Dengzhou Mansion, Penglai City, (now Penglai) south of the city, is the busiest place in Penglai City, because the other three city gates go out are directly to Changxing Island or out to sea, only this city gate goes out, connecting the Yellow City, through the Yellow City is Zhaoyuan, and then to the southwest is where the Laizhou Mansion is located, Tan County.

Therefore, the south city gate is the most lively in Penglai, plus it is now three quarters of the hour, and after a while it is the fourth quarter of the hour, it is the most lively end of the bazaar, the ten-meter-wide avenue is crowded with all kinds of pedestrians, the sound of shouting and bargaining comes and goes, and the cries of livestock are mixed in, which is more lively.

At this time, Qiao Luming was dressed in white, a scribe's hat, holding a gold-painted fan, and a mustache on his face, as a scholar, there was nothing to appear in the bazaar, unless you were talking to the boss at a poultry stall to buy ten eggs for a penny. And Qiao Luming is naturally in Penglai No. 1 Restaurant, above the former residence of Canghai.

Canghai's former residence is a high-end restaurant opened by the nephew of the governor of Dengzhou, with only two floors, open to everyone, provided that you pay the money, you can't be called a person without money. The first floor is a hall-style dining, a table for four people, a total of forty tables, guests gathered, interspersed with two young men, lively and extraordinary.

The second floor is a separate compartment, divided into four directions of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, a total of 20 rooms, there is only one table in each compartment, which is full of all kinds of ceramic antiques, calligraphy and paintings, elegant and quiet. Of course, words and elegance are luxuries, and only from this aspect can be seen that cultural knowledge is still very valuable, so the second floor is naturally a lot of consumption, the cheapest dish on the second floor, vinegared radish, because it is contaminated with the breath of literati and inkmen, it is worth ten yuan, and the beef on the market is only about six yuan a catty. And this pound of radish can slip out of ten plates.

But the psychology of only eating the most expensive and not eating the best is something that everyone will have, and if you eat expensive things, you will feel good if you don't eat them. The main thing is the sense of superiority that goes from the first floor to the second floor, even though the second floor is only three meters higher than the first floor. But the bottom of the pit is only a meter away from the buttocks, but that's the difference between shit and people, although people's shit may not disdain to be human.

Rice, eating in and pulling out is, whether you eat or, people have to appear at the same time as them, can be done without money, but eat to eat, so the former residence of Canghai can be said to be a day in gold.

Qiao Luming chose an orchid room by the street, Qiao Luming only pursues food to be full, so he is not interested in this kind of food where a little shredded radish is more expensive than beef, he just likes the location here, and he still has to go downstairs to eat, but he is embarrassed not to order when he comes up, so Qiao Luming is very comfortable ordering a dish of vinegared shredded radish.

Canghai's former residence is rich and rich, or the boss's uncle has great power, and the most prosperous area in the southern city is actually occupied by Canghai's former residence directly occupies an acre of land, which is very exaggerated, and it is about to catch up with the size of the governor's mansion. According to the laws of the imperial court, the third, sixth, ninth, and these foundation orders can only be used by officials and emperors, and civilians who cross this line will be beheaded.

However, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and only in this regard can we highlight the truth that the people at the top can never do anything to the people at the bottom. The boss of Canghai's former residence has a way, I only build one floor, but my height is higher than your six floors, almost only one brick lower than the foundation of the Dengzhou Mansion, which does not rule out that when the boss went to his uncle's house as a guest, he privately raised a few bricks to raise the height of the mansion to exonerate the crime of overstepping the Canghai Former Residence.

Therefore, the first floor of Canghai's former residence is directly comparable to the height of the fourth floor of the same street, and on the basis of the magnificent height of the first floor, the second floor can really be said to overlook the whole city. However, such a place as a place to eat is a bit like a sacrifice, but when you come here to eat, you want to feel like you.

And Qiao Luming takes a fancy to this, high! Looking down, the situation on the street is in full view, people come and go on the street, a person stabs inside, and after a few seconds, he doesn't know who is who, but Qiao Luming squinted his eyes, and his eyes kept following a fishmonger in the crowd, letting him shuttle through the crowd, without losing his goal.

Although this person is dressed as a fishmonger, Qiao Luming can still see at a glance that this person is pretending to be and looks foolish, but he will lose in the details.

Because none of the people around him are disgusted and avoid him, this is not a personal insult, but a perennial fish seller, there will be a heavy fishy smell on his body, and ordinary people will subconsciously cover their noses or make avoidance actions with their bodies.

And as a fish seller, you don't do business in the bazaar, you always walk around the street. There are bazaars every day, but not regular markets, which are divided into three days, fifteen days, and one month. Today is a one-month regular market, so the flow of people will be bursting, and it is also a great opportunity for all kinds of businessmen to make money.

Whenever there is a regular market, especially a monthly market, the government will send people to patrol to maintain law and order, and set up checkpoints at the city gates, responsible for checking suspicious people passing by, so as to ensure safety and order.

Qiao Luming knows the strength of the Dingyuan Dart Bureau, there must be people who know themselves at the gate of the city, once they appear, they will deliberately create an incident, let the people of the government arrest themselves, although those miscellaneous fish Qiao Luming will not put it in his eyes, but there are a large number of people, and the owner of a watermelon stall will dispatch the tenth person, beat people, grab watermelons, have a clear division of labor, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, and have strict rules, comparable to soldiers who go into battle to kill the enemy.

To fight out without casualties, Qiao Luming is not so confident in his skills, at least one or two must be killed. Killing people from the government in the downtown area, the consequences are very serious, Qiao Luming will not be stupid enough to do this, if it is a dark and windy murder night, Qiao Luming will not have so many scruples, it is okay to kill people and set fires, but don't be caught.

At this time, Qiao Luming saw the fishmonger turn into an alley, Qiao Luming frowned, turned over and walked out of the window, a little under his feet, without making a sound, he went to the roof of the house next door, and then moved a few times, found a house a little closer to the other side of the street, and flew over, and the people on the street didn't notice that someone flew over his head just now.

'Dong Dong' knocked on the door a few times, and a little two came in with a stack of shredded radish, and when he saw it, the person was gone, and he had to eat the overlord meal when he ate shredded radish? I'm about to scream, isn't it? You won't just order a plate of shredded radish when you eat a bully meal, and you will run away before you eat it, and you have to pay a hundred yuan in advance to go up to the second floor.

Only the prefect is called the overlord meal, and the people are abalone and sea cucumbers, and their daughters are popular for twenty years, and they also have to call a few girls who sing songs to help the fun. Well, it's not right, he is the boss's uncle, so he can only say that he came to visit the door. However, almost all the people in the yamen of Dengzhou Mansion do not give money when they come here to eat, and the birth of a son, the full moon, going to a private school, getting married, taking a concubine, and even the first day of a child going to a private school is praised by Mr., they have to set up wine here. Alas, it can only be said that there are so many relatives of the boss. Xiao Er thinks wildly, blames his grandparents, grandparents and grandparents, why don't he give birth to more sons who can be prefects?

After the fishmonger turned into the alley, he walked into a teahouse, sat down beside a woodcutter, poured a glass of water and drank it, but immediately spit it out, threw away the cup, and said angrily: "The second master, why don't you say a word, you will burn me to death." "It turns out that this woodcutter is played by the iron-legged Li Zhong.

"Pick-me-up!" Li Zhong smiled, poured a glass of boiling water, and drank it in one gulp, it seemed to be just a cup of cold boiling, "How about it?" Have you found any traces of Qiao Luming at the city gate? ”

"No, as soon as you send out the news, I will take the brothers to guard all the streets in the south of the city, and this is three o'clock in the morning, this market is about to disperse, do you think he has already left the city?" The fishmonger asked.

Li Zhong touched his chin and said: "No, when Qiao Luming attacked the big boss, it was four quarters of the hour, burning the account room, and running away when there was chaos, according to the dart master who was knocked out by him, it was six minutes of the hour, our dart bureau was in the east of the city, and it took a quarter of an hour for the horseback rider to reach the south of the city, but during the market, he couldn't ride the horse in the city, so he took a horse to doubt us, so we thought that he was directly out of the east of the city." ”

Li Zhong took another sip of boiling water and continued: "If it is walking, it will take a quarter and a half of effort to use light skills throughout the whole process, but that is too obvious, so he can only slow down in a crowded place, or use light skills to avoid pedestrians, plus he has to change his appearance and change his clothes, and it must take three minutes to reach the south of the city, that is to say, he will arrive in the south of the city at the earliest. ”

"Well, it makes sense to say this, the people in charge of the second family don't need to avoid other people, they can directly rush over with light skills, we have arranged everything in a moment, and we have the advantage of time." The fishmonger is hindsightly and reasonable.

"You have been in ambush for two quarters, plus there are people from the government to guard it, and soldiers patrol the city wall, and it is unlikely that you can rely on light skills to get out, so he must still be in the city." Li Zhong said.

"Second master, why are you so sure that Qiao Luming is going through the south gate?" The fishmonger was ashamed to ask.

It just so happened that Li Zhong liked it, so he smacked his mouth, took out four cups, placed them in four directions, and said: "Look, our Penglai City, close to the sea, the east, west, and north gates are all leading to the sea, Qiao Luming went out from these three gates, and could only go to sea by boat or take a small fishing boat to Changxing Island, what he wants most now is to get rid of us, but most of the sea is our dart boats, and as soon as he goes to sea, he can only wait to die." Even if he didn't go to sea and wanted to go to other places, he had to walk around the city wall to the official road outside the south city, but since then, it took longer and the gains outweighed the losses, so he could only go out of the city through the south gate. Pass through Huang County, Zhaoyuan, and go to Laizhou. ”

"Then we can't find that kid now, and in a little while, the market will end on time at four o'clock, and then the peddlers will flock out of the city, and we won't be able to see it." The fishmonger said dejectedly.

"Have you searched all the south of the city?" Li Zhong asked.

"I've even been to see the latrines." The fishmonger said, then thought for a while and said, "By the way, there is also the former residence of Canghai, I went in on the first floor to see it, but no." But the guy in the restaurant on the second floor didn't give it, saying that he had to pay a hundred wen to get on, and the brothers only had two taels of silver a month, and there was no one hundred wen on this trip, and the second floor was full of separated private rooms, and it was not easy for us to check it up, in case we offended his father was a very powerful lord, we couldn't cover it. ”