Chapter 1 Tea Stalls
Jiangnan in May has begun to heat up. Knowing the cries one after another, it added a scorching touch to the bright and shaky earth. On the wide official road, from time to time, a team of horses galloped by, raising clouds of dust on the dry road.
At a three-way intersection, there is a tea stall for people to drink tea and rest. It was almost noon, and the tea stall was under a big tree, which was quite shady, so although the tea stall was simple, there were many people sitting in twos and threes.
"It has to be split fifty-fifty, otherwise there is no need to talk about it. Others are afraid of your Qinglong Gang, but Lao Tzu is not afraid!" A strong man 'bang' and punched the table, the already dilapidated square table suddenly fell apart, tea splashed everywhere, and a large plate of snow-white steamed bread bones rolled everywhere.
Several tables of guests around looked curiously at this side, and were glared at by the fierce strong man, and they were so frightened that they quickly turned around.
"Li Laosan, don't go too far!" A middle-aged scribe sitting opposite him also stood up, blushing and raising his voice, "Three or seven accounts, that was set by the Dragon Gang Leader at the beginning!" Obviously, he didn't expect that someone would dare to oppose their Green Dragon Gang's distribution.
"If the leader of the Dragon Gang is still there, I, Li Laosan, naturally don't have to say it, and I will be the first to obey his old man's arrangement!" Li Laosan glanced around, and suddenly changed his words, and his face changed with a disdainful expression, "But now, who doesn't know that the Blue Dragon Gang is a woman in charge!" He deliberately accentuated the tone of the word 'woman', and laughed obscenely.
"Shut up! Li Laosan! You are talking nonsense and spreading rumors like this, aren't you afraid of the Law Enforcement Hall?!" The middle-aged scribe was extremely angry, pointing at Li Laosan's hand trembling.
Li Laosan glanced at him and said leisurely: "Law Enforcement Hall? Hehe, I, Li, really want to meet for a while!"
"You...... Good!good!good!" the middle-aged scribe laughed angrily, stopped answering, and turned away with a flick of his sleeves, and several attendants at the adjacent table also stood up and followed.
Looking at the back of the middle-aged scribe, Li Laosan's eyes flashed with a fierce color, and he glanced at a lean man beside him. The lean man walked knowingly to the corner and raised his hand to release a carrier pigeon. Immediately afterwards, the group also rode away in another direction.
"There's a tea stall ahead!"
In the distance, four horses galloped, and the person who spoke was a twenty-eight or nineteen-year-old man, dressed in a black power suit, with a long sword hanging from his waist, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a lofty instrument, he turned his head and said to the woman beside him: "Senior Sister Nie is tired! Let's rest here for a while!"
Senior Sister Nie is in her twenties, wearing a pink dress, she is quite beautiful, a pair of Danfeng eyes are looking forward to life, and a tear mole in the corner of her eyes makes her even more coquettish, and she chuckles when she hears the words: "What Senior Brother Lu said!" After speaking, he jumped off the horse lightly.
The remaining two led their horses and followed closely behind, apparently as retinues or something. The sharp-eyed guest saw that his temples were raised high, and whispered something to his companion beside him, but the two of them did not squint, but just followed closely behind the man surnamed Lu.
"Boss, come to four bowls of noodles, and bring any exquisite side dishes. As soon as Senior Brother Lu entered the tea stall, he said loudly and arrogantly, attracting the other guests of the tea stall to look sideways, but he sat down without care.
"Okay! I'll be there soon, guest officer, you sit down and drink a bowl of coarse tea first!" The clever shopkeeper walked quickly to the table, tore off the long towel on his shoulder, and skillfully wiped the table, and then lifted the big teapot in his hand and slipped a few bowls of tea.
"Senior sister!" The man surnamed Lu diligently took a bowl of tea, carefully placed it in front of Senior Sister Nie and said with a smile, "First drink a bowl of herbal tea to quench your thirst." ”
"Thank you, senior brother!" Senior Sister Nie took the tea bowl, smiled, indescribably coquettish, and continued in the straight gaze of the man surnamed Lu, "I have been taken care of by Senior Brother all this way, and I really don't know how to thank my little sister." ”
"Where is it......" The man surnamed Lu swallowed his saliva secretly, and hurriedly humbly conceded, "Senior sister's words really made Lu embarrassed. It is Lu's honor to be able to take care of his junior sister, how can he deserve a word of thanks!" After saying this, he still felt that he was still unfinished, not enough to express his admiration for the beauty, and said like a treasure at the moment, "When I arrive in Liangzhou City, take my junior sister to 'Mingyue Tower' to have a rich meal!
"Little sister thanked Senior Brother first!" Senior Sister Nie took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "When you arrive in Liangzhou City, you will go to Mingyue Tower with Senior Brother to see it!" After speaking, the corner of her eyes glanced at the two entourages intentionally or unintentionally.
The two of them looked at the tea in front of them expressionlessly, as if there was something extremely attractive in the tea, I don't know if it was ten thousand taels of gold or a jade beauty.
"Then it's decided!" The man surnamed Lu was overjoyed when he heard this, the fatigue of this road disappeared, and the whole person seemed to be in good spirits.
"Guest, your face. While speaking, the shopkeeper came up with his face.
"Senior sister!" the man surnamed Lu diligently brought the noodles to Senior Sister Nie's hand.
Senior Sister Nie took it and smiled at him, Senior Brother Lu's bones instantly lightened by two taels, and his eyes were full of the woman in front of him, and he didn't notice that a young man in the corner was looking at him hatefully.
"Boss, pack twenty steamed buns!" At this time, he galloped over and shouted from afar.
"Okay!" Xiao Er replied loudly, quickly wrapped a large bag of steamed buns, and stood outside the tea stall to wait.
It was not until the tea-stall that the two men slowed down their horses slightly, and one of them waved his horsewhip and rolled over the big burden of the small second-hand hand, and threw a silver ingot into his arms, and then the horsewhip was raised, and galloped past, and soon the two turned around the foot of the mountain and disappeared without a trace.
"Aren't these disciples of the Iron Sword Sect, how did they come here?" asked a man at the table next to him in a low voice.
"Brother Ma, don't you know, I heard that a few days later will be the day when the Qinglong Gang will elect a new gang leader, and the Iron Sword Gate has a deep relationship with the Qinglong Gang, so I thought I was in a hurry to attend this conference. The other seemed to be well-informed, and explained.
"Qinglong Gang, isn't that the ......" The man before exclaimed, and immediately came to his senses, looked around alertly, and was relieved to find that no one had noticed them.
"It's not ......," the well-informed man said this, and suddenly lowered his voice, "The scribe who looked like before was a hall master of the Blue Dragon Gang, named Shen Moxuan, and one of the henchmen of the old gang leader. Since the sudden death of the old gang leader, several of their old hall masters want to support the old gang leader's son Long Yan to inherit the position of the gang leader. However, several other newly promoted hall masters supported the deputy gang leader Lu Zhan to succeed him as the gang leader. So the Blue Dragon Gang is now divided into two factions, and it is said that they have fought several battles, killing and wounding many people. Speaking of this deputy gang leader, he is really not simple, it is said that he and the old gang leader's continuation of the string Liu ......" said here suddenly stopped, and then I heard a gurgling sound in his throat, as if the man's neck was choked.
Sure enough, I don't know when, there was a sturdy young man about fifteen or sixteen years old standing beside the man. At this moment, he was holding the speaker by the neck with one hand and slowly lifting him up.
When the young man saw that the man's whole face was the color of pig's liver, his eyes began to roll and his legs kept kicking, then he let go of his hand and threw him to the ground, as if he were throwing a rag at random.
"The gossip of the Qinglong Gang, is that what you can say?" the sturdy young man took out his handkerchief and wiped his hands, and said lightly, "Next time, I won't have such good luck!" The threat in his words was revealed, and the body of the person next to him trembled like chaff, for fear that the young man would suddenly reach out and pinch his neck.
This young man who suddenly appeared almost strangled a man to death as soon as he made a move, and his methods were extremely ruthless. For a while, there was silence in the tea stall.
Although the shopkeeper was well-informed, he was also so frightened that he hid to the side, not knowing whether to come forward to greet him.
"Xiaoyi!" Suddenly, a woman's voice came, following the voice, a woman in her early thirties, dressed as a woman, was standing under the big tree, she frowned, "What are you doing?"
"Second sister!" the young man turned his head to see the woman, laughed, threw down the two who were trembling on the side, and ran over.
The siblings walked to a carriage not far away, as if reprimanded, and the boy kept his head hanging and nodding from time to time.
When they saw that they had gotten into the carriage and departed, the man's companion hastened over as if he had been pardoned, picked up the man who was still curled up on the ground and coughing, and walked away.