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The two turned to the backyard, and Cheng Ziqin pointed to a small house in the rain in the backyard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 "That's where I live, we don't have an umbrella, so we have to run over," Info said. With that, the swallow scribbled three times of water, and flew through the rain curtain, and after a few ups and downs, he came to the eaves of the small house. wiped a handful of the rain on her forehead, and when she turned around, she saw Yang Tashan standing behind her with a smile, also wiping the rain on her forehead.

Cheng Ziqin smiled: "Your light skills are not bad." ”

"Where, it's far worse than Sister Cheng."

Cheng Ziqin smiled slightly: "Now the two of us, can you not succeed in your sister or sister?" It's awkward. ”

"It's you who asked me to call your sister, and it's you who won't let me call you, what the hell should I do."

Cheng Ziqin bit her lower lip lightly, and glanced at Yang Tashan quickly: "When the two of us are together, you can just call me by my name, anyway, we are about the same age." ”

"That's good, Ziqin!"

Cheng Ziqin's face flushed slightly, turned around, took out the key and opened the door, and let him go: "Please come in!" ”

Yang Tashan stepped into the door and looked around, it was a single room, the furnishings were very simple, there were washing tools by the door, and a teapot and teacups were placed on a round table. In the back of the room is a clay kang covered with pale green sheets, clean and tidy, and several quilts of different thicknesses are neatly stacked on the bedside table.

Cheng Ziqin took off his waist knife and hung it on the hook on the wall next to the kang, and said, "Please sit down." ”

Yang Tashan sat down at the round table and said strangely: "You don't have a kitchen in this room, how can you cook?" ”

"I'm too lazy to cook alone, there is a canteen for guards in the yamen prison, I'm there to partner with them, or I'll go to the Pengju restaurant opposite the yamen to eat a bowl of noodles or something, just make do."

Yang Tashan sighed: "I thought I was bitter enough, but I didn't expect your life to be so bitter." By the way, didn't your father sacrifice to save the life of the prefect? The prefect should give you some money to sit in, right? How nice it would be to buy your own home. ”

Speaking of his dead father, Cheng Ziqin was slightly gloomy, and then smiled reluctantly: "Governor Han is very good to our family, and gave sixty taels of settlement money, I didn't want to spend it, so I kept it." Anyway, if you live alone, there is a vacant room in the yamen, and you can live there. ”

Yang Tashan was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he would not beat around the bush and asked, "Why do you want to be a fast catcher?" Girls do this business, after all, it's too hard. ”

Cheng Ziqin smiled bitterly: "My mother has passed away a long time ago, and I have followed my father since I was a child." Our father and daughter depend on each other. The year before last, my father accompanied the Han prefect on an errand and encountered a bandit, and my father died in order to save the Han prefect. I don't have any relatives in my family anymore, although I have sixty taels of settling-in expenses, what can I do as a woman? Do you sit and eat empty mountains? So I told the Han Governor to ask to be caught quickly. Governor Han also advised me not to do this business, it was too hard and dangerous, so it was better to find someone to marry. I insisted on being a fast catcher, and the Han Governor's Mansion was approved. ”

Yang Tashan sighed: "You are really bitter, you are alone to catch fast ......"

Cheng Ziqin said with a smile: "I don't feel bitter, my grandfather and my father are both fast catchers, why can't women be fast catchers, I prefer to be fast, and our family has been catching fast for generations, I shouldn't catch fast, what can I do?" ”

"Yes, if people have other paths, they won't be in this business," Yang Tashan sighed, "If I hadn't been cornered, I wouldn't have entered this industry, but I think it's not bad to do this business." ”

Cheng Ziqin glanced at him: "You are so good at solving the case, are you also from a fast family?" ”

Yang Tashan didn't want to lead the topic to this, shook his head, and said, "Hehe, I'm just a blind cat and a dead mouse, it's nothing." ”

"That's not it, I know from the time you solved the case of the loss of the official seal, you are very good at solving the case. However, every time this question is mentioned, you just laugh haha, and I don't want to ask. Today's case, you also quickly found the clue to solve the case, and if this case can be successfully solved, you should make the first contribution. ”

"The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, and it's not time to talk about the merits, and I don't know if our detection ideas are right, and when we catch the real murderer, let's talk about it." Yang Tashan said with a smile.

As he was talking, he heard someone outside crackling and stepping on the water to walk towards this side, who could it be in such a heavy rain. Yang Tashan stood up and walked to the door, and at a glance, he saw a girl in the rain, holding a red oil umbrella in her hand and a handful under her arm, it was Xing'er.

Yang Tashan stepped out of the door, stood under the eaves and shouted happily: "Apricot! What are you doing here? ”

Xing'er saw Yang Tashan and shouted happily: "Young master! I've brought you an umbrella, I heard you're in the backyard, I'm looking for you everywhere. He walked briskly, went under the eaves, and took his umbrella. Gently swept the bangs on his forehead that were wet with rain and mist, and smiled sweetly at Yang Tashan.

Cheng Ziqin shouted in the house: "It's Xing'er, come in." ”

Xing'er hurriedly smiled: "No, Xing'er's feet have mud, which will stain the floor in the house." ”

Yang Tashan looked down and saw that Xing'er's cloth shoes and trouser legs were wet, and the edges of the cloth shoes were covered with yellow mud, and he said distressedly: "Look at you, you are still running in such a heavy rain." When the rain stops, it's not too late for me to go back. ”

"It's not in the way," Xing'er smiled, looked up at the rolling dark clouds in the rain curtain, and said, "It's still as dark as the bottom of the pot, I'm afraid the rain won't stop for a while, I'm in a hurry to come." ”

Yang Tashan put his arm around her shoulders lovingly, took the red oil umbrella in her hand, turned his head to Cheng Ziqin and said, "Ziqin, Xing'er came to pick me up, then I'll go back first." ”

Cheng Ziqin had already walked out of the door and nodded: "Okay, you go back first, and when the brother sent out brings back the news, we will make the next step." ”

Yang Tashan nodded, arched his hand, stretched out the umbrella and walked into the rain curtain. Xing'er also took an umbrella, and after saying goodbye to Cheng Ziqin, she hurriedly followed Yang Tashan, and the two went out of the yamen.

Walking on the street of Qingyang Mansion, the heavy rain is majestic, in ancient times it was all dirt roads, although the dirt roads in this city were compacted, but a heavy rain came down, the ground was still full of mud puddles, and the raindrops splashed on the road, and soon Yang Tashan's trouser legs were also soaked.

It's just that this rain has eliminated the heat, and it is still very pleasant.

Yang Tashan's home is near the prefect's yamen, and it is only a few streets away. Xing'er stepped forward to open the door first, and the two entered the courtyard and went up the steps, only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.

Yang Tashan's fast boots were also full of mud, and he stomped his feet, trying to shake off the yellow mud adhered to the soles of his shoes, but the mud was firmly stuck to the soles of his shoes and couldn't shake them off.

Xing'er smiled: "Don't tremble, young master, I'll go get you clean robes and shoes." With that, he leaned his umbrella against the wall and hurried into the room.

Yang Tashan had already bought himself and Xing'er a lot of new clothes, shoes and socks, Xing'er first took Yang Tashan's clean clothes and shoes, and served him on the platform to change, and then went into the bathroom to change his clothes and pants, and then came out to clean up the platform.

Yang Tashan had already laid down on the Taishi chair on the platform, fanning his fan leisurely. Although the heat has decreased a lot due to heavy rain, it is still quite muggy.

After Xing'er cleaned up, she still sat on the single stool next to Yang Tashan, and then embroidered the insole. While chatting with Yang Tashan.

The sky was getting dark, Xing'er went to the kitchen to cook, and Yang Tashan still admired the summer rain in the yard.

He likes the feeling of rain, he likes to listen to the sound of the rain, the sound of the rain hitting the leaves or plantain leaves, after the rain, everything in the world is clean, the refreshment is very pleasant.

Xing'er quickly prepared the meal, a plate of white meat with garlic, a plate of steamed fish, and a plate of ginger kidney beans. A small pot of sauerkraut vermicelli soup. There is also a small old cellar.

Next to the kitchen is a special dining room, with two red lanterns on both sides and one on the round table. Yang Tashan entered the restaurant and sat down, sniffing: "It's so fragrant~!" My apricot is a really good cook."

Xing'er took off her apron and put it away, dressed in a moon-white dress, stood aside, pursed her lips and smiled: "Young master, Xing'er doesn't know how to cook, you always praise Xing'er, and I don't know if it's true or not." ”

"Of course it's true!" Yang Tashan took Xing'er's arm and asked her to sit next to him, "I've told you many times, although you call me young master, but I never think that you are a maid, so when you eat in the future, you will sit down and eat together, don't stand all the time, if you don't listen again, young master, I will spank you!" ”

Xing'er blushed, sat crooked beside Yang Tashan, and looked particularly delicate under the red candle.

Since following Yang Tashan, this nutrition has kept up, Xing'er's face is much better, and she is not as thin as before.

After the two finished eating, it was already dark.

This is the second night of moving to a new home, the first night Yang Tashan got drunk and went to bed early, and this night he drank a small cup, just slightly drunk.

Yang Tashan came to the study, the merchant who sold him the house liked to be vassal, and the bookshelves in the study were neatly filled with all kinds of classics, all of which were tomes such as the Four Books and the Five Classics.

He took a random copy of "The Mean" and sat at the desk, reading with the lamp. Xing'er cut a pot of fragrant tea for him, and then took the insoles and embroidered them on the side. The sound of rain outside the window has been pouring down until now. Under the light of this rainy night, the red sleeves add fragrance, which is very romantic, but Yang Tashan is tired for a day, and he is even more sleepy when he reads "The Mean", and after reading a few pages, his eyelids have already begun to fight.

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(To be continued)