The moon and stars in the night sky are scarce, and the cold in the wind is getting heavier and heavier.

Shui Banxia sighed, picked up a dark cloak, and walked towards Wen Ying.

"Miss Wen, it's cold at night, let's go back to the house."

Wen Ying turned her head sideways, she wore filial piety for her parents, she was wearing plain clothes, her hair was only pulled up with a simple wooden hairpin, her face was not powdered, and there was a grievance in her eyes, which made her weak and boneless, and she was pitiful.

She didn't want to speak, and Shui Banxia didn't force her, so she put on her cloak for Wen Ying, sat on the stone bench next to her, and looked at the night sky with her.

"Water girl, I want to be alone for a while, you can go back to the house quickly."

Shui Banxia sneered and said, "I can guess a few points of Miss Wen's thoughts, you don't want to be alone and quiet, you just don't want to see me." You have just recovered from a serious illness, and your body and bones are already weak, or you go back to the house to roast the fire, warm and warm, this bare moon, just leave it to me. ”

Wen Ying rarely met a girl who spoke so straightforwardly, and for a while, she didn't know how to deal with it.

"What do you want to ask, while the general is away, hurry up and ask."

What do you want to ask?

Wen Ying lowered her head, she wanted to ask a lot, but she thought about it for a long time, and finally only asked softly: "How has he been doing all these years?" ”

Cang Xuelan's reputation, even if Wen Ying is in the deep boudoir, can hear some of it. Over the years, he has experienced the death of his father in battle and the death of his sister from illness, and he must have had a very hard life, and the sourness in his heart does not know if he can solve it.

Everyone said that Major General Cang Xuelan, who killed 30,000 enemy troops, is a well-deserved God of Great Zhou Killing and a god general who often wins.

But Wen Ying knew that although Cang Xuelan grew up on the battlefield since she was a child, she was not a warlike person, he must have been angry to the extreme, desperate to the extreme, and would bury 30,000 lives alive.

"It's not good to live." Shui Banxia sighed, "Thirty thousand lives, it is the enemy army, he has also been detained with a reputation for cruelty and tyranny, Cang Xingjun was not as monolithic as it seemed at the beginning, he is a major general, if it is not for the means, how can he sit firmly in the position of general?" ”

Wen Ying looked at her, "You two, how did you meet?" ”

Speaking of this stubble, Shui Banxia couldn't help laughing, "It's also quite interesting, my family is in debt and sold me to the Drunken Immortal Building, I was only a teenager that year, does Miss Wen know what kind of moves will be used to deal with a girl like me in that place?" Starve for a few days first, and when you are dizzy from hunger, I will pull you to see those old men who have dirty diseases and are struggling in the dark house. ”

Shui Banxia will never forget, the stuffy and foul-smelling grass house, the room does not open the window, does not light the lamp, it is dim, there are several women lying on the ground, there are terrible pus on their bodies, and the originally beautiful face has become terrifying.

They were still panting, but life was worse than death.

"I was really scared at the time, so I obediently listened to the words of the grandmother in the drunken fairy building and got a full meal. When I was young, the conditions at home were not bad, and I would be able to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so my grandmother didn't toss me much, and when I was in the Mid-Autumn Festival, she dressed up for me and wanted to hold me as an oiran. It was on the day I became an Oiran that I met General Cang. As in the book, he ransomed for me, took me to live in the house, gave me the title of side room, and asked for nothing more. ”

In fact, the real situation is not as romantic as Shui Banxia said.

Cang Xuelan didn't want to go to any drunken immortal building that day, but his subordinates coaxed him, and his political enemies watched coldly, so he went to Fireworks Willow Lane, but he met an acquaintance again, so he had to pull him to bid and take a new oiran.

waited until in addition to the large price and was pushed into the room by Mama Guigong, Cang Xuelan panicked.

He rummaged through the cabinets to find the exit, and finally had to awkwardly choose to jump out of the window.

"The window here is open to the lobby, does the general want to be surrounded by people as soon as he jumps down?" Shui Banxia spoke leisurely.

Cang Xuelan was stunned, she was so nervous that she didn't notice that on the bed in the bedroom under the bead curtain, there was still a woman, she was in shape, and took back a leg that had stretched out of the window.

"I didn't expect the world-famous General Cang to be a girl."

Cang Xuelan was stunned for a moment, looked at her vigilantly, and her hand had already touched the dagger hanging from her waist.

Shui Banxia walked to the dresser, picked up a butterfly brooch, and said with a smile: "I also found it by accident, if I am really a man, even if I turn this place upside down, I will not feel distressed, only the girl, when she sees such a beautiful brooch, will take a closer look." ”

"Who sent you?"

"The general misunderstood, how about we better benefit each other? I don't say anything about your identity, you wrap me up, and come to me once a month. ”

Cang Xuelan hesitated for a moment, but had no choice but to respond.

Shui Banxia made a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile: "Since it cost a lot of money, please do it." ”

Until now, Shui Banxia recalled Cang Xuelan's appearance, and she couldn't help laughing.

"He must like you very much." Wen Ying looked at her smile and said lonely.

Rao is Shui Banxia is a woman, looking at Wen Yingdi's appearance, she couldn't say anything serious, she had to say: "The general likes me, but he doesn't love me, he just needs someone to accompany him in the mansion, so that he doesn't think of the tragic death of his father and sister." ”

"Can't I do it?"

Shui Banxia sighed faintly, "How could he be reluctant?" ”

Wen Ying's nose was slightly red, and a crystal teardrop slipped from her eyes.

"Miss Wen, he and you are just a young relationship, why should you be entangled, it's better to let go and find your own world, so that he can rest assured."

The two sat down for a while, and Shui Banxia said with a smile: "Since we don't want to go back to the house, let's just make a fire in the yard, so that it can be warmer, will Miss Wen drink?" ”

"A little."

"Okay, I'll bring some more wine, and the two of us will learn from those men today, and have a glass of wine to fight against each other."

Wen Ying smiled: "That's fine." ”

Shui Banxia called two mothers-in-law who were quick with their hands and feet, raised the brazier in the pavilion, and brought a jar of sake from the kitchen.

As soon as the two of them drank a few glasses, they heard the sound of horses neighing outside, the two looked at each other, and Shui Banxia Qi said: "What day is it, Lord Qi hasn't been gone for a few hours, why are you here again." ”

Cang Xuelan pushed the door in, and just saw Wen Ying and Shui Banxia sitting in the pavilion, looking at her.

Cang Xuelan strode towards the two, "I'm in good time, pour me a glass of wine." ”

Shui Banxia poured a glass of wine for Cang Xuelan, "It's so late, is something wrong?" ”

"It's not a big deal," Cang Xuelan said to the mother-in-law standing aside, "Go to the kitchen and make some food, I haven't bothered to eat yet." ”

After the mother-in-law left, Shui Banxia said: "It's cold outside, and you have to go back to the house to eat when you eat, so it's safe to talk." ”

"You don't know, when you go back to the house, the wall has ears, if there is a master of light skills, wearing a night coat lying on the roof and eavesdropping, my people may not be able to see it, but in the courtyard, surrounded by open space, those people want to get close, no way, no matter how deep the internal force is, they can't hear us."

Wen Ying hurriedly asked, "Is something wrong with my parents' case?" ”

"Today, the yamen of Changzhou City was stolen, and among the relics of Lord Wen, a list of safe ticket numbers was stolen, and those people set a fire in Chaoyang Pavilion in order to transfer me out, almost trapping the Nine Emperor Princes inside."

Wen Ying thought for a moment, then frowned, "No, if you really want to steal the ticket, when you can't steal it, I just want you to do it when you do, as if you are deliberately telling us that there is something wrong with this ticket." ”

Cang Xuelan smiled and nodded, "Coincidentally." ”

Everyone knows that the more steps there are in this scheme, the easier it is to make mistakes.

Lord Wen's body has been in the government for more than a month, and this list is estimated to have been searched out a long time ago, not to steal it at that time, but to steal it under his nose Cang Xuelan, if there is no trick in it, she doesn't believe it.

"Before Wen Da was born, what could he have saved in the Chang'an Ticket Village?"

Wen Ying thought about it carefully and said: "My father is an old patron of Chang'an Ticket Village, because Chang'an Ticket Village has good secrecy, so many things that he is not good to carry with him will be stored there, and over the years, he has countless things in the Ticket Village. When Wen Ying said this, she suddenly felt something, "Could it be that the account book they are looking for is stored in the Chang'an Ticket Bank." ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten."

Shui Banxia Qi said: "The bill is lost, why aren't you in a hurry?" ”

"That ticket is a fake."

As soon as these words came out, the two were shocked again.

At this time, several slaves and maids came over with food, they laid out the dishes and chopsticks, lifted the lid of the pot, and stood aside to serve.

Cang Xuelan didn't say anything more, he asked for a bowl of vegetarian soup for himself, and he ate this rice with relish, and said to Shui Banxia: "You have to save some when you eat, don't be like in Fuzhong, Changzhou City does not open the city gate all winter, the food is gone, and you have to spend a lot of money to sell it, which is wasted." ”

Shui Banxia snorted coldly: "Why, your General Cangda is bankrupt, and you can't even afford to buy food." ”

"It's one thing to be affordable, it's another thing for you to waste."

Shui Banxia stood up, sneered three times, took out a jade pendant from his arms, and said to the maids and servants standing around: "You can see clearly, this jade pendant is the love token given to me by General Cangda, when it was good, it was a heart and a baby, what do you say about the moon in the sky are taken off for me, now it's okay, I'm done, I will become a mother-in-law who doesn't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, is there still heavenly reason?" ”

The maids lowered their heads and held back a smile.

Cang Xuelan couldn't hold his face, he threw his chopsticks, "Go down!" ”

The maids and daughters-in-law hurriedly withdrew, but Shui Banxia was still arguing, and Cang Xuelan said angrily several times that it was not in order.

After the maids disappeared, the two immediately stopped, Cang Xuelan sat down and continued to eat, and Shui Banxia claimed that the precious token of love was thrown aside by her.

"And then?" Shui Banxia asked.

Wen Ying spun around the two of them and asked, "That was ...... just now"

Shui Banxia said with a smile: "Oh, this is a common trick we use, when General Cangda wants to drive away someone, and he doesn't want the other party to notice, he will use this trick to try everything." ”

Cang Xuelan shrugged her shoulders, "Who knows who is mixed up among those maids." ”

"You then said that the bills of Ping An Ticket are fake, how do you see it?"

"Because I'm also a regular customer of Ping An Ticket Bank." Cang Xuelan smiled slightly.

When her father was still there, she spent most of the year fighting on the frontier, leaving only her and her brother in Cangfu, when they sent something to each other or wrote letters to their families, using Ping'an Ticket Village.

The reason why Ping'an Ticket Village can develop to such a scale now, in addition to high confidentiality, is not easy to forge, their tickets are baked with pine juice, do not melt in water, there will be special marks on them, and these marks will be changed every ten days.

This mark is not painted casually, but is made of red mountain stone and powdered and used as a pigment, and the color is darker than cinnabar.

Not to mention the waxing and other skills unique to Chang'an Ticket Bank.

It is estimated that the person who imitated this ticket also knew that they couldn't imitate this thing in a short time, but for some reason, they had to let Cang Xuelan see this ticket, so they came up with such a bad trick.

"They thought that the time was so short, I couldn't see anything unusual," Cang Xuelan shook her head, "I'm afraid these people have already jumped off the wall in a hurry." ”

Wen Ying frowned and said, "I still don't understand, what kind of idea did they have after going around such a big circle?" ”

"I guess, after they found out that Master Wen had the bills of Chang'an Ticket Village, they immediately thought that something was in Chang'an Ticket Village, so they had already stolen the bills and sent Qinggong to sneak back to Xuzhou first, wanting to go to Chang'an Ticket Village to take out the account book, since they already knew where the account book was, then you, as a survivor, could not stay, so they ordered someone to poison you and wanted to kill you.

This group of Jianghu people don't really understand the rules of Chang'an Ticket Village, just a bill, but can't take out something, must be made by himself with a token. Now that Master Wen is dead, no one knows what the token he made with Chang'an Ticket Zhuang is, except for you, his only daughter.

But since you were poisoned, I have strengthened the guards of your courtyard, and they can't touch you at all, so I want to leak the clues of Chang'an Ticket Village to me, and then I will tell you that after we go to Chang'an Ticket Village to take out things, they will do it again, and a praying mantis will catch cicadas and yellow finches behind.

But the bill has been taken to Xuzhou by them, and they can't get it back for a while, so they found someone to copy a bill, and they were afraid that I would see the clue, so not long after I saw the bill, there was a fire in Chaoyang Pavilion, saying that it was for the Nine Emperor Princes, but in fact, it was to transfer me out, so they could steal the fake bill again. ”

One by one, it was all for a mere ledger, and Cang Xuelan became more and more curious about what was in this ledger.