In March, the swallows murmur between the beams, the spring scenery suddenly emerges, the days are getting longer, and the flowers in the city are blooming, beautiful as splendor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAfter a night of spring rain, the peach blossoms are as red as rouge, and the green willows stretch their waists like eyebrows.

This peach and willow green season is the most suitable for hiking, and there are many red and pink beauties embroidered by the smoke and dew pond on the outskirts of the city. A group of children from urban families returned from hunting, passing by the pool, causing a group of women to look back frequently.

The men rode majestically past the pool on fast horses laden with sumptuous prey, and the admiring and shy gazes of the women added to their male confidence and charm, and they deliberately straightened their eyes and raised their voices as they passed the women. Although they pretended to be serious and unmoved by women, they secretly held their breath and gave full play to the abilities of all their senses, and tried their best to capture the heartfelt smiles of the women every time.

Only Shi Jiaheng, who was far behind the team, kept his head down, staring thoughtfully at the reins in his hand, looking absent-minded. To him, this kind of hunting activity of the noble sons is just a very simple game, and it cannot be compared with the desert sand and the battlefield with flames. There, people's daily mental concentration is highly concentrated, tension and pressure make life full and regular, and the bustling Chang'an is a song and dance field that consumes people's will. Excessive hustle and bustle and lust give birth to more desires, and splendor and vanity wrap everyone thick like a cocoon, and over time, the simple and innocent heart withers and dies under the siege of impenetrable desire.

Shi Jiaheng is reluctant to do this, so he always keeps a certain distance from the outside world.

His presence caused a slight commotion among the women, but he didn't care. It wasn't until a young man who was traveling with him laughed at him jealously that he suddenly raised his head and glanced at the girls by the pool, showing a polite smile without any meaning.

A group of aristocratic youths swaggered into the city gate with their heads held high, swaggering through the streets of Chang'an, causing countless citizens to panic and dodge.

Shi Jiaheng found an excuse to leave the team early, he did not have the habit of sitting on a horse and looking down on civilians to show his superiority, he preferred to be at eye level with people, cordial and friendly.

In recent years, Chang'an has developed rapidly in commerce, and the transaction between the east and west markets has been unable to meet people's needs, and the development of commerce has gradually affected the management of the city.

Even though it has not yet formed a scale, it still attracts many citizens to stop and stay, and the joy and noise of people picking up items at the stalls add endless vitality to the city.

He pulled the flames through the crowd. Occasionally, he also stretched his neck to look at the satisfied expression when people were looting the items, and he was also infected by the excitement and joy, and he was driven, nodding and smiling at passers-by from time to time.

People come and go, shoulder to shoulder, and stumbling is inevitable. Shi Jiaheng was hit by pedestrians three times, and everyone would stop to apologize to him, but he was not stunned, but still smiled faintly. But the fourth man who hit him only lowered his head and covered his head, and hurried through the crowd, and if he also stopped and said offended, he might have been careless. But the man's sneakiness was too obvious, he couldn't help but stop, his eyes followed his fast-moving back, only to feel a light on his waist, stretched out his hand to touch, and sure enough, it was stolen.

The man pushed aside the crowd with both hands, turned into a remote alley and ran to the end, looked around cautiously, saw that there was no one around, squatted down against the wall, poured out all the money from the money bag, put it in the palm of his hand and counted it carefully, as if he didn't believe it, counted it again, and then solemnly took out another jade pendant from his bosom.

The mutton fat jade pendant, shining bright, soft and white, warm to the touch, engraved with delicate patterns on it, the more she looked at it, the more she loved it, like rubbing the lines on it with her fingers, and she was afraid that the black ash on her hands would stain the smoothness of the jade pendant. He took out a new and clean silk handkerchief, put it under the jade pendant, held it in both hands, and admired it carefully. He was fascinated by the name of the bird on the jade that stood alone on the plum branch, not noticing that he was already covered in a great shadow.

When he looked up in a panic, he saw that the thief was smiling, and his arms were folded around his chest and he was leisurely leaning against the wall to watch him, as if he had become a turtle in an urn, but the man was caught with his hands.

He stood up, stared at him vigilantly, wrapped the jade pendant in his arms, and groped his way out against the wall step by step, until he felt that he was sure to escape from his control, he suddenly spilled the stolen coins at him, and screamed out of the alley: "Grab the money, catch the thief!" He ran as soon as he pulled his legs, shouting as he ran, but what he didn't expect was that Shi Jiaheng ran in front of him in a few leaps and blocked his way.

He stretched out his arm and punched him in the eye, Shi Jiaheng didn't expect that this tattered and short, thin little beggar would actually be able to do kung fu with his fists and feet, so he cheered up and fought with it, but after a few moves, he found that the little beggar could only write flower fists and embroider legs, he casually buckled his wrist, grabbed his shoulder, restrained him, and shouted in a low voice: "Money can be given to you, if you are in a difficult situation, life is unsustainable." I can still give some money, but you have to pay me back the jade pendant. ”

He didn't say anything, he still struggled to the death. Shi Jiaheng took advantage of the situation to straighten his body, wanting to put his arm against his throat. The little beggar's clothes were already shabby, and this pull actually tore his sleeves, revealing a snow-white blue lotus, and he was startled and let go of his hand.

The little beggar didn't care about the damage to his clothes, and he pulled out his feet to escape. Shi Jiaheng stepped forward to stop, and she hit him on the chest, and the two of them took a step back at the same time.

Shi Jiaheng stood opposite her and looked carefully. Her face was covered with mud, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but judging by the size of her body and feet, as well as the fair skin on her exposed arms and neck, she was undoubtedly a girl. So, he hesitated and asked, "Are you a little girl?" ”

The little beggar calmly tore off a piece of his shirt and tied it to the tattered sleeves, wiped the black mud on his face with his arm, vaguely revealing the outline of the woman's pretty facial features, and sneered: "If I were a woman, would you let me go?" ”

Shi Jiaheng shook his head and said, "It turns out that she is really a girl, why should she be a thief?" ”

The woman glanced at him and said fearlessly: "I said that the noble son of a rich family, Your Excellency will naturally not be a thief without worrying about food and clothing?" But when you don't have anything to eat, let alone a little girl, even if you are a dignified seven-foot man, I'm afraid you will learn that skill. ”

She put her hands behind her back and criticized justifiably: "The rich are stingy and stingy, and the rich and noble are not benevolent to the rich." I have stolen you to rob the rich and help the poor, and to do the right thing for heaven. ”

Shi Jiaheng laughed heartily and said, "It's rare to see a thief doing it as justifiably as you." ”

She stroked her hair and said righteously: "Could it be that all the money of rich people is earned by themselves?" It's not a clever robbery, the people's fat and the people's ointment. ”

Shi Jiaheng pursed her lips and nodded with a smile: "This also makes sense. If you can really use this money to help the poor, it is not a good thing, and it doesn't hurt to rob the rich and help the poor with petty theft, but it's just a little girl, the rich will be powerful, if you miss the hooves and be caught, it will inevitably be a lawsuit. I advise you to find another reliable livelihood is the best policy. ”

He picked up the scraps of money scattered on the ground one by one, and walked up to her, who was so frightened that she wanted to hide. He took her hand, put the money in her palm, and then added an ingot of five taels of silver, and sincerely persuaded: "Little girl, is it a fair and righteous thing to be a thief after all, especially since you are still a daughter, you are young and don't know how powerful, if you are caught, it is not something that can be solved by the speed of your tongue for a while." I went out of the city today, and I didn't have much money, so you can use the money to find a good family, live in peace, and don't wander around. Okay, now can you exchange the jade pendant for me? ”

A pair of bright and aura eyes on her gray face stared at his smile in it, trying to see in it her usual coldness, hypocrisy, and deceit, but even if she rubbed her eyes, she could only see his kindness and kindness.

She listened to him as if she were fascinated by a wizard.

The thief who took back the jade pendant instead thanked the thief.

Shi Jiaheng hugged her fist, but when she turned around, she pulled her. She stared at him in a daze and asked, "Well, what's your name?" ”

He still smiled and told the truth.

She muttered his name a few times, and suddenly chuckled, "Then if one day I am desperate to beg you, will you help me, will you take me in?" ”

Shi Jiaheng nodded solemnly and said, "Yes, if you have any difficulties, you can come to me." I live in the city, and you can find it if you ask. ”

The little beggar clutched the money in her hand all the way, and when she got home, the money was already hot in her hands.

Her "home" is in an abandoned house, because there were people in it and it is rumored to be haunted, so no one dares to live in it and it has become a haunted house. The wooden furniture in the courtyard is rotten and damaged. She had to tear down the door panel to make a bed, use the tables and chairs as firewood, and barely survive on stolen things on weekdays, and her life was very difficult.

Shi Jiaheng gave her the money, and after she dismantled and exchanged it, she spent a lot just asking the doctor to catch the medicine. But not for herself, but for an old beggar who lived across from her. Because when she first lived in Chang'an, the old beggar gave her a bowl of life-saving white porridge, and she remembered her in her heart and regarded her as a relative. But the doctor's medicine only allowed the old beggar to live for half a month, and after the beggar died, she used the remaining money to hold a formal funeral for her.

As soon as the funeral was over, she closed the door and turned out all the money at the bottom of the box, which was only forty copper coins, and she couldn't support it for even five days. She sighed, her hands were on her cheeks, stunned, although stealing money is fast, but the risk is too great, especially in this Chang'an City, Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, I don't know when I will meet high-ranking officials and scholars, all of them are characters who can't afford to offend, just take the young son who kindly gave her money last time, she went to the downtown to inquire, that person is actually the son of Yunzhong Dudu, and now he is guarding the palace, and he is the emperor's favorite general, so scared that she is speechless. She was really a little scared of being bluffed, if she missed for a while, she would be better if she died, and she would be afraid that she would not be as good as death and would be tortured. As soon as she thought of this, she couldn't help but shiver, and some regretted that she had fled into the imperial capital.

She thought about it for a long time, but she still had to listen to Shi Gongzi's words and find a serious thing to do, washing and sewing for others, although she earned little from hard work, she could barely make ends meet and was safe. After making up her mind, she officially began to change careers.

But time soon stole her optimism and left her with a sense of sadness. After seeing it for three days, there was almost no rice in the pot at home, and she still didn't find a family willing to let her work. It's no wonder that she has always lived at the bottom, and most of the people she knows and friends with are poor families, and those who can divide the housework outside are all upper-class families.

After shaking for a day, she didn't get anything, not that she didn't have a chance to start, but she was afraid of the rich and noble, and she couldn't bear to see the poor, so she wandered for a day and returned empty-handed.

At last she had reached the point where she had run out of ammunition and food, and she rummaged through all the things in the house, and at last she had to sigh and take out a small cloth bag from the closet, which she held solemnly to her chest, and prayed to feel the warmth of it against her chest, and then she made a painful decision.

The pawnshop boy tilted his head and yawned in a daze. The sound of knocking in front of the cabinet woke him from his slumber, and he impatiently put his hand to his chin, not even bothering to open his eyes, and lazily asked, "What should I be?" ”

"This." The little girl handed a small blue cloth bag to the counter.

He still didn't open his eyes, and continued to say lazily: "Let's say okay first, you can go back to the tattered clothes, old quilts or something, we will not accept any big stores here." ”

The little girl knocked heavily on the table a few more times, and said unhappily: "If it weren't for your pawnshop being a little famous, I wouldn't have taken things here." ”

The young man was startled by her, his hand slipped, and he stumbled. He glanced at the little girl in front of him angrily, and saw that she was wearing a cloth dress, describing as thin, with no jewelry on her head, but looking like a jade-faced peach blossom. The anger in his heart was half gone, and he was surprised: "You bluffed me to death, and you little girl is too fierce." He casually picked up the small blue bag in front of him and opened it nonchalantly.

The little girl was very nervous, staring closely at the movements of his hands, and repeatedly told him to be careful.

He didn't expect that this cloth bag sewn from scraps would indeed contain a good thing. He took out the longevity lock that was half the size of his right palm, which was made of gold, and put it in his hand to enjoy it.

The gold lock is not big, but it is cast of red gold, it is quite weighty in the hand, and the relief on the surface is also extremely exquisite, there is a piece of Lantian white jade in the middle, and the jade is nailed with an eyeball-sized South China Sea pearl, and then carefully rubbed, there is a small paragraph under the longevity lock, which is indeed the masterpiece of a very famous goldsmith in the world.

This priceless longevity lock is very incompatible with the little girl in shabby clothes, the young man looked down at the golden lock, and then looked up at the girl, and shouted to the shopkeeper to come out, and said with a smile: "Girl, this thing is really good, I'm afraid it takes the shopkeeper to have long eyes." ”

The shopkeeper shook a fan, came out slowly, and taught him a lesson: "What is the noise at noon?" ”

The young man smiled slyly, whispered a few words to the shopkeeper, and slipped with oil on the soles of his feet.

The shopkeeper held the fan in his arms, raised the golden lock and looked left and right, and said with a final word: "Just say that this payment is a hundred taels." ”

The little girl smiled proudly and said: "In the end, the shopkeeper of the big store is the one who knows the goods, and I happen to be a hundred taels." But let's say it first, only for half a year, and I will redeem it in half a year. ”

The shopkeeper's abacus crackled, shook his head and said: "I said girl, don't say half a year, I will be in this store for three months, but even if I give you half a year, no, I am afraid that you will not be able to pay back this money for a year." Why don't you sell this thing, I'll add another four hundred taels, a total of five hundred taels, and it's enough to buy a few entrances and exits in a big mansion in Chang'an City, don't you think? ”

The little girl categorically refused: "No, this thing belongs to the family, only dang, not for sale!" ”

The shopkeeper snorted and smiled: "Ancestral, that's even more of a treasure." He took the pen and sketched the picture, handed over a piece of paper and a package, "This is the ticket you are good, this is the silver you order." ”

The little girl opened the package, counted it three times before carrying it on her back, and reluctantly instructed the shopkeeper to take good care of her golden lock.

After she left, the shopkeeper lifted the curtain and entered the warehouse, and the young man greeted him with a hippie smile and asked, "How is it, can you make something?" ”

The shopkeeper found a jade box and put the golden lock in it, locked it up and ordered: "Come back and take this thing to the masters to pick, if it is not picked, wait for the girl to redeem it, if it is picked, give her a fake one." ”

The young man asked in a low voice, "Are you talking about the house, or the palace?" ”

The shopkeeper slapped the young man's head seriously and shouted, "Mouthy, this is also what you can ask, go to work." ”

The young man stuck out his tongue and ran away without a trace.

The shopkeeper glanced at the most valuable jade jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings in the warehouse, and locked the door with satisfaction.