Wen Zhen and Tang Xianzhi hurriedly walked on the street.

Just now, she ate some supper and felt tired, and Tang Xianzhi's boat was ready.

When she was eating, Tang Xianzhi didn't eat, but went out and didn't know what to say to anyone, and after a while he came back and said with a smile that the night market was about to end.

Wen Zhen saw that it was so, the lights were going out one by one, and someone piled up the guys on a small cart, ready to go home.

There are even earlier batches, which have already left on wheels.

Wen Zhen walked on the streets, and the vendors who had gone out of the street were all heading in the other direction.

Wen Zhen was a little surprised in his heart, thinking to himself, could it be that these vendors all live in the same direction in this city?

She wore a cloak and walked down the street, and suddenly she felt in her heart and turned around.

I saw only the dark criss-crossing alleys, and the moonlight was held up at the end of the alley.

Her cloak rolled in the wind, and the sound of her clothes rubbing against her was faint, as if someone was sighing quietly.

……

Yan Sui suddenly raised her head in the alley.

Then he said, "No. ”

De Gao and the others were startled and looked up at him.

"The ground is too clean."

Everyone looked at the ground again, although there were some traces of the night market, but the ground was indeed too clean, no oil stains, no residue, no sundries, no bamboo sticks, and no things that had been discarded.

De Jong's workers had all seen the palace night market in the first place, and had helped in the early days of its opening, and of course they knew what it was like to have just finished a night market - debris and crumbs flew together, greasy and fruity. The low-ranking miscellaneous eunuchs had to sweep all night every time to get it clean.

"This is not where the night market is!" Virtue is high, and suddenly realized.

They were cut off from the start.

Tricked by people who speak with local accents.

Those people were real peddlers, but they were pointing in the wrong direction.

No wonder these people are so enthusiastic.

So where is the real night market?

Before he could think clearly, Yan Sui had already flown up and climbed to the top of the wall.

Here you can overlook nearly half of Weicheng.

Although the hawkers pointed in the wrong direction, the two places must not be far apart.

Soon he swept down, followed by the De Jong speakers, and this time passed the chrysanthemum gatehouse, which was undoubtedly the location of the real night market.

But it's already a step too late, and the building is already empty.

……

Wen Zhen has already boarded the ship.

The wharf was three miles outside the city, and it was so late, and the carriage still went out of the city smoothly. I have to say that the Tang family's strength is very great, and the city gate is still open at such a late hour.

In such a hurry, why in the end, Wen Zhen had already vaguely guessed the reason, but she didn't want to expose it, on the contrary, she was very cooperative.

What can I do now when I see Yan Sui? He has his obsessions, she has her dreams, she can understand him, but he may not understand her, and she can't give him what he wants in the end.

Rather than vain your words and end up fighting, it's better to avoid it directly.

At some point, three boats were parked on the dock, all of them medium in size, and all three boats were exactly the same.

There is also a light boat not far from the three boats, looking at the shape and decoration, it is Yan Sui's style, but Yan Sui uses this kind of light boat that has no protection and only seeks speed, which makes her deeply surprised.

Tang Xianzhi glanced at the light boat, suddenly raised his hand, and made a gesture.

The three ships immediately started at the same time, and the waves were divided into waves, heading straight for the light boat!

It was already very close, but the waves had not yet reached the peak, and there was a loud bang, and the sharp iron-clad bows of the three ships pierced deeply into the belly of the light boat almost at the same time!

It was like three giant mammoths that suddenly rushed wildly, and the sharp teeth on the three huge heads were directly inserted into the stomach of a leopard.

The sound of rattling and cracking sounded continuously, where could the light boat withstand such a fierce group beating, and it was directly torn apart.

Some extremely small shadows swept out like lightning and fell into the water.

Wen Zhen was dumbfounded.

……

Tang Xianzhi's raised hand fell, and by the way, he held someone's jaw that almost dropped.

There were people on the three boats who waved their flags, and quickly retreated according to the flags, and the giant elephant pulled out its fangs, which could be clearly seen in the moonlight, and after inserting the light boat, the bows of the three ships were dyed with a strange blue-green paint, and the thing was very immoral and was actually luminous, and the night was faintly bright, like a bright river signpost.

However, what about such a lack of moral scheming, the three ships are about the same angle, the strength is the same, the bow is exactly the same, and the shape of the paint dyed is also similar. It is still delusional to judge which ship to chase based on this.

The surface of the water was plowed out with two smooth grooves, and Tang Xianzhi's boat disappeared into the darkness lightly and silently.

On the bow of the boat, Wen Zhen looked back at the light boat that was floating miserably white and cracked on the water.

……

It's just an hour for her to look back and look back.

Whirring a few times, the dock was already full of people.

Yan Sui quietly looked at the miserable wedge boat that was split into three pieces on the water, and the drenched gnomes who climbed ashore knelt in a row in front of him.

De Jong's faces were pale.

His Royal Highness has never dared to provoke him like this!

That Tang Xianzhi, who looked gentle and amiable without saying a word, was actually a powerful person, and deceived Miss Wen to go with him willingly, and dared to make such a brazen move.

The legendary first person of the gate valve, looking back, faintly revealed his fangs.

Some of the dwarfs who had fallen into the water before went to chase the boat, because there were three ships with the same mark, and they were only divided into three batches to chase, and then they sent people back to report to them, and there were fewer people.

The dwarf reported that one of the three ships turned back, and one stopped at the dock of Dingyao City, but no one got off the ship. One directly crossed Dingyao and went straight to the front.

After hearing this, Yan Sui suddenly said, "Is there a narrow waterway ahead?" ”

"Yes."

"Is there a situation where the view is obscured?"

The dwarf hesitated for a moment and replied, "...... Yes. At one point, three boats walked side by side, filling the waterway, and it took about half an hour for them to slowly separate. During this time, we could see the movement in the stern, but we could not grasp the bow. After a pause, he added: "But if someone wants to get off the boat and change the boat, they have to come down from the side, and it was impossible to get off the boat from the side at that time." ”

"Do you think that's the only way we know about it?" Yan Sui's "fish-lipped human" look came again. I didn't bother to say more to this group of fools, sneered, and turned around and told Degao, "The kind of mountain express car developed last time, transfer it and use it." No need to chase from the water, go over the mountains by land and take the nearest road. ”

"Your Highness, that kind of car is not completely perfect, there will be a certain danger, and there are not many that can be used, except for a few short teams involved in the production, only a few of us can use it, then there will be a large number of guards to go around, and I can't follow you all the time......"

"What's the use of waiting for waste?"

It's not a question. The most prosaic declarative sentence.

Shut up.

Yan Sui looked up at the steep mountain in front of him, looked in the direction of Dingyao on the other side of the mountain, and smiled faintly.

"Buy pearls?"

"Then buy it."

……

"Buy pearls?"

"Then he must have bought you pearls."

"Ahhh That bastard. Talking is like stabbing someone with a knife. ”

A slender shadow climbed on the mountain road, and at her feet was a cliff, and she climbed dangerously and dangerously, and the sand and gravel under her feet kept falling, and sometimes slipped down a little, but she could always grasp the rock or vine in time, and then climb it again.

The night was dark, the mountain wind was cold, she was trembling while climbing, and she didn't know whether she was scared or afraid, but when she looked up, her beautiful face was covered with a black cloth.

This turned out to be a strange thing that blindly climbed the abyss!

Strange while crawling, I have to break my thoughts.

"Oops, I'm scared to death, fortunately, I'm blindfolded every time I climb, otherwise I might be scared and fall down if I look at it more!"

It was not far from the top of the cliff in front of her, and she seemed to feel it, and climbed up a few times, and finally pouted her buttocks, flipped over, and fell on the flat ground at the top of the mountain.

It is a protruding cliff tip, the size of a bed, and if you turn over more, you will fall, and the locals call it the eagle's beak cliff. It is a big mountain between Dingyao and Weicheng, known as the bird is difficult to cross, and the merchants come and go to take a detour, or take the waterway, this detour can go around a day's journey.

This strange thing really rolled a few times on the top of a cliff the size of a bed, but it rolled back and forth, and it all narrowly stayed on the edge of the cliff.

It was only after she got up and walked to the spacious area that she untied the black blindfold.

It was a bright, glamorous face that was not smiling and self-contained.

This face is probably at the same level as Yan Sui and Tang Xianzhi, and basically humbly says that he is ugly, and people will want to talk about hypocrisy.

Square sleeve guest.

Her grandfather is known as the old doctor gun, a medical word indicates medical skills, and a gun word indicates character. She herself is like the red tassel on the gun, bright and dazzling, soft and hard.

She looked down the mountain, pouted, and suddenly sprinted, and it turned out to be a heel bucket to the bottom of the mountain.

The steepest path was chosen. Of course, it is also the shortest.

This was completely suicide, but when she turned up, her body clicked continuously, and suddenly stretched out countless wooden strips of steel, these things were spliced together like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, they were put together into a protective cage-like thing with mechanical hands and feet, and the thing clicked continuously, taking her to walk on the mountain as if walking on the ground.

It's a very delicate thing, but the square sleeve guest didn't seem to be very satisfied, and muttered: "I've been busy for so long, and I can only go down the mountain, hey, I heard that the car over there can go up and down the mountain......

Turning her head to see that there was no shadow behind her, she spread her hands and laughed, "Can't catch up, blame me?" ”

Half an hour later, she went down the mountain, another half an hour later, she entered Dingyao City, and another half an hour she had already set up a stall to sell groceries on the most lively Silk Street in Dingyao City.

But there was only a piece of cloth on her stall, and there was nothing, with a row of dripping big characters written on it, "Only sell destined people." ”

The words are written like dragons and phoenixes, which is very eye-catching, she found a scholar who sells words next to her to write, but she didn't pay, and the other party heard her cry and told her the story of her fiancé's pipa don't hug, so she wrote it for free.

Wearing a popular local ama mask, she squatted in front of the stall, coming and going to take a look, and people kept talking to her to know what she was selling, but she judged it as "Amitofor, you and I have no chance." ”

At this time, several peculiarly shaped cars, carrying dwarfs, also crossed the eagle's beak cliff and went straight to Dingyao.

At this time, Tang Xianzhi and Wen Zhen were getting off a light boat, replacing them with the carriages and horses that had been waiting for a long time, they were still the same, and there were exactly five of the same carriages, one for Wen Zhen and Tang Xianzhi, one for the old lady, and each of the rest was full of people, entering the city from all gates and directions, and coming to Dingyao at the same time.

……

Not long after the stall of the square sleeve customer opened, he suddenly heard a commotion in front of him, but it was the officials of the government office who came in line, and the Li Zheng of Silk Street said loudly while beating the gong: "The government has an order." This year's pearl tax is ordered to be collected in advance, and the tax must be settled within three days. One day of delay will increase by one-tenth next year, and seven days of hard labor will be added......"

Before the words fell, the shops all over the street began to commotion, customers were constantly invited out, the door panels were constantly slammed shut, and the scattered vendors without facades on Silk Street also began to clean up their stalls, and almost in an instant, most of the people left.

Dingyao fishing and selling pearls is the main business, and almost all the people in the city are engaged in pearl-related work. The pearl tax is the most widely used tax. It is also the most stringent tax in the imperial court. Due to changes in the climate and seawater, the production of pearls varies from year to year, so policies are often adjusted. Paying the pearl tax every year is the busiest and deserted time in Dingyao, basically all stores, especially big stores, will close their doors for a few days to settle and pay the tax amount of the previous year.

Therefore, if the order is temporarily collected in advance, the entire Dingyao will have no good pearls to sell.

These policies had little to do with the small vendors, but they were also afraid of getting into trouble with the officials, so most of them left, only the square sleeve customer was still squatting in place, there was nothing in her stall, and no one looked at the tax collectors.

In an instant, Dingyao became an empty city, and everyone was locked at home to settle accounts, and at this time, Tang Xianzhi and Wen Zhen's carriages and horses entered Dingyao.

As soon as he entered the city, Tang Xianzhi found that something was wrong, and the guards at his front station had already greeted him, explaining the situation.

As soon as Wen Zhen heard this, he knew that the Demon Emperor was coming, and the Demon Emperor was a demon.

She began to have a dull headache.

Yan Sui and Tang Xianzhi are simply a pair of demons, a pair of bigwigs. One raised his fists and beat the group, and the other drew wages from the bottom of the kettle.

It's a pity that she's caught in the middle, and she can only count the lettuce in a hamburger, not even a meatloaf.

The carriage walked a little way into Silk Street, and sure enough, all the shops were closed, and although there were vendors, they couldn't buy noodles at the stalls.

The Tang family is such a wealthy family, naturally and these pearl merchants have a certain connection, there is an entourage to contact, not long after several local pearl merchants came in person, invited Tang Xianzhi and Wen Zhen to go to the best teahouse in Dingyao to drink tea and eat snacks, the banquet was eager, very respectful, but repeatedly apologized, saying that there was really no pearl at hand, please Tang Gongzi and his wife forgive me.

It is unbelievable to say this, after all, the top jewelers have always been closely connected with the major giants, and they often have to keep the best goods in their hands in case they need them at any time. How can they all be out of stock.

But looking at the expressions of these people, it did not seem to be fake, and after asking, I found out that at the same time that the government ordered the tax to be paid in advance, and made a centralized inventory of the existing goods of all the big jewelers, saying that the palace was going to celebrate the queen's birthday, the queen liked pearls, and the local government planned to use the best pearls to make a treasure shirt for the queen. Top pearls have always produced very little, and it is extremely difficult to make a whole treasure shirt, but the government has given a death order to all the big jewelers, and if they can't hand over this treasure shirt when it is due, these people will not do business, so just half an hour before Tang Xianzhi and Wen Zhen arrived, all the good pearls have been sorted together and handed over to the government.

At this point, there is no other way. This is not the land of the three states in northern Sichuan, it is the world of the imperial court, and no matter how powerful the local government is, it cannot openly argue with the government. Wen Zhen also pretended to say that she didn't love jewelry, so she didn't have to worry about this.

She actually doesn't really love jewelry, but she loves money, because many things she wants to do are related to money. So Tang Xianzhi wanted to prepare jewelry for her, and she didn't desperately stop her, she planned to marry him, what happened to him with a set of jewelry?

As for whether this counts as a cheating marriage, she doesn't think it counts. She and Yan Sui got close, Tang Xianzhi lived in Yiwang Mansion, she knew very well, she had also clearly refused before, but he still proposed marriage despite her wishes, so he had to be prepared to be perfunctory. Besides, it's hard to say what his intention is in this proposal, whether it is true or not, she is more or less a victim, and it is only right to take some compensation.

But when things came to this embarrassing situation, naturally they couldn't keep their faces shy and not speak. She expressed her attitude, Tang Xianzhi has always been personable, so naturally she will not embarrass those businessmen. The men apologized again and again, and cautiously withdrew.

Wen Zhen was a little disappointed, grunted, and sighed, "It's so ungraceful." ”

The pearl in her hand flew, she was not in a good mood, she was just passively following Tang Xianzhi, but at the moment, she didn't want to give the guy who caused her to ruin her fortune, so she asked the store for a pen and paper to write a letter to Yan Sui.

She writes, writes, writes.

When it was written, Tang Xianzhidu couldn't help but look at it curiously, and then was dumbfounded by the heavenly book full of paper.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "This seems to be a foreign language?" ”

Wen Zhen hahahahaha, thinking that sure enough, he knows English, Yan Sui should also know it, after all, there are a few foreign priests in the palace, Yan Sui was tricked by her last time, and he must be interested in learning about it, he is so smart, he should be able to learn casually.

If you want it, he will!

Because!

zhe shi pin yin!

She wrote a large sheet, gave it to the shopkeeper, and told him to give it to the man when someone came to inquire about her.

Tang Xianzhi took her downstairs, this person was also strange, she wrote the letter in person, he obviously guessed that it was for Yan Sui, but he didn't ask or stop it.

The two of them got out of the teahouse, and below was Silk Street, so they walked casually, and at a glance they saw a stall with a strange painting style on the side of the road.

There was nothing, just a cloth that looked very old, with a few big words on the cloth "only selling destined people", and a woman wearing a mask with her hands in her sleeves, drowsy.

She was awakened by the footsteps of the two, and when she looked up, Wen Zhen only felt that the eyes in the eyes of the mask suddenly shone brightly, and there was a sudden chill in her heart, thinking that it wouldn't be so bloody, right?

The fact is so bloody, and sure enough, the man beckoned, and greeted with a deliberately low but still audible voice belonging to the woman, "Two! Two of you! ”

Wen Zhen suddenly thrust his hand into the crook of Tang Xianzhi's arm, and said with a smile: "Xianggong, the calligraphy and paintings sold by the stall in front seem to be good, let's go and take a look." ”

As soon as she took a step, she easily took Tang Xianzhi away, and the wind and sand that she had brought with her walk hit the square sleeve guest in the face, and the soles of her shoes stepped on the edge of the cloth intentionally or unintentionally.

Square Sleeve: "......"

In the middle of the night, she spat out the sand, grabbed the cloth, and persevered past the stall selling calligraphy and paintings, and continued to spread the cloth one step ahead of the stall.

While continuing to greet warmly, "Both, I think you are my destined person, how about it, do you want to try your luck?" ”

Wen Zhen glanced at her and smiled, "Don't." ”

Curiosity kills cats, and she has always been a person without curiosity.

The square-sleeved guest glanced sideways at her a few times. Originally, she was just curious about Wen Zhen and didn't pay much attention to it, and when she saw her for the first time just now, she was even a little disappointed, but at this moment, her thoughts were different.

She suddenly stood up with her hips crossed, faced Wen Zhen, and said loudly: "This girl, are you Mr. Tang's fiancée?" ”

Wen Zhen was a little surprised, he didn't expect this hidden guy's thinking to jump so much, why did he suddenly jump out.

"yes."

"I am an admirer of Mr. Tang." Fang Sleeve blinked, "I'm waiting here to ask you a few questions." ”

Wen Zhen has never seen a woman with this style of painting since he came here, and he suddenly became interested, "Okay." ”

"What do you think you relied on to win Mr. Tang's favor?"

"Naturally, I relied on my own intelligence and beauty." Someone replied unashamedly.

"Good. Second question. What do you think is your strongest point? ”

"It's confidence. See the previous article for the reason. "Someone's smile is more than self-confidence, it's narcissistic.

"The third question - can you accept others chasing Mr. Tang?"

------Off topic------

I took my son to sleep last night.

From half past ten to half past two, I had to cover him once a minute.

Then I smoked like a big cigarette today, and I was not interested in updating at all.

You can say I'm lazy, but that's it for me to update anyway, and I'm very happy with myself if I can do more. The son is too difficult to bring, and the energy is endless, out of the door like a wild leopard, as far as the crowd and dangerous drilling, I can't always let the elderly parents follow him out of breath, a few days ago my mother in order to intercept the rampage of the little rabbit cub, directly fell a big horse on the stomach, the bracelet broke or a trivial matter, my mother had surgery on the waist, can not wrestle.

That's why I want to stop changing every day.

I regret opening this article.

I should wait for the little bunny to go to school before writing about mountains and rivers.

I'm not interested in asking for tickets, I don't want to update, I don't want to work, I don't want to talk, I don't want to do anything.

I felt like I was going to be depressed.

Those who gave birth to a second child are heroes, really.