Even if he had expected various situations, after entering the Flower Building, Bai Ya's heart still began to pound uncontrollably.

At this time, he was very glad that everyone in Shiyangji knew that he was a rod and suffered from facial paralysis, otherwise, he would definitely not be able to hide those Hualou turtle slaves and swordsmen who were very sophisticated.

"Let's go up!" The two swordsmen standing at the top of the stairs took away the bone chopping knife from his waist as usual, but did not glance at the food box in his hand.

"Bai Ya, calm down, you will definitely be able to do it!" Bai Ya calmed down, and muttered in his heart to cheer himself up.

He walked down the corridor with the word "Hui" towards Room 8, but when he reached the door, the closed door made his heart sink.

Mei Niang's flower card has been removed, which means that he is late, so he can only hand over the food box to the little maid in the building for transfer. The problem is that the little guy in Hualou has a bad habit of stealing food, and if they secretly drink some wine, Baiya's plan will be all in vain.

Just as he was worried, there was a slight sound of conversation in the eighth chamber. Although I couldn't hear the conversation clearly, I could vaguely hear two male voices. One is the horse thief Black Tiger that makes Bai Ya hate to the bone, and the other is an old voice.

"The voice is...... Master Peach?" the old man's voice made Bai Ya feel very familiar, and the image of a sturdy old man quickly appeared in his mind.

There is a stone kiln called Taozhushe in the north of Shiyangji, but unlike the caves where the poor live, although these stone kilns are also backed by the soil slope, they are reinforced with kiln bricks burned inside, and there are thick curtains at the door.

This stone kiln has a large area, surrounding a large mansion with rare brick walls and cornices and arches in the center.

The owner of this big mansion is surnamed Tao, and everyone calls him Master Tao, who is a knife smith with excellent craftsmanship. The people living in the house and the surrounding stone kilns are basically the swordsmith disciples he taught.

Shiyangji has no arable land, no farming tools, and a small population, so it doesn't need a lot of kitchen utensils. But there are two kinds of iron products that are indispensable, one is the horseshoe used by the caravan for the big animals, and the other is the knife!

People who come here to beg for a living, even if they are fools possessed by the white cliff, carry a bone chopping knife around their waists at any time. The people of Shiyangji can do without food, but they cannot do without knives. People who have no food and no knives will die in the end, and the way to die will definitely not be starvation.

Master Tao and his disciples are very good at forging knives, so the business of Tao Casting House is also very good, so he has the money to buy bricks and tiles from the horse thief's shop, and hire people to bring wood from Liangzhou City to build a big mansion in Shiyangji.

Bai Ya heard that when the mansion was first built, there were several groups of horse thieves who secretly planned to attack it in the dark of night and loot the wealth accumulated by the blacksmiths.

It's just that these horse thieves go straight in at night, and they come out sideways during the day. Master Tao and his disciples not only know how to play iron casting knives, but they are also very good at playing knives, no worse than the professional swordsmen in Saibei.

The people of Shiyangji all said that if there was the first person here to die in bed, then this person must be Master Tao.

"Why did Old Man Tao drink with Black Tiger, isn't he a mortal enemy with the horse thief?" Bai Ya was a little puzzled.

Just as he wanted to get to the door and listen to what the two insiders had to say, a slender arm was placed on his shoulder.

Bai Ya was shocked, and reached out to touch the bone chopping knife on his waist, but he felt empty, and then he remembered that the bone chopping knife had been taken away by the knife man downstairs.

However, he quickly calmed down, because the person standing behind him turned out to be the melon-faced girl - Mei Niang!

"Shh~~" Mei Niang raised a finger to her mouth, she reached out and took the food box in Bai Ya's hand, and waved her hand back, signaling that he could go.

Baiya is in a hurry, it is a good thing that the food box was sent in by Mei Niang, but the problem is that the spare bone chopping knife he hid in the food box has not been taken out yet!

Bai Ya gritted his teeth, glanced around, and found that there was no one around, so he immediately reached out from behind and grabbed Mei Niang's arm and pulled her to the dark part of the corridor.

Mei Niang looked stunned, and didn't think to call for help until she was pulled into the corner by him, but she was already covered by Bai Ya.

"Mei Niang, do you like that Feng Gongzi in the Central Plains?" Just as Mei Niang wanted to struggle, Bai Ya let go of her, stared at the woman's eyes and asked in a low voice.

"You...... Isn't it stupid?" Hearing Bai Ya's clear words, Mei Niang was stunned again, but she quickly frowned and said coldly, "What does this have to do with you! Could it be that you, a half-grown boy who pretends to be stupid, have also learned to compete with others and be jealous?"

"Naturally it has something to do with me!" Bai Ya reached out to open the food box with an expressionless face, and pulled out the bone chopping knife placed under the cake, "Because I'm going to slaughter the black tiger tonight!"

"Kill the Black Tiger...... It's up to you?" Mei Niang looked at Bai Ya in disbelief.

However, just as Bai Ya thought in her heart, when she heard the news, she still didn't shout.

"The wine is drugged!" Bai Ya pointed to the wine cup in the food box, inserted the bone chopping knife into his waist, and covered it with his clothes, "The black tiger is alive, it is impossible for Feng Gongzi to take you away, otherwise he will be able to get out of Shiyangji, and his caravan will not be able to return to Liangzhou City." Only when the black tiger dies will you and Feng Gongzi have a chance to live and fly together!"

Bai Ya said as he paid attention to Mei Niang's expression. Seeing that her face was unpredictable, she didn't say anything for a long time, and then she knew that she had been moved.

"Now everyone knows that I gave the food box, and it has nothing to do with you. If it doesn't work out, I'll just die under the claws of the black tiger. If it happens, the horse thief won't be able to suspect you......" Seeing Mei Niang's intentions, Bai Ya suddenly struck while the iron was hot, deliberately stimulating, "Are you afraid?"

"The old lady is afraid of a ball!" Mei Niang was excited, came back to her senses, glared at Bai Ya viciously, and tightened the food box in her hand.

Seeing that Mei Niang, who was soft and weak on the surface, burst into a foul mouth, Bai Ya twitched the corners of her mouth and smiled.

Every girl in Hualou has suffered unimaginably from ordinary people, their temperament is more pungent and more resolute than ordinary women, and there are not a few who dare to use knives to cut people.

Besides, finding a man who is willing to redeem herself is the dream of every girl in Hualou, and Mei Niang is no exception.

Bai Ya is now forced into a corner, but if Mei Niang is willing to cooperate with him, the certainty of success will be greater.

"You...... Is it for the sake of that monk?" Mei Niang hesitated for a moment, but still asked softly.

"How do you know?" Bai Ya's pupils shrank, the people in Shiyangji may know that the monk had a conflict with the gangsters, but they don't know what happened, let alone the relationship between Bai Ya and the monk.

"Black Tiger...... He came in the afternoon, and in the evening, Old Man Tao also came!" Mei Niang frowned and said with a dodgy gaze, "Although they kicked me out, I vaguely heard them mention the monk and ...... Gu Lin Inn!"

"I see!" Although Mei Niang said vaguely, Bai Ya had already understood, and suddenly realized.

If it weren't for his idea to assassinate the Black Tiger today, I'm afraid it would be difficult for him to see through the strangeness here. No wonder this matter has developed to this point in just two days, and it has become an endless situation between the two sides, it turns out that there is indeed a conspiracy behind it.

There are not many industries in Shiyangji, and most of them are in the hands of horse thieves, mainly mule and horse shops, pawn shops, casinos and brick kilns.

However, the brick kiln of the horse thief is basically for his own use, and there is no business in ordinary times. The turnover of the casino was also very small, because the people of the caravan did not dare to go, and the poor people of Shiyangji had no money. As for the mule and horse shops and pawnshops, they are basically dens for selling stolen goods, and the contents are all stolen by horse thieves.

There are only three industries in Shiyangji that can really make money, Aunt Hua's flower building, Master Tao's peach casting house, and Gu Lin Inn.

The horse thief has used the brains of these three industries, but Hualou has a group of professional swordsmen, which is not easy to mess with. The swordsmith disciples of the Peach Casting House are not afraid of death, and there have been horse thieves who have bitten their teeth before, which can be regarded as an admission of its existence in disguise.

The last remaining Gu Lin Inn, although there are only two or three big cats and small cats, the horse thief is reluctant to take over. The reason is very simple, the small group of horse thieves does not want to mess with the two masters in the inn, and the large group of horse thieves does not want to drink themselves and be restless.

There are many horse thieves in Shiyangji, and no horse thief is willing to go to an inn opened by other horse thieves to drink, who knows if the enemy will poison the wine. What's more, if the horse thieves take over the inn, the small caravan passing by is afraid that they would rather be hungry than dare to buy the horse thieves' wine and food.

Everyone understands this truth, so although Gu Lin Inn has had an accident over the years, no horse thief has really hit it on the head.

"But if the person who hit the inn idea wasn't a horse thief, but an old man peach, then everything would have made sense. ”

Bai Ya felt a little bitter in his mouth, he, an otaku from a peaceful world, really couldn't understand Old Man Tao's behavior. Obviously, there is such a big mansion, why do you still have to focus on the small Gu Lin Inn, and even do not hesitate to buy the horse thief.

"What do you know about a little flute, the older you get, the more you like money! The old man Tao has so many swordsmiths, how much money can he save just by selling knives. ”

Mei Niang sneered and said, "He pretends to be a good person in front of outsiders, but the sisters in Hualou know that he is not a good person." Many of our sisters here used to be the family members of the swordsmith's disciples, and the man in the family was sold into the flower building by the old man Tao just after he died......"

Bai Ya was a little silent when he heard this, compared to these poor people, he suddenly felt that the fool before was living a very happy life.

"The poison in this wine...... Is there an antidote?" Mei Niang suddenly asked with some concern.

Bai Ya came to her senses, Mei Niang already knew that the wine was poisonous, and if she wanted not to arouse the suspicion of the black tiger, she also had to drink it.

"It's the black spotted scorpion, it's okay for you to drink less, the hemp will pass in a while, remember to let them drink more!" Bai Ya leaned into her ear and whispered.

"That's good!" Mei Niang breathed a sigh of relief, with a hint of determination in her eyes, and walked towards her room with the food box.

Bai Ya's eyes flashed, and he hid in the dark of the corridor, leaning against the guardrail with a blank expression.