After Xie Run stood up, he pretended to be quite straightforward, with a bit of embarrassment on his face, and said: "Uh... I thought about it, brother, since you have good intentions, I shouldn't refuse people thousands of miles away. Outside, so I... might as well come over."
As he spoke, he walked over.
Others didn't think much of it, but when Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai saw this, they immediately looked at each other, and their eyes seemed to say - Got it.
In the eyes of these two cunning guys, Xie Run is a very calm person. Combined with his appearance and grooming, even if they can't detect his internal strength, they are still 70-80% sure that he is Jiang Hu. middle man.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you are a member of the Jianghu. As long as you don't show any obvious hostility, then we won't criticize you if you don't say it.
But now Xie Run suddenly changed his attitude because of Sun Yixie's "inconvenience" and became a little "unsettled", which revealed a lot of information.
How cunning are Sun and Huang? The two of them thought about it for a moment and realized: This strong man was carrying two bundles, both of which were not big. One was carried on his back and the other was held in his hand. Why is this? Even if you have to pack things separately, you can pack them separately and put them into one big baggage, right? Taking a step back, according to the size of the two baggage, it can be carried on the back at the same time...
You won't be aware of this kind of detail if you don't think about it carefully, but if you already have doubts, you can figure it out as soon as you think about it.
At that moment, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai thought almost at the same time - there must be something very valuable in the baggage in this strong man's hand.
Some people may ask, no matter how expensive it is, how much is it worth? Brother Sun and Brother Huang have at least several thousand taels of banknotes in their luggage. They are not so guarded, right?
But there is no comparison...
For example: For a rich man, he may not take it seriously if he loses a few taels of silver and forget about it soon, but for a poor man, a few dozen pennies can scare him to death. Even forced to death.
The current situation is similar to this: for Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie, a few thousand taels is indeed not a small amount, and they cannot be thrown away casually. But if they really lose it, they will not do anything. At most, they will be angry for a while. , when I figured it out, I learned a lot from the mistakes I made.
But for Xie Run, the escort, if the things in the bag were lost...even if it was only worth a penny, he would still be unable to deliver.
If it were an ordinary escort who lost his dart, that would be fine, but as the third person in the Yiyong Escort Bureau, Xie Run personally went out to run the "hidden dart" and ended up losing it? That's not just something you, Xie Run, can take the blame for. This is a major event that has tarnished the name of Yiyong Escort Agency.
Therefore, Xie Run had to be careful and he had to go overboard.
"Oh... Haha, it's okay, come on, come on, sit here." Sun Yixie had no grievances against the other party, so there was no need to tell what he had guessed, so he continued to see through it. The principle of not telling the truth is to greet the other person as if nothing is wrong, "We are all people on the road. We should help each other when encountering difficulties. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. Hahaha."
"Hey, yes." Xie Run continued to pretend to be naive, nodded and sat down.
He sat down, but he didn't take off his clothes and didn't leave his two bundles. His state was no different from when he was sitting in the corner just now.
You can't blame him, the world is dangerous and he has to guard against it.
Who knows if you six are really travelers? What if the six of you and the boatman just now are all in the same group? What if you got me here by design? What if the scholar and the businessman just staged a quarrel for me? What if you took advantage of the moment when I was restricted from taking off my clothes and swarmed up to attack me?
In this unfamiliar environment of isolation and helplessness, Xie Run, who has a heavy responsibility, has ten thousand possibilities in his mind, but it is not enough for him.
Fortunately...the dangers he expected did not happen next.
No one complained about him not taking off his clothes to warm himself by the fire. After all... he had no friendship with anyone, so there was no need to care about him. As long as he didn't bother others, no one would care about him.
And this kind of indifference also made Xie Run relax a little - he has been in the world a lot, and he is not afraid of indifference, but afraid of enthusiasm; he is not afraid of people who show malice to you from the beginning, but afraid of people who are kind to you inexplicably.
Therefore, among the six people in front of him, the one Xie Run is most afraid of now is Sun Yixie...
Of course, as long as Brother Sun doesn't do something that makes Xie Run feel problematic first, Xie Run won't act rashly.
In this way, time passed slowly, and everyone was warming themselves by the fire and resting in a silent and depressing atmosphere.
Some of them were indeed a little tired. When they were "drifting" on the boat, everyone's body was tight. After landing, it was very tiring to brave the wind and rain all the way with soaked clothes on the shore. physical strength.
Unknowingly, the traveling businessman fell asleep on a box in his luggage.
As mentioned before, this businessman is a relatively simple and straightforward person. Although his mouth is a bit rough, his mind is not bad. This kind of person has a "big heart" and can sleep even in this environment. .
But others were not as relaxed as him.
The scholar was narrow-minded and didn't want to sleep even though he didn't have anything valuable on him; while the doctor, at his age, had seen a lot and was cautious about everything and didn't dare to sleep.
I won’t explain further why Xie Run didn’t sleep.
Lei Buji, he is really not tired. After all, he is young and has high martial arts skills. Even if you let him run in the rain for two hours, he will not need to catch up on his nap. At most, he can just exercise his martial arts and adjust his breathing for a while.
As for Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai... they originally wanted to take a nap. Since Lei Buji was awake, they were relieved. However, when they figured out that Xie Run was probably a gangster with valuables, They couldn't sleep either.
It's not that they are worried about Xie Run's things, but that these two old bastards, like Xie Run, are starting to doubt others.
What if the three guys next to me and the boatman are all in the same group? What if they got the strong man here through design and wanted to gank him? What if the scholar and the businessman just staged a quarrel deliberately for the strong man to see? What if they finish ganking and want to silence us too?
The world is dangerous and they must be on guard!
So in this silent psychological warfare, an hour passed.
Those who baked clothes also put their clothes back on.
So are the clothes already dry? of course not.
However, when baking clothes with fire, this time is the limit. If you continue to bake, the clothes will not feel completely dry. They will only become harder and harder, and the color will be baked more and more. The more yellow.
At that time, except for a few extreme powerful people who did not eat the fireworks of the world, most people knew this kind of common sense. Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had also lived in this universe for seventeen or eight years, so they must have known it.
After they finished putting on their clothes, they also woke up the traveling businessman and reminded him to put them on too.
By this time, everyone was in better condition; those clothes had been squeezed out before being baked, and even if they were not particularly dry after baking, they were still better than when they were first taken off. In addition, they themselves were also sitting After staying by the fire for so long, my body became warm.
Finally, at a time when the atmosphere was quite good, Huang Donglai spoke: "Everyone, as the saying goes, meeting is fate. It is undoubtedly fate that the seven of us can gather around a fire under the same roof today. During this period, Everyone is sitting and not talking, and I feel uncomfortable holding it in. Otherwise, how about we exchange names? If something happens later, at least everyone can call each other by their names."
As soon as he said this, the faces of the scholar, doctor, businessman and Xie Run all changed, obviously they all had their own ideas.
In order to reassure them, Huang Donglai added: "Oh, of course, I don't mean to force everyone. If you don't want to say it, you don't have to say it. I can tell you first that Huang Donglai, these two are my brothers and grandchildren. Yi Xie and Lei Buji, the three of us are all in the world."
Huang Donglai revealed his identity here for two purposes: first, he wanted to take a preemptive strike and test Xie Run's reaction; second, he also wanted to use this as an opportunity to let Xie Run understand that the three of them were not targeting Xie Run is here, and he can even form a temporary alliance with Xie Run when there is danger.
After hearing his words, the first person to respond was the doctor: "Well... the old man Tian Wude is a good doctor."
"I've met Mr. Tian." When Huang Donglai chatted with people other than his brothers, he still seemed very polite and knowledgeable most of the time.
"Don't dare, don't dare, just make a living." Tian Wude said politely.
"Xiaosheng Kong Hengji." Seeing that someone else's name had already been announced, the scholar refused to be the last one and quickly said the second one.
Before he finished speaking, Xie Run couldn't wait to continue: "Xu Ren, he is..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, the traveling businessman suddenly interrupted: "No, your surname is not Xu."
As soon as these words came out, the other six people were all stunned, especially Xie Run, who was so shocked that he suddenly turned around and stared at the businessman.
But I saw that the footman's eyes were completely different from those before he fell asleep. Under the firelight, his eyes were faintly glowing with green light, and his tone became very strange and confident: " Your surname is Xie, your name is Xie Run!"
Xie Run's face darkened, and the false innocent look disappeared in an instant, replaced by a cold expression: "If I am Xie Run, then who are you?"
"Me?" When the traveler was asked this question, he suddenly laughed, "Haha...hahahaha..." His smile was extremely weird, and his words were even more terrifying, "My name is Yelu Baoqi."
