bastard returns

After entering the door of the small shop, Lao Chi realized that the shop was really small, more than half smaller than his bedroom in the post house, surrounded by a circle of shelves, densely packed with all kinds of strange things. Things, some can probably see the function, but some have never even seen it.

There was a counter in the middle of the shop, and a small oil lamp was lit on the counter, which also kept the whole shop from being too dark. Behind the counter stood a stooped old man, talking to a man in a long coat standing by the counter.

The man in the long gown was about 50 to [-] years old, with a fair face and no beard, and the clothes on his body were made of very ordinary silk and satin, which was nothing special, so Eraochi just cast his eyes on him, and then moved away.Sensing that someone had entered the shop, the man also turned his head and glanced at Lao Chi. Seeing that the strong man in front of him was dressed as a commoner, he didn't pay much attention. He turned his head again and said to the old man behind the counter: "Master Fu, that Linglong The tower is made, I have been waiting for this thing for three months, but don't let me down."

The old man nodded, "It's done naturally. I just finished it this afternoon. The old craftsmanship will definitely not disappoint you." After speaking, the old man got down and carried a wooden box up from under the counter.

The jade box was half a foot square, and the old man carefully opened the lid, and brought out an exquisite pagoda made of brass from inside.

The pagoda is eight stories high and is carefully carved. Although it is small, not only the doors and windows are clearly visible, but also the hollow structure inside can be seen through the windows on the pagoda. The eaves and corners of each floor are also hung The wind chime kept swinging with the old man's movements, and the crisp sound of the ding dong sounded very ethereal.

"It's really a rare treasure. Just by looking at its appearance, it can be worth a lot of money." The man nodded in admiration, then suddenly stretched out his hand, and gently turned a windmill standing on the top of the tower with his fingers.

As soon as the windmill started to turn, you could hear the clanging sound from the operation of the mechanism in the pagoda. Soon, a clear and cool music sounded from the pagoda, which was very magical.

Lao Chi's eyes also paused on the pagoda, now seeing that this man-made pagoda can play music by itself with only a windmill, it must be something that the princess told him to get, he walked up immediately, loudly Said: "Shopkeeper, how much money does this little pagoda cost, I bought it!"

Not only did the shopkeeper look at him in surprise at Lao Chi's sudden interjection, even the man who was playing with the windmill raised his head in displeasure.

"Shopkeeper, let me ask you how much money you want for this small tower." Lao Chi didn't care about other people's gazes, he could naturally see that the middle-aged man beside him seemed to be aiming at this Linglong Tower, but since the princess wanted He must get what he wants, but he doesn't care about the first-come, first-served rule.

"My guest, you are late." The shopkeeper said as expected: "This small tower has already been ordered by this guest, or do you want to see other things in this store?"

"No, I just want this little pagoda. Shopkeeper, please make a price." Lao Chi said, while casting a contemptuous look at the middle-aged man beside him, "Since you open the door to do business, if you don't have money and goods Before it's over, the one with the highest price gets it

, is there any rule of first come, first served, or does this gentleman have already paid the silver? "

"This..." The shopkeeper rolled his eyes. He has opened a shop for decades, so he is naturally a shrewd businessman. Seeing that the big man meant that he was not short of money, he hesitated a little. After all, the big man was right. , he opened the door to do business, and naturally put making money first.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man frowned slightly, and said: "Although I haven't settled the money with the shopkeeper, I have already paid the order of ten taels of silver, and I have already ordered this item. What's the point of buying it by force?"

Lao Chi snorted, "Stop talking nonsense, since there is no payment in cash, then things will be easy." After speaking, he barely blinked his eyes, and quickly patted a bank note in front of the shopkeeper.When the old man saw the denomination on the bank note, he was startled, "100 taels!"

The middle-aged man frowned even more tightly.

"This..." The shopkeeper looked at the banknote and felt embarrassed. He put a lot of energy into the Linglong Tower. Although before, he only set the price at 50 taels, but 50 taels of silver is not worth a piece of copper. When the toy came, it was already considered an unbelievably high price, but this seemingly simple and incomparably burly man actually offered 100 taels, which was really irresistible.

So the shopkeeper shifted his eyes to the middle-aged man, his expression couldn't be more obvious, he obviously had the intention to sell this small tower to Lao Chi.

The middle-aged man naturally also noticed the gaze of the shopkeeper. He is more or less a person of status, especially when he saw Lao Chi looking at him with a sarcasm, his face gradually turned cold, and without thinking, he stretched his hand into it. From the sleeve robe, he slowly took out two bank notes and placed them in front of the shopkeeper.

The corner of the shopkeeper's mouth was a little dry, he never imagined that the middle-aged man who had set up the small tower before would really confront this big guy who suddenly appeared, and took out a 200 tael silver ticket.

Lao Chi was also a little dazed, and he couldn't help but carefully scrutinized the middle-aged man's face, and began to seriously compare it with the dignitaries in Huajing City.

He is not a fool. In a place like the capital city of a country, even a signboard falling from the sky can hit the head of the imperial court official. But if he can spend a huge sum of 200 taels of silver for a plaything, it is obvious that the other party has a lot of background .

When Lao Chi followed Murong Yu to Huajing, he had a face-to-face meeting with most of the royal family in Beijing, all kinds of royal relatives, and important officials, and Lao Chi could be sure that the man in front of him was definitely not anyone he had seen before. One person, since he is not a member of the royal family, then he can completely ignore it. After all, as a courtier, as long as he is not at the level of the Duke of the Three Kingdoms, he has no capital to show favor to her and Princess Jinyu.

So at this moment, Lao Chi naturally classified the middle-aged man as an ordinary official or a wealthy businessman in Huajing. After thinking that he had guessed the identity of the other party, Lao Chi lost all doubts, snorted coldly without hesitation, and took another picture I got three banknotes.

He wanted to take this small pagoda back to Princess Jinyu no matter what today, not to mention how could he lose his momentum in front of others with his self-esteemed status.

The middle-aged man's eyelids twitched, because the three photos taken by Lao Chi were all 100 taels of silver notes. Such handwriting obviously did not match Lao Chi's attire, but the middle-aged man claimed to have stayed in Huajing for a long time , I haven't seen any nobles, and Lao Chi obviously doesn't belong to one of them, his face can't help but become gloomy, "Do you really want to fight with me?"

"Competition? Everyone is just out to buy things. Since they are interested in the same thing, why not fight for it? As I said just now, since there is no money back, the one with the highest price Well, if you are not convinced, you might as well continue to bid, otherwise, if you don’t have money, don’t embarrass yourself here, just obediently hand over this thing.” Lao Chi’s words were polite, but his tone was full of domineering, as if he had expected it Middle-aged men can't beat him.

It's no wonder that a total of 400 taels of silver is already a huge amount of money, enough to make an ordinary family live and drink for half a lifetime. Only by coming can we be so confident.

"Okay, okay!" The middle-aged man spit out three good words in a row, and even laughed a little angrily, thinking that he had lived for decades, and no one had ever ridiculed him like this, squinting his eyes and swept a few times on Lao Chi Back and forth, and put his hand into his arms again.

The corner of Lao Chi's eyes twitched, could it be that this man really has so much money on him?

Randomly, under his suspicious gaze, the middle-aged man slowly took out a gold-studded bill from his pocket and placed it on the counter.

"Golden ticket! 100 taels!" The shopkeeper was so unbelievable that he yelled out, his face white and red.

Lao Chi's face also instantly became extremely ugly.

100 taels of gold ticket, that is, a full 1000 taels of silver, damn it, who the hell is this? How could he be willing to pay 1000 taels for a toy!

"Who is your Excellency!" Although Lao Chi was sure that this middle-aged man was not any dignitary he had ever seen, he couldn't help feeling a little confused at this moment.

"My name as an unknown person seems to have nothing to do with today's transaction." The middle-aged man continued to fiddle with the windmill on the small tower with his fingers slowly, squinting at Lao Chidao: "According to what your Excellency said, the one with the highest price will win." If you can afford a higher price than me, I will turn around and leave immediately, otherwise, if you don’t have money, don’t shame yourself here, just obediently hand over this thing to me.”

What he just said to ridicule the other party is now completely returned to him by this middle-aged man. Lao Chi was originally a fiery temper, and his heart was burning red for a while, and his two fists were also crackling. He endured it for a long time Resist the urge to beat up the middle-aged man.

When he came out today, Murong Yu handed him a total of 500 taels of silver bills, thinking that it would be more than enough to buy a plaything like this, but who knows that a guy who spends more money will come out halfway, I'm afraid he will turn back now, Murong Yu It may not be possible to allocate money to him again.

Although Murong Yu has a high status and is favored, she is not so prodigal that she can somehow spend 1000 taels of silver to buy playthings back home. Otherwise, if this matter is reported to Da Xia, the Empress Dowager Xia might be the first to punish her.

The middle-aged man saw that Lao Chi had been silent for a long time, but his face was so ugly that he seemed to understand it. He laughed contemptuously, pushed the gold ticket in front of the shopkeeper to signal him to put it away, and slowly put the small tower in the wooden box again. After the interior was finished, I carried it with one hand, said "Farewell" to the shopkeeper, and walked away.

Seeing that Lao Chi had been standing silently, the shopkeeper put away the gold ticket, looked at the 400 taels of silver note in front of him with trepidation, and finally said, "My guest, do you want to look at other things in the hall? "

"No need!" With a big wave of his hand, Lao Chi picked up the bank notes and strode out of the store.

But he didn't go back home right away, but stood in that quiet alley, closed his eyes, and then moved his ears, looked for a direction, used his light body skills, and chased after him.

After turning two alleys, Lao Chi jumped onto the roof of a private house and lay down on top of it, his eyes fixed on the back of the figure who was walking unhurriedly not far away.

It was the middle-aged man who bought the Linglong Tower with 1000 taels of silver.

The surrounding area is quiet and silent, only the faint footsteps of the middle-aged man are gradually drifting away. Lao Chi calculated the distance between himself and the middle-aged man, his eyes fell on the dangling wooden table in the middle man's hand, thinking If I just rushed forward to snatch the things, and then retreated quickly, would it alarm others?

After all, this is Huajing, and Lao Chi doesn't want to cause major troubles, but if he doesn't take this thing back, with Princess Jinyu's temper, his life will definitely not be easy, and he might be punished severely.

Thoughtful eyes flickered in his eyes, and seeing the middle-aged man walking further and further away, Lao Chi seemed to have finally made up his mind, and when he lightened up, he looked at the middle-aged man without making a sound like a leaf. swept away.

Even though he was born tall and mighty, but also because of his superb martial arts skills, his lightness kung fu is not weak at all, and soon he flirtatiously approached the middle-aged man's back, but the middle-aged man didn't realize it, and continued to move towards him without any haste. walking forward.

After the distance between the two was shortened to less than three feet, Lao Chi's eyes froze, and he said to himself that it's now, his right hand palmed into a claw, and without thinking, he slammed towards the middle-aged man's head.

He has already thought well, there is really no way to keep things from the middle-aged man without stirring up trouble, the only way is to put his mind to it, simply kill people to silence the mouth, and then destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces, so as not to just steal the things , even if he runs away smoothly, but if this middle-aged man persists, he will have endless troubles. After all, he can spend 1000 taels of silver to buy things at a time, which is enough to see that this middle-aged man is not an ordinary person.

Of course, he is also a little strange, officials and dignitaries are nothing more than that, even if this middle-aged man is a rich businessman, who is the son of a rich family nowadays, he will not bring a servant or guard with him when he goes out, and this person has a lot of money and lacks an accompanying person None, and it's really curious.

However, this kind of thought just flashed through Lao Chi's mind, his palms had already reached the back of the middle-aged man's head, and a stern look in his eyes was about to burst the middle-aged man's brains, but at this moment In an instant, the middle-aged man who was still walking forward swayed and disappeared.

Lao Chi was shocked, but before he realized it, he found a sound of strong wind piercing through the air. He looked down and found that the middle-aged man had not disappeared, but the whole person appeared in an extremely strange manner. The posture bent the waist back to the limit, avoiding his fatal blow, and at the same time stretched out two fingers and aimed straight at Lao Chi's eyes.

At such a short distance, Lao Chi had no way to avoid it, so he could only put his arms in front of his eyes.

When the middle-aged man poked Lao Chi's arm with two fingers, he felt as if he had poked on the cast iron. On the ground, his face was a little pale, and the arm stabbed by the middle-aged man was also shaking non-stop. It took several rounds of internal strength to calm down the blood.

The two fingers that the middle-aged man poked just now had great internal strength. If it wasn't for Lao Chi's equally deep internal strength and not weak external hard work, I'm afraid this hand might have been pierced through.

The middle-aged man was also quite surprised. He stood still and looked at Lao Chi with interest, but did not continue to pursue him.The Jue Yang finger he used just now is a secret that has not been passed on, and it is enough to split gold and rock. Although he used it in a hurry just now, the power is not small. Let the middle-aged people understand that this guy is not a good stubble.

"Who is Your Excellency? Although Lao asked himself that his martial arts is not the best in the world, he is still a rare opponent. Just now, His Excellency bluffed a move, and was almost plotted against him. I think you will not be unknown in the Jianghu." Lao Chi had already regarded this middle-aged man as an expert in some rivers, lakes and green forests, and his face was a little cautious for a while.

"It's really strange. Your Excellency attacked me. I haven't asked you what your purpose is, but you have inquired about my origin first." The middle-aged man smiled instead of anger, and looked at Lao Chi with interest, " The surname Lao? This surname is very rare in my Zhou Dynasty, you must not be from Xia."

"No comment." Lao Chi didn't want to spread the embarrassing thing like a sneak attack and ruin his reputation, "Forget it, it's your luck to escape Lao's trick just now. Leave it to me, and I will let you go away safely, how about it?"

His tone was extremely arrogant, and it was because Lao Chi thought highly of himself. He asked himself that although middle-aged people were able to evade his sneak attacks, they were just people from the rivers, lakes and green forests, and their status was far from him. He said that he was caught off guard just now and let the other party take advantage of him. Otherwise, with his own martial arts, if he let go of his hands and feet, it would not be difficult to deal with the other party. He didn't believe that any cat or dog in Huajing would be His opponent, the "No. [-] Warrior of the Great Xia".

Hearing what Lao Chi said, the middle-aged man's expression instantly turned cold, he snorted softly, said "I'm looking for death", then shook his sleeves, and the whole person rushed towards Lao Chi like a gust of wind.

Lao Chi was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that the middle-aged man would do it without saying a word, and the anger that had been suppressed by this man's taunt in the shop just now rose again, he stretched out his arms, his joints crackled, and his two Fist responded with the sound of hunting wind.

But as soon as they fought, Lao Chi was terribly frightened.

The middle-aged man's movements are fast, and his palms are like ghosts, not to mention, in terms of the depth of internal strength, not only is it not inferior to his own, it is even quite strange. What surprised Lao Chi the most was his strength and bravery. The internal strength that is invincible in domestic wars and victorious in all battles, not only does not take advantage of the middle-aged man, but is also melted away by his strange internal strength. It was like being sucked away by the other party, and he sank into the sea. After a while, he received several palms from the middle-aged man. If he didn't have a strong external force to support him, he might have already lost at this moment.

"Young man, fight with our family, it's better not to be distracted!" Just as Lao Chi was desperately resisting the opponent's overwhelming offensive, while trying to think of a way to deal with it, the middle-aged man heard this sentence in his ears. He just felt his arms go cold at random, and in his horrified eyes, the middle-aged man actually appeared beside him, stretched out his two fingers again, and pointed directly at the place on his arm that had been touched before, Repeat and go.

"Finger of Absolute Sun!"

A burst of heart-piercing pain made Lao Chi almost faint. The point below his arm had already broken a half of his strong external strength, and he couldn't recover in a short time, and the middle-aged man just saw it. Knowing this, he also understood that although the big man in front of him had been suppressed and beaten by him all the time, his external skills were so good that he might not be able to take it down for a while, so he repeated the old trick and made another ruthless move against the only flaw in Lao Chi's body. He lived up to expectations, only heard a crisp click sound, and Lao Chi's entire right arm hung down feebly, his face pale as paper.

Lao Chi hadn't experienced such pain for a long time since he had achieved great external skills. Of course, the pain of breaking his hand was secondary. Seeing the middle-aged man sneer and tried to bully him again, Lao Chi was scared to death. He already understood The middle-aged man in front of me is by no means a good stubble, and I obviously kicked the iron plate today, regretting endlessly, while anxiously said: "Senior, don't do anything, I am the captain of the Daxia Royal Guard, today's matter is purely a Misunderstanding, Senior has something to say!"

He really felt that if he didn't beg for forgiveness, he might be in the hands of this middle-aged man today, so not only did he immediately change his words and call him a senior, but he even hesitated to declare his own family, so that the other party would stop because of his own identity.

This trick really worked. The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then decisively stopped, retreated two feet away from him, frowned and said: "You said you are the captain of the Daxia Royal Guard? And your surname is Lao? Could it be? Did you come with that princess Jinyu?"

"Since the senior knows the identity of this subordinate, I don't need to say anything more." Lao Chi obviously breathed a sigh of relief, without any trace of arrogance left, and obediently bowed to the middle-aged man, "Today's matter is purely a Misunderstanding, I will leave immediately, and I will never dare to bother senior again."

After finishing speaking, he didn't turn around, but faced the middle-aged man and slowly backed away.

The middle-aged man kept frowning at him, not knowing what he was thinking, but he didn't speak.

Although I don't know if what the big man said is true or not, but in the eyes of the middle-aged man, it is indeed a bit tricky. If the big man is lying to him, it's okay for him to continue to kill the guy who dared to sneak attack him. But if what the big man said is true, then things will be troublesome. After all, any major event involving the exchange of countries really makes middle-aged people a little bit wary.

At this time, Lao Chi had already moved four or five feet away from the middle-aged man. Seeing that the middle-aged man was still standing still, he felt that this distance should not hinder him from getting out, so he turned around and wanted to run. Suddenly, several sword lights flew out from an alley, the sword lights were fierce, and the moves were deadly. Lao Chi had just had his hand cut off, so he didn't dare to take it hard, so he could only retreat quickly, but was forced back by the sword lights In situ.

The middle-aged man naturally also saw this scene, and he frowned, but when the sword light dissipated, revealing the figure of the uninvited guest, he showed a surprised expression again, and was about to speak, but heard Lao Chi's ruthless voice: "It's you!" And soon, Lao Chi's voice gritted his teeth, and there was still a hint of bewilderment inside, "I understand, it turned out that all of this today was calculated by you! You are so brave!"