Volume 1: A Sword Comes from the West Chapter 23 Convincing People with Reason
What Li Xiuping and Xu Bansheng didn't expect was that after they returned to the inn, the room they had just paid for was sold to someone else by the innkeeper without even seeing what it looked like.
Li Xiuping could bear it, but Xu Bansheng couldn't. He slapped the table and started a quarrel with the store owner.
The store owner didn't seem to expect that these three people would come back. He was still happy before. The two houses were sold for double the price, which was never such a good thing in his dreams.
Now that Li Xiuping and others have returned, the store owner is suddenly in a dilemma.
Logically speaking, since these three people have spent money, the room should naturally belong to them, but now that someone else has moved in, he can't go up and drive them away.
Even if he has the heart, he doesn't have the courage. There is no one who is not a dignified figure gathered in this city now. How dare he provoke him, a small person struggling in the secular world.
The shopkeeper looked bitter and said: "Two young gentlemen, how about returning the money in full? The young man saw the two young gentlemen walking in a hurry and really thought that you had left, so he gave the room to someone else. You know
If you come back, you will never do such a thing."
Li Xiuping, whose clothes were in tatters and covered with scars, said bitterly: "How about forget it."
Xu Bansheng shook his head and said: "How can we forget it? There is no such thing as opening a business. We don't want the money, and the room must be provided."
In the past, Xu Bansheng would not have cared about it like this, but now Li Xiuping was injured and needed a place to recuperate. At this time, it would take time to find it elsewhere. Whether he could find it or not was a question.
The noise here soon attracted countless people to watch, point and discuss.
Some people say that the store owner is unkind, while others say that Li Xiuping and Xu Bansheng are not kind.
When the shopkeeper saw that Xu Bansheng didn't want to give up, and was being pointed at by the people around him, he became angry for a moment and said coldly: "Anyway, the room has been given to someone else. The money can be refunded, but the room is not available."
Compared to the two people upstairs, the three in front of me are obviously easier to offend.
Xu Bansheng also got angry, grabbed the shopkeeper by the collar, and said coldly: "Believe it or not, Grandpa Xu demolished your shabby shop?"
The shopkeeper didn't expect that the little fat guy was so strong and couldn't get away at all.
"What's the fuss about?"
At this time, a man's voice suddenly came from upstairs, and then a man and a woman walked down.
When the shopkeeper saw these two people, he suddenly seemed to have seen a savior and said loudly: "The room is given to them, you can discuss it yourself."
Li Xiuping and Xu Bansheng looked at those two people.
The two are about the same age, in their twenties. The woman is slightly taller than the man. She is wearing a goose-yellow dress. Three thousand black hair hangs naturally on her back, with a snow-white hairband floating gently on her left hand.
In the middle, he is holding a long sword.
The man was wearing a navy blue suit, with a fair face and a look of arrogance between his brows. His hands were naturally hanging down and his big sleeves were swaying.
The woman looked at Li Xiuping with her eyebrows slightly furrowed, probably because of Li Xiuping's injuries.
As a foundation-building monk, she could naturally see where the young man's injuries came from.
Xu Bansheng asked at this time: "You robbed our room?"
The woman was stunned and asked: "Where do you start talking about this?"
After saying that, she looked at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper looked at this woman with an embarrassed look on his face, and then he could only talk about the situation in the room.
After understanding this, the woman couldn't help but frown, never expecting to encounter such a thing again.
After thinking for a while, she looked at Xu Bansheng and Li Xiuping and asked: "If I look for another room now, I'm afraid I won't be able to find it. How do you think this matter should be handled?"
Xu Bansheng frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "In this case, there are two rooms anyway, one for you and one for us."
He looked at the shopkeeper and continued: "Of course, half of the rent will be refunded. How can you be like you, selling two things for one thing?"
The shopkeeper looked embarrassed and could only look at the man and woman for advice.
The woman didn't speak, and the man said at this time: "No, it's your business if you three want to share a room. How can my senior sister and I live together?"
Although the woman did not speak, she agreed with this statement. After all, she is a woman, and this matter is related to honors. Although practitioners are not so particular, there are a lot of inconveniences for two people living together, let alone two rooms.
There is only one bed in each room.
Xu Bansheng said at this time: "You can leave if you don't want to, and give us both rooms."
He looked at the man and continued: "We decided on the room first. We have done our best to allow you to share a room. You are still picky."
"You are looking for death!" The man stepped out.
Even if Xu Bansheng was afraid of him, he still took a step forward.
Li Xiuping said at this time: "Refund us the money."
Everyone was stunned, and the shopkeeper suddenly looked grateful and quickly returned all the money to Li Xiuping.
Xu Bansheng pulled Li Xiuping and frowned: "Junior Brother Li, what are you doing?"
Li Xiuping put away the money and said, "It's nothing to spend a night in a carriage. It's not something I've done before."
Xu Bansheng frowned and said, "But your injury..."
Li Xiuping shook his head and said: "A small injury, it doesn't matter."
As he spoke, he bowed to the woman and then walked outside.
Li Xiuping had already refunded the money and made a decision. Naturally, Xu Bansheng didn't feel comfortable saying anything. After taking a look at the two people, he followed Li Xiuping out of the restaurant.
The man snorted coldly at this time and said: "I hope you know each other, otherwise..."
Li Xiuping, who was about to cross the threshold, suddenly stopped and said in a deep voice: "What else?"
At this time, everyone frowned, and many people even gloated.
There's something good to watch now.
Almost everyone present is a practitioner, so it can be seen that both parties are also practitioners.
When there is a conflict between people from two sects, according to common sense, they usually fight first, and then whoever has the stronger fist will be the one who speaks the truth. But the young man was the first to admit defeat, which made many people a little disappointed.
The woman frowned.
No one wants to get into trouble when they go out, not to mention that although these two people are young, it can be seen from the injuries on the young man that these two people are definitely not simple. Since the other party is willing to make concessions and give the room to them,
They were happy to accept it, but they didn't expect that her junior brother would say that...
Although she didn't understand why the young man gave in, her junior brother's words obviously aroused his youthful nature.
Li Xiuping turned around at this time, looked at the man, and said slowly: "I'm not giving up the room to you because I'm afraid of you, I just don't want to embarrass the store. But now, I won't let it go."
After saying that, he threw the money he had just returned and it landed neatly on the counter.
Li Xiuping's sudden move was unexpected even by Xu Bansheng, who looked at Li Xiuping in astonishment.
Although he has not been with Li Xiuping for a long time, it has been almost a month, so he actually knows Li Xiuping fairly well. According to Li Xiuping's temperament, it is impossible for him to make changes just because of such a sentence.
In fact, Li Xiuping would not change because of a word from the other party, but now Li Xiuping did have a lot of anger in his heart. This anger was naturally caused by letting the guy run away before.
After all, Li Xiuping is only fourteen years old after all. No matter how mature he acts, he still has a competitive spirit in his heart.
A sect disciple who has just established a foundation, a disciple of the sect who has not even established a foundation yet, why can he be so arrogant in front of him? He is Li Xiuping, a disciple of Mr. Ou Ye. He can even be a strong man in the Golden Core stage.
No matter how serious it is, he can even look at the strong Nascent Soul and kill the strong Foundation Establishment with one sword...
Just now, a difficult foundation-building expert was beaten and frightened by him, and he fled. What are you two pretending to be in front of me now?
The female cultivator obviously didn't want to get into trouble, so she smiled and saluted, "Sir, my junior brother has always been like this, please don't take it personally."
Li Xiuping looked at her and asked: "What if I must take offense? Could it be that you want to kill us?"
Without waiting for the woman to speak, Li Xiuping pointed at the man and continued: "I can give you one of the two rooms because you are a woman, but he must get out of the inn."
When Li Xiuping pointed him at him, the man suddenly became furious and stepped forward and said, "Who do you think you are!"
Xu Bansheng also stood in front of Li Xiuping at this time and asked: "Who do you think you are!"
Li Xiuping ignored the man at all, looked at the woman and said, "If the girl feels dissatisfied, you can take him away now."
The woman suddenly showed a smile and said: "It's just a sentence, why does this young master have to go to such an extent? Since the young master has given up the room, then these two rooms belong to us. Naturally, the things in Fenglei Pavilion will not be used again."
Give up the truth to others."
There was an uproar in the inn.
"It turns out he's from Fenglei Pavilion. Now he's in for a good show."
"The rumored Fenglei Pavilion controls the power of wind and thunder?"
"In Yunzhou, which Fenglei Pavilion is there?"
"I heard that there is a disciple with outstanding talent in Fenglei Pavilion. She has already established a foundation at the age of nineteen. Even if her talent is compared with Chen Wanrong's, she is no less talented. Could it be her?"
"He Junlin?"
While everyone was talking about it, Xu Bansheng took out an earth-yellow bead and said, "What a coincidence, there is no precedent for giving anything from my Huayang Sect to others."
At this moment, everyone in the entire inn was shocked, all staring at the bead in Xu Bansheng's hand.
"Huayang Sect? Is this the Earth Dragon Pearl in Master Fang's hand?"
"I have heard that this Earth Dragon Pearl is the best among earth magic weapons, and it contains the power to destroy the heaven and the earth. With this Earth Dragon Pearl and his cultivation at the Golden Core stage, Master Fang just
Killed a strong man in the Nascent Soul stage."
"..."
Xu Bansheng held up the earth dragon ball with one hand and pointed at the man with the other, beckoning: "Come on, come on, your Grandpa Xu will teach you today what it means to convince people with reason when you are away from home."
The poor man's face was pale, and even though he was deeply dissatisfied, he didn't dare to utter a single word at this moment.
That is the Earth Dragon Pearl, a treasure that can easily kill a strong Jindan man.
He is a little monk who doesn't even have a foundation. If he rushes forward at this time, isn't he too short-lived?