Qingyang, who sent the key, went and returned, took back a small box, and whispered to Qingshu, "Brother Yan's New Year's gift to my sister." ”

Qing Shu didn't refuse, and put away the small box, but didn't open it.

Qingyang hesitated, but finally couldn't hold back, "Sister, don't you look at it?" ”

Qing Shu snorted deliberately, "Don't look at it." ”

Qingyang sighed and went to reply.

But in a quarter of an hour, Ma's daughter Gu Li really came to visit.

Qing Shu was very satisfied with the beggar gang's ability to keep track and detect. To be precise, she was very satisfied with the helper she had appointed. The matter of the beggars is really an unintentional thing. When the Xiao family came to rob and burn the shop, she accidentally saw a beggar on the side of the road, so she had the idea of publicizing the evil deeds of the Xiao family, and used food as bait to lure the beggars to do things for her. It turned out to be even better than she expected.

On the same day, she used food as bait to lure beggars to help her. In fact, she just said it casually, and she didn't think that the beggar had the courage to do it with the subordinates in the powerful mansion. As a result, she was surprised and pleasantly surprised.

After that, she thought that the most unstatused and unnoticeable person in the world, and who could collect all kinds of news on the streets and alleys, was none other than beggars. If the beggars are united, their power should not be underestimated. If it weren't for that, even if those martial arts masters could make it up, they wouldn't be able to make up a beggar gang out of thin air. The beggars in martial arts novels are indeed suspected of exaggeration, but how can the scattered beggars be compared with the group of beggars in a group.

Since that day, there have been occasional beggars begging outside the back door of the restaurant or the back door of the ancient mansion. Qing Shu made people observe for a few days, and found that there were four or five beggars who always appeared and left together. The observers also found that even if they begged for leftovers, they were not in a hurry to eat them, but that one of them, who seemed to have a great authority, was in charge of the things they had asked for, and then they would eat them.

So, Qing Shu asked people to send a message to this beggar who seemed to have prestige, if he could unite some of the beggars, and lead his beggars to inquire about all kinds of news, and only serve her alone, she would ensure that he and his men would not starve to death or freeze to death. If there is a sick person, as long as there is no cure, she is willing to heal him.

In the eyes of the world, beggars are like mustards. Death from starvation, freezing, and disease is normal for beggars. The bait thrown by Qing Shu is really enough, and for the beggar, as long as the brain is not broken, he will definitely agree.

In this way, there is a beggar gang, and there is a "leader" and "gang leader" of the beggar gang.

Qingshu, the "leader", originally thought that he needed to be responsible for providing for a dozen or twenty beggars. But the helper she chose turned out to be not an idle person, and she quietly recruited half of the beggars in Kangxi Town to her command in just over a month. Not only that, but slowly, the power of the gang leader expanded outside of Kangxi Town. I dare not say that in the entire county, at least a quarter of the beggars are members of the beggar gang.

Although the members of the beggar gang had to beg for themselves every day, the begging was barely enough to keep the gang from starving to death. Those who beg with the old, weak, sick and disabled may starve to death at any time. Therefore, no matter what, Qingshu had to give a small amount of supplies every month to ensure that the gang would not starve to death. At first, it was okay, but as the gang became more and more, Qingshu felt the pressure. That's nearly a quarter of the beggars in Dexian County, and it's not a joke.

Fortunately, the gang leader was quite reliable, and after bringing the available beggars to the network, he turned away the other unavailable beggars and stopped the expansion. While Qing Shu breathed a sigh of relief, he was just in time to move the Wu family's shop in Dexian County. In this operation, the first heroes were the two guards of Du and Luo, and the second hero was the beggar gang. The beggars' winter supplies (clothing and food), Qingshu basically didn't pay for them himself, and solved them.

Sometimes when he is idle, Qing Shu will wonder, what is the origin of the "helper", and why does he have such outstanding ability? To put it bluntly, she, the "leader", is a hands-off shopkeeper, she doesn't care about anything, and the beggar gang is all responsible for the helper. Moreover, she admires the ability of the beggar gang to find out the news. Every day, Gu Yunfu said bad things about the ancient mansion, who he saw, who he scolded, and which aunt's room he slept in at night, they all inquired clearly. I don't know how!

Gu Li is the daughter of Ma and Gu Yunfu, the only daughter. Ma gave birth to three children for Gu Yunfu, namely the eldest son Gu Qingjia, the second son Gu Qingquan and the daughter Gu Li. According to the news that the beggar gang inquired about, Gu Qingcheng, Gu Qingjie and Gu Qingyu below were all born to their aunts, not Ma's children.

That day, Gu Qingjia took away the young child, but gave up his mother and eldest son, it is said that it is not that Gu Qingjia is ruthless and unrighteous, but that there is another secret in it. As for what the secret is, I haven't inquired about it yet. Obviously, Ma has a close relationship with the three children he born. Therefore, Ma left, and her three children also left, which is equivalent to between the father and the mother, and the three of them chose the mother.

Gu Li is seventeen years old this year, one year older than Qing Shu, and is Qing Shu's cousin. She came as a guest today, just as a guest, soft-spoken, and her temperament seemed to be very gentle. She called Sister Qingshu softly, not too intimate, only talked to Qingshu about women's red needlework and other things, and sat for half an hour before leaving.

Qing Shu left her for lunch and then went back, she politely refused, and invited Qing Shu to go to her house to sit down. Her current home, according to the beggar gang, is a small house rented by the Ma family in the town, with three main rooms, two east and west wings, and a kitchen and firewood room.

After sending people away, Qing Shu recalled Gu Li's behavior since he entered the door, and he couldn't find a mistake. The occasion when they met for the first time was not pleasant, and this second time they met, Qingshu had a good impression of her. Qing Shu felt that Gu Li, a girl, either had nothing to ask for, or she was very scheming, and she hid herself very well.

Lunch was about to be set up later, so Qing Shu went back to his residence first and brought back the small box given by Zhou Boyan. As she was about to lock it in the box, she opened the box and looked at it, a look of surprise on her face.

He came up with it and gave her a box of golden peanuts, goldfish, golden apples, kumquats and golden peaches. He knew her, knew her and was keen on jewelry, but he was very fond of gold and silver, and he gave her such a New Year's gift in a different way.

With a smile on her face, she took the small and cute apples, peaches and other objects made of gold one by one and played with them for a while, closed the box, and locked them in the box.

Lunch is the same as breakfast, and the master has two tables set up through the screen. Mr. Lu, Zhou Boyan, Qingyang and Hao sat at a table, and Dr. Zhou, who specially invited him for lunch. Lu Niangzi took Shengge, Zhao took Zhou Xing, and Qingshu, and the five of them sat at a table.

Everyone picked up the chopsticks, and before they had eaten a few bites of the food, Gu Shishi came in and whispered something to Zhou Boyan.

Zhou Boyan glanced at the wine jug containing fruit wine on the table, and explained to Gu Shi in a low voice, "Take it to him and let him get away." ”

Gu Shishi looked embarrassed, "Childe, is this so?" ”

Mr. Lu pointed his ears, stroked his beard and said to Zhou Boyan, "For the Chinese New Year, if there are guests here, naturally you want to invite in for a drink, how can you drive people away!" ”

Zhou Boyan had no intention of inviting trouble in, and he also intended to let Mr. Lu dispel this idea, "It's just a drunkard who comes for fruit wine, if Mr. is willing to give him a few jars of fruit wine to taste, it doesn't hurt to invite him in." ”

As soon as he heard that he was here to share the fruit wine, Mr. Lu immediately changed his tone, "It's a drunkard, drive away, drive away." He said in his heart that Shu Yatou hid the fruit wine deeply, and only gave him two catties to try it a year ago, and then refused to give it no matter how much he asked. Today, he finally took the fruit wine and promised to let him drink enough, so he was reluctant to share it with others!

"Sir, you are not kind! Brother Yan, the eldest brother didn't greet him in person when he came, he should be scolded, he should be scolded! As he spoke, a young man dressed in coarse cloth swaggered in.

This young man, looking like he was twenty-two or three years old, was very tall, on par with Zhou Boyan. His complexion is pale, his sword eyebrows fly obliquely into his sideburns, his eyes are not big or small, his nose is very straight, and his lips are a little thin. His hair was very dark, and he wore the hair of the most ordinary man in a regular bun like a commoner. The clothes he wore were ordinary coarse cloth, but the boots on his feet were made of good leather.

Maybe the boots on his feet betrayed him, or maybe the casualness he wore and a little extravagant sense of disobedience leaked something, people who have no shortage of life experience can see at a glance that he is not an ordinary person.

"This ...... Isn't this a boat boy? Mr. Lu was pleasantly surprised.

"Go back to Beijing." Zhou Boyan drove people away unceremoniously.

Gu Shishi hurriedly caught up, "Childe, Childe, didn't you let Childe wait outside?" How did you get in? You...... You don't embarrass the outsiders, do you? ”

The young man laughed when he heard this, and pointed in the direction of the door, "With them, who does this son dare to embarrass him?" ”

Gu Shi was puzzled and went out to see. I saw the chief of the guard, Hong Wei, standing awkwardly on the left, and the Du guard, whose face was sinking like water, stood on the right with his sword in his hand. He hurriedly went over and explained to Du Huwei, "It's Gongzi An inside, it's Gongzi's brother." Being a ...... person Some are informal, if there is something to offend, for the sake of it, for the sake of the child's face, don't be angry. ”

Du Huwei asked coldly, "Yan Gongzi's brother?" Never heard of it. ”

Gu Shi wiped his sweat, "This, this is a long story." ”

In the house, the young man was familiar with himself, waved to Mr. Lu, and then greeted Qingyang warmly, "Brother Qingyang!" I am the eldest brother of your brother, surnamed An, called An Rongzhou. Come, come, come, this is the New Year's gift from the eldest brother. He said, no matter how big the question mark in Qingyang's eyes was, he took out a paper from his arms and stuffed it into Qingyang's hand. He looked at Hao again, "Who is this younger brother?" Haven't seen it. Come, come, come, this is a welcome gift from the eldest brother. As he spoke, he took out papers and stuffed them into Hao's hand.

Hao pushed away the hand he had handed over, quickly slid off the chair, and ran to the other side of the screen.

The young man who reported that his family was An Rongzhou was stunned, sat on Hao's chair with a bitter face, and touched his face, "I think that my graceful and elegant son actually has a day that scares children, strange, strange!" As he spoke, he took Hao's chopsticks, unceremoniously picked up the roasted meatballs on the plate, ate them into his mouth, and couldn't help nodding, "Delicious, delicious." ”

Zhou Boyan darkened his face, stood up, took a few steps over, lifted An Rongzhou's collar and pulled people out.

An Rongzhou shouted, "Sister Qingshu, Sister Ashu, take care of this bad boy who has no size and no size." Sister Ashu, the eldest brother's younger brother has a bad temper, and in the future, Sister Ashu will have to take care of it a lot, and take care of it......"

"Shut up", Zhou Boyan scolded, and finally pulled this noisy and eccentric An Rongzhou out of the dining room.

Mr. Lu greeted Dr. Zhou with a smile, "Come, come, come, eat, drink, the affairs of the two brothers, their brothers will solve it by themselves, don't pay attention to it." Come, eat vegetables. However, he was wondering in his heart, how did An Rongzhou, this kid, come to Kangxi Town.

On the other side of the screen, Qing Shu touched Hao's head, "Let's not go over there, sit on my sister's side to eat." ”

Hao nodded.

At this time, Xiaoyu and Ding Jiamei were busy putting on the tableware for Hao.

Qingyang came over with a cup of his own fruit wine, sat down next to Hao, and decided to eat here. Xiao Yu and Ding Jiamei hurried over and moved Qingyang's tableware here.

Qingshu arranged for them, and said to Mrs. Lu and the Zhao family to come as soon as they went, without alarming Mr. Lu and Dr. Zhou, and went out alone.

Guard Du was still outside. She called the Du guard to the side and asked, "Where does that person seem to have seen just now?" ”

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Du Huwei replied, "He once came to visit his wife's mourning hall." Gu Shishi said that this person was the righteous son of Zhou Juma and the righteous brother of Yan Gongzi. On the same day, he was the one who shot the blood book of 'blood debt and blood payment' on the gate of Wu's mansion. ”

Qing Shu was taken aback, "Where did Yan Gongzi take him?" ”

Du Huwei, "went to the residence." ”

Qing Shu's mind moved, "Borrow a sword and use it." "It's disgusting that someone is shouting in front of a room full of people.

Du Huwei was stunned, but he was smart enough not to ask too much, and handed over the entire scabbard.

Qing Shu held the hilt of the sword, drew the sword in his hand, and walked away.

Escort Du was startled, felt that it was inappropriate, stayed in place for a while, took the empty scabbard and hurried to catch up.

Qingshu didn't wear a hat or gloves, grabbed a sword in his hand and rushed to Zhou Boyan's courtyard. When a guard saw it, he looked at the sword glowing with cold light in her hand, and he didn't know what to do, so he shouted loudly, "I've seen Miss Gu" and gave her a salute.

Hearing the movement, Zhou Boyan opened the door, but saw Qing Shu coming over with a sword on his face. He was puzzled, "What is this?" ”

Qing Shu didn't look at it, but just asked, "What's that, isn't there?" ”

Zhou Boyan didn't allow Qing Shu to do this, "Here." ”

At this time, someone came out of the house with a hippie smile, "Sister Qingshu, Sister Ashu, I haven't seen you for a long time, and my eldest brother wants to ...... very much."

With a bang, a sword stabbed at him.

"Wow, wow...... Do? Do? Don't, don't, Sister Shu, this, this, this ......"

Qing Shu didn't say a word, just swung his sword in pursuit.

And An Rongzhou, wow wow screamed and ran around the courtyard.

Zhou Boyan was worried that Qing Shu had hurt himself at first, but after seeing it, not only did he not stop Qing Shu, but he also kept giving Qing Shu advice while watching the battle, "Yes, Ping stabbed out, yes, there is progress...... If this sword misses, it can be turned into another move, and with the strength of the wrist, it can be picked upward, and its ear can be cut off......"

While An Rongzhou dodged and fled, he shouted angrily, "Stinky boy, is it important to have a confidante or a big brother, you kid has thought clearly." ”

In response to him, Zhou Boyan said coldly, "Big brother is dispensable." ”

An Rongzhou stumbled under his feet, almost causing the sword in Qing Shu's hand to shave his hair in a bun.

Qing Shu's hands were very cold, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't hurt the other party at all, so he was a little discouraged. However, she had a way of cleaning up this open-mouthed guy. So she stopped her steps, took a sword and pointed at An Rongzhou, who was running to the other side, "Brother Yan, help me catch him." ”

was called Brother Yan by Qing Shu, Zhou Boyan's heart was hot, and he waved his big hand, "Take it." ”

"What?" An Rongzhou shouted and rushed out of the hospital.

The Du guard, who was standing outside the courtyard gate, kicked his foot, and then swept him with an empty scabbard, forcing him back into the courtyard.

At this time, the brocade-clothed guards swarmed up and surrounded the youth group. In a short time, the man will be taken down.

An Rongzhou looked angry, "Stinky boy, this still makes no one ...... marry" He immediately stopped his mouth and made a surrender.

Qing Shu aimed the tip of his sword at his mouth, "Say, why don't you say it?" ”

An Rongzhou neither dared to speak, nor did he dare to move his head, the whole person froze, and he gave Zhou Boyan a look of help.

Zhou Boyan turned a blind eye to this, but instead took the big gloves he was wearing, and held the hilt of the sword in Qing Shu's hand, and whispered to Qing Shu, "Put it on quickly, don't freeze your hands." ”

Except for the parties Zhou Boyan and Qing Shu, except for An Rongzhou, who couldn't move, everyone else turned their heads.

Qing Shu's face was slightly red, he took the gloves with one hand, released the hilt of the sword with the other, and then put the two big gloves on his hands.

An Rongzhou showed an expression of being struck by lightning, but he still didn't dare to speak, because the cold tip of the sword was still against his mouth.

Zhou Boyan said again, "It's cold outside, I'll get someone into the house first, and then you can slowly clean him up." ”

Qing Shu glanced at An Rongzhou with a smile and entered the house first. In front of people, Zhou Boyan did so obviously to protect her, which she never expected.