What is the result of the fight between Hai Cangfeng and Xiao Wuji in the bamboo forest? Let’s not mention it for now, let’s look at Shuangxie’s side first.
Last time, the shopkeeper of Gengjia Village asked them: "Who are you two?"
The two seemed to have guessed that the other party would have such a question, so they just looked at each other and smiled, and Huang Donglai replied, "Didn't I say it before? We are just two passers-by."
The shopkeeper heard this and said, "I don't think it looks like it."
"Oh?" Sun Yixie raised her eyebrows while eating, "How can I see it?"
The shopkeeper replied seriously: "Although Li is just a villain in the mountains and the one who runs a little bit of dried tofu, over the years, I have seen no one thousand passersby or eight hundred; after seeing so many people, which ones are ordinary people and who are capable, I can still see one or two..." He paused, and his eyes swept across the faces of Sun and Huang, "I see you two, at most, you are in your early twenties, but your calm aura is not something that ordinary people of this age can have, so Li also dared to ask... Are you two famous young heroes in the world?"
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai said these words cutely, but if they love to listen, they cannot express them on their faces.
After all, this village has some problems at first glance. It is not a wise move to take the lead in exposing the truth and reality.
"Ha..." So, two seconds later, Huang Donglai just chuckled and replied, "Shopkeeper, you're just a mistake..." He glanced at Sun Yixie, then looked back at the shopkeeper Li, "We are indeed 'running around the world', but we are not the 'jianghu' you think of fighting and killing, but the kind of fortune telling, exorcising ghosts and praying for blessings, and performing on the street... As for you, our pets are not surprised, we are just thick-skinned."
His words were reasonable. When Manager Li heard this, he couldn't help but feel disappointed. He said in his heart: Oh, I'm so happy that I was in vain. I thought our village was saved.
"Oh...so, I misunderstood." Manager Li said, then turned around and left, "Then Li won't bother you..."
"Let's go." But Sun Yixie called him in time and said, "Shopkeeper, don't worry." He said, and ate another dish, "I think you have any difficulties. We have nothing to do anyway. You might as well sit down and have a drink with us, and tell us what's going on, and see if we can help?"
"This..." Manager Li said in his heart, "Since you are not knights of the world, it's useless for me to tell you two." But he thought again, "But... I don't seem to lose much if I say it. Besides, I'm polite to sit down and drink and eat food now. Even if I don't eat, I'm still standing next to me. Looking at it, I still have to hold my words in my stomach, there is no need."
Thinking of this, he sat down.
"Oh..." When she sat down, when she thought of what she wanted to mention, Manager Li couldn't help but sigh again, and then said, "Then Li will thank you both."
"It's easy to say." Sun Yixi smiled and waved to the nephew of Manager Li Xiao Wu, "Little Brother, come and sit down, don't stand alone."
"Ah?" Xiao Wu had already become greedy at the wine and food on the table, but he was honest and looked at his uncle first with inquiring eyes.
Manager Li looked back at him and curled his lips: "What are you looking at? Are you going to invite you to come? Hurry up, bring two more cups and sit down and eat together."
"Hey." Xiao Wu nodded excitedly, quickly went to the counter to grab two more wine glasses, then nodded and quickly took his seat.
"Hey~ That's right." Sun Yixie smiled, "It's more lively to eat for four people than to eat for two people." As he said that, he poured wine for the shopkeeper and the waiter.
"Oh! I dare not take this." Manager Li was a little flattered. It was the first time that a customer poured him wine after he had opened a hotel for so many years.
"Hey~ don't be polite, we are not so particular about it." Sun Yixiu pressed the other party with his elbow, and then poured the wine on.
Huang Donglai also struck while the iron was hot: "Come on, we meet today, so let's have a drink."
They raised their glasses, and Manager Li and Wu Xiaoer had to face them.
The dishes that Sun Yixiu cooked are also very popular - after all, he is from a wealthy family and has eaten and seen them. The dishes he made are really rare in the people in this small mountain village.
The four of them ate and drank. After a few rounds, the two of them at the same table were already slightly drunk by Shuanghui.
When the atmosphere is here, it's time to put words together...
"Shopkeeper, what's going on? Let's talk about it." Huang Donglai raised the problem at the right time.
"Ah... I'll tell you two." Manager Li said earnestly, "Our village has passed today and I don't know if there is a tomorrow."
Then, he told all the stories about the two heroes Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu, how they came, and how they went, and how they went, including the bandits.
Of course, it is inevitable that some of his personal subjective comments and invigorating descriptions are mixed in. Will people still be called a person if they don’t brag at the wine table?
After listening to the matter, Huang Donglai nodded and said in a sudden enlightenment: "So that's the case..." But he thought of something and asked, "Hey? Then why don't you just run away?"
"Run?" Manager Li frowned, and then smiled bitterly, "Ha... why run? The people in the village ran together? Even if we were asked to run out, what? Most of the village is farmers, and we are those who do small business... Without land and shops, how can we live? Go out to beg for food?" He shook his head, "If you really become refugees, you may be even worse than dying in the village. Stay behind... There is still hope that the bandits will not dare to kill the whole village. At most, a few people will vent their anger. After all, they will come to rob them in the future..."
His remarks were basically the common idea of ​​the villagers in Gengjia Village at this time.
People have luck, even though they know that the disaster is coming and they are afraid of death, most people will still stay in place like ostrichs, drill their heads into the hole, praying that the knife will not fall on their necks, and then shed a few tears to the bodies of the unlucky guys who happened to be killed, and continue to live their lives.
"Wow—" At this moment, Wu Xiaoer suddenly burst into tears, tears were wailing down his rough cheeks, and he cried while crying, "Cuihua'er, you're dead so miserable..."
"Hey! A shameful thing, don't drink it if you can't drink it. Look at you like a bear!" When Manager Li saw his nephew's virtue, he became angry.
"Hey~ You're relieved." Sun Yixie quickly pressed him down and asked again, "Where is this?"
"Well..." At this time, Manager Li also let out a low moan of grief in his throat. He calmed down and then slowly said, "Cuihua is his wife who has not passed the door..." Speaking of this, Manager Li sipped wine again, "My nephew is not bad, just a little stupid, and no one wants it in his twenties. A few months ago, someone finally told the marriage and made this stupid boy happy. Unexpectedly... Before the betrothal gift was even lowered, he rushed into the village and snatched Cuihua up the mountain."
"Oh..." Huang Donglai asked again after hearing this, "Then... is this girl still alive?"
Manager Li shook his head and replied, "The big girl and little wife in the village were captured into the mountain, but none of them came back... There were also those who were brave enough to search for it, but they couldn't even find the entire body. They were all thrown into the mountain to feed the wolf after being tortured to death."
Before he could finish his words, Wu Xiaoer cried even more miserably.
Now that things have come to this point, I can’t eat this food anymore and I can’t talk about it anymore.
"I think you two are good, so I would like to advise you..." Manager Li took another sip of wine and suppressed his emotions. "You will go to the road tomorrow, so don't enter the mountain. Let's walk around from the north. It's only a one or two-day trip. If you enter the mountain... you will probably be robbed. It would be fine if you lose money. If you take your life in it, it would be worth it."
"Thank you for the shopkeeper's reminder." Huang Donglai bowed to him and stood up.
Sun Yixie said nothing, and walked towards the guest room with Huang Donglai.
When they walked away, Manager Li got up, came to Xiao Wu, sighed and patted the latter on the shoulder.
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After the unpleasant meal, Sun and Huang came to the same room and began to discuss what they had just heard.
At this time, although the sky was already dark, it was not too late, and it was just the hour of Xu.
According to the current hour, it is only seven o'clock in the evening, but because there were no street lights or anything else in those days, in this autumn and winter season, the light in such a small village was gone very early.
"Brother Huang, what do you think?" Sun Yixie asked while lit the oil lamp.
"How else can I think of this?" Huang Donglai answered quickly, "We are familiar with this kind of thing. Ma Si, Kang Haijiao... are almost all this trick. Who wasn't we killed?"
"Well..." Sun Yixie thought for a while, "But didn't you hear Manager Li say that the 'Tiger Arm Mingwang' and 'Yitiao Town Guanzhong' went up the mountain, but they all finished playing. I'm afraid that there are no masters in this hamlet?"
"There is a master of hair~" Huang Donglai now believes that his martial arts skills are good, and he speaks a little loudly when he talks to Brother Sun in private. "I have heard of Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu. It's just two chickens, but the nickname is a bit scary, but in fact he doesn't have much strength."
"Oh?" Sun Yixie said, "With your strength, can you mess with them?"
"So~Don't do it." Huang Donglai said with a long voice, "I started two hidden weapons, maybe they were gone. Even if this move was not done, as long as I...hey? No, why do I think you are urging me?"
"No, I just asked casually." Sun Yixiu tilted his head and moved away from his eyes as he spoke.
"Mom, are you a little over the name Sun? You're so angry?" Huang Dong saw through Sun Yixie, and his voice became louder.
"Tsk...No...I'm thinking..." Sun Yixie said, "Ma Si had the title of "Zoumazhai", but this group of bandits didn't even have a name. Moreover, the people in several nearby villages thought they were just mobs. Normally, people like Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu were enough to deal with them, right?"
"Well..." Huang Donglai nodded, "What's the matter?"
"But judging from the results, these two people did not succeed." Sun Yixie said, "That's why I want you to judge how strong they are."
"You have to say that..." Huang Donglai thought for a while, "Although these two can only be considered second-rate experts, if you want to talk about hard power... they will not lose to ordinary bandit leaders."
"Right." Sun Yixie said this, narrowing his little eyes and continuing, "So there must be something strange about this matter..."
"What does it mean?" Huang Donglai said.
"For example..." Sun Yixie said, "Although these bandits are not very strong, their leader is very intelligent; he prepared some strategies, mechanisms, or hidden lime powder, etc. in advance... Then he took down the two of them." He paused and added, "Think, according to what the shopkeeper Li said, Liu Zou and the other two had eaten, drank and slept all night before going up the mountain. The day before that, the three villages had already told them about this matter... If the bandits had a spy in any of these three villages, wouldn't it be like being prepared one night in advance?"
Huang Donglai thought as soon as he heard this: "It makes sense! It's worthy of being Brother Sun, the details are a bit good."
"That's~" Sun Yixie said, "Is it okay for me to rely on my intelligence to build on the world?"
"So when you don't rely on your intelligence and strength, you will be directly inserted into it by a poisonous needle." Huang Donglai joked.
"Shut up!" Sun Yixie said, "That dog is not good at martial arts, attack me. When I have time, I will practice my basic skills. I will be able to attack me easily."
"Okay, okay." Huang Donglai said, "Please say... what kind of tricks are there again? Are you going to change homes with others?"
"Mao!" Sun Yixie said, "Don't say it as if I only know how to change homes."
"No, you can also know lime powder, twitch your vagina, lock your throat, and insert your eyes..." Huang Donglai knew Sun Yixi's unique skills.
"Do you still listen to my plan?" Brother Sun didn't like to listen to these words, so he interrupted the other party.
"Tell me," Huang Donglai said.
"Hmm..." Sun Yixie cleared her throat, "I'm going to use a 'mirror flower and water moon'..."
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The next day, before noon arrived, the village chief of Gengjia Village came to the entrance of the only inn in the village.
The onlookers made a way out, and he squeezed in.
"These two are..." Gengcun Chief Geng asked in a low voice as he looked at the shopkeeper Li who was coming up.
"I'll introduce you." Manager Li said, then pulled the village chief to the other side of Sun Huang who was sitting at the table for dinner. "Two, let me introduce you. This is the village chief of our Gengjia Village, Mr. Geng Sanguo."
"Yeah, hello." Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were having "morning lunch" while using a rather arrogant attitude, and casually responded to the village chief.
Of course, Village Chief Geng didn't dare to make any complaints.
"These two are the famous Dongxi Xi Du in the world, Sun Yixi Young Hero, and Huang Donglai Young Hero." Manager Li immediately introduced to Geng Village Chief.
"I have seen two young heroes." The village chief Geng was so old that he gave them a deep respect.
Someone may ask me when I see this, Teacher Jue, what happened?
It was very simple. Early that morning, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai did not choose to go on the road, but went to "show off" with Manager Li.
The two said: Actually, we were pretending to be garlic yesterday, and our true identity scared you to death.
Then they blew up their name "East Harmony and Western Poison" and some of the deeds that had long been circulated.
These two people were commentators in the past world, especially "making up history" and exaggerated. This joke, singing and reconciling made Manager Li stupid.
After fooling him, Shuangxie immediately said that we will take care of the affairs of your village.
When Manager Li heard this, he felt like he was in a desperate situation. He immediately asked Xiao Wu to inform the village chief.
Xiao Wu is an honest man and he doesn't talk nonsense, so he ran to the village chief's house and reposted: "Village chief, there are two young heroes in our store, known as Dongxixi and Xidu. They said that Liu Daxia and Zou Daxia who came here before were two croakers, so it's not surprising that they were hung up. Now they want to help us stand out, so you can go and have a look."
When Geng heard this, he thought that Xiao Wu was crazy? What are the slandering words he said? Then how could Liu Zou and the two heroes were chickens? They were still chicken? What does it mean to be hung up? Where did they go?
In short, Village Chief Geng pulled Xiao Wu and asked several times before he roughly understood what was going on. After asking clearly, Village Chief Geng felt that the village might be saved again, so he immediately informed the people of seniority in the village.
In short, the whole village knew about this morning.
Therefore, when Village Chief Geng finally arrived at the entrance of the inn, men, women, young and old were already surrounded on the street, all talking about it.
"The village chief doesn't have to be too polite. We young people can't afford it." He said that, Huang Donglai didn't want to get up to help others, so he sat there and ate with a look of sage.
"Captain Geng, don't say much, I'll just say one thing today." Sun Yixie said, "With us here, those bandits... are all! Dead!"
"That's right." Huang Donglai also stuffed something into his mouth and said, "The ashes were raised to them."
When Gengcun Chief heard this, he said that these two people's voices... Why do they seem to be more bandits than bandits?
And just as he felt suspicious, unexpectedly...
Bang-
Sun Yixie actually raised his hand and slapped a very large ingot of silver on the table.
"Shopkeeper Li." Sun Yixie said immediately, "This money is to pay for the expenses we have here, and the other is to... For the extra part, please and the village chief, please pay more attention to help us buy something."
If you want to talk about this money, it's really a good thing.
Money is indeed not omnipotent, but among all things, it is likely to be the closest to "omnipotent".
For example, the silver that Sun Yixie took out can help him and Huang Donglai gain the trust of the villagers faster than any words...
Manager Li and Cun Geng had never seen such a large inlay of silver in their lives, and their eyes were straightened.
"Young Master Sun, you are polite. We will definitely do whatever you want." Manager Li's attitude towards them was very different from yesterday. Yesterday, he thought these two were two passing young people, but in his eyes today, Sun and Huang were the saviors and the God of Wealth.
"Okay, please give us all the things written on this piece of paper, as much as you can buy, you can bring them." Huang Donglai took the conversation at this time and took out a list he had written last night from his sleeve. "Oh by the way, not only from Gengjia Village, but also from the three nearby villages, we want them all."
Manager Li took the paper, took it in front of him, and looked at it with the village chief Geng beside him. After receiving the village chief's nod, he replied: "Okay, okay, let's go do it immediately."
"And it." Sun Yixie said again at this time, "Where are the luggage and horses left by Liu Daxia and Zou Daxia before?"
Two seconds later, Manager Li also asked the village chief's approval with his eyes, and then replied: "Go back to the two young heroes, the horse is tied behind the inn, and their luggage... Of course, we don't dare to move, for fear that the bandits will come and ask us one day, so I put them all away and put them in the store."
Chapter completed!