Pawn Crossing the River

Qi Xuansu asked: "How do you calculate the rent here?"

"The rooms we have here are divided into three types: upper, middle and lower. The lower room is Datongpu. Some businessmen who want to save money like to stay here. It only costs ten Ruyi coins a night. The young master will definitely not stay here. Yes. The middle room is a separate room on the second floor. It is clean and tidy, but the price is inevitably a bit more expensive. As for the upper room, there is a separate courtyard behind the building, and all the items are available. It’s a place for a family to live, but it’s much more expensive, costing two peace dollars,” said the waiter.

Qi Xuansu said, "Give us a room in the upper room."

Lin Yuanmiao took out two silver coins. Including Qi Xuansu, he had long been accustomed to not carrying any peace coins with him. Even if he did bring money, it was a large official ticket. The person who could take out two silver coins was Lin Yuanmiao. .

The waiter looked embarrassed: "I'm really sorry, there's already someone in the room."

Long Xiaobai asked: "Do you only have one upper room?"

"We are running a small business with limited financial resources, and there are not many guests who want to stay in a room. Any more would be a waste, so we only have one room." The waiter explained, "It was a coincidence. Yesterday, a few guests happened to ask for a room. We haven’t checked out yet. Otherwise, if the middle room is still available, a few guests will stay in the middle room first. If those guests check out, I will change it to the upper room.”

Qi Xuansu said: "That's it."

They don't really want to stay in the hotel, it doesn't really matter.

When I entered the hotel lobby, I saw the proprietress keeping accounts behind the counter while the boss was clearing the tables.

It's still a mom-and-pop shop.

The waiter trotted over to the counter and handed the money to the landlady.

Go through the hotel check-in procedures.

Qi Xuansu casually found a clean table and sat down, and asked: "I see your store is under the banner of 'Taiping Inn', does it have the authorization document from the Taoist sect?"

The boss turned around and went to the kitchen. The proprietress was startled at first, then smiled and said, "Who stipulates that only Daomen can use the banner of 'Taiping Inn'?"

Qi Xuansu said: "It goes without saying, of course it is stipulated by the Taoist sect."

"If the Taoist sect says no, it won't be allowed. That Taoist sect is too overbearing," the boss's wife said.

Long Xiaobai said from the bottom of his heart: "Isn't it still Taoism if I'm not domineering?"

Lin Yuanmiao glanced at Long Xiaobai, why did he say the truth?

The landlady smiled again: "Of course Daomen is powerful, no one dares to provoke it, but the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and we are not opening an inn within the territory of Daomen."

Qi Xuansu stopped continuing the topic and said instead: "Madam boss, please serve some of your specialty wine and food."

"Okay." The landlady responded, turned to the boss in the kitchen and said, "Lao Hu, serve roast lamb legs to these guests, and a jar of shochu."

Qi Xuansu motioned to the others to sit down and talk instead of standing.

I have to say that the sense of control between superiors and subordinates made the master-servant relationship in the performance more realistic.

Qi Xuansu asked casually: "Madam boss, before I left this time, many relatives and friends reminded me that secret societies are rampant outside the frontiers and fortresses, among which the Mingzhi Sect is the most vicious and cruel. There is no Mingzhi Sect here, right?"

The landlady smiled and said: "The guest officer is joking, since our inn is called 'Taiping Inn', it must be a safe journey in and out of Taiping. Naturally, there is no fortune telling."

Jiachen Lingguan said calmly: "

We Central Plains people have a habit of choosing names. Whatever is missing, we add it to the name. For example, if there is a lack of earth in the destiny, the name must include the word "earth". The landlady named her inn ‘Taiping’, fearing that it was not peaceful. "

But the landlady was sharp-tongued: "According to this guest officer, it is unfair for the Taoist sect to be named Taiping Inn?"

Jiachen Lingguan laughed and said, "The landlady is right. When Daomen founded the Taiping Inn, it was at the end of the Wei Dynasty, and the world was in chaos. It was really not peaceful, so the name 'Taiping' was a beautiful way of saying it." Best wishes. Although the world is now at peace, history cannot be forgotten, so we still keep this name."

The landlady narrowed her eyes: "Young Master is of a distinguished family background, and his guards are also knowledgeable."

Just as the waiter brought the wine, Qi Xuansu poured himself a bowl of wine and said, "It's not easy for the proprietress to open a shop here. But it's not necessary to know each other before we meet, and there is no need to dig into the details. Drink."

The two Lingguan and Long Xiaobai did not drink, while Qi Xuansu and Lin Yuanmiao drank a bowl of wine.

Lin Yuanmiao said softly: "This wine tastes wrong. Is it from a black shop?"

The proprietress immediately said anxiously: "Who are you calling this store? What's wrong with you? As soon as you come in, you are picky and picky. From the name of the store to the smell of alcohol, it's not over yet? Let me tell you, if you want to stay in this store, just stay there." If you don’t want to stay, just leave. We won’t charge you any money.”

Qi Xuansu said nothing.

Lin Yuanmiao said: "I probably drank the wrong drink, don't blame the boss lady."

Of course there is something wrong with this wine, it has a lot of "stamina".

It's just that Lin Yuanmiao has an immortal body and can face it head-on

He could withstand Monk Xiao's fist and withstand the backlash from the pages of the "Xirui Jing", so there was nothing he could do about it.

The two spiritual officers were mostly capable of armor, so naturally they couldn't be as unscrupulous as Lin Yuanmiao. As for Long Xiaobai, Jiaolong was physically strong, but she simply didn't like drinking.

Qi Xuansu just drank a bowl of wine and stopped drinking.

Soon, Lin Yuanmiao drank the entire jar of wine, but she was not even a little tipsy at all.

If his expression does not change, other people's expressions will change.

The landlady returned to her previous smile: "Your Majesty, you really have a good drinker."

Lin Yuanmiao said: "It's superfluous, it's a pity that this jar of good wine is ruined."

Looking at this posture, Lin Yuanmiao must have contracted the drinking problem. I don't know whether he learned it from Zhang Yuelu or Ji Jiaozhen. Both of them are good drinkers.

Anyway, I didn’t learn it from Qi Xuansu, he doesn’t drink much.

After hearing what Lin Yuanmiao said, Long Xiaobai stood up and was ready to take action.

Despite her delicate appearance, she was someone who had sneak-attacked Master Jing Liuli, and her gold content was higher than that of Xiao Yin who had sneak-attacked Master Wu Shi.

Qi Xuansu raised his hand and motioned for Long Xiaobai to sit down.

This little dragon is good at everything, except for being straight, and it can't turn a corner better than Xiao Yin, a little tree.

Qi Xuansu could tell that the landlady here was secretive, but he was still not sure whether the landlady had anything to do with the Zhiming Cult.

The landlady was very nervous because she found that she couldn't see through this group of people. Especially when the little maid stood up, she felt great pressure, as if it was fear from the depths of her soul, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble. stand up.

What kind of group is this?

Which young master can have such a battle?

However, this coercion was fleeting and disappeared instantly after Mr. Pei raised his hand.

The little maid turned into a harmless little white rabbit again.

It even made the boss lady wonder if it was her imagination.

From beginning to end, the boss never showed up

At this moment, the group of guests who occupied the upper room also came to the lobby.

The young man at the head was a few years younger than Qi Xuansu. He was carefree and wore a Taoist crane cloak. The crane cloak is not a big cloak, but a long coat with wide sleeves and double breasts. This way of wearing it without sleeves as a cloak would have been enough to dismiss someone from office in the era of the great masters of the Five Dynasties. Even if you are a real person, you have to reflect deeply.

This person glanced around, and finally his eyes fell on Long Xiaobai.

To be fair, Long Xiaobai, as a genuine dragon girl, is of course extremely beautiful. Even if she changes her appearance at this time, she still cannot hide the special temperament of the dragon girl. It's just that there are too many Taoist masters, and no one cares about these superficial appearances. In other words, people who care about superficial appearances are not qualified to deal with Long Xiaobai.

But in a remote place like this, it's different.

The young man wearing a crane cloak went straight to Qi Xuansu's table: "May I ask this girl her name?"

No one at Qi Xuansu's table spoke.

Long Xiaobai naturally put on a cold demeanor. She would not dare to do this in front of Qi Xuansu, but it was another matter in front of other people.

The young man didn't feel dissatisfied, and just said: "We are destined to meet each other by chance, so why should a girl reject someone thousands of miles away?"

Long Xiaobai probably felt that it was rude not to speak, so he finally said: "I don't know you."

As soon as the young man raised his hand, an attendant immediately handed him a cup

The young man took the wine glass and toasted to Long Xiaobai: "Girl, if you drink this glass of wine, won't we know each other?"

Long Xiaobai had never encountered anything like this before, and for a moment he really didn't know what to do. After all, Qi Xuansu had told him not to do anything. If it were Xiao Yin, no matter what the instructions were, at the very least, don’t want this hand anymore. If you try too hard, don’t even want half of your body.

Qi Xuansu finally said: "You are teasing me in front of me, are you too arrogant?"

The young man turned to look at Qi Xuansu with a strange look: "Who are you?"

Qi Xuansu said: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is who are you?"

The young man smiled and shook the crane cloak on his body: "Do you know this?"

Qi Xuansu said: "Understood, it's the Tao sect's unified standard crane cloak."

The young man said rudely: "Since we know each other, why are you asking me this? Look at you, there are five or six of you, and you have a few retinues with you. You are quite impressive, and you can pretend well, but do you dare to touch Master Dao? You To touch the Dao Master is to fight against the Dao Sect, to fight against Jinque, to fight against the Grand Master, and to commit rebellion. "

Qi Xuansu smiled and said: "It's different when you put on this skin. The big hat is now on."

Hearing this, the young man suddenly became gloomy. He pointed at Qi Xuansu and his group: "If you dare to be disrespectful to the Taoist sect, you are probably a demon in a secret society. In the name of the Taoist sect, I will arrest and examine you immediately. If there is any resistance, , according to Taoist law, it can be killed directly."

Qi Xuansu said: "If I read it correctly, you don't have a Taoist crown. You should not be a Taoist priest. You are just a fellow Taoist priest. You keep fighting against the Taoist sect. Does the Taoist sect recognize you?"

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As if he had been stabbed in a painful spot, he suddenly pulled out a short blunderbuss from his waist, put the muzzle of the bludgeon directly on Qi Xuansu's forehead, and said with a cruel smile: "Do you fucking believe that I'm going to kill you right now?"