It was a gloomy and cloudy day, with a gray haze enveloping the ancient city of Phoenix, and a cold north wind passing through the streets and alleys, making the people of the city feel for the first time that the harsh winter was approaching. www.biquge.info In the north wind, the horse-drawn carriage ran over the rutted stone-paved avenue on the street, splattering the sewage from one of the rutted troughs on the two men who were walking down the street in the direction of the beggars.

These two people, pale and depressed, were Ding Ding, and the ruddy-faced and slightly obese were Chao Beifei, the elder of the beggar gang who was disguised as a thug in the "Peach Blossom Brothel". Their steps were hurried, because their time was very limited—it was not an easy task to go back and forth in three hours, and to take off the head of a martial arts master who had the best skills today.

They didn't say a word along the way, although they met a lot of beggar disciples along the way, but they were all people who greeted the two of them again, and they only responded to the situation, nodding their heads and waving their hands to express the simplest greetings.

When they walked to the entrance of the alley where they entered the beggar gang, that is, the alley opposite the "Phoenix Restaurant". I remember that seven months ago, Nan Jian took Ren Siyun, Gongsun Kang and Yang Pengju, the "Little Gun King", and a group of four people, and when they passed through this alley, they met three beggar gang disciples, and they enthusiastically brought the four of them to the beggar gang association to meet with Yuan Pingyue, the leader of the beggar gang, and Jun Tao, the deputy gang leader.

At that time, Nan Jian didn't know Ding Ding, but now they have become brothers with deep feelings! Time is really a ruthless pig-killing knife! It turns the past into memories that will never return, and the reality is skinny and unrecognizable.

Just as he entered the alley leading to the Beggar Gang Association, two beggar gang disciples who were tall and short came over, they were Ding Ding's good friends, the tall one was called Ban Fei, and the short one was called Gao Maoyuan. Both of them were also brothers under the jurisdiction of the Beggar Gang Elder Chao Beifei, and when they saw Ding Ding and Elder Chao Beifei walking together, they would of course greet them warmly.

And at this time, the pretending Beggar Gang Elder Chao Beifei realized that if they walked in and bumped into the Beggar Gang Elder Chao Beifei, then their plan would be directly bankrupt. Therefore, he wanted these two beggar disciples to go to the gang, and in the future, Kenan Jian made an appointment to go to the "Phoenix Restaurant" opposite to drink, and then they waited for the opportunity to start, so that it would be safer and safer.

After all, it is not easy to go deep into the beggars, assassinate their visitors, and also bring out the heads of the dead. After making up his mind, he grabbed Ding Ding's sleeve, motioned him to stop, and smiled and said to the two beggar disciples, "Two little brothers, are you going back to the gang?"

"Yes, Elder Chao, do you have any orders?" the two beggar disciples asked him respectfully.

The thug did not return the salute, but only nodded, indicating that he understood their courtesy, as a sign of his noble status as an elder of the beggar gang. "I don't know if the two little brothers know that our beggar gang came to a distinguished guest yesterday?"

When the two of them heard this, they laughed, "I know, I know!" They said, "The purple-clothed swordsman Nan Jian and Nan Daxia are the great benefactors of our beggar gang, and all the brothers of the beggar gang know that he came here;

"Yes, this purple-clothed swordsman Nan Jian and Nan Daxia are really good brothers and good friends of our beggar gang!" The thug also nodded and sighed with them, and finally, he smiled and said, "That's just right, when we meet two brothers, it will also save us from taking this unjust road; He pointed across the street to the Phoenix Restaurant.

"Okay, okay!" The two beggar disciples felt a little flattered when they saw the elder personally explain the matter to them, so they said in a loud voice, "Elder Chao, please rest assured, we two brothers, we will go and inform the purple-clothed swordsman Nan Jian and Nan Daxia." ”

As he spoke, they bowed their hands to the thugs of the brothel and said, "Elder Chao, Brother Tintin has taken his leave!" After that, the two of them went into the alley and went to the beggar gang association.

Seeing the two of them talking and laughing away, Ding Ding frowned tightly and looked heavy.

Nan Jian was supposed to leave yesterday, but for two consecutive days, he was strongly invited by the eight elders of the beggar gang to stay and eat for two days before he was willing to let go. Especially last night, after he drank with Chao Beifei, the elder of the beggar gang, when he walked out of the gate of the "Splendid Inn Restaurant", he met eight people who walked the rivers and lakes, and they were chased and robbed by the locals. It was the two of them who rescued each other in time to save the lives of three of the eight people.

These eight people who went to the rivers and lakes were the same eight people who partnered with Chen Youneng to set up a bureau to defraud Tian Fugui of sixty taels of silver. Among them, only Song Xiaoying and the other two senior brothers were saved by Nanjian and the beggar gang elder Chao Beifei who arrived in time to save their lives, and the masked men who chased them also took the opportunity to run away when they saw that the situation was not good. However, there were two masked people who were injured and could not escape, and they were forced to ask by Nanjian and the elder of the beggar gang, Chao Beifei, so they had to tell them about their employment by the local head snake Chen Youneng and his brother Zhang Xiangjian.

The lunch meal had just ended, and now, Nanjian was chatting with Jun Tao, the deputy gang member of the Beggar Gang, in the Beggar Gang Gang. The eight elders also accompanied Nan Jian to have a meal of wine at the deputy gang leader's house, and after the meal, the elders all dispersed. The deputy advocate that Jun Tao was still relatively weak because his body had just recovered, and everyone ate wine at noon, but he was the only one who did not take a sip of it, and only accompanied everyone to eat some food.

The deputy of the beggar gang advocated that Jun Tao was indeed a very low-key and thrifty person, and his living room was poorly furnished and very ordinary. In the center of the living room, the wooden table at which the dinner had just been gathered was the most atmospheric utensil in their living room, and above the round table, an octagonal oiled paper lantern hung from the beam. On each of the eight corners, a red velvet tassel hangs, quietly swaying gently with the breeze blowing outside the door in the quiet living room.

On each side of the round table, against the wall, there is a round mahogany bonsai shelf, on which are placed vermilion ceramic pots, planted with narcissus and moon red. In this late autumn season, these two flowers do not bud, but their leaves are carefully nourished by their owners, maintaining sufficient nutrients and water, so they also look very green and grow very energetically.

On the wall in front of the living room, a painting depicts a quiet lake surrounded by smoky mountains, with a few boats moored on the shore where the water and the mountains meet, and gulls and herons flying diagonally at sunset. The whole picture looks quiet, ethereal, and has a realm of escape from the world. There is a couplet on both sides: sit and watch the quiet place of the landscape, the elegant red dust is in the alley, and the horizontal batch is actually four words: live in the thatched cottage.

Beneath the canvas is a narrow table with two glazed vases and a small ceramic incense burner, and in front of the table, two high-backed wooden chairs, and a small rectangular coffee table in the middle. At this time, the deputy gang of the beggar gang advocated Jun Tao on the left, Nan Jian on the right, and the two were sitting on chairs drinking tea and chatting.

Jun Tao, the deputy of the beggar gang, still looked a little gloomy, but his eyes were already full of light, which fully proved that his energy had fully recovered.

"This time, thanks to my brother's timely arrival, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable!" he looked at Nan Jian with an emotional expression and said.

"It's all Hong Fu of the deputy gang leader," Nan Jian raised the teacup in front of him, turned around and smiled at him, and said lightly, "Little brother, it's just a coincidence." ”

As the two were talking, two beggar gang disciples walked in from outside the door, "Deputy Gang Leader of Qiqi, Nan Daxia, just now our brothers met Elder Chao and his subordinate Ding Ding at the mouth of the alley; That's why let's let our two little brothers come over and convey it!"

Nan Jian was puzzled when he heard this, "Hey," he put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile with Jun Tao, the deputy gang leader, "We have just had a drink, why is Elder Chao inviting me to the restaurant again, what is going on!"

"The reason is very simple," he said, "Elder Chao has always been massive, and just now when he was here with me, he saw that I had just recovered and couldn't drink, so he didn't have a good time." Now, he called his little brother Ding Ding with him, just to have some more wine with you. When Nan Jian heard this, he also shook his head and laughed.

So, he had no choice but to get up and say goodbye, and according to the place said by the two little brothers of the beggar gang, he was invited to go and go down the alley towards the Phoenix City Restaurant.