Twelve Bends, a small town, has the advantage of having an estuary, and schools of saury fish come here to spawn every spring. Not to mention the locals, the travelers and merchants passing by here also want to taste the delicious saury when they sit down to rest and eat.

On the second floor of Xitong Restaurant, the shopkeeper served a simmered saury diligently, and said with a smile: "Two customers, this simmered saury is a must in the shop, two of you try it, if it's not delicious, you can slap me in the face." ”

The purple-robed merchant was accustomed to seeing the diligence of these shopkeepers, and was impatiently about to wave his hand to let him go down, and after thinking for a moment, he ordered: "Tell the groom, you will go overnight tonight, let him feed the horse well." ”

The shopkeeper said happily: "Okay! I'll wrap you with some more road food, you have a bite to chew when you're hungry on the road, right? ”

The lady sitting opposite the purple-robed merchant frowned slightly, and looked at him half-complainingly and half-coquettishly: "Why do you have to travel at night?" It's a long way from the capital, I want to ......."

The purple-robed merchant raised his hand to stop her from talking further, and nodded the swordfish with chopsticks: "It's better to be safe." Don't you love fish, eat it. ”

The lady didn't seem to dare to disobey her husband, and she didn't say anything more, lowered her head, and raised her chopsticks to eat.

After a while, the shopkeeper came upstairs with two bowls of rice, and just put them on the table, he felt a gust of wind swept by, and in the blink of an eye, a person appeared out of thin air and sat next to the purple-robed merchant and his wife.

"I'm starving to death, master!"

The person sitting next to Mrs. melon skin hat, ordinary green cloth straight, dressed in the market, but there is dirt on the face of the dusty servant, just sat down and took a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the chopsticks tube, wiped them on the sleeves indiscriminately, took the rice bowl and pulled it into the mouth, occasionally carrying chopsticks like the wind, taking several mouthfuls of dishes in a row, eating wolf.

Mo said that the shopkeeper was stunned, but the purple-robed merchant and his wife were also stunned, and they couldn't figure out the situation for a while.

Eating this melon skin by the edge of a small hat, he didn't forget to give a thumbs up and vaguely praised: "This fish is delicious!" ”

The shopkeeper was the first to come back to his senses, only to say that this person and the purple-robed merchant were a group of people, and he was busy laughing and said: "The simmered saury in our store is a must in the ten miles and eight towns around here, and it is simmered with ham soup, chicken soup, and bamboo shoot soup, so it is extremely delicious." ”

The melon skin hat chewed carefully, and said strangely: "Why is there no thorn?" As he spoke, he took several chopsticks and simmered saury into his mouth.

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "The saury is spiny, so use a quick knife to scrape the fish fillets in advance, and then extract all the spines with tongs." ”

"You guys really don't bother."

The purple-robed wealthy merchant finally came back to his senses and said angrily to the shopkeeper: "What's going on?!" Where did this person come from, eating white food?! ”

"You don't know him......"

The shopkeeper was also taken aback, and hurriedly wanted to catch up.

The mouth was still chewing, the melon skin hat took out a free hand, took out a sample object from his arms, and stopped it in front of the shopkeeper without looking: "...... Do not disturb the idlers. ”

As soon as he saw this, the shopkeeper immediately stepped back with interest.

"Wait!" The melon skin hat called out to him, and measured the size of the bowl containing the rice with his eyes, "Again...... Six bowls of rice! ”

"Coming right away, coming right away."

Since he didn't dare to offend them, the shopkeeper went downstairs with a smoke.

Although the purple-robed merchant couldn't see what the thing in the hand of the melon skin hat was, he was faintly uneasy in his heart, grabbed the edge of the table with one hand, and stared at them with both eyes: "You...... Who are you? ”

The chopsticks pulled a few times at the bottom of the bowl, pulling all the remaining rice grains into his mouth, and then the melon skin hat put down the bowl, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, frowned and looked at the purple-robed merchant and scolded directly: "You said you too, what are you running all the way!" Relying on the fat of a long body! It hurt me to travel for a few days, and I didn't even eat a hot meal......"

The purple-robed merchant's tone trembled slightly: "Who the hell are you?!" ”

The melon skin hat slapped the things in his hand on the table, and the heavy copper plaque was very clear on it.

"Six doors in the capital, someone asked me to bring you something." The melon skin hat reached into his arms and took it out, and his oily hand touched it from his arms, and found out a roll of paper and handed it to the purple-robed merchant.

As soon as the purple-robed merchant unfolded it, the expression on his face froze - this was a wanted reward, and on it was his portrait, Cao Ge, male, forty-two years old......

The melon skin hat leaned over and hooked his head, compared with his appearance, nodded and said: "The painting is quite similar, judging from the physiognomy, you may not have a good nose and too little meat, what do you think?" ”

As he spoke, the lady next to him knew that something was wrong, and she trembled and moved her steps slowly. Suddenly, the shadow of the chopsticks flashed, and there was a pain on the little finger of her right hand, and she looked down at it, and the little finger was firmly held by the bamboo chopsticks, and she couldn't move.

The little melon hat looked at her with a smile: "Qi Qiu Clan, or should I call you Cao Qiu Clan now?" ”

Qi Qiu's clan struggled a few times, but the bamboo chopsticks were held very tightly, like iron tongs.

"Sit down!" At the same time, the hand holding the chopsticks flipped slightly, and pulled her little finger back.

Qi Qiu's pain was unbearable, so he had to sit down with a sad look on his face.

"You two are ruthless enough, eloped and eloped, and killed your own maidservant, cut off the head of the maidservant, put the headless corpse into Qi Qiu's clothes and put it in Qi Xiucheng's house, trying to frame Qi Xiucheng for killing his wife." The little melon hat shook his head twice, "It's a husband and wife, even if you fall in love with someone else, why are you so vicious." ”

Qi Qiu's family showed indignation: "Qi Xiucheng is not dead? ”

The little melon hat snorted coldly, and sighed: "Although the maid is the same body as you, she is a virgin, and the subtleties are very different, can't I see it, master." ”

Cao Ge trembled and took out a small stack of silver tickets, twenty-one and fifty-two, and slowly put them on the table.

"These silver taels are more than ten times more than the reward, so please raise your noble hand and let me and my husband and wife go." He looked pleadingly.

Seeing a pile of silver tickets, the melon skin hat eyes lit up, and he didn't care about eating, he reached out and counted the silver tickets, and counted them back and forth twice, and said happily: "Three hundred and twenty taels!" ”

"Yes, yes, it's not a respect, please keep it."

"How do you know that I'm in deficit every month," the melon skin hat calculated to himself, "My brother's private school tuition should be paid again, and I bought a basket of charcoal for Mr. last month, so I have no surplus at all." ”

Cao Ge just had a glimmer of hope in his heart, but he saw the melon skin hat change into an infinitely melancholy look.

"I'm worried that if the news gets out, I won't even be able to keep my errand. I can't kill both of you for the sake of this money. ”

Cao Ge and his wife were shocked at the same time, and their faces were as white as paper.

The little melon hat tilted his head, seriously thinking about the possibility of this matter, and hesitated: "...... Probably not, right? ”

Seeing that there was no room for change in this matter, Cao Ge no longer hesitated, he was already sitting by the window, while the melon skin hat was still distracted, he stood up and climbed out of the railing and stepped on the eaves tiles, and took a few steps forward before preparing to jump down......

"Cao Lang!" Seeing that Cao Ge was running for his life, Qi Qiu called anxiously.

Before the words fell, Cao Ge jumped down without looking back.

The melon skin hat was not in a hurry at all, and continued to eat the vegetables steadily, raised his eyes and saw the dejected appearance of the Qi Qiu clan, shook his head and sighed: "You murdered your husband and eloped with Cao Ge, and now it seems that he is nothing more than you." ”

Qi Qiu sat stunned and didn't say a word.

There was a sound of footsteps at the stairs, it was not the shopkeeper, but he was a big tall man, and he was still dragging a limping Cao Ge in his hands, and he didn't know whether he broke his foot or broke his leg.

"I said Master Xia, it's okay to say hello when you throw people down next time!" The big tall man carried Cao Ge and didn't have a good aura towards the melon skin hat.

"I didn't lose it this time, I really didn't, he jumped down by himself." The melon skin hat used chopsticks to order the dishes on the table, "You're hungry, come and eat." ”

It just so happened that the shopkeeper trembled and brought six bowls of rice, and the melon skin hat handed two bowls to Da Gao, and kept two bowls for himself, and then put a bowl of rice in front of Cao Ge and his wife. You have to travel for two days to get back to the capital from here, you don't eat at this time, and you can't wait to shout and be hungry on the road later. ”

Cao Ge's leg hurt so much that he screamed, Qi Qiu's heart was hurt by him, so he turned his face away from himself, took a bowl of rice and ate it, but he didn't hear it.

"This simmered saury...... Use a sharp knife to scrape the fillets and then cut out the spines. "The big tall fish fillet took the entrance and chewed it a few times, "It must be simmered in ham soup, chicken soup, and bamboo shoot soup, although it is delicious, but it is suspected of dominating the guests." In fact, this saury itself is already very delicious, as long as it is brewed with honey wine, added to the clear sauce, and steamed. ”

He was talking for a while, and the melon skin hat had already eaten seven or eight more mouthfuls than him, and he said with a mouth full of words: "You said you...... How good it is to be a chef when you catch fast. ”

"I want to too, but it's a pity that my father ......" Da Gao sighed, took a mouthful of tofu, and then sighed, "Tofu should be soaked in well water three times to remove the beany smell, this tofu is only soaked twice at most, how can this be served." And this fried bamboo shoots ......"

As soon as he slipped down the dishes on the table, the melon skin hat had already finished eating, asked the shopkeeper for tea and rinsed his mouth, and then asked the shopkeeper to wash his face with a basin of water.

"They have a big carriage, we can go back and take the carriage, we can't ride a horse and eat dust." The little melon skin hat carried a wet cloth towel, "I haven't come down on horseback in the past three days, and it's almost breaking me up." ”

The wet cloth wipe over the cheeks, revealing the already fair and pink skin, the melon skin hat simply took off the hat, took out the wooden comb from his bosom and dipped it in water, combed the hair again, and braided it into braids.

"You...... Are you a girl? Qi Qiu was stunned, originally thinking that she was just a handsome teenager.

The melon skin hat raised his eyebrows: "What, no?" ”

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant, but I didn't expect that there was also a daughter's family in the six doors."

"Rare and weird."

The melon skin hat snorted, her real name is Yuan Jinxia, she is eighteen this year, and she entered the public gate by chance two years ago; The person who traveled with her was called Yang Yue, who was two years older than her. Both of them were on errands in the six gates of the capital.

After a simple grooming, put away the wooden comb, and sat idle this summer, he looked at the pile of silver tickets rather melancholy, sighed, and then sighed, sighing Yang Yue's goosebumps.

She said quietly: "Da Yang......"

Yang Yue quickly put the silver ticket into his arms: "Let me go here first, wait until I return to the yamen, and then register in the register." ”

This summer looked at him with tears in her eyes: "I have an eighty-year-old mother on me, and I have a ...... below."

"Your mother is less than forty, say this, beware of her breaking your legs." Yang Yue didn't even look at her.

This summer's righteousness said awe-inspiringly: "My mother understands the righteousness, and I know that I bear the burden of humiliation for five buckets of rice, let alone eighty, even if she is eight thousand years old, there is nothing to do." ”

Yang Yue nodded: "Your leg is fine, but my father will break my leg." For the sake of my legs, I can only ask your 8,000-year-old adult to mourn on the Day. ”

The father in Yang Yue's mouth is Yang Chengwan, who is not only the head catcher of the six doors, but also the top boss of this summer and Yang Yue. This summer's kung fu, as well as tracking and other skills, were also taught by Yang Chengwan. For this summer, Yang Cheng is like a master and a father, and he is categorically disobedient.

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