Sun Xian stared at the woman in the painting and asked, "Is this really Lu Yuanmei?" ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Sun Longyou rolled up the scroll again and said, "Hey, dad is just kidding, this portrait dad asked the matchmaker to send it back." ”

Sun Xian hummed absentmindedly, and Sun Long said, "Why, that girl hasn't been found yet?" ”

Looking at Sun Xian's lonely face, Sun Longyou sighed, "Alas, it's really a worry-free girl, but you don't come to your father to find someone, don't think that if your father hands over the military power, there will be no one in his hands." ”

Sun Longyou was not named the king of Wanhai County in the early years when he was also quite prestigious in the rivers and lakes, he was generous, and very good at talking, and made friends with a lot of three religions and nine streams, many of which are martial arts masters, and Sun Longyou has a jade seal in his hand, carved into a carp shape, with a small seal in the mouth of the fish, and the word on the print is Sun, when Sun Xian was only out of chivalry to help people, but the rescuer had no intention, but the rescued person had the heart, and spontaneously gathered to make people make this jade seal, and sent someone to send it on the day Sun Longyou was canonized as king.

However, Sun Longyou, who was the king of Wanhai County, lived an extraordinarily idle life, and basically there was nothing for him to worry about, and he didn't even need to help the poor, and the people in the capital had enough food and clothing, so he didn't need to worry about food and clothing.

Sun Longyou rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the study for a while, and just when Sun Xian thought he couldn't find it, he patted his head, walked to the chair handle he had made before, and with a palm down, the handle cracked in response, and a small red box fell out.

Sun Longyou handed the small box to Sun Xian Lin and said, "This is the red carp seal." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and took out a bag from the cabinet and stuffed it to Sun Xianlin, Sun Xianshan frowned and unwrapped the package, which contained some messy little things, including wooden tokens, jade pendants, scabbards of short knives, and even women's hairpins.

The corners of Sun Xian's mouth twitched, he didn't know that his father had such a habit, what kind of scrap copper and rotten iron was collected?

"This is a token they left behind back then."

"This one too?" Sun Xian Lin picked up a woman's peach-pink belly, and two fat mandarin ducks were embroidered on it.

Sun Longyou coughed twice in embarrassment, "Your father and I also had a young age." ”

Sun Xian Lin took out this bag and put it on the bookcase, but Sun Longyou put it back into the burden and said, "You keep this thing, maybe you can use it one day?" ”

The corners of Sun Xian's mouth twitched again, and said, "I'll just take the red carp seal." ”

"The red carp seal can be imitated, and I won't tell you that I used to buy it from a vendor on the street, as long as it costs five cents, I'll find it for you."

Sun Xianshan: "......"

Sun Longyou finally didn't find the imitation red carp seal of five cents, so he had to give up, and said: "Anyway, if you want to go out, you still take these tokens, your father and I are not high in martial arts, and we can get to this day in fact, we all rely on the help of these friends on the rivers and lakes, if you need their help, take these tokens to show them, but now that I have been away from the rivers and lakes for so long, I don't know if they still remember me?" ”

With another long sigh, Sun Xian Lin carried this somewhat heavy burden and said, "I know, if I can meet them, I will thank them for my father." ”

Sun Longyou was stunned for a moment, nodded again, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go, let's go." ”

Sun Xian didn't rest after he went back, there was no news from Cijing now, he naturally couldn't lie on the bed and sleep peacefully, the secret guard hadn't come back yet, and it was the best news that he had no news.

At this time, Ci Jing was also lying on the bed and tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, thinking that Yu Ying who had seen in the mirror before was a hallucination caused by the sound of copper bells, the hairs on her back began to rebel against Lao Gao, she turned over, looked at the black roof beams above her head, and sighed.

It began to rain outside, and it was pouring down on the papier-mâché window, and the wind opened the window a little, and the candle on the table shook and almost went out, and Cijing sat up and closed the window again, walked back to the bed, blew out the candle, and lay back on the bed.

After a while, Cijing smelled a strange smell, her head began to dizzy, she realized that something was wrong, sat up and shouted, "Who is it?" ”

There was a slight sound outside, almost inaudible with the sound of wind and rain, but with the strength of the mirror, he took out a copper coin and threw it at the source of the sound.

There was a cry of pain at the door, followed by a clang, Cijing jumped out of bed a few steps and jumped to the door to open the door, looking out, the corridor was dark, but Cijing still identified a figure huddled on the ground, and the room next to Rosemoon also opened the door, Rosemoon walked out with a candlestick, Rosewood saw the person clearly through a faint light, it was the shopkeeper who entertained them today, he was holding a bamboo pipe in his hand, and there were sporadic sparks at the mouth of the bamboo pipe.

"Hey, we're so lucky, we actually ran into a black shop." Cijing clapped his hands, Guiyue walked over, clicked on Xiao Er's acupoint, Cijing tied him with white silk, and the shopkeeper who was waiting for news below hurriedly climbed upstairs when he heard the voice, "Who are you?" What is this doing?! ”

Cijing and Guiyue glanced at each other, they were still wearing masks when they came during the day, and now they took off the masks, the shopkeeper didn't recognize them, Cijing kicked the shopkeeper under his feet forward, and raised his voice and said: "I want to ask you what you are going to do, don't sleep in the middle of the night, blow ** into my room, fortunately I can't sleep tonight, otherwise I'm afraid I won't see the sun tomorrow morning!" ”

The shopkeeper saw that the bad thing was punctured, and his legs were weak in fright, but he still held on to the bar and said stubbornly: "You are talking nonsense! Who the hell are you? What about the guests staying in this room! ”

Cijing threw two human skin masks to him, and the shopkeeper picked up the mask so frightened that his legs were even weaker and he almost didn't stand firmly, Cijing took two steps closer and asked, "Do you think it's an old lady who lives in this room, so it's easy to bully?!" ”

"Spare your life! Spare your life! The villain is also a money obsesser to do such a stupid thing! This is the first time for the villain, and the guest officer is invited not to report to the official! Don't report to the police! ”

Cijing frowned, doubting the letter, and their noise woke up the other guests, they pushed open the door one after another, and a few of the people who came out first had already understood what had happened, and turned around and told the people next to them, and after a while, the guests in the guest rooms on this floor knew that this was a black shop.

"This is not a black shop! It's not a black shop! The villain is wrong, all the guest officers spare their lives! The villain is in trouble! The shopkeeper lay on the ground and kowtowed, crying so much that he looked so pitiful that he didn't look like this, and he didn't look like he was pretending, so he said: "Tell me what you have to do, if you can't make you believe, I'm afraid I will beat you up now before I can send it to the government!" ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to send it to the government, the shopkeeper was so frightened that he didn't even have the strength to support his upper body to stand up, and he lay directly on the ground.

"The government levied a strong tax, and the villain just opened such a small inn, and the monthly taxes paid were more than the earnings, and the small shop couldn't make ends meet, so this is the ......"

The shopkeeper lay on the ground, his shoulders shrugged, and the guy next to him burst into tears when he heard his shopkeeper's words, and a rumbling sound came out of his throat.

Ci Jing said: "This is not far from the capital, how dare the government levy strong taxes, you have to make excuses!" ”

"With that old monster guarding, what if it's close to the capital? Those who wanted to manage it all died inexplicably, and they must have been eaten by that old monster! ”

As soon as these words came out, accompanied by a gust of aisle wind, everyone had goosebumps, and asked with a frown: "Who is that old monster?" ”

"I don't know, I only know that the county official colluded with the old monster, the county official collected money, and the old monster helped him dispose of those who were not convinced, I heard that those people didn't even see the bones after they went in and moved out, what is it if they weren't eaten?!" The shopkeeper became more and more angry as he spoke, but he was choked by himself, and fell directly to the ground, and the tied Xiao Er moved over with difficulty, and looked at Cijing with tears and blurred eyes.

The people who watched the excitement in the inn saw that they had nothing to do and went back to the room with peace of mind, and the shopkeeper went downstairs with the shopkeeper on his back, and said in the mirror: "How long has the county official been collecting strong taxes?" ”

"More than two months." The shopkeeper sniffed and said.

Only then did the resignation mirror see that the young two were not very old, sixteen or seventeen years old, their appearance was delicate, and their childishness had not been taken off, and they couldn't help but soften their tone again: "Can you tell me the specific things?" ”

The shopkeeper glanced at her, and she couldn't tell her age when she looked like she was in her twenties, but it was not inconsistent to say that she was about the same age as him, and he said distrustfully: "You are a little girl, what can you do if you tell you?" ”

"If you don't say it, forget it, I'll go up and sleep." Ci Jing patted his knee, stood up and walked upstairs.

The shopkeeper didn't expect Cijing to react like this, and thought that she would pestered herself to ask for a while, so she was stunned for a while.

Cijing returned to the room, and Guiyue followed in, saying, "You go to sleep first, I'll guard you." ”

"Hey, there is actually a time when you work for me to keep vigil, but don't worry, how can I have anything, you go back to rest, if you don't see Song Linzhao tomorrow, we will go back to the capital."

Cijing waved his hand, but Rosemoon didn't move, and sat down at the table like a pile.

Cijing was about to speak, someone knocked on the door outside, Guiyue got up and went to open the door, the shopkeeper stood at the door, the little daughter-in-law grabbed the corner of her clothes, raised her head and glanced at Guiyue, and then looked at Cijing behind.

Cijing raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "What, do you still want to talk to me, a little girl?" ”