Guanhui City is a prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River. Although there are only 10,000 households, it is one of the top commercial cities in the nearby states and counties. Because they are far away from the capital, the people here seem to be casual and capricious, from the sale of goods to the lives of the people, and even the marriage of unmarried women, they are all extraordinarily unrestrained.

Speaking of Guanhui City, we have to mention the Ju Nan Wen family. For no other reason, most of the industries in the city belonged to the Wen family.

A few miles away from Guanhui City, there is a mountain villa built by the mountain, the chrysanthemum is full of gardens, and the poem of Tao Qian, the great hermit of the Jin Dynasty, is "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely seeing the South Mountain", named Junan Villa. When it comes to Wen Lingye, the owner of the villa, he was also famous back then. When he was young, he studied literature and martial arts, not only won the elegant name of the first son of martial arts, but also became an official, and in just a few years, he lived in the third grade. Inexplicably, he retreated in torrents at the height of his prime. With a wife and two concubines, he returned to his hometown, built this Junan Villa, and devoted himself to recuperation. In just over a decade, he has made this little-known small county of Guanhui a famous commercial city with frequent visits by merchants. And the Wen family has become one of the richest people in Jiangnan.

Although Wen Lingye has long since ceased to care about the world, and his property has been changed to be in the hands of the second son of the Wen family, his name has left all kinds of mythical rumors in martial arts, shopping malls and even officialdom. One of the most popular rumors is that the reason why Wen Lingye was able to make a fortune so quickly was because he had found a secret treasure by chance when he was a teenager. Those who get this secret treasure can become an official and rise to prominence, walk the rivers and lakes to lead the martial arts, and hide in the market to get great wealth. But what this secret treasure is, everyone is unanimous. Some people say it's a philosopher's stone, a treasure chest, some say it's a cornucopia, a cash cow, and some people even speculate that the Wen family secretly raised a fox fairy with boundless power, and as long as you make a wish for it, your dream will come true.

Regardless of the rumors in the rivers and lakes for the time being, the people in Guanhui City are all grateful to the Wen family in Junan. The arrival of the Wen family not only made the poor county residents worry about food and clothing, but also lived a prosperous and comfortable life from then on.

On the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Lord Wen, Guanhui City was full of lights, and the streets were full of joyful scenery.

Suddenly, a discordant noise came from the Wen family's largest inn on the street:

"Bold, you dare to despise this princess!"

"Don't dare, don't dare, our store is small, and I can't accommodate you, the princess, the big Bodhisattva, so I won't send it far away. ”

Amid the commotion, a girl of seventeen or eighteen walked out of the inn in a rage. The shopkeeper Wen Zhi followed steadily, with a hint of mockery on the corner of his mouth.

I saw the girl, wearing a flat hat, a silver-plated whip around her waist, and cowhide boots. She was wearing a long interracial skirt that was tight at the top and loose at the bottom, with a narrow waist and round hips, and her exquisite curves were perfect.

Take a closer look at the girl's facial features, apricot eyes and willow eyebrows, beautiful nose and plump lips, white skin like snow, black as ink, half of her hair is knotted into fine braids, and the other half is scattered under the hat. Her eye sockets are slightly deep, her eyes are extremely beautiful, and her long eyelashes flicker, and her heart-warming interracial style is pounding. At this time, her cheeks were dyed a faint crimson due to annoyance, and it was even more radiant that people couldn't take their eyes off.

At the side of the alien girl, a black-clothed guard followed silently. He wears a hat that is pressed very low, covering most of his face. Although he can't see his face clearly, he has a tiger's back and a majestic figure, and he has a mighty aura invisibly.

Wen Zhi sent the two outside the store, bowed deeply to the alien girl, and sang in a long voice with an expressionless face: "Congratulations to the princess!"

The interracial girl glared at him. After a while, she grabbed the reins of the horse from the black-clothed guard, saddled the horse neatly, and rode away. The black-clothed guard also waved his whip and drove his horse to follow.

When the two of them walked away, Wen Zhi's sleeves flicked, the corners of his mouth were pursed disdainfully, and he turned around and walked towards the store.

A passer-by who was familiar with Wen Zhi hurriedly grabbed him and asked curiously: "I said that Wen is the shopkeeper, is that beauty really a princess?"

Wen Zhi smiled slightly, "She claims to be the princess of Gao Changguo. ”

The passer-by scratched his head and asked suspiciously, "Where is this Gao Changguo?" I have never heard of it. ”

The guy behind Wen Zhi said: "Isn't Gaochang a small country in the Western Regions that was conquered by my Tang Dynasty the year before last." At that time, he was very arrogant, and he had already submitted to my Tang Dynasty, but he went to take refuge in the Turks, which angered the emperor. As a result, as soon as my Datang soldiers and horses arrived, they were wiped out at once. ”

Passers-by said, "I remember what you said! There was a joke circulating at the time. When the soldiers approached the city, the king of the small country was scared to death when he saw that my Tang soldiers and horses were so powerful. His son had only been king for a day before he was forced to surrender. It turns out that the name of the small country in the Western Regions is Gaochang. But I've heard that all the nobles in that small country, including the newly appointed king, have all been escorted to Beijing? Why is there a princess of Gaochang now?"

Wen Zhi smiled, revealing an unfathomable expression, "I don't know if you have noticed, although that beauty has Western Regions blood and is also dressed in Western Regions costumes, the guard beside her is a pure Han Chinese." Besides, if she is really a princess, how can she bring only one guard?"

Passers-by suddenly realized, "It turns out that he is a liar who came to the Wen family to fight the autumn wind again!"

Wen Zhi smiled instantly, and handed over a look that could only be understood.

The passer-by asked again: "Shopkeeper Wen, how did you deal with this matter?"

Wen Zhi spread his hands and sighed, "What else." According to the rules set by the master, he gave her ten taels of silver as Sichuan capital, and politely sent her away. ”

"Ten taels of silver!" passers-by widened their eyes and sighed with emotion, "Master Wen is really a good person!"

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"Ten taels of silver! The Wen family is really too deceitful, they dare to insult me like this!"

On the side of a barren slope on the outskirts of the city, a girl of different races walked quickly, angry, "I think that the Wen family and my Gaochang had a large number of goods transactions every year, which time was not counted in 10,000 taels of silver, but now they turn their faces and don't recognize people!"

The black-clothed guard stood aside with his horse and persuaded in a deep voice: "In the past, the transactions were handled by the ministers of the DPRK and China. Ever since they were escorted to Chang'an, the trade in goods has been cut off. Merchants have always valued profit over righteousness, and it is indeed difficult to borrow silver taels without goods. You are a princess, and you should have the bearing of a princess. The eagle soars in the sky, the tiger roars in the forest, when there is no need to surrender his identity and compete with the finches and deer. ”

"The Central Plains are all profiteers who look down on people!" the alien girl kicked the long grass on the side of the road fiercely, becoming more and more irritated, "Let's go from north to south, from west to east, and seeing that the deadline is about to come, we haven't even made up enough seventy percent of the silver." It was better to listen to Serku and disguise himself as a horse thief to grab some silver and come back!"

The black-clothed guard's eyes darkened, and he said slowly: "You also know our current strength, in order not to be swallowed up by other clans, it is just a matter of trying to protect the survival of the remnants of the clan. If this only combat power becomes a horse thief, once it causes the other races to join forces, I am afraid that the extinction of the clan will only be overnight. If you want Gaochang to restore the country, you must not make trouble now, and you must let the clansmen recuperate well. ”

The alien girl stopped, suddenly deflated, "Then what do you say to do now?"

After standing silent for a while, the black-clothed guard said, "There should be my old friend in the city, I will go and find it, and then think of a way." ”

The interracial girl waved her hand in disbelief.

"Take care, princess, Xiao Yin takes her leave. The black-clothed guard solemnly bowed to her and turned away with resolute eyes.

The alien girl looked at the overgrown barren slope and was stunned for a while, took out the ten taels of silver given by Wen Zhi, and threw it into the grass hard.

"I'm!"

"The people of the Wen family are so hateful!"

"Someday, I'll want you to look good!"

She yelled, but still unrelieved, she took off the whip from her waist and threw it into the grass.

"Hey, if you hit me with money, I'll put up with it. You can't whip me, can you?"

As he spoke, a chuckle came from the long grass.

"Who's there!" the alien girl was taken aback, but instead of panicking, she raised her whip even higher.

But the grass shook, and a young man stood up half of his body from the grass. He seemed to wake up from sleep, looked at her lazily, and hooked a blade of grass in his mouth and put it in his mouth.

"Who are you?" the alien girl clutched the whip tightly, her apricot eyes widened.

"Little boy night. ”

The man was in his early twenties, with handsome eyebrows and a tall and thin figure, and he looked idle and complacent. The mountain breeze blew, and a few long strands of hair fluttered casually beside his face.

He stood up slowly, shook his shirt, patted the corners of his trousers, looked up, and smiled lightly at the alien girl.

"Childe Night?" "The name of the Central Plains people is always strange.

The interracial girl looked at him suspiciously. He wore a long green silk dark flower gown with good texture, but because he had been lying for a long time, it was not only full of wrinkles, but also stained with grass clippings, and even his sideburns had a small blade of grass hanging from it. But his expression seemed to have just been bathed and changed, and he was very refreshed.

"Yes!" Childe shook off the blade of grass in his mouth and arched his hand with a smile, "I don't know what the princess commands?"

"Do you know me?" the interracial girl's eyes lit up.

"Is this?" Gongzi held his chin at night, circled around the alien girl, and playfully hooked the corners of his mouth, "Just by virtue of the girl's appearance, you can't pretend to be anyone, but to play the princess Gaochang who died in the country, no wonder you will hit walls everywhere." ”

"You!" the alien girl raised her whip again in anger.

But Xiaosheng believes that the girl is indeed Princess Gaochang. Just as the whip was about to fall, Childe said quickly.

The alien girl's wrist flicked deftly, and the silver whip whirred against his side and landed on the grass, not hurting him in the slightest. The whipping technique is breathtaking.

"Didn't you just say I was pretending?" the alien girl glared at him, her eyes full of wariness.

"That's not seeing the whip clearly. ”

Childe's night probe arm grabbed the tip of the whip, pulled hard, and took a closer look at the whip marks on the ground. After a while, he straightened up, a pair of watery peach blossom eyes shining with confidence, and his whole person became radiant.

"This whip looks like a silver whip, but in fact it is made of a mixture of strong silk and gold wire, and only a very thin layer of silver skin is wrapped on the outside. In the Central Plains, this kind of silver-clad technology cannot even be done by Du Xianxian, who is known as the 'Jade Hand Goddess'. The only person who can make this whip is the weapon master of the Western Regions. It is said that he only served the royal family of the Western Regions. ”

"You have a vision. The alien girl softened her face and shook her hand. The silver whip looped around her arm like a training snake.

The corners of Childe's mouth curled slightly, and he bent down to pick up the silver ingot in the grass and held it up in front of the alien girl.

The interracial girl reached out to take it, but he withdrew his hand. The interracial girl grabbed the air and couldn't help but shout angrily, "What are you doing!"

"Does the princess urgently need silver taels?" Childe Ye pinched the silver ingot with two slender fingers and held it up in front of her eyes to spin and play. In the sunlight, the silver ingot glowed with his movements, and his pupils seemed to glow with silver light.

"So what?" the alien girl glared at him angrily. Knowingly, this person must have eavesdropped on her conversation with Xiao Yin.

"Then please partner with Xiaosheng to do a business. Childe tilted his head and looked at her with a smile, but his tone was extremely serious.

"What business?"

Gongzi threw the silver ingot high in the night, and then caught it lightly, "Just use these ten taels of silver, how about Xiaosheng help the princess gamble on the Wen family's wealth?"

"How are you going to gamble?" the alien girl was suspicious, but she couldn't help but raise a glimmer of hope.

"So, the princess has agreed to the deal?" Childe led the horse with a smile and bowed down to make a "please" gesture.

The alien girl hesitated for a moment, but finally followed. She stared at the subdued face, trying to see what was going on.

"I don't know what to call the princess?" Childe Ye seemed to be completely unaware of her hot gaze.

"Koji Yinxia. ”

"I like the name, and I have a lot of luck when I hear it. Childe praised him sincerely and smiled like a spring breeze.

Yinxia raised the silver whip in her hand and said seriously: "My long whip is called Yindian, if you dare to lie to me, I will use it to break your backbone!"

Note: The original surname of the Gaochang royal family is "koji" ([qū] is the same as "qu").