Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Dragon Inn (Part I)
After Ye Lin's exercise conditioning, the cold and poisonous qi in Ashina's body was all drawn out of the body, and his face slowly returned to normal, and a little bloodshot appeared on his lips. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Xiao Er of the info shop stood aside, with a regular face, his eyes were fixed watching the whole process of Ashina's healing, and he exclaimed in amazement.
"It's so godly... It's really amazing..."
Liu Tianjiang looked at the shopkeeper with a surprised face, stroked his green beard, and said gently, "How do you behave as a junior second? But here you are stunned, and you do not prepare some dishes, a side room, and hot water for washing. ā
The shopkeeper came back to his senses, looked at Liu Tianjiang on the side, scratched his head, and hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll go now! True God," he said, the corners of his mouth still muttering as he walked back into the back hall.
Liu Tianjiang looked at the huge inn lobby, now only the five masters and apprentices of Ashina and them were left, and gusts of cold wind blew into the cracks of the wooden planks at the door, making people shiver from the cold. He walked around from the wooden table to Ashina's side, looked at this deep-set eye, the wrinkles of time deep on his face, and sighed, "Old, I didn't expect to see each other all these years, is the wind and sand in the West Sea so urging people to get old?"
Breaking through the ice, Ashina moved his muscles slightly, looking at Liu Tianjiang with a heroic face, the years seemed to have left no traces, except for a lock of silver hair on his temples. He stood with his hands in his hands, his snort was slightly steady, and he said softly, "After decades of separation, I didn't expect that Tianjiang's demeanor is still the same, and the owner... Ashina's eyes were filled with droplets, and after choking for a moment, a rare smile appeared on his face, looking at fifteen or sixteen-year-old Ye Lin, there was a trace of excitement in his eyes, and he smiled, "Lin'er... It's all grown so big. ā
Ye Lin looked at Ashina, who was stiff, he only knew that the owner of the village sent Uncle Liu to Jiayuguan to meet an uncle he had never met, and what kind of origin did this uncle named Ashina have, he had asked Liu Tianjiang on the way here, and Uncle Liu, who had taught him since childhood, did not tell him what he meant.
At this moment, he looked at Ashina, who was wearing a red robe that was already in tatters, but his eyes were a little dazed. "Uncle Shi, why have you lived in the barren sands of the West Sea for so long? Why not..."
"Lin'er" Liu Tianjiang, who was standing on the side, preemptively said, "There are some things that you will know when you know them." There was no deference between master and servant in his words, and his tone was unusually stern.
"Okay" Ye Lin was stunned for a moment, looked at Liu Tianjiang, whose face was slightly angry, turned his head and sat down at the wooden table, stretched out his hand to pick up the teacup, and shouted to the inner hall, "Xiao Er, hurry up and get hot water." ā
Liu Tianjiang glanced at Ashina, without wanting to explain, the two walked side by side to the wooden table in front of Ye Lin, he glanced at the more than ten white-clothed waiters not far away, and said lightly, "There's nothing for you here, let's go down and rest early." ā
"Yes," everyone replied in unison, and walked up the wooden stairs to the guest room on the second floor.
"The food is coming" The shopkeeper ran out of the back hall with hot dishes.
Ashina and his disciples took their seats on the side, took the food from the little second-hand people, and devoured it for a while. Ye Lin, who was at the same table, couldn't help laughing, and everyone then entered the room to rest under the guidance of the shopkeeper.
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In the early morning, a ray of sunshine swept across Jiayu Pass, and the caravan in the city had already packed up their goods and was ready to set off for Chang'an. Ye Lin opened the wooden window of the attic and looked at the rolling mountains in the north of the city, there was indeed a desert of sand in the west, and a caravan under the city gate was waiting for the city gate to open.
"Boss, you're back" The shopkeeper, who was wiping the tables and chairs in the lobby, looked at the man in the velvet fur with a fat belly and snuggled on the door panel, and glanced worried.
"Nothing happened in the inn last night. The fat man in a black velvet fur slowly moved his fat body from the door panel, looked at a row of closed doors and windows on the second floor, and shouted, "These businessmen are really desperate." Crawled out of the bed so early to line up at the city gate. ā
"Yes, but," said the shopkeeper, "there are still two groups of people who haven't gotten up." ā
"Which two, they are not a caravan of merchants?" The fat innkeeper said with a slight hint of suspicion in his tone, and his squinted eyes looked at the shopkeeper who was wiping the tables and chairs.
"Yes, but we're getting out of here today. Liu Tianjiang pushed open the door and came to the rough wooden corridor to look at the shopkeeper who was cleaning downstairs and the fat man at the door, although his voice was lowered, he still heard it very clearly when he was the owner of the inn.
"Aren't you a business traveler?" the innkeeper sat on the wooden bench that had just been wiped clean by the shopkeeper, and looked up at the silver-furred man who was walking towards the staircase.
"This hero," the shopkeeper looked at Liu Tianjiang at the guardrail on the second floor and asked with concern, "Did you rest last night?"
"Hero?" The innkeeper heard the innkeeper call the silver-furred man who was walking up the stairs like this, his eyes were bright, his face was instantly full of smiles, and he shouted loudly, "Are you really a hero?"
"The hero doesn't dare to block it, it's just a running river. Liu Tianjiang leaned in front of the counter, his left leg slightly bent and stepped on the wooden board in front of the counter.
"I don't believe this," the innkeeper shook his head, looking at the silver-furred man's body. "If you follow the caravan to run the rivers and lakes, now go to the city gate early to line up, waiting for the door to open and leave the city. ā
"Uncle Liu" Ye Lin walked out of the room on the second floor, and the white-clothed waiters on both sides of him stood on both sides of the wooden ladder on the second floor in turn. "When are we going to leave for Chang'an?" I wonder if Uncle Shi and they will go with us?"
"Last night, I tried to invite them to the mountain villa for a while, but he had something important to do to get to Jinling. Liu Tianjiang looked at Ye Lin, who was walking down the stairs.
"There are so many people!" The innkeeper looked at the more than ten people in the lobby and exclaimed, "On weekdays, the caravans in the inn go to the city gate early to line up to leave the city when the Jiayu gate is not open, for fear that they will not be able to reach the next resting city post before dark. ā
Today, there are so many people in the inn who didn't go to the city entrance to line up, and they are all dressed in white and velvet, so that the innkeeper Zhanger can't touch it, but after rolling in Jiayuguan for so many years, with his experience, he knows that this group of people should be people with status in the rivers and lakes.
The innkeeper was full of smiles, bared his teeth and walked towards Ye Lin, and said with a smile, "What do you call Shaoxia?" I don't know what you are going to do in Chang'an?" In Jiayuguan, a place where many forces meet, he has developed a bad habit of casually inquiring, always hoping that he may get more news so that he can make arrangements as soon as possible.
Ye Lin ignored him, walked to Liu Tianjiang's side, looked up at Ashina's room on the second floor, and asked in a low voice, "What is the urgency of Uncle Shi going to Jinling?"
"It's some urgent matter in the western kingdom of Yunhai," Ashina, who walked out of the room, had a normal face, without the slightest trace of yesterday's pale color. He walked down the wooden ladder, looked at Ye Lin in front of the counter, and said softly, "This matter has nothing to do with the villa, Lin'er will go back to Taibai Peak with your Uncle Liu early." ā
"What is the matter? Let you hurry to Jinling as soon as your body recovers. Ye Lin raised his head and asked Ashina, who was expressionless, "Jinling, is it Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River?" As the young master of the Swordless Villa, Ye Lin traveled to Mobei for the first time, and he had heard his uncles and uncles tell him about their deeds of fighting swords and rivers and lakes in the past, punishing evil and promoting good, and still remembered some place names.
Liu Tianjiang laughed, patted Ye Lin's head lightly, and said with a smile, "Yes, the place your uncle is going to is Jinling, Jiangnan." ā
"I want to go too" Ye Lin looked at Liu Tianjiang with a sad face and sighed.
"I'm not sure, though. A few days ago, I found the waist card of Jinyiwei in the east of the West Sea, and went to the Zhenfu Division to find out. Ashina walked down the wooden ladder, barely smiled, looked at Ye Lin and shook his head.
The lobby of the inn fell into silence, and after a while, Liu Tianjiang spoke, "Lin'er, how do you see this, it's a long way to Jinling, so we might as well go to Chang'an first." At the same time, I will send some people to Jinling to inquire about it, and then we can make the next step?"
"That's the way it can be. Ye Lin nodded, then turned his gaze to Ashina on the side, and asked with concern. "Uncle Shi, what do you think of this?"
Ashina pondered for a moment, and said in his heart, Liu Tianjiang was afraid that he would not be able to defeat Ye Lin, so he used himself as a lobbyist, so that everyone would go to Chang'an, and then find a way to let Ye Lin return to the villa. After all, the young master of the Swordless Mountain Villa was out for the first time, and if something unexpected, Liu Tianjiang would not be able to bear this responsibility. Anyway, when he went to Jinling, he also passed through Chang'an, the corners of his mouth moved, and he smiled, "That's okay, let's go to Chang'an first." ā
At this moment, Liu Tianjiang looked at Ashina next to the guardrail, and a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes. He coughed and said loudly, "Since everyone has decided to go to Chang'an first, then we will leave immediately." ā
A moment later, four disciples had already gathered beside Ashina, and they all looked at Ashina firmly, waiting for his final decision.
"Otherwise, I will accompany my uncle to Jinling. Ye Lin looked at the people in front of him and said excitedly, "Uncle Liu, you go back to the villa first." ā
"This is absolutely not good," Liu Tianjiang said categorically, "The owner just asked him to come here to pick up Ashina." I didn't agree with you, you went to Jinling. Besides, this trip to Jinling is bound to pass through Luo..."As soon as he mentioned the word Luo in his words, Yang hurriedly withdrew the words from his mouth before he could say anything, and did not continue to speak.
"Luo, what's wrong with Luo?" Ye Lin turned his gaze to the man in Yinqiu, and suddenly raised his voice and asked, "Uncle Liu, what are you worried about?" Although Ye Lin was in a martial arts family, he didn't know that Luoyang at this time was preparing for the eight-faction martial arts meeting held every five years, and all kinds of people from the Central Plains martial arts were pouring towards Luoyang. The Swordless Villa, which has always been low-key, never participates in these battles in the rivers and lakes, if Ye Lin and Ashina go to Jinling together, they will definitely pass through Luoyang, and it is inevitable that something will happen that the Swordless Villa does not want to see, but it is inconvenient for Liu Tianjiang to tell about this matter. If Ye Lin knew that the martial arts event in the rivers and lakes was held in Luoyang, with his cold and arrogant character, he would definitely want to see it.
At this moment, Ye Lin fixed his eyes on Liu Tianjiang, but the corner of his eye swept over the other white-clothed waiters, and everyone lowered their heads and remained silent.
Ashina heard the Yinqiu man talk about Luoyang, and he knew what was going on, and the awkward atmosphere in the inn lobby became more and more intense, Ashina laughed loudly, "It's Luoyang, but it's nothing, Lin'er doesn't have to worry about Uncle Shi, my body can recover after a period of time." ā
Hearing everyone mention Luoyang, the innkeeper's eyes lit up, and he said loudly, "Luoyang, Luoyang.... There is a martial arts conference in Luoyang that everyone in the rivers and lakes knows, I don't know this, and I still call myself a Jianghu person..."
"Shut up," Liu Tianjiang yelled at the innkeeper.
The innkeeper looked stunned, and was so frightened by the roar that he hurriedly ran to the door and hid behind the wooden plank, looking sideways at Liu Tianjiang, whose face turned blue.
"What?Martial Arts Conference?" Ye Lin was stunned for a moment, then a trace of cold arrogance appeared in his eyes, and then faded away. But he returned his gaze to Liu Tianjiang's face again, and realized that everyone in the hall had something to hide from him, so he turned his head and came to the white-clothed waiter, and said sharply, "Mo dust, ink dye." What is going on, tell me what is going on. ā
"This... This..."The two of them, dressed in white Mo Yan and Mo Ran, took the lead in kneeling on the ground, still bowing their heads and saying nothing. Ye Lin looked at the rest of the people with a cold face, and the rest of the white-clothed waiters beside Mo Yan and Mo Ran also knelt on the ground with a brush, pressing their heads even lower.
At this time, Liu Tianjiang's face turned blue suddenly, and his eyes stared at the fat boss at the door of the inn and said sharply, "If you dare to speak again, believe it or not, I demolished your broken inn." ā
The innkeeper at the door said timidly, "My Flying Dragon Inn is taken care of by General Feng, you... Dare..."
"Uncle Liu, you say. Ye Lin watched everyone kneel on the ground, and didn't dare to say a word. His figure was like the wind floating in front of Liu Tianjiang, blocking the angry gaze, and the two looked at each other in a line.