[Ye Lan] Cup of Joy

As a result, within ten days, Lan He actually became the "Chief Manager" of Xingxin Inn.Chen Guo generously gave him the key to the cash box on the counter, and also handed him over to arrange various matters such as purchases, reservations, and handling customer disputes.Blue River lived up to expectations and managed the inn in an orderly manner, seeing that the business of Xingxin Inn became more and more prosperous.

Many of the guests who came and went joked that "Xingxin Inn hired an ugly monster", which attracted many young children and older idlers to watch the fun.However, Lan He remained calm, still covering half of his face with a sackcloth, treating everyone with neither condescension nor condescension, and being courteous.

On the contrary, Chen Guo was not happy after hearing this, and took advantage of the meal time when there were many people to yell loudly: "Don't look at our little brother Lan now, he was poisoned in the mountains, and the poison will be cured after a while. He's a handsome man!"

The guests all laughed loudly: "The shopkeeper Chen said so, then let's replace the wine with tea first, and wish the manager Lan a speedy recovery!"

Hearing this, Lan He couldn't help but blushed to the tips of his ears.

After lunch, when there were fewer people, Lan He went out to get medicine again.The shopkeeper of the pharmacy was also happy to joke with him, and asked him how many days it would take to recover from his illness, but Lan He only vaguely asked him.This time he secretly added a few ingredients from Joy Gu to the list.After the shopkeeper took the order, he squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, and Lan He's heart was in his throat.

"Boss Lan, what do you do with this medicine?" The shopkeeper's eyes were a bit intriguing.

"This...cough cough...I'm researching a new medicinal diet in private, and I hope you can help keep it a secret." Lan He turned his face away and clenched his hands slightly in his sleeves.

"Oh——" the shopkeeper smiled meaningfully, "Mr. Lan has studied it thoroughly, but remember to give me a priority opportunity to try it."

Lan He nodded hurriedly: "That's natural. I'll rely on you to take care of me in the future."

"It's easy to say." The shopkeeper sent him out of the door with a smile.

From then on, Lan He often took some ingredients when catching medicine—not that the quantity needed so much, but that the grinding requirements and cooking methods were written in detail in the Gu poison formula. In order to meet the requirements, Lan He had to do it again and again Practice one at a time.But other than that, he still needs some things obtained from monsters and beasts, and for a while, it was hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Fourteen days passed in a blink of an eye, and Lan He went to find An Wenyi again, expecting to get a "normal" prescription, but unexpectedly, the new prescription that An Wenyi handed him was so shocking just looking at it. The ratio of bitter water in the stomach.Before he could speak, An Wenyi said in a calm tone: "Take it for another month."

Blue River had no choice but to thank him and leave.The pimples and sores on his face have all disappeared, and the bruises on his body have almost faded away. He can feel that his power is gradually recovering—could this bitter medicine be used to eliminate the acne marks on his face?

Thinking of this, Lan He suddenly felt at ease again.The previous poisoning was very successful. He felt that An Wenyi didn't seem like someone who would prescribe medicines indiscriminately, so he accepted the result calmly.

If you accept it, you accept it. When you really drink it, Lan He pinches his nose and pours it into himself.While admonishing himself "don't forget the roots", he held the kit to cheer himself up.This is not the dragon's pool and tiger's den as he imagined, maybe he can retire and return to his hometown after a successful career!

With such hope in mind, Lan He paid more and more attention to the actions of Happy and everyone in their spare time. After staring around, his target came back to Ye Xiu—first of all, Lord Grim is a man, but the two girls are definitely not; Luo Ji He is a scholar, it is impossible; An Wenyi is a doctor, it is said that he was abducted from other places, of course he is not; The behavior of laughing is not quite right - it seems that the only way to find a breakthrough is from Ye Xiu.

So Lan He listened to the corner every night, and it happened that he lived next door to Ye Xiu, so he could easily track Ye Xiu's whereabouts.As a result, he found that Ye Xiu often left in the middle of the night, sometimes with Wei Chen with Baozi, sometimes alone.Lan He felt strange, so he often squatted under the window to observe secretly, and found that Ye Xiu could always bring back some wild goods and things obtained from hunting monsters, and the bloody smell often came in through the window cracks.

"It must be right!" Lan He began to think about how to break this situation, and was so anxious that he was about to get angry.

Ye Xiu still went hunting every day.Since Blue River came, he didn't have to worry about many things in the inn. He often spent the day in his room polishing the Thousand Chance Umbrella and making weapons for Tang Rou and others.

But one night, when he entered the dense forest alone, he was hunted down.Ye Xiu was taken aback by the spray of medicine powder that covered his head and face, along with the sharp blades piercing from all directions.But he didn't care about the others, he just dodged it by dodging around, only the whisk that was thrown from one direction made him have to set up the Myriad Chance Umbrella to block it once.

"Wang Big Eye, are you interested?" Ye Xiu turned over and jumped onto the tree, put the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella on his shoulder, looked at the person in Taoist robe under the tree, his face was full of helplessness.

The one under the tree was none other than Wang Jiexi, the Immortal Master of the Chinese Herb Hall.When the inner disciples behind him heard Ye Xiu's shout, they all had a hard time holding back their laughter.One of the disciples with a broad sword jumped out and shouted at him: "Grand Mo Xiao, don't be rude to the Master Immortal Master! Master Immortal Master, this is the bodhi eye! It can 'know yin and yang, judge life and death', I advise you Be good..."

"Hehe, are you so powerful? Then why didn't your Master Immortal Master think that Lanxi Pavilion won the first place in the martial arts competition?" Ye Xiu asked back with a smile.

The fly whisk in Wang Jiexi's hand trembled, and his expression was calm: "Only by doing your best can you obey the destiny."

"It's quite decent to talk about it. Why don't you let me know?" Ye Xiu didn't touch the bong on his waist, so he grabbed a green leaf and put it in his mouth, whistling.

"You're standing too far away, I can't see clearly." Wang Jiexi replied.

"Are you trying to trick me into going there?" Ye Xiu waved his hand.

Hearing this, Wang Jiexi took three steps forward, and raised his hand to make the disciples stand back.Ye Xiu just jumped down from the tree, and said with a smile, "Don't come here without any harm. Don't you want to say that I'm going to be black, and there must be a bloody disaster"?"

"You are really lucky." Wang Jiexi raised his eyelids, looked at Ye Xiu for a while, and then said, "You will have a peach blossom disaster this year."

"Peach Blossom Tribulation? Wang Big Eye, when did you change your career to be a matchmaker?" Ye Xiu plucked his ears, with a look of disbelief on his face, "I'd better stop hurting other girls with my mess."

Wang Jiexi shook Fuchen noncommittally: "Why don't you practice with my disciples?"

"Not for free."

"The inventory of Zhongcaotang has been counted, and I can talk to you. In addition, we will try our best to help the monsters that are offline."

"It's sincere enough. Make a deal."

An hour later, the disciples of the inner sect of the Zhongcao Hall were all lying on the grass in disorder, with a pile of corpses of monsters beside them.This Lord Grim unexpectedly attracted a bunch of monsters while sparring with them, causing them to be covered in blood.

"I'll bring another girl to practice with you tomorrow night." Ye Xiu leaned comfortably on the tree trunk, spread his palms to Wang Jiexi, and took the bag of treasures that the latter handed over.

"What origin?"

"Just an inn cook."

"Aren't you afraid of being hit?"

"Just what she wants."

Wang Jiexi was silent.

Ye Xiu held the Thousand Manifestation Umbrella in his hand, and flew across the forest just like that, before disappearing in no time.

Back in the attic, Ye Xiu put away the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella, and went out of the room again, wanting to wash up, but happened to see Lan He going upstairs.It turned out that after Lan He found out that he had lost him, he had no choice but to come back silently, but bumped into him when he didn't want to.

"It's so late and you haven't rested yet?"

"The medicine is too bitter, I'll come down to find some sour fruit to suppress the taste." Lan He had no choice but to give an excuse, while patting his chest to express his panic.

Ye Xiu frowned, and asked him if he still had the medicine.

"There's still half a bowl on my table." Lan He replied truthfully.As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, the air was soaked with bitterness.

But Ye Xiu strode over and pushed open the door of his room, picked up the medicine bowl on the table and drank it down in one gulp, feeling bitter to the bottom of his gut.Turning around and seeing Lan He's shining eyes, he realized that he had actually drunk Lan He's medicine on the spur of the moment.

"Isn't it bitter?" Lan He asked nervously.

"It's not bitter, it's not bitter, there's still some bottom in the bowl, do you want to lick it?" Ye Xiu smiled and handed the bowl over.

Lan He blushed, took the medicine bowl and ran away: "I'm going to wash the bowl!"

Watching Lan He disappear down the stairs, Ye Xiu went to look for An Wenyi again.Sure enough, he was still lighting the lamp and preparing various antidotes.

"What happened to the prescription you gave Lan He?"

"It doesn't hurt the body, it's just warming up." An Wenyi remained calm in his hands.

"What about the dosage?"

"It's more."

"Why?"

"If someone has a wicked heart, I don't think they can last for a few days, or they might just stop drinking." An Wenyi turned his head and looked at Ye Xiu firmly, "Don't forget that you are not alone now."

Ye Xiu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly after a while, then turned around and closed the door.

When he went back upstairs, he met Lan He who was returning to his room, followed him and patted him on the shoulder: "I'll drink with you from now on!"

"You're not poisoned." Lan He blinked, a little puzzled.

"I asked Xiaoan about it. This is a nourishing medicine. It doesn't matter if I drink some. I'll be with you." Ye Xiu replied with a smile.

"This...isn't that good?" Lan He clasped his hands together in a bit of embarrassment, "My medicine money alone is already costing the proprietress a lot..."

That's right, the money for the medicine was forced by Chen Guo, but the money for the materials was his own surplus.Lan He distinguished this clearly and meticulously.

Ye Xiu was stunned for a moment, and almost collapsed with laughter: "It's okay, it's okay, Xiao An said that it's okay if I drink half of your medicine."

Lan He thought to himself, this way he could get better slowly, so he agreed, and nodded in agreement.

From then on, Ye Xiu came to urge Lan He to drink the medicine every day after dinner. Each of them had half a bowl of bitter medicine soup, and they had to knock the rim of the bowl like a toast before drinking it—but the expressions of the two of them looked like they were going to drink it after drinking it. The feeling of the bridge.

Taking this opportunity, Lan He proposed that he felt that his skills had recovered and wanted to go hunting with him.Ye Xiu thought about it, agreed, and claimed that he would call him in the middle of the night.Unfortunately, to Lan He's disappointment, that night was accompanied by a group of people from Moon Lun Zhai, who could not see anything suspicious at all.He had to concentrate on finding the materials he wanted.There were several night hunts after that, and he only saw Tang Rou and Baozi together.

Seeing him slashing monsters with his sword, Tang Rou almost wanted to compete with him on a whim.Lan He resolutely declined, and only dared to use the foundation-building swordsmanship he had learned—that was the basic swordsmanship taught to him by his father when he was a child, and he did not dare to reveal what he had learned in the Lanxi Pavilion.

Soon another month passed, and Lan He had almost gathered the ingredients for Joy Gu, and also got rid of Huanglian's nightmare.But he hardly saw Wei Chen follow him out to hunt a few times.

"Um... why doesn't Big Brother Wei always see him?" Lan He carefully put on a curious look.

"He, he went to the 'Northern Expedition'." Ye Xiu slyly laughed.

Lan He was a little surprised, but soon heard from the diners that the Reincarnation Sect in the north had recently gained an outer disciple who was very good at commanding, which greatly increased their achievements in hunting monsters.

Dare to go undercover!Lan He was speechless, would Boss Wei really not reveal his secrets?

But Wei Chen wasn't there, so he didn't have to worry about someone recognizing him, so he relaxed a lot for a while.As a result, one day he saw a diner with a six-pointed star engraved on his saber, and he was frightened out of his wits—Has Lanxi Pavilion sent someone again?

But it turned out that he was thinking too much, the man's saber was just a mahogany sword.Lan He even asked around insinuatingly, but the diner was quite forthright, telling him that it was a gift for his youngest son: "He doesn't like Excellent Era Cult, but he likes the Lanxi Pavilion, oh, look, obviously this In the Hangzhou area, aren’t the swords and spears played by the little dolls engraved with maple leaves?”

Lan He echoed with a smile, and wiped the cold sweat off his forehead.He paid attention to it, only to realize that there are not a few people who use the logos of famous schools as decorations.In the past, he stayed in the sect to deal with tasks, or went out to hunt monsters, and he didn't pay attention to these details. Thinking that he barely escaped, he couldn't help but feel lingering fear.

But Lord Grim's shadow hasn't been touched yet.It's been almost two months now, and the Joy Gu has been buried in an altar, just waiting for the Lord Lord Jun Mo Xiao to appear.Lan He thought that there was no need to rush this matter, so he had no choice but to take care of the inn's affairs with peace of mind.

As a result, in the last few days of April, there was a tragedy that was full of wind and rain in the city-a female corpse was found outside Hangzhou, which was horribly devoured by scorpion demons and centipede demons. It was the daughter of blacksmith Xu in the city. Excellent Era sect leader Ye Qiu.This girl's funeral was arranged by Excellent Era Sect.Liu Hao even sent out a call to the world, inviting people to come and attend the funeral in three days.

When the news reached Xiaoshan City, Ye Xiu planned to go alone, but Lan He said he wanted to see it too, so Chen Guo let him go.

On the day of the burial, the outskirts of Hangzhou were crowded with people.Lan He and Ye Xiu huddled together in the crowd, and at the end of the endless crowd, Liu Hao, dressed in white, led a group of Excellent Era Sect inner disciples, and personally accompanied the coffin to the grave.As soon as the coffin was put down, Liu Hao suddenly walked to the center of the crowd and spoke loudly: "As we all know, the traitor Ye Qiu destroyed the Three Seals and caused unrest for the common people in the world. This life must be counted on his head. Up!"

The common people all angrily echoed, chattering and shouting.

Liu Hao looked around, nodded in satisfaction, and stretched out his hands to press in the air: "Everyone, be quiet! Our Excellent Era Sect also has news and wants to announce it today - my Sect has invited Yue Yun Sun Xiang, an inner disciple of our sect, joins our sect. All the things under the name of "One Autumn Leaf" in the past will be handed over to him, and he will also be the leader of our sect. Our Excellent Era sect will definitely arrest the traitor Ye Qiu and bring him to justice forever. Cut to pieces!"

One Autumn Leaf!

At that time, Ye Qiu, the leader of Jiashi Sect, used a spear to defeat evil and swept away all directions, and was honored as "One Autumn Leaf".As soon as a leaf falls, you know the autumn of the world. Ye Qiu can be the entire martial arts world by himself. He is the well-deserved No. 1 martial arts, so he was also elected as the leader of the martial arts.However, he has always been wearing a silver mask, and few people from other sects know his appearance.

Now that Jiashijiao made such a statement, it also won the hearts of the people.Liu Hao even personally shoveled the first shovel of soil to cover the coffin: "We will definitely avenge this girl!"

People all over the mountains and plains raised their arms and shouted, it was very spectacular.

Lan He glanced at Ye Xiu, and found that he was silently looking at the girl's grave, pushed and pushed by the angry crowd without struggling, and there was a lot of inexplicable sadness in his eyes.

"Brother Ye, what's wrong with you?" Lan He grabbed his arm and passed his voice with difficulty.

"He's right. This life really has to be counted on Ye Qiu's head." Ye Xiu said with gloomy eyes.As soon as he finished speaking, he dragged Blue River across, and walked out of the crowd like a ghost.Finally arrived at a secluded place, the two sat down to rest for a while.Ye Xiu suddenly smiled and asked Lan He, "What do you think of Ye Qiu?"

Lan He thought for a while, and said seriously: "I haven't seen him, so I can't cover everything. But there were no rumors in the past decades, so he was either too good at pretending, or he was framed."

"And how do you feel?"

"My feeling?" Lan He's eyes flickered, and his left hand quietly covered the concave hole on the hilt of his sword, "How can I see it? After all, he is a god of that era, with glory and glory, shining like a star .I would like to believe him."

Lan He didn't say that he went to the martial arts conference with Huang Shaotian and others five years ago, before Huang Shaotian became an inner disciple.He felt that he would never forget the wonderful competition he saw that day, but what impressed him even more was that Ye Qiu just took advantage of the opponent's attention and used the spear to cut off all the connection points of the body armor, and when the armor fell apart Then no more shots, just waiting for the other party to take the initiative to admit defeat.In other arenas, there are many incidents of disparity in combat power that lead to serious injuries, but Ye Xiu has never had it here. ——Of course, it would be better if Ye Qiu didn't laugh so naturally, just hearing the laughter makes me feel like I really deserve a beating.

After hearing what he said, Ye Xiu picked up the pipe and took another puff before asking, "Then do you believe me?"

Lan He was startled, then laughed, without moving his hands: "I believe it."

"What if I were Lord Grim?" Ye Xiu added abruptly.

Lan He paused, looked straight into Ye Xiu's eyes and replied, "I believe in you, it has nothing to do with who you are."

After he finished speaking, he silently waited for Ye Xiu's answer, but his heart was beating wildly——Is Ye Xiu Lord Grim?

"Will you stay?" Ye Xiu asked back.

"Ok?"

"Because - I won't go back with you." Ye Xiu lowered his head, and knocked his bong on the stone.

"Why?" Blue River subconsciously blurted out.

Ye Xiu chuckled again, the corners of his eyes were bent, like two butterflies with wet wings: "I knew you were sent by Ye Qiu. I really didn't expect my good brother to care so much about Jianghu's affairs, even with the You are all fascinated by it...but it is normal for you to like Lanxi Pavilion, after all, you use a long sword."

Lan He tried his best to suppress the mania in his heart, and asked cautiously, "How did you find out?"

"Your demeanor towards people is like everyone else; moreover, your swordsmanship is of the same line as the swordsmanship of the imperial city; I heard that your family was in trouble when you were young, I think it was probably Ye Qiu who brought you back during his southern tour. Yeah." Ye Xiu explained, "And you have a little trick when you lie, like this—" Ye Xiu gestured his fist, then smiled and said, "I'll give you back the lapis lazuli you dropped. You go back."

Blue River didn't understand why Ye Xiu felt that his swordsmanship belonged to the imperial line, and he didn't figure out the relationship between this "Ye Qiu" and that "Ye Qiu". His only almost instinctive reaction was to rub it Jumping up from the ground, he threw a sentence at Ye Xiu——

"I'm not going!"