Chapter 47 The Knife and the Head
(Thanks for the rewards of flowers blooming and falling when they fall)
Bai Choufei glanced at Li Xiu Lian indifferently, and when he heard him introduce himself, he replied softly: "Hello, my name is Bai Choufei, from Liushemen."
When Li Xiulian saw Bai Choufei's face as iceberg, she thought that this man had a very bad temper. Unexpectedly, his tone was very gentle when he replied to him, like the spring breeze, wrinkling a pool of spring water. Li Xiulian smiled and said, "Brother Bai, are you doing business with Mr. Li? I knew Mr. Li is a very capable person. How long has it been? He became the chief of the Six Gate, and he is considered a glorious ancestor." When he said to Li Zhichang, his face was full of flattery. Even if Li Zhichang was not here, wouldn't Bai Choufei still be there?
Immediately he found that the flattery did not arouse Bai Choufei's praise. Only then did Li Xiulian see that he was holding a kitchen knife in his hand and kept waving it. Li Xiulian was embarrassed and inserted the kitchen knife back into the skin sheath at her waist.
He rubbed his hands and said, "Sorry, that guy Bai, there have been people from the Snake King coming to me to collect protection fees these days. You said I was so shiver and he would have to pay ten thousand taels as soon as he opened his mouth. I wouldn't have to take a knife with him and strengthen his courage." Although there are still a few people from Qingyi Tower in the newspaper office, the Snake King is crowded here, and Li Xiulian also knows the reason why a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake.
Bai Choufei said: "Why is the Snake King causing trouble for you?"
Li Xiulian spread her hands and said, "God knows, maybe he is reading that the newspapers are selling well every day. I want to come in and get a piece of the pie. In fact, I only sell a newspaper for thirty cents, and only sell dozens of taels of silver a day. After the cost is reduced, it is really not much. But recently I am trying to introduce some taverns in the city in the newspaper. I hope it will have a better effect."
Bai Choufei asked, "What's the benefit?"
Li Xiulian said: "There are many people who read our newspapers. People want to eat, drink, defecate and urinate. I introduce them to the pub. Maybe those who read the newspaper want to try it out and bring business to the pub. As long as the boss is a smart person, he knows that he should give me money, otherwise I will introduce them to other pubs in the next issue."
Bai Choufei nodded and said, "It's indeed a good idea, but you are not from Qingyilou. How could you lack money?"
As soon as he said this, Li Xiulian looked resentful and sighed: "When it comes to this, it was Mr. Li who brought me into Qingyi Building at the beginning. I thought I was also a member of the government at the time."
Bai Choufei looked at Li Xiulian up and down, as if he didn't believe it: "You are also from the government office? What are you doing?" He had been at the six doors for a long time, and when he heard that Li Xiulian was also from the government office, why did he sneak into Qingyi Building and ask questions in a habitual manner.
When Li Xiulian heard Bai Choufei ask him, she raised her chest and said, "Actually, I was also the captain in the yamen back then. Unfortunately, my uncle, who was the county magistrate, retired and returned to his hometown. This person was so sad that he was so sad." Li Xiulian was making trouble here, and Bai Choufei realized that he was actually a gambling debt after leaving, and happened to be met by Li Zhichang. Li Zhichang heard that his name was very interesting and he was a person in the yamen, so he gave him a small amount of money to run a newspaper.
Anyone can find out that Li Xiulian's innocence is the real people in Qingyi Building. They take advantage of the opportunity to sell newspapers every day to go out in Wuyang City with the opportunity to openly and noisy places in Wuyang City to collect information. The stories on the newspaper are quite interesting, and they not only write about what is happening now, but naturally also make the Pingnan Prince's Mansion interested, so they specifically ask Jianghu to report a newspaper every day.
As for how to arouse the interest of the royal palace, it was also a secret operation of Qingyi Tower.
Finally, Li Xiulian said: "Everyone said that our Qingyi Tower is rich and powerful, but after I was sent here, I didn't have any money except for the initial funding. Now Mr. Li also knows that Qingyi Tower has no money, so he went to the six gates. It's better to have the yamen, and it's easy to make money. Just like when I was a headmaster of a county, when I walked out, who would dare to mess with me?"
Bai Choufei almost laughed when he saw Li Xiulian's mischievous appearance, but he was born with expressionless face and could not laugh even if he wanted to. This Lord Li is indeed very poor now, but in his eyes, Li Zhichang didn't look like a person who values things outside his body. Moreover, although Li Zhichang could not give him all his gifts in the past two days, he still gave him a lot of guidance, which made him almost reborn.
Bai Choufei said, "It seems that you don't want to do this errand at all?"
Li Xiulian shook her head and said, "How can I do what Mr. Li told me to do well. Mr. Li is kind to me as much as a mountain, and you must be honest in life." In fact, although he knew that Qingyilou had no money, at least he was still famous. When things were done here, he believed that Li Zhichang would definitely arrange better fat and shortage for him. Moreover, now Li Zhichang has become a high-ranking official (the chief of the Six Gate is already a big official in his eyes). Now that he has held his thighs, he will never have to worry about food and drink in the rest of his life.
After talking for a while, Bai Choufei was also sleepy. He was sleepy and didn't want to sleep on the bed. He just wanted to sniff in the hall for a while. He didn't even want to lie on the table. Instead, he took out a knife, supported it with his hands, and squinted his eyes. That's right, if he suddenly encountered any danger, he would save the step of drawing the knife.
There are Li Zhichang here and a few people from Qingyi Building, which should be said to be very safe, but Bai Choufei knew that no one could rely on in this world, and he didn't want to rely on anything.
Li Xiulian wanted to give him the quilt, but he refused. His reason was that he didn't want to sleep too well. However, Li Xiulian had already seen many strange people, and he learned that Bai Choufei was also from the Six Gate, so his attitude towards him was naturally very different. He listened to whatever Bai Choufei said.
Although Li Xiulian is the boss of the Jianghu tabloid, the real person who does things is not him, but someone else! He is just a person to cover up.
The gate opened with a princess, and three people walked in, three green-faced men with tattoos on their faces.
Li Xiulian said: "Why are you here again? We have no money."
The person who came was the Snake King.
The visitor said viciously: "If you don't have money, we will smash your storefront."
At this time, Bai Choufei opened his eyes and said, "If you were you, I would leave here quickly, otherwise there might be some parts missing on my body later."
But his voice was too soft and fell into the ears of the three people, without any intimidation.
One of them said, "Is this the reinforcements you brought in? The tone of speaking is like a woman." "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Bai Choufei looked at several people and said, "You have tattoos on your faces, and it seems that they are all fugitives."
The man replied, "So what?"
Bai Choufei said, "Do you know that you have violated the king's law?"
The man said disdainfully: "In this place, the Snake King is the king's law."
Bai Choufei said, "That's the past, today's street is not under the control of the Snake King." As he spoke, Bai Choufei showed his knife, the white shaking knife.
The man said to the person next to him: "Lao Zhang, do you think that a kid can kill someone like a toy like a knive?"
Lao Zhang said, "I think even beasts can't be killed."
At this time, a man in white walked downstairs and said, "This knife does not kill animals, but only kills people who are worse than animals."
Lao Zhang said: "Who are you?"
The man in white said, "It doesn't matter who I am. What's important is that you can only live one now, because I want to keep one of you and keep it to report to the Snake King."
Lao Zhang said: "What a big tone."
He only said this, and then he saw a white sword light, and then he could still see his own body. By the way, why did he see that his body had no head? Before he could figure this out, he had lost the ability to think.
With a knife and three heads, Xiaobai took back the knife. It was so fast and so neat!
Li Zhichang said unhappy: "I said that one person's life should be saved."
Bai Choufei replied, "Anyone who has such a tattoo on his face is a desolate prisoner who deserves to die!" His voice was still so nice, but the content of his words was not nice at all.
But Bai Choufei said very correctly. The tattoo on the faces of the three people was the word "evil". In addition to the families of the rebels, this dynasty would only be tattooed on the face if they committed extremely serious crimes. The tattoo on the faces of these three people showed that they were extremely vicious criminals.
Li Zhichang looked at him quietly and said, "Sometimes, killing someone is not the best way to punish them. As for why I don't ask you to kill them all, it's because you can leave some room for your sword and some room for yourself."
Bai Choufei said, "I know you are for my own good, but if I leave room for nothing, I will not be able to live now." He is less than eighteen years old and already has such a swordsmanship. Who knows how his past came about? Even Li Zhichang doesn't know, and he has his own thoughts. Even if Li Zhichang is for his own good, he will not let Li Zhichang guide him.
Li Zhichang suddenly smiled and said softly: "You are very good. If you really listen to others easily and give up your own principles, then you will disappoint me."
Bai Choufei said, "Mr. Li, I am very grateful for your suggestions to me along the way. I can't understand something that I didn't understand in the past in just two days. For example, if it were the past, I would never have killed these three people as lightly as before. Their martial arts skills are actually not weak." Bai Choufei now really respects Li Zhichang, but he knows that respecting someone is not listening to him without principles.
Li Zhichang smiled faintly. He stood with his hands behind his back, looked outside the door and said quietly: "Xiaobai, you are very good. Are you interested in being my apprentice?"
If Li Zhichang wanted to accept disciples, I don’t know how many people in the world would come over crying and begging, but Bai Choufei hesitated. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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Chapter completed!