The mouth of the valley is neat, and you can see it from the city wall. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info is boxy, with three doors on each side, and three openings in the north and south main gates. The city is separated, and there are 64 wine shops, cloth shops, ink shops, shoe shops, etc. in the north and south. The east and west cities were set up, and the outside was surrounded by walls, and after dusk three drums sounded, the two cities were closed, and then there were twenty lashes from the entering-out actors. There are no vendors on the main street, even the inn is only three in the city, and people in the rivers and lakes have to settle in these three places when they enter and exit the valley. It is said that the Wu people are rigid, probably because of the strict constraints of the city. The Wu people are extremely loyal and righteous, and Wu Wang Fei was able to recruit troops in the name of Qiheng to attack the show, just to have a justifiable reason.

It was April 21, and the drums of the fifth watch were sounded, and the doors of the eastern and western cities were opened, and many people were crowded in. The morning bell rang three times, and the city gates were wide open. Dongshi suddenly made a commotion, and a group of thugs chased the two people towards the south gate. It was a man and a woman who fled, the woman was a little beautiful, her body was wounded and her hair was scattered, and the man was also handsome. Some of the passers-by recognized it, hurriedly avoided it, and pointed behind it, "This is the lover again." ”

The thugs behind were chasing urgently, and the man and woman who fled had not yet reached the south gate, and had already been caught up. The two men grabbed the woman, and the rest punched and kicked the man. The woman cries bitterly, and the man cries out in pain.

At this time, five people came in from a south gate, all of whom were about twenty years old. The four were standing, dressed as warriors, each with a long knife and a straight short knife at their waists. One was sitting in a wheelchair, with half-inch hair, which had just grown, and a long sword in his arms.

Several people leaned over and saw that the man had been beaten miserably. A thug said, "Get away, you can't afford to touch the matter of Zuixianglou!" Before he could finish speaking, he was kicked aside. As soon as the thugs saw that the people were not good, they sent one of them back to find someone.

"What's going on?" Chen Xiu asked.

As soon as the woman saw such a few people coming, she suddenly didn't know where the strength came from, she suddenly broke free, threw herself at Chen Xiu's feet, and cried, "Help!" ”

This woman's name is Song Niang, and the man's name is Feng Yi. The two were childhood sweethearts, but Song Niang was sold to Zuixiang Building by her brother, and after two years, Feng Yi chased after her, and had the intention to redeem Song Niang, but the money was not enough. There is no way, just live in this drunken fragrance building, so that we can meet. After a month the money was spent, the two discussed escaping, but they were discovered, and they were beaten.

Yuan Cong saw that she was crying as if she was out of breath, very pitiful, "Master, let's help them." ”

There was a group of pedestrians watching the excitement on the street. As he was talking, the Yukou catch was about to arrive, and the head catcher was a man with a square face and short eyebrows.

The thug hardened, got up and scolded, "This woman was sold to our Zuixiang Building, she took the money, and she had to stay." As a result, this man teamed up with these few people and wanted to forcibly take her away. He pointed at Yuan Cong.

"What's going on?" The headcatcher shouted.

Chen Xiu looked down, the man was beaten too badly, even if it was a scam, it was too ruthless. With so many people watching, if you ignore this matter, you will have a reputation for bullying the weak and fearing the hard in Yukou.

Song Niang cried even worse, Yuan Cong couldn't hear the woman crying, and dragged Chen Xiu in his heart, "Master, look." ”

I didn't expect Yuan Cong to pity the jade, Chen Xiu couldn't help but laugh and said, "If you stop this matter, you can deal with it." ”

When Yuan Cong got this sentence, he was overjoyed, and took two steps forward and shouted, "We are not accomplices, we are here to redeem people." ”

Since it is said to be ransom, the thug said, 'Catch it quickly, what should they do if they rob it?' Thinking about it, he rolled his eyes and grabbed the catcher, "You should also send it back, otherwise you can look at these few." ”

Yuan Cong knew what he meant, and sneered, "Don't worry, we're not so shameless. ”

The catchers are not busy with official business, and they don't want to get involved in this matter, let alone ask. Yuan never cheated, and sure enough, he followed them back to Zuixiang Building.

When I arrived at Zuixiang Building, someone outside the door stopped me from entering. The old bustard came out, smelling of fat powder, and when he saw that everyone was menacing, he helped Feng Yi and protected Song Niang, and he didn't have a good face, "Oh, how many people are in the rivers and lakes?" This is an attempt to do chivalrous deeds. ”

There was a sour taste in her words, and Yuan Cong was unhappy in her heart, "I can't say that I am a hero, but when I encounter you people who are forced to be prostitutes, I can't ignore them." Saying that, he glanced at Song Niang, and saw that she was very grateful in her eyes.

"Oops!" The old bustard looked at Yuan Cong and pouted, "We spent the money, you are willing to do it, and now we are forced to be prostitutes?" Who are we going to reason? ”

Yuan Cong was angry, "We spend money to ransom people." “

Song Niang looked at Yuan Cong, and two lines of tears came down, "Thank you for this son, the little woman has to repay her for being a slave and a maid." "Yuan has never been called a son, this time he is proud. Chen Xiu watched from the sidelines, laughing again and again, this Yuan Cong looked clever, and he was praised and immediately didn't recognize who he was.

Ransom? That's to give money, the old bustard looked at Yuan Cong, thinking about it, and greeted him with a smile in an instant, "Hey, since you can't talk about things here, let's go over there and talk." ”

This face became too fast, just now he looked at each other angrily, and in the blink of an eye, a smiling face was pasted.

"Just say it here, you shouldn't be reluctant to let people go, right?" Yuan Congdao.

"What is this son doing when he says this! However, although we are in the skin and meat business, we are not all unloved. If there are benefactors willing to ransom these girls, I can't stop them if they want to. Song Niang is also the face of our drunken Xianglou, this face is the most expensive, and she has to get a thousand taels of silver. ”

Yuan Cong was not ambiguous, and took two pieces of gold at the moment, and the old bustard's eyes were straight when he saw it, and he handed over the deed of sale. Everyone went out, and Yuan tore up the deed of sale from the moment and asked Song Niang to leave with Feng Yi.

Chen Xiu saw someone inside and outside the building with a sneer on his face. Chen Xiu pushed the wheelchair to the side, diagonally opposite a teahouse, and the two people in front of the building were looking at this side and laughing.

One said, "These women, with low vision and shallow knowledge, are these things every day!" You see that he is in a hurry to escape, and there is no shortage of rouge and gouache on his face. ”

One said with a smile, "How did you say that, 'My brother-in-law came to report the funeral in thirties, and my mother-in-law died at home. The child is crying, and the wife is busy putting on tear makeup'. ”

Chen Xiu pushed the wheelchair up and smiled, "Are you talking about Song Niang?" ”

"Song Niang?" One laughed, "You said she?" ”

"She's not surnamed Song?"

"Who knows. Anyway, two years ago, his surname was Wang, and then he was surnamed Zhang, and a few days ago he was surnamed Li, who knows what his surname will be tomorrow? The man laughed.

Chen Xiu was surprised, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"What do you mean?" The man looked at Chen Xiu, "Outsiders? ”

"Yes."

"No wonder, no wonder!" The two laughed, "We mean this little fox has hooked up with another unlucky ghost." ”

"But the crying was bad enough, and the man was beaten badly enough." Chen Xiu was strange.

"You say it's crying? If you cry like this, you will help someone carry the coffin! I'm talking about the unlucky man! The man laughed.

"What do you mean by that? Doesn't it say that forcing good people to become prostitutes? ”

"What makes 'good' a prostitute? There are only three 'childhood sweethearts' who want to take that woman away in the past six months, what kind of 'good family' can this be? The man pointed to Chen Xiu, "The people in the Zuixiang Building, who can make those sons and brothers compete to throw silver, which one doesn't have a few tricks to be flattering?" It's not just foxes, but also those who pretend to be tall, and those who pretend to be docile and pitiful. Those deliberately contrived looks, no matter what the means, can seduce people. Pointing to the man, he said, "He's not a childhood sweetheart, it's an unlucky boy who spent all his money here." ”

The other also took over, "That's it, this woman, how many times has she been back and forth." A few ransomed her, and a few days later she came back again. A few of them ran out of money, and if they wanted to take her with them, they couldn't run away, and they had to be beaten half to death first. ”

Chen Xiu couldn't figure it out, "You mean to say that this Song Niang ran back by herself?" What is she trying to do? ”

The man snorted, "What's the picture?" Picture toss a man! ”

The other took over and smiled, "I think she met a negative man and came back to take revenge." The two laughed.

Chen Xiu also laughed, and Yuan Cong was also wronged this time. Thinking about it, it was seen that Yuan Cong had already given the money, and the old bustard also took out the deed of sale. Song Niang left. Chen Xiu looked up and saw that there was red silk hanging on the wooden sign that said 'Drunken Xianglou' upstairs, Chen Xiu's heart moved, and the red silk fell, and he saw that Song Niang was slightly startled, and instantly dodged it lightly, but no one noticed.

Also martial arts. Interesting. Chen Xiu smiled.

Chen Xiu said goodbye to the two tea drinkers and went out of the East Market with Yuan Cong. Yuan Cong said that he took two pieces of gold, but Chen Xiu didn't seem to hear it.

Chen Xiu thought about it and suddenly said to Yuan Cong, "You go and follow that Song Niang." ”

"What are you doing with her? Do you want to get back the money from them? Yuan Cong was stunned.

The money is not Chen Xiu's, what is he distressed about, Chen Xiu can't cry or laugh, "You just follow them, don't do anything." ”

Yuan never understood, thinking about chasing after him. Yuan Congcai left, and Shao Ziping arrived.

"King Wu put His Royal Highness under house arrest in the palace, it is too difficult to see His Highness." Shao Ziping said.

"Does Qiheng know I'm here?"

"Yes. I asked one of the palace attendants to deliver the message. ”

"It's hard to meet His Highness now, and I don't know what to do."

King Wu's house arrest of Qi Heng was expected, and Chen Xiu was not much surprised, but in any case, he should meet Qi Heng first. Chen Xiu thought about it, looked up at the sky, and wondered if the Wu Palace was heavily guarded and could not fly in.

"Let's take a look around the palace first." Chen Xiu said.

At this time, a group of people were standing outside the palace gate, not knowing what to do.

Chen Xiu wanted to approach quietly, but when he reached the palace gate, he saw a palace man running over, "Is it Chen Guogongzi in front?" ”

Chen Xiu was stunned. Shao Ziping was also surprised, is he the son of Chen Guo? Thinking about the time scene of the first encounter, my heart suddenly dawned.

"My father heard that Chen Guogongzi had entered Wu, and he came to greet me." This is Wu Pu, the third son of King Wu.

Wu Pu came to pick him up? Chen Xiu was strange.

Wu Pu said again, "Wu Guo can't rescue him, my father is ashamed, and I pity you as the only one left in the Chen Guo clan." I heard that you came to Yukou, and specially asked me to clean up a mansion for you and make you a prince's mansion. ”

Chen Xiu was secretly shocked. How could Wu Pu know his identity? Is it the name 'Chen Xiu'? There are many people with the same name and surname in the world, how does he know which Chen Xiu is the son of Chen Guo? Where did he get this news from, and how did he recognize him? Furthermore, how could King Wu arrange the Gongzi's Mansion for him? I have never heard of any country preparing a mansion for the 'son', let alone him, the son of Chen Guo, who has died in the country.

Chen Xiu thought about it and smiled, "Wu Guo also did his best, I should thank King Wu for sending troops to rescue." (To be continued.) )