The rain doesn't stop from morning to mid-afternoon.

After lunch, Mu Beichen handled all kinds of secret letters sent by the secret guard in the room, and Rong Ruo walked out of the room with Caidie.

Passing through the lobby of the proud building, the middle-aged man who was drinking was really gone, and after the meal time, the whole lobby was even quieter, and Rong Ruo didn't even see a single guest.

"Yo, where are you going, guest officer? It's still raining heavily. The shopkeeper came out from the side and greeted with a smile.

Caidie's eyes rolled slightly, and she said with a smile: "Our lady wants to go to the market, and by the way, I want to buy some specialties from Lanxian County, I don't know which shops are more authentic." ”

The shopkeeper stretched his neck and looked out, and said with a smile: "The rain is so heavy, I'm afraid that the doors of Xiangjing Fang will not open, and if you want to go shopping, you can only go to the other side of West Street, there are a few shops that sell jewelry, which is very suitable for Mrs." ”

"Xiangjingfang?" Caidie's eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and the corners of her mouth pulled up a sweet smile on both sides: "What kind of place is it, it sounds strange and fresh, what is jewelry, our wife is the richest man in Jiangnan, and I am tired of seeing all those round and square, and I want to buy something strange when I come to Lanxian." ”

The word richest man poked into the second child's brain like a needle, and suddenly patted his leg and said: "I see, no wonder looking at Mrs.'s temperament is not something ordinary people can have." This Xiangjing Fang, on weekdays, the government is specially open to everyone to set up stalls, you have to say that there are some worthless tattered things, when you want to say that it is worth a thousand gold, it depends on yourself. ”

The light in Caidie's eyes fluctuated, and she laughed and said, "Listen fresh, ma'am, shall we go to this place?" ”

Rong Ruo exchanged a look with Caidie and hummed softly.

"That's not going to work." The shopkeeper waved his hand and said: "Don't say that Xiangjing Fang is not open today, it is open, it is better to go there less." ”

Caidie grabbed a strand of pigtails and brushed it, tilting her head to look like an innocent little girl who had never been seen in the world: "Why is this? ”

The shopkeeper looked back and forth, and when he saw no one, he reached out and covered his mouth and lowered his voice: "The government won't let me say, I see that the two of you are good people, but I can't remind you, there, several people have died during this time!" ”

"Yikes!" Caidie pretended to be surprised and clutched her chest: "I really can't go." ”

The shopkeeper nodded solemnly: "That's it." ”

Rong Ruo glanced at Caidie, Caidie seemed to be an afterthought, and hurriedly took out a purse, dug a corner of broken silver from it and stuffed it to the shopkeeper, and said with a grateful face: "Thank you big brother for reminding us, otherwise if we break through without knowing the depths, and then we will be contaminated with something unclean, wouldn't it be unlucky." ”

The shopkeeper said politely, but the cashier's hand was not soft, and after stuffing it into his sleeve pocket, he was more attentive and thoughtful: "I don't know if Mrs. wants to go out or not, I'll go to the backyard to drive you out." ”

Caidie leaned into Rong Ruo's ear, listened to what she said in the voice of two people, and then turned her head and said to the shopkeeper with a smile: "Big brother is kind, but our lady wants to walk around casually by herself, and the carriage has been stuffy for several days, and I can't stand it, not to mention that our lady is golden and noble." ”

"Yes, yes, Madame's long journey must be hard." The shopkeeper saw that Caidie spoke smartly, and had a lively temperament, very likable, so he specially took out two oil-paper umbrellas from behind the counter, "The umbrella in the girl's hand is not suitable, we are very rainy here, we need this kind of umbrella to hold it, otherwise it will break when the wind blows." ”

Caidie looked down, she was holding a light red plum umbrella in her hand, which is most suitable for sheltering from the wind and snow in the northern weather, and she didn't want the rain to be so heavy in the south, she giggled and said: "I'm also saying, our master is an elegant person, I like this kind of umbrella, and I don't want to use those 'rough and vulgar things' on weekdays, but I can also pay attention to it at home, and the black cloth oil paper umbrella is affordable outside." ”

The shopkeeper handed it over with a smile and nodded: "Exactly, winter rain is the most likely to get sick." ”

While talking to the door, Caidie picked it up and opened the oil-paper umbrella, her strength was insufficient, and she couldn't do it in one breath. ”

Caidie's little hand bones trembled and stood up to Rong Ruo's head, and was blown by the wind and shook twice, and finally both hands were grasped firmly, and then he had time to look around, and when he saw it, he let out a cry of surprise and said: "Hey, the streets of your Lanxian County are so quiet, there are not even a single pedestrian, we are on the other side of the Yangtze River, even if the rain and wind are blowing, you can see people everywhere, but it is much more lively than you here?" ”

"Jingnan is naturally not as rich as the land of fish and rice, but Lanxian was still lively in the past, but it has been ...... recently" The shopkeeper raised his finger and pointed up, "See, it's that we are proud that there are no guests, let alone other places." ”

Rong Ruo's clear eyes swept over the signboard of the proud building, fell on the shopkeeper, and said, "Why is this?" ”

"It's the same thing I told you two." The shopkeeper told me in a matter-of-fact manner: "I can't go there, I have to die, but how many ladies are there in Lan County?" "Heyuan book

Caidie finally grasped the oil-paper umbrella with both hands, and her little face was hit by the rain, her broken hair was stuck on her face, and she said with a refreshing smile: "Our master is here to do business, and by the way, I will take my wife out to relax." ”

After the shopkeeper saw Caidie finish speaking, Rong Ruo glanced at her, as if he blamed her for talking nonsense, and said with a smile: "The best thing in Lanxian is the fur business, often people from the Wu family come to exchange things with beast fur, and if Madam is lucky, she can also exchange for a whole piece of fire fox skin." ”

Rong Ruo gestured to him, took the colorful butterfly, turned around, and quickly broke into the rain. Feet on the ground, small puddles one after another, swaying faintly ripples.

"Miss Rong, why did you suddenly ask me to try the shopkeeper just now, you already saw that he was inappropriate?" After avoiding people, Caidie's pretending innocence just now was gone, and she tilted her head and asked curiously.

When Rong Ruo and Caidie whispered, Rong Ruo only briefly hinted at Caidie, and asked Caidie to find a chance to test the shopkeeper, but it turned out that the shopkeeper was still a kung fu master.

Rong Ruo watched the rain fall heavily, frowned and said, "Because he has too many words." ”

Caidie is puzzled, can you make people suspicious if you talk too much?

"Just now you asked him where to go and when to go, he only had to point out a few places, but he had to mention Xiangjing Fang, and he stopped talking mysteriously, isn't it obvious that there is a problem." Rong Ruo explained to Caidie in detail: "If you think about it carefully, we are now guests from other places, and it is the first time to come to Lan County, why does he have to mention a place that he can't go?" ”

Especially pay attention to business and make money, since there have been deaths in that place, if they go to an accident, won't it affect their own restaurant?

Caidie reacted after Rong Ruo said this: "What the girl means, in fact, he is hinting that we will go to Xiangjing Fang?" "People always have a strange rebellious mentality, the more mysterious they do, the more they arouse the strong curiosity in people's hearts, and make the things that could not be done, the places that they don't go, become an obsession.

The two of them have an umbrella, through the heavy rain, walking on the street has become a scenery, many people in the house to see always have to look around, "If it is someone else, do you say to go?" ”

After thinking for a moment, Caidie affirmed: "Naturally, I want to go." ”

Rong Ruo smiled, when he first entered Lan County, he looked really full of weirdness, the middle-aged man in the lobby, the black cat who could only recognize the way, and the shopkeeper who was close to Kung Fu, "Caidie, have you seen it, the little Lan County, actually hides the dragon and the crouching tiger." ”

"Is the girl going?" Caidie felt that Rong Ruo was not the kind of person who was willful, although she asked so, her heart was determined that Rong Ruo would not go.

Rong Ruo raised his eyebrows, and his eyes were extremely bright by the wetness of the rain, "Go, why don't you go." ”

Xiangjingfang, a civilian residential area in Lanxian County, is built in staggered alleys, like a path on the edge of a field, twisting and turning, letting the rain wet the bluestone slabs, echoing the high-pitched and high-pitched ensemble.

In the outermost street, with the permission of the government, some merchants who are free to sell their goods here, they all have a common characteristic, not long-term vendors without shops, there are the cheapest needlework and embroidery, there are also antiques of different prices, perhaps the product of the characteristics of the pearl......

However, today's streets, there are no bustling people and no hawkers, and a long empty street is extremely lonely washed by the rain.

The addition of Rong Ruo and Caidie seems to break this silence, the soles of the shoes step on the paved bluestone slabs, the rain stands on the soles, ticking down from the edges, stepping out of a splash, as if every footprint carries a temptation.

"Girl, there's really no one." Caidie's sharp eyes swept around, except for the few women who were sitting at the door of the house not far away to embroider patterns by the skylight, eat melon seeds, and talk about the short family members, there was no shadow of half of the vendors.

Rong Ruo looked at the tables and chairs that were randomly put together and had not been dismantled in time, and said, "Let's go for a walk." ”

The two of them really walked casually, as if they had inadvertently broken in, and half-middle Caidie also deliberately asked a woman, not that Xiangjingfang could buy good things, why was there no one.

The woman kept silent, only saying that it was raining heavily, and that no one would want to go out in the rain to do business, and then closed the door and went in.

Rong Ruo stood under a pergola, the top floor of the oil paper shop was very good to block the rain out, the rain fell down all around, more dense like a long line, Cai Butterfly came over with an umbrella, and shook his head: "They don't want to say." ”

"In this way, Xiangjingfang really has a secret." Every place, any person, has its own secrets, Rong Ruo has no intention of snooping, but they have already entered the game, and they can't be passive everywhere and let people lead the nose.

The two walked out of the pergola, and just as they were about to leave, a figure hurriedly ran over, colliding with Rong Ruo.