Ye Fuliu chewed the water chestnut with taste. The entrance is sweet and crispy, and the mouth is only good for picking and eating by the waterside in the south of the Yangtze River.

"I demolished the whole house overnight, and searched for half a night, only the two hundred or so pieces of the foundation of the main house of the house were Han bricks, all of which I got and loaded a boat. This shipload of Han bricks was casually transported to the southwest Shu and the Central Plains of Jiangbei, and the big business that turned over at least ten times the profit - Shen Da didn't dare to take it? ”

She laughed with interest, not so mocking, just funny.

"Rare high-quality goods, if you don't take it, I'll keep it for myself?"

Shen Da was not in a hurry and fiddled with the valuable Han bricks, "You keep them?" How do you stay? The search warrant has been issued, and cards have been set up in various counties and towns to strictly investigate the little lady with outstanding appearance. There is no one in the government to help, and when this town is searched, beware of the boatload of Han bricks, Ye Xiaoniang. ”

"Yo." Ye Fuliu laughed, "I still can't eat your stomach." It turned out that he had too good an appetite, and he wanted to lower the price with me under the guise of friendship with the government? ”

"In business." Shen Li's shrewd fox eyes showed a smile, threw away the Han bricks, and casually picked up the Pisces white jade pendant hanging on his waist.

"The price of the good is reduced by 20%. Give me the ship with the bricks. After that, how not to alarm the people in the government, how to get the goods out, you don't have to worry about half of it. You just have to carry the money and go back to your Ye family's mansion quietly to rest. If anyone asks you where you've been these days, I can vouch for you, and say that you're on board to talk about business—"

Without waiting for him to finish, Ye Fuliu raised his hand and fished back all the water chestnuts on the opposite side.

"I can't talk about it." She stood up and shouted, "Su Qiu, send off!" ”

The curtain of the door was opened, and Su Qiu, who was guarding outside the door, came in and gave a salute and politely invited people out.

Ye Fuliu hooked up the bamboo curtain and watched people get off the boat.

With empty words and white teeth, with just one sentence of 'vouch for you, go quietly and quietly', not only pressed the price of two percent, but also asked her a ship, a black-hearted bastard.

"Remember Shen Li's face." When Su Qiu came back to the cabin, Ye Fuliu leaned on the table, and his fingertips fiddled with a pisces white jade pendant of excellent color, which was picked up from Shen Da's master when he sent off the guests just now.

"Next time he dares to come to the door to talk about business, he will go out directly."

Su Qiu has been following Ye Fuliu for two years. Steady in his work, knowing the roots, he is a rare henchman around him, and he responded without hesitation, "Write it down." ”

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The flotilla stopped at the dock northeast of the town. A large number of hired workers hired by the Ye family began to unload the goods.

Thousands of firecrackers were hung outside the door of the Ye family's mansion in the north of the town, crackling endlessly, and the big red firecrackers fell all over the ground to welcome the safe return of the main caravan.

The chief steward of the Ye family, who stayed in the Ye Mansion, opened the door and greeted him from afar.

Ye Fuliu saw that the chief steward's face was wrong, and asked head-on, "I've been at home for a few days, but what happened?"

"Nothing big. A few small things. ”

"Tell me?"

"Caught a thief who broke into the house."

Ye Fuliu was relieved, and stepped on the red firecrackers all over the ground and walked into the door, "What should I do." Since we moved here, the whole town knows that the Ye family has less money and more money, and there are not ten thieves who steal houses in the dark, but there are eight, right? ”

"This thief is different." Steward Ye said with a straight face, "With a little means, he couldn't help but ask, he recruited last night." Robbery is still secondary, this person is nicknamed Hu Mazi, and he is a well-known prodigal child on the local streets. I don't know where I saw the master's house, and since then I have never forgotten it, planning to sneak into the house at night and squat, first rob the money, and then rob the sex. ”

Ye Fuliu laughed. "He's a daring man. Find a way to rectify it. ”

The matter was not big or small, she didn't take it very seriously, and the topic immediately changed, "By the way, I brought back a boatload of bricks and tiles that were towed away a few nights ago. You keep an eye on the unloading, don't let someone take advantage of the chaos to take a few pieces. Pull it back and you'll see where the pile fits. ”

The chief steward of the Ye family followed her words and said as a matter of course, "There is just a shortage of bricks and tiles at home." Can the wall of the front yard be reinforced, tie up the thief, and build a wall for him? ”

Ye Fuliu gave a surprised look, "Your brain is fast enough." No, no, no, we are serious businessmen and don't do tricky business that kills. ”

I walked to the door, and with a squeak, the door next door opened. The burly servant walked out the door.

The next-door neighbor's surname is Wei, and only two master and servant live. The name of the servant is easy to remember, it is called Wei Da.

Perhaps alarmed by a thousand firecrackers, he heard the movement of the Ye family's return, and when Wei Da next door poured medicine residue outside the door, he glanced in the direction of the Ye family.

It wasn't long after the Ye family moved over, but the doors on both sides were next to each other, and the two closest neighbors living on a long street could not help but nod and greet each other.

The Ye family's chief steward nodded at Wei Da, "Coming out?" Wei Da nodded back politely, "Pour the dregs." He politely greeted Ye Fuliu again, "Little Lady Ye's merchant ship is back?" Are you okay on the road? ”

"The fleet just returned this morning, and the road is safe." Ye Fuliu stood by the door and greeted, "I haven't seen you for a few days, is your family Langjun okay?" ”

"It's not good, it's not bad, that's it." Wei Da sighed, carried the emptied medicine cup, and entered the door gloomily.

Ye Fuliu stared thoughtfully at Wei Da's back.

"I remember before leaving, I vaguely heard a few words, the person next door is no longer good?"

A few people entered the door before and after, and the chief steward of the Ye family replied truthfully, "Originally, I heard that it was not good, but a few days ago, a face-to-face Langzhong came and rescued people again." Now it's not good or bad, and occasionally go up to the wooden building to bask in the sun. ”

"Rescued?" Ye Fuliu was a little surprised, "I also specially purchased eight pairs of paper people and paper horses, after all, it is a neighbor, in case there is no one when I come back this time, I just send it to the next door——"

Su Qiu followed by her and quickly pulled down her sleeve.

In Ye Fuliu's surprised sight, he silently raised his hand and pointed up.

Ye Fuliu tilted his head in the direction she was pointing.

Isn't that a coincidence?

The one she was going to give the paper man and the paper horse was sitting on the small wooden building next door across a courtyard wall.

The courtyard walls on both sides of the Ye family and the Wei family were close to each other, and there was only one and a half feet of open space between the two walls. The Ye family occupies a much larger area, on this side of the wall is the middle courtyard of the second entrance of the Ye family's house, and on the other side of the wall is the wooden building in the backyard of the Wei family.

Ye Fuliu closed his mouth, turned his gaze, and looked at the sun above his head.

Today is a cloudy and windy day, the morning sun shines warmly on the body, and it is not as hot as the afternoon, no wonder the sick man next door will come out to bask in the sun......

"Did he hear that?" Ye Fuliu lowered his voice and asked Su Qiu suspiciously, "Did I speak loudly just now?" ”

The lady's voice was not loud. Lang Jun next door is seriously ill, his five senses have subsided, and most of the people can't hear us. You see, Wei Langjun looked into the distance, probably not noticing us at all. ”

Su Qiu was right. The figure sitting upright on the top of the small wooden building, looking straight ahead, always looking at the sky.

Ye Fuliu's mind turned around lively. "People can still sit upstairs, with straight waists, paper people and paper horses should not be needed...... Let's get some medicine instead. ”

Having made up her mind, she took a few steps to the wall, smiled at the high place opposite, showed eight snow-white and neat teeth, and greeted her neighbors cordially and friendly.

"Wei Jialangjun is early."

Lang Jun on the high place was bathed in the golden sunlight of the morning, he didn't even move, his eyes were lowered, he quietly looked at the side of the wall, and looked away.

Chapter 2

The sky brightens early in early summer.

The people in the town get up earlier than the chickens.

Yesterday, the Ye family's merchant ship returned in a mighty manner, alarming the entire town. Ah Hua, who sells water chestnuts by the river, has won a lot of money, and it has alarmed the businessmen of the whole town.

In the northernmost part of the long street of the town, outside the door of the Ye family's mansion, a large group of boys and girls gathered in the early morning. Children are scrambling to sell one after another.

"Selling face wash~~"

"Excellent tooth brushing powder~~"

"Sweet tofu brain~Not sweet, no money~"

Ye Fuliu woke up a few times early in the morning.

"Honey water!" A little girl's voice was high and crisp, piercing through the courtyard a few times before and after, "Sweet honey water! ”

Su Qiu knocked on the door outside the bedroom and asked her, "The chief steward came to ask the lady, there are many people selling food and drink outside the door." What would the lady want to eat in the morning? ”

Ye Fuliu's head was buzzing, and he turned over with his eyes closed, "Sweet tofu brain...... Honey Water ......"

After a while, the little girl's earth-shattering cry was heard in my ears.

I can't sleep anymore.

Ye Fuliu got up with a yawn and walked through the courtyard with sleepy eyes.

She came out casually, wearing a thin spring shirt embroidered with scarlet apricot blossoms and a long pomegranate skirt.

The color scheme of crimson and garnet red is too eye-catching, and it is easy to make people's faces gloomy. But when worn on Ye Fuliu's body, the bright clothes became the background color of people. The moment people walked out of the arch of the weeping flowers, the vines and plants all over the courtyard seemed to be illuminated.

"What's going on? I can't even go home in peace. ”

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Ah Tao sat in the dirt pit in the Ye family's courtyard and cried, clenching the peace charm on her wrist while crying.

In the morning, when her mother urged her to come to Ye's house to deliver honey, A-Niang told her, "Go with a peace charm." The Ye family's house has not been peaceful recently, and there are always ghosts crying at night! Be smart, don't be the first one, don't fall behind, get the reward and hurry home, beware of being eaten by the ghost! ”

She kept in mind A-Niang's instructions, didn't want to be the first one, and refused to be the last, so she squeezed into the door of the Ye family among three or four children.

The Ye family is a big house, with a spacious courtyard and a lot of dense wall-climbing vines, so ...... It's so broken.

Before the little lady of the Ye family moved in, this big mansion had been deserted for more than ten years. Neighbors in all directions regard it as an ownerless deserted house, and there is no firewood in winter, so they remove a door panel, and there are many mosquitoes in summer, and they remove a window screen, cough cough...... Can it not be broken?

The courtyard was roughly cleaned up, and the yard was full of half-man-tall barren grass that had not been cut for a short time, and stacks were piled up next to the fence, and the grass and trees were swelling wildly in summer, and the ground was full of uncut weeds and stubble.

Although the Ye family's mansion is haunted, although the Ye family's chief steward is expressionless and does not smile from beginning to end, he is young and handsome, and he gives twice the market price of copper, and he is generous!

Ah Tao exchanged a bowl of honey for eight big copper coins and a full pocket of sweet dates, and her heart blossomed with joy, and the copper was counted and counted in her hand, and she was too attentive to counting, so she didn't hear the Ye family's steward speak.

The chief steward said to them, "My lady is still sleeping, so don't quarrel with her." The courtyard has just begun to be renovated, you go out the way you came, don't step on the dirt in the middle, beware of the ground there-"

Before he finished speaking, he shouted "ouch".

There are pits in the ground.

Ah Tao just fell into the pit.

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Ah Tao, who was stunned at the bottom of the pit, was still crying when he was fished up, and when he saw Ye Fuliu, Leng Buding saw Ye Fuliu, and his crying suddenly stopped, and he just opened his mouth and was stunned.

Ye Fuliu approached Ah Tao's side, raised his hand and touched her gray face, and asked her softly in a soft voice, "Why did you fall, did it hurt?" ”

Ah Tao nodded instinctively, nodded twice, and quickly shook his head.

The mud at the bottom of the pit is somehow hard to sit on. There is something more terrible at the bottom of the pit than a painful fall on the buttocks.

Ah Tao's face was a little frightened, and she pointed to the bottom of the pit, "I heard it...... There's a ghost crying ...... down there."

Ye Fuliu: "Hmm......"

The child's mouth is not secure, and if he goes out and touches his friends, the rumors that he heard the ghost crying in the middle of the day spread again. It's better to send it straight home.

Ye Fuliu carefully wiped her dusty little face for her, grabbed a handful of sweet dates from the pocket of the Ye family's housekeeper and gave it to her, poured out a few sugar syrups from her purse, and finally made up a handful of copper.

"Su Qiu, you send this child home. I see that her clothes are torn, you talk to her aunt about compensation. ”