Chapter 19 The Eighteenth Man Who Eats Salt

That night, Ma Rulong slept on the floor beside the bed as usual.He can't sleep. Xie Yubao didn't fall asleep either, he suddenly heard her calling him. "Hey, are you asleep?" "No." People who are asleep can't speak. "Why can't you fall asleep?" Xie Yubao asked again, "Are you also thinking about that person?" Ma Rulong deliberately asked: "What's the matter?" Xie Yubao said: "Since that dibao has practiced martial arts, do you think he was a gangster before, and the person who came to buy salt is his former accomplice, and he is probably planning to file another case here."

Ma Rulong said: "What does the case have to do with buying salt? What does it have to do with us?" Xie Yubao said: "Maybe they are planning to rob this grocery store, buying salt just to find the way!" Ma Rulong couldn't help asking: "What is there in our grocery store that is worth grabbing by others?" Xie Yubao said, "There is one thing." Ma Rulong said: "What is it?" Xie Yubao said: "Me." Ma Rulong said: "Do you think they want to rob you?" This time he didn't intend to laugh again, because he had thought that it was not impossible.Xie Yubao suddenly sighed, and said, "Maybe you really don't know who I am, but you must believe that if I fall into the hands of those villains..."

She didn't go on, as if she had already thought of many, many kinds of terrible consequences.After a long time, she said softly: "Although I have never been able to figure out why you treat me like this, but these days, I have seen that you are not a bad person, so you must help me. Find out who that person is." "How do I check?" Xie Yubao suddenly sneered again: "You think I haven't noticed that you are also a person who knows martial arts. Even if you are a grocery store owner now, you must have walked around the world before, and you must be a very famous person, because I can see It's not too bad for your martial arts."

Ma Rulong stopped talking.A master who has practiced martial arts for more than ten years is different from ordinary people in many things.He was sure she could tell because she stared at him every day.She really had nothing else to do, nothing else to see. Xie Yubao stared at him again: "If you don't do this for me, I will..." Ma Rulong said: "How about you?" Xie Yubao said: "I will not eat or drink water from now on, anyway, I don't want to live anymore!" This is a trick.Of course Ma Rulong couldn't let her starve to death. Xie Yubao said, "How is it?"

Ma Rulong sighed and said, "When do you want me to go?" Xie Yubao said: "Now, let's go now." She thought for a while, and then said: "You can change into black clothes and find a black cloth to cover your face. If someone finds out and someone comes out to chase you, you must not run back directly. I know you don't want others to see you." Show your history." She is actually better at these tricks in the arena than he is. Xie Yubao said again: "You must do what I say. Although I have never done these things, I was taught by a great expert in the rivers and lakes." She sighed again: "I would rather lie half dead in this junk In the store, just because I believe that one day someone will come and tell me what's going on, so you must not let others find this place, otherwise we are both dead." Ma Rulong could only listen and smile wryly .He had never been so sneaky in his life, but this time he had to.

It is late at night, and the poor people always go to bed very early for various reasons because of the hard work during the day, to rest early, to save fuel, and for the only pleasure they can often enjoy.A long, dark alley with no lights or people. Ma Rulong walked out of his grocery store quietly. He had already changed into black clothes, and covered his face with a black cloth, only his eyes were exposed.He knew that Tao Baoyi lived in that house, and he occasionally went out for a walk.There are five red brick houses in total, three bright and two dark, but the lights are out. There is a small yard behind the house, and there is a kitchen on the left side of the yard.Next to the kitchen is a firewood room with a well in the middle.Ma Rulong performed the lightness kung fu that he hadn't performed for a long time, and looked back and forth in this house.He saw nothing, heard nothing.Tao Baoyi's wife is still young, so he can't poke a hole in someone else's window to peek.So he came back.

Xie Yubao waited with his eyes wide open. When he came back, he opened his eyes wide and listened. After he finished speaking, he sighed softly. "I was wrong," she sighed, "I said just now that you must have been a celebrity in Jianghu before, but now I realize that I was wrong. You seem to know nothing about the affairs of Jianghu." In fact, she is not wrong.Celebrities are not necessarily old rivers and lakes, and old rivers and lakes are not necessarily celebrities.Ma Rulong didn't want to refute this point, he had already gone to see it, and he had already paid a job.Xie Yubao disagreed.

"You may have seen the places you shouldn't see, but you haven't seen the places you should see." "Where is the place to see?" "Have you looked in the kitchen?" "No." Ma Rulong didn't understand: "I know there is no one in the kitchen, why do I have to look?" Xie Yubao said, "Go and see if there has been a fire in the stove recently." Ma Rulong didn't understand even more.Has there been a fire in the stove recently, and what does it have to do with it? Xie Yubao asked again: "Have you ever visited that well? Is there any water in the well?"

"Why should I go and see?" "Because a stove without fire and a well without water are good places for Tibetans, and there may be secret caves inside." Ma Rulong sighed: "The great expert who taught you these things knows a lot." Xie Yubao said: "Now I have taught you these things." Ma Rulong said: "Do you want me to go see it again?" Xie Yubao said, "You'd better go now." Although the stove is hot, there is still a kindling in the stove.A large pot of water was still hot on the stove, but there was no water in the well.Is that man really hiding in the well?Ma Rulong still couldn't see.

He practiced gecko kung fu when he was very young, and it is not difficult to go down to have a look, but if a person is really hiding in the well, as soon as he goes in, others will see him first, as long as they see him, they will never let him go. He never left the well alive.Maybe he can dodge their blows, maybe he can give them a fatal blow.But why would he do such a thing?He couldn't even think of a reason. He was going to leave again, going back to listen to Xie Yubao's nagging and complaining.Although he is not a husband yet, he already understands what it is like for a husband to be nagged and complained by his wife.Before he left, he suddenly heard someone at the bottom of the well saying coldly: "Boss Zhang, are you here?"

The voice was hoarse and low, and it was the salt buyer. He hadn't seen anyone else, but others had seen him. Ma Rulong smiled wryly: "I'm coming!" The man who bought the salt said again: "Since you are here, why don't you come down and sit down?" Ma Rulong could still leave, but since others already know who he is, even if he leaves now, others will still find his "Zhang Ji" grocery store.Desperate people never want others to discover their secrets.Ma Rulong knew this very well, because he was a desperate man, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "I'll go down." In the dark deep well, a little fire suddenly lit up.There were two people at the bottom of the well, one was the salt buyer and the other was the salt eater. This man had broad shoulders, long legs, a broad forehead, and high cheekbones. He must have been a very tall and tall man at first, but now he was so thin that he was out of shape, and the skin all over his body was dry and cracked.Oddly enough, he has been drinking water non-stop. Drink a big sip of water, eat a big handful of salt, and swallow a raw egg.Not only was he not afraid of salt, he was not salted to death, and the water he drank didn't know where it went.His skin looked like the dry land.