Chapter 18: The Inn
"Rest in the inn!" the carriage walked slowly, as if a long time had passed, but at this moment a shout was heard.
Li Xiuyu gently opened the corner of the curtain, in the wind and rain, a small inn stood in the wind and rain, relying on the dense forest behind him, at the door of the inn, a respectful guy, was standing at the door, shouting towards his carriage.
"I can't imagine that on such a stormy day, the store is still doing business," Li Xiuyu said in a deep voice.
"Let's stop and rest the horses!" Mo Tong said.
Li Xiuyu nodded silently, stretched out his hand, and waved his hand to the guy at the door of the store, who was immediately overjoyed, regardless of the wind and rain, and hurriedly stepped forward, led the carriage, and arrived at the door of the store.
Yun Ming had long been eager to stop and rest, and the wind and rain along the way still made him feel tired.
He hurriedly got out of the carriage and was the first to rush into the inn, but Li Xiuyu behind him stood at the door, waiting for a moment before stepping in, and Mo Tongsheng followed closely.
The six tables in the inn were almost full of people who had been blocked by the wind and rain, and only one spare table remained, as if it was reserved for them, and the three of them sat down on the table, and the man played up, and asked respectfully: "Three nobles, what are you going to eat!"
Yun Ming hurriedly said: "The two brothers and sisters are kind enough to give me a ride, I will invite the two of you to eat, whatever you want to eat, you can order whatever you want, I will invite!"
Mo Tongsheng smiled and didn't answer, but Li Xiuyu didn't intend to let go of this opportunity, and said: "Little Brother Yun is kind, let's not let it down, man, what signboard do you have in your store?" The last sentence was said to the guy.
At that moment, Li Xiuyu ordered four or five signature dishes in the store in one breath, and he didn't know where such a dilapidated little inn came from so many signature dishes.
Yun Ming didn't care, compared to the inn in Xunyang City, the price of this inn was really small, compared to the original meal, this meal was really small.
Yun Ming had time to take a look at the people sitting in the inn around him.
Some people sit in groups of four or five at a table, some sit across from each other, and some sit alone at a table.
The young man who sat alone at the table, dressed in white, extremely handsome, with eyes as bright as stars, and eyebrows as sharp as swords, simply asked for a pot of wine, and drank it slowly, his expression was extremely lazy, and he pursed his lips tightly, as if this pot of wine could be drunk until he was old, but no one cared how long he had to drink it.
Among the people in the room, this young man was undoubtedly outstanding and different, just like when Mo Tongsheng just walked into the inn, everyone's eyes lit up, and this young man also attracted everyone's attention.
The food came up quickly, Li Xiuyu picked up the rice bowl and began to eat, Mo Tongsheng looked at Li Xiuyu who didn't care, and then turned his head to look at the young man in white who was sitting in the corner, he was silent for a long time, but finally did not speak.
Yun Ming didn't care, the world is so big, anyone can be hindered by wind and rain, he and Mo Tongsheng were eating, and they happily said this and that, talking about heaven and earth.
In fact, the room was not quiet, on the contrary, it was full of bustling noise, and the men shouted loudly to serve the food, and some of them drank a few taels of wine on the table, and began to talk loudly.
"Do you know, I heard that a big incident happened in the snowy region of the far north a few days ago!" On the table of the four or five people, there was a burly man with a meaty face full of mystery, but his voice couldn't stop saying loudly.
Yun Ming and Li Xiuyu's eyelids twitched at the same time.
Everyone let out an exclamation of amazement, poked out their heads, pricked up their ears, and waited for the big man to tell what kind of earth-shattering secret, the big man looked around at everyone at the table, and was very satisfied with the effect, and then he sat down on the bench, raised one leg, stepped on the bench, and continued: " I heard that a few days ago, there was a treasure in the Extreme North Snow Region, this righteous path, the Demon Sect, and every one of the rivers and lakes, but all the cultivators who have some ability, the Spirit Sword Pavilion, the North and South Iron Armor Fort, the Baoyue City, etc., all of them flocked to it, and all of them gathered in the Extreme North Snow Region a few days ago, and for a while, the Far North Snow Region gathered many good hands on the rivers and lakes," After saying this, the big man paused again.
Everyone was listening attentively, and the surrounding tables were quiet to listen to him, but at this moment, the big man paused, pretended to be thirsty, picked up the cup, and took a sip of wine.
Li Xiuyu's mouth chewed obviously slowly, it was only a few days before that day, but unexpectedly, the people had already spread the story, and the matter spread so fast!
The wine was obviously very spicy, and the big man grinned and took a sip, seeing that it had whetted everyone's appetite, he finally continued: " I heard that this treasure is eternal, the daughter of Emperor Yan followed a fairy called red pine nut to learn the Tao, and then cultivated into an immortal, turned into a white magpie, put firewood on a mulberry tree to make a nest, lived here, and later Emperor Yan burned the tree with fire, forced her to go to the ground, the emperor and daughter incinerated in the fire to ascend to heaven, and in fact, the mulberry tree was not burned, but became a treasure that has never been seen in ancient times, it is said that the mulberry leaves of this tree, after taking it, can make the cultivation of the cultivator improve several levels......
Everyone sighed and exclaimed, these ordinary people, for these cultivators, are very respectful, and in private they also use cultivators as after-dinner conversations, for such a thing, they are naturally very willing to buy it.
But Li Xiuyu couldn't listen anymore, he glanced at Mo Tongsheng sitting opposite with a serious expression, Mo Tongsheng also looked at him with a solemn face, and his brows were furrowed.
Mo Tongsheng finally couldn't sit still, she made a gesture to get up, but was suddenly grabbed by Li Xiuyu.
Mo Tongsheng looked at him with a puzzled look in his eyes, but Li Xiuyu shook his head gently.
Mo Tongsheng listened to Li Xiuyu, she pressed the doubt in her heart and continued to listen.
Yun Ming listened attentively, he participated in this earth-shattering event, but he always waited at the foot of the mountain, and he never knew the details, so he eagerly wanted to know whether in the end, it was his eldest brother, or his future master Lingjian Pavilion, or a big man he didn't know about getting the treasure.
The big man took another sip of wine and continued: "But is the treasure so easy to obtain? This great treasure must be guarded by a powerful and powerful person, and it is said that there is a powerful demon beast next to the emperor Sang who guards this treasure, guess what it is?" The big man looked at everyone and said proudly.
"It's the Emperor Girl Bai Que!" Li Xiuyu said in his heart, of course he knew that it was the Emperor Daughter Bai Que, he not only knew, but also fought with it personally, it not only fought with it, but also watched it force the three powerful elders to blow themselves up to let them be saved, he knew too well that it was the Emperor Daughter Bai Que.
Thinking of this, the colics in Li Xiuyu's chest began to attack faintly again.
"It's the Emperor Lady Bai Que!" The big man looked at everyone and shook his head, and said with a smug smile: "It is said that this Emperor Girl Bai Que is simply an out-and-out god of killing, killing Buddha when encountering Buddha, killing ghosts when encountering ghosts, and all of a sudden, the cultivator was killed by this beast, and there were few alive left." ”
"And in the end, who got the treasure?" finally someone asked the fatal question.
"It is said that in the end, it was won by the people of the Spirit Sword Pavilion. The big man snorted, and when the story was finished, the big man finally sat down and continued to eat his food and drink his wine.
After the story is told, the addiction is over, the addiction is over, continue to eat, listen to the music, and go back to their seats, this earth-shattering thing, for them, is just a drunken conversation, and they have nothing to do with it.
But Li Xiuyu frowned, his expression was even more ugly, after listening to the story told by the big man, he knew very well that most of the things that the big man said were right, only in the end, the winner of the treasure was wrong.
But here's the problem, as a person who has personally experienced this, it is not surprising that he knows this, and this big man, as a village man in the countryside, a dart master in a small dart board, he knows too much, and in fact he should never know so much.
There were only a dozen people who escaped from that Jedi, half of them were from various sects, and the rest of them all had their own belongings, and these people who witnessed the whole thing would never spread such rumors.
There is only one reason, someone is deliberately spreading these things so that this matter is known to the world, and there is only one reason for doing this, that is, the final winner of the treasure.
This answer is really life-threatening, and from now on, everyone in the world will know that three or four hundred cultivators have done their best for this, and the emperor Sang, who lost her life, fell into the hands of the Spirit Sword Pavilion.
You must know that those cultivators who go to the snowy region of the extreme north to find treasures and lose their lives are all senior brothers and junior masters, if they know that this emperor girl Sang has fallen into the hands of the Spirit Sword Pavilion, I am afraid that in the future, the Spirit Sword Pavilion will never have peace.
At that time, no matter how you explain it, even if the Spirit Sword Pavilion has a thousand mouths, it will definitely not be able to clean these things, and if you say that there is no treasure, they will never believe it.
Mo Tongsheng was also aware of the seriousness of the matter, and she understood that she was afraid that if the future Spirit Sword Pavilion did not give the families of these dead cultivators an explanation, they would never live in peace again.
Even if the people in the North and South Iron Armor Fort and Baoyue City believe in them, they are only a few powerful sects in the huge world, and there are countless sects, branches, and relatives in the world, and these people will probably only believe in blood and tears, but not in authority.
The Spirit Sword Pavilion was calculated.
This is an obvious fact, and now it is estimated that everyone's spearhead is pointed at the Spirit Sword Pavilion, and Li Xiuyu can't wait to kill this big man who spreads rumors with one sword.
But Yun Ming was happy, as the future disciple of the Spirit Sword Pavilion, he had no reason not to be happy that his master had obtained the treasure, but he felt a little sorry for himself, because Chu Zhengxing had said that he would share the treasure with him, and now it seemed that there was no hope.
This small inn, the business is taken care of by the wind and rain, people come in and out, and there have been several diners, except for Li Xiuyu and the three people, the young man in white who sat alone at a table, and a few people from the dart game, who drank some wine and were blowing loudly in the sea of nonsense.
Li Xiuyu felt that the young man in white was a little strange, but he couldn't say it, besides, this person had been sitting in the corner drinking alone, which made Li Xiuyu even more unable to see through.
Li Xiuyu and they didn't plan to leave, the wind and rain outside were so strong, and they were not in a hurry, sitting at the table, they quietly drank the tea in the bowl.
Yun Ming opened his mouth and said, "Seeing that it's already evening, I'm afraid I won't be able to hurry today." ”
Mo Tongsheng put down the teacup in his hand and said a little absent-mindedly: "We too, why don't we stay in this inn today." ”
At that moment, Yun Ming called the guy and asked for three rooms, and the guy took the order.
Yun Ming suddenly thought of something, and he suddenly said, "It's been so long, and you haven't consulted the two daimyos?"
Li Xiuyu and Mo Tongsheng were suddenly a little silent, and neither opened their mouths to answer Yun Ming's question for a while.
The names of Li Xiuyu and Mo Tongsheng are known to many people in the world, and if they say it at this time, I am afraid they will have to bear everyone's attention.
"His name is Li Xiuyu, her name is Mo Tongsheng, they are from the Spirit Sword Pavilion!" suddenly came from outside the door.
As soon as this statement came out, it was earth-shattering!
Everyone stared at the door with amazement, and immediately looked at Li Xiuyu's table.
Yun Ming was also stunned, as a quasi-disciple of the Spirit Sword Pavilion, how could he not know the great name of Li Xiu Yu Mo Tongsheng, he never thought that this man and woman who were kind enough to give him a ride were the proud disciples of the head of the Spirit Sword Pavilion!
Yun Ming looked at Li Xiuyu in a blink of an eye, and suddenly remembered an extremely important thing in his heart, a long time ago, in the middle of the night when he met Ji Wuyu for the first time, Ji Wuyu gave him the original secret book of the dead Chun Yuyan at will.
Chun Yuyan once accepted an apprentice in the past, called Li Xiuyu, but a few years ago, Li Xiuyu was successful in cultivation, but was driven out of the division by Chun Yuyan, everyone in the world was very surprised, even Li Xiuyu himself could not understand,,,
However, Chun Yu Yan is not ruthless and unrighteous, he asked for help from his friend for many years, that is, the humble real person of the Spirit Sword Pavilion, let Li Xiuyu worship under the humble real person, and now Li Xiuyu has been famous for a long time, but after all, he is thinking of the love of master and apprentice, I know that you are going to worship the Spirit Sword Pavilion, I tell you to mean that this matter has never happened to you, and you have never seen Chun Yu Yan, understand?"
He remembered every word and word that the beautiful woman said, and he always kept this instruction in his heart and didn't dare to forget it, but before he ascended the Spirit Sword Pavilion, he had already seen this former master disciple of Chun Yuyan.
Yun Ming felt something in his heart, and he suddenly didn't know if he wanted to tell Li Xiuyu about this matter in the near future.
After all, he would be sad to know that his master was dead.
After all, if he knew that his master was not as respectful as he was in his heart, but a traitorous villain, he would definitely be even more sad.
Yun Ming thought about it in his heart, but the figure of that beautiful woman suddenly appeared in his mind.
Ji Wufu.
Since then, I haven't seen each other again, and I don't know how I'm doing!
And Li Xiuyu's eyes suddenly became cold, he turned his head to look out of the door, squinting at who walked in.
It was raining outside, and the figure who had just taken two steps forward, there was no trace of water on his body, and he was followed by two gray-haired old men, one of whom was putting away the umbrella in his hand.
It seems that this is a pampered person, and even the umbrella has to be played by his entourage, Li Xiuyu looked at it coldly, and he was even more convinced of this.
This is a middle-aged man with a cold face, although his face is handsome, but the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes have been highlighted, and he is dressed in purple brocade clothes that reveal glory and wealth, this middle-aged man with a voice, as soon as he entered the door, he stared at Li Xiuyu and Mo Tongsheng who were sitting in the corner with cold eyes.
"You know me, but I don't know you!" After Li Xiuyu glanced at him, he looked down at the teacup in his hand and said coldly.
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the entire hotel, and Li Xiuyu said this, which was tantamount to admitting his identity.
"You don't need to know me, you just need to hand over the Emperor Mulberry!" the middle-aged man looked at Li Xiuyu Dao.
"Why?" Mo Tongsheng raised his head to look at the middle-aged man, and continued, "If you want us to hand it over, there must be a reason, right?"
"My junior brother died in the snowy region of the far north, is that enough?" the middle-aged man gritted his teeth.
"Your junior brother died at the hands of the Demon Sect and the Emperor Maiden Bai Que, we didn't kill him, what do we have to do with it?" Mo Tong said coldly.
"But isn't the Imperial Maiden in your hands?" the middle-aged man stepped forward.
For a while, Mo Tongsheng didn't answer, and after a while, she finally said: "I want to say that the emperor girl is not in our hands, don't you believe it?"
The middle-aged man didn't answer, but the look in his eyes became even colder.
There was a trace of coldness in the air, and it seemed that he was about to start doing it if he didn't agree with him, and the few big men of the dart game who were still triumphantly discussing the affairs of the snowy region in the extreme north half an hour ago, saw Li Xiuyu and a few people who had really participated in this matter at this moment, and cold sweat couldn't help but flow, and after Li Xiuyu and the others were in a stalemate with the purple-clothed man for a moment, these people finally rushed out of the inn in a gloomy manner.
Except for the three Li Xiuyu and the three purple-clothed men, all of them ran out of the inn as if they were running for their lives, and the handsome young man who had always made Li Xiuyu feel strange also walked out of the inn slowly at the end.
At this moment, the room was quiet, none of the six people were talking, and the silence, even if a needle fell on the ground, I am afraid it would be clearly audible.
Li Xiuyu didn't seem to care about it, at some point, a narrow knife suddenly appeared in his hand, this knife was very strange, there was no handle, there was no stilt, it was only sharpened in two-thirds of the way, it must be extremely sharp, and the blue light that flashed with the light on it did not allow anyone to infringe.
Li Xiuyu pinched the long and narrow knife, forked straight to the fruit bowl on the table, picked up a piece of fruit, and slowly put it into his mouth.
The pupils in the eyes of the purple-clothed man lying on the silkworm sword shrank slightly, he had never seen Li Xiuyu, but he had heard of his name, one sword and eight swords, one frozen snow sword was enough to kill people, and the eight knives that came and went without a trace made everyone who was against them feel uneasy in their hearts.
The purple-clothed man's gaze was fixed on the sharp knife, because he didn't know when Li Xiuyu would suddenly put the knife in his throat or directly into his throat.
After a while, Li Xiuyu suddenly spoke: "I suddenly remembered someone!" Li Xiuyu raised his head and looked at the purple-clothed man not far away.