Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net

The residual heat of summer has not dissipated, and the mid-year festival is not far away after the Chinese Valentine's Day, and the Buddhists call the mid-year festival the Bon Festival, because of the Bon ****, the branch of the Dao Linte came to Jiankang to preach Buddhism, and the young man of the Buddha and Xuan Shuangxiu also talked with people every night, and was very busy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhi Daolin came to Jiankang and had to complain a few words with Xie Anduo, the weather has been hot recently, raising cranes and cranes is sick, raising horses and horses are dry, and he must have been stolen by the hemp shirt.

The Midyear Festival Ghost Festival, and the day when the autumn grain is ripe, while sacrificing to the ancestors and reporting the autumn to the ancestors, putting river lanterns, Taoist priests building Jiao and praying, paying attention to filial piety, and Buddhism Pudu has no owner and lonely soul.

The Xie family has young children who died early in previous years, so they take the matter of sacrificing their ancestors every year very seriously, Xie Yi, as the eldest son, shoulders the burden of extending the heirs, but when he thinks of the children who died early, his heart still aches faintly, and he is a little depressed recently.

If it weren't for Xie An's return, I was afraid that this year's Zhongyuan sacrifice would make the family even more gloomy, and now I am worried about Xie Shang's safety, and this incense and candle money will be spent more than in previous years.

I don't know if it's the autumn dryness that affects people's mood, Jiao's carefully mentioned Xie Shang's matter to Xie Yi that day, because it was rumored that Xie Shang colluded with the demon girl who assassinated the emperor, and now there is no news, Jiao's muttered, "If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that the Yu family will take my Xie family to ask the guilt sooner or later, so it's better to be ...... when Ah Shang is dead."

Jiao's also had no intention of complaining, and it was also a private conversation between husband and wife, Xie Pei was furious, pushed Jiao's hard, ignored her for a few days, and asked Jiao to go to the ancestral hall to kneel for a few days, and finally Xie Zhenshi persuaded him to make peace.

The trivial matters at home naturally do not affect the children, Xie An does not have to go to the East Palace and Taixue now, and the rest of the time to practice calligraphy and ride horses Xuanxiu is mostly to accompany the children at home, and because of Huan Wen's return, he has to go to his house as a guest.

Huan Chong has been handed over to Huan Wen to take care of these days, just because Huan Yi went out to visit friends and rarely sat at home for a while, Huan Wen couldn't, just took Huan Chong to play around, the child was only two years old, and he was not proficient in speaking, but he was always smiling and not noisy, which made people feel very comfortable.

One day, Xie An and Wang Shu gathered in Cailantai, and simply let Huan Wen take Chong'er to go, Wang Shu always took Tanzhi when he went out, and the two children were close in age and happened to be playmates.

It's just that when he arrived in Xikou City, Huan Wen's gambling addiction was committed again, and he drilled into the gambling house, as if to announce to the world, "Your Huan Xiaoye is back", Xie An hugged the tired Chong'er and said goodbye to Wang Shu, and scolded Huan Wen hundreds of times in his heart.

Chong'er is well-behaved, if he is alone, he will recite ancient poems vaguely in his mouth, and when he recites "Morning Glory, Bright River Han Girl", Huan Wen's money bag came back empty, but it was like shaking off the haze in his heart, losing money but feeling much more comfortable.

Xie An was about to persuade Huan Wen to take his money bag, and took the two of them across the Vermilion Bird Bridge quickly, and after arriving at the south of the bridge, he got into the small gambling house in the army, and the Jiangzuo military camp was close to the water's edge, which was mostly built by Wu Guo, and the sound of the tide hitting the shore was mixed with the laughter of the teenagers, so startled that the birds did not dare to stop.

It was evening when he came out of the gambling house, Huan Wen won the money, and he was in a better mood, so he dealt with it, Huan Wen was familiar with the road and took him to the small gambling house in the alley, the streets and alleys were narrow and could not enter the horses, Chong'er lay on Huan Wen's back, holding Xie An's folded paper crane in his hand, and he was saying something inarticulately, and the sound of the river actually covered the human voice.

Huan Wen was tugged at Chong'er's ear, and grinned at Xie An, "Hurry up and help me bring this kid, you are used to being the king of children at home, I can be rude, if you don't pay attention to him and fall down, it will be miserable." ”

Huan Wen is a few years older, but he doesn't like to mess around as much as he did when he was a child, and when he saw Xie An carrying him on his shoulders, he was not afraid of throwing people down.

"Do you want to walk?" Xie An was helpless, holding Chong'er's hand and slowly following him, Huan Wen rubbed his hands, and there seemed to be flames burning in his purple eyes, "I really want to kill the Quartet!" ”

Gambling money naturally has losses and wins, the money is passing like water in the fingers, Huan Wen lost all the money, and half of it has not been returned, the red-eyed teenager simply bet Huan Chong, saying that he wants to go back to get the money.

Xie An almost wanted to beat him, but in the end he couldn't, so he asked him to go to Yuan Tan or Shen Jin to save the game, while he stayed in the gambling house with Huan Chong and waited for him to come back.

I knew that I would take my servants with me when I went out, otherwise I would have been able to get some money at this time. Xie An calmed the overwhelmed Chong'er in the eyes of the gambling house thugs.

The owner of the gambling house saw that Xie An was dressed and behaved like an ordinary child, and knew the name of Huan Wen's gambling stick, so he invited Xie An to sit in the inner room, and asked cautiously: "I don't know where Xiao Langjun is?" ”

Xie An naturally wouldn't say that he belonged to the Xie family, otherwise he would have paid it back?

"I'm from Huiji."

This pure Luoyang voice will only think that he is a Sanwu person except for the deaf, but in the south of the Suzaku Bridge, it is already a civilian area, and no one has seen the famous Xie Jia Saburo.

Seeing that he was silent, the boss was inexplicably worried, but he was very polite to him, although he and Chong'er were mortgaged, but there were not many guards.

The house was a little stuffy, so Xie An simply took Chong'er to the backyard to blow the wind.

"Brother...... Come back? Chong'er grabbed the tip of Xie An's hair and sat on his lap, today he saw Tan Zhi always being held by Wang Shu and sitting on his lap, and he did the same.

Xie An appeased, pointed to a low tree in the backyard and said, "Your eldest brother will come back to pick up Chong'er when the crescent moon is on the tip." ”

"There's no money to eat the fruit." Chong'er understands this very well, with a resentful face.

"Ming'er came to my house to play?" Xie An pinched his nose, "I have delicious food at home, and there are puppies to play with." ”

As soon as Chong'er heard it, he was relieved to concentrate on playing chess pieces, Xie An was thinking about how to enlighten Huan Wen's way, gambling, whether rich or poor, they love to be contaminated, the poor want to fight for a lot of money, and the rich are used as a pastime.

The fragrance of the laurel trees in the courtyard is intoxicating, and the place where dragons and snakes are mixed is endless, compared to the quiet Wuyi Alley at night, this place is indeed full of fireworks.

There are a lot of thugs in the gambling house, and every time they walk in front of Chong'er, the child will be so nervous that he instinctively grabs Xie An's clothes, but as far as Xie An is concerned, these thugs are not as strong as Huan Wen, and they are all fifteen or sixteen years old.

Jiankang naturally also has gangs in the rivers and lakes, but he usually comes into contact with people in the temple, and listening to the things of the Jianghu rangers seems to be still in the novel.

And Suzaku Qiaonan, these big and small must be under the control of the forces of the rivers and lakes, and most of the thugs are prodigal teenagers, it can be seen that it is not easy to survive in troubled times, and how high-spirited it is to have a person who relies on mixing up and eating and can swing a sword and punch.

"Little Mister?"

Xie Anzheng was thinking wildly, and suddenly a passing thug suddenly stopped his steps, stared at his face for a long time, and under the moonlight and candlelight, the thug raised the lantern in his hand and walked into him.

Xie An was slightly stunned, looking at the young man in the shadows in front of him, faintly uneasy, the only people who could call him Mr. Xiao were those people in the East China Sea Fishing Village.

Those people were either Guangling Qian's helpers or Haikou......

Xie An hugged Chong'er tightly and asked calmly, "Who are you?" I'm not a gentleman. ”

"Falling Star Tower."

The young man's sneer sounded in Xie An's ears like the sound of swords clashing.

Falling Star Tower? Ranger? Huan Wen's subordinates? At that time, he taught them to swim and treat them, and often listened to his lectures, and they called him "little gentleman" with everyone.

The young man's voice trembled slightly in the light, "Little sir, are you still alive?" ”

Xie An couldn't remember what the young man's name was, but vaguely remembered that he often followed behind Huan Wen and admired Huan Wen very much, but didn't there be civil strife in Luoxinglou a while ago, and Huan Wen came back this time as if he was fleeing.

Xie An simply continued to pretend to be stupid, "I don't know you." ”

He was thinking about fooling the boy over, but he didn't expect someone behind him to call his name excitedly.

"Ahri, I'll ......"

Huan Wen's voice was as if he had picked up a treasure, but as soon as he got closer, he stopped abruptly and met the young man's eyes.

At that moment, Huan Wen was stunned, Xie An secretly screamed that it was not good, and the young man gritted his teeth and whispered, "Fu Yuan?!" Are you really a rune? ”

Fu Yuan is Huan Wen's pseudonym when he went undercover and fell into the Star Tower.

The young man's eyes were suddenly bloodshot, and he shouted angrily: "You traitor are still alive?!" ”