Shen Qiu rode alone from the Falling Moon Qintai to Suzhou City, hurried slowly, and entered the city before the city gate was closed.

Of course, when he returned late at night, he naturally had to be exploited by the soldiers at the city gate, so Shen Qiu paid a few taels of silver and invited the "brothers" to drink a cup of tea.

It seems that the principle that money opens the way has been applicable throughout the ages.

After entering the city, Shen Qiu rode a horse quickly, and the night market in Suzhou City was also quite prosperous.

In the past, I heard Qingqing say that some Goolanfang markets are open until the early hours of the morning, especially in places like Qinglou Fireworks Land, and night is a good time for guests to come.

Seriously, when passing by that dusty street, Shen Qiu had a slight idea and wanted to take a look.

But in the end, I held back.

It is important to practice martial arts.

Qingqing's life experience is not trivial, although Yaoqin said that only she and Shen Qiu know, but the Southern Dynasty has not relaxed to find the descendants of the previous dynasty.

If something goes wrong, Shen Qiu will have to take Qingqing to the end of the world.

The thought of such extreme consequences made Shen Qiu's heart more and more urgent.

He and Qingqing went all the way back to Suzhou from Taihang, and saw a lot of the disorder and cruelty of the rivers and lakes in ancient times.

That kind of extreme bad thing may not happen.

But in case it happens, Shen Qiu has to ensure that he must have the ability to strike a backhand.

Martial art.

This is the easiest, most practical, most reliable, and most effective method of all the ways that Shen Qiu can choose.

In the future, if you want to take Qingqing out of Suzhou and take refuge in Taihang, the knife in your hand needs to be sharp enough.

If there is a mountain ghost's unpredictable swordsmanship, the world is so big, where can he and Qingqing go?

Shen Qiu returned to the Lujia Dart Bureau, locked the door, made some supper, and after filling his stomach, he danced an axe in the courtyard under the moon in Suzhou.

After a few trips to break the axe, I reviewed the knife technique, and finally practiced the wind and thunder fingers.

It was like a warm-up before a fitness workout, after the body was completely warmed up, Shen Qiupan sat under the moon, holding the sword jade in his hand, and escaped into a dream.

After a long period of consumption, there are still as many as 7 people in the black-clothed guard phantom in the dream.

Shen Qiu held the axe in his hand, feeling the heavier weapon than before, he swung the axe and slashed at the three of them, and the three phantoms slashed together, forming a formation, and fighting with Shen Qiu.

The sword light danced wildly, and it was pressing, but Shen Qiu coped with it very properly, obviously used to doing more with less.

If the quality of the opponent is not enough, then use the quantity to make up.

After grappling with dozens of moves, Shen Qiu broke three people in a row, and the phantom shattered and turned into a point of light, but Shen Qiu did not touch it, but turned around to breathe, and after a while, he fought with the remaining four.

One more person increases the pressure.

He no longer attacks, but focuses on defense, catching flaws, and sometimes counterattacking.

After hundreds of moves, he exhausted his strength and true qi before he could defeat the four black-clothed guards who were good at forming formations.

This is almost the limit of Shen Qiu's now.

Exhausted, he raised his axe and brushed it on his neck, and the familiar pain welled up in his body, and his eyes went black, and the next moment, he revived in his dream.

And in front of his eyes, the seven phantoms that had been broken also revived together.

This is what Shen Qiu found, another rule about sword jade, to break the enemy, as long as you don't take those martial arts memories, when you revive yourself, those broken points of light will also return to the phantom state.

After learning about this feature, Shen Qiu regretted it very much.

Maybe he shouldn't have taken Cha Bao's martial arts that day, so that he would have one more person to list as a martial artist to fight and fight, which would definitely be of great benefit to those who practiced martial arts.

But if you think about it carefully, if you don't take Cha Bao's martial arts memories that day, Shen Qiu won't be able to learn the Wind Thunder Finger and Lei Gong's Heart Method.

This can be regarded as a trade-off, there are gains and losses.

"The next time I meet a martial artist, I don't know what year or month it will be."

Shen Qiu took out the Yanling knife and danced a knife flower in his hand, thinking of it as he waved the knife and looked at the four people in front of him.

Brawl resumes.

As for the ghosts, Lao Dao and Lei Ye's phantoms around the black-clothed guard's phantom, Shen Qiu didn't touch it.

These temporary phantoms have a challenge limit, and Shen Qiu guessed that even if they weren't real phantoms, they should have some "drops" after they were broken.

It may not be much, but it's absolutely precious.

He won't consume precious "challenges" until he thinks of a perfect way to break it.

"If you can find a treasure like a shadow..."

Shen Qiu dodged the sword light around him, and such a thought appeared in his mind.

As a result, this one lost his mind, and was found by the four people in front of him, and in an instant, three knives blocked and dodged, and he was chopped off by a knife.

Blood splattered, and Shen Qiu was reborn.

He wiped his neck and looked at the Yanling knife in his hand again.

"This Guiyan knife technique is still not very skilled, we have to continue to practice, and then try the Wind Thunder Finger."

And so the night passed.

In the early morning, there were birds chirping on the branches of the small courtyard, Shen Qiu opened his eyes, and found that his body was wet, just like the invasion of water vapor, this Jiangnan climate is really humid.

He stood up, moved his body, played a set of boxing techniques to strengthen his body, and went back to the house to change his clothes.

Miss Lei Shiyin is worthy of being Bing Xue smart, and in the gift she gave to Qingqing, she also prepared several sets of clothes for Shen Qiu, but most of them were exaggerated and tight, and they were worn by the young masters of large families.

The exquisite and cumbersome silk satin, Shen Qiu, a modern soul, was really not used to wearing, so he could only find a set of less ostentatious clothes to change into.

At noon, Shen Qiu went out, and according to the agreement, he took the steward of the Li family's pharmacy in Suzhou to visit the Yaoqin girl at the Luoyue Qintai, and took a look at Qingqing by the way.

Shen Qiu did not interfere in the cooperation between the two families, but on the return trip, looking at the happy expression of the Li family steward, it was probably that the cooperation was very smooth.

The two rode on horses and returned to Suzhou, and after passing a mountain pass, Shen Qiu asked:

"Steward Li, I want to send some things to the foothills of Taihang Mountain, but I asked Miss Yaoqin yesterday, and there is no business name in this Falling Moon Merchant Shop there, so I am embarrassed.

You have lived in Suzhou for a long time, and you are a person from the Central Plains, do you know that in this Suzhou city, there is a trustworthy big brand that has a business name near Taihang and can transfer it on your behalf? ”

"That's good."

Steward Li was in his 40s, like many people at this time, with a long beard, and when he heard Shen Qiu's words, he twisted his beard and said:

"That place has been plagued by military disasters and epidemics in the past few years, and it has not been able to recover for so many years, which can be called the withering of people's livelihood, who will go to that kind of place for business?

What's more, Suzhou is thousands of miles away from Taihang, and as far as I know, there are few people who open up trade routes there. ”

"Is that so?"

Shen Qiu was disappointed.

He promised that after settling down, he would send some enlightened books to the mountain ghosts, but this seemingly simple thing seemed so difficult in this era.

Steward Li was a clever man, and when he saw Shen Qiu's look of loss, he thought for a moment and said to Shen Qiu:

"Shen Shaoxia, if you can trust my Li family, hand over the things you want to send to me, send them back to Luoyang with the cargo ship, and then attach a letter explaining the location, and the head office will naturally do it for you."

"It's... As far as I know, the Li family doesn't have a business name near Taihang, right? ”

Shen Qiu said:

"I'm so troubled."

"Shaoxia, you're too out-of-sight."

Steward Li laughed, and he said to Shen Qiu:

"Not to mention the intimate relationship between you and my young master, let's just say that this Suzhou business was able to connect with the Falling Moon Merchant Workshop, which is also the credit of your introduction.

In the master's letter, I have been instructed to wait and give you a dry share, then you and the young girl are the young owners of this Suzhou firm. This is its own industry, why bother to say it?

The left and right are just sending a capable person, just a few more trips to Taihang. ”

Shen Qiu thought about it, he didn't exchange letters with the mountain ghost once or twice, and it was not good to always ask the Li family.

He said to Steward Li:

"It's better to be like this, funded by me, to build a warehouse at the foot of Taihang Mountain, collect some herbs from the mountain, if you lose, I will post it to the general number, if it is earned, I will not take a penny.

I will write another letter to Li Yijian, asking him to send a competent person to the warehouse to pick up and drop off letters and gifts for me. ”

"It's not impossible."

Steward Li hesitated, and he persuaded:

"But why does Shen Shaoxia need to be like this?

Listen to the old man's persuasion, it is too grand to spend such a large amount of money for a few letters, you have relatives and friends in Taihang Mountain? Or is that person unusually important to you? ”

Shen Qiu pursed his lips and said in a low voice:

"The grace of saving lives is like reinvention."

"Ah, that's right."

When Steward Li heard this, he knew that Shen Qiu had made up his mind, and he didn't persuade him anymore.

He immediately calculated the account for Shen Qiu, built a warehouse in Taihang, and bought more people, bought some mules and horses, and then hired guards.

Shen Qiu didn't care.

He has a lot of money in his hand.

Not to mention the large bag of broken silver sent by the mountain ghost, just the silver and silver tickets given by Lei Ye on the ship are a thousand taels.

He asked Steward Li to go to the Lujia Dart Bureau, gave him a silver ticket, and wrote a letter to Li Yijian, asking the bald young man to assist in this matter, and he said to Steward Li:

"I don't understand the housekeeping of the warehouse, so Li Yijian can handle it, and I only have two requirements."

"Young owner, please speak."

Steward Li insisted on calling Shen Qiu with this title to express the closeness of the two families, and Shen Qiu didn't care, he sent Steward Li out of the dart game and advised:

"First, in addition to the steward, the storehouse needs to use the mountain people in Taihang as partners, and my friend in the mountains will arrange this matter.

Second, I trust Uncle Li and Li Yijian, but if I find out that my personal correspondence has been opened and consulted by others..."

"Don't worry!"

Steward Li interrupted Shen Qiu's words, he patted his chest and promised:

"My Li family has always paid attention to goodwill, if such ugly things are true, they don't need the owner's orders, they will give up their family wealth, and we will inevitably give the young owner an explanation."

"Well, that's fine."

Shen Qiu nodded and sent Steward Li away.

He had already bought a complete set of books for children in the bookstore of the Falling Moon Merchants, and then he went back to the house, picked up the wide goose feathers he had found from the live poultry shop, dipped them in a fountain pen, and began to add phonetic notes to the book.

He also wrote a letter to the mountain ghost explaining the situation.

The mountain people in the Taihang Mountains are in awe of the mountain ghosts, as long as Gongsun Yu speaks, they will definitely be worshiped as gods, and there is no need to worry about keeping this secret.

The mountain people were also illiterate.

But the transfer of letters along the way was a problem, and after thinking about it, Shen Qiu could only agree with Gongsun Yu that when writing important letters in the future, he would use a password instead.

It took Shen Qiu almost three days to send the first letter and those books to the Li family's firm.

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"Brother Gongsun:

After a few months, are you okay?

I don't know how long it will take for this letter to reach you, but if you see it, you will know that I have built a warehouse at the foot of Taihang Mountain, and I collect some herbs on weekdays as a cover.

This is the way you and my brother will pass on the letter in the future, and you should remember that if I or Qingqing write the letter in person, it will have the following characteristics...."

In the Taihang Mountain, outside the house on the hillside, the mountain ghost sat on a lame chair, holding in his hand the letter he had taken from the mountain temple outside the mountain today.

He reads very slowly, and he has to spell out the phonetic transcription of each word.

Shen Qiu's letter said a lot of points, which made the mountain ghost frown.

In particular, those methods used for secrecy are unheard of.

It makes the mountain ghosts feel that the outside world is really ghostly, which is quite terrifying.

He continued reading.

"If I didn't have those characteristics, I wouldn't have written them.

In addition, Qingqing is fine, she misses you very much, and I don't know how your literacy progress is, and the letter comes with a set of enlightened books, all marked with pinyin, if you don't understand something, you can reply to ask.

Life in the mountains is hard, and you do dangerous things, if you need medicine or daily necessities, send someone to inform the mountain warehouse, and someone will help you prepare.

That warehouse is a confidant of my friend, and if there is a problem, I hope to take care of it. But hiding yourself is the most important thing, and it's really inconvenient to come forward, so let it be destroyed.

--- Shen Qiu, Zhengding 23 September, in Suzhou. ”

After reading the letter, the mountain ghost pursed his lips, today is the beginning of October, and this letter has been on the road for more than a month.

He wiped his forehead, as if he was thinking about how to reply to the letter, and there was also a hint of nostalgia on his not very outstanding face.

When no one is around, he doesn't always wear the mountain ghost mask.

In the evening, the mountain ghost lit a candle in the middle of the house, and sat down at the table by himself, with the spread out letter in front of him, which was sent with the letter, several thick piles, enough for the mountain ghost to use.

Gongsun Yu is also not very good at using a brush, so Shen Qiu also sent a few processed white goose feathers, and also taught the mountain ghosts how to use them in the letter.

This is the first time he has written a letter.

I was a little nervous in my heart, just like when I learned swordsmanship at the beginning of the year and ambushed the thieves of the Northern Dynasty for the first time.

He adjusted his breathing, looked at the book spread out in front of him again, and traced the words in his mind again.

When the candle flame flickered, Gongsun Yu wrote on the letterhead:

"Shen Qiu:

Your letter, I have it.

I'm good, you and Qingqing don't have to worry about it, I also like you two very well, I am very happy to learn that you have returned to Suzhou.

I've found a way to do it, but I don't know how to ask a few questions, so I'm borrowing this letter to ask you. ”

PS：

Today's brothers' new book is on the shelves, the title of the book "Who Moved My Leek", which is a very powerful new book by the author of the previously popular "I Am the Boss Behind the Scenes", which is extremely rich in content and is popular nowadays.

If you are a reader and you encounter a book shortage, you may wish to go and have a look.

Lao Lu is here to thank the readers for his brothers.