Chapter 12: Horse Grabbing
This strong man who had made up his mind to snatch Li Xiao's snow-stepping mount had a fierce face full of horizontal meat, and next to his thick beard, his pitted pockmarks were disgusting. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info pushed away the guy who was blocking him, with a smug smile on his face, and his black-haired hands reached forward to untie the reins of the snow.
He suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and when he turned his head, he saw that the sharp and cold blade of a hideous tiger knife was suddenly resting on his neck, shining with an awe-inspiring luster.
What a quick skill!
The pock-faced strong man who was about to untie the reins was secretly surprised in his heart, and subconsciously stopped his hand.
"Why don't you understand?" Li Xiao's voice was sarcastic and cold. "You are here to solve it, see if your hand is fast, or grandpa's knife is fast!"
The accomplices next to the pock-faced strong man all reacted at this time, shouting and scolding, each holding a sword and a sword to wrap up Li Xiao, but no one dared to immediately step forward to attack Li Xiao.
Li Xiao squinted his eyes away, and a contemptuous sneer on his lips.
"If you are impatient, you can go together and save grandpa some trouble."
Li Xiao's words were calm and clear, as if he was talking about a very ordinary trivial matter.
The surroundings suddenly fell silent, and Li Xiao could clearly hear everyone's heavy breathing.
"Good man! Don't do it! β
An urgent shout came from not far away, and Li Xiao saw a middle-aged man with a fat body, wearing a red five-bat lucky group collar silk shirt, wearing a square scarf, dressed as half a businessman and half Confucian, with a round face full of anxiety, and was trotting towards him quickly.
Li Xiao didn't put down the tiger knife, just looked coldly at the middle-aged man who was panting and standing in front of him.
"The contemptible Zhang Degui is the shopkeeper of the great light cloth shop in the city. These guys are all guys in the store, and today somehow, these guys poured a few more cups of cat urine, and they actually wanted to borrow the mount of the strong man here, and the shopkeeper was not strict under his control, and asked the strong man to forgive his sins. But I don't know the name of the strong man? β
Zhang Degui's words made Li Xiao frown.
"Hmph, the contemptible surname is Li Mingxiao, you, the shopkeeper, are biased, this is all robbed, and he is ashamed to say that he is borrowing. I'm afraid that if I hadn't taken action to suppress this gang of murderers, Shopkeeper Zhang wouldn't know where to hide. β
Li Xiao's sarcastic words made Zhang Gui's face sink unconsciously.
Zhang Degui raised his head and shouted at the strong man with the scar on his neck who was put on the neck by Li Xiao: "Zhou Qi! You bastard, you dare to snatch other people's mounts with the strength of alcohol, you don't look at your three-legged cat's kung fu, how is Li Zhuangshi's opponent, don't apologize to Li Zhuangshi quickly! β
An accomplice next to him was not happy, he came over with a dissatisfied face, and said to Zhang Gui: "Dongjia, in the past, people were afraid of us, why are you actually raising other people's morale and venting your own prestige?" β
After listening to this, Zhang Degui twisted his fat body, "Smack!" With a slap, the slap was slapped the man's face.
"Stupid pig! You stupid people who don't know what to do! The guests on the east side are waiting for us to deliver the goods quickly, so it's better for you to make trouble here and don't look at which of you is the opponent! I'll tell you, if you delay your master's business, we won't be able to eat and go around! β
Zhang Degui scolded here, but Li Xiao's face began to become grim, and he secretly thought, the guest in the east that the shopkeeper was referring to was γγγγγγ
Zhang Degui turned around again, squeezed out a smile at Li Xiao and said, "Strong man! This is all a misunderstanding, please raise your noble hand and let Zhou Qi go, a certain family is thinking, on the streets of Jinzhou, the strong man doesn't want to make things bigger. β
At this time, Zhou Qi also muttered a few words of apology in his mouth.
Li Xiao looked at Zhang Degui's smiling appearance, and saw that this person's words were really hidden needles, obviously to apologize, and secretly to warn himself to spare others when he was forgiving.
Li Xiao pondered for a moment, quickly assessed his own situation, and thought about it in his heart.
He coldly glanced at the people in front of him, then snorted coldly and put away the tiger knife.
"This time I will spare you, if you dare to do evil next time, Li will see one and kill one!"
Zhang Gui sighed expressionlessly, hurriedly arched his hand to Li Xiao and said that there would be a time later, and he hurriedly took Zhou Qi and his group to leave quickly.
Watching them leave, the hotel guy who had never dared to speak clapped his hands and was happy: "Li Zhuangshi, you can do it!" These local snakes are used to running rampant in Jinzhou, but I didn't expect that you could only be helpless against Li Zhuangshi. It's really happy, and it's so admirable! β
Li Xiao smiled and asked the guy: "I don't know where this group of people came from, they are so fierce, dare to rob property in front of the street?" β
After listening to Li Xiao's questioning, the guy hurriedly pulled him aside and said in a low voice: "The strong man doesn't know, this group of people is the local snake in Jinzhou, and they have been rampant on the streets of Jinzhou for many years. I don't know when it started, this group of people was hired by the shopkeeper of this big light cloth shop, and the origin behind the shopkeeper is not small, there are big people covering him, I heard that the business is also very large, and it is also with the Tartars over thereγγγγγγ β
When the man said this, he suddenly stopped talking and stopped talking.
"What's wrong?"
"Strongman, I have heard about this small matter, so you should listen to it. I heard that this shopkeeper is actually just an errand runner, not the real owner of the big light cloth shop, and there are other people on it to lay out and operate, so that the business can be done over there. The man's voice was even lowered, and his face was mysterious.
"Oh."
Li Xiao's eyes were deep, and after answering, he didn't ask anything more, and then paid off the money for the wine and food, and rewarded the man with a tip of a penny of silver, and left the hotel.
"Walk slowly, welcome to come back next time." The guy took the money and tips, smiled widely, and nodded to Li Xiao who was leaving.
Li Xiao chose to leave from the east gate, and the soldier guarding the city recognized him and saw him go out of the city, so he nodded and smiled at him again and again, as if he wanted to deliberately give a good impression to this Zu Wan'er's friend, which made Li Xiao laugh secretly in his heart.
Out of the city gate, Li Xiao whipped his horse, and according to the instructions of the hotel guys, turned around and ran southeast, the target was Guangning Zhongtun Office.
The wilderness is vast, the sky is high and the clouds are light, Li Xiao beat his horse and galloped, he saw that on both sides of the official road, there were sorghums like green gauze tents swaying in the wind under the scorching sun, rolling up one green wave after another, and the green breath of the sorghum that was being grouting was blowing in the hot wind, but it made people feel refreshed.
On the way to the Zhongtun Institute in Guangning, Li Xiao had a thought, and in a deserted place, Li Xiao buried the gold and silver he was carrying under a wild tree and marked it.
He only kept a few dozen taels of silver on his body for common use, and Li Xiao also had a last resort in doing so.
After all, silver is white, and eyes are black. As an unknown recruit in the army, with such a large amount of money, I am afraid that anyone who sees it will be enthusiastic and suspicious, and it will only cause unnecessary trouble to himself. Now burying the gold and silver here, Li Xiao thought to himself, when he will develop and grow in the future, he will use them again.
After burying the silver coin, Li Xiao jumped on the road again, and after running for less than half an hour, he saw a gray military fort emerging from the horizon from a distance.