Jiangcheng is the estuary of the Runjiang River, the shipping is developed, and there are naturally many merchants from Tiannan and Haibei. Since ancient times, there is no agriculture and no prosperity, no business and no life, and Jiangcheng has become the largest city in the southeast.

There are many kinds of goods produced in Jiangcheng, and there are countless specialties that can be obtained. One of the most unforgettable is the signboard of Shangyuan Tower, the fine wine "Quze".

This wine is sweet and mellow in the mouth, as if listening to a wonderful fairy song, it makes people have an endless aftertaste, so it is named. And this peerless wine is only the most authentic in Shangyuan Building.

Wang Kang Shi Ran walked in, and the little guy who greeted the guests saw him, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face: "Wang Yuanwai, you have to sit idle today, or the same as before?"

Wang Kang thought about his own affairs and said "um" noncommittally.

The little guy got the letter and said, "Okay, you always go upstairs first, and I'll buy it for you." ”

Wang Kang frowned and paced up to the second floor, sat in the window position where he usually sits, and when the table of wine and food was ready, he drank the wine with a heavy heart.

His family is well-funded, and he is not stingy, and he will come here to watch the tide and eat and drink on the fifteenth day of the new year. Shangyuan Building is close to the Runjiang River, tasting wine on the second floor, watching the vast smoke and waves of the river, it is really a kind of relaxing and pleasant enjoyment.

It's just that he doesn't seem to be in this interest today, looking out the window with blank eyes, drinking wine one by one, completely unaware of the taste, and the table full of wine and food has not moved at all.

Suddenly, there was a sound on the stairs, interrupting Wang Kang's reverie, and he hurriedly turned his head to look, as if he was expecting and worried.

There were three women who went upstairs, and Wang Kang sighed lightly when he saw it, but he became anxious again.

In his boredom, he habitually glanced at the visitor. Seeing these three girls, the eldest is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the youngest is only thirteen or fourteen years old, all of them are dressed in plain white dresses, the leader is covered with purple clothes, the eyebrows are thick, the nose is like a hanging gall, and the long hair is pulled up and hangs down from the left shoulder, giving people a sense of gentleness. Another woman in a goose yellow shawl also tied her hair like this, but she matched a pair of narrow and long danfeng eyes on her melon seed face, which made her beautiful and fierce, and she felt very difficult to get along with. The last one was tied with a mustache, obviously not yet in his prime, and a round face like an apple was dotted with black eyes like ink, and he was looking left and right, looking like he was very curious about everything.

Wang Kang was looking at it casually, but at this time, he couldn't help but stare at it, and it fell on the waist of the woman in purple. There was a colored belt hinged by a long rope of various colors, which was nothing unusual at first glance, but Wang Kang's eyesight was extraordinary, and he saw the metallic luster on it. He swept over the other two silently, and the goose-yellow shawl woman was holding a short sword with a red scabbard, which was nothing special, it was the normal outfit of a ranger. And the smallest round-faced girl had two large bells the size of her own small fist tied between her wrists, and when her arms waved, they had a crisp bell sound, which was very conspicuous.

The three of them came up and looked around, and chose the window position next to Wang Kang.

Wang Kang turned his head quietly, the sorrow between his eyebrows deepened twice, and he poured down a sip of wine.

After a while, the food that the three girls wanted was also put on the table, and the round-faced girl immediately focused all her attention on the food in front of her, feasting on it, regardless of whether she swallowed it or not, she just stuffed it into her mouth, and her cheeks were bulging, which was very funny.

The goose-yellow woman glanced at her and said with a disgusted expression: "You starve to death and reincarnate, I don't see you so edible at home." ”

The round-faced girl's mouth was stuffed with things, and she slurred her words: "The things at home are not as delicious as outside." ”

The goose-yellow woman said with a smile: "Okay, you finally said what you wanted, see if I go back and don't tell Granny Zhang to tell her to starve you for two days, then you will know where to get delicious food." ”

The round-faced girl was startled, but her mouth was stuffed with something and it was inconvenient to beg for mercy, so she could only bend her eyebrows and look at the largest woman in purple pitifully.

The woman in purple couldn't help laughing when she looked like that, and turned her head to the goose-yellow woman and said, "Okay, don't tease her anymore, hurry up and eat, and go to have a round with the master." ”

The goose yellow woman was dissatisfied: "Senior Sister Zhuo, you know to protect her." ”

The woman in purple didn't speak, but smiled at her gently, and the goose-yellow woman glared at the round-faced girl helplessly, and also started eating. The round-faced girl interfered with it and concentrated on dealing with the food in front of her.

At this time, two more groups of people came upstairs, each of them had seven or eight people, one side was full of arrow sleeves and long knives at the waist and crotch, and the other side was a lot of messy, with different colors of clothing, and the weapons in their hands were also varied. The two groups of people sat at each end of the second floor vigilantly, separated by Wang Kang and the three young girls.

Wang Kang's face was as bitter as Huang Lian's.

In a few moments, the meals ordered by the two groups of people arrived, each eating and drinking, and there were nearly twenty people sitting in the huge hall on the second floor, but they were silent, which was really weird and inexplicable.

This oppressive atmosphere not only made Wang Kang extremely sad, but the woman in purple also felt it, and whispered to urge the two junior sisters to hurry up and eat so that they could get on the road.

The goose-yellow woman was fine, but after a few glances at the people in the hall, she bowed her head and said nothing, speeding up the speed of eating. The round-faced girl faithfully carried out her senior sister's order, eating her meal, and the goose-yellow woman who listened to the sound of a da-

Those men in strong suits ignored all this and just focused on themselves, while the few people on the other side did not have such a good characterization, and their eyes greeted the sensitive places on the three women's bodies, with a flirtatious expression. A man with slender cheeks and a cunning eyes leaned next to the leader and whispered, "Hall Master, it seems to be a crazy woman from Mingyue Palace." ”

The leader also looked at the third girl, his face was lustful and evil, and after listening to the words of his subordinates, he couldn't help but turn his face blue, forcibly turned his gaze, coughed, glared at the other subordinates fiercely, and said in a deep voice: "Don't make any extraneous branches." ”

The boss spoke, and the others naturally didn't dare to disobey, so they could only reluctantly focus on themselves.

"Oooo

Several people on the second floor glanced at the staircase a few times, intentionally or unintentionally, and found that the person who came was a young scribe with a white face and a scarf on his head, so they turned their heads and ignored it.

Seeing so many people gathered together, the young scribe was a little stunned for a moment, then smiled indifferently, and walked to Wang Kang's table and came down.

He looked at a table of untouched wine and food, and ate it honestly and unceremoniously, he didn't use chopsticks, as if he hadn't eaten for a few days, he grabbed it directly, regardless of the feelings of its original owner, and ate juice splashing, adding two more points of oil to the already gray robe.

Wang Kang first looked at the person in front of him suspiciously, as if he had thought of something, and his eyes gradually lit up: "You...... You are ......"

The young scribe grabbed the wine jug in front of Wang Kang and poured it, as if he knew what the other party meant, and nodded, "It's me." ”

Wang Kang was pleasantly surprised, and said in disbelief: "How could it be you? Why are you here?"

Speaking of this, the young scribe smiled bitterly: "The urging from above is too tight, there is no way." ”

Wang Kang didn't really care about why the other party came, he just asked casually, the key was the arrival of the other party, and he had been responsible for several days, and he immediately solved it.

The young scribe said as he ate, "How is the investigation?"

Wang Kang didn't want him to ask directly, and he didn't even cover it up at all, so he looked around embarrassedly, gritted his teeth, and said in a low voice: "The details are not clear, but all the clues point to Shangcheng Ming's family." ”

He felt that his voice was very low, but as soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen eyes were fixed on him, and he suddenly felt that his scalp was numb, and his body couldn't help but shrink back to the young scribe opposite, as if it was safer there.

The young scribe ignored this, took another sip of wine, and said nonchalantly, "Are you sure?"

Wang Kang stiffened his head and forced himself to ignore the eyes of the people around him: "You should be eighty percent sure." ”

The young scribe smiled slightly, patted his belly and said, "That's enough, let's go, go up." ”

After speaking, he stood up first and walked towards the staircase, followed by Wang Kang with the silver coin. The other three table members just glanced up at them, and didn't make any extra moves.

Soon after they left, the woman in purple and her party also ran out of food and got up to leave.

After the three of them came out, they didn't stay too long, and went straight out of the city to Shangcheng. The goose-yellow woman couldn't help but say any longer: "Senior Sister Zhuo, we have to hurry, the water in Shangcheng is getting more and more mixed." ”

The purple-clothed woman nodded, pondered for a moment and said, "That's it, Caiyi, you and Senior Sister Xu will go to Yangze Bezhuang to find Uncle Yu first, and I will pick up Uncle Qi and them, and inform them of the situation here, if we can alarm the palace master to take the young son of the Ming family as a disciple, then our actions will be much easier." This move not only makes our protection of Yangze Bezhuang justified, but also can deter some Jianghu Xiaoxiao, after all, there are only a handful of people in the entire Fuzhou who dare to go against our Mingyue Palace. ”

The goose yellow woman nodded seriously and said, "Senior Sister is still thoughtful, everything is according to Senior Sister's wishes, and Senior Sister Xu will leave it to me." ”

"Senior sister...... I want to go with you. The round-faced girl looked reluctant, as if letting her go on the road with the goose-yellow woman would make her suffer a great grievance, and provoked the latter to glare at her again and again.

The goose-yellow woman said with disdain: "I have no opinion if you want to go with my senior sister, I don't want to see you yet, but with your little three-legged cat kung fu, it will only become a drag on my senior sister and a big deal." ”

"Qingrui. The woman in purple smiled and called the girl's name with a round face, with a doting look on her face: "This time we came out to travel, we never thought that we would encounter such a thing, the situation is urgent, don't make trouble, listen to your senior sister Li obediently." ”

Finally calmed down the round-faced girl, the woman in purple explained a few more words to the goose-yellow woman, and then unfolded her body and headed east, the purple clothes flew, and disappeared on the official road in the blink of an eye.

The goose-yellow woman Li Caiyi watched her senior sister go away, and turned around and glared at the round-faced girl: "Let's go." With that, he turned and walked north.

The round-faced girl whispered inaudible words and followed behind slowly.

Wen Caiyi turned around impatiently: "Can you hurry up, if you can't make it before dark, you can only live in the wilderness, and then the hanged ghosts in the forest will come to pinch your face." ”

She said this in a calm tone, and Xu Qingrui's goosebumps popped up when she heard it, but she still said stiffly: "I want to ...... If there really is a hanged ghost, you can't escape. After speaking, the big black eyes cautiously glanced at the forest on both sides, as if they were really afraid of some demons and monsters coming out. I also took two steps to catch up with the senior sister in front, and the two of them quarreled with each other and disappeared on the official road in the north.

After the three of them parted ways, the official road crossing here was completely quiet, and a masked man dressed in black walked out of the forest and took a deep look in the direction where the three sisters left.