In the early morning, a horse-drawn carriage passed slowly on the official road, and the driver of the carriage was a scrawny young man, wearing a small green jacket and a short gray robe, with sunken cheeks on both sides, and there was no meat on his body added up, like a thin bamboo pole. At this moment, his face was full of sorrow, and his mouth kept saying:

"Second Miss, let's go back, the master is probably in a hurry at home, he shouldn't have taken you out secretly in the first place, and when I go back, the master will definitely scold me, maybe I will have to hit the board; Second Miss, let's go back, the master estimates ......"

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a girl dressed as a maid said crisply: "Hu San'er, the young lady said, if you break your mouth again, I won't marry you when I go back." ”

The groom named Hu San'er quickly shut his mouth, and after a while, he couldn't help but say in a muffled voice: "Little Tao, you ask Second Miss, will you really marry me a daughter-in-law when I go back?" I like Xiaocui next to the eldest lady, not only gentle and considerate, but also bulging chest, my mother said that it is good to have a good birth......"

While Hu San'er was talking, the car curtain was lifted again, and the maid named Xiao Tao took a sip of Hu San'er and said, "Dream about you, you are a well-known broken mouth in the house, who can take a fancy to you." The young lady said that she was a little tired after a night's journey, so she asked you to find a place to rest. ”

"Little Sister Peach, where can you rest if you don't go to the village or the store in front of you...... Hey, there seems to be a temple in front of you, maybe you can still ask for a sip of hot water to drink. ”

After Hu San'er finished speaking, he whipped on the horse's buttocks, the horse was in pain, and ran forward quickly, and the half-pillar incense ran to the front of the land temple, Hu San'er jumped out of the carriage and shouted: "Second Miss, this broken temple seems to have been abandoned for a long time......

After a while, a woman in a strong suit walked out of the carriage, her eyebrows and eyes were not as weak as ordinary women, but they were full of heroism, and her voice was crisp and pleasant: "If it's not in the way, let's rest here and leave." ”

"Okay." Hu San'er answered, raised his feet and walked to the land temple, as soon as he entered the temple gate, he ran out with a rolling belt, and he didn't even bother to pick up the shoes that ran away, and shouted in horror while running: "Second Miss, there are ghosts, run ...... quickly"

The second lady frowned, and said sharply: "Pure nonsense, under the blue sky and white sun, where is the ghost!" ”

"It's true, the ruined temple is full of corpses, and the corpses are covered with blood, and there is a male ghost and a female ghost, they are looking at me directly......" Hu San'er trembled and pointed to the broken temple road.

The second lady was about to speak, when she suddenly saw a man and a woman walking out of the temple with each other in their arms, and their bodies were indeed covered with blood. The second lady couldn't help but tremble in her heart, and couldn't help but take a step back, and the maid Xiaotao jumped on Hu San'er's body with a scream and hugged him tightly.

Cao Wei touched his face, and after making sure that he was not disfigured, he said: "Everyone, please here, Cao Wei, a hundred households in Nanjing Jinyiwei, fought with thieves here yesterday and was seriously injured, and asked the three of them to make it convenient for the two of us to take a ride." ”

Cao Wei grinned after speaking, revealing two rows of white teeth, and with a bloodstained face, he looked extremely terrifying and hideous.

The second lady couldn't help but take a step back, and asked in a trembling voice: "You said that you are a Jinyi guard, but what evidence do you have?" ”

Cao Wei took out the tooth card from his arms and said: "This is the hundred household tooth card under the order, it can't be faked, and I am familiar with Zhao Chengqing, the son of Wu Jingbo, Xu Pengju of the Wei State Mansion and others, and I will know when I ask when I get to Nanjing City." And the two of us are so incapable of committing murder. ”

The second lady's eyes lit up when she heard Xu Pengju's name, and she kicked Hu San'er, who was stunned on the side, and said, "You, why don't you hurry up and help this son and girl to the carriage." ”

Hu San'er also understood that the two people on the other side were not ghosts, but Jinyiwei, and hurriedly ran over to help the two get into the carriage.

In the carriage, the second lady carefully looked at Cao Wei who was sitting opposite, and found that although he had blood stains on his face, he could also see his handsome appearance if he looked closely, although the woman sitting next to him was dressed simply, but she had a unique temperament of everyone's ladies, this kind of temperament she had seen in her sister, neither of them looked like bad people, and she was a lot more stable in her heart.

Cao Wei wanted to thank him, but found that his right arm didn't obey him, so he had to smile bitterly: "Thank you for this ......"

"My name is Xia Jingchu."

“…… Thank you, Miss Xia, for your help. ”

Xia Jingchu waved his hand and said proudly: "It's not in the way, I like to make friends with brave chivalrous warriors in my life, Cao Gongzi is a thief with a blade, and the little woman admires it tightly...... Childe said he knew Xu Pengju? ”

"Xu Pengju, I'm familiar with him!"

Xia Jingchu said excitedly: "Then what kind of person do you tell me?" ”

"He's not human......"

"Ahh Xia Jingchu's expression froze instantly.

"He is the male god in my heart, although he is often as cold as an iceberg, but his heart is indeed tender like water, his handsome face is matched with a melancholy temperament, I really can't think of any beautiful words in the world to describe him."

Xia Jingchu turned from surprise to joy, and put his hands on his cheeks and looked forward to it...... Sweet potato knew that Cao Wei was talking nonsense, and remembered the way Xu Peng lifted his head full of bandages, and almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

This fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl claimed to be surnamed Xia, and she paid so much attention to Xu Pengju, Cao Wei guessed that this Miss Xia was probably the daughter of Xia Ru, the envoy of Emperor Hongzhi who gave Xu Pengju a marriage. Xia Ru has two daughters, the eldest daughter married the crown prince Zhu Houzhao, and later became the leader of the harem, and later nicknamed "Xiaojingzhuang Hui'an Su Wen Cheng Shuntian and Empress Shengyi." "The second daughter, who is Xia Jingchu in front of her, gave her marriage to Xu Pengju, so Xu Pengju and Zhu Houzhao are brothers-in-law.

Cao Wei said secretly in his heart: "Xu Pengju, brother is interesting enough, he praised you fiercely in front of your future wife, and then it's up to you." ”

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When the carriage drove to the Shence Gate, Cao Wei handed the Jinyi Wei tooth card to the city gate guard, and said: "This official is Cao Wei of the hundred households of the Jinyi Guard, you quickly go to the Qianhu in the north of the city to find Ren Hao Qianhu, and inform him that there is a ruined temple next to the official road more than 20 miles from the west gate, and there are two thieves' corpses in it, let him send someone to identify and deal with it." ”

After carefully examining the tooth tag, the guards respectfully handed it to Cao Wei, and then quickly rushed to the north of the city.

Cao Wei rushed to the house, and the housekeeper Wang Sheng saw the miserable appearance of the master and the sweet potato, the corners of his eyes were moist, and he bowed down with a group of servants and said, "Welcome the master back safely!" ”

Cao Wei experienced life and death, and now when he returned home, he was full of emotion, and laughed: "Everyone in the house has doubled their silver this month." ”

The courtyard was suddenly jubilant, and Cao Wei turned to look at Xia Jingchu and said, "If Miss Xia has no place to go for the time being, she can stay in my house for a few days, and Cao can thank Miss Cao." ”

Xia Jingchu hesitated for a moment, thinking in his heart that he had come out this time to hide it from his family, he didn't bring a lot of silver taels with him, and there were no acquaintances in Nanjing City, so he nodded and agreed.

Cao Wei saw that Xia Jingchu agreed, so he asked Wang Sheng to take her to the guest room to rest, Xia Jingchu just left, Xu Pengju came out of breath, rushed to him, bared his teeth and laughed at him, and then raised his palm and slapped him on the shoulder: "Good brother, I know that you are not so easy to die." ”

Cao Wei only felt that his shoulders were numb, his face turned red, and he said in a deep voice: "Xu Pengju, if you pat it twice, I will really die." ”

Xu Peng raised his hand and said, "I still have many precious medicinal materials at home, and I will send someone to your house later." ”

"Grandpa Xu sent a few thousand taels of silver, presumably I will recover faster."

"Ha, you're kidding......"

"What I said is true!"

“…… When I saw that you were safe, I was relieved and went home to sleep, but I didn't get a good night's sleep for the past few days. ”

Xu Pengju turned around and left after speaking, afraid that Cao Wei would ask him for silver, Cao Wei looked at the back of Xu Pengju leaving, and his heart was warm, Xu Pengju knew that he was back so soon, indicating that he had been inquiring about his news, so as soon as he came back, he hurriedly ran over, this is a real friend, except for a little picking......

Not long after Xu Pengju left, Xia Jingchu ran out in high spirits, looked around and asked, "What about him?" ”

"Who?"

Xia Jingchu stomped his feet and said, "Xu Pengju!" ”

"He left, and he didn't come with a gift......"

Xia Jingchu looked in the direction of the door, and said softly: "What a man like the wind......"

(I checked a lot of historical materials, I really couldn't find out what Xia Ru's daughter Queen Xia was called, and I didn't know what the name of his second daughter Xu Pengju's wife was, so I gave her a name. ）