Xia Huayun nodded hurriedly, beads of sweat appeared on his anxious head, and he gasped and said, "I just collected grass beads under the big tree at the entrance of the village, and more than a dozen men came from outside the village to inquire where the Xia family lived. Someone pointed them in the direction of the old house, I secretly followed behind, and I heard them talking that Master Jin personally came to my sister to propose marriage! You may have already found our home by now! ”

Mother's face became more and more pale.

Master Jin is a famous bandit within a radius of 100 miles. His real name is not surnamed Jin, because he once found ten chests of more than 30,000 taels of gold in the cave, so he was called Master Jin.

Legend has it that once he led his men to fight for territory with the people on the surrounding hills, broke into the opponent's lair single-handedly, killed hundreds of people without leaving a chicken and dog, and the blood flowed like a river, and then cut off the human head and hung it all the way out of the three-mile land.

In addition to the activities of the mountain bandits, he also lent usury everywhere, and those who could not pay off their debts were either demolished or taken to work as coolies in the mountains. If it is the daughter of Peugeot, she must do everything possible to snatch it back to be an aunt in the village.

No one knows what Master Jin's original name was, and few people have seen his true face. Some people describe him as like an iron tower, with a dark complexion, eyes like copper bells, and a loud shout can break the mountain beam; Some people say that he has a pair of black fleshy wings on his back, which can soar through the clouds and fog and come and go without a trace; In short, it is spread to be evil.

Xia Qingyun's father found Master Jin's underground bank and borrowed one tael of silver, and was finally forced to pay back two taels, and almost snatched Xia Qingyun away as a concubine.

The mother was shocked by the news brought by Xia Huayun, and her hands and feet were cold, "Don't tell your sister yet, take me to see it!" He followed him and hurried towards the cabin.

There was that nosy person, who listened to a few words next to him, and hurriedly ran to Xia Qingyun to report the news.

"Miss Xia, hurry up and go home to take a look, I heard that Master Jin has gone to your house, and he wants to propose to your family! Your mother and Hua Yun have just left. ”

Xia Qingyun chuckled in his heart, but his face was as usual and he ordered the craftsmen to continue to work. He went to the earroom to change his apron and shoes before walking towards the wooden house.

When I was far away, I saw more than a dozen big men standing outside the small courtyard, with faces full of flesh and fierce light in their eyes. The big man held the cold and shining ** in his hand, facing outward with his back to the small courtyard, standing in a row at the door, and the people who were so frightened to see the excitement were far away and did not dare to approach.

Xia Qingyun walked over unhurriedly, the man standing in the middle looked her up and down, hugged his fists and asked, "But Miss Xia?" Our lord is waiting for you, please come in. ”

Xia Qingyun nodded lightly and walked straight in.

Father and mother and younger siblings stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking extremely nervous. Seeing her come in, the mother stomped her feet and complained: "Which mouth is so fast!" You girl, you don't know how to distinguish between shades, what are you doing when you run back at this time! ”

Xia Qingyun took her mother's hand and whispered with relief: "Mother, don't worry, there is still the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion." In case anything happens, let's all go into the treasure pavilion, and he won't find us after a hundred years of searching. ”

She glanced at the courtyard and asked, "What about Master Jin?" ”

"In the house." The mother pointed to the wooden house and replied in a low voice.

Xia Qingyun comforted his father and mother a few more words, and then walked towards the wooden house, and pushed open the door with a "squeak".

The cabin has no windows, and the light inside is dim, and the sunlight that comes in from the roof and walls forms several intersecting beams of light, creating irregular spots of light on the potholed ground.

A tall figure stood in the middle of the room, looking fixedly at Xia Qingyun who walked in.

"Is that you?" Xia Qingyun frowned.

"It's me." The corners of Master Kim's mouth hooked.

She took advantage of the dim light in the room to look the notorious figure up and down.

The one in front of me was the man in black who he had met on the way back, riding on a horse.

I saw that he was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, tall and straight. Black leather boots with thick soles, a black cloak with gold trim, a black power suit with dark gold moire, and a short sword pinned with gorgeous gems of various colors pinned to his waist.

The long black hair was tied up high behind his head, his sword eyebrows were tiger-eyed, his eyes were shining with a little essence, and the thin lips under the straight bridge of his nose showed a somewhat mocking expression.

Xia Qingyun lowered his eyes and ignored his mocking eyes, "You are Master Jin?" ”

"Master Jin is me!" There was a hint of humor in the man's voice.

"Dare to ask Master Jin for coming, what advice do you have?" Xia Qingyun raised his eyebrows, and asked with his gaze neither humble nor arrogant.

"No advice. I'm looking for you to play, and by the way, I'll see if I can marry you back. Master Jin sat down on the bench with a golden knife, his fingers tapping casually on the table.

Xia Qingyun gently hooked the corners of his lips and said slowly: "Master Jin, play, I will not accompany you; Marry, I won't marry. Please come back. ”

He raised his head and looked around, his mouth pursed into eighty thousand: "This broken house is really nothing fun." But," he tilted his head to stare at the girl in front of him, "the people in the room are funny! ”

Xia Qingyun felt a small flame rising in the depths of his heart.

He stretched out his finger to the top of his head, "Let's open the skylight and say something." I'm going to marry you! You can put forward conditions. ”

"Don't marry!" Xia Qingyun didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he refused.

"Alas!" He let out a long sigh, stood up and paced around the room with his hands behind his back, "I want to be a dignified gold million, known as Master Jin, stepping on three mountains and five mountains, powerful in all directions, and never folding face in front of people, especially in front of women." For the first time in my life, I asked someone to marry, and I sent Mr. Jin away with two words! ”

He shook his head helplessly and continued to walk around the house.

Xia Qingyun only felt that the small flames in his heart were rising up.

She was a little skeptical that this guy was an impostor. Is there such a poor-mouthed mountain bandit in the world?

Thinking like this, there were naturally some questions in her eyes.

His gaze met hers and paused for a second. Suddenly, he unbuttoned his neckline.

"What do you want to do?" Xia Qingyun took a step back in the direction of the door.

He pulled out a gleaming golden sign from his open neckline, approached her, pointed to the words, and said, "Don't believe it? Come and see, do you see? Gold, hundreds, ten thousands, my name is clearly engraved! ”

He clapped his hands again in annoyance and sighed: "Eh, even so, it is difficult to prove that I am the one who is the mountain bandit Jin who can stop children crying at night." ”

He stroked his forehead and stood there thinking for a while, then flicked his fingers sharply, "Yes, if you don't believe it, I'll go out and kill someone right now to show you, make sure that the knife falls in your hand, cleanly, and never let him suffer any more!" ”

Xia Qingyun really wanted to slap him, she gritted her teeth and said, "I believe it!" ”

"Wonderful!" Master Jin clapped his hands, "'I believe' and 'I do' are already very close!" Well, anyway, I still have twenty-five concubines on the mountain, so I'll go back to play with them first. Seven days later, I'll come back to you. Let's go! ”

After speaking, he fastened his neck, opened the door, strode out of the small courtyard without squinting, turned over his horse, waved his horsewhip handsomely, and walked away surrounded by more than a dozen big men.

Father and sister hurriedly ran into the house, but saw Xia Qingyun sitting at the table in a daze, her mother hugged her, stroked her hair and asked, "Qingyun, are you okay?" Did Mr. Jin do anything to you? What did he say? ”

"Mother, I'm fine." Qingyun squeezed out a smile, "I want to go to the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion alone." Go ahead, and we'll talk about it in the evening. ”

"That's fine." The mother pushed her father, and gave Hua Yun Qiuyun a look, leaving Xia Qingyun alone in the house.

Xia Qingyun flashed into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion and soaked himself in the hot spring, his mind was chaotic.

Who is the strange behavior, out-of-tune, and nervous Master Jin?

She felt as if her head was rusty, and she couldn't turn it around anyway. I don't know what to do with this.

Closing her eyes, Master Jin's handsome face and slightly mocking expression kept shaking in front of her eyes.

Even for a few seconds, Xia Qingyun felt that it might be very interesting to marry such a man.

She was startled by the thought that came to her mind. Hold the water and pour it on your face to sober yourself up.

In this life, she doesn't plan to get married.

So she has to make more money in order to take her destiny firmly into her own hands.

What are you afraid of, if you still have Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, if you really have no way out, let the whole family move in together. After spending ten or eight years with him, I don't believe he can wait forever.

Thinking of this, she felt that her previous worries were a little unnecessary. Whatever, what should he do!

Xia Qingyun came up from the Seven Star Spring, wiped his body dry, got dressed, and returned to the mansion.

She could perceive the people of Beixi Village quietly pointing behind her, whispering and talking.

There were five or two big carriages parked at the door of the house, and the people who delivered the wood arrived, in addition to the small leaf red sandalwood, there were more than a dozen big tree roots hugged by three or four people.

Xia Qingyun was happy in her heart, in her previous life, she liked to sit at the tea table polished from the roots of the tree and drink tea.

The roots of the tree look black and knotted, but after being carved and polished, they can be made into a fun and natural kung fu tea table, which can be described as a typical transformation of decay into magic.

The person who delivered the wood saw her and said with a smile: "Miss Xia, I specially picked a big one for you to bring it, can you see if it fits?" But the roots of this tree can't produce wood. ”

Xia Qingyun also nodded with a smile and said, "It's okay." In the future, you will send me all such a thing. ”

"Yes." The person who delivered the wood readily agreed.

After unloading the car, Xia Qingyun carefully inspected the cross-section of these tree roots, and was even more overjoyed.

These roots are wenge, nan, rosewood, golden camphor, woody and patterned are excellent varieties.

Dad came out of the house and saw her, and asked worriedly, "Why don't you rest for a while and run out to do something?" ”

Xia Qingyun pointed to those big tree roots and said, "Dad, guess what these roots are used for?" ”