Chapter 3: The Taoist King Hostage

Lu Yuan came out of the bedroom and found the little girl standing behind the study door, only half of her body exposed.

She had a short braid on her head and was slightly upturned forward, and her small face was clear and beautiful, snow-white and lovely, but the middle of her cheeks was sunken.

The small mouth was flattened upward, the big eyes were full of fear under the curved eyebrows, and he was wearing a small red embroidered shirt and trousers, and bruises appeared on his face and hands.

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "Yutong, what's wrong?" ”

Lu Yutong pouted and said, "In the end, I ate that small piece of bread." ”

Lu Yuan nodded and said, "Then I'll go out and buy some back, you lock the door and take good care of the house." ”

Lu Yutong's small eyebrows furrowed, and asked, "Don't you scold me?" ”

Lu Yuan shook his head and said with a smile: "I just said that I will be good to you in the future." ”

Lu Yutong watched him walk out of the room, his expression full of doubt.

Pushing open the gate and walking through the courtyard, Lu Yuan came to the store where he often bought cakes in the market according to his memory.

Compared with the north, the price of goods in the Southern Tang Dynasty is not high, a piece of bread only costs two cents a piece, he bought ten yuan, handed over the broken silver, and the boss retrieved eighty yuan.

Touching the dough, it was cold and hard, he had decided to take care of Lu Yutong, and he didn't want her to eat these things at a young age. So I spent eight dollars to buy four hot steamed buns at the bun shop next to me.

Compared with the bread, the steamed bun is small, but it is soft and delicious, which is more suitable for children. Carrying bread and steamed buns, Lu Yuan hurried home.

"This minister, please stay." While crossing a street, Lu Yuan heard someone calling him.

Looking around, the person who spoke out was a Taoist priest, he sat behind a table, and a banner was inserted next to the table, on which the words "magic and clever calculation" were written.

It turned out to be a fortune teller.

Lu Yuan walked to the side of the stall and asked, "What did the Taoist chief call me for?" ”

The Taoist priest stared at his face for a moment and said, "Strange, strange." ”

Lu Yuan was in a hurry to go home and said, "If the Dao Chief has nothing else to do, I will leave first." ”

The Taoist priest got up and stopped in front of him: "Xianggong, please wait a moment." As he spoke, he walked around him, and suddenly reached out and grabbed him at the side of his neck.

Lu Yuan was unprepared, he only felt a pain in his neck, took a few steps back, and exclaimed, "What are you doing?" ”

The Taoist priest raised his right hand and said with a smile: "What do you see this?" ”

Seeing that he was holding a long needle between his fingers, Lu Yuan said angrily: "Why did you use a silver needle to prick me?" ”

The Taoist priest shook his head: "This is a bee needle, which was taken off by Poor Dao on the neck of Xiang Gong." ”

Lu Yuan froze in place, never thinking that there would be a needle around his neck.

The Taoist priest continued: "The bee needle is highly poisonous, and the poor Taoist Xianggong's face is different, so he took the liberty to stop the Xianggong. ”

Lu Yuan was taken aback: "Poisoned? Why don't I feel anything? ”

The Taoist priest said: "Can Xianggong let the poor Dao take the pulse?" ”

Lu Yuanzi would not refuse.

After checking the pulse, the Taoist priest stroked his beard and said: "It turns out that Xianggong has been detoxified, but for some reason he didn't take off the bee needle." ”

Lu Yuan was in a fog, completely unsure of what was going on, and asked, "The Taoist chief said that this is a bee needle, can you know its origin?" ”

The Taoist priest nodded and said: "This is a hidden weapon of the mechanism, the bee needle is hidden in the mechanism box, and after it is triggered, it will shoot out, which is impossible to prevent, and is generally used to assassinate others." ”

Hidden weapons? Assassinate someone else? Thinking of the scene when he came to this world, it could be that the original owner of the body was poisoned and died, but even if he died, why did he appear in his body?

With whom did he make a grudge and be killed with such a secret weapon?

The Taoist priest saw that Lu Yuan was motionless, looking like he was demented, and pushed him: "Xianggong? Messire? What happened to you? ”

Lu Yuan was awakened by him, shook his head, and decided to put these questions aside for now.

He thanked the Taoist priest and said, "In Xialuyuan, thank you to the Taoist chief for helping to take out the bee needle in Xia, I don't know the name of Changzun?" ”

The Taoist priest returned the salute: "The poor Taoist king is hostage." It's a gesture, and it's polite. ”

Lu Yuan said: "There are still people waiting in the next house, so I will leave first." ”

Bidding farewell to the Taoist priest and walking on the street, Lu Yuan was still thinking about the bee needle in his mind.

Wait, it's not the original owner that the bee needle wants to kill! Thinking of the place and situation where he woke up, he suddenly realized that the target of the other party's assassination was Ning Guohou!

And this murderer is most likely one of the staff members standing behind the original owner.

However, even if he understood this, he didn't plan to tell Ning Guohou, according to the memory of the original owner, Ning Guohou was not a good type, so he should try to be as little implicated as possible.

And from a historical point of view, sooner or later the Southern Tang Dynasty will be destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty, and if he wants to live a stable life in the future, it is better to flee to the north.

Thinking about his thoughts, Lu Yuan returned to his residence.

"Brother Shang Bai." He was just about to enter the courtyard when shouts came from behind him.

turned around and looked, but it was Zheng Xing, who made him "do it for himself" in the morning.

Lu Yuan said: "It turned out to be Brother Zheng, I don't know what to do with me?" ”

Zheng Xing saw that he called himself "Brother Zheng" instead of "Brother Zhanyuan", he was displeased, so he no longer showed mercy, and said: "I will go our separate ways in a few days, Brother Lu borrowed my five taels of silver some time ago, I don't know when I will pay me back?" ”

Lu Yuan flipped through the memory of the original owner, and sure enough, he borrowed five taels of silver from Zheng Xing, he would not owe money and not pay it back, and said: "Brother Zheng, please wait, I will go and get the silver taels here." ”

Zheng Xing saw that Lu Yuan didn't invite him to his home, and said in his heart: "This relationship seems to be over." ”

However, thinking that this person is likely to have offended Master Hou, it doesn't matter if he has no friendship, the only pity is that he can't be used to get close to Miss Yiyi in the future.

Back at the door, Lu Yuan pushed the door and found that it could not be pushed open, and it seemed that it was locked by Lu Yutong.

He had the intention to test the little girl's housekeeping ability, so he didn't make a sound, and banged on the door hard.

"Who is it?" Lu Yutong's crisp voice immediately came from inside the room.

Lu Yuan did not respond and continued to bang on the door.

"My brother is out, I'll come back later."

Shoot again, and there will be no movement in the house.

Lu Yuan felt very satisfied, and said loudly: "Yutong, it's me." ”

After a while, the door opened from the inside, and after entering the house, Lu Yutong planned to bolt the door again, Lu Yuan said: "Don't bolt the door, I'll go out later." ”

Lu Yutong put down the deadbolt, glanced at the steamed bun in his hand, and walked towards the study with his hands down.

When the two used to live together, the original owner Lu Yuan didn't like her dangling in front of her, so he asked her to stay in the study and not be allowed to come out.

Lu Yuan said loudly: "Yutong, you don't have to stay in the study all the time in the future." ”

Lu Yutong heard his words and walked towards the bedroom again.

Lu Yuan put the steamed buns on the table and said, "You just stay in the lobby, the steamed buns on the table are bought for you, and I have something to do to go out." ”

Lu Yutong turned around and glanced at him, ran into the study quickly, and after a while, he moved out a small bench and sat down in the corner, without coming over to get the steamed buns.

Lu Yuan shook his head, lifted the dough cake and put it in the bedroom cabinet, and took out a brocade box in the cabinet.

The brocade box was opened, and there were two ingots of silver inside, both of which were small ingots of one or two, and there were more than a dozen pieces of broken silver and a jade pendant, which was all his family property.

A piece of broken silver is a penny of silver, and ten coins are a tael.

Lu Yuan's heart sank, all the belongings of the original owner were only more than three taels, and now he could only use the jade pendant as silver to repay the debt, this jade pendant was bought by the original owner in three or two, and it was enough to pay off the debt.

He simply picked up the whole brocade box and prepared to pay off the debt.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Lu Yutong's little face peeping from behind the door, and after he found out, Lu Yutong quickly shrank back.

Back in the lobby, Lu Yuan saw Lu Yutong sitting back on the small bench, his little head lowered, and he couldn't see his expression.

There was no trace of the steamed buns on the table, Lu Yuan sighed, and decided to communicate with her after he came back.

Opening the door, he was just about to go out, but his trouser legs were pulled.

looked down, but it was Lu Yutong grabbing his trouser legs, and the little girl was still with her head down, unable to see her expression clearly.

Lu Yuan asked, "Yutong, what's wrong?" ”

There was a faint voice from beneath him, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

At this moment, Lu Yuan noticed that water was dripping down from Lu Yu's pupil, he squatted down to take a look, and his heart jumped suddenly.

I saw Lu Yutong burst into tears, his upper teeth were biting his lower lip tightly, his lips had been bitten, and tears and blood were mixed together.

Lu Yuan hurriedly asked, "Yutong, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lu Yutong's lips moved, Lu Yuan didn't hear clearly, and asked anxiously, "Are you sick?" Isn't it painful? ”

Lu Yutong sobbed and said, "Don't leave me!" Woooooo ”