In front of the only pawnshop in Yizhou Town, it was already night, and the shopkeeper had even begun to plan to close the door, and three sloppy-looking men and women came outside.

The sudden startled the shopkeeper.

"Huh! What for? ”

Wang Xiaolai stepped forward and took out the gem on the empress's hairpin from his arms: "Shopkeeper, please show me how much silver this thing is worth." ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he reached out and took the gem, took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more disdainful his face became.

"It's not worth much, that is, two or three taels of silver."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Xiaolai and the empress were stunned, and Narcissus even came up and roared: "What? You're saying it again. ”

"Say it again, it's three taels of silver, what's the matter."

Wang Xiaolai frowned and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, are you sure you haven't looked away?" ”

"No, absolutely not."

Bang, with a sound, Narcissus slapped her palm on the table, and the solid wood table cracked for her: "Give me a closer look." ”

The shopkeeper was taken aback, struck a spirit, and looked up at Narcissus blankly.

"Five, five."

"Really?"

"No, ten taels, ten taels, no more."

The empress stood behind pretty, covered her mouth and smiled: "Okay, okay, ten taels will be ten taels." ”

Narcissus turned around, and just wanted to call His Majesty, but for fear of revealing his identity, he hurriedly changed his words and said, "But it's only ten taels..."

"That's better than nothing, little Laizi, give it to him, get the money."

Wang Xiaolai agreed, reluctantly handed over the gem, stretched out his hand and said angrily: "Take the money." ”

"Eh, here it is, here it is."

The shopkeeper took the gem, turned it into the back hall, and brought ten taels of silver and handed it to Wang Xiaolai.

took the money, swiped it in the palm of his hand four or five times, Wang Xiaolai snorted, and then turned around to give the empress a look.

After making sure that the three of them were gone, the pawnshop shopkeeper immediately took out the gem and held it in his hand, and looked at it with affection, and snickered while watching: "Three hammers, such an expensive thing is ten taels of silver left here, hehe, what an idiot." ”

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Leaving the pawnshop, Narcissus had an unhappy expression on his face, and Wang Xiaolai also kept humming.

The empress was the only one, pinching her chin with her hand, and kept asking where it was better to rest at such a late hour.

"Your Majesty, the pawnshop took away the gem for ten taels of silver, and you didn't say anything?" Narcissus couldn't help it and opened her mouth to ask.

The empress smiled and waved her hand: "It's okay, it's okay, ten taels will be ten taels, when the time comes, let's come back to redeem it, don't we also use ten taels, besides, we have a pawn ticket in our hands, and we are not afraid that he will repay the debt at all." ”

Narcissus snorted: "Your Majesty, you really have a big heart. ”

"Otherwise, what else can I do, go to the city to pawn again, we don't know each other well here, and it's also late, what if we get lost?"

Narcissus smacked his lips: "Come on, Your Majesty, whatever you say is what it is." ”

was chatting, and came to a restaurant, the three of them stepped forward, and the second child of the restaurant immediately greeted him: "Yo, the three are here, please come inside." ”

As soon as he spoke, he saw the appearance of the empress and the narcissus, and he was stupid in place.

Narcissus is iceberg temper, and when he saw that Xiao Er looked at himself and the empress intently, he glared at him fiercely.

The empress was better, and gave the little two a smile.

After entering the restaurant, he found a free place to sit down, and the little two naturally came up to be hospitable: "Three, what should you eat?" ”

"What's so good about you?"

"That's a lot, roast yellow and two wines, northern and southern dishes, we have them all."

Wang Xiaolai turned his head to look at the empress: "Your Majesty... Hmm, sister, eat something. ”

Wang Xiaolai was just about to habitually shout Your Majesty, the empress, huh? As soon as he spoke, Wang Xiaolai immediately changed his words and called his sister.

And listening to Wang Xiaolai's sister, the empress's face also raised a smile, nodded with satisfaction, and coughed: "Just come here, we can't finish eating without too many dishes." ”

Wang Xiaolai said that this was thrifty, and at the moment, he nodded and said to Xiao Er: "Cheng, then you can just come and have it, don't eat too much, you can't eat too much." ”

"Chengle."

Xiao Er turned around and went down, and after a while, he sent four plates of side dishes, a pot of wine, and asked with a plate: "The staple food in our store is actually quite good, can you three of you order it?" ”

"We'll talk about it later, you go down first."

"Eh, there's something you command."

In this room, Xiao Er went down to receive other guests, and Wang Xiaolai and the empress ate with chopsticks.

While eating, Wang Xiaolai also laughed with the empress and discussed the taste of the dish.

That is, Narcissus, who was frowning, and didn't know what she was thinking.

"Narcissus, this dish tastes good, why don't you eat it?" The empress chewed a green vegetable and looked up and asked Narcissus.

Narcissus sighed when she heard this, and put down the chopsticks she picked up: "Your Majesty..."

"Huh?"

Narcissus hurriedly changed his words: "Miss." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Let's come out tonight, we can't go back, but at home, don't you go crazy and look for us everywhere?" Narcissus voiced her concerns.

The empress pondered for a moment and said, "Yes, but what can we do, it's not our fault that we can't go back, right, Xiao Laizi." ”

Wang Xiaolai lowered his head to pick up the rice, listened to the empress's words, and nodded like pounding garlic: "That's it, this thing is force majeure, and we can't resist it at all." ”

Narcissus stepped on it underneath: "you, what kind of hot air balloon do you have to sit on, otherwise these things will happen?" ”

Wang Xiaolai was still unconvinced: "I didn't pull you, you had to come with me, can you blame me?" Your Majesty, sister, you said no. ”

The empress did not speak.

Narcissus stepped on it again.

The empress finally spoke: "Narcissus, the next time you step on it, you will step on it again, you have stepped on the wrong person." ”

"Ahh With a scream, Narcissus hurriedly got up and was about to kneel, but was stopped by the empress waving her hand: "Okay, sit back quickly, for fear that others won't know our identity, sit down." ”

Narcissus: "···"

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of dishes, several plates of dishes have been eaten, and they are all about the same, especially the empress and narcissus, the two daughters have a little small appetite, not like Wang Xiaolai, and they are reincarnated as hungry ghosts.

"Little two."

After eating and drinking, Wang Xiaolai shouted, and Xiao Er, who had been waiting in the hall for a long time, came up when he heard the words, with a rag on his shoulder: "This master, what do you have to order?" ”

Wang Xiaolai took out two pieces of broken silver, which added up to about three taels of silver.

"Is there any room available in the store?" Preferably two upper rooms. ”

Seeing the money, Xiao Eryi snatched the silver in his hand: "Yes, yes, this master is upstairs, please." ”

Wang Xiaolai gave the empress a look, and the second daughter stood up, followed Wang Xiaolai, and went up to the second floor with the shopkeeper.

When he came to the front of the room, he pushed open the door and went in, Xiao Er took the fire fold and lit the wax in the room, rubbed his hands and looked at the three of them with a grin: "Three, this room is still spacious." ”

Narcissus grabbed the shopkeeper: "You let the three of us live in one room?" ”

Wang Xiaolai came up to pat Narcissus: "You kid, what's the hurry, isn't the second brother still finished." ”

The shopkeeper also nodded hurriedly: "That's it." ”

The empress ignored the three of them, walked to the window, pushed open the window and looked out at the night scene.

After discussing for a long time, Wang Xiaolai also followed, but was stopped by the empress: "Little Laizi, come back." ”

Looking back, he was surprised: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" ”

Now there are no outsiders, so Wang Xiaolai's title for the empress has changed back.

The empress sat down at the table and poured herself a cup of tea: "It's okay, I'm just looking for you to talk." ”

Wang Xiaolai sat opposite the empress obediently: "Your Majesty, what do you want to talk about?" ”

"Just to talk about what you've been doing in Echo Valley these days." The Empress smiled and said.

The narcissus next to him was still puzzled, and said in his heart Wang Xiaolai's daily things in the Echo Valley, Your Majesty, don't you know, why do you want this kid to say it to his face.

But Narcissus didn't dare to say this, just lowered his head and guarded the side.

Wang Xiaolai didn't understand what the empress meant, so he told them one by one.

The empress listened with a smile and nodded, and from time to time she interjected a sentence or two, such as this, oh, really, or something.

said that it was a chat, and Wang Xiaolai said it alone, and the empress listened to it.

Looking at Wang Xiaolai's face, the empress sighed, and said in her heart that even if I already know all about you, I still want to hear you tell me...