes off.

The swordsman who had just spoken to Lou Yuanshan said, "Reading, you are not from the rivers and lakes, where is your turn to talk more?"

The middle-aged scholar shook his head and did not speak.

The swordsman said to Lou Yuanshan, "If you don't scold back, if you can't fight back, it's useless to be a scholar." Hah!"

The middle-aged scholar didn't pay attention to him, picked up the wine jug and drank it all, and said, "Man, add wine." ”

When Xiao Jinyan heard this, he even took a pot of wine from the counter and shouted, "It's coming!" trotted to send the wine jug over, and was about to hand it over, the scholar's fingers snapped Xiao Jinyan's wrist, Xiao Jin derived vigilance, the side of his right hand, dodged the past, the scholar used his fingers to play the two points of Taiyuan and Jingqu, Xiao Jinyan changed the trick, sent it down, and put the wine jug on the table, "Guest officer, your wine." ”

These moves were as fast as lightning, and they didn't use internal force, and among the people present, except for Li Qingcheng, no one noticed that between the lightning and flint, the two had already changed a number of moves. The scholar smiled, "I'll invite you to drink." Xiao Jinyan said, "I'm on duty, and I will be deducted from my salary for drinking." ”

The scholar haha, "Interesting, interesting." ”

Xiao Jinyan took a few steps back, returned to Li Chengcheng's side, reached out and took a piece of peach blossom crisp and put it in his mouth.

Li Chengcheng asked in a low voice, "How?"

Xiao Jinyan smiled bitterly, "After all, I am one of the top ten masters on the Heavenly List, and I am not an opponent." When Li Qingcheng heard this, his heart stirred, his hand clasped the folding fan, and he was eager to try, but Xiao Jinyan stopped him and shook his head.

At this time, the door of the inn was slammed open, and four or five big men broke in, and several people came to a table of people and scolded the three diners who were dining, "This table is ours, get out." Seeing that these people had a meaty face, vulgar language, and a blade in their hands, the three of them did not dare to make a sound, so they hurriedly went to the front desk to meet the money and left in a hurry.

The first person shouted at Xiao Jinyan, "Why are you still stunned, don't you clean it up?"

Xiao Jinyan put the rag on his arm, hurriedly stepped forward to clean up, several people sat down with a golden knife, and one of them scolded, "His grandmother's, these days are really unlucky, she was played by a female baby, and when Lao Tzu catches her, she will be raped and then killed, and then raped and killed, and then stripped off her clothes and hung on the city wall of Suzhou for three days! And that leprosy cat, I don't know what it came from, yelling at our brothers, but the big boss is afraid of him to death, hey, you move quickly, cut meat, and serve wine!"

Xiao Jinyan even said yes. After a while, he served the wine and food, and was about to leave, when a man grabbed his arm, took out a portrait from his arms, and asked, "Run, you have wide eyes in the city, have you ever seen this girl?"

Xiao Jinyan looked at the portrait of the woman in the strong man's hand, who was it if it wasn't the little red fish. It turned out that Little Red Fish had offended these people, so he ran to Nameless Town to find himself. These two people sounded like locals with accents, but they didn't know how the little red fish provoked them.

The man said impatiently, "What about you, dumb?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "I haven't seen it." ”

The man said that it was really useless, and said, "If you see this person, go to Taihu Lake Water Village to report to us, and reward you with ten taels of silver!"

Taihu Lake Water Village is a green forest gang east of Taihu Lake in Suzhou City, and it has always had something to do with the Wuliang Cave of Fan Wuchang's father-in-law. Later, Taihu Lake Water Village took refuge in Yixiaotang, and with the background of the background, it faintly left the immeasurable hole behind.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "I don't know what this person has to do with Guizhai?"

The man said coldly, "Is this what you should ask?"

Another human, "It doesn't hurt to tell you, not long ago, the Central Plains Dart Bureau escorted a dark dart through Taihu Lake, and we gave it down, and this girl was also robbed in the cottage, who expected her to steal our things, and killed the second boss with a poisonous needle, and now the big boss has issued a wanted warrant for Taihu Lake, if there is news of this person, reward twenty, no, ten taels of silver!"

"Why are you telling him this?"

"The people who run the hall are alive in the city, maybe they can help, the ten-day period is coming soon, that tuberculosis ghost is not a good stubble, and we can only be dead horses as live horse doctors." As he spoke, he glared at Xiao Jinyan, "What's the pestle, damn it, what should you do?" He added, "The brothers have been busy all day, and I have a treat for this wine." ”

"How can you let the three masters invite? ”

The big man said, "Don't mind, go to Tianxianglou to relax after drinking, you come and please." ”

"Uh-uh...... Drink!"

These people had loud voices, drinking and eating meat and fists, making the lobby noisy, and the previous Jianghu guests also lowered their voices. The other party is the green forest of Taihu Lake Water Village, this is their territory, as the saying goes, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, there is no need to entangle with them, and get into trouble. After a while, I checked out and went back to my room to rest.

Xiao Jinyanxin said that it turned out that the little red fish provoked the Taihu Lake Water Village. Although this Taihu Lake water village does not enter the stream, but it is also one of the 36 villages in the south of the Yangtze River, these green forests in the south of the Yangtze River, each has its own activity territory, and likes to hold a group, the 36 villages are in difficulty, each village has helped each other, provoked a family, is to offend the green forest in the south of the Yangtze River.

Xiao Hongyu killed their second master, with her martial arts, it is not difficult to escape, but it is not easy to deal with the thirty-six villages.

After everyone in Taihu Water Village left, except for the scholar, the rest of the people also dispersed, Xiao Jinyan stepped forward and said, "Sir, we are closing." The scholar lay on the table and said drunkly, "I don't have money to stay in the hotel, and I will stay here for the night." ”

Li Chengcheng whispered a few words to Qingcao, and Qingcao said, "This gentleman's house money is recorded in our company's account." ”

The scholar glanced up at Li Chengcheng, his eyes lit up, and he bowed his hand, "Thank you." Please ask for another pot of wine, then thank you even more. Qingcao said, "Drink the wine at will and record it in our son-in-law's account." The scholar took another jar of wine and went upstairs to rest.

Xiao Jinyan closed the door and cleaned the lobby, and then sat down with Li Tingcheng, "After a busy day, I finally have a chance to drink." At this time, the little red fish floated down from the second floor and looked around, "How many people are gone?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "It turns out that you already knew. ”

Xiao Hongyu said, "What kind of person is this girl, if she is caught by them and spread out, it will be a shame for the teacher." ”

Xiao Jinyan stretched out his hand to the little red fish and said, "Bring it!"

"What?"

"Ten taels of silver!"

"Why?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "Just now, someone spent ten taels of silver to buy your news, and you made me ten taels less silver, and you have to compensate me for this loss." ”

Xiao Hongyu leaned over and blew at Xiao Jinyan, "Well, I don't have the money, but I can repay it in other ways." ”

"What?"

"Qianli Gangneung. ”

Xiao Jinyan stepped back and sat on the ground.

Li Qingcheng haha, "The redfish girl is so interesting!"

Little Red Fish pouted and said, "Although you are very good-looking, you are not to my taste." ”

Although Li Chengcheng was not conceited enough to think that all women in the world liked him, he still couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

Little Red Fish said, "Not rough enough." ”

Qingcao said, "What about Xiao Daxia?"

Little Red Fish said, "My dish." ”

Xiao Jinyan just got up, fluttered and sat on the ground again.

Fan Wuchang came over from the backyard and said, "Xiao Jinyan, the work is done, why are you drinking here." ”

"Bang!" With a bang, a piece of silver fell in front of Fan Wuchang's eyes, and Li Chengcheng said, "I'm in for a treat, can't I?"

Fan Wuchang smiled and said, "Okay, you can drink as much as you want." ”

Xiao Jinyan called out to the loser and said, "Shopkeeper Fan, give me the money, I won't drink it." ”

Fan Wuchang had already put the silver into his arms, hit a jar of wine, thought about it, poured out half of it, added half of the water, and came to the four of them with his arms, "Come on, don't get drunk tonight!" Xiao Jinyan took a sip, "Why is it so light? ”

Fan Wuchang said, "Low-alcohol wine is healthier, I'll go to the back to settle the account, don't be greedy." ”

The three of them drank one by one, and after a while, ten catties of wine fell into their stomachs, the wine jar bottomed out, Li Chengcheng was also drunk, he held the wine jar and said, "Xiao Jinyan, we have been competing for more than 30 games, except for comparing appearances, it seems that most of them are won by you." ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "Are you not convinced?"

"Not convinced. ”

"They are all brothers, and if you don't accept it, you can bear it. ”

"I can't help it. ”

Xiao Jinyan clutched his stomach, "I can't help it." ”

Little Redfish asked, "What are you two comparing?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "Let's see who pees first." ”

The little red fish sighed, and was about to scold the two of them for being bored, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind, got up and got another pot of water, poured it into the wine jar, and filled it for the two, "Since that's the case, let's divide the winners and losers!"

The two of them held the drinks, "You invite first!"

"You please. ”

The two clinked glasses and drank them all.

The figure flickered, and the two of them performed light skills, and almost at the same time came to the roof, but neither of them would come first.

The two looked at each other, "Bear with me?"

"Bear with me. ”

......

A few feet away, Sun Buping and Tang Bujing wore night clothes, performed gecko skills, and clinged to the eaves.

After nightfall, the two hid on the roof, and wanted to wait for everyone to sleep, so they locked the door from the outside, and then burned the inn with a fire, but after everyone left, Xiao and Li began to drink again. The two of them dried outside all night, the spring cold was steep, and although they had martial arts on their bodies, the taste was not good.

When they found that Xiao Jinyan and Li Chengcheng were rushing here, they turned over and stuck to the eaves, thinking that the other party had found them, but the two stood on the roof and chatted, and they were relieved. The two of them stuck to the eaves upside down, and after a long time, their whole bodies were sore, and they relied on perseverance to support.

Tang Bujing whispered, "If it doesn't work, just withdraw." ”

Sun Buping signaled: "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan." ”

Xiao Jinyan said on it: "Yes, if you can't bear to urinate, you will make a big plan!"

At this time, two hot streams fell overhead like a waterfall.