At dusk, when Chen Ping'an returned to the town and passed the east gate of the city, the sloppy man who watched the door was still humming a tune there, and was singing to "An inch of time is not light, glory and wealth can be thrown", perhaps disturbed by the hurried footsteps of the straw sandals boy, the man opened his eyes, just looked at the boy who trotted to the door, and the man saw that it was this debt collector, he was extremely disappointed, and waved his hand angrily: "Go and go, your kid's time is worth a bird's money, glory and wealth four words, if you can have a word to dip the edge, burn high incense." ”

After Chen Ping'an ran over, he raised a palm high, opened his five fingers, and shook it vigorously.

Obviously reminding the janitor that between the two of them, there was a five-penny incense affair.

The man spat hard and scolded: "It's not a good bird!"

The young man's figure quickly disappeared, and the man looked up at the clear blue sky, like a beautiful layer of glaze.

The man rubbed his chin full of stubble, and sighed: "Mr. Qi said a poem, what's the matter, good things, glass?"

An ox cart slowly drove out of the town, and on the cart sat a well-known green shirt scholar, and the driver was a middle-aged man with a wooden look.

The man immediately beckoned and laughed loudly: "Brother Xiang, don't be busy walking first, brother, I have a sentence in my stomach, I only remember good things, glass or something, and I can't remember anything else, you kid is very knowledgeable, and he said it!"

The radiant Zhao Miao held a bag in his arms and said loudly: "The good things in the world are not strong, and the colorful clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle!"

The man stretched out his thumb, "It's worthy of being a brother, he is very knowledgeable, and he will be out in the future, don't forget to go back to his hometown to see my brother, I can't say that I can replace your husband when the time comes, and it is also very good to be a teacher for our small town children." ”

Zhao Miao was stunned, and then hugged his fists and smiled: "Cheng Brother Jiyan!"

The man was happy, took out an embroidered bag from his sleeve, shook his wrist, threw it high to the Qingyi reader, and grinned: "After so many years, you have written so many Spring Festival couplets, the key is that you are also kind, never feel troublesome, my brother is never wrong to look at people, send you some gadgets, have a good trip!"

Zhao Miao hurriedly grabbed the money bag, "There will be a period later!"

The man smiled and nodded, and waved his hand at the young man's ox cart, but muttered, "It's difficult." ”

The straw sandals boy walked deeper into the town, while Zhao Miao's ox cart went to the world outside the town, passing each other.

The man sitting on the stump counted with his fingers, "The Great Sui boy carrying the bamboo basket and the golden carp, the cub of the widow in Mud Bottle Lane, plus the brother of Fulu Street, this is already three." But then there are so many people who crash in, and they have to be left with the job of picking up rags? Otherwise, I will also take the opportunity to find a filial apprentice who can rub his shoulders and knock his back?"

The man stretched out his hand and pulled his wrinkled dark cheeks, and said with a smile, "If it's a beautiful female apprentice with a bright plate and a smooth order, it's the best." Well, the face is almost bearable, but the legs must be long!"

This famous bachelor man in the town hugged the back of his head with both hands, looked up at the sky, and stole joy alone. After thinking of these happy things, I suddenly lost my sorrows, and only felt that there was great beauty between heaven and earth.

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Before Chen Ping'an left Mud Bottle Lane, he made an appointment with Liu Xianyang and the girl in black, and when the time came, he met directly at Liu Xianyang's house, and when Chen Ping'an ran to Liu Xianyang's house, the door was not locked, pushed the door in, and when he arrived at the main hall, he saw Liu Xianyang cleaning and wiping the ancestral armor with a clean cotton towel.

Miss Ning, a girl in black, put on a shallow hat again, a sword at her waist, and the long sword with a snow-white scabbard was carried in her hand at will. For some reason, Chen Ping'an always felt that Miss Ning seemed to dislike this sword.

The old object at the bottom of the box that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Liu family on the table, said to be a treasure armor, is really ugly and scary in Chen Ping'an's opinion, the huge armor is covered with iron tendons like dead trees and tumors, and there are five deep scratches side by side, slanting all the way down from the left shoulder, all the way to the right waist.

On this point, the two teenagers were puzzled, and they really couldn't imagine what a huge mountain and forest beast they had to be to create this terrifying scene, and later the imperial court had many forbidden peaks, and the people were not allowed to enter the mountains to cut wood and burn charcoal, Chen Ping'an and Liu Xianyang almost never exceeded the prohibition, and a large part of the reason was here.

Chen Ping'an is a little strange, this black charcoal-like iron armor is ugly, but Liu Xianyang really treats it as a family heirloom, even if it is a friendship like Chen Ping'an, he has only seen it once over the years, and after less than half a burnt of incense, he carefully moved it back to the vermilion lacquer box and offered it.

However, seeing Liu Xianyang peeking at the girl in black from time to time, Chen Ping'an was a little relieved, Liu Xianyang has always been this kind of virtuous person, and he can't control his eyes when he sees a good-looking woman, but he actually doesn't really like to be excited, he just likes to show off, for example, in the past summer on the side of the covered bridge, bare-chested in the stream, if there is a girl of the same age carrying seedlings or leading a scalper passes, Liu Xianyang is bound to come to Sanban Axe, first climb on the big bluestone on the shore with a burning buttocks, and then cough loudly- Song Jixin commented on this as "telling the world", and finally another fierce son. Chen Ping'an, who has good eyesight, can actually see the eyes and faces of the girls in the distance clearly, so he has always wanted to tell Liu Xianyang the truth, those good-looking sisters, some roll their eyes, some muttering and scolding, and more just turn a blind eye at all, but they don't have eyes and think you are a hero.

Of course, later Liu Xianyang fell in love with Song Jixin's maidservant Zhigui, and inexplicably fell into it, and after that, the tall boy seemed to have no other beautiful women in his eyes. Even if he is swaggering with the girl in black at this moment, he hopes that the arrogant and indifferent girl is more, don't underestimate him, don't think that with a knife and a sword, you can drag the king of heaven and Laozi, this heirloom of my Liu Xianyang is also the only one in the town.

The girl in the hat waited until Chen Ping'an, looked around, and finally put the long sword horizontally on an old Bogu cabinet painted with gold flowers, the paint was mottled and cracked, she moved many bottles and cans of sundries in order to make room for the long sword, and found that the back wall of the cabinet was inlaid with a pattern, a golden laurel tree, which was in the full moon.

The girl turned her head and said, "The sword is placed here, don't touch it, otherwise you will bear the consequences, I am not joking." ”

Liu Xianyang was busy wiping the treasure armor, bowing his head from time to time and sighing, and directly rubbing it gently with his arm, he was already really enjoying it.

Chen Ping'an promised: "Definitely." ”

The girl said to Liu Xianyang: "This cabinet is worthless, but this mosaic pattern of golden cinnamon hanging on the moon, don't sell it cheaply." ”

Liu Xianyang didn't raise his head and said: "That thing, I didn't like it when I was a child, girl, if you like it, just scrape it off yourself." ”

Of course, the girl in black did this to burn the qin and cook the crane, but she just asked curiously, "What is the material of this pattern?"

Liu Xianyang glanced back, "It's been hundreds of years old, how can I know, even my grandfather can't say one, two, three, four." ”

Chen Ping'an said softly: "It should be the stones picked up from the creek beach, there are many colors, but Liu Xianyang's elders must have only picked the golden ones back then, crushed them first and then glued them together." We call this stone snake gallstone. ”

The girl in black asked, "Are there many pebbles in the stream?"

Chen Ping'an said with a smile: "Miss Ning, if you want, I can pick up a big basket for you a day, no one on our side is waiting to see this, so Gu Cang likes it, and often picks it up by himself." ”

The girl in black sighed and looked deeply at the poor boy in Mud Bottle Lane, "Poor bastard who lives on the gold and silver mountains." ”

Chen Ping'an was surprised: "This kind of stone is outside, valuable?"

She lifted her hat and said: "The price depends on who it falls into, in addition, even if it falls into the hands of someone who knows how to do it, whether it will succeed or not depends on luck." If you're lucky, one is enough, and if you're unlucky, you'll not be able to pile up a mountain of stones. But no matter what, it's valuable, and it's valuable. I just don't know if I can take it out of town, which is very important. ”

Liu Xianyang interjected, "This stone is a little weird, as long as you take out the stream, once the wind blows and the sun is exposed, the color will fade, especially after rain and snow, the color will fade even more." Other than that, there's not much more. ”

The girl lamented, "Sure enough. ”

Chen Ping'an hesitated, "Otherwise, I'll pick up a big basket tomorrow and come back, and try it?"

The girl shook her head and said, "For me, it doesn't make sense. ”

Liu Xianyang had already moved the treasure armor back to the house and hid it, leaning against the door at this time, and said with a smile: "Chen Ping'an is a big money fan, maybe he will go to the creek to touch the stones tonight." ”

The girl said, "Let's go." ”

When she walked to the door, she turned her head and asked, "I will keep the hairpin and prescription for you." But tomorrow I still need you to go to Mud Bottle Alley and help make medicine. ”

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "No problem." ”

She thought for a while, her face was solemn, and she reminded: "The most powerful of these outsiders who entered the town around the same time as me should be the old man from Zhengyang Mountain, this trip is to escort the little girl, and then the eunuch of the Great Sui who injured me, and then Liu Zhimao who took Gu Cang, and the woman who hid the knife in her smile should not be underestimated." So as long as you meet that old guy in Zhengyang Mountain, try not to argue, but once there is a conflict, just delay the time, don't do anything with anyone, don't have any luck, and be sure to delay until I appear. ”

Liu Xianyang said in a low voice: "On our territory, these outsiders who are not familiar with the land really dare to kill people?"

Chen Ping'an glanced at him and nodded, "Dare." ”

Liu Xianyang swallowed his saliva.

Chen Ping'an suddenly asked, "Do you still remember Lu Daochang...... , that is, the fortune teller who set up the stall, what did he tell you?"

Liu Xianyang's head was big for a while, and after recalling it vigorously, he scratched his ears and cheeks and said: "Where do I remember this clearly, I only know that it is some unpleasant bad words, anyway, it is a big disaster, to burn incense and the like, it is a mess, I only thought he was talking nonsense, cheating people and cheating money......

Chen Ping'an turned his head to look at the girl in black.

The girl said viciously: "He can't remember the signature himself, how can I unsign him?

Chen Ping'an was a little confused, and couldn't figure out why Miss Ning was suddenly so annoyed.

The girl strode out of the house.

Compared with the slow and leisurely when he came, he was much more resolute.

The saber girl walked in the spacious alley, wondering if she would go back and find a few books to nibble on?

When the girl thought that she would walk in all directions in the future, she would simply fly the sword and decapitate her head, and then come up with a few impassioned impromptu poems, even if there was no one around, she felt really handsome!

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Just when the girl was full of longing, a familiar figure flew by.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Miss Ning. ”

By the time the voice landed, the figure was almost at the end of the alley.

The straw sandals boy carried a basket on his back and walked like a fly.

The girl was stunned and muttered, "Is there really such a money fan?"