It was already night when the caravan led by Qin Xiuhan entered Chunhe City, and it was still a little dusk, so he ordered the caravan to rest for a few days to replenish various supplies.

Rujin girl happened to go back to her mother's house when she raided the prime minister's house, and Liu Fusu sent someone to find her to serve back when she left Ning Wang's mansion, and now she also followed her to the border city with the caravan.

Liu Fusu and Rujin have been dressed up as men for some time. Although he slept in the open air every day, Qin Xiuhan did not treat Liu Fusu badly, and still let them sit in a carriage.

After sitting in the carriage for several days, Liu Fusu felt that his bones were scattered, and his whole body was sore. "Girl, I'm dying of pain, how many days will it take to get to the border city?" Rujin lay on the bed, chattering and talking.

Liu Fusu lay on the bed and hammered his legs, broke his fingers, and thought about it before saying, "There should be another month!" Let's endure for a while. ”

Qin Xiuhan and Liu Fusu had dinner in a wing room of the inn, and Liu Fusu suddenly remembered that he owed Qin Xiuhan a big favor. "Miss Liu, why are you sure that you will come to your rescue?" Qin Xiuhan took a few sips from the wine jug and asked casually.

Liu Fusu put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked at Qin Xiu's cold expression, and thought for a while before saying, "Fusu is not sure, but in the capital, you are the only person who can compete with His Royal Highness King Ning, I just bet that you are willing to come to the rescue, if you lose the bet, you will just stay in King Ning's mansion, and there is no loss for Fusu." ”

Qin Xiuhan smiled, nodded and said, "I just like to deal with smart women!" Come have a drink! Liu Fusu did not refuse, she raised her glass and said, "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the shopkeeper Qin, Fusu has nothing to repay, if it is useful to Fusu in the future, just ask." ”

Qin Xiuhan didn't say anything more, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, he saved Liu Fusu out of King Ning's mansion, not only to deal with smart women, but mainly because he knew that Liu Fusu was the weakness of King Ning Xiao Chong, and with Liu Fusu in hand, he had the handle to pinch King Ning Xiao Chong. In the future, when Xiao Chong, the king of Ning, ascends to the emperor of Nanyue Kingdom, then he will have a bargaining chip to negotiate with Xiao Chong.

At night, there were a few crows fluttering and terrible cries outside the inn from time to time, which seemed extraordinarily quiet. Liu Fusu couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, she thought of her mother, father, and brother from afar, and her heart was full of melancholy. She got up and walked to the pavilion in the courtyard of the inn, leaned on the railing and looked at the bright moon in the sky, and suddenly found a dozen people in night clothes walking quietly by the wall.

Liu Fusu just wanted to shout, but Qin Xiuhan behind him tightly covered his mouth and signaled her not to make a sound. At this time, the caravan guards led by Qin Xiuhan rushed out of the inn and started killing left and right. Unaware that the danger was getting closer to Liu Fusu, a man in black attacked from behind with a long sword, but fortunately, Qin Xiuhan found it in time and blocked it with his long sword.

Facing more and more black-clothed people appearing, Qin Xiuhan shouted to the leader of the caravan, "It seems that there are people who don't want this king to return to Yelang Kingdom, how many more people will go together!" ”

The other group of black-clothed men who attacked were armed with torches and crossbows, drawing their bows and preparing to shoot at everyone, Qin Xiuhan already had an answer in his heart, he planned to go back to Yelang Country to clean up.

"Liu Fusu, hurry up and escape! Ignore us! "Yu Xuanzi, the commander of Qin Xiuhan's escort, was ordered to inform Liu Fusu to escape.

Liu Fusu looked at Qin Xiuhan in the melee, and there were more and more people in black, feeling that it would be Qin Xiuhan's burden to stay any longer. So she ran desperately outside the inn, a big stone tripped Liu Fusu, Rujin also ran out because the inn wing room was on fire, she picked up Liu Fusu, and fled into the darkness together.

Several black-clothed people saw Liu Fusu and the two of them fleeing, so they followed closely, in a dense forest, Liu Fusu was nervous, sweat ran down his cheeks, and wet his underwear. Rujin ran out of breath, and she struggled to keep up with Liu Fusu's pull.

Seeing that he was about to be followed by the man in black, Liu Fusu saw a low-lying area not far ahead, covered with wild trees and weeds, enough to hide the two of them, so he pulled Rujin and squatted down. Through the gap in the weeds, I saw the men in black holding torches, looked around and quickly left, and then quietly walked out of the grass.

There was cold dew in the sky, the cold wind hit in all directions, and the birds in the forest cried a few times from time to time, and Rujin was so frightened that he hugged Liu Fusu tightly several times, not daring to look forward. Liu Fusu was also crazy with fear in her heart, but she suppressed it tightly and didn't show it, and her palms were wet with sweat.

The sky was getting brighter, although it was wild, but some people who were working could be seen, Liu Fusu decided to go back to the inn to see how Qin Xiuhan was doing. Liu Fusu and Rujin walked back step by step, the sun was shining in the sky, hungry, and each step took all the strength of the body. After a long time, she walked back to the inn, but found that the inn had been destroyed in the fire, and there were still many people who had been scorched by the fire lying on the ground.

Liu Fusu ran to ask the officials who came to maintain the scene, but she didn't ask why, she sat on the ground, not knowing what to do. Rujin also sat beside him dejectedly and asked, "Girl, Shopkeeper Qin doesn't know whether it's life or death, what should we do?" ”

Liu Fusu thought for a while before saying, "Let's go on the road by ourselves, otherwise we will have to go to the rivers and lakes." We would starve to death without silver, so we had to earn money to survive. Rujin looked at Liu Fusu with an uncomfortable expression, and she also understood this truth and nodded.

Liu Fusu pawned all the valuable things on her body to have some silver taels, and she used one tael of silver taels to buy a trolley, but she hadn't thought about what to do? Then he went to the street with Rujin to hang out.

"Rujin, it is rainy in the spring season in the south, so the people in the city need paper umbrellas, so let's sell paper umbrellas!" Liu Fusu raised her head and touched a trace of raindrops, and as she walked, she suddenly had an inspiration, and she pulled Rujin in surprise.

They found the owner of the shop that sold paper umbrellas, and persuaded the owner to sell them at cost price with Liu Fusu's incorruptible tongue. The boss claims to be from Beijing, and he has a lot of money at home, so he sells it well.

Liu Fusu bought a lot of paper umbrellas from the shop, and the two of them dressed up as men together, pushing a small cart out of the street corner waiting for the people to buy it.

For three days in a row, no one came to inquire, and the people passing by looked at them with curious eyes. "Girl, don't you think it's strange? They never came up to ask us about our oil-paper umbrellas. "It's the third day, and Rujin really can't help but ask.

Liu Fusu also muttered in her heart, it stands to reason that her paper umbrella is of the best quality, and the price is also affordable, why no one came to buy it, and she didn't even ask. "yes, why don't we find someone to ask and see what's going on?" Rujin nodded, and went to pull a woman with a basket in her hand to ask.

"Little sister, may I ask, doesn't it often rain in Chunhe City in spring?" Rujin said to her.

The woman smiled and said, "Chunhe City is a seaside city, and it rains at this time, but it usually rains in late spring and early summer, and it rains heavily, how can a small oil-paper umbrella hold it?" ”

Liu Fusu only understood at this time that he only thought that he needed an umbrella on a rainy day, but he didn't figure out what the people needed.

"And, ah, let me tell you, we don't need oil-paper umbrellas in Chunhe City, because we live by the sea, with strong winds and waves and heavy rain, it is convenient for our people to go out on rainy days, and no one will buy oil-paper umbrellas, and you oil-paper umbrellas are estimated to be at a loss." The woman looked at Liu Fusu and Rujin pitifully, and said a few more words.

Liu Fusu sat on the ground, she had no extra silver taels to survive, looking at this car of oil-paper umbrellas and crying without tears.

Liu Fusu and Rujin pushed the cart aimlessly and kept moving forward, when suddenly it was drizzling in the sky, and they had to hide from the rain under the eaves. This rain seems to have fallen from God's pity on Liu Fusu, and it is still raining when there is a stick of incense, and it is not a violent storm, but a light rain.

Liu Fusu suddenly became surrounded by pedestrians, and a middle-aged man asked how to buy an oil-paper umbrella. Liu Fusu heard this, and quickly set a price of three times the price to sell a handful. The crowd was bustling, and in a moment, a cart full of oil-paper umbrellas was emptied.

Liu Fusu and Rujin happily hid aside and counted the silver taels, "Girl, have we made a fortune?" Rujin couldn't suppress the excitement in her heart. Liu Fusu nodded and shook his head again. "Rujin, this bit of broken silver is for you to keep, these are the silver taels for our dinner, and you can go to the inn for one night tonight!" With the rest of this as the principal, we can sell things to earn more silver taels, so that we can have silver taels to go to the border city. ”

Rujin nodded happily, and went to the shop on the street to eat a full meal.

There was a middle-aged man at the next table who had been watching Liu Fusu and them gobble up, and from time to time he heard them discussing silver taels. The man picked up a pot of old wine and drank it in a big gulp, never leaving Liu Fusu and them.

Finally full of wine and food, Liu Fusu planned to stay with Rujin at the inn next door for a while. When they walked in the alley, the man rushed over and snatched the bag that Liu Fusu was carrying, which could contain all the silver taels he had earned today.

Liu Fusu and Rujin didn't care so much, and shouted while chasing, "Catch the thief!" "The man has great strength and runs far. When chased to the street, there was a flow of people all around, and the figure of the thief had long been drowned in the crowd.

Liu Fusu was very angry, she regretted that she shouldn't have talked about silver taels in a place where there were so many people. Now that all her hard-earned silver has been snatched away, she squatted down and cried, what should she do in the future? Now there is still a little bit of broken silver left on Rujin's body, and it is impossible to walk to the border city!

Rujin also cried, the two of them experienced too many ups and downs along the way, Liu Fusu saw Rujin crying heartbreakingly, so he had to hurriedly wipe away his tears and comfort her.