Li Siye led Yan Xiaosi out of the West Market, crossed the Yong'an Canal, and went from Guangdefang to the East Market. On the way, I want to pass the recommended blessing temple of Xinghuafang, the temple wall pagoda is towering to the sky, there is Miao Miao's Sanskrit sound floating out, Yan Xiaosi stopped for a long time, and waited for Li Siye to step away, and then hurriedly caught up.

The shops in the East Market are more orderly than those in the West Market, and of course they are not as lively as those in the West Market, and most of the patrons are the dukes in brocade robes and robes, or the small servants of large families in black or soap colors, and sometimes you can meet a few palace eunuchs with no bearded chins.

Yan Xiaosi was curious, and lowered his head and looked around with his eyes dropped, thinking that in this way, others would not notice his prying eyes.

"Don't be a thief, and don't stare at the eunuchs, they are very small-minded, beware of snatching you into the palace and castrating."

Yan Xiaosi hurriedly withdrew his eyes, looked down at the ground, and followed behind Li Siye.

Li Siye looked up and saw a jade shop and walked in.

Two guys in the store cleaned the goods displayed on the shelves with dust whisks in their hands, and when they heard a customer enter the door, they looked back at the color of the customer's robe and the belt around his waist.

Li Siye was wearing the regular uniform of a six-rank military attaché, but he did not trim the edges very well, and there were holes in the black veil on his head, so it can be inferred that he was the kind of reckless man who had a straightforward temperament and loved to drink. But this kind of person is often a military general of a certain royal palace, doing business in the East Market, and no one can easily slack off.

The guy gently put the whisk on his sleeve and asked elegantly, "The guest wants to palm a piece of jade."

"No, I'd like to buy one to give away." Li Siye said lightly, but his eyes wandered around the shelf.

"Oh, I don't know who the guest is going to give it to"

"A person in the Daomen, a Taoist aunt." Since Li Twelve Niang's master, Gongsun Auntie, has entered the Daomen, it is not appropriate to give her a sword or something, and the sword is homophonic with 'cheap', even if others don't care, they have to avoid it.

Give it to the female aunt

The young man figured out the thoughts of the guests, a military general with a declining appearance sent something to Daogu, thinking carefully about these two identities seem to be incompatible, what will be the relationship between the military general and the Daogu, the prosperity of the Tang Daomen, there are not a few Taoist temples in Chang'an City, and the atmosphere in the Daomen is not good, and there are many noble ladies who are also among them after losing their husbands, but they have added a lot of gossip.

Although the person in front of him is unkempt, he is handsome, especially in good health, and this possibility is also very likely.

With the thought of it, the man thought of it as clever and took out a green jade from the bottom of the shelf, which at first glance looked like two villains hugging each other.

He walked in front of Li Siye with small steps and presented it with both hands.

Li Siye stretched out his hand to take it, feeling that the workmanship was quite exquisite, but if he looked closely, one of the two villains had a head on his head, and the other had a bun, and the gender distinction was clear.

His face changed in an instant: "What do you mean by this, you think this is what I want!"

If you give this thing to Aunt Gongsun, the female Taoist aunts will have to chase him with swords and cut him for three streets.

When the guy heard this, he didn't know that he had done something wrong, so he hurriedly crossed his hands and bowed down to apologize: "Guest, please forgive the small one, the small one will be changed for you, don't make a noise when you ask for a guest, the owner will rest in the back hall, if so, if it is ......" The child was anxious to squeeze out tears.

Another guy also hurriedly came to Li Siye and bowed his hands, and turned his head sideways to reprimand his companion: "You fool! It angered the guests! Don't hurry up and confess to the guests!"

He bowed forward with both hands at right angles, and said sincerely: "This is where the livelihood of both of my family depends, and I ask the guests to forgive me."

Li Siye's anger has completely dissipated, and besides, they apologize sincerely, life is indeed not easy, and he doesn't want to pursue it anymore.

Who knew that a stern and rough voice came from behind the two: "What's the matter!"

The two guys' shoulders trembled at the same time, their heads were lowered and their faces were white, and they even held their breath when they were angry, and they were hovering on the edge of life and death, and the other guy secretly glanced up at Li Siye, and lowered his head like a tortured prisoner.

The corners of Li Siye's mouth twitched, and he played with this villain's jade and smiled playfully: "This thing is good, but it's too expensive, and with this money, you can afford a concubine." Even if the two of you do it for me, I can't bear to give this blood. ”

The two of them let out a long sigh of relief, looked up at Li Siye gratefully, and the other quietly wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.

The proprietor glanced at the two sternly, and said in the voice of the boss: "Don't neglect the guests." Then he quickly changed his mask, and humbly said to Li Siye: "What do you have to say, just open your mouth, there are all grades of jade in our store, and they are of good quality and low price."

"Well said, well said."

The owner made an advertisement before leaving, and the two thanked Li Siye again and again.

Li Siye's eyes were staring at the dust on the man's hand, the two ends of the handle were inlaid with green jade, and the tail was made of animal hair, which was soft and snow-white without a trace of variegation, and it looked clean. The gift to Daogu is nothing more than dusting, which can be used both and full of meaning.

"Can this whisk sell me?"

The guy straightened up, looked down at the dust whisk in his hand, smiled and held it out with both hands, and said: "The customer has taken a fancy to this, this was originally a display in our store, but no one has come to buy it for too long, so the small one uses it to clean up the dust." If you want it, I can choose another one for you. ”

"No, no, I want this." After Li Siye saw it, he refused to let it go: "How much."

"Wait a minute, I'll go and ask the owner, sell it to you at the lowest price, thank you for being able to raise your hand today."

After a while, Li Siye put the dust tail on his shoulders and walked out of the jade shop, and the two men sent him out of the door, and then stood on the side of the street and bowed down, dragging out a long, clear and immature tone: "Go slowly." Walk slowly. ”

Li Siye didn't look back, just raised his palm and waved, the two of them didn't have any trouble with his way of returning the salute, they just felt that this was a detached, uninhibited, straightforward and really good person.

At this time, the sun had set, and the martial artist who was walking in a figure-eight step shook his shoulders and disappeared at the gate of the East Market.

It was the beginning of the two to return to Xinchang Fang, and Li Siye simply bought some flax cakes and soup cakes at the snack bar in Linqu in the fang, saving him from going home to start the stove. The owner of the shop was an old couple, who opened the window of the upside-down room facing the door, and the heat wafted out, and I had an appetite when I looked at it.

Li Siye took the Hu cake and the soup bowl box, said a few words, and said casually: "Tomorrow morning, the bowl and lunch box will be delivered."

"Li Lang, don't worry." The old man replied with a smile.

The two stepped into the threshold with wooden boxes and cakes, and Aunt Wu greeted her from the side room, bowing and saluting: "Ah Lang is back, oh, by the way, the next door has come to look for you."

Li Siye was suddenly alert: "What is she going to do?"

"I don't know, I should have heard that you were back, so let's come and have a look."

He was silent for a moment and said, "If she comes tomorrow, you can say that I am not at home." He stretched out his hand and handed the food to Aunt Wu, who held it in his hand and asked, "What is this?"

"I bought it in the shop, so I can save the stove."

The old maid held it in her hand and chattered in her mouth: "Ah Lang came back from the border pass, it should be steaming, but the home has become a cold pot and a cold stove." Buying food outside for two meals a day, and the chimney at home doesn't even get hot, is this a life, if outsiders see it, they think that the home is withered and ruined. Look at my mouth, it's always bad not to open the stove, I'm afraid that I can't even look at the gods, and I'm not willing to guard the door for you. ”

"Come on, it's open tomorrow."

Li Siye was not happy to listen to the old maid's chatter, and waved his hand and paced into the main hall. While it was not completely dark, I put the desk under the porch for dinner. The two old maids and Yan Xiaosi had never had the habit of eating on the case, only holding the soup bowl, holding the Hu cake, finding a wall root to squat, using up the soup in a hurry, reaching out to wipe their mouths, and even the heat on the bun was rising.

The climate of Chang'an during this period was simply docile, even the winter was not so cold, and the spring was not much worse than the summer.

He lit two more oil lamps in the hall, placed three pieces of paper on the desk, and asked Mei'er to write the contract. He held the dust in his right hand to drive away mosquitoes on the top of her head, and told the general content of the contract in his mouth, and it took a certain amount of skill to convert the words that came out of his mouth into words and put them on paper, and Mei'er did learn a lot of things under Gao Shi's teaching.

"Hey, isn't there a traditional character in this shop?"

"Ouch, brother, what complicated and simple, since when have you been talking strangely."

"Ha," Li Siye rubbed his head: "I don't have much knowledge, so it's easy to talk nonsense."

Waiting for Mei'er to finish writing the contract, and the rest of the time, Li Siye and Yan Xiaosi dug the underground vault with their heads in the east wing, and the soil transported out was temporarily spread out on the side of the fang wall. This project also needs to be paid close attention to, and it must be completed before Xugong's team returns to Anxi, so that they can take Mei'er on the road with peace of mind.