Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 466: Shocked by What Happened Upstairs

Afternoon, Shihe Inn.

This inn is quite famous in Taizhou. Firstly, it is located at a transportation hub and has a large number of visitors almost all year round. Secondly, the chefs here have inherited skills and are particularly good at stir-frying pork liver. Some people even choose to avoid high-end restaurants and come here specifically to eat this dish.

A store like this is undoubtedly quite busy during the day, especially at meal times.

For example, right now, in the middle of the day, the store is already so noisy that one feels like one can hear everything and yet hear nothing.

Hu Wenzhi was sitting in a corner of the store lobby at the moment, sharing a table with a middle-aged man with a half-grown child and eating.

Let’s talk about Old Hu. After leaving Shanghai County, he said goodbye to Sun and Huang and started traveling alone.

After all, from the very beginning he just asked Shuang Xie and Eunuch Wei to take him back to the Central Plains from Japan, so there was no reason for him to follow them all the time.

Furthermore... after experiencing those things in Shanghai County, Hu Wenzhi was even more afraid to travel with Shuang Xie; because from Hu Wenzhi's perspective, Sun and Huang were involved in too many forces and the water behind them was too deep, and if nothing unexpected happened, they had already been targeted by the "Desire King" Ding Buzhi. If he continued to follow them, he was afraid that he would be involved in some kind of underworld conspiracy.

Therefore, after leaving the city, as soon as they stepped onto the fork in the official road, Hu Wenzhi suggested that he wanted to go around and have a look by himself, and "not bother the two young men anymore."

When Sun Huang heard this, he immediately understood what Hu Wenzhi meant. Anyway, their relationship was just average and neither side had any motivation to act together, so if you want to leave, just leave.

But before they parted, Sun Yixie still took out the "making a good connection" routine and took the initiative to give Lao Hu some silver, saying... "You just returned to Central Plains, even if you have relatives and friends, you can't contact them for a while, you need some travel expenses, right?"

Hu Wenzhi also knew that the other party was doing him a favor, but considering that he already owed Sun Yixie a large gambling debt and was not short of a hundred taels, he accepted it out of politeness.

After that, Hu Wenzhi set out alone, leisurely traveling around the beautiful rivers and mountains of his motherland.

Recently, he passed through Taizhou and after some inquiries, he came to the Shihe Inn, wanting to try the fried pork liver here.

Because he was alone and acted in a low-key manner, everything was easy to arrange. Even if the restaurant was full, he would quickly find someone to share a table with.

It was going to be a wonderful day, with delicious food and fine wine, and then we could go out for a walk after dinner, bask in the spring afternoon sun, and breathe in the hustle and bustle of the city. How pleasant.

Unexpectedly...

Just as Hu Wenzhi was about to take his first bite of the fragrant, steaming hot pork liver, some words that he shouldn't have heard inadvertently floated into his ears.

"Your Excellency is indeed extraordinary... Who would have thought that the legendary 'Shadowless Poison Master' is such an unprepossessing old man." The voice of a middle-aged man sounded from the guest room above Hu Wenzhi's head.

"Hey~ Big brother, you underestimate Poison Lord. In my opinion, Poison Lord's current appearance must be a disguise, right?" Another man's voice continued.

You are all familiar with the two people who are talking. They are Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao, who had previously attempted to raid the Three-Character King in the scorching forest but failed, and later abandoned their companions and fled the scene.

Of course, after the incident at Wujian Villa, the two of them no longer dared to use the name "Jiuxiao Sword" in the martial arts world or in public. They didn't even dare to use their real names, otherwise they would probably be "rushed" by the righteous people in the martial arts world who heard the news and used them as a reputation package.

Fortunately, there were no photographs back then, and only a limited number of people could recognize their faces at a glance, so they had no problem moving around normally outside; they called each other brothers, and when asked their names, they said they were "Big Brother Hong" and "Second Brother Hong."

Right now, Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao, under the instruction of their master the "masked man", came to this inn to meet with the legendary "Shadowless Poison Lord" to discuss a commission on their master's behalf.

In theory... choosing this place to discuss business is indeed a good choice, because in such a noisy environment inside and outside the store, it would be difficult for them to be overheard when they are discussing business in the room; and if any unexpected situation arises during the negotiation, they can use the crowd to create chaos and take advantage of the situation to escape.

But who could have thought that there was a master of ear skills who had been away from the Central Plains martial arts world for more than 20 years and whom almost no one would have guarded against, and who just happened to sit less than two meters away from them at a shared table today.

Hu Wenzhi was really unlucky. To put it bluntly, he didn't want to listen to any of this nonsense, nor did he want to be involved in these martial arts conspiracies that had nothing to do with him. But the first two sentences had already entered his ears, so he couldn't pretend not to hear them, right?

"Some things are worth seeing through but not speaking out. That's what a wise person does." After listening to what Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao said, the Shadowless Poison Lord responded calmly and slowly in his old man's voice.

This sentence may not sound like anything at first glance, but it is actually a threat, or even an ultimatum.

If Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao didn't recognize the difference and continued talking about each other's "real appearance", they might not be able to leave the inn today.

"Uh... heh... yes, Du Zun is absolutely right." Chi Xiao is also an old hand, it's impossible for him not to understand such an obvious hint, he quickly responded, "Let's talk business."

Hearing this, Du Zun was silent for two seconds, then he spoke again: "Did you bring the things?"

Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao looked at each other, then Bi Xiao took out a small bag from his arms and put it on the table.

"It's right here." Chi Xiao glanced at the bundle, then looked up at Du Zun and replied in a deep voice.

"Could you please open it for me?" Du Zun said again.

The two hesitated for a moment, then Chi Xiao nodded to Bi Xiao, and Bi Xiao reached out, untied the double-layered bundle, and opened the brocade box inside, revealing a token in the box.

The moment he saw the token, Du Zun's expression changed. His old face and cloudy eyes seemed to become a dozen years younger in that instant.

However, he quickly calmed down again, and the "spirit" disappeared from his face.

"Poison Lord, you won't suspect that this token is fake, right?" Bi Xiao saw that the other party looked at it for a long time without taking it or saying anything, and thought that this was the reason, so he asked.

"Don't worry." Du Zun replied at this time, "I still recognize the True Hero Order." He paused, "Please help me pack it up again."

Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao exchanged glances again, and then Bi Xiao replied "OK", then he closed the brocade box again and wrapped it with two layers of cloth.

"Poison Lord, our 'master' would like to ask you to do something..." Chi Xiao continued after seeing that the other party had already accepted the reward.

"I, Shadowless Poison Lord, have made an offer and received payment, so I will definitely get the job done." Poison Lord interrupted the other party and said, "Your master should know my rules. Is the letter ready?"

"Hey, it's here with me." Seeing that the other party finally mentioned it, Chi Xiao took out a letter from his arms and put it on the table, next to the bundle.

"Yes." Du Zun glanced at the envelope and nodded, "Well, if there is nothing else, please go ahead."

What he meant was that the baggage and letters could be left behind and the people could leave.

Chi Xiao and Bi Xiao were unwilling to stay in the same room with a man who was regarded as the "Poison King" for a long time, so when the other party said this, they immediately stood up and said goodbye, and left the inn in a minute.

After the two left, the Poison Lord sat quietly in the room for a while, as if thinking about something.

After a while, he picked up the letter on the table and opened it to read.

Then, he did something that many villains in movies and TV shows like to do, which is "talking to himself while reading some important information alone."

"Hmph... Wu Mingzi, ah Wu Mingzi, after all these years you are still the same, liking to hide your head and show your tail, and being smart...

"Knowing that the other party was an expert in poison, he did not dare to show up himself, so he asked two lackeys to come forward... The letter was written with the left hand, and the handwriting was exactly the same as when you 'did that thing' back then, hehe...

"Your swordsmanship is clearly the best in the world, but because you are too cautious, you never dare to show it. You hide in the dark all day and persist in these conspiracies... I really don't know whether you are born timid or have too low self-esteem."

While Du Zun was muttering, he had already finished reading the letter that stated the commission matters.

He memorized every word of the letter and then burned it to ashes with a candle.

Then he slowly stood up, put away the bag on the table, and walked out of the guest room.

What he didn't know was that at this moment, there was a person downstairs who had inexplicably heard too much information that he shouldn't have heard and which was extremely dangerous once heard, so the pork liver in his bowl no longer tasted good.

(End of this chapter)