"You're not going to blackmail me with rice and meat? Let me tell you, I also fled all the way from Linjing. I ate everything to survive. Isn't that rice and meat of yours human flesh? I ate so much on the way that I almost vomited. If you try to coax me with that rice and meat, don't blame me for making a scene and ruining your store's reputation."

Lin Rui warned the fat shopkeeper not to do anything weird. In today's world, apart from himself in Huang Moguan, it was extremely difficult for him to find a true Confucian businessman. It was true that there was no businessman without dishonesty. It would not be too much to give the fat shopkeeper a shot of prevention.

The fat shopkeeper nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, don't worry, sir, I will never cheat anyone."

After saying that, she readily hid the small mirror in his hand in her arms, smiled and said goodbye. Before leaving, she looked at the waiter and said, "What are you still standing there for! Go and prepare the meal for the guests!"

Lin Rui didn't forget what he was going to do next. He said to the waiter, "Find me a place downstairs. I've been sleeping in my room all day and I'm so bored."

The waiter nodded immediately: "Okay, okay."

Half an hour later, Lin Rui sat in the lobby of the inn. Yishuguan was a chaotic place. Even this ordinary inn was filled with smoke and smog. People were drinking, playing finger-guessing games, and even bringing prostitutes from brothels to have fun. Some even did it in public...

The others looked like they were just watching the fun, as if they were already used to the scene.

Lin Rui originally wanted to sit in the hall to find out some information, but now all he heard were obscene words.

He sat at a small table in the corner, which was very secluded and also convenient for him to listen to the conversations of the people in the hall during dinner.

Finally, after the men at each table had their animal desires released and paid the prostitutes to leave, Lin Rui began to slowly tell them the news he knew.

"I went to Yishu City today and saw martial law everywhere. I heard that because of the failed marriage with Huang Moguan, they wanted to kill the young general of Huang Moguan."

"Killed?"

"If he really was killed, why would we need martial law? I heard he escaped, and there's still a portrait of that young general hanging in Yishu City."

"He has sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, what a handsome man, worthy of being the Major General of Huangmo Pass. If we had gone with the Xing family army that day, we wouldn't have ended up in this state, neither human nor ghost, and even slaughtering our own compatriots..."

"Pah, pah, pah, stop saying that. If Yi Shuguan's minions find out, you'll be in big trouble, and your whole family will suffer with you."

"I'm just complaining. We're all family here..."

"Even our own people are not good. Trouble comes from the mouth!"

"You've done it, and you still don't dare to admit it? Why are you pretending to be sympathetic now? You didn't show any mercy when you killed people back then."

"Alright, alright, as long as everyone knows what we did, we can forget about going to Huangmo Pass now. If one of us is recognized by the enemy, the others will not end well either. Huangmo Pass is not a lawless place."

"Speaking of which, the reward for that young general is really high, one hundred taels of gold!"

"Forget it. If you have the life to earn a hundred taels of gold, you must have the life to spend it."

"Aren't there two other ministers? Their portraits have already been posted outside Yishu City. Their reward is not low, fifty taels of gold!"

Lin Rui...the two brothers Yan Xiu Yu and Yan Xiu Zhuo still think highly of him and Han Wenjing, so the reward of fifty taels of gold is definitely not low.

It seems that it is really not advisable to stay in this place for long. He originally wanted to hear about leaving here, but such big news broke out in Yishu City. The discussion among the people here was all focused on this matter. There was really no useful information provided.

Lin Rui wanted to finish his meal quickly and leave the restaurant on the first floor, but before he could move, a group of familiar people walked in from the city!

Lin Rui's eyes narrowed quickly. He would recognize these people even if they turned into ashes. Weren't they just the group of hunters who had followed him all the way?

At this time, the leader of the hunter group called out to the waiter in the store: "Quickly call your boss over!"

The waiter glanced at him and nodded, "Please wait a moment, gentlemen. I'll go get someone."

After a while, the fat shopkeeper reappeared, looking down at the hunters with a condescending look and a sarcastic tone: "I wasn't such a busy man back then. Oh, I didn't grow up strong enough to start my own business, right?"

The hunter group leader's face turned ugly, but he had to force a smile and agreed with the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, you're joking. We've always cooperated so well. When I have good goods, the first thing I want to give to you is definitely you!"

The fat shopkeeper sneered and turned around first: "Follow me."

Hearing him speak, more than a dozen people from the hunter group immediately came over carrying sacks soaked in red blood. Lin Rui knew what was inside. It was the flesh and blood of the villagers of the Cave Village, now brought to the inn by these hunters to trade.

Lin Rui finally understood what the butcher shop the hunters along the way were talking about. It was the inn run by the fat owner!

He didn't look carefully when he went downstairs, but now he found that everyone eating in the hall had a meat dish on the table. If the raw materials were really rice and meat, then the daily demand would undoubtedly be the largest.

When they were about to disappear at the backyard door, a man walking at the end of the team suddenly turned around. Perhaps it was his alertness as a hunter that made him realize that someone was staring at them.

The people of Yishu Pass have a natural insight into danger. This turn around allowed Lin Rui to meet him face to face. Lin Rui immediately lowered his head and pretended to eat food with big mouthfuls. When he looked up again, he found that the hunter had already entered the backyard. He didn't know whether the man recognized him or not.

The fat shopkeeper in the backyard didn't have a good impression of Hu Laosan and his group. This time, he gave them money and supplies to turn them into hunting dogs of the inn, but as a result, their appetites became big enough and they began to want to get rid of him and work on their own.

Hu Laosan was very flexible and immediately knelt down: "Boss, we know we were wrong and we will never do that again!"

The fat shopkeeper snorted coldly, "You don't dare to act? You're talking as if the people selling rice and meat along the way aren't you. What are you planning on doing? Are you going to come back and tell me you didn't hunt any prey? Are you coming back empty-handed?"

"You guys have learned the slick ways of the market, but you haven't yet broken free from my power. You know I hate betrayal the most. If I hadn't spread the word among the underworld, you guys would have succeeded. Now, you're just one step behind. So just accept the loss."

The fat shopkeeper was also a ruthless character. He casually clapped his hand with the ring on it twice, and the people hiding in the backyard immediately appeared. Hu Laosan and the other dozen hunters were completely powerless to resist the ferocious people in the backyard.

At this point, even Hu Lao San couldn't laugh anymore. He looked at the fat shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, there's no need to kill them all, right?"