A few days later, after a few light rains, the weather in Yidu entered autumn.

Song You went out to listen to the book as usual.

I spent more than a dozen yuan of tea money in the afternoon, drank half of it, listened to the old gentleman talk about the wonderful points, and gave a few more articles, just enough to make up the cost of twenty yuan.

When he stepped on the wet stone slab and the damp leaves back to the courtyard, as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw a three-flowered cat running towards him from the stove house, and when it got closer, it slowed down and looked up at himself, it looked no different from an ordinary domestic cat, except that it was more intelligent and could speak human language.

"Daoist, where have you been again?"

"Same as the other day." Song You replied honestly, "Does Sanhua Niangniang want to go again?" I'll take you with me tomorrow. ”

"Hmm......"

Sanhua Cat hesitated for a moment, but did not answer, but turned his gaze: "What are you holding in your hand?" ”

It seems that this cat doesn't like to listen to books.

Song You thought so, and also took out the things in his hand.

The oranges around Yidu are new, and when I came back, I saw that there were stalls on the side of the road, and they were sold very cheaply, and he also weighed two catties. Immediately, I heard someone selling rock sugar gourds, not that I wanted to eat them, but I hadn't tasted it for many years, so I couldn't help but buy a bunch.

A man and a cat came to the stone table.

Song You knew that most cats didn't like the taste of oranges, so he put the oranges aside, only picked up the sugar gourd, and took one off with his hands first.

"Does Sanhua Niangniang eat sugar gourds?"

"Fruit."

"It's fruit, hawthorn."

"Cats don't eat fruit."

"I'll eat it once in a while."

Sanhua Cat turned her head, stared at him with a "are you a cat or am I a cat" look, and muttered for a few seconds before saying:

"Three-flowered cats don't eat."

Song You savored it carefully and realized that the "Sanhua Cat" here is estimated to be about equal to "Sanhua Niangniang", which is its self-title.

"Don't you really want to eat it?"

"It's not delicious."

"I think it's delicious."

"Taste one, then."

Seeing that the sugar gourd had come to him, the three-flowered cat stretched its neck and approached it, sniffed carefully, looked at it and looked at Song You, and the sense of smell and reason gave it feedback that it was not delicious, but after hesitating for a while, it still opened its mouth.

Take a gentle bite.

The small fangs smoothly pierced into the sugar gourd, and the outer layer of rock sugar came with a crunchy touch, and the hawthorn inside was also bitten open by it.

The three-flowered cat bites on both sides of its teeth.

Song You didn't look at it, he just took one for himself and put it in his mouth.

The icing was easily bitten, as if there was a slight cracking sound in the mouth, and then the hawthorn exploded, and the sweet and sour taste exploded at once, and the hard hawthorn seeds kept colliding with the teeth in the mouth, with a gurgling sound.

Song You couldn't help but squint his eyes.

It may take thousands of years for this era to develop into modern civilization, maybe longer, but the taste of this snack is almost the same as he remembers.

I didn't know if I was a guest for a while.

After a long time, the sweet and sour tastes dissipated in his mouth, and Song You opened his eyes.

The three-flowered cat has also eaten the sugar gourd, leaving only a few hawthorn seeds on the stone table, two of which have been bitten, and I don't know if they have been swallowed.

Song You gathered all the hawthorn seeds it spit out with his hands, spit out the ones in his mouth in the palm of his hand, and put them together with it before he looked at it.

"Is it delicious?"

"What's that out there?"

"It's sugar."

"The sugar is delicious."

"Hawthorn doesn't taste good?"

"The fruit is not tasty." Sanhua Cat looked at Song You's expression, "Do you like to eat?" ”

"Hmm."

"Monkeys like to eat fruit."

"Do you still eat it?"

"Can Sanhua Niangniang just eat sugar?"

"Who eats the fruit?"

"Eat. You like to eat. ”

"Then I'm not going to eat what you've licked?"

"It's just licked."

"There's your saliva."

"It's just saliva."

"I'm afraid not."

"That Sanhua Niangniang won't eat it."

Sanhua Cat's tone was crisp and powerful, and as soon as he turned around after speaking, he jumped off the stone table, shook his ass and left.

Song You didn't care either, and continued to taste the taste of snacks.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

"Huh?"

His intuition told him that it was Luo Zhutou.

Song You just finished eating the last sugar gourd, put the wooden skewer on the stone table, and got up to open the door.

Sure enough, there was Luo Zhutou standing outside the door.

Today, Luo Zhutou is still dressed in the same outfit, but he has an iron ruler around his waist, and there are two people behind him, who are also dressed in soapy clothes and soap boots.

As soon as he saw Song You, he gave up his hand: "Mr. is polite, Luo has come to thank Mr. and give a gift." ”

After a pause, he turned his head and said to the people around him:

"I've seen Mr. yet."

The two behind him immediately gave up their hands and said that they had seen Mr.

"Please come in."

Song You let them into the courtyard, covered the door, and led them through the courtyard until they sat down in the hall.

Immediately took out the teacup that Luo Zhutou had sent a few days ago, and put it in front of several people, but there was no tea poured, and the cup was like self-seeping tea, gradually full.

The three of them were amazed.

Take a closer look, only to see that the mouth of the cup is white and green, the tea fragrance is attractive, and the cup of tea is served.

"Tea, please."

"Sir, what a fairy trick!"

"Thank you, sir."

The three of them hurriedly thanked each other and raised their glasses.

"Listen to what the team leader said, but the thief who escaped from the land was caught?" Song You gets straight to the point.

"Exactly!"

Luo Zhutou was reluctant to give up, but he also put the teacup for the time being, and then excitedly thanked Song You: "Mr. is like a god, he hasn't seen each other, and just a few words of guidance made the thief's escape ineffective, which is really admirable." ”

"Did the capture go well?"

"It went perfectly." Luo Zhutou said, "Three days ago, I met the thief and shouted out the words that Mr. taught, yesterday at the third watch, when I found the thief's hiding place again, he still wanted to escape with a retreat, but he only fell into half of the soil and fell there, and was locked up by us on the spot. ”

"That's good."

"Sir has done another thing to eliminate harm for the people." Luo Zhutou paused for a moment, and took out a wrap of red cloth from his arms, "I have agreed with Mr. in advance, and this matter will be regarded as Mr. has captured the thief, and the bounty should belong to Mr. Twenty taels here is the bounty of the proclamation, and the remaining ten taels are personal gifts from my family. Recently, the nobles in the city have repeatedly put pressure on me, and my family has also suffered from it, so I should thank Mr. for relieving the siege. ”

Song You took the red cloth and opened it to see that there were three pieces of honeycomb silver in it, each of which was cast with the words "ten taels", which was Dayan's official silver.

The heart is heavy when you hold it in your hand.

This feeling is really not comparable to paper money, and it is far from being comparable to a string of numbers on an electronic screen.

However, Song You only took two pieces, and handed the remaining one back to Luo Zhutou.

He didn't say that he just made a plan and didn't deserve the twenty taels, nor did he say that the trappers worked hard day and night, and they should give them some and so on. It's just that in addition to the twenty taels of bounty agreed in advance, he didn't want to take the ten taels of private gifts from the magistrate.

It's still that reason, I don't want to add to the stumbling block.

Luo Zhutou immediately understood, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed on his face, but he didn't dare to go against the wishes of such a master, so he had to put it away.

But I heard him say:

"However, after Mr. Liu heard about Mr.'s demeanor in his mouth, he admired him very much, and proposed to Mr. that he wanted to hold a banquet to thank Mr. If Mr. appreciates his face, it will be set at noon tomorrow Tianxianglou, but I don't know Mr. ......"

Maybe Luo Zhutou himself didn't notice it, and unconsciously, his tone and attitude in front of Song You had been very low.

Although Song You didn't do anything.

"Nope."

Song You had a smile on his face, but he refused very simply, so simply that in this era of valuing etiquette, it sounded a little arrogant:

"I am a pure cultivator in the mountains, and I only like to be pure on weekdays, and I should not be loved by adults."

"I see."

"Trouble squad leader."

"Where's the sir?" Luo Zhutou respectfully drank the tea in the cup, "I still have official business, so I won't disturb Mr. Purity." On the county magistrate's side, Luo will reply that if there is any progress in this case, if Mr. may be involved, Luo will also report to Mr. from now on. ”

"Thank you, team leader."

"Farewell."

The other two also hurriedly got up with him.

Yidu is the seat of Yizhou, the third city in the world, and the hunting here has seen the world, but in the face of such unadulterated masters, it is inevitable that it will be cramped.

None of the three of them felt disgraced.

Don't you know that if the county adults want to get to know Mr. Song, they have to be careful to be led by Luo Zhutou?

"Squeak~"

The sound of the hinges of the wooden door is still sour.

Sounds annoying.

Song You stood at the door and frowned.

When he turned around, he saw that the three-flowered cat jumped on the stone table again at some point, and was looking down to lick the bamboo skewers he had eaten, and there was sugar left on them.

“……”

Song You shook his head and went back to the house to settle the score.

I've been here for a while, Yidu is prosperous, prices are high, and the cost of food and clothing in the city is not small. In addition to the rent, the purchase after moving, and recently I often go to Goolan Washe to listen to books, which almost cost thousands of dollars.

After that, it should be spent less.

These twenty taels can take a long time, right?

……

Two nights later.

The weather is cool, making it perfect for sitting idly.

Song You lit an oil lamp and sat in front of the window reading quietly.

The window in front of him was wide open, and a full moon had risen over the city in the night sky. There is no city neon, no traffic noise, only the eaves of the ancient building and the full moon are deserted to each other, the dark tile roof reflects the moonlight, and the pure darkness carries the pure brightness.

Behind him, the three-flowered cat lay quietly on his stomach, squinting his eyes.

The night was so quiet that only the sound of flipping books could be heard.

In addition to recording the famous mountains and rivers, well-known palaces and temples, and the Internet celebrity attractions that well-known literati in ancient and modern times have checked in with poems and articles, it also remembers some fantasy and miracles.

For example, Genting Mountain, which is rumored to have been infested by immortals.

The city of earth and fire where the god of fire rests in mythological stories.

The introduction is very detailed.

I don't know how long it took, the night was getting deeper, and the oil smoke was so smoky that his eyes hurt, so Song You decided that it was time to go to sleep after today.

Blow out the reading lamp, and the whole body is the moon.

As soon as he closed the book by moonlight, he saw that the three-flowered cat behind him woke up at some point, crawled closer, jumped on the desk, and stared out the window with his eyes.

"Huh?"

Song You also noticed the noise outside.

It came from the courtyard wall, and it seemed that someone was climbing the wall.

But this sound is different from climbing the wall, it is more like a hard thing colliding with the wall, a sharp object cutting through the wall, a faint sound of ho-ho wind blowing in the night wind, and the clanging sound of tiles falling and breaking, and a huge hideous head shaking in the moonlight outside the courtyard wall.