Reborn as the favorite of the cold-faced general

Jiang Linxu felt that he might be in conflict with Huang Li today.

The man in front of him is dressed in white, holds a jade fan in his hand, speaks softly and elegantly, and is handsome and good-looking. His temperament is no worse than Ye Huaiyun's. One can't help but wonder how such a young master Ruyu, who looks like an exiled immortal, is such a The innkeeper in the middle of nowhere?

And probably already accustomed to the scrutiny of the customers who come to the store, the shopkeeper automatically ignored his bewildered gaze, took the rent paid by Ye Huaiyun and said: "There is no problem with more than a dozen rooms, but dinner... I'm afraid I can't do it." .”

"Why?" Ye Huaiyun glanced at the food on the tables of the diners in the lobby.

The shopkeeper followed his gaze and explained: "These people are here to make trouble, not to eat."

"Smash the scene?" Ye Huaiyun looked at it again, but he really felt a little like it.

In the entire lobby, almost no diners were holding chopsticks in their hands. Instead, they were all standing by the table, spitting and splashing.Ye Huaiyun couldn't help asking curiously: "Why are there so many people here to mess things up?"

The shopkeeper smiled mischievously, "It's probably because the food I cooked was too unpalatable."

"The shopkeeper is really an interesting person." Ye Huaiyun laughed when he heard the words, "But our group has been working hard and we are hungry, so please ask the shopkeeper to bring some dinner." In order to dispel his worries, he added: "Please also tell the shopkeeper Don't worry, no matter how it tastes, we won't mess things up."

"Okay." The shopkeeper raised the corner of his mouth and smiled at them.

Jiang Linxu thought, it's really pretty when you smile.

Ye Huaiyun and Chu Tingyun walked to the guest room on the second floor amidst a burst of yelling and scolding about the unpalatable food.The environment of the inn in the outskirts of the city must not be very good, but fortunately it is clean enough, and the room is also stained with incense.The fresh and light aroma allows the temporarily resting passengers to relax for a while, just like the warm and gentle shopkeeper of this inn.

After the two of them packed up and saluted, the shopkeeper delivered the freshly cooked food, and while putting down the lacquer plate, he said, "Two guests, have a taste?"

Chu Tingyun randomly picked up a vegetable and put it in his mouth.

The shopkeeper looked expectantly.

And in the next second, Chu Tingyun vomited out the vegetables in front of the shopkeeper in a shameful manner.

Shopkeeper: "..." He just said something.

"..." Ye Huaiyun was suspicious: "Is it really so unpalatable?"

Chu Tingyun answered his question by rinsing his mouth with water.

Ye Huaiyun asked again: "Compared with Xiucai Building?"

Chu Tingyun commented in a serious tone: "It's more than that." At least that family can barely swallow it.

After rinsing his mouth, he made sure that there was no more smell in his mouth. Chu Tingyun couldn't help but looked at the shopkeeper and asked, "Why did the shopkeeper come out to open an inn because he couldn't figure it out?"

The shopkeeper scratched his head, seemed embarrassed, and sighed: "To be honest, this inn was my father's painstaking effort during his lifetime. Unfortunately, my father passed away last month and I had to take it over. But I'm not good at reading and reciting poems. I know a little bit about the doorway, but I don't know anything about running an inn and cooking."

Ye Huaiyun comforted him: "Practice makes perfect."

The shopkeeper smiled wryly, "I hope so."

Ye Huaiyun felt in his heart that the shopkeeper of this inn was really interesting, and asked curiously: "Since the guests downstairs came to make trouble, why are they all insulting each other, and none of them pointed at you, the shopkeeper?"

The shopkeeper chuckled, "Since the food is not well cooked, there must be some other way to prevent customers from smashing the store."

"I fooled them and said that there are hungry ghosts haunting Ghost Festival today." The shopkeeper said: "Although these meals are made by me, they may have been added seasonings from hell by hungry ghosts. If you find it unpalatable, then don't eat it. But don't blame the cook, otherwise you may be retaliated by the ghost."

"Unexpectedly, I just said it casually, and they believed it." The shopkeeper pulled out a folding fan from his waist and shook it slowly. gone."

Ye Huaiyun laughed and said, "The shopkeeper is a good planner."

Chu Tingyun nodded in agreement with his sentence "It's disgustingly unpalatable".

"This young master has won the prize." The shopkeeper also laughed, "It's not that I'm smart, it's just that I used ordinary people's belief in ghosts and gods. I think it will definitely not work to deceive the two young masters with such an argument."

"Not necessarily." Ye Huaiyun said: "It's better to believe what is there than to believe what is not."

"Haha." The shopkeeper smiled brightly, and did not express his opinion, but said politely: "You two should have a good rest. I will live in the room next door. If you need anything, you can tell me anytime."

Chu Tingyun immediately ordered: "Remove the dinner."

"..." The shopkeeper: "OK."

The night wind in early autumn in the wilderness is cool, and the silence of Wan Lai is mixed with the rustling of leaves from time to time.Although there is a bright moon tonight, the Kuangyuan is still dark, as if boundless thick ink is poured heavily on the sky, spreading a layer of night fog.

There seems to be a cool wind pouring in from somewhere through the window, blowing half of the cheeks to be cold.

Chu Tingyun, who had just fallen asleep, suddenly opened his eyes and wanted to touch the Xuanyi sword.But he forgot that Ye Huaiyun had confiscated the saber since he was injured, in order to prevent him from using his internal force to damage the foundation, so this movement woke up the person next to him instead.

"What's wrong?" Ye Huaiyun asked him.

Chu Tingyun lowered his voice in his ear, "Hold your breath."

Although he didn't know what happened, Ye Huaiyun heard something strange in his tone, and held his breath as he said.

Chu Tingyun removed Ye Huaiyun's unpicked jade hairpin, and was about to throw it away, when a loud shout came from the next door: "Ah—help——"

It was the voice of the innkeeper!

And almost at the moment when the help sounded, the person who pierced the window paper outside the house and blew smoke into it fled in an instant.The two didn't care too much, and immediately put on their outer robes and rushed to the next door.

Chu Tingyun kicked the door open with a "bang--", and they saw the innkeeper lying on the ground with only his underwear on by the dim light in the corridor.

A man in black stepped on his stomach with his right foot, holding a dagger in his hand, only an inch away from his Adam's apple.Seeing that the dagger was about to stab, the shopkeeper used all his strength to hold the knife-holding wrist of the man in black, struggling desperately.

In desperation, the jade hairpin flew out of Chu Tingyun's hand, and missed the dagger in the hand of the man in black, accidentally leaving a light scar of blood on the side of the shopkeeper's neck.

Seeing someone coming to help, the man in black seemed to be good at martial arts, so he jumped out of the window and fled.

Chu Tingyun knew that the man in black and the man who had blown smoke into their room just now were likely to be together, so he rushed forward and wanted to chase after him, but the back of his clothes was suddenly caught by something , it is difficult to move.

Chu Tingyun looked back and saw that it was the shopkeeper who was holding him with his hands, and said, "Forget it, don't chase after him."

Ye Huaiyun lit the candles on the table and glanced casually inside the room.Strangely, there were no traces of fighting around.

But after this delay, the man in black had already run away, so Chu Tingyun had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​chasing him, and asked the shopkeeper, "Why didn't you chase him?"

The shopkeeper poured himself a glass of water with difficulty, covered his throat and coughed and said, "They are not bad people, they just came to seek revenge on me."

"Seeking revenge?" Ye Huaiyun looked at him suspiciously, "Does the shopkeeper have enemies in the Jianghu?"

"It's a long story." The shopkeeper drank two glasses of water and said after recovering, "In the final analysis, it's because my cooking is too bad."

"Some time ago, there was a head of some sect who stopped by my inn with his wife who was pregnant for five months. As a result, his wife had a tire failure for no reason that night. The head insisted that the food I cooked poisoned his child. Put it down. Ruthless words will cost me my life."

"So what does the shopkeeper mean..." Ye Huaiyun asked: "Was that person just now brought by the previous head of the sect to take revenge on you?"

"Yeah." The shopkeeper pursed his lips, nodded in despair and said, "It should be."

Chu Tingyun pointed to the wound on his neck, "You still dare to open this inn after this? Are you afraid of losing your life?"

The shopkeeper sighed helplessly, "I'm afraid, but this is the family property of the deceased father, so you can't just throw it away!" He raised his hand and touched his neck, the pain pierced his bones, and he immediately gasped.

Seeing this, Ye Huaiyun put a wooden box on the table, "This is a healing ointment, please keep it, shopkeeper."

"Thank you." The shopkeeper unscrewed the wooden box, picked out a little ointment with his fingers and wiped it on the wound.Most of the scholars who don't know martial arts have thin skin and tender meat. This shopkeeper is the best example. He took a breath and said sadly: "If you want me to say that these people in the Jianghu are too barbaric, it's not that the food they cook is a bit unpalatable, and they need to fight." It's really insulting to kill people."

The corners of Chu Tingyun's mouth twitched. If he really counted, he came from Luanxiao Palace, so he is naturally a Jianghu person.Hearing the shopkeeper's words, he felt a little uncomfortable for no reason. He pulled Ye Huaiyun's hand and said coolly: "It's getting late, let's go back to the room to rest first. The shopkeeper should take good care of his wounds."

In the second half of the night, except for the rustling of insects outside the window, and the stray cat snoring on the roof, there was no other movement.

Ye Huaiyun turned over and asked the person lying beside her who was also not asleep: "Why did you tell me to hold my breath just now?"

Chu Tingyun said: "Someone outside the window is blowing smoke into the house."

"A man from Liao Ci?" Ye Huaiyun doubted.

Chu Tingyun shook his head, "Not sure."

Ye Huaiyun said: "After coming out of Luxia City, there were no episodes along the way. We will arrive in Zhiyang County tomorrow. Remember to ask the hidden guards to be more vigilant."

"Well." Chu Tingyun said: "It is inevitable to be more vigilant, but don't worry too much, the person just now may have really come to seek revenge from the shopkeeper and find the wrong room."

Hearing this, Ye Huaiyun frowned slightly, "Do you really believe his statement that cooking is unpalatable and attracts people to seek revenge?" He paused, and then expressed his doubts in a clearer way, "Don't you think the shopkeeper of this store is too unreasonable?"

"I don't believe it." Chu Tingyun said: "But we will just stay overnight, and it has nothing to do with us whether he looks like a shopkeeper after leaving tomorrow morning."

As he spoke, he waved his hand to wipe out the candles on the table, kissed Ye Huaiyun gently on the brow, closed his eyes and said, "Go to sleep."

The wind of the palm brought a drop of wax oil, which solidified a little brightly on the table.

[The author has something to say: Everyone can guess the identity of this shopkeeper, he is definitely worthy of me writing a side story for him hhh]