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Mai Laoguang.

Mai Laoguang is the name of a small restaurant, and it is also a personal name.

The incense of "Mai Laoguang" is said to lead all the people and dogs within ten miles of the neighborhood to the door. Mai Laoguang is also the owner of this small restaurant, the master and the running hall.

In addition to roasted meat, Mak Laoguang only sells rice and porridge. If you want to drink, you can buy it from the "Yan Maoyuan Wine Shop" next door, or buy roast meat to Yan Maoyuan to drink.

Someone advised Mai Laoguang, why not take it with you to sell wine, wouldn't you be able to make more money?

But Mai Laoguang is a stubborn person, and most of the "Laoguang" people are very stubborn people, so if you want to drink, you have to buy it yourself, if you are not satisfied with this place, there is no place to go.

Because Mai Laoguang's roasted meat is not only the best, but also the only one in the neighborhood.

The people in the mountain city are reluctant to even light oil lamps, how can they be willing to spend money to eat out. So even if someone wants to steal Lao Guang's business, it will automatically close down in a few days.

Mai Laoguang has always had no ill feelings towards Wang Dong and Guo Dalu, because he knew that although these people were poor, they never gave credit.

Every time they came, they always had two handfuls of silver on them, and they ate a lot each time. No restaurant owner will have a bad feeling towards a customer who eats a lot.

Diagonally opposite Mai Laoguang is Wang Dong's "maternal uncle's house".

My uncle's house means pawnshop.

Every time they came, they would go to their uncle's house first, and when they came out, they must have been much more energetic than when they went in.

But today is an exception.

When they walked past their mother's uncle's house, they didn't even stop, and their chests were very high. Just by looking at the way they walk, you know that their pockets are never empty.

Mai Laoguang was relieved and strange: "What about the brother of Ban Qi, who has changed his career to become a thief?

Brother Qi doesn't exactly mean to swear, sometimes it's all about showing affection.

There were four people who came this time, and before they entered the door, Mai Laoguang greeted him in his half-baked Cantonese official dialect, and said, "You ordered it so early today?"

The sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, and the Cantonese people are afraid of official language.

Fortunately, Guo Dalu is used to hearing it, even if he can't understand it, he can guess it. smiled: "It's not that people come early, it's money that comes early, first cut two roast geese for us, five catties of crispy meat, and then a fried chicken." ”

Mai Laoguang blinked and said, "Don't drink?"

Guo Dalu said: "Of course, you go and get ten catties first, and wait for you to count them together." ”

And his voice was loud, because he had a dozen taels of gold on him.

Since it was to inquire about the theft of someone's house, why not spend ten taels of gold on them. When you're hungry, you don't even bother to speak, how can you inquire about the news?

So they don't even have a little burden on their conscience.

As the wine gradually descends in the bottle, a sense of responsibility rises in their hearts.

If you drink other people's wine, you should do things for them.

They are not people who eat for nothing.

So Guo Dalu asked, "Have you heard any news in the past two days?"

No.

The most sensational news in the city is that Aunt Wang, who runs a grocery store, has given birth to twins.

Everyone is starting to wonder.

Guo Dalu said: "Maybe they didn't steal it here." ”

Yan Qi said: "It must be." ”

Guo Dalu said: "Then why are there no people who have been stolen in this place? Stealing so many people overnight is a big deal, and the city should have been turned upside down a long time ago." ”

Yan Qi said: "It's not that there is nothing, but I don't dare to say it, I don't dare to say it." ”

Guo Dalu said: "It's not a shame to be stolen, why don't you dare to say it?"

Yan Qi said: "If a person's money comes from the wrong way, and it is stolen, he has to eat the yellow lotus dumbly, and he suffers in his heart." ”

Guo Dalu smiled: "In this case, it's none of our business, we have done our best anyway, haven't we?"

By this time, the wine had almost reached his stomach, and his sense of responsibility had been completely squeezed out. He suddenly felt very relaxed, and said loudly: "Go and get ten catties of wine for us again." ”

Before Mai Laoguang walked out of the door, three people suddenly walked in outside the door.

The first man was tall and wore clothes that were shining golden, as if he were gorgeous, and the second was taller and surprisingly thin. But what exactly these two people look like, others don't see clearly.

Because everyone's eyes have been drawn to a third person.

The man was completely black, with black clothes, black trousers, black boots, black gloves on his hands, and a black felt hat on his head, which was pressed tightly against his forehead.

In fact, no one could see his face even if he didn't wear this felt hat, and even his head and face were covered with a black cloth cover, revealing only a pair of knife-like eyes.

This is the dress of a nocturnal walker, only suitable for the third watch in the middle of the night to do unsightly things, but he wears it openly and honestly on the street.

What does he look like?

What kind of person is he?

No one could see, no one knew, there was not an inch of his body that could be seen.

But for some reason, everyone felt that every inch of his body was full of danger.

The most dangerous thing is, of course, the sword he carries behind his back.

A black-sheathed sword four feet seven inches long.

Very few people use this kind of sword, because it is not easy to pull such a long sword out of its scabbard, and it requires a very special technique, a very special skill.

Those who can use this kind of sword are by no means easy to deal with. Since he had drawn his sword with great difficulty, he would never put it back easily.

The sword is usually stained with blood when it is unsheathed.

Someone else's blood!

As soon as the three men walked in, they occupied a table in the innermost corner, obviously unwilling to disturb others, let alone be disturbed by others.

What they want is: "Whatever." ”

That means they didn't come here to "eat", and they didn't pay attention to eating.

If a person who doesn't pay attention to food is not worried, he must be thinking about something else. Whatever they were thinking, it wasn't going to be pleasant.

Lin Taiping kept looking at the sword of the man in black and muttered, "Before the sword is unsheathed, it is already full of murderous aura. ”

Wang Dong said: "It's not the murderous aura of the sword, it's the murderous aura of people." ”

Lin Taiping said: "Do you know who this person is?"

Guo Dalu sighed and said, "I don't know, I just know that even if I am drunk, I will never fight with this person." ”

Yan Qi suddenly said, "I know the other two." ”

Guo Dalu said: "They don't recognize you." ”

Yan Qi smiled and said lightly: "What am I, how can someone as famous as them recognize me?"

Guo Dalu said: "They are very famous?"

Yan Qi said: "The thin and tall person sitting on the outermost part is called a clamping stick, also known as a stick. ”

Guo Dalu said: "The stick, it's like, the name of the stick is a bit special." ”

Yan Qidao: "The stick is a kind of torture tool, no matter how slippery the thief is, as soon as he gets on the stick, he will say whatever you want him to say, and he won't dare not call your ancestor if he wants him to call your ancestor." ”

Guo Dalu said: "He also has this ability?"

Yan Qidao: "It is said that no matter who meets him, there is no way not to tell the truth, even if he is a dead man, he has the ability to ask for a confession." ”

Wang Dong said: "This person's methods must be very spicy. ”

Yan Qidao: "He also has a nickname called Stick, which means 'hit people when they see them'." No matter who falls into his hands, he will inevitably be beaten by him first. As soon as his friends in the underworld met him, it was as if they had met a deadly ghost, the living Hades. ”

Wang Dong said: "What is he doing?"

Yan Qidao: "The head catcher of Qinghe County." ”

Wang Dong said: "Qinghe County is not a big place, isn't it burying talents?"

Yan Qi said: "Just because his methods are too spicy, he has not been able to rise." But no matter where there is a big case that cannot be handled, it is inevitable to go to Qinghe County to borrow him. ”

Guo Dalu said: "What about that glittering brother?"

Yan Qidao: "His surname is Jin, and he likes gold, so he is called 'Golden Lion', but others call him a Golden Retriever Poodle behind his back." ”

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "In conscience, this person is not like a poodle at all. ”

Yan Qidao: "Have you ever seen a poodle?"

Guo Dalu said: "I have seen all kinds of dogs. ”

Yan Qidao: "What is the biggest thing on the poodle's face?"

Lin Taiping hurriedly said: "The nose is the biggest." ”

Yan Qidao: "What is the smallest?"

Lin Taiping said: "Mouth." ”

He smiled and explained, "I had several poodles when I was a kid. ”

Yan Qi said: "Look at that person's face again." ”

Looking over from here, you can just see the face of the "Golden Retriever Poodle".

Whoever looks at his face can't help but see his nose.

His nose already occupies a third of his face.

Whoever has a mouth wider than his nose, but his nose is wider than his mouth, and if you look down at his head, you will not see his mouth, because it is obscured by the nose.

Guo Dalu almost laughed out loud, and couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, it's a king-sized nose." ”

Wang Dong said: "His eyes must not be very smart. ”

Guo Da Luqi said: "How do you know?"

Wang said: "Because his eyes have been separated by the nose in the middle, the left eye can only see what is on the left, and the right eye can only see the right. ”

Before he finished speaking, even Yan Qi couldn't help laughing.

Guo Dalu said: "But I haven't found his mouth until now." ”

Yan Qi couldn't help but laugh and said, "The hole under his nose is his mouth." ”

Guo Dalu said: "Is that a mouth, I thought it was a nostril." ”

Lin Taiping said: "How can you grow a beard on your nostrils?"

Guo Dalu said: "I thought it was nose hair." ”

Wang said: "So when he eats, others often don't know where the food comes from. ”

Although they were trying to hold back their laughter, they couldn't help it.

Guo Dalu laughed so hard that he almost slipped under the table.

The golden poodle suddenly turned his head and glanced at them.

He glanced at it and turned his head again.

One glance is enough.

Everyone could already feel the sharp edge in his eyes, which really looked a bit like the eyes of a lion, and even the eyeballs were yellow.

Their voices were already low, but now they are even lower.

Guo Dalu said: "What is this person doing?"

Yan Qidao: "It's also a head catcher, two years ago it was still a head catcher in the capital, and recently I heard that it has been promoted to the chief head catcher in the North Nine Provinces." ”

Guo Dalu said: "I see that he is dressed like a playboy, but he really doesn't look like a famous catcher." ”

Wang Dong said: "You don't look like a poor bastard. ”

Lin Taiping said: "Where is his ability?"

Yan Qi said: "On the nose." ”

Lin Taiping said: "Nose?"

Yan Qidao: "Although his nose is big, it is not big and inappropriate. It is said that his nose is more intelligent than that of a dog, and as long as a person is sniffed by him, no matter how he changes his appearance, he cannot escape. ”

Lin Taiping said: "This ability is indeed not small. ”

Yan Qi said: "These two people can be said to be the top masters of the first class in the six doors, if it is not a big case, it will definitely not alarm them, so ......"

Wang said, "So you wonder why they suddenly came to such a place. ”

Yan Qi said: "I'm really strange, if they said that they came for last night's case, how could they be so fast?"

At this moment, a woman's scream suddenly came from the street, as if someone had stepped on a chicken's neck.

Then they saw a woman with a disheveled hair rushing out of a house opposite, and a short, stocky man couldn't hold it anymore.

Later, the woman simply lay on the ground, crying and crying, and said, "I even had the coffin stolen, why can't I say it?...... I'm biased to say. ”

The more she spoke, the more sad she became, so she simply hit her head on the ground and cried: "Oh my God, the robber of God's death, you are so ruthless, why don't you leave some for me?...... The whole three thousand taels of gold, and my jewelry, if any kind man finds it for me, I am willing to give him more than half of it. ”

The man's face was red and white for a while, and with all his strength, he finally dragged her back, and turned his head when he took the time, and said with a reluctant smile: "How can we have three thousand taels of gold for others to steal?"

Guo Dalu and Yan Qi exchanged glances, and were about to ask Mai Laoguang: "Who is this person?"

But the stick was quicker than they asked.

His voice was deep, he spoke slowly, and every word seemed to be laborious. It gives the impression that you'd better listen to every word he says.

Mai Laoguang said: "I heard that the couple came from Kaifeng, and they were originally engaged in the cotton cloth business, and they accumulated more than 1,000 taels of silver, and they are ready to save money and land here for the rest of their lives." It would be strange if three thousand taels of gold had been stolen from their house. ”

He wasn't a mouthy person, but now he seemed to have oil on his mouth, and even the official language suddenly became much more standard than usual.

The clamp was listening.

He spoke slowly and listened more carefully, as if he were going to chew every word you said, then swallow it in your stomach, and once you swallowed it, you would never spit it out.

After Mai Laoguang finished speaking, he asked again, "What is their surname?"

Mai Laoguang said: "The man's surname is Gao, and the woman's maiden family seems to be surnamed Luo." ”

The clamp suddenly stood up and strode out.

The man in black didn't say a word from beginning to end, and suddenly said, "Is noon coming?"

Mai Laoguang said: "It's just past noon. ”

The man in black said: "Bring it." ”

The golden lion hesitated and said, "This place is inconvenient." ”

The man in black said: "Convenient." ”

The golden lion seemed to sigh, took out the ingot of about twenty taels of gold from his bosom, put it on the table, and gently pushed it over.

The man in black took the gold and never said a word again.

The golden lion let out a long breath, looked at the sky outside the window, and muttered, "The day goes by so fast." ”

But to some, it was as if the day would never pass.