Noon, Maple Grove Town.

Lujia Tavern.

Oni Xiao was eating the big red elbow with his head buried in it, and his mouth was full of oil. Long Shiqiu looked at him with a smile on his lips.

"I finally know why Yin Zhutou didn't arrest you and go to prison, according to your way of eating, you can eat the prison poor. Long Shiqiu laughed and teased him.

Ghost Xiao was stunned for a moment, looked at the six or seven empty plates in front of him, and then looked at the pork knuckle in his hand, and said with a smile: "Which prison is still full?"

Long Shiqiu said: "Wait until you are full and remember it, and then continue to finish the story." ”

Oni Xiao didn't know why his story was so valuable, so he wiped the oil on his mouth and smiled: "I'm already full now." ”

Long Shiqiu shook his head and said, "No, no, you have to finish eating this elbow." We still have to go in the afternoon, and I'm afraid you won't have the strength to walk if you don't eat enough. ”

Ghost Xiao burped, touched his stomach and smiled: "It's so full, if you can't eat, you can take the road to eat." ”

They really packed the unfinished food, and also packed two catties of beef and mutton, two pots of wine and twenty steamed buns.

When you're away from home, you always have to have some extra food, after all, no one knows how far the next stop will be.

Long Shiqiu cut his hands upside down, Shi Shiran walked on the street, and the ghost flute walked behind him with two big burdens.

"Where are we going?" asked Oni Xiao.

Long Shiqiu turned to look at him, and then at a carriage parked on the side of the street.

The handlebar style is lying with his legs crossed, basking in the sun with a felt hat covering his face.

Long Shiqiu stepped forward and lightly buckled the carriage with his fingers.

The handlebar style took off his hat, his eyes narrowed, and he said, "What are you doing?" ”

Long Shiqiu smiled slightly and said, "Are you going to go far in this car?"

"Long way?" sat up with a handlebar, looked Long Shiqiu up and down, and said, "How far?"

"Yue Yang. ”

"Don't go. The handlebar head shook like a rattle and lay down again.

"How much silver do you want to go?" Long Shiqiu has always been very patient and polite.

The handlebar type didn't even open his eyes: "Fifty taels." ”

"Knock, knock, knock!" three sounds, and as soon as the handlebar opened his eyes again, there were three more ingots of silver around him, and he saw that each ingot had about fifteen taels.

"This is a deposit, how about paying the rest in Yueyang?"

The handlebar-style eyes immediately widened like copper bells, and he didn't expect that he would say casually that this uncle would dare to give it so casually.

"No...... No need to give it again, enough ...... Enough!" He grabbed the silver and walked behind him, laughing as he walked, shouting: "Wang'er damn it, people, quickly pack up, Lao Tzu is going to go far away!"

As long as you can bring enough silver home to spend on your wife and children, anyone can call themselves "Lao Tzu".

Ghost Xiao sighed and said, "I think this person seems crazy. ”

Long Shiqiu smiled: "I don't think so." ”

Ghost Xiao stretched out a finger and pointed at Long Shiqiu: "I'm not talking about him, but you." ”

You must know that a year's worth of silver for a six-rank official is about fifty taels.

The normal expenses of an ordinary family of three to maintain food and clothing every month do not cost one or two silver.

So just now, Long Shiqiu casually gave the handlebar type three or four years of living expenses.

With a smile on his face, he rushed over with a bag on his back, and his wife leaned against the door with her little son in her arms, looking at her husband with a happy face.

The handlebar came to the carriage, bent down to remove the wood, lifted the curtain and smiled: "Second master, please get in the car." ”

Long Shiqiu stepped into the car and asked, "I don't know what the big brother is called?"

The handlebar style hunched his waist and said: "The villain's surname is Niu, the second in line, and the uncle can call me Niu Er." Niu Er raised his whip and shouted, and the carriage left Fenglin Town all the way.

Ghost Xiao sat in the car, his eyes staring at Long Shiqiu all the time.

"There are words on my face?" Long Shiqiu couldn't help but ask.

Oni Xiao shook his head and said, "You have money on your face." Long Shiqiu was stunned, only to see him continue: "I really don't understand, where did you get so much silver?"

Long Shiqiu smiled and asked rhetorically, "Have you ever been in prison?"

"No, almost. ”

Long Shiqiu said: "I have sat in it, and it is the prison of the Criminal Department. ”

Ghost Xiao glared and said, "The Heavenly Prison of the Criminal Department, it is said that few people in that place can come out alive except for the emperor's amnesty to the world." ”

Long Shiqiu said lightly: "Every meal I ate in the prison is almost the same as what you just ate. ”

Oni Xiao's eyes widened, "How did you do that?"

Long Shiqiu said: "I just said a word to the cell boss. Oni Xiao's mouth had barely closed since just now, waiting for him to say the following.

Long Shiqiu continued: "I asked him to go to different places every day to get the silver, and when he got the silver, he could divide half of it to support his wife at home and the three concubines outside. ”

"The other half, of course, is spent on you. "Ghost Xiao said.

Long Shiqiu nodded and said, "On the first day, he took ten taels from the shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn, and ordered a table of wine and food from Tianshuiju to be delivered to me that night. ”

Oni Xiao couldn't help but ask, "What about the next day?"

Long Shiqiu said: "The next day, he turned out twenty taels under the offering table in the Guandi Temple in the west of the city, and there were brand-new tables, chairs and bedding in my cell that day. ”

Ghost Xiao sighed and said: "No wonder people say that money can make ghosts grind, it seems that you spent a lot of money in prison." ”

Long Shiqiu said lightly: "I was in prison for twenty-one days and spent one thousand three hundred and fifty-four taels. ”

Ghost Xiao's jaw was about to fall, and his voice trembled a little: "So your silver was stolen or robbed?"

A hint of resentment suddenly appeared in Long Shiqiu's eyes, and there was no sound in the carriage for a while.

The carriage went all the way south along the official road.

The sun has set in the west.

Niu Er slowed down and waited for the carriage to move slowly, then asked, "Second master, where will you stay tonight?"

Long Shiqiu was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves from behind the car.

Five fast horses roared from behind the carriage, and after catching up with the carriage, they lined up and stopped in the middle of the road.

Niu Er saw that the five riders in strong suits were all carrying swords and swords, and they were fierce, and he was frightened and said, "How many ...... A few masters, this ...... It's ......"

One of the riders turned over and dismounted, walked up to the carriage with a knife, and asked, "Is there anyone in the carriage?"

Niu Er saw that this person had a sideways face, and his eyes were like copper bells, and he trembled: "Yes...... There was ......"

The man walked to the carriage in a few steps, picked up the curtain with a scabbard, glanced at Long Shiqiu and the others inside, tilted his head and scolded: "Fuck, it's not, where did this little girl go." He turned around and got on the horse, and shouted, "Let's go, go to Wanjia Town in front and have a look." ”

Niu Er was frightened into a cold sweat, and said fearfully: "Second master, the people here are very powerful, let's leave here quickly." ”

Long Shiqiu smiled and said, "Don't worry. With that, he stretched out his foot and nodded under the car, bowed his head and said, "You can come out." ”

Oni Xiao and Niu Er were stunned, not knowing who he was talking to.

Suddenly, a petite figure rolled out from the bottom of the carriage, and it turned out to be a brown girl in her twenties.

Long Shiqiu got out of the carriage, only to see that the girl in front of him was gray-faced, the clothes on her body were dirty and torn, and only a pair of big eyes full of aura looked a little more energetic.

The girl in brown glanced at Long Shiqiu and said with a grin: "Your ears are quite good, you actually know that I am hiding under the car." ”

Long Shiqiu sighed and instructed Niu Er, "Let's go." After that, he was about to get into the car, but the girl in brown took the first step and stretched out her hand to stop her: "Hey, don't go." ”

Long Shiqiu frowned and said, "Is there anything else to do with the girl?"

The girl in brown pouted, "You also saw just now, so many fierce and vicious people are arresting me everywhere, can you bear to watch me being captured by them?"

Long Shiqiu said lightly: "Girl, we are just passing by, and we don't want to get into trouble like you, not to mention that with the girl's light skills, those people may not be able to catch you." ”

The girl in brown said aggrievedly: "But I haven't eaten for two days, and I don't have the strength to run anymore." ”

Long Shiqiu sighed and said, "Then what do you want to do with the girl's meaning?"

The girl in brown grinned and said, "You take me to have a meal, I'll leave when I'm full, how about it?" Without waiting for Long Shiqiu to agree, she got into the carriage and startled the ghost flute.

Long Shiqiu shook his head, with a wry smile, and the voice of the girl in brown came from the carriage: "What are you waiting for, get on the train quickly." ”

The brown-clothed girl in the carriage looked at Long Shiqiu and Ghost Xiao with a smile on her face: "My name is Xiaoyin, the sound of the voice." As he spoke, he kicked the ghost flute with his little foot and said, "What's your name?"

"Oni Xiao. ”

"Ghost Xiao?" Xiaoyin frowned and said, "Is there really a person with the surname of ghost in this world?"

"The contemptible surname is Long, Long Shiqiu. He didn't wait for this person to ask, and he reported himself to the door first.

Xiaoyin couldn't help but laugh and said: "You have a dragon surnamed the sky and a ghost surnamed the underground, this girl has really opened her eyes." As he spoke, he leaned in front of the ghost flute and sniffed it again.

Ghost Xiao glared, flashed back, and said, "What are you doing?"

Xiaoyin's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "It's so fragrant, what do you have to eat in your baggage?"

Ghost Xiao sighed, and had to take out the wine and meat steamed buns packed at noon.

"Hey, you two big men are so embarrassed, I just said that I was dying of hunger, did you not hear it or pretended not to hear it? You brought so many delicious foods and didn't even take them out?"

As soon as he saw the large piece of beef and mutton, Xiaoyin's saliva was about to drip down, and he stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, "I'm welcome." He grabbed the meat and gnawed it.

Long Shiqiu looked at her eating meat and drinking a lot of wine, and said in his heart, "How is this like a girl's family eating? The heroes of the green forest who gather in the mountains and forests are nothing more than that.

After a gust of wind and clouds, there was no meat foam left in the catty of beef and mutton packed by the ghost flute.

Xiaoyin burped and didn't forget to grab a few steamed buns and put them in his arms. The more Long Shiqiu looked at it, the more he felt that this girl was very cute, and smiled slightly: "Have you eaten and drunk enough?"

Xiaoyin nodded as she picked her teeth.

"Isn't it time for the girl to get out of the car?"

Unexpectedly, Xiaoyin frowned when she heard this: "Look at what you said, I can't find a place to take a bath and change into clean clothes?"