Star Trace Gate

Chapter 815 Listen, Look

Li Gou'er actually didn't know that although he didn't know Senior Jiang Yu, the latter knew him.

Jiang Yu has lived in the Renjian Inn for nearly a year. As a spectator, he has seen the daily comings and goings, the bustle of the hall, and all kinds of life.

Although Li Gou'er's whereabouts were erratic during the day, he would return to the vicinity of the Renjian Inn every evening, either asking for food from others or doing some stealing at night, and then find a corner to sleep.

He was probably only 13 or 14 years old, but he was full of anger, and his silence revealed a ruthlessness. If he was caught stealing, he would never beg for mercy no matter how hard he tried or how many people beat him.

Besides just hanging out all day, he also enjoys sharpening knives.

Senior Jiang Yu had seen him countless times. After dark, he lay in the alley across the long street, staring at the inn while sharpening a shiny black dagger on the bluestone wall.

Inside the inn, the lights were on and the only sound was Li Gou'er chewing.

Jiang Yu looked at him and asked softly, "I see that you have healthy limbs, a clear mind, and even a good appetite. So why don't you find a job in this city, work hard, and support yourself?"

Li Gou'er was almost full, so he was reluctant to put any more big mouthfuls of meat into his mouth. He just took one piece at a time, first taking a light bite, and then chewing slowly, letting the aroma of the meat linger in his mouth for a while.

He listened to Senior Jiang Yu's question and sneered, "What's the point of being diligent and self-motivated?! Shopkeeper Hong gets up at the end of the Yin hour every day, issues orders, orders materials, divides the work of purchasing, ties up horses and harnesses carts, and does everything himself, but what happens in the end? Isn't he still working like a dog for the young master of the Xu family?!"

"In this world, is it useful to be diligent and self-motivated? If I wasn't born with the surname Xu, I would be a beggar all my life. The difference is that beggars have many bosses, but slaves only have one boss."

"Hey, old man, you gave me a plate of meat today, so that counts as half of my boss."

Li Gou'er grinned and said, "You like to read miscellaneous books. Tomorrow I will go to the market and steal a few for you."

Jiang Yu didn't care about Li Gou'er's low moral character, and just replied calmly: "You'd better live through tomorrow first."

This sentence made Li Gou'er freeze in place as if struck by lightning. He looked at the handsome old man in front of him with gray hair and elegant appearance, and a trace of vigilance and fear appeared in his eyes.

Jiang Yu looked at him deeply, but did not say another word. He just turned around, picked up the remaining half of the liquor on the table, and walked upstairs.

Li Gou'er took a long time to come back to his senses. He stood up from the wooden beam, carefully put away the broken iron basin he had used, and then went to the kitchen to clean it.

Shopkeeper Hong had come down three times to clean up the private room and had already filled two large buckets of swill. When Li Gou'er saw this, he silently took out the swill and walked towards the livestock house where the pigs were fed, taking some dry food and cakes from the swill for tomorrow's meal.

When he put his small palm into the stinking swill bucket, it was immediately covered with a thick layer of oily dirt. This kind of dirt seemed difficult to wash off in this lifetime, and it was disgusting and nauseating to look at.

After a while, Li Gou'er poured out two buckets of swill and left quietly. He did not thank Shopkeeper Hong, and the latter did not stop him from pouring swill for him.

……

The next day, in the evening, the sun set in the west, the sky darkened, and the ancient Chaolong City was shrouded in rosy clouds, with the ground covered in golden light.

Mr. Xu and seven or eight other playboys, each with their own beautifully dressed women, came to the Renjian Inn again. They didn't like going to brothels because that would make them the same as the general public and look very uncool.

This group of people entered the private room of Hongge again, and while enjoying a feast of wine and meat, they also engaged in excessive gambling. And Master Xu also acted as the banker with a high odds of 1 to 5, betting that the young marquis would be the first person to take the stage in the final battle of the Emperor's Tomb.

The probability is very high, but the odds are not low, so the young men in the same group also placed big bets.

Everyone drank until the beginning of the night of Xu, and they were not satisfied yet, but the servant of the Xu family came hurriedly in a carriage. He told Xu Deliang that the emperor's tomb would be officially opened in less than two days, and the elders of the Xu family in Xianlan Sect would go to Guanlongtai to watch the ceremony on that day, so they had all returned home today. The master urged Xu Deliang to go back quickly to show his filial piety.

Xu Deliang knew very well that his current happy time was all the result of his family's influence, so he naturally did not dare to neglect it. He could only hastily say goodbye to his drinking buddies and ran downstairs in a hurry.

Although it was the beginning of the night, it was not too late for Chaolong City, which was experiencing the opening of the Emperor's Tomb. The long street in front of the inn was full of tourists and was extremely noisy.

Xu Deliang trotted out of the inn and waved his hand, saying, "Damn it, hurry up!"

Upon hearing this, the two servants immediately knelt down beside the carriage and arched their backs for Xu Deliang to step on.

"brush!"

Xu Deliang lifted his collar, stepped on the back of a servant, opened the curtain and was about to get into the car.

"Tap!"

Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded, and a blurry figure rushed out from the downtown area, holding a black dagger, and rushed over at an incredible speed without any warning.

"Xu Deliang!!! Today, you and I will die together!"

A low, hoarse, and hateful shout echoed in Xu Deliang's ears.

He turned around suddenly, but in a blur he saw a stinking, dirty beggar stabbing himself in the abdomen with a knife.

"puff!"

The man was a drunkard, and the knife was a knife that had been sharpened for years. One was prepared for a long time, and the other was completely unprepared.

The black knife flashed a trace of poisonous green light, instantly piercing through Xu Deliang's gorgeous clothes.

He turned pale with fear and instinctively dodged backwards, shouting, "Protect me, protect me! This little beggar wants to kill me!"

Although Xu Deliang is uneducated and has no skills, his family background is there after all, and he is the eldest son of the Xu family. Therefore, even if resources are piled up, he will not be a useless person who is really powerless.

He was a top-level martial artist of the first rank, but the mission to advance to the second rank was a solo one and was very dangerous, so he had been hesitant to try and had not yet been promoted.

But at this moment, this top-level first-class warrior had already been frightened out of his wits. He had no strength left in his body and had forgotten all about his magical powers.

But the little beggar waited so long, just for today!

"Snapped!"

He held Xu Deliang's head with his dirty left palm, and held a black dagger in his right hand. His expression was extremely distorted, full of hostility, and he stabbed wildly.

The fact that he could hold down Xu Deliang's head with one hand was enough to show that he was not an unenlightened mortal, but at least a first-class supernatural power master, and most likely a physical cultivator. Otherwise, with only the subconscious physical reaction of a warrior, even if he was scared to the point of peeing his pants, he would not be easily held down.

“Puff, puff…!”

The little beggar took a short knife and stabbed Xu Deliang's abdomen more than ten times in a row. Both the knife and his palm were emitting faint black and green light.

This scene attracted countless tourists on the long street. They dispersed instantly, and then gathered in the distance, jumping and watching.

Soon, many local people discovered that the person who was assassinated was Xu Deliang from the Xu family. Then, some people with supernatural powers who were about to draw their swords to help were instantly silent.

The Xu family is so powerful that no one dares to offend them, but they have also reached a point where no one wants to help them.

"Who is that young man? Why does he want to kill the eldest son of the Xu family?!"

"I don't know, maybe he has gone crazy!"

"That little beggar doesn't want to live anymore?!"

"Damn it, he's already a beggar, what does it matter whether he's alive or dead?! Kill him!" Someone "praied" silently in his heart but didn't dare to say it out loud.

"...!"

Next to the carriage, the little beggar held a knife and stabbed dozens of times.

At this moment, a tall middle-aged man suddenly jumped up from the crowd and flew across the sky, leaving shadows of his legs everywhere.

The leg shadow was extremely fast, and it fell down from mid-air as chaotically as a storm.

“Bang, bang, bang…!”

There was a muffled sound, and the body of the little beggar who was stabbing with a knife flew up. There was a sound of bones breaking in his chest, head, and arms. He flew like a dead dog and then fell heavily to the ground.

"brush!"

The middle-aged man in black robes fell from midair, looked at Xu Deliang beside the carriage in astonishment, and asked anxiously: "Master, Master, are you okay?!"

Xu Deliang had slumped beside the carriage, his face pale, his forehead covered in sweat, and his eyes empty.

Instantly, many people rushed out of the Renjian Inn to watch, including Shopkeeper Hong. He recognized the little beggar lying on the ground at a glance. It was Li Gou'er who came to eat last night.

His eyes were filled with astonishment and his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he was restrained by his reason.

Next to the carriage, Xu Deliang was breathing heavily and kept touching his abdomen and chest with both hands. In the end, he found that there was not a drop of blood.

"Young master, I'm going to kill him." The middle-aged man knew that he had not fulfilled his duties and was afraid of being punished, so he rushed to vent his anger for the young master.

"brush!"

Suddenly, Xu Deliang jumped up, tore off his clothes, and looked down at the inner armor given to him by his family elders.

The inner armor at the abdomen had already shown signs of being punctured. If the little beggar had persisted for a few more minutes, I would have died here today.

For a moment, anger arose.

"Snapped!"

Xu Deliang jumped up and slapped the middle-aged man hard on the face: "What's the use of you, useless thing? Why aren't you next to the frame?!"

Although the middle-aged man was a second-rank official, he did not dare to say a word at this moment, let alone explain. In fact, he was just beside the carriage, but for some reason, the docile military horse he was sitting on suddenly got startled. When he chased after it, he just missed Li Gou'er's assassination.

Xu Deliang looked at Li Gou'er lying on the ground with an extremely vicious look. Seeing that the black dagger in his hand had been kicked away by the middle-aged man, he stepped forward and said, "Damn it, you stinky beggar!!! How dare you stab me?!"

Li Gou'er was like a child under the second-rank master. At this moment, the bones of his limbs were broken by the trampling of the legs, and he had no ability to stand up.

Blood was gushing out of his mouth and nose, and he looked at Xu Deliang who was walking towards him with a look of regret and unwillingness: "Heaven is cruel... Why... Why is my promotion to the second rank still not coming? ! ! Why can't I kill this bastard with my own hands to avenge my father?!"

Xu Deliang walked closer, looked at Li Gou'er cautiously, and suddenly said, "Oh, you are the... kid from the Li Family Pharmacy in Tanshui Township?! Is your father Li Han?"

"Xu Deliang, I can't kill you, but there must be someone in this world who can kill you, and it must be someone more powerful than your Xu family! Even the emperor died... There is no noble family in this world that can be passed down for thousands of generations."

"The vast wealth you have seized in the past will bring you disaster sooner or later."

"... and the Xianlan Sect!!! The blood of the people you drank will sooner or later stain the Wendao Palace!"

Li Gou'er's voice was filled with sadness and resentment. As his anger surged, he vomited blood from his mouth and nose, and shouted at the top of his lungs, "My father lived in poverty for half his life, and he devoted himself to studying pharmacology. Not to mention saving countless lives, he was also a well-known good doctor in the area. Just because he got a precious herb in the second-grade secret realm, he was assassinated by someone sent by the Xu family at midnight... In order to conceal his tracks, they also ordered those lackeys to disguise themselves as bandits... They robbed the pharmacy of all its money, and then skinned my father and set him on fire!"