At noon on November 28, Ji Xingxuan came to Changchun Fang as promised, stopped on the side of the street, got off the sedan chair, looked around the street, and did not find any suspicious figures, so she led the accompanying maid through the pedestrian street to the door of the fang market across the street.

The anonymous letter she received only said that she was asked to go to Changchun Fang at noon today to make an appointment, but she was not asked to go alone, and she did not explain how to trade, and she could not even confirm what the other party was asking for.

But Ji Xingxuan wasn't so worried, just around here, not to mention that Ji Huaishan arranged five or six nursing homes to disguise themselves as passers-by, and even the maid beside her knew some martial arts, as long as that person appeared, he would not let him go no matter what happened today.

Ji Xingxuan deliberately arrived a moment early, but before noon, she waited left and right and waited for no one to come, it was not pleasant to stand on the street in winter, the cold wind swished and blew to make people's faces hurt, fortunately, she was dressed warmly, a light red wool collar cloak wrapped her slender figure, covered with green gauze, only revealing her white forehead and eyebrows, which was half-covered and half-hidden, and it was enough for passers-by to look back and see more.

Dongyang half hid in the clouds, heard the bell tower ringing in the distance, Ji Xingxuan lifted her spirits, and was looking at the pedestrians passing in front of her, suddenly, she felt something behind her lightly, and the maid next to her let out a "hitch", bent down and picked up a crumpled paper ball behind her.

"Miss."

Ji Xingxuan took the paper ball and hurriedly looked behind her, but she could only see a short figure burrowing into the crowd not far away, and she disappeared in the blink of an eye, she didn't let the maid chase it, but opened the paper ball, and unfolded it, and it was written:

'Go south, and there is a blind old beggar on the road, who quietly puts the red rope in your hand in front of him in the broken bowl, and takes five steps back, and after a while, you will get what you want. ，

Ji Xingxuan said in her heart: Sure enough, this anonymous person with Yi Zi's test paper in his hand refused to meet him head-on, for fear that she would find out his identity.

Now she was curious, the other party did not show up, how did he plan to take the disaster stone in her hand, and how to exchange the test paper for her, could it be that the person had the intention of holding the empty gloves of the white wolf from the beginning?

She frowned secretly, took twelve points of caution, put the paper ball into her sleeve, and explained a few words to the maid, telling her to inform the nurse in the dark, and pay attention to the beggar later.

After a while, when the maid came back, Ji Xingxuan walked into the street of Lunan, and with such a step, he was in the south of the city from the north of the city.

Anling people said that a Qianyuan street, broken south and north, only a street apart, there are two scenes, the north is well organized, the south is full of people, Changchun Fang was originally a vegetable market, early in the morning there are farmers into the city to sell, winter vegetables are just a few, green and white, pineapple and radish, the water is placed on the ground smartly, there are many people who live in the north of the city are here to buy, so this street is always lively during the day.

There were more and more pedestrians on the street, and Ji Xingxuan had a maid walking in front to open the way, so as not to rub with her peers, but this crowding still made her feel a little uncomfortable, and in the crowd behind her, several nurses followed.

She searched carefully for both sides of the road, and only at the foot of the side wall of a steamed bun shop did she see the blind beggar mentioned in the letter, the old man with gray hair, bent at the base of the wall with a withered expression, his body in tatters, and a strip of dirty black cloth covering his eyes, and he was not suspected to be a blind man, and in front of him there was a broken clay bowl, in which there were only three or five copper plates.

Last year, there was a drought in the north, there were a lot of beggars fleeing in Anling City, because there was no shortage of women who bought vegetables and meat in this Changchun Fang, there was a lot of compassion, so there were more beggars than elsewhere, just in the alley behind this old beggar, there were four or five flower seeds, some big and some small, all of them were thinly dressed, and they shrank their heads to keep out the cold.

Ji Xingxuan stopped in front of the blind old beggar, showed a little pity in his eyes, untied his purse, bent down, put a piece of silver into the bowl in front of him, groped in the purse, took out the disaster stone she had specially untied before going out in the morning, pinched it in the palm of her hand, and after a short hesitation, she also put it in lightly.

Seeing this scene, a few flowers at the base of the wall not far away, at the same time, their eyes lit up, and they raised their heads and looked at the old beggar's broken bowl, some greedy and some greedy, and some showed a touch of ridicule.

Ji Xingxuan put away the beads, stood up, kept her eyes off the broken bowl for begging, stepped back step by step, and stopped after five steps, and whenever a pedestrian passed in front of her, she would be vigilant

Several guards quietly dispersed and stood around Ji Xingxuan so that they could catch someone later.

Ji Xingxuan knew that there were people around him, and he was very relieved, if the other party had the ability to take things away under the noses of so many people without showing up, then he would become a ghost.

At this moment, the sky suddenly became gloomy, and there was a thunder "boom", and there were several screams on the entire street, Ji Xingxuan was also startled by the thunder, and after a little distraction, heavy rain fell in the sky, and a lightning bolt swept through the air—

"Crackle!"

As soon as she touched her eyes, she saw that at this moment, a few flowers who had been squatting at the mouth of the alley rushed to the old beggar at the base of the wall one by one, and scrambled to stretch out their hands, the target was the broken bowl at his feet.

Not good!

This sudden situation made Ji Xingxuan's color change, and there was no need for her to shout, several nurses in the crowd had already moved, one by one to chase the little flower, but the heavy rain fell suddenly, and the streets were full of pedestrians running around to avoid the rain, pushing and shoving, which invisibly became an obstacle, making it difficult for several big men to chase a child.

"Stop!"

"Don't run!"

The little flower ran with his head bored, accidentally bumped into someone, and almost sat on the ground, but fortunately, the other party Zhong pulled him out, the little flower child stood firm with his strength, and his hand left a black handprint on the other party's white sleeve, and he didn't notice that the cuff passed quickly from the bowl in his hand, and he heard the sound of chasing behind him, and ran away with his head down.

Standing on the noisy street in the heavy rain, Ji Xingxuan's eyelids jumped, and he was afraid that he would lose the disaster stone, so he pulled the maid and chased south together. The rain became heavier in the blink of an eye, and she ran not far before she was separated from the maid, and the fluff on the collar of her cloak was drenched, pitifully attached to her slender neck, and she shivered, and was hit by the pedestrians behind her who were rushing to hide from the rain, and her feet slipped and fell on the road

"Shhhh

The stinging pain from her knees and palms made her face pale, and she tried to stand up, but she found that she twisted her legs, and the rain poured down, the rain ran down her forehead, the veil stuck to her face, a few strands of hair hung down, and the gaze of passers-by pointed out her face in embarrassment, and she lowered her wet eyelashes, and there was no such embarrassment.

However, at this moment, the cold wind suddenly stopped, the shower suddenly stopped, she raised the back of her hand to wipe the rain on her eyes, and saw a pair of semi-wet black boots, soapy trouser legs, and then looked at Lu, it was a hand holding an umbrella, and a blurred face under the hat that could not be seen clearly.

"Here you go."

Ji Xingxuan glanced at her in a trance, and subconsciously reached out to take the umbrella handle, and the other party released the umbrella handle at the same time, straightened up, turned her steps, walked past her side, and the soap robe gently brushed her shoulder.

She hurriedly turned her head to look, but the white figure was no longer visible in the crowd.

"Miss, Miss!"

This anxious shout brought her back to her senses, and in response, the maid squeezed through the crowd and hurriedly helped her to get up from the ground.

"Miss, are you hurt?"

Ji Xingxuan grabbed her hand and asked, "What about people, did you catch it?" ”

"They are all going to chase after them, and they will definitely not let people run away, don't worry, go back to the sedan chair first."

The maid persuaded bitterly, although Ji Xingxuan was anxious but afraid of losing the topaz stone, but she also knew that she couldn't help here, so she nodded and handed her the oil-paper umbrella in her hand.

"It's okay to go out, why does it suddenly rain? Miss, where did you get your umbrella? ”

"It's Fang Cai—" Ji Xingxuan replied as she raised her head, her voice paused, because she saw a small bamboo tube tied with red rope in the umbrella holder.

She suspiciously took it off with her hand, fiddled with it in her hand, and soon found that the bamboo tube with the thickness of these two fingers could be unscrewed, and after pulling out the head, it revealed what was stuffed inside.

"This is the exam paper of Yunhua Yizi!"

"Miss, miss?"

Ji Xingxuan took a long breath, his hands trembled slightly, he rolled up the scroll again, and tried a few times before stuffing it back into the bamboo tube, he should be happy that the other party kept the contract, but the white shadow holding the umbrella shook in his mind, but he was a little resentful, and held the small bamboo tube with a red rope tied tightly.

The rain was still falling, the unkempt Yu Shu squatted under the eaves at the mouth of the alley to hide from the rain, saw the figure of dust in front of the street appear, smiled at the corner of his mouth, took out a string of copper coins from his arms, covered it with his sleeves, turned his head and grabbed the hand of the old beggar beside him and put it on it, leaned over and whispered in his ear:

"Uncle has collected it, when he is hungry, take a few to buy steamed buns to eat, don't let others see them."

"Ahh

"Hehe, I'm Xie Lu's person who thanked you."

After saying that, the blind old beggar who was groping for the string of copper coins with a surprised face beckoned towards Jing Chen, and pointed to the alley behind him to signal him to follow.

The two entered the uninhabited alley one after the other, Yu Shu looked around before and after, then stopped, came to Jingchen, opened a pair of eyes full of anticipation, and asked excitedly:

"How's it going, have you got it?"

The rain was still falling, Jingchen pulled the hat rope on her chin with one hand, took off the hat, buckled it on top of her head, and blocked the water droplets falling on her head from the eaves, and then put her left hand into her arms and took it, handed it to her, and spread it out.

̈" Yu Shu looked at his empty palm, opened his mouth wide, dumbfounded.

"Huh."

However, with a chuckle, the palm of the hand shook slightly, and a bright yellow bead appeared in the palm of the palm.

Yu Shu glared, Zhong Hand slapped him on the shoulder, the big stone in his heart finally fell, and the excitement in his mouth was crying and laughing,

"You're kidding me!" Clear