Zongwu: The Days of Mixing in the Tongfu Inn

Chapter 68 The Happy Enemy in the Inn
Thanks to the destruction of the surrounding bandits and bandits, the small town of Seven Heroes was very lively, and there were nearly [-]% more vendors passing by than usual, which made Lou Zhi of the county government laugh from ear to ear.

He even sent Xing Butou to patrol the streets every day with all the yamen servants, intending to create a good business environment so that those vendors can do business with peace of mind and vowed to double the tax revenue in the town.

The inn is also because of Lou Zhixian's move. There are so many guests these days and everyone is very busy. At night, only Tong Xiangyu counts the copper coins and laughs from ear to ear.

This morning, Guo Furong was humming a ditty while cleaning up the dishes on the table. Seeing that everyone was busy outside in the hall, only Guo Furong was a scholar, her eyes lit up, and she quietly walked behind Guo Furong. As he approached, he was grabbed by the arm in a tense and disjointed hand.

Only to hear Xiucai yell out in pain, "Ah!"

The busy people outside heard Xiucai's cry of pain and ran back to the house, only to see Xiucai sitting on the side with a sad face and Xiao Guo comforting him.

Zhang Chen inspected Xiucai's injury and said:
"There is no big problem, it's just that the arm is dislocated and then it's fine, but don't move the arm around for two days, just keep it for a few days and you'll be fine."

"Sister Guo, how did Brother Xiucai offend you these few days? He just knocked out his front teeth two days ago and now there is still air leakage. Today he dislocated his arm again."

Guo Furong pointed at the scholar angrily and said:
"Then you have to ask him, he looks at me with a weird smile every day and from time to time he shows off his literary talents with a few pieces of torn paper, and yesterday he said something twisted and I wanted to hit him, but I couldn't hold back my hands but I also apologize, it sneaked up behind me today and I just did it if I didn’t pay attention.”

After listening to Guo Furong's accusation, everyone turned their attention to Xiucai, and Xiucai shouted out of embarrassment and ran back to the backyard.

Zhang Chen remembered what was going on after being made such a fuss by the scholar, and said to everyone with a smile:
"I'm going to see Brother Xiucai, let's keep busy."

When I came to the backyard and watched Xiu Cai hit the wall back and forth with a pillow, Zhang Chen laughed and said:

"Brother Xiucai, I understand everything! Isn't it that Sister Guo owes you two silver coins? You can just tell her no, and how many things are going to happen? With Sister Guo's IQ, you are beating around the bush. won't understand"

Xiucai thought about Xiao Guo's performance in the past few days, touched his injured arm and whispered to himself, "Then why did I bother these two days, I didn't get the money and I was injured all over my body."

Zhang Chen looked at Xiucai muttering to himself and shook his head. Just when he was about to speak, he heard a loud bang, shaking the whole room, and everyone rushed upstairs to Tong Xiangyu's room. When Tong Xiangyu sat there with a scorched face and white smoke from his mouth, he was in a daze.

Everyone hurriedly rescued Tong Xiangyu, Bai Zhantang checked whether Tong Xiangyu was injured, Zhang Chen looked at the clarinet thoughtfully, one can imagine the power of such a loud sound.

But according to Brother Bai's inspection, the shopkeeper's clothes are a little damaged and his face is dirty. Zhang Chen has to suspect that the shopkeeper may be the ninth generation owner of the Qijue Palace in Diancang Mountain. Otherwise, he couldn't protect her.

The rest of the people saw that Tong Xiangyu was not hindered, and all focused their eyes on the box in the house. They couldn't help being curious that there was such a big box in the room and there were some famous and strange weapons in the box.

Bai Zhantang came to the box, took the weapons and identified them for a while, then said:
"Shopkeeper, it's amazing! Are these things of yours true?"

Tong Xiangyu said blankly: "I don't know, these are the dowry my mother left for me."

Guo Furong asked curiously: "Old Bai, tell me, what treasures are these?"

Bai Zhantang looked at these weapons and said eagerly: "Soft hedgehog armor, Tang Sect Thunderbolt, Flying Flower Chasing Moon Meteor Hammer... These are magic weapons that have been lost in the world. I never thought I could see them here."

Looking at the origin of these weapons introduced by Bai Zhantang, Zhang Chen became more certain of his guess. It is unrealistic to obtain these magic weapons with the strength of the Longmen Escort Bureau, and there must be another source.

Tong Xiangyu recovered at this time and saw everyone's glowing eyes quickly drove them out of the room and let them go about their own business. Everyone complained about Tong Xiangyu's stingy door and left the room.

After dinner, Zhang Chen walked towards the patio with a water basin and happened to see Xiucai walking back and forth outside Guo Furong's house. Zhang Chen curiously asked what Xiucai was doing back and forth here.
The scholar hastily pulled Zhang Chen aside and whispered, "Hush! Keep your voice down, don't let Guo Furong hear you."

Looking at the nervous scholar Zhang Chen, he patted his head helplessly and said, "Brother Xiucai, you haven't made it clear to Miss Guo yet."

The scholar said with a righteous face that it would be against the way of a gentleman to ask so directly, Zhang Chen, who looked at the obviously swollen face and pretended to be a fat man, indicated with his eyes that he should ask for it slowly.

Seeing Zhang Chen's leaving figure, Xiucai wanted to cry, looked at Guo Furong's room but still didn't make up his mind to knock on the door, gritted his teeth and turned back to his room to hide under the quilt.

The next morning, seeing Da Zui with dark circles under his eyes and looking sleepless, he rushed to Guo Furong to ask her for two coins.
Li Dazui then told Guo Furong about the registration fee that Guo Furong borrowed from a scholar when he was recruiting relatives in the martial arts competition with Yang Huilan. Guo Furong suddenly realized and said:
"Lu Qinghou! I remember you. I didn't expect to remind me repeatedly because of this small account. Isn't it just two coins? I will give it to you now"

Xiucai embarrassedly explained to Guo Furong that he didn't mean it but was ignored by Guo Furong, and Guo Furong turned away angrily.

Zhang Chen and Bai Zhantang approached Li Dazui curiously and asked why he just asked Xiao Guo for money?

Li Dazui pointed to his panda-like eyes and said with a sigh:

"You two don't know how tortured Xiucai was last night. I muttered about it all night and I didn't sleep all night."

Zhang Chen and Bai Zhantang looked at each other to express sympathy. They knew that they could really do it with the character of a scholar.

After Guo Furong left the hall, she came to Tong Xiangyu's room and asked to borrow two coins. Tong Xiangyu tapped on the abacus and said:

"You still owe me a lot of money and haven't repaid it, so if you borrow more money, you have to add interest for the first half of the year, and if you repay it, you can take it away and forget it."

After Tong Xiangyu finished speaking, he put two coins on the table, and Guo Furong gritted his teeth and shouted at Tong Xiangyu's behavior of taking advantage of the fire:

"Borrow! Why not!"

Guo Furong gritted her teeth and put the two coins in her arms, ran out of the room and went down the stairs, threw the two coins to the scholar, said with wide-eyed murderous look:

"Scholar! Just wait for me! We are endless..."

Seeing Guo Furong's angry expression, Zhang Chen touched Bai Zhantang's shoulder and said with a smile:

"Brother Bai, there is a good show to watch"

Bai Zhantang looked back and the two secretly laughed. Sure enough, Guo Furong launched a series of revenge actions against Xiucai, tossing Xiucai with injuries all over his body. .

In the next few days, the two faced each other tit-for-tat in the inn, and everyone who watched sighed who would be the winner in this war caused by two coins.

That evening, after the inn closed, everyone tidied up the tables and chairs in the hall and went to the long table to have dinner. Xiucai and Guo Furong started a new round of confrontation over the food.

The two were facing each other, fighting each other more and more, Zhang Chen saw the escalation of the battle, and if he didn't stop this table, the food would be lost, so he ordered the two of them, and said to the crowd:

"If they continue to make such a fuss, the dinner may not be guaranteed. Let's move them outside and blow the cool breeze to calm them down."

Everyone has seen enough of the good shows these days, and they know in their hearts that if the quarrel continues, they will lose both. At that time, everyone will be unlucky, so they all nodded in agreement when they thought of this.

The crowd moved them to the backyard for them to reflect on themselves, then turned around and went back to the long table for dinner, leaving Guo Furong and Xiucai here to enjoy the cold wind.

Zhang Chen walked slowly to the backyard after dinner, looked at the two standing in the cold wind and said with a smile:

"Have you two calmed down? If you still want to make trouble again, let's continue to stay calm here."

Xiucai's eyes signaled that Guo Furong was the one who moved first, and she was the one who stopped first. Guo Furong seemed to know what Xiucai meant and stared at her to show that she would not budge.

Zhang Chen looked at the serious two and said helplessly:

"Both of you take a step back. Sister Guo, you apologize to Brother Xiucai, and Brother Xiucai will help Sister Guo to ask the shopkeeper to waive the half-year interest. This matter is over and you two reconcile."

The scholar blinked his eyes to express agreement, Guo Furong still stared and disagreed, Zhang Chen persuaded:
"Miss Guo, in the final analysis, you forgot the two coins, which caused all the subsequent things to happen, and you should have relieved your anger by making Brother Xiucai so serious. Think again."

This time, Guo Furong didn't blink her eyes to express her agreement after widening her eyes for a moment of deep thought, and Zhang Chen immediately unlocked the acupoints of the two.

After they unlocked the acupoints, they stalemate for a long time, and Guo Furong cupped her hands unnaturally and whispered "Sorry" to the scholar.

Xiucai expressed her forgiveness with a proud face, carrying her back and slowly walked back to the backyard room, watching the two reconcile Zhang Chen felt a little sad that the legendary invincible stinky can't appear.

After Xiucai and Guo Furong, the happy enemies, reconciled, the peace of the past was finally restored in the inn.

There were not many guests that day. Zhang Chen was lying on the roof and lazing around when he saw that the signboard of the grocery store opposite the inn had been taken down, and there was a sound of decoration in the house. Looking at the renovated store opposite, Zhang Chen knew that it was not in the plot. Yihonglou, which went bankrupt after a long time.

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