storyteller

Ah Po knows that he is Qiu Lingfu, that his mother is Qiu Xinsu, and that he knows where he is and what he is doing.

Knowing that he is the old man who walks on the cusp of the storm.

What else did he not know about himself?And he didn't know anything about this boy who turned out to be born out of nowhere, what could make him more fearful and guarded than this?

And at this moment, his eyes shot out burning anger, and his anger was transmitted to his eyes truly and clearly, even if he was lying on his back and looked at him from below, the anger did not decrease at all.But he asked, "What do you think? Are you here to show off or to apologize?"

"Apologize?" Ah Po thought it was funny, "You are being suppressed like this, why do you expect me to apologize? Does staring at me like this make me afraid of you?"

Ah Po stared at those eyes that were full of anger and bewitched people for a while, then lowered his eyes halfway, then stopped looking.He just smiled lightly and said: "Don't be angry. I just want to tell you that I know that this old man is you. If you want to discuss this old man with me in front of me in the future, you don't have to rack your brains to hide it. .”

Seeing clearly that he couldn't beat this person, Qiu Lingfu thought about it, he didn't even have to resist, his muscles even relaxed, and he looked like he was no longer resisting, and said to him: "Let me go."

This is quite naive.

Ah Po didn't let go, but he gripped his hands even tighter, and exerted a little more force on his knees, as if he was on guard against Qiu Lingfu's tricks and took the opportunity to break free, so he began to negotiate terms with him: "Okay, I'll let you go. But, you have to Hand over the antidote."

Even though Ah Po half-kneeled on Qiu Lingfu's body, pressed him tightly, and proposed such conditions, there was still a smile in his eyes, which made Qiu Lingfu's heart tremble inexplicably.

"If I don't give it, can you still hold me down?" Qiu Lingfu made a rogue gesture, and said cheekily, "I can sleep until dawn if you hold me down, believe it or not?"

There was a flash of light in Ah Po's eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

And after a while, he said: "If you don't hand over the antidote, I will not just suppress you. I can light you up, throw you down from here, or hang you on the tower, and write 'Fanjiu' on your body." How about the four words 'old man', let the whole world see what this old man looks like, doesn't it sound fun?"

"You said that you only know how to learn, don't you just like to poke people? You said that your index finger and middle finger will not be shorter than other fingers, right?" Qiu Lingfu smiled, and turned to this close-by man. The man raised his chin contemptuously, as if talking about the man with ease.

"It's strange, you're not curious why I didn't threaten to kill you, but to teach you something," Ah Po reminded again, "Will you give the antidote?"

Qiu Lingfu lazily said: "What antidote? The little medicine you touched was just a little pain in your hands. What time is it now? Seeing your hands are so strong, the effect of the medicine has expired long ago, and you asked me for the antidote." .”

It turned out that Ganqing Qiu Lingfu didn't realize what he was asking, or knew it, but still pretended to be stupid.

A Po lowered his head and looked at Qiu Lingfu's thin lips that spoke indifferent words: "The man you are dumb and deaf is now in the inn, covered in blood, life would be better than death. If you want to take revenge on him, you should relieve your anger. Don't you want Did this person die because of such a trivial matter?"

Qiu Lingfu said harshly: "I'm poisoning him, why do you care about your own business? You can't even control yourself when you are full, and you care about others?" Then he remembered something, and suddenly asked, "But you have nothing but martial arts, and you are hungry. , why don’t you steal or rob? Why do you want to eat what you get? Such a big person doesn’t know how to support himself. Is pretending to be a beggar still addictive!”

On the contrary, Qiu Lingfu used that fallacy to teach him a lesson.

Seeing his disdain for other people's lives, Ah Po really felt that he had to think of a way to teach this person a real lesson: "You are wrong, I am not pretending to be a beggar, because I am. Stealing and robbing." I'm a beggar, what kind of business do I want to grab from others? You, who know nothing, still want to pretend to be a well-known man." He purposely tightened his hand a little more, and pinched him hard. Pinching the slippery skin of his hands, he urged, "The antidote!"

Qiu Lingfu took a breath, he was always afraid of pain.Apo Apo!This person is simply hated by him to the bone!

He gritted his teeth and said, "It's for you... There is a small red bottle in my luggage."

A Po was afraid that he would play tricks, so he repeated the old tricks, so he really awarded his degree, and he was about to walk over and turn over with his hands and feet out.The bag was casually thrown on the table, Ah Po opened it, and there were more than a dozen bottles and cans inside, as well as small and small snacks to fill the bag, Ah Po looked at those half-eaten Candy cake can't help smiling.

There were several red bottles, and Ah Po raised several bottles in front of Qiu Lingfu, and asked, "Which red one?" Then he kept an eye out, "I don't understand your degree, I feel wronged You. I will send the antidote later. If the medicine is fake, I will clean you up when I come back. You always think about it, why don't you guess how I will clean you up. Throw all your snacks out and feed the pigs , or spewing these strange things of yours in your mouth?"

Qiu Lingfu took a deep breath, and immediately changed his words: "It's a black bottle, the one with plum blossoms on it."

With a clear expression, Ah Po found the bottle again, and under Qiu Lingfu's vicious stare, he clicked on his mute, and then jumped out of the window vigorously and into the night.

At dawn, Xu Bichuan and Qiu Xiaoshi had already had their breakfast, only to see Qiu Lingfu coming down the stairs with black eyes and listlessness.

Qiu Xiaoshi was surprised and said: "It's already high in the sun, and you still look like you haven't woken up, did you play tricks again last night?"

After Ah Po left last night, he didn't come back again, and the degree was automatically unlocked for an hour. At this time, it was almost dawn, and he fell asleep for a while.Qiu Lingfu cast a gloomy look at Qiu Xiaoshi, who reminded him, but said nothing.

Seeing Xu Bichuan's neat attire, he asked, "Where are you going?"

Xu Bichuan said: "Zijiangzhu."

As soon as Zijiangzhu was mentioned, Qiu Lingfu thought of Ah Po's visit last night, and couldn't help becoming suspicious. Ah Po knew who that old man Fanjiu was, and Xu Bichuan had so many eyes, wouldn't he also know it?It also occurred to him that he was discovered by Ah Po only because he was following him and happened to be caught.And Xu Bichuan just relied on guesswork, how could he guess that he and the old man Fanjiu were so far apart?

Qiu Lingfu asked: "Are you looking for old man Fanjiu? I'll go too."

Xu Bichuan shook his head: "Old Man Jiu may not be found there, but you can always look for people who are looking for Old Man Fan Jiu."

"It's okay, I adore that old man Fanjiu a little bit, let's see what people who also adore him look like." Qiu Lingfu said.

Xu Bichuan sighed: "Listen to what you say, I don't want to take you there."

Qiu Lingfu also sighed: "Then I can only go secretly."

He said it secretly, isn't it obvious that you can't do anything about him.Xu Bichuan shook his head.

Qiu Lingfu was chewing the fragrant and soft quicksand buns, thinking that this was something he thought of together, and he tried his best to pretend to be a rice wine old man, and revealed this news in Ziyu, just to see who was there Are you following Qiu Xinsu's whereabouts?

He swallowed the bun and said to Xu Bichuan, "Go! We must go."

There are more guests in Zijiang Building during the day than at night. Whether it is an elegant person or a vulgar farmer, it is allowed to come here to drink a cup of tea, listen to some books or play the piano.Jianghailou has always been open to the world, he can accommodate the elegant and charming guqin as spring and snow, and he can also accommodate storytellers, old and young, who are suitable for storytelling and chatting about the people of Lower Liba.

Today, there are more people here than in the past. When you walk from a distance, you can see several groups of people gathered at the door, blocking the spacious and majestic carved door, unable to enter at all.

Qiu Lingfu and Xu Bichuan glanced at each other, unexpectedly there were quite a few people paying attention to Qiu Xinsu's whereabouts.Qiu Xinsu has been careless about Jianghu affairs for many years, could these people be the ones who had something to do with her back then?

Qiu Xinsu had been working for Hua Yuye before retiring. Hua Yuye was a decent family anyway, and Qiu Xinsu's reputation as a right protector was naturally not that bad.Besides, after all, she is the Right Protector of the Dapai. Her martial arts are superior to many others. She is also a well-known chivalrous woman. She is like a celestial being. Those praises are all on her beauty. Now the world knows her martial arts well. There are very few people.

Seventeen years have passed, most people only remember her peerless demeanor, but they don't remember that she was the heroic girl who wiped out Yinfeng Village with Sun Qiaoniang in one fell swoop.

At that time, Yinfeng Village bullied men and women, committed crimes, and was arrogant for a while. The bullied people suffered unspeakably.After Yinfeng Village was eradicated, the nearby people also gave them a thousand-year-old pear tree in the village. This tree still blooms every year in the courtyard of Huayuye.

Such a person's enemies are all thieves who are either traitors or thieves, but with these famous and decent people here, is it possible that they also want to inquire about Qiu Xinsu so that they can admire her reputation?

"Palace Master Ding." A young man with a jade crown on his head, noble and luxurious but with a pale face bowed to the seven or eight people in Xiangshui Palace. They were neither hot nor cold, neither humble nor overbearing. The number of people was the most spectacular, and they couldn't help frowning.

Palace Master Ding is a middle-aged man with a big belly, and with a complimenting smile, he also replied: "Master Duan."

Xu Bichuan Qiu Lingfu and Qiu Xiaoshi approached, and saw that there were still two small groups of people over there, Xu Bichuan whispered: "The one with the sword here is Chen Wei, the leader of the Qingshan League, and the old man with the white beard over there is Yuzhouzhaizhai." Master Yiwei."

Qiu Lingfu looked at the two of them, and wrote cleverly: "The green mountain on the left, the fishing boat on the right. Chen Wei, the swordsman, and Weng Yiwei, who smells like fish."

After finishing speaking, Palace Master Ding saw Xu Bichuan over there, and hurried over to say hello: "Xu Zhuge." Then he looked at a young master with a porcelain complexion and white hair and another person behind him, and asked, "These two is it?"

"It's my friend Mr. Qiu and his entourage. Mr. Qiu and Mr. Xu went to the Huayuyehuachaohui together, and then stayed in Mr. Xu's shabby house for a few days." He opened his eyes and said nonsense, "We just wandered around, look Many people gathered here to come and see.”

Ding Gongzhu laughed dryly, and wandered here, he didn't believe anyone who said that, let alone this old and cunning Xu Zhuge?

Over there, Duan Jingzhe also looked over with an unpredictable expression. He had never dealt with Xu Bichuan before, and he greeted each other after being introduced by Palace Master Ding.Weng Yiwei and Chen Wei also came over, and they had been looking forward to seeing each other for a long time.

Qiu Lingfu got involved, and talked with Palace Master Ding like a play, and seeing that it was fun, he told everyone one by one, which made several people look embarrassed.The handsome and eye-catching young masters who have never met before are one by one Jiu Yang, the routine is too obvious, that's all, but this Jiu Yang is said without admiration, and he doesn't even bother to act again.This made the greeting between themselves seem false and unintentional.

Fortunately, shopkeeper Liao came at this time, and he apologized to welcome this large group of ancestors into Zijiangzhu: "I am a small place like Zijiangzhu, and I welcome so many distinguished guests at once, and I can't make room for a while. , Liao really didn’t treat you well.” The shopkeeper saw Xu Bichuan and the other three with sharp eyes, and shouted to the clerk, “Bring two more pots of tea.”

Chen Wei couldn't sit still, and when he saw that the shopkeeper wanted to entertain and serve tea, he became impatient: "Shopkeeper Liao, you don't have to trouble, I, Chen, came straight to the point, and just wanted to ask, the old man who eats wine ,where are you now?"

This time, the guests thought it was a big deal, so they all avoided them one by one. The formerly bustling Jianghai Tower had long been vacated to accommodate these giant Buddhas.

The heads and disciples of the four sects sat down in the teahouse one by one. Seeing the shopkeeper dragging his feet, everyone was worried that the shopkeeper was talking nonsense and couldn't figure out why. Fortunately, there was Chen Wei who was willing to be the first. A crab eater, so I asked directly.

Shopkeeper Liao saw this posture, and smiled wryly: "It's not that Liao doesn't want to say it, it's just that I really don't know where this old man came from and where he went."

Xu Bichuan shook his fan lightly, and upon hearing this, he said, "Why don't shopkeeper Liao have any troubles?"

He said: "To tell you the truth, who is this old man of rice and wine, not only me, but even the treasurer Xue Qida who is far away in Huaijing, I am afraid who is not known. How did this old man of rice and wine start to stay in Jianghai?" I don’t know the details about Lou’s storytelling. It’s just that this old man of rice and wine is a high-ranking man. Shopkeeper Xue met this man by chance. Take him in as a storyteller."

"Hahaha!" It was Qiu Lingfu's unscrupulous laughter again, everyone looked at him, and the apology on Xu Bichuan's face could no longer be described as serious.

"Excuse me, Young Master Qiu, why are you laughing so hard?" Shopkeeper Liao asked in a polite manner.

Shopkeeper Liao's description filled Qiu Lingfu's heart with a sense of joy as if he had achieved fame. Just now he laughed so hard that a lock of fluffy brown hair fell on his chest and brushed against his cheek. He said with his hands Bian pushed back the strands of hair, his face was full of bright eyebrows and eyes, full of vivid and wanton joy that didn't match his dusty appearance.

Qiu Lingfu said: "I just heard shopkeeper Xue Qi and shopkeeper Liao's deep admiration for Lao Er Fanjiu, and I laughed out of relief at the friendship between people."

When Qiu Lingfu said this, he suddenly felt a stinging gaze on the back of his neck, and he was secretly startled.

Shopkeeper Liao laughed dryly.His big laugh just now...was it a gratifying smile?Everyone was also silent, and they were naturally dissatisfied with this young man who behaved unruly and presumptuously.

Chen Wei's face turned black even more: "Shopkeeper Liao, please continue."

Only then did everyone wake up from the loud laughter, and turned their attention to shopkeeper Liao again.

Qiu Lingfu saw that everyone was no longer looking at him, so he turned his head quietly, and then turned his head angrily.

"What's wrong?" Qiu Xiaoshi looked over.

"It's okay, there are flies." Qiu Lingfu was in a bad mood.

Ghosts linger.

Sure enough, there was a person standing in the hidden place behind the pillar on the second floor, with those lazy smiling eyes, who else could there be besides the beggar who made people hate him so much?