Chapter 34: The Ghost Market (Part I)
Before he arrived, Ning Zhe was already waiting at the base of the wall in the southwest corner of the Yan Mansion, he changed into ordinary clothes, took off the jade crown, jade jue and other ornaments, and did not bring an entourage, just like a scholar, but it was still extravagant when he looked closely. At this moment, Ning folded his hands and stood up, looking up and staring, his expression soothing, and his gaze was particularly hot in this cold night.
In the quiet night sky, a full moon hung high, surrounded by a hazy halo of light and sparse starlight, and the whole earth seemed to be a still cradle. And Yan Fu is a sleeping baby, silent, only Yan Lang's production room is still lit, and there are a few flowing lights, it should be the subordinates on duty at night who are patrolling around.
There seemed to be a strange sound on the wall in the southwest corner of Yan's house, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl struggled to climb a bamboo ladder one zhang high, although it was the first month, it was also hot and sweaty, she finally climbed the wall, one hand on the wall, the other hand up, legs followed closely across the wall. With great difficulty, he pulled the ladder up, ready to set up outside the wall, and climbed down.
Ning Zhe had already seen Xianchen, she was dressed up in men's clothes today, and she was still wearing the royal blue clothes with auspicious cloud hostas, her face was flushed, and she was very handsome and cute. Ning Zhen smiled and said to him, "You jump down, I can pick you up." ”
Xianchen still pulled the bamboo ladder hard, panting and said, "No need, I'll be fine right away." I don't dare to exert my leg yet, so I'll slow down, sorry! ”
Ning Zhe was not disappointed, just looked at her with a smile, and thought: "The lack of strength in your legs has not stopped your curious pace."
Xianchen finally climbed down the bamboo ladder and said, "Let's go!" As he spoke, he walked briskly in front, and Ning Zhe followed closely behind. After taking two steps, Xianchen stopped and retreated behind Ning Zhen and said, "It's better for you to go first, after all, I have never found my way." Ning Zhe smiled secretly: "Okay, then don't lose it." ”
"Don't worry, Master Hou."
Ning Zhe's footsteps were chaotic two beats, he paused slightly, and swallowed back what he wanted to say. The two of them said something innocuous and laughed all the way, unconsciously walking into a dead end. There are some straw mats, straw and other things in this alley, and there is a dirty brown dog at the mouth of the alley, whose neck is tied by a very thick iron chain, which looks very scary, and I don't know what it is in the broken bowl in front of him, which is dark and smells of blood.
Xianchen had been here before, but he never thought that he would get lost here again, and said depressedly: "It turns out that Master Hou will also get lost, this is a dead end." ”
Ning Zhe smiled noncommittally and said, "You wait here for a while." As he spoke, he stepped forward and lifted it vigorously at the edge of the wall, and the "wall" was lifted, and Xianchen stepped forward and touched it, and it turned out that this "wall" was actually a very hard and coarse material, like cloth and non-cloth. Xianchen wanted to try to lift it, but found that the strength was completely insufficient, and then he found that although Ning Zhe looked at Sven, his arm strength was extremely strong.
The two of them walked through the cloth wall, and as soon as Ning folded his hand, the cloth wall blocked the way to the future. Xianchen looked back and continued to walk forward, walked for a short while, and found that there were coffin shops and paper shops on both sides, and there were several coffins parked at the door. Xianchen pushed Ning Fei aside and stood side by side with the paper man, the two of them looked a little alike, and they couldn't help laughing.
Ning Zhe was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the paper figure and suddenly realized, and when he saw that she was happy, he learned to stare at the paper man. Xianchen smiled even more and said: "I didn't expect Master Hou to be so playful, and the children can be taught." ”
The two of them walked through this gloomy shop, and there was only a very dilapidated wooden door in front of them, and when they looked closely, there were still some scratches and blood stains on the wooden door, and a corner of the door had rotted. The door was so dirty, he didn't dislike it, and knocked six times with the door, and the door opened from the inside. The door was opened by a hunchbacked old man, holding a python wooden cane, his hair seemed to have not been washed for decades, sticking into a cake, his skin was dark, and his face was too wrinkled to be seen......
Xianchen smelled a foul smell and unconsciously covered his nose with his sleeve. Seeing this, the old man just shook his head and said, "What are the little girl's families doing here?" Let's go back to embroidering. ”
Hearing this, Xianchen bowed to the old man very apologetically and said, "Grandpa, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." ”
The old man didn't speak, just got out of the way and let them in. On the other hand, Ning Zhen on the side cast an admiring look at Xian Chen, and such a non-arrogant lady was afraid that only Xian Chen.
When you enter this door, you will be brightly lit, crowded and boiling. None of the shops on either side are closed, and the streets are filled with stalls on both sides, blocking the streets. It can really be described as "the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village". After glancing around twice in a daze, Xian Chen rushed over without waiting for Ning Zhe to react, and walked around one stall after another. took a ghost mask with fangs on the front and put it on himself, and took a smiling man with heavy makeup to put on Ning Zhe, and left with a piece of broken silver in a chic manner. I only heard the stall owner say respectfully in the back: "Thank you, uncle, thank you, uncle, I like you to come again." ”
Ning Zhe didn't resist, he recognized her as a man, and the two continued to move forward. Xianchen came to the door of a shop selling weapons, the owner was a man in his forties who looked like a white-faced scholar, with red lips and white teeth and a pair of peach blossom eyes, he was supposed to be extremely handsome, but a two-inch long cracked brown scar on his cheek destroyed this beauty, and it was a little terrifying to look at.
The temper of the shopkeeper was also very strange, and he didn't greet him when he saw the two of them coming in, but he sat on a rattan chair and smoked a hookah with a big bamboo tube, and the smell was very choking. But his weapons and hidden weapons are all of the highest grade, and in comparison, Yan Lang's ones are not worth mentioning. Xian Chen picked a few to take back to the second brother Yan Lang, took out the money bag and prepared to pay, and the boss said leisurely: "Three hundred taels."
"What? How much? Xian Chen asked in disbelief, three hundred taels is enough for ordinary people to live for a lifetime. These things are so expensive.
At this time, Ning Fold still had a gold ingot, and then signaled for Xianchen to go out. Xian Chen said angrily: "It's so expensive, why did you pay for it?" I don't want it, this boss must be from us. ”
Ning Zhe saw that she was saving money for herself, and she was overjoyed, and explained to her: "This person is nicknamed 'Tang Sanshao', and the weapons and hidden weapons he makes are all first-class, so they are naturally more expensive, but it doesn't matter, it's not worth anything." ”
Xianchen let out an "oh", and said in his heart: "Your Ning family is rich and rich, and your tone is not small. ”
The two of them walked all the way and bought all the way, and after a while, Ning Zhe couldn't hold it in his hand, especially those few iron pimple weapons and hidden weapons were quite heavy, only to see Ning Zhe snap his fingers, and a secret guard appeared to take all the things in Ning Zhe's hand and disappeared. In fact, when they just met, Xianchen wondered: Is it dangerous for Ning Zhen to be a gunman and play with himself, after all, he has a noble status and a big goal, and he can't compare to a nameless little minion like himself, it turns out that he has been prepared.
Thinking in my heart, I didn't realize that the two of them had walked to a flower street, it turned out that the ghost market also had a flower street, but the flower street in the ghost market was not an ordinary leather and meat business, but a slave trade. There were still twenty or thirty women standing in a street who were scratching their heads and posing, and when they saw that they were such personable young men, and they would rather bend their noble clothes, they rushed up and pulled at them, and at the same time kept introducing the skills of their slaves.
Both of them were surrounded inside and couldn't get out, the smell of fat powder on their bodies was more uncomfortable than the smell of the old man at the door, fortunately, Xianchen was small, and crawled out from under their feet while they weren't paying attention, seeing that Ning Zhe was still deep in it, and was scratching his ears and cheeks and didn't know how to save it, but saw a familiar figure running hurriedly from the street.
"Yunyi."