Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Wind Rises
There was wind outside the window, and there were people in the noodle shop.
Gu Qingci came in, and naturally he was also seen by those big men, they originally thought that Gu Qingci would leave with the same interest as the previous guests, and they couldn't see anything to do, but it turned out to be the opposite, Gu Qingci actually came in, and they didn't exist, which made them annoyed.
"Bang"
The table in front of Gu Qingci was kicked over by a big man, and he yelled viciously: "Boy, there is no business here today, if you are interested, you will get rid of Lao Tzu, otherwise, you will feel better." β
Gu Qingci was carrying the teapot and preparing to pour water, but he hadn't poured it out yet, at this moment, he froze, the tilted teapot, a little bit of tea slowly flowed out, and all fell to the ground, he didn't seem to see it, nor did he look at the big man, but just said lightly: "If I accept the teapot and can't drink the tea, I will drink human blood!"
"Damn, boy, you're trying to die!"
The big man took out a big knife from his waist and slashed at Gu Qingci with a single sword.
Before Gu Qing's resignation, Changling County had a characteristic, the people here, aside from the ordinary people, were unreasonable, because, in this place, if you want to get out of the way, the truth will not work, most of the people here are licking blood from the knife edge to live, gangs and rivers and lakes, but, since the collapse of the two clans and a gang, the people of Changling County know the character of Gu Qingci in the iron-blooded county, no one dares to mess around, let alone dare to use a knife against Gu Qingci, then these people can only be bandits, but these people are wearing armor and knives, thinking about it, they should be ruffians, foreign ruffiansγ
Gu Qingci was still carrying the teapot and didn't move.
Just when the big knife almost touched Gu Qingci's forehead, it paused, the soldier paused, and then, his mouth opened for a moment, wanting to say something, but before he could make a sound, he was swallowed back by a mouthful of blood, fell to the ground with a "poof", twitched a few times, and then stopped moving, a red line split on his neck, and slowly soaked out blood, and at the same time, a chopstick fell to the ground.
This scene completely calmed everyone.
"The Third ......"
Several soldiers shouted, hurriedly rushed over, and surrounded Gu Qingci, among which the leader drew his knife out of the sheath and roared angrily: "Boy, do you know who we are, you actually dare to kill people, Lao Tzu will destroy your whole family." β
Several soldiers and ruffians worked together, this is a tacit understanding cultivated over the years, and the speed is also very fast, up, middle and down, front and back, left and right, all roads are sealed, and Gu Qingci is blocked to the death, this is also a formation in the army, which is specially used to deal with masters, or those generals and the like.
This kind of knife formation, Gu Qingci has seen it in the barracks, and he has thought of many ways to crack it, but the road is simple, but it is this kind of extremely simple knife formation that makes Gu Qingci helpless, and he can't find any flaws......
forced him to use his sword.
A sword came out of the black cloth bag, an ink sword, about three feet long, black throughout, appeared very abruptly, and no one could see how it appeared, and they didn't have time to react, a few black lights flashed out, and only the sound of weapons colliding.
It was also this sound, accompanied by the leading soldier ruffian flew out, fell directly on the street outside the tavern, spit out a mouthful of blood fiercely, looked at Gu Qingci in the tavern in horror, got up in a panic and ran, without dragging mud and water at all.
And Gu Qingci slowly stood up with his sword, he was also a little surprised, and muttered: "You can still block my sword......
At the moment when Gu Qingci stood up, the five or six ruffians holding knives all fell, and a red line appeared on everyone's neck, and their eyes widened, and they couldn't bat at each other.
Gu Qingci didn't rush to chase and kill that ruffian, because he had more important things, he wanted to eat noodles, and he was hungry. Picked up a cloth from the ground, gently wiped the ink sword, changed the table and sat down, and said without raising his head: "Boss, today, I will kill for you, you have to add some green onions to me, if you don't want money for coriander, you can also get me some." β
In this place in Changling County before, killing people was no different from eating and drinking, although this proprietress was a woman, but watching Gu Qingci kill, she didn't blink her eyes, she had lived here for a few years, and she really didn't take human life too seriously, and she also knew that it wouldn't be long before someone would come to collect the corpse, and she didn't have to worry about it, not to mention, the county lords were all here, and she used the dog to take the mouse and meddle in her affairs.
Human life is no one else's thing, but money, she definitely cares about it, she carefully calculates it with her fingers for a while, grinning, and then said: "Master Gu, you saved me, I invite you to eat noodles!"
Gu Qingci is easy-going, and the people in Changling County respect him very much, but they are not afraid of him, including this timid proprietress, she was just a little shocked, but she didn't expect Gu Qingci, who looked polite and polite on weekdays, to kill people without blinking, respectful, a little tasteless, and became awe.
At this time, a group of yamen servants rushed in, and when they saw a piece lying on the ground, they couldn't help but gasp. looked at Gu Qingci in surprise, they were not surprised by Gu Qingci's martial arts skills, because many people in the yamen knew that Gu Qingci had personally treated people to exterminate the two clans and a gang, and not many people knew how powerful the Tao was.
Yan Bo, who took the lead, he was now promoted to the head of the squad by Gu Qingci, and there were more than a dozen ordinary errand servants under him, he was not too surprised, but he was slightly stunned, and arched his hand: "Lord County, this is?"
Gu Qingci raised his head, nodded to the proprietress of the noodle restaurant, and said, "You go and cook noodles for me first!" After seeing the proprietress leave, he turned his head, looked at Uncle Yan, and said, "These people, in broad daylight, bullied the people's daughters and were killed by me, you deal with them and find out their identities for me." β
Yan Bo looked at the proprietress who was below, and understood in his heart, and immediately beckoned the other servants to start cleaning up, and quickly carried the corpses away, he slowly walked to Gu Qingci's side, and said: "My lord, we don't have these soldiers in Changling County, looking at their outfits, they look like the army of the imperial border city, I'm afraid ......."
Gu Qingci frowned, he was also doubting the identity of these people just now, because the costumes were all the costumes of the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom, but they were definitely not the county soldiers of Changling County, and now as soon as Yan Bo said it, he immediately thought of the three princesses who were coming today.
"Go and call Ma Xiancheng to take a look, he should know. β
Uncle Yan got the order, and immediately turned around and went to do it, except for the sound of the proprietress chopping vegetables in the noodle restaurant, it was very quiet, Gu Qingci didn't speak, he stood up and held the long sword in his hand, looked out of the door, and said softly: "The wind is rising, it's going to snow!"
It seemed that in order to cater to Gu Qingci, a gust of wind blew in his face, cold as frost, and the snow continued to fall like reeds, and the snowflakes flew into the noodle shop from outside the door, and the wind and snow whistled.
At the same time, there was a rush of horses' hooves, and the sound of footsteps, and through the snow curtain, you could see that the tavern was blocked, and it was full of armored soldiers!