On the streets of Yong'an, Sikong Xi followed behind the ancient key from afar, watching both sides of the street, like boundless wine shops and prostitution houses. He looked forward and saw the bulging bag in Gu Key's pocket, and he tried to think about which wine shop or what kind of stall Gu Key's purpose was on this trip, but he couldn't guess. Because they've been going around here for almost half an hour.

"Hey, who's that!" Sikong Xi's words choked halfway, and he froze, "That...... Brother Gu Key, where are we going in circles like this? ”

"Aren't you hungry?" Gu Key leaned sideways to look at him, smiling mysteriously, "Of course it's looking for a place to eat." ”

"But how many liquor stores have we passed, and you still have a little one to go around?" Sikong Xi glanced at it with slanted eyes, lowered his head and spat on the ground, like a ruffian in the market.

"You're a guard now, not a splash on the street." Gu Key's words were very light, but they contained toughness, "Besides, I can't afford these wine shops!" ”

"Can't afford it?" Sikong Xi fixed his gaze on the big bag full of Gu Key's waist again, with a strange expression, "Then where are we going?" ”

"You can follow the road if you have a road, and you should talk less nonsense, understand?" Gu Key raised his fist at him, but he was more like a scoundrel than Sikong Xi.

Sikong Xi pursed his lips, but he still followed.

On both sides of the candle-filled street, there were people parked on the side of the road to pick up small items on the stalls, and Sikong Xi was a little itchy, so he also moved over to see what new gadgets there were. But then, there was a thud under his feet, and he almost fell to the ground, and he cursed and glanced over there. There is only a half-grown young man with a burden and a stall at his feet, but the flattery on his face, Sikong Xi always feels a little wrong when he sees it. He glared at the boy and strode over, but he couldn't get past the boy's gaze.

"Guest, do you have a string?" The boy looked up at him, and reached out to pluck a string of shiny things from his burden.

Sikong Xi looked at the emerald shiny strings, and was a little stunned, "What is this?" It's weird it's beautiful......"

"Hey...... Guest, don't you know, this is green sugar made of agar syrup, and those inferior berries can't be compared! ”

Sikong Xi seemed to find a different meaning from these words, and glanced at him fiercely, "I'm afraid it's not the bluffing thing that the green float wrapped around the syrup!" ”

"Guest officer, what you said is not right, this emerald candy craftsmanship, but my ancestor brought it from Huaizhou, it is fragrant!" The young man turned the emerald candy in his hand, like a woman in an emerald Luo skirt dancing with a curtain.

The more transparent emerald candy body reflected the candles around him and lit up, Sikong Xi lost his previous contempt, and looked straight at it as if he was fascinated, when he was wandering around Yong'an Street before, he had never seen such a novel gadget, and now he had no interest in looking at the shop in front of him.

"You emerald candy...... It's rare. Sikong Xi looked at the shaking green candy from afar, and there was light in his eyes.

"Hehe, don't praise the boy, why don't you try this green candy?" The young man broke off a piece of emerald candy with his hand and handed it to Sikong Xi.

Sikong Xi was overjoyed, and was about to reach out to grab the green candy, but he suddenly touched the air. He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and jumped like thunder, turned around to see that it was Gu Key who pinched the emerald candy with two fingers. He was a little weak-hearted, and he couldn't help but wonder, how did this ancient key come so quickly?

"Xi boy, don't you understand the saying that you don't eat the food that comes to you?" Gu Key stared at Sikong Xi.

"I'm originally a Hanako......" Sikong Xi muttered very lowly, but it was still heard by Gu Key. He couldn't dodge, and was slapped on the head by the ancient key.

"But now you're a fucking man under Lao Tzu," Gu Key roared, "under my hands, just be honest and obedient to me!" ”

Sikong Xi was stunned, he had never seen this cold young man get angry, he only knew that no matter what happened, he was always like that person who didn't care about himself.

"And you, pretending boy, go back to your nest!" The ancient key kicked over the young man's burden, and dozens of so-called emerald sugars, large and small, were inserted on it, all of which fell to the ground and fell into a piece of scum.

Gu Key looked down at the young man in front of him who was smiling and smiling and picking up the stall very quickly, stepped forward and grabbed his rag robe, and actually lifted him up, no matter how the young man struggled.

"There's no next time," his eyes widened, "and you're glad I didn't catch you this time." ”

The young man grinned, and fell to the ground as the strength of the ancient key was retracted, he secretly screamed in pain, but his movements were very fast, and he hurriedly ran towards the end of the street.

Sikong Xi suddenly found that the people around him were still frozen, and they snickered their eyebrows at this place, as if they were saying something weird. The fact that the ancient key of Shicai kicked over the burden of the young man who sold emerald candy has already attracted the attention of many people, and after a while, there is nothing wrong with the crowd gathering to talk nonsense.

The smell of the dish from nowhere entered Sikong Xi's nose, and he began to look left and right, trying to find the direction of the fragrance.

"That's someone from the Supervision Department...... a very low inquiry entered Sikong Xi's ears, and he followed the sound, but only saw the black pressed people.

"Inspectorate?" Sikong Xi groaned.

"Everyone, let's all disperse!" The Ancient Key faced the gathered people, and his voice was quiet, as if he was calming the frightened herd.

People are still talking in low voices, but there is already a tendency to disperse. In the military service, the Lu Mansion represents the supreme power here, and the subordinate standing guards, which are violent enforcement groups, implement the set of rules of the government. Here, there are very few people who disobey the orders of the standing guards, but there are also some villains who are troublesome.

"Let's go." Gu Key patted Sikong Xi on the shoulder and squeezed in along the crack that the crowd had spread.

"Brother Key...... What did they just say, the Inspectorate. Sikong Xi hurriedly followed him and asked in a low voice.

"How?" Gu Key squinted his eyes and glanced at him, his gaze cold, "Afraid that I will kill you?" ”

"No......" Sikong Xi choked and couldn't say a word.

"In the eyes of the people, the people who are standing guard are all scoundrels who use their power to bully the people. And I was the director of the Supervision Department, so I was naturally substituted by them. Gu Jian held the waist knife on his waist, and was slightly cold, "Scoundrel...... Naturally, you'll be dodged. ”

"That boy, why are you so angry? Didn't you just give me a piece of candy? Sikong Xi saw that Gu Key's brows were furrowed very tightly, and he wondered if he had said the wrong thing again, "No, no...... I mean, does Big Brother Key have some bad past with him? ”

"You think too much, we don't have a holiday, it's the first time I've seen him."

"That ......"

"I know what you want to ask," Gu Key froze in place, and most of the people who had just gathered had dispersed, all of them going to the night market.

"That young man is a man in the shadows, and those who live in the shadows can only live by some strange means."

"The man in the shadows?" Sikong Xi was puzzled, "I've been a thief here for many years, why haven't I ever found someone in this shadow?" ”

"They only show up in prostitutes and gambling houses, or...... Ordinary alleys, people who support stalls and carry burdens to walk the streets and alleys. Gu Jian didn't look at Sikong Xi, but watched the surroundings vigilantly, "Do you care about those people?" Prostitutes and gambling houses are where thieves like you can come and go at will? The people who walk the streets are all beggars, they are your peers, your competitors, will you get to know them? ”

Sikong Xi stammered, and there was no sound for a long time. Gu Key is right, these people are the blind spots he comes into contact with on weekdays. Even if he has a few people named Hanako who can be considered to know, but just knowing each other, how can he find out the strangeness of these people.

"Their black trade is the main area of our inspection department. They thought they could buy the hearts of my people with money, but unfortunately that didn't work, so the Supervision Department was the one they hated the most, and they did everything they could to suppress us. Gu Jian said coldly, "But they don't have that ability yet, no matter how hard the ground snake is, they can't stand uprooting!" ”

"Does the Governor know about this?"

"The national disaster is still unsafe, these trivial underground forces, how can I inform the governor to distract him?"

"So they're trying to play tricks?" Sikong Xi thought about the dazzling emerald candy, and he was a little unsatisfied, he really wanted to taste what it tasted like.

"Because they see you by my side. If they can't kill me, they'll choose an easier way to intimidate me. ”