In the early spring, on the bluestone gallop road outside the Chunming Gate of Chang'an City, pedestrians, carriages and horses come and go, each going their own way, and do not offend each other.

"Who are you who dare to rob people and goods outside Chang'an City?"

Suddenly, there was the angry voice of a little girl.

Someone looked for a sound and saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young Taoist priest with more than a dozen black-clothed thugs surrounding a donkey cart.

The donkey cart was pulling a cart of bright red fruits the size of peaches, and some people in Chang'an City knew that they had only appeared in Chang'an City last summer.

Legend has it that the seeds of tomatoes were brought back from the far west by His Royal Highness King Wu, and the taste of tomatoes is sweet and sour, which can be used as a vegetable soup or as a melon and fruit to eat directly, and is popular among all the nobles of Chang'an City.

This donkey cart of tomatoes can be sold for fifty yuan even in summer, and now it is only February, and this cart of tomatoes will not be less than two hundred yuan as soon as it enters the East Market.

There were two people standing beside the donkey cart, one was a sad old farmer, and the other was a little girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, both of whom should be father and daughter.

The little girl was wearing a washed faded red cloth shirt with two long pigtails on her head, and she was staring at the Taoist priest opposite with round apricot eyes.

The young Taoist priest wore a cyan robe, had an awl face, big eyes, thin lips, and a thick layer of powder on his face.

He and more than a dozen black-clothed thugs behind him surrounded the donkey cart and did not let it go.

As soon as everyone saw this posture, they knew that he was a Taoist priest of Jinbiaomen, and they couldn't provoke him, so they all avoided it from afar.

"Hehe, this little girl is really interesting."

The Taoist priest said with a grin.

"This Daoist, please take this cart of tomatoes." Seeing this, the farmer who delivered the vegetables hurriedly stepped forward to block the little girl.

He stood in front of the young Taoist priest and bent over, his face turned up, with a forced smile on his face, in order to beg him not to snatch his daughter.

The little girl was anxious when she heard this, and she glared and said loudly: "Grandpa, this cart of tomatoes was grown by us after working hard all winter, and the money from selling them was for my mother's treatment, how can I give it to them?"

The farmer's face turned pale with fright, and he pulled the little girl back and said, "Don't speak, Erya. ”

"Hehe, healing? I'm the best, the little girl went back with me, and the Taoist was happy to serve you, and the Taoist doctor treated your mother. The young Taoist priest shook his head while looking at Er Ya with a smile.

The exaggerated gesture of his speech makes people get goosebumps all over his body.

Er Ya was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help but look at the young Taoist priest.

"Don't dare to trouble Dao Ye, Dao Ye take the melons and fruits to eat, and we will go back."

When the farmer heard this, he was afraid, and as he spoke, he kept waving at the young Taoist priest, and as soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and pulled the second girl and walked east.

"Stop!"

The young Taoist priest said in a deep voice when he saw that their father and daughter were leaving.

Two black-clad thugs quickly stepped forward to block the path of the father and daughter.

When the farmer saw this, he turned around and begged the young Taoist priest, "A few Taoist masters, let the villain go!" ”

The young Taoist priest looked at the corners of his mouth with a smile, looked at them playfully, and said, "I will take away the people and the tomato today." ”

This tomato is a rare thing, and the young Taoist priest wants to snatch it back and give it to his master, and the farmer who can grow tomatoes in winter is also worth grabbing back.

As for the little girl, of course, it is not because of love, snatching it back or giving it away, or taking it as a slave, or selling it, anyway, there will be no story of the prince and Cinderella in the fairy tale.

The simple farmer also knew that the young Taoist priest had no kindness to their father and daughter, so he struggled desperately and begged passers-by for help.

"Robbery, help—"

Helplessly, the Taoist priests of Jin Biaomen all refined elixirs for Li Shimin, and no one dared to provoke them when they were always rampant and domineering.

No one dared to meddle in this matter, and three or four black-clothed thugs easily subdued the farmer's father and daughter, and they drove the ox cart and forcibly twisted the farmer's father and daughter to Chang'an City, not caring at all about the passers-by.

Just as they were in high spirits about returning to Chang'an City with the fruits of victory, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves of "Dede" from a distance, and a clear oil truck passed along the middle track of the bluestone road.

The farmer saw that the carriage was on the tracks, and knew that it must be a person with status, so he struggled and shouted, "Help——, Taoist priest is robbing people in the street—"

The young Taoist priest saw his intentions, turned his head to look at the farmer and said arrogantly: "I advise you to save some effort, even if the Taoist master strips and chops up your father and daughter now, no one dares to speak for you, let alone anyone who can do anything to the Taoist master and me." ”

As he spoke, he said to the two black-clothed thugs who were twisting the farmer: "Give him a ruthless one, so that he and the people around him will know that it is powerful." ”

"Ahh

The two black-clothed thugs immediately twisted the farmer's arm vigorously, and the farmer couldn't stand the pain and screamed, and was soon gagged by the black-clothed thug again.

"What are you doing?"

The young Taoist priest was watching with interest the black-clothed thug torturing the farmer when he suddenly heard a calm voice behind him.

When I looked back, I saw a young man in a green robe, walking steadily with his hands behind his back, looking at him with evil eyes.

The young Taoist priest saw that the oil truck had just passed and stopped not far in front of him, and the man in the green robe was still followed by the driver, guessing that the man in the green robe was a small official who came to Chang'an from other places.

The plain skin smiled and threatened: "This lord is so powerful! It is not easy to come to Kyoto Road from other places, and it is better to take care of the idle affairs of Chang'an City. ”

The green-robed official looked at him and said expressionlessly: "The official of Chang'an City has also stayed for many years, and I have never seen you so presumptuous. ”

Seeing that the green-robed official didn't give him face, the young Taoist priest moved out of the backer and said: "Poor Dao is just a nobody under the seat of the Golden Biao Gate Daoist Heavenly Master, and this adult has naturally not seen it."

However, my master, Dao Yi Heavenly Master, is the current Heavenly Master personally appointed by His Majesty, and in Chang'an City, even when the prince sees his old man, he must also bow respectfully. ”

Hearing this, the blue-robed official looked disdainful and said, "Hmph, Heavenly Master? This official was ordered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to Chang'an from Jiangnan to Chang'an, what are you afraid of if the Heavenly Master will not succeed?"

When the young Taoist priest heard that the backer of the green-robed official was Li Chengqian, he was even more disdainful, Li Chengqian couldn't control them at all when he sat in Youzhou all the year round.

"The Taoist masters have practiced the elixir for His Majesty today, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also has to respect us.

Even if you are His Royal Highness the Prince's disciple, I will kill you, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not speak for you. ”

The green anger on the face of the blue-robed official flashed, and he instantly pressed it down again, he still had business to do when he returned to Chang'an this time.

And from the words of this Taoist priest, it can also be known that this Taoist priest should be just a lackey who doesn't understand anything, and he doesn't even know that most of the government in recent years is from His Royal Highness the Prince.

didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore, and said directly in a deep voice: "Go and save people!" ”、

The coachman behind the green-robed official immediately stepped forward when he heard this.