"You don't have long eyes when you walk?!"

"Ah, I'm sorry—"

Begonia looked at the woman in front of her apologetically - he had just "accidentally" bumped into her.

"With such a wide road, you can also hit me and look for death!"

The woman crossed her waist angrily, and her eyes were full of anger when she looked at Begonia.

"I'm sorry, we didn't notice just now," Xiao Yue explained on the side, "That's it, Miss, you have something you like, we'll help you pay for it." ”

The woman glared at Haitang for another moment, and then said, "Okay, for your sake, I'll forgive you for your sincerity, but the things here are not cheap, can you afford them?" ”

"No problem, you can pick," Haitang said with a smile, while secretly giving a thumbs up, "By the way, I don't know the girl's name?" ”

"My name is Duan Li," the woman glanced at the two of them with some disdain, "Let's go, I'll pick something." ”

The woman who called herself "Duan Li" took her brother and sister to pick and choose between the stalls, and in Haitang's tentative conversation, he learned that she was Duan De's only daughter, but she didn't like to hang out with the so-called Miss Gongzi, she liked to write poetry, and liked to collect some handmade and delicate knick-knacks.

"But I haven't seen my father for a few days," she slowly opened up as the three of them continued to talk, "It's not that I haven't seen it at all, it's just that I watched from a distance at that time, and I didn't have a chance to come up and talk to him." ”

Haitang and Xiaoyue listened quietly, only occasionally interjecting a few words, and the girl didn't mind. In Xiao Yue's opinion, this girl who looks fifteen or sixteen years old is not bad in nature, nor is she an unreasonable person, she is just a little coquettish of the eldest lady.

"I'm sorry, I pulled you to say so many irrelevant things," Duan Li seemed a little embarrassed, "You should be outsiders, I don't like to play with those young ladies in the first place, and when other people see me on the street on weekdays, they are far away and don't talk to me at all......"

"It's okay, it's okay," Xiao Yue waved her hand again and again, "By the way, no matter how busy your father is, at least you should still be able to meet from time to time, why do you say that you haven't met and talked for a long time?" ”

"Although my father is the city lord, he has always only worked in the city lord's mansion, unless there is some special reason, he goes back to the Duan family's house every night to sleep, but about half a year ago, my father suddenly said that he would sleep in the city lord's mansion because of work, and since then he has never returned to the Duan family, and I have never spoken to him again......" Duan Li's eyes flashed a gloom, "It is also since then that my father seems to have changed as a person, he used to be gentle to anyone, but now he ...... The people were afraid of him, and even I was a little afraid of him...... It is precisely because of him that I will not be welcomed. ”

Begonia raised an eyebrow and didn't answer, he seemed to be thinking about something. Duan Li only paused, and continued in a low voice: "I think it must be the fault of the second uncle, my father is getting closer and closer to the second uncle now......"

"Second uncle?"

"Ah, it's nothing......" Duan Li was suddenly startled and said in a bit of a panic, "I'm sorry, I said some nonsense." ”

"It's okay, it's okay," Begonia smiled, "We've been walking around this street several times, do you have anything in mind?" ”

Duan Li also smiled when she heard this: "No need, no need, it's not a big deal, I'm embarrassed to hear me talk nonsense for so long, how can I still let you buy me something?" ”

"One yard to one yard, I hit you, it's my fault, do what you say, you just pick."

"That-" Duan Li looked around, "That's it." She gestured to a carved wooden knick-kackin in the stall next to her.

As it gets darker, there are fewer pedestrians on the streets, and shops are closing. The brother and sister walked on the way back to the inn, and the sunset stretched their shadows for a long time.

"Brother, I think that Duan Li seems to be a little pitiful," Xiao Yue snorted, "She should be a very cultured person, and the coquettishness on the surface is probably pretended by herself." ”

"I'm quite interested in the changes in Duan De's personality after he moved into the City Lord's Mansion." Begonia said.

"Duan De lived in the City Lord's Mansion about half a year ago, and Duan Qi's things were stolen five months ago, do you think there will be any connection between the two?" Xiao Yue tilted her head and thought.

"Maybe there is, ......maybe not," Begonia said slowly, "and now we have too little information to support the hypothesis that there is a connection between the two...... However, Duan De was able to seal the city for Duan Qi for several months, proving that the relationship between them was very good, and the second uncle in Duan Li's mouth should be Duan Qi, according to her, it seems that the relationship between Duan De and Duan Qi has also started to get better after Duan De moved into the City Lord's Mansion......"

The two of them thought about it, and they had already arrived at the door of the inn.

After eating some light meals, the two went back to their rooms, where they planned to go back tomorrow to find out the news.

The sky outside the window was clear and clear, the stars were complex, a round of crescent moon hung high, and the bright moon poured light into the room through the window, which happened to hit the begonia sitting at the table, dyeing half of his body with a layer of silver glow.

Begonia sorts out the current information. After this short day of inquiry, he can know that Duan Qi seems to have been unpopular with the people, and he can be sure that Duan De's transformation must be related to Duan Qi, and Duan De's move into the City Lord's Mansion is a very important time node, when Duan De was still living in the Duan family's house, everything did not happen - Duan Qi should not have gotten Qiankun Ding yet, Duan De's personality at that time was approachable, and the relationship between the two was not as good as it is now. When Duan De moved into the City Lord's Mansion, the relationship between the two suddenly became very good, and Duan De's temperament changed greatly, Duan Qi owned Qiankun Ding, but soon he lost it, and then Duan De sealed the city for several months in the name of losing his things.

- At least this Panyu has suffered a lot of crimes because of the Duan family brothers.

Following.

Begonia's plans were disrupted. Originally, the brother and sister were going to inquire about the news today, but today Duan Qi returned to Panyu.

"I thought we could travel five or six days faster, but I didn't expect it to be such a short day or two." Xiao Yue complained a little, the two had just finished settling the bill at the inn and were on their way to Duanfu at the moment.

This castle can be roughly divided into four parts: the north of the city, the south of the city, the east of the city, and the west of the city, and the junction of the four parts is the city lord's mansion. Duanfu is the southernmost part of the city, and it occupies almost half of the entire southern part of the city.

From a distance, the two saw the gate of Duan's mansion, and in Xiaoyue's "so magnificent" exclamation, the two approached but were stopped by the guards guarding the door.

"Go and report it, we're your lord's friends." Xiao Yue was a little dissatisfied and shouted at the guards.

"I don't remember that my lord had a friend like you," one of the guards frowned, "where did you two come from, don't get in the way here." ”

Looking at the guard's waving action to drive away, Xiao Yue's eyes widened: "I said that we are Duan Qi's friends, how can you be unreasonable?" ”

"Presumptuous!" The guard shouted, "You can call the master's name as you like?!" ”

"You're really not allowed to enter?" Xiao Yue raised her voice, "It's okay not to let us in, let's turn around and leave, I'm afraid that your Duan Qi's big thing won't be successful!" ”

"Where's the bastard!" The guard glared angrily, drew the knife at his waist and walked over—

"What's going on?!"

A voice suddenly sounded on the other side of the gate, and then a big man walked out, he was stunned at first when he saw the scene in front of him, and then stared at the two begonias a few more times, frowned, and suddenly rushed forward as if he remembered something, and roared at the guard with a knife: "You don't have fucking eyes, you won't let anyone in?!" ”

The guards were a little stunned by this roar, but they couldn't react for a while.

"Don't apologize yet!" Dahan slapped the guard, and with a "pop" sound, the guard lowered his head and said sorry to the two of them one after another.

"Two, please come with me, if the master knew that the two of you are here so soon, he would be very happy."

The big man bowed slightly, made a "please" gesture to the two, and then led the way for the two in front. Xiao Yue looked at the side face of this person and remembered that this person was one of the guards who came to the teahouse with Duan Qi that day.

"The lord hasn't come back from the city lord's mansion yet, you might as well rest here for a while, and I'll let him know when the lord comes back." The two followed Dahan all the way to a courtyard, and Dahan asked the two.

"Okay," replied Begonia casually, "we'll take a look in this courtyard." ”

"Then I'll take my leave." The big man said, and after saluting the two of them again, he turned around and walked quickly out of the courtyard.

Duanfu is indeed very large, after entering from the gate is a vast school field, after passing through the school field is a forest garden full of grass and trees, after the forest garden can see that piece of pavilions, the forest garden seems to surround these pavilions in the middle, and there is a stone road paved between the pavilions. At this moment, the two begonias are in the courtyard of a pavilion, the walls around the courtyard are crawling with plants, and there is a flower garden in the middle of the courtyard, and there are several tables and stools next to the flower garden.

The two of them sat down on this table and stool, and Xiao Yue sighed: "I didn't expect this mansion to be so magnificent." ”

"The environment here is complicated, and there are many checkpoints," Haitang recalled the scene he saw along the way, "I'm afraid that the person who stole the things is really from the Duan family, and this person's identity must not be low in the Duan family." ”

"Brother, in fact, I've always had a question," Xiao Yue frowned, "I still remember that the old city also said that night-Qiankun Ding or something, does it really exist, I mean, the descendants of Hongjun Dao Ancestor's apprentices or something, is there really such a mysterious thing?" ”

"I don't know if it's the descendant of Hongjun Daozu's apprentice, but the tripod in Duan Qi's hand, at least it's certainly not the legendary Qiankun Ding of Hongjun Daozu, according to legend, Nuwa's tripod of mending the sky and refining stones is this tripod, this tripod is so wonderful, how can it only turn a stone into gold......" Haitang paused again, looking at Xiao Yue, who was listening to him seriously, the corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, "Besides, these are all legends that don't exist, you won't really believe it, right?" ”

"So do you think Duan Qi's description of Ding is lying to us?" Xiao Yue rolled her eyes at Begonia.

Haitang restrained his expression and muttered quite seriously: "What he said is true, but it is not all true. ”