When Zhao Yu and the others gently pushed open the door of the restaurant in the mountain, and then passed through five animal skin curtains to keep warm and windproof, and stepped into the lobby of the restaurant, they found that the most prosperous restaurant in the south of Tianmen Pass, its internal space was actually not as huge as what everyone saw outside.

"It was quiet and not as noisy as expected. ”

After the steady voice came out of Zhao Yu's mouth who looked around, the young emperor's eyes narrowed slightly, and he saw that in the lobby of the entire restaurant, it was not a candlelight, just like daylight, but only a few oil candles that emitted a faint light outward, making the atmosphere of the lobby as quiet as the starry night sky.

"It's a very unusual place. ”

Sima Annan swayed his folding fan, also looked at the lobby of the restaurant in front of him, and muttered, and under the faint orange light in the lobby, almost every table sat one or a group of Tianmen Pass hunters or merchants who were silently drinking wine, and they all looked solemn to each other, as if they were waiting for something.

Then a middle-aged man who was walking around in the lobby of the restaurant, saw Zhao Yu and others standing at the door, hurriedly walked quickly, and just wanted to say hello, when he suddenly saw Guo Ling, the commander standing respectfully beside Zhao Yu, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately quickened his pace, stepped forward and said:

"Commander Guo, you are a rare guest, hurry up here, please, it just so happens that there is an empty box upstairs, so I will let people vacate it for you and your friends. ”

"It doesn't have to be so polite. ”

Guo Ling responded with an unchanged expression, and then quietly glanced at Zhao Yu, who was not angry and arrogant, and then continued to speak:

"We don't need to go to the box, we just need to find a seat in the lobby, but remember to stay close to the storyteller's desk. ”

"Okay, I'll make arrangements, please come with me. ”

The middle-aged guy is also a lively person, without any words, he immediately led the way in front, and then the group shuttled through most of the lobby, came to the center, and stopped next to an empty seat, and then Sima Annan looked forward, his face was surprised, and a clear voice came out:

"No wonder I said that this lobby is smaller than I thought, it turns out that there is another floor below this, which is a patio?"

"This boy has good eyesight, below this is the platform that our shopkeeper uses to tell books on weekdays, because you are all the distinguished guests of my mountain restaurant, naturally you can't let the diners raise their heads to listen to the book, so the shopkeeper made a patio under the lobby and set up a storytelling table, so that the diners can eat and listen to the book at the same time. ”

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he raised his hand and beckoned Zhao Yu and the others to sit down, but what he didn't notice was that Xue Bancheng, who was silent behind everyone, looked at the dark patio below, and his blue eyes were full of horror.

Because Xue Bancheng clearly remembered that Jiang Yue had explained to him the complex structure of the ground of this Tianmen Pass before, and the solidity of the frozen soil far beyond the extreme north, he knew how unusual it was to dig such a deep patio on such a solid Xiongguan ground.

Later, while Xue Bancheng was thinking about it, the middle-aged guy nodded after exchanging and comparing with Guo Ling, bowed down and said:

"Captain Guo, according to your instructions, we will serve some of our Tianmen Pass specialties, please wait a while, by the way, our shopkeeper said before, today's storytelling will start in a while, if you are interested, you may wish to listen to it." ”

After the middle-aged guy finished speaking, he showed a rather proud look on his face, raised his hand and pointed into the distance, and his voice continued to sound:

"The storytelling of our shopkeeper is extremely popular in Tianmenguan, and most of these diners are here to listen to the shopkeeper's storytelling. ”

Before the middle-aged man's voice fell, there was a sudden commotion in the entire lobby, and then a light lit up in the courtyard below, and this lamp slowly lit up, in the slightly dim lobby, like a Kong Ming lantern slowly rising into the air, attracting everyone's attention.

After the light came out, the surroundings were faintly bright, and then a table, a curtain erected, and behind the curtain, a vague figure with a real face could not be seen.

"Your luck is still good, the shopkeeper immediately started to tell the story, there is no need to wait, the little one will retire first to arrange food, by the way, Captain Guo, the shopkeeper has instructed before, if you come to our mountain restaurant to eat, it will be half price. ”

After the middle-aged guy smiled and saluted and left, Guo Ling, the commander-in-chief of the Tianmen Pass of Si Tianjian, stepped forward and came to Zhao Yu, who was looking down at him, and explained in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, every time the shopkeeper of this mountain restaurant tells a story, he seems to be so faceless, no one in Tianmen Pass can know his appearance, and even his surname and name are not revealed, which seems to be very mysterious, but he is such a mysterious person, but he knows the deeds of the old prince well, and the Bei'an palace is also indifferent to it, which is very strange. ”

"Looking at the figure reflected in the light above the curtain, petite and exquisite, it was indeed a woman as I had guessed before. ”

As soon as Zhao Yu's steady response fell, in the courtyard below, an extremely crisp sound suddenly sounded, and as soon as this sound came out, it was like a thunderclap suddenly sounding on the ground, and all the rest of the voices in the entire restaurant lobby suddenly disappeared without a trace, extremely silent.

After a few breaths, a female voice with a little vicissitudes of life slowly came from below:

"Time passes, it has been a while since the last storytelling, the heavy snow has been going on recently, and there are many inconveniences in doing so, in this case, you can enjoy the face, the slave family is very grateful, so today I am the shopkeeper will be willful, and all the expenses in the mountain restaurant tonight will not be charged. ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire restaurant lobby first paused for three breaths, and then burst into an extremely enthusiastic applause:

"Okay, shopkeeper atmosphere!"

And a few short-tempered hunters, with a wave of their big hands, took out a handful of silver from their bosoms, and slapped it heavily on the table in front of them, which means that the uncle didn't pay attention to this money, so that the whole lobby instantly became noisy.

Then the vague figure behind the curtain in the light gently raised his hand and made a gesture of pressing down, and the noise around him suddenly stopped, waiting for the shopkeeper below to continue to speak.

But the strange thing is that the shopkeeper behind the curtain has been silent, as if giving people a sense of wanting to speak and stopping, and after a long time, the female voice full of charm below continued to come out:

"Then today's storytelling, the slave family will tell you a story about a storyteller and a negative man. ”

This female voice with a unique charm fell, Zhao Yu raised his head slightly, in his ebony black eyes, his thoughts flowed, and Jiang Yue on the side directly reached out and pressed the table in front of him, and the whole person suddenly tensed.