"Oh...... I forgot to say, my surname is Li, a single name is a cow character, originally a native of Los Angeles, and your father worked as a blacksmith apprentice in Los Angeles, and later because the master and the master were mean, beating and scolding and starving, I really couldn't stand it, so I ran away halfway, your father was the apprentice expired, and then he came to this goose city, opened this 'gold shop', and was considered to have a legitimate livelihood, married a wife, and gave birth to you and your sister. As for me, now I am still full of food, the whole family is not hungry, but I have no worries, I come and go freely, hehe! Brother, oh no, by seniority, you have to call me 'uncle', haha! ”

Jing Ming listened to the words of the man in black in front of him, and vaguely remembered that when he was five or six years old, there seemed to be a thin man with a mole on the left side of his nose who often came to the house, but he hadn't seen him again in the past ten years or so. Jing Ming thought of this, so he said: "Since it is a friend of my father, it is my Jing Zhigao's elder, and I also bother Uncle Li to ...... that piece Oh, take it! Jing Ming gestured to his face.

"Oh...... It's time to take it! After speaking, Li Niu wiped off the black mask with one hand. Jing Ming could see it clearly, sure enough, it was Uncle Niu back then, next to the left wing of his nose, there was still the black mole, but on the top of the mole, there was an extra hair, which looked weird.

"Uncle Maverick! Sure enough, it's you! Jing Ming couldn't help but shout.

"Yo, do you remember? I thought you had forgotten about me! When you were young, as soon as you saw me, you pestered me to take you to the street to buy snacks to eat! It's so fast, more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and you have grown up, by the way, it's time for the year of the weak crown, right? Li Niu smiled, the wrinkles on his face deepened, as if he was thinner and darker, and his body was also rickety. Sure enough, the years are unforgiving.

"After the New Year, I should celebrate my twentieth birthday." Jing Ming replied happily.

"Then your sister should be sixteen or seventeen, right? Isn't it already married? ”

"I am seventeen years old this year, and I got married last year and went to the capital. Her husband's family was our old customer, a family surnamed Wang, his father was a dart game, and later the family moved to the capital to live, no longer running a dart game, and opened a pawnshop. ”

"That's good, there must be no shortage of silver flowers! By the way, do you have a good girl? Oh no, you should already have a family! Li Niu asked.

"I haven't started a family yet, no, my dad went out yesterday, maybe for my marriage." Jing Ming replied.

"I don't know whose girl the other party is? Have you ever met in private? As soon as Li Niu heard this, his little eyes shone brightly.

"We ...... It's kind of a meeting! Her name is Fengyi, and she is the daughter of Xu Zhukuai in the east of the city. In the spring of this year, I went with my father to deliver a batch of knives to the government, and I also went and met her. As soon as Miss Xu was mentioned, Jing Ming was a little unnatural, and his face couldn't help but turn red.

"Yo, this is a twenty-year-old young man, and when he mentions girls, he is still shy! How can this work? The flowers and candles in the cave room are not allowed to see the flowers! ”

"See the flowers? What is...... Uncle Maverick, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand? Jing Ming asked.

"Ah...... Haha, if you don't understand, you can't understand, you just didn't say it! Just when I didn't say it! Yes! - No, no, no! Another day, your Uncle Niu will take you to the top of the South Street Lipstick Building to meet the world! Hey, I said this old well, it's just that you are a stuffy gourd, how can you let your brother live like this, how boring this life is! Really! Li Niu shook his head as he spoke, looking like a monkey led by a street performer.

"By the way, Uncle Maverick, didn't you say that someone was chasing you? Why? Jing Ming suddenly remembered this.

"Ahh If you didn't mention it, I forgot! Look at my memory! No, Brother Shi, your Uncle Niu has to go, let's talk another day! I'll be here again in three or five days, and then I'll ...... I will definitely take you out to see the world, and let your kid taste the taste of chili peppers! Li Niu said, quickly put on a black mask, opened the door a crack, poked his head out and glanced around, to make sure that there was no suspicious person outside, then turned back to Jing Ming and raised his eyebrows, blinked, and then quickly jumped out of the door, arched his hand, and then disappeared.

All this came too suddenly, and Uncle Maverick came and went quickly, like a dream. Jing Ming came back to his senses and found that when Uncle Niu left, he put something wrapped in yellow silk on the pillow of his bed. When Jing Ming saw this yellow cloth bag, he hurriedly chased it out, where was Li Niu's shadow!

Jing Ming was very curious and wanted to open it to see what it was, but then he thought about it, no, forget it, maybe it won't be long before Uncle Niu finds out that he has lost something, and he will come back to get it. So Jing Ming continued to go out to sell his family's ironware.

The streets are still deserted, and there are few pedestrians. Jing Ming stood alone on the street, looking silly. Jing Ming watched as the sun slowly rose from the corner of the city wall on the east side of the street and shone on himself.

"It's time now, right? Why hasn't Dad come back yet? Jing Ming only muttered in his heart. Nothing will happen, right? Isn't it just a kiss, hasn't my father already discussed it with Xu Zhukuai before, it's just a formality! It must be that Dad drank too much at Xu Zhukuai's house last night, so he won't be drunk now, right? …… Daddy isn't like that......"

Just as Jing Ming was thinking like this, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded from the east side of the street! Then there was a sound of gongs, and more than 100 soldiers in black armor rode on horses, dragging a few beaten people behind them, and rushed through the street with a clatter. Then there was a noisy shout: "Cut people, cut people!" The court is going to cut people again! Check it out! Then a group of people seemed to have come out of the ground, and rushed to the west of the street.

Jing Ming thought to himself, alas, the court kills people, what does it have to do with these people! Do you like to join in the fun? Despite thinking so, Jing Ming still stretched his neck, wanting to see if the person he wanted to kill was a hero of the green forest or a thief of chickens and dogs, but he couldn't see anything, and the narrow streets were crowded with people in pale clothes.

I suddenly thought, no! Dad didn't come home last night, is it ......

Thinking of this, Jing Ming's heart began to jump suddenly! Dad just said last night that he was going to Xu Zhukuai's house, but what to do, he didn't say it clearly, going to propose marriage was just Jing Ming's own thoughts, maybe Dad did something else? For example - rebellion?