Tea was brought up, as well as several plates of rough snacks. Lin Jue saw that the tea was turbid and gray, and the snacks were like dough balls. He had already lost his appetite. He missed the sugar cakes made by Lu Wu endlessly. On the way. Those dozens of sugar cakes were originally reserved for Lin Jue alone. After Ma Bin ate one, they were all quickly consumed.
The shopkeeper didn't leave after serving snacks and tea. He stood aside and said with a smile: "Please use it slowly. There is nothing good in the mountain shop, so I'll make do with it."
Shen Tan cupped his hands and said, "We are down and out, what else do we need to pay attention to? I would be very grateful for the shopkeeper's kindness to help stutter."
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Why are you always saying thank you? I have said that everyone has trouble memorizing words sometimes. I see that some of them are very impressive, and they don't look like such down-and-out people. I don't know where they came from. ah?"
Lin Jue was the first to answer: "What are you doing? You, the shopkeeper, are so talkative. What are you asking? Do you want to know our origins just because you are giving us some tea and snacks? What do you want to do?"
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "I'm afraid this brother has a bad temper. I'm just asking casually and chatting casually with the guest. I don't want to pry into the guest's privacy."
Ma Bin also frowned and said: "Third brother, what are you doing? I'm just asking you a question out of kindness. Isn't it hurtful to say this? Shopkeeper, don't pay attention to him. My third brother is a little confused."
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's just a joke."
Ma Bin smiled and said: "It's still the shopkeeper's generosity. Shopkeeper, I have something I want to ask about. Is it convenient for me to ask?"
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "It's okay to ask, sir, but if I know, I will tell you."
Ma Bin lowered his voice and asked quietly: "Shopkeeper, don't be afraid to tell me. We brothers have committed some crimes and we can't be tolerated outside, so we came here. We heard that this place is on the Turtle Mountain in Hongze Lake. There is a mountain village, where there are some loyal green forest heroes who dominate the mountain. I would like to ask if you can help us get a boat and send us to Guishan Island to join them. Don't be afraid, we will not do anything to them. As for you, once we join the gang, we can take care of you if anyone bullies you or disrupts your business in the future."
The shopkeeper's face changed color, but he kept laughing secretly in his heart, thinking: These guys still have to take care of me, but they don't know that I want you to take care of me. You can't protect yourself, and you still take care of others.
"Oh, Sir, you asked me this, I'm sorry I can't answer you. It's not that I don't want to, but I don't know anything about Guishan Island's copycat. Besides, I, a little commoner, don't dare to mess with such things. The bandits will kill the whole family. You'd better spare me and ask others. I don't know, I don't know anything."
The shopkeeper pretended to be scared, waved his hands and turned to leave. Suddenly, Lin Jue reached out and grabbed the shopkeeper's arm.
"Sir, what are you... doing?" the shopkeeper asked in horror.
"Shut up!" Lin Jue shouted coldly: "Shopkeeper, you don't know how to praise us. Since you already know our secret, how can we allow you to leave like this? Do you want to report it to the official?"
"You're such a distinguished guest, why did I get into trouble with you? I invited you to have snacks and tea with good intentions, how can you repay kindness with enmity? You are not good people." The shopkeeper struggled.
People at several tables around saw something strange. Some people had already stood up holding the hilt of the knife under their clothes and were about to take action. The shopkeeper waved his left hand back to signal not to act rashly.
"Hey, shopkeeper, do you know that our brothers are not good people? Since you know our secret, you must send us to join the village, so you can't get away with it. Or we will come and kill your whole family tonight, either way.
You choose one." Lin Jue said fiercely, with an expression on his face like a vicious gangster.
The shopkeeper pretended to be frightened, but he was laughing happily in his heart. These guys are really stunned, they really take themselves seriously. In Guishan Town on the bank of Hongze Lake, where is your turn to play tricks?
"Don't kill me, don't kill my whole family. I'm just doing business. I don't want to get into trouble. How about this, a few heroes and good men. Can't I think of a way for you? I don't know any good guys who are copycats.
, but maybe an acquaintance knows about it. Maybe there can be a way. Can you please spare me?"
"Okay, we will stay here tonight. Tomorrow morning, if you can't find a way to send us to the village, we will kill your whole family. To tell you the truth, several of our brothers have lives on their hands. My eldest brother
You even killed an official. We are not afraid of this. Why are we afraid of killing you, a little shopkeeper? You have to do your best to help us, otherwise, hehe... don't blame us for being rude." Lin Jue shouted in a low voice.
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"Yes, yes, spare your life, spare your life, just do as the hero says." The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly and thought to himself: These guys are really the stuff of copycats. They will kill the whole family if they disagree with each other. This is what the second master likes most.
He looks like a brainless desperado.
"Also, roast some fat chickens for us tonight and prepare some decent dishes and drinks for us. Damn it, you want to sell favors and buy us some good guys with just a few dishes of chaff-like snacks? What do you think?
It's a bit too beautiful. I want to eat fat chicken and wine, not your bullshit thick noodle snacks."
"Yes, yes, yes, Fat Chicken Wine, Fat Chicken Wine, there must be it, there must be it." The shopkeeper agreed repeatedly.
Lin Jue then let go of his hand, and with a push, the shopkeeper staggered aside. He turned around and entered the room with an uncontrollable smile on his face. Lin Jue looked around and saw the tables on the tables around him.
Everyone stared at him blankly, and suddenly shouted angrily: "What are you looking at? Have you never seen a good man?"
Everyone around them turned their heads. Many people wanted to rush up and teach this arrogant boy a lesson, but after all, they had no order and could not take action, so they had to swallow their anger.
Ma Bin, Chen Tan and others also admired Lin Jue's courage, and his pretentious behavior just now seemed quite decent. You must know that this was under the surrounding gangs, and the faces of several guards turned pale with nervousness, but
Lin Jue actually didn't look nervous at all, and instead acted out his dazed young boy's appearance very vividly.
The shopkeeper avoided answering what Ma Bin said, so Lin Jue could only take the initiative to cause trouble. Knowing that the other party was a gangster, taking the initiative to cause trouble would have two consequences. One is to annoy them and be ganged up on by them.
One way to attack is that these behaviors will be reported to the leader, which is actually a test. Obviously Lin Jue's judgment is correct. If the Lake Bandits are not willing to accept them, they will not come to Guishan Town at all.
Precisely because they treat themselves and others with a cautious eye, they and others have room to perform. To a certain extent, these behaviors are all catering to the tastes of the bandits.
Of course, Lin Jue followed the habits of ordinary bandits and went along with what he wanted. If he met a bandit who liked to change his temperament to recite poetry and paint, this scheme would probably not work. But that possibility is unlikely. The shopkeeper.
Soon after entering the store, he came out again, and this time he respectfully invited Lin Jue and others to the store. Several people followed the shopkeeper in, and the shopkeeper led them through the shop to the backyard, pointing to a room to accompany them.
He smiled and said: "Guys, the shop does not accommodate guests, so there is no guest room. There is only one room in the house, so I will invite a few heroes to make do with it tonight. The heroes will rest here, and a fat chicken will be sent to them shortly.
Let’s have some good wine and eat and drink first, and then we’ll go down and think of ways to ask some of the good guys about the matter they mentioned.”
Lin Jue glared and said: "That's not bad, but I'm warning you, don't think you can stabilize us first, and then take the opportunity to escape with your family or report to the police. If you can run away, the monk can't run away from the temple. If we find you running away, we will
Immediately set fire to your house. If you run away to the ends of the earth, we will kill your whole family."
"No, no, no, my home is here, where can I escape? I won't run away, don't worry. There is no government office in the town, so I can't report it to the official even if I want to."
"What? You still want to report to the police? Are you looking for death?"
"No, no, no, I'm just making an analogy."
The shopkeeper came out of the room sweating. He was not frightened by Lin Jue, but annoyed by this confused person. "How could such a handsome young man be so stupid? It's a pity that this
It’s a shame.” The shopkeeper thought to himself while wiping his sweat.
Sure enough, the wine and fat chickens were delivered not long after. A few people were actually a little hungry, but Ma Bin and Shen Tan had been worried about this before. They couldn't even drink a sip of water after entering Guishan Town. It is said that some people entered Guishan by mistake.
Town, but they were numbed by the sweat medicine and made into human meat buns. They didn't want to drink a lot of sweat medicine and be manipulated at will. Just now, they had two pots of tea and two plates of snacks outside, but they didn't move at all.
But at this moment, facing the delicious fat chicken, it seemed a waste not to eat it. So Ma Bin pinched a few pieces of chicken and threw it into the yard. Several wild cats came out of the grass in the corner and fought over it. They ate all the chicken in a moment, and waited.
For a long time, the wild cats were still jumping around. Everyone was relieved that there was no sweat medicine here, so they swept away the two fat chickens.
All this was seen by the shopkeeper who was hiding at the back door of the store. He laughed secretly in his heart and said: These guys are not blindly stupid, but they also have some intentions. But why do I need to use this method to take advantage of you?
.Let you live happily and come back to take care of you in the evening.
It was getting dark, and eight people crowded into a small room. They could sleep on a large bunk, but how could they sleep? Lin Jue sat alone in the corner, frowning and thinking. He was thinking, after experiencing the day's events,
After the incident, as a lake bandit, how should I view myself and others? If they still ignore me, what can I and others do? Is it possible to get a small boat and take the initiative to deliver them to my door?
Unknowingly, the night was already dark. The north wind at night was already a bit cold, passing over the branches in the yard, making a whistle. Lin Jue sat in the darkness, listening to the north wind whistling by, thinking to himself.
Thinking about those people in Hangzhou. Thinking about Fang Huanqiu, thinking about Luwu, thinking about Lin Hu, the Fang family and his wife, thinking about Xie Yingying. Thinking about the impermanence of my own destiny, thinking about how things will still be the same even if I make other choices in this life.
It was difficult, thinking about it, I couldn't help but feel dizzy, and fell asleep leaning against the wall.
A burst of noisy footsteps woke Lin Jue up. Ma Bin, Shen Tan and others who were sleeping on the bunk also woke up and immediately jumped out of bed. But when they heard the flashing torches and noisy footsteps outside, it seemed that dozens of people rushed in.
