Chapter 8 Undercurrent
"Has you discovered Lao Li? Recently, some foreign faces seem to have flooded into Qingping County."
The fire flows in July, and the clothes are given in September.
Before we knew it, autumn was already coming. Wu Erxi, who was engaged in the fangs in Dongmenfang, sat in front of the street stall, looking at the pedestrians coming and going around him from time to time.
When Lao Li from the noodle stall brought his messy noodles up, Wu Erxi ate two bites of noodles and opened the conversation at Lao Li.
"What's strange about this?" Old Li, who was about fifty years old, had gray hair but still looked tough, said indifferently while cleaning up the leftover bowls and chopsticks of the guests next to him. "Since a rebel in Sizhou half a year ago, no day has the county seen a foreigner fleeing from the north?"
"Different, different." Wu Erxi shook his head and said. "Didn't you notice that since last month, the extra faces in the county are all people in the world carrying swords and swords?"
"I heard you have some impressions." Old Li said thoughtfully. "...I remembered that a few days ago, I greeted a few foreign men who were in a hurry and had a bad face. They asked me a question intentionally or unintentionally after eating here."
"What did they ask?" Wu Erxi said curiously.
"They are asking for a person. According to their description, they seem to be a 17 or 18-year-old boy." Old Li thought for a while.
"Do you know why they were asking about this young man?" Wu Erxi asked.
"How could I know." Old Li glanced at Wu Erxi with anger and said. "They gave up the money and left after they found out in a desperate situation... I said Wu Erxi, didn't you like to talk about things like tooth in the past? Why are you turning to sex and caring about these things today?"
"Oh, it's okay to tell you." Wu Erxi sighed softly. "Do you know Ling Er from Nanmenfang?"
"You mean that Ling Ergouzi?" Old Li said.
"Yes, it's Ling Ergouzi!" Wu Erxi said.
"What's wrong with him?"
Of course, Old Li remembers Ling Ergouzi. After all, he is a famous rogue in Nanmenfang. He has eaten a lot of free food from him alone.
"He is dead." Wu Erxi said with a heavy expression. "And he was killed."
"What?" Old Li said in surprise. "He was actually killed? Who did it?"
"I don't know either, but I heard from the government that the one who killed Ling Er should be the one in the martial arts world." Wu Erxi whispered.
"The man in the martial arts world..." Old Li muttered in a low voice. "No wonder you just talked about the unrestrained face. It turns out that you suspected that the person who killed Ling Er was the man in the martial arts world who came from outside in the martial arts world that had poured in during this period!"
"Oh, Mr. Li, whisper!" When Wu Erxi heard this, he quickly glared at Mr. Li and said nervously. "Don't you know that the disaster comes from the mouth?"
"..." Old Li immediately closed his mouth, was silent for a moment before asking carefully. "Why do you think those people want to kill Ling Ergouzi? Although Ling Er is eccentric in daily life and offends many neighbors, he is just a person who bullies the weak and is afraid of the strong, and he has no courage to offend those people."
"I have a doubt, but I'm not sure." Wu Erxi said cautiously. "Ling Er is from our Yashang. Although everyone looks down on Ling Er, don't say that Ling Er is a Yashang man, because he can always take on various businesses..."
"Some time ago, someone discovered that Ling Er had money to go in Ningxianglou! You should know that there was no 2 taels of silver in the fireworks land. But Ling Er not only had money, but also went several times. Later, someone accidentally heard that when Ling Er was drunk, he had recently taken on a big business, but he didn't say what the specific business was. So after Ling Er's death, I couldn't help but think that his death was probably related to that big business."
"Have you told the officials about this?" Old Li said.
"Ha, do you think I'm stupid? How could I tell the government about such a thing!" Wu Erxi shook his head and said.
"Shopkeeper, a bowl of mixed noodles!"
At this time, a young man dressed in plain clothes and honest face suddenly sat in front of the noodle stall and said loudly.
"Okay! Please wait a moment, please."
When a guest came to the door, Lao Li and Wu Erxi both tacitly stopped talking. While Lao Li was busy cooking noodles, Wu Erxi quickly ate all the noodles in the bowl, threw down a few copper coins and pulled away, forgetting to call him.
"Shopkeeper, rumor is that there is a mountain god here on Qingping Mountain. Is this true?"
When Lao Li brought the cooked mixed noodles, the simple and honest boy immediately asked curiously.
"Answer, there is indeed a saying of a mountain god circulating in Qingping Mountain, but the rumors are true or false, but I don't know."
Old Li smiled and inadvertently glanced at the conspicuous baggage tied behind the boy.
"Does the shop believe that there is a mountain god in Qingping Mountain?" The boy asked again after eating two bites of noodles.
"I don't believe it." Old Li shook his head and said, "Because I have lived in Qingping County for decades and have never heard of the legend of a mountain god in Qingping Mountain before. It was not until recent years that the saying of a mountain god spread. If there were really a mountain god in Qingping Mountain, why would the mountain god not appear sooner or later, and only appear now?"
"So that's it, the store owner makes sense."
While the shop was talking, the boy finished the remaining crumb noodles in just a few seconds. He took out a few copper coins from his arms and placed them on the table. Then he said goodbye to the shop owner and left.
Lao Li quickly packed up the copper coins, bowls and chopsticks, and did not care too much about the young man's problem. After all, after the theory of the mountain god spread, Lao Li had already encountered many people talking about this issue.
Not long after.
A group of tall men with ferocious faces hurriedly. One of the men stepped forward after seeing Lao Li on the street and pulled his collar roughly.
"Old man! Did you see a young man with a baggage passing by here just now?"
The other party's sudden arrogance almost scared Lao Li's head, and he nodded subconsciously.
"Have you really seen it?" In fact, the man who pulled Old Li's head never thought that the other party really knew, so his expression and tone became more impatient. "Tell me where he was going!"
"Then, over there..."
Old Li, who was strangled to breathing difficulties, stretched out his trembling hand and pointed the direction to the hideous man in front of him with all his strength.
"Chase!"
The man who got the result casually threw Lao Li's head down, and the group disappeared into the street in the blink of an eye.
Old Li sat on the ground and coughed a few times, and finally calmed down his breathing. At this moment, his head was completely blank because he had no idea what had happened and suffered such a disaster. If he hadn't reacted in time, the other party might have "inadvertently" strangled himself to death just now.
This is the person in the world.
Chapter completed!