Wang Yuan didn't ask about the content of the letter, and when Li Xin'er did this, he was flipping through the large package left by Gongsun Lan on the side. There are several new clothes inside, both men and women, it seems that they are not only prepared for Li Xin'er, but also for themselves. What made Wang Yuan even happier was that Gongsun Lan left more than a dozen copper coins, which was a large amount, and Wang Yuan unceremoniously stuffed all of them into the wooden box under his bed, and locked them tightly.

"Second Brother Wang, the letter is in the sachet, you can hand it over to the shopkeeper Pan tomorrow along with the sachet."

Wang Yuan took the sachet and put it in his arms and said, "Why don't you ask your grandson to send this letter for you." ”

"The master thought I was greedy for vanity, and hated me for making eyeliner for the prince, and as soon as I opened my mouth, she rejected me. No matter how much I pleaded, she refused to help me, and you have seen with your own eyes, the master just brushed his sleeves away, and I don't think she will forgive me again in this life. ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "That's not necessarily, Master Ling still cares about you, otherwise how can he come to detoxify you?" And you see, in the package, from the outer robe to the underwear and even the socks, she has prepared it for you, this is not a concern for you, what is this? ”

Li Xin'er flipped through the package handed over by Wang Yuan, tears fell down her eyes, and she whimpered: "The master has taken care of me since I was a child, and she has personally sewn my clothes, shoes and socks, and combed my hair and tied it every morning, just like my mother." It was my resignation that broke her heart, and I was so ashamed of her. ”

Wang Yuan sighed and said: "You neglected her love for you in order to avenge your parents, no wonder she is ruthless to you, if I were you, how could I try my best to redeem it." I can see that your master is actually cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and there may be a chance. ”

Li Xin'er nodded and said, "Thank you for your enlightenment." ”

The night was already deep, Wang Yuan added firewood to the stove to resist the invasion of the colder and colder, and after watching Li Xin'er close her eyes and fall asleep, she took a straw curtain and spread it on the ground, covered it with a thin quilt and lay down. It's hard to fall asleep with all the thoughts in my head. Listening to the north wind blowing through the treetops outside the house, Wang Yuan's mind was as difficult to settle as the treetops swept by the cold wind, and he felt that he shouldn't be nosy, and then he felt that he shouldn't be so cautious and content with mediocrity, and he didn't fall asleep until midnight.

After dawn, Li Xin'er woke up Wang Yuan early, Wang Yuan knew her intentions, and after helping Li Xin'er wash, she went to Aunt Wen's shop in the morning light to buy two bowls of glutinous soup and baked cakes and pack them back.

Li Xin'er retold the joint code words twice uneasily, but Wang Yuan had already remembered that the melons were ripe, and he didn't know how many times he had said them before going to bed last night.

Locked the door and walked out of Yong'an Fang, the snow on the street was frozen so hard that it was very slippery, many people on the street walked and fell on the stabbing and falling, Wang Yuan was not spared, he fell several times, and his buttocks hurt. While grinning his teeth, he couldn't help but slander the Tang Jingzhao Mansion in his heart. Anyway, I have to organize a snow shoveling team or something, just let the snow on the street melt and freeze, freeze and melt, and make a mess in the Chang'an Market, which is too embarrassing for the Tang Dynasty.

Panting and stumbling for more than an hour, when the sun rose to the treetops, he finally arrived in the East Market. Wang Yuan came to the East Market for the first time, and although the market did not open until the afternoon, like the West Market, Wang Yuan could still feel the difference between the East and West Cities. The streets of the East Market are cleaner, and the pavements are more generous, which is obviously more high-end than the West Market.

Wang Yuan understood that most of the western markets were places for ordinary people to trade, and the goods bought and sold were cheap basic goods, while the eastern markets were more inclined to high-end and luxurious goods. To use an analogy, the West Market is a giant supermarket with all the necessities of life, while the East Market is a boutique duty-free shop that sells expensive and impractical items.

For example, the Mo Xiangzhai that Wang Yuan is looking for is a street of calligraphy and painting antiques that has been opened up separately, and ordinary people's homes will not think of buying famous calligraphy and paintings or exquisite antiques for a lifetime, so there are no such things in the West Market, while the East Market has specially opened up a street with dozens of shops to operate, which is the biggest difference. The reason for such a huge difference between the east and west cities is very simple, dozens of squares east of Zhuque Street in Chang'an City are the gathering places of the families of the rich and wealthy clans of the official eunuchs, and their needs are very different from ordinary people, which also shows that the characteristics of the east and west cities of Chang'an are actually very scientific, and the customers faced are different, and the goods also have their own weight.

Wang Yuan soon found the Moxiangzhai with a large plaque sprinkled with gold, and the three large shops were very magnificent, divided into two floors, occupying the best position on Dongshi South Street. The plank was closed, Wang Yuan went around to the back door of Moxiangzhai, and found that there was actually a courtyard behind it, where more than a dozen bare trees stood several feet above the wall.

The door of the backyard was also tightly closed, Wang Yuan squatted in the distance and quietly observed for a while, making sure that there was no suspicious person dangling near the left, so he took a breath and walked forward quickly, stretched out his hand to tear his clothes, and made his hair bun like an exploding head, and also reached out to plaster the wall and smeared it on his face, instantly turning into the appearance of a homeless man on the street, and then knocked on the courtyard door according to the law of three short and one long.

After two times, footsteps were heard in the courtyard, the courtyard door opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a cloth hat and a kind face poked his head out.

"Who are the guest officers looking for?"

Wang Yuan said angrily: "The better it is to talk about business with your shopkeeper Pan." ”

The middle-aged man looked Wang Yuan up and down a few times, with doubts in his eyes, but he still stretched out his hand and said, "Please come in, please come with me." ”

The middle-aged man led the way, led Wang Yuan up from the wooden ladder on the left side of the corridor behind the store, and came to the door of the easternmost room on the second floor and knocked gently, and an old cough came from inside.

"Shopkeeper, there are old customers looking for you, three short and one long." The middle-aged man whispered back.

The door opened with a bang, and an old man with wrinkles and gray hair appeared in front of Wang Yuan, originally with a smile on his face, but the moment he saw Wang Yuan, the old man's expression changed suddenly, and his eyes were like sharp swords scanning Wang Yuan's face.

"Three short and one long?" The old man said coldly.

"Yes...... yes, I heard you right. The middle-aged man replied in a low voice of sincere fear.

The old man snorted, looked at Wang Yuan and said, "Please come in." ”

Wang Yuan stepped into the room while digging his nostrils, and with a bang, the door closed tightly from behind, leaving only the old man and Wang Yuan in the room. After the old man sat upright, he took a long sword in his hand at some point, and was gently wiping it with a ball of velvet, but he did not say a word.

Wang Yuan cleared his throat and said loudly: "That pair of Baqiao smoke willow pictures sells for a few dollars." ”

The old man raised his eyebrows and looked at Wang Yuan, and said slowly: "Baqiao willows are like smoke, priceless things, only given to fate." ”

Wang Yuan said loudly: "Meeting is fate, and I am the one who is fate." ”

The old man stood up and said, "Money is exempt, please leave Mobao with someone who is destined." ”

Wang Yuan reached out and took out the sachet from his arms and handed it over, turned around and walked towards the door. The old man grabbed the sachet and said, "Let's leave slowly, wait for a while." ”

Wang Yuan stopped and said, "What are you doing?" The old man pointed to the futon in front of him and motioned for Wang Yuan to sit down, Wang Yuan rolled his eyes and sat on the futon, shaking his thighs and looking at the old man.

The old man used the tip of his sword to pick out the sachet, took out the strip of cloth full of words, only looked at it a few times, and immediately his face changed drastically, and after reading it in a hurry, he shouted in a low voice: "Someone is coming." ”

Immediately outside the door, two men dressed in young men's green clothes and small hats came in, and the old man quickly stuffed the strip of cloth into an envelope, sealed it with a seal, and said quickly: "Send this letter back to the house immediately, and give it to the eldest master to read in person, without delay." ”

The two men gave up their promises, closed the envelope and trotted out the door, and soon the neighing of horses was heard in the courtyard.

The old man turned around and sat down, stunned, Wang Yuan spat out thick phlegm and sniffed and said, "Shopkeeper, can I go?"

Only then did the old man come back to his senses, looked at Wang Yuan and said, "This brother, where are you from?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "I live in Yong'an Fang. ”

The old man said: "You saved the Twelve Niangs?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Yes, I am still recuperating in my room." ”

The old man's eyes were sharp, and he glanced at Wang Yuan and said, "Why did you save her?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "I saw that she was beautiful, so I saved her." ”

The old man smiled and said, "You want to pick up a cheap daughter-in-law, don't you?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "I don't have that idea, although she was born beautiful and injured, I won't take advantage of others." I, Yong'an Wang Er, am notoriously angry, don't look down on people. Of course, if she is willing to make a personal promise, of course I will not refuse. ”

The old man was scolded but not too angry, and said with a smile: "What a second king of Yong'an, it's really good." Wang Er, do you know who she is? ”

"How do I know who she is? When I asked her, she didn't say anything, but asked me to help deliver this letter and teach me how to meet you. It's strange that you people have to go so far in a meeting, and what code words do you have to say. Wang Yuan said dissatisfiedly.

The old man smiled and said, "Do you know that this is a code word?" ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "Am I a fool? Of course I know it's a code word, the bull's head is not the horse's mouth. I'm afraid you're not in business, business isn't so mysterious. ”

The old man said quietly: "We are robbers who kill people and set fires, do you believe it or not?" ”

Wang Yuan laughed and said: "You shopkeeper is really good at laughing, how can there be a robber as old as you?" Don't think I'm scared if you take a sword, I've seen robbers, all with nine-ring ghost head knives in their hands, so there is such a fluttering broken sword. ”

The old man said: "You have a lot of knowledge, the old man asks you, do you know what is in the letter you sent?" ”

Wang Yuan glared and said, "How do I know, didn't you watch it yourself just now?" Still ask me? I don't know a single word, the letter written by Twelve Niang in front of me, those words know me, I don't know them. Twelve Niang deceived me so miserably, she said that after I sent the letter, you would give a reward, but you, the shopkeeper, took care of the questioning, and didn't see a penny, I don't like to care about you, I'm leaving. ”

Wang Yuan pulled out his feet and left, and the old man shouted, "Stop." ”

Wang Yuan grinned: "What? Is it illegal for me to send a letter with kindness? ”

The old man took out a cloth bag from the box on the wooden shelf behind him and shook it, and there was a sound of copper coins hitting in the cloth bag, and the old man smiled and said, "The reward is here, take it." ”

Wang Yuan, a hungry tiger, took the cloth bag in his hand, clenched his eyebrows tightly and smiled: "It's about the same." ”

The old man suddenly grabbed Wang Yuan's chest clothes with one hand, flipped his wrist with the other hand, and the long sword suddenly reached Wang Yuan's throat, and said coldly: "Wang Er, you are not allowed to mention the matter of your coming here today to anyone, it is better to forget about today's matter." After going back, I will serve the Twelve Niang, and send her away after she is healed, and you must not be rude to her. Otherwise, I'll have someone cut off your head. ”

Wang Yuan's face turned pale with fright, nodded like pecking rice, and said: "Spare your life, spare your life, the villain doesn't say a word, it turns out that you are really robbers, no wonder Twelve Niang has a sword on his body." ”

The old man smiled and said: "You know, just keep your mouth shut, when nothing happens, the old man will send someone to guard your house, if you dare to talk nonsense, the hero of Yong'an Fang, Wang Er, will become a headless corpse." ”

Wang Yuan swallowed and nodded repeatedly, the old man loosened his collar, quickly wrote a few words and stuffed them into the envelope, sealed it with a seal and stuffed it into Wang Yuan's hand and said: "Take this letter back to Twelve Niang, if you dare to peek, the old man will teach you to die tonight." ”

Wang Yuan hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

The old man whispered, "Get out." ”

Wang Yuan climbed downstairs and out of the yard, and left Dongshi as if flying.