Tang Yu followed the horse dart master and the people of the dart bureau on the road for three days, this day was too late, the sunset, the group came to a small town called Bali Bridge.

The Bali Bridge is not big, only thirty or forty households live, and the sparse and scattered rows are lined up on both sides. Under a big locust tree, there is a small chicken feather shop, with earthen walls and wooden doors, and the sign of the inn of "Yonglong" is hung obliquely on the high pole in front of the door. The horse master took out a towel and wiped his sweat, looked back at a few people, and said reluctantly: "It seems that we have to rest here today?" An old dart master Lao Chen felt tired and unwilling to move, and echoed, "It's okay to rest and burn your feet, you decide this matter." Another young Xiao Ji thought it was dirty here, hesitated and didn't say anything.

The horse dart master glanced at Tang Yu and asked, "Eldest nephew, are you tired?"

After walking for a day, Tang Yu also felt that the soles of his feet hurt, and it was not bad to rest his feet here, but he felt that he was walking with the bodyguards, and he had been taken care of by others for a few days, and it seemed that it was not good to be afraid of being tired at the moment. Tang Yu frowned, greeted the horse dart master, and said, "I'm still young, if the uncles are not afraid of being tired, let's go on the road at the same time; ”

The horse dart master stomped his foot: "From here, there are no people for twenty or thirty miles, and besides, we dart walkers are also inconvenient to travel at night." Okay, let's fool around in this small shop for one night, and leave early tomorrow morning. ”

When a few people saw him say this, it was difficult to argue, so they packed their horses and bags and walked into the Wing Lung Inn with him.

The owner of Wing Lung is in his forties, with big yellow teeth and gray cloth clothes and pants. But it's still clean up and down. When the boss saw a guest enter the door, he was full of laughter and took it out: "Thank you for your hard work, go all the way inside." The horse dart master grinned and touched his chin: "Shopkeeper, what is your surname?"

"Xiao Ke's surname is Cui. ”

The horse dart master asked again: "Shopkeeper Cui, is there anything delicious here?"

Boss Cui was happy: "Why not." Cooked beef, stewed dog meat, fragrant flowering steamed buns......"

"Steamed buns?"

"Also, it's much more delicious. Boss Cui wrenched his fingers and said, "Mix green bamboo shoots, stew chicken nuggets, the most important thing is that the wine in the small shop is good." A cup of three days drunk, open the altar of ten miles of incense......"

The horse dart master shook his head again and again: "Don't drink, don't drink, just hurry up and get something to fill your stomach." ”

Boss Cui flattened his mouth: "Then your horse ......"

"Feed the horses, and go back to the forage money. ”

After the horse dart master finished speaking, he didn't look back, and led a few people to the upper room. Boss Cui rushed forward, walked a few steps, and stretched out his hand to stop everyone: "Everyone, everyone, there is no place to go to the house, can you go to the side room to live?"

Xiao Ji looked around, a little dissatisfied, and muttered: "The upper room looks quiet, this partial room is simply a firewood room." ”

"You will order, you will ......" Boss Cui apologized, "I won't tell you that the small shop is located in the middle of nowhere, with only two rooms in total, and it has been rented out two days before the room is opened." ”

"And you're still keeping us?"

"It's not ......"

Seeing the stalemate of the scene, the dart master Lao Chen stepped forward to explain: "I think it's okay, Brother Xiao Ji, let's only stay here for one night, why can't we make do with others?" The horse dart master also played a round on the side: "Hey, it doesn't matter what grass house he goes to, sleep in a daze, and leave his mother tomorrow morning." ”

Boss Cui is old and sophisticated, his eyes are bright, and he took advantage of the situation to go down the pole: "Yes, it's not bad at all, it's still a few big brothers who are sensible." ”

Old Chen Xiaoji and a few people entered the house, Tang Yu patrolled and fell behind, he saw that Boss Cui was leaving, so he opened his mouth to stop: "Shopkeeper Cui, I want to ask you, I don't know if it's convenient?"

Boss Cui returned happily: "Little brother, what's the matter, you say?"

"Over there...... The person who lives in the upper room is a man or a woman......" Tang Yu's eyes hesitated and turned around, "Did he also enter Beijing to participate in the National Sword Fighter Competition?"

"Yes, this son, ah, he is also ......"

In fact, Boss Cui didn't know where people came from or where they went, and he didn't know what the swordsman competition was, but he saw that the young man opposite was focused on his eyes and behaved immaturely, as if he was quite interested, so he was talking nonsense. "He said, he's really going to participate in some kind of competition......

"Boss, what's his last name, and how old is he?"

"The surname is Chen, and he seems to be in his thirties. ”

"Would you like to introduce me to him in a moment?"

"Well, it's not easy. Boss Cui's face was embarrassed and hesitated for a long time, "Little brother, this boy, he is very weird, his face is blue and blue, and he rarely speaks...... Since I went to the small shop, I rarely went out, and I haven't seen him a few times......"

"That way, it won't bother you. ”

Tang Yu said goodbye and went back to the house, the side room was indeed dusty, and the room was narrow. Xiao Ji has been puffing out his mouth and getting angry since he entered the house, and the food was delivered, and several people came over to eat. After eating, it was already dark. The horse master wanted to look at the horse, but he was afraid that Boss Cui would play tricks and save money, so he refused to feed the mount. Tang Yu wanted to go out to breathe, so he took it and said, "Uncle Ma, you have also been busy for a day, your waist and legs are going to hurt, you rest and let me go and see, I can still help with this matter." ”

Seeing that Tang Yu was sensible, the horse dart master grinned, and he no longer insisted.

Tang Yu came to the backyard stable in the dark, went to the edge of the trough, lowered his head and looked, Boss Cui did not dare to bully, and the grass of several horses was mixed with some fine materials. He walked out of the stable, stood by the wall for a while, and then returned to the front by the same way, and walked to the gable of the upper room, when he looked at it, and suddenly found that the door was open, and out of the hazy night stepped out of it a man of medium size, dressed in white, with his hands empty. Walking down the steps, his steps wandered, and soon he flashed out of the courtyard. I don't know for what reason, Tang Yu suddenly leaned against the wall, and he didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

He was nervous!

Is this the guest who stayed in the upper room?

Although this person is dressed in men's clothes, he has a slender figure and light footwork, so how can he not look like a man? He is so mysterious, what else is he going to do when it gets dark? Is this person really a martial artist who entered Beijing to participate in the swordsman competition? In the course of constant questioning, Tang Yu suddenly had an urge to understand this person thoroughly. He straightened up, lightly heeling behind him, wanting to find out what the hell was this man in white doing?

The man in white walked out of the gate and headed west. "He" walked along the road for a while, then branched off again, crossed the fields, and in a short time he was into a black poplar forest. Tang Yu followed not far away, carefully dodging, so as not to be discovered by "him", because this person was wearing a white dress, it looked very conspicuous from a distance, so although there was a distance between the two, it was night, and they still did not lose it.

The man in white entered the forest and stood with his hands in his hands.

Sometimes he looks up at the moon, and sometimes he talks to himself.

Tang Yu sneaked into the woods and hid behind a thick tree, monitoring this person's movements. After watching for a while, not daring to look more, Tang Yu retracted behind the tree. He suddenly felt very regretful, complaining that he was reckless, and that it was not only unreasonable but also unsightly to peek into other people's secrets, and he blamed himself for a while, and it was the curiosity of young people that overcame the slightest trace of regret. He thought that if the man in white found out, he didn't have to be afraid, he would stand up and tell him frankly about the sincerity he wanted to befriend him, and he wouldn't care too much.

After more than half an hour of this, the man in white stood unconscious, the wind sneaked in and out, and the dead silence in the forest did not even hear the birds.

The moonlight appears and disappears.

Mottled.

Tang Yu couldn't help but lose his breath, his heart was blocked, and his throat was inexplicably dry. - He didn't want to spend it any longer, he was very scared, Tang Yu wanted to stand up and ask the stranger: What kind of reputation are you doing here?!

Just when he leaned out and was about to come out, he suddenly saw that under the moonlight, around the body in white, suddenly three puffs of white smoke were released, and the white smoke ring did not disperse, gloomy and gloomy, but it was a strange and terrifying white. Before the white smoke was finished, three ghosts appeared in the smoke, swarthy, and their whole bodies were dead black, but their eyes were shining with green light! The three ghosts held knives, three strange curved scimitars, their bodies suddenly swelled, and the scimitars slashed down at the head of the man in white......