Li Fenglan and the others said that they would come back in two days, but it was the third day, and there was no one to be seen. Jade is a little anxious, can this girl Amber protect Li Fenglan?

Jade rarely brings emotions to her face, and even though she is so concerned about her two good sisters at this moment, she still maintains a cold expression.

In the morning, Bai Zhonglian had already sent someone out to inquire about the news, it was almost dark, and the person who inquired had not yet returned. Bai Shuyu persuaded him not to worry, at least the people in the rivers and lakes were afraid of Qingfengguan and would not attack them easily.

It seems that since childhood, the three of them have not been separated for such a long time.

Until sunset, the gate of the Bai family was pushed open, and Li Fenglan and his party finally returned. Jade, who was originally sitting in the hall and was relatively speechless with Bai Shuyu, stood up and ran quickly towards the door. Bai Shuyu looked at Jade's back and snickered.

In fact, Bai Shuyu has long known the whereabouts of Li Fenglan and his party, and even if the Bai family is not as good as eighteen years ago, there are still some eyeliners. However, he didn't tell Jade Li Fenglan's whereabouts, but he didn't have any malicious intent, he just wanted to know: How long will this cold woman be able to calm down.

Now that it has been measured, the jade did not calm down at the beginning.

"You're back, why is it so long?" Although Jade was worried, the expression on her face was still the same as before.

Li Fenglan didn't want Jade to worry, so she said before the outspoken Amber spoke: "There is something on the way, it's delayed." ”

Bai Zhonglian and Bai Shuyu had also arrived, Bai Zhonglian looked at the extra twilight clouds and asked, "Miss Li, who is this son?" ”

"I met someone on the road, his name is Twilight, maybe ...... It is a blessing to us to the valley of the arashi. ”

Bai Shuyu frowned and asked, "Maybe?" ”

Li Fenglan was just about to explain, but Bai Zhonglian said: "The four of you should be tired after such a long journey, let's rest first." I asked the people to prepare the meal, and then I would talk about what was going on. ”

As soon as they heard about eating, Zhu Mingyu and Amber's eyes lit up, and they said in unison, "Let's eat first." ”

At the dinner table, the Bai family sisters and brothers listened to Zhu Mingyu talk about what happened along the way. Zhu Mingyu secretly complained in his heart, explaining why he came by himself to explain this? I can't eat again.

After all the speeches were finished, Bai Shuyu was thoughtful and said, "Xu Zhenbiao? ”

Li Fenglan asked, "What?" Does the third prince know this person? ”

"Oh...... Yes, but he died six years ago...... That's right. ”

"What's right?"

Bai Shuyu opened the folding fan and fanned it, and asked with a smile: "Miss Li, is it an easy task to gather the masters of the major factions?" ”

Li Fenglan replied: "Naturally, it is not easy. ”

"What is needed?"

Li Fenglan was puzzled and asked rhetorically: "What do you need?" ”

"Money."

Li Fenglan suddenly realized.

With so many people getting together, you can't expect everyone to bring their own dry food, they definitely need money to support it. The heroes all need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and there are not too many people who can spend so much money on the rivers and lakes. Li Fenglan suddenly felt that he had underestimated Bai Shuyu, he was thinking about the problem from a very tricky angle, and he actually thought of starting from the aspect of money.

Bai Shuyu said: "This Xu Zhenbiao is not a rich man. He didn't have a teacher, he relied on the kung fu of stealing teachers everywhere to break into the rivers and lakes, although his popularity was good, but he couldn't save such a large sum of money. ”

"Who can get out?"

"There are a lot of people who can afford it, but ...... I specially checked the martial arts sect that had a big move back then. Miss Li, you are a fledgling, and you probably don't know what these Jianghu sects rely on to make a living. ”

Zhu Mingyu took over the conversation: "Some sects will do business, such as the Long Whale Sect and Songshan, the position of their sect occupies the main road, but these roads are not safe, and there are often ringing horses. Passers-by pay them a sum of money to keep them safe, and they are responsible for dealing with the ringing horses. This way of making money is very slow, but it is a legitimate business, and many sects will use it. Then there is the Songshan Shaolin Temple and the Longhu Mountain Heavenly Master's Mansion, their incense is prosperous, relying on the offerings of pilgrims, which is enough for the daily expenses of the disciples in the door. ”

Li Fenglan asked, "Is there any other way to make money?" ”

Zhu Mingyu nodded: "Yes, such as the Thorn Gate and our Qingfeng View." Our two factions are unique...... The Thorn Sect has suppressed all kinds of evil ways for many years, and every time it destroys one, it will draw a share from the seized evil path materials, and the rest will generally be used to help the people, in short, it is a good thing. Our Qingfeng concept is similar, but there are few of us, most of the time it is our brothers and sisters who find some small Xiangma Mountain to hit, and there is no oil and water. Coupled with the faction of my master's martial arts grand master, all this money can be dispersed, so our Qingfeng Guan has always been very poor. Other Taoist temples are naturally not as large as the Heavenly Master's Mansion, but people allow disciples to open altars for the common people, so they live more nourishingly than us. Is there another way to make money......"

Zhu Mingyu looked at Bai Zhonglian and said with a smile: "I have to ask the second son." ”

Bai Zhonglian smiled embarrassedly: "Bai, Li, and Shangguan started with Jianghu intelligence, and the Bai family's intelligence business has not been good these years, but fortunately, my father has an idea and runs a Jianghu Di newspaper, which can sell a lot every year and make a living." ”

Li Fenglan asked again: "What about those Jianghu people who are not covered by a sect?" ”

Zhu Mingyu shrugged his shoulders: "Many of them end up doing the business of robbing houses and houses, and some people may find a dart game, a martial arts hall to make a living, or work as a caretaker for a rich person's family." ”

After listening to this, Li Fenglan was thoughtful. It's very simple, it's how to make money. You can't do big things without money.

talked about how the people in the rivers and lakes came up with money, Bai Shuyu said: "There were many people who could afford such a large amount of money back then, but there was only one who didn't hurt his muscles and bones." ”

"Who?"

"Chang'an, the God of Golden Wealth."

"Golden God of Wealth?"

"Yes, he is the richest person in the rivers and lakes in the past few decades, and his way of getting money is different from what I said above. He had a serious business, selling porcelain, tea and so on to the Western Regions. The big head is lending...... However, Jin Caishen had no reason to participate in the encirclement and suppression that year, at most he lent money to the people behind the scenes. ”

"So, we can start with the God of Golden Wealth?"

"Yes, we wanted to look it up a few years ago, but we didn't have the ability. But now that you're here, we're capable. ”

Li Fenglan nodded: "Now the Bai family should not offend the people of the rivers and lakes, we are different, even if we don't offend them, they will come to offend us, this drudgery, we take it." ”

Speaking of this, Li Fenglan asked Bai Xueyan: "Sister Bai, we want to buy a house in Luoyang, do you have any recommendations?" ”

Bai Xueyan wondered: "What? Isn't it good to live in my Bai family? ”

Li Fenglan said embarrassedly: "We can't always rely on the Bai family, we will inevitably have some enemies in the future, this is not good for the Bai family, and there may be people from our Changfeng Building who want to come and defect, it is always good to have our own place." ”

Bai Shuyu said with a smile: "Miss Li, our Bai family has a courtyard, which has been idle for many years in the bamboo forest not far from the Jinding Pagoda. If the girl needs it, she can sell it to you cheaper. ”

Li Fenglan asked, "How much?" ”

Bai Xueyan has the final say in this kind of thing, and Bai Zhonglian and Bai Shuyu are silent.

Bai Xueyan said with a smile: "That courtyard is too secluded, and it is also idle for this reason, if the sisters want it...... Three hundred taels is good. ”

The scale of the Bai family's courtyard is not small, although it is not as good as the courtyard in Luoyang City, but it is more than enough for thirty or forty people, and three hundred taels is a real acquaintance price.

Li Fenglan slapped the table and said boldly: "Okay, it's just three hundred taels!" ”

Jade glanced at her and said, "Where did you get three hundred taels?" ”

Li Fenglan smiled mysteriously: "Jade, we have money." ”

Amber rarely put down the dishes and chopsticks, and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes!" We robbed the Songshan faction of two thousand taels of silver! ”

The Bai family brothers and sisters were embarrassed...... This is more than a ringing horse.

…

After eating, Zhu Mingyu stood on the roof of the Bai family's lobby, looking at Luoyang City, and was extremely depressed: Damn, I didn't eat enough.

Just as he was melancholy, he heard the sound of his clothes flying, and saw a yellow figure lightly landing beside him, it was Amber.

Amber was holding a cloth bag in her hand, she handed it to Zhu Mingyu, and said with a smile: "Daoist Mingyu, give it." ”

"What?"

"Delicious."

Zhu Mingyu was very grateful, and hurriedly took the cloth bag and opened it, which contained a bunch of pastries and several pieces of jerky.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!"

Zhu Mingyu hurriedly sat down, picked up a piece of jerky and nibbled on it. Amber sat obediently beside him.

"Amber girl," Zhu Mingyu said as she ate, "in the future, if you let me go east, I will never go west." The parents of those who gave birth to me, the master of those who raised me, and the amber of those who gave me meat, great kindness and great virtue, there is no way to repay it. ”

"Hahaha," Amber said with a smile, "I don't like to talk about things during meals, but they always talk about important things during meals." What did Sister Coral say? What can't you eat, what can't you sleep? ”

"Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking."

"Yes, yes, yes! Eating is eating, where there are so many things to say. ”

"I'll mess with you in the future, and I'll never talk to them again when we eat."

Zhu Mingyu was eating happily, and Amber asked him, "Mingyu Dao Chief...... You...... Killed someone, right? ”

Zhu Mingyu was shocked, although he had asked it before, but now Amber's words were too low, even more serious than when he talked to Li Fenglan in the carriage in the afternoon.

Zhu Mingyu stopped eating and turned his head to look at Amber, who was staring at the moon in the sky, almost fifteen, and the moon was getting rounder and rounder. The moonlight sprinkled on Amber's face, making this beautiful little face look delicate. She was a beautiful and simple girl, and after the events of the afternoon, it was estimated that she had fallen into confusion. Zhu Mingyu didn't know how to answer, so he just looked at it in a daze.

Seeing that Zhu Mingyu didn't answer, Amber said again: "You actually heard what I said to Miss in the afternoon, right?" ”

Zhu Mingyu didn't answer, it was a tacit acquiescence.

Amber lowered her head and said melancholy, "I didn't want to tell Miss about that, we grew up together, and I know what she and Sister Jade think of me." They think I'm afraid to see blood, I'm afraid that something will die next to me...... I've always known that...... I'm afraid they'll think I've changed. I can't help it, and before today, I didn't know that I didn't feel death. ”

Zhu Mingyu said softly: "A gentleman is a gentleman, and he is born immediately...... There is a light in people's hearts. Some people have turned off their lights and become all kinds of bad people, and some people have never turned off their lights and are good people. The blades of Xuzhou Golden Bone Fang are famous, some people use them to do evil, and some people use them to do good. There is nothing wrong with the blade itself, it is the people who are at fault. Amber girl, as long as you keep a clear light in your heart, you will not change, you are still you, no matter how many people you are forced to hurt in the future. ”

Amber smiled at her, that smile was very sweet, so sweet that Zhu Mingyu thought of what the little monk Huizhi said: Red and pink skeleton.

Amber smiled and said, "Thank you, Daoist Mingyu. Although I didn't understand what you said, and it probably didn't help if I did, I still thank you. ”

"Hehe," Zhu Mingyu said with a smile, "You just keep the current state of not being able to understand, and you will not change for the rest of your life." ”

Amber smiled again, but this time the smile was a little mischievous.

It was already August, and it was a little cool at night, and a gust of wind blew, and Zhu Mingyu was smart.

"Amber girl, rest early, it's getting late."

Amber said, "I'll leave when you're done." ”

Amber didn't mean anything else, and Zhu Mingyu knew that he didn't mean anything else, but he still said secretly: "Zhu Mingyu, the pink skeleton." ”