"Address, Pingkangfang, Ruyi New Silk General Shop, turn right into Sanhui Qu Lane, No. 13 is." Qi Qi Zhengse ordered: "Chen Bao climbed to the roof to look, Tang Hu blocked the back door, Li Xian wandered at the main entrance in disguise as a prostitute, and I hid in the corner to support you at all times." ”

Qi Qi said it seriously, and completely regarded himself as a chief.

But the three men on the other side showed a very cooperative attitude.

Chen Leopard's face sank like water, and his eyes looked into the distance emptyly; Tang Hu rubbed the brush-like beard on his chin and looked around; Only Li Xian looked at Qi Qi with a smile, with a strange look in his eyes, and he seemed to have entered the state one step ahead.

"Hey, did you hear the order?" Qi Qi said a little anxiously.

"Hey, girl. At first, you called us over, and we thought you were being bullied, so we came to help. I'm not here to be your boss. Tang Hu snorted lightly: "Now you take a token out and summon the three of us with a knife, that won't work." The master crawled out of the pile of dead people on the battlefield, and he couldn't listen to the command of the little hairy child. ”

Qi Qi is not stupid, he knows that he can't fight Tang Hu.

With a flick of his hand, he hid the token behind him, looking like a little sister was hiding a sugar cube with her brother, and said a little playfully: "Okay, Brother Tiger is reasonable, the Ministry of War has always paid attention to qualifications, so you say, what can I do to make Brother Tiger listen to me?" ”

"What is this...... Tang Hu was stunned, scratched his chin and was speechless.

Chen Bao said: "With your words, we can listen to you." We don't want to be individual, we just want to be comfortable. You call us brother, that's enough! You two don't be stupid, hurry up. ”

Seeing that Chen Bao took action, the other two couldn't tease the little girl anymore, so they followed the steps.

Qi Qi hid in a corner, and at this time she could see Li Xian and Chen Bao, but she couldn't see Tang Hu.

Tang Hu has always been reckless, she was a little uneasy at this time, but not long after, she was even more worried about Li Xian, because Li Xian had already gotten in love with a red man, looking at their eyebrows, as if they were going to hook up soon.

"This damn Li Xian! Do the task too! Qi Qi scolded with hatred in his heart.

……

At this time, Wei Chang was lying on the roof of the third floor of the drunken red mansion next to him.

He could see every move of the four of them, and he could hear even what they were saying, for which he rubbed his ears, feeling that his hearing was almost catching up with that of a dog.

At the beginning, when he saw Tang Hu teasing Qi Qi, he was still smiling bitterly on it, but soon after, he couldn't laugh. Because he found that when his letter was delivered to the thirteenth by the "donkey cart express", there was no one in the thirteenth to pick it up.

In other words, it's a bureau. They had already discovered that they had an ambush on the other side, so they had already evacuated, or rather, they weren't ready to come here at all.

So, if you come here, will it be within the other party's calculations?

Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine and heard a "squeak" at the same time, and then a strange feeling passed through his heart - when the crossbow machine had just been pulled and the sound was still very small, his body seemed to have begun to prepare to dodge.

This thought flashed, and he quickly dodged to the side, and sure enough, an arrow shot right where he had been, and it was still the kind of two-foot-long cyan arrow.

"Damn, look where you're running this time!"

Seeing a figure, wandering on the opposite floor, this time due to the distance, the other party did not seem to be in a hurry to escape, but continued to load the arrow there, it seemed that the assassin was about to fire a second arrow. Wei Chang wore soft armor in it this time, feeling more secure, jumped from the cornices on the third floor to the second floor, and jumped to the ground from the second floor, rushed across the street, jumped over, and climbed to the cornices on the first floor on the opposite side.

Pingkangfang is one of the liveliest and most prosperous markets in the capital, where a large number of beautiful women and countless talents, wealthy merchants, and even officials in civilian clothes come here.

Stationed here are the sixteen guards of the South Ya - the right Qianniuwei, and there are also two bad people stationed here all year round in the city.

The assassin was dressed in black, his movements were extremely sharp, and he climbed over the wall and ridge cleanly, Wei Chang followed, and the two turned around three alleys, knocking over many pedestrians along the way, and the distance was getting closer and closer, but when the assassin came to the back of a brothel on the edge of the city, he suddenly stopped and glanced back at Wei Chang.

Although his face was covered by a mask, it was as if he could see him sly grinning, and then he drilled into the ground, and the man was gone.

Wei Chang hurriedly ran over and looked, it turned out to be an authentic tunnel. Thousands of turns in the tunnel, he is not familiar with this place, and he does not dare to jump rashly, otherwise he will become a live target for the other party.

"Damn! How can there be a tunnel here? Wei Chang lay at the entrance of the tunnel, leaned forward to look down, and scolded casually.

"Hey, you spotted the Assassin?" At this time, Qi Qi ran over panting: "It turns out that you are also here, why don't you tell me!" ”

"Did you find any clues over there?" Wei Chang saw that there was a broken cylinder next to him, and with a force of his arms, he buckled the bottom of the cylinder to the secret passage to prevent the assassin from suddenly appearing again.

"Nothing, it's an empty house." Qi Qi said discouragedly, and the pink little mouth pouted reluctantly.

"Didn't you check the files of the household department before you came?"

"Checked, this house has been vacant for more than three years."

"Why not rent it out? This is Pingkangfang, every inch of land is valuable. ”

"In the third year of Zhide, there was a murder case, and seven people died at once, and the case has not been solved so far. Since then, the store has been perceived as unlucky. Later, he rented it to the drunken red mansion for some maids to live in, but in the seventh year of Zhide, he entered the thief again, harmed two girls, and killed one person. The case was cracked by Wannian County, and the thief's name was Ruan Shisan, who was an Annan bandit who had wandered into Chang'an. Since then, the house has not been used again. "Qi Qi has an excellent memory and recites archives like a treasure.

"When you came, you surrounded such an empty house?" Wei Chang bit his lip indignantly and said, "Blind you have a good brain, you are whimsical all day long, hurry back and see if the letter has been taken away." ”

"There's no one inside, how can it be taken away?"

"There were people here just now, why did they disappear?" Wei Chang asked rhetorically. After that, Wei Chang had already run towards the thirteenth. As a result, Chen Bao, Tang Hu, and Li Xian walked towards him.

Chen Bao said: "Let that kid run away!" Faster than a rabbit, and when I jumped down from the third floor, he went into the house again, and when I entered the house, the man had disappeared into thin air. Later, I groped around and found a secret door. I was worried that he was hiding behind a secret door, and I smashed the door with a table, and guess what? ”

"There is a passage behind the Anmen, and the man is long gone." Wei Chang said.

"Yes, not bad at all."

If you use this kind of secret path enemy once, you won't use it again.

After returning to the Bad People Academy, Wei Chang burrowed into the archives and began to look for a map of Pingkangfang. This kind of map can only be seen by insiders, and relying on Qi Qi's token, the two of them can come in.

Take a closer look at Pingkangfang, densely packed with culverts, tunnels, and only after inquiring did I know that these facilities have been there for a long time, and they were originally prepared for defense, but now they are mostly deserted, and they have become a passage for thieves.

"Originally, these passages were extremely hidden. And many of the holes have been filled, how do they know? Wei Chang narrowed his eyes.

"Maybe they used to be Nan Yawei too? Or a layout from the black market! Qi Qi stared at Wei Chang's side face and said.

"It's possible, but I've looked carefully at the dark passage, and it's newly dug up. They were able to find the place so precisely, and there was definitely the support of the superior people behind them. Wei Chang sat down in his chair.

"You suspect we have a mole?" Qi Qi frowned.

"You're thinking too much." Wei Chang smiled bitterly: "Only a few of us know about this, and we have always been together, how can someone report it." Besides, if you move so fast, they won't have time to dig up after getting the information. If you want me to see, they just calculated that we would definitely go, so they set a trap to catch me. ”

"Originally, we wanted to catch turtles in the urn, but we were fished for and baited." Qi Qi tapped the table with the second or third joints of his index finger, and pondered: "They are completely in the dark, and now we don't seem to have any clues." ”

"I'm still wondering about a problem......"

"What did you find?"

"Since they dare to attack me, does it mean that they are sure that we are secretly investigating, so they will not alarm Qianniuwei and the local yamen martial arts, and besides, even the two bad people from Pingkangfang did not appear, could it be that they really didn't see us?"

"What do you mean...... Are the two bad guys going to kill us? Qi Qi was shocked: "Won't it?" There are ...... in the bad guys' team Not necessarily, even you can't catch their ......, and the martial arts are definitely not low. ”

Qi Qi inadvertently said "we" instead of "you". This sentence inexplicably made Wei Chang feel hot in his heart. For this reason, a sneering look appeared on his face.

Qi Qi's eyes were clear, and when he saw Wei Chang smiling like this, he suddenly realized that he had made a mistake just now, and said in an angry tone: "What are you laughing at, tell me what you think." ”

"Little yellow-haired girl, how can you talk to me?"

"Who do you say is the little yellow-haired girl!"

"Say you! You are eight years younger than me, what's the matter, I said you yellow-haired girl, and I wronged you? ”

"Twenty years old is not too young!"

"Yes, of course I know, other people's twenty-year-old girls are mothers of two children, but what about you, we don't know what your background is, hey, it's really amazing, and I'm not afraid of paying a fine for late marriage." Wei Chang said with a wicked smile.

Fines for waiting for marriage and fines for late marriage, this is again the "wonderful" policy of the new emperor's withdrawal.

Because under his rule, the Tang Dynasty ushered in the maximization of material and agricultural product production, and went door to door full of warehouses and grains, even if it ushered in a three-year famine, no one would starve to death. In particular, potato cultivation is extremely convenient, and even if a woman lives on her own, she can farm to support herself.

Under these circumstances, there was a tragic situation in which women were unwilling to marry, which led to a decrease in the population of the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Zhide Li Heng, seeing that things were not good, issued a decree: if a woman does not marry at the age of twenty-two, she must pay a fine of 20 silver coins per month; If you don't marry at the age of twenty-five, you pay 50 silver coins a month; If you don't marry at the age of twenty-eight, the state forcibly allocates it.

At the same time, a protective decree was proposed for the vast number of singles, and a man who could not marry a wife at the age of 30 must accept a woman assigned by the state as a wife. After getting married, it is not allowed to be lazy, not to do a good job, not to be unfaithful to the marriage, otherwise it will be severely punished.

Wei Chang came to this world at the age of twenty-seven and a half, and half a year has passed, and he is already twenty-eight. His family was very poor, his old father was still disabled, and his mother took care of the family while going out to do odd jobs, and lived a very poor life.

His house is located in Yongyangfang, the southwesternmost corner of Chang'an City, which is the poorest place in Chang'an City. But fortunately, his family has a small courtyard and two small rooms, one is the stove, and the other is where the family of three sleeps.

Don't underestimate this small dilapidated house, although it is the poorest place in Chang'an City, it is also worth a lot. But the problem is that it is their only fixed asset, and they can't sell it and go to the countryside to live. Daddy Wei Changsheng is often proud of living in Chang'an City.

He has been a big soldier for twenty years, and that's the only thing he can boast about......

Originally, he could still boast about his son, but now that his son has lost his military status and has been demoted to a pariah by the emperor, he gets angry when he thinks about it, and he has ignored Wei Chang for half a year. Relying on some carpenter's handiwork, he went to the market with a limp to sell to the local poor. He also often said that if he has good legs, he must go to the West Market to sell them.

Now in the Wei family, the old father receives 600 Wen Qian every month to the Ministry of War relief, and the mother can earn hundreds of Wen Qian every month by doing odd jobs, and later because of knowing words, he learned the ability to catch medicine, and grabbed medicine for Wang Lang's Chinese pharmacy, earning 1500 Wen a month.

This family earns 2,100 wen a month, and after paying 1,000 wen a month in miscellaneous taxes, the three of them live a tight life, just hoping that the house will not collapse, otherwise there will really be no money to build.

……

"Hey, girl, are you still angry?"

In the evening, most of the students were reading outside with books, and Qi Qi was no exception, sitting on a bench with another girl, holding a thick copy of "Tang Law", with her head down.

She was already able to memorize the book, but she still had to review it from time to time.

I don't know where Wei Chang got a roasted sweet potato. Break it in half, half of it is handed to Qi Qi, and the other half is handed to Su Hongying. Su Hongying smiled, didn't answer, turned around and left, leaving the two of them.

"Hey, why are you leaving?" Qi Qi shouted.

"I'm tired, I want to rest for a while." Su Hongying tilted her head and said.

There is no girl who is not greedy, and so is Qi Qi, but Qi Qi is very stubborn and refuses to accept it.

Seeing that Qi Qi didn't accept it, he put the half next to Qi Qi.

He ate a mouthful of steaming sweet potatoes, which was so hot that he snorted, and said, "Let's two start from the beginning, and then think about whether there are any important clues missing." ”

Qi Qi closed the book, let out a bang, and said with a cold face: "What else is there to say, I have already handed over the token." ”

"What are you doing in such a hurry?" Wei Chang stared habitually.

"That's the head coach's waist card, it's already good that I can take it out, you still want to take it with you all day long!" Qi Qi said dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, okay, I won't choke on you." Wei Chang sat down on the ground in compromise, put one arm on the stool, looked up at Qi Qi and said, "You said that you saw the traces of footprints that were erased at the beginning, I know that you have a good memory, can you help me restore the situation at that time?" ”

"Almost." In the face of serious topics, Qi Qi is never ambiguous.

"Then let's go to the flyover."

"Okay."

When the two came to the overpass, it was half an hour before the curfew, and there were a lot of pedestrians, because they had just fallen to their deaths, and deliberately increased the height of the railing, and stared at the non-slip wooden strips on the wooden planks of the overpass.

Seeing this, the people felt a burst of comfort in their hearts, and couldn't help but praise: "The Chang'an County Government Office can still do some good things." ”

Listening to the words of the people, Qi Qi shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and said, "I don't think that wooden strip is official." I've seen this kind of wooden strip in Fengyi Fang in the south, and it's all leftover material for coffins. So...... Yes, it was nailed spontaneously by local craftsmen. And the craftsmanship of this railing is obviously not an official process. It's more like a carpenter who specializes in coffins. ”

"Heh," Wei Chang said with a bitter smile, "You are better than me in observing these details." It's a pity that there is no such thing in the assessment of bad people. Now that there are so many people, I'm afraid it's inconvenient for the two of us to go up, so simply, you can compare and contrast with me here, I just need to take a look. ”

The two of them were busy for a long time, and they didn't see any results on Qi Qi's restored footprints. But at this time, the curfew gong that urged pedestrians to leave quickly sounded. Looking upstairs in the distance, an alarm bell was sounded.

The curfew is the emperor's holy decree, how dare the common people disobey, even Wei Chang and Qi Qi of the military department, they don't dare to break through for no reason, otherwise it is self-deprecating.

The two of them ran back to the academy and sat together sullenly.

Suddenly, Qi Qi asked such a question that had nothing to do with the case: "How did you memorize "Tang Law"? This is the only one I don't give you a back point, and I hope you will take it seriously. ”

glanced at Qi Qi, her face was gloomy, it seemed that the little girl was not very confident in the future assessment. She didn't know that during the usual test, Wei Chang only used eighty percent of his strength. He won't be like other students, and if he hurts himself, his family won't have the money to treat him.

"Don't worry too much about that." Wei Chang said: "It's not that I don't read at all, and there are Tang Hu's illiterate people, are you still worried that I will take the first place from the bottom?" ”

"Then you should also take a good look, and in the future, the bad guys will also have to be promoted."

"Bad guy promoted?"

"Yes, just like the promotion of lawyers, you need to take a liberal arts assessment. When the two of us went to Fengyi Fang that day, the holy decree came down, and the two of us were not there at that time. When you come back, you don't go to the academic office to have a look, of course you don't know. ”

"His grandmother's, the three people in the dormitory didn't tell me."

"What's the use of telling you? It's as if you're a persuasive person. ”

"Then you still persuade me?"

"I'm not trying to persuade you, I'm reasoning with you."

"Isn't that the same thing?"

"Forget it, I won't tell you." Qi Qi stood up and walked towards the lounge.

"Hey, wait."

"What for?"

"I said that day that Liu Ming's cousin didn't look like the portrait in Liu Ming's sleeve, but you said it looked like at the time. Is that right? ”

"It's a lot like that, indeed. What's wrong? ”

Wei Chang stared at Qi Qi with a serious expression and said, "Don't be kidding, it's not like it at all." ”

"It's really like." Qi Qi looked at Wei Chang with the same eyes.

The two of them seemed to think of a question at the same time, and then ran to the archives and rummaged through the "Chang'an County Daily" that day.