assassin

"Boss, bring a jug of wine and two catties of beef." The man with the bamboo hat said in a low voice, and sat down with his back to the door.

The tavern on the border is not doing well, and there are only the owner and a waiter in the shop.

The second served the wine and meat, and the man in the bamboo hat poured himself a bowl of wine and said, "Brother, please invite your boss out, I have something to ask."

"Yes." Xiao Er replied, and walked towards the back kitchen.

The boss was cutting meat in the back kitchen, and the second boy said, "Boss, someone is looking for it outside."

"Success." The boss put down the knife, rubbed his hands on the rag, and headed towards the lobby.

The man in the bamboo hat was the only customer in the shop, so the boss went straight to him.After taking a few steps, the boss felt that this person looked familiar, so he couldn't help but stop.

The man in the bamboo hat also noticed it, and said hello to the boss: "Boss."

The boss calmed down, stepped forward and said, "I don't know what advice this brother has?"

The man in the bamboo hat took the bowl and poured some wine into it again, "Would you like to have a drink with me, boss?"

"This..." The boss smiled awkwardly, "I'm not Mei Jiao Niang, brother, are you joking?"

"Boss, have you heard of people from Taoyuan?" the man in the bamboo hat suddenly asked.

The boss's face changed, "I heard that I heard about it. Being able to conceive as a man was suppressed by the Si Dynasty in the past. Later, the Si Dynasty gave birth to a queen of the Taoyuan tribe, and the disaster of the Taoyuan people was calmed down."

"I heard a story about Taoyuan people." The man in the bamboo hat handed the wine to the boss, "Would you like to hear it?"

The boss hesitated for a moment, took the wine bowl and sat down.

The man in the bamboo hat looked at his wine bowl, and suddenly gurgled down a bowl of rice wine.

"A few years ago, the king of a certain tribe met a pair of brothers from the Taoyuan tribe. The king wanted to marry his brother, so he went to his home." The man in the bamboo hat put down his wine bowl and said slowly, "My brother's face is like a crown of jade, and he is knowledgeable and talented. The younger brother was a fat man when he was a child, and his appearance and character were quite different from his elder brother. Wang remembers that when he saw his younger brother again, he felt a strange chill in his heart for no reason. The younger brother said: "You are the first to come to the imperial capital. I will naturally have the honor of being a landlord." Clean up the wind and dust for you'. Then they brought ten altars of good wine and served hundreds of delicacies in the largest restaurant in the imperial city. Although the man was wrapped in brocade and jade, he reminded the king of a beast. Does the boss know What beast is it?"

"What?" There was some curiosity in the boss's vigilant eyes.

"Hyena," the man in the bamboo hat lowered his eyes slightly, "he is like a wild hyena, hiding in the grass, preying on fresh flesh and blood."

The boss didn't dare to look directly into his eyes, but secretly looked at the expression under the bamboo hat with the corner of his eyes.

"After all, we grew up together, and Wang didn't think too much about it, so we drank with him until late at night." The man in the bamboo hat continued, "Unexpectedly, after drinking the third altar, Wang felt that his body was so hot that he did something wrong with that younger brother. He was born in Tuyuhun, and he was accompanied by wine every day. How could he drink three jars and then fall down? But my younger brother forced the king to give up his elder brother and marry him. If the king refuses to agree, he will tell the world about it.”

"That brother is really capricious." The boss took a sip of his wine.

The man in the bamboo hat smiled and nodded, "Later, the king had no choice but to marry his younger brother and bring him into the tribe. The king had no affection for him, so he was placed far away after marriage, out of sight and out of mind. Something big happened," the man in the bamboo hat poured another bowl of wine, "my younger brother killed the wife of one of Wang's uncles."

The boss raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at his own reflection in the wine bowl lightly.

"The prince who belongs to the king's tribe is the most powerful." The man in the bamboo hat looked a little dignified, "The new queen confessed that she killed someone without any explanation, so the tribe wanted the king's wife to pay for her life. The king imprisoned his wife Get up, and secretly mediate in the hope of saving his life. Unexpectedly, he escaped from the prison halfway, and has never been heard from since then.”

The story came to an abrupt end, and the man in the bamboo hat drank all his wine.

The only thing left in my ears is the whistling wind of the desert, which creaked the windows of the small shop.The boss got up and closed the window, and then returned to the table, saying: "I have also heard the story that Xiongtai just told."

The man in the bamboo hat said "Oh?", motioning for him to continue.

"That's all nonsense, brother, don't take it seriously." The boss seemed to hesitate.

"Boss, it's okay to say." The man in the bamboo hat said.

The boss sighed and said, "This matter has to start when the two brothers were very young."

The man in the bamboo hat looked at him and listened intently.

"These two brothers have respected each other since they were young." The boss raised the corner of his mouth slightly, as if he was nostalgic, "One day, the two brothers were arrested, and the elder brother blocked the knife for the younger brother, and almost died."

The heart of the man in the bamboo hat jumped, as if he hadn't expected such a secret.

"Since then, my younger brother has sworn that his life belongs to his elder brother, and he will protect his elder brother even if it is impossible to recover." The boss's eyes darkened a little, "In order to win the position of power, my elder brother has suffered a lot. Bitter. Seeing that his father is about to hand over the power to his elder brother, unexpectedly, the king of a tribe suddenly rushes out to ask his elder brother to marry him. Brother, if you were the younger brother, what would you do?"

The man in the bamboo hat frowned and said nothing.

"Of course my younger brother doesn't want to see my elder brother's hard work come to naught, so he designed to let Wang marry him." The boss paused, then suddenly smiled, "Actually, it's not just because of this, my younger brother will do this, but also because my elder brother likes it. Someone else."

The man in the bamboo hat widened his eyes, but he didn't interrupt him.

"Brother thought, if you get married anyway, just live in peace and stability." The boss curled his lips, "It's a pity that God didn't do what people wanted, and he found out that the person who kidnapped him and his brother in the past was actually in the tribe. middle."

"What?" The man in the bamboo hat was shocked.

"It seems that after kidnapping the two brothers, the woman fled to the frontier and married a certain royal family of the tribe." The boss turned the wine bowl, "The woman was full of grievances and had nowhere to vent, so she tried every means to encourage her husband and brother The families of the two are against each other. After the younger brother found out the truth, he couldn't continue to let the woman do evil, so he killed her with a hot head."

"What evidence do you have?" The man in the bamboo hat asked seriously.

"Evidence?" The boss gave him a gouged look, "There was no evidence back then, how can we find it now?"

The man in the bamboo hat was silent, the boss got up and left, saying: "Brother, let's go after drinking."

"Boss." The man in the bamboo hat called him again.

"What's the matter?" The boss stopped, but turned his back to him.

"The king also felt that the queen's murder was very strange, so he looked around for the queen." The man in the bamboo hat looked straight at the back, "One day, the king felt that maybe he had been thinking about the queen all the time."

"Probably because he likes things that he can't ask for." The boss smiled, and then took another step.

The man in the bamboo hat watched him hide behind the door curtain, put down the money and said loudly: "I will come again."

Xiao Er stretched out his head to look at the empty lobby, and said back to the boss, "He's gone."

The boss breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, the story this man told is really strange." Xiao Er scratched his head, "The boss also knows this story?"

"I know." The boss answered briefly.

"It's so strange." Xiao Er muttered a few more words, "Is that king still looking for his queen?"

"Probably." The boss raised the corners of his mouth helplessly, but unfortunately, the queen killed the prince's wife "for no reason" and could no longer go back.

"It doesn't matter if you can't find it. Although the queen is from the Taoyuan tribe and can have children, she is a man after all. The thought of a man giving birth gives me goosebumps." Xiao Er rubbed his flesh.

The boss's eyes froze, he pushed the little girl on the head, and said, "Why don't you hurry up and do something?!"

"Yes, yes." Xiaoer walked away awkwardly.

"Daddy." The bedroom door was pushed open suddenly, and a round child about three years old came out rubbing his eyes.

"What's the matter, Shen'er? Daddy woke you up?" The boss's voice was much softer to his son.

"Daddy, Shen'er still wants to sleep." After saying that, Shen'er yawned loudly.

"Okay, Daddy will take Shen'er to bed." The boss picked up his son and walked towards the bedroom.

"Daddy, Shen'er wants to hear a story." The little child lay beside his father and said.

As soon as he heard the word story, the boss's head grew a little big, "Didn't Shen'er feel like it?"

"Listen to the story," Shen'er got excited, "I'll feel it after listening to the story."

"This..." The boss felt quite helpless, but the appearance of the man in the bamboo hat suddenly appeared in his mind, "Then Daddy, let's tell a story about a puppy."

"Okay, okay!" Shen'er clapped her hands happily.

The boss cleared his throat and started, "Once upon a time, there was a dog that was locked up for biting someone."

"Bad dog, lock it up!" Shen'er echoed.

"But the dog suddenly realized that he had a puppy." The boss nodded his son's little nose.

"Ah—" Shen'er exclaimed.

"So the dog escaped secretly and gave birth to a puppy." The boss said.

"What about the dog and puppies?" Shen'er asked.

The boss smiled and touched his son's little head, "Of course they are living together happily."

Shen'er tilted her head, as if she couldn't turn around.

"Okay, Shen'er, go to sleep." The boss patted the child on the back.

"En." Shen'er nodded, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Looking at his son's sleeping face, the boss let out a long sigh.

I don't know what expression someone will have when they know the existence of this child?

The boss smiled faintly, and hugged his son into his arms, as if embracing his whole world.