In the dark shadows, Shi Yong leaned his back against the wall, crossed his arms and looked at the thief in front of him.

Dressed in a soaked coarse brown cloth in tatters, with long hands and feet, skinny and bones, his body hunched over, I don't know whether it was pain or hunger, different from the strength in the daytime, it looked strange and pitiful. Ignore the dirt, and the eyebrows are also delicate.

"Thief, escaped?" Shi Yong asked casually.

"Not really." The boy raised his chin, with the stubbornness of a young man.

"The magistrate said that I was not guilty of being sentenced, and he was flogged twenty, so he let me go."

Shi Yongnunu mouthed and gestured towards the wall of the Wuqi Pavilion, "Do you know where this is?" ”

"Where?" The teenager was confused.

"What about you, let me ask you!"

"I don't know."

Shi Yong: ......

"How did this brain become a thief?"

The young man was aggrieved, "I'm not a thief!" My name is Xiao C. I'm here to find my uncle. ”

"Who is your uncle?" Shi Yong whipped him on the head.

"I won't tell you." Xiao Bing stiffened his neck to avoid it, and when he saw Shi Yong getting closer and closer, he kept retreating, "Don't mess around, I didn't steal or rob, it's illegal for you to beat me." ”

Shi Yong sighed, "Da Yan law, the drum sounds at three o'clock in the first watch, and travel is prohibited." Whoever commits a night offense shall be punished with thirty lashes. ”

"Don't you—"

Xiao C was silent before he finished speaking.

He was a poor man without a father or mother, and she was a female servant.

She can walk after a night fast, he can't.

"Good men don't fight women. I don't care about you. ”

"Whew!" Shi Yong looked away, "Boy, if you can fight, you can talk ruthlessly." ”

Xiao C touches the flogged flogging. snorted, "I don't hit women." If you're okay, I'll go. ”

"Where's your father?" Shi Yongyang raised his eyebrows, "Don't look for your father, you're looking for your uncle?" ”

"My father—" the boy hung his head, "dead." ”

Shi Yong was slightly stunned, and patted him lazily on the shoulder, "Let's go." ”

"Where?" Xiao Bing was stunned.

"Murder for money." Shi Yong walked ahead, "Come if you're not afraid." ”

Xiao C looked at himself, he was injured, his hair was dirty, his clothes were shabby, how could he have money? If he is caught by the night watchman, he may be beaten again and his life will be lost.

"I'm afraid you're a ghost." Xiao C limped and followed.

……

There is a small no shop at the end of the washing alley, the proprietress used to be a private man, around thirty years old, this age is not easy to make a living, so she changed her career. Although the food and wine in the store are not exquisite, they are expensive in terms of characteristics and style.

Shi Yong led Xiao Bing here and knocked on the door straight in.

"Sister Xian. Golden tofu meatballs, back to the pot meat, a vegetable soup. In addition, prepare another set of clean clothes for this little brother. ”

The proprietress is called Rui Xian, known as Xian Niang, seeing that Shi Yong is a girl with a raw face, and Xiao Bing is a half-sized boy with no hair, looking sloppy and tight, slightly stunned, then responded with a smile and called the guy Zhang Luo.

Xiao Bing saw that the store was clean and tidy, and the store was so enthusiastic, so he lowered his voice.

"I don't have any money."

The boy's swarthy face was a little suspicious.

Shi Yong frowned: "I didn't either." ”

Xiao Bing's eyes widened and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Then let's hurry up, look at this place is not cheap, we can't afford to eat." ”

Shi Yong chuckled, "You are a scoundrel thief, and you are still afraid of eating white food?" ”

"I'm ......," Xiao Bing lowered his head, "steal it for the first time." ”

Shi Yong chuckled.

I don't know if I believe it or not.

Xiao Bing saw her lazily knocking on the table, looking at him calmly with a smile, no pity, no contempt, no contempt, didn't seem to care about this, his face was ashamed, and he became even more anxious.

"Let's go, if you don't have the money to pay the bill, you'll be sent to the official."

"Don't you have a piece of jade?" Shi Yong looked at him lukewarmly, smiling rather than smiling, "It's enough to take it out and eat." ”

"How do you know?" Xiao C was shocked.

"When I saw you just now, you pinched your hand."

Xiao Bing sighed and pursed his mouth again, "My mother said that this piece of jade is an heirloom left to me by my father, if there is no jade, no one will know who I am." ”

Shi Yong asked: "Are you sure that your uncle lives in a mansion?" ”

Xiao Bing lowered his head and took out a crumpled piece of paper from his arms.

A line of words on the paper walks the dragon and snake, such as a silver hook iron painting, and the street address written is indeed correct.

Shi Yong stretched out his hand: "Show me the jade." ”

"What?" Xiao C looked at her defensively.

"Not everyone can go to the Wuyi Pavilion, I'll help you."

Shi Yong curled the corners of his mouth, and before the smile fell, Xian Niang led the guy to bring the meal, and also gave a pastry.

"Xiao Langjun is going to wash first, or is he going to wash after eating?"

It's hard to find such a human place in this world. Xiao Bing was full of gratitude, thinking that he might have to eat white food if he didn't have money, he glanced at Shi Yong, and walked away with a red neck, "I'll go wash it." ”

Xiao C was taken away by the guy.

Xian Niang didn't move, she stood beside Shi Yong for a moment, smiling with a smile on her face, and there was a bit of temptation between her words.

"Hui pot pork and golden tofu balls are only dishes in small shops. The little lady came for the first time, how would she know? ”

Shi Yong leaned back in the chair and half-closed his eyelids, his expression was light, "I once heard a friend talk about it." ”

Xian Niang's smile froze in vain.

Shi Yong picked up a golden fried tofu ball and ate it to his heart's content.

"That's what it smells like."

Xian Niang's expression changed again, "I take the liberty of asking the little lady, what is your friend's surname?" ”

Shi Yong didn't look at her, and said to himself: "Is the back pot meat fried with broad bean sauce?" My friend said that the meat must be cooked with the store's secret broad bean sauce to make it delicious. ”

Xian Niang grabbed her clothes with both hands, her heart went up and down, and she didn't know whether she was happy or worried, and her expression was panicked.

"The little lady's friend, is the surname ...... Time? ”