After walking along the river embankment for three or four miles to the east, and then turning north onto a wide post road, the scenery gradually became familiar. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are also more people and horses coming and going on the road, and there are many children of officials in brocade clothes and embroidered clothes, and there are also extremely gorgeously made official carriages.

This is the main road that runs through the whole town, which is about four or five miles long from east to west, and there are many alleys on both sides of the street, all of which are constantly populated.

The streets were full of women strolling arm-in-arm, each with a leisurely and easy-going expression on their faces, even the children of the powerful who rode horses, but they were rarely seen on the streets.

I have to say that it is not easy to see the people have such a face in the brutal Great Zhou Dynasty.

The house where Shen Chongxin and his wife settled Qi Jiu is located on West Street.

Qi Jiu's whereabouts are really hard to find, and she can only inquire about the house first.

When she got to the street, she looked around, and finally asked Wang'er to stop in front of a house with a red lantern hanging under the door.

Yuanbei exclaimed: "Isn't this our two-room house in the past?"

Shen Xi glanced at her, and then looked back again.

This house is only about ten zhang long, and there are two entrances inside and outside, which is not big.

But it's not easy to have a house like this in Bluestone Town.

According to Pearl, the second room was very well-connected, and there were visitors almost every day, and Shen Chongxin had used some ways to choose to buy a house here.

"That's right. You and I will go to the opposite teahouse and sit down first, Wang'er, please help me go around and ask who the people who live in this house now, and the more detailed the information about the sale and purchase of this house, the better. ”

In order to avoid Aunt Pei's suspicion too much, the information she can know from the people around her is limited, so she can only start from the source of the sale of the house.

Such a big house costs three or four thousand taels of silver, but the original owner sold it and was still poor like that, which could not help but make her even more suspicious of the inside story behind it.

When Wang'er heard this, she drove the carriage to the teahouse opposite the house.

The teahouse was quite clean, Shen Xi ordered a pot of tea, and then found a place by the window to sit down.

After Yuanbei sat down, he looked behind him suspiciously. When he turned around and saw Shen Xi looking over, he said, "Why does the slave think that someone is staring at us?"

Shen Xi paused, and also looked around intently.

There are both men and women in the store, and they all dress up every day, they are all in groups of threes and twos, talking and laughing, and no one seems to be paying attention to their appearance.

The people on the streets outside are also very relaxed and laid-back.

She glanced at Yuanbei: "Just pay attention." In broad daylight, no one will make trouble easily. ”

Yuanbei nodded.

After waiting for tea here, Shen Xi took the opportunity to look out the window again.

The windows are open, so every move on the other side is in full view.

On the left side of the house door is a silver building, and on the right is a small gambling house. In front of the door, there is a row of vendors selling needles, threads, brains, candy men, and so on.

The pedestrians on the street, whether they are farmers, village women, or dignitaries, all look prosperous and peaceful.

She couldn't help but think of Qi Jiulai in Aunt Pei's mouth again.

The so-called small hidden in the forest, big hidden in the city, such a prosperous place, it is obviously easier to hide. Shen Chongxin hid him here back then, which should have been carefully considered.

As a guard in the palace of Emperor Qin Ling, he did not follow him south to die for the country, but fell ill on the side of the road outside the capital city, no one knows what he has experienced, but it is conceivable that his existence did not arouse anyone's suspicion - at least until he showed his wounds.

The guards of the Qin Palace all have unique tattoos on their bodies, and I think the reason why his identity was exposed was because the doctor saw the tattoos when he was treating his injuries.

She took the tea, but did not drink it, but gazed at the street scene through the tea vapor, wondering what kind of person he should be, and what kind of livelihood he was doing now.

"Open!"

At this time, there was a shout from the gambling house opposite, followed by a tidal wave of shouting.

She took advantage of the situation and saw that in the small gambling house, which occupied an area of no more than two doors, there was a lot of people.

The gamblers stood and sat and sitted, squeezing the inside.

And a table by the window has a lot of onlookers.

A man with his long hair casually tied up was facing the street, reclining at the square table, with his thin lips raised, his elbows on his cheeks, his left leg bent and propped up on a bench, looking at the people sitting on the left and right.

He was obviously the dealer, because there were already many pieces of silver in front of him.

-- The small gambling house focuses on pleasure, and the visitors are all children of the local squire, or occasional guests who come for recreation, and rarely use large silver tickets.

She used to mingle with her brothers a lot, and although she had never been in such a place, she could hear it somewhat.

Shen Xi originally just swept over her eyes, but when her gaze slid over the man's face, she looked at it again!

At this glance, she immediately held her breath, and her back stiffened......

This man has a straight eyebrow, and a lazy and casual breath all over his body, and he is actually the person who saw through her bloodline in the small alley that day!

He was still dressed in a well-made but comfortable cloth shirt, and his long hair was also loose, but he was casually tied at the back of his head.

This casual look is exactly the same as the way he was swinging under the big willow tree that day!

And if there was no one next to him in that group of gamblers, he inexplicably had the momentum of the head of the dragon......

Shen Xi's heart froze.

She thought it was unlikely that she would meet him again, but she didn't expect him to be here.

This is the only one who knows her secret, after all, and there is no reason why she should not care.

She looked left and right, and the tea guests had their own pastimes, talking, and no one paid attention to her.

She took a sip of cold tea and relaxed.

In fact, who would have known that she was a Helian if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes?

It's all about her own thinking too much.

She looked across the street, and there was another cheer in the gambling house, thinking that he had won again, and was raising his lips to collect the money.

Is this person really a reckless?

But how could a reckless person live in a place like Beicheng? Why could he buy such a small alley?

Where did he get all that money?

Do you win money by gambling?

Shen Xi felt that he was too lenient, where did he get the money, and what did it have to do with her?

Her purpose is to check the house, and she shouldn't care too much.

But even so, she couldn't help but go around to him in her heart.

After all, his reaction was too strange.

Before, because I thought I wouldn't meet again, it was okay, but now that I really see it again, the doubts in my heart will all pop up.

As a citizen of the Great Zhou, he actually turned a blind eye to her who was sent to the door with pure Helian blood, what does he have to do with the Helian clan?

And the point is that she killed him, and he didn't want to kill her later!

With the whole world now slaughtering the Helians, she didn't believe he wouldn't know what her existence meant.

Thinking of this, the curiosity in her heart was a little irrepressible.