In Wuyi Lane on the south bank of the Qinhuai River, an old man walked out of the house, accompanied by a delicately dressed woman about forty years old, followed by four black-clothed families.

Looking at the scene on the other side of the riverbank, the old man said as he walked: "The scene of the prosperous sun in the city is getting better every year, and I really never get tired of seeing it."

The woman on the side saw the brilliance reflected in the old man's cloudy eyes, and said with a smile: "Without the old man's hard work day and night, how could there be Jiangning City today."

The old man turned a deaf ear to the woman's compliment, and walked slowly onto the Suzaku Bridge, taking in the scenery of the Qinhuai River and the streets along the river, the old man sighed and said softly: "With the prosperity of this prosperous world, how many undercurrents are surging underneath are unknown."

The old man glanced back as he spoke, and continued: "The city is full of fireworks in the world, and the people outside the city know the sufferings of the people. This prosperous scene is flashy. Lord Zhao of Runzhou sent someone to ask me the day before yesterday whether the three sects and nine streams in the city have been in peace recently.

And Manichaeism has been very active recently, I am afraid that Huai'an Huashigang was robbed and it has nothing to do with it, but the saint does not pursue it, and the Runzhou Yamen does not want to make too much effort, but several adults in Hangzhou are very concerned about it and want to track it down to the end, which is strange. ”

The woman, who had lived with the old man for more than ten years, knew what the old man was thinking about, and just looked at the scenery on the other side and did not disturb the old man who was talking to himself.

After standing on the bridge for half an hour, the old man's eyes lit up, and his sorrows were relieved, and then he laughed a few times, and walked to the other side of the river in good spirits.

On Hexing Street at the far end of the Zhuque Bridge, Xu Ziling and the three of them are walking side by side on the lively street, Xu Ziling is on the left, Ye Qingzhu is in the middle, and Ye Qinghe is on the right.

Along the way, listening to the two sisters pointing at the scenery along the coast or the objects on the street, Xu Ziling, who didn't know anything about her daughter's thoughts, couldn't interject for a while.

The delicate-minded Qingzhu discovered Xu Ziling's situation, and occasionally asked him some dispensable questions, alleviating his embarrassment. And Ye Qinghe never said a word to Xu Ziling, and sometimes when her eyes intersected, she would open her eyes wide and glare at him.

Xu Ziling was helpless about this, and under the circumstances at that time, he was just trying to defend himself. But he also knew that the weight of his kick was too big for a girl, and it was understandable to be held in his heart.

After walking a few dozen steps further, I saw a red building surrounded by many people. It turned out that a red card in the Jade Building was throwing flower balls, and it was said that the woman was still one of the top ten leaders of the Jade Building, so the people who came to block the door were attracted to it.

However, it is not who receives the flower ball who can have a spring breeze with the beauty, if it is not a person with fame, status, and talent, after receiving the flower ball, he is often welcomed to the building and given a lot of money, so that he pretends to be entangled with the beauty overnight, but in fact he stays alone in the room until dawn. This is also an unspoken rule in the industry.

As he was walking, Xu Ziling suddenly heard Ye Qinghe say, "Hey, surnamed Xu, why don't you grab that flower ball?"

Xu Ziling said lightly: "Don't go." To go, you go. ”

Regardless of Xu Ziling, Ye Qinghe smiled slyly, let go of his sister's hand, and ran downstairs with red and green light.

Ye Qingzhu smiled helplessly at Xu Ziling, but it was inconvenient to follow, after all, the people surrounding the downstairs were all men.

And everyone downstairs saw that a woman came up, turned around beside her, and talked about her for a while.

"What kind of woman are you, why do you have no shame and come to this place to do so?"

"Seeing that you must have not left the cabinet yet, how can you go out to hang out alone, what is going on with the elders in the family, and they are not strictly disciplined."

"Leave quickly, don't be embarrassed here."

“……”

Listening to everyone's pointing at him, Ye Qinghe didn't care, raised his head, and said loudly: "Mind your!" Can't I help my brother rob it? As he spoke, he pointed at Xu Ziling.

The man dressed as a literati in a white robe next to him heard this, and shouted softly: "It's really insulting, such an affair, how can there be a reason for my sister to fight for my brother."

Ye Qinghe glanced at him and ignored it, just looked up at the gorgeous woman holding the flower ball upstairs, with an excited face. The man next to her saw that she was ignoring her, and he was so angry that he stomped his feet.

Xu Ziling also saw Ye Qinghe's movements, felt that she had bad intentions, and was about to step forward to inquire about the situation.

At this moment, there was an exclamation in the crowd, and the woman upstairs threw the flower ball down and fell straight into the center of the crowd.

Due to the large number of people, no one wants to see the flower balls being snatched by others, resulting in the flower balls being tossed around in the crowd.

In this situation, even the scholar has lost his demeanor, rolled up his sleeves and reached out to grab it, and every time someone was about to touch the flower ball, he was slapped away by the person next to him, and fell into the next round of competition.

A scholar was repeatedly beaten by someone to fly the flower ball that was close at hand, and he was angry for a while, and he raised his leg and kicked the flower ball flying three feet high.

Everyone looked at the flower balls in the sky and was stunned for a moment, and then someone scolded the scholar for not understanding the rules, and the woman upstairs also saw it clearly, and was a little annoyed by the scholar's behavior.

Grabbing flower balls has always been only allowed with hands, and this scholar's angry behavior immediately provoked the anger of the public, and was pushed to the periphery by everyone.

Ye Qinghe, who was on the periphery of the crowd, was also staring at the flower ball all the time, and when he saw the flower ball flying into the air, he was overjoyed, and when he saw Xu Ziling coming over, he immediately got up and jumped and stepped on his shoulder.

Xu Ziling didn't expect her to make a sudden move, but he felt that his shoulders sank, and let Ye Qinghe's left foot step on it, he was afraid that she would cheat, so his shoulders shook hard, wanting to shake her off.

Suddenly, Ye Qinghe laughed: "Thank you." "Just kick it hard.

Xu Ziling staggered back a few steps, but saw Ye Qinghe's figure flying out.

Everyone who was staring at the flower ball in mid-air suddenly saw a slender figure volleying up in the air, grabbed the flower ball, and landed on the terrace on the second floor, just beside the woman.

The crowd was in an uproar, shouting for the re-throwing of the flower balls. The gorgeous woman was also a little angry when she saw a girl snatching the flower balls, and the girl whispered a few words in her ear, and the woman's anger dissipated a lot, but she was still a little unhappy.

Then everyone upstairs entered the house, and half of the old opened the door and walked out, ignoring everyone's dissatisfaction, announcing the end of the event, and finally said, "Please Xu Ziling Xu Gongzi entered." ”

"How can there be a reason for a woman to seize the flower ball, this jade building doesn't want to open."

"It's really unreasonable, I waited for a long time in vain."

"Who is Xu Ziling, the brother of that girl?"

"I think it's exact, let my sister come out and show up, it must not be a good person."

Listening to these scholars, Xu Ziling had a headache, afraid that Ye Qinghe would ruin his reputation, so he hurriedly walked into the building.

When I entered the building, I heard Ye Qinghe saying: "Sister Yan'er, my brother is good, he treats beautiful women gently, and he is very rich, every woman who has a spring night with him is indispensable for a reward of more than 1,000 taels." ”

"Enough!" Xu Ziling, who couldn't bear it, drank softly.

Ye Qinghe felt that he had said something almost, and left a sentence of "Sister Yan'er treats my brother well" and ran out.

Xu Ziling turned around and was about to follow, but he heard a glutinous voice behind him: "Young Master Xu, stay." ”

Xu Ziling turned around when he heard the voice, it was the woman upstairs before, who was showing red light at this time, looking at him with all kinds of amorous feelings, obviously being quite moved by Ye Qinghe's words.

In desperation, Xu Ziling, who looked embarrassed, had to explain his relationship with Ye Qinghe to her. The woman's face changed a few times, but she still said: "It's okay, even if the son has no money, the slave family is willing to wait for the son." ”

Xu Ziling's face was black: "It's not about money." ”

The woman's face was instantly desolate, tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, and she said in a mournful voice: "That is the body of disgust with the remnants of the slave family." It's also true, as a slave, he is just insulting his son. ”

Although Xu Ziling knew a lot of things about the rivers and lakes, he didn't know how to play in the dust, and when he saw the woman's sad face, he thought that the woman was really sad and weeping, and he didn't know how to say anything to appease him for a while, so he just stayed where he was.

It's been a while.

The woman looked at the panicked look on the young man's face, and suddenly burst into tears and laughed: "Silly brother, why are you so stupid, so my sister is reluctant to lie to you, just tell you directly, just now that girl gave me five hundred taels of silver tickets, let me find a way to break your childlike body." ”

Hearing this, Xu Ziling woke up like a dream, was stunned for a long time, and hugged the woman: "Sister Xie told me the truth, then I will leave first." ”

The woman smiled and nodded, "Go ahead." ”

Xu Ziling turned around and left.

Out of the Jade Building, Xu Ziling looked around and saw the two sisters eating pastries in a pastry shop, and ran straight over.

"How can the Emei Sect have a disciple like you?"

Listening to the familiar voice behind him, Ye Qinghe was slightly surprised, and continued to choose a variety of pastries, humming as he picked: "I didn't say that I was a disciple of the Emei faction. ”

"Then where did you learn the Emei exercises?"

Ye Qinghe didn't answer, but saw Ye Qingzhu turn around, stretched out his hand and handed Xu Ziling a piece of pastry, and said with a chuckle: "My sister is a special disciple of the Emei faction, and she is not allowed to call herself an Emei disciple outside the mountain gate." ”

Taking the pastry and putting it in his mouth, Xu Ziling was a little puzzled, and asked while eating, "Why?"

Ye Qingzhu saw that he ate the whole pastry in two bites, so he turned around and took a piece and handed it to him, and when he asked, he explained: "It's that my sister's temperament is too jumpy, and the head of Emei is too afraid that she will insult Emei's reputation, so she can't call herself a disciple of the Emei faction outside the mountain gate." ”

Ye Qinghe, who was eating pastries, heard her sister tell her secret like this, turned around and pinched her: "What kind of ecstasy soup did the surnamed Xu feed you, why do you tell him everything." ”

Ye Qingzhu snorted lightly, took away his sister's hand on his waist, and said, "Gongzi Xu is not a bad person, he won't talk nonsense." ”

Xu Ziling nodded and said: "No wonder, my master also told me that the Emei sect cultivates both Taoism and Buddhism, stresses 'integration of interpretation and Taoism, and dual cultivation of wisdom and wisdom', and attaches great importance to the cultivation of the mind. ”

Ye Qinghe heard the ridicule in Xu Ziling's words, but he was not angry, and seemed to be accustomed to it.

……

The three of them ate some pastries, and then walked along the Qinhuai River to South Street.

Xu Ziling was looking at the surrounding scenery, and suddenly a year-old voice came: "Xu Gongzi also came to see this Mid-Autumn Festival night scene."

When Xu Ziling heard this, he was slightly stunned, it turned out to be Wang Jun, the prefect of Jiangning who had met him once.