"Oh, my grandfather, you're back! The slave has been waiting here for a whole day, where have you been, young master? Why don't you bring your minions? ”

The little boy Xionghuang came out from behind the stone lion in Luodong Mansion, raised his head and picked up the window of the carriage and whispered: "Young Master, come into the mansion quickly, something big is going on in our family, and the young grandmother is going crazy looking for you!" The little ones are looking for you everywhere, but they can't find you in the academy, in the pharmacy, in the other courtyards, and in Lord Ding's house! The eldest young grandmother was so anxious that she said that she would go to the government office tomorrow morning to report that the population was lost! ”

Luo Baiqian seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, and as soon as he lifted the curtain of the carriage, there was a strong smell of alcohol diffused around the carriage, he refused to let the driver of the car help, very impatiently pushed away the other party's arm, staggered out of the carriage alone, and slapped the male huang who came up with a slap, and scolded with a big tongue: "What is the ghost in the middle of the night called you, I'm afraid that others won't know that I just came back from eating flower wine, do you want to deliberately publicize for me?" ”

Luo Baiqian was a person with some kung fu foundation, and he was drunk and didn't know the severity, so he beat the realgar out with a mouthful of blood. Xionghuang took three or four steps back before holding the wheels of the carriage and standing firmly, covering his swollen face, his lips trembled and he said with a crying voice: "Young Master, Brother Zhu is no good, you go to see him for the last time!" He's been unconscious since this morning! ”

Luo Baiqian digested the words of these few sentences slowly, and finally extracted the main meaning of "my son is critically ill", and his drunkenness faded by seven or eight points at the moment, and he didn't bother to knock on the door of Luodong Mansion, so he trotted crookedly all the way into the back alley, and kicked open the half-hidden corner door.

"Who is this in the middle of the night? You stop, stop, go up there and register one first! "The little guy who just sent away Mama Tang just now yawned and came out to stop people, and in the darkness I couldn't recognize it as Luo Baiqian, because someone disturbed my good dreams, so Aristolochia's tone was very bad, anyway, most of the people who walked through the corner door at this time were some sneaky people, and the master would definitely go to the main gate.

Luo Baiqian flew up and kicked the little guy who was blocking the road away, and rushed inside without a sound.

Aristolochia still didn't see the face of the person who came clearly, and was suddenly attacked, thinking that a robber had come to the door, and immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "There is a thief, come quickly, catch the thief!" Jiang Yang's thief is coming-" Before he could finish his sentence, Aristolochia's mouth was tightly covered from behind. He thought that it was the robber's accomplices who came to kill him, so he was shocked and broke away with all the strength to eat, and when he turned to stare at the past, he found that the person was the eldest young master's follower Xionghuang.

"Hey Xionghuang, why are you covering my mouth? A strong man rushed in our house, and I was calling for help! Aristolochia glared.

"Strong, strong on your head, you're blind!" Xionghuang smashed his fist on Aristolochi's lower abdomen, as if to vent all the anger that Shicai received from the eldest young master, and scolded viciously, "Open your dog's eyes wide and see clearly, it's the eldest young master who just walked over!" Dare to scold the eldest young master for being a Jiangyang thief, your skin is itchy! ”

As he spoke, Xionghuang trotted to catch up with Luo Baiqian, and shouted in a shriek: "Master, you have to be careful about the road under your feet!" It's heavy at night, and the ground can slip! ”

Luo Bai walked faster and faster, and then he was really hit by Xionghuang's unfortunate words, and he slipped under his feet and fell on his back. Xionghuang ran up in a panic to help Luo Baiqian, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, you didn't break anything, did you?" Doctor Wu is waiting on the Liuli Hall now, do you want him to show you? With that, he stepped forward and carefully inspected Luo Baiqian's injuries.

Luo Baiqian ignored him, just stared straight at a bush in front of him, and suddenly screamed: "Ahhhhh ”

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General Lu Jiangbei looked at Liao Zhiyuan's handsome face suspiciously, and reproached: "How can people ever offend you, why do you give people nicknames?" Either you just call her by her name, or you call her 'Miss He'...... Uh, just now you said you knew the secret about her? What's the secret? ”

"Cut," Liao Zhiyuan said, digging his nostrils, "didn't she offend me?" It's not because of her that Duan Shao, Gao Jue and you have become abnormal, just now, I almost didn't let Gao Jue kill him, I don't blame her! ”

Lu Jiangbei punched him: "You were beaten all because your mouth was too bad, okay, tell me quickly, what's Miss He's secret?" Is there anything else I don't know? ”

Liao Zhiyuan squinted at Lu Jiangbei from the corner of his eye, dug his nostrils a few more times before stopping, then stretched out his arm and touched a robe on the small table, and after a while, he took out a small dagger with a scabbard and threw it to Lu Jiangbei, and said in a show-off tone: "Qiang Qiang Qiang~~ You come and take a look, how about my dagger?" When I return to the capital, I plan to use it to exchange it for a hundred taels of silver with Duan Shao! ”

Lu Jiangbei suspiciously swept the dagger back and forth a few times, and pulled out the scabbard a little more to try the blade, although it was indeed a delicate and handy dagger, but no matter how you look at it, it is not worth ten taels of silver.

Even if Duan Shao's people are a little stupid, they won't buy this dagger at a price more than ten times higher, not to mention, Duan Shao's stupidity is only manifested in things related to women. For example, when I returned to Beijing to report on my work this time, everyone stayed at Baisha Villa in Yinma Town, the last stop, and wanted to spend a few days of wandering and unrestrained days before returning to their homes in Beijing. Only Duan Shao didn't even enter the villa to drink a cup of tea, and drove a red canopy carriage onto the official road leading to Ying Tianfu non-stop.

Liao Shao chased after him with light skills, sucked on the outer wall of the carriage and followed it for half a mile, before he happily flew back and reported to everyone that Duan Shao had "overfulfilled the task" this time, and had picked up a full ten women within half a month! Everyone didn't believe it, so Liao Shao folded his hands and counted them, in addition to Xue Niang and Lian'er's mother and daughter, there were also seven young women wearing yellow skirts, most of them were a little familiar, and they had vaguely seen them in the water business view. In the end, Liao Shao squeezed his eyebrows and said with a smile, Duan Shao's trip to Yangzhou was really fruitful, not only in the Taoist temple with a "little lover" who was not in the right household for life, but also did not squeak and hide from everyone to get away the seven Taoist sisters-in-law, Duan's mother must have been very wonderful after seeing it.

"In my opinion, your dagger can only be sold for six taels of silver, and Duan Shao has more than a dozen short sword daggers, so he may not buy this one from you." Lu Jiangbei handed the dagger back to Liao Zhiyuan and said with a smile, "You are the only son of the Liao family, even if the annual income of more than 700 taels is not enough for you, and the family's land rent store is not enough for you to spend alone?" ”

Liao Zhiyuan spread his hands with a sad face, and described his life experience miserably: "Brother Lu, you don't know, although I don't have a brother in my family to share the family property with me, my father and mother added a younger sister to me when I was seven years old. Boss, you don't know, just this one sister is more ruthless than ten brothers! Every time my heavy purse passed through her hand, when I opened it again, there was not even a bit of silver dregs left in it! And her nose is smarter than a dog, and she can turn it out wherever I hide my money bag! ”

Lu Jiangbei listened to it and wondered what kind of character Liao's father and mother were, so they would train their sons and daughters into such unusual talents.

Liao Zhiyuan threw the dagger to Lu Jiangbei again, and said with a smile: "You take out the scabbard and look inside to know if it is worth a hundred taels of silver, boss, I have been thinking about it for many years for the sake of my colleagues and brothers, so I didn't have the heart to ask for a thousand taels of silver!" ”

Lu Jiangbei pulled out the scabbard as he said, thinking that there would be something strange about the blade inside, but at first glance it still looked like an ordinary black iron blade, so he shook his head and flipped the blade, and then the moment he saw the pattern on the back, Lu Jiangbei couldn't help but be stunned. In the center of the smooth blade is engraved a portrait of a character with simple lines, and the eyebrows and eyes are clearly expression-

"It's her," Lu Jiangbei said in a lost voice, "Miss He!" ”

Liao Zhiyuan smiled and introduced his dagger: "That's right, this is the fake 'He Angelica character knife stroke', don't look at its simple style, not many lines, but looking at the whole world, almost no one can leave even a scratch on the body of the Xuantie knife, but I took great pains to complete a knife stroke on the hard and sharp knife body!" In the process of carving and painting, although the master who is proficient in seal carving condensed a large amount of true qi on the carving knife, the surface of his grandmother's dark iron was more slippery than the mirror, and the carving knife flew out diagonally on the spot and cut the master's fingers! ”

Liao Zhiyuan showed his left index finger wrapped in bandages, sighed and continued: "Of course, these are not the biggest selling points of this dagger, the most precious thing about this painting is that its bottom painting is from He Angelica himself!" How's it going, boss? For Duan Shao, who is 'full of lovesickness and has nowhere to stay', is this dagger worth a hundred taels? ”

Lu Jiangbei rubbed the delicate portrait with his fingertips and asked softly, "Where did you get her self-portrait?" It wasn't stolen, was it? ”

Liao Zhiyuan shook his index finger proudly and said with a smile: "The bottom painting of this painting is a delicate paper-cut small portrait, from the hand of He Angelica, and was later taken out by the people of Luofu to give Brother Qi a reward, Brother Qi found a shocking secret, so he detained this small portrait." After returning to Beijing, Brother Qi went to the Long Night Pavilion and sent someone to inquire about all the big and small things about He Angelica, and before receiving the report from the spies, he heard that our side was also asking the Long Night Pavilion to investigate He Angelica, so he came to me. I saw that the little statue was lifelike, and I wanted to ask for Duan Shao to take it away, but who knew that I was so good at saying it, the one surnamed Qi only agreed to let me copy one, and resolutely refused to give me the original! Hmph, I'm stingy, wait for Duan Shao to marry He Xiaoniu, there will be ten baskets of such paper-cuts! ”