Chapter 49 Weird
It seemed that because he was used to being deserted all year round, the tea shop owner was sitting at a table and napping. When Lei Luo walked in for a long time, he suddenly realized and quickly got up to greet him.
This is a man about fifty years old. Under his scattered eyebrows, his turbid and unconscious eyes were slightly dull. Under his oily nose, he had two sparse yellow beards, his face full of traces of time. His slightly fat body also looked a little clumsy. He had not washed his coarse linen shirt for a long time. He was dirty and oily.
At this time, he was working hard to wipe the table and stool in front of Lei Luo, and said with a smile: "There are few guests here in the villain. I don't want the young masters to come so early to take care of the villain's business today, which is a great honor!"
Listening to the boss's attitude that seemed a little overly enthusiastic, Daoyuan and Hu Lie, who had just walked in, couldn't help but feel a little surprised and looked at each other without a trace.
Lei Luo sat on the clean stool, put on a generous look of burning bags, nodded with satisfaction, "Since you are so good at talking, then today we are not only taking care of your business, but also having another business to take care of you. How about it, are you interested in listening?"
"real?!"
When the boss heard this, his eyes suddenly shone. He put down the tea he had just brewed, and walked closer to him and said with a flattering smile: "At a glance, you will know that the young master is a generous person! This... I wonder what you want to take care of the villain?"
After looking around, Lei Luo asked, "Follow the situation here, boss, you must have lived here for many years, right?"
After hearing this irrelevant sentence, the boss was a little stunned, and then sighed: "To be honest, the three young men, because the villain was too arrogant when he was young, he offended a powerful man and could not survive in his hometown. So in order to survive, he had to leave his hometown and come here. Now, it has been more than 20 years!"
"So that's it! What about your parents, wife and children?"
"My parents, wife and children have been killed by the powerful. Only my brother and I have fallen into trouble. From then on, we depend on each other and have a hard time living."
"So, you are a pitiful person too."
The boss shook his head and smiled bitterly, his face feeling sad.
Lei Luo glanced at him lightly: "Can we see our identity?"
"This... from your accent, it seems that you are not a local. Could it be that the young hero who came to participate in the First Martial Arts Academy examination?"
"Hehe, your eyesight is pretty good!" Lei Luo looked at him with praise and continued: "This is our first time here. We have been acquainted with this place for a long time, so we are a little curious about everything here... In order to show off with our brothers and sisters at home when we go back, I want to ask the boss about some strange things in the city..."
As he spoke, he took out two ingots of silver from his arms, fifty taels each, and gently placed it on the table.
One hundred taels of silver are not even a drop in the bucket for rich people, but they are enough to buy this small and old tea shop.
"This is no problem!" The boss slapped his chest and said, "I dare not boast about what is too early, but as long as it happens in the past twenty years, the villain dares not say that everything has been known, at least eight out of ten! If you look for me, you will find the right person! If you have anything to know, just speak up!"
Lei Luo deliberately pretended to think for a while, and his eyes suddenly fell across the street and pointed gently: "Where was where it was before? It seems that it has been abandoned for many years. What happened? Why hasn't anyone rebuilt it yet? And I also found that with the center there, it seems that the surrounding area has been affected to varying degrees. This may be understandable if it were in other places, but in the first city... it would be a very strange thing!"
Hu Lie smiled in his heart: Don’t say that this guy Lei Luo said that he had a trick to find clues is not a brag. He first approached the relationship, followed step by step, and then lured it for profit. Although one hundred taels of silver can drink tea for a year in such a simple place, there must be a brave man under heavy rewards. Only in this way can he ask the truth to the greatest extent. If he asked himself, he would never achieve such an effect.
The boss seemed to have not expected him to ask about this as soon as he came up. After thinking for a while, he said: "That mansion was prominent in its status and gloriousness more than ten years ago. Not only that, it also led to a prosperous business around it. The villain's business had benefited a lot, but it was not as deserted as it is now..."
Lei Luo frowned and said, "Boss, what I am interested in is not your previous business."
"Yes, yes, the villain sighed for a moment, don't blame me!" The boss hurriedly accused him and continued: "I remember that in the past, Mr. Liu in this mansion was a big good man. Although he was rich and rich, he was a rare person who was kind and generous..."
His next statement was almost no different from what Mo Wuji said that day. It was also a stormy night, a group of mysterious assassins, and a scene of purgatory on earth... In short, the three of them did not hear anything else valuable.
"...It's a pity that things will turn back when extremes are extremes, and they will decline when they grow. Since then, a huge family has been like wind sweeping away the wind and falling clouds, and the carved beams and painted buildings have become dust of history, no longer as grand as before..." The boss's face was full of regret and emotion.
Daoyuan, who had been listening quietly, suddenly asked, "Boss, do you know the names of those two daughters?"
The boss smiled awkwardly: "Young Master is kidding. The villain is just a villain, the lowest-class person. How can the villain know the name of the daughter of the daughter!"
"You should know the name of Mr. Liu," Lei Luo asked.
"Of course, Mr. Liu was originally named Liu Yuantang, but because he was based on good deeds in his behavior, he called him Liu Shanren or Liu Gong."
Daoyuan continued to ask: "As far as I know, on the day the Liu family was destroyed, it seemed that a mysterious person came to visit, but why did he not see this person afterwards? And the second lady seemed to have no idea of life and death. If she really wasn't dead, why did she never hear about her again after so many years?"
"This...the villain really doesn't know."
"Where is that young lady?"
“…The villain doesn’t know.”
Daoyuan frowned: "In the past few years, no relative or friend of the Liu family has ever appeared?"
The boss continued to shake his head.
Lei Luo shouted dissatisfiedly: "Damn, you are not aware of this! Don't you want the silver?"
At this time, a few slight coughs came from behind the old curtain in the inner room, as if the owner of the sound was a little weak.
The boss smiled and said, "My brother has been feeling unwell these days. I'll sit down for a while and I'll go."
Hu Lie didn't say anything, but at this moment he raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Daoyuan with an inquiring look.
Daoyuan's face was slightly dark and he nodded slightly.
Lei Luo felt something was wrong and asked in a low voice: "What's the situation?"
Hu Lie gave him a wink in secret, meaning: This person is strange.
After a while, the boss walked out with a smile on his face: "I'm sorry, my son felt a cold the day before yesterday. He was originally weak and he has not been able to heal, so the villain must take care of him all the time. I hope to forgive him for his negligence."
Daoyuan smiled slightly and said loudly: "It is a matter of taking care of his family, the boss doesn't need to be polite. But I don't know what the situation is now. I have been practicing medical skills for a few days. It's better to take his pulse and see his condition."
"This...is not necessary! The villain brother is a poor and humble body, how dare he work for the young master's body of gold and jade? I think it should be better in a few ****s..."
"When do you want to hide it?"
With this thunderous roar, a huge and fierce sword aura suddenly appeared out of nowhere and slashed directly at the boss. The obstacles such as tables and chairs on the way instantly broke into powder in the sky under the domineering sword aura and spread out wildly around.
The narrow tea shop suddenly filled with murderous intent and was filled with coldness.
Chapter completed!