After watching the excitement, Xiao and Cao turned back, Cao Yingze shook his head and sighed as he walked, "It's a pity, it's a pity......"

Xiao Tingxiu said suspiciously, "This is very happy, where is the pity?" ”

"As soon as I looked at this young man, I knew that I didn't have enough experience in the rivers and lakes. As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't suppress the head snake on the ground, he actually embarrasses others in public on other people's territory, and he will attract hatred, and at the same time, he will show his wealth in public, and he will be worried. In my opinion, someone will come to meet him tonight. ”

"Yikes! Then we have to be vigilant and not let the heroes suffer! ”

Cao Yingze wrinkled his eyebrows, "I said Uncle Xiao, why didn't you see you so righteous and awe-inspiring before?" ”

"Cough, I, Xiao Tingxiu, am indeed not a gentleman, but I can't see this kind of bullying of the weak in my life, and I admire the hoe to help the weak. Of course, I also know that I often fight cocks and lackeys in Luo'an City, drink and make trouble, and I am not a good person, but I am all messing around with those sons, and I have never bullied the weak or oppressed the people. I don't believe you ask Qi Xu, have I ever done such a bastard thing? ”

Qi Xu hurriedly said, "The young master really hasn't. ”

Cao Yingze also knew that the children of the Xiao family would not be like this, otherwise they would not be able to retreat from Luo'an as well as the Duke of Chu, and the imperial historian would have already thoroughly participated in him. And the catkins incident is also proof, although Xiao Tingxiu is troublesome with Wang Shulin, he has never been sorry for the catkins, let alone bullied others, which shows that his character is still good, so he said, "Don't forget that we are also foreigners, and we can't save our lives if we don't do it, and we still manage others?" ”

Xiao Tingxiu pondered for a while, then pulled Qi Xu over, whispered a few words like this, Qi Xu nodded again and again, and then retreated.

Cao Yingze sighed, knowing that he couldn't stop him, so he had to sit down and continue drinking.

When it was just too ugly, Xiao Tingxiu heard a movement, which was clearly deliberately suppressed footsteps and talking, at least five or six people came, stumbling upstairs and downstairs, and left the inn in less than a quarter of an hour.

Fortunately, he had already taken precautions and had already called Qi Xu to ambush at the back door of the inn, otherwise at the speed of this thief, he and Cao Yingze would not be able to catch up.

It was difficult to do anything in the town, so Qi Xu quietly followed all the way, and when he arrived in the suburbs, he suddenly sacrificed himself, which startled the group of thieves.

The two sides didn't say much, and directly fought with real knives and guns. How could it be the opponent of the authentic martial arts, five or six people were beaten to the ground, and the remaining two saw that the situation was not good, so they hurriedly helped the same party and fled without their lives.

was carried by the thief all the way without movement, the young man should have been put ecstasy incense, Qi continued to take out the ice chips in the brocade bag, and hurriedly opened the sack, just about to wake him up. It's okay not to look at this, but I was suddenly startled when I saw it, where is this teenager, it's clearly a girl with clear eyebrows!

I saw her green silk falling to the ground, her eyebrows were slender, her red lips were slightly open, she whispered softly, she was wearing a plain white middle coat, the placket was slightly open, revealing a white belly pocket, Qi Xudeng's face was flushed, holding her and putting it was not, not letting it go, and it took a while before she remembered that she should wake her up, so she hurriedly fed the ice chips into her mouth, and then took out a small bottle of exorcism and gave her a smell, and the girl slowly sobered up.

When she opened her eyes slightly, she saw a strange man holding herself, her facial features were less than a foot away from her, the girl was suddenly shocked, pushed Qi Xu away, struggled to stand up, and was about to run away, but the residual strength of the drug was still there, dizzy, and fell to the ground without taking a few steps.

"Girl, the merchant who came from Xia Na Luo'an, you are not a bad person, you have been drugged by thieves, and now the medicine is not dissipated, and you are only afraid of hurting your body if you forcibly use it!"

"Don't come here!"

"Good, good, I will never enter your three-foot range below, you lean on the tree first, and let the medicinal power diffuse."

The girl saw that he really stood still, looked at the traces of the fight around him, and asked in surprise and suspicion, "Did you save me?" ”

"Uh...... Sort of...... The young master arranged for me to be on duty at the back door, saying that if those traffickers did not die, or if there was a small covet of your belongings, which was not good for you, I would be able to save you in time. ”

"Your young master? Who is ......?"

"Young Master Ben is Young Master Ben...... Whew, Whew...... Qi Xu, your skills are getting better and better, call me to chase ......" Xiao Tingxiu was out of breath, and scolded himself in his heart for crippling his body in Luo'an's voice dog Mali, and he would have to restrain himself in the future.

Cao Yingze's demeanor was calm, and he stepped forward and said, "It's a lot of offense, I have been doing business in Xia Nailuo'an, and I have seen the girl......

"Cao Yingze?!"

Hearing that the man actually called his name, Cao Yingze hurriedly raised his head and looked at her with a straight face.

"Xiao Tingxiu!"

Both of them actually know each other? When the two of them heard this, they hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, "You...... You are...... Wei Zhiyu?! ”

Xiao Tingxiu was surprised and delighted, and patted his head and said, "I said you are familiar!" It turned out to be Lord Wei's daughter! However, we are both Luoan, and it is normal for us to meet each other...... But how did you and Brother Cao meet? ”

Cao Yingze shook his head and smiled, "This world is really small, no matter where you go, you can bump into acquaintances." When I traveled to Kannan Province, I was taken care of by Lord Wei and stayed in the Jiedu Embassy's Mansion for a while. ”

Xiao Tingxiu suddenly realized.

"This is not the place to talk, let's go back and talk in detail. Zhiyu, are you still able to walk? If not, I'll carry you. ”

Cao Yingze was about to step forward, Wei Zhiyu hurriedly excused herself, she was only wearing her middle clothes now, how could she not be so close to a man, thinking of this, she suddenly thought of being so close to Qi Xu just now, her face turned crimson, and she quickly lowered her head.

Cao Yingze smiled, took off his coat and draped it on Wei Zhiyu, and the group slowly walked back to the inn.

It turned out that Wei Zhiyu didn't want to stay in Jian Zhou after arranging the meeting between Wei Shaoqing and Duan Zhenggang, and she had a half-hung marriage contract with the deputy general Liu Yi and the half-hanger, and it was embarrassing to be together. But there is Duan Bin in the Duan tribe who has nothing to do, if he refuses directly, it will hurt his heart, if he doesn't refuse, he is afraid that he will misunderstand again, and it will be even more difficult to explain in the future, so he simply left the book and left, and came to Binzhou to find Ye Cizhun.

Ye Cizhun's identity could not be exposed, so Wei Zhiyu concealed this paragraph, only saying that he came from his brother and went to Jingnan Province to join in the fun, and only in order to ensure safety, he disguised himself as a man, but unfortunately he was still put on a scene by thieves.

Xiao Tingxiu heard that an acquaintance came again, Binzhou became more and more lively, and he didn't want to go up the mountain, so Xiao Hongyi came to the inn early the next morning and came to arrest him in person, needless to say, this must be a good thing done by Cao Yingze, but he had no choice but to go up the mountain with his uncle.

After Wei Zhiyu woke up, he recalled that Qi Xu rescued her last night, and he was dashing and vigorous, and there were some ripples in his heart, but he thought that he was disheveled at the time, and he was very shy. Qi Xu was about to set off with Xiao Tingxiu, she thought about it again and again, but she still mustered up the courage to thank Qi Xu in person.

Qi Xu felt very embarrassed after knowing that she was a woman, and now that he knew that she was the daughter of the secretary of the court, he became more and more at a loss, waving his hand again and again, unable to speak, "No thanks, no thanks...... This is, this is the villain's part, the villain's part......"

Wei Zhiyu lowered his head a little shyly, and hurriedly turned around and left.

Cao and Wei disguised themselves as Luo An's brothers and sisters who came to join their relatives, and advanced to Binzhou City at dark that day. Wei Zhiyu was not familiar with the place, and he couldn't go to Taixiangsheng to find Ye Cizhun for a while, and Cao Yingze proposed to go to Binzhou Port to enjoy the grand occasion of the coming of all countries, so he wanted to go, so the two found an inn to live in Binzhou City, and made an appointment to play for a few days before parting ways.

Tai Xiangsheng made a good start in Binzhou, which should have been a happy thing, but Xue Chunyue was a little worried, Ye Qinyu thought that it was because of the pressure of the imperial court to ask the household department to allocate silver taels, so he wanted to ask Yi Ruhai to pay a little more profits and taxes by making a false Ding Taihe account, so that the household department could be directly transferred.

Xue Chunyue suddenly laughed dumbly after hearing her suggestion, the world only has fake public welfare and private pockets, and has not heard of fake private people, besides, Ding Taihe's annual profit is only more than 300,000 taels, even if all the actual reports, according to the tax rate of every ten of the imperial court, the profits and taxes paid are only tens of thousands of taels, which is just a drop in the bucket for the treasury.

What he was worried about was King Xi.

What King Xi is walking now is the old path of King Xu, using business to accumulate wealth, using wealth to support war, and political warfare.

Back then, King Xu successfully captured the Xue family and was able to continuously extract the financial resources of the Xue family in Haizhou. If the Xue family had not returned to the camp of King Xu back then, Dingtaihe would definitely not have been able to develop and grow smoothly. Now Tai Xiangsheng has become the largest business name in the great cause, but it does not belong to the camp of King Xi, if you want to say that King Xi does not hate Tai Xiangsheng, no one believes it.

Binzhou's Ding Tai Hui is only the first step of King Xi's hunt for Tai Xiangsheng, and if he does not swallow Tai Xiangsheng for a day, he will not stop for a day.

Tai Xiangsheng needs the protection of a powerful political force, which is strong enough to intimidate King Xi and make him dare not act rashly.

After the fall of King Xu, the emperor's adult princes were only left with King Chang and King Sheng, both of whom were either extremely unfavored by their biological mothers or too weak by their mothers, and it would take time to become climate-dependent, so Xue Chunyue thought of his uncle, King Liu An.

But if you want to win over King Jing, you have to tell him the ins and outs of Tai Xiangsheng, and then the entire Tai Xiangsheng, including Ye Cizhun, Su Yuming, and even Shen Yue, Zhuang Kang, Wei Zhiyu and others, will be completely exposed under King Jing's nose, in case King Jing is not a friend or foe, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for Tai Xiangsheng.

The risk is too great, and Xue Chunyue is not sure.

It was another rainy night, Xue Chunyue was a little sleepless, tossing and turning and worried about waking up the sleeping Ye Qinyu, so he simply got up, poured a pot of wine, sat by the window and listened to the rain, and sorted out his thoughts.

King Jing has always been an unattainable existence for the Xue family.

Xue Yin's eldest daughter, Xue Qingyan, was able to marry and respect the king, which can be said to be the emperor's imperial grace to the Xue family. The prince's concubine is generally from the noble family, or the upstart who holds the military power and has to be encircled by the imperial court. After Xue Yin was only a businessman, he entered the imperial examination, and was promoted to the head of the household department step by step with his own strength, with more than talent, but not enough background, far from enough to make Tianhuang nobles listed as the object of marriage.

Therefore, the marriage of Liu An and Xue Qingyan can be said to be an accident......