Qiao'er pursed her lips and frowned: "I don't know what's going on today, the door of their Long family is closed, saying that they invited monks to recite scriptures, and no strange women are allowed to enter the house." ”

"I knocked on the door for a long time, and my hands were sore, but they didn't let me in."

As she spoke, she looked around, afraid that someone would notice that she was talking to Brother Xu.

Suddenly, Qiao'er stared and saw Xu Lan who was about to get on the ox cart.

"Hmph, why did you run into this dead girl again?"

Brother Xu followed her eyes and found that she was talking about Xu Lan, and he suddenly wondered: "How do you know her?" ”

"I've seen her at Sickling." Qiao'er looked at it carefully and made sure she didn't recognize the wrong person, "She was with a young man, and she said that she was a guest of the sick seedling. ”

Brother Xu's heart moved, and he felt that something was wrong.

He heard that Chen Ruoran said that this Xu Lan seemed to know medical skills.

So did Xu Lan go to Long's house to see a doctor for Long Ru? Thinking about it carefully, Xu Lan was brought into the yamen by herself before, and she was also helped by the second elder of the Long family, Long Xing, and she must have a good relationship with the Long family.

"Go, you go back and inquire again." Brother Xu's voice was a little colder, "Ask what this girl did when she went to the Long family?" "She's a healer, and if she sees something that spoils our business, the duck will fly." ”

"She?" Qiao'er said disdainfully, "She's a yellow-haired girl, what kind of medical skills do she know?" Besides, my prescription cost a lot of money to ask for it, and the doctor in this county town didn't see a famous name, so I don't believe that little girl is more powerful than the doctor in Huichun Hall. ”

"Then you'd be wrong." The more Brother Xu thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and his voice became gloomy, "She was accepted as a registered disciple by a powerful doctor, and I heard that she has some talent in medical skills." ”

These are also what Chen Ruoran told him.

Hearing Brother Xu say this, Qiao'er was also a little flustered, and immediately stopped talking about it, and immediately hurried to find out the news.

Brother Xu stared at the ox cart, his eyes becoming deeper and deeper.

No, this girl can't stay.

If you stay, maybe it will be a scourge in the future.

Although the one hundred taels of silver tickets are good, they are at most pocket money.

The affairs of the Long family are a major matter that he and Qiao'er have been plotting for a long time, and no one must be allowed to ruin this plan. If Long Ru's body recovers, not only will he no longer be able to win the Long family's property, but with Long Ru's ability, he will definitely be able to take the lead in the upcoming autumn test.

At that time, if Long Ru wanted to be an official in the county, the current position of the lord would be unstable.

Brother Xu can be powerful in the county, relying on his identity as the brother-in-law of the lord Bo, and he must not let people bring down his backer.

Xu Lan, you must not stay!

Xu Lan on the other side didn't know that so many things had happened.

From the moment she left the house, her whole body was tense.

Xu Lan always felt that someone was secretly peeping at her, and this feeling became stronger after she arrived in the county seat.

It must be those gangsters who are spying on them!

This made Xu Lan feel scared and secretly rejoiced at the same time.

Fortunately, Xu Dahai watched Chen and let her not go out at home and talk nonsense, otherwise tonight's plan would definitely become difficult.

She returned home with a silver ticket.

The door of the Xu family was closed, and occasionally the Zhang family would appear at the door, looking anxious.

Chen Ruoran had been squatting in the distance to keep an eye on the family, in case they would suddenly go to find help.

In this way, when the night was dark, Xu Lan opened the door of the Xu family.

"Lan'er, you must be careful." With tears in his eyes, Zhang said in shock and fear, "Money is something outside the body, but you must not have a conflict with the gangster for that silver ticket." ”

Xu Dahai looked at Xu Lan and opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.

He handed the tied torch to Xu Lan and patted her on the shoulder heavily.

But Chen stayed in her room and didn't come out at all.

"Dad, mother, don't worry." Xu Lan took the torch and was a little nervous in her heart, but she pretended to be calm and said, "After I leave, you close the doors and windows immediately, don't let people take advantage of the loopholes." ”

After finishing speaking, she didn't dare to look at the Zhang family anymore, and immediately turned around and walked in the direction of the City God Temple.

The village was dark at night.

But with the starlight in the sky, Xu Lan can still see the way clearly.

She clutched the torch and left it unlit.

It's dark and dark, if you light the torch far away, you can see her, and then it's the real live target.

The temple was originally a temple, and the original incense was not vigorous, and it has gradually been abandoned in recent years. The weeds in this vicinity are full of weeds, growing to Xu Lan's waist, and when the night breeze blows, there is a sound of squeezing everywhere, which is quite terrifying.

The more Xu Lan walked forward, the more her body began to tremble.

She took a deep breath and simply jerked forward.

She ran to the gate of the temple in a hurry, and then looked at the moonlight, and it was so dark that she couldn't see anything clearly.

Xu Lan lit the torch and walked in carefully.

"Brother! Are you there, brother? ”

Then the light of the torch, Xu Lan saw that the ground was full of dust, and a person was helped.

The man's face was covered with black ash, his body was tied with hemp rope three times, and his mouth was plugged with a strip of rotten cloth, not Xu Dawa or who?

Seeing the bright light, Xu Dawa's eyes narrowed.

But after hearing Xu Lan's voice, he was anxious to say something.

His mouth was gagged and he could only make a "woo-woo" sound.

Xu Lan stepped forward and tore off the rags that gagged his mouth, and hurriedly helped him untie the hemp rope.

"Why are you here?" Xu Dawa shouted anxiously, "Why didn't Dad come!" How dangerous it is for you to come here as a girl! ”

"Brother, don't say it, let's go!" Xu Lan didn't have the time to explain so much to him, so she pulled his sleeve and ran out.

At this moment, there was a "bang", and the door was slammed shut.

The two masked men followed one after the other, sandwiching the Xu family brothers and sisters in the middle, blocking their way to escape.

"Hey, hey, hey, you're trustworthy, and you're here alone." The man blocking the front deliberately lowered his voice and said in a strange voice, "What about the silver ticket?" ”

Xu Lan knew that the other party didn't want her to hear who he was, and she was even more sure that this person must have met with her.

She said calmly: "I brought the silver ticket, you get out of the way first, make way for us." ”

"Show me the silver ticket first!" The gangsters behind him shouted with a clenched throat.

"Don't rub it off, take out the silver ticket first." The gangster in front of him suddenly pulled out a small dagger, the dagger emitted a cold light, and it was extremely sharp at a glance, "If it is really a hundred taels of silver tickets, our brother will let you go without saying a word." ”

"If it's a lie, I don't mind letting you taste the bitterness today!"