Shandong since ancient times the folk style is strong, more bold and straightforward generation, "Kang ash is not cold Shandong chaos", is pointing out the characteristics of Shandong people, the province around the practice of martial arts is very prosperous, and especially Tai'an is the most, Tai'an Prefecture is famous all over the world because of the name of Mount Tai of Wuyue, the characters are gorgeous, and the market houses are the crown of the province.

This day is close to Tai'an City, Su Lingling master and servant two are in a hurry, suddenly heard the bell ringing, the sound of horses' hooves, in a blink of an eye has come to the back, Su Lingling does not want to fight with people, as early as when he heard the sound, he and the tassel put the horse aside, let the people pass first, only to see four or five high-headed horses rushing thunder from the side, immediately the knights are agile, no time for him to care. When the first horse swept past Su Lingling's side, he turned his head slightly, swept Su Lingling from the corner of his eye, and said "Huh" gently, and immediately the person was dressed in red, his cloak was raised, and he heard the sound of golden bells jingling, and he was gone away in a blink of an eye. Su Lingling's eyesight is so sharp, as early as when this person turned his head to glance, he could clearly see that it was a beautiful and heroic girl, and when he saw that her flying cloak was faintly embroidered with a Nine Heavens Qingluan, he suddenly remembered someone.

Although the tassel did not see it clearly, because these people were flying like no one on the road, they brought up a puff of dust, which made her cough twice, and she couldn't help muttering dissatisfiedly, "These people are so arrogant and rude." ”

Su Lingling smiled slightly, but did not speak, and when he entered the city, he went straight to Qi's house to visit Qi Fengqi.

Qi family is the first hope of Tai'an, the inheritance of a hundred years of the great family, into the city to ask everyone know, Tai'an City East Fang West City, the Qi family old house is in the middle, more than ten generations of business, the house is continuous, the eaves are stacked, the whole mansion occupies a street, the main entrance seems to have just been repaired, a new color of oil, there are two big stone lions squatting at the door, hanging the plaque of Qi Mansion. The porter heard that it was the senior sister of the head of the Qi family who was visiting, and saw that Su Lingling had an extraordinary bearing, and he knew that he was the only Shaolin female disciple and the county lord canonized by the imperial court, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately invited him in, and said with a smile: "The county lord, please!" The head of the house went out in the morning and had not yet returned, so he asked the county lord to serve tea in the hall, and the villain went to inform the old lady, and then sent someone to find the head of the house to come back. ”

It turned out that Qi Fengqi was obsessed with martial arts, as the sect leader of the Linji Sect and the head of the Qi family, and the lay disciple of Shaolin, the affairs were complicated on weekdays, and he had not yet married a wife in his thirties, and his mother Mrs. Qi was still in charge of housework at home. Therefore, when female guests visit, they are all received by Mrs. Qi.

Su Lingling heard that Qi Fengqi was not at home, hesitated slightly, and asked, "Where did Senior Brother go?" I see that there are many martial arts characters in Tai'an City, don't you know what happened recently? ”

The porter bowed down and replied: "Tai'an February two dragons raise their heads every year, but this year is particularly lively, because this year's Tai'an prefect is newly appointed, want to be ingenious, make the scene very big, agreed to hold a civil and military conference from the first day of February to the third day of the first month, after the meeting, there will be a flower country champion election, by the city of the elderly, respectively, presided over, the head of the family was elected as the host of the martial arts conference, for several days are busy with this matter. Today I went to the hall to receive a few friends from afar. ”

Su Lingling nodded, and sat down with the tassel in the guest hall, the maid met the tea, the tassel was ripe, and pulled the maid to ask about the second grand event in February, and said to Su Lingling: "Miss, just in time for this excitement, we came by coincidence." ”

After waiting for a long time, I heard the faint sound of footsteps behind the hall, and the maid helped a lady in her fifties out. It was Mrs. Qi.

Although Mrs. Qi is over fifty years old, she is in good spirits, looks very kind, has a hosta in her hair, wears a gown full of autumn fragrance and gold, and is very graceful and neat, and said with a smile: "I heard Fengqi say that there is a little junior sister who is unparalleled in the world, and she is a noble person in the court. ”

"The old woman is well." Su Lingling brought a tassel to the old lady Qi to salute, the old lady Qi knew that she was the county lord of the imperial court, so she didn't dare to hold it up, so she hurriedly helped her not to salute, and said busily: "I can't help it, the old body is just an old woman in the people, how dare I let the county lord salute me, logically speaking, it is right to salute the county lord as an old man." While holding Su Lingling's hand, while looking at her, he couldn't help but "tsk" and admire: "There are really such characters in the world, and the old body can be regarded as an eye-opener." ”

Su Lingling asked people to present gifts, and she was a person with a heart, who chose silk satin suitable for the elderly in a variety of colors, or supplements such as Ejiao deer antler bird's nest ginseng, and some special products in the capital to eat, which were worth a lot of money. Therefore, Mrs. Qi was very happy, took Su Lingling's hand and asked her long and short questions, and asked her why a delicate girl went to Shaolin Temple and other places of asceticism to learn martial arts.

Go to Shaolin to learn art, has always been her taboo, involving the deceased mother, naturally reluctant to talk about it, so she vaguely said a few words, the old woman saw that she was not a very enthusiastic person, but there are questions to answer, down and generous, obviously the family education is excellent, born and beautiful, noble temperament, there is a pity in the heart, secretly thought: Fengqi is in his thirties, busy all day long, he refuses to marry a wife, is it not in Shaolin Temple a classmate, I like him as the county master sister? If it can be done, it is naturally extremely good, but I am afraid that the door is improper, although my family is a family, but it is not the home of the noble eunuchs, and people may not be willing to it.

Although he thought about it this way, he had a mind in the end, and he was more warm and thoughtful to Su Lingling, and persuaded her to drink tea for a while, and persuaded her to eat fruit and snacks for a while, and was afraid that she would be in a hurry to wait, so he comforted: "I have already sent the boys to find Fengqi, but I am afraid that this time will come." The county lord Mo Xinjiao, when he met the grand event on February 2nd, he stayed for a few more days, and then went after seeing the excitement. Then he instructed the maids to pass on the word, and quickly arrange and tidy up the best guest rooms.

Su Lingling, a very smart person, had already guessed a little bit of her intentions after seeing the old lady Qi's grand fist, but she and Qi Fengqi knew each other that they were brother and sister, and they were not afraid that the old lady would misunderstand, and this kind of thing could not be explained, thinking that when Qi Fengqi came back and lived for a few days, she naturally understood.

After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps outside the hall, and seven or eight people came in. A man who walked in front was dressed in a dark robe, with a gold thread on the collar and sleeves, his sword eyebrows flying obliquely, his facial features were handsome and rigid, although he was a little rough, but he was full of masculinity and heroism. It's really you, you said a few years ago that you wanted to come to me to play when you were free, and I said it casually, but I didn't expect it to come. ”

Before Su Lingling could answer, Tassel had already smiled and said on the side: "Say hello to Qi Ye, Miss and I are here to say hello to you and the old woman, although it is a few days late, it is still a good old age." ”

Qi Fengqi laughed and said, "You little girl, why are you here to give me New Year's greetings, I'm afraid you're here to ask for New Year's red envelopes." He is also very familiar with the tassel, the tassel is delicate and clever, and the mouth is sweet, and he is very loved by several brothers and sisters in the Shaolin Temple, and he is used to jokes.

Su Lingling couldn't help but smile, but suddenly felt a stab in his eyes, and when he looked up, he saw a tall girl standing behind Qi Fengqi, with a graceful posture, beautiful facial features, and a Nine Heavens Feiluan embroidered on the crimson cloak.

The tassel next to him said "Huh", and he whispered: "Miss, it's that ......"

Su Lingling nodded, and recognized that this girl was the one galloping on the road. Qi Fengqi had already introduced Su Lingling to everyone first, and introduced the few people he brought one by one, all of whom were all handsome people from all walks of life who came to participate in the civil and military conference, and when the girl was introduced, Mrs. Qi said with a smile: "I am worried that there is no serious hostess in this house, I am old, I am afraid that no one will entertain and accompany the county lord, and it just so happens that Feiluan is here." He turned his head to Su Lingling and said: "Feiluan is the daughter of Lord Yu, the chief soldier of Tai'an, but he fell in love with me, he doesn't like to sit in the embroidery building, he often follows Fengqi to ride horses and shoot arrows, he is a woman's husband, my house is deserted, and she often comes to talk to me thanks to her." Your little girl's family will definitely fall in love. ”

Yu Feiluan had already heard Qi Fengqi introduce Su Lingling first, she had naturally heard of Qi Fengqi's legendary little junior sister, there was some strangeness in her eyes at the moment, and she looked at Su Lingling a little inquiringly, in terms of identity, she was the young lady of the general soldier, but Su Lingling was the county lord of the edict, she was respectful and should be visited, but she didn't know whether she was the landlord, or she didn't put Su Lingling in her eyes, she just simply performed a meeting etiquette, although she had a smile on her face, her tone was very alienated and said: "I have long heard Brother Qi say that his little junior sister is called Chunxue Baimei, Born beautiful, skills are also high, now the county lord is rare to come as a guest, don't go outside, Aunt Qi is old, it is inevitable that the spirit is shorter, what does the county lord need, just tell me. ”

Although Su Lingling is not familiar with Feiluan, she has also heard Qi Fengqi mention it, Qi Fengqi is careless, and she doesn't make a fuss about her children's private affairs, but she heard from Qi Fengqi's words that this Miss General Soldier must be in love with her senior brother, she is afraid that her senior brother will miss the marriage if she doesn't open her mind, and she has kindly reminded Qi Fengqi, but Qi Fengqi laughed it off, and only said that she and Yu Feiluan are just friends, just because Yu Feiluan often comes to accompany her mother, so she is familiar with it, so let her not talk nonsense. Now when they met, after seeing Yu Feiluan's expression and attitude, they knew that she must have regarded herself as a rival in love, and felt that she was too stingy and sour, so she looked at Qi Fengqi and said a few perfunctory words, so she didn't want to deal with her anymore.

When the Qi Mansion arranged the banquet, Yu Feiluan saw that Su Lingling was magnificent, except for talking and laughing with Qi Fengqi, but he was at odds with everyone, Rao was like this, among the people who came to participate in the conference, several young and handsome people were shocked by Su Lingling, and the more Su Lingling looked like he loved to answer, the more they were willing to flatter. Yu Feiluan has always been conceited and beautiful, and as a lady of the chief soldier, she has become accustomed to being held by others in this group of people, and now she sees that these people have turned to pay homage to Su Lingling, and she is even more displeased.

The banquet was not dispersed, Su Lingling was tired in her heart, she was tired under the pretext, she resigned, and when she arrived at her guest room, the tassel had already opened the salute she had brought and placed it in her room, seeing that she was depressed, she also expected three points, and said angrily: "The county lord doesn't need to pay attention to those people, the daughter of a general soldier, and dare to be arrogant in front of us, not looking at Qi Ye's face, I will say that she can't get off the stage first." While pouring tea, he said: "The county is mainly tired, so let's rest early, let's go to the street tomorrow, I just heard the girl in the house say, the ground in Tai'an is really lively, don't say it during the day, there is a ghost market at night, the market is open at the time, until the ugly time is scattered, although it is terrifying, it is said that as long as you can think of it, there is everything, Miss must like to shop." ”

"There is also a ghost market under the bridge in Kyoto's West Market," Su Lingling said casually: "What's so terrifying, the earliest transactions are mostly some lawbreakers, stolen things, and even some tomb robberies and coffins, which are not good to sell openly during the day, so they take advantage of the night to sneak in the trade, and later because of their fame, it became lively, and it became a serious market." If you want to go, let's go now. ”

The tassels clapped their hands and applauded, and the master and servant cleaned up at the moment, and saw that there was endless talking and laughing in the hall over there, and knew that the banquet was not dispersed, so they said to the people of the Qi family, asked where the ghost market was, and walked slowly.

Although the ghost market of Tai'an is not as large as the capital, it is also very lively, in the most remote place in the east of the city on a vacant land, it is said that when the city was built, it was a mass grave, and it was used as a execution ground, and then it was abandoned, because it was unlucky there, and there was no man-made house to live, and it has been idle. I don't know when some thieves, and even Jiang Yang thieves, touch the Jin Lieutenant's belongings, borrowed this place to be remote and uninhabited, secretly sell stolen goods, because they are all illegally obtained, the price is naturally not as good as serious transactions, so there are often people to exchange some good objects, and slowly more people will increase.

Some traders see that it is profitable, simply come to this place at night to set up a shed to sell food and drink, to now, has formed a big market, not only no longer see a trace of ghosts, but very lively, all kinds of vendors, jewelry, ready-to-wear fur, books and musical instruments, antique porcelain, everything, as well as buying and selling slaves, begging with bowls, singing, singing and dancing, pulling the three strings, selling steamed dumplings, flat food, soup noodles, tea food, it is simply bustling, boiling back to the sky.

Every time guests from other places come to Tai'an, they say that this ghost market is a must-visit. There are also people in the city who love to collect antiques and antiques, and often come to the market to slip around, and they may be able to find good goods at some time.

It was still early when Su Lingling and Tassel came, the ghost market had just opened, and there were not many people, and the vendors were laying out large oil paper on the ground one after another, or pushing carts, and were sorting out and placing their goods. The stall selling steamed buns held a dead wind lamp aloft, and the hot air on the soup pot was white mist, full of fireworks on this cold day.

Tassel looked around, everything was fresh, she had to linger in front of every stall, Su Lingling followed her dispensably, and seemed to have become her follower.

"Miss, look at this." She stood in front of a stall selling rouge gouache, the stall was a woman in her thirties, with a girl in her teens, wearing a blue cloth cotton jacket, dressed neatly and cleanly, and what she sold was not a simple and rough market sale, but a small round box carved with a color of bamboo, simple and elegant, the gouache contained in the box was white and delicate, and the rouge color was like flowers, all of which were very exquisite. Tassel held a box of rose rouge in one hand and a box of purple jasmine powder in the other, so happy that he didn't know which one to choose.

Su Lingling has lived in Shaolin for so many years, and these things of adjusting fat and powder have long been avoided, but seeing that these small bamboo boxes are carved generously and elegantly, he can't help but take a box and look at it carefully in the palm of his hand.

"My family's fragrant powder and rouge are all made by me and my mother, and they are the most delicate and easy to use, Miss buy a few boxes." The teenage girl saw that her mother was busy putting the goods in the back basket on the stall, so she took the initiative to come over to solicit business for her mother, and pointed to the box in Su Lingling's hand: "This is to take the summer roses, one by one selected half-opened and picked them, and then pick the crimson petals of the same color, pound out the flower juice, and clean it, nine steaming and nine drying to make it, that is, the Yurong Pavilion in the city is not as good as my family!" ”

The little girl was described as pretty, and although her cheeks were red from the cold wind, she spoke cleanly and neatly, which was very pleasing. Su Lingling has a good impression of her, although she doesn't use rouge gouache, after all, she was born in the Hou Mansion, and her general appreciation is especially there, so she naturally knows that although this rouge is not coarse, it is still inferior to the famous stores such as Yurong Pavilion and other **rouge gouache in her mouth, but it is only natural and simple.

Seeing that the tassel liked it, he smiled and said, "The little girl is really good at business, so let's buy a box of rose rouge and jasmine powder...... This bamboo box is simple and cute, and you carved it yourself? ”

The little girl happily took the broken silver from the tassel, and while quickly taking an empty box, filling two small boxes, handing them to the tassels, and replied with a smile: "It was carved by my grandfather and my father, and the bamboo cut down in the mountains is not worth anything. After speaking, he took an empty bamboo box out and handed it to Su Lingling.

Su Lingling thanked her, touched the pigtail on her head, and turned around with the tassel to leave, the little girl was giving the tassel change, and hurriedly called out to them, "You gave more money, wait for me to find you." ”

Su Lingling smiled and said, "If there are more, I will buy you flowers to wear." ”

The little girl was overjoyed when she heard this, and after thinking about it, she said to her, "Miss is a kind person, and she is so good-looking, thank you." I tell you secretly, if you want to buy antique jewelry, don't buy it at the stall in the east, there are more rough ones, especially in Wang Er's poaching stall, more than half of them are fakes, you want really good things, go to the big fat stall at the end of the west to buy, his things are good, and the price is fair. ”

The woman coughed and cried, "Don't talk nonsense with your guests, Honeyel. ”

The little girl winked mischievously at Su Lingling and helped her mother sort out the goods.

"This little girl is kind, miss, let's go to the stall of the big fat man she said?"

Su Lingling head answered, the two of them went west, passing a stall on the way, and saw that the stall owner was a short pockmark, there was a guest in front of the stall and he was arguing, saying that the hairpin he bought was not authentic, saying that it was a sterling silver hairpin, but the amount was wrong, it was filled with lead, and the stall owner swore and scolded the guest for having nothing to do, and was making trouble. There was a circle of people watching the excitement on the stall next to it.

The two looked at each other and smiled, knowing that the little girl was not lying.

Kankan was almost at the end of the east side, but at a glance, he saw two familiar figures standing in front of the innermost stall.

"Yikes!" Tassel stopped and whispered, "Miss, it's them!" ”

Su Lingling had also seen the figure of Xiao Xiao who was as sparse as a green pine and a bright moon. The hanging wind lantern dragged his shadow to the ground for a long time, and with the flickering lantern, the shadow kept shaking. Obviously it was an extremely cold night wind, she saw his back, but she didn't know why she suddenly felt a warm heart, and there was an inexplicable emotion that seemed to be happy and sad spreading, and suddenly felt that the noise around her was also hidden, the wind was cold and the night was quiet, and there was only that figure left in this huge long street.

"Miss......" Tassel saw that she didn't move for a long time, and couldn't help but urge in a low voice beside her.

Su Lingling stared at the back for a glance before saying, "Go back." ”

She said goodbye at the Tongzhou Inn, just to avoid walking with him, but she didn't think that the people who deliberately avoided it still couldn't avoid it after all, it was really God's will to make people habitually, since she had decided to part ways, goodbye and inevitable embarrassment, it was better not to see him. Let alone...... A slight bitterness appeared in her heart: People may not be happy to see you!

"Miss Sue?" When he was about to turn around, he saw that the figure on the other side seemed to hear something, and suddenly turned around, looking at each other, there was a trace of surprise in his eyes, but she seemed to be peeping at her, and she couldn't help but have a hot face.

"Tassel!" Yan Zhao beside him was very happy to see the tassel, and immediately ran over, "Why are you also here?" ”

A cloud drifted away slowly, revealing the obscured moonlight. The wind grew stronger, lifting the corners of his blue robe, and she watched him walk slowly towards her, the lights and moonlight reflected in his clear eyes. She saw a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth and said, "I met again." ”