Chapter 36: Wrestling with the Parties (3)

Although the Penglai Inn is located in a remote location in Jiangning City, whether it is wine and food or guest room decoration, it can be called Jiangning first-class, the owner's surname is Peng, the name is shocking, and it is famous in Jiangning Wulin. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Peng Zhen made a double sword kung fu in one hand, and legend has it that when the first master of the Chu family Chu Cang's kung fu was not successful, he was also instructed by Peng Shopkeeper to make a few moves. According to some old people in Jiangning, this inn is the same as Peng Zhen's kung fu with one hand and two swords, which is handed down from ancestors.

But those old people didn't know that Peng Zhen had not practiced martial arts in Jiangning since he was a child, he only returned to Jiangning from Jiangbei ten years ago for funeral, and only took over the ancestral business three years later. Penglai Inn originally had two inns in Jiangning City, but it was a pity that Peng Zhen was in the period of mourning, coinciding with the catastrophe of the Sikong family, the Chu family and the Situ family began to merge Jiangning industries, and a sum of money was smashed down, and Penglai Inn was originally not well managed and in debt. In order to preserve the ancestral property, Peng Zhen had to mortgage the inn in the city to the Chu family, and the title deed was kept for himself, and the house deed was mortgaged for fifty years, which preserved this originally extremely remote branch.

Although the chef of the Penglai Inn in the city has not been replaced, many old customers, as well as businessmen who are good friends with the Peng family, will no longer go to the inn to dine or stay. Over time, the sign of the inn in the city was no longer loud, so it had to be replaced with "Penglai" and renamed "Yuelai".

In the remote area west of the city, the Penglai Inn next to the city wall naturally became the head office. With the large amount of collateral remaining after the funeral, Peng Zhen also took care of this Penglai Inn very prosperously.

"Hall Master Liu, if you turn around again, my eyes are dizzy. ”

The innkeeper Peng Zhen was in the upper room on the third floor of the inn at this time, in front of him was a young man with a red gauze tied on his left arm, this man had deep eyes, but he was only facing the long sword that had been wiped many times, and he was also equipped with a short sword at his waist, Peng Zhen remembered that the young man in front of him had never wiped this short sword in front of him.

And the plain-clothed and white-robed old man who was pacing back and forth behind the young man, his face was cloudy, and with this white, Peng Zhen really reminded Peng Zhen of himself when he was mourning a few years ago.

These two distinguished guests who live in the upper room are naturally the sword envoys of the Divine Gate Man Hongsha and Liu Su, the master of the Kuntang Hall.

"Senior brother, can you just speak? I'm really going to suffocate. ”

Peng Zhen was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty-five, in the prime of life, when he was a child, he worshipped under the former sword envoy of the Shenmen under the door of Man Qingyi, and integrated his own double sword moves into the "Nine Swords of the God King" taught by Man Qingyi, which created the strange and strange "Peng's sword pair". It is precisely with this set of exercises that Peng Zhen was able to rank 67th in the Who's Who Register in his prime with his mediocre posture.

Peng Zhen's younger brother Man Hongsha is much more powerful than Peng Zhen, not only did he enter the Who's Who at the age of 20, but he was also able to defeat Lu Ruzhen, the "wonderful pen and flower" of the Jiangnan League, with only a one-handed sword in the second year of Xianping. Therefore, in this year's Who's Who, Bai Xiaosheng was listed in the eleventh place in the Who's Who, and it is only one step away from the "top ten".

It's a pity that this year, two young masters suddenly entered the rivers and lakes, not to mention Ji Hualian, who swept away the Bashu thief village at the beginning of the spearhead, and Sikong Gu, who had already stirred up Jiangning into a storm, but it is said that killing Jin Youde and his wife with a sword is Hu Yun, who is the sword in the door, and after fighting with him for a few times, he also sighed that he would lose within ten moves.

After so many years, Peng Zhen has long lost the slightest thought of competing with Man Hongsha, and now he only wants to run his business in peace and stability, and if he can help his master, he will try his best to help. In Peng Zhen's view, assisting Man Hongsha and Liu Su to enter the city is just a friendship of the same family.

"I'm not Jin Youde, I haven't been the son-in-law of my own sect, it's impossible for anyone on the rivers and lakes to know that I am a disciple of the Divine Sect, and the junior brother also knows very well that I don't have much ambition, plus Jiang Ning is controlled by these two martial arts families, why should I spill my blood for the Divine Sect?"

As early as when he received a letter from Man Hongsha, the thoughts in Peng Zhen's mind were like shells washed ashore by the tide, appearing for no reason from time to time, and being carried away by the waves from time to time. In the end, Peng Zhen made a decision--Master is dead, how much kindness does the Shenmen have to me? After all, the Peng family is just a businessman, and I, Peng Lingrui, also have a wife and children, this time they want to kill Sikong Gu to avenge Jin Youde, if I am involved, will I still be able to gain a foothold in Jiangning in the future?

But the operation Sikong Gu's gold was stolen, and together with a hall master of the Cao Gang, dozens of people from the rivers and lakes gathered around Sikong Gu died in Huangquan, but the real murderer behind the scenes did not leave a trace of it, which made Peng Zhen, who closed early yesterday and returned home to take care of his wife who was pregnant with Liujia, had to doubt the two supreme commanders of the Shenmen in Jiangning in front of him.

The irritability and uneasiness in Peng Zhen's heart, accompanied by Liu Su's expression and movements, as well as his junior brother's appearance of not caring about himself, became more and more intense. After all, since Peng Zhen entered the door, Man Hongsha just put down the long sword in his hand, poured a cup of tea for Peng Zhen, and wiped his long sword again. In addition to nodding and shaking his head, Liu Su didn't look at Peng Zhen at all.

If it weren't for the jealousy of the two of them and their martial arts, and a trace of awe in his heart for the Shenmen thousands of miles away, Peng Zhen would probably point to the nose of these two people at this time and ask, "Did you do that incident last night?"

Finally, when Peng Zhen asked the last question before his patience collapsed, Man Hongsha finally stopped what he was doing. However, in Peng Zhen's incredulous gaze, a fine line appeared on the little finger of the red sand, and bright red blood began to seep out, staining the white cloth that had been wiped on the sword body many times.

Liu Su obviously also noticed Man Hongsha's abnormality at this time, although he no longer had a little finger, he could also understand what it meant for a swordsman to accidentally hurt his finger.

"Someone. ”

can be ranked eleventh in the Who's Friends, and the internal strength can never be mediocre, after all, not everyone is a sword immortal in the East China Sea, and he can fight the first thief group on the list of villains when his internal strength is lost.

Full of red sand's internal strength, he can definitely rank in the top 20 of the rivers and lakes, coupled with his six senses of a first-class swordsman, his ear skills are only a lonely one.

"Who?"

Man Hongsha unhurriedly took off the red silk from his left arm and slowly wrapped the injured finger.

"It should ...... Not friends. ”

The voices fell Liu Su and Peng Zhen's faces changed, this was not due to Man Hongsha's words, but because the two of them also heard the strange movement in the lobby downstairs.

"There are people outside the window, and although they may not be able to hear us, we must be surrounded. ”

Liu Su sighed heavily, swallowed another mouthful of saliva, and the sound of "grunt" coupled with the faint noise coming from downstairs was extremely clear in this richly decorated, but not very spacious high-grade guest room.

"Jumping out of the window and escaping is not what our gods should do. ”

After that, Liu Su picked up the long knife hanging beside the bed, this long knife was three feet long, and the widest part of the blade was more than four inches, and there was no scabbard, only wrapped in a thick layer of cloth. After Liu Su put it on his back, he glanced at Peng Zhen deeply before saying to Man Hongsha: "It seems that they can't come back." ”

Man Hongsha smiled and said, "It seems that we can't leave." ”

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