Shen Lie never spoke a word from beginning to end, and looked at him condescendingly with a pair of cold and indifferent eyes.
Shopkeeper Xu has been dealing with all kinds of people all year round, but he couldn't understand the young man in front of him at all.
Shen Lie looked towards Ye Zheng at this time.
Ye Zheng nodded, turned his back and looked at the Tanzhou soldiers and horses who had followed them, and said loudly: "Everyone come in and search this inn from beginning to end!"
Shopkeeper Xu was shocked when he heard this and crawled up on the ground: "What are you searching for? Wasn't Zhang Yiqian captured by you this morning along with the people from the Tianxing Chamber of Commerce?"
Ye Zheng stood in front of him: "Get away!"
"This...general! How did the small shop offend you? You are so generous and bypass the small ones. I rely on this shop to make a living!"
The soldiers ran in and searched the counter, upstairs, and the backyard. Some even ran to the corner to look through the cabinets.
Shopkeeper Xu was so angry that his hands were shaking: "There are no ants hiding in this corner, how can there be any living people! General, Hengxiang is a scholarly and elegant place, how can you be so unreasonable and barbaric? If word spreads, everyone in the world will look down upon you!"
"There are many people who are looked down upon by the people of the world," Ye Zheng said to him. "Of those who have established themselves as kings now, who do the people of the world like?"
Shopkeeper Xu was speechless.
The hall was full of jingling bells and chaos.
These tall, reckless and arrogant Tanzhou soldiers were not polite. They overturned tables and cabinets. Some of them went to the diners and guests and asked them one by one if they were Zhang Yiqian.
Shopkeeper Xu continued to beg for mercy, kowtowing to the ground, begging Shen Lie to let him go to the inn.
Shen Lie ignored him at all.
There were tables, chairs and benches all over the floor. Shopkeeper Xu didn't feel bad about it, and Zhang Yiqian wasn't even in the inn.
Shopkeeper Xu was afraid that the secret passage would be discovered, even though the entrance to the secret passage was in an extremely hidden place.
But what are you really afraid of? What will happen?
A soldier ran in from the backyard: "General, there is a secret passage behind!"
Shen Lie glanced at Shopkeeper Xu and immediately walked over.
"Back, behind?" Shopkeeper Xu was puzzled, "How can there be a secret passage behind?"
"You pretend slowly." Ye Zheng said, following Shen Lie.
Shopkeeper Xu is really not pretending, the secret secret is indeed not behind.
However, when following Shen Lie and Ye Zheng down the back hall, Shopkeeper Xu was dumbfounded.
This group of Tanzhou soldiers who dug three feet into the ground were really searching for their lives. One person actually climbed down into the well and went down with a shovel.
They forcibly dug the secret passage that passed through the well into the wall of the well!
The shopkeeper felt dizzy because the entrance to the secret passage was just above the water level...
"What else do you have to say?" The proud Tanzhou soldier leaned out of the well with a dirty face.
"No, that's not true, General," Manager Xu cried and looked at Shen Lie aggrievedly, "You can't be unreasonable. I dug a tunnel in my own territory. Why did it become my fault? This..."
He couldn't talk any more. As soon as the secret passage appeared, he sent someone to get in and it became clear at a glance.
Shen Lie finally spoke, with a cold voice: "There are two ways. One, hang your body outside Feishuang Pavilion to scare your associates. Two, you surrender to me and work for me. From now on, your life will... I will be the guarantor."
As soon as the word "accomplice" came out, Manager Xu knew that his idea of getting lucky just now was wrong. Shen Lie led his troops here not because of Jiangmei's affairs, but because of...
Shopkeeper Xu turned to look at the soldiers around him.
The search for secret passages is not false, but it may also be a search for ears and eyes.
Now there is no one else in this whole area except Shen Lie.
Shopkeeper Xu suddenly calmed down and asked: "It sounds like you know that Feishuang Pavilion is unusual?"
"yes."
"How did you know? Zhang Yiqian betrayed us?"
Shen Lie said nothing and looked at him.
"This damn Zhang Yiqian!" Shopkeeper Xu changed his cowardly and begging for mercy attitude, and said with a cold expression, "He will die badly!"
"It seems you chose the first path." Shen Lie said.
"There is nothing in the secret passage," Shopkeeper Xu sneered, "You have no idea where the secret passage will go, that section of the road is completely blocked."
Ye Zhengdao: "You have been operating here for many years. We should be able to gain a lot by starting with your neighbors."
"Haha, hahaha..." Shopkeeper Xu was half laughing sadly when he suddenly took action, pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed Ye Zheng suddenly.
Even if he had to fight to the death, he knew that he was no match for Shen Lie.
As for these idiot soldiers from Tanzhou, if you kill one, you will not lose anything, but if you kill two, you will gain blood... That's not right!
He struck without warning. Ye Zheng was extremely quick in adapting and easily avoided it, then grabbed his wrist.
Shopkeeper Xu refused to give in, and the two of them exchanged several moves in an instant.
The surrounding soldiers quickly gathered around. There was no such thing as martial ethics, and everyone rushed forward together.
Shopkeeper Xu's dagger was kicked away in the melee, and several large knives were placed on his neck.
Shopkeeper Xu glared at Shen Lie angrily: "If I'm not mistaken, you should be Shen Lie!"
Shen Lie lowered his head, lightly picked up the dagger that fell by his feet with his toes, and then caught it firmly.
He handed the dagger to Ye Zheng: "Give it to him."
"Why," Shopkeeper Xu laughed angrily, "Do you want to compete with me?"
"Let him do it himself," Shen Lie said to Ye Zheng, "and watch him die."
"I'm not afraid of death! But you will come to accompany me soon!" Shopkeeper Xu said.
Shen Lie turned around and left, not looking at him again.
After burning the incense, shopkeeper Xu's body was hung on the door of Feishuang Pavilion.
The scorching sun was pouring down from an altitude of 30,000 feet. Shopkeeper Xu's head was tilted strangely in the sunlight, and there was a deep crack on his neck.
Nearly ten thousand people gathered nearby, making a lot of noise and noise.
Bai Ling's legs were so weak that she could hardly stand, and the note in her hand seemed to be on fire, burning her palms.
The sound of gongs and drums seemed to be ringing in my ears.
"Anyone who is an accomplice of Yanchunlou's criminal woman Jiangmei must surrender immediately and be spared lightly! Otherwise, they will be quartered with five horses and cut into pieces with a thousand knives!"
Cut into pieces by a thousand cuts...
Bai Ling's face turned pale and he left in a panic, not daring to stay any longer.
When Shen Lie came to Taoliuli Bridge, Zhu Chang had searched Taoliuli Bridge thoroughly, but there was no news about Jiang Mei.
The courtyards of the houses are narrow and crowded together, and the paths become tighter and tighter as you go inside.
Shen Lie looked around, thought for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Jingyun Tower not far away.
Just then I saw a figure quickly dodge and hide behind the window.
Zhu Chang also saw it and said to Shen Lie: "That person is the shopkeeper of Jingyun Tower."
"Call him here." Shen Lie said.
"yes."
In this area, the floor of Jingyun Building is the highest, and the window position is just right to have a panoramic view of the Taoliuli Bridge.
At this time, a gust of wind came over, carrying a stench.
Shen Lie frowned slightly and looked in the direction of the wind.
"It's corpse odor." Ye Zheng said in shock.
"General, there are a lot of prostitutes here." said a soldier.
