Raising the Sword into the Rivers and Lakes Chapter Fifty-Three: Following the Trace
After the punch, the hawker appeared. Looking at Lao Li who was holding his chest and panting, the hawker chuckled and said, "Brother Li, is my punch still worthy of your attention?"
At this time, the true energy in Lao Li's chest and abdomen was like an overflowing river, and it was in chaos. He could only gasp for breath. Lao Li gritted his teeth and replied: "Today, I was blind and did not recognize the master. I admit my defeat."
At this moment, Li still couldn't figure out why he hadn't found out the depth of his inner strength just now because this hawker was so strong in martial arts.
"You don't have to look like this." The hawker looked at Lao Li's doubtful eyes and said with a smile.
Looking at Old Li's exhausted state, the vendor put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards Old Li, saying as he walked: "I didn't attack me when I was in the alley, so now I will give you a chance.
"
Seeing that the hawker was not in a hurry, Lao Li secretly thought about his luck and hoped to regain more internal strength, but the Qi in his chest and abdomen was disturbed. After a little luck, Lao Li's old injury was recovering, and he was in severe pain.
, which caused Lao Li to cough continuously.
"You are walking around the rivers and lakes with no fixed place and no skills. Why not join us, we are all brothers. Once this is done, I guarantee that you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, and you will never have to wander around the world again." The hawker has grown old.
In front of Li, looking at Lao Li who was coughing non-stop, he said.
The hawker had indeed developed an admiration for Lao Li during the encounter. He had been operating in Liangzhou for many years and had seen hundreds of charlatans. But like this scarred man, his mental skills were second to none.
countable.
Previously, the man sent someone with a handwritten letter with a seal to summon his group. If he wanted to protect the brothers in Liangzhou, it would be nice to have more help.
If this scar-faced man is willing to join, he may have a chance to get rid of them if he confronts that group of people again, and even getting that thing back is not completely impossible.
Although Lao Li had an old chest injury and could only breathe, he laughed wildly as if he had been tapped by the vendor on his smile point after listening to the vendor's solicitation.
The vendor seemed to be irritated by Lao Li's ridicule, and he looked a little embarrassed. He said with a cold face: "Are what I said so funny?"
Old Li coughed violently due to his wild laughter, which calmed down the burning feeling in his chest. With a smile on his lips, Old Li said back to the hawker: "When I walked around the world, you were still a baby sucking milk. Don't follow me."
Come here, look at what you are wearing, it is nothing more than kidnapping, extortion, and robbery. How could I be associated with you? My skills are not as good as others. I am mistaken. I want to kill or behead. I feel free to do whatever I want. Just frown.
With my eyebrows, I am not a good man."
At this moment, the hawker admired the courage of this scar-faced man. Seeing that Lao Li was unwilling to give in, the hawker's expression softened and he said: "We are both from the world, and we are not people who do evil things. Since I don't want to, I will."
Don’t force it. This is because our whereabouts cannot be leaked. If we let you go, our whereabouts will be leaked. I’m sorry for my brothers in Liangzhou, so I want to ask you to go to a place to rest for a few days until I finish my work.
, I will naturally let you go at that time."
Remembering that he had never harmed the lives of his brothers, either in the alley or during the fight with his men, the vendor still planned to spare Lao Li's life.
Lao Li held the hatchet tremblingly and was about to retort when he saw the hawker's figure flash and come to Lao Li's side. If Lao Li had not suffered any old injuries and had a head-on fight, he could still have a fight with the hawker.
Now that Lao Li had suffered internal injuries and suffered from an old illness, he could only watch helplessly as the vendor took action, sealing the large acupuncture points and throats all over his body, and moving like lightning to seal his mute acupoints.
Seeing that the scarred man's acupuncture points were sealed by his boss, those shadowy masked men stepped forward and tied up Lao Li. They then took off their black clothes, revealing the ordinary Baixin clothes underneath.
After a while, everyone hailed a carriage filled with vegetables to drive into the alley, and everyone worked together to stuff Lao Li into the carriage carrying vegetables.
Then everyone looked at each other and dispersed, leaving only two or three men following the carriage as it slowly drove out of the alley.
In the Yuelai Building, in the elegant room on the second floor attic, Xue Hu looked like he was roasting goose on his left and roasting chicken on his right again, feasting on food. In the mood to eat, Xue Hu picked up the wine jar and filled it up for Gu Xiao, who was sitting beside him and was worried.
He took out the wine cup and shouted: "Brother Gu, come here, Xue will give you a bowl."
Although Gu Xiao picked up the wine cup, he was not in the mood to drink at all. He had been searching for a long time but could not find Lao Li. Gu Xiao had no choice but to leave his mark and follow Lin'er and others to the Yuelai Building first.
A table of wine and food in the Yuelai Building was prepared, but Lao Li still hadn't shown up. Gu Xiao's faint worry became more and more intense. So he found a boy in front of the Yuelai Tower who was delivering messages for guests, and gave the boy
For a piece of silver, let him go to the inn and see if Lao Li has gone back first.
Holding the wine cup, Gu Xiao stared at the street and thought. Uncle Li usually has some good wine, and he would never disappear for so long without any reason. Where did he go? Is it still related to Liuzhuang? But Liuzhuang has been taken over.
The fire has burned out? Who could it be? He had no clue, Gu Xiao could only frown and think hard.
Half an hour later, Xue Hu had already cleared the table and shouted to the waiter to serve more food and wine.
The waiter entered the private room with a flattering smile. After listening to Xue Hu's instructions, he went down to prepare the meal. However, Gu Xiao, who had been thinking about it for a long time and hadn't spoken, caught a glimpse of the waiter. After looking at the waiter, Gu Xiao's eyes narrowed.
Then he called out to the waiter.
"Brother, how long have you been working as a waiter in Yuelailou?" Gu Xiao looked at the waiter and asked with a smile on his face.
When the waiter saw that the guest suddenly asked him this, he was slightly startled at first, then put on a smile and skillfully put the sweat towel on his shoulders, bowed to Gu Xiao and said, "In reply to the guest officer, since this is my pleasure
Since the building was built, I have been busy in this shop, and no one else has."
When Gu Xiao heard this, he smiled and said: "That means I recognized the wrong person. You look like a distant relative of mine. Later, because he moved to the city with his family, we lost contact."
The waiter smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. I have a popular face, and many people say that I look familiar. If your guest has nothing else to do, I will go and prepare wine and food for you."
Seeing Gu Xiao nodding, the waiter bowed and exited the private room, heading towards the kitchen.
Lin'er saw Gu Xiaojian's eyebrows furrowed even more after the waiter left, so he held Ta Xue in his arms, who was sleeping soundly on his back after eating a full meal, and comforted Gu Xiao and said: "Don't worry, Uncle Li has been walking in the world for many years.
Besides, he is very skilled in martial arts, and this is in Liangzhou City, so there will be no problem. Maybe Uncle Li has returned to the inn."
While Lin'er was talking, the messenger boy ran all the way into the Yuelai Building. He glanced around and saw the name "Ya" on the second floor. He quickly went up to the second floor and knocked on the door of the "Yelai Room".
"Sir, Miss, I have gone to the inn you mentioned, but I have not found the person you are looking for." After entering the private room, the messenger boy said to Gu Xiao.
After sending away the messenger boy, Gu Xiao seemed to have an idea and whispered to Lin'er: "If Uncle Li goes first, he will definitely tell me. Even if he can't find us, he will wait for me at the inn. It's so far away now."
It's been several hours since we couldn't find him..." Gu Xiao said as he thought to himself, recalling everything that happened today.
Finally, he remembered that he had never seen Uncle Li in front of the old vegetable stall. Putting down his wine glass, Gu Xiao said to Lin'er: "This matter is too strange. I have to go to the vegetable stall in the morning to check."
one time."
Lin'er saw that Gu Xiao was worried about Uncle Li, her apricot eyes turned, and then she said: "In that case, I will accompany you to take a look."
Seeing that his master wanted to go with Gu Xiao, Xue Hu hurriedly put down the wine and meat in his hands, wiped his body with his oily hands, and wanted to go together.
Lin'er stopped Xue Hu and said, "We can't all go. You will go back to the inn later. If Uncle Li comes back, you can go there to find us."
Xue Hu could not rest assured that his master would be out of his sight, but when he thought about it, he felt relieved that Brother Gu was by his side, so he cupped his fists and said, "Yes."
Gu Xiao stepped forward and whispered a few words to Xue Hu. He only heard Xue Hu nod repeatedly, then glanced at the wine and meat on the table reluctantly, then went downstairs and left the Yuelai Building, looking in the direction of the inn.
Gu Xiao put down a piece of silver, and went downstairs with Lin'er towards the vegetable stall of the old vegetable seller and his wife. When he reached the door, he turned around and glanced at the inn, then looked away.
Lin'er saw Gu Xiao behaving strangely and asked softly: "Gu Xiao, what's wrong with you?"
Gu Xiao said: "Nothing, let's talk while walking."
Gu Xiao and Lin'er walked side by side towards the vegetable stall. As they were walking, a carriage passed by them. Gu Xiao stood up and looked back at the carriage. He saw that the carriage was loaded with dishes and was stopping.
In front of the Yuelai Building, a few people following the car shouted for everyone in the store to come and carry the dishes.
After watching for a long time, Gu Xiao looked away, but Lin'er who was accompanying him was confused by Gu Xiao's weird behavior one after another. Lin'er was walking in the snow in his arms as if he had been awakened by the cold outside the store, and opened his eyes.
He looked around with both eyes. When he saw Gu Xiao nearby, he hurriedly broke away from Lin'er's arms, followed Gu Xiao's cloak, and slipped into the cloak, leaving only his triangular head staring outside.
After soothing Ta Xue with his hands, Gu Xiao looked away from the carriage, and then rushed to the vegetable stall with Lin'er. After a while, the two of them arrived at the place where Lin'er was listening to the story told by the old woman selling vegetables.
Although it is getting late, there are still people coming and going here.
Seeing Gu Xiao's anxious face, Lin'er pulled off the exquisite mandarin duck pendant from her waist and said to Gu Xiao, "Let's search separately. If we find Uncle Li's whereabouts..."
"No, I had a vague feeling that something was wrong. Just now, do you still remember that I asked the waiter when Yuelai came to the building?" Gu Xiao interrupted Lin'er softly.
"Didn't you say that he looks like a distant relative of yours?" Lin'er didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Gu Xiao's gourd.
Gu Xiao pulled Lin'er to the street and whispered: "Outside the city, when you and I first met, the old shopkeeper once told me that the waiter from Yuelai Building had offended Liu by mistake.
Yi, his hands were broken by Liu Yi and he became disabled."
"Ouch~ I understand. You just used words to test the waiter, but he said that since the Yuelai Building was built, he has been working in the store and no one else." Lin'er suddenly realized that Gu Xiao was in the Yuelai Building.
Suddenly he called the waiter and asked him what he meant by those words.
Lin'er looked at the young man in green clothes in front of him and couldn't help but admire his delicate thoughts, and then heard Gu Xiao say.
"This is too strange. Uncle Li has been missing for a long time. You and I will act separately. If anything happens to you again, let me know what to do."
After hearing Gu Xiao's words, Lin'er lowered her head for a moment and said softly: "If one day I also disappear, will you come to look for me like this?"
Gu Xiao didn't know the meaning of the girl's words, he just frowned and looked around, trying to find clues about Uncle Li's disappearance, and blurted out: "Of course, if one day, I will do the same, who made us...
friend."
After listening to the first half of the sentence, Lin'er felt happy in her heart, but when she heard the word 'friend', Lin'er couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. However, Gu Xiao's arms were filled with snow as if he understood the meaning of Lin'er's words, and he tilted his head towards Gu Xiao.
Xiao Hao bared his teeth and grinned. He was afraid that if Ta Xue could speak human words, Gu Xiao would have been scolded to death.
In the city of Liangzhou, people express their sincere feelings, and their green clothes are as thick as hibiscus.
The green shirt doesn't understand how long the heart is, and just hugs the green hills to the setting sun.