Xiao Jinyan smiled bitterly, "Do you know that Wang Banxian also told me this? After I gave him three hundred taels of silver." ”

Li Chengcheng was stunned, "He took me five hundred taels." ”

"So, just listen to what the old god stick says, don't take it seriously!" Xiao Jinyan slandered, this old god stick swaggered and deceived every day, why didn't God kill him with a thunderbolt? Suddenly, he remembered something and asked, "Is the day of the decisive battle set?"

Li Chengcheng said: "On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the Double Ninth Festival. ”

Today is the seventh day, and it is only about ten days away from Chongyang, Xiao Jinyan decided to go to Li's wine shop to visit Li Qiuyi early tomorrow morning. At this time, when he was full of wine and food, he yawned and went back to sleep in the firewood room very consciously.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the little red fish came and knocked on the door.

Xiao Daxia has been in a hurry for the past few days, his body is tired, and he has no chance to sleep if he wants to, he opened the door and saw Xiao Hongyu holding a basket of xiaolongbao, and said with joy on his face, "Brother Xiao, I heard that Qingcao said that you are back! When did you come back, why didn't you call me, yes, I must have fallen asleep." I bought it from the east of the city for an hour, you can eat it while it's hot!"

Qingcao muttered in the distance, "It's obvious that I went to buy it." ”

The little red fish glared at Qingcao, who was very afraid of her and quickly shut up.

Xiao Jinyan rubbed his eyes, "If you come over in an hour, I will be grateful." ”

Little Red Fish said, "You eat something first, and I'll go get you some water." ”

Xiao Jinyan hurriedly stopped, "Early in the morning, you came to offer your courtesy, say, what's the matter?"

Little Red Fish said it's okay, I can't miss you. By the way, what about the gift you brought me?

Xiao Jinyan then remembered that before leaving, Xiao Hongyu asked him to go to Yangzhou Su Kum Kee to help her buy rouge, and he only cared about running for his life in Yangzhou, but he forgot about it.

When Xiao Hongyu heard this, he immediately lowered his face, snatched a bun that Xiao Jinyan was about to stuff into his mouth, and said as he walked, "You don't have me in your heart!" It's not your share!"

Xiao Jinyan said in his heart how to offend her. Seeing this, Qingcao was about to give him his breakfast, when the little red fish said angrily, "If you want to give him food, I will cut off relations with you!" Li Chengcheng saw it in his eyes, gloated with a face, and sighed, "Woman!"

At this time, I heard a donkey barking outside the door.

Xiao Jinyan heard Lu Gongzi's cry at this time, and before he could go out, he saw Baolu leading Lu Gongzi into the Xiaoyao Inn, and shouted as soon as he entered the house, "Xiao Jinyan, you are really hard to find here." Fortunately, this donkey of mine knows the way, what is the saying, the old donkey knows the way?"

He saw that there was rice on the table and porridge in the bucket, and he was not polite, so he stepped forward and swallowed a basket of steamed buns and seven or eight meat patties, and he didn't feel full, so he poured a pot of rice porridge into his stomach and patted his stomach, "I can barely deal with it until noon." ”

Li Chengcheng said, "Good appetite!"

Bao Lu scratched his head, "Thanks for the compliment." ”

Qingcao was stunned by the amount of food Baolu had eaten, and muttered, "If you let Shopkeeper Fan know that we are so bad at his food, it is estimated that he will be distressed and unable to sleep." ”

Baolu said unhappily, "I didn't come empty-handed, didn't I bring a donkey, hurry up and find a better butcher, and I can catch up with the donkey meat at noon." ”

was so frightened that Lu Gongzi screamed and hid behind Xiao Jinyan.

Xiao Jinyan said, "This is your donkey?"

Baolu said yes, from Yangzhou to Suzhou, I looked for it all the way, this donkey has spirituality, seems to be able to understand what I say.

"Then why are you eating it?"

"I heard from the master that animals with spirits taste a little more fragrant. ”

Xiao Jinyan had no choice but to say, "Don't hide it, this leprosy donkey was originally mine." ”

Baolu looked unconvinced, "You said it was yours, you call it, see if it agrees?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "Foolish!"

Bao Lu tilted his head, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Jinyan didn't have a good breath and said, "My name is a donkey!"

"No matter who you call, this donkey is mine, whoever wants to rob me, I'm not done with him!"

Xiao Jinyan didn't want to entangle with him on this issue, so he talked about last night.

After a little inquiry, Xiao Jinyan learned that last night Baolu jumped into the Shiquan River under the Daicheng River, and the group of black-clothed people chased after him, he came to the Suzhou city wall along the river, hit the wall, and ran for more than ten miles before he got rid of everyone, at this time he met Lu Gongzi outside the city, and grabbed its tail, Lu Gongzi resisted for a long time, and finally gave up resistance. Early this morning, he brought Lu Gongzi to look for him.

Li Chengcheng said strangely: "Zhao Wuji wanted to kill you last night, he must have known that you returned to Yixiaotang, why is there no movement now?"

Xiao Jinyan pondered for a moment and said, "In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, it's inconvenient for them to do it, right?" Although he said that, this reason was obviously untenable, with the power of Zao Wouji, he killed someone, and he didn't put Suzhou Mansion in his eyes at all.

Li Chengcheng asked, "Do you believe it?"

"Maybe it's for Jeffrey?"

A thought suddenly flashed in Xiao Jinyan's mind, the decisive battle between Li Qiuyi and Chu Crazy Dao was imminent, Jia Fuzi appeared, he was also a master of the Heavenly List, if he helped, I am afraid that this duel would be variable. Yesterday's Long Bridge assassination, what the Blood Demon Shadow really has to deal with is actually Jia Fuzi.

Yuwen Tianlu did not allow the variables that would affect this duel.

As for Zao Wou-Ki's deal with Xiao Jinyan, it was just for Wu Jing to carry it easily.

That's easy to explain.

However, all this is just Xiao Jinyan's speculation.

......

Li family wine shop.

Since the battle between Li Qiuyi and Chu Crazy Knife was introduced to the rivers and lakes, the Li family's wine shop has never opened its door. There was an endless stream of people who came to visit Li Qiuyi every day, and they were all blocked by Li Ergou.

"My family sells alcohol, not Li Qiuyi. ”

Li Ergou explained to them more than once, but no one would believe it.

Twenty years ago, Li Qiuyi left Hidden Yang City, rescued Li Ergou from the mouths of more than a dozen steppenwolves, and has taken him with him ever since. When Li Ergou was running for his life, he hit his head and lost his previous memory, Li Qiuyi did not dislike him and took him with him. After coming to Suzhou City, he opened a Li family wine shop, renamed Li Yinyang, and sold wine here.

Today, a few people who came to visit Li Qiuyi had a long face and hooked nose, and their hair was a little curly, looking like a person from Western Chu.

When the state was founded three hundred years ago, Emperor Sama admired the culture of the Central Plains, led the imperial family to fully implement sinicization, and changed the country's surname to Chu. However, there were still some nobles in Western Chu who retained their pure nomadic blood, and they did not intermarry with the Han Chinese, nor did they look down on shouters, but were only shocked by the powerful position of the Sama family and submitted to them.

The first person, exuding a majestic aura on his body, is obviously a person who practices martial arts, and the realm of martial arts is not low, and the rest of the people are like his subordinates.

"We came here just to meet Senior Li and ask him a few questions. ”

Li Ergou was impatient, picked up the wine spoon, and was about to chase them, "Don't see, get out!"

The man stepped forward and met him.

Li Ergou was annoyed and hit him when he picked it up.

Crash!

The spoon struck the head of the leader and broke it in two.

Seeing this, his subordinates shouted angrily, "What a big guts!" pulled out his waist knife and slashed at Li Ergou.

Bang!

Nahu was thrown three zhang away by the leader of the Chu State.

The leader of the Chu people drew his waist knife in his right hand and raised it diagonally towards the sky. The rest of the congregation drew their swords and followed suit.

Li Ergou said: "What do you want to do, this is the next tomorrow, don't mess around!"

The leader of the Chu people withdrew his sword and put it on his chest, and the rest of the people did the same, moving in unison, as if they had been trained countless times, and exclaimed, "Saha!"

Li Ergou was shocked and took a few steps back in fright.

This group of Chu people put their knives back into their sheaths and left one after another, leaving Li Ergou in a daze.

When Xiao Jinyan came, Li Ergou didn't raise his head, "How many times have you said it, you have found the wrong person." ”

"It's me!" Xiao Jinyan said. "Where's Shopkeeper Li?"

Li Ergou pointed to the backyard, "Since the last time you came, this old guy has stopped making wine, holding a broken scabbard every day, and the wellhead of the backyard is in a daze." I'm really afraid that one day he won't be able to think about it and will commit suicide by jumping into a well. ”

Xiao Jinyan came to the backyard.

Li Yinyang, to be exact, should be Li Qiuyi, was fetching a bucket of water, slowly wiping the scabbard forged from brass. The last time Xiao Jinyan saw the scabbard, it was still rusty, but when he saw it again, it was already glowing red.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "What are you doing?"

"Wipe the knife. ”

"But there are no knives. ”

"The knife is in the heart. ”

Xiao Jinyan stopped speaking and stood quietly on his side.

Xiao Jinyan found that the scabbard seemed to be able to breathe, and only Xiao Jinyan's special string force could sense this rhythm.

Li Qiuyi's movements were slow, as if he was wiping a fragile jade artifact. Every time he wiped it, a stream of internal breath poured into the scabbard from Li Qiuyi's body, and the moment the red gem at the top of the scabbard was even brighter. About half an hour, Li Qiuyi breathed a sigh of relief and put down the scabbard.

Li Qiuyi asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Pay back!"

"Where's the money?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "Money is in my heart." ”

Li Qiuyi didn't say anything again, and began to wipe again.

This time, Li Qiuyi wiped extremely quickly, and Xiao Jinyan sensed that there was a violent power contained in the scabbard, and if it was released, it would definitely be earth-shattering. Li Qiuyi said, "I know why you came, Wang Banxian has looked for me, presumably you also know my answer." ”

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Aren't you afraid of causing natural disasters?"

Li Qiuyi said, "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided." has been a turtle for hundreds of years, and there must be a break. He paused, and then said, "The old man practiced the way of the sword, and he realized the Great Chase Elephant thirty years ago, and since then, he has not gone any further, Chu Crazy Dao is a good opponent, if he can kill him, or die under his knife, it is always a pleasant thing." ”

Xiao Jinyan had already expected the result, but emotionally speaking, he hoped that Li Qiuyi would win.

"I fought with Chu Crazy Knife. ”

"Not dead?"

Xiao Jinyan didn't have a good breath, "What do you say?"

Li Qiuyi said, "You shouldn't do that." ”

"Why?"

"Because you have made him scruples, so that when he duels with me in the future, his sword will not be pure. Li Qiuyi said lightly, "So, this time, he will definitely die." ”