Chapter 4 Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water
Let’s not mention the outcome of the fight between Haicangfeng and Xiao Wuji in the bamboo forest for now, let’s take a look at Shuanghe first.
As mentioned last time, the innkeeper of Gengjia Village asked them: "Who are you two?"
The two seemed to have guessed that the other would ask this question, so they just looked at each other and smiled, and Huang Donglai answered: "Didn't I say it before? We are just two passers-by."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he said, "I don't see it."
"Oh?" Sun Yixie raised his eyebrows while eating the food, "How can you see that?"
The shopkeeper replied sternly: "Although Mr. Li is just a commoner in the mountains, and he only runs an inn as big as dried tofu, over the years, I have seen as many as eight hundred passers-by.
After seeing so many people, I can still tell which ones are ordinary people and which ones have some ability..." He paused and glanced at the faces of Sun and Huang again, "
I think you two are only in your early twenties at most, but your calm and unhurried attitude is not what ordinary people of this age can have. Therefore, Li also dared to ask... You two are famous young heroes in the world.
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Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai loved hearing this, but they loved hearing it, but they couldn't show it on their faces.
After all, there are some problems in this village at first glance. It is not a wise move to take the lead in exposing your own cards before finding out the truth.
"Ha..." Therefore, two seconds later, Huang Donglai just chuckled and replied, "Shopkeeper, you are mistaken..." He glanced at Sun Yixie, and then looked back at Li
The shopkeeper, "We are indeed in the world of martial arts, but we are not the kind of gangsters you think of, but the kind of people who tell people's fortunes, read fortunes, exorcise ghosts and pray for blessings, and perform on the street... As for you
It’s just that we are thick-skinned.”
What he said was reasonable and reasonable. When Shopkeeper Li heard this, he couldn't help but show disappointment on his face. He said in his heart: Oh, my happiness was in vain. I thought our village was saved.
"Oh...that's right, I misunderstood." Shopkeeper Li said, then turned to leave with a sullen face, "Then I won't disturb you..."
"Wait a minute." But Sun Yixie stopped him in time and said, "Shopkeeper, don't be anxious." He said, taking another bite of food, "I think you seem to have some difficulty, anyway, we are both in trouble.
It’s nothing, you might as well sit down and have a drink with us, tell us what it is, and see if we can help?”
"This..." Shopkeeper Li heard this and thought to himself, "Since you are not knights in the world, it is useless for me to tell you two." But then he thought again, "But... say it, I will
It seems that there is nothing to lose. Besides, people are now politely inviting me to sit down for a drink and a meal. Even if I don't eat, I will just stand by and watch. I still have to hold it in my stomach. There is no need.
"
Thinking of this, he sat down.
"Alas..." When he sat down, shopkeeper Li couldn't help but sigh again when he thought of what he was going to mention, and then said, "Then Li, I'd like to thank you two."
"It's easy to talk." Sun Yixie smiled and waved to shopkeeper Li's nephew Xiao Wu, "Little brother, come and sit down too. Don't stand alone."
"Ah?" Xiao Wu looked at the food and wine on the table and was already greedy. However, he was honest and looked at his uncle first with a questioning look.
Shopkeeper Li looked back at him and curled his lips: "What are you looking at? Are you coming if they invite you? Come on, bring two more cups and sit down and eat together."
"Hey." Xiao Wu nodded excitedly, quickly went to the counter to get two more wine glasses, and then nodded and bowed down quickly to take a seat.
"Hey~ That's right." Sun Yixie said with a smile, "Four people eating will be more lively than two people eating." As he said that, he poured wine for the shopkeeper and the waiter.
"Hey! You can't take this seriously." Shopkeeper Li was a little flattered. This was the first time for him to have a customer pour him wine for so many years of running an inn.
"Hey~ You're welcome, we are in the world of martial arts, so we don't have to be so particular." Sun Yixie pressed his elbow on the other person's movements and poured the wine.
Huang Donglai also struck while the iron was hot: "Come on, we are destined to meet today. Let's have a drink."
The two of them raised their glasses, so Shopkeeper Li and Wu Xiaoer had to welcome them.
The dishes cooked by Sun Yixie are also very popular - after all, he comes from a wealthy family and has eaten them before. People in this small mountain village really find the dishes he makes rare.
The four of them ate and drank. After a few rounds, the two people at the same table were already a little tipsy from the double harmonies.
Now that the atmosphere is here, it’s time to formulate the lyrics...
"Shopkeeper, tell me what's going on." Huang Donglai asked the question at the right time.
"Ah... to tell you the truth," shopkeeper Li said earnestly, "our village has passed today and wonders if there will be a tomorrow."
Then, he told the story of how the two heroes Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu came here, how they went there, and how they never returned, including the bandits.
Of course, it is inevitable that some of his personal subjective comments and embellished descriptions will be mixed into this. What is a person called a person if he doesn't brag a little bit at the wine table?
After hearing about everything, Huang Donglai nodded and said with a suddenly enlightened tone: "So that's it..." But then he thought of something again and asked, "Hey? Then why don't you just run away?
Woolen cloth?"
"Run?" Shopkeeper Li frowned, then smiled bitterly, "Huh... how to run? All the people in the village run together? Even if we run out, what happens next? Most of the people in this village are farmers.
, and there are those of us who do small business... Without land and shops, how can we live? Go out to beg for food?" He shook his head, "If we really become refugees, I'm afraid it will be worse than dying in the village.
Well, if you stay... you can still have hope. The bandits won't dare to kill all the people in the village. They can only kill a few to vent their anger. After all, they will come to rob in the future..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! What he said is basically the common thought of the villagers in Gengjia Village at this time.
People all have a sense of luck. They know that a disaster is coming and are scared to death, but the vast majority of people will still stay where they are like an ostrich, burrowing their heads into the hole, praying that the knife will not fall on their necks, and then try again later.
Shed a few tears over the corpses of those unlucky ones who happened to be killed, and continue to live their lives.
"Wow -" At this moment, Wu Xiaoer suddenly burst into tears with a loud cry, and tears flowed down his rough cheeks. While crying, he kept shouting,
"Cuihua'er, you died so miserably..."
"Hey! It's a shameful thing. If you can't drink it, don't drink it. Look at what a bear you are!" Shopkeeper Li became angry when he saw his nephew's behavior.
"Hey~ calm down." Sun Yixie quickly pressed him down and asked, "Where did this come from?"
"Well..." At this time, shopkeeper Li also let out a sad and angry groan in his throat. He took a deep breath and then said slowly, "Cuihua is his unmarried daughter-in-law..." At this point,
Shopkeeper Li took another sip of wine and said, "My nephew is not bad, but he is a bit stupid. No one wants him when he is in his late twenties. A few months ago, someone finally proposed a marriage, and this stupid nephew was
The boy was so happy that he didn't expect... Before the betrothal gift was given, bandits came into the village and snatched Cuihua up the mountain."
"Oh..." Huang Donglai asked again after hearing this, "Then...is it possible that this girl is still alive?"
Shopkeeper Li shook his head and replied: "None of the eldest girls and young wives in the village came back after being taken to the mountains... There were also those who were bold enough to search for them, but even the whole bodies were found.
If not, they will all be tortured to death and then thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves."
Before he finished speaking, Wu Xiaoer started crying even harder.
Now that things have come to this, we can no longer eat the meal, and we can no longer talk.
"I think you two are pretty good people, and I would like to advise you..." Shopkeeper Li took another sip of wine and suppressed his emotions, "When you hit the road tomorrow, don't go into the mountains. Just walk around from the north.
It only takes one or two days to travel, and if you go into the mountains... you will probably get robbed, and it won't be a big deal if you lose money, but if you risk your life, it won't be worth it."
"Thank you, shopkeeper, for reminding me." Huang Donglai cupped his hands at him and stood up.
Sun Yixie didn't say anything, and walked to the guest room with Huang Donglai.
After they walked away, Shopkeeper Li stood up, came to Xiao Wu, sighed, and patted the latter on the shoulder.
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After finishing the unpleasant meal, Sun and Huang came to the same guest room and began to discuss what they had just heard.
At this time, although the sky was already dark, it was not yet very late, it had just reached Xu hour.
According to the current clock, it is seven o'clock in the evening, but because there were no street lights in those days, in this autumn and winter, there was no light very early in this small village.
"Brother Huang, what do you think?" Sun Yixie asked while lighting the oil lamp.
"How else can we look at this?" Huang Donglai answered quickly, "We are familiar with this kind of thing. Ma Si, Kang Haijiao... they are all in this way. Who hasn't been killed by us?"
"Hmm..." Sun Yixie thought for a moment, "But didn't you listen to what Shopkeeper Li said? Those 'Tiger Armed King' and 'Yida Zhen Guanzhong' went up the mountain, but in the end they were all finished. I'm afraid it's not this copycat."
Are there any masters here?"
"There is a master of Mao~" Huang Donglai now relies on his good martial arts, and his tone is a bit loud when talking to Brother Sun in private, "I have heard of Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu, they are just two chickens, but their nicknames are a bit bluffing.
In fact, he has no strength."
"Oh?" Sun Yixie said, "Then with your strength, can you fuck them two?"
"Do whatever you want." Huang Donglai said in a long voice, "I'm going to throw two concealed weapons at them. Maybe they both will be gone. Even if I don't succeed with this move, as long as I... eh? That's not right.
Why do I think you are trying to make a fuss?"
"No, I'm just asking casually." As Sun Yixie spoke, he tilted his head and looked away.
"Damn you, Sun, aren't you going a little too far? Are you going to give in to the dead man's fire?" Huang Dong came to see through Sun Yixie, and his voice became louder.
"Tsk... no... I was just thinking..." Sun Yixie said, "At the beginning, the four horses all had the name of 'Zou Mazhai', but this group of bandits didn't even have a name.
And the people in the nearby villages think they are just a mob, so if you think about it normally, people like Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu are enough to deal with them, right?"
"Well..." Huang Donglai nodded, "Then what?"
"But judging from the results, these two people did not succeed." Sun Yixie said, "That's why I want you to judge their actual strength."
"If you put it this way..." Huang Donglai thought for a while, "Although these two can only be regarded as second-rate masters, in terms of hard power... they will not lose to ordinary bandit leaders."
"Right." When Sun Yixie said this, his little eyes narrowed and he continued, "So there must be something fishy about this matter..."
"What do you mean?" Huang Donglai asked.
"For example..." Sun Yixi said, "Although these bandits are not very strong in terms of physical strength, their leader is very intelligent; he has prepared certain strategies, mechanisms, or hidden weapons such as lime powder in advance...
...Then we captured those two people." He paused and then added, "Think about it, according to shopkeeper Li, Liu Zou and Liu Zou went up the mountain after eating, drinking and sleeping all night.
And the day before that, the three villages had already told each other about this matter... So if the bandits planted spies in any of the three villages, wouldn't it mean that they would have been prepared a night in advance?
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Huang Donglai listened and thought about it: "That makes sense! As expected of Brother Sun, the details are quite good."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "That's right~" Sun Yixie said, "Brother relies on his intelligence to gain a foothold in the world, okay?"
"So when you don't rely on intelligence and rely on strength, you will be stuck with a poisonous needle and lie down." Huang Donglai joked.
"Shut up, I!" Sun Yixie said, "That bitch has no martial ethics and attacked me secretly. When I have time, I can practice some basic skills. I can easily defend against such attacks."
"Okay, okay." Huang Donglai said, "Let's talk about it now...are there any treacherous plots again? Are you going to change homes with someone else again?"
"Mao!" Sun Yixie said, "Don't make it sound like I can only change homes."
"No, no, you can also do lime powder, lift the vaginal legs, lock the throat, penetrate the eyes..." Huang Donglai is very familiar with Sun Yixie's unique skills.
"Are you still listening to my plan?" Brother Sun didn't like hearing this anymore, so he interrupted him.
"Say it," Huang Donglai said.
"Uh-huh..." Sun Yixie cleared his throat, "I'm going to use 'Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water'..."
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The next day, before noon arrived, the village chief of Gengjia Village came to the door of the only inn in the village.
The onlookers made way for the villagers, and he just squeezed in.
"These two are..." Village Chief Geng looked at Shopkeeper Li who came up to him and asked in a low voice.
"Let me introduce you." Shopkeeper Li said, dragging the village chief to the side of Sun and Huang who were sitting at the table eating. "You two, let me introduce you. This is our Gengjia Village.
Village chief, Mr. Geng Sanguo."
"Hmm, hello." Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai said this casually to the village chief in a rather arrogant manner while eating "breakfast and lunch".
Of course, Village Chief Geng didn't dare to complain.
"These two are the famous young heroes Dong Xie Xi Du, Sun Yi Xie, and Huang Dong Lai Shao Xia." Shopkeeper Li then introduced to Village Chief Geng.
"I've met these two young heroes." Village Chief Geng, who was already old, bowed to them with great respect.
When you see this, someone may want to ask, Teacher Jue, what happened?
It's very simple. Early that morning, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai did not choose to hit the road, but ran to have a "showdown" with shopkeeper Li.
The two said: Actually, we were just pretending yesterday. If we tell you our true identities, we will scare you to death.
Then they boasted about their reputation as "Eastern Harmony and Western Poison" and some deeds that had already been circulated.
These two people were good at explaining things in the past world, and they were particularly good at "fabricating history" and exaggerating. They teased each other, sang together, and made Shopkeeper Li look stupid.
After fooling him, Shuangxi immediately said, we will take care of your village's affairs.
When Shopkeeper Li heard this, he felt that he had found a way out of a desperate situation, and immediately asked Xiao Wu to inform the village chief.
Xiao Wu is an honest man, and he doesn't know how to talk nonsense, so he went to the village chief's house and relayed: "Village chief, two young heroes came to our store. They are called East Harmony and West Poison. They said they came to our place before.
Liu Daxia and Zou Daxia are just two rookies, so it’s not surprising that they failed. Now they want to help us, so go and have a look."
When Village Chief Geng heard this, he thought to himself that Xiao Wu is crazy? What kind of slang are they talking about? Then how can the two heroes Liu and Zou be chickens? Still novices? What does it mean to die? Where did you die?
ah?
In short, Village Chief Geng took Xiao Wu and asked him several times before he roughly understood what was going on. After asking clearly, Village Chief Geng also felt that the village might be saved again, so he immediately went to inform those senior people in the village.
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In short, in this morning, the whole village knew about it.
Therefore, when Village Chief Geng finally came to the door of the inn, men, women, old and children had gathered in a circle on the street, all talking about it.
"The village chief doesn't have to be polite. We young people can't bear it." After saying that, Huang Donglai had no intention of getting up to help others. He just sat there and ate with a sullen look on his face.
"Village Chief Geng, don't say more. I will just say one thing today." Sun Yixie said, "With us here, those bandits... will! Die!"
"That's right." Huang Donglai also muttered while stuffing something into his mouth, "The ashes were thrown away by them."
When Village Chief Geng heard this, he wondered how the two men sounded... why did they seem to be more bandits than bandits?
And just when he had doubts, unexpectedly...
Snapped--
Sun Yixie actually raised his hand and slapped a particularly large ingot of silver on the table.
"Shopkeeper Li." Sun Yixie said immediately, "Firstly, this money is to pay for our expenses here, and secondly... for the extra part, we ask you and the village chief to take more trouble to help us purchase it."
Something."
The money is really good stuff.
It is true that money is not everything, but among all things, it is probably the closest to "everything".
For example, right now, the ingot of silver that Sun Yixie took out could help him and Huang Donglai gain the trust of the villagers faster than any words...
Shopkeeper Li and Village Chief Geng had never seen such a big piece of silver in their lives, and their eyes were opened.
"Sun Shaoxia, you're welcome. Whatever you ask, we will definitely do it." Shopkeeper Li's attitude towards them now is very different from yesterday. Yesterday, he thought that these two were just two young people passing by.
But today, in his eyes, Sun and Huang are the saviors and gods of wealth.
"Okay, please, please bring us as much of the things written on this paper as we can buy." Huang Donglai took over the conversation at this time, and took out a piece of paper from his sleeve that he had written last night.
After writing the list, "Oh, by the way, we want the goods not only from Gengjia Village, but also from the three nearby villages."
Shopkeeper Li took the piece of paper, held it in front of his eyes, and looked at it with Village Chief Geng beside him. After getting the village chief's nod, he replied: "Okay, okay, we'll do it right away."
"Moreover." Sun Yixie said again at this time, "Where are the luggage and horses that Liu Daxia and Zou Daxia left behind before?"
Two seconds later, shopkeeper Li also asked the village chief for his approval with his eyes, and then replied: "Go back to the two young heroes, the horses are tied behind the inn, and their luggage... Of course we don't dare to
I went to move it, because I was afraid that bandits would come and ask for it one day, so I put it all away and left it in the store."
"Okay." Sun Yixie said, already standing up, "Then take us to have a look."