The ninth day of the fifth lunar month is the time of Xu.
The carriage Murong Ji was riding in was already heading towards the "West Lake Elegant Seat".
Although Mr. Murong is not very wise, he is not stupid either. He naturally considered the possibility of Sun Yixie ambushing him on the way or at the place where he got off the bus. Therefore, tonight he not only arranged for Liu Ming to personally He drove for him and asked twenty capable men to follow behind the carriage and escort him all the way.
Ladies and gentlemen, please do not underestimate these twenty people. They are not ordinary servants or thugs, but a group of "elites" specially trained by the Murong family for the purpose of "expedition" and "expanding business" "Thugs", every one of them has learned a few superficial skills of the Murong family.
Of course, it’s just superficial skills; the Murong family will not train these people to be too strong, lest they quit after learning to a certain level and go into the world on their own.
At the first moment of "Xu", Liu Ming reined in his horse at a place about ten feet in front of the West Lake Yazuo Gate. After the carriage stopped, he turned back and rushed into the carriage to report, "Master, let's We're here."
After finishing speaking, Murong Ji reached out and opened the curtains in front of the car and looked out of the car. .
Under the pale moonlight, he glanced around and saw that the restaurant in front of him was still in a messy state, like a ruin. It was in sharp contrast with the beautiful scenery beside the West Lake. .
Obviously, since it was smashed by Murong Ji and his men on the first day of May, the West Lake Dining Room has not been open for business until today. Even the sign that was taken off and trampled to pieces has not been opened at this time. It also landed quietly on the open space next to the door.
"Hey, you invite people to dinner, and you don't clean up in advance." Murong Ji looked at his "masterpiece" and said in a sarcastic tone while feeling proud.
When he said this, he had already moved his fat body and jumped out of the carriage.
When he got out of the car and looked up again, he found that except for the lights on the highest floor of the restaurant in front of him, everything from the first to the third floor was completely dark.
"Young Master, I'm afraid this guy is cheating." At this time, Liu Ming also got out of the car and stood a step behind Murong Ji, reminding him.
"What are you afraid of?" Murong Ji replied confidently, "We have a lot of people with us, and Mr. Liu is here to take charge. Besides, I am not a vegetarian. He, a young hero, can win the first place." What can Si's stuff do to us?"
As soon as you say this, you will understand that Mr. Murong has done his homework before coming here.
Although "Eastern Harmony and Western Poison" have a great reputation in the world, most of the legends revolve around what they did, as well as their strategies, connections and methods
< p>As for martial arts, no one really boasts about them.Because the two of them have indeed never demonstrated any superb martial arts skills on major occasions
During the Young Heroes Association, although Sun Yixie won the first place in the palace, his The upper limit of his strength was also exposed when he lost to a womanIt was almost done, but Huang Donglai didn't even show his hand, so he took a round.
When Shen Youran was in a dark mood, no one saw what they did. Fortunately, no one saw it, because if they were really seen, others would not improve their evaluation of their martial arts. It only lowers the perception of their character.
Let’s not talk about helping Jin Yiwei clear out the shadowy remnants. It is not a political matter in the first place.
When Qixiong met Huang Donglai, he showed off his skills. The problem was that the identity he used at that time was "Xudong Old Immortal", and only a few people knew that it was him.
When it comes to "fighting demons with swords" later on, although the two harmonies have cooperated and used methods such as "Five Lightning Whips", this is no longer a category that people in the world recognize. This looks like "immortal magic", so most people still think that the "four swords and three knives" that previously weakened Xiao Zhun are the main force in the battle, and Sun and Huang just used side tactics to pick off people.
The last time the two of them were at the center of a major event was the election of the leader of the Green Forest Road in Guangzhou. The only result they had in a single challenge that time was Brother Sun's rogue tactics by the river. After beating them up a lot, Huang Donglai and the others all joined forces to attack, and the opponents they beat were just like that.
You should also understand after I review this. In fact, since Shuanghe has been traveling in the world, they have never defeated any of the world's big guys in a fair duel in public. Or become a famous master.
The achievements and legends they left behind basically used various evil or sinister means other than martial arts to "execute justice"
Under this premise, Murong Ji After some analysis, I felt that I was worthy of Sun Yixie.
According to what he thinks, if I meet the "Western Poison" Huang Donglai here today, I might still worry about the weight of the "Three Arts of the Yellow Clan", but you, Sun Yixie, are not a martial artist. I come from a noble family, but I lost to a woman in the ring two years ago. How much better can my martial arts be now? I, Murong Ji, am the eldest son of a famous martial arts family. I am several years older than you, and I have practiced hard since I was a child. You are capable of both literary and military skills. Is it possible that I am still afraid of you, an illiterate who made his fortune in the fish market and can't even write invitations?
Murong Ji's thoughts do make some sense.
However, it was impossible for him to calculate that Sun Yixie was a time traveler, and that not long ago, he had an adventure on the Erxian Island.
In addition, Murong Ji has relied on the rise of his family in recent years. In the process of traveling around, it can be said that he has a smooth and invincible attack. He has never encountered anyone who can't be dealt with, so he is a bit bloated. .
Under such circumstances of underestimating his opponent and overestimating himself, it was only natural that Murong Ji dared to come to this "Hongmen Banquet" tonight.
"Master, look." Not long after the two got off the car, the sharp-eyed Liu Ming saw a faint light source appear in the restaurant.
Not long after, I saw a man in his twenties, with four eyebrows, wearing loose clothes, holding a lantern, walking slowly up the stairs in the restaurant.Then he went down, then passed through the lobby and came to the door.
"Hehehe" Sun Yixie saw more than 20 people standing outside, but he was alone, but he didn't panic at all. He walked up to the two people beside the carriage with a smile on his face, and then Holding the lantern pole in his hand under his arm, he cupped his fists and smiled at the younger one, "May I ask if this brother is Mr. Murong?"
Although there was no one at that time There were photos and so on, but because Murong Ji's physical features were relatively easy to recognize, Sun Yixie just listened to other people's descriptions in advance, and then scanned them with his eyesight, and easily identified Murong Ji from the crowd.
"Exactly." When Murong Ji replied these two words, his tone was disdainful and his expression was arrogant. He obviously looked like he was going to quarrel. After replying, he immediately asked, "Are you Sun "Yi Xie"
Murong Ji also met Sun Yi Xie for the first time, but his ears had already been filled with information about the other person's image, so he asked this question.
"Yes, that's right." Sun Yixie still smiled, as if the other party's rude attitude did not displease him at all, "Sun has heard about Mr. Murong's name for a long time, today As soon as I saw him, he was indeed a dragon and a phoenix among men, and I am honored to meet him."
"Hmm" Murong Ji was stunned when he heard this second sentence.
He was muttering in his mind at that time. I smashed his restaurant, caused trouble in his fish market, and ruined so many businesses in their Sun family. If he invited me out, he should be held accountable, but Why is he so polite to me now? I obviously didn't give him a good look.
"Uh-huh, it's a pleasure to meet you." That's all, Murong Ji couldn't help but accept it. , so after hesitating for two seconds, he chose to go back politely.
This is the so-called "it's hard to hit someone with a smiling face". When someone greets you properly and praises you well, you can't say back to him, "You are the best among people, you guys." "Everyone in the whole family is a dragon or a phoenix"
"Brother Murong, it's very windy outside, why don't we go upstairs first and sit down to talk" Sun Yixie said, turned sideways and made a decision The gesture of leading the way.
Hearing this, Murong Ji exchanged glances with Liu Ming, and then replied in a deep voice, "Okay, Brother Sun, please."
"Please." Sun Yi agreed. He walked to the front with a lantern and began to lead Murong Ji, Liu Ming, and the twenty elite thugs upstairs.
Although we have mentioned the layout of the West Lake Dining Room in our previous document, you may have forgotten it. I will just mention it here. The lower two floors of this restaurant are for ordinary people. The guest hall is for eating, and the two floors above are private rooms.
When Murong Ji and his men came to smash up the store on the first day of the new year, he did not touch the third and fourth floors because he knew very well that the people sitting in the private room upstairs that day were all prominent local figures. It's okay for him to smash up the store downstairs to build prestige, but there's no need to go up and have a head-on conflict with them. After all, he will open "Huanyi Pavilion" to Hangzhou in the future, and he will need the support of these dignitaries upstairs.and support, it would be bad if they become enemies.
Because of this, the fourth floor where Sun Yixie is taking Murong Ji and others is still intact and can receive guests normally.
"Brother Murong, please come this way." Soon, Sun Yixie led everyone to the door of the elegant room called "The Da Vinci Code" and stopped immediately.
At this moment, Murong Ji looked in through the open door of the room and found that two people were already standing in the room.
One is Xue Tui with a bandage on his head.
The other one was Tang Weizhi, whose face was still injured.
"Huh, so that's it, just wait here for me." Murong Ji felt a little more at ease when he saw these two people.
Why do you say that?
Because on the way just now, Murong Ji always felt that Sun Yixie's attitude towards him was too good. This was either an adultery or a thief, so he Always be on guard against the dark places on the stairs and corridors where someone might rush out and plot against you.
Liu Ming, who was beside Murong Ji, had similar thoughts.
However, the two of them had been on guard for a long time, and their nerves continued to be tense, but they did not wait for any danger at all, which made them more and more uneasy
Fortunately, now they saw it. Xue Tang, the two victims of the store smashing incident, now they "understood". It turned out that the boy named Sun did not intend to start a war with us. He just wanted to use the things that happened a few days ago to negotiate terms with us. , and then let the two servants who were injured by us cry miserably on the spot, just to extort more benefits.
Mr. Murong and Liu Ming, who often go out to negotiate in the world, are very familiar with this kind of routine, so they made an instant judgment and felt that Sun Yixie was also the same way.
“I thought it was a banquet at Hongmen, but it turned out to be a drink.” When he stepped into the room, Murong Ji smiled secretly in his heart and said, “Well, at least he is a person who is aware of current affairs and knows how to fight against our Murong family. If you don't have good fruit, then you can eat it. I also think that you are a smart person, so I will give you some thin noodles. As long as you don't block the money of our Murong family in Hangzhou from now on, what happened a few days ago I can pay you some money."
Before sitting down, Murong Ji had already thought about the bottom line of today's negotiation.
Confident, he even glanced at Liu Ming, as if he wanted to show off with his eyes that he had seen through everything.
"Hmm, Brother Murong, what are the people outside?" Sun Yixie asked tentatively when he saw that only Liu Ming followed Murong Ji into the house, while the others were standing in the corridor outside the door.
"Ah" It was only then that Murong Ji realized a problem belatedly. He was a bit embarrassed in his battle tonight.
Sun Yixie invited him to dinner, treated him politely, and showed no sign of harming him. However, he followed him to the door of the private room with more than 20 bodyguards. Now, The corridor was full of people standing, making it difficult for the store clerks to move around
Murong Ji's behavior, in the eyes of others, was that he judged a gentleman with a villain's heart, and he was also very afraid of death.
"It's not that I don't show respect to Brother Murong. I really didn't expect you to bring so many people here. I only prepared a table of ingredients in the kitchen tonight. I'm afraid it won't be enough to entertain so many of your brothers." Just when Murong Ji was stunned, Sun Yixie added this sentence again.
What he said sounded polite and honest, but when it fell into Murong Ji's ears, it made the latter panic.
"Why are you still standing there stupidly? Who told you to follow me?" Murong Ji, who was eager to save face, quickly turned his head in the next second and shouted to the group of subordinates at the door, "Brother Sun, I will follow you. Let’s have a meal, why should you be so protective? I walked downstairs and waited, blocking others from serving food.”
After saying this loudly, Murong Ji glanced at Sun from the corner of his eye. Yi Xie glanced at him, as if he wanted to see if the other party believed him.
"Brother Murong, uh, and this eldest brother, come on, let's sit down and talk first." Sun Yixie acted as if nothing had happened, while raising his hand to signal Murong Ji and Liu Ming As he sat down, he personally picked up the teapot on the table and poured tea for the two of them, "Have a cup of tea, calm down, don't be like the servants."
Just when Brother Sun said these words At the same time as he spoke, the elite thugs brought up by Murong Ji all followed the young master's order and went downstairs in despair.
When Murong Ji took the tea cup from Sun Yixie, he was still saying, "These losers must be taught a lesson. Brother Sun, if you don't tell me, I won't." I didn’t notice that they followed me up.”
Liu Ming looked at the young master’s operation of three hundred taels of silver and couldn’t laugh or cry, and even broke into a cold sweat of embarrassment.
"By the way, I haven't asked this person yet." Fortunately, Sun Yixie immediately changed the subject and turned his attention to Liu Ming.
"Oh, this is the general of our Murong family, Mr. Liu Mingliu." Murong Ji introduced.
"Liu Ming, I have met Sun Shaoxia." Liu Ming, who had already sat down, stood up again and saluted Sun Yixie with cupped fists.
"Hey, you're welcome, sir, sit down quickly." Although Sun Yixie did not stand up, he returned the greeting with fists in his hands and made the "please" gesture again.
After Liu Mingfu sat down again, Sun Yixie shouted outside the room, "Here comes someone."
"Master, what are your orders?" He was already waiting in the corridor. The store clerk came in to answer the question almost before Brother Sun finished speaking.
"Tell Master Yuan and the others to prepare the dishes, and bring the warm wine as well." Sun Yixie ordered.
"Okay." The guy promised and turned around to leave.
Sun Yixie also took advantage of this moment to slowly glance at the faces of Murong Ji and Liu Ming, and then raised his hand to signal to the two people standing behind him, "Brother Murong, Liu Ming." Sir, let me introduce that the two people behind me are Mr.When Murong Ji heard this, he just looked up and agreed casually.
There was nothing wrong with his reaction, because according to the etiquette at the time, Murong Ji was an honored guest invited by his master, Sun Yixie, and there was indeed no need for him to fight with his "servants" As for greetings, people have introduced them to him, and he only needs to inform them to show that he understands.
"You two, we have offended each other a lot in the past few days, so we can't be acquainted without fighting." Liu Ming, on the other hand, looked at the two of them and said something polite.
This is not an apology, and there is no apology in the tone.
Liu Ming was just acting as a "servant", neither humble nor arrogant, making a gesture of reconciliation for their young master.
Xue Tui and Tang Weizhi, as for Xue Tui and Tang Weizhi, did not say a word after hearing this. They still stood silently behind Sun Yixie on either side, not knowing what their intention was.
"Hey Mr. Liu, don't be so polite to them." Sun Yixie, on the other hand, said at this time, "I called these two people here today to ask them to apologize to you. "
"What?" Murong Ji was confused again when he heard this. He said to himself, "This guy arranged for these two people to stay here tonight. Not only did he not ask for punishment, but he also wanted to apologize to us. This is unavoidable. It's too cheap."
Before Murong Ji could figure this out, Sun Yixie had already turned around and said to Xue and Tang in a scolding tone, "Tell me, is it you? "Brother Murong and the others were not entertained well that day, and that was how the conflict arose."
"The young master said yes, that's what it is." , but there is still a trace of it that seems to be suppressing a smile.
"I have nothing to say, I accept the punishment." Tang Weizhi said, lowering his head deeply, as if he didn't want others to see his expression.
"Hmm, just accept it." Sun Yixie raised his eyebrows and added in a hushed voice, "Then just go and get that one as I told you before."