Chapter 103: Shocked to hear what happened upstairs
Chapter 466 Shocked to hear what happened upstairs
Afternoon, Shihe Inn.
This inn is quite famous in Taizhou. Firstly, because it is located at a transportation hub and has a large flow of customers almost all year round. Secondly, because the cooks here have family-owned skills and the fried pork liver is particularly good, and some people even cook it.
I don't go to high-end restaurants, I just come here to eat this.
A shop like this is undoubtedly quite busy during the day, especially during meals.
For example, right now, at noon, the store is noisy to the point where it feels like you can hear everything, but not hear anything at all.
Hu Wenzhi was sitting in a corner of the lobby of this store, sharing a table with a middle-aged man with a half-year-old child.
Let's talk about this old Hu. After leaving Shanghai County, he said goodbye to Sun and Huang and started traveling alone.
After all, he had only asked Shuanghe and Eunuch Wei from the beginning to take him back to the Central Plains from Japan, and there was no reason to follow them.
Furthermore... after what happened in Shanghai County, Hu Wenzhi did not dare to go with Shuanghe; because from Hu Wenzhi's perspective, Sun and Huang were involved in too many forces, and the water behind them was too deep.
And if nothing else goes wrong, the two of them have been spotted by the "King of Desire" Ding. If he continues to follow them, he may even be involved in some kind of conspiracy.
Therefore, after leaving the city, as soon as he stepped onto the fork in the official road, Hu Wenzhi proposed that he would like to walk around alone and "no more bothering the two young heroes."
When Sun Huang heard this, he immediately understood what Hu Wenzhi meant. Anyway, the friendship between them was average, and there was indeed no motive for both parties to act together, so if you want to leave, just leave.
However, before leaving, Sun Yixie still used the process of "making a good relationship" and took the initiative to give Lao Hu some money, saying... "You just returned to the Central Plains, even if you still have relatives and friends, for a while,
I can’t get in touch either, so I have to pay some travel expenses, right?”
Hu Wenzhi also knew that the other party was selling a favor to him, but considering that he already owed Sun Yixie a large gambling debt, and it was not short of the one hundred taels, he accepted it with a little politeness.
After that, Hu Wenzhi went on the road alone and leisurely traveled around the great rivers and mountains of his motherland.
Recently, he passed through Taizhou, and after making some inquiries, he came to the Shihe Inn and wanted to try the fried pork liver here.
Because he was alone and kept a low profile, everything was easy to arrange. Even if the restaurant was full, he quickly found someone to join the table.
It was originally going to be a beautiful day, with good food and good wine. After dinner, we would go out for a walk, bask in the sunshine of the spring afternoon, and inhale the smoke of the city's fireworks. How pleasant it would be.
Unexpectedly...
Just when Hu Wenzhi was about to take the first chopsticks in front of the fragrant and hot pork liver, some words that he shouldn't have heard drifted into his ears inadvertently.
"Your Majesty is indeed extraordinary... Who would have thought that the legendary 'Shadowless Poison Lord' would actually be such an ugly little old man." The voice of a middle-aged man came from the guest room above Hu Wenzhi's head.
sounded.
"Hey~ Brother, you are underestimating the Poison Lord. In my opinion, the Poison Lord's current appearance is probably a disguise, right?" Another man's voice continued.
The two people speaking are familiar to everyone. They were Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao who had failed to raid the Three-Character King in Najiang Forest before, and later abandoned their companions and fled the scene.
Of course, after the incident at Wujian Villa, they no longer dared to claim the name "Nine Heavens Sword" in the arena, or in public, or even their real names, otherwise they would probably
The righteous people from all walks of life who heard about it "swarmed over" and used it as a prestige package.
Fortunately, there were no photos back then, and there were very few people who could recognize their appearance at a glance, so it was no problem for them to walk around normally. They treated each other as brothers, and when asked their names, they would say "Hong."
"Boss" and "Hong Lao Er".
At present, Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao, under the instructions of their "masked man" master, came to this inn to meet with the legendary "Shadowless Poison Lord" to negotiate a commission for their master.
Ordinarily speaking... it is indeed a good choice to choose this place to talk, because in this kind of environment where the whole store is very noisy, inside and outside, it is difficult for them to talk in the room.
Overhear; and if any unexpected situation occurs during negotiations, they can also use the crowd to create chaos and take advantage of the situation to escape.
But who would have thought that there would be a master of ear skills who had left the martial arts world of the Central Plains for more than twenty years and almost no one would take precautions. Today, he just happened to sit down less than two meters from their feet during a table fight.
This Hu Wenzhi is also unlucky. To put it bluntly, he doesn't want to hear about these or not, and he doesn't want to be involved in these martial arts conspiracies that have nothing to do with him. But those first two sentences were poured into his ears.
He couldn't pretend not to hear it, could he?
"There are some things that are wise only if you see through them without telling them." After listening to Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao's two sentences, Wuying Duzun replied calmly and slowly in his old man's voice.
This sentence may sound like nothing at first, but in fact it is a threat, even an ultimatum.
If Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao didn't know their differences and continued chatting about each other's "real appearance", they might not be able to leave the inn today.
"Uh...heh...yes, what Lord Poison said is absolutely true." Chixiao is also an old Jianghu. There is no way he can't understand such an obvious hint. He quickly responded, "Let's talk about business."
Hearing this, Lord Poison was silent for two seconds, then spoke again: "Did you bring the things?"
Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao looked at each other, and then Bi Xiao took out a small bundle from his arms and put it on the table.
"It's right here." Chi Xiao glanced at the baggage, then raised his eyes to Du Zun, and replied in a deep voice.
"Can you please open it for me?" Du Zun asked again.
The two hesitated for a moment, and then Chi Xiao nodded to Bi Xiao. Bi Xiao then reached out, untied the two-layered bag, and opened the brocade box inside, revealing a piece of jewelry in the box.
Card.
The moment he saw the token, Du Zun's eyes changed. His old face and hazy eyes seemed to be more than ten years younger in that moment.
However, he soon calmed down and let the "spirit" disappear from his face.
"Lord Poison, you shouldn't suspect that this token is fake, right?" Bixiao saw that the other party didn't take it after looking at it for a long time and didn't say anything. He thought it was this reason, so he asked.
"Don't worry." Du Zun replied at this time, "I still recognize Zhenxia Ling." He paused, "Please help me wrap it up again."
Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao exchanged glances again, and then Bi Xiao replied "OK", then closed the brocade box again and wrapped it with two layers of baggage.
"Du Zun, what our 'master' wants to ask you to do..." Chi Xiao saw that the other party had already accepted the reward, so he continued.
"I, the Shadowless Poison Master, since I have set a price and received a reward, I will definitely get things done." The Poison Master interrupted the other party and said, "Your master should know my rules and prepare the letter.
Alright?"
"Hey, it's here with me." Seeing that the other party finally mentioned it, Chi Xiao took out a letter from his arms and put it on the table, next to the baggage.
"Yes." Du Zun glanced at the envelope and nodded, "Well, if there's nothing else, you two can do it."
What he means is that the baggage and letters are left behind and the person can leave.
Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao did not want to stay in the same room with a person who was regarded as the "Poison King" for a long time, so when the other party said this, they immediately stood up to say goodbye and left the inn within a minute.
After the two people left, the Poison Master sat quietly in the room for a while, as if thinking about something.
After a while, he picked up the letter on the table, opened it and looked at it.
Then, he did something that many villains in movies and TV dramas particularly like to do, which is "talking to himself alone while watching some important information."
"Hmph...Wu Mingzi, Wu Mingzi, you are still the same after so many years, you like to hide your head and show your tail, and you are smart...
"Knowing that the other party was a master of poisoning, I didn't dare to show up myself, so I found two losers to come forward...The letter was written by my left hand, which is exactly the same as the handwriting you used when you 'did that thing', ha...
"Obviously your swordsmanship has long been the best in the world, but because you are too cautious, you never dare to show it, and you hide in the dark all day long and persist in these conspiracies... I don't know if you are naturally timid or too inferior."
While Poison Lord was muttering, he had already read the letter containing the entrustment.
He memorized every word in the letter and then burned it to ashes with a candle.
Then, he slowly stood up, put away the baggage on the table, and walked out of the guest room.
What he didn't know was that at this moment, there was a person downstairs. Because he had inexplicably heard too much information that he shouldn't have heard and that was extremely dangerous once he heard it, the pork liver in his bowl no longer tasted fragrant.