That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 23

A total of more than [-] secret guards filed into the inn, and the leader was Gu Yan.

The atmosphere in the inn froze for a short time, no one spoke, there was no sound, and everyone was motionless, like a static painting.

Then, with the charming smile of the shopkeeper's lady, everything came alive again.Xiao Er turned on the lamp and dispelled the haze in the room. The shopkeeper's lady came forward with a smile and greeted the guests. The shopkeeper was still standing behind the counter, but he was no longer like a ghost, and his eyes were no longer glowing with green light.

Gu Yan ignored the proprietress, but looked at the old man, and asked softly: "It seems that I have seen you somewhere?"

The old man chuckled and said, "I'm originally from Jianghu, so I don't see each other anywhere, maybe there are, but most of them meet by chance."

Gu Yan was thoughtful, but did not speak.

The old man looked at the shopkeeper Qingshou, and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, bring me two jugs of wine, the best Fen wine, don't mix it with water, if the wine is bad, you won't be charged."

The shopkeeper's tone was a bit sinister, and he said dumbly: "The shop is small and the profit is thin, there is no reason to eat for nothing."

The shopkeeper's lady hurried over to smooth things over and said, "Don't worry, my shopkeeper. Although our shop is small, we are honest businessmen and we will never do anything immoral like mixing wine with water."

While talking, the lady shopkeeper quickly brought out two medium-sized wine jars from behind the counter.

The old man took the wine jug, one in each hand, and then shook his sleeve lightly, a silver nugget flew out of the sleeve, just landed on the counter in front of the shopkeeper, swirling around, "This is the rent and wine money."

The shopkeeper's lady put away the silver with quick eyes and hands, smiling broadly.

The old man walked upstairs leisurely with two jugs of wine, and sighed inadvertently: "Suye hangover is hard to get rid of, and a golden knife can be seen in a square inch. It should be a guest of the fairy house outside the mountain, why bother to draw a dungeon?"

The shopkeeper's lady's smiling face stiffened imperceptibly for a moment, and the shopkeeper's eyes looked deeply at the old man's back.

Not long after the old man went upstairs, the door of the inn was pushed open again, and an elderly Taoist in a blue Taoist robe walked into the lobby alone.

Gu Yan's pupils suddenly shrank.

There are 72 deacons and 36 major deacons in Zhenmo Temple. These one hundred and eight people are not commensurate with their original names. Take Ye Zui as an example. Most of them are like this, but the 72 deacons are modeled after the Fengdu Difu, from the number one Ksitigarbha King to the ten temples of Yama, and they are code-named accordingly.

This time, the people who came here were the three prosecutors and judges who ranked No. 20 in the chief deacon, and there were judges who rewarded good, judged evil, and judged Yin Law. The four were collectively called the Four Great Judges.

Whether it is the four judges or the entire 36 chief deacons, they are all real masters of ghosts and immortals, just like the two jugs of wine that the old man just took away, without any water.

At this time, there was only one thought left in Gu Yan's mind, didn't Ye Zui lie to me that the Lord of the Demon Suppressing Palace really wanted to visit the Northwest in person? !
The inspector's eyes scanned the small inn for a week, pausing slightly on the shopkeeper and his wife, and finally stopped on Gu Yan.

Gu Yan squeezed out an unnatural smile on that charming and natural face, bit the bullet and said: "Little girl, Gu Yan of Northwest Dark Guard Mansion, met the inspector and judge."

The inspector and judge spoke slowly, with a hoarse voice, "It's a coincidence that I can meet you gang of Emperor Xiao's minions here. If I followed the old man's temper a few years ago, I should have killed you all and thrown them outside to feed the wolves You can vent your hatred. Little girl, don’t be in a hurry to deny it. There are some things we both know very well. The swords and swords of the big figures above, I don’t understand, and I don’t want to understand. I only know that killing people for their lives is the most straightforward thing in the world. reason."

The old man's words can be said to have lifted the fig leaf, pierced the window paper, and left no sympathy.

But the situation is stronger than others, this beautiful female hidden guard can only dare not speak out.

Upstairs, through the gap in the window, Xu Beiyou and the old man looked at the scene in the lobby.

Holding the wine jar in one hand, the old man drank slowly, ignoring the drug in the wine that could fascinate a first-grade master, and said softly: "What is the world? Where there are people, there is the world, and outside the temple, there are rivers and lakes. Jianghu is dangerous. It's not just a big and empty speech, but the golden and jade words summed up by many ancestors with blood and tears. It's not a coincidence that the people from the dark guards and the Town Demon Palace gathered here this time, and maybe there will be some scattered immortals who will also intervene. Feet, if you want to gain a foothold in this world and have the confidence to speak, then you must first go into the rivers and lakes, now you go downstairs, watch more and listen more.”

Xu Beiyou nodded and went downstairs obediently.

He can naturally appreciate the good intentions of his master. If it weren't for him, Xu Beiyou, an old man who has experienced countless ups and downs, a worldly expert who should be extraordinary, would care about this low-level arena?If it weren't for his unfulfilling apprentice, a sword fairy who should belong to another world in the sky, would open his eyes to see the joys and sorrows of these little people on the ground?

Just like the goshawks in the sky, they never care about the infighting between two nests of ants.

Xu Beiyou walked up the stairs step by step into the lobby on the first floor, first looked at the shopkeeper who was smiling like a flower and the shopkeeper who was thin like a human skin skeleton, then glanced at the twenty or so hidden guards sitting in a corner, and finally fell on the shopkeeper. He didn't dare to stay too long on the old Taoist nicknamed the prosecutor and judge, and swept it away.

The old Taoist raised his eyelids, not paying attention to the prying eyes of this little man.

Xu Beiyou found a corner to sit down, and asked Xiao Er for a plate of beef and a bowl of water.It's funny to say that under Han Xuan's teaching, Xu Beiyou never drank alcohol or tea, and only drank water.

Xu Beiyou ate a mouthful of beef and drank water. After eating a plate of beef, he also drank the water in the bowl.

At this moment, the door of the small inn was pushed open again, and a man and a woman walked in.

The man was not very old, about 27 or [-] years old, he was born with a good-looking talent, and he was dressed in a beautiful white dress, which set him off like a tree facing the wind, holding an ivory fan with a broken bone, and the most important point, he and Xu Beiyou were barely half acquaintances, It was Duanmuyu, the noble son of the imperial capital who hired Xu Beiyou as a guide.

The woman who came with Duanmuyu was not the woman riding Sa Luzi that day, but a little girl who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, with two pigtails tied with a red headband, dressed in a festive red dress, with feet Wearing a pair of embroidered shoes embroidered with bright red lotus flowers, they look like porcelain dolls.

The inspector and judge who had half closed his eyes suddenly opened his eyes after the two entered, and his eyes were shining brightly.

Gu Yan and a group of hidden guards had already got up from their seats, and respectfully said: "I have seen the eldest son."

With a snap, Duanmuyu unfolded the folding fan in her hand and shook it gently. The fan carved from suet white jade was dazzling under the dim light.

This noble son with an indescribable family background finally showed the detached attitude he should have, which was completely different from the humility and courtesy he had in front of that woman that day.

Rolling yellow sand, the Longmen Inn was suddenly filled with clouds moving in all directions.

(End of this chapter)