Martial Arts: The First Genius Doctor in Jianghu

Chapter 16 The Inn in the Rain
At dusk, but there is no sunset glow, there are only dark clouds like a huge black curtain, just in line with the trend of "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it" in Li Changgu's poem.The thunder roared, and the torrential rain poured down, smashing the earth into pieces.This weather makes the originally peaceful late spring become restless, and it seems that even nature cannot bear this depression.

Beside the remote post road, it was a not-so-big inn.It stands out of the wind and rain like a forgotten tomb.The lantern hanging at the door flickered in the wind and rain, as if telling endless sadness.The name on the wooden signboard could no longer be read clearly, but it seemed to be swaying in the wind, making a creepy moan.The rain hit the ground, splashing bursts of water.The strong wind blows up the fallen leaves, just like a ghost escaped from Jiuyou and returned to the world to make troubles.

At this moment, the inn was brightly lit, and although the tables and chairs in the lobby were a bit old, they were wiped clean.

Probably because of the remote location, there were not many guests in the house, except for the boss and the proprietress, there were only five guests sitting in the lobby sitting on four different tables.

One table is a tall and strong middle-aged man with two followers; the other table is two Jianghu people, one is holding a knife and the other is holding a sword and drinking; the third table is a [-]-year-old scholar from time to time. Looking at it, when the other party looked over, he hurriedly lowered his head; the downcast person at the last table had just entered, and was wet from head to toe with a broken iron frame umbrella, and he was calling the boss to serve wine.

The windows in the inn are closed, if not through the half-closed door, it is enough to make people forget the torrential rain outside.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and a man rushed in, drenched and embarrassed, and said, "Please bring a towel, shopkeeper." He looked at the people around him and said with a smile, "This rain It's really big."

The scholar seemed to move deliberately, but seeing that no one else was moving, he had to lower his head again.

The man didn't care if he was bored, he just took off his drenched brocade robe and put it aside, took the towel handed by the boss, wiped his face, and said, "Shopkeeper, please serve some hot dishes, the weather is drenching." It's cold, just to warm up the body."

The boss also asked: "What are the preferences of the guest officer? How do you call him?"

The man said: "My surname is Su Mingchen, I don't have any taboos on food, you just need to order the kitchen to make some hot dishes that you are good at."

Su Chen thought for a while and said: "It's getting late today, I'll stay with you, but there's still room for me?"

The boss quickly said: "There are some, there are three upper rooms in the small shop, and there is just the last one left."

Su Chen said: "That's right, you might as well lead me there now, just in time to change clothes. Will there be hot water later?"

The boss said: "There are not many people in the shop, there are only me and my wife. If the guest officer wants hot water to wash, he can go to the kitchen by himself."

Su Chen nodded and said, "Alright."

The boss led Su Chen upstairs, the room was at the innermost, Su Chen looked at the two rooms outside and asked: "I guess the nobleman downstairs with his entourage lives in one, but what about the other?"

The boss replied: "A lady moved in earlier today, I don't know anything else."

Not long after, Su Chen changed into clean clothes before going downstairs, just in time the proprietress came up from the kitchen with hot dishes.

The proprietress looked only in her twenties, and although she wasn't stunning, she could be considered pretty.There are not many dishes on the table, only two meat and one vegetarian

The lady proprietress said: "The shop doesn't invite a chef, it's just a few small dishes, I hope the guest officials don't think it too bad."

Su Chen nodded.

The proprietress asked again: "Does the guest officer want to drink?"

Su Chen said: "No need, drinking alone is the most boring."

The proprietress stopped talking and went to the counter.

For a while, although there were many people in the lobby, there was little communication, and they just ate separately.

Su Chen tasted the dishes, the taste was not as good as that of famous restaurant chefs, but it could be regarded as delicious.

While eating, suddenly a gust of evil wind blew open the door of the store, and the strong wind and heavy rain poured into the lobby, and the boss hurried to close the door.

Even so, the two quacks sitting closest to the door were still drenched.

"Shopkeeper! It's already this time, and the door is still not closed? Could it be that you thought someone would be on their way in this horrible weather?" The knife-wielding man felt unhappy and reprimanded him.

The shopkeeper said: "To tell you the truth, there are really people who didn't come, and the shop is afraid to close."

"Is there anyone else? Shopkeeper, how do you know someone will come?" The scholar asked immediately.

The shopkeeper sighed, "I received a letter from the yamen this afternoon, saying that there is a six-door arrester coming."

The two people from the rivers and lakes looked at each other, and the man with the sword said: "What is the eagle dog from the six doors going to do?"

The shopkeeper said cautiously: "It is said that it is to investigate the case of Xu Ting's arrest."

There was a thunderstorm outside the window, but there was an unexplained silence in the lobby.

Only the scholar asked, "What is the case of Xu Ting's arrest?"

Holding the dilapidated steel umbrella, the desolate person said: "Captain Xu Ting is a well-known person in the world. He has handled countless major and important cases. He retired from the Six Doors a year ago and retired for retirement."

The scholar asked curiously: "Then the six sects sent someone to ask this old man for advice?"

"Hmph, I'm not asking for advice." The Jianghu man with a knife mocked, "The old guy surnamed Xu has caused a lot of trouble for his disciples and grandchildren this time."

"What's the trouble?" the scholar asked.

The dejected man said: "He is dead."

The scholar's eyes widened and his face turned pale with shock: "Dead!"

The negative sword said humanely: "That's right, I'm dead, I was stabbed to death by a sword."

"This... this..." The scholar muttered to himself, "This murderer is really... really lawless..."

"But even if Xu Ting was killed by the arrester, why did the arrester from Six Doors come here to investigate?" Su Chen asked.

The desolate man said: "This is naturally because the place where Xu Ting's captors live in seclusion is not far from here, and this is the place that Zhuangzi must pass on his way to the main road. The murderer committed the crime last night. Heh, the weather outside is so terrible. No matter how good his kung fu is, he can't hurry, so he has to stay here if he can't figure out the distance."

"The murderer... the murderer is..." The scholar became more and more flustered.

Su Chen smiled and said: "Brother, don't worry, what this brother said is just speculation, maybe the murderer didn't go this way at all."

The scholar finally calmed down a little, and cupped his hands at Su Chen: "Xiaosheng Zhao Yang."

Su Chen also nodded at him and said his name.

Maybe it was because the topic just now was too boring, no one spoke in the lobby for a while, only the middle-aged nobleman got up and went upstairs to his room.

Seeing that the thunderstorm outside was getting worse, now even the boss was hesitant whether the arrester would not come again because of the bad weather.

The door was suddenly pushed open.

The visitor has a well-proportioned figure, a profound face, clear facial features, a bit of handsomeness in his heroism, as if he still has a bit of childishness at a young age, he wears a bucket hat and a coir raincoat, a black toga with large sleeves, tied with a ribbon around his waist Holding a soft sword.The toga was covered with a short black armor and a pair of long boots.

The man entered the store, looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the boss, and said: "My servant, Chen Ningyu, is currently a head arrester from Six Doors, and was ordered to investigate the murder case of Xu Ting."

(End of this chapter)