Xie Liangmu smiled confidently: "Most of the people who can come to gamble are people who have no scruples, they have no scruples about sprinkling money, and they have no scruples about collecting the book." ”

Han Changwan looked at Xie Liangmo's meaningful face, the corners of his mouth twitched, he thought that Xie Liangmu had some conspiracy, but it turned out that he was scraping the ground.

He didn't believe that Xie Liangmao opened such an underground gambling house in Chang'an City, just to make money.

The gambling house is the same as the Qinglou, the people come and go very chaotic, and the people of all kinds of religion and nine streams can see it, and it has always been the most well-informed place.

And in such a place, there are many hidden places that are not easy for outsiders to detect, and it is also the most suitable to do things that cannot see the light.

Han Changdui clung to the hole, and his breathing was even weaker and imperceptible, lest he alarm Xie Liangyu in the room.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried and messy footsteps outside the back door, Han Changdui looked stunned, but he did not panic, he put the uncovered green tile back in its original place, lightly touched the ridge of the roof with his toes, and flew into hiding in the towering and dense canopy.

At the moment when the back door was pushed open, he was already like a dragonfly, without even the slightest ripple, and crossed the high wall, lying motionless in the dark shadow of the wall.

The several guards who ran out after Yao Qi just ran out panted and returned to the courtyard, and the guards who were taken away by Yao Qi were also brought back, but the guard was supported by two people, his head hung down to his chest, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

The movement of these people coming back also alarmed the people in the building, and a man who looked like a steward hurriedly walked out of the building, seeing the appearance of these guards, he frowned, and asked sharply: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

One of the guards stepped forward and said, "Steward, a thief just broke in, and we chased him out." ”

"Thief?" The steward's face changed, and he asked sharply: "Where did the thief come from, have you caught it?" ”

The guard lowered his head: "That thief covered his face, his light skills were very good, and his subordinates were incompetent and didn't catch it." ”

"It's broken!!" The steward's eyes widened and flashed with horror, and he roared, "What did the thief steal?" ”

The guard shook his head quickly: "No, the thief just broke in, and was discovered by his subordinates, so he kidnapped the fourth child and escaped all the way." ”

The steward breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the fourth child whose life and death were unknown, and pouted in disgust: "How is the fourth child?" ”

The guard said, "The fourth child is fine, but he was knocked unconscious." ”

The steward waved his hand in disgust: "Send it to the back, be careful, don't alarm the master, be careful that you can't eat and walk around, we don't raise useless people here." ”

The guard's face was full of gratitude, and Qi claimed that one person stayed to patrol, and the other two helped the unconscious fourth child to walk back.

Han Changdui knew that the best time to eavesdrop was gone, but he didn't hear anything too important, so he shouted with some regret, and flew away silently across the wall.

The gray shed carriage stopped at the gate of Jinchangfang, and the coachman sat on the wheel, shaking his whip boredly.

"Eh, I know you, you're always the one who works in Xinchangfang." A pretty girl's voice came from the carriage, it was Yao Qi, who got rid of the four guards and returned to the carriage.

The coachman didn't speak,

Just knocked the wheel with a whip, which was a response.

Yao Qi seemed to be stunned for a moment, and his voice paused slightly: "Then why did you follow Han Changdui, do you know who he is?" ”

The coachman was stunned for a moment, and then knocked the wheels with his whip a few more times.

Yao Ji was speechless for a long time and sighed: "I know, you can't speak." She pulled the curtain down and asked, "Are you dumb?" ”

The coachman was stunned, his face dazed.

Yao Qi tilted his head and thought about it, and made a few gestures.

The coachman was stunned for a moment, his face rippled with ecstasy, his hands flew like flowers, and he also made a few gestures.

Yao Qi saw the gesture of the coachman, and secretly rejoiced that the sign language of this era was not very different from the sign language of her previous era.

At least she could tell what this person was talking about, even if she was confused.

She nodded: "Are you saying that your name is Chen Xiaoliu, an orphan with no father and no mother, who grew up in Shantang and has always made a living by driving donkey carts, and later Han Changdui let you enter the house as a coachman?" ”

Chen Xiaoliu nodded again and again.

She frowned slightly and asked again, "How old are you?" ”

Chen Xiaoliu's eyes were slightly sad, he lowered his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then made a few gestures.

Yao Qi glanced at Chen Xiaoliu and said in surprise: "Oh, you said you are twenty-one, but I see that you are very thin, and you look like you are fifteen or sixteen years old." ”

Chen Xiaoliu smiled bitterly and gestured with both hands.

Yao Qi said while watching: "Also, you grew up in Shantang since you were a child, that place, that is, just to live, how good it can be." As she spoke, she thought of herself and sighed with empathy: "Not only did you survive, but you also had an errand to make ends meet, and you will have a good life in the future." ”

Chen Xiaoliu grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, and his smile was exceptionally pure and clean.

At this time, it is close to noon, the bright spring light is sprinkled, the surrounding green trees and flowers are intertwined, and people are bustling in the sun.

Han Changdui walked out of the door from a distance unhurriedly, looking in the direction where the carriage was parked through the soft and warm sunlight, he saw Yao Qi and Chen Xiaoliu, and the smiles on his faces were sincere and happy.

He suddenly felt silence all around, the sun was silent, bustling and distant, and there was only a hearty smile in his eyes.

He walked over quickly, put his slender hand on the wall of the car, and tapped lightly: "What are you two talking about, so happy." ”

Yao Qi and the two suddenly quieted down, one smiled with a smile on his face, pursed his lips and said nothing, and the other lowered his eyebrows and looked at him, grabbing the corner of his clothes crampedly and worriedly.

Han Changdui suddenly felt bored, calmly faced, lifted the curtain and got into the car.

Yao Qi sat back in front of the carriage and gave Chen Xiaoliu a big smile to make him feel at ease.

Chen Xiaoliu smiled slightly shyly, knocked the wheel with his whip, and heard Han Changdu say in a low voice: "Let's go, go back to the Internal Health Division." ”

He raised his whip high, turned his horse's head, and drove against the crowd and traffic in the direction of the Interior Guard.

The curtain shook slightly, and the bright sunlight like red gold fell on the carriage, reflecting on Han Changdu's face, as if he couldn't bear the sun, he suddenly closed his eyes.

He leaned his back straight against the wall of the car, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, thinking that Yao Qi had just changed from a smile on his face to a cold one

Alienated, my heart suddenly became more and more uneasy, and I couldn't help but ask mockingly: "I didn't expect that Yao's ability to join the army is so good, and he can talk with someone like Xiao Liuzi who can't speak." ”

Yao Ji was stunned for a moment, she really couldn't figure out where Han Changdu's nameless fire came from, she didn't turn her head and ignored him.

Han Changwan didn't hear Yao Qi's voice for a long time, opened his eyes slowly, looked at each other coldly, and said lightly: "Xiao Liuzi is my coachman, if you want to trick him, it is better to ask me directly." ”

At first, when he said these words, he just vented his dissatisfaction because of Yao Qi's differential treatment, but then he felt that something was wrong when he thought about it.

He used Chen Xiaoliu precisely because he couldn't speak, and there were obstacles in communicating with others, so he was the most able to keep secrets.

But he didn't expect that Yao Qi communicated with Chen Xiaoliu, and there was obviously no obstacle at all.

He knew that there was a special method of communication between people who could not speak, called sign language, but he had never seen it, and no one in the Department of Internal Guards knew this kind of sign language.

He frowned slightly, where did Yao Qi learn it, she communicated smoothly with Chen Xiaoliu, does that mean that she and other people who can't speak communicate smoothly.

When Yao Qi heard Han Changdu's slightly threatening words, she didn't expect Han Changdui to think so much in an instant, she knew that he had always been suspicious, and he was a betrayer, so he had no trust in him, so it was reasonable for him to say this.

She didn't get annoyed, she just smiled: "The adult thought too much, Xia Guan didn't want to trick him, just heard him say that he was an orphan, Xia Guan felt the same and said a few more words." ”

Han Changdui stared at Yao Qi for a while, as if he was thinking about whether what she said was true or not, and finally smiled: "So, how did Yao join the army know sign language?" ”

Yao Qi pursed his dry lips.

In her previous life, she played tricks in the film and television city, no matter what role she played, as long as she gave money to take care of the food, she would play it, and she had also played the dumb person, in order to play the dumb person well, she deliberately learned sign language.

But this obviously can't be told to Han Changdu.

Thinking of the past that she could never go back to, the life that only had to worry about food and clothing, but did not have to worry about it, she suddenly felt sad.

She looked stunned, lowered her eyebrows and said half-truthfully: "Sign language was learned by the lower officials when they were in the court, and what I wanted at that time was to learn more skills, so that I would have more self-preservation power and live longer." ”

Han Changdui felt a palpitation in his heart when he heard this, knowing that he had poked the scar in Yao Qi's heart, but he couldn't say anything about apologies.

After a moment of silence, he changed his head: "I saw you kidnapping a guard just now, but did you ask anything?" ”

Yao Qi also returned to normal, shook his head and said: "Xia Guan tied up the guard, just to lure all three people out, and the light skills of the three of them are also very good, Xia Guan took a lot of effort to get rid of them, and pretended to be invincible and was forced to release the guard, and didn't care about asking anything." ”

Han Changwan didn't blame Yao Qi, and said with a slight bow: "It's okay, but I have some discoveries." ”

"Oh, what did the adults find?" Yao Qi was interested, his eyebrows were slightly raised, his wet apricot eyes lit up, and he leaned over slightly to ask.

She also wants to know, is such a gambling house only heavily guarded because of the daily progress?