Kirin family

Qi Guanyan responded, took a few steps forward, and knocked on the almost tilted door of the inn.

An old voice from inside asked, "Who is it?"

Qi Guanyan replied: "The one who lives in the hotel."

The door opened a crack with a "squeak", and a pair of examining eyes appeared inside: "Stay in the hotel?"

Qi Guanyan replied solemnly: "That's right, isn't this an inn? Why are the doors and windows tightly closed and no guests are entertained? We're going to stay here for one night, so please let the shopkeeper make it easier for you."

The old man glanced at Qi Guanyan, then at Gu Ya who was standing behind Qi Guanyan, and suddenly smiled meaningfully: "So that's how it is..." He took a step back, removed the door panel, and opened the precarious door. "Then please come in, both of you. I heard that there has been heavy rain here in Langchong for the past two days. It's a bad luck for you two to come."

Qi Guanyan pretended not to understand what he said, but gestured to Gu Ya behind him to let him follow him, and followed the old man into the inn.

Although the inn looks dilapidated from the outside, it can be called comfortable inside. Finally, it is somewhat crowded, as if it is inhabited.What is even more surprising is that the layout inside still retains the appearance of an inn. There are several tables on the first floor with benches beside the tables and a huge counter.

The old man led them to a table, and said to the wooden sign hanging on the wall: "You two have come from a long way, you must be hungry, here are all the food from the small shop, if you need it, call me That's right. I don't dare to be the shopkeeper, I'm just the accountant of this inn."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and wanted to go back to the counter, but Qi Guanyan suddenly said, "This... old accountant, we have something to eat."

"Oh?" The man turned around, looked at Qi Guanyan, then at Gu Ya: "I don't know... what do you two want to use?"

"Stir-fried dragon liver and chicken feet with distiller's lees." Qi Guanyan tapped his finger on the table: "I wonder if there is any in this shop?"

The man looked at Qi Guanyan calmly, raised his eyebrows slightly, then bowed respectfully and said: "Yes, there are, but I want to ask the meaning of my shopkeeper, please wait here a moment After a while, I went upstairs to inquire, and I will come down immediately."

Qi Guanyan nodded and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

The old man walked up the stairs step by step with staggering steps. The inn may not have been repaired for many years, and the stairs also made a "creaking" sound, which looked very strange.

Gu Ya was about to ask Qi Guanyan what he meant, but Qi Guanyan said eagerly: "This is not the place of the Qilin family."

Gu Ya was taken aback, and then he continued to say: "If a member of the Qilin family, I ask him to stir-fry dragon liver and chicken feet with distilled grains, he should tell me that there is no stir-fry for dragon liver, only steamed, and no chicken feet. The distiller's lees, only sweet and sour, I said that since it's steamed dragon liver and sweet and sour chicken feet, then it's meaningless, don't bother, just replace two taels of white-cut beef."

Gu Ya frowned and said, "Didn't he say he wanted to go upstairs to ask his master? Maybe he came here later, and the one upstairs is from Qi Guan's family."

Qi Guanyan shook his head, and motioned Gu Ya to look at the big counter not far from them on the first floor: "Do you know what that is?"

Gu Ya looked at the counter and whispered: "The counter of the inn is used for settlement and payment."

Qi Guanyan shook his head again: "This counter, don't you think it's surprisingly big? If I see it right, it should be built by some other table and cabinet. Do you know why the original counter is gone? Because everything In the storefront of the Qilin Family, there must be a secret passage under the counter. This person cannot open the mechanism of the secret passage. He must have destroyed the original counter. Instead of a counter, I had to find something in this town to pretend to be a counter."

"Then what do you mean..." Gu Ya was taken aback, this inn is indeed owned by Qi Guan's family, otherwise there would be no secret way under the counter, but now it is a dove occupying the magpie's nest. If you can't go on, you may have died in Huangquan.

Qi Guanyan looked around, the inn was very dark, maybe it was because a wall was down, and there were wooden boards around it to make it a wall. There were no windows on the boards, and the only way to get in and out was through the gate. This is a road, but a few wooden boards are stuffed on the side of the gate, leaving only a very small exit for one person to pass through. There are some ghosts and monsters, if they really reach that point, going out may not be much better than staying in the inn.

"Let's not eat whatever food is served later." Qi Guanyan said in a low voice, "They may not know who we are, although I just said the code words of Qi Guan's family, it seems that they also know the code words, but they don't know how to answer them." , we just play by ear, don’t let them catch you.”

After a while, the old man's voice came from the second floor: "The shopkeeper, they want to eat stir-fried dragon liver and chicken feet with distilled grains." There was no light in the inn, and it was extremely dark. Holding a candlestick, the flame on it was burning very high and shaking gently.

The silhouette behind the old man that appeared on the wall was a woman with an enchanting figure.

"Oh?" The woman finally appeared at the stairs, with some bangs on her head covering one of her eyes, and a layer of white gauze around her face, although the gauze seemed to be only a thin layer , but not lightly, almost tightly covering her entire face below the eyes, only revealing one eye that was not covered by the hair, the pupil looked soft and watery, and when the gaze turned, it seemed All are overflowing with light.

She was dressed in a light white dress with layers of spun gauze on her body, but she was even more elegant than Gu Ya. She had an exquisite figure and graceful gait. She was a peerless beauty at first glance.

Qi Guanyan bowed to her: "I don't know what to call this sister?"

The woman smiled and said: "You have a sweet mouth, and you don't know how old I am, so you call me sister?"

Qi Guanyan also smiled back at her: "Sister is born beautiful, no matter how old she is, she can afford to be called sister."

The woman was taken aback for a moment, then sneered: "Beautiful? Am I beautiful?"

Qi Guanyan frowned, as long as it is a woman, no matter how cruel or ruthless she is, she likes to be praised by others, but this woman does not look like that: "Although I haven't seen my sister's true face, she must be a A woman who is overwhelmed by the country and the city, I don’t know how everyone in the world calls her sister?"

The woman twitched the corners of her mouth and said with a smile: "My surname is Lu, and my name is Qianxing. I'm not well-known in the world, so you must have never heard of my name, right?"

Qi Guanyan was taken aback for a moment, he had just seen this woman stepping down like a wind, and he knew at a glance that her lightness kungfu was excellent, and nine out of ten she was also an expert in the world, not to mention that she could make a living here, she would definitely not be an ordinary character, and he had already recognized that This girl was born extremely beautiful, and I also knew what a woman with a beautiful appearance and first-class martial arts would be touted in this arena.

However, he really didn't have any impression of the name "Lu Qianxing". There were quite a few names with the surname Lu in the Jianghu, but he really couldn't figure out who's sister, daughter, granddaughter had something to do with this Lu Qianxing in front of him.

"Haven't you heard of it?" Lu Qianxing narrowed his eyes and smiled, "It's okay if I haven't heard of it. After all, in the eyes of others, I'm already dead."

Qi Guanyan was taken aback for a moment, wondering if this Lu Qianxing was the widow of Qi Guan's family: "Although I have never heard of my sister's boudoir name, I think my sister used her name to walk around the rivers and lakes. My sister was born so beautiful, why not show her true colors to others, maybe When I saw the face, I remembered it."

Lu Qianxing shook his head, and said with a light smile, "I'm afraid that if you see my face, you won't want to call me sister."

Qi Guanyan was taken aback again, before he could figure out the relationship, Lu Qianxing started to take off the tulle wrapped around his face.The tulle seemed to be only one layer, and Qi Guanyan didn't realize that she had wrapped the tulle several times around her face until she took it off layer by layer, no wonder even the nose could only be seen vaguely.

When she loosened the last layer of veil, Qi Guanyan was almost frightened on the spot, and finally understood why Lu Qianxing dismissed others' description of his appearance, and finally understood why Lu Qianxing wrapped himself up like this.On Lu Qianxing's face, the only thing that could be seen was her protruding eye. Her face was covered with intertwined scars, which could be seen from burns at a glance. It was turned outward, covering her entire face with scars, and it was almost impossible to see the original appearance of this face.

"Am I beautiful?" Lu Qianxing lifted his bangs, revealing the eye that he covered up: "Tell me, am I beautiful?"

That eye was already blind, and it seemed that something hot was directly inserted into the pupil, and the upper and lower eyelids were glued together. Even knowing that she is no longer in pain, it is hard to imagine that she suffered such a serious injury. What a painful process she has suffered.

"Stop talking?" Lu Qianxing blinked at Qi Guanyan with her good eye, as if mocking: "Didn't you call me sister just now? Why didn't you call me beautiful just now? Why? ? Am I not beautiful?"

Qi Guanyan didn't know how to speak for a moment, Lu Qianxing looked calm, but in fact he was already insane.

Gu Ya said lightly from the side: "Lu Qianxing, I know."

Both Qi Guanyan and Lu Qianxing looked at him, seeing him raise his head, they seemed to be unable to bear to look directly at Lu Qianxing's face, and frowned slightly: "Lu Qianxing is the only daughter of Lu Rongyuan, the master of the Five Elements Sect in Xingyang City."

He paused, and then said: "Zheng Shaoheng's wife."