After about two hours, I saw a tall building like those antique city towers in the tourist area from a distance, and three big characters were carved on the stone slabs on the high doorway: Qing'an City. Qi Ning hurriedly jumped out of the car, just a few steps over, she didn't want to sit down when the broken ox cart gave her money.

Qi Ning carried the burden and followed the flow of people through the city gate into Qing'an City, only to see the gray-walled and blue-tiled houses on both sides of the bluestone road, and most of the houses along the street were used as shops. In her previous life, she spent most of her time in school, and occasionally went out with her classmates a few times during the holidays, but most of them were trips within the province. Grandma is too old to do physical strength, can't take her to travel all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, but fortunately there is a universal network, turn on the computer and just move your fingers to see the north and south of the river, outside the Saiwai customs, let her know the flavors and historical monuments around the world.

In the summer of graduating from college, she and several classmates went to Jiangnan Water Town. The Qing'an City in front of me across time and space is very similar to the Jiangnan Water Town in the previous life. But it is more quaint and primitive than those places.

Along the streets, noisy voices of people rushed forward.

Qi Ning took a deep breath and looked around as he walked.

"This is the ancient market! It's quite prosperous. She looked at the bustling streets and muttered to herself.

There was a group of people talking about something in front of him, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy with a bun like a Taoist priest on his head was bending down and apologizing to the man sitting on the ground: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

I saw a middle-aged man half-lying on the ground with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek, holding his leg and screaming in pain.

"You are blind, you walk without eyes, you hit Lao Tzu to death, ouch, Lao Tzu's legs are going to be wasted." The man clasped his knees and yelled at the boy.

"Uncle, I'm going forward, you come from behind, how can I knock you down?" The boy was sweating with anxiety.

Hehe, could it be that I met the porcelain party. In the previous life, although Qi Ning had not seen it with his own eyes, he had heard a lot about the porcelain party, in the previous life, if you were kind enough to help someone who fell, maybe you would meet someone who lost his conscience and would bite you back, saying that you knocked him down, otherwise why didn't others help, and you would be so kind to help?

But Qi Ning didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing here, it seems that the porcelain culture has a long history.

The boy was so anxious that his face was red, and his face was full of tears.

The man who fell to the ground was still pulling the boy's clothes with one hand, holding his knees with the other hand and screaming in pain, at this time, more and more people were gradually surrounding them, pointing and pointing.

"Oh, it's the king's dog, this kid is going to be wronged."

"Who said no, yesterday a vegetable seller touched him, and he was forced to pay for the gift and silver."

"What is this, the girl of the Zhang family on the front street has no money to pay, Wang Gouzi insists on selling her to Cuizhu Shuyu to be a girl? Poor to see, who doesn't know that the Cuizhu Shuyu is a kiln without red lanterns, and I heard that the people who serve are high-ranking officials and nobles. Later, the Zhang family was forced to borrow silver and lose money. But the reputation of the Zhang family girl was also ruined. ”

"There's no way, this king dog is a scoundrel, he is alone and has a bad life, whoever is falsely accused by him can only consider himself unlucky."

"A tael of silver for a small family is enough for a few months. This king dog is too much of a thing. ”

"Shhh

Qi Ning listened to it in his ears, his face became darker and darker, and his feelings were that Wang Gouzi was a professional toucher, he was cheap, either you would lose money, or you would be a scoundrel and make trouble to the point that everyone knew it, and went to someone's house in the middle of the night to make trouble, making people very troubled, if the girl was falsely accused by him and did not hurry up to lose money, her reputation would be ruined.

Wang Gouzi saw that there were more and more people around, and pointed to the boy and said loudly: "You are blind, you broke Lao Tzu's leg, you say, what is going on?" ”

The boy had a pitiful expression and said to Wang Gouzi: "This uncle is my fault, and I don't know how to hit your old man behind me when I walk forward." ”

As soon as the boy's words came out, the onlookers laughed loudly, because the boy's body was really thin, almost half of Wang Gouzi's, and it was really unreasonable for such a thin child to be able to hurt a thick man.

"Obviously, you ran past me and knocked me down, don't try to cheat." Wang Gouzi raised his head and said: "Hurry up and pay the silver, I see that you don't have a lot of money, just pay ten taels of silver, otherwise you will report to the official, or ......" He squinted and looked the boy up and down, and said cheaply: "Sell you as a thief." Cuizhu Shuyu also needs to be small. ”

"Uncle, I have a master, you can't sell me, who is kind enough to help me report to the official, I thank him in advance." The boy looked around for a moment, and tears were about to fall from his eyes.

Qi Ning looked down, took a step forward and said with a calm face: "This uncle, I don't think you can get up, just report to the official, and then ask the doctor to see if your leg is broken or injured." What if ten taels of silver are not enough? ”

"Oops, girl." An aunt hung a basket in her elbow, pulled Qi Ning aside and said, "You girl, don't worry about this idle matter, let's leave quickly." ”

Qi Ning glanced at the eldest aunt, turned her head to everyone and said loudly: "The road is uneven, someone is stepping on it, I see that this uncle is sitting on the ground in pain and can't get up, how can he just pay some silver." When the people from the yamen arrived, they invited the doctor again, and the uncle was really injured, and then talked about the loss of money after seeing the severity of the injury. But if this uncle has nothing to do, then he is blackmail, I seem to have heard that blackmail is a prison sentence, but I believe that this uncle will not blackmail. However, if the doctor sees that he is not injured, he will be charged with fraud at that time. If this little brother really breaks your leg, he dares to put him in jail without paying the money. ”

The surrounding discussions came and went, and the onlookers couldn't imagine that a young girl would be so nosy, and most of the excitement was local, and no one in Manqing'an City knew Wang Gouzi's leprosy reputation, and they didn't want to get involved with this kind of stinky shit that couldn't be shaken off, and this boy who was slandered didn't look like a local, so no one was willing to come forward and say a fair word.

Before anyone could react, Qi Ningliu said again: "Otherwise, is there still someone who is not afraid of going to prison?" ”

As soon as these words fell, the crowd whispered, this law is known, but this king dog shouts every day, the head catcher in the yamen is his cousin, there is this relationship, and most of the people are afraid of seeing officials, so they would rather lose money than get entangled in lawsuits.

And Wang Gouzi was stupid on the spot, reporting to the official, others don't know, he himself understands, the so-called head catcher is his cousin's thing that is nothing at all, but I heard that the head catcher is also surnamed Wang, so he pulled the tiger skin to make a big banner, and the king catcher knows who he is.

When ordinary people hear the word "government", their anger is three points shorter, let alone going to prison, which is half of their life scared, and Wang Gouzi is no exception.

It's not once or twice that he has done this porcelain business, and he picks weak and bullying people. He still has more or less brains, well-dressed, rich and powerful, he will never dare to touch them, after all, those people are not something he can provoke, who knows if he will get money on his front foot, and when he turns his head, he will be thrown into the river with a sack. Therefore, the targets you are looking for are honest and deceivable, and they can often succeed.

Today, he just looked at the boy in a hurry and looked honest and honest, and saw that his new clothes did not have a patch, guessing that he was a child of a small family who came from other places to join his family, so he grabbed the corner of his clothes and lay down like this.

When he was tearing up, two people in fancy clothes came out of the opposite restaurant, one of them was holding a folding fan, his face was fair, and a pair of good-looking fox eyes were shining.

"Xiao An, why are you here?" The man with the folding fan squeezed into the crowd impatiently and asked the boy.

Another well-dressed man behind him looked wary and had a sarcasm in his eyes.

The boy saw that the man in brocade was busy: "Young master, I can find you." Someone is coming to the capital, and Shopkeeper Hu asked me to ask you to go back. ”

The folding fan man glanced at Wang Gouzi on the ground: "What's going on?" The boy whispered to the man. The king dog on the ground was stunned, his eyes flickered, and he knew that he might be unlucky, and this time he encountered hard stubble.

"You take my post to the Yamen, ask them how the security of Qing'an City is managed, and let them come a few people to arrest this scoundrel and pull him back directly to the army."

Wang Gouzi thinks that he still has the eye to see people, this man has a beautiful bearing, an ink-colored satin robe, the neckline and hem are embroidered with gold threads, the waist is tied with a jade belt, the jet-black hair is combed with a neat hairpin on the top of the head, set in a delicate white jade hair crown, and the feet are on black soft boots. The arrogance of his words is definitely not as simple as that of ordinary rich families, and the man behind him is not an ordinary person, dressed in gorgeous clothes, with a gloomy face and a sword hanging from his waist.

Wang Gouzi, who had been in the field for a long time, didn't say a word, got up at lightning speed, pouted his buttocks, and ran out of the crowd, and the crowd of onlookers laughed.

Qi Ning glanced at the folding fan man, then looked at the boy and said, "Look at your master's wealth, he should also be a person with status and status." Why are you so useless and being blackmailed by a scoundrel? ”

Let's not talk about the identity of the folding fan man, but I saw a group of people running over like a catcher in a TV series, and pushed aside the crowd to salute the man: "I've seen Xiao Gongzi."

The man bowed his head and then turned his head to Qi Ning and said, "Thank you girl for speaking up just now, this bit of silver is not a tribute, the girl keeps it to buy gouache." As he spoke, he took out a silver in the shape of an ingot, which was about ten taels from the purse on his waist, and handed it over.

After watching too many novels and TV series, Qi Ning knows too well that the lives of ordinary people in ancient times are as cheap as mud, and if she is not careful, she will lose her life if she provokes anyone who is not careful, and now she is worried that she can't find a way out, and she has to find a way to catch this ready-made backer.

"There is no need for silver. I don't ask my son for anything, the little girl has no relatives when she first comes to Baodi, just ask my son to help me find a job, if it's not convenient, forget it. In order not to be abrupt, Qi Ning bluntly imitated the tone of the ancients' speech. Fortunately, she usually likes to read this kind of novel, and she can still drag out a few sentences.

The man with the folding fan narrowed his narrow eyes and said, "You are a girl who is not embroidering in the boudoir, what kind of work are you looking for?" ”

Qi Ning frowned slightly and said: "The son doesn't know, the little girl is not local, her father died of illness, her mother is missing, she was sick at home that day, she was dying, my aunt took pity on me and took me over, who expected that my aunt's in-laws couldn't tolerate me, in order not to embarrass my aunt, so I came to the city alone to find a livelihood." ”

When the people around heard this, they said, "I can't imagine this girl is so pitiful." ”

"Yes, he is a good person who can stand up and speak up with such a miserable background."

......

The folding fan man coldly hooked the corners of his lips and said, "Seeing that you are so thin, what kind of work can you do, it is better to take the silver and go home quickly." ”

Qi Ning pursed her lips a little unwillingly, and didn't want to miss such a good opportunity, so she hurriedly said: "I'm a little thinner, although I can't do physical work, but I can still do it, and the little woman is rough in cooking." "Qi Ning in his previous life loved to eat, so he often read recipes from the Internet at home during the holidays and learned to cook various foods from the north and south, especially Lu cuisine. Qi Ning said eagerly to the folding fan man, but the person in front of him seemed to be unmoved, his cold expression did not change, and gradually, Qi Ning became a little discouraged, didn't it work, he could only ask for silver?

Qi Ning glanced at the silver and pursed her lips, if it really doesn't work, then take the silver, plus the money in her purse, a total of nearly fifty taels of silver, as long as you save a little, it should be able to last for a while, last night she chatted with Erya and inquired about the price of this dynasty, the pork here is also fifteen or six wen a catty, and the rice is only twenty wen. If you can't find a job, you can rent a house first and plan slowly. It's a pity that I finally met someone who seemed to have some status, but it seemed that I couldn't count on it.

Her expression changed several times, seeing that she frowned, showed a look of pity, and was annoyed, the man who folded the fan saw it clearly, and couldn't help but lose patience.

"Girl, please take care of the silver, as for the work, Xiao can't help it." As he spoke, he threw the silver in Qi Ning's arms, turned around and left. I don't know when, the man in brocade behind him has long disappeared.

The boy bent down at Qi Ning and said thank you, and chased after the master.