Chapter 1: The Magic Jade Bead
The beautiful Jiangnan is always fascinating, and I don't know how many literati and writers have left immortal poems here, but they only record a corner of the Jiangnan.
But the beauty of Jiangnan is nothing in Luo Qiushui's eyes, on the contrary, his biggest feeling here is hatred, he hates everything here, including his hometown in Jiangxi.
He still remembers the days when he was a beggar as a child, and he was often beaten and scolded for nothing more than other people's leftovers. It wasn't until one day that a man dressed as Huazi picked him up from the rotten grass and taught him martial arts, and he found the meaning of life.
He always remembered the appearance of his master, but until now, he didn't know his master's name, only that what his master taught him was enough to make him live a good life today.
Although the master didn't tell him his name, he allowed himself to call him "uncle", so Luo Qiushui always called him "Uncle Nameless".
"Childe, drink. Chunhua's hands were still so soft and boneless, but they were very steady when she held the glass, and her eyes were as clear and attractive as the wine in the glass.
"I've had sixteen drinks. Luo Qiushui turned his body and tried to make himself feel more comfortable, "Do you want to get me drunk before entering the city?"
The corners of his mouth were just a faint smile, but they were full of endless tenderness, and Qiu Yue couldn't help but look a little stupid.
"I don't care, you can't skip my wine. Chunhua smiled, smiling even more charmingly.
Luo Qiushui took Chunhua's wine glass: "This is the last glass, after drinking, I want to sleep well." ”
"Don't worry, when you wake up, we will definitely have entered Hangzhou City!" Qiu Yue said with a smile.
"Moreover, I must prepare a large basin of bath water for you, and when the time comes, you can soak comfortably in the water, I, make sure that you will be more energetic by then!"
Luo Qiushui raised his neck and drank it all, then put down the wine glass and closed his eyes.
He always said that he would sleep, and he would be able to sleep at any time.
Chunhua gently lifted the curtain of the carriage: "Coachman, before dark, we must enter the city, do you understand?"
"Just look at it!" the middle-aged coachman, with his dark skin, shook his whip so hard that the two horses could not bear the pain, and they struggled to raise their hooves, and the speed of the carriage became faster!
The carriage was specially made to order, and it was very wide and comfortable, so that although it was galloping on the path, it was as smooth as a mountain.
It takes a lot of money to make such a carriage, but Luo Qiushui never cares about money, never!
It was not dark yet, and the car had already entered Hangzhou City!
Hangzhou is a very prosperous place, with convenient transportation, pedestrians, and many vendors on the streets, which is very lively.
In such a prosperous place, it really doesn't take much time to find an inn.
The inn they found was called the "Sifang Inn", which means that the source of wealth is wide and accessible.
As soon as Luo Qiushui opened his eyes, he saw Chunhua's smiling face: "Childe, are you awake?" The hot water is ready, do you want to take a hot bath first?"
"Of course you have to soak, otherwise you won't live up to your good intentions?" Luo Qiushui sat up from the bed with a smile, but he didn't mean to get out of bed.
"Childe, what's wrong?" asked Haruka.
Luo Qiushui hurriedly made a silent movement, and then reached out and touched the knife bag on his waist: "Friend, it must be very cool on the roof, right?
As soon as the words fell, I heard a soft voice outside the door: "Stop!"
Then, the sound of stepping on the roof came from the roof, and at that moment, someone outside the courtyard shouted, "Don't do it!
"This Lei Laohu, I really didn't expect him to be a gentleman on the beam!" Luo Qiushui said with a smile.
"Okay, you Luo Qiushui, don't think that I can't hear you scolding me when you're in the room!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a short-haired sweat with a fierce appearance pushed the door open and broke in.
"Why are you so rude, my son-in-law hasn't gotten up yet!" Qiu Yue pouted and followed.
"Don't get in the way, Brother Lei is his own person, don't avoid suspicion!" Luo Qiushui greeted him with a smile.
"I heard that you are coming to Hangzhou, so I rushed over from Jiangning Mansion, I haven't seen you for so long, how are you preparing for your marriage?" Lei Laohu said, sat down on the bench in front of the table, he was not polite, picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup first, and then tilted his neck to drink it clean, but this did not seem to quench his thirst, so he simply poured another cup.
"I'm not in a hurry about my business, why are you in a hurry?" Luo Qiushui said with a smile.
"You're not in a hurry, of course you don't have to be in a hurry! But I'm different!" Lei Laohu drank the water in the cup in one go, but he still felt thirsty, and couldn't help but scold angrily: "What the hell is this store! The cup of tea is so small, according to such a pouring method, when will it be the first to drink?"
He simply didn't care, hugged the teapot, and drank it on the spout!
His funny actions made Qiu Yue laugh at the time, but she seemed to think that it was not good to laugh, so she couldn't hold back.
"Lei Daxia's way of drinking is like drinking water in a few lifetimes, be careful to choke!" Chunhua quipped.
"It's better to choke than to die of thirst!" Lei Laohu was really a little embarrassed when he said this, "Hot tea, it doesn't quench your thirst at all!"
"What has the eldest brother been busy with lately?" Luo Qiushui asked casually.
"I won't lie to you, I got a baby recently, if you hurry up and get married, I can give you the baby as a congratulatory gift earlier, but if you are late, in case one day I can't help but itch to gamble and lose the baby, then there will be nothing to give you as a gift!"
"I thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be such a small matter!" Luo Qiushui smiled faintly.
"How can this be considered a trivial matter? Who in the rivers and lakes doesn't know that I, Lei Laohu, am your good friend and good brother of Luo Qiushui? If you get married, how can I not bring something decent as a gift?"
"Since we are good friends, we shouldn't see each other, when I do a happy event, as long as my eldest brother can come, it is more valuable than any congratulatory gift!"
"That's a good word, but that baby is really a good baby!"
"What treasure is so valuable? Seeing how amazing you are, I want to open my eyes. Chunhua couldn't help but ask.
When Luo Qiushui heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Chunhua, who subconsciously lowered her head.
"This treasure has a lot of origins!" Lei Laohu motioned to Qiu Yue to close the door of the room, and then said very mysteriously: "This treasure took me three months to get my hands on, and it is definitely not an ordinary precious!"
"Could it be the long-lost magic jade bead on the rivers and lakes?" Luo Qiushui raised his eyelids shallowly.
"How do you know?" Lei Laohu's mouth opened wide, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
"Recently, there have been rumors about the magic jade beads on the rivers and lakes, and I didn't intend to hear it. Luo Qiushui said lightly.
"But it seems that your brother doesn't seem to be interested in this thing?" said Lei Laohu a little depressed.
"With my little brother's belongings today, what other mundane things will he look at?" Luo Qiushui said mockingly.
"What? You say that the Demon Jade Bead is a vulgar thing?"
Lei Laohu was so angry that his beard straightened, but he immediately understood, and immediately smiled: "This is also true! Brother Luo's family has a great business, and one-third of the silk and satin villages in the entire Jiangnan are opened by you, so how can you care about such vulgar things?"
"However, I recently heard a big secret about the big secret behind this bead!" Lei Laohu said this, deliberately glancing at Luo Qiushui with his eyes.
Luo Qiushui smiled faintly: "It's nothing more than saying that the magic jade bead can cure a hundred poisons, and if you eat it, you can increase your strength!"
"Wrong!" Lei Laohu slapped the table heavily, "Big mistake! Haha, there are still things in the rivers and lakes that your brother Luo doesn't know!"
"Oh, could it be that this bead has another purpose?" Luo Qiushui asked.
"That's right! I'm right for you again!" said Lei Laohu, picking up the kettle again and taking a sip, "I heard that this bead has another purpose, and that is the key to unlock the treasure!"
Luo Qiushui slowly stood up: "I have to go take a bath, otherwise the water will cool down in a while." ”
"You, you, you don't care?" Lei Laohu was anxious.
Luo Qiushui didn't pay attention to him, just turned around: "Qiuyue, wide clothes!"
"Okay, it's coming!" Qiu Yue responded and hurriedly followed, but his eyes were a little reluctant to Lei Laohu.
"Brother Luo, that's a treasure! if you can dig it up, it won't be less than your belongings!" Lei Laohu emphasized.
"My son-in-law's family has a big business, and there is so much money that there is no place to spend it, so how can you care about any treasures?
"It's not just a treasure, it's also a martial arts secret that people in the rivers and lakes dream of!" Lei Laohu shouted at Luo Qiushui inside.
"Alas, my Lei Great Hero! Our son's martial arts are already among the top masters in the rivers and lakes, so how can we care about any martial arts secrets? You really don't know him well!" Chunhua said helplessly.
"What do you know? Who doesn't want to make himself richer if you have money, and who doesn't want to make your martial arts more powerful?"
"But our son has no quarrel with the world, and what you said is really not attractive to him. You're still his best friend, so you don't know him at all!" Chunhua scoffed.
"What? You dare to say that I don't know him! I don't believe in this evil today, I have to go and ask him face to face, and see who knows him better than I do!" said Lei Laohu.
Luo Qiushui really didn't expect Lei Laohu to come in when he said to come in, he hurriedly got into the wooden barrel used for bathing to protect his lower body, and his whole face turned red: "Brother Lei, what are you doing here?"
"Brother, such a big beauty is here, aren't you afraid, are you still afraid of me as a man?" Lei Laohu said angrily and funny: "You say, am I the one who knows you best?"
"Yes, you are! you absolutely are!" Luo Qiushui said with a wry smile.
"Do you hear that, girl, even my brother Luo said that, what else do you have to say?" Lei Laohu shouted at the spring flowers outside the room.
"If you really knew my son-in-law, you wouldn't have rushed in and asked him such a boring question!" Chunhua walked in with a smile.
"I really can't understand how a foolish person like you can be my son-in-law's friend?"
"What? What do you say? You dare to call me stupid?" Lei Laohu was a little angry.
"Chunhua, don't be rude!" Luo Qiushui's brows furrowed.
"Yes, Childe, the slave won't dare next time!" Chunhua lowered her head, her face was ashamed, but there was a smug smile in her eyes.
"Brother Lei, think about it, if everything you say is true, then, with your skills alone, can you get this treasure so easily?" Luo Qiushui said lightly.
"My son-in-law didn't mean to make fun of Lei Daxia, he just wanted to remind Lei Daxia not to fall for other people's tricks!" Qiu Yue said.
"Trick?" Lei Laohu thought for a long time, and slapped the door of his head vigorously, "yes! Why didn't I think of it? With my three-legged cat's kung fu, how could it be so easy to get such a treasure? And even if I did, how could no one come to me for so long?"
"It's not that no one is looking for you to take it, it's that they don't dare to look for you to take it. They don't come to take it, eighty percent because you are a friend of our son. "Spring Flower Road.
"Chunhua, you go out first!" Luo Qiushui glared at Chunhua coldly.
"Yes, Childe!" Chunhua heard this, said no more, and hurriedly retreated.
"Although Miss Chunhua has always disliked me, you can save some face for others!" Lei Laohu said.
"If she is disrespectful to you, she is disrespectful to me. I didn't kill her, I was already lenient. "Luo Qiu waterway.
"Brother, I just like your character! With a friend like you, I have no regrets even if I die in this life!" Lei Laohu said very excitedly.
"Big brother, this matter must be extraordinary, I suspect that this is a trap deliberately designed by someone, you have to be careful, don't fall into other people's ways. "Luo Qiu waterway.
"Brother, don't worry, my brother has been transferred by you this time, I can see it. I'll throw the beads out tomorrow and let them grab whatever they like!!I'm not going to wade into this troubled water again anyway!" said Lei Laohu.
"If this is the case, I can rest assured!" Luo Qiushui said.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a scream of "ah" outside the door, and Lei Laohu smashed through the window and rushed out!
Qiu Yue almost rushed out after her, but when she arrived at the yard, Luo Qiushui was already standing on the roof neatly dressed!
"What's going on?" said Lei Laohu.
At this time, it was already the time of the lantern, and the courtyard was so quiet that even the sound of leaves falling to the ground was close to my ears.
Chunhua's face was pale, trembling and huddled under the plane tree in the yard, her eyes were full of horror, Lei Laohu asked her several times in a row, and she said a few words intermittently: "Ghost, face, blood"
"What are you talking about, you can make it clear!" Lei Laohu said anxiously, scratching his ears and cheeks.
"Ghost, face, blood" Chunhua kept repeating these words.
Luo Qiushui was like a leaf, falling in front of Chunhua very lightly, and he gently supported Chunhua: "Don't be afraid, slowly tell me what you just saw!"
"I saw a guy standing here, motionless, and I came and greeted him, and he turned around. Then, it's so terrifying! His face was covered with blood, making it difficult to see his face, and at first glance, he looked like a demon from the region! It's terrible! It's terrible!" Chunhua said this, and hurriedly hugged Luo Qiushui.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid! I'm here!" Luo Qiushui patted the spring flowers gently.
"His grandmother's, I don't believe it, I can really see ghosts at night!" Lei Laohu stomped his feet angrily, "If I see him, I have to peel off his skin, and see that he is still pretending to be a ghost!"
"That person can get out of the way in such a short time, he must be very skilled, Childe might as well make a guess. Qiu Yue reminded.
"Makes sense!" Lei Laohu touched his head and thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of a suitable candidate, because there are too many people on the rivers and lakes who are better than him!
"Brother Luo, in your opinion, who could that person be?" said Lei Laohu.
"I don't know, but that person's skills must be above you and me!" Luo Qiushui said lightly.