It's dark, and those who are still walking on the street at this time are either doing small business errands, or going out to drink and meet friends.

The night breeze is blowing, and on the riverbank, there is not a single figure to be seen.

Yu Shu stood by the river, looking at the black and bright, gurgling and flowing river, her mouth moved twice, she bit off the dry skin on her lower lip, and tasted a little blood, she exhaled and inhaled, calming her restless heart, but Zhao Hui's face was full of blood in front of her, Yu Lei was sitting in a wheelchair and crying bitterly, her stomach churned, and as soon as she bent over, she vomited on the grass by the river.

There was a beating on her back, very rhythmic, she didn't look back, she simply squatted down, spit out all the things in her stomach in one go, and then wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, took two steps back, sat on the grass with her buttocks, and said softly:

"Thank you."

Jing Chen lowered his hand, looked down at Yu Shu, who looked embarrassed, his mind moved, frowned and asked, "Is something wrong?" ”

Yu Shu patted the grass beside her, Jingchen sat down beside her with kindness, cross-legged, the Taoist robe on his body was a clean thing that had just been changed, white and spotless, and the hair on the back of his neck still had a little water droplet, Fang came back from bathing in the river outside the city.

Yu Shu sniffed, and the filthy smell was invisibly suppressed by the pure qi of the person beside him.

"My family had an accident and injured my head, and it cost a lot of money to treat the disease, so I couldn't find a place to prepare for it."

Jingchen said: "It's your brother?" ”

Yu Shu shook his head, "It's an elder, she takes care of me very much on weekdays, let me tell you, I was beaten out by the family, it was Aunt Hui who took me in and let me live in her house, and when I was recuperating from my injuries, she also took care of me all the time." Can you think, when I went out in the morning, she was fine, yesterday we went to the rally together, but it was a day, Lang Zhong said that she would not live long, heh, good fortune and misfortune, what he said was right. ”

Yu Shu wiped his face, turned his head to look at Jing Chen, who looked unknown, pursed his lips, and said:

"Hero, do you still have any money on you?"

Jingchen reached into the placket and took the money bag for her.

Yu Shu pinched it with his hand, and smiled bitterly, the last time Jing Chen's fast flat jade, when fifty taels, she exchanged four silver tickets and a small bag of silver, and now in this money bag, there is only a thin one left, and a few broken lumps.

"I really don't know if you are alone, where the money has gone, can Taoist priests spend money like you," Yu Shu opened the money bag, took out the silver ticket of ten taels inside, and handed him back the remaining bits and pieces:

"Lend me these ten taels."

Jingchen raised his hand and lightly blocked the money bag she handed over, "You can take it all." ”

Yu Shu didn't refuse, she put away the money bag and asked stubbornly, "Do you still have jade?" ”

When she spoke, she was staring at the two long swords behind his back, and when she thought of the number of five hundred taels, her eyes were glowing red, and she wanted to sell herself.

"No, that's the last piece," Jing Chen followed her gaze and turned his head to look at the hilt of the sword exposed on his shoulder, as if he could see through Yu Shu's thoughts, and said bluntly:

"My sword can't be used."

Yu Shu was embarrassed by what he said, turned his head awkwardly, reached out and grabbed a handful of grass, suddenly remembered something, touched his hand back and forth on his body, his face changed, he stood up from the grass, turned around, and almost took off his shoes to check.

"What are you looking for?"

Yu Shu said depressedly: "The stone you gave me is gone." ”

Jing Chen's eyes sank, and his sword eyebrows frowned, "No wonder"

Yu Shu heard him whisper, but he didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?" ”

Jing Chenye got up from the grass, glanced at her with some complicated looks, retracted his gaze, his mind fluctuated, and he had a premonition, and the next moment, he turned around and walked into the forest.

"Huh? Where are you going? ”

"You go back."

Yu Shu saw that he said that he would leave, and was stunned, so he raised his legs to catch up, followed him, and said in pieces:

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lose that stone, alas! I don't know when I couldn't see it, I was still carrying it a few days ago, but if I don't see it, it's gone."

was muttering incoherently, Jing Chen turned around, Yu Shu quickly stopped his feet, raised his head, and saw Jing Chen's face cold and said:

"Go back, don't come to me again."

As soon as he turned his footsteps, he was about to leave, but when he raised his leg, he was grabbed by his sleeve from behind, and he pulled it twice, but he didn't pull it back.

Yu Shu lowered her head, tugged at his sleeve, and didn't let go, she would come to the river, not walking aimlessly, she knew that at this time, she needed help, and she wanted to raise money to save Zhao Hui, not that she could be competitive alone.

She actually had a way to get that money, but she couldn't do it alone, she needed Jingchen's help, and she could only find him for help now.

Jing Chen looked back helplessly, looked at Yu Shu's black head exposed when he lowered his head, seemed to be able to detect her intentions, and said in a deep voice:

"Xiaoyu, I can't help you."

"You can." Yu Shu said in a sullen voice, if she knew that Jingchen would turn her face if she lost that stone, she would definitely hide the small stone in the box and never take it out to play.

Jingchen shook his head, he couldn't help her, the opportunity to see her on the other side of the strait that day ended early, and no matter how much he was involved, it would harm her and mislead him.

"You can."

“”

"You can!"

Yu Shu tugged hard at the soft sleeve in his hand, forcing Jing Chen to bow his head, looking up and staring at him, his eyes were not weak to ask for help, but full of ruthlessness that made people's hearts tremble.

However, Jingchen's eyes were clear and unmoved, but what he thought in his heart was insignificant.

Looking at such a clear gaze, Yu Shu seemed to have a basin of cold water splashed on the top of his head, and gradually calmed down.

"I'm sorry," Yu Shu's fingers loosened, the soft material slipped out of her hand, she grabbed her hair irritably, and after apologizing for the gaffe just now, Chong Jingchen showed a smile that was more ugly than crying:

"Then I'll leave, and I'll come back to see you in two days."

It's still the same thing I say every time I say goodbye to him, but I don't get the same response.

Jingchen quietly watched her back walk away, turned around and walked towards the forest, went down to the bridge, his eyes inadvertently swept over the sleeves, and saw a line on the top, and stroked his fingers, but it was a trace of sewing, rough and grinding his hands.

Dao's heart moved, silently recited a few words of meditation, but he couldn't calm down, his eyes flashed with chagrin, he stretched his sleeves, turned on tiptoe, stepped on the bridge, swept towards the other side of the river, and caught up with the figure in front of him in a few blinks -

"Little fish, wait." ————————、

The largest gambling place in the east of the city, when tens of thousands of Vientiane Street on the "Baoren Gambling House", a day dice pai gow gambling back and forth, in and out of the account is thousands of hundreds of taels, it is said that the gambling house behind the head of the east, is one of the three Kong Liu Ji in the city, but which one is specific, but no one said clearly.

One morning in mid-April, no different from usual, gambling all night in the square building changed a group of guys to entertain guests, a rough servant cleaned the door, rolled up the curtain, while there were not many guests, to disperse the overnight turbidity, was bending down to wipe the door frame, suddenly into the eyes of a pair of feet, black cloth shoes, the tip of the shoe torn cloth, at a glance to know that Lu Dao is a poor guest, and to try his luck, he just slandered in his heart, and saw a pair of boots into the eyes.

The fabric of the green silk was rolled with silver threads on the side, and the heel was covered, and there was no trace of thread, and half of it was not in the soft white robe.

The two pairs of shoes in front of the front and the back, so that the rough man who was cleaning raised his head, and the eyes were a white robe, and the black and white lines on the top were somewhat familiar, and then he looked up, and saw the back, and the two swords made him stare at him.

When the rough servant remembered to greet him, he had already gone away, and he stretched his neck to look inside, and saw that the Taoist master who was wearing a hat on his head to cover his face had indeed gone to the Yi area at the head of the east wall.

At such a look, I found that there was a boy leading the way in front of the master, short, wearing a blue cloth shirt, with his hair tied loosely, and when he turned around, he revealed his face full of dirty mud, horizontal yellow, oblique and black, clearly a little beggar!

As soon as the two of them stood in the Yi District, they attracted a lot of attention, but because the Taoist master was there, no one dared to point out anything, just whispered, and the gambling house, which was originally a little deserted in the early morning, became lively.

This one begging is Jingchen and Yu Shu.

Yu Shu whispered hello to Jing Chen, asked him to wait in front of the counter, went to the place where the sign was sold in the west by himself, took a silver ticket of ten taels, and said:

"Bring fifty pairs of signs."

This one is bigger than the one opposite the Confucian Yi Pavilion, and a pair of brands are sold for two dimes of silver.

The gambling house is open for business, and meat and vegetables are not taboo, Mo said that he saw Yu Shu coming in with a Taoist priest, but no one followed, she took the silver, and they would not turn it away.

Fifty pairs of brands were counted on the spot, and they were directly connected to the rope string to Yu Shu.

Jingchen was looking at the title on the wall, and when she heard the sound of "clucking", she turned her head and saw Yu Shuti walking over with a large string of wooden signs, probably because she was tired, she lowered her head and hung the large string of signs around her neck, crooked her neck and struggled to pick out the tangled hair, stupidly, the corners of his mouth moved, and he almost laughed.

Yu Shu fiddled with the sign, then looked up to see the topic on the wall, twisted his face again, swept left and right, counted about twenty or thirty guests, and estimated in his heart, he lay on the counter, turned his head and whispered to Jing Chen:

"Don't worry, wait for a lot, I'll take a look at the question first."

As he spoke, he took off the abacus hanging on his waist, dialed the gap, moved his fingers, and played a trick again, the fingers were like clockwork, fast and accurate, Jingchen looked at it on the side, his eyes were a little surprised, and several guests also turned around when they heard the wind, but they only had time to see Yu Shu a few times after the last, and they didn't feel powerful.

"Jingle bell", the guy on the high cabinet shook the bell, bought and left his hand, Jingchen turned his head and asked Yu Shu:

"Won't you buy it?"

Yu Shu stared at the more than ten gambling signs on the wall, squinted his eyes, and said softly:

"No hurry, wait."

Five hundred taels is not an easy job.

The guests in the gambling house are working hard, but they don't know that there will be a big limelight on Vientiane Street today.