I saw the old lady throw down a bronze step shake with her sleeve, and the slave behind her commanded: "This is my granddaughter of the Xiang family, hmph, don't I know who she is, and I still need you to teach me an outsider?" Slandering the emperor's relatives is a crime that deserves death, and you dare to spew blood! Call me, whoever can beat him beg for mercy, my jewelry is his! ”

A brass step shake was worthless, but the slaves and maids who had been waiting for the old lady for a long time recognized at a glance that the poem was a cherished object to the old lady - it was a gift from the old grandmother to the daughter-in-law.

In order to protect Xiang Yeqi, she was ruthless!

Before the fat officer could react to what he had discovered, he received a loud slap that made him dizzy, and a burst star appeared in front of him, and the echo in his ears was like two conches embedded in his cochlea.

He swallowed his spittle, which smelled of broken teeth and blood, and ran away with his swollen face, which looked bulky but nimble with his hands and feet.

One of the maidservants of the old lady sighed reluctantly, and said with emotion: "Alas, I actually let him run away, otherwise I will teach her a good lesson, toss our lady not to say, the eldest lady's behavior is also something he can slander at will?" It's full of nonsense, but it's a shameless thing! ”

The maid who slapped the fat officer and soldier loudly was full of complaints and shook her hands: "You are content!" It's good to run away, you look at my hand, I don't know what I touched, it's like paper ashes, it's disgusting! I don't know what dirt is on this person, I'm afraid that I won't live long, and I want to find someone to be a backer! ”

His face was scratched and looked a little rotten, and just thinking about it, Xiang Yeqi felt that he didn't need to eat tonight's dinner.

Xiang Yeqi shook his head, trying to forget about this, and silently opened the topic: "Grandmother, I still don't understand, even if there are really people in Juncheng who are pretending to be juniors of the Xiang family to make trouble here, wouldn't it be good if you assigned someone else to take a trip?" At your age, can you really afford to be tired of traveling like this, and you won't hurt your body? ”

"If they all have the same level of interest as you, let me have some thoughts, I won't worry so much about them, and work all day long! Alas! It's all a bunch of people who can't afford to be at home! Xiang sighed with a sad look on the old lady's face, "There are some small things in the family, and those small ones are not easy to handle, it's not that I have to follow the busy, one person is used as two people!" ”

At this glance, Xiang Yeqi noticed the whiteness of the old lady's sideburns, as if they had been stained with the last snow at the end of winter.

In the days when the Xiang family regained its glory, Mrs. Xiang, as the grandmother of the queen of a dynasty, did follow the scenery for a while, and was regarded as a noble old lady in every way.

But Mrs. Xiang's life is really not good, and she is worried about gray hair every day, which is different from the high-spirited spirit that Xiang Yeqi thinks, and I can't help but feel that it is a pity.

That was also a woman who was peerless and famous.

"I'll do my best to share it for my grandmother." Xiang Yeqi lowered his eyes and smiled, picked up the step in front of him for the old lady Xiang, and persuaded him: "Since my grandmother has come from the capital for such a trip, I can either stay in Juncheng for two days, or put aside the rights and wrongs in the capital, and breathe a sigh of relief." ”

Xiang was stunned by the old lady, and smiled bitterly and took Xiang Yeqi's hand: "No, grandmother is going back." ”

There was sadness in her gray eyes, the hand holding Xiang Yeqi was cold and weak, and her words were as calm as ever: "There are some small things in the house, leave them to those juniors to do, they don't do it properly!" Alas, when will they be able to give me peace of mind? Okay, I'll go back now, and I'll tell you about the things at home when you return to Beijing. ”

Nodding to Yeqi, he sent the old lady out of the mansion and helped the person into the carriage again.

The market in Juncheng was very lively, but the back of the old lady was lonely and flickering in it, and Xiang Yeqi wanted to say something, but he didn't say it, and only muttered a sentence on the way.

Bo Zhaoxu went out to investigate the confidence of the Xie family's gambling house, and planned to have dinner in the market for Ye Yan, and rewarded himself with a sour sugar gourd by the way, celebrating the fat officers and soldiers he had sent to make trouble.

The most important thing is that the effect of those snuffs is even better than Xiang Yeqi imagined, and after rounding, she can be regarded as a great scourge for the people of Juncheng.

Xiang Yeqi wrapped the remaining hawthorn sugar gourds from the sugar gourd vendors and distributed them to a few Huaguo guards guarding beside him, but found that the eyes of these people were always quietly looking not far away, as if they were quite distracted.

Xiang Yeqi, who was blocked by passers-by, was a little displeased, and he couldn't suppress his curiosity when he stood on tiptoe and peeked: "What are you looking at?" ”

One of them pointed to one of the corners that had not yet been covered by passers-by, but he could only see a rolling elbow.

Half an hour later, the sugar gourd vendor saw that the gourd stalk he had just sold and the sugar cane sold by the side stall were tied into a rocking chair that could be lifted on the spot, and on it was sitting like an old sunset red to the night, and there was nowhere to place it in the palm of his hand as if he was grabbing a handful of air melon seeds.

It's quite comfortable.

Xiang Yeqi felt that he was quite like the king of the mountain, which was a little too ostentatious, and a little bit of oppression of Bo Zhaoxu's cronies and guards.

However, these people helped her watch the play, and they didn't delay herself from watching the excitement, and she even watched it in a trance.

Xiang Yeqi simply craned his neck and went to see it together.

The owner of those fat hands was the fat officer and soldier who had just been beaten and scolded in his own house, and he was followed by seventeen or eighteen Juncheng Gatemen who were somewhat familiar with the night.

This group of people lined up neatly, and the fat officers and soldiers led by them directly shaved their bald heads, holding a Buddha skewer made of peach pits whose apricot flesh was not cleaned, whispered the Buddha's mercy, and handed it to the one behind him.

The doormen's faces were somewhat impatient, and their mouths muttering six-character mantras seemed to be grasped and pinched by a pair of invisible big hands.

And in their mouths, they even muttered about how many evil things they had done, how they oppressed the people, how they looted the people's fat and ointment, and how they stole the things of passers-by in the city without blushing and heartbeat, and even forgot how to write the word shame, and they still had the face to say.

Passers-by surrounded more and more, but they avoided the dander on their bodies, pointed at the doormen and scolded: "It's all retribution, providence!" If you hadn't oppressed the people of the city and taken things that you shouldn't have taken, how could you have made these strange things? It seems that God still has eyes and knows how to punish the wicked! ”

The bald man glared at the passerby viciously, not knowing that he was the one who really caused the others to suffer from the disease.

was kicked again to "remind", and the bald man reluctantly took two steps and bowed, begging all the way to the nearest Buddhist temple.

After listening to what the man said, Xiang Yeqi figured everything out, and even felt a little unbearable to laugh.

Could it be that he has become some kind of "providence"?

It's funny.

But Xiang Yeqi originally just wanted to scare the fat officers and soldiers who bit her and refused to let go, but she never expected that they would really believe such a groundless treatment method!

On how far feudal superstition can harm people.

Xiang Yeqi really laughed all the way and had a little stomachache, and finally straightened up and pushed open the courtyard door, and Xiang Yeqi saw a woman's figure flashing in front of him!

She was suddenly scared out of the cold.

Bo Zhaoxu bought this mansion a long time in advance, and there were indeed many servants in the courtyard who Xiang Yeqi had never seen, but Xiang Yeqi's intuition was extremely sensitive, the clothes that the woman was wearing were tattered, and they were not the clothes worn by the servants in the house at all, it was like a ghost flashing in front of Xiang Yeqi's eyes, which scared Xiang Yeqi into a cold sweat, and stepped forward timidly, without even a shadow.

Xiang Yeqi took a breath of the cold air in the night wind, and looked back sideways: "Did you see the shadow just now?"

Several guards glanced at each other and replied truthfully: "Back to the master, the subordinates have just been attentive to the master, but there are people following him, and they have not paid attention to the shadow in front of them."

For a moment, Xiang Yeqi thought that he was dizzy from laughing, but he was hallucinating based on his ability.

But this sense of reality is not fabricated.

It happened that Bo Zhaoxu was rushing from outside the courtyard, and he just thought that Yeqi had just eaten his favorite food from the market, so he didn't say anything, so he put his fox fur cloak on Xiang Yeqi's shoulders, and was a little disgusted: "It's cold, you should wear more." ”

There are some differences in the body types of the two, and the fox fur that is just right on Bo Zhaoxu's body can wrap Xiang Yeqi in it, as if he accidentally exposed the fox's body.

Bo Zhaoxu took Xiang Ye's palm wrapped in the fox fur, and pinched it: "When I came back from the market, I passed by the bazaar, and I saw those deceitful men who seemed to have changed their minds, muttering something to repent, and I guessed that it must have something to do with you." ”

The guard on the side handed over the lamp, and Bo Zhaoxu found that Xiang Yeqi, who pursed his lips and whispered, had a pale face, which was very unnatural, and he couldn't help but worry: "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing."

Xiang Yeqi didn't come back to his senses from Fang Cai's stunned moments, rubbed the corners of his forehead, and barely cheered up: "I always feel that there are people mixed in the house, but when I only see that, I can't tell what I think, I can't say which cat jumped in front of my eyes, and I was wrong." But since I saw that, I was a little flustered. ”

Bo Zhaoxu frowned, and immediately ordered someone to search and strictly investigate the whole house.

As for himself, he was reluctant to leave an inch and stayed by Xiang Ye's side.