Fu Yuanxin finished writing a picture of the master's explanation, spread out the paper and looked at it a few times, very satisfied. He took the paper under his nose and sniffed it, and he could smell a faint aroma, and he blew on it, smiling on his face.

"It's worthy of an inkstone bought for a hundred taels of silver, and it's really a good thing."

After he finished saying this, he picked up the inkstone and glanced at it again, and the more he looked at it, the more guilty he felt in his heart. Suddenly, I hurriedly took the inkstone and was about to run out, but as soon as I got out of the door, I was stopped by someone.

"I said little master, where are you going, the master is looking for you, saying that he wants you to take today's homework to him to see, fortunately I stopped you." Peony withdrew her hand, saw what Fu Yuanxin was holding in her hand, and said strangely: "Young master, where are you going to get this inkstone?" Don't get covered in it, be careful of being told by the old lady. ”

"I—I'm going to wash." Fu Yuanxin's face flushed before he came up with such a reason, and as soon as he finished speaking, he smiled at the peony.

"Young master, are you stupid to read this book, where does the inkstone need to be washed, did you take the wrong thing, the brush needs to be washed."

"Yes, yes, I got it wrong, I'll go to my father right away." Fu Yuanxin sighed with the inkstone in his hand, went back to the house to get the calligraphy on the paper, and trotted all the way to find Fu Dongqing.

When he entered the house, Fu Dongqing was admiring a calligraphy and painting that had just been written, and when he heard movement, he said without looking back: "Yuanxin is here." ”

Fu Yuanxin's heart jumped, and he was neither standing nor sitting. I still wondered why my father could know that it was him when his father turned his back to him.

After Fu Dongqing looked at the painting with an appreciative face, he turned around and saw that his youngest son shook his head a little hatefully, and stretched out his hand to signal Fu Yuanxin to bring the word over to him to see.

"Huh?" He looked at it twice and saw the difference. This ink is heavy but not thick, and it does not disperse when it encounters water, so it seems to be a good ink. When he looked closer, he suddenly smelled a faint fragrance.

Is this ink fragrant?

The best ink!

"Where did you get this ink?"

Oops! It's been discovered!

Fu Yuanxin's heart chuckled, his eyes began to sweep to the side, Fu Dongqing didn't think much about it, seeing this scene, he knew that his youngest son had something to hide from him, his eyes widened, the former was so frightened that he said a word without thinking, and he cried as soon as he finished speaking.

"I bought it yesterday."

Fu Dongqing squinted his eyes, put his hands behind his back, and paced to Fu Yuanxin's side, not moving.

"Oh? You bought it? This kind of fineness, you can't buy it for a hundred taels of silver, and you only have three taels of silver a month, where does you get so much money? Could it be the bamboo inkstone you told me about a few days ago? Fu Dongqing was just speculating, and after speaking, he saw his son's face panic, obviously talking about his sore spots.

"Where's the money?"

The father was furious. Fu Yuanxin was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a puff and began to tell the truth in a hurry. In fact, he had been holding this in his heart for a long time.

Sister Qingqing was so good to him, she gave him delicious food and combed his hair, but he took the jade tiger at that time, and although he wanted to return it later, he still ......

After listening to Fu Yuanxin's words, Fu Dongqing only felt that he had lost face!

"Are you saying that you stole something from someone else's house for such an inkstone?"

Hiss –

Fu Yuanxin watched in horror as his father tore the words he had just written to shreds.

"A living deed? How much? ”

"Alive, alive, as 150 taels of silver." Fu Yuanxin has all questions.

"You still have a bit of brains, but why is there so much money?" Fu Dongqing was puzzled, an ordinary person would have such a good thing at home, but the living deed was only one hundred and fifty taels, he walked around the house, and decided to redeem the jade tiger first before making a decision.

Although Fu Dongqing was strange, he only asked Agui to take two hundred taels of silver to redeem it, and he didn't put much thought into it. But when he saw the jade tiger sent by Agui, he was so shocked that he knocked the teapot to the ground.

"You said this was taken out of the Xu family?!"

Fu Dongqing shook her lips and glanced at Fu Yuanxin with a sharp look. The latter nodded timidly, not quite understanding why his father was so angry.

"You, you unfilial son, I'll settle accounts with you when I come back!" Fu Dongqing slapped the table violently, causing the people around him to shrink in fright, "Come with me to Xu's house and apologize!" ”

The house slave and Fu Yuanxin had never seen Fu Dongqing, who was always smiling on his face, so angry, and he didn't follow up without saying a word.

"What about people? Are you sure it's here? ”

When Fu Dongqing and his entourage broke down the door and entered Qinghe's house, they found that it was empty, there was no one in it, and the house was forcibly turned over, messy, and things were scattered all over the ground.

"Father, this is it, maybe Sister Qingqing has gone to the store, so ......" Fu Yuanxin swallowed the rest of the words halfway through speaking, and he also knew that what he said was completely impossible. If you really just went to the store, why is the house so messy, as if someone has searched it?

"Agui, go around and ask what's going on here."

"Yes, sir."

After a while, Agui came back, he said a few words in Fu Dongqing's ear, and after telling the ins and outs of the matter, Fu Dongqing couldn't help but kick the wooden stool over angrily.

"Useless! Zhang Hai is a pus, I don't think he can do this position for long, just for such a useless waste son, he will lose the position of a prefect, I just hope that he will eat a trench and grow wise. After speaking, he flicked his sleeves, walked outside, and dropped a sentence halfway through, "I'll go to an old man's house to catch up, you go back to the house first, Fu Yuanxin will give me to the ancestral hall for a day and not be allowed to eat." ”

Fu Yuanxin's feet were weak and he held on to the table so that he didn't fall.

"Why the hell is that?" He still didn't understand why this matter was so big.

·

Qinghe picked up a piece of tender beef, chewed a few bites, the spicy, salty, and fragrant soup base in the mouth can be tasted slowly, and the heat is turned off just after the time of stir-frying for a few breaths, and the residual temperature is stir-fried to keep the meat fresh and tender, this chef has good skills. She nodded, "Brother Zhang's master is very good, and Qinghe is ashamed of himself." ”

"Little sister is polite, you are a young girl who can have such cooking skills, which is already very powerful." Zhang Tu was very proud, and he also felt that there was light on his face, and he laughed heartily when he spoke.

On the way back just now, the two have already been commensurate with brother and sister, although I don't know if the two sides are sincere, but according to the current view, it is still good.

This cottage is built on the mountain, and there are even singing and dancing to help the fun, these women are the wives and concubines of the leader, and they have a lot of talents, Qinghe muttered to himself while admiring it, it happened that Erbai came over, and she thought the same.

"Qingqing, did you say these people were robbed?" Erbai lowered his voice and communicated with Qinghe in private, and the two agreed on the same page, looking at each other and laughing.

These were originally good family girls, forced to capture the Qingliang cottage, forced to press their lives in the hands of these mountain kings, and became their women, but men went down the mountain to fight the world, women only need to sit at home and enjoy themselves, serve men, and over time they will also be comfortable, and they will never want to go down the mountain again.

"Big brother, these two girls are really good-looking, they just want us, why don't you take them in? We don't lose either. "The second child is the man who squinted at the second white in the Qinghe shop, he already has a wife and a concubine in his family, and he is the most lustful man among these leaders.

The wine glass in Zhang Tu's hand was pinched by him, and the wine spilled out, his eyes widened, and he lowered his voice to threaten: "Second brother, you were half responsible for this disaster, we owe it to others, and you still want to beat people?" To do our job is to believe in the word, if you don't even have this, what's the difference with those thieves. ”

Speaking of which, there were many large and small cottages on this road at the beginning, but later the major villages struggled, merged with each other, and weakened their strength.

Qingliang Mountain is also an outlier among the bandits, they exchange large sums of money in exchange, and if you are willing to hand over all the money, they will promise to help you get out of this difficult mountain road. But if you don't agree or don't have the money, then the person will change it! So it slowly grew stronger, and the village, which had been greatly damaged by the merger, was integrated into one, which made the government begin to be afraid.

The second child was startled when he heard this, his neck shrunk, he sat there and snorted coldly and began to drink to himself, and when the song and dance stopped, he pulled his beautiful concubine and sat on his lap and began to move his hands up and down.

"Why didn't you see the man I beat all over the ground looking for teeth?" Erbai is strange.

Qing He suddenly noticed that the old four were gone.

"Where's the fourth?" Zhang Tu is also strange, in the past, at this time, the fourth child was noisy and drunk, but today people are gone, and they are not used to it.

The third child of the cottage is a smart person, and he can be regarded as a think-tank character among several leaders, knowing that these people will not let the fourth child come out when they go up the mountain, lest he lose his face and quarrel with them, and lose the face of the eldest brother, which is not good-looking.

"The fourth said that he was a little uncomfortable today, so he didn't come."

Zhang Tu didn't care, and still beckoned everyone to eat and drink.

Drunk at night, everyone hugged their respective women and went back to the room to relax, only Zhang Tu had not yet started a family, so he led the way for the three of Qinghe and wanted to take them to the guest room.

A group of brothers all looked at him with strange eyes, Zhang Tu was rarely angry, burst into a rude sentence, and smashed a chair before a group of people were bluffed and ran away.

"This group of well-fed people is thinking about something nonsense every day." Zhang Tu walked a little swayingly, and suddenly laughed, "Little sister, don't you think my life is comfortable, happy and worry-free." ”

Qinghe didn't answer, she knew that the other party didn't need her answer, but there were some things that had been backlogged for a long time, and she didn't vomit or be unhappy.

"They all say that my big brother is good, but they didn't think that our village is getting bigger and bigger, and the court is already very jealous, and sends people to encircle and suppress it every year, although Zhang Hai, the dog official, wears the same pants as us, but in the past two years, it has become more and more arrogant, and every year the lion opens his mouth. There are many brothers, but there is little money and more hands, and life is almost unbearable, and now the brothers have begun to go down the mountain to make money when I am not looking. ”

Zhang Tu walked in the night, sighed and continued to speak, which made Qinghe uncomfortable to listen to. Even Qingyang, who is not very old, understands that this man named Zhang Tu should not be a bad person, and his anger at the beginning has dissipated a lot.

Erbai followed behind them and didn't say a word, but his eyes were very complicated when he looked at Zhang Tu, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Where is the way out, when you come to this point, there is no way back." After laughing, Zhang Tu stopped, "The guest room has arrived, because there are no guests, so this house is a bit simple, and it can still live in people." Forget about it when you hear it, and forget about it when you wake up. ”

"Brother Zhang......"

Qing He looked at the other party's bleak back and couldn't help but speak.

"How?"

"It's fine." Qing He lowered his head and pulled one big and one small into the house.

The room is not big, even a little shabby, and the quilt is obviously freshly taken out, after all, how can a room with even the tables and chairs covered with dust have a new quilt?

Qinghe drank some wine, a little dizzy, she spread the quilt, and sent Qingyang, who was already sleepy and rubbing her eyes, to sleep first, "Erbai, let's sleep too, the bed is smaller, make do with it, and think about the rest tomorrow." ”

The small one couldn't stay up and slept soundly, the big one was a little drunk and fell asleep soon, and the two white wines were good and well, and they looked at Qinghe with one hand in the dim moonlight. She traced Qing He's eyebrows and eyes little by little with her hand through a layer of air, her expression was shy, as if she was doing something very remarkable, and her eyes didn't blink.

"Qingqing, I like you, I really don't want to be separated from you......" She leaned over and touched the sleeping man's cheek very lightly, almost muttering.

"It's a pity......"

It was late at night, and the mountains were quiet.

·

Early the next morning, Qinghe was woken up.

Erbai had already opened his eyes to help Qinghe count his eyelashes, one by one, just count half of the people, and the eyelashes swept between Erbai's fingers with a brush.

"What's going on out there?" Qing He spoke vaguely, and his eyes were hazy and didn't wake up, "It's so noisy." ”

"I don't know, it looks like someone is coming." A lot of people.

Erbai didn't blink, and continued to count, but unfortunately Qinghe kept blinking, and she kept counting again.

What does it matter to them?

"Qingqing continue to sleep, that little ghost hasn't woken up yet."

Qing He closed his eyes and opened his eyes after a while, "Get up, it's three poles on the sun." ”

When they all got up and went out, a group of poorly dressed men carried the clothes and wore them as they walked, and the knives in their hands were still dancing around, and the knife flashed from time to time. Isn't he particularly robust! ”

Before he could finish his chest, a scream like killing a pig leaked out of his mouth, he jumped around in place with his feet in his hands, it turned out that Erbai picked up a small stone and flew out hard, hitting his toes, and the pain was to death.

"Stinky, you wait, uncle, I'll clean you up when I come back." Holding the knife to show off his might for a while, when he saw Erbai's eyes, he was so frightened that he crawled and ran to the gathering place.

When they walked to the meeting place, Zhang Tu saw it and casually reminded them not to run around.

"The government is here with troops, I'll take some people down to take a look, don't run around, be careful of being injured by swords and arrows."

"Half of you people will stay here and watch, and the rest will come down the mountain with me, and we will meet those pustules."

Then he shouted all the way down the mountain, "kill", "let them see how powerful we are", and shouted.

"Qingqing, I want to go down and have a look." Erbai rested his chin on Qing He's shoulder and said what was in his heart very honestly.

"Sister, I want to go and see it too." Qingyang blinked his eyes with a look of longing.

What Zhang Tu said before going down the mountain is still in his ears, Qinghe: "......"

"Yangyang, stay here and don't run around, Erbai, you follow me to the mountainside to have a look, don't go down, so as not to be really regarded as an enemy."

"Sister, why do you keep treating me as a child."

Erbai rubbed Qingyang's head vigorously, kneading the latter into a bird's nest, very disdainful, "With your small body, aren't you a child or a real man?" Oh, I've never heard such a funny big talk. ”

"Qingqing, let's go." As he walked, he turned back and gestured to Qingyang, "Reader, let's tidy up your clothes first." ”

Qingyang originally wanted to chase him out, but he touched his messy hair, stomped his feet a few times, gritted his teeth and stared at the back of Erbai's head until the other party was gone, and then returned to the room with a full stomach.

Hmph, if you don't look at it, you won't watch it!

The two of them had just walked halfway up the mountain, but they couldn't hear the slightest movement of shouting and killing.

Qing He and Er Bai looked at each other, and the former asked Er Bai blankly: "Is this normal?" Isn't it a confrontation between the two sides? ”

"I guess it's still negotiating?" Erbai laughed after speaking.

"Let's go and see, I will protect you, and you won't be hurt." After speaking, he pulled Qinghe and ran down.

"Slow down, slow down, don't fall!"

"Don't worry, it won't."

When the two of them first arrived at the foot of the mountain, a minion behind them couldn't help but report loudly.

"Boss, the woman is coming down!"

Then Qinghe and Erbai felt all the eyes from thousands and hundreds of people on both sides, and cast on them.

"What's wrong?"