Chapter 269: Coming to the Door
After reading the book, the address of [Wanbenshen Station]: Avoid the pain of chasing books!
At night, at the moment in the backstage of the most expensive inn in Baihua City, the shopkeeper of the inn is behind the counter and pulling his abacus to check the accounts, although his own store is the best in Baihua City, but it is also the most expensive, and the business model also belongs to the type that does not open for three years and eats for three years.
Originally, Jin Yu Mantang only agreed to pay for the food and accommodation of the shopkeeper and Guo Xiaodao, but here the shopkeeper and the inn played a routine, he let the innkeeper's bookkeeping still remember for eleven days, and in fact, thirteen people stayed today, which is equivalent to Bai Xiaosheng, who opened the shopkeeper, and gave the eleven days to everyone, and the final account was still counted on the head of the shopkeeper, and he lived as the shopkeeper for twelve days.
And the innkeeper also agreed to this approach, after all, there are a lot of guest rooms in his own house, not to mention that there is a gold and jade pavilion to pay the bill and is not afraid of the other party's tricks, in order to make more money The innkeeper nodded and agreed, but there are seven men among these people who look really bad, and they are full of unstable atmosphere, but think about it is the gold and jade pavilion to pay, and the gold and jade pavilion will not have anything to do with those gangsters wanted by the rivers and lakes, and I don't think much about it.
A vigil runner came over with a smile on his behalf: "Shopkeeper, I'm here to keep vigil." ”
"Hmm. The shopkeeper nodded: "Go check the doors and windows, yesterday the shop on Front Street said that it had found a female snitch, although it didn't run to the top of our heads, but we should also be careful, our store is rare to have so many customers, but be careful." ”
"Okay!"
The inn is different from other businesses, and sometimes the Jianghu guests who enter the city late at night play the top or stay in the hotel, so the little two who keep vigil must be all-round, will calculate the accounts and stir-fry, and have to accompany the guests to chat at the critical time, this little two is cultivated by the innkeeper single-handedly, and it is very reassuring to do things, and then check the accounts after the things are ordered, but when the little two turned around, the shopkeeper saw a cold light and immediately spoke: "You wait!"
The vigil Xiao Er, who was originally going to check the doors and windows, stood still in place: "Do you still have orders from the shopkeeper?"
"What do you have hanging on your waist?" The shopkeeper walked closer, lifted the hem of Xiao Er's clothes, and what caught his eye was a pig-killing knife with a cold light and a hint of greasy.
The innkeeper was surprised: "What are you doing with this thing?
The night vigil smiled embarrassedly: "Recently, there has been a lot of trouble in the city, bring a knife to defend yourself." ”
The innkeeper was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, looked at the guest room on the second floor, retracted his gaze and nodded: "Yes, it's okay to bring a knife." But be safe, don't fall asleep and send yourself under the knife. ”
"Don't worry, I'll put the knife under my pillow when I sleep. ”
The innkeeper shook his head, and the vigil boy blew out the lantern at the door and chattered while closing the door: "Who do you say those people are?"
Focusing on the shopkeeper who was focused on settling accounts, he didn't take care of the vigil Xiao Er, just dialed his abacus wholeheartedly, Xiao Er put the two tables in the lobby together, spread his own cover, and got ready to get to the inn shopkeeper, the innkeeper beckoned: "You come and help me take a look, I always feel that I missed a stroke." ”
Xiao Er looked at him a lot, and there were words in his hand, and he found the problem in a while: "Shopkeeper, our aged daughter Xiang is three taels and seven dollars a cup, and you have counted seven coins of silver here." ”
"Oh, really. ”
Xiao Er looked at the shopkeeper's pen and pulled the abacus beads a few times, and pouted: "I told you a long time ago, the ninety-nine multiplication table implemented by the academic official, you just don't listen, you have to hold on to the abacus bead by bead, otherwise you would have understood this account." ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a knock on the door that had just been closed and the bolt was inserted, and the innkeeper rolled his eyes: "There is a guest coming, why don't you open the door quickly." ”
The running hall boy who was keeping vigil hurriedly trotted and removed the door bolt: "It's coming, it's coming, is the guest officer playing the tip or staying in the hotel!"
The innkeeper was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and the pig-killing knife on his waist also slammed on the ground with a crisp sound, and the shopkeeper frowned when he saw this scene, this kid is usually very steady, what did he see to be scared like this?
The shopkeeper pressed the abacus on the account book to prevent the account book from being blown by the wind, walked out of the counter and frowned: "What kind of system! This guest, I'm sorry" The innkeeper froze in place halfway through the words, without him, because the guest at the door really appeared a little out of time.
A Jianghu guest dressed in white, holding a red paper umbrella, and a sickly face stood upright at the door, smiling at the innkeeper with a pale face: "I'm here to find someone." ”
At this moment, in the penultimate room of the corridor, the well-known foot Zhang Shanhe is sitting at the head of the bed with his legs together surrounded by the shopkeeper and Guo Xiaodao.
Under the double questioning of the shopkeeper and Guo Xiaodao, Zhangzhang Shanhe had to whisper about the affairs of the Wolong Mountain Hidden Soldiers, the affairs of his own village, and Guo Xiaodao's life experience.
"So you think this kid is the person you're looking for?" The shopkeeper frowned: "You're too hasty, there are only a few people in the world who look exactly the same, but there are many people who are similar, and their looks alone can't prove anything." ”
Foot Zhangshanhe shook his head: "This is not a simple whim, I learned some tricks from a certain master when I was walking the rivers and lakes, although it is just some skin, but I can vaguely see that there is something in a person, I think that this child has something exactly the same as Guo Daxia back then." ”
The shopkeeper and Guo Xiaodao glanced at each other, Guo Xiaodao looked at himself, and then looked at the shopkeeper: "Do I have anything on me?"
The shopkeeper stared at Guo Xiaodao up and down a few times: "It's time to change your clothes." ”
Although Guo Xiaodao's clothes are not tattered, they are not intact, the elbows and back are full of wear marks, and the loss is that the clothes are durable, and I don't know if the old Guo is prescient, Guo Xiaodao's clothes are made of very thick materials in key parts, otherwise they would have been full of holes.
Guo Xiaodao glanced sideways at the shopkeeper: "It's not that you let those wild thieves get it, those guys are full of nails and wooden thorns on their sticks, and if my clothes are scraped twice, they will be used as rags." ”
The shopkeeper asked: "You and those robbers at the auction together?"
Foot Zhangshan He shook his head again and again: "Don't mind, don't pull me and them together, I don't want to die so early, I'm at best a periphery of the periphery, responsible for drawing a map and pointing the way." ”
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
The three people in the room immediately shut up, and the shopkeeper took Guo Xiaodao to the door and leaned against the wall, and glanced at the foot of the mountain, the foot of the mountain and the river nodded, pretending to have just woken up and said in an extremely impatient tone: "Who?
A hoarse voice came from outside the door: "Me!"
"Who am I?"
"Who are you, you don't have a little bit in mind?"
"Ahem. Foot Zhangshanhe coughed embarrassedly, and explained with the shopkeeper's and Guo Xiaodao's strange eyes: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue." ”
As soon as the words fell, a series of violent coughing sounds came from the door, and when he heard this voice, he was stunned: "Why does this cough sound strange?"
The shopkeeper rolled his eyes. made an umbrella movement, and the foot Zhang Shanhe immediately understood, hurriedly took three steps and two steps to open the door, and saw the sick-looking Mr. Umbrella holding his red paper umbrella straight and straight at the door, looking incredible: "You dare to stay in the city!?"
Mr. Umbrella grinned, and blurted out another series of violent coughs.
"Don't cough, if you cough again, you'll provoke the left and right next door!" Foot Zhangshanhe lowered his voice and nervously pulled Mr. Umbrella closer to the room, half-closed the door, poked his head out and looked left and right, and carefully closed the door after making sure that no one was following behind.
Mr. Umbrella entered the door, and when he saw the shopkeeper leaning against the door, Guo Xiaodao's eyes lit up: "Ahem, there are still a lot of people in the room." Especially when he saw the shopkeeper, the strong joy and closeness in his eyes were about to turn into a pool of spring water overflowing his eyes, and the shopkeeper was creepy, and even Guo Xiaodao, who was watching from the side, felt his scalp tingle.
Mr. Umbrella tucked the red paper umbrella under the squeaky nest and hugged his fist at the shopkeeper: "Ahem, what is this called?"
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows: "You just call me the shopkeeper." ”
Mr. Umbrella was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, and nodded again and again, his eyes brighter: "Yes, yes, cough, where can I call my name directly, then I will call you the shopkeeper." ”
The shopkeeper's words seemed to make Mr. Umbrella misunderstand something again.
"How dare you stay in the city?" "Now because you are making a big fuss about the auction full of gold and jade, and you have also snatched the auction items of the finale, and now it is full of storms in the city, I guess the Ning family is looking for someone to arrest you all over the world, you are good, hiding in the city." ”
"Ahem, it's called a bang. Mr. Umbrella looked proud: "They would never have imagined that I would stay in the city." ”
The shopkeeper said coldly: "You know that I will betray you, you deliberately told me false news at that time?"
Mr. Umbrella smiled weakly with a sickly face: "What's the matter, I really plan to wait for you there tomorrow night, I'm here to find him tonight." As he spoke, Mr. Umbrella pointed to the mountains and rivers at his feet, and then said, "When I met you, this is probably the will of heaven in the dark, right?"
It was only at this moment that Mr. Umbrella noticed Guo Xiaodao standing beside the shopkeeper, and saw that Guo Xiaodao was stunned at first, and then looked shocked, and then walked closer and stared at Guo Xiaodong's eyebrows for a long time, and then turned his head uncertainly and asked at his feet, "Could this child be it?"
Foot Zhangshan He nodded with a happy face, and Mr. Umbrella gasped - followed by a series of violent coughs blurted out, coughing so much that the shopkeeper couldn't bear to listen to it.
This string of coughs almost coughed out Mr. Umbrella's lung tube, Guo Xiaodao avoided in disgust: "This person can't have any infectious disease, right?"
"It's okay, this person has practiced the kung fu of ten thousand yin phagogues, and the most famous kung fu is that he lives for a thousand years, and the more sick he is, the better. The shopkeeper looked at Mr. Umbrella: "Listening to this person's coughing sound and coughing frequency, this kung fu can probably be ranked among the first-class masters in the rivers and lakes." ”
Mr. Umbrella smiled weakly and clenched his fists: "Cough cough, pass the prize." ”
Mr. Umbrella smiled: "Since the shopkeeper is here, it will be easy to do." As he spoke, Mr. Umbrella blew a whistle through the window, and a gray shadow outside the window crossed the sky and fell silently on the windowsill.
"Bangbang. ”
The window was pecked, and when the window was opened, a pigeon covered in gray feathers jumped in from the window, and looked at Mr. Umbrella, whose big eyes were full of disgust, and he didn't even want to get close.
"I'm going to have to trouble you with a trip. Mr. Umbrella showed a flattering smile: "Please bring a word, so that the Peach Blossom Girl doesn't have to wait there, just bring her here." ”
"Goo-"
Mr. Umbrella frowned: "Why are you still raising the price?"
"Goo-goo-goo-"
"This is the only time, not an example. So saying, Mr. Umbrella took out a silver fragment from his bosom, threw it out of the air, and landed on the edge of the window frame with a question, and the gray feather pigeon swallowed the silver fragment with a bow of his head and neck, and flapped his wings and flew away, and in a short time it melted into the darkness of the night.
Guo Xiaodao looked confused: "This pigeon has become a sperm?"
"Ahem, this is a pigeon that we bought from Baijia Village at a great price. Mr. Umbrella smiled: "This pigeon is very human, and it understands what you say to it." ”
Baijia Village? Isn't that Xiaobai's hometown? The shopkeeper was thinking about when he would get one of these pigeons, and it would be convenient to contact the supplier remotely at that time.
"Ahem, let's get down to business. Mr. Umbrella rolled up his sleeves: "Do you recognize this coat of arms, shopkeeper?"
Rolling up his sleeves, the coat of arms of a nine-headed bird on Mr. Umbrella's arm was exposed in front of the shopkeeper, the nine-headed bird was lifelike, nine heads were raised to the sky, and the corners of the eyes were slightly upturned, as if mocking something.
"Huh?" Guo Xiaodao said, "Isn't this the mark on the sword we participated in the auction?"
"I'm weird. The shopkeeper frowned: "Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who we are. Mr. Umbrella said, "You must not leak what I say next, but I want to ask you one thing before that." Mr. Umbrella's face was full of seriousness: "Do you have the courage to face the truest appearance of this river and lake now?"
"What do you mean by that?"
Mr. Umbrella sighed: "The current rivers and lakes are just a scam, a shocking scam, and the only purpose of the people who created all this is to completely destroy this piece of rivers and lakes, not the kind of destruction that stirs up bloody storms, but the kind of destruction that truly erases the rivers and lakes from the historical record, leaving no trace." ”
(End of chapter)
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