Stepping into the scholar's hall, Zhao Hongrun looked around.
He found that the furnishings in the museum were very simple, a bit like a wine shop or an inn. The hall on the first floor was filled with low tables about five or six feet in size, and there were countless people there. The rangers eat and drink here, or talk and laugh.
However, when Zhao Hongrun and his party walked in, the noise in the hall suddenly stopped. I don’t know how many pairs of eyes looked at Zhao Hongrun and his party.
"Hey, here are some new faces."
"The boy walking in the lead looks quite immature."
"Hey, kid, this is not the place you came from. Go home and drink your mother's milk."
"Ha ha ha ha"
The rangers were drunk and mocking Zhao Hongrun.
Seeing this, Zong Wei Chief Shen Yu's face darkened. He silently took off the baggage on his back and took out a sharp sword. Then, holding the sword, he walked over to several of the most powerful rangers in the world. At the same time, the sharp sword in his hand was unsheathed, pointing at the ranger who had just Zhao Hongrun, and asked coldly: "What did you just say?"
Several rangers at that table were stunned. They probably didn't expect Shen Yu to draw his sword in this place, and were a little surprised.
However, the ranger who was pointed at by Shen Yu was not afraid, but said in an almost mocking tone: "Hey, brother, where do you think this is?... You are not allowed to use the sword here. .”
Before he finished speaking, a dozen or so strong men came out of nowhere and came to Shen Yu's side. One of them said in a deep voice: "Put away the sword!"
Shen Yu glanced at the strong men coldly and said in a low tone: "What if I say no?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the hundreds of rangers in the hall suddenly burst into cheers, seemingly to cheer for Shen Yu, but in fact, they were probably just cheering and watching the fun.
When they heard Shen Yu's flat refusal, the dozen or so strong men were in a daze. After a moment, one of them threatened: "If you break the rules, we can't guarantee that you can leave Yangxia alive!"
"Hey!" Shen Yu sneered when he heard this. He didn't care about the threat of these strong men. You must know that behind them, there were more than 700 Shang Shui soldiers following far away. In this case, what's the point? Afraid?
In contrast, the humiliation of His Highness was even more intolerable to Shen Yu.
"Give you one last chance to apologize to my young master for the vulgar words you just said..." Shen Yu said coldly to the ranger who had no idea that he had stepped into the gate of hell.
It's a pity that the ranger was still stubborn and said with a smile: "I don't believe you dare to take action... I'll give it back to your young master. That kind of brat should hide in his mother's arms... ah!"
As soon as he said this, he heard the man scream, because Shen Yu had already stabbed him in the thigh with the sharp sword in his hand.
There was a "pop" and blood burst out.
The rangers at the same table were all stunned, while the rangers in the rest of the hall also gasped in shock.
This man... actually dares to take action?!
Everyone in the museum was in disbelief.
"Do you think I'm joking?"
Ignoring the shocked expressions of the strong men, Shen Yu stared at the ranger coldly and said in a deep voice: "Apologise, or I will stab you in the chest with my next sword."
"You guy!"
The strong men were furious and were about to reach out to grab Shen Yu, but suddenly they all froze.
It turned out that the sect guards had arrived behind them at some point, with their weapons drawn out and pointed at their backs.
There was silence in the knight's hall, except for the sound of Shen Yu still persecuting the knight.
"Decide quickly, I don't have much patience!"
Perhaps frightened by the ferocity of Shen Yu and his gang, the ranger looked towards Zhao Hongrun and tremblingly apologized.
Seeing this, Shen Yu withdrew his sword and walked straight back to Zhao Hongrun from the stiff men. At the same time, the sect guards also withdrew their swords and returned to their original places one by one. It was as if the scene just now had never happened.
But then again, how could we pretend that none of this happened?
No, those strong men shouted loudly, and a group of companions with weapons suddenly poured out of the military hall.
"Who? Who is making trouble here?"
The group of people rushed towards the hall while shouting, and then surrounded Zhao Hongrun and his group under the identification of those strong men.
Seeing this, the sect guards and Chen Xiao also drew their swords again. While secretly complaining about the unfavorable start, they prepared to protect Zhao Hongrun and break out.
Just when the two sides were about to clash, a burst of laughter was suddenly heard from the counter deep on the first floor. Then, a man's voice said with a smile: "Everyone, please step aside. Don't be rude... That's right." Distinguished guest!"
When the strong men and the counselors holding sharp swords heard the man's voice, their faces showed signs of astonishment, and then they retreated.
And those rangers who were eating and drinking in the military hall seemed to be quite afraid of the owner of the male voice. They all drank and ate food by themselves. Even the ranger who was wounded in the thigh did not dare to say anything. complained about.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun looked curiously at the place where the sound came from deep in the first floor. Behind the wooden counter, there was a man who seemed to be in his thirties, leaning over the counter with his hands on his hands. He lifted his chin and looked at Zhao Hongrun with a half-smile.
This person... seems to know my identity.
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly and walked towards the counter.
When Zhao Hongrun came to the counter, the man who seemed to be in his thirties had stood up. He was wearing a soapy green gown. He looked gentle and like a scholar, but his eyes were very... Sharp, so sharp that it gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression.
"What would you like, your honorable guest?" the man asked with a smile.
While speaking, he pointed to the wall behind him and saw several rows of wall shelves nailed to the wall. The wall shelves were covered with wooden signs. On the wooden signs were engraved some names of wines or dishes, which Zhao Hongrun had not heard. Said.
"Do you have any recommendations?" Zhao Hongrun asked casually, leaning against the counter.
"Well." The man thought for a moment and said, "The wine we have here is pretty good, and we make it all ourselves."
Zhao Hongrun nodded and said, "Come and try some."
The man smiled, picked up a jar of wine from the neatly stacked wine jars next to the counter, then took another bowl and poured a bowl for Zhao Hongrun.
Under the surprised gaze of the man, Zhao Hongrun picked up the bowl with his right hand, took a sip, smacked the taste, nodded and said, "Well, it's not bad."
He was not worried about the other party poisoning the wine. After all, the poison in his body was more poisonous than most poisons in the world. For Zhao Hongrun, ordinary poisons would only give him diarrhea at best.
For example, when he drank a large gulp of poisonous wine a few days ago, he never showed any symptoms of discomfort from beginning to end, not even diarrhea.
However, the man didn't know that Zhao Hongrun was confident. After seeing Zhao Hongrun take a sip of wine without hesitation, he couldn't help but admired in a heartfelt tone in a low voice: "You are so courageous, Your Highness Prince Su! ...I admire you! "
Hearing this, Shen Yu's expression changed slightly and he subconsciously pulled out half of the sword in his hand. However, the man seemed not to notice, still leaning on the counter and looking at Zhao Hongrun with a smile.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun patted Shen Yu's arm and said lightly: "Put it away, don't let others laugh."
Shen Yu obeyed and put the sword into its scabbard.
At this time, the man was looking Zhao Hongrun up and down and murmured: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have imagined that Prince Su was so young and so powerful... Prince Su, are you really not afraid at all? ?" He tapped the counter lightly with his fingers and said pointedly: "You are currently in... Yangxia!"
Zhao Hongrun glanced at the man and said calmly: "I have too many things to do every day. No, in the past few days I have been busy suppressing Ping Yangxia. How can I be afraid?"
"..." After hearing this, the man whose expression remained unchanged even when Shen Yu drew out his sword finally changed slightly.
After a while, the man laughed, and then said to Zhao Hongrun with a smile: "Prince Su, this joke is not funny."
Zhao Hongrun smiled slightly and said, "That's because you don't know what's so funny about this joke."
"What's so funny?" the man asked curiously.
Zhao Hongrun squinted his eyes and said lightly: "It's funny, it's true!"
"..." The smile on the man's face froze. After taking a deep look at Zhao Hongrun, he said calmly: "I heard that King Su mobilized four thousand merchant navy troops from Yanling... When do you plan to confront Yang Xia? Take action?"
"Wait a while." Zhao Hongrun took a sip of the wine in the bowl and continued: "I plan to wait for the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army to return to their bases, and then mobilize 50,000 troops." As he said that, he glanced at the place. The man hummed softly: "When the time comes, let me also enjoy the fun of being bullied by a large number of people and bullying by a small number."
Fifty thousand soldiers...
The man's expression became more solemn. After taking a deep look at Zhao Hongrun, he said in a deep voice: "Fifty thousand soldiers are indeed enough to defeat Yangxia, but it will also cause many innocent deaths and damage the reputation of King Su... …”
"Unfortunately, I don't care about my reputation."
"Even so, can Prince Su have the heart to let innocent people be implicated?"
"Innocent person? You don't want to talk about you, do you?" Zhao Hongrun raised his finger and pointed to the west side of the counter, mocking lightly: "It's really convincing that someone who tried to assassinate me said this to me. "
I saw a wooden board erected on the west side of the counter. The first line on the wooden board read a reward: 50,000 gold for the head of Su Wang Hongrun.
The man turned his head and glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Don't be offended, Prince Su. After all, this is the largest reward for murder that I, Yang Xia, have offered in recent years... However, I just wrote it down there. From the beginning to the end, the only people in Fuqiu who want this bounty are the people in Fuqiu."
Fuqiu people? Do you mean the Fuqiu thieves?
Zhao Hongrun looked at the man in front of him carefully and asked with some surprise: "What about you? The Yiqiu thief?"
Hearing the word "thief", the man frowned slightly, but then he relaxed his eyebrows and nodded calmly, saying: "I am neither a member of Fuqiu nor a member of Yiqiu. I just live in Yangxia with some people who share the same path.
, just running this small restaurant."
"..." Zhao Hongrun was stunned when he heard this.
Seeing this, the man seemed to see through Zhao Hongrun's doubts and said with a smile: "King Su wouldn't think that the only hidden thieves in Yangxia are the Fuqiu people and the Yiqiu people? No, no, no, there are many invisible ones here.
There are as few as a dozen or as many as hundreds of hidden thieves of light. For example, I... Yuma."
"Yuma?" Zhao Hongrun was stunned.
"Yes, Prince Su can call me this. This is my name for now." The man said with a smile.
When Zhao Hongrun heard this, there was a hint of confusion in his eyes, and he asked in surprise: "Are you from Chu?"
No wonder Zhao Hongrun thinks so, because only Chu people have all kinds of weird and traceless compound surnames.
Unexpectedly, after listening to Zhao Hongrun's inquiry, the man named Yuma smiled, with an inexplicable irony in his smile.
At this time, Shen Yu intervened from the side: "No, Master, maybe Youma is not the surname of Chu State. As far as I know, it is a bandit name, Youma of Dang County... This person is probably ten
The remaining party of Dangjun horse thieves who were destroyed by the Dangshan army more than a year ago!"
Hearing this, the man named Yuma glanced at Shen Yu, a complex look flashed in his eyes, and the sarcastic smile raised at the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious.
"The Dang County horse thief... Hey, is that what the people over there in Daliang call us now? Hahahaha! Yes, yes, it is the Dang County horse thief who was hidden by all the birds and eaten by the rabbits and dogs, Zong Wei
grown ups!"
"..."
Hearing those words with a strong sense of irony, Zhao Hongrun and Shen Yu looked at each other in surprise. (To be continued.)