Qingyan and the others came out of the patriarch's house early, and the street stalls were still being built, and the three of them walked around and found that there were many more people in the town than when they first came.

Gu Qingyan turned around, smelled the smell of fragrant roasted sweet potatoes, and went with Yiyi and Su Tanxue to find the taste. Seeing the mouth of the alley, there happened to be a roasted sweet potato seller, which was the one that Gu Qingyan often ate when he came to the town.

The guy who sells sweet potatoes knows her: "The four girls are here." He beckoned them to sit down on the chairs next to them.

"Brother Zhao, how is the business?" Gu Qingyan saw an old acquaintance and chatted.

This Brother Zhao took a sweet potato for Gu Qingyan and handed it over, with a smile on his face: "It's cold this year, and there are many people who buy roasted sweet potatoes to warm their hands." ”

Gu Qingyan laughed, his sweet potatoes are really fragrant and sweet, there are always people nearby, while talking here, a few more people came over there to buy sweet potatoes, Gu Qingyan said: "Let's sit down for a while and leave, you are busy with yours." ”

"Okay." After speaking, Brother Zhao turned around and went back to her sweet potato stove.

Su Tanxue didn't ignore the mark on Brother Zhao's face that seemed to be painted on something, just now I saw Gu Qingyan chatting with him, as if he hadn't seen it, Su Tanxue couldn't help but be a little curious, and asked Gu Qingyan: "Qingyan, what is this Brother Zhao's face painted?" ”

Gu Qingyan looked at it and explained to Su Tanxue: "This is a custom in the town, I don't know where it came from. ”

Gu Qingyan actually didn't know, but he didn't think about it for a while, and he thought it was better to say that he didn't know, just as the people on Brother Zhao's side left, and when he heard Su Tanxue's doubts, he chatted with them again.

Brother Zhao pointed to his face and said, "This, don't be afraid, girl, this is a habit of our shabby festival." It is a representation of warding off evil spirits. If you draw yourself fiercely and ugly, you will be afraid of any beast or monster when you see it, and you won't come to bother us. ”

"Is that what everybody does? I don't think anyone else has it yet. Su Tanxue said.

Brother Zhao looked around and said with a smile: "Hey, this is all an old tradition, and now most of us choose to wear masks for the sake of beauty." ”

As he spoke, he didn't forget to look at Gu Qingyan.

Gu Qingyan smiled, the matter of wearing a mask didn't come from her, so it was useless to look at her.

Brother Zhao continued: "Slowly painting our faces are only those of us who come out to do business stall vendors or the elders of the older generation, I came out of the stall early today, so I painted it first, and usually after another quarter of an hour, all the stalls are supported, and everyone is like this." ”

After speaking, he pointed around, it didn't take long for Su Tanxue to really see that some of the vendors around him who had already set up stalls had more graffiti on their faces.

"After a while, not only these vendors, but also the people of the town will wear masks to play." Gu Qingyan saw that Brother Zhao was busy again, so he explained to Yiyi and Su Tanxue by himself.

"Fourth girl, do we want it too?" Yiyi asked, with a little expectation and excitement, wearing a mask is beautiful, this point of view is what she saw from Gu Qingyan.

Gu Qingyan wore a mask and makeup, and her mysterious beauty had already planted a seed when Yiyi first met Gu Qingyan.

Gu Qingyan looked at the expectant eyes of the two on the left and right, and said, "Of course." ”

Wearing a mask, no one can see it, so can you get rid of the eyes behind you, Gu Qingyan thought so.

Just now, when Brother Zhao and Su Tanxue were talking, she felt a pair of eyes staring at them, Gu Qingyan consciously or unconsciously looked at them, and did not find any suspicious people.

Today, the door of the town is wide open, and the shabby festival has become more and more fun over the years, and more and more people have come to hear the sound, so the town is destined to be lively today, Gu Qingyan originally came with a relaxed mentality, but the strange feeling of being stared at just now made her vigilant for a while.

There are no secret guards around him today, and the two girls around him are not martial arts, if something really happens, what should she do, Gu Qingyan has already begun to calculate various possibilities in her heart in a short period of time.

But it hasn't been decided yet, so Gu Qingyan has nothing to say for the time being, and it's not good to make any moves, just now Brother Zhao lifted the mask, just reminded Gu Qingyan, so she had an idea.

The three of them sat here for a while, said hello to Brother Zhao and left, Gu Qingyan paid attention to the situation around him while walking, there were really a lot of outsiders, and the teahouse and the inn just now were overcrowded.

But in the vast sea of people, Gu Qingyan still noticed the eye behind him that had been following them.

"Lord, did you say she found out?"

In the teahouse, a figure observed the movements on the street from an inconspicuous position, and someone asked him beside him.

He smiled wickedly: "I found it." ”

His tone didn't seem to care whether Gu Qingyan noticed it or not, and said it easily, his eyes only stayed on the other girl.

Gu Qingyan took Yiyi and Su Tanxue to Lao Yi's tavern, Lao Yi's family was busy drinking, and when they saw Gu Qingyan coming, Lao Yi greeted him: "Eh, my little aunt and grandmother..."

Before Lao Yi finished speaking, Gu Qingyan glanced at him, Lao Yi looked behind Gu Qingyan, on the street outside, there seemed to be a man in the stall diagonally opposite who was pretending to turn around naturally and look.

Facing Lao Yi's eyes, his eyes immediately glanced in the other direction, Lao Yi noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly invited Gu Qingyan and the other two girls into the back room.

Gu Qingyan asked Lao Yi: "Uncle Yi, Yiyi and Tanxue, I'll let you go first." Gu Qingyan was still not at ease, and planned to take the initiative to save the discomfort of prolonging.

Lao Yi understood what Gu Qingyan meant, nodded, and asked, "Do you want to send someone to tell the valley master?" ”

Gu Qingyan waved his hand: "No, I'll just go by myself." The town is already crowded today, just don't mess around. After thinking about it, he said, "If someone else comes in after a while, and the drunkard doesn't mean to drink, don't act rashly, and send someone to secretly go to the patriarch's house to invite my third brother." ”

"Four girls, don't worry." Lao Yi replied, the two of them whispered this, and didn't let Yiyi and Su Tanxue know. Lao Yi went out first to explain to his son and wife outside. And then into the backyard.

Gu Qingyan stepped forward and said to Yiyi and Su Tanxue: "That was Uncle Yi just now, most of the wine you drank last time was taught by Uncle Yi to brew it, we can't eat other people's food here, I want to pick some good wine from Uncle Yi and bring it over at night." ”

"Come with me, girls, and I'll take you up to the cellar."

Saying that Lao Yi took Su Tanxue and Yiyi in front, Gu Qingyan deliberately slowly walked behind with two steps, and while the two of them were not paying attention, Gu Qingyan dodged, but swaggered out from the main gate of Lao Yi's house.

Seeing Gu Qingyan coming out alone, the man had some doubts in his heart, and looked at the location of the teahouse not far away, and saw that the person above gave a gesture to him to follow, and he had nothing to say, so he could only follow.

There was a problem in the middle, the old Yijia tavern was the blind spot of the teahouse's line of sight, so the people in the teahouse didn't know that Gu Qingyan came out alone.

Gu Qingyan walked a few steps, found that there was indeed someone behind him, found a place to hide, and when the person approached, looked around, and when Gu Qingyan was gone, Gu Qingyan aimed at a peacock feather in the dark, hit the man's head and heart, and suddenly lost his breath.

Seeing that the person lying on the ground was not moving, Gu Qingyan appeared, rummaging left and right on this person, except for finding a silver ticket, there was nothing, and he lost interest in an instant.

With the silver ticket, he turned around and left, and returned to Lao Yi's tavern, pondering as he walked, this person didn't look like a professional, but like he was hired from somewhere, and it was impossible for such a person to have that kind of momentum, so Gu Qingyan was sure that the danger had not been completely removed, and the eyes staring at them were definitely not such a small person.

When Gu Qingyan came back, there was a stall on the road that happened to put up the mask, Gu Qingyan bought three, and confirmed that there was no same feeling around him, so he went back to the tavern with it.

As soon as he put down the mask, Lao Yi came out of the wine cellar with Su Tanxue, and Su Tanxue also said, "Qingyan, we are still looking for you." ”

"Uncle Yi's wine cellar has a fork in the road, and I am always prone to mistakes." Thanks to Gu Qingyan, she had been to Lao Yi's wine cellar before, and casually made up an excuse, in fact, there were mistakes in this matter.

"How are you feeling?" At this time, Lao Yi's wife came in and talked to Su Tanxue.

Gu Qingyan took the opportunity to ask Lao Yi if anyone else had come, Lao Yi glanced at his son, his son shook his head at him, Gu Qingyan also understood, but at the same time her worry was one more serious, who did the people staring at them come for, she, Su Tanxue, or Yiyi?

Lao Yi didn't ask Gu Qingyan much, Gu Qingyan picked up a few jars of wine and asked Lao Yi to send it to the patriarch's house, Lao Yi asked if he wanted to tell Xu Shaolin about them, Gu Qingyan said: "Don't say it in front of the patriarch, so as not to worry him." ”

If Gu Qingyan encountered this kind of thing outside, it would be fine, and she could solve it herself, but now that she came out with an apprentice of the second master of the sect, a young lady from Qingquan Villa, she felt inexplicably troubled. Think about it, or tell Xu Shaolin to let them know, it's okay to know.

Lao Yi sent the wine, and Gu Qingyan always felt that she couldn't take them to hide for a while, and to stay for a while, so she simply handed the mask to Su Tanxue and Yiyi: "Take it." ”

Su Tanxue looked puzzled, when did this happen, they didn't buy anything when they came just now.

Gu Qingyan saw Su Tanxue's expression, and immediately reacted, turned his head to look at Lao Yi's son, and secretly pointed at the mask with his hand. ”

When Su Tanxue heard this, Gu Qingyan's friends were really good, and accepted it after a few polite words, Gu Qingyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, hugged his fist to Lao Yi's son to show his gratitude, and took Su Tanxue and Yiyi out of the tavern.

The man at the teahouse rolled his eyes, and suddenly felt that something was not right, and asked the people around him: "Go and see if there is a dead person lying in the hidden place." ”

The eyes of the people around him were shocked, understood, left the teahouse, and looked for someone. The man was left alone in a corner, looking at it and not being able to see the direction of the tavern: "It's really the fourth girl." ”