Chapter 6 Seeking Fragrance in the Smoke and Rain
Yanyu Pavilion is the most famous restaurant in the south of the Yangtze River. Whether it is the delicacies of the mountains and seas or the famous Oiran in the pavilion, as long as the price is in place, there is nothing that cannot be enjoyed. Those who can eat and drink here are not high-ranking officials and nobles, that is, martial arts celebrities. Because if it weren't for the fact that he was so rich, who would be willing to lose his family's wealth, just to go to the Yanyu Pavilion to live happily for a while?
So Shen Qiye wouldn't have come here.
But he is here now. Not only did he come, but he also ordered a beautiful woman to sit on his lap and feed him flower wine in his mouth.
Why doesn't he drink it himself, you ask?
A man has only two hands, one around his waist and one on his lap, and he has no spare time to come and hold a wine glass.
The blind man should not be able to choose beautiful women, so he directly asked the old bustard to help him choose the girl with the highest price in the pavilion. I've heard that expensive things are usually not far behind.
If there is much silver in this loin, it is inevitable that a person will become bad. But where did Shen Qiye get the silver?
Truth be told, even he didn't know where the money came from.
All he knew was that he had kicked a bag on the eaves of the house when he was running for his life last night. The contents of the bag were so hard that they almost caused him to fall off the roof of the house.
In the bag, except for a dagger large enough to cut the hemp rope on his body, was a large amount of silver.
He was surprised who had given him these things, when he suddenly smelled a faint scent. This fragrance is a bit like the epiphany fragrance planted in the Valley of Forgotten Worries, as light as clear water, if there is nothing, but it is easy to fascinate people.
He was desperately trying to find the scent, but suddenly he heard a voice. The voice seemed to be in my ears, but it seemed far away. It comes with the fragrance of epiphany, and it is also impossible to find a trace.
"The head of the Murong family is dead, and your situation is very dangerous. If you want to survive, just rush to the Smoke and Rain Pavilion before dawn, these silver taels are the ones to let you in and out. Remember to come, I'll be there waiting for you. ”
After finishing speaking, the people have long since left, and the fragrance of flowers has dissipated.
No matter how smart Shen Qiye's nose was, he couldn't smell the sporadic remnants of that fragrance anymore. When he suddenly came to his senses, he suddenly felt that his heart was empty, and he was a little stunned.
"Who the hell is she? Why did she help me? She asked me to go to the Yanyu Pavilion, would she really come to me?" These were the three questions that Shen Qiye was thinking about at the moment.
He didn't even think about whether this was a good game, whether the Smoke and Rain Pavilion would be in danger, why the owner of the voice knew that he needed a dagger to cut the rope.
And he really rushed to the Smoke and Rain Pavilion before dawn.
He didn't know what was wrong with him, but he knew that he had remembered the voice, the faint scent of the epiphany on the man. As long as she was nearby, Shen Qiye guaranteed that she would be able to recognize her immediately. But he sat from early morning until noon, and still did not wait for anyone to come here.
For the first time in his life, he was so irritable, so Shen Qiye simply called the wine beauty, and he also wondered why he became like this. However, at this moment, there is wine in the throat and a beautiful woman in the arms, and the rest of the miscellaneous things are naturally unimportant.
But he pricked up his ears to distinguish the sound in the Smoke and Rain Pavilion for a few hours, and he would hear some big things.
After entering the Smoke and Rain Pavilion from Shen Qiye, the upstairs and downstairs were gradually filled with people. And those sitting on the second floor like him are mostly some magnificent people with heads and faces in the martial arts. Liu Sanqing, the head of the Diancang faction, just led the disciples to sit down at the adjacent table, and Tang Yi, the second son of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, took the seat at the opposite table with his entourage. A moment later, there were still several elders of the major sects entering the pavilion one after another. The Smoke and Rain Pavilion was originally not small, but after these people came in, it would inevitably become crowded. Those who came later, whose reputation was not prosperous, could only squeeze into a table with other sects, and their faces were somewhat unbearable.
These people spent hours boasting or flattering. Shen Qiye listened to it for a few hours. However, what he listened to was not these nonsense, but the purpose of these sect masters' trip.
From sunrise to noon, they did nothing more than one thing. Sunless City.
In recent years, Sunless City has become more and more rampant in the underworld, because more and more masters have begun to seek the protection of Sunless City after murder, and the price of protection is to do things for Sunless City. The cycle continues, and the more handles the Sunless City has, the larger the number of slaves it has. And the Sunless City Lord, who personally planned all this, is even more mysterious, and the horror of his supreme killing move "Dry Hands and Heart" has been deified by the people of the rivers and lakes into a fallacy such as a powerful ghost asking for his life.
But although there are many rumors, few people dare to say that they have really met the Sunless City Lord. For those who have seen him have indeed had their hearts removed.
Sunless City owes too much blood debt, and even Hanyue Zhenren, the head of the Kunlun faction, was cut in the wing of the inn last month by a killer in Sunless City who is good at using iron hooks. But although the debt is there, no sect really dares to ask for it.
Recently, it has been rumored that every year on July 15, the day when all ghosts come into the world. It was the day when the city opened its "gates" and released the assassination list to the "people" in the city. At that time, the lord of the city will also appear in front of the "people", and by the way, he will distribute dividends to all the "businesses" of previous years.
And this year, the location of the city gate was chosen in the poetic and dreamy Jiangnan.
Now that the Midyear Festival is approaching, all the major sects gathered here, wanting to gather everyone's strength to break the city. There are also some heroes who also gather here, after all, if you can kill the dry hands and pluck the heart, even if you can't earn the favor of the Kunlun faction, you won't have to run away from being famous.
As for Shen Qiye, he actually knew more about Sunless City, and his grudge was even greater. At the beginning of the establishment of the city, Wuri City was just a small hall of forty or fifty people, and Li Xinyue happened to follow the case of the Shen family in the capital when he was tracking them down, and then Shen Qiye entered the Valley of Forgotten Worries. Therefore, the revenge of more than a dozen lives in the Shen Mansion, Shen Qiye decided to find the Wuri City Report.
But of course he won't go with these people, after all, it's too brainless to come up with a way to gather everyone's strength.
If the right time can't be found, who can subvert the current Sunless City?
Shen Qiye didn't plan to listen to it anymore. Today, the people he was waiting for did not come, but a large group of irrelevant people came. So now he can only drink and flirt with the woman in his arms, and leave his worries behind for a while.
But Tang Yi, the second young master of the Tang Sect, suddenly called him back with a "soul chasing son". Shen Qiye thought that he was recognized, and was about to slip away, but found that this Tang Yi was probably just talking.
"I heard that there have been several powerful characters on the rivers and lakes recently, and I remember that there is a ...... called 'Soul Chaser'. It is rumored that he actually killed He Yunsheng and Lost Wanhuashou with only one nail. The method is so ruthless, I think he must be the killer of Sunless City Xinna. Tang Yi said while playing with his delicate folding fan.
Not long after Kunlun Elder Xuan Yuzi and his disciples entered the pavilion, they couldn't find a seat to sit down. Hearing Tang Yi's boastful talk, he smiled sarcastically: "Second Young Master Tang doesn't see that this soul-chasing son's nails are too powerful, and I'm afraid that he will rob you of the name of the number one secret weapon family in the Tang Sect, right?
Tang Yi was obviously poked in the sore spot, and said coldly: "Xuan Yuzi, your senior brother's bones are not cold, you don't want to avenge Hanyue Zhenren, but have the leisure to excuse a killer? Heh, I almost forgot, once Hanyue Zhenren dies, who can compete with you for the position of the head of Kunlun? No wonder you can sit back and relax, and even connive at Wuri City! It seems that you have been on the rise since then, congratulations." ”
Xuan Yuzi is an elder of the faction, and it is already a loss of face to have no place to sit. Now that he has been slandered by Tang Ergongzi's evil words, how can he not be angry?
"Tang Yi! Shut up for me! I thought you were a junior and didn't care about you, but now according to your meaning, can I still connive at someone to kill my senior brother?" Xuan Yuzi said, and then raised the dust and swept Tang Yi's door.
"Let the old man understand it today, your Tang Sect's secret weapon!"
A cold light suddenly flashed in Tang Yi's eyes, and he opened his folding fan completely. At this moment, Xuan Yuzi saw clearly that Tang Yi had more than a dozen strange hidden weapons hidden in a small folding fan. He wanted to hide, but it was too late to recover.
Although Tang Yi has the upper hand, if he insists on making a move at this moment, the front door will definitely be hit by the dust, no matter how it is counted, it will be a lose-lose situation. But he also didn't have time to hide.
At the last moment, the hilt of a sword suddenly pressed against the edge of his folding fan. In just an instant, his Tang Sect Divine Soldier was actually closed! The owner of the sword didn't have the intention of stopping, so he turned his hand and drew his sword to cut off the dust of Xuanyuzi!
Liu San slowly withdrew his sword, sighed, and said, "The two of you are both the best of my decency, don't hurt your harmony for the battle of words." Otherwise, it will inevitably make the thieves of Sunless City see the jokes. ”
No one present dared to say a word more, just because the sword just now was too fast, and it convinced many people.
Liu Sanqing said again: "But what Tang Shao said is not unreasonable, this soul-chasing prince is really not to be underestimated, if you meet it, you should still ask the details, so as not to make the Sunless City like a tiger with wings." ”
Shen Qiye listened to it and wanted to laugh very much, don't these people even use their brains to think about it, and they like to convict people? He Yunsheng is He Wei's younger brother, and he is also one of the sources of wealth for the operation of Sunless City. Wuri City asked the killers in the city to cut off his own financial route, wouldn't it be enough to have nothing to do? And Tang Yi didn't need to get along with him, because he was determined not to snatch away the name of the Tang Sect's number one secret weapon in the world. His soul chasing nail has always been shot in front of the enemy, and it has nothing to do with the secret weapon, but no one can see when he made it.
But as a martial arts celebrity, who doesn't like to compete for these fames?
I only heard Tang Yi say again: "Senior Liu is still reasonable, but I heard that this soul-chasing son is a murderer." Early this morning, there were rumors that he had killed the head of the Murong Mansion in Jiangnan again, and he was killed by another nail! Poor Miss Murong Family, she had no father at such a young age, and she didn't know who would take care of her in the future. ”
Calling a senior instead of a leader, Tang Yi's set of almost thoughts is comparable to Sima Zhao.
However, his words surprised Shen Qiye, when he just woke up last night, Master Murong was fine, could it really be the same as what the mysterious woman said, Master Murong died last night? But after he was kidnapped by Murong Youhua yesterday, he didn't have time to do anything else except rush to the cave and escape. Why did the mysterious woman and Tang Yi both say that it seemed that Master Murong's death had nothing to do with him? And Murong You, that girl, how is she now?
Thinking about things is fascinating, and often forgets to drink, and will also snub the woman in his arms. But Shen Qiye didn't care, he couldn't get used to drinking such expensive wine, and he definitely didn't like such a woman who scratched his head and posed.
The reason why he found a beauty to accompany her was probably just to relieve the tension he had been nervous in the past few days. It's the same with drinking.
But suddenly he couldn't flirt or drink, and he even pushed the beauty to the chair next to him. For he found that an old acquaintance had come to him again, and if he did not push the beauty away, that man's dagger would probably be able to cut through the thin waist of the water snake.
After Shen Qiye pushed the person away, he completely ignored the stunned expression on her face. Instead, he turned around and grabbed Murong You's wrist again, which had rushed in front of him, and said, "Didn't I tell you that you can't kill me like this?"
Murong You finally broke out at this moment. "Even if I can't kill you, I will fight with you, don't want to get out of the Smoke and Rain Pavilion alive today!"
Shen Qiye scratched his head and said, "I know you definitely don't believe it, but I still want to tell you that I didn't kill the head of the Murong family." ”
"What's the matter, there are times when you dare to do it and don't dare to do it?" Murong You laughed angrily and said.
As soon as she said this, Shen Qiye secretly said that it was not good.