When Liang Tian came out of the tailor's shop, it was already early days, and the sunset was almost about to fall into the canyon, and the two went back to the street together. Siming said to the coachman, "Go to the tea shop in the east of the city." ”

"Are you still going to the east of the city at this time?" It was getting late, and Liang Tian was also a little timid, especially in a strange city, and he brought a lot of silver.

Siming smiled rarely, and said, "Don't get in the way, there are acquaintances over there." ”

The carriage galloped all the way, and in less than two quarters of an hour, it had arrived at the Zengji shop in the east of the city, Siming paid the coachman two taels of silver, and then sent the people back and led Liang Tian in.

The guy in the shop was about to close the door, and when he saw someone coming in, he came out and stopped him and said, "Guest officer, we are closed today, let's come back tomorrow." ”

Siming handed over a jade pendant engraved with a 'fish tail' and said, "I'm here to find Zeng Ling, Miss Zeng." The guy looked at the jade and led Siming in.

Passing through the shop, there is a courtyard with a patio, diagonally facing several bungalows, and a girl in red is coming out, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and two large pigtails casually on her shoulders.

"Zeng Ling!" Before the man noticed the two people outside, Siming had already called out, which startled Liang Tian.

As soon as the man heard someone calling her, he also looked up, and when he saw Siming, he immediately ran over and shouted, "Brother Qiao! I didn't expect you to come so quickly, why didn't Ah Pan come? I thought you'd come along. ”

The woman also noticed Liang Tian on the side, slightly shorter than Siming, and white, and asked, "Is this Mingxin?" I didn't even recognize it, the last time we saw it, it was still so small. ”

Siming hurriedly said, "No, it's a friend of mine, surnamed Liang." ”

The woman found out that she recognized the wrong person, so she hurriedly covered her face and said, "I'm sorry, look at my quick mouth, Liang Gongzi, please inside." ”

The woman led the way in front, and Liang Tian followed behind, pulling Siming's sleeve and asking, "What do you mean?" ”

Siming didn't answer, followed the woman into the house, and sat down on the side of the kang.

Liang Tian was originally dissatisfied with Siming not clarifying the relationship between the two, and was used to sitting with the woman, but was pulled back by Siming and said, "Sit here." ”

Liang Tian was stumbled by Siming, only to realize that he was a man, so he had to sit on the side with Siming.

"Have you eaten? I asked the kitchen to add two more dishes, what to eat? The woman didn't notice Liang Tian's rudeness, and looked up and asked.

"Just add more."

The woman got off the kang and went out to get a pot of wine and came back, two wine glasses came in and asked, "Liang Gongzi, do you want some wine?" As he spoke, he handed the wine glass to Liang Tian.

Siming stretched out his hand to block it and said, "No need, you can just drink it yourself." ”

"Can't you drink it, and let others not drink it? Let's have a drink, warm up your body, I'll drink it alone, it's quite boring. ”

"Well, let's have a little bit." Liang Tian took the wine glass and said.

Siming didn't want to stop him anymore, so he went with them, and at most he would carry the people back later, who let him always do this aftermath.

After a while, the cook was served.

However, neither of them expected that Liang Tian's amount of alcohol was not bad, on par with the woman, and the two of them had a pot of wine, and after sharing their stomachs, they didn't feel drunk.

Zeng Ling rarely met an opponent in chess, so she wanted to go out again to get wine to drink, but she was stopped by Siming.

After she was full of wine and food, the woman remembered what she was doing, went to the cabinet on the side and took out a pile of dismantled letterheads, and said, "These are all letters from other shopkeepers, you can take them and see them, then the Li family has nothing else except a teahouse here." With so much tea, he either shipped it abroad, or went to another place to open a tea shop, which could not consume so much tea. ”

Siming took the letter paper, took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from his purse, and said, "Uncle Ma's meaning." The woman took the silver ticket and said with a smile, "Uncle Ma, what have you always done so politely, it's not difficult to do this." ”

After one thing, the woman asked tentatively, "Did my father tell you about that?" ”

Siming, who was still smiling just now, suddenly lowered his face and responded, "Hmm." ”

"Going this year?" The woman also informed that this was the scene, and asked again.

"I'll talk about it when it's over here."

There was a moment of silence...

After a long time, Siming said, "When are you going back?" ”

"Wait for you for a few days, my father can't rest assured of you, he doesn't want you to come here, the origin of this Li Dongjia may not be so simple." After changing the subject, the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Siming said, "I brought this person over, and I can't help but give Uncle Ma an explanation." ”

"It's obviously an errand runner, so you have to worry about these things, it's right that you got it, and the business is not for him to do by himself. You, he did so to you before, and you went back. ”

"After all, he has a kindness to me."

The woman suddenly smiled, "That's right, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have a chance, when would you consider me." As he spoke, he pushed Siming again.

Siming didn't say anything, got up and put a letter on the table, and said, "You can recruit someone to help me send this letter back." It's time for me to go, is the carriage ready for me? ”

The woman couldn't laugh, but scared people away, and immediately said, "Ouch, this is unspeakable, I don't blush, you're still shy." Liang Gongzi, do you say that he is not kind, he just ran out of people, and he is about to run away again. ”

Liang Tian was suddenly called, and had to answer resignedly, "Hmm." ”

The woman smiled, revealing two tiger teeth, very cute, "The carriage is outside, let's go, if you have guests today, I won't keep you." ”

Thinking about the woman, he glanced at the woman, turned his head and went back.

After the two got into the carriage, Siming said, "She grew up in the border area, unlike the Han people, who have many rules and make many jokes, don't take it to heart." ”

"Huh?"

"The one just now..." Siming was afraid that Liang Tian would be too careful, but he was not embarrassed to continue with the woman's jokes.

Liang Tian suddenly understood and replied, "I know, she didn't mean that." ”

Siming was a little taken aback and asked, "How do you know?" ”

"It could also be that she is really different, different from me." As soon as the words came out, Liang Tian realized that he had said himself, turned his head, and no longer looked at Siming.

"What's different?"

"I don't know."

The carriage slowly drove toward the west of the city, and the people in the carriage had their own concerns. After a long time, Liang Tian asked, "Brother Qiao, is it your nickname?" ”

Siming didn't expect her to ask this, so she looked up and replied, "It's my parents who are still there, it's the nickname I used when I was a child, and I don't use it anymore when I go to the Ma family, it's just that some of the old people in the past haven't changed their words." ”

"Can I call you that?"

Siming didn't understand the selfish meaning of this, and replied, "You can like it." ”

"Brother Qiao, Brother Qiao." Liang Tian whispered a few times, but felt shy again, so he gave up.

The two finally arrived at Li's house, asked the coachman to go back, and then went to knock on the door, and there was no man to answer the house with black lights and blind fire.

After a long while, a butler came to open the door with a lantern and said, "Wang Dongjia, I thought you wouldn't be back today." ”

Siming replied, "I was delayed for a while on the way back, which made Steward Zhou bother." When the housekeeper led the two into the house, Siming asked again, "Li Dongjia, are you going out in the next few days?" ”

The housekeeper walked in front, didn't hear Siming's question clearly for a while, and listened to Siming say it again before replying, "When I came to this house, the owner rarely went out, and this is the first time I went to Baidi City. ”

"How long have you been here?"

The housekeeper smiled, "It's been five years, when the owner saved enough money to come back to open a teahouse, I came, such an old bone, there are still people who want it, the owner is a good person, and he is generous with money." ”

"Then it's not easy for you, managing such a big house."

The butler lifted the lantern to the front and said, "What's not easy, there are not a few people, and there are no guests, the owner only comes to live occasionally, the teahouse is busy, most of them are resting there, and our group of people and old things all rely on the owner's alms." ”

After the housekeeper said this, Siming remembered that when he came to see the house several times, it was all old people doing things, and the young ones were only two women. also replied casually, "Yes, Li Dongjia is a good person." ”

As he spoke, he had arrived at the west wing, and the butler stopped walking forward, carrying the lantern, turned around and said, "I have someone to boil the bath water for the two of you, and I will send it to your house later." ”

Siming replied, "There is a housekeeper of Lao Zhou." ”

After the housekeeper left, Liang Tian also entered the house with Siming, and said with some worry, "Siming, I always feel that there is something wrong with this house, and I am a little worried." ”

Siming only said that she was not used to the unfamiliar environment, looked at the bed in the room and the soft collapse outside, and said, "I can sleep on the collapse, just put down the curtains, anyway, I came over on the boat." ”

"Hmm." Liang Tian heard Siming's idea, so he agreed, and only after a while did he react, walked over, and said eagerly, "No, it's that something is wrong with this house." ”

Siming walked over and asked in a low voice, "What do you see?" ”

"Just now when we entered the door, a shadow came across the hall, and when I saw it, it stopped, as if it had seen me." Liang Tian said uneasily.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Siming turned sideways to protect Liang Tian behind him and asked, "Who?" ”

A woman's hearty voice sounded outside the door, "Bring bath water to your guests." ”

Siming took out the dagger in his shoe, unsheathed it, put his backhand behind his back, and said to Liang Tian, "You wait here first." ”

opened the door, it was the woman she had seen during the day, turned sideways to let her in, swept around the door again, did not see the shadow that Liang Tian said, closed the door again, inserted the dagger back, and said to the woman, "Xia Gongzi's hot water will be sent here in half an hour, he still has something to deal with here, and he will wash it when he finishes it." ”

The woman answered and went out.

"Do you see anything?" Liang Tian came up and asked.

Siming shook his head and said, "You can wash it here, I'll go next door to get your clothes first, and you can wash it when you come back, you can't stand it after staying on the boat for so long." ”