[Rat cat] The legend of Lou Xiaochong

It was said that Bai Yutang was sitting idle in the teahouse, thinking that the storyteller was talking groundless words, and wanted to pay the bill and leave, but at this moment, he heard a cry.

It is said to be a cry, but it can actually be counted as half a cry.The one who shouted seemed to be a young man, it sounded shrill and piercing, but he stopped abruptly as if his throat was strangled halfway.The sound was not far away, and the guests who were listening to the book in the half-teahouse naturally heard it, and together with the old storyteller, they put aside the words of Tang Di Renjie, look at me, I look at you, looking for where the shouting came from— — It was also just now that everyone was too engrossed in listening, and for a while, talking about the ancient times and the things in front of them were mixed together, and they panicked and had no idea.

Just as they were looking at each other, suddenly a guest who was late and hadn't squeezed into the inner circle suddenly stood up, knocking the table shaking three times, and the tea bowls rolled onto the ground.When everyone heard the sound of the porcelain bowl breaking and looked over, the guest was pointing at the window tremblingly: "Ghost...Ghost!"

"...You, don't talk nonsense! In broad daylight, there are ghosts everywhere!"

"This is what you're talking about!" The guest's pale face suddenly turned red, he gestured like a puppy, then turned around and grabbed a bystander, and kept saying to them: "I see it really Really! I was still sitting there just now! It disappeared in the blink of an eye!"

On the table was nothing but a teapot, a tea bowl, and a shiny silver spoon.

So many people gathered around watching, discussing incessantly, some said that they should report to the officials immediately, some said that the government ignored the affairs of Yin, and some yelled that the current governor of Kaifeng is famous for taking all yin and yang. No one noticed that a strong man came up the stairs.It wasn't until the man pushed aside the crowd and came to the table by the window and stared at the silver handle that everyone came to their senses and blamed him for not understanding the principle of first come, first served.

The man just smiled and didn't talk back.He glanced at the patterns on the silver picket once, but didn't reach out to touch the half-finger of the silver picket. Instead, he fell on the stool and touched it, scratched his beard and nodded, raised his eyes and swept the window sill twice, suddenly He clasped his fists and bowed to everyone present, then turned and left.

Let's say that Bai Yutang turned over and jumped out of the window to the top of the eaves. He climbed the green tile roof to the other side of the teahouse. When he found the place, he slid down the outer wall and jumped into a window.The yell just now was half indistinct, and ordinary people couldn't hear where it really came from. After all, Bai Yutang's eyes and ears were clever, and he could tell it was behind the teahouse on the ground floor.It happened that the window was half open, and he couldn't bear to take a closer look, so he slipped down, borrowed some strength from the window sill, and entered the back warehouse.

Fortunately, Bai Yutang's nose was sharp enough, and his lightness kung fu and body skills were familiar enough. Smelling the pungent smell, he rushed to the corner of the room, only to escape the scattered tea leaves and the blood on the ground.

The one lying in the middle of the barn looks like the guy who runs around and serves tea and snacks. His clothes are soaked in blood—how much blood can there be on a human body? If so much blood drips out, it is naturally dead. It's clear.For a moment, Bai Yutang didn't know whether to sigh or shake his head: After all, he had been running away with Zhan Zhao for half a year, but this was the first murder case he had encountered since he came out of the rivers and lakes.It's not that he underestimated human life, it's just that he just heard a lot of anecdotes about Di Gong's case, so he couldn't help but want to go there.

Bai Yutang pressed the handle of the knife and listened secretly, the murderer must have left early.His life was at stake, and he didn't care that the blood on the ground would stain his pink brocade boots. Just as he went up to open the clerk to check the wound, he heard someone walking outside.

He didn't have any ghosts in his heart, originally he squatted down and didn't intend to move.It would not be an official who came so quickly, most of the people in the store heard the noise and came to see, so he could teach them not to touch the things in the warehouse.But at this moment, someone outside the window suddenly yelled "Fifth brother is here to chase someone", and the yelling was lowered, but I couldn't tell who it was.Bai Yutang thought, people here cannot be saved after all, why not go out and see, whether he is real or not, whether he can catch the murderer or bluffer, it is always a clue; In the meantime, chasing someone is a matter of hundreds of feet away, so he naturally didn't have time to look at it. Just as a thought came to his mind, he jumped under his feet and followed him out.

A half-red and half-white footprint hit the thin hoarfrost on the roof, and Bai Yutang's heart flickered for a moment. After all, he felt that he had done nothing wrong and there was no need to be too careful. He just used his energy to chase after it.But ever since he jumped out of the back warehouse of the teahouse, he didn't look at the figure, he just hurriedly followed the shoe prints on the roof. After jumping around twenty or thirty roofs like this, Bai Yutang suddenly realized that, in fact, These shoe prints were all deceiving him—after being led here, there were traces of people stepping on every roof. Even if I thought about it, I knew it was a pre-made trap, and there was no direction to follow.

Going back to the tea house, it’s only a cup of tea, the warehouse is already full of people, there are no less than a dozen people poking their heads out of the window to take a look, the shop owner rubbed his hands and walked around, trying to persuade everyone to disperse Open, of course no one pays attention to him.

Bai Yutang was squatting far away on the pear tree in the backyard, frowning as he was thinking about something, when someone slapped him on the shoulder inadvertently, causing all the hairs on his body to stand up in an instant.

How could she approach him silently at such a time?Regardless of whether it is an enemy or a friend, always draw the sword first.Bai Yutang took a deep breath, calculated the position of the person behind him, turned his wrists sharply, shifted his footing, twisted his waist, still in a half-squat and half-stand posture, and was about to sweep the knife edge across the opponent's neck ——But he turned around, the knife was pushed back into the sheath by the man with a light palm.

Bai Yutang was frightened and tried to attack again, but he was still suppressed to death several times - this thick man with a purple beard and stubble didn't seem to be malicious, he looked at him with a smile, and waved his hands repeatedly to tell him not to do anything Shout.After Bai Yutang calmed down a bit, he pointed to the roof on one side and jumped over it first.Bai Yutang gritted his teeth and followed.

After jumping over two or three courtyards, the big man stopped in an alley. Regardless of Bai Yutang's desire to draw his sword again, he first clasped his fists and made a bow: "Someone is from Liaodong, Ouyang Chun, I don't know Bai Yutang Have you heard of Five Heroes?"

He stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling face, but Bai Yutang had just cut an inch and three points out of the knife, so he had no choice but to put it away with a flick of his wrist, and hastily returned a gift to him: "It turned out to be the famous Beixia Zibeard uncle, sorry for your disrespect."

Ouyang Chun couldn't see that he was half-perfunctory and seven-point unconvinced, but Bai Yutang was a junior in his eyes, and he should be a little childish.While secretly laughing, he said to Bai Yutang, "Why did you run away just now? Could it be you who did it?"

"If Beixia says that, why don't you just take Bai Yutang to see the official!" Bai Yutang didn't argue with him, he folded his arms and turned to look at the sky.

"Oh, it's really the same as the rumors—" Ouyang Chun smiled and shook his head, and waited for Bai Yutang to turn back and stare at him before continuing, "Bai Wuxia, you are really a young hero, with a noble heart."

Bai Yutang is not an idiot either, although Ouyang Chun said so, the corners of his eyes smiled deeper, obviously he was laughing at himself.He still didn't want to explain more, but it was really uncomfortable to be suffocated by Ouyang Chun's restrained anger at this moment, and finally couldn't help but reply to him: "Bei Xia is also an old hero who has been famous for 20 years. Bully me, a junior who just came out of the rivers and lakes." , isn’t it interesting?” After finishing speaking, he still didn’t look at Ouyang Chun, but concentrated on looking at the sparrow jumping under the wall over there looking for food.

Cough, it seems that the teasing is serious, this little mouse is going to explode.Ouyang Chun quickly apologized: "It's the old man who said something wrong. In fact, it's just a coincidence - I was passing through the northwest on some business and ran into the guard Zhan. He asked me to drop by and bring you a message. I was thinking about this There was a lot of delay in various things along the way, and I don't know when I will be able to arrive in Guidao, but luckily I met you here."

Hearing this, Bai Yutang lost his temper, and Que'er didn't look at him anymore, he turned back abruptly and stared at Ouyang Chun: "Zhan Zhao asked you to bring a message? What are you talking about?"

Ouyang Chun didn't answer him, just glanced over his shoulder to the other side of the alley, and smiled: "I just said 'coincidence', and they all happened to be together. This is great, I don't need to say it anymore, Ask him yourself!"

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Finally got Mr. Cat back, huh [Fifth Master: ...hasn't even seen the shadow yet!

Today’s update is really late, it’s Miao’s fault, please forgive me>