Yuan Bing dragged Sima Ruolan to the bookcase, picked up the letter, and handed it to her.

After Sima Ruolan took the letter, she glanced at it a few times and immediately asked,

"Husband, when are we leaving?"

Yuan Bingde scratched her nose lightly and said softly,

"Don't worry, wait for me to make some arrangements, and we'll leave the day after tomorrow. ”

Sima Ruolan snuggled in Yuan Bingde's arms and said in a low voice,

"Good!"

The letter was sent from Yuzhou and was written by Yuan Shixin.

Sima Ruolan's biological mother, the queen mother of the Great Jin Dynasty, is now ill, and Sima Ruolan, who got the news, wanted to go to Yuzhou, but now that the Sima family is in decline, it is not easy for her to go to Yuzhou alone, and Yuan Bingde will not rest assured that she will go to Luoyue City in Yuzhou alone.

Whether it was her safety or Sima's side, Yuan Bingde was not at ease.

Yuan Shixin didn't say much in the letter, but just asked Yuan Bingde to arrange Yangzhou affairs and take his wife and children to Yuzhou to see him.

After Sima Ruolan snuggled in her husband's arms for a while, she left with a smile, saying that she was going to pack her things.

Yuan Bingde looked at Sima Ruolan who was leaving, his eyes flickering.

After thinking for a while, he shouted outside the door,

"Someone. ”

Someone came in and knelt down to listen to the order.

Yuan Bingdedao,

"Go and call He Zhen!"

Someone came and came out.

Not long after, a man about forty years old came to Yuan Bingde's study with a sword.

After entering the door, he just hugged his fists and performed a salute in the rivers and lakes.

Yuan Bingde nodded and said,

"Mr. He, how are the preparations going over there in the Sword Worship Pavilion?"

He Zhen opened his mouth and said,

"In addition to me, I worship the deputy head of the Sword Pavilion, plus three elders can go to Yuzhou with you, but I don't know the specific situation over there, according to the current candidates, I can be seventy percent sure. ”

Yuan Bingde's eyes flashed, and he asked,

"Dead?"

He Zhen shook his head, he looked at the sword in his hand, and then said,

"If you die, you are less than fifty percent sure, and that is still the result according to the information you gave. ”

Yuan Bingde asked again,

"Worship Sword Pavilion can't be out anymore?"

He Zhen smiled and said,

"His Royal Highness, it's still inconvenient for the head to make a move, and it's useless for others to go more. ”

Yuan Bingde nodded and said,

"Okay, the day after tomorrow, I will leave for Yuzhou, in the name of the eldest princess to visit the queen mother, you and your master pretend to be entourage, after all, that old guy has been in Yuzhou for many years, if there is a mistake, I am afraid that it will fall short. ”

After He Yan retired, Yuan Bingde, who was alone in the study, suddenly said,

"Come out!"

A black-clad and masked man dodged out from behind the bookshelf.

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Cheng Shifei and Zhang Zhongqian got out of the carriage and walked forward.

Yuan Xi continued to ask,

"Chen Suisui, is there anything wrong with you?"

Seeing the young man who seemed to be the same age as him on the other side asking like this, Chen Suisui was a little surprised, how could it be different from what he expected.

That's not going to be easy.

He smiled, a little shy, and said,

"We don't know anything about it. ”

After saying that, he dodged and gave way and stood sideways on the side of the road.

Yuan Xi no longer paid attention to this strange young man, turned his head to the man who drove the car and said,

"Let's go, keep going!"

Then he turned and walked back.

Yuan Xi suddenly appeared beside him, startling the man, I don't know why a country boy blocking the road is also worthy of Yuan Shaoxia, who is sitting in the carriage.

The man who said "um" glanced at the kid who was already standing on the side of the road, and muttered in his heart, this kid has a brain problem.

Cheng Shifei, who wanted to see the excitement, was disappointed, and the calmness along the way disappointed the young man who was full of various imaginations when he set off.

When danger is unknown, people are often full of fearlessness.

Looking at Brother Yuan who walked back, he asked,

"Brother Yuan, your body is so fast, what kind of person is that young man, why do you care so much?"

Yuan Xi shook his head and said,

"He said his name is Chen Suisui, the rest is not clear, since there is nothing to do, let's get in the car and go!"

The three got into the carriage and the convoy moved on.

Zhang Zhongqian also had doubts in his heart, in his opinion, what could be handled by the people in front of the car, why should Yuan Xi go out in person.

guessed that the two of them were puzzled, and after getting into the carriage, Yuan Xi said,

"That boy is not simple, if our people do it first, I'm afraid it will be more troublesome. ”

Cheng asked curiously,

"Brother Yuan, if you don't have you, what's the trouble?"

Yuan Xi smiled, and then said,

"If it is a robber who blocks the road and robs, it is the other party who is the first to do evil, and I have no problem with making a move, but if our people whip people without asking about Qinghong, are we bullying others? But if the bully hits a hard nail, do we still have to bully him with force?"

Cheng Cheng was puzzled,

"Didn't the boy get in the way first?"

Yuan Xi glanced at Zhang Zhongqian, and seeing that he didn't speak, he asked,

"This official road belongs to your family, why can't others go?"

Zhang Zhongqian, who didn't speak, opened his mouth at this time and said,

"Yuan Gongzi, is that young man waiting for our people to make a move?"

Yuan Xi didn't speak, held his breath and contemplated for a moment, then lifted the window, looked back, and when he saw the situation, he also looked out.

The teenager was following the convoy.

Yuan Xi turned around, and then said to Zhang Zhongqian,

"This young man's skills, I'm afraid that the cars in front of him can't block a few rounds. ”

Zhang Zhongqian was a little surprised, and asked,

"It can't look like it!"

Yuan Xi smiled, and then asked,

"What kind of person does Zhang Gongzi think looks like a master? It's not that his martial arts are shocking, but that there are many people, and they may not be able to form an effective siege against the master. If it is a well-trained soldier who knows how to cooperate, then it is a different matter, and the victory or defeat can only be known if he has fought. ”

Cheng Shifei also turned around and sat down, and then said to Zhang Zhongqian,

"Brother-in-law, the boy is following our convoy behind. ”

Zhang Zhongqian looked at Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi thought for a moment, and then said,

"This young man seems to have something unspeakable, but let's go ours, don't pay attention. ”

Chen Suisui slowly followed the convoy in front.

He didn't expect the other party to be so reasonable.

As for what I opened this mountain and planted this tree by me, he couldn't say it, it was the words of bandits and bandits, and he didn't want to and couldn't do this robbery.

What's more, he was just a sixteen-year-old boy.

Who has ever seen a bandit with only one person? If he is lying in the middle of the road and shouting "robbery," I am afraid that the robbed people will treat him as a joke.

It's not that he is helpless, so he doesn't want to go up to this official road, and he wants to find a way to get some money to deal with emergencies.

He heard from the people in the village that people who generally have chariots and horses may see that there are many bandits and bandits, and they also like to reason with their fists when facing ordinary people, and they are reluctant to say a few kind words.

What kind of good dog doesn't get in the way, listen, is this human talk?

After the Zhuangzi people said this, they took a mouthful of "bah", and then said, if Lao Tzu makes a fortune, he will also ride the high-headed horse to run a few laps on the official road, whether he chokes on dust or not.

This horse is running fast, who doesn't take the initiative to give us a way?

Chen Suisui didn't want to show off how to ride a horse, he felt that if he was in charge, he would be able to talk to the other party about etiquette.

His mother was sick, and there was not enough rice to eat at home, so where was there any spare money for his mother's medical treatment, so he really had no choice but to make this decision.

His idea is very simple, he will be next to others for a while, and then he will have a reason to ask for some money with the other party, well, this is called compensation.

Chen Suisui has the confidence to reason with others, whether it is with his mouth or his fists.

It's just that after three days of luck on the road, I met such a wave of people, and I also met a reasonable person.

Chen Suisui knew that that young man was not simple.

Mother's illness seems to be worse, Mr. Zhuangzi has been kind enough to see it, it is not a serious illness, but it is a disease that needs to be nourished, and the medicine for conditioning needs to be replenished.

My father is just a farmer, and the family has only a few acres of land.

A few years ago, in order to increase the family's income, my father rented the land of the landlord's family in the town, but unexpectedly, the weather was unexpected, and in the first year of planting, there was a severe drought, and the harvest was not much, and even the land rent was not enough.

My mother's illness was exhausted in the past few years, and my father's waist didn't seem to be so straight anymore in the past two years.

On the day Chen Suisui was born, his father was overjoyed when he saw that he was a handle, and after being excited, he poured a bowl of wine, leaned his neck and dried it, and then "snapped" and smashed the bowl to pieces.

Lao Tzu raised his eyebrows.

Before Chen Suisui was born, his mother loved to eat spicy food, and she couldn't eat if she didn't eat spicy food.

When his mother first conceived him, he hurt his mouth badly, always vomited, his father felt sorry for his daughter-in-law, and tried his best to make some delicious food for his mother-in-law, but unfortunately it didn't work, and then his mother mixed chili peppers in the rice, and it was very fragrant, and the bad mouth slowly improved.

As the old saying goes, sour children are spicy girls, and Chen's father, who is looking forward to his son, is a little unwilling.

He asked the midwife in Zhuangzi, looking at the belly of his mother-in-law, should it be a male baby or a female baby?

The midwife looked at the lady of the Chen family, who had a seven-month-old body, and said something with a pointed belly and a love for spicy food, oops!

Therefore, before Chen Suisui gave birth to his mother's womb, their whole family thought that he was a girl, and his father was ready to have another one.

The broken bowl frightened the midwife who came out to report the good news, and then said, don't drink it, come and see your eldest son, and after speaking, he also raised the little baby's calf to his father.

And the name Sui Sui was a name that his father thought he was a scholar, inspired by the broken bowl.

Broken bottles, broken bottles, safe years.

It's called Chen Suisui, but the nickname is still very down-to-earth, called Niu Niu.

Chen Suisui was anxious, it took three days to come over such a caravan, if he missed it, where would he go to find someone to go to?

What if the other party is not happy to follow him like this?

Chen Suisui was reluctant to give up, mainly because he was anxious.

The caravan even brought a dog, Chen Suisui pouted, it was okay for this dog to bite him, and he killed it by taking advantage of the situation, not only could he ask for money, but also have a good meal.

In the carriage, Cheng Shifei was still thinking about the young man who followed behind, and he said,

"Brother Yuan, is he following us like this, does he have bad intentions? We are the guards hired by the convoy, or I will meet him?"

Yuan Xi was actually thinking about what this young man intended in his heart, after all, what he said before was just his guess, and what kind of story was behind this guess was something he couldn't guess.

He is more interested in the story behind the teenager.

Although he grew up in Tianyu Mountain, he did not personally experience what human suffering is.

Hearing Cheng right and wrong ask this, he said to Cheng right and wrong who was eager to try,

"You can try, but Xiao Fei, let me ask you a question, is this official road your family?"

Cheng sat there stupidly, pouting, and looked angry.

Seeing that Zhang Zhongqian was amused, he opened his mouth and said,

"Xiao Fei, Yuan Gongzi is right, even if the young man has bad intentions, before he makes a move, we don't care if we do it first, besides, he has been exposed, if he wants to do it, he will do it a long time ago, why bother?"

Cheng Shifei listened, nodded, pretended to be thoughtful, and then glared and said,

"I know, he may have a colleague, I'm afraid that we will run away, so I just follow. ”

Zhang Zhongqian looked at his simple-minded brother-in-law and said with a smile,

"Xiao Fei, you are suitable to be a bandit. ”

Cheng Shifei asked curiously,

"Brother-in-law, why?

Yuan Xi said on the side,

"If you are a bandit, it is a blessing to the caravan!"

Zhang Zhongqian nodded again and again beside him.

Cheng was even more confused, and asked,

"Brother Yuan, how can it be the blessing of the caravan? Dad said, do one line of love, if I am a bandit, but I am not so good at talking, I must be vicious. ”

Yuan Xi said lightly,

"You go with the teaser!"

When Cheng heard it, he "hummed" and stopped caring about the two.

After thinking for a moment, he shouted "stop" at the driver.

The carriage stopped, Cheng Shifei got out of the carriage, and the funny man who was running at the front of the convoy swooped back, rubbing the upper of Cheng Shifei's shoes.

The convoy continued on the road, with one person walking the dog with the convoy and one person following the convoy.

When Cheng Shifei got off the carriage, Chen Suisui was still happy in his heart, thinking that the other party finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to make a move on him.

Especially when he saw the dog running back, he seemed to see a vicious dog biting his trouser leg, and he fought the vicious dog.

It's good to bite the pants, but don't bite the meat.

Since he was a child, he knew that he must not be bitten by a dog, otherwise he would have hydrophobia, and no matter how high his kung fu was, it would be dead.

Chen Suisui knows martial arts, and a young man in the mountains can actually do martial arts!

Fifty miles further along this official road is a town under the jurisdiction of Xinling City, called Longjiang Town, and Chen Suisui's home is in Taojiabao, thirty miles south of the town.

The Chen family is an outsider in Taojiabao, and the generation is only the fourth generation in the Chen year.

I don't know why, generation after generation of only seedlings, which is why his father was so excited when he knew that he was a leader.

There is a mountain next to Taojiabao called Nanshan.

Most of the people in Taojiabao have the surname Tao.

At the beginning of the establishment of the dynasty, the ancestors of Taojiabao were able people, and it is said that the official worshiped the post of general of Jingzhou, and the incense of the Taojia ancestral hall has been very prosperous.

However, the glory of the past has not been overshadowed by future generations, and a hundred years later, Taojiabao has declined, leaving only the stories in the mouths of the elderly.

Chen Suisui grew up listening to the stories of the old people of the Tao family.

Chen Suisui had a secret, the old man of the Tao family who told him the story taught him martial arts.

The people in Taojiabao don't know, not even his parents.

The old man was lonely, and for some reason, he was not married, and he was alone.

The old man is not very good-tempered, especially after drinking.

His name is Tao Yin.

I heard from my parents that although this old man named Tao Yin was from Taojiabao, his ancestor moved out of Taojiabao early, leaving only the ancestral house, for some reason, this person named Tao Yin suddenly returned when he was about forty years old, and lived in his old house.

It's not that the people of Taojiabao don't look down on this family much, it's that this family doesn't like to talk about common words, and they just talk nonsense that the croppers can't understand.

Looking at the crops he planted under the roots of Nanshan, I really didn't see it.

The people of Taojiabao learned a sentence from this family.

"Planting beans in the south of the mountain, the grass is full of beans and seedlings. ”

That's true.

Chen Suisui likes this old man who loves to drink very much, and the old man likes him too.

The old man not only taught him martial arts, but also taught him to read, and there are many books in the old man's house.

Chen Suisui followed behind the carriage, thinking in his heart, if he followed all the way to Longjiang Town, he was afraid that he would not have any chance, could it be possible to change to another way?

That's a solution he was very reluctant to do.

Gritting his teeth, he quickened his pace.

Cheng Shifei finally understood why he was a businessman, those two people were too bullying, were they so stupid?

Jumping out of the carriage, he actually wanted to take the opportunity to see what the young man wanted to do, the young man's temper came up, and he always wanted to do something to prove himself, so he kept an eye on the back.

Seeing that the man behind him actually quickened his pace, as if he wanted to catch up with the convoy, Cheng Shifei was overjoyed, so he deliberately slowed down, and when the last carriage of the convoy overtook him, he and Funfei fell behind the last of the convoy.

The coachman didn't know what the intentions of the young owner of the family were, so he didn't do anything about the two of them anyway, so he continued to hurry.

In the carriage, Yuan Xi, who glanced at the outside of the carriage, said to Zhang Zhongqian,

"Xiao Fei is in the back, I'll go down and take a look. ”

Without waiting for Zhang Zhongqian to stop the carriage, he got up and got out of the carriage.

Zhang Zhongqian stopped the carriage, and the convoy stopped.

This is Chen Suisui has caught up with Cheng right and wrong, and when he saw that an outsider was approaching, he stood in front of the master and shouted fiercely.

Chen Suisui was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Cheng Shifei just wanted to open his mouth, and one hand was pressed on his shoulder, it was Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi said,

"Chen Suisui, let's talk about something directly!"

Originally, when he saw the boy who ran with the dog coming, Chen Suisui thought that things had taken a turn for the better, and he didn't use the way he didn't want the most, but the dog was only fierce to him and didn't bite him.

And now the dog ignored him and went to lick the instep of the man named Yuan Xi.

Cheng Cheng muttered on the side,

"Brother Yuan, I'm not wrong, look at him, he didn't have a good heart. ”

Hearing this sentence made Chen Suisui's heart ache, he thought about it so well before, and all kinds of peace of mind in his heart were washed away by this sentence.

Ambition is in my heart, but there is no gold in my pocket.

Gritting his teeth, he raised his head, his voice was no longer as free and easy as the previous conversation, and he trembled slightly, he said,

"Well, I, I want to borrow some silver. ”

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Dong Xianglin finally got his wish and went to the Songzhu Pavilion.

He went during the day, and if he went at night, he was afraid that he would be beaten to death by his father.

When they were in the teahouse, Dong Xianglin and Xu Yibai watched Liu Yuanqing tremble and pull out a few crumpled palm-sized pictures from the book.

Spread it out carefully, the three of them said the same words in their mouths, but their eyes were fixed on this picture that made people's hearts beat faster.

I don't know what magic this picture is, I don't think it's very good, but I just can't take my eyes off it.

When the three of them went downstairs, the people in the teahouse were still praising them, worthy of being the sons of the official family, drinking tea in the teahouse and working so hard, and the three of them discussed the knowledge with red faces.

However, when the three of them went downstairs, they pressed their stomachs, and their bodies bowed slightly, what was going on? Could it be that the dim sum in this teahouse was not clean, and they all ate bad stomachs?

Leaving the teahouse, the three of them found the place where they carried the person and squatted for a while before getting up.

Dong Xianglin's face was a little unnatural, and he looked at the two who were also embarrassed and asked Liu Yuanqing,

"Yuanqing, where did you get this picture? I forgot to ask you after reading it last time. ”

Xu Yibai also asked,

"Did you steal to the Shochiku Pavilion by yourself?"

Liu Yuanqing shook his head, and then said,

"I picked it up from my father's waste paper basket, it seems to have flowed out of the Songzhu Pavilion, and I was found and handed over to my father, and my father scolded a few words and rubbed it and threw it into the paper basket. You two also know that my father is an official in charge of the ceremony, although this Qinglou is legally operated, but if these pictures are circulated, the impact will not be very good, but there is no real evidence to determine that they flow out of the Songzhu Pavilion, so my father just scolded a few words and passed. ”

Dong Xianglin looked at the two of them, and then said,

"Why don't we go and open our eyes now? ”

The Songzhu Pavilion is the largest green building in Pingnan City, and it has a good reputation, and even those scholars in the academy are proud to go to the Songzhu Pavilion. Of course, it's the Elegant Building.

This elegant hall is the only one in the Qinglou in Pingnan City, and the other Qinglou only do the leather and meat business.

There are also people who want to learn from the Songzhu Pavilion and the Elegant Pavilion, but there is no girl with both talent and appearance, and most of the guests who go are for the joy of fish and water, so they will give up.

Moreover, those guests who pretend to be high-minded only recognize the Pine and Bamboo Pavilion.

What Yihong Courtyard, Lichun Courtyard, as soon as you hear it, it is the land of fireworks.

After entering the Songzhu Pavilion, Dong Xianglin was pulled to the left by Xu and Liu, and his eyes were still glancing to the right, and he was curious in his heart, why was it so lively over there.

Several girls dressed up in fancy clothes shouted there,

"A few sons are coming over to have fun! I promise to let you come and want to come again."

A piece of white flowers, Dong Xianglin's eyes were dizzy.

A girl still threw a flattering eye at him, Dong Xianglin was excited, and quickly turned around, not daring to look again.

Xu Yibai and Liu Yuanqing have been here after all, and after pulling Dong Xianglin, who was curious about the baby, into the elegant hall, they found a table and sat down, and a girl greeted them.

Different from the girl she saw in front of the vulgar hall before, this girl pressed her left hand with her right hand, pressed her left hand on her left hip bone, bent her legs slightly, and after bowing, asked softly,

"Three sons, what do you need?"

The girl is not as revealing as the vulgar hall, with a blue dress and a long skirt, and she talks generously and decently, Dong Xianglin, who has been silently thinking about incivility in her heart, is also secretly surprised, not that this woman has many national colors and natural fragrance, on the contrary, this girl who is just an ordinary person makes Dong Xianglin feel more admirable than the woman over there.

Liu Yuanqing said,

"Let's start with two pots of good wine, and some side dishes to accompany the wine. Dare to ask the girl, will Miss Weiwei come out today?"

The girl said,

"Coincidentally, a few sons, Miss Weiwei is performing today. ”