Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

The mountain road in Fulong Village was steep and narrow, but in Li Guanqi's eyes, this road was smooth and easy.

Li Guanqi didn't know how many times he had walked this road, almost everyone in the village who drank relied on him to fetch wine from the town.

The downhill journey was fast, and by the time the sun was high in the sky, Li Guanqi was almost at Changxing Town.

Li Guanqi's breathing was long and steady, and a few beads of sweat seeped from his forehead as he looked at Changxing Town a few miles away, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Finally here, I'm getting faster each time."

As soon as he spoke, Li Guanqi's figure shot out like an arrow leaving the bow.

Changxing Town, a large town with a population of only two hundred thousand.

The streets were filled with the shouts of small vendors, and the town was particularly lively on market days.

A little girl in a light blue dress looked around, but the dress had already faded from washing.

Meng Wanshu carried rice, flour, and oil in her hands, this time she had begged for a long time before her parents agreed to let her come down the mountain.

"Uncle, how much is this rice cake?"

"Little girl, one copper coin."

"So cheap? Give me three pieces, no… four pieces."

The little girl muttered to herself, wondering what she was thinking, and the image of that moocher involuntarily appeared in her mind.

As soon as she thought of that little blind man, Meng Wanshu stomped her foot angrily.

"Hmph! If his dog nose smells this, he'll definitely say I didn't buy any for him."

Soon the old man wrapped the sticky rice cake in kraft paper.

Meng Wanshu took it and thanked him, happily walking towards the edge of the town.

At the same time, Li Guanqi was still four or five miles away from Changxing Town, he didn't know that Meng Wanshu had also come down the mountain this time.

Suddenly!

Meng Wanshu heard a chaotic exclamation behind her from the street.

She saw a young man with a face like jade, wearing a gorgeous white and blue brocade robe, standing in place with a look of disgust in his eyes.

He stood with his hands behind his back, gently shaking a folding fan, his eyes full of arrogance.

His brow was slightly furrowed, and he occasionally looked at the gray-haired old man with disgust.

The servants around him protected the young man in the center, four or five people swarming up and overturning the old man's rice cake stall.

They trampled the steaming sticky rice cakes into a mess.

The old man knelt on the ground, his eyes red, reaching out to protect the rice cakes.

"Don't… don't step on them…"

"These… these are all freshly made!!"

Bang!!

The old man was kicked to the ground by the servants, one of whom said fiercely.

"Old man, you want to set up a stall without paying?"

"Don't you know that this area has been bought by our Zhao family?!"

This scene immediately drew criticism from many people, but the criticism soon disappeared.

The servants glared fiercely at the speakers, and for a while, everyone had to shut up.

Meng Wanshu happened to see the old man who had just sold her rice cakes fall to the ground from the crowd.

A look of anger flashed across her face, she glanced at the young man, but didn't say much.

She remembered what the little blind man had said, it's better to avoid trouble when you're out, and minding your own business is the best policy.

Meng Wanshu knew that she couldn't change anything, sighed, and turned to leave.

But this turn was seen by Zhao Yuanlin!

He had been sent by his father to this godforsaken place and felt a lot of resentment, but he didn't expect to see a woman with such a good temperament here.

The thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl was already graceful and slender, and there was a bit of youthful purity between her eyebrows.

She was different from the cheap prostitutes he usually played with!!

"Dog Three, I fancy that girl, follow her!"

A sneaky-looking servant raised his eyes and glanced at the departing Meng Wanshu, and immediately understood.

Looking at her clothes and the things she was holding, it was clear that she wasn't from a wealthy family, and these kinds of ordinary girls were the easiest to deal with.

The short, thin Dog Three bowed, and his lewdness couldn't be concealed even with a smile on his face.

Dog Three nodded repeatedly, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, young master, I'll take care of it!"

The corners of Zhao Yuanlin's mouth rose slightly, his heart rippling, and he was already fantasizing about what would happen next.

He tapped Dog Three's head with his folding fan and said softly: "Handle it well."

As he spoke, he took out a large gold ingot from his sleeve and threw it to Dog Three: "The rest is yours."

Dog Three's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly.

"Get lost! What are you looking at, everyone disperse!!"

After Zhao Yuanlin left, Dog Three straightened up slightly, sneered and kicked over the old man's cart.

"I'm telling you, one month, three strings of copper coins."

"If you don't pay, don't come to set up a stall, I'll smash it every time!"

The disheveled and embarrassed old man ignored the blood on his face, wiped it off haphazardly, and opened his mouth with a look of difficulty.

"D…D…Sir…"

"Wasn't it just one string of copper coins a month before?"

"This… this… this… how can it increase so much after just two days!"

Dog Three picked up a piece of rice cake that had been trampled into the ground, stuffed it into the old man's mouth, tilted his head, and said with a sinister look.

"One string?"

"Heh, don't my brothers need to eat?"

The old man swallowed the rice cake mixed with mud and sand in humiliation, and nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, yes, I understand…"

"Hahahaha, Brother Dog is still generous."

"You have no sense of observation, Brother Dog, what did the young master say just now?"

Dog Three smiled slightly, and shook the gold ingot in front of everyone.

"Go, wasn't there an old woman who was a trafficker arrested in the city some time ago?"

"What was her name? Aunt Mei? Go and call her over for me."

"Also, go and find a way to delay that little girl."

Several people beside him listened to the instructions and immediately started to work.

Dog Three showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and licked his lips somewhat lewdly, hunching his body.

He had seen that little girl before, if it wasn't for Zhao Yuanlin, he would have enjoyed her himself.

However… when he thought of Zhao Yuanlin's character, maybe their brothers wouldn't have a chance!

"Hehe, so charming…"

Soon, Meng Wanshu noticed something was wrong, it seemed that wherever she went, people were deliberately blocking her way.

No matter how she walked, she couldn't shake these people off.

A strange feeling of panic spread in her heart…

In a dark, broken alley, Dog Three frowned as he looked at the kind-looking old woman in front of him.

He turned to look at the man beside him and frowned: "Are you sure this is that Aunt Mei?"

"She's so kind-looking, I can't tell…"

The old woman slowly opened her mouth in a gentle voice: "Sir, you don't understand this."

"If I wasn't like this… how would so many people be fooled?"

"Eliciting sympathy is the basic skill of our business."

Dog Three heard this and immediately showed a playful look, and said directly: "Then I'll leave it to you, if it's done, the reward is thirty taels of silver."

The old woman's eyes flashed with a hint of brilliance when she heard this, and she nodded repeatedly in agreement.

She took out a set of tattered, smelly clothes from the package behind her and put them on.

She grabbed her originally well-groomed hair a few times, rubbed her hands on the ground, didn't spare her fingernails, and made her face dirty.

Dog Three looked at the current old woman, and her temperament was completely different.

If she was the old ancestor of a famous family before, then now she was a fallen old ancestor.

Even Dog Three, who was used to seeing all kinds of people, couldn't help but give a thumbs up when he saw this scene.

Li Guanqi, who had just arrived in town, ran excitedly to the wine shop.

A slightly obese middle-aged man saw that it was Li Guanqi, and he didn't show the disgust that one might expect.

Instead, he greeted him very warmly: "Haha, Little Blind Man, it's been a long time since you've been here!"

Li Guanqi couldn't help but joke when he heard the boss's warm greeting.

"Boss Zhao's business has been booming recently, you've gotten a lot fatter, haven't you?"

Boss Zhao of the wine shop wasn't annoyed when he heard this, he felt that Li Guanqi was his benefactor.

Since Li Guanqi came to buy wine, his wine shop business had been getting better and better, and it had been getting bigger and bigger.

Back and forth, his relationship with Li Guanqi became familiar.

Zhao Dafu handed over a handful of melon seeds: "The usual?"

Li Guanqi thought for a while, he had also promised to get wine for Uncle Meng, and said simply: "Four jars of Osmanthus Wine."

Zhao Dafu nodded with a smile, and shouted loudly: "Regular customer, four jars of ~ Osmanthus Wine!"

Li Guanqi couldn't help but say when he heard this: "Tsk, you even shout out 'regular customer', what's wrong? Are you afraid that your buddy will add water?"

Zhao Dafu was so frightened that he trembled, and quickly waved his hand.

"Don't talk nonsense, how dare I?"

"I, Zhao Dafu, rely on honesty to do business, just shouting for fun…"

While waiting for the wine, Li Guanqi leaned against the counter,嗑着melon seeds, and chatted idly with Zhao Dafu.

Through the gaps in the crowd, he happened to see the old man across the street cleaning up the mess on the ground.

Li Guanqi couldn't help but frown when he saw the old man.

He turned to look at Zhao Dafu and asked in a low voice: "Old Zhao, what happened to Uncle Xiao? Why was his stall overturned?"

Zhao Dafu sighed when he heard this, he had seen the previous conflict clearly, after all, the wine shop had to be in a higher location.

"Hey… don't mention it."

"Recently, these three streets of ours have been bought by a family surnamed Zhao."

"As a result, as soon as the Zhao family came, the rent doubled!!"

"The shops on these streets are now thinking about whether to change places."

Li Guanqi frowned, his eyes narrowed, and he couldn't help but murmur: "Zhao family?"

However, he didn't take it to heart, but listened to Zhao Dafu simply recounting everything that had happened before.

Li Guanqi couldn't help but say after listening.

"This Zhao family is domineering enough, aren't they afraid that you will terminate your leases and change shops if they do this?"

Zhao Dafu folded his sleeves with both hands and said unhappily: "Who knows?"

"Anyway, I'm going to change places, I'm not afraid of it being cheaper, otherwise who can stand this rent!"

"Boss, four jars of Osmanthus Wine are ready."

Li Guanqi cursed when he saw the smaller wine jar: "You dog thing, you didn't reduce the quality, but you reduced the quantity??"

Zhao Dafu rubbed his hands somewhat embarrassedly, and returned part of the money that Li Guanqi handed over.

"Hey, isn't it because I have no choice?"

Li Guanqi grabbed the money in his hand, shook the wine jar in his hand and advised: "Old Zhao, you can't do business like this."

"I'm going to see Uncle Xiao."

As soon as he finished speaking, a look of guilt appeared on Zhao Dafu's face, he sighed, and turned to say to the shop assistant.

"Change it!"

"Ah? Change what?"

"Change the jar! What are you changing… blockhead."

"Oh, oh, right boss, I guess that little girl in the blue dress who was watching the show is in danger…"

"Shut up! Don't say what you shouldn't say!!"

Zhao Dafu looked around vigilantly, although he dared to pour out his bitterness to Li Guanqi.

That didn't mean he dared to provoke that Zhao family!!

Li Guanqi suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at the shop assistant and frowned: "What little girl in a blue dress?"

"What's going on?"