On the twenty-first day of May in the third year of Xianping, at the turn of Yinmao, Yuelai Inn twenty miles west of Jiangning City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the lobby, all kinds of people who are standing or sitting in the rivers and lakes look anxious, one by one, you look at me, I look at you, those dozens of pairs of eyes are not all looking at the stairs, as if there is any treasure in the empty stairs that are illuminated by the faint light outside the door.

Although all of them were not happy, no one was willing to break the solemn atmosphere. The innkeeper, who had not slept all night in front of the counter and sorted out the account books with dark circles under his eyes, was now turning over and reviewing the account books of the year for the tenth time. On the left hand side of the shopkeeper there is also a thick pile of paper full of fly's heads, including not only the IOUs that have long been filed, but also the information of some special customers this year. The piles of paper vary in size, and even in different materials, from the most common straw paper to the most precious kraft paper.

These things are the most valuable wealth of Yuelai Inn, and they are also the reason for the existence of Yuelai Inn.

In the rivers and lakes, the inn is indispensable for the people of the rivers and lakes, these people who run around in the big vanity fair of the rivers and lakes for the sake of interests, they are hungry and have no fixed place, and the inn is the second home for the people of the rivers and lakes.

As the first chain inn in the rivers and lakes, Yuelai Inn is naturally well versed in the way of management, and in the rivers and lakes, it is no secret that the big money behind Yuelai Inn is no longer a secret. This inn, which has always seen the wind and steered the rudder, has changed many backers in the past hundred years, and it has not been completely stabilized until more than 20 years.

The backers of this Yuelai Inn change in turn, but no one knows the real master behind the scenes. More than 20 years ago, when Yuelai Inn found the big backer of Shenmen, the owner of Shenmen at that time wanted to use some despicable means to force the master behind Yuelai Inn to appear, but no matter how he was persecuted, he finally had to take into account the influence of Yuelai Inn in the rivers and lakes. Without tracking down the real master behind the scenes, Shenmen can get fifty percent of the profit dividends of Yuelai Inn every year, but Yuelai Inn does not provide information on each branch, and if Shenmen wants to obtain information, it must be purchased from this mysterious agent of the master behind the scenes.

If the Shenmen and the Yuelai Inn tore their faces and forcibly demanded that the master behind the Yuelai Inn appear in the rivers and lakes, then not only would there be no dividends, but also the information provided by the Yuelai Inn for the first time would be gone, which was unacceptable to the Shenmen back then - of course, even now, losing the important source of information of the Yuelai Inn, then for the Shenmen whose disciples are all over the world, it will at least hurt to pull out a layer of skin.

Every year, Shenmen spends about 30% of the dividends in exchange for the next year's intelligence. Sending money by himself, and forcing the other party to spend the front, why did the master behind the Yuelai Inn do this, which made every big backer of the Yuelai Inn puzzled for a hundred years.

However, almost no big backer has ever shouted a loss in this transaction, and when a person walks the rivers and lakes, things such as fame, money, and martial arts may be able to play a role. But for a sect or gang, if there is no intelligence, it is as dangerous as crossing the river with your eyes closed.

Just like this Jiangning incident, not only did the disciples of the Divine Sect in the lobby not expect it, but the shopkeeper who wiped the oily sweat with a sweat towel and kept checking the account, he didn't expect that Sikong Gu would actually be full of red sand in Jiang Ning, and he also slandered the Divine Gate for stealing gold and killing people in Jiang Ning.

Jiangning is the territory of the Chu family and the Situ family, and an inn like Yuelai Inn, which is secretly supported by a certain force behind the scenes, naturally can't even enter the city gate. If it weren't for the fact that these two major martial arts families still sell a few thin noodles from the Divine Gate, this Yuelai Inn near Jiangning would probably have been shut down by intrigue and trickery.

The people of the Divine Gate in the lobby didn't care much about the intelligence collection work of this Yuelai Inn, and among the people in the Divine Gate who all showed worry in these expressions, there were many masters of the major branches. Because the Divine Gate was born out of a sect, most of the disciples in its sect did not abide by the customs and rituals of the major famous sects, even if they were the hall master and deputy hall master, they could also sit at the same table with these ordinary disciples.

It is precisely because of the same table and the same table that they do not pay attention to the high and low, and they are extremely united with the people in the Divine Gate, and now almost all the people in the Divine Gate are waiting for a result.

In the upper room on the second floor, Yang Feiqiu, the master of the Divine Gate, was healing the red sand. Although the tendons of Manhongsha have been broken, according to Yang Feiqiu, there is a great method of continuing tendons and bones in the Shenmen classics, but it requires a lot of true qi. Therefore, the environment must be quiet and silent, and if it is disturbed by people, then it will almost certainly go crazy.

This is also the reason why this inn is so quiet now, even the shopkeeper who suspects that there is something wrong with the intelligence system does not dare to use the abacus to calculate some amounts.

In the silence, everyone only felt that the atmosphere was becoming more and more depressing, although the internal strength of the disciples of the Divine Sect in this hall was first-class in the rivers and lakes, and it was nothing to sleep for a day and a night. But because of the fear that the sword would make Man Hongsha's right arm return to normal, coupled with the blow of Shenmen's defeat in Jiangning, these men who were dominating the rivers and lakes were actually sad, and their faces were as tense as the big stone in the backyard of the Yuelai Inn that pressed the pickles.

At the end of the day, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the hall masters who were waiting for the Yuelai Inn stood up and waved their hands, and then greeted them out of the door.

At this time, how much they hoped that Hu Yun, who had entered the city at night to inquire about the news, could bring back any good news, even if Sikong Gu stumbled.

For the sake of Sikong Gu, a young man, Yang Feiqiu, the master of the Shenmen Gate, was not afraid of rumors in the rivers and lakes, and personally brought these hundred and ten people to Jiangning, but it was still difficult to see each other after all.

Not only did he not see Sikong Gu, but he could not wash away the reputation of the Shenmen that was slandered by the rumors of the rivers and lakes, but he also lost a general, among these hall masters, Liu Su, the hall master of Kuntang, felt extremely ashamed the moment he escaped from the city. This is another defeat of Shenmen in the south of the Yangtze River, in the Yangzhou Change, Shenmen was caught off guard by that series of events, and finally after Yangdaomen was characterized as a "gang" by the imperial court, it had to stand on the side of the righteous path and draw a clear line with Yangdaomen.

Liu Su was the first to rush out of the door of the inn, in order not to make a sound as much as possible, but he could only carefully perform light skills, which made Liu Su almost trip over the threshold.

But the expression on Hu Yun's face made the hearts of Liu Su and other hall masters who had just rejuvenated half of the heart.

"The sect master's expectation is good, Jiangnan League is really involved, and Sikong Gu's real target is not us, but the Situ family......"

Speaking of this, Hu Yun's thick palm pressed on his head, and he didn't know the sudden tingling, or dizziness for no reason.

"We have to leave quickly, the battle in Jiangning City should have come to an end at this moment, right?"

Although the hall masters couldn't see Hu Yun's expression clearly at the moment, they also knew that in this war that had not yet begun, Shenmen had once again become a loser, perhaps since the moment Sikong Gu found out that the people in Shenmen had infiltrated Jiangning, Shenmen had no chance of winning.