The carriage swayed to the gate of the town. Although the town was not big, with about three hundred households, there was not a single passerby on the road, which gave off an unusual and desolate atmosphere.

"Brother Shen, let's take a detour. It's too gloomy here." Pang Junde said with fear in his heart. If there were ten living people, he could kill ten of them. The troubles caused by ghosts and gods cannot be done by human beings. ah.

You must know that Shen Xingliu has been to the Black City. In terms of terror?

It's not even close to 12/10 here.

"But this town is the only way to Yuzhou. If you want to take a detour, it will take at least two or three more days." Shen Xingliu frowned as he looked at the small town that was rustling in the autumn wind.

With his sharp ears, he could clearly tell that there were people in the houses in the town. Could it be that there were really ghosts and gods that scared the townspeople so much that they didn't dare to go out?

Pang Junde couldn't resist him and drove the carriage slowly into the town.

"Hey huhu!"

The horse was walking on the road when something suddenly frightened him.

Pang Jun pulled the reins and finally calmed the horse, so he got off the car to check.

"It's okay, it's a dead snake." Pang Junde smiled as he watched Shen Xingliu get his head out of the carriage.

Pang Junde kicked the dead snake away with his feet. There was an inn on the roadside. He tied the horse to a stable nearby.

Pushing the door open, my dear, there are thirty big men holding steel knives inside, discussing matters.

Shen Xingliu and the others came to the counter, knocked on the wooden platform and said, "Is the shopkeeper here?"

At this time, a trembling boss emerged from under the counter and said: "Sir, our store has been booked today. You'd better come back another day."

The big men were obviously not in the same group, they were confronting each other on both sides.

Suddenly, three stupid young men came out to stir up trouble. They all thought it was the other party's helping hand, but the three people ignored them and headed towards the counter.

"There's no need to change the date. I'm going to let you guys crash into the place today, so don't leave." A leading brother on the right said fiercely, shaking the steel knife in his hand.

"Hehe, hahaha," Shen Xingliu laughed instead of getting angry, pointed at the crowd and said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, it seems that your place is not peaceful. What are these people doing?"

The shopkeeper said anxiously: "They are all the kings of the nearby mountains. You'd better leave as soon as possible. If you wait any longer, you won't be able to leave."

Shen Xingliu stopped the two people who were about to step forward and said, "Oh? I wonder if your heads are worth anything."

The two elder brothers on the left and right laughed and said: "Hahaha, I didn't expect to meet someone who was earning rewards today."

The elder brother on the left said: "Boy, you are so skinny, can you hold a knife? Have you ever killed anyone?"

"Noisy!"

Shen Xingliu said coldly, quickly unsheathing the black knife in his hand and returning it to its sheath.

"Ah, my face and my eyes!"

The eldest brother on the left still had a smile on his face. He breathed a bloody gash from his forehead to his chin. His eyes were probably damaged, and he turned into a bloody man.

"Shopkeeper, if I use the heads of these bandits, I wonder if I can pay for the rent." Shen Xingliu held the handle of the knife in his hand and grinned.

The shopkeeper was frightened and hesitated.

"also!"

Before Shen Xingliu could get a reply from the shopkeeper, he flashed out. Whenever he appeared, a big man would fall to the ground and draw his sword as usual.

"Brother Shen, your sword skills have improved again." Pang Junde swallowed his saliva and said. The former drew the sword so fast that there was no trace of blood on the ground.

Maybe it's because the big men's skin doesn't even know they've been cut open.

After more than a dozen breaths, all the men on the left were killed, leaving only the leader on the right, a polished commander.

"Hero, spare your life!"

The eldest brother on the right knelt on the ground with a plop under Shen Xingliu's black knife.

"Tell me, the purpose of your trip." Shen Xingliu always dealt with evildoers vigorously and resolutely, and said without emotion.

"What a good man, I have an eighty-year-old mother at home, and a little baby waiting for food at the bottom. You can't kill me." The eldest brother kowtowed as if pounding garlic, and cried.

"Are you going to tell me?" Shen Xingliu's eyes turned cold, not wanting to hear such nonsense.

The eldest brother saw that this move was useless against this killing god, and he stuttered: "I said, I said, I heard from the brothers in the church that Fuyuan Escort Bureau has thousands of taels of gold hidden, so we want to take advantage of their family to be wiped out.

This wealth."

Shen Xingliu couldn't help but asked curiously: "Did you commit the murder at the Fuyuan Escort Bureau?"

Brother, I was almost scared to death. Just ask me questions. Don't laugh.

"No, absolutely not. There are many escorts in the Fuyuan Escort Agency. How can we have the strength to kill them?"

Seeing that it wasn't the other party who did it, Shen Xingliu put away the black knife and said impatiently: "It wasn't you who did it, so get out of here."

"Ah?" the eldest brother said in confusion.

"Didn't you say that you have an old woman and a little kid to support? Get out of here." Shen Xingliu didn't even look at him and went straight to the counter to discuss the rent with the shopkeeper.

The elder brother on the right did not expect that the other party would actually believe him. He said a favor, but his hand touched the steel knife.

"Go to hell, you little bastard."

"Whoosh!"

Shen Xingliu had his back turned to the thief, how could he be unprepared?

He turned around and drew his sword to strike. The thief fell to the ground before he could see his movements clearly.

Only a thin line of blood on his neck told others that he had been killed.

"Hey, shopkeeper, how about we calculate the rent?" Shen Xingliu waved his hand in front of the former's eyes and said.

The shopkeeper slowly woke up and said: "The hero is very good at swordsmanship. He counts money, right?"

There were a total of thirty big men in the field, and more than half of them had life-related lawsuits, and the government had arrest warrants. The two leading men each had one hundred taels of silver, and the total was no more, no less, exactly three hundred taels.

"Hehehe, how much do you think you can divide me?" Shen Xingliu rubbed his hands and said like a businessman who cares about trivial matters.

"Here, let me do the math," the shopkeeper kept doing the calculations and said: "Deduct ten taels for the room fee, twenty taels for soiling the floor, fifty taels for frightening fees, thirty taels for nutrition, and one taels for labor.

A hundred taels, a tip of forty taels, a total of fifty taels can be divided among the heroes."

"Wha, what? Why did three hundred taels become fifty taels?" Shen Xingliu was dumbfounded. He grabbed the abacus and counted slowly.

"Why is this labor so expensive?" Shen Xingliu exclaimed.

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "It costs money to carry people in and out, and we also need to pay to report to the official. There are not many people who come and go."

Shen Xingliu thought it was right and asked: "This tip is forty taels, can I give you a little less? Just give me ten taels."

The two haggled for a while. Pang Junde and Tang Xuanxuan looked at the two people's quarrels. They both had a headache and sat on the table and chairs beside their foreheads.

The scene has been cleaned up, and the only two pools of blood have been scrubbed away. We will wait for the official to collect the money tomorrow morning.

After the discussion, Shen Xingliu came to the seat with sixty taels of silver with a depressed look on his face.

Shen Xingliu patted the table and said, "Here comes the waiter, the menu."

Originally he wanted to drink to vent, but when he saw Tang Xuanxuan's unkind eyes, he remembered what she had said before about breaking his leg while drinking.

The three of them ordered their dishes, but when they were paying, the shopkeeper took over the conversation and said, "Chenghui, two taels of silver."

"It's your grandpa's. I only had two meat dishes just now. How could four vegetarian dishes be so expensive?" Shen Xingliu's eyes almost popped out as he grabbed the bill from the waiter's hand.

He only had two pieces of silver, so he threw the money out angrily and glared at the shopkeeper several times.

The shopkeeper apologized profusely, saying that his memory was blurred due to his old age.

Tang Xuanxuan covered her mouth with a smile and pulled him upstairs to rest.

Pang Junde is now slowly beginning to understand Shen Xingliu. He treats bad people with hatred, but treats good people with infinite tolerance.

Pang Junde greeted the shopkeeper and said: "Please shopkeeper, please let the waiter feed the horses in the stable outside the door."

The shopkeeper was also generous and said: "It's easy to say, Xiaowu, go and feed the nobles' horses more high-quality feed, and it won't be counted as money."

"Thank you." Pang Junde thanked him and went upstairs to rest.

In the room, Shen Xingliu and Tang Xuanxuan were sitting at the table talking.

"Xuanxuan, you said they just said that the Fuyuan Escort Bureau had gold. Is it true or false?" Although Shen Xingliu was somewhat interested in gold, he wanted to know the reason behind the destruction of the Fuyuan Escort Bureau.

Tang Xuanxuan thought about it: "I think if it is true, the gold should have been taken away if the escort agency was wiped out, rather than there being thieves trying to steal the gold."

Shen Xingliu's eyes lit up and he said: "Maybe it's just a vendetta. Maybe the enemy deliberately spread the news in order to conceal the purpose."

"It makes sense, or maybe they know something they shouldn't know." Tang Xuanxuan reasoned, following Shen Xingliu's thoughts.

"It seems like we really need to go to Fuyuan Escort Agency one time." Shen Xingliu sipped his tea silently and said.

Tang Xuanxuan looked at him thoughtfully, said that she was sleepy, and went back to her room to sleep.

At midnight, Shen Xingliu walked along the walls and corners of the small town.

A small black shadow followed him silently. Naturally, Tang Xuanxuan would not let him act alone. According to what the thief said, there were more than one or two people eyeing the Fuyuan Escort Bureau's gold.

Passing a corner, she lost track of Shen Xingliu and turned around helplessly to see that he was looking at her from behind.

"What, you can't even sleep and go out for a walk." Tang Xuanxuan said with a guilty conscience.

Shen Xingliu stepped forward and flicked her forehead, and said angrily: "I knew you wouldn't be so obedient. If we get into a fight later, stay away so you don't get hurt."

Tang Xuanxuan weakly stuck out her cute little tongue and muttered: "You look down on people, but I am also very powerful."

Tang Xuanxuan let him hold her hand and flew away together.
Chapter completed!