Zuo Qing took the money for the purchase of these twenty women very happily, but he had a worry...... Tan Cen is also a first-class official, he has been in the officialdom for many years, and he has seen all the deceits and insidious tricks, how could he be persuaded by Su Yan's words so easily?

Is he too stupid, or is it ......

"Another trap?" Su Yan jumped up in disbelief, scaring Zuo Qing, who was pondering, into a fright, "Impossible, he doesn't know me, and Yu Chengfeng is indeed not in the border city, how can he find a flaw?" Impossible, absolutely impossible! ”

Su Yan didn't want to believe that he and Xilou's careful planning was easily recognized.

Zuo Qing wiped the water stains on the tea case and said to her: "I'm just guessing, why do you have such a big reaction, why do Tan Cen believe a border city man who suddenly came out to do business with him?" He has never met Yu Chengfeng, let alone done business in the border city, so it is inevitable that he will be suspicious of you, but ......"

"But what?" Su Yan asked eagerly.

"First of all, the art of disguise is seamless, and it is impossible for him to discover your true identity; Secondly, the border city was well arranged, and he couldn't find any clues; In the end, Tan Cen is insatiable, he will not be satisfied with the dark market, the border city is the bigger fat, and more importantly, the Mo Dangshu is a big move, and something will happen one day, he understands this truth, and naturally wants to find another way out for himself. ”

"So?"

"So, even if he suspects you, as long as he doesn't find out who you are, he will still continue to trade with you, but he will keep an eye on you, and you must always be vigilant."

Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as he can continue to trade with me, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch him!" ”

Zuo Qing sat quietly in front of the tea case, looked at her with a smile, and asked slowly, "Aren't you afraid?" ”

"Afraid? You've known me for so long, have you ever seen me afraid? I'm not afraid of anyone but Master! Su Yan was a little surprised by his reaction.

"Su Ming......" Zuo Qing's expression suddenly became heavy, "It's been so long since you left Kuaifeng Town, and you mentioned him less and less, it seems that you have completely adapted to here." ”

Su Yan wondered in his heart, since he left Kuaifeng Town, except for mentioning the master twice at the beginning, it seems that he has never mentioned it, why did he say this?

"Whoever lives without me in the world, let alone me? Master and I are from the rivers and lakes, we must be separated for a long time, we must be together for a long time, don't worry, we will meet sooner or later! Su Yanhun didn't care and said with a smile.

Zuo Qing nodded with satisfaction, and turned the page together with Tan Cen.

Two days later, nothing unusual happened outside the academy, Su Yan was not at ease, and went to walk around the outside of the house, and told her: Everything is as usual!

At this moment, I completely let go of a hanging heart.

The sky is getting late, under the dense stars, the small courtyard of Xishan is quiet, only the two lanterns in front of the door are swaying in the wind, and the yellowish candlelight reflects two irregular lights and shadows on the ground. There were already two servants waiting outside the door, standing between the light and shadow, and their little faces were very ruddy and shiny, but although they were ruddy, they were lifeless and lifeless.

In this situation, Su Yan only taught him to curse in his heart: ghost place!

When the slave saw Su Yan, he immediately greeted her with a smile, and the two of them introduced her into the courtyard one after the other. The road is still the same road, and the people are all the same people, but Su Yan feels uncomfortable in her heart, the two slaves, and the weirdly red lantern outside the door, make her feel furious.

Once such an idea is born, it will never linger again. When I looked at the room at the end of the corridor, I felt that it was in danger.

"Girl, tonight the stars and moon are high, the breeze is suitable, the servants have prepared wine and food in the courtyard, and my master has been waiting for a long time." The slave in front of him was smiling, but Su Yan felt very gloomy.

Su Yan was depressed in his heart, this Tan Cen didn't hurry up to do business, he actually wanted to drink to the moon, it was really idle! She forcibly held back her irritability, grinned at the slave, and praised with a dry smile: "It's good to talk about adults!" ”

The courtyard is elegantly furnished, surrounded by colorful lanterns, with a wooden platform in the center and carpeted floors. The wine and fruit are all available, and there are sparks burning on the stove next to it, and the scar man was actually barbecuing meat last time! Su Yan rubbed his eyes in disbelief, the scarred man's coat was tied with his shirt, revealing a pair of thick hands covered with scars, and he was extremely inflexible turning over the meat skewers. Seeing Su Yan's visit, he just smiled politely at her, and continued to immerse himself in his work.

"The girl is here at a good time," said the adult who sat cross-legged on the futon and looked at her with a wine glass, squinting as if smiling. He raised his glass and said to her, "The home-brewed wine is very refreshing, and tonight I will talk about business with the girl while drinking." ”

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey," Su Yan was invited to take a seat. I wanted to get to the point immediately, but I suddenly remembered Zuo Qing's reminder to myself, this person in front of me is cunning and suspicious, and you need to be vigilant everywhere and be careful! Su Yan greeted him with a smile and praised the wine in front of him: "The slave maid heard the general say that everyone in Kyoto can drink, but there are few who can make wine, and it is really amazing that adults have such good skills." ”

"Rong people drink heavily, but they are not good at making wine, but there are many brewers in Chu State. I still remember that three years ago, I passed through a border town in Chu State, where there was a tavern, and the wine made by the guys in it was very mellow, but unfortunately, this year I sent someone to visit again, but found that the building was empty! He shook his head, a little regretful.

Su Yan faintly felt strange, but he couldn't say what was strange, so he could only accept his words: "Don't regret it, my lord, in the future, you will expand the dark market to the border city, the wine there is enough to make you forget your troubles, why bother with the wine of Chu Kingdom." ”

"What the girl said," Tan Cen looked at her and asked slightly, "Has the girl ever drunk the wine of the Chu Kingdom?" ”

"Although the slave maid has lived in the border city for a long time, she has also fought everywhere with the general, but unfortunately she has never been to the Chu State, so she can't taste the wine."

"But I look at the girl, your conversation is very much like a woman from the Chu Kingdom."

Su Yan wondered in his heart, what did he mean when Tan Cen mentioned Chu State to himself everywhere this time? She secretly glanced at the person opposite, who was smiling, looking at herself calmly, those eyes were full of things that frightened her. Su Yan hurriedly retracted his gaze and landed on the teacup in his hand: "My lord praises absurdly, the slave and maid are rude, even the general often dislikes the slave and maid for not being gentle enough, the conversation is not elegant enough, and the slave and maid also study secretly, but they still can't learn the three points of everyone's beauty!" ”

"Oh?"

Su Yan listened to the word 'oh', and it seemed that tens of thousands of ants were crawling in his heart. After thinking about it, she couldn't think of what made him suspicious, was this disguised face just similar to his old person, or was she wrong in what she said? Su Yan couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have time to think about it. Improvisation is the only way at the moment, maybe as Zuo Qing said, Tan Cen is just too cautious.

She didn't say a word, and drank the wine down: "Is it the slave who said something wrong, so that you are disgusted?" If this is the case, it is really the sin of the slave and the maid, but it is the slave and the slave that the slave and the maid are vulgar and unbearable, and the long-term business of the lord and the general must not be missed! ”

"You have to eat slowly, business, you have to talk slowly, why should the girl be in a hurry." He clapped his palms, and immediately two slaves came out of the bushes, holding wrist-sized hemp ropes in their hands, and with a series of footsteps, more than a dozen women kept coming out, only twenty-eight years old. "The goods are ready, don't worry, girl."

Su Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately took out the deed that had been prepared from the brocade box he carried with him and handed it to Tan Cen, "This is the deed of sale for those twenty women, the slave maid has signed it on behalf of the general, and the lord has seen it," when Tan Cen checked this deed, he took another copy and handed it over, "This is the deed that the general has already prepared, and the form of the transaction and the escort fee are clearly written." ”

The contract was copied by Changsun Yue from the pawnshop of Changsun Yue's house, and there were many clauses attached that were enough to attract Tan Cen, so it was expected that he would not be able to avoid it.

"Your signature can represent your general?" Tan Cen stared at her suspiciously.

"I was born and died with the general, although I was a slave, but I had the love of life, there are no rules in the border city, and I have always been like this with the general."

Tan Cen frowned, and his expression was a little surprised. He slowly withdrew his gaze, "I can see that your general is sincere in doing business with me and has given me a lot of benefits!" Tan Cen nodded again and again in satisfaction, and drank three more glasses, but refused to sign for a long time.

Su Yan was anxious, but he still suppressed his temper and said: "Since the adults also think it is reasonable, please also ask the adults to pick up the pen, and let's drink slowly and enjoy the moon." ”

"No hurry, I have one more question for the girl."

"My lord, excuse me."

Tan Cen slowly got up, walked to the stage, picked up the chin of one of the women, and said faintly: "I have been an official for eight years, before entering Beijing, I was just a scholar in Yongcheng, Chu State, and I loved to linger in the land of fireworks. Later, I entered Shangshutai in Beijing and opened a dark market in Beijing, but I still like to go back to Chu to find girls, because the girls there are the most delicate, like flowers! He turned his head, his face was covered with a smile that was diametrically opposed to his temperament, gloomy and weird, Su Yan saw it, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

"These women are all from the Chu State?" Su Yan pretended to be calm.

"Yes, without exception, all of them are from the Chu country, but unfortunately, it is still not as good as the tavern girl, I still remember the appearance of that girl, she stood outside the door, the sun wrapped her, sweat flowed from her forehead to her neck and shoulders, and her whole body was shining!"

Su Yan suddenly realized that something was wrong, hurriedly took a few steps back, stepped on the air, and almost fell.

In the strange atmosphere, those women kept hanging their heads, and Su Yan suddenly discovered that their arms were all imprinted with square marks, as if they were ......

Ink! That's Murphy's Dead Man!

In a panic, Su Yan felt a short knife for cutting meat out of nowhere and quickly hid it in his sleeve. She observed her surroundings, but found that there was no other way out except the way she came, and the man with the scar, who was still barbecuing meat, had already put down the meat skewers and was slowly approaching.

Tan Cen untied their ropes and said, "That year, I went to Kuaifeng Town, and the tavern I went to was called 'Hongju', and the guy in it was a woman, no!" At that time, she was only the year of cardamom, not a woman, and now, she should not be the year of jasper. I remember that she said that the wine she made was the best wine in the city, and no one could compare with it, but I didn't believe it, so I asked her, "Little girl, have you ever drunk wine like water?" The wine there is the most mellow in the world. She seemed to be very disdainful of this, and said to me: no wine anywhere is as good as hers. And I said unto her, Thou hast not believed me, but I have not believed thee, and it so happens that I have brought wine like water, and thou shalt know how high or low you will be when you drink it. He paused and sighed, "Unfortunately, she doesn't buy my account." ”

Su Yan was very afraid, if she was really just an ignorant girl at that time, and she had never drunk Ruoshui's wine, I was afraid that she would really fall into his trap, once she drank what he brought, and then opened her eyes, she was afraid that it would already be a goods that were clearly marked in the dark market.

Tan Cen had already untied everyone's ropes, he threw the heavy rope in the bushes, dusted off the brocade robe, and said coldly: "Miss Su should remember it, we just met in Pingshui, but it still makes me remember it vividly!" Now that we are reunited, you must answer a question that has haunted me for many years. I remember when you said: "If the wine of water is nothing, your father's treasure of grape wine is the king of wine." However, as far as I know, the wine was not produced in the Chu Kingdom, but was brought back by the Prince Zheng when he was crusading against the Liuli Kingdom, and in addition to distributing it to the harem concubines, only a few princes in Kyoto enjoyed it. I've always wanted to ask you, who is your father? Who are you?! ”

Su Yan was so frightened that his whole body stiffened, and he stared straight at him: "My lord recognized the wrong person, the slave maid has never been to the Chu State, how can she be the person in your mouth!" ”

Tan Cen said disdainfully: "Your disguise technique is indeed seamless, but it's a pity that you didn't pay attention, the women in the border city have always been open, but they are not as cautious as you, let alone trying to please men." Every word and demeanor of yours makes me suspicious, but that's not the point, the point is that your carriage is neither Yu Chengfeng's car nor the military department's, and it comes from the 'Masifang' outside the city, and I found out your identity as soon as I investigated it. If Miss Su really wants to follow the example of the Criminal Department to investigate the case, she has to find a strange horse shop, and then seriously learn the form of a woman in the border city. But I still admire you, you are not afraid of danger, and your ability to adapt to changes is really amazing, and the people in my house are far inferior to you! ”

She thought of all the possibilities, but she didn't expect Tan Cen to find the clue from a carriage, and she didn't expect that a sentence from many years ago would make him haunt him to this day! Su Yan closed his eyes in annoyance: It's really a boat capsized in the gutter!

"Miss Su's doubts have been solved, so what about my doubts?"

Su Yan took a long breath and smiled bitterly: "A joke many years ago, I didn't expect you to remember it today, it's really difficult for you!" Anyway, the bamboo basket is empty, and there will be no time in the future! With that, he flashed his short knife and threw himself at him, and when he was about to stab him in the heart, he changed direction in an instant, and the dead soldiers and the scar man who surrounded him pounced. Su Yan found a gap and rolled out far on the spot, and then fled from the courtyard with a crawl. The person behind him almost shouted angrily, Su Yan was not a vegetarian, he climbed over a few courtyard walls in a row, and threw off the pursuit, and then the last courtyard wall was beyond the scope of her light skills, and the red-painted gate was also locked from the outside......

She was sweating profusely and looking for a breakthrough, when something suddenly grabbed her behind her, and instantly a huge force pulled her back, and the lightning-fast stick flew down in front of her, and was impartially inserted under her armpits, neck, and between her legs, unable to move.

A gray robe blocked the moon, and then a hideous face almost pressed against hers.

"You haven't finished answering my question, you can't go." His posture of speaking returned to the elegance of the first meeting, as if there was someone else who was shouting and screaming just now.

Su Yan gritted his teeth and said, "My lord and I are only one-sided, is it too ridiculous to question that I have a connection with the powerful in Beijing based on a few words of nonsense?" ”

"Yes, I think it's ridiculous, but all the clues are in front of me, and the absurdity seems to be real." Tan Cen picked up her shirt and said word by word, "I thought about it for two days, and I checked the ownership of the nobles in Beijing, and none of them had relatives left behind, except for ......."

Su Yan held his breath, and he could even let his muscles tense, as if he could deal with all the crises in this way, and his face would not change. But when he said the words 'Prince Zheng', she still didn't hold on, her body seemed to fall into the abyss, and the icy wind surrounded her everywhere, almost suffocating.

Tan Cen didn't wait for her reply, because he had already seen the answer in her eyes. The doubts that have been trapped for many years have finally settled, and at this time he seems to be in the clouds, extremely happy.

"Mr. Shu Youtang, the woman Zuo Qing brought back, turned out to be the eldest daughter of Prince Zheng who disappeared ten years ago! What Ge Yiyan said is true, Zuo Qing really has a different heart! ”

Hearing that Tan Cen suddenly became suspicious of Zuo Qing again, Su Yan hurriedly said: "I am me, Prince Zheng is Prince Zheng, we have nothing to do with each other, Zuo Qing has nothing to do with Prince Zheng?!" ”

"Fool, you are the daughter of Prince Zheng, Zuo Qing has been with you for so long, how can he not find out your identity, and his purpose of approaching you is not obvious? He is planning for his master, and approaching you is nothing more than for Prince Zheng's patrol army! ”

"Ridiculous!" Su Yan exerted all his strength to break free, but there was no room for resistance under the suppression of the dead soldiers. Tan Cen didn't give him any chance, and ordered the dead man to set her up and prepare to give it to Mo Fei, thinking that Zuo Qing was going to face a life and death crisis, she didn't know where she got the strength, and she stretched out a foot from the middle of the dense stick, so that she tried her best to kick one out. Taking advantage of the chaos, she flipped over like a fish in the cracks, and the shackles that were still solid collapsed in an instant.

But even if he broke free, the dead man reacted quickly, Su Yan hadn't turned around and climbed the wall, he had already been pressed to the ground, a cold and shining knife was across his neck, and he only heard the person behind him warn viciously: "Chop off one of your ears first, see if you are still honest!" ”

Su Yan twisted her head and wanted to avoid it, but that man was a thief, and she was like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered, she finally couldn't hold it anymore, and screamed in her throat: "It's true!" Where did you die, don't save me! ”