- A young man with a knife hanging from his waist, with deep facial features, resolute eyes, and hidden authority, even if he does not carry the waist knife with the handle in his hand. It can also give people a rather strong sense of martial arts.

Another middle-aged man, between thirty and forty years old, had a three-turn beard, a hair tied on the top of his head, and wore a wooden hairpin. A pair of cloud eyebrows are flowing into the sideburns, the pupils are black and moist and bright, and there is no trace of the turbidity of no one who has reached middle age, quite a bit of a Taoist who cultivates in the deep mountains and picks dew for food.

The outfits of these two men are also incompatible with the atmosphere of the town, and they are obviously from the gentle-eyed scholar all the way.

From time to time, the eyes of the young man holding the knife lit up on the scholar under the flower tree, and it seemed that he was most likely the scholar's bodyguard. The middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist had a straight waist, tied his hands behind his back, and his eyes fell on the flower tree, looking at his frank and leisurely appearance, as if he had learned some heavenly opportunity through the flower—he and the scholar might be friends of mentorship and friend.

The inn rented by Chen Jiu, although the source of customers is very thin, is still different from the private house, and it is still possible to receive a few orders of business every month, and it is common for passers-by to live in and rest for a day or two. It's just that Chen Jiu rarely comes back to live here, so he is a little surprised when he sees strange travelers.

However, compared to the local people's customs, the temperament of these three travelers is inevitably too special.

But this only made Chen Jiu pay more attention to it, and the passers-by were in a hurry, there were contacts and contacts, one-sided fate, what does it have to do with himself?

Suddenly, a sudden wind arose, and the branches of the flowers and trees were swaying. Those flowers that droop like Jin Ling are close to the edge of blooming and failing, the stalks are ripe and soft, how can they withstand such a toss, and I don't know how many Ling-like flowers that could have been nostalgic for a long time on the branches are falling in an instant. The flowers and rain are like fog and charming eyes, and it also blurs the vision of the two people standing in the middle of looking at each other.

Both of them were slightly stunned.

It's not because the sudden petal rain and fog creates a certain atmosphere that makes two people's hearts move each other. In fact, the experience of these two people in half their lives has long passed the age when it is easy to move their hearts with a scene and a glance. What's more, the scholar is like the temperament of an ancient well and a deep pool, and Chen Jiu has long been concerned about one person, and he has no other thoughts.

The two of them only remembered a familiar fragment from each other's blurred figures.

"Helpless, the cold rain in the morning and the wind in the evening." The sentence with a slightly helpless and sad context was chanted by the scholar again, which was the next paragraph of the sentence "Chunhong is too hurried" just now.

However, unlike before, although the melancholy meaning of this sentence has not changed a word, when the scholar read this sentence after a while, his mood seemed to change suddenly, and his tone was full of joy.

This made Chen Jiu, who was standing closest to him, feel quite strange, and her eyes moved slightly, and she was also slightly surprised to see the two fellow travelers of the scholar a few steps away.

After reading the second half of the small order, the scholar faced the sparse crown of the flower tree and the spring red, and said with a smile: "Linghua has a spirit." To put it simply, it is a deep one.

He seems to attach more importance and respect to flowers and trees than to people. Although there are indeed such people in the world, most of whom are hermits with high temperaments, it is not without reason that hermits are close to natural things. But in the blink of an eye, this scholar grew up with this flower and tree that he did not plant and take care of, and he would not stay here for long, the two have nothing to do with each other, why should he respect it?

Just when Chen Jiu couldn't help but wonder in his heart, the guy who was called Ah Sheng among the few two guys in this inn trotted in, first glanced into the courtyard, and then took two steps closer to the young man with the knife, nodded and said very respectfully: "This uncle, your little horse has already served the forage and led it to the door to wait."

The young man with the knife nodded, took out a grain of broken silver from the narrow sleeve that was cut and fitted to his body, and gave it to the innkeeper with a share or two, and said at the same time: "With Brother Lao's care for the past few days, this is the housing fee and the road fee, and I will hand it over to you together."

Of course, Chen Jiu knows the cost of renting a room in this inn in the town, and the one who rewards the guys to run errands is called the Runlu fee, and she also knows that although the short-term rent is more expensive than the long-term rental, the young waiter with a knife seems to be too generous.

While thinking about this, Chen Jiu also thought that from the words of the young man with the knife, it was known that the three of them had been living in this inn for a few days, but they did not know anything about themselves, and she was really surprised when she heard it.

Could it be that my heart has been so deep these days? If I continue like this, I am afraid that I will be tired and sick, thinking of this, Chen Jiu is full of melancholy, and I can't help but sigh lightly.

Hearing this sigh softly, the scholar who was about to turn around and leave the inn with the two fellow travelers walked slightly, he looked sideways at Chen Jiu, as if he had something to say, and after a moment of silence, he only asked lightly: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of daring to ask the girl, do you know how many ways to pick flowers?"

Chen Jiu was slightly stunned.

When the two of them greeted each other just now, they didn't see that he was willing to say one more word, and when it was time to leave, he suddenly asked?

As soon as this question sounds, the motivation for the question and the answer are a bit questionable.

How can an adult not know how to pick flowers? And how many complicated methods are there for picking flowers?

If it weren't for the fact that the scholar in front of him seemed to have a gentle temperament and deep eyes, and suddenly asked him for advice on how to pick flowers from a strange woman who had seen him one-sidedly, if he met a woman with a sensitive heart, it would be difficult not to think about him with a certain kind of villain.

But this scholar not only asked a strange question, but also looked at the serious look on his face when he asked the question, as if he was really puzzled by how to pick a flower, and as if he wanted to pick a flower, such an ordinary thing really had a kaleidoscopic approach, and he was troubled for a long time how to choose, and was forced to ask the living.

However, since Chen Jiu and this person are only superficial, although she has doubts in her heart, she answered the simplest meaning, and lightly opened her lips and said two words: "A."

"Hmm......" the scholar hesitated, and then bowed shallowly, "Thank you, girl." ”

With that, he turned around and left the courtyard with his two fellow travelers.

Walking out of the inn gate, the three of them stepped on their mounts, and on the saddles hung the water bladders prepared by the innkeepers. The sturdy horse shook its head and tail, full of energy, and when it saw the return of its master, it wanted to run wildly. But before leaving the immediate vicinity of the town's homes, the three riders pressed the reins in their hands slightly, and did not run wildly, but only walked in small steps on the dilapidated and potholed stone streets of the town.

The width of the streets in the town is limited, and from time to time, there are puffing walks on the left and right sides of the street carrying farm tools ready to go to the fields for spring ploughing, which occupies a certain degree, and it is more and more difficult to tolerate three horses in parallel. The young man with the knife took the initiative to take five steps behind, allowing the middle-aged man who was quite a bit of a fairy to ride side by side with the scholar.

The middle-aged man who looked like a cultivator also happened to have doubts, and when he rode slowly on the scholar's shoulder, he said slowly: "Brother Xian's question just now is quite meaningful, but why did you ask a strange woman?"

"There's not just one way to pick flowers." The plain scholar smiled, "I should ask Brother Fang, this is a wise choice." ”

"Hehe, the virtuous brother misinterpreted, the foolish brother didn't mean that the woman was clumsy." The middle-aged man touched his beard and smiled. Then he said, "There is indeed only one way to pick flowers, and if you ask me, I will only answer like this." It's just that the woman's delicate beauty is compared to the appearance of flowers and the moon, and you directly ask a woman how to pick flowers, aren't you afraid of embarrassing the beauty?"

When the scholar heard this, he seemed to directly ignore the half of the words spoken by the middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest, but suddenly became very interested in the method of picking flowers. Immediately expressed his opinion: "I don't think so. To get a flower out of the branch. There can be many ways. For example, the gust of wind just now. If I have the heart to pick flowers, I will be fully loaded. ”

The middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest laughed when he heard this, but there was no contempt in his laughter, as if he had discovered something interesting. Laughter comes from the heart. After a while, he said with a smile: "Take the hand as the pick, rely on the sickle as the cut, and bear the wind...... It is to scrape off the flowers, it turns out that there are several ways to pick the flowers you asked, but in fact, what you ask is not the way and process of acquisition, but the result of obtainment. The results can be in the tens of millions, but there is only one form. ”

The scholar frowned without leaving a trace, and then smiled with emotion. said: "You, a Taoist priest, recite the Taoist scriptures, and you are no different from a guy who often puts Buddhist mantras on his lips, and he doesn't stir people up to death, it seems that it is wise that I didn't ask you just now."

The middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest ignored the disrespectful words that suddenly appeared in the scholar's words. He didn't speak again, and his bright eyes shone with a deep light under his slightly lowered eyelids with a smile.

The scholar avoided ignoring the second half of what he just said, not because he didn't care, but because he was also hiding half of the sentence, and he wouldn't reveal it until he avoided the martial artist behind him.

For this point, the middle-aged man who has been enlightened for many years can faintly feel it, so the question he asked just now was just another test, and when he was sure that the scholar was hiding something and it was inconvenient to speak, he could devise a strategy and make an appointment with the scholar to speak alone.

The young man who followed him unhurriedly did not know about the tacit agreement reached by the two men riding side by side in a few gossips, and he only thought that the scholar in plain clothes had been with the monk hermit for a long time, so that he had slightly changed his former unthinking temperament, and often said some vague and unpredictable words.

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When the three horsemen who were moving slowly dozens of steps away came out of the archway in front of the town, they really raised the reins and whips, the horses spread their hooves, and the three horses galloped into a cigarette on the dirt road out of the town, and quietly followed all the way to the old wine near the entrance of the town before the figure appeared from behind a house wall.

Not only does the owner of the Dongfeng Building in Kyoto have a lot of status, but the reason why this pleasure place can be sheltered by the big people is also because of its special role in Kyoto.

Chen Jiu, who was once in charge of all the peripheral affairs of Dongfeng Building, in addition to being extremely trained in her ability to recognize people, her ability to track people has also been honed to a certain extent.

Although because of her weak martial arts, her tracking skills are certainly not as good as the group of "cat people and bird people" in the second group managed by Lin Shan, but it is only a small part of the road, and the person being followed is on a broad road, and it is of course more than enough to follow all the way down without being noticed.

Standing at the intersection and looking at the smoke and dust on the dirt road, Chen Jiu recalled that she had just seen the back figure of the scholar on horseback, and was a little surprised by the final result of her inference.

Walking back to the inn in a daze, as soon as Chen Jiu stepped into the threshold with his front feet, he saw Ah Sheng, the guy running the hall, walking over with a smile on his face. He had just received a big reward from the young resident, and he had been happy until this time, and the smile on his face was not gone, which was normal.

The only short-term rental guest in the inn left the store and left, and the guy was also free, Chen Jiu saw the way Ah Sheng went out, and he was going to the small restaurant in the town to relax and satisfy his hunger, so he didn't care, and only said hello to him casually.

But just as she was passing by, she suddenly had a thought in her heart, stopped Ah Sheng, and Wen Yan asked: "Ah Sheng, when did those three guests come in?" How did I not notice it?"

"The day after you came back to stay, the three guests arrived, and you really didn't hear a trace of movement?" The innkeeper Ah Sheng was puzzled at first, and then he said to himself: "But...... Those three guests can be regarded as the most gentle people I have ever seen, gentle and gentle. It's not like the tone that some people are used to shouting and shouting. The three guests are also quite particular about washing and eating, and they are meticulous, not like some people pushing and moving so loudly that even people on the street can hear them staying in the hotel......"

Chenjiu has opened a winery in the town, and the wine is very tasteful, and the guy of this inn, Ah Sheng, also knows it, and has visited it many times in the past year. Usually Chen Jiu saw that he was also an acquaintance of half of Pingshui, and he often grew up with him for a few catties, and he came and went for a long time, and Ah Sheng didn't treat her as an outsider. Some of the grumbling words in her heart were spoken out of sight in front of her.

Chen Jiu's eyes smiled. Listen to what he said later, although it was all trivial nonsense. But he didn't interrupt immediately, but secretly said in his heart: The role of silver is really not monotonous, and the fastest thing to buy people's hearts is profit, and it is the same in this remote town.

"Uh...... That's it...... "Stay until the end of the road, I have been aggrieved by the prejudice of a certain type of person for a while, and I have received anger from a certain type of person." Ah Sheng realized that he seemed to talk too much and was useless. With an embarrassed smile, he carefully considered it before he said: "Forgive the little faux pas, looking at the way you have been so worried these days, you don't even care about the winery, you may really ignore a lot of what happened around you."

"That's the case...... Chen Jiu smiled faintly, "It's okay, you can go on your own business." ”

Ah Sheng nodded and turned around and was about to leave, but for some reason he turned back and hesitated: "The little one saw you chasing you out just now." Anxious steps, could it be...... Do you know those three guests?"

"It's a mistake." Chen Jiu said perfunctorily, and when she was about to turn around, she suddenly stopped, looked at Ah Sheng's face, and said, "It's also a little strange, it's rare to see a guest like them." I can't help but keep an eye on it. Ah Shengna, a big reward like this, you should pay attention to it when you take it. ”

This reason was a little reluctant, but Ah Sheng felt the kind reminder of Chen Jiu, and did not think about it, but only sincerely accepted: "The little one has been taught, thank you for your advice." ——

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