When he arrived at the city gate, it was not yet dawn, the city gate was closed, and Qu Xiaoqi was trapped outside.

Qu Xiaoqi couldn't confirm the time, and was having a headache, but the city gate suddenly opened.

"Drive!" A horse suddenly drove out of the city gate, and all the dust raised by the horse's hooves kicked down on Qu Xiaoqi's face.

If the person on the horse deviated a little, the horse would have stepped on Qu Xiaoqi's body.

Qu Xiaoqi was frightened, and stood there for a long time without relieving himself.

The guards guarding the city gate were woken up before dawn, even if he was on night duty, he was not happy, and when he saw Qu Xiaoqi and Ah Qing standing there stupidly, he shouted: "What are you doing standing there?" To go in or not to go in? ”

Qu Xiaoqi came back to her senses and was shocked to realize that she had already broken out in a cold sweat, this was the first time she felt that death was so close to her.

Holding Ah Qing's hand, his body leaned slightly on Ah Qing's body, and the two of them walked inside.

"Wait, a tael of silver per person."

"What are you doing here?"

"What to do? Collect customs clearance fees and want to enter the city without giving money? No way! The guard looked at Qu Xiaoqi arrogantly, his eyes full of disdain.

Qu Xiaoqi didn't say a word, grabbed Ah Qing and sat down at the city gate, anyway, it wasn't dawn yet, she wasn't in a hurry.

Seeing this, the guard held his breath in his chest, raised his foot and kicked at the two.

Before he could kick them, he felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and his mouth let out a scream like killing a pig, "Ah——! ”

"What for? Going to die? The screams disturbed the other guards, and one of them spoke impatiently, as if unwilling to wake up from his sleep.

"My leg is broken! It's broken! The guard clutched his ankle and rolled on the ground repeatedly, but even this did not alleviate the sharp pain in his ankle.

The other guards walked out, and the leader kicked the guards on the ground and said, "What are you pretending?" Even your hard bones, can you still break? Get up for me, don't be embarrassed here. ”

Halfway through, the guards didn't get up, and they realized something was wrong, so they pulled open his pants and looked at his ankles.

The bruising of the ankle under the torch was unusually striking, and the entire ankle was slightly deformed where the fingers had pressed it.

This foot ...... I'm afraid it's just a waste of it.

"Who did it?" The leading guard's face sank, and the man who beat him in his land? Don't want to live anymore?

"They ......" the fallen guard trembled and pointed to the city gate, where was there still people? I don't know where I've run for a long time.

Qu Xiaoqi quietly entered the city while the soldiers' attention was all on that person.

Just kidding, if you don't run at this time, are you still waiting to be beaten by those guards?

Ah Qing looked at Qu Xiaoqi with some ignorance, as if she didn't understand that she could beat all those people down, but she still had to flee from that place.

Not long after walking to the door of the rice shop, the shopkeeper opened the door, and when he saw Qu Xiaoqi and Ah Qing, he was stunned and said, "You came so early?" Why didn't there be a knock on the door? ”

"We haven't been here for long."

"Wait a minute." The shopkeeper turned around and entered the rice shop, and came out after a while, and at this moment he was followed by five men in black, who were the same people Qu Xiaoqi had seen before.

"These are the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, I will pay you a part of the silver first, this is two taels of silver, and I will give you eight taels when I come back." The shopkeeper briefly introduced the five people behind him, and handed the silver to Qu Xiaoqi.

When Qu Xiaoqi held the silver two in his arms, his mind was still a little dazed.

She now feels like she's been hit by a giant pie.

But after a trip into the mountains, there were ten taels of silver to earn? What kind of family? Such a squander of silver?

"Let's go to the young master's mansion now, there is a carriage waiting there, let's take the carriage to go."

Qu Xiaoqi was still a little scared of the horse, and a close encounter with the horse just now left some psychological shadows on her.

On the way to the mountains, Qu Xiaoqi never saw the young master and the young owner of the rice shopkeeper.

In fact, for these two rich children, Qu Xiaoqi is more concerned about what he eats at night.

The carriage she was in was not small, but it was extremely crowded after being crowded with eight people.

Qu Xiaoqi sat on the side, next to Ah Qing, and opposite him was a young man who looked to be a teenager.

It was one of those Jianghu people, what made Qu Xiaoqi feel funny was that after these five people got into the car, they had been sitting upright, only this young man was very casual.

The person next to him tried to remind him several times, but he didn't know how to speak.

After all, the children of the rivers and lakes, freedom and freedom are synonymous with them.

"Ugly girl, what are you watching me do? It's disgusting to smile. ”

Ugly girl? Qu Xiaoqi reacted for a while before he knew that he was talking about himself, this kind of bear child is really annoying.

"If I don't laugh, can I still cry?"

"I can beat you to tears and see how ugly you cry." The young man said extremely seriously.

"Are you retarded?" Qu Xiaoqi's face collapsed a little, and his words were all annoyed and angry.

"Wisdom what?" The young man didn't know the meaning of the word, and he didn't have to think about it to know that it was not a good word, "You scold me!" ”

"What's wrong with scolding you? Which rule of the court and the government that I can't scold you? Qu Xiaoqi squinted his eyes, and his words were full of ill intentions.

Qu Xiaoqi's look made the young man who wanted to make a move retract his fist, snorted coldly and sat back again, no longer paying attention to Qu Xiaoqi, making the person who just wanted to fight stunned.

The shopkeeper smiled and played a round, and the surrounding atmosphere eased a little, but Qu Xiaoqi and Shaolang never looked at each other again.

Qu Xiaoqi felt that the young man was a nervous disorder, and the young man also thought of Qu Xiaoqi like this.

Ah Qing's face was not good, and he looked at the young man with a little hostility in his eyes.

He could more or less feel that Qu Xiaoqi didn't like that young man, and Qu Xiaoqi didn't like it, so he didn't like it either.

The young man's eyes looked at Ah Qing intentionally or unintentionally, and he seemed to be a little jealous of him.

These shopkeepers all saw it in their eyes, and secretly said that their vision was right, Ah Qing was really a powerful character.

When he arrived at his destination, Qu Xiaoqi saw the people in the luxurious carriage in front of him.

There were four of them, three of them looked to be about the same age as the boys, and the rest looked like they were only five or six years old.

Going up the mountain with such a small child?

Obviously, those Jianghu people also have some opinions on this, if you encounter a large beast such as a mountain tiger or a wild boar, it is obviously much more difficult to protect a small child than to protect a young person.

"The little guy must follow, I can't help it, please take care of it." Said the teenager with the child.

The shopkeeper hurriedly introduced: "This is my young master, Young Master Xu, and that is Sun Shao and his scholar." ”

"My name is Xu Zi'an, and my brother's name is Xu Zixin." The little guy said crisply.

"I'm the scholar Ren Yao, and the young master's name is Sun Yongwei."

The shopkeeper was stunned, he didn't expect that Young Master Sun's scholar would take the initiative to introduce the young master of his family.

Seeing that Young Master Sun's expression was not abnormal, he opened his mouth to introduce these Jianghu people and Qu Xiaoqi Ah Qing.

When he saw Ah Qing, the scholar Ren Yao was obviously stunned, and then quickly returned to his original appearance, but the afterglow swept on Qu Xiaoqi more frequently.

Especially the clasped hands of Qu Xiaoqi and Ah Qing, he almost didn't stare straight at those two hands.

Young Master Sun was much shyer than Qu Xiaoqi imagined, and most of the people who talked to him were his scholars.

Xu Zixin sometimes echoes two sentences, and the one who says the most is Xu Zi'an.

He was young, he had never seen anything, and every grass and tree in the mountains was a surprise to him.

His greatest pleasure is to dislike his brother, especially when he doesn't know something.

Qu Xiaoqi couldn't help but laugh in the back, the way the brothers got along was really interesting.

"Wow! Egg! Xu Zi'an suddenly shouted excitedly, looked at his brother, and asked, "What kind of egg is this?" ”

"Eggs?" Xu Zixin's tone was not very firm, he was familiar with poetry and books, but he had never read a book detailing the food in the mountains.

He can be said to be now, he doesn't know anything.

"It doesn't matter what the egg is, it's a hearty meal." Qu Xiaoqi said in a brisk tone, walked next to Xu Zi'an, and picked up the eggs into the back basket.

The things prepared by the shopkeeper of the rice shop are very complete, except for some food, even pots and chopsticks are brought, and these things are shared by the five Jianghu people.

"Fifteen eggs, we've got oral today." In Qu Xiaoqi's impression, the game in the mountains must be captive and delicious, whether it is meat or vegetables.

It's a pity that I don't know mountain vegetables, otherwise stir-frying a pot of mountain vegetables is also a rare delicacy.

The shopkeeper of the rice shop was worried about where to sleep at night, and he took a few quilts, but no one wanted to carry them up the mountain.

Is it possible to let the young owner and Young Master Sun sleep on the ground? Will the young owner be angry because of this?

"Shopkeeper, look at the foot, this mountain is a little steep." Qu Xiaoqi reminded.

"Okay." The shopkeeper of the rice shop responded casually, and his attention gradually fell to his feet.

Xu Zi'an is young after all, and he was very jubilant at the beginning, but he can't walk anymore.

"I said there was danger in the mountains, and you should come with it. How can a manly man back down because of this difficulty? Xu Zixin frowned and said.

Qu Xiaoqi didn't look like a businessman at all, his scholarly temperament was too strong, he really didn't expect such a person to be able to run a rice shop.

The shopkeeper of the rice shop looked at the Xu brothers with a smile and said, "Don't look at the young owner like this to his brother, he is not so biting in front of others. ”

Qu Xiaoqi just raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything, but Ren Yao was interested, and asked, "Young Master Xu, is he doing this to educate his younger brother?" ”

"Yes, although the young owner knows how to read, but he never reads those crepe books, since this younger brother went to school, he has carried people on his back, one by one, for fear that his younger brother will not be able to answer his own words."

It seems that the shopkeeper of the rice shop has a good relationship with his young owner, otherwise he would not know about these things.