Chapter 7: The Hongmen Banquet
"Girl, please, dare to ask you two if you want to stay in the hotel or eat?" The shopkeeper saw Ji Menglan, who was carrying Huang Linzhan on her back, enter the store and went directly to the counter, so he hurriedly greeted him.
After eating, Ji Menglan had already taken Huang Lin Zhan in and out of several inns, but probably because it was late, all the rooms in these inns had been sold out.
At this time, the inn in front of him is already the last one on these streets, if this store has no rooms, then it seems that the two of them will have to sleep on the streets tonight.
In the inn, because it was getting late, all the guests who were drinking and eating at this time had dispersed, except for a table next to the window in the hall, where three men were still sitting unhurriedly eating.
The three of them are all dressed as scholars, and judging from their dignified sitting posture and well-organized attire, the three of them must be from a well-known and decent family with a bundle of management, and then look at the three swords on the table that are neatly placed and identical, then you don't have to think about it, these three people are nine times out of ten from a sect cultivator who mainly focuses on swordsmanship.
As for where these three people came from, Ji Menglan didn't care, but it was the slight aura emanating from the three of them that made Ji Menglan alert from the moment she stepped into the threshold, this is a unique aura for cultivators, and this aura is not very humanly felt.
Especially the young man who was facing him among the three, although Ji Menglan couldn't sense any breath fluctuations in him, it made Ji Menglan have to be more vigilant on the original basis.
This person does not have any breath on his body, which does not mean that this person is the worst of the three, on the contrary, this person is the most threatening of the three, because he is strong enough to easily control his breath without being noticed, such a level is at least the same level as Ji Menglan, a master above Xiao Chongtian.
After all, Ji Menglan is also new to this place, and she is not familiar with the place, and it is evening at this time, so no one can say what will happen in the next moment. During this period of time, although she was not sure whether there were pursuers behind her, in order to better protect Huang Linzhan who had broken meridians all over her body, she always felt that she was running around with Huang Linzhan on the way to escape, so she had to be vigilant at all times.
At the moment when Ji Menglan stepped into the inn on the front foot, the three of them also looked over, not because the three of them were curious about a woman carrying a teenager on her back, but because they felt the strong murderous aura emanating from Ji Menglan's body without any concealment.
Feeling it, the three of them were also shocked at the same time, after all, this murderous aura was emitted by a woman, and it was still a force that they couldn't resist controlling this murderous aura.
"Little second brother, do you still have a room here, my sister and brother passed through here and wanted to rest here for one night. ”
Under the warm greeting of the shopkeeper, Ji Menglan guessed that there must be a room left in this store, so she asked politely.
When Ji Menglan came to the counter with Huang Linzhan on her back, the shopkeeper looked the two up and down, and after his eyes stayed on Huang Linzhan on Ji Menglan's back for a while, he immediately shifted away.
Thinking that in the middle of the night, it was not easy for a woman to carry a young man who seemed to be seriously injured, but looking at the girl's breathlessness and blushing face, it is conceivable that the girl's origin must not be simple.
However, if he knew that Ji Menglan was the head of the thirteen hunters of the Tiger Hunting Hall of the Demon Regiment, then he would definitely not have the above thoughts.
"Girl, you two came in time, if you come a little later, then it is estimated that this room will be gone. ”
"It's best to have a room, then trouble the second brother to give my sister and brother two first-class rooms." ”
Although I heard Ji Menglan in front of me say that she and the young man on her back are brother and sister, but the commonplace shopkeeper is also a clear-eyed person, who knows this kind of thing? You can't say that one is beautiful and the other is handsome, so it has to be a sister-brother relationship! Besides, they don't look alike. So, the clever shopkeeper hurriedly replied: "Ouch, girl, I can't hide it, there is only one room left in this room, if it is convenient for you two, you will stay for one night." ”
However, what the shopkeeper said was also true, there was indeed only one room left.
"There's only one room left, how can there be so many people staying here in this Yancheng?"
Ji Menglan heard that there was only one room left in the shopkeeper, and she couldn't help but blush, and hurriedly opened the topic.
"Girl, don't you know, because this annual Hongmen Banquet is about to be held in three days, so many members of various sects and families who came from afar to participate in the Hongmen Banquet can only stay here for one night when they arrive in Yancheng when it is getting late, so these days, almost all the inns in Yancheng are filled with people who have come to participate in the Hongmen Banquet. There is still one room left in the shop, so it can only be said that you two are lucky. ”
"Hongmen Banquet?"
Huang Linzhan opened his mouth at this time, it was not that he didn't know about Hongmen Yan, but these things that happened to him recently made him have no time to pay attention, so when he suddenly heard the word Hongmen Yan, he also suddenly came to his senses.
The Hongmen Banquet, once a year, is a banquet set up by Hong Nanyang, the head of the Hongmen, in order to celebrate the victory of the battle and reward the heroes of the War of Resistance against the Japanese Horse Mountain with the Demon Sect Qidao Sect in Tianma Mountain twenty years ago, and this Hong Nanyang disappeared from people's field of vision after that banquet, and the new head Hong Dachuan has also continued this Hongmen Banquet.
This banquet is set up around the Mid-Autumn Festival almost every year, and is invited by Hongmen, and the invited objects are the Wang faction of the famous clan on this continent, such as the Western Demon Regiment, the Eastern Continent Qijian Villa, the Southern Tiger Laughing Hall, and the Mu Wangfu in Muwang City.
After the invitation was issued, it was up to these prominent families to decide which affiliated family gangs on their own territory to bring to the banquet.
Held once a year, the banquet was used as a celebration to strengthen the ties between the major powers, to communicate with each other, and to discuss how to hold the annual gathering of heroes.
And this group of heroes is actually a martial arts competition, hosted by Mu Wangfu, and the participants are the young generation of martial arts wizards from major families and sects on the Central Plains Continent to participate in and learn from each other. The intention is to inspire the younger generation to work hard and keep improving. The most important thing is to work together to resolve the big and small conflicts between the various gangs and the defense strategy against the Demon Sect Qidao Sect.
But once changed in the past 20 years, this group of heroes has also become a contest between the major family sects to show their strength, after all, if the youth is strong, the clan is strong.
Therefore, this Hongmen banquet is equivalent to the holding of the group of heroes for discussion, after the implementation of the discussion at the Hongmen banquet, this group of heroes will be held in Muwang City two months later, by the city lord Mu Chenghuang and other cadres.
This Hongmen banquet was set up by Hongmen, and the people invited were not necessarily the leaders of each sect, but after the invitation was issued, representatives of the invited famous families were sent to participate.
At the mention of the Hongmen Banquet, Huang Linzhan suddenly had a sour nose, and a wave of sadness suddenly came to his heart. Because not long ago, grandpa Huang Hongjin also promised to take himself to this Hongmen banquet, but now, this has become a promise that grandpa will never be able to fulfill to himself.
Mixed with this pain, Huang Linzhan secretly made an oath in his heart that he would find out the murderer behind the scenes and make his blood debt pay for it.
"Yes, aren't you two here for the Hongmen feast? No wonder you don't know the reason why the inn is overcrowded. ”
"That's right, the two of us are not going to attend the Hongmen banquet this time, but to go to relatives living in Xunyang City. ”
Feeling that Huang Linzhan on his back was not in the right mood, Ji Menglan hurriedly agreed.
"Oh, that's right, there's only one room left in this room, are you two staying?" or ......."
"Live"
Just when Ji Menglan was in a state of depression, Huang Linzhan on her back suddenly replied.
And after Ji Menglan heard Huang Linzhan's reply, she suddenly looked a little overwhelmed, and a layer of blush instantly appeared on her delicate face.
"Ah Zhan, will this be ......?"
"That Lan ...... Sister Lan, why don't we stay for the night, anyway, in the cave, we can't ...... No, no, no, Sister Lan, don't get me wrong, I mean...... I mean, this inn is much better than a cave, isn't it? Oops, that's not what it means, it's just ......."
Huang Linzhan explained, in fact, he doesn't know what he's talking about, and I don't know, what about you?
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"Okay, Ah Zhan, then let's stay for the time being. ”
"Oh"
Seeing Huang Linzhan stumbling, Yu explained that Yu made himself embarrassed, and said nothing in the cave in front of such strangers, so that Ji Menglan had to interrupt Huang Linzhan's words with a look of shyness.
It's just that after agreeing to stay in a panic, for a moment, Ji Menglan seemed to feel that something was wrong again, but it made her flushed face even hotter.
Watching the two of them communicate hesitantly, the shopkeeper didn't have any extra expressions except for shaking his head and then smiling lightly. After all, he didn't know how many times he had seen such a situation, and before that, he didn't know how many pairs of young men and women came to stay here, and he opened the "only remaining guest room" to others, and these young men and women had also staged this scene of Ji Menglan and Huang Linzhan in front of him at this time.
However, the three people who were eating by the window looked at the scene staged in front of the counter, but they all showed floating expressions, and then looked at one by one, making a big fuss about it.
Therefore, the second child in this shop should be the most calm person in the field.
"Hey, I said this beauty, if you think it's inconvenient to live in a room with this person on your back, why don't you come to my brother's room to live, haha......"
"Yes, beauty, come to my brother's room, I guarantee that you will lie comfortably all night, haha......"
The two voices came one after the other, accompanied by a shrill lewd laughter, although it broke the awkward atmosphere in the room, it did make everyone in the audience feel extremely disgusted.
Ji Menglan frowned, turned around with a strong sense of disgust and anger, and saw two men who looked exactly the same standing at the door, staring at her.
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