Chapter 27 The twenty-seventh back to the small shop to come to strange customers

The drunkard looked a little strange today, he drank very slowly, his eyes were very bright, he didn't carve wood in his hands, and he even moved the candles on his table to other tables. His eyes have been looking at the door, as if waiting for someone. But the time of Xu has long passed, and there is not even a single customer in the small shop. Sun Tuozi stretched for a long time, yawned and said, "It seems that there are no customers coming today, so let's close early so that I can have a drink with you." The "drunkard" shook his head, and said: "Don't worry, I'm sure your business today must be very good."

Sun Tuozi said, "How do you know?" The "drunkard" smiled and said, "I can tell fortunes." Sure enough, he could tell fortunes, and he was very clever. Within half an hour, three or four groups of customers came to the shop. The first batch was two people. One is an old man in a blue shirt with gray hair and a dry cigarette in his hand. There is another one who must be his granddaughter, with two big black and bright braids, and a pair of big watery eyes, but they are darker and brighter than the braids. The second batch is also two people. These two people are full of beards, tall and strong, not only the costumes are exactly the same, but also the knives hanging on their waists are exactly the same, they seem to be cast out of the same mold.

The third batch had the most people, four in total. Of the four, one is tall, the other is short, a young man with a purple face is actually carrying a spear on his shoulder, and the other is a woman in green clothes and gold jewelry, who twists and turns when walking. , looks like a big girl, but she is the mother of a big girl in terms of age. Sun Tuozi was afraid that she would break her waist if she was not careful. Only one person came in the end. This man was surprisingly thin and tall, with a face longer than a horse's face, with a bruise the size of a palm, looking a bit scary.

He didn't have a sword hanging on his body, but there was a bulging ring around his waist, and it was very conspicuous, obviously wearing a thick and long soft weapon. There were only five tables in the small shop, and the four groups of people were all filled up as soon as they arrived. Sun Tuozi was so busy that he hoped that the business would not be so good tomorrow. I saw that these four groups of people were drinking mulled wine, and they seldom spoke, and even when they spoke, they spoke in a low voice, as if they were afraid of being heard by others. Sun Tuozi just felt that each of these people seemed a little strange, and these people would never come to a small shop like his in normal days.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, the purple-faced boy with the gun on his shoulder fixed his eyes on the girl with big braids. The girl with braids was also very generous and didn't care at all. The purple-faced boy suddenly smiled and said, "Is this girl a singer?" The girl with braids shook her head, her braids swung up high, making her look even more delicate. The purple-faced boy smiled and said: "Even if you don't sing for sale, you can still sing a few lines. As long as you sing well, you will be rewarded a lot." The braided girl pursed her lips and smiled, "I can't sing, I can only talk."

The purple-faced boy said, "What did you say?" The braided girl said: "Talk a book, tell a story." The purple-faced boy smiled and said, "That would be even better, but I don't know what books you will read? The talented in the back garden will be the beautiful? The prime minister's daughter throws a hydrangea?" The girl with braids shook her head again, and said, "It's not right. What I'm talking about is the most sensational news in Jianghu, the latest major event in the martial arts world. It's guaranteed to be fresh and tense."

The purple-faced boy clapped his palms and said with a smile: "It's wonderful, I think all the gentlemen here would like to hear this kind of thing, so hurry up and talk about it." The braided girl said: "I won't say it, but my grandpa will." The purple-faced boy glared at the old man, frowned and said, "What do you know?" The braided girl rolled her eyes and said sweetly, "I will only help grandpa." With such a turn of her eyes, the soul of the purple-faced boy flew away. The face of the woman in green had already turned serious, and she said with a sneer: "If you want to say it, say it quickly, why are you flying?"

The braided girl was not angry either, and said with a smile: "In that case, Grandpa, please tell me a little bit, so that you can earn some wine money." The old man squinted his eyes, drank a glass of wine, took another puff of tobacco, and said slowly, "Have you heard of the name Li Xun Huan?" Except for the purple-faced boy, everyone didn't pay much attention to the grandparent and grandson, but when they heard the name "Li Xunhuan", everyone's ears perked up. The braided girl also smiled and said, "Of course I've heard of it, isn't it the famous little Li Tanhua who donates money with righteousness?"

The old man said: "Not bad." The braided girl said: "I heard that Xiao Li's flying knife is a good example. Up to now, no one has been able to dodge it. I don't know if this sentence is true or not?" The old man puffed out a puff of smoke, and said: "If you don't believe it, you might as well ask 'Pinghu' Bai Xiaosheng, ask the five poison boys, and you will know whether this sentence is true or not." The braided girl said: "Wouldn't Bai Xiaosheng and Wudu Boy have all died a long time ago?" The old man said lightly: "That's right, they all died, just because they didn't believe this sentence."

The braided girl stuck out her tongue and said with a charming smile, "I dare not disbelieve this sentence. Those who do not believe this sentence are probably fools." The slender man with the blue face seemed to have a low "hum" in his nostrils, but everyone was already attracted by the conversation between the grandparent and grandson, and no one paid attention to him. Only the "drunkard" was lying on the table, as if drunk. The old man took another two puffs of dry cigarettes, drank a sip of tea, and then continued: "It's a pity that a hero like Li Xun Huan is dead now."

The braided girl said in amazement: "Dead? Who has such a great ability to kill him!" The old man said: "No one has such a great ability, there is only one person who has the ability to kill him." The braided girl asked, "Who?" The old man said: "It's him!" The braided girl was startled, then laughed again: "How could he kill himself? I think he must still be alive." The old man sighed for a long time, and said: "Even if he is still alive, he is almost dead... There is nothing more sorrowful than death. It's a pity, a pity, a pity..." The braided girl also sighed, was silent for a while, and then asked again: "Apart from him, who else can be called a hero?" The old man said: "Have you ever heard of the name 'A Fei'?" The braided girl said: "I seem to have heard of it." She rolled her eyes and said again: "I heard that this person's swordsmanship is unparalleled in the world, but I don't know if it is true or not?" The old man said: "How is Yikui's martial arts?" The braided girl said: "In the weapon list, the Green Demon Hand is ranked ninth, so the martial arts are naturally very good." The old man said: "Mr. Iron Flute, Shaolin Xinchong, Zhao Zhengyi, Tian Qi... how about these people's martial arts?" The braided girl said: "These few are all first-class masters in the Jianghu, everyone knows it." The old man said: "If Ah Fei's swordsmanship is not fast, how could these people be defeated by his sword?" The braided girl said: "Where is this 'A Fei' person now?" The old man sighed, and said: "Just like Xiao Li Tanhua, he disappeared suddenly. No one knows about him, only that he disappeared at the same time as Lin Xian'er." The braided girl said: "Lin Xian'er? Isn't that the girl Lin who is known as the most beautiful woman in the world?" The old man said: "Not bad." The braided girl also sighed, and said in a rambling voice: "What is love? It makes the world suffer from love, and there is no place to complain..." The purple-faced boy seemed a little impatient, he frowned and said, "Stop the gossip, let's get back to the book, what's the story you told?" The old man sighed and shook his head: "People like A Fei and Li Xun Huan have disappeared, so what will happen in the world? What else can I say!" The slender man with the green seal on his face suddenly sneered and said, "That's not necessarily true." The old man said: "Oh? Is your excellency more informed than my old man?" The slender man turned his eyes around and said word by word: "As far as I know, something earth-shattering will happen soon." The old man asked, "Where did it happen? When did it happen?" The slender man slapped the table and said sharply, "Right now, right here!" After saying these words, the faces of the twin brothers and the four people from the third group all changed color, and the woman in green clothes moved her eyes and said with a coquettish smile: "I don't see any great event happening here and now. .” The slender man sneered and said, "As far as I know, at least six people will die here soon!" The woman in green asked, "Which six people?" The slender man took a sip of his wine and said slowly, "'White-haired Monkey' Hu Fei, 'Hercules' Duan Kaishan, 'Iron Spear Little Overlord' Yang Chengzu, 'Water Snake' Hu Mei and 'Nanshan Twin Tigers' Han brothers! " He said these six names in one breath, and the twin brother and the four people from the third batch all stood up suddenly, slapping the table and cursing: "What are you? How dare you talk nonsense here?" The one who yelled the loudest was the "Hercules" Duan Kaishan. This person stood up like a half iron tower. Although the "Nanshan Twin Tigers" Han brothers were tall, they were still half a head shorter than him. He cursed a few times, but he was not satisfied, and then said: "I think you are the one with the unlucky face, don't think you can survive tonight..." Before finishing this sentence, the slender man just raised his leg, and suddenly came in front of him, and slapped him seventeen or eight times. Duan Kaishan obviously has two hands, but he can't parry, even though he has two legs, but he can't dodge, even his head seems to have been knocked out, he can't move. The others were also stunned. The slender man said coldly: "You think I'm going to kill you? Since you're not worthy of letting me do it, I'm just teaching you a lesson and asking you to speak more politely." While talking, he walked back slowly. "Small Iron Spear Overlord" Yang Chengzu suddenly yelled, "Go slowly, why don't you tell me who is going to kill us?" Amid the sound of drinking, the spear he had been keeping at hand pierced out like a poisonous snake. I saw spears blossoming, which turned out to be the authentic Yang family's marksmanship. The slender man didn't turn his head back, and said calmly: "The people who want to kill you are coming soon!..." With a flash of his waist, Yang Chengzu had put the spear under his ribs, Yang Chengzu exhausted all his strength and couldn't pull it out, his purple face was so anxious that it turned into the color of a pig's liver. The slender man continued: "You guys won't be able to escape anyway, so just wait and see." He suddenly let go, and Yang Chengzu, who was drawing the gun, suddenly lost his center of gravity, and fell backwards on his back. If it wasn't for "water snake" Hu Mei's quick support, even the table would have been knocked over. Looking at his iron gun again, it has turned into an "iron rod"! I do not know when the iron tip was broken! But hearing the sound of "Duo", the slender man stuck the point of the gun on the table, poured a glass of wine slowly, and drank it slowly, as if nothing had happened. But the Han family brothers, Yang Chengzu, Hu Fei, Duan Kaishan, Hu Mei, these six people did not have such a good time as him, they all looked at each other with ashen faces. Everyone was thinking: "Who is going to kill us? Who is it?..." The wind is getting stronger outside.The candlelight flickered, reflecting the slender man's miserable blue face, which was even more mysterious and terrifying. "Who is this person?" "With his high martial arts skills, he must be a first-class martial arts master. How can we not recognize him?" "How did he come to a place like this?" Everyone was unsure, where else could they have a sip of wine? Some people already want to run away, but it would be too embarrassing to leave like this. If the rumors spread in the future, can they still hang out in the rivers and lakes? What's more, from the tone of that blue-faced man, even if they wanted to escape, they couldn't escape! The thin and dry Hu Fei with white hair on his face, his eyes flickered, he stood up suddenly, walked to the table of the Han family brothers, clasped his fists and said: "I have admired the reputation of Nanshan Twin Tigers for a long time. .” Nanshan Shuanghu also stood up immediately, and the big tiger Han Ban clasped his fists and said, "Don't dare." Two Tigers Han Mingdao: "Brothers and sisters Hu Daxia and Hu Miss are both excellent at concealed weapons and light kungfu, and my brothers have admired them for a long time!" Hu Fei said: "Second Hero Han has won the prize." The "Water Snake" Hu Mei over there also smiled coquettishly and bowed her hands. Hu Fei said: "If the two of you don't mind being presumptuous, how about you please move over and talk about it?" Han Ban said: "I also have this intention." If these two groups of people meet in other places, maybe they will unleash their weapons to fight to the death, but now they share the same hatred, not a family has become a family. Everyone raised their glasses, and Hu Fei said: "The two of you have lived in Kanto for a long time, but you have been walking between the Jianghuai and Huaihe Rivers in the lower class. I really can't think of anyone who would want to catch us all." Han Ban said: "I don't understand it either." Hu Fei said: "From the tone of that friend, the person who wants to kill us must have extremely high martial arts. Maybe we are really no match for him, but..." He suddenly smiled and said: "Three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, combined with the strength of the six of us, it's unlikely that we won't even have the strength to fight back." The Han brothers immediately lifted their spirits. Han Ban said loudly: "Brother Hu is right, the six of us are not wooden people, will we obediently let others chop off our heads?" He squinted at the slender man with the green face, but the man didn't seem to hear him at all. Han Ming also said loudly: "As the saying goes: Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover up. If the man doesn't come, it's fine. If he really comes...hehe..." Hu Meijiao smiled and took it for him, saying: "If it really comes, let him come and go." This is exactly "many people are courageous", the six people together, even Duan Kaishan and Yang Chengzu's courage became stronger. Six people are talking to you and me, you praise me, and I praise you. Suddenly, someone outside the door sneered. The faces of the six people changed immediately, and their throats seemed to be choked suddenly. Not only could they no longer speak a word, even their breathing seemed to be about to stop. Sun Tuozi was already stunned, but these six people were even more frightened than him, he couldn't help but follow their gazes. I saw four people appeared at the door. These four people were all wearing very bright apricot yellow gowns. One of them had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the other had a hooked nose. They were the two people who asked him for news this morning. Although they had reached the door, they didn't come in. They just stood there with their hands down and didn't speak. It didn't look scary at all. Sun Tuozi really couldn't understand how the six people who were still domineering just now were so afraid of them. Judging from the expressions of the six people, the four men in yellow shirts were not human beings, but ghosts. They were a little envious of the "drunkard", seeing nothing and hearing nothing, so naturally they had nothing to be afraid of. The strange thing is that one of the grandparents and grandson is about to lose their teeth, and the other is so delicate that they seem to be blown by the wind and will fall down. But the two of them were very calm at the moment, and they didn't show any signs of fear. The old man was still able to drink. Looking at the four men in yellow shirts at the door, they have already stepped out of the way. A very young young man walked in slowly with his hands behind his back. This young man was also wearing an apricot yellow long gown. He was very handsome and had a very gentle attitude. The only difference between him and the other four was that the yellow gown was also trimmed with gold. Although he was handsome, his face was cold and expressionless. He walked into the room, looked around, and his eyes were fixed on the blue-faced and slender man. The blue-faced man drank the wine by himself and ignored him. A sneer slowly appeared on the corner of the yellow shirt's mouth, and he turned around slowly, sweeping his cold eyes over Yang Chengzu and the other six. These six people seemed to be more fierce than him, but after being swept away by his gaze, the six people seemed to have weak legs, and they couldn't even sit still. The boy in the yellow shirt walked over slowly, took out six coins made of brass from his arms, and placed one on each of the six people's heads. The six people suddenly seemed to have turned into wooden figures, watching this man casually place things on their heads, not even daring to fart. The boy in the yellow shirt still had a few copper coins left, and he shook them "jingling" in his hand, and walked slowly to the table of the old man and the braided girl. The old man looked up at him and said with a smile: "If my friend wants to drink, please sit down and have a drink or two. I'll treat you." He seemed to be a little drunk, as if he had a goose egg in his mouth, and his tongue was three times bigger than usual, so no one could understand what he said. The boy in the yellow shirt looked at him coldly with a sullen face, and suddenly stretched out his hand to pat the table. The plate of peanuts placed in front of the old man suddenly jumped out of the plate, and hit the old man in the face like a rainstorm. The old man didn't know whether he was dumbfounded or frightened, he even forgot to dodge, dozens of peanuts were about to hit him in the face. The boy in the yellow shirt rolled up his long sleeves again, and all the peanuts were rolled into the sleeves. He flicked his sleeves again, and the peanuts fell back into the plate in a row. The old man's eyes were staring, his mouth was opened wide and he couldn't speak. The girl with braided hair clapped her hands and laughed coquettishly, and said with a smile: "This trick is so beautiful. I didn't expect you to be a juggler. Can you show us some more tricks? I must ask Grandpa to buy you a drink." The boy in the yellow shirt showed off his pure internal palm strength and his superb kung fu of catching hidden weapons, but he met an ignorant buyer who actually regarded him as a juggler. But the boy in the yellow shirt was not angry at all, he looked the braided girl up and down, with a smile in his eyes, and walked away slowly. The girl with braids said anxiously: "Why is your trick not changing? I still want to see it." The slender and blue-faced man suddenly sneered, and said, "It's better to watch less tricks like this." The braided girl blinked and said, "Why?" The green-faced man said coldly: "If you know martial arts, his two-handed trick just now may have turned you into death." The girl with braids secretly glanced at the boy in yellow, as if she didn't believe it, but she didn't dare to ask any more questions. The boy in the yellow shirt didn't pay any attention to what the blue-faced man was saying, and walked slowly to the table of the "drunkard". Shaking the money making in his hand "jingling". That "drunkard" had long been unknown, and fell asleep on the table like a dead person. The boy in the yellow shirt sneered, picked up his hair, lifted him up, looked carefully, and then relaxed his hands. As soon as he let go of his hand, the "drunkard" fell back on the table with a "bang", and fell asleep again, still unknown. The green-faced man said coldly: "It's really good to say that once you get drunk, you can relieve a thousand worries. Drunk people do have advantages over sober ones." The boy in the yellow shirt still ignored him, and walked out slowly with his hands behind his back. The strange thing is that Hu Fei, Duan Kaishan, Yang Chengzu, Hu Mei, Han Ban, and Han Ming, these six people immediately followed out one after another, as if they were being pulled by a rope. These six people all had mournful faces and straightened their necks. Although their feet were walking forward step by step, their upper bodies did not dare to move, for fear that the copper coins on their heads would fall off. Looking at their fearful and cautious expressions, it seems that as soon as the copper coins on their heads fall, catastrophe is imminent. Sun Tuozi has lived for decades, but he has never seen such a strange thing. He had heard people say before that in the deep mountains and great swamps there would often be mountain charmers, who liked to eat monkey brains the most. When they were happy, they would call all the monkeys from the whole mountain and put a stone on its head when they saw what they liked. , the monkey who was favored never dared to resist, and never dared to escape, but just stood against the stone and waited obediently for death. Sun Tuozi used to think that this was just Qi Dong's wild language, which was not to be believed.But now seeing the appearance of Duan Kaishan and the others, they are really similar to those monkeys. With the martial arts of the six of them, no matter who they meet, they can at least fight hard, why seeing this yellow-shirted boy is like a mouse meeting a cat. Sun Tuozi really didn't understand. He also didn't want to figure it out. For a person who has lived to his age, it's better to be confused about some things. If he understands too much, he will be troubled. It hasn't rained for a long time, and there is a lot of wind and sand in the alley. The other four men in yellow shirts had drawn dozens of circles on the ground at some point, and each circle was only as big as a sea bowl filled with soup. Duan Kaishan waited for the six people to come out, and without waiting for others to order, he stood in these circles, one person stood in a circle, just enough to place his feet in the circle. The six people immediately turned into six pieces of wood again. The boy in the yellow shirt walked slowly back to the small shop with his hands behind his back, and sat down at the table where Duan Kaishan and the others had just sat. His face was always cold, and he hadn't even said a word until now. After about two cups of tea, another man in yellow shirt walked into the alley. This man was older, one of his ears had been cut off, and one of his eyes was also blind, the remaining one eye was shining fiercely. The apricot-yellow gown he was wearing was also trimmed with gold, and there were seven or eight people following behind him, old and young, tall and short. Looking at their attire, it is obvious that they are not anonymous people, but now they are like Duan Kaishan and the others, all of them are mourning, with straight necks, carefully following behind the one-eyed man, walking to the front of the shop, Just stand obediently in the circle. One of them was dark and thin, and his face was full of vigor. Duan Kaishan and the other six people looked very surprised when they saw him, as if wondering: "Why is he here?" The one-eyed man glanced at Duan Kaishan and the other six people, with a sneer on his lips, and with his hands behind his back, he walked slowly into the small shop and sat down opposite the yellow-shirted boy. The two looked at each other, nodded, and neither of them spoke. After another cup of tea, another man in yellow shirt came in from the alley. This person looked older, his beard and hair were all grey, and the apricot yellow gown he was wearing was also trimmed with gold, and there were a dozen or so people behind him. From a distance, he looks no different, but when he gets closer, he finds that the man's face is green, and against his gray hair, it looks even more mysterious and terrifying. Not only his face is green, but his hands are also green. When the people standing outside the small shop saw the green-faced and white-haired man in yellow shirt, they gasped as if they saw a ghost, and some even trembled. In less than half an hour, the dozens of circles drawn on the floor in the alley were already full of people standing there, everyone held their breath and remained silent, neither daring to move nor speak. There are four people wearing gold-rimmed yellow shirts. The last one is an old man with white beard and hair. His figure is already bent and his steps are staggering. He seems to be a few years older than the old man who told the story. They didn't move anymore, but they brought the most people. These four people each occupied one side of the table, and they sat there quietly as soon as they walked in, and no one spoke, as if all four of them were dumb. The group of people standing in the circle outside seemed to have their mouths all sewn shut, and they couldn't hear any sound from inside or outside except breathing. This small shop has become like a tomb, even Sun Tuozi can't stand it anymore!The grandfather and grandson and the green-faced man still refused to leave. Are they still waiting to see the trick. It was a deadly trick.