The wonton stall is not big, and in Lingzhou City, such a seller at both ends of the flat shoulder grabs a handful.

Looking for a place where there are not too many people, the sloppy middle-aged man took out a folding wooden table and a few folding wooden chairs from the stall, and took care of a few people to sit down.

"Can you eat spicy food?"

The sloppy middle-aged man is much cleaner today, and he doesn't have the drunken appearance he used to look like when he saw him.

"Eat! Add some oil and spicy seeds to the clear soup wontons, that taste ......"

Xu Yue closed his eyes and licked the corners of his mouth, his face full of enjoyment. Cheng Huan frowned and looked at him with disgust, thinking that he was insulting Sven.

But it didn't stop her from being curious about the food in Xu Yue's mouth.

Just as the middle-aged man was cooking wontons, Xu Yue touched his chin and carefully observed the stall and the middle-aged man's every move.

He touched the table and chair first, and then the stall. The tops were all pulped, and it was obvious that they had been used for a long time, and then they looked at the middle-aged man's action of cooking wontons, trying to see some clues.

But soon disappointed.

Taking advantage of the boiling of water in the pot, the middle-aged man skillfully wrapped the wontons, put the hot water into the pot, put a spoonful of lard in the empty bowl, poured in the steaming wonton soup, served the wontons, sprinkled with chives, shrimp skin and coriander leaves, and then dripped two drops of sesame oil, the oil poured spicy, and finally poured with soy sauce.

The wontons were served, looking at the oily and slippery wontons, Cheng Xi swallowed deeply, and the red coriander complemented each other.

"I'm telling you, just take this bite, and I'll keep you thinking about it in the future."

Xu Yue said, scooped up a tablespoon of wontons and put it on his stomach, the spicy taste matched with the umami of the shrimp skin, swept away the dizziness of last night's hangover, and suddenly felt relaxed.

"Oops, it's spicy, it's spicy!"

Wiping a handful of sweat, Cheng Xi kept fanning his mouth, and then looked at Wei Zigeng and Xu Yue without eating, and after a while, he said:

"It's spicy, but it's delicious, delicious! I didn't expect you two to be so spicy. ”

A bowl of wontons was eaten with soup, and Xu Yue said:

"Salty and spicy are the most important meals, how rich Jiangnan is, not to mention the children of wealthy families like you, how can you know that some people can't even eat a full meal, sometimes even a few red peppers can make the poor eat half a bowl of rice."

Wiping his mouth, Xu Yue took out the treasure swallowing gourd and shook it twice, opened the cork, took a sip, and then looked at Wei Zigeng with playful eyes and asked softly:

"Would you like to give it a try?"

Wei Zigeng saw that he looked badly beaten, first shook his head, and then nodded.

"Be careful."

"Hehe, don't worry, I'm in control."

After shaking the gourd twice, Xu Yue spoke softly and said to the mouth of the gourd:

"Please turn around."

A three-inch flying knife slowly flew out, the sun shone on the Xueliang blade, and the light flashed, and a flying knife flew towards the middle-aged man who was cleaning up the wonton stall with his back to them at a speed invisible to ordinary people.

Xu Yue pinched the sword technique in one hand, and his eyes stared at the middle-aged man's every move.

"Whoosh."

Just as the flying knife was about to stab the middle-aged man in the back of the head, the middle-aged man turned around quietly, picked up the colander on the side, and the flying knife flew over his sideburns, not even a single hair could be cut off.

"Huh? Coincidental? ”

Pinching the sword trick again, the flying knife turned its head suddenly, and stabbed the man's left shoulder blade, seeing that it was about to be stabbed, he didn't think that the middle-aged man took the colander and turned around to take out the flour lumps in the pot.

Wei Zigeng frowned, Xu Yue gritted his teeth, pointed with two fingers, and pulled the flying knife back.

"I don't believe it, it's really so lucky!"

Several times in a row, Xu Yue moved the knife like the wind, and the snow-bright blade rotated around the middle-aged man's body at a speed that was indistinct to the naked eye under the sun's rays, but every time he was about to stab the middle-aged man, he was able to dodge it, as if the knife was deliberately avoiding him.

Wei Zigeng looked at everything in front of him and patted Xu Yue's shoulder.

"That's it, take it."

Xu Yue sighed and sighed softly.

"Please swallow the treasure gourd."

The flying knife flew back into the gourd, Xu Yue covered the wooden stopper, shook the gourd twice, then reopened the wooden stopper, and raised his head to take a sip.

"Ah, it tastes so good."

Cheng Xi was the last to eat, and took out a silver ingot from his cuff that was five taels and slapped it on the table, Wei Zigeng and Xu Yue were no stranger to this.

"Yo, how many people have eaten? Are you satisfied? ”

The middle-aged man smiled and put the silver ingot on the table into his arms, without any intention of making change.

It is estimated that he can't find change at this stall.

"Yes, I'll be back tomorrow."

The middle-aged man rubbed his hands and said with some embarrassment:

"Then I can't guarantee that I'll sell wontons again tomorrow."

"Oh? Are you going to set up a stall tomorrow to tell fortunes? ”

Wei Zigeng asked with interest.

The middle-aged man sneered:

"Maybe I'll catch a few Jiangyang thieves tomorrow, and it's not okay for people to send them to the yamen to ask for silver.

When the middle-aged man finished saying this, Wei Zigeng was stunned, and in the last sentence, the middle-aged man's smiling eyes stared at him, as if he had seen through everything about him.

Wei Zigeng stood up and came to the saber that was used as a flat burden.

"It's a good sword, but you're treating it as a flat shoulder? If it has a spirit, I am afraid that the first one will find you unhappy. ”

Wei Zigeng felt sorry for this sword, the sword that was supposed to bloom in the rivers and lakes with dazzling brilliance has now become a flat shoulder carrying the shelf, and the straight road is unladylike.

The middle-aged man was not angry but happy, and said with a smile:

"Zifei Fish, Anzhi Fish, the joy of fish? If your sword has a spirit, will she feel lonely when you leave it alone in the bedroom? At least I will accompany it every day and talk to it, maybe what it yearns for is the stable days of this pot to extract pulp? ”

Wei Zigeng was speechless, he had never thought about it before, he only felt that the sword was a murder weapon, born in the rivers and lakes, died in the rivers and lakes, and rotten in the rivers and lakes should be its best destination.

That's why Wei Zigeng was trapped in the Yaoguang Realm and couldn't break through, just because he didn't understand why Su Qi'er would throw down his sword and resolutely chose to go to the rivers and lakes alone.

"Zifei Fish, Anzhi Fish, the joy of fish? The joy of fish and fish? ”

Wei Zigeng savored it, and after a long time, he bowed and saluted with his fists.

"Thank you to the seniors for the allocation, the younger generations have benefited a lot."

The middle-aged man scratched his head, his expression full of doubt.

Leaving the booth, the group of four returned to Pinghu Villa Chengfu.

At the stall, the middle-aged man put away the dishes, chopsticks, tables and chairs, and re-picked up the shelves with his sword.

"Let's go, old friend, let's go take a look somewhere else."

One step at a time, the middle-aged man sang the familiar tune of Jiangnan, just like the countless peddlers and pawns in the city who led the pot to extract pulp, which was inconspicuous.

"Jiangnan America, infinitely good scenery, the little lady by the lake, the light rain falling a little melancholy, the scholars on the other side cover their faces, enjoy the good scenery alone......"

The flow of people was weaving, and his steps went straight in one direction.

Gangnam Villa.

Scholars and swordsmen are different paths, just because one person has a good scenery.

Pinghu Villa, in the backyard room.

Wei Zigeng and Xu Yue pushed the hangover last night and had to rest, so they finally got rid of Cheng Xiaogongzi's kindness of inviting him to Yuejianglou to listen to the music, but because the two of them did not return last night, they were led by the ears of the eldest lady Cheng Qing and left the guest house.

Open the list of people and finances from who's finances, and it is densely recorded countless court officials who have had dealings with it, from the county order master book, to the princes and princesses, and even the harem concubines and concubines.

Looking at these names, Xu Yue clenched his fists, one name represents a human life or even many, they could have been quietly by their family's side, but in the end they became monsters in the eyes of others, captive, playthings for venting perverted psychology.

"Zi Geng, I listen to you, do what you say!"

Wei Zigeng closed the bloody list, which did not record the names of the officials of Lingzhou City in Jiangnan Province.

Maybe Jiangnan didn't have such a thing before, or He Rencai hadn't been to Jiangnan before.

"Then Liu Xiao is definitely not as kind to people as he seems, there must be something strange in it, we will visit the Yin Mansion at night."

When the night passes, Lingzhou City is peaceful, on the sparkling Qinhuai River, large and small painting boats have their own infinite spring light in the night.

Boating on the lake, the sound of glamour is endless, and the river is full of wine and meat.

Tonight's Mansion Yin Mansion was particularly lively, with Yin Liu Xiao of Guanyuan Mansion as the east, and a total of 13 high-ranking officials including the Jiangnan Provincial Economic Strategy Envoy were invited, all of whom were good officials who were loved by the people who held real power and were deeply loved by the people.

Jiangnan Provincial Economic Envoy Category, this second-grade feudal official who holds real power in his hands, was respectfully invited to the main seat by Yin Liu Xiao, the governor of Guanyuan Mansion, and the middle-aged man with a gentle and introverted temperament did not shirk it, and sat straight.

Jiangnan Province has a total of six states and thirteen prefectures, layer by layer, strict governance, among which Lingzhou is the richest, is the Jiangnan Province Shangyuan Mansion.

"Lord Liu, there must be something good about inviting us this time, your Guan Yuan Mansion has been smooth in recent years, so there is a will to be promoted?"

Yin Qianyuan, the governor of Liuyang Mansion in Yizhou, said with a smile.

Yin Liu Xiao of Guan Yuan Mansion was extremely happy today, even squinting his eyes when he was drinking, and almost laughed out loud.

"Eh, Lord Qian, don't laugh, Jiangnan Province is rich in the world, who doesn't know that promotion from here is like demotion?"

Even if he made some big or small jokes, Liu Xiao still smiled lightly.

"Oh? What's that? ”

In response to this question, Liu Xiao smiled slightly, raised a glass of wine on the main seat, and everyone in the audience drank a glass of wine, and then Liu Xiao stood up and clapped his hands gently.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the students are polite."

Looking for prestige, a person walked out of the inner hall, dressed in green clothes and a handsome face, but everyone's eyes were attracted by the "items" behind him, and they didn't take his salute seriously at all.

I saw five women standing behind the young man, wearing a wide coarse cloth robe, and I couldn't tell what her figure was at all, but from the exposed hands, it was not the female dependents of a large family, but her head was covered with a black cloth, and her face could not be seen.

"This ...... What does Lord Liu mean by this? ”

Jiangzhou Governor Zheng Shihui asked suspiciously.

They are all old foxes who have been in officialdom for decades, what kind of beauty have they never seen or played with? Knowing that Liu Xiao could never put on a feast just for these rough-looking women, there must be other deep meanings.

"Master Hua, why don't you show one or two?"

The young man surnamed Hua smiled slightly, and slowly took off the black cloth on the head of one of the women and the wide robe on his body, and everyone present took a deep breath, and even the scope couldn't help but look fixedly.

Just before, two days later, one after the other, with a strange light skill like stepping on the snow without a trace, quietly came to the roof of the outer courtyard of Liu's mansion.

"Xu Yue, I'm really fast at pushing the window to look at the moon and chasing the clouds, and in time, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult for me to catch up with you."

Wei Zigeng was secretly amazed at the speed of Xu Yue's cultivation, as if there was no bottleneck.

But Xu Yue turned a deaf ear to his words, and just looked around vigilantly, as if he was afraid of something, so that he was a little absent-minded on the way to Liu's mansion.

Wei Zigeng asked suspiciously:

"What are you looking for? You can rest assured, with the light work of the two of us, there are very few people in the rivers and lakes who can catch up with us. ”

Xu Yue stretched out his index finger to his lips to make a silence.

"During this time, I was almost scared out of the problem by that sloppy man, for fear that I would see him as soon as I turned my head."

Wei Zigeng also felt quite a lot about this, and now as soon as he heard the voice that had been poured with molten iron, he had a palpitation, and that person was unfathomable.

"In my hometown, you are sick, called stress disorder, but you can't put it off."

At this time, a voice sounded in the ears of the two of them, although it could already be soft, but this sound was like a thunderclap, which made the two of them feel shocked.

Wei Zigeng stared at Xu Yue's side with wide eyes, but Xu Yue turned his head stiffly little by little, only to see that the sloppy man who called himself Li Canglan was lying on the roof of the outer courtyard of the Liu Mansion with them with a harmless smile on his face.

"You...... When did you come?! ”

Xu Yue was having goosebumps all over his body at the moment, but there were still two of them who were masters of the Middle Four Realms, but they didn't notice his approach in the slightest.

"Hehe, didn't I say that? Maybe I'll catch two kidnappers tomorrow or Jiang Yang thieves and go to the yamen to receive a reward, but you're here to reward money? ”

Wei Zigeng was just about to speak, but the middle-aged man was silent and pointed to the banquet hall in the inner courtyard.

I saw that the young man surnamed Hua gently ripped off the wide robe that one of the women covered her body and the black cloth covering her head.

"Damn, brute!"

Xu Yue gritted his teeth, Wei Zigeng clenched his fists with both hands, and his nails were deeply embedded in the flesh.