Ishikawa let out a surprised "huh" and blurted out, "Isn't this the bandit girl from yesterday?"

"Ahh What did you say? Xiao Yan understood, but asked knowingly!

"Oh, it's wrong, it's the girl who said we were bandits yesterday." Ishikawa corrected his words word by word.

Mu Qing was still sitting silently, but Xiao Yan walked to the window and looked lively.

Outside the window, the street lamps were bright, and the girl, dressed in a low-necked purple dress with tight and narrow sleeves, and a light blue vest, was tiptoeing behind a tall gray-clothed man.

It looked like she was following the man in gray, and she was about to disappear at the end of the street.

"Xiao Yan, you said that this little girl wouldn't go alone again, right?" Although she kept saying that the little girl was arrogant and was sarcastically ridiculed by her, Ishikawa was really worried that she would suffer.

Looking at the street, the shadow of the little girl's guards was not seen, Xiao Yan spread her hands and said, "Obviously, she is alone!" ”

"Oh, I'll just say, this little girl is too young and vigorous, and she will definitely suffer a big loss." Ishikawa was inexplicably anxious.

"Brother Shi, if you want to go and see the excitement, just go, you don't have to make excuses." had already seen through Ishikawa's desire to see the excitement, and Xiao Yanhao did not hesitate to expose him.

"Okay?" Before he could finish speaking, Ishikawa jumped out of the window with a vertical leap and disappeared in an instant.

It was only at this time that Mu Qing moved and sat up straight, looking at Xiao Yan's eyes looking at him, although he was a little reluctant, he still stood up.

He knew that Ishikawa loved to watch the excitement, and of course Xiao Yan loved to watch it, so he was waiting for himself.

The two of them went downstairs and rushed in the direction Ishikawa had taken.

The girl followed behind the man in gray, and Ishikawa followed behind the girl, walking farther and farther.

When he arrived at a dirt slope outside the city, the gray-clothed man suddenly disappeared, and the purple-clothed girl was in a hurry, and suddenly a person jumped out from behind the tree, holding a folding fan in his hand, covering his face, and standing coldly behind the purple-clothed girl, with gloomy eyes.

He turned around sharply and looked at the man in gray vigilantly.

"Why are you stalking me?" The gray-clothed man's eyes were gloomy, and even his voice was vicious.

"The road is facing the sky, half of each way, you can walk, this girl can also walk, why do you say that this girl is following you?" The girl in purple didn't dodge either, and went back directly.

"You really can't walk this road!" The man in gray sneered.

"This girl wants to go!" The girl in purple also replied coldly.

"If you want to find death, the master will send you away, get out of the way of Lao Tzu!" After speaking, he opened his big palm and slapped his chest at the girl.

Unexpectedly, the girl's figure was erratic, and she easily avoided it sideways and floated to the edge of the dirt slope.

At this time, the moonlight flows, illuminating the back of the dirt slope.

Behind the dirt slope, a large group of black-clothed people stood quietly, looking at the little girl with fierce looks.

"Oh, not good!" Ishikawa screamed, and when he saw that the little girl had a wolf in front and a tiger behind, he was afraid that the little girl would suffer.

Without thinking, he took a leap and flew out of the tree where he was hiding, and landed beside the little girl.

"It's you, why are you here?" The girl in purple was very surprised.

"Little girl, where's your guard?" Ishikawa didn't answer, but leaned close to her ear and asked her mysteriously.

"I didn't bring it, there were a lot of people, and it was easy to be discovered." The answer was crisp.

"Ahh So what now, just the two of us, we can't beat their big gang? Ishikawa deliberately scared her.

"Fools fight them, right? If you can't beat it, just run? Before he finished speaking, the man had already flown out lightly, and his mouth was still shouting, "You don't want to run?" ”

"You, me!" Ishikawa almost fainted, and the muffled pestle remained in place, motionless.

Who is Ishikawa?

The first place in the Beijing division is caught! No. 1 master!

In his dictionary, there is never the word "can't beat", let alone "if you can't beat, run." This sentence.

Also, the little girl turned around and ran, not to mention running faster than anyone else, and even told herself to run quickly, which was too unexpected for him.

Originally, I thought that the little girl was arrogant and reckless, but who knew that she was better than a rabbit and careful, and when she saw danger, she slipped away.

Therefore, Ishikawa is still a little depressed, and he feels that he is not very accurate in his eyes on people.

"Hmph, she ran fast, Lao Tzu's fire has no place to spread." The man in gray suddenly became vicious, and walked towards Ishikawa, who was in the same place......

Alas, Ishikawa sighed, he had no interest in moving at all, and when the man in gray approached, and he didn't see him make any moves, the man in gray suddenly stopped, lowered his head and took a few steps back, and Ishikawa walked straight over.

After Ishikawa left, the gray-clothed man hurriedly flashed with his subordinates.

Three feet away, under a big tree, Ishikawa found a stone, sat down, and sighed incessantly.

"Why are you sighing, didn't you tell you to run?" The girl in purple jumped down from the tree.

"Ugh—" Ishikawa sighed again.

"If you don't tell him why you're following the guy before, he'll keep sighing."

Xiao Yan and Mu Qing also jumped down from their invisibility in the tree and said with a smile.

The girl in purple was obviously surprised that there were other people hiding in the tree, and she didn't realize it when she was just hiding in the tree.

didn't panic, just calmly asked Xiao Yan, "Why?" ”

"Because, he doesn't know if he's helping a good guy or a bad guy, and he's regretting it?"

"Hmph, old-fashioned, it's a radical method again." The purple-clothed girl snorted, turned around and left, but said to Xiao Yan as she walked: "This girl is not a good person, if there is a kind, let's go to the Baicao Garden in Baili Lane in Dongcheng tomorrow morning to have a look!" There are so many good people locked up there! As he spoke, the man was gone.

Three more were left behind, looking at each other.

A little girl actually asked three big men if they had any kind of seeds, and whether they were brave enough, this is simply a blatant provocation!

Also, I just said that Xiao Yan used the agitation method, but as soon as he turned around, he also used it!

"Are you really going tomorrow morning?" Ishikawa asked Xiao Yan.

"Are you really going tomorrow morning?" Xiao Yan asked Mu Qing.

Mu Qing did not answer.

Looking at the two gentlemen, eager to try, courageous, knowledgeable and kind, their words will seem very pale.

……

Early in the morning of the second day, the three of them came to the end of the alley of Baili Lane, in front of a relatively quiet and spacious courtyard.

The plaque reads: Baicao Garden

The courtyard door was ajar, and the three of them pushed the door in, and the courtyard was filled with the smell of herbs.

The morning fog was faint, and there were dozens of children in the spacious open space in the courtyard, both men and women, most of them in their teens.

A few boys were turning their heads back and forth, two were kicking, the girls were practicing throwing their sleeves on the side, and the other two were pulling their voices and "slinging up".

Xiao Yan, who suddenly burst into tears, looked at this familiar scene, as if he saw himself who had been practicing hard when he was young, so he stood still.

The people who sing opera are all children's skills that they have practiced since they were young, practicing Sanjiu in winter, practicing in summer in the scorching heat, singing, doing, reading and dancing, everything has to work hard and practice to death.

Xiao Yan is a singing student, since he was a child, he consumed the top, kicked his legs, turned his heels, flew his feet, spinners, and swept his legs.

Xiao Yan's tears welled up in his eyes, Mu Qing saw it in his eyes, of course he understood his mood, reached out and pressed it on his shoulder, and smiled slightly.

At this moment, a young man came out of the house, looking heroic.

When he saw Xiao Yan and the three of them, he hurriedly took two steps forward, and respectfully clasped his fists to the three of them and said, "In Xia Qin Huaijue, I have seen all the brothers. ”

It turned out to be a martial artist in the life of the Yuntai opera troupe, Qin Huaijue.

After greeting each other, the four of them sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard.

Of course, all three of them hid their true identities and only said that they came to Shuzhou to travel.

On the stone table, hot tea has been prepared, and there are a few snacks.

"This is what the young lady ordered to be prepared in the morning, saying that a distinguished guest is coming." Qin Huaijue saw the surprised eyes of the three of them, and said with a smile.

"Hehe, it's okay, this time you treated us as honored guests." Ishikawa sneered, it felt good not to be seen as a bandit.

Seeing that Xiao Yan's eyes were still looking at the group of children, Qin Huaijue smiled again and said: "Look at these children, they don't sing anymore, but this skill is practiced by the sky, and it has never fallen for a day!" ”

"Brother Qin, these children are Tong Ling!" Xiao Yan withdrew his gaze from those children and asked softly, after Qin Huaijue nodded slightly, the two of them did not speak, and turned their heads to look at the children who were practicing.

"What is Tong Ling?" After Shi Chuan met Xiao Yan, he would occasionally go to the opera with Mu Qing in the past two years, but it was limited to martial arts, and the drama of Danjiao was rarely heard, in addition to knowing that everyone knew that women could not sing, Tong Ling heard it for the first time, so he asked puzzledly.

Qin Huaijue heard Shi Chuan's question, and replied respectfully: "Brother Shi doesn't know, although women are forbidden to sing now, girls are not forbidden to sing, so some opera troupes will use boys and girls to sing to attract the audience. ”

"During the reign of the first emperor, there was a Chuntai class in the capital, which attracted the audience with the gimmick of Tong Ling, and became famous for a while." Xiao Yan also continued.

"Oh, that's the first time I've heard of it!" Ishikawa's usual energy is all on the case, and he doesn't like entertainment, where would he know this?

"Ah, look at these children, they are only in their teens, and they can go on stage, so they have to start learning to sing as soon as they can walk." Ishikawa was surprised and continued.

"They are all poor children, either abducted and sold by human traffickers, or sold to the drama troupe when the family is poor and has no food to eat, where can ordinary people be willing to let their children suffer this crime?" Qin Huaijue sighed leisurely.

"Brother Qin, where is your brother Huaiyu? Is something going on? It's related to these kids, right? Can you tell us about it? ”

From the moment he saw this group of children, Xiao Yan knew that something must have happened to them, and then he thought of the girl's behavior last night, so he asked such a question.

"My brother disappeared a few days ago...... Qin Huaijue's face was full of sorrow!