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Yang Ning knew that most of the people in the wine shop should be from the escort team. These people didn't care when they saw that the young boy was just a hunched man.

Most of the tables here were full of people, and there were at least 10 or 20 people. Yang Ning saw a table near the corner, which was quite empty. In the darkness, he saw the two of them sitting there. He walked over and couldn't see the two of them clearly for a moment. He bowed and smiled, "I'm disturbed, I have no place to sit, I'll play a table."

The two of them didn't say much. Yang Ning sat down on the bench. At this time, he had already smelled the scent of meat from other tables. He had not eaten seriously for many days. Since he had run into this wine shop, he naturally had to have a full meal.

He got broken silver on the Mu Shenjun, and it was more than enough to deal with it.

The wind and rain outside showed no signs of stopping. Yang Ning was a little strange. The room was already very dim. Why didn’t the lights light still be on? He was wondering, and the sound rang: "My uncles, the lights are coming!" Then he saw a fire light from behind. A guy was holding two oil lamps in his hand, one left and one right, hanging on the wall of the wine shop.

The wine shop suddenly lit up. With the light of the fire, Yang Ning saw clearly that the two people at the same table were old and young. Sitting opposite him was an elder in a gray-brown robe, about fifty years old, with a black beard under his chin, a thin face, and a rather elegant temperament. Although he was nearly fifty years old, his face was rosy and did not look very old. He seemed to be well maintained on weekdays.

Sitting on his left was a young man of fifteen or sixteen, with beautiful eyes and dark eyes staring at him, with a look of suspicion.

There were three plates of side dishes, a bowl of braised pork, and a pot of wine on the table. There was a wine cup in front of the elder in the brown robe. The dishes on the table seemed to have not been moved.

When Yang Ning saw the young man staring at him with suspicion, he smiled and said, "I'll introduce myself, my name is... Little White Rabbit. It depends on your friends when you go out. Don't be surprised."

The young man said lightly: "We are not friends!" Without saying much, he turned his gaze. Yang Ning saw that he was full of thoughts and thought to himself that he was not old but he had a lot of thoughts.

He turned around and saw the shop clerk beside him, looking at him with a weird look. He immediately coughed and said, "What do you see?"

"I see if you are here to shelter from the rain or drink." The shopkeeper looked disdainful, "If you are away from the rain, stay under the eaves outside the door, don't bother these two."

Yang Ning is still in a messy dress, very worn. After a few days of hard work, if anyone doesn't think he is a beggar, he will really see a ghost.

Yang Ning didn't argue, so he reached out to put a piece of silver on the table and pointed at the dishes on the table: "Is this silver enough to buy these dishes? Let me have another one."

The shop clerk laughed and said, "Where did you come from this money? Could it be stolen?"

The young man beside Yang Ning frowned and said lightly: "Don't make a conclusion to others easily. If you don't have evidence, how can you easily frame others?"

Yang Ning didn't expect that this young man would talk to him, and immediately developed some favors for the young man, but heard the elder in the brown robe coughing opposite him, and he had already picked up the wine cup in his hand. He glanced at the young man. When the young man heard the cough, he seemed to find something wrong and lowered his head.

When the shopkeeper saw the young man talking, he didn't want to say much and turned around and left.

Yang Ning sat on the bench and turned his head slightly to look at the side. Five or six people sat on the table next to him, all of whom were short-dressed clothes. Everyone had weapons on his hands, mostly big knives that were sheathed. Although there were many dishes on the table, there were no wine pots. These people seemed not to drink.

Think about it, since these people are escort teams, there may be many taboos during the escort journey, and not drinking alcohol may be one of them.

There was a thunder outside, and the wind and rain showed no signs of decrease, and it seemed to be a little heavier. One person from the next table said: "Old Mr. Lu, it seems that the rain will not stop for a while. Should we continue rushing?"

A man in his fifties beside him stroked his white beard and said slowly: "This trip must be hurry up, you can't delay the way. Let's take a short break, we still have to continue rushing, we can't stay here for the night. Only twenty miles ahead, there is an official post. It's not too late for us to rest at the official post."

"It's still old Lu." Someone laughed at the side: "The roads of these prefectures and counties all exist in Mr. Lu's mind. There is nothing that Mr. Lu doesn't know about the city and inn along the way."

Another laughed and said, "In this way, when it comes to connections, Mr. Lu said second, but no one dared to say first. You two didn't walk this line before, and I don't know how Mr. Lu was doing this line. Just say that the official post in front, if someone else, wouldn't stop. It was because Mr. Lu had been walking for so many years and had a familiarity along the way. If we had a friendship with the official post, we would naturally have a place to rest."

The old man said with a hint of grace: "We rely on connections and friends, and many friends and multiple ways. If we make grudges everywhere and have high martial arts skills, we will not be able to earn this job."

"Old Mr. Lu said." Several people said one after another: "You are our elders, so you should teach us more about the knowledge here."

Mr. Lu smiled and said, "Actually, there is nothing to teach. Remember to make more friends and less grievances, and just smile more and use less swords." Suddenly, he stood up and said, "Everyone is ready. Let's go twenty miles to the front office to rest. It is not suitable to stay in this wilderness for a long time."

Many people immediately stood up, and some even took out a lot of straw raincoats and hats and placed them in front of the door. It was obvious that they were prepared for it.

Someone had already stepped forward and started to put on a straw raincoat and hat. Old Lu drank a cup of tea and was about to get up, but Yang Ning saw the brown-robed elder on the opposite side had already stood up and walked to Old Lu, and whispered: "I don't know where you guys are going to this escort?"

Mr. Lu immediately showed a look of alertness and asked back, "Who is your lord?"

Yang Ning felt from the beginning that the old and the young seemed not to be a member of the escort team. At this time, he heard the conversation between the two and knew that he was wrong.

The elder in the brown robe turned his hand and added a piece of gold to Old Lu. At this time, everyone in the raft team was wearing straw raincoats and hats, and few people paid attention to it.

Old Lu frowned and was about to speak, the elder in the brown robe had already whispered: "I have something in my hand and am going to enter Beijing, but I am worried about an accident on the way, so I want to go with you and get some care on the way. Your destination should also be to the capital, right?"

Mr. Lu hesitated and said, "The rules of the escort agency, you cannot bring strangers with you during this escort. Your Excellency...!"

"I understand." The elder of the brown robe smiled and said, "I just want to be foolproof. You just treat it as a temporary escort. We will do everything according to the rules of your escort agency on the way and will never cause you any trouble."

"We?" Old Lu glanced at the young man and asked, "Are you the only two?"

The elder in brown robe nodded and said, "Yes, we are only two."

One person next to him could see clearly and whispered: "Old Mr. Lu, aren't you just bringing two people with you? Since we have something to ask for, we don't have to keep people thousands of miles away."

Mr. Lu glanced at the man, coughed, with a hint of blame in his eyes, obviously blaming the man for being too talkative.

Yang Ning could hear it clearly, a little strange, thinking that since the old and young people were going to Beijing, why did they still follow the escort team? The elder in the brown robe said that he brought something, afraid of losing it on the way. If this is true, that thing would be very precious, otherwise he would never have taken action and just a piece of gold as a cost.

Seeing that Mr. Lu was still hesitating, the elder in the brown robe said softly: "Actually, you are just a simple task. Could it be that you think the cost is insufficient? If so, you can add more."

Mr. Lu shook his head and said, "This is not the reason. According to the rules, you should not bring strangers on the way, unless you have to. However, it seems difficult for you to go with the escort team. It's just that ugly things are ahead. You must follow the escort team's rules. We can guarantee that you two will be safely brought to the capital, but if you break the rules, you will not blame us."

The elder in brown robe smiled and said, "It's all right to obey the order, and it will never cause you more trouble."

Old Lu shouted, "Come on, bring two straw raincoats."

The elder in brown robe returned to the table, bent down and took a package from under the table. It was a long thing, wrapped in black cloth, and didn't know what was inside.

The young man looked at each other with the elder in brown robe and got up. At this time, someone had already sent two sets of straw raincoats and hats. The two of them were not polite, so they put on the strawcoats and took the strawcoats in their hands.

Several people from the escort team had already gone out. Old Lu also put on a straw raincoat, looked back at the elder in the brown robe, nodded. The elder in the brown robe smiled, held a long package in his hand, winked at the young man, and wanted to go out with him.

After only two steps, I suddenly heard two "bang" sounds, and the wine shop suddenly turned black. The two oil lamps hanging on the wall were inexplicably extinguished.

As soon as the lights were turned off, Yang Ning saw the elder in the brown robe pulling the young man's arm and pulling him behind him. His movements were as fast as lightning and his reaction was extremely sensitive. Then he heard a commotion and noisy in the wine shop.

Yang Ning's heart tightened, and a hand was already stuffed into his arms to touch the extremely sharp ice blade, and was fully alert.

Since leaving Huize City, Yang Ning has been careful everywhere. After passing by the Mu Shenjun, he was even more sensitive and tight. The two oil lamps suddenly went out, and he immediately felt that it was very abnormal.

If one of the lamps suddenly goes out, it may be just an accident, but if the two lamps go out at the same time, something must be strange.

"Don't panic!" Mr. Lu's voice was already heard in the darkness. "Everyone calm down, be careful. If you don't understand the situation, don't act rashly. Chen Liu, you bring someone to protect the escort car outside. Whoever has a fire note on it will light up!"

Mr. Lu was shocked but not chaotic, and had an orderly assignment. He was obviously a veteran of long-distance running around the world and had a lot of experience.

At this time, a lightning flashed through, and the lightning broke through the sky and disappeared. The clouds and rain brushes painted the sky, full of cold and coldness.

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Chapter completed!