However, after repeated expediency and various considerations, Wei Yechen still decided to sell Xiaoqin for the third time.

It's not that he can't be pestered by her, and it's not that he wants to be her senior brother after apprenticeship, but he found that the wicked person who slapped him in the chest in the palace may have heard that he is not dead, and he actually chased him to Lone Leaf City again!

Although he hadn't seen the villain himself, he had seen the young man in blue who had given him the map and silver, and there were many men in blue with similar clothes and swords at their waists.

Wei Yechen was hiding in the shadows, and he heard these people asking around the city about "a boy who looked as beautiful as a girl, about eight years old"—this was clearly to inquire into his secrets!

Among this group of people, of course, the young man in blue knew that Wei Yechen was going up the mountain to apprentice, and he pointed out this road, but the strange thing is that after a few days, these people have not gone to Yunwu Mountain to look for it, and it seems that it is not the rumor that the young man in blue has leaked.

As long as the young man in blue has been silent, then the safest place is Yunwu Mountain, which is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, and there is a hundred zhang ice and rain zone under the mountain, and the natural conditions are very bad.

I hate those Taoist priests who are greedy for money, and they don't have the compassionate heart of the monks, and they can't make up enough two hundred taels, and they will knock on the mountain door with all difficulties.

"Okay, sell you one more time." Wei Yechen agreed, "But this time I'm going to sell myself together, so that I can put you under my nose so that you don't get into trouble." ”

"Really? That's great! Xiaoqin pointed forward excitedly, "Why don't we sell ourselves into that square building with ribbons on it?" I saw a large plate of chicken legs out of the window, so big! She gestured with her little hands.

Wei Yechen looked at her little hand and asked with a strange expression, "Do you know what kind of business building it is?" ”

"The building that sells chicken legs!"

"That's the Qinglou."

"Qinglou?" Xiaoqin tilted her head, "The eaves are wrapped with pink ribbons, how can it be called a green building?" ”

"Do you know how dangerous it is?"

"It's okay," Xiaoqin drooled and said nonchalantly, "With your protection, junior brother, I can go to any dangerous place (eat chicken legs) without being afraid!" ”

"No, I don't listen to your bad ideas."

Wei Yechen decided to go to the sixth trafficker first, it was better to be raw than cooked. However, when he took Xiaoqin's hand and came to the door of Lao Liu, he found that the door was closed, so he had to go to the dens of several other traffickers to try his luck, and they were also closed.

"Just go to that house, I'm tired!" Xiaoqin pointed to the Qinglou Gate.

“…… All right. This time, Wei Yechen really agreed.

The two are brother and sister, the boy is handsome, the girl has a small face, and walks into the back door of the Qinglou hand in hand, asking to sell himself.

So, the two deeds of sale were exchanged for three silver tickets of fifty taels, and they finally had enough two hundred taels in their hands, and they were only one time away from slipping away.

However, the bustard and the thugs watched very closely, and it was not as easy as running away from ordinary people's homes if they wanted to go, and they had to hit it with one hit, otherwise they had a black record of escaping and did not run, and it would be difficult to run again in the future.

Xiaoqin is too young, not old enough to be trained, the bustard mainly likes Wei Yechen's handsome face, and buying Xiaoqin is purely buy one get one free.

Wei Yechen was only eight or nine years old, his eyes were cold, and he had a precocious maturity that did not belong to his age, and many rich men in the city were good at this, so the old bustard began to carefully teach him various Qinglou courses, and he also pretended to be studious to make those people relax their vigilance.

Half a month later, Xiaoqin held a tea tray and a chicken leg in her mouth, and quietly entered Wei Yechen's "embroidery room".

"Brother Ye, I saw that bearded uncle who saved my life." She said excitedly, "Now it's okay, I'm going to sing to him to repay him for saving his life!" ”

As she spoke, she picked up Wei Yechen and walked to the front hall, raising her hand to greet a bearded man.

Without waiting for her to speak, Wei Yechen grabbed her wrist first, and tightly covered her oil-stained mouth. The big man's dress is the same as that of the young man in blue, and it is clearly the "Forbidden Fourteen Guards" in the mouth of the young man in blue!

These people came to Lone Leaf City for Wei Yejian, in case they learned from the old bustard that there was a beautiful boy here, then they would have no chance to run.

Say run, time waits for no one. After returning to the room, Wei Yechen immediately took a scoop of cold water, washed off the fat powder on his face, took a handful of charcoal ash to smear his face, and changed into a coarse linen dress prepared in the morning.

After quickly doing this, I looked back and saw that Xiaoqin was still tearing a braised chicken leg with her milk teeth, eating hard and happy, Wei Yechen immediately took off the chicken leg and disguised her with charcoal ash and old cloth clothes.

The two of them had already looked at a dog hole in the backyard a few days ago, dug up the hole and covered it with sundries. They crawled out of the dog hole one after another, because Xiaoqin ate in a circle, and it was a little troublesome to come out, and they were almost discovered by the handyman in the backyard, which was really thrilling.

After escaping, the two of them rushed to the mountain temple outside the city, took the buried silver, and ran in the direction of Yunwu Mountain.

At the same time, in the brothel, the bearded man had already heard from the old bustard that an eight or nine-year-old handsome man had just come to the building, and he immediately asked the old bustard to lead him to see it. When I came to Wei Yechen's room, there were still people there.

The bearded man burst into a foul mouth and asked the bustard what kind of clothes the stinky boy was wearing and what kind of makeup he was wearing, and the bustard answered them one by one.

Li Zhouyu, a young man in blue who had just walked into the room, heard it, but said, "No, it's not to find a beautiful boy dressed in red, but to find a little beggar who is dressed in shabby clothes and has a dark face." ”

"How do you know?" The bearded man asked.

Li Zhouyu leaned over, picked up a grain of charcoal ash from the footrest next to the bed, and violently lifted the floor-length sheets, and found a set of wrinkled red satin clothes from under the bed, and the answer was self-evident.

That kid was smart, he didn't run away blindly, but left in a planned way.

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So, a team of more than a dozen guards, headed by Shi Nantian and deputy by Li Zhouyu, began to inquire about the whereabouts of a black-faced little beggar all over the city.

Soon, a famous official brought an informant, a human trafficker named Lao Liu, in order to tie up the guards.

The sixth child knew that this group of blue-clothed people was a big official from the capital, so he bowed his head and bowed his waist, smiled flatteringly, and provided information he knew: "That little beggar is called Ah Ye, and he also has a younger sister, who can sing and dance, and is especially able to eat." The brother and sister are often abducted and deceived in this area, and even villains have been fooled by them. ”

"How to be cheated and deceived?" Li Zhouyu asked.

"Ah Ye pretended to sell his sister to the villain, and the villain sold it again, but the little girl turned around and ran away from the customer's house, causing the customer to go to the villain's door to beg for help."

"Do you know where they're hiding?" Shi Nantian asked.

"Ah Ye used to be the villain's follower, helping the villain run errands and deliver messages, and earn a few loose money. But he was very hypocritical at a young age, pretending to be high, refusing to eat the villain's food, nor sleeping in the villain's bed, and at night he went to sleep in the mountain temple outside the city. ”

"Lead the way!" Shi Nantian drank in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The group walked outside the mountain temple, and the sixth pointed to them, "This is it, the villain has seen their brother and sister cooking here." ”

Shi Nantian nodded, said that it was too late, and with a knife, he split the whole person of Lao Liu into two, blood flew sideways, and all kinds of bright red viscera and stomach and green gallbladder flowed to the ground.

And the sixth child, who lost his life before he could react at all, had the left half of his face facing the sky, and there was even a hint of flattering smile on the corner of his mouth.

Li Zhouyu frowned and said, "Shi Laosi, you are not in accordance with the rules in this way, and it will be difficult for us to clean up." ”

Shi Nantian scolded: "What are the rules? Even their group of human traffickers have a set of rules, can they do things according to the rules, and they will change from animals to humans! ”

Li Zhouyu said: "You can order the local officials to lock them up and take them into the government office, and they can be tortured and interrogated, or you can also rescue a few children who have been abducted and trafficked." ”

Shi Nantian snorted coldly: "If it works as an official, these dogs won't be so rampant in the population business." ”

Li Zhouyu said: "Even so, you and I are dressed in official clothes and directly receive orders, if even you and I don't trust the magistrates promoted by the saints, how can we make the people have confidence in the imperial court?" When the time comes, the guards below will also learn from you, the first one in my heart is not happy, and there will be a dead person lying on the ground, so who will maintain the reputation of the guard? ”

Shi Nantian said impatiently: "What bullshit, don't talk to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu only knows that there is a little beggar who spied on the secrets of His Royal Highness the Prince, and several imperial historians in the court want to dig him out as evidence of the abolition of the prince." When we come out this time, we're actually here to kill people, aren't we?! ”

Li Zhouyu frowned: "How can you and I say such words as 'waste prince'?" Fourth, you should be cautious, otherwise you will be in trouble sooner or later. ”

"Didn't you say it too?" Shi Nantian was greatly displeased, "Li Shishi, don't think that the prince values you, you can stand on Lao Tzu's head and give orders." If you want to be the leader of the guard, you have to wait for your crown prince to ascend the throne first! Next time I hear you teach Lao Tzu a lesson, Lao Tzu will also give you a knife! ”

At this time, the guards had completed the encirclement of the mountain temple, and Shi Nantian took a big step and walked into the temple gate.

Li Zhouyu behind him shook his head slightly and sighed silently.

However, there is not a half-figure in the temple. Shi Nantian immediately said angrily: "Dead human traffickers dare to lie to us!" Lao Tzu will chop him twice again! ”

Li Zhouyu said: "Not necessarily, you look there." ”

In the mound in the corner, a few peach pits were buried indiscriminately, and they were still fresh. A guard who is familiar with the local customs said: "According to this, there is a Mo Ji Mountain half a mile away, and there is a wild peach forest on the mountain, which is said to have been left by the peach fairy in the sky when he was in the lower realm. ”

"Let's go, go to the peach forest!" Shi Nantian rushed out first.

Seeing Mo Ji Mountain from a distance, it was just a small mound, Li Zhouyu shook his head and said: "There is absolutely no one to hide here, there is no need to search for it, let's go back to the city first and then make plans." ”

Shi Nantian refused to reply, and asked the guard who knew the way: "Are there any other mountains around here?" ”

The man replied, "There is also a cloud mountain, which is rumored to be the realm of immortals, and it is very mysterious, and its entrance is unknown. ”

"Grab a few woodcutters and ask questions!" Shi Nantian ordered.

As a result, dozens of nearby hunters and woodcutters were quickly arrested, and when asked, they didn't know what to do.

Shi Nantian refused to give up, feeling that these people were not telling the truth, so he immediately took out a long whip from his waist and waved a few whips fiercely, at that time, a hunter was blinded, and shouted in mourning, and there were seven or eight bloody ears "popping" and "popping" falling between the dust.

Li Zhouyu's pupils shrank suddenly, but his face was silent.

Although Shi Laosi is a strict official, jealous and hateful, he has always been resolute and resolute, and has done a lot of things for the saint, but he has a cruel and fierce wildness in his nature, which is difficult to control. This not only ruined the reputation of Xiaowei, but also made the people who appointed him more uneasy.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already instructed that this trip to the north, killing the little beggar is just an excuse, and the main purpose is to let Li Zhouyu bury Shi Nantian in Yunwu Mountain without leaving a trace, so that he will not be able to return to Beijing.

Today's saint is old, many years ago he set up the second prince Yu Wenlan as the crown prince, but in the past two years, he likes the third prince Yu Wentan, who is outstanding in civil and military affairs, and has long had the intention of changing the crown prince, but there is no suitable excuse.

Prince Yu Wenlan likes men, has always been an untold secret in the East Palace, recently this matter was known by the imperial history under the Holy Lord, and he has always wanted to expose it, the biggest trouble is that this time the beggar broke into the East Palace, and happened to bump into the prince and the general's brother Huanhao, and the prince was still pressed below.

Once this matter comes out, the reputation of the prince will be damaged, the nobles of Tianhuang will be greedy for men, and the country will not be a country; Second, some people will question that the prince does not have the ability to reproduce with women, and the prince's position is in jeopardy.

Fortunately, the prince hid the general's brother in time at that time, and the palace people who rushed to hear the sound only saw the prince holding a palace maid and making love. The little beggar who saw the truth couldn't stay, and even Nantian, who was the commander of the guard battalion, couldn't stay.

Just because Shi Nantian didn't marry other women, he married the second miss of the Tang family, and the third miss of the Tang family married the Chinese scholar Dong Sanbian. The most coincidental thing is that Dong Sanbi is the maternal uncle of the third prince Yu Wentan.

Because of this relationship, when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was suspicious, Nantian's loyalty had already wavered, and he favored the third prince Yuwen Tan.

Therefore, after the prince secretly ordered Li Zhouyu to get rid of Shi Nantian, he deliberately befriended and cultivated Shi Jiong, the new young master of the Shi family, so that the power of the Shi family could still be used by the prince, and the unstable factors were removed.