Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 71 These days, even storytellers have to talk about current affairs
When the tiger girl walked into the restaurant, several customers looked at her attentively, but then went back to drinking.
I look at her because she looks weird, and I don't look at her because there are many weird people in this world.
Especially in a border town like theirs , it was not uncommon to see foreigners. After seeing them so many times, people became accustomed to them.
The tiger girl looked around carefully. Many things in this restaurant were unfamiliar to her.
She walked to a table and sat down with the sword in her hand. She looked around calmly and frowned slightly.
There were a lot of people here, and it was very lively and full of voices. She was a little unaccustomed to such occasions.
"Pa!" A waiter shook the shoulder cloth in his hand and ran up, greeting enthusiastically.
"Is this guest here for a meal or to stay overnight?"
Hearing the empty sound of shaking , the tiger girl subconsciously held the sword across her body and looked at the waiter with cold eyes, with a dangerous look in her expression.
The waiter was startled. He paused, took a half step back, and stammered.
"Sir, sir?"
Seeing Xiao Er's appearance, Shu Hu Nu finally realized that she was not outside the Great Wall now.
Slowly putting down the sword in her hand, she frowned and looked at the waiter. After a while, she answered in a muffled voice.
"I'm eating."
She didn't speak fluent Tang dialect, and she couldn't tell the difference between a stopover and staying in a hotel.
"Okay, okay." The waiter laughed dryly, wiped the sweat from his forehead, bowed and asked, "What would you like to eat?"
The tiger girl paused for a moment, then stared at the waiter and asked.
"What?"
"Uh." The waiter smiled bitterly, turned around and pointed at a wooden sign hanging on the wall.
“We have those in our store.”
He was not very good at entertaining these foreign guests, but he had to entertain them, after all, he still had to make a living here.
Shu Hunu looked up at the wooden signs for a while. On them were written some common dishes eaten by Tang people, but most of the names of the dishes were unfamiliar to her.
After a long while, she said.
"A plate of stew and a piece of dry bread."
She ended up clicking on things she could understand, rather than things she couldn't understand.
"Well, that's fine. I'll prepare it for you right away."
After saying that, the waiter seemed to be relieved. He turned around and ran away as if relieved from a heavy burden, leaving the tiger girl alone sitting there.
At the beginning, the tiger girl just sat there with her eyes closed.
But suddenly, there was a loud bang of slamming the table in the middle of the restaurant, which made her look sideways.
"Pa." It turned out that a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar was sitting in front of a seat there. He slapped a gavel on the table and said while stroking his beard.
"Last time we talked about how Baiyun Master Jiang Lian'er couldn't stand Yin Wuli causing trouble in the martial arts world, so he issued a declaration of war, inviting Yin Wuli to the Changfeng Tower in Taihe City on January 1st for a decisive battle..."
Who is this middle-aged scholar?
The Tang people in the building naturally all knew that he was the storyteller in the restaurant.
But Shuhu Nu didn't know this. She just thought that the man spoke in a strange way, which was really interesting, so she paid more attention and listened.
Seeing that the drinkers around him had quieted down, the middle-aged scholar in the hall held his breath, his eyes sparkling, holding the gavel, and continued to speak confidently.
"But who is Yin Wuli? He is invulnerable to swords and spears, and cannot be split by axes. What is he afraid of? He is not afraid of anything. On the day he got the news, he beat the head of the Changle Sect half to death and spread a message to the world that he accepted the decisive battle.
My goodness, how was the martial arts world at that time? It was like a gathering of wind and clouds, and countless martial arts masters were rushing towards Taihe City. Until January 1st, the small Taihe City was full of five or six famous sect leaders, seven or eight martial arts celebrities, a dozen famous masters, and more than a hundred first-rate and second-rate heroes.
Who are the names that can be called out among them? Let me tell you one by one. The first one is the world's number one swordsman Dugu Bufu. He came alone from outside the city holding a long sword. Then there was Master Yuanzhen of the Shaolin School, Taoist Master Zhenqing of the Wudang School, and the owner of the weapon list Wen Renli, who all came later..."
The storyteller spoke so vividly that Shu Hu Nu became absorbed in listening without her noticing. For a moment she didn’t even notice that the food had been served on the table.
She just listened as the storyteller told the whole story.
From the appearance of the devil Yin Wuli, to a white-robed thief who came through the clouds with a sword, took his life and left alone.
Finally, the storyteller slammed the table and concluded, "This is the end of the story. If you want to know what happens next, please listen to the next story."
The whole story told by the storyteller was full of ups and downs, and Shuhu Nu listened with great interest.
In this story, she seemed to have heard of a world of martial arts, in which there was the dignified Jiang Lian'er, the Dugu Bufu who was obsessed with swords, the Wen Renli who recorded all the weapons in the world, and the free and easy thief Li Si.
This story alone tells of all kinds of people and things happening in the underworld.
Is this the world of the Tang Dynasty? It is indeed very different from that of the Jin Dynasty.
But what she cared about most was the last sword in the story.
What kind of sword does it look like that can make wind and clouds accompany it and change the color of the sky and the earth? Is there really such a fast sword in the world? The tiger girl thought so and made some calculations in her heart. She prepared to write this matter down and bring it back to the Kingdom of Jin.
But then she thought again, she didn't know whether the story was true or not, maybe it was just a story in a book?
So she looked at the people at the table next to her, thought for a moment, and asked.
"Friends, I want to ask, is what the gentleman just said true?"
Several people sitting nearby turned around in confusion when they heard the stumbling voice. They first looked up and down at Shuhu Girl, obviously paying some attention to such an exotic woman like her.
But soon someone said to her with a smile.
"Of course it's true. This happened more than a month ago. If you had come earlier, you might have been able to go to Taihe City to take a look."
The tiger girl closed her eyes slightly, because she knew that if it was true, then she would not be able to block that sword.
So she asked again.
"Is the sword of the thief saint Li Si really that fast?"
"That's hard to say." Another person said.
"But since his sword, the pattern of weapons in the world has changed. I heard that Wen Renli specially set aside an additional page in the weapon list to record his sword. Even Dugu Bufu specifically asked him to compete with the World Sword Alliance. So even if it's not that fast, it shouldn't be much different."
It seems that it is just a story after all, and it is somewhat exaggerated, the tiger girl thought to herself.
"Then." She asked her last question.
"Which one is faster, Dugu Bufu's sword or Li Si's sword?"
"Needless to say, it's Dugu Bufu. After all, he is still the best swordsman in the world." One of them answered immediately.
But soon someone else waved his hand, thinking that what he said was a little inappropriate.
"Hey, you are short-sighted. I don't think Li Si's sword is necessarily slow. Think about it, even Wen Renli of the Weapon List doesn't know how to arrange his sword. Maybe it is even faster than Dugu Bufu's?"
"Humph, if that's the case, he should be ranked first. Why should he be listed separately?"
Several people sitting next to me started arguing about this issue.
The tiger girl had already sat back in her seat.
She thought she had found the person she was looking for.
There is an old saying in the Kingdom of Jin: If you want to know whether the gold in the ground is real or fake, just dig it out and you will find out.
