Chapter 18: Luring the Rat Out of the Hole
No matter what, Bai Xiaosheng's goal is to find the immortal person and complete his writing career, but now Songmen City is clear and searching, the Lu family brothers are poisoned, the mysterious old man is searching, and the whereabouts of the sword with the nine-headed bird coat of arms are all seemingly inextricably linked to each other, and all things are entangled together.
"Things have to be done step by step, in short, the whereabouts of the sword in the hand of the landrat 50 years ago must be confirmed, and the best way is to ask the landrat himself. Bai Xiaosheng ate the baked cake in his hand in a few bites, patted the residue in his hand and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion.
Although the city lord's mansion is called the city lord's mansion, but the large and small courtyards are not small, and the dartle has ended the days of wandering in the rivers and lakes since he became a celebrity around Song Qingfeng, the city lord of Songmen City, and lived in the city lord's mansion, which is fifty years.
The dartle is an inverted bucket, and there is an unwritten rule in the inverted bucket world, that is, the things obtained by the profession cannot be in the hands for more than seven days, otherwise they must be returned to others, otherwise they will do this line of work after all, and they are more particular about this ghost and god. Therefore, the inverted bucket rarely makes his own moves, but accepts the commission, and the obtained things are directly handed over to the entrusting party, otherwise the things that are finally risked his life to get out will be sent back because he can't do it, so he will have to risk his life to send it back, in order to
The dartle is unknown in the inverted bucket world, and the dartle held the sword with the nine-headed bird coat of arms to Shiji to change the coat of arms fifty years ago, and it also became a celebrity around Song Qingfeng fifty years ago, saying that there is nothing between the two Bai Xiaosheng would not believe it.
But when he came to the city lord's mansion, Bai Xiaosheng made a difficulty, although the city lord of the twelve cities is also a person in the rivers and lakes, but after receiving the edict of the Liyang Emperor, he can now be regarded as half of the official family, as a red man around the city lord, the marble is naturally also in the city lord's mansion, but it is estimated that it is difficult to see, and the identity of the person who recorded the record has a transcendent status in the rivers and lakes, but it is still a little unsightly in front of the officials.
Sure enough.
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", Lord Rat, can you see it if you want to?" The guards guarding the City Lord's Mansion drove Bai Xiaosheng: "If you don't leave, I'll call someone!" Bai Xiaosheng felt familiar when he heard this, and thought about it, isn't this the line of the old man who guarded the door for Sun Lao? The lines of watching the gate all day long are the same.
Driven away by the guards guarding the city lord's gate, Bai Xiaosheng squatted on the side of the street opposite the city lord's mansion to figure out a way.
Naturally, the right path can't be walked, although Bai Xiaosheng knows that there are a few ways to enter the City Lord's Mansion, but trespassing on the official residence is not a joke, these twelve cities can be regarded as the territory of the Liyang Dynasty, if he is wanted because of this, it will not be fun.
There must be a bottom line in everything you do, and although the transcription person is pervasive, the premise is to ensure that all the behaviors you do will not cause trouble to the transcription group.
"But you don't have to go to the city lord's mansion to see a marble. Bai Xiaosheng thought of an idea, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
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In the forging field in the inner courtyard of the stone smithy shop, next to a huge charcoal furnace, Shi Kee master Fu Shi dared to take Shi Ji's four or five blacksmiths to hammer the iron.
"Keep your hands steady!", "Push your waist hard when you put down the hammer!", "Find the center of gravity of the iron!" "Cheer !!"
The hammer collided with the fiery red iron embryo and burst out of the red spark, and every time the hammer was smashed, you could see that the iron embryo that was burned bright red by the high temperature was squeezed and deformed by the huge impact force, and the iron embryo was constantly stacked to remove impurities and gradually formed.
"That's it for today. Shi Dangdang put the hammer in his hand into the pool on the side and soaked, the moment the hot hammer and the water surface came into contact with the sound, the water mist steamed, Shi Dangdang didn't care that the residual temperature on the hammer had not yet receded, and he inserted it into the waistband of his trousers, not afraid of the temperature that was enough to burn ordinary people.
In the greetings of the blacksmiths, "Thank you for the teachings of the master", Shi Dangdang walked out of the forging field.
As soon as Shi Dangdang walked out of the forging field, the blacksmiths began to talk to each other.
"Did you see it? Master Shi directly picked up the red-hot iron embryo with his hands just now!"
"What kind of kung fu is Master Shi practicing? I don't know if this kung fu can teach us. ”
"Horror, horror!"
Shi Dangdang returned to the rest hall, someone had already prepared tea and towels, Shi Dangdang took a towel and wiped it on his body: "Still no news of the ban lifted?"
"Not yet. It was Tie Xinlan who replied to Shi Dang: "The gate of Songmen City is still closed, and these days I am still checking the identity card of Songmen City, and I seem to be looking for someone to look at." ”
Shi Dangdang threw the towel back into the basin and snorted coldly: "Hmph, find someone." Obviously, Shi Gandang was very dissatisfied with Songmen City's move to purge outsiders, and seemed to think of something: "The person who recorded the record before was also looking for someone, could it be that the person he was looking for was the same person?"
Tie Xinlan shook her head: "The order to purge outsiders in Songmen City this time came from the mouths of the two deacons, since the outsiders are purged, they should also be looking for outsiders, and the person Mr. Bai is looking for is the marble next to the city lord of Songmen City." Shi Dangdang squeezed out a few folds in his head when he heard this, and if he had eyebrows, he would definitely wrinkle them tightly: "That fat mouse, what is the reporter looking for him?" Hearing this, Shi Dangdang seemed to be very displeased with the dartling.
Before he finished speaking, an apprentice ran in from outside the lobby: "Master, there is a scholar outside who calls himself Bai Xiaosheng, saying that he is looking for you to discuss important matters." When Shi Dang heard this, he hurriedly said, "Hurry up, please." ”
After a while, Bai Xiaosheng bowed his hand in front of Shi Dangdang under the guidance of the apprentice: "Master Shi has a bold personality and likes to talk quickly, so he won't beat around the bush in the future, and this time I came to ask for something." ”
Shi dared to listen to it, and the person who wrote the record had something to ask for? This is a good thing! The person who wrote down the person's favor is not so simple as being valuable, and it can save his life at a critical time!
Shi Dangdang laughed: "Mr. Xiaobai knows me very well, what is the matter, but it doesn't matter, as long as I Shi Dang can do it, I will do my best to help." ”
Bai Xiaosheng took out the sheepskin and showed the coat of arms of the nine-headed bird to Shi Kangdang: "I want to ask Master Shi to help me fight a sword." ”
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A day later, Bai Xiaosheng walked out of Shiji with a long strip of exquisite wooden box and a burden on his back, and went straight to the City Lord's Mansion.
"Why is it him again?" Seeing Bai Xiaosheng coming, the City Lord's Mansion guard frowned, but he didn't care, even if he came to look for it again, it was useless, because Lord Drought Rat was not in the City Lord's Mansion at all.
However, Bai Xiaosheng did not take care of the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, nor did he go to the City Lord's Mansion, but opened his burden and set up a small stall on the street opposite the City Lord's Mansion, erected a bamboo pole and hung a signboard, coupled with Bai Xiaosheng's Wensheng-like clothes, looking at the posture, except for the gossip cloth and the shaking sign on the table, there is a fight with the roadside to watch the hand-to-hand counting, but what is written on the signboard is not "Iron mouth straight break", but "The peerless sword is destined to get it".
There are three avenues in Songmen Castle, the avenues are straight and do not fork, one of them will gather together at the city lord's mansion, these days Songmen Castle has driven away the outsiders in the city, only the residents of the city are left, compared to the past lively and extraordinary, this day is a little quiet and boring.
In these years, martial arts and martial arts are not as rare as in the Moyang era, due to the opening of the arsenal of Emperor Liyang to promote martial arts, most of the martial arts exercises have been rotten on the street, anyone can practice, as for whether to practice well or not, it is a later story, and now only the magic weapon that can attract people's attention is left, Bai Xiaosheng has made such a play but has attracted the attention of many residents.
The residents of Songmen City, who came and went, were gradually attracted by Bai Xiaosheng's signboard, and surrounded the street at the entrance of the City Lord's Mansion with three layers inside and three layers outside.
I saw Bai Xiaosheng put a long wooden box on the stall, opened the box, and there was a sword in the box, the sword had no scabbard, and the exposed sword body was full of rust and mottled, looking like an antiquity, at the junction of the hilt and the sword body, the coat of arms of a nine-headed bird was imprinted on it, and the heads of the nine birds were raised to the sky and chirping.