Xunyang County, outside the city gate, the autumn wind rises.

The wanted notice posted at the door for three months is now somewhat yellowed, and several places are still damaged. The surveyors defending the city picked up the portraits on the wanted notices and carefully surveyed the civilians entering and leaving, and their faces were solemn and could not tolerate a trace of confusion.

It's almost three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the day is over, and when it gets dark and the night falls, it's curfew. The people of good families do not work, the shops are not open, and everyone has to go home and sleep obediently. Not going out at night is a new rule in this county for months. When the gates were closed, they would have nothing to do.

Several soldiers were also bored haha, and one soldier wanted to find a tree to relieve himself when he was free. He had just found a bald cypress tree with all its leaves gone, and he was about to untie his trouser belt, while his eyes habitually squinted into the distance, and after a glance, he was stunned, and he didn't have time to continue to relieve himself, pointing to a direction in the distance, and informed the surveyors at the gate of the city: There are outsiders entering the city, and there are still many miles of people.

A group of soldiers looked over there----- a group of convoys entered the city in this direction, the convoy of carriages and horses was less than a dozen, some of the cars were loaded with boxes, some of the cars were loaded with people, each car had a skilled coachman driving horses, keeping a close distance between the front and back, one by one lined up in an orderly manner, and was stopped by these few surveyors at the gate of the city.

There are estimated to be forty or fifty people in these dozen or so cars, and the surveyor swallowed his saliva weakly, and his heart rose to his throat.

Boy! It's a busy time.

The leader was a respected veteran, who shouted at the people in the carriage with a high and powerful name, "Where did the distant friends come from?" The veteran spoke a little subtlely. But I saw a pennant on each car, and three big characters were written on the square: Evergreen Class.

This is a well-known opera troupe in Beiping in recent years, and I just heard a month ago that this troupe was going to leave Beiping to seek a living elsewhere. I don't know if it's a life of blindly begging for a line, this opera troupe came to this unwarranted small county town - Xunyang with such fanfare

Now it's being intercepted by a few scouts here, and I need to give an explanation.

In their first carriage, a man hurried down, a young man wearing tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, dressed in a simple vermilion robe, and with the temperament of a scholar with a touch of ink, he bowed his hand politely, and greeted several surveyors at the city gate with a smile on his face.

The young man took out a few stamped dark green hardcover notebooks from his pocket and said to the veteran who had just questioned them: "This is a resident card, you can take a look", the veteran looked the young man up and down a few times, and opened the resident card to examine it carefully.

A young soldier said almost idly in this interval: "I have long heard that Shen Yeling and Boss Shen of your opera troupe are singing operas, I don't know if he is also here."

The young man nodded politely at them, and pointed to the second carriage behind him to indicate that the Boss Shen they said was in this car: "We are here with Boss Shen."

Several surveyors are also looking forward to the second carriage, although they have not heard Shen Lang sing, but they have all heard his reputation, and the "Prison Mandarin Duck" sung with his senior brother Zhang Changxin was even more popular in the Beiping Drama Theater. I also heard that he looks better than Pan An, from the lady to the girl in the miscellaneous courtyard, they all fell in love with Shen Lang at first sight.

This can't help but make people a little curious about him.

The young man looked at them and smiled, immediately jumped into the car, took out a few packets of pastries carefully wrapped in butter paper from the car, handed them to them with both hands that were thoughtful one by one, and did not forget to say politely: "Several officials have worked hard, these are all pastries with the characteristics of the capital, please don't laugh."

The inspectors also took it with both hands, with a smile on their faces, and the young man hinted at the bottom of the oil paper with his eyes, and the surveyors understood, and carefully touched a piece of coldness, which turned out to be hiding a few pieces of ocean.

The surveyors who received the ocean were all beautiful, and they had a plan in their hearts, while looking at the veterans who had completed the inspection, waiting for him to order the following work.

The veteran has fought in the past and has seen a lot of the world, these little soldiers have to look at his face to act, the veteran read the resident card, looked at the young man and this group of carriages for a long time, and frowned: "In the past few months, we have a wanted criminal who will bite people in Xunyang, and we are very troublesome, and you are even more troubled when you come like this" He said his pain, and then became a little embarrassed: "The upper part must strictly check the flow of people at the entrance and exit, everyone can't let it go, and we can't help it."

The young man understood the movements of the veteran, walked to the window of the second carriage, and discussed a few words with the corner of the person in the window.

Everyone in the car came down to check collectively, and the scene was a bit spectacular. Thinking of the scene, a stupid surveyor was full of anticipation for Shen Yeling, who was about to appear, and asked: "Boss Shen is really polite, I really didn't expect to come to sing with us, which theater are you opening your voice?" ”

"Chunwain", the young man replied truthfully.

A surveyor also got involved, but he didn't open any pot and said, "Hey, if it weren't for the incident that spread in Beiping before, he could have come to our Xunyang?" ”

The reader squinted his eyes and saluted them with a somewhat embarrassed expression, signaling them to stop talking.

Everyone knows that Zhang Changxin, who sang "Mandarin Ducks in Prison" to Boss Shen, sang on the stage a month ago, and when the play was sung to the end, he committed suicide by drawing his sword in front of Shen Yeling, who was on the same stage, it is said that blood splashed everywhere and sprinkled directly on Shen Yeling's face and clothes, so his brother who was like a brother died in front of him on the spot.

After that day, Shen Yeling had the idea of leaving Beiping

The scout inadvertently clicked here, and on the second carriage, a young man jumped out: "How do you talk about the things spread in Beiping, who is rare in your shabby town, if it weren't for my second uncle wanting to come, I wouldn't be rare in this place."

The young man looked like he was about ten years old, and stood in the carriage a little taller than them, with an evil fire on his body.

"Shang Zhi", the young man called the young man's name majestically, and the young man immediately shut up, most of the anger on his body disappeared, and he hummed twice in his mouth to address the young man: "Senior brother".

The young inspector was dumbfounded for a moment, didn't he say that Shen Yeling did it on the second car Boss Shen, how could a hot-tempered teenager come out.

However, there was a call from the carriage behind the young man, and the young man hurriedly lifted the curtain, and a slender man in a purple gown came out of it, although it came out of the carriage. But it is more like a beauty who came out of a Western painting, with fair skin, dark eyebrows, and even more delicate facial features.

The surveyors on the side were even more straight-eyed, and there was no second one among the famous men in Beiping who had a dusty temperament, if this man wasn't Shen Yeling, who else could he have?

Shen Yeling got down from the carriage and the young man together, and the young man observed the reaction of the survey soldiers after seeing Shen Yeling one by one, and unceremoniously said: "Hmph, there was a sea of people who wanted to see my second uncle's true face in the background back then, and now they are bumped into by a few of you, so ask for Buddha."

The young man's misanthropic attitude of not being afraid of heaven and earth made the reader on the side rub the back of his head and reprimanded: "Don't say a few words, the master doesn't like to hear these things the most", the young man turned back to him and rubbed his tongue unconvinced, and his attitude still did not change.

Shen Yeling couldn't do anything about the young man, so he raised his hand and instructed the young man: "Ruliang, take Shangzhi to the car and I'll deal with the rest."

The young man nodded in response, "Yes, Master," and then took the young man into the second carriage and sat down.

Shen Yeling walked up to a few inspectors and said, "A few officials, I am Shen Yeling, a servant from Beiping, just now my little nephew collided with a few people, and it was my incompetence in discipline that I asked Haihan." We don't have the intention of blocking a few people, but we want to come to this city to sell our crafts for a living, if we bring inconvenience to a few people, then we really can't go. So we try to be as thoughtful as possible where we can cooperate."

is worthy of singing in Beiping, and even speaking is as good as singing. After speaking, Shen Yeling bowed respectfully to several survey soldiers, and called his eldest apprentice Xu Ruliang to ask him to call down all the people in the carriage and prepare to cooperate with the survey soldiers.

"Official, my wife is sick and afraid of the wind, can you let me go up to take care of it and exempt us from getting out of the car for inspection", Shen Yeling spoke unhurriedly and bowed his head slightly to show respect for the veteran.

The veteran looked at Shen Yeling very pleasantly, so he also agreed to let him and his wife stay on it, and the surveyors set off one by one to compare the wanted portraits with the people in the troupe, and after checking the people and the car, they all ran back and nodded at the veterans and said that there was no problem, and the veterans who confirmed the safety of the convoy also said that their convoy could enter the city when they saw Shen Yeling coming down.

After this toss, the people of the convoy heard that they were allowed to enter the city, and first breathed a sigh of relief and got into the carriage, Shen Yeling watched them sit in the carriage and turn around and clasp their hands, leaning towards their chests and saluting them sincerely, the veteran had a good impression of him, and now he likes it even more, put down the seriousness just now, and said politely: "Boss Shen is a famous actor in Beiping, it is our honor to come to Xunyang, I will also buy a ticket to add some excitement to your play." ”

Shen Yeling nodded and smiled: "Thank you."

The veteran looked at Shen Yeling from head to toe: "Boss Shen looks familiar, he has been to Xunyang before"

Shen Yeling replied: "I have been here, lived for a while, met some people here, and later missed some things, so I left Beiping and came here to sing and make a living."

The veteran suddenly realized and continued to be polite; "No wonder I see you like a person, what year are you Xunyang".

"Thirteen years ago".

"How long did you stay"?

"Three years".

"Oh。。。。。 Shen Yeling didn't feel impatient after answering the question, but answered every sentence seriously.

The veteran understood, his eyes were like knives, he scraped his body again, and finally shook his head and sneered: "This is strange, I see that you and I know a dumb young man who looks alike, even the year he lived in Xunyang is about the same。。。。。 Alas! Maybe I was mistaken, hey! People are old and have bad brains, Boss Shen is not early, hurry up and enter the city."

Shen Yeling nodded, saluted again, turned around and got into the car with a frown.

This huge convoy entered Xunyang in this way.

The veteran was still looking at the back of the carriage, listening only to the young inspectors discussing it.

"Boss Shen is really good-looking, everyone outside says that he and his wife respect each other like guests, very affectionate, Boss Shen never messes with flowers and grass because of his wife's illness, he is a very good husband. Thinking about it this way, if his wife is not a beauty who matches Shen Lang, her appearance must be reasonable. However, when I got into their carriage just now, I found that his wife's face was really bad, lying next to Shen Lang like a dead corpse."