In Whitewater City, in a small wine shop not far from the bazaar, Ling Tianyun was tasting this fine wine. In the corner next to him, three Khitans were talking loudly, speaking some Khitan language that Ling Tianyun couldn't understand. Ling Tianyun's heart, which had wanted to calm down, began to become irritable, and he felt that it was not pleasing to the eye no matter how he looked at these three Khitans.

At this time, the three Khitans seemed to have drunk all the wine in the wine, and were loudly calling for wine in not fluent Chinese, and the proprietress's daughter Duo heard it and hurriedly hugged the wine. Passing by Ling Tianyun's side, he glanced at him shyly. Approaching the table of the three Khitans, he put the wine with the wine on the table and was about to turn away.

One of the Khitans suddenly stood up and grabbed Duo'er's slender hand, the Khitan man was nearly eight feet tall, standing in front of Duo'er like a mountain, Duo'er's eyes, who were already shy, immediately showed a panicked look, and the Khitan man was panicked in his eyes.

"Come, this little sister, how about having a drink with my grandfather" The Khitan who held Duo'er's hand slurred his mouth and spit out a sentence of Chinese that was not very fluent. Duo'er wanted to push away the Khitan's hand in a panic, but she couldn't move half a minute, Duo'er could only say timidly: "I don't know how to drink, a few of you can drink it yourself, if you have any other orders, please just say." Duo'er tried to break free from the Khitan's hand again, but to no avail.

At this time, the other two also stood up and cheered in Khitan language, obviously the Khitan man did not mean to let Duo'er go, one pulled Duo'er to the table, and poured a bowl of wine for Duo'er to drink. Duo'er's frightened eyes glistened with tears, and she looked even more shy. And the proprietress of this wine shop seems to be still busy, and she doesn't notice the situation at all.

Ling Tianyun frowned, looking at all this coldly, a wave of anger in his heart seemed to be about to explode, this phenomenon had not happened in this wine shop before, but it was very rare, and the Khitan people were even less, not to mention that he was also drinking here, basically most of the people in the entire Baishui City knew themselves, and even if the Khitan people in the north didn't know themselves, they should have heard of themselves. Under normal circumstances, few Khitans would drink alcohol after trading on the day of the opening of the market, let alone drinking in this unknown small wine shop.

The Khitan who took Duo'er's hand poured a bowl of wine, and was about to send it to Duo'er's mouth, and the other two Khitans coaxed loudly in Khitan on the side. Duo'er turned her head to avoid the wine sent by the Khitans, and her gaze met Ling Tianyun's gaze, and tears slid down her aggrieved and frightened eyes.

Seeing this, Ling Tianyun's heart trembled inexplicably, and he couldn't care so much, he put down the bowl containing the wine and strode to Duo'er's side. Ling Tianyun pushed the Khitan away and protected Duo'er behind him. "What do you want to do?" ”

The Khitan man saw that someone had pulled the little girl away, and he pushed himself, and immediately became angry, and he looked at the person who pulled the girl away, and saw a young man standing in front of him, about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a strong suit, with a strong physique, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a resolute face that seemed to have just taken off his childishness.

The Khitan stared at the boy who was nearly a head shorter than him, and the boy didn't seem to be afraid, and his eyes were full of fine light staring at him. The other two Khitans also had a look of displeasure on their faces when they saw that someone had ruined their interest, and their eagle-like eyes also looked at the young man who had ruined their interest.

Duo'er looked at the sturdy back in front of her, felt the strong and warm hand holding her hand, felt a trace of security in her heart, and her heartbeat began to accelerate. Duo'er's eyes turned into a misty brilliance, and a circle of ripples rippled in her heart.

"Young man, don't be nosy." The Khitan man standing in front of Ling Tianyun said in a deep voice.

"Nosy?" Ling Tianyun raised his head and looked at the Khitan people, and continued: "I advise you, it is better to have less trouble here, lest you be caught as a spy and the government will not be able to return to your land. ”

"Hahahaha" The Khitan people laughed loudly, and said: "We and others kindly invited this little sister to drink with us, how is it a matter of life, we Khitan people invite this little sister to drink, that is to look up to her." It's the honor of this little sister. Are you from the government?"

Because the Northern Han Emperor Liu Yu called the current Khitan Emperor his father, and borrowed tens of thousands of Khitan troops to help guard the entire Northern Han Dynasty, the Khitan people seemed to feel that they were a level higher than the Northern Han people. The Khitans could act recklessly in the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty, and it can be said that they were basically not bound by the laws of the Northern Han Dynasty. It's just that Baishuiguan is an exception, under the strict control of Ling Duozhi, the Khitans also have a share of peace here.

Ling Tianyun squinted his eyes and said coldly: "In my eyes, even if it is not someone from the official mansion, it will be taken care of this matter, and you Khitan people have to abide by the laws of my Han here, you Khitan people are not superior, please remember, this is Baishui City, not other places." Ling Tianyun didn't know if these three Khitans really didn't know their identities, and he didn't bother to reveal their identities.

"Hahahaha," the three Khitans burst out laughing when they heard Ling Tianyun's words.

Ling Tianyun had a bad sense of desire, he felt that the three Khitans seemed to be deliberately stirring up trouble, and they had no fear, Baishui City had it before, but they were all suppressed by Ling Duo's iron blood. What is the purpose of these three Khitans, Ling Tianyun thought in his heart.

"There is a kind, but today the three of you must have this little sister to drink with us, what are you going to do." The Khitan said domineeringly. Obviously, the three Khitans refused to give up.

"Don't go too far, if it's a man, you'll do something to embarrass a little girl, and finally advise the three of you, in less than half an hour, the city gate will be closed, and the three of them should leave as soon as possible." Ling Tianyun saw that the three Khitans still refused to give up, so he had to use this to send them away.

"Today, the three of you are going to stay in this White Water City for one night, so you won't have to worry about this young man." The Khitan man replied, and then said: "Young man, there is a custom in our Khitan, I don't know if you have heard of it, I don't know if you dare to take it if you have a proposal." ”

Sure enough, Ling Tianyun's heart tightened, he could think of what the Khitan was going to say next, whether it was against himself this time, or was there a bigger conspiracy, Ling Tianyun didn't make a sound and looked at the Khitan man and waited for the next sentence.

"We Khitan people have a custom that some disputes can be resolved, including women's ownership rights, since you want to take care of this matter, then we can have a duel, if I win, the three of us will leave immediately, if you lose, young man, then this girl will accompany us to drink this wine, young man, what do you think of this proposal." The Khitan man looked at Ling Tianyun and said the proposal.

"Okay, but it's not too convenient, it's not convenient here, let's go outside, how about it." Ling Tianyun looked at the Khitans and said.

"Okay, it's refreshing enough, a real man" The Khitan people seemed very happy when they saw Ling Tianyun agree, and muttered something to the other two Khitans. The other two Khitans casually picked up the sabers placed on the table, while the Khitan who was talking to Ling Tianyun was empty-handed. They walked out of the liquor shop quickly before Ling Tianyun and stood on the street.

Ling Tianyun stretched out the hand holding Duo'er, calmly picked up his saber, he looked at Duo'er with pity for a while, and comforted: "Okay, it's okay, no one dares to bully you with me." ”

Duo'er lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Ling Tianyun, a drunken flush crept up her cheeks with a few small freckles, her heart was beating like a deer, her hand was really tightly grasping the corner of her clothes, and when she raised her head, she found that Ling Tianyun had come out of the wine shop at some point. Duo'er hurriedly followed Ling Tianyun's footsteps and also left the wine shop.

The boss didn't know when she appeared at the counter of the wine shop, she didn't seem to know what was going on, and looked at the three Khitans who walked out of the wine shop in astonishment, Ling Tianyun. and his daughter also hurried out of the wine shop.

In the three-story private room of the sunset restaurant, the brocade-clothed boy stood up and looked out the window, the sunset was like a huge red plate, which was embedded between the two mountain peaks, and the Baishui River between the peaks meandered out like a jade belt, and the sunset in the sky between the peaks and the sunset in the Baishui River corresponded to each other like two red pearls embedded in the two mountain peaks. What a beautiful picture. Is this the real origin of the name of the restaurant?

At this time, there were a few knocks on the door outside the private room, and the young man in brocade said to come in, and from outside the door of the private room walked in a man who was dressed strongly, one of the two big men guarding outside the private room. The big man walked up to the brocade man and whispered a few words in his ear. The brocade-clothed boy said he knew, and sent the man out.

The boy in brocade was still looking out the window, and it was very quiet in the private room at this time, and the other four people also remained silent when they saw that the boy in brocade did not make a sound, but what they didn't know was that the flickering sharp light in the eyes of the boy in brocade seemed to be even stronger.