Shen Gui, who walked out of the gate of the palace, wore a shaman dress with bells and whistles, and put on a pair of "standard magic stick smiles" with a little mystery in his kindness and kindness, and walked around the streets in this empty Jincheng.

Half an hour later, until Shen Gui made his little legs numb and weak, he didn't see a single person come forward to salute and talk. But not far behind him, there was a group of little children with big heads and thin bodies, who had been hungry for an unknown amount of time, hiding in the corner and sticking out their big heads to secretly observe themselves. Shen Gui didn't think about asking these children, but he didn't want to eat, and he didn't want to talk to them, so he followed behind him with a hippie smile, just like a flock of sparrows on the barnyard, although it was close at hand, it was about to collapse.

Shen Gui saw that his plan to be close to the people was completely ineffective, so he sat on the steps and stopped moving. Just as he was thinking about where he had made a mistake, a tall man who was as thin as a "human stick" came from the side: this man was dressed in broken steps, carrying a bamboo pole in his hand, and his face was covered with plaster. This look Shen Gui is all too familiar - this is the standard beggar gang beggar dress!

Shen Gui, who was covered in hair, smelled the familiar sour smell, looked up at the tall beggar with a rag head standing in front of him, then reached out and took off the crown of tiger teeth on his head, and asked casually:

"Where's the officer? Where's the companion? What bowl is it holding? Which meal did you eat? ”

This strange sentence is the black words of the Spring Festival in the Huazimen taught by the old beggar Wu Chengfeng, the meaning of these four sentences is to ask the beggar the details, and at the same time, he also confessed that he is a "person who understands" the Spring Mandian (can speak jargon). And this beggar with a bamboo pole was not surprised at all when he heard that Shen Gui, a shaman dressed as a shaman, would say that they were beggar gang spring ceremony. He just looked around, and struck the stone slab with the bamboo pole in his hand, making a 'bang' sound:

"We are the officers of the regiment and the companions on the pole. It is a bowl of legs and feet, and it is a hundred family rice! If you give it, thank you, don't give it! ”

The two black words that the beggar replied to, the front is the 'incision' for Hanako to confirm each other's identity, and the latter is used to show that he has inherited the sect.

As soon as Shen Gui heard it, he already knew in his heart: this man was a disciple of the Wu family in the five major gates of beggars on the Huayu Continent - 'Fan, Li, Wu, Gao, Suo', "If you give thanks, you will be rewarded, if you don't give it", these two sentences are the exclusive incisions of the Wu family's disciples. I didn't expect this bamboo pole man to belong to the same family as himself.

Shen Gui smiled, looked around and saw that the street was still empty, so he stood up and patted the dust on the sacrificial robe:

"Walk around the kiln!" (Take me to your headquarters)

The beggar carrying the bamboo pole didn't say much, turned around and walked in front of Shen Gui to lead the way, and Shen Gui also followed his steps and fell far behind him. The two of them didn't stop until they walked to a broken temple door next to the official road ten miles south of Jincheng.

The man with the bamboo pole stepped forward first, knocked on the temple door fifteen times, and then without waiting for the temple to respond, he directly stretched out his hand and pushed open the dilapidated wooden door, turned his head and motioned for Shen Gui to follow in.

The first time Shen Gui entered the temple, he saw a tall headless clay statue, and on the desk under the clay statue, there was a young beggar who seemed to be smiling, lying down and looking at his side.

"Young Gang Master, Young Gang Master, do you finally remember that there are still our disciples and grandchildren?"

The young man did not 'Dianchun' (speak black words) to Shen Gui, but said "Mandarin" to Shen Gui in a strange tone, but his tone was full of ridicule and ridicule.

“…… Before Master went to Nankang, he didn't say that he wanted to pass on the position of helper to me......"

"That's why I called you a young helper!"

Shen Gui also felt justified after hearing this, and nodded:

"You are the helmsman of Jincheng Branch? Let this thin bamboo pole detain me, what can I do to help you? ”

The young beggar tilted his head, stretched out a finger, and shook it from side to side and said to Shen Gui:

"This should be what we asked you, the young helper, right? From the time you entered the city to the time you came, except for spending nearly an hour in the palace, you have been wandering around Jincheng. Seeing that you are so restless and aimless, I will send someone to lure you here. We, the disciples and grandchildren of the Wu family, have to help the young master share your worries! ”

Shen Gui was relieved after hearing this. The name of the flower child in this ruined temple is far more reliable than those strange people in Jincheng, as long as they can communicate, they can be regarded as having a source.

"I want to know why the people in this Jincheng regard me, an outsider, like a plague, and I also want to know where Lord Gu's concubine Liniang is now; and why Yan Chongwu's Flying Bear Army was stationed outside the city. How many questions can you help me with? ”

After hearing this, the young man thought only a little, and then spoke:

"Now the people in Jincheng are young children except for the elderly, and you look like a young man in fresh clothes and angry horses, at first glance, you are from an official or a rich family. These people stranded in the city were not originally spectacle people, and they only felt dazzling and scared when they saw your appearance, and they really couldn't tell what your identity was, and why they came to this front-line Jincheng, so they stayed away. And your shaman robe is too luxurious, those shamans that the poor people have seen before are all ordinary shamans dressed up by the common people, and the gods and witch doctors who don't even have magic weapons, naturally they don't understand the meaning of your costume! To put it simply, you frightened these poor ghosts in Jincheng! ”

When Shen Gui heard this answer, he also smiled. I asked for food, and I was embarrassed to say that others were poor ghosts. But I never thought that being snubbed by the people was a problem of my own style, and those weird things that made me puzzled would end up being so simple!

The boy continued:

"As for why those old men of the Flying Tiger Army are stationed outside the city, we stinky people must have no way of knowing, but his big camp outside the city has just been set up...... Oh yes, it was after the envoys of Beiyan entered the customs that they began to camp out of the city, and the reason for this can only be found out by the young helper. ”

"As for the concubine of our Gu Governor's Mansion, Master Gu, it's a long story......"

As soon as Shen Gui heard his tone of being like Lord Gu, he knew that this kid must know about Li Niang. So he didn't interrupt, but sat cross-legged on top of a pile of hay and made a gesture of listening.

This Liniang was originally a person from Nankang, and the caliber of the people who had anything to do with her was also very consistent: she was pawned by her parents as a slave to the "horse stable" since she was a child, and after being trained by a special person, she became a Guangling thin horse who sold the door to the wealthy gentry as concubines. And our Lord Gu wanted to take a concubine and pass on the heir, so after being introduced by a friend, he spent the market price to marry Liniang from Nankang Guangling back to Jincheng. At this point, it seems like business as usual, but when you think about it, there are many things that are unusual.

Speaking of this, the young man paused and looked at Shen Gui, and saw that he was still listening attentively, so he opened a slap and counted it over and over again:

"First of all, the price of this Guangling thin horse in the local area is about four hundred taels of silver; If you marry far away from Youbei, plus the travel expenses and dart silver and gold, there is no problem with 1,800 taels of silver. Therefore, although the friend who matched Master Gu died mysteriously and violently, this short-lived broker was still right and worthy of his friend in this business, at least in terms of the amount of silver. ”

"The second is Liniang, although the origin of her life is very clear, but the strange thing is that such a weak woman with a miserable background, why would she make her private affairs known? You must know that even the most ordinary prostitutes are secretive when it comes to their own background; What's more, the identity of Li Niang, but the Guangling thin horse who makes all Huayu men flock to it, is more strictly controlled than the women of the good family, how can it be so fanfare?

"And Guangling thin horse has been trained by a special person since he was a child, learning piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs, should be ten fingers do not touch the spring water, specially accompany his master to chant the wind and make the moon of the concubine, from the posture and skin quality, are delicate and graceful. But this lady is different, although her body is slender enough, but it is by no means weak. We have a brother who often sees a dark shadow tumbling in and out of the high wall of the backyard of the government office in the middle of the night. Whether this black shadow is tall, short, fat and thin, or body movements, it looks no different from Li Niang! ”

Shen Gui was very surprised when he heard this, looked at the young man and asked:

"Can that brother of yours be sure that the dark shadow is Liniang herself? According to my previous inference, I thought that Li Niang was plundered by thieves, but according to his statement, it seems that with her own skills, she can smuggle away the eight thousand taels of silver! ”

The young man pointed to the thin man carrying a bamboo pole behind Shen Gui:

"The one who saw the dark shadow was the brother who brought you here, ask yourself."

The bamboo pole man didn't wait for Shen Gui to speak, and nodded first:

"That's right. In addition to my accurate eyesight, I have conclusive evidence! One day, when the black shadow turned back to the back wall of the palace, I noticed that the man's calf was twisted, as if he had been injured a lot. So for the next four or five days, I would go to the government office every noon to investigate. In the past few days, Lord Gu's concubine Liniang has never even appeared. Even the meals were brought into the house by the servant women he brought from Nankang into the house to enjoy. ”

After speaking, the bamboo pole man raised his head towards Shen Guiyi, and the smug mood was overflowing.

Shen Gui first looked at the proud bamboo pole man, then looked back at the young beggar gang helmsman and asked:

"Do you pick up other people's walls when your brother is fine? Are you the rudder of the beggars, or the dens of flower thieves? And look at his body, he is thin and tall like a praying mantis, and such a long body is too conspicuous on the wall of other people's yards, right? ”