Chapter 777 The Cave Lord
At the entrance of the stairs, a man in a cotton robe was slowly walking up. He was wearing a fur hat on his head, a national face, a good appearance, tall and big, and even heroic in his eyebrows. However, at this moment, he looked angry and did not notice Chu Huan by the window. He sat down at a table next to him, raised his hand to take off his fur hat, threw it on the table, and said in a deep voice: "My man, come here with wine."
Chu Huan remained silent, but was quite surprised. Chu Huan recognized the man who suddenly went upstairs at a glance.
He remembered clearly that when he saw Lin Daier disguised as a fish seller in Tongzhou City, he felt soft-hearted at the time and let Lin Daier go once. That time, Lin Daier did not enter Tongzhou City alone. A man disguised as a fish seller and appeared in Tongzhou City with Lin Daier.
Chu Huan recognized at a glance that the person who had just climbed upstairs suddenly became Lin Daier's companion.
Chu Huan didn't expect to meet this person here. He knew that Lin Daier's bloodshed was almost wiped out, and only a very small number of people survived. Lin Daier was one of them, and this man was naturally a member of the Bloodshed Club.
The man appears here, does it mean that Lin Daier is also in Taiyuan City?
Chu Huan didn't know that the man was named Lu Tianyou, and Lu Tianyou didn't expect that he would be recognized as soon as he went upstairs. He sat on the chair and looked very bad. When the guy brought a pot of wine, he reached out and grabbed the pot, opened the lid, and tilted his head straight. It was like drinking water. The guy had never seen anyone drinking like this, standing next to him in a daze.
Lu Tianyou saw the bottom of a pot of wine in an instant. When he saw the stunned shop clerk, he said angrily: "I haven't gone to get the wine, but I have it in the jar." He shook the wine pot in his hand, "What's this?" He threw the wine pot on the ground and was smashed immediately.
The guy was surprised, but didn't leave immediately, and said carefully: "Call, you...!"
Without saying a word, Lu Tianyou took out a silver ingot from his arms and placed it on the table, sneering, "Are you afraid that I won't give you money for wine? See if this is enough?"
The guy didn't dare to say anything anymore, so he hurried down to get the wine.
Chu Huan was very confused. Lu Tianyou seemed to have strong liver fire. He poisoned the pot of wine, so why did he feel like he was drunk?
He turned his eyes to the Fuquan Inn diagonally opposite him, and saw the restless Sikong Junzi. Chu Huan sighed in his heart. At this time, it seemed that the other party would not come again.
Lu Tianyou was in a bad mood and had a gloomy face. The guy sent two jars of wine. Lu Tianyou didn't spend much time and just solved the two jars of wine. Chu Huan was surprised by Lu Tianyou's alcohol tolerance.
He looked at him sideways. Lu Tianyou was obviously drunk and got up. He seemed to have made a special trip to come over to drink a few glasses of wine. He left the silver ingot and staggered downstairs.
When the guy saw the ingot on the table, he saw Lu Tianyou leaving, and finally shouted: "Customer, there is still more money in this account..."
Lu Tianyou had already walked to the stairs and did not look back. He just shook his arms and said with a little drunkenness: "Save it to buy a coffin in the future..." He swayed downstairs.
When the guy saw Lu Tianyou go downstairs, he spitted at the stairs and cursed softly: "Your family wants a coffin."
"Everyone needs a coffin, it's only sooner or later. It's a very happy thing for many people to have a coffin when they die." As soon as the guy finished speaking, a voice sounded beside him. The guy was surprised, but saw someone walking past him. He hurriedly turned around and saw that the guest who left the window was holding a broken silver on the table, enough to pay the bill.
Chu Huan followed Lu Tianyou out of the restaurant and kept a distance. Lu Tianyou even slowly walked along the long street to the east. Chu Huan mixed in the crowd, pulled the brim down, tightened his cotton robe, and followed behind.
Lu Tianyou appeared in Taiyuan, and Chu Huan concluded that Lin Daier was probably in Taiyuan. He didn't know why Lu Tianyou was drinking alone here, but he vaguely felt that Lin Daier and her companions appeared in Taiyuan City, which must have an ulterior motive.
He only felt that the situation in Taiyuan was becoming more and more complicated and exciting.
The cold wind was biting, and Lu Tianyou walked for a while and seemed to be awakened by the cold wind. He stopped and looked around. Chu Huan had turned his back. Only then did Lu Tianyou continue to move forward, and his steps significantly accelerated.
When I got to the street and turned to another street, there were fewer pedestrians on this street. Chu Huan extended the distance a little longer, and the sparse pedestrians made this street much deserted compared to the street just now.
Suddenly, Chu Huan felt that Lu Tianyou's steps had become faster, and he also accelerated his speed. He followed closely. He was not sure whether Lu Tianyou noticed anything. When he arrived at an alley, Lu Tianyou looked back, but Chu Huan had already lowered his head, as if he was just a passerby. Lu Tianyou flashed into the alley. Chu Huan quickly followed and was about to reach the entrance of the alley. But someone behind him shouted: "Chu Huan, why are you here?"
Chu Huan was stunned and turned around, but saw more than a dozen people walking on the street. His eyes swept over, but no one looked at him.
He frowned. The dozen people looked just passers-by, and nothing unusual. Chu Huan ignored it and turned to the entrance of the alley and looked inside, but Lu Tianyou's traces were gone.
Chu Huan sneered in her heart, and turned around. The call just now was obviously someone who deliberately delayed him. However, the sparse pedestrians on the street looked just ordinary people. Each of them could call out the call just now, but Chu Huan couldn't tell who called him, but Chu Huan could be sure of that person. Even if he didn't know the other person, the other person would definitely know him. Could it be that he was so cautious, but his whereabouts were still targeted?
Lu Tianyou has disappeared, so Chu Huan naturally would not continue to search. He followed the same route back to the restaurant and saw that Sikong Junzi was still in the teahouse. Chu Huan frowned. He was sure that the person who met Sikong Junzi would never come again.
I just followed Lu Tianyou. If the other party was trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain, then I must have met Sikong Junzi at this time. Since such a great opportunity has never appeared, it can only mean that the other party has given up on this connection.
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There are many mountains and rivers in Anyi Road. In spring and summer, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the scenery is everywhere. When winter comes, it also has a unique scenery. The Daqimeng Mountain, which is more than 200 miles in radius, is like a layer of white veil. From a distance, the rolling Daqimeng Mountains are majestic and majestic, almost in the painting.
The owner of the Daqimeng Mountains is Gui Fangren.
The Great Qimeng Mountains are located in the north of Taiyuan City, two hundred miles away from Taiyuan City, and are already in Kunzhou, Anyi Road.
The Guifang people almost lost all their money and bought the Daqimeng Mountains. Since then, the Daqimeng Mountains have become their place to settle down. For many years, they have relied on this mountain range to survive from generation to generation.
The mountains of Daqimeng Mountain are undulating, with forty or fifty peaks of all sizes, and the peaks are large and small. At that time, the sixteen rich men of Guifang lost all their money and bought the Daqimeng Mountain. After these sixteen surnames obtained the Daqimeng Mountain, they divided the areas according to the proportion. Now, Guifang people living in the Daqimeng Mountains, the total number of people, old and young, have exceeded 13,000.
The Ghost Square people are weak in the Central Plains, so they have always been extremely united and united. The Sixteen Cave Lords each manage their own areas and tribesmen. All the Ghost Square people have their common leader, that is, the Ghost Lords of the Ghost Square.
The snow covered the Great Qimeng Mountains, which looked very beautiful from afar, but for the Guifang people, winter is their biggest enemy, and what they least want to see is the white snow.
The heavy snowfall means that all the Guifang people can only live in their own wooden houses and eat in vain.
The mountains are blocked with heavy snow, and you can't even go out because there are many traps hidden under the white snow.
For these days, Guifang people have been waiting for the food transported from Taiyuan City. They work from sunrise to sunset and work hard in order to exchange the fruits of their hands for food that can be enough for them to survive.
At this time in previous years, the food in winter had arrived, but this time it had exceeded the deadline for almost two months, and the food could not arrive on its own, and many families had already experienced famine.
The cave masters would send people to inquire about the Ghost Lord almost every day. For food, the Ghost Lord personally went down the mountain to Taiyuan City to negotiate with the government, but more than half a month has passed and no news has been available.
The Guifang people did not go down the mountain easily. Although they are now part of the people of the Qin Dynasty, the Central Plains people were very repulsive to them from beginning to end, and even were always hostile to them. They were unwilling to conflict with the Central Plains people. The only thing they could do was to guard their own land and live their lives honestly.
Yi Gusi is the second largest figure among the sixteen cave masters of the Great Qi Mengshan Mountains, second only to the leader of the ghost master Hexi Valley. His tribe has the most people among the ghost party, but the ghost party members have never selected the ghost masters by the number of tribes, but by wisdom and prestige.
Yi Gusi's wooden house is very big. He is nearly fifty years old and is wearing animal skin clothes. He is on fire. He has a large necklace hanging around his neck and many wood carvings are strung on it.
Due to the excessive hunting in the early years, the prey in the Great Qi Mengshan Mountains had become very rare. The ghost party once prohibited the tribe from hunting. Unless the ghost master ordered the organization to hunt, anyone who hunted privately on weekdays would be punished by the tribe.
Every year, Guifang people will hunt three to four times. The prey they hunt will be distributed to the tribe members. Each person does not get much meat, and they will make it into jerky meat and store it in case of emergency. For Guifang people, the thing they most worry about year after year is the situation of food outage. Such a tragedy has not happened before. One winter, Guifang people starved to death by lack of food, which has become a nightmare in the hearts of Guifang people and has always been alert.
The cave owner Yi Gusi looked in a bad mood. He was holding a bowl of wine in his hand. He wanted to pour another bowl, but he picked up the jar and the portion was very light. He knew that there was not much wine inside, so he finally put the jar down and walked to the door of the house, looking at the snow all over the mountains, looking at the face of sorrow.
The Ghost Lord is not here. As the second-ranked figure of the Ghost Square, he not only has to think about his family, but also about the survival of tens of thousands of Ghost Square people. The Ghost Square people have worked hard for half a year and have already sent the goods, but the other party failed to deliver the food that Ghost Square people rely on for winter as promised. This made Ghost Square people face a steep dilemma, and also filled Yi Gusi's heart with great anger.
People in the Central Plains are not trustworthy, and Yi Gusi has always thought so.
Chapter completed!