"I've found you!"

Feeling that someone was tugging at his sleeve, and hearing a low cheer full of surprise, Shang Cheng woke up from his trance. He turned his head to see that it was Liu Yue'er. The little girl had probably been looking for him in the street for a long time, and now her forehead was covered with sweat, and two pitiful blush appeared on her thin face. She gritted two rows of white teeth, half angry and half disgusted, and said: "I saw you from afar, and no matter how many times I called you, you didn't agree......"

Shang Cheng pursed his lips, smiled bitterly, and said, "I didn't hear ......" He raised his head and looked around, but he didn't see Liu Laozhu's shadow, so he asked, "What about your father?" ”

"I'm looking for you, too." Yue'er wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, stood on tiptoe to look at the other side of the street, and pointed to a signboard and said, "Yiyi, where is he!" ”

Shang Cheng looked in the direction of Yue'er's finger, and saw Liu Laozhu with a blanket on his shoulders, half-open his old black jacket, standing on the steps of a restaurant not far away. Seeing him turn his gaze this way, Yue'er waved vigorously at her father. Liu Laozhu immediately discovered them. He was stunned at first, and a smile of relief suddenly appeared on his wrinkled black face.

Seeing Liu Laozhu coming down the steps, Shang Cheng asked Yue'er what happened after he was captured by several soldiers.

Liu Laozhu's father and daughter saw him being taken away by several soldiers, and they were very anxious at that time, and wanted to rush out to say a few good words for him, but the yamen messenger was in the pure road, and if anyone dared to step on the official road, they would be a whip if they didn't say a word. "My father was whipped twice by the servants, and if I hadn't pulled him, maybe he would have been taken away......" Yue'er said with both distress and grievance. At this time, Shang Cheng had already seen clearly that there was a shallow blood mark on Liu Laozhu's cheek, and the placket on his chest was also pulled off. Liu Laozhu walked closer and raised his arm to salute Shang Cheng, but Shang Cheng hurriedly grabbed him. He can no longer bear the false identity of a monk now, so he can't accept Liu Laozhu's courtesy. Not only could he not accept Liu Laozhu's courtesy, but on the contrary, he also had to give Liu Laozhu a courtesy, Liu Laozhu was the two whips he received to find him......

Liu Laozhu didn't dare to accept his courtesy, and hurriedly wanted to give him a salute, until Yue'er led them out of the city one by one, and finally ended this hectic chaos.

Walking out of the county seat and going up to the official road without any danger, Shang Cheng put down a big stone hanging in his heart and began to ask him about what happened after he was captured by the officers and soldiers.

"Then we waited there. Fortunately, you weren't beaten by those soldiers, so my dad was born a little. But my father's mouth is benzene, and he has nothing to do with a few errand servants, and others can't care about what he says. Finally, when the horse team of the officers and soldiers passed, my father and I hurriedly went into the city to find Uncle Seventeen, for fear that it would be too late for you to catch those guards and enter the barracks, and then think of it when they enter the barracks, and if they don't die, they will have to peel off their skins......"

"And then? Have you found Uncle Seventeen? Shang Cheng felt that the person in the mysterious yamen should be Huo Seventeen One In addition to Huo Seventeen, who else in the county yamen would have the good mood to rescue him, a stranger who couldn't beat eight poles?

"Of course I did! If you don't find Uncle Seventeen, you're only afraid that you're not in the barracks now, you're in the yamen! Yue'er glanced at Shang Cheng. When they entered the city, they walked towards the county office, and before they had gone far, they saw Huo Seventeen rushing towards the city gate, saying that Lord Taizun wanted to know what chaos was going on at the city gate when the admiral and general left. They intercepted Huo Qiqi and introduced the situation like this, Huo Qiqi said that they were confused. According to the laws of this dynasty, monks and Taoists must register with the government from the date of ordination, and if the ordination is lost, even if there are extenuating circumstances, they must first serve three months of hard labor before returning to the monastic temple to reapply for the ordination. And that's just one of them. Second, the number of monks and temples in various temples and counties in the prefecture and county are customized, and the monks who come from outside must hold the letter of the original temple and Taoist temple in order to place an order in the foreign temples and Taoist temples. As long as he reports to the official, no matter how profound Shangcheng's practice of Buddhism is, and how powerful he is in fighting wolves with his bare hands, he can only be imprisoned in a black prison for a long time, and after the official document from Jiazhou arrives, he will serve another three months of hard labor, and then be sent back to his hometown. It's still good. You know, Yixian and Jiazhou are separated by thousands of miles from north to south, and the road is far away and the road is dangerous. Even if the process did not hinder the smooth return of the official documents, it would take more than half a year to go back and forth, and Shang Chengcheng could only stay in the black prison of the yamen for most of the year. Black prison, is that a place where people can stay? After being locked up there for more than half a year and serving three months of hard labor, whether Shang Cheng can return to Jiazhou alive or not is two theories......

Liu Laozhu's father and daughter were frightened by these words at that time. Even now, when Yue'er talked about the miserable scene sketched by Huo Qiqi, she still couldn't help but tighten her thin clothes.

Shang Cheng couldn't help but shudder. I didn't expect that the management and handling of monks in this era would be so strict. If he hadn't been intercepted by officers and soldiers by mistake, he might have been locked up in the black prison of the Yamen by now. He wiped the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, forced himself to smile and asked, "What about after that?" Did Uncle Seventeen come and rescue me? ”

"Uncle Seventeen, let's not follow, he will come over first to see the situation. After waiting for a long time, he didn't come back, so we followed the road to look back, only to meet him in front of the yamen, only to know that you were all right. He also told us to take you back quickly, don't come to the county seat to mess around with any pending orders recently......" she said and covered her mouth with her hands and smiled. After laughing, he asked Shang Cheng, "Why are you dangling on the street alone?" Why did the guards let you go? ”

Shang Cheng simply described his experience. Naturally, he didn't mention "Huai Hug Li" and the Ganlu Temple, and he didn't tell Liu Laozhu's father and daughter that the person who was likely to be Huo Qiqi had exposed his identity as a fake monk in person. At the same time, he also felt strange, since Huo Qiqi already knew that he was not a monk, he would just go to the yamen to denounce him, why didn't he remind Liu Laozhu's father and daughter?

"What does the person who put you look like?" Yue'er asked.

"Taller than your father, about one meter seven......" Seeing Yue'er staring at the two big eyes in confusion, Shang Chengcheng knew that she didn't understand what "one meter seven" meant. He had no choice but to change his tune and find a suitable way to put it again. But he didn't know how long a foot was at this time, so he had to compare his own height. "One by one, almost under my nose. A white and clean reunion face, with a more or less lock of beard on his chin, he looks very capable......"

Seeing that Shang Cheng compared the height of the man, and heard him say that the man had a round face, Yue'er cut off his words with a smile and said, "That's Uncle Seventeen!" It turns out that he found you, but he didn't take you to us to find my father and me on the street! "As he spoke, he told Liu Laozhu what Shang Cheng described Huo Qiqi as it was." …… Bai Bai is reunited, and her face is ......, "Speaking of this, she has covered her mouth and laughed all over her face. Even Liu Laozhu, who had always had a wooden expression, listened to Shang Cheng's extremely vivid description, and the wrinkles on his face suddenly sank deeper......

A crisis disappears invisibly, but Shang Cheng still can't be happy. He knew that a bigger crisis awaited him.

His identity is still a big question!

Identity...... Not only did he have to fabricate a statement for his own way that others couldn't find fault with him, but he also had to make up a reason for himself to come to Yanshanwei - why did he, a person who could speak both the official dialect of Beijing and the Jiazhou accent, go all the way from the southwest to the north? What taught him to scratch his head even more was that many people in Huojiabao now knew that he was a monk. Whether he is a real monk or a fake monk, the key is that he has no degree and no trust, as long as others are willing, he can go to the yamen at any time to denounce him, at that time, not only will he be in prison, but Liu Laozhu and Yue'er will also be affected by this.

He had an indifferent attitude towards whether he would be imprisoned or not, because he felt that this might be fate playing tricks on him, otherwise how could he come to this inexplicable world and inexplicable place? But he can't drag the innocent Liu Laozhu father and daughter to follow him to the lawsuit.

He has been thinking about this all the way, but he can't come up with a good story that can convince him. Since he couldn't even convince himself, how could he expect to use this story to convince others?

Approaching a three-way intersection in Huojiapu, he finally made up his mind. Stopped. He had already disturbed the Liu family's father and daughter for two or three days, and now it was time to leave.

He stopped and said to Yue'er, "You and your father go back, I'll go east from here." "He has been disturbing the kind-hearted Liu family father and daughter for two or three days, and now it's time to say goodbye. He stretched out his hand, shook Liu Laozhu's calloused rough hand, and took his own blanket from his shoulder. There was a lot of money in the blanket, which allowed him to hold on for a long time; During this time, he was able to work part-time jobs in other market towns, so that he could earn some money again. He could have supported himself with the money he earned from his odd jobs and traveled around the world. When he travels more places and learns more about the things of this era, he can always find a good way for himself.

"What?" Liu Laozhu grabbed the blanket with one hand and asked in a panic. Yue'er also looked at Shang Cheng puzzled. No matter how clever this smart little girl is, it is impossible for her to guess Shang Cheng's complicated thoughts immediately, and of course it is impossible for her to know Shang Cheng's strange origins.

"I'm leaving." Shang Cheng said.

"Where are you going?" Yue'er furrowed her brows and asked, "You are not familiar with the place, where can you go?" Looking at Shang Cheng's resolute expression, she bit her lip and thought about it, and suddenly pursed her lips and laughed. What an idiot you monk! How many people in the market town know that you saved my father, and how many people know that you are a monk? Do you think that if you leave like this, others will not go to the government to denounce you? Do you think that if you leave like this, my father and I will not have a lawsuit? She snatched the blanket from Shang Cheng, who was stunned by her two words, and did not hand it to her father, so she put it in her hand and continued, "If you don't leave, others may not go to the government to denounce it; If you leave, maybe someone will go tomorrow and the day after tomorrow......" As she spoke, she grabbed her father's arm, walked forward by herself, took two steps and turned around, and saw that Shang Cheng was still standing still, so she smiled and said, "What are you still standing for?" Think you can eat on the ground? Come home with us first. Uncle Seventeen is on a business trip in the yamen, and he will come over at night to see a lot, and he will definitely be able to come up with a good idea for you! In the morning, I saw that you were talking about God and God, and it was cause and effect and causation, and you said with red mouth and white teeth, 'Everything today will be known in the future', and what you said by 'knowing' is just patting your ass and running? He giggled as he spoke.

Shang Cheng's face was flushed by her crisp words. Yes, he, a monk, can run, but the temple of the Liu family can't run. He stayed without running, hoping that others would not dare to do anything to the Liu family because of his ruthlessness in killing two wolves with his bare hands...... Since Yue'er said that Huo Seventeen was coming over at night, he also wanted to hear what good methods the bookstore in this yamen had—maybe the well-informed Uncle Seventeen really had the ability to fabricate a background for him?

When she got home, Yue'er immediately wrapped up her poor torn apron and first picked up a simple meal for Liu Laozhu and Shang Cheng in the kitchen. Serving Liu Laozhu and Shang Cheng to eat and drink well, she brushed the pot, washed the dishes, milled the rice, and grinded the noodles for a long time, before she took off her apron and went out to find the eldest girl and the second girl.

After a while, Aunt Seventeen led the two little girls over.

Shang Cheng stood up and greeted "Aunt Seventeen", but Liu Laozhu only nodded on the stool. Aunt Seventeen is a capable and quick woman, and she can also speak a few official words, and she was not polite to Liu Laozhu when she came, she moved a low stool by herself, and the family often sat under the eaves of the hall, and took Yue'er's needlework basket to help sew it; And because they had only met at Liu's house the night before, Aunt Seventeen was not timid, sitting on a stool while sewing clothes, and talking to Shang Cheng in one sentence at a time. During the conversation, Shang Cheng learned that the reason why he didn't see the eldest girl and the second girl was because Yue'er called them all to the street to do procurement.

The gossip starts with the bustle of this market town, and then it rambles. Don't look at Aunt Seventeen, she can speak well, in fact, she is also a country woman, and the farthest she has gone out in this life is to the county seat of Yixian County, so the scope of the topic can only talk about the county seat at most. In the gossip, Shang Cheng gradually learned that Aunt Seventeen's maiden home was not too far from Huojiabao, and it was only forty miles north from here, which was also called Lijiazhuang. also knew that Huo Seventeen actually had a big name, which was given by the student when he was studying in a private school, and he was called Huo Shiqi; He also has a table of words one by one, which is also given by private school students. The topic turned around, and I don't know how it turned to the rise and fall of the Huo family. Speaking of this matter, Aunt Seventeen's anger will not be beaten.

"The people in Master Huo's family are too bullying! As soon as my old man died, he kicked my man and his blind old lady out of the door, occupied a few acres of their land, and talked nonsense with his eyes open, talking nonsense about the wheat that my man's father owed him six times back then, and it was profitable for thirty years, even if he picked up the house, he couldn't pay it off. Third Master Huo has many sons, and my man can't fight, and he can't fight, so he had to rent a thatched house on this street to live in a poor one, he was only eleven years old at that time! If it weren't for the help of Brother Zhu and the neighbors, my man's body and bones, he can't farm and can't make a living, and he is dragging a blind old lady, just earning three meals a day, he can be exhausted and starved to death......" As she spoke, Aunt Seventeen wiped her tears.

"What's the matter with crying?" Liu Laozhu sat under the wall, saw the seventeenth aunt crying, and asked.

"Tell me about you and Seventeen." Aunt Seventeen said.

"What do you say?" Liu Laozhu picked the hard mud on the upper of his shoes and pouted, with a somewhat unhappy look on his face.

"Tell me what? Monks are not outsiders. Seeing that Shang Cheng's expression was a little stiff when he heard this, Aunt Seventeen turned her face and said to Shang Cheng, "Yue'er told me just now." Since it's my man's words, then you can rest assured to stay first. He has a way to do things that he is not sure of, and he never says or does them! ”

Shang Cheng's expression had softened. Aunt Seventeen's sentence just now, "The monk is not an outsider" really scared him, but after thinking about it carefully, as long as the Liu family does not go to the official mansion to denounce him, they will naturally be tied to him tightly, and they really can't be said to be "outsiders". Huo Shiqi knew that his identity as a monk was watery, but he neither exposed him in front of the Liu family, nor did he go to the yamen to expose him, so he could not be regarded as an outsider......

While talking, the three sisters of Yue'er have already come back from buying good things, several large baskets of meat and vegetables. As soon as Yue'er entered the door, she yelled for her father to take the money, saying that she had asked for a large jar of wine in the wine shop, and she would send it immediately, and the money on her body had been spent, so she had to owe it to others on credit first.

Aunt Seventeen blamed Yue'er for being ignorant, and said, "A big jar of wine, how can you drink it with your father, your uncle and the monk?" "I have rubbed my body and blamed the eldest girl, and I didn't stop Zhu Yue'er from committing this stupidity." If you can't drink it in one meal, it will be like sprinkling money in water, and it is better to spill money in water! You can still scoop it up in the sprinkler, but you can't even see a shadow in the sprinkler! ”

The eldest girl was silent, but Yue'er leaned into Aunt Seventeen's ear and muttered a few words. Aunt Seventeen looked directly at Shang Cheng, and couldn't help but be happy, but patted Yue'er's head lovingly, and said, "Just your girl's sharp eyes!" Other monks eat and stare at wine, and no one in the room sees it, but you see it? ”

Shang Cheng also smiled. On the first night of eating, he did stare at the small jar of rice wine several times, and Gao Xiaosan and Liu Laozhu drank bowl after bowl, which did arouse the wine worm in his stomach. To tell the truth, with the faint rice wine he smelled and almost no smell of wine, and a small jar as big as last night, he could casually do four or five altars by himself, maybe more than that.

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