The storyteller looked in the direction of the latrine and then at the front hall on the other side of the corridor, thinking that maybe the gentleman just now had gone to the front to listen to the story.
After weighing the heavy Dang Wu Tong Bao and stuffing it into the inner pocket of his arms, the storyteller straightened his clothes and returned to the teahouse hall with a smile.
“Hey, sir, he’s back.” “Hurry up and bring a new pot of tea to sir, and the money will be credited to my account!”
“Okay~~”
“Sir, what will you talk about now?” “Yes, talk about something new!”
“Yeah, yeah, tell me something new and exciting.”
When a group of tea guests saw the storyteller coming back, they all started making noises.
In this society, listening to music, watching movies, and listening to books are considered very good entertainment items. Apart from this, ordinary Baixin does not have many entertainment activities, maybe just making a villain between husband and wife at night.
So as long as there is an above-level storyteller sitting in the teahouse, it will usually be very lively.
“Okay, okay, please be patient, I have a story to tell!”
The storyteller held a white paper fan and held it in front of everyone. He looked around and couldn’t find the impressive Mr. in white.
However, there was a beautiful woman at the door who still had charm, and with the support of a servant, she took her two children and sat into the teahouse. A tea doctor was waiting for her, which made others take a second look, but they did not dare to go overboard. .
The storyteller picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.
“Ahem~ Since everyone wants to hear something new, let me tell you an old story from Jizhou. Not many people have told it in recent years, and the plot is relatively short, but it is still exciting. If someone travels far away In places like Ning’an and Baoshun, there may still be people who experienced it alive.”
Storytelling is an art, Ji Yuan has always thought so. Every storyteller who can survive by telling stories is not simple.
For example, at this moment, the storyteller has aroused everyone’s emotions and curiosity with just a few words, before he even started speaking or even said what he was going to say.
“Oh sir, please speak quickly!”
“Yes, what story are you going to tell?”
“Don’t rush, don’t rush, let’s start!”
The storyteller brushed it off, unfolded the white paper fan, shook it in front of his chest, and spoke in a straight and round tone.
“Several decades ago, on Niokui Mountain in Jizhou, there were frequent cases of vicious tigers cannibalizing people. In the past few years, countless people died in the tiger’s mouth. Everyone in the counties near the mountain was in danger, even if it was Old hunters don’t dare to go up the mountain easily. It’s really dark and the rain can’t enter the mountain…”
The tea guests on the side listened very seriously, and Luo Ningshuang, who had just sat down, suddenly froze and looked in the direction of the storyteller.
There was an older tea guest next to me who had heard this story before, so he lowered his voice and whispered to his companions.
“This is about “The Legend of Nine Heroes”, I haven’t heard of it in some years!”
“The Legend of Nine Heroes?”
“Well, you will know the local story of Jizhou after listening to it.”
“Oh oh oh…”
Beside Luo Ningshuang, two children were grabbing refreshments and listening to the story. However, the two children were a little strange and placed two pieces of the refreshments they grabbed in their hands on the empty seats, still smiling. Very proud.
Luo Ningshuang, on the other hand, looked at the storyteller slightly absentmindedly, shaking or closing her fan, patting the wood awake or showing body movements.
She rarely comes to places like teahouses. Luo Ningshuang has heard this story before, but this is the first time in these years that she has actually heard it told by someone.
The nine knights in the story have no names, and are all replaced by surnames such as Yan, Zhao, Luo, and Du. The plot has been beautified and changed countless times, including three fights with the evil tiger.
“Hehe…hehehe…we just fell down when we saw each other…”
Luo Ningshuang murmured a smile, her eyes a little bright, and those past events returned to her memory little by little. She looked at her white hands. The calluses from her hard-working martial arts had long since fallen off. Now, It can be regarded as a ten-finger-free operation.
“Leave my dream of martial arts to my children…”
Luo Ningshuang sighed and looked tenderly at the children on the table grabbing refreshments.
A table away, Lu Shanjun closed his eyes slightly and listened quietly to the storyteller’s story, with a smile on his lips.
“This is fate! It started in the past and returned to the past…”
Speaking of this, Lu Shanjun no longer hesitated, stood up and walked to Luo Ningshuang’s table.
The two servants at the table stood up and looked at him warily. Luo Ningshuang also looked at this gentle gentleman with a little doubt.
“Is there something wrong with this gentleman?”
Lu Shanjun smiled slightly and bowed to Luo Ningshuang.
“I saw that the heroine was in the busy city just now. She decisively attacked the thief regardless of her pregnancy. I admire her very much. I also saw that the heroine looks very much like an old friend I know, so I came here to pay my respects to her face!”
Hearing this, the expressions of the two servants softened a little, Luo Ningshuang also smiled, and the two children looked proud and looked at the man with great curiosity.
“Of course my mother is great, I heard from my uncle that she was even more powerful before!”
“That is, when we grow up and travel with our brothers, we will be powerful and become heroes!”
Lu Shanjun looked at the two little brats and nodded without saying a word.
Originally, he would not let Luo Ningshuang go immediately, but after hearing the story in the teahouse and seeing the glint in the woman’s eyes, he suddenly gained another understanding of human kindness in the world.
“Oh? How did you know I was pregnant? That friend of yours is similar to me? What is her name? Can’t you find her?”
After resting for a while, Luo Ningshuang’s fetal energy stabilized and she spoke more calmly.
Lu Shanjun straightened up.
“No, it’s just an old friend, not a friend, or in a sense, more like an enemy, no, more like a debt relationship, I am a creditor!”
Luo Ningshuang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She thought it was an emotional drama about a young man pursuing his favorite girl, but he didn’t expect that it was a debt collector.
“As for that person’s name, it is the same as the woman mentioned in the storyteller’s story, both named Luo.”
These words made the Luo family members stunned for a moment. What a coincidence. Luo Ningshuang even thought that since she looked like her and her surname was Luo, could she be the clan girl or younger in the family? Are my nieces borrowing money outside?
“You only know your surname but not your full name? Tell me your name. Maybe I can recognize it. If the matter is true, I can help you collect the debt.”
The money owed is a small matter, but the reputation of Luoxia Villa is a big matter. Luo Ningshuang cannot pretend not to have heard about it.
Lu Shanjun smiled again, said nothing more, and turned around to walk out of the teahouse.
“No need, I just decided to cancel this debt and let this Luo heroine live a peaceful life from now on. It’s good to have a husband and a son. Maybe she will actually teach a knight in the future.”
The words came from afar, and Luo Ningshuang had a strange feeling in her heart. She felt something was wrong. She stood up and turned to look at the young man who had left the teahouse and was walking away.
“Sir, stay!”
Lu Shanjun paused and turned to look in the direction of the teahouse. He didn’t say anything, just looked at Luo Ningshuang and waited for her to speak.
“Sir, there is something in what you are saying. If I dare to ask you for your name, you’d better tell me the full name of the woman. If I meet the heroine named Luo you mentioned, I will tell you what happened today.”
Lu Shanjun raised one hand and rubbed his chin, his eyes flashed and he smiled, and he held a salute with both hands and arched his hands towards Luo Ningshuang again.
“I’m here, Mr. Lu Shan.”
After saying that, Lu Shanjun put away his hand, turned and left again, and soon disappeared into the crowd of people on the street.
In the teahouse, the storyteller’s story has just entered its climax. The nine knights arrived in Ning’an County together, and after unveiling the list, they went up the mountain together.
When Luo Ningshuang heard the three words “Lu Shanjun”, her heart felt like a heavy blow, and her whole body trembled suddenly as if it was electrified. She stood at the door for a long time without making any other move.
“Lu Shanjun…his name is Lu Shanjun…is it a coincidence? No, it can’t be…”
The horrific scene in front of the tiger spirit kept flashing through Luo Ningshuang’s mind, far clearer than the memory just now, and the wound on her shoulder was even more painful.
On Niokui Mountain, in front of the mountain temple, a tiger bowed and made a covenant with nine people. Someone in the temple spoke calmly.
“In the next year, if any of these nine people do evil and cause chaos to the living beings, it will be up to you to rectify the law again. Whether it is swallowing or beheading, it does not violate the law of heaven…”
Mr. Ji’s voice echoed in my memories.
In these years, everyone thought that it was a temporary measure that Mr. Ji used to help them escape. Unexpectedly, now the tiger spirit has transformed into a human and came down the mountain to fulfill the contract…
Luo Ningshuang suddenly felt goosebumps all over her body, and a chill suddenly rose up. The person who left after talking to her just now was a terrifying tiger spirit who eats people without spitting out bones!
“Miss, what’s wrong with you? You look so ugly!”
“Yes, miss, don’t scare us!”
Seeing Luo Ningshuang’s pale face, the servant next to her became anxious again, thinking that her fetus was unstable.
“No, it’s okay…I’m fine!”
Luo Ningshuang turned around and smiled reluctantly at the two of them. She sat down in her seat with an uncertain mood. When she looked up, she found that there was another unfamiliar yet familiar person sitting across from her.
This man is dressed in a white shirt. His clean face does not require straight and clear features, but his age cannot be seen. There is a black jade hairpin on his head, but his hair is still hanging in front and back, making it look a bit untidy.
The two servants suddenly saw an extra person and were startled again.
“Who are you?” “Who asked you to sit down by yourself?”
“Stand up quickly!”
No one noticed that the expressions of the two children were a little strange. Looking at the two servants and then at Luo Ningshuang, one of them hesitated and spoke.
“Mom, doesn’t this gentleman just sit like this all the time? He even said he knows my mother…”
“Well, I’ll just sit here all the time!”
Sitting here all this time?
Before others could react, Ji Yuan spoke.
“Nvxia Luo, nearly twenty years have passed. How are you? You don’t have to worry about what happened just now. It is the right way to find a husband and raise a child with Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com, and it is not against chivalry. Back then, For you, the appointment has passed, and Mr. Lu Shan will not look for you again. Perhaps, this will be the last time you meet in this life.”
Although Luo Ningshuang is in Desheng Mansion, Ji Yuan has not seen her for so many years, and maybe after today, he will never see her again in the future.
“You, are you Mr. Ji?”
Luo Ningshuang finally remembered who it was and blurted it out.
Ji Yuan nodded and stood up.
“It is Ji. As the saying goes, there is a beginning and an end. I was present when the contract was made, and the same should be true when the contract is fulfilled. As Lu Shanjun said, it begins in the past and returns to the past. Haha, take care, heroine!”
After saying this and bowing, Ji Yuan also left his seat and walked towards the outside of the teahouse. Luo Ningshuang looked with the servant and her child, only to see that the white shirt looked dazzlingly white in the sun. Look has disappeared.
Luo Ningshuang stared blankly in the direction where Ji Yuan disappeared. While she felt at ease, she also felt empty.
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