Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 189
Let's not mention the result of the fight between Hai Cangfeng and Xiao Wuji in the bamboo forest, let's look at Shuangxie first.

As mentioned last time, the innkeeper in Gengjia Village asked them both: "Who are you two?"

The two seemed to have already guessed that the other party would ask this question, so they just smiled at each other, and Huang Donglai replied, "Didn't I tell you earlier? We are just two passers-by."

The shopkeeper heard the words, but said: "I don't think so."

"Oh?" Sun Yixie raised his eyebrows while eating the food, "How do you know that?"

The shopkeeper replied sternly: "Although Li is just a commoner in the mountains, and he only opened an inn the size of dried tofu, but over the years, I have met eight hundred or not a thousand passers-by. Yes; after seeing so many people, I can still tell which ones are ordinary people and which ones are capable..." He paused, and then glanced at the faces of Sun and Huang, " I think you two are in their early twenties at most, but your calm and unhurried attitude is not something that ordinary people of this age can have, so Li also dares to ask... The two of you are young heroes who have become famous in the world ?”

Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai love to listen to these words, but they love to listen, but they can't show it on their faces.

After all, there are some problems in this village at first glance. It is not a wise move to take the lead in showing your cards before finding out the truth.

"Heh..." So, two seconds later, Huang Donglai just chuckled and replied, "Shopkeeper, you may have missed this..." He glanced at Sun Yixie, then looked back at Li Shopkeeper, "As for the two of us, we are indeed 'running the rivers and lakes', but not the 'jianghu' where you fight and kill people, but the kind that tells people's fortunes, exorcises ghosts and prays for blessings, and incidentally performs on the streets... As for you It’s just that we both have thick skins.”

What he said was reasonable, upon hearing Shopkeeper Li's face, he couldn't help showing disappointment, and he said in his heart: Oh, I was so happy for nothing, I thought our village was saved.

"Oh...that's it, I misunderstood." Shopkeeper Li said with a sullen face, and turned to leave, "Then Li will not bother you..."

"Wait a minute." But Sun Yixie stopped him in time, and said, "Don't worry, shopkeeper." He said, and took another bite of food, "I think you seem to have some difficulties, anyway, we two It's okay, you might as well sit down and have a drink with us, and tell us what's the matter, and see if we can help?"

"This..." Shopkeeper Li thought to himself when he heard this, "Since you are not knight-errants, it's useless for me to tell you two." It seems that there is nothing to lose. Besides, people politely invite me to sit down and drink and eat food. Even if I don’t eat, I still stand by and watch. "

Thinking of this, he sat down.

"Alas..." When he sat down, when he thought of what he was about to mention, shopkeeper Li couldn't help sighing again, and then said, "Then Li will thank you both."

"It's easy to talk about." Sun Yixie smiled, and waved to the shopkeeper Li's nephew, Xiao Wu, "Little brother, come and sit down too, don't stand alone."

"Ah?" Looking at the food and drink on the table, Xiao Wu was already hungry, but he was honest and looked at his uncle first with a questioning look.

Shopkeeper Li glanced back at him, curled his lips: "What are you looking at? Will you come when I invite you? Quick, bring two more cups over, let's sit down and eat together."

"Hey." Xiao Wu nodded excitedly, quickly went to the counter to get two more wine glasses, and then quickly took a seat nodding and bowing.

"Hey~ That's right." Sun Yi laughed and said, "Eating with four people is more lively than eating with two people." As he spoke, he poured wine for the shopkeeper and the waiter.

"Hey! I dare not take it seriously." Shopkeeper Li was a little flattered. He has been running the inn for so many years, and it was the first time a customer poured wine for him.

"Hey~ You're welcome, we're not so particular about running around." Sun Yixie used his elbow to press the opponent's movement, and poured the wine.

Huang Donglai also strikes while the iron is hot: "Come on, it is fate that we meet today, let's have a toast."

They raised their glasses, and the shopkeeper Li and Wu Xiaoer naturally had to greet them.

The dishes made by Sun Yixie are also very popular - after all, he is from a rich family, and he has eaten and seen the dishes made, which are really rare in this small mountain village.

The four of them ate and drank, and within a few rounds, the two at the same table had already been drunk by Shuangxie.

Now that the atmosphere is here, it's time to use some phrases...

"Shopkeeper, what's the matter, tell me." Huang Donglai asked the question in a timely manner.

"Ah...to tell you the truth, both of you." Shopkeeper Li said earnestly, "In our village, today is past today and I don't know if there will be tomorrow."

Then, he told how the two heroes Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu came, how they went, and how they never returned, including everything about those bandits.

Of course, it is inevitable that some of his personal subjective comments and embellished descriptions are mixed in it. Is it still called a person if you don’t brag at the wine table?
After hearing the whole story, Huang Donglai nodded, and said in a tone of sudden realization: "So it's like this..." But then he thought of something again, and asked, "Eh? Then why don't you just run away?" Woolen cloth?"

"Run?" Shopkeeper Li frowned, and then smiled wryly, "Heh...how did you run? The whole village ran together? Even if we let us run out, then what? Most of the village is peasants. , and those of us who do small business... How can we live without land and shops? Go out to beg?" He shook his head, "If we really want to become refugees, I'm afraid it will be worse than dying in the village Well, if we stay... there is still hope, the bandits will not dare to exterminate the whole village, at most they will kill a few to vent their anger, after all they will come to rob in the future..."

What he said was basically the general thinking of the villagers of Gengjia Village at this time.

People have a fluke mentality. They know that disaster is imminent, and they are afraid to die, but the vast majority of people will still be like ostriches, stay where they are, put their heads into the hole, and pray that the knife will not fall on their necks. Shed a few tears over the corpses of those unlucky ones who just happened to be killed, and continued to live their lives.

"Wow——" At this moment, Wu Xiaoer burst into tears with a whimper, and the tears flowed down his rough cheeks, crying while crying, "Cui Hua'er, you died so badly..."

"Hey! It's an embarrassing thing. If you can't drink it, don't drink it. Look at you!" The shopkeeper Li became angry when he saw his nephew's virtue.

"Hey~ Calm down." Sun Yixie quickly held him down, and asked again, "Where did this come from?"

"Well..." At this time, shopkeeper Li's voice also let out a moan of grief and indignation. He took a deep breath, and then said slowly, "Cuihua is his daughter-in-law who has never been married..." Speaking of this, Shopkeeper Li took a sip of wine again, "My nephew is not bad, but he is a bit stupid and naive. No one wants him in his twenties; a few months ago, someone finally came up with a marriage, and put this stupid The boy was overjoyed, he didn't expect... the bandits entered the village before the dowry was paid, and took Cuihua up the mountain."

"Oh..." Huang Donglai asked again after listening, "Then... is it possible that this girl is still alive?"

Shopkeeper Li shook his head, and then replied: "The big girls and little daughter-in-laws in the village were taken into the mountains, and none of them came back... There were also those who were brave enough to look for them, but even the whole body was found. No, they were all tossed to death and thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Xiaoer cried even more.

Things have come to this point, there is no way to eat this meal, and there is no way to talk anymore.

"I think you two are nice, and I would like to advise you..." Shopkeeper Li took another sip of wine and suppressed his emotions, "Tomorrow, you are on the road, so don't go into the mountains, go around from the north, or Just one or two more days of travel, if you enter the mountain...[-]% will be robbed, it’s nothing more than a loss of money, if you risk your life in it, it’s not worth it.”

"Thank you for the reminder, shopkeeper." Huang Donglai cupped his hands at him and got up.

Sun Yixie didn't say anything, and walked to the guest room together with Huang Donglai.

After they walked away, shopkeeper Li got up, came to Xiao Wu's side, sighed, and patted the latter's shoulder.

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After the not-so-pleasant meal, Sun Huang and Sun Huang came to the same room and began to discuss what they had just heard.

At this time, although the sky was already dark, it was not too late, it was only just at Xu time.

According to the current hour, that is seven o'clock in the evening, but because there were no street lights or anything in those days, in this autumn and winter season, there is no light in this small village very early.

"Brother Huang, what do you think?" Sun Yixie asked while lighting the oil lamp.

"How else can we see this?" Huang Donglai replied quickly, "We are familiar with this kind of thing, Ma Si, Kang Haijiao... almost all of them have the same number, which one has not been killed by us?"

"Hmm..." Sun Yixie thought for a while, "But didn't you listen to what the shopkeeper Li said, so what's the 'Tiger Arm Ming Wang' and 'Yidao Town Guanzhong' went up the mountain, and they ended up playing, I'm afraid it's not this cottage What kind of masters are there?"

"There is a hairy master~" Huang Donglai is now confident in his martial arts, and his tone is a bit loud when talking to Sun Ge in private, "I have heard of Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu. They are just two chickens. The nicknames are a bit bluffing. It doesn't really have any strength."

"Oh?" Sun Yixie said, "Then with your strength, can you kill the two of them?"

"Do whatever you want." Huang Donglai said with a drawn out voice, "I will go over with two hidden weapons, maybe the two of them will be gone, even if this trick is not done, as long as I... eh? No, Why do I feel that you are fighting?"

"No, I'm just asking casually." Sun Yixie tilted his head and looked away while speaking.

"Damn it, Sun, aren't you a bit too much, you're going to give fire to the dead?" Huang Dong saw through Sun Yixie, and his voice became louder.

"Tsk... no... I was just thinking..." Sun Yixie said, "Back then, Ma Si had the title of 'Zou Ma Zhai', but this group of bandits didn't even have a title. Besides, the people in the nearby villages think they are just mobs, so if you think about it normally, people like Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu are enough to deal with them, right?"

"Hmm..." Huang Donglai nodded, "And then?"

"But judging from the results, the two of them didn't succeed." Sun Yixie said, "That's why I want you to judge their strength."

"You want to say this..." Huang Donglai thought for a while, "Although these two can only be regarded as second-rate masters, but in terms of hard power...they really won't lose to ordinary bandit leaders."

"Right." When Sun Yixie said this, his small eyes narrowed, and he continued, "So there must be something strange about this..."

"What do you mean?" Huang Donglai asked.

"For example..." Sun Yixie said, "Although the hard power of these bandits is not very strong, their leader is very intelligent; he has prepared some strategies, mechanisms, or hidden weapons such as lime powder in advance... …That’s how those two people were taken down.” He paused, and then added, “Think about it, according to what the shopkeeper Li said, Liu and Zou went up the mountain after a full night’s sleep after eating and drinking. And the day before that, the three villages had already spread the word about this matter... If the bandits planted eyeliner in any of these three villages, wouldn't it mean that they were prepared one night in advance? ?”

Huang Donglai listened and thought about it: "It makes sense! As expected of Brother Sun, the details are a bit good."

"That's it~" Sun Yixie said, "Isn't it just relying on intelligence to gain a foothold in the Jianghu?"

"So when you rely on strength instead of intelligence, you'll be laid down with a poisonous needle." Huang Donglai took advantage of the situation and joked.

"Shut up for me!" Sun Yixie said, "That idiot doesn't talk about martial arts, and sneaks up on me. When I have time, I will practice the basic skills a little bit. I can defend against surprise attacks like this kind of thing."

"Okay, okay." Huang Donglai said, "Let's talk about it now... What's the trick? Are you going to change houses with someone else?"

"Mao!" Sun Yixie said, "Don't make it sound like I only change houses."

"No, you can also use lime powder, lift your vaginal legs, lock your throat, insert your eyes..." Huang Donglai's unique skills for Sun Yixie can be described as familiar.

"Are you still listening to my plan?" Brother Sun didn't like to hear these words again, so he interrupted the other party.

"Tell me." Huang Donglai said.

"Uh huh..." Sun Yixie cleared his throat, "I'm going to play 'Mirror Flowers and Water Moon'..."

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The next day, before noon, the head of Gengjia Village came to the door of the only inn in the village.

The surrounding villagers made way for him to squeeze in.

"These two are..." Village Chief Geng asked in a low voice as he looked at Shopkeeper Li who was coming up to him.

"Let me introduce you." As shopkeeper Li said, he pulled the village chief to the side of Sun and Huang who were sitting at the table eating, "Both, let me introduce you, this is our Gengjia Village. The village head, Mr. Geng Sanguo."

"Hmm, hello." Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai responded casually to the village chief with a rather arrogant attitude while eating "brunch and lunch".

Of course, Village Chief Geng didn't dare to complain.

"These two are the well-known Dongxiexidu, Sun Yixie, and Huang Donglai, who are well-known in the world." Shopkeeper Li then introduced to Village Chief Geng.

"I have seen the two young heroes." The village head Geng, who was old, gave them both a deep respect and respect.

Seeing this, someone may ask, Teacher Jue, what happened?
It's very simple, this morning, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai didn't choose to go on the road, but ran to "showdown" with shopkeeper Li.

The two said: Actually yesterday we were pretending to be a joke, telling us our true identities would scare you to death.

Then they blew up their name of "East Harmony, West Poison" and some deeds that had already been circulated.

These two were commentators in the past world, and they were especially good at "fabricating history" and exaggerating their words. They made fun of each other and sang and harmonized, making the shopkeeper Li stupid.

After fooling him, Shuangxie immediately said, we take care of the affairs of your village.

The shopkeeper Li felt desperate when he heard it, so he immediately asked Xiao Wu to notify the village chief.

Xiao Wu is an honest man, he can't talk nonsense himself, so he ran to the village chief's house and relayed: "Village chief, two young heroes came to our shop, they are called Dongxie Xidu, they said they came to our place earlier Liu Daxia and Zou Daxia are two rookies, and it is not surprising that they died, and now they are going to help us get ahead, so go and have a look."

When Village Chief Geng heard this, he thought that Xiao Wu was crazy?What kind of nonsense are you talking about?Then how could the two heroes Liu and Zou be chickens?Return vegetable chicken?What do you mean by hung up?Where is it?
In short, Village Chief Geng asked Xiao Wu several times before he finally understood what was going on. After asking clearly, Village Chief Geng also felt that the village might be saved again, so he immediately went to inform those senior people in the village .

In short, everyone in the village knew about this morning's effort.

Therefore, when Village Chief Geng finally came to the entrance of the inn, the men, women and children who had already gathered around on the street were all talking about it.

"The village chief doesn't need to be too polite, we young people can't bear it." Having said that, Huang Donglai didn't intend to get up to help others, he just sat there and ate with a sullen expression on his face.

"Major Geng, don't say too much, I'll just say a word today." Sun Yixie said, "With us here, those bandits... all! Gotta die!"

"That's right ~ wrong." Huang Donglai also stuffed something into his mouth, and said with bias, "The ashes were thrown away by them."

When Village Chief Geng heard it, the tone of these two...why did they seem to be more bandits than bandits?
But just when he was suspicious, unexpectedly...

Snapped--

Sun Yixie actually raised his hand and patted a particularly large ingot of silver on the table.

"Treasurer Li." Sun Yixie immediately said, "Firstly, this money is to pay for our expenses here, and secondly... for the extra part, please pay more attention to you and the village chief, and help us buy it. Something."

To say that this money is really a good thing.

Money is indeed not everything, but of all things, it is probably the closest to "omnipotent".

For example, right now, the ingot that Sun Yixie took out will help him and Huang Donglai gain the trust of the villagers faster than any words...

Shopkeeper Li and Village Chief Geng had never seen such a large ingot of silver in their entire lives, and their eyes were straightened.

"Sun Shaoxia is being polite. If you have any orders, we will definitely do them." Shopkeeper Li's attitude towards the two of them at this moment is quite different from yesterday. But today, in his eyes, Sun and Huang are the saviors and Gods of Wealth.

"Okay, please excuse me, the things written on this piece of paper, as much as you can buy, will be sent to us." Huang Donglai took over the conversation at this time, and took out a piece of paper he wrote last night from his sleeve. The written list said, "Oh, by the way, not only from this Gengjia Village, but also from these three nearby villages, we all want it."

Shopkeeper Li took the paper, held it in front of his eyes, and looked at it with Village Chief Geng beside him. After getting the village chief's nod, he replied: "Okay, okay, let's do it right away."

"There is more." Sun Yixie said again at this time, "Where are the luggage and horses left by the hero Liu and the hero Zou?"

Two seconds later, shopkeeper Li also asked the village head for his approval with his eyes, and then replied: "You two young heroes, the horse is tied behind the inn, and their luggage...we naturally don't dare Let’s move, I’m afraid that bandits will come and ask us one day, so I put them away and put them in the store.”

"Okay." Sun Yixie said, and got up, "Then take us to have a look."

(End of this chapter)