Chapter Ninety-Six: Ningzhou
After Gu Pan heard that Shi Congwu was gone, he said a little unhappily, "I haven't played enough, so he's gone." Liang Tian persuaded him.
Seeing that the boat was finally moving normally, Siming came back and asked Gu Pan, "Did the people above before also help Cong Wu to take care of it?" ”
Gu Pan pouted and said, "Brother Qiao, you are really strange, don't ask Brother Cong Wu, come and ask me, he happens to have an acquaintance here, so he will help with it." Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to come out so soon, and that Li Dongjia had planned to let people stop you at the dock and say that you were smuggling. ”
"Oh."
"Also, it was also his idea to sneak into the thugs of the Li family, and he said that he would definitely be able to help you, so he didn't let me come to see you. It's just that I don't know what kind of conflict he has with Sister Ling, just don't let me see you, don't let me see her, I just took a look on the side of the street, and he took it back. ”
"You'll understand later, what about your father, why didn't he come with you."
Gu Pan said with a smile, "After I received your letter, I was about to run over immediately, but the elder brother of the Long family refused, so I pledged my father there as a person, and now they should also find out that I ran away and look for me everywhere." ”
"It's really a father and daughter."
Gu Pan was a person who talked a lot, so he couldn't stop talking about it, and said something else, and finally suddenly said, "Brother Long told me that they won't harm the Ma family, and Brother Pinyuan can rest assured now." ”
Siming then froze and asked, "Did he say anything else?" ”
Gu Pan scratched his head and said, "It's gone if it's related to Brother Pinyuan." Brother Qiao, when are we going back, now I don't have to be locked up by my father anymore, let's go to the city to play. ”
Siming pointed at Liang Tian and said, "You and your sister Liang will go back first, and I'll come back later." ”
"Where are you going, isn't this on your way back?" Gu Pan said, went to hold Liang Tian again, and said coquettishly, "Sister Liang, you help persuade him, it's rare that I don't have to run around, ask him to go back with us." ”
Liang Tian was also melancholy and asked, "Are you still worried about Li Ming chasing after you?" He has suffered two losses, and he should be afraid of our side, and he will not chase after him. ”
"That's not true, it's just that there are some things I care about, and I want to go to Ningzhou to check it again."
"Ningzhou? The elder brother of the Long family also said that he was going, and I would go too. ”
After Ningzhou aroused Gu Pan's interest, no matter how much she persuaded her, she was still unwilling to go back, and Liang Tian naturally would not be quietly sent out by herself
The woman in red had to row a light boat and send the letter rewritten by Siming to Baidi City, but she refused to bring wine to drink.
Later, no one chased after him, and Siming and his party easily arrived in Ningzhou. It's just that as soon as Siming arrived, he found a remote inn to live in and no longer went out, which made Gu Pan very unhappy, so he had to take Liang Tian out for a walk.
At night, Siming went out dressed in black, and when he ran into Liang Tian in the corridor, he went over and asked, "What's wrong, can't you sleep?" ”
Liang Tian didn't expect Siming to come out, so he was stunned for a moment, touched his earlobe, and said, "No, are you planning to go somewhere?" ”
Siming didn't want to say anything in the corridor, so he pulled Liang Tian into the room and whispered, "I'll go out and have a look, you and Ah Pan stay here well, don't go anywhere." Liang Tian hugged Siming and said with a slight trill, "Siming, promise me, really don't send me away again, let me be with you." ”
"At that time, it was dangerous, it was best for you to go back first, and this time too, you have to stay by Ah Pan's side all the time, she can protect you." Siming reassured.
Liang Tian raised his head and said, "I won't hold you back, you just let me be by your side all the time, I can't wait for you to come back at home, especially when I know that you are obviously very dangerous, next time I don't know if I have the courage to run back again." ”
Siming didn't agree, only said, "Go back to sleep, Ah Pan won't find you for a while, it's time to worry." ”
After Liang Tian went back, Siming quietly walked out of the inn and went straight to the north of the city, and after two or three miles, he stopped at a place that looked like a city god temple. The three people who came to the joint were the three guys who came with Siming, and it turned out that they had arrived at the merchant ship that followed Li Ming and came to Ningzhou.
"Wang Dongjia, you can be counted here, my three brothers can't stay here anymore." Before Siming could say anything, the man complained.
"What's wrong?"
"I feel like they're about to find us, and they sent someone to take a look at where we stayed today, but luckily we went out to eat at that time, otherwise they would have been caught."
"Did you find anything?"
The man whispered, "The owner guessed right, the tea leaves that didn't enter the Li family's cellar before all entered here, but within two days, they were pulled away by a group of people who looked a little strange at night. ”
"What strange people?"
The guy fiddled with his hands for a while, but he didn't feel right, and finally gave up and said to Siming, "Boss, can we go and have a look?" ”
Siming nodded, and followed the man, all the way through the streets and alleys, and had to let him meet the husband. Ningzhou City is much bigger than Baidi City, and the four of them walked for half an hour before they arrived at the edge of the house that the man said. The four of them found a place to hide, the street was silent, and the sound of cars pressing against the stone road could be heard in the distance, and there was a small and fragmented conversation.
Siming poked his head out and saw that there were one carriage after another outside, covered with hay, if he wasn't an insider, he would really think that it was just a batch of hay, but the smell of tea inside couldn't deceive this group of people who had been dealing with tea since childhood, and there was a looming mark of the Ma family.
Walking with the carriage were several people from the Western Regions wearing felt hats, with towering noses and blond hair and blue eyes. The guy hasn't seen it, and naturally he doesn't know where these people come from, and Siming has only seen it once or twice in these years.
After seeing the situation, the four of them quietly retreated from there. Siming gave some broken silver to the man and said, "You go back first, tell Uncle Ma everything you see, they will come to you again tomorrow, and your luck may not be good." ”
"Xie Wang Dongjia, when the city gate is opened, we will leave the city immediately."
The next morning, Gu Pan was bored playing in the inn, so he had to go to Siming and go outside, but Siming couldn't, so he had to go out together, and he also went to visit an old friend by the way. Halfway through, I suddenly entered a cloth shop.
The shopkeeper was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, and when she saw Siming coming, but she was an acquaintance, she smiled a little shyly, "Please pick whatever you want." ”
When Liang Tian entered the door, he found that this woman was the person who had been with Wan Baolai before, only Gu Pan didn't know about this person, so he seriously picked it up.
While looking at the cloth, he said, "Brother Qiao, did you buy this for Sister Liang?" ”
Siming didn't expect this stubble, but after Gu Pan mentioned it, he turned around and asked, "Do you want to pick some?" The fabric in her house is better than in the average store. ”
Liang Tian turned his head away and said, "Don't." So he walked away, not looking at the ingredients in the store to see if they were really good.
Siming went to wrap a few horses, hugged them, and said goodbye to the man.
On the way, Liang Tian no longer talked to Li Siming, sulked, and walked in front with Gu Pan. After a while, Siming entered a jade shop and picked out a pair of bracelets.
When he arrived at the street, Siming's hands were already full of things, and Gu Pan also came to help and took some, although Liang Tian was also angry, and he was embarrassed not to take it, he also took a little.
Only then did Siming free his hands, blaming the Li family for being troublesome, and there was not a single available buddy around him.
After that, Siming led the way, and took the two to a more remote house, and after going up and knocking on the door, a servant came to follow after a while, and when he saw the three people's large bags of things, he was also happy, and asked, "Dare to ask where the guests are from?" ”
Siming replied, "The Ma family in Baidi City. ”
The man's face immediately changed, and he didn't let people in, and said coldly, "You wait a minute, I'll ask Madame." ”
Siming and the others had to wait outside. Gu Pan was unhappy and asked, "Brother Qiao, whose family is this, such a big spectrum, giving gifts and showing people's faces." ”
"Grandma's family, don't straddle your face, when the time comes, they will count this stubble on your brother's head. When the next person came to get something, we went to a tavern for a meal, and we should be tired after a long morning of shopping. ”
Gu Pan pouted and said, "We give such a big gift, don't we even give us food?" ”
As he was talking, the people inside really came out, led a few servants, and said, "Madame said, leave the things behind, people can go, and by the way, give a message to your master, there is no need to come this year." ”
Siming, after giving the man all the things he bought in the shop, said, "I'm tired." And he took the men with him.
On the way back, Gu Pan became more and more angry the more he thought about it, and grabbed Siming and asked, "They really don't even give a bite of food, it's too much, and they say that they won't use it this year, no wonder Brother Pinyuan hasn't told me about his grandmother's house, and I don't want such a grandmother to give me for free." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, his grandmother still loves him, but she can't mind that her daughter died in a foreign country within a few years of marrying."
Gu Pan didn't say anything more, just thinking that Brother Pinyuan had the same experience as her, and couldn't help but get a little closer to Pinyuan.
The three of them found a tavern to eat on the second floor and sat by the window. There was a lot of traffic outside the window, and Gu Pan was very happy to see it, look here, look at where. Liang Tian went out for the first time, and when he saw Gu Pan like this, he was embarrassed to show interest, so he had to drink tea cup after cup.
It was lunchtime, and there was someone sitting next door. Ningzhou was not hot in May, but the people next door were even more afraid of the cold, tightened their clothes, and whispered.
"This year's Maojian can't afford to sell for a price." The man sitting on the right was fatter, and he covered his clothes as he spoke, for fear of getting cold.
The thin one also agreed, took a sip, and was booed back by the fat one.