"Oh, thank you for reminding me." Ji Chazhi responded, looking straight at Liu Quan's waist, "By the way, Mr. Liu, I wonder how much reward you got for sending those horse thieves to the government?"
Liu Quan replied: "Although those horse thieves were minor characters, after interrogation, they actually confessed many cases, many of which were unsolved cases related to merchants in Ziyun City. The local chief was very happy and rewarded me with a small bag of gold leaves.
It’s worth two to three hundred taels of silver.”
Ji Cha chuckled softly and said, "I thought that such a noble and upright person as you would not ask for silver rewards from others!"
Liu Quan shook his head again: "I don't want a silver reward. I can only gain a false reputation by myself. I want a silver reward, but it can inspire more people to act bravely and be more beneficial to the people."
"Oh, the truth is really a set of rules." Ji Cha directly stretched out his hand, "But the silver reward should not be yours in the first place. It is your turn to decide whether to take it or not? Just give back all the silver reward!" He pretended to be the last one.
A hot plate was pushed in front of Liu Quan: "For the sake of your hard work, I'll treat you to a hot dish."
Liu Quan was startled and thought that this Miss Ji Chen was extremely mean and mean, but she was also such a pretty girl that she couldn't get angry at all. He twitched the corner of his mouth, pulled out a difficult smile, and took the money bag from his waist with one hand.
He handed it out, picked up the fire with one hand, stared at the fire and sighed: "Oh, I have never eaten such expensive fire."
"Brother Liu, please eat quickly." Hong Chen said, "The skin will not be crispy after the fire has cooled down."
Liu Quan smiled bitterly twice, finally opened his mouth and took a bite of the fire, chewed it twice, then his eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "It's really delicious!"
Ji Cha snorted again and said, "I thought you were so full of sour ink that you could recite two lines of poetry even if you ate a donkey fire, but it turns out you can only say 'delicious'."
Liu Quan knew that if he retorted, he would be greeted with a few sarcastic words, so he just kept silent without saying a word.
Ji Cha snapped his fingers and asked the waiter to serve two more bowls of scallion and egg soup. He and Hong Chen each had a bowl, leaving Liu Quan to chew the fire alone. Liu Quan had a dry mouth, so he had to take out five more copper coins and ask the waiter to
Serve yourself a bowl too.
The waiter had just put down the soup bowl, and before Liu Quan could pick up the spoon, he heard a sudden commotion upstairs, with many people shouting loudly, but it soon became quiet again.
The diners on the first floor didn't know what was going on and stared at the stairs curiously. After twenty or thirty seconds, a figure finally came down the stairs.
"ah!"
Many female guests screamed, and all the male guests turned pale. The spoon in Liu Quan's hand fell on the table. Ji Cha didn't bother to mock him, and his expression froze. Hong Chen turned his back to the stairs and saw
The two of them had strange expressions and turned around blankly, only to see that the woman who had gone upstairs at that moment had returned to the first floor.
I saw some blood stains on her gray clothes, which were as bright red as the red silk around her waist. She was holding a bloody human head in her right hand, and there were drops of blood dripping from the steel claw of her left hand.
Someone pointed at the head and exclaimed: "Isn't that Elder Fang?" At this time, a group of Jianghe Gang members walked down the stairs and followed the woman. When they were still a few feet away from the woman, their pace suddenly slowed down.
, their legs were trembling, as if they didn't dare to approach her at all.
The woman stopped in the middle of the hall, and the Jianghe Gang members behind them also stopped. The woman slowly raised her head, as if to let everyone see clearly. She opened her lips as red as flames, but her voice was as cold as her eyes.
: "Jianghe Gang
Fang Yaohai was actually the elder of Dongshui Palace of the Demon Sect twenty years ago. He has been executed now. The Emperor of Dayu was a man of sacred culture and martial arts, whose virtues were admired by all the people and whose achievements were immense. Anyone who has anything to do with the Demon Sect is related to the Emperor.
Be an enemy, be an enemy to everyone in the world, and hope everyone knows about it."
The hall was silent. Even though many people had objections in their hearts, they looked at the bloody human head in the woman's hand and did not dare to say a word. The woman slowly put down her right hand and continued to walk out with the head. When passing by the door, her footsteps suddenly stopped.
Ji Cha was only three feet away from her. When he saw this, he thought he had been recognized. His heart was beating wildly and he almost wanted to jump up and run away. But the woman only paused for a moment before stepping out. Ji Cha finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"This woman is really..."
Just when Ji Cha was about to curse in a low voice, he felt another person standing next to him. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw the steel claw. He was shocked and picked up the silver needle in his hand. Hong Chen heard Liu Quan say, this
The woman was Ying Hailan from the Yujian Hall of Guiyi Division. When he saw her leaving and returning, he thought that he and Ji Cha had been recognized, but there was no knife at hand, so he grabbed the soup spoon and prepared to fight.
The steel claw suddenly stretched out on the table. Ji Cha was about to shoot out the silver needle when he heard a cold voice again: "The umbrella I brought when I came was stolen outside the inn. Liu Shaoxia, can you lend me your umbrella?"
stop."
Although Ji Cha couldn't believe his ears, after hearing these words, he felt that the mountain that was weighing on his heart disappeared instantly. He couldn't help but slap his hands on his thighs, and then pierced half of the silver needle he had just held between his fingers.
, I was in pain but I didn’t dare to shout out, and I grinned for a while.
Hong Chen also put the spoon back into the soup bowl. Liu Quan stood up, took the umbrella, and handed it to the steel claw.
Ying Hailan asked again: "Are these two friends of Liu Shaoxia?"
Liu Quan nodded and said, "Yes. This girl is Miss Ji Chen, and her family has a business in Ziyun City. This brother's name is Hongcha, and he is her bodyguard." He then said to Ji Cha and Hong Chen, "This is the answer.
Sir Hailan Ying, I met her when I escorted the horse thief to the Public Security Bureau. Sir Ying is a female knight who only joined the Guiyi Division in the past two years, but she has already become very famous in Tianzhou and northern Yunzhou."
Ji Cha lowered his head and laughed twice, and reluctantly pulled out the silver needle that had been inserted into his thigh. Hong Chen stood up and bowed in salute. Ying Hailan nodded briefly, and then said to Liu Quan: "Young Master Liu, I'll be here when you are free."
The Public Security Bureau asked me for an umbrella."
Liu Quan waved his hand and said, "It's just an umbrella. I'll give it to Mr. Ying as a gift."
Ying Hailan shook her head: "I never accept things from others for nothing, you must come and get them."
Liu Quan had no choice but to nod in agreement again.
"Then I'm leaving."
Ying Hailan held up an umbrella and walked out of the inn, her back gradually disappearing in the rain. Only then did the members of the Jianghe Gang dare to speak out: "It's so damn scary! That woman could twist off the elder's head with just one claw.
!" "How could the elder be from the Demon Cult? He usually treats us very well!" "
Painting a tiger's skin is harder than painting its bones. You know people but don't know their hearts. Elder Fang might be trying to win people's hearts and prepare to turn us into evil traitors." "Is this really possible? Fortunately, Lord Guiyi killed Elder Fang.
Otherwise, we will also become demonic thieves and we will die."
Among the diners on the first floor, some stayed to talk to others; some were too scared to stay any longer and ran away quickly; and some took advantage of the chaos in the inn and sneaked out without paying the bill.
Ji Cha breathed a long sigh of relief and kept rubbing his thighs, sweat forming on his forehead. Liu Quan asked: "Miss Ji Chen, why are you sweating so much? Are you catching a cold?" Ji Cha scolded: "Get out of here, mother.
Hey, you are weak."
Liu Quan remained silent and said in his heart, this girl is beautiful, but her character is perverse and violent. She is extremely bad, so it is better to ignore her. She picked up the spoon that just fell on the table and continued to ladle out the soup.
However, Ji Cha felt that his thigh was getting more and more painful, and he thought to himself that the spot where he had just pricked was too small and had pierced the tendons, so he needed to be treated quickly. Before Hong Chen could finish the soup, he snatched his spoon and said, "Don't drink it.
My legs are numb from sitting, please carry me upstairs to rest."
Hong Chen picked up the bowl and took a big sip of soup, wiped his mouth and stood up. He walked to Ji Cha and bent down, holding each other's hands behind his back. A pair of arms and body formed two rings. Ji Cha stepped into the ring with his legs.
, straightened his waist, and sat on Hong Chen, pulling the clothes on his shoulders as if holding a rein: "Have a ride! Run quickly, horse!"
Hong Chen muttered: "I'm a bodyguard, not a horse." But he still carried Ji Cha upstairs.
Liu Quan was so shaken that he shook his head: "'Gold and jade are on the outside, but on the inside there is filth.' Maybe that's what they meant! I thought she was just being mean to me, but it turned out that she was a vase who spoke vulgarly and was pampered and arrogant. Although she gave birth to a child,
So what if you have a good skin? Even if you marry someone, you will still make your husband's family restless."
Ji Cha, who had already reached the sixth floor, naturally couldn't hear Liu Quan talking to himself. As soon as he lay down on the bed, he asked Hong Chen to go out: "Come on, hurry up, I'm going to take off my clothes and sleep."
Unexpectedly, Hong Chen didn't leave. He glanced around the room and said, "Your room is really beautiful. It's not much better than the one downstairs. It has such a big bed and it's so soft. I'm taking a shower, and I don't have any skin on my body."