The south gate of Haizhou City. People come and go, endlessly.

"Brother Liu, why did I look at you with a cold face early this morning, what is it that makes you unhappy. Didn't you serve you well last night when your old man looked at the Moon Tower? Ding Lao, the gatekeeper with a Yanling knife on his waist, stood lazily at his post and looked at the goalkeeper Ding Lao Liu who was holding a red tassel gun opposite.

"Hi...... Don't mention it. Lao Liu sighed very depressedly, and paused the spear in his hand on the ground: "Little Taohong has served my brother and me comfortably and happily." I'm drinking and listening to music again. At night, I stayed there as usual. But, hey! Brother Otomo, don't mention it, don't mention this stubble. ”

"Yo hi! Brother, you've been happy and comfortable all night, what's wrong, this is a weak body? Haha......"

"Brother Otomo. Brother, I, I want to ask you something? ”

"Brother, that's it, what's the matter?"

"When I'm on duty these days, help my brother keep an eye on that little Taoist.

"Little Taoist? Which little Taoist? ”

"It's just yesterday, yesterday at the gate of this city we checked the one with his baggage, claiming to be the one from that place in Hebei."

"Oh? Ah, I see, I see. Are you trying to make some broken silver again? Hahaha, yes, yes. You don't need to say this, brother. Although I have not been here for a long time, ah, these days, I can see it. We, the dignitaries can't afford to provoke, and the local ones in this hometown can't pull their faces down. Oh, we can only, can only stop those ordinary people from other places. Otherwise, with that little money every month? How can you feed your family? ”

"yes, yes. However, this time I'm going to settle accounts with that little Taoist priest, I, I suspect that he is the chaotic party of the Heaven and Earth Society. ”

"Huh? Brother, you're not going to come, are you? There's a need for evidence for this. Besides, if that little Taoist priest is really from the Heaven and Earth Society, we should be cautious. It is said that those thieves are all strong in martial arts and are not afraid of death. Besides, the little Taoist priest is quite sensible, and he doesn't look like it. ”

"He, he dares to tease us, I can't swallow this breath."

"Where's this?"

"As for him, the money he gave us was false. However, it was just fake, and it turned out to be two pebbles. ”

"Pebbles? This ......"

"This morning, in the Moon Tower, I, I took out my purse, ready to give me a good reward, but, but found that there were two pebbles the size of pigeon eggs. Hum! It's also my fault that when I took over, I didn't take a look. It's just that when I grabbed it in the palm of my hand, I obviously felt that it was two pieces of broken silver, but in the end, how could it be? That little Taoist priest must be one of those demon Daoists of the Heaven and Earth Society, and one of those Jianghu Warlocks, who turned out to be the demon method that would make and make the world and the sea. ”

"No, the piece you gave my brother yesterday is a real piece of broken silver. Early this morning, before I came here to be on duty, I gave it to my mother-in-law, and asked her to go to the street early today to buy some wine and meat. In this house, since the Spring Festival, I have bought meat twice. It's been a month since the last time the house opened meat, think about it, it's almost a month. I haven't seen meat for a few days, and I'm not afraid of your jokes, brother, hehe, those two boys in my family have been hungry for a long time, and they have been shouting for meat for a long time, hehe. It's worth it today, just right, go home, I can also have two cups, hehe. Ay? Two pieces of goose...... No, didn't you give me a piece? This ......" said the gatekeeper Ding, who was called Otomo, and looked at Lao Liu standing opposite with some confusion.

"This? Hi! Don't mention it, don't mention it. Lao Liu somehow blushed a little embarrassed at this time.

"Oh! I see. I said, Brother Liu, the piece of broken silver you gave me is far less big than a pigeon's egg, and at best it is smaller than a sparrow egg. It seems that the little Taoist priest may really be the thief of the Heaven and Earth Society. This is not just a way to steal beams and change pillars from the world. This is、This is the ability to turn stones into gold, turn decay into magic, and turn gods into mortals。 Not only can stones be turned into silver, but silver can also be turned into stones, and what about the original stone, this is turned into silver again when two people pass it over. Ay? Brother Liu, I don't know if this silver, if it passes through the hand again, will it turn into stone. Hehehe...... It's not good, it's not good, if my mother-in-law goes to the street to sell wine and buy meat today, if someone finds out that she uses stones as silver, she will be beaten by others, maybe in the end, she will be twisted to the Yamen of the official mansion in Haizhou City, how can this be good?! After saying this in a weird way, Dayou no longer continued to stand on both sides of the city gate with Lao Liu face to face, but turned around and faced the official road outside the city gate, as if to appreciate the ten miles of peach blossoms on both sides of the official road.

"You...... Hum! Lao Liu blushed and gritted his teeth, slammed the red tassel gun in his hand on the ground, lowered his head and stopped talking.

"That, that, Lao Liu, Lao Liu. Deaf, you, call you. ”

"Who? Who is talking to me like this? Dare to scold me? Look for death. Lao Liu raised his head sharply and looked around. But at the gate of the city, the people who came and went went their own way, and no one was shouting at him. However, some passers-by stopped and looked at Lao Liu, who was shaking his head and looking around, shouting in his mouth.

"What do you see? Hurry up and get out of the way. If you pestle here again, you will be taken down and punished for the crime of disturbing order. Lao Liu looked around, but he didn't see who it was. Instead, he saw a few passers-by who were looking at him with a pause, stunned, or confused, smirking. I couldn't help but be more annoyed, I lifted the spear in my right hand and pushed it forward, grabbed and grabbed it with my left hand one after another, took a half step forward with my left leg, held the gun with both hands, the tip of the gun shook slightly, and lit it one by one towards the few people who stopped to look at him, the bright red tassels fluttered in the warm spring breeze, and the silver tip of the spear flashed a little cold light in the warm sun. And the otomo of the same value stood motionless in his place, with a solemn and expressionless face, as if looking at the peach blossoms outside the city and the green mountains and white clouds in the distance, turning a blind eye to everything around him.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go." The people who stopped were startled, like birds and beasts, and ran away without a shadow in a blink of an eye.

"This way, this way, where do you look? You soulless one, what are you worth? Yes? ”

"This ......" Lao Liu Xunsheng looked towards the city gate, and saw five people walking towards this side not far away, looked at it, and hurriedly trotted all the way over: "Hey, this is not Master Yuan from Zhizhou Mansion, what kind of wind has blown your old man over."

"What kind of wind? It was the gentle spring breeze of the March 3rd Shangsi Festival that sent you, master and me. Master Yuan said proudly: "I've called you so much, and you haven't reacted, what do you think?" How can you be absent-minded? Master Yuan reprimanded angrily.

"No, it's not. Didn't just think of something. Doesn't this mean that you haven't noticed Master Yuan, your master, your sins. Lao Liu ran to Master Yuan and stopped, nodded his head and said with a wry smile.

"Alright. Let me ask you, when you were on duty at this city gate just now, did you hear a loud "boom"? Master Yuan held his head high and asked very condescendingly, completely missing this morning, when he was in Lord He's study, he almost humbled himself into the dust and whispered.

"No, I didn't hear any movement, everything is normal. Master Yuan, what's wrong? This is. Lao Liu looked at Master Yuan very inexplicably, blinked his eyes, and replied with a smile.

"What? You? I had just come from the eastern, western, and northern gates, and they all said they had heard it. Many people on the street also said that they vaguely heard the loud noise, and some people said that they all felt that even the ground was shaking obviously, but you didn't hear it, didn't feel it? Master Yuan shouted loudly with an awl face, saying that in the end, he was almost yelling at Lao Liu.

"I really didn't, I really didn't hear it. If you don't believe me, if you don't believe it, you can ask the big friend who is on duty with me. Lao Liu saw that this master of Zhizhou was angry, and the sweat on his head instantly appeared, and he quickly raised his originally slightly short head and looked at Master Yuan with blank eyes.

"On duty with you? Who is it? I am here on the orders of Lord Zhizhou to come out to inspect the streets to ensure that all kinds of conditions in the whole city of Haicheng must be safe and sound throughout the whole day of today's Shangshi Festival. Now that someone knows that I am coming, and is still standing there and not moving, and not coming to see me, it is really bold and ignorant. How did Feng Guan Belt at this city gate bring his soldiers, it seems that he will go to the Zhizhou Yamen today, if he meets him, I will ask him well. ”

"This? Master Yuan, forgive me, I'm the same value, I haven't been here for a few days, I'm young, young, sometimes, I'm really a young man who doesn't know right from wrong and doesn't understand things. If you're old, just ignore him, don't be angry, it's not worth it. Lao Liu said again and again, while his left hand secretly dug out and dug out in his pocket in private, and finally gritted his teeth and took out a piece of silver slightly bigger than the pigeon egg: "Master Yuan, little meaning, you are also tired of patrolling the streets with your brothers, this little silver is for you and the four brothers who followed you to go to the teahouse for a cup of tea and a cup of tea."

"Oh? Well. Okay, okay, or Lao Liu, you are sensible. Master Yuan took the silver with his left hand, put it into his arms casually, stretched out his right hand and patted Lao Liu's shoulder: "That, as for Feng Guandao, if you have a chance, I will greet you for you, you old boy is good, not bad." You go and be on duty well, master, I still have to go out of the city, and go to the direction of Huaguo Mountain to inquire about the situation, and I have to report to Lord Zhizhou when I turn back later. ”

"Oh. yes, yes. Master Yuan, please please, please, please. Lao Liu hunched his waist slightly sideways, stretched out his left hand diagonally in the direction of the city gate, smiled flatteringly, and made that invitation first. Then he suddenly turned around, and with a spear in his right hand on the ground, he shouted at the pedestrians who were coming and going, coming in and out: "Hey, hey, the idlers and others are all on the side." You, the one in the black robe, yes, don't look at it, it's just you, the poor master let me walk on the side of the road, you can't hear it? ”

"Huh? Oh, me? Yes, yes, yes, the small ones are on the side, this is on the side. The middle-aged man in a black robe who was called was stunned for a moment, and then he kept nodding his head in response, and hurriedly flashed to the side of the road, for fear that if he slowed down, the spear in Lao Liu's hand would be stabbed over.

"Well, that's pretty much it." Lao Liu seemed to be very satisfied with the attitude of the middle-aged man in black shirt and nodded, then turned around again, smiled flatteringly, bowed his waist, and said to Master Yuan: "Master Yuan, please first."

"Well, yes, yes, yes, yes." Master Yuan was greatly satisfied, his face was full of spring breeze, he waved his hand, turned around and greeted the few families in the house he had brought with him, and walked in the middle of the avenue with his official steps, with soldiers leading the way in front and strong men in the back, and he really walked to the gate of the city in a majestic manner.