Chapter 10: The Emerald Screen

The young man dragged the summer night and ran quickly in the streets and alleys of the capital, until he felt safe, then he let go of her hand, and the two rested against the wall.

At this time, Summer Night found herself in a messy and dirty place, which looked like a bazaar, full of people coming and going, and it seemed that there was a mixture of religions and nine streams. She felt a little uneasy in her heart, and pulled the young man beside her, signaling to get out of here quickly.

But the boy waved his hand at her and said, "Father-in-law told us to wait for him here." As he spoke, his eyes suddenly fixed on the two young women who were passing in front of him.

"Yo, this little brother, I have taken a fancy to one of our sisters, and my eyes are about to pop out." The two women couldn't help but stop, squinting at the boy with their eyebrows and eyes, and one of them even laughed boldly.

"She's really handsome." The other was not thin-skinned, squeezed away the summer night, and stood beside the young man.

Looking at their spring hearts on a summer night, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: It's always a world of faces!

The boy smiled helplessly at her, as if telling her not to mind waiting for him for a while. Summer Night gave him a roll of the eyes, suffering from the fact that he was completely unfamiliar with this place, so he had to let him. And the conversation over there clearly reached her ears.

"How old are the two sisters?"

"Oh, the stinky boy is so bad."

"I won't tell you. Hee-hee. ”

"I have an ancestral jade bracelet here, if you have a fate, you can sell it cheaply, I wonder if the two sisters are interested in giving it a try?"

"Well, take a look."

"Hee-hee."

While talking, a few more women came up, and when Xia Ye saw that the young man had started a business, he really couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, but he was helpless, so he had to go to the side again.

She looked around a little bored, and suddenly felt that the two people walking not far away were very familiar, she thought hard, and suddenly remembered that it was not Li Ergui and his wife, the pair of abducted in-laws who sold her to Wenxiangyuan, and her heart rushed straight to her head, and she chased after her without thinking.

But soon Summer Night lost her goal, and she looked around in the crowd at a loss, and she couldn't even find where the boy was. Just when she was at a loss, suddenly a person bumped into her, and Xia Ye was thrown to the ground, she struggled to push him away, stood up, and found several fierce men surrounded by her.

"Stinky Taoist, you don't even give money for drinking! You run again, Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu stomped on you! A big man with a meaty face looked like the boss of the group, panting and pointing the kitchen knife in his hand at a man lying on the ground.

His shouting and scolding drew some good people over, and immediately a circle of people surrounded him.

Xia Ye found that the person who knocked him down just now turned out to be a Taoist priest, he looked very down, no wonder he wanted to escape from other people's wine money, thinking that she would not flow in such troubled waters, and was about to walk away, but she was grabbed by the ankle by this Taoist priest, she was about to go crazy, but the Taoist priest sat up crookedly.

"As for it? Erzhu, just for a sip of wine, you are chasing the poor road? I don't drink you in vain when I'm drunk and half-immortal, I said that I used hexagram money to offset wine, and you didn't suffer. ”

"Xuanqing, you are a poor Taoist who cheats on wine and drinks, you haven't drunk less wine, but you haven't hit the hexagram once, I think your name as a half-immortal has changed, wouldn't it be better to be called a foolish immortal." The big man is sarcastic.

The crowd burst into laughter.

"Hey, ordinary people, ordinary people, you know a fart!" The Taoist priest named Xuanqing raised his face and retorted with a dead face.

On a summer night, I saw that his cheeks were deep-set, his cheekbones were high, and he had a sparse goatee under a pair of mustaches, which looked more like a sick ghost.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't think about losing the wine money this time, otherwise I'll leave you with an arm." The big man said that he was about to lift his knife and step forward.

"Wait!" Xuan Qing suddenly shouted.

The big man was taken aback by him, stopped and asked, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Xuan Qing staggered to Xia Ye and stood up, suddenly turned his head and whispered to Xia Ye: "Girl, this time you must save the poor." ”

Xia Ye didn't have time to answer, Xuan Qing had already said confidently to the meat man: "This girl will pay for the wine for the poor road." ”

Summer Night thought to herself: Unlucky, I've run into a scoundrel.

"Girl, don't you have a bag of silver in your bosom? Take it out, take it out! Xuan Qing looked like she took it for granted, and when she saw that Xia Ye was stunned and at a loss, she was even more planning to go to her arms and take it for herself without asking. Summer Night was so frightened that she retreated, but she hit the human wall, and they didn't seem to want to make a way for her.

"I have nothing on me, only a broken stone, take it if you want." Suddenly, Wu Ye opened her mouth, Xia Ye didn't know what she was going to do, but since she had said that, she had to take out the green stone.

The drunken half-immortal narrowed his eyes and looked at the green stone, his face gradually showed a look of disgust, and he pouted and said, "Girl, you obviously have silver, but you really shouldn't use this kind of broken stone to call you poor." You must know that deceiving the people in the Dao Sect is a curse. ”

Xia Ye greeted his old mother ten thousand times in his heart, thinking that this person is really a scoundrel to a new level, and I know that I don't owe you. So she put away the stone and was about to turn around and leave, but she didn't expect Xuanqing's hand to suddenly flick on her waist.

"Ahh

However, Xuan Qing ignored her, and at this time, he already had an extra ingot of silver in his hand, and threw it to the big man and said, "It's just a lot, not a little more." ”

The man got the money, so he didn't care where the money came from, and said, "Go!" He scattered with his men.

Summer Night was very surprised, where did such a big ingot of silver come from? However, she didn't bother to care, this Taoist priest was chattering, it was better to stay away from him, at this time the onlookers gradually dispersed, and Xia Ye also wanted to find the boy.

Unexpectedly, the Taoist suddenly started a drunken madness, jumped and screamed beside Xia Ye, and bumped into her, and then staggered away.

Xia Yezheng felt strange, subconsciously touched his chest, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat behind his back, the stone was gone, and it was clearly a good thing done by this drunken Taoist priest. It's really a robber who meets a thief's grandfather, and Summer Night didn't expect someone to steal something from her without knowing it. She felt that this Xuanqing was not simple, and she didn't have time to think about it, so Xia Ye hurriedly chased after her.

After chasing until the sun sunset, she followed Xuan Qing to a place called 'Sword Shadow Villa', but suddenly lost his trace.

Standing in front of the majestic 'Sword Shadow Villa' in the summer night, seeing that this place was full of people, there were more than a dozen people who were neatly dressed, energetic, and dressed as martial artists standing on the stone steps of the door, and they arched their hands to welcome groups of people in. She winced a little and was about to leave, when someone tapped her on the shoulder, and she turned around in the twilight, and it was Xuan Qing, who had come out of nowhere.

The Taoist priest didn't wait for Xia Ye to react, took her hand and rushed into the 'Sword Shadow Villa', a young martial artist stopped them, with a puzzled expression on his face, but asked politely: "May I ask this Taoist master, but you came from the notice?" ”

"Well, that's natural, and besides, Dao Ye didn't come for nothing." Xuan Qing said and squeezed his eyebrows at the young man, his expression was very ambiguous.

When the young man saw this, he smiled wryly, said a word of invitation, and let the two in.

After entering, someone led them to a hall, where more than a dozen banquets had been set up, and nearly half of the seats were already full, and the Taoist priest led the summer night to sit next to one of the round seats.

After sitting down, I looked around, and saw that there was a place in front of the hall covered by a white curtain, and several strong men were guarding there, with their hands on their waists and looking at the seats.

After a while, the round table was filled with people one after another, and someone shouted: "Stop." ”

The door of the hall was closed, and someone couldn't help whispering during the banquet, I don't know what the master is selling, but when she looks at the Taoist priest on a summer night, she looks calm and relaxed, she doesn't know what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd.

"Guests, please start eating." Summer Night found that the person who spoke was a black-faced man standing in front of the tent.

As soon as the words fell, Xuan Qing grabbed a jar of unopened wine on the table, broke his mouth three or two, and drank it with the sea next to the jar. Fortunately, the host was hospitable and well-stocked with wine, so as not to cause disputes.

However, some people are not in a hurry to drink wine and eat meat, and someone at this table on a summer night stood up, hugged his fist towards the tent and said: "The owner of the village is gracious, we are very grateful, but Han is an anxious person, and I also ask the owner of the village to tell the details of what was said on the notice, and we can also eat with peace of mind." ”

As soon as he said this, those visitors who were eating happily were also a little embarrassed, although they all scolded this shell surnamed Han for climbing the weighing pan - I don't know how much weight I have, and I deviated from this head, but they all stopped their cups and spoons, and echoed in their mouths: "Exactly, exactly." ”

Only Xuanqing still drank to his heart's content in front of the wine jar, and it seemed that the nickname of drunk half-immortal was at least half right.

"You don't have to be formal, our owner Lu Zhuang is sincere in hospitality."

"Oh, less nonsense, let's talk quickly, let's have a good meal." There are reckless people who shout impatiently.

"That is it, I will ask the owner of the village to count the ins and outs of this matter in detail."

"That's exactly how it should be." Someone praised.

"Come, put the gold up."

I saw two people who looked like Zhuang Ding, carrying a table to the front of the tent, there were piles of mountain-like things on the table, covered with white cloth, the black-faced man stepped forward, tore off the white cloth, and suddenly the golden light flashed, and the hall was silent for a while, it was a mountain of gold.

At this moment, a voice came from the curtain, very loud, but how did it sound a little male and female?

"Sword Shadow Villa recently issued a reward notice, asking friends in the rivers and lakes to help find a piece of the jade screen that was stolen more than ten years ago. Ladies and gentlemen, the remuneration has been prepared, and Honjo will not break his word. In addition, I, Lu Sihai, add one more condition here, which hero can find the lost treasure of Honzhuang, except for gold, my Sword Shadow Villa will agree to any request he makes. ”

"Is that true?" Someone asked out loud.

"Hmph, of course it's within my Sword Shadow Villa's ability, even if it's killing people and taking revenge, it's all the same." The unmasculine voice replied decisively.

"There's a request below." At this moment, a sound that seemed to be heard on a summer night sounded from a corner.

She turned her head to see that it was the one-armed man, he had also come, and she involuntarily ducked behind Xuanqing.

"Please speak, sir."

"All of you here have only heard of this jade screen, but have never seen it, listen to the owner of the house, this screen is more than one, whether the other pieces are in the hands of the owner, take it out for everyone to see, find it in your heart." The one-armed man is eloquent.

"That's a good point."

"This is true, and I also asked the owner to borrow the jade screen to take a look."

The crowd agreed with the one-armed man's words.

"This gentleman's words are not unreasonable, since my Sword Shadow Villa sincerely invites friends from the rivers and lakes to help, I will not hide anything, come here, bring the other two jade screens, so that all good friends can see it clearly."

"Yes."

After a while, a farmer brought a tray padded with red velvet, on which stood two jade handicrafts in the shape of a connected screen. In order to let everyone see them clearly, Zhuang Ding walked slowly up from the table with the tray in his hand, and when Xia Ye saw it, he couldn't help but be shocked that they were exactly the same as the green stone she had picked up.

When the screen passed in front of Xuan Qing, he suddenly put down the wine jar, jumped up violently, reached out and grabbed the two pieces of jade in his hand, and let out a haha laugh.

"Who? Want to make trouble at Sword Shadow Villa? With Lu Sihai's angry voice, a large group of strong martial artists rushed out from a door behind the curtain and pounced on Xuan Qing.

Summer Night doesn't know what kind of madness he is going to be.

"Wait, don't misunderstand the owner of the village, the poor smile is because he is happy for the owner." The Taoist priest replied unhurriedly.

"Stop!" Lu Sihai stopped his subordinates, and then asked, "What does the Taoist long say?" ”

"Poor Dao wants to tell the owner that another jade screen is already in this flower hall at this time."

"What did you say!" Lu Sihai's voice suddenly became sharp, but soon he coughed lightly and returned to his original tone, "Dao Chief, then you have to return the jade screen, please take the gold on this table." ”

The drunken half-immortal put the jade screen in his hand on the table, took out the black cloth package from his arms, and took out the green stone from it in front of everyone's eyes, and the crowd suddenly made a 'buzzing' sound of discussion.

"I don't know if the owner promises one thing or not." Drunken half-fairy asked.

"Of course."

"Wait!" Suddenly, Wuye opened his mouth.

"Oh, what does this girl have to say?"

"This jade screen was originally found by me, but it was snatched by this crazy Taoist priest. Therefore, the promise of the owner should be fulfilled to me. ”

Summer Night knew in her heart that Wuye must have some plans.

"Excuse me, this Daoist, what she said is the truth."

Unexpectedly, Xuan Qing squinted his eyes and smiled, and admitted very happily: "Not bad!" ”

His attitude puzzled Summer Night.

"Very good, as long as this jade is real, the owner of the village will not only offer a hundred taels of gold, but also meet a request made by this girl."

"Golden girls are not rare, as long as the owner of the village does one thing for me." No night road.

"Girl, don't worry, wait for the owner of the village to check the authenticity of this thing before making a decision."

"Good!"

Just when Yizhuang Ding was about to take back all the three pieces of jade, suddenly the figure in front of him flashed, and the jade screen had all fallen into the hands of the one-armed man, only to hear him say loudly: "Wait, this jade screen is actually not obtained by this girl, it was snatched from the hands of the subordinates." ”

The crowd was in an uproar.

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