Qu Xiaomo felt that the days ahead were a little dim when he thought about it.

Spring goes to summer, the days are getting hotter day by day, which is also a kind of torture for Qu Xiaomo, you must wear a high collar on a hot day, and the chest is wrapped in a strip of cloth, this run out of sweat is very uncomfortable, although there is an ice basin in the restaurant, but it is for guests, but it is cooler than outside.

There are not many people who come out for lunch in summer, but they are more leisurely than the cold winter, there are only four or five tables of guests in the restaurant, Qu Xiaomo is also shaking a fan and drinking tea with the old shopkeeper at this time, watching the pedestrians walking outside under the scorching sun.

The old shopkeeper took a sip of herbal tea, sighed, and said, "I'm afraid it's another dry year this year!" ”

"Not necessarily, but I'm afraid that this drought will rain heavily when it happens, and then it will be much more terrifying than the drought." Qu Xiaomo shook his fan and said

This flash flood broke out with countless casualties, although the drought said that the people had no harvest, but the imperial court opened a warehouse and released grain to survive next year, but the flash flood directly killed you.

The old shopkeeper smiled when he heard this, and said with a spout in his mouth: "There is a letter from above, because of the last incident, saying that I want the major restaurants to pick a clever one to teach in Beijing, and I will report your name." ”

"What?" Qu Xiaomo was stunned on the spot

The old shopkeeper looked at him shocked, but he didn't seem to be very happy, so he said: "After coming back from studying in Beijing, I will be the second-in-command of the restaurant, and I won't be able to do it for a few years. ”

Qu Xiaomo, who was paused, heard that the salary was rich, and his eyes flashed brightly, and he asked, "How much is the monthly salary of this shopkeeper?" ”

When the old shopkeeper heard her ask, he winked at her and beckoned her to come over, and whispered a number in her ear, and Qu Xiaomo was so shocked that her jaw almost dropped, and said, "So much!" ”

The old shopkeeper took a sip of tea with a smile and said, "You came back from the capital to be the second-in-command, and you also have this number." ”

Saying that, he raised his two fingers and winked at her, Qu Xiaomo opened his mouth wide, a second-in-command has twenty taels of silver per month, which she has only saved for a few months, and being a shopkeeper is actually fifty taels, my obedient, this temptation is too great, it is difficult for her to refuse!

Originally, she didn't want to go when she heard about this, after all, she knew her secrets, and it was okay to stay in this Futai Restaurant, they were all people she knew, and she could be forgiven if something happened, but she was not familiar with life in the capital, and this show of her feet would be a catastrophe, and it would be light to drive it out, so she was afraid of eating a stick, and she was considered to be a Sheng Ye spy sent by other merchants, but this generous treatment made her feel like she couldn't refuse.

Told the old shopkeeper that he thought about it for a night, thought about it over and over in bed for a long time, and finally decided to take a risk, if she won the bet, she would have a good life, and if she lost the bet, it was a big deal to cross the bridge and drink Meng Po soup, anyway, this life was picked up halfway.

After confirming, the old shopkeeper asked her to pack her things and go to the capital ten days later.

Hearing that she was going to the capital, several brothers patted her on the shoulder and said: There is a future!

Everyone talked to her about the things they heard about the capital, and explained the precautions, and said that she wanted to bring the capital with good things when she came back, and finally Xiao Liuyi patted her shoulder and said seriously: "Xiao Mo!" Don't let people bully you when you go there, let's all wait for you, a cultural person, to come back and be the second-in-command leader for us, remember to hide if you can, run if you can, don't make trouble! We won't be able to save you then. ”

"Got it! I, Qu Xiaomo, am not the kind of person who likes to cause trouble, little sixth brother rest assured. ”

For everyone's kindness and kindness, Qu Xiaomo remembered them one by one.

Everyone made a table of wine and food for her to practice, and the next day after eating, Qu Xiaomo packed her bags and said goodbye to everyone, sat on the bus that the old shopkeeper found for her, and set off towards the capital.

Jiazhou City is a month's drive from the capital, Qu Xiaomo's car was hired by an old woman, she went to a county outside the capital to visit relatives, because she couldn't get to the capital, Qu Xiaomo only paid for his own journey.

Along the way, Qu Xiaomo was eating dry food while watching the scenery, but not long after the dry food was put in the summer, the three of them discussed finding a small shop or village household to eat some hot meals every time they went to a place, otherwise they would only eat dry food this month, no matter how old or young they were afraid, something would happen.

Then you have to pay for this meal, but fortunately, Qu Xiaomo has brought all his savings in the past few months, and it won't cost much to eat in the capital.

Looking at the summer scenery along the way, from the rice fields in the south to the wheat fields in the north, Qu Xiaomo and the two people in the carriage parted ways in a place two days away from the capital.

There was a small cloth bag with a change of clothes on his back, and the silver was placed in the hidden pocket of his clothes, because he was in a hurry and hindered by the presence of others, he only used a handkerchief to soak in water and wipe it at will when he was resting halfway, and he did not wash it seriously, and his body was filled with a heavy smell of sweat, but at this moment he had no time to take care of it, and walked along the road pointed by the carriage master towards the capital.

Sure enough, I didn't see any villages along the way, fortunately, it was the height of summer, and it would not be cold at night, and now it was a full moon, and after nightfall, Qu Xiaomo still walked a long way by the moonlight before finding a crooked-necked tree in a small forest and climbing up, gnawed on dry food, and then lay down and rested for a while by the branch, and continued to hurry when it was dawn.

When she was asleep in a daze, she was suddenly woken up by a gust of cold wind, Qu Xiaomo hurriedly opened her eyes, and saw a group of black-clothed people riding fast horses speeding over the road, and the big knives with cold light in the moonlight made her shiver with a layer of goosebumps, but the faint tip of the nose of the group of people smelled a strong smell of blood after that.

Qu Xiaomo couldn't help but hug the branches tightly, and when she was looking for a place to rest, she felt that she was afraid that she would encounter poisons such as snakes and insects when she went deep into the forest, so she found a tree with more lush branches and leaves on the road, and looked at the group of people, only to find for the first time that in this era of cold weapons, life is like a reckless world, if you are not careful, you will really have to drink Meng Po soup.

Secretly glad that she had just found a dense tree, instead of directly finding a random place to lie down on the side of the road, Qu Xiaomo decided that next time, whether there were poisonous insects or not, she had to find someone to hide, and when she encountered this kind of bloody thing, her seven or eight lives were not enough for others to kill.

With a moment of fear, Qu Xiaomo climbed a big tree far away from the road as usual the next night, tied himself with a piece of clothing, hugged the trunk and squinted all night, and no longer dared to sleep by the roadside.

I woke up and took advantage of the fact that the sky was not yet fully bright, changed into clean clothes, and prepared to enter Beijing.

Walked all morning until almost noon before lining up into the city gate, the prosperity of the eye is not comparable to Jiazhou City, the busy avenue, full of exquisite goods.

Dressed in gorgeous clothes and holding folding fans, the sons and brothers walked together, and the ladies wearing expensive ornaments also held umbrellas and wandered around surrounded by maids and slaves, and even the old men who sold cucumbers with burdens were dressed in new clothes without patches, which showed that the living standards of the people here in the capital were much better than those in Jiazhou City.

There are many people, and it is inevitable that there will be some collisions, Qu Xiaomo, who was looking at things with great interest while walking, was hit on the shoulder by the oncoming person, and before she could see the person clearly, she heard the person say sorry to her and ran away.

In his previous life, he had seen a lot of TV episodes, and such people were pickpockets, Qu Xiaomo hurriedly touched the silver on his body, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he looked down and saw a copper plate on the ground, with a red silk thread hanging on it, so he picked it up.

Before he could see his hand, he was grabbed, and when he looked up, he saw that it was a guard holding a long sword, dressed in black on a hot day, with a pair of peach blossom eyes and a coffin face, and a guard in the same costume as him stood beside him, looking at her with a smile, and his little eyes narrowed into a line.

This sudden incident made Qu Xiaomo a little scared in her heart, she didn't offend anyone when she first arrived! What the situation is now!

Seeing that the two of them didn't want to speak, one squinted and the other coffin face didn't want to speak, Qu Xiaomo said worriedly: "What are the two eldest brothers doing, we... Acquaintance? ”

The squinting eyes smiled and said, "What, it's pretended?" I just stole my master's things, and I forgot about it? ”

"Hehehe, look at what this big brother said, the little one has never seen your master, how can he steal things?" Qu Xiaomo said tentatively and wanted to withdraw his hand, but found that he couldn't move, so he could only give up, and looked at the two of them with a flattering little face.

Listening to the squinting eyes, he said, "Then what is the thing in your hand?" ”

Qu Xiaomo looked at the copper plate with the red thread hanging on it in his hand that he had just picked up, and then he reacted and immediately shouted: "This is the little one that just picked it up from the ground, and it must have been thrown by the man who hit the little one just now." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the small burden on his back with his other hand, and said, "Whose pickpocket came out with his bags to commit the crime, two big brothers, do you say yes?" ”

The squinting eyes and the coffin face glanced at each other, and the peak of his eyebrows furrowed slightly, what this kid said did make some sense, but he still said: "No matter what, my master wants to meet the person who picked up this copper plate." ”

When he chased it out, his master's cold tone was still around his ears, saying that the silver in the money bag could not be recovered, but if someone picked up this copper plate, they would bring that person back together.

They saw that the master often took it out and fiddled with it at his fingertips, but if he didn't catch the pickpocket and take back the silver, why did he bring back the person who picked up the copper plate? This made them very puzzled in their hearts, but the master spoke and did what his subordinates did.

Qu Xiaomo hurriedly said: "If the masters of the two eldest brothers want to thank the little one in person for picking up this copper plate, then there is no need, and the little one has important things to do in Beijing, so he won't go with the two." ”

As he spoke, he was about to return the copper plate to them, but the two of them didn't answer, and the coffin face holding her hand didn't move at all, only to see squinting eyes and raising his lips at her and grinning: "It's still troublesome for this little brother to go." ”

Qu Xiaomo, who couldn't break free, could only be forced to be pressed all the way into a compound by these two people.