Qi country.

Chang'an City.

At dawn, the east is white.

The watchman yawned, staggered up the bluestone paved street, the morning dew was not dry, the emerald green buds poked their heads out of the bluestone cracks, and a drop of clear dew hung from the tip of the bud. Unknown birds flew over the branches in pairs, and their melodious cries came and went.

The city had just woken up from its gloom, and the wooden bars and windows of every house were still closed. A few good-looking yellow warblers flapped their beautiful wings and stopped on the roof tiles, taking care of the feathers on their bodies, like a girl in the boudoir to be married. The fog quietly dissipated, and the streets were still filled with the debris piled up on the ground after last night's lively market, and a few streams of stagnant water trickled down the stairs, and the tall apricot cedars swayed gently in the wind, making people mistakenly think it was a scene in the south of the Yangtze River.

Song Qian'er walked through the long corridor of the Silk Yun Building with a tired face holding a purple gauze dress in her hand, the flowers and candles on both sides had burned out, and a thick pile of wax oil was piled up in the carved lampshade.

A man dressed in a brocade robe stepped forward and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, last night's accounts have come out, do you want to take a look at it yourself?"

Song Qian'er yawned lazily, waved her hand listlessly, and said, "Send it down, clean up the field, close it, and open it again in the afternoon, so that the guys can be smart." I went to sleep first, and no one came. ”

The man wrote, "Yes, yes." ”

"Wait a minute. Song Qian'er turned around and stopped the man who was about to leave, and said, "Has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent him away?"

"Shopkeeper, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince got up last night, and the Praetorian Guards have also withdrawn. The man said.

Song Qian'er thought for a while and said, "You go and contact Manager Gao and send some tributes from the Western Regions to the mansion, which should be to suppress the shock of His Royal Highness the Prince...... Call the one that His Highness took a fancy to last night, that girl Wu Guo came, she is very clever, and there is ......"

As she spoke, her expression changed, and she said, "Go and find out where the old man came from last night, in the realm of Chang'an, no matter which mouse in the gutter it is, I don't know my Siyun Building." Be clever and don't keep your tail, understand?"

The man said yes again and again, and hurriedly retreated.

After Song Qian'er gave the order, she went up the long stairs alone.

Pushing open the door, the room was empty.

She glanced around, a look of displeasure on her face. What about the little mouse I caught last night? While I was with His Royal Highness the Prince, I slipped away?

She slowly sat down on the soft big bed, and with a meow, a black shadow came out from under the bed. Quickly jumped onto her lap.

That old man is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, the 100,000 taels of gold is a valuable official silver, I don't know where it was stolen, and I have to rub my aunt's oil when I pay the money.

Song Qian'er brushed the black cat's head with her hand, and the black cat comfortably put its two front paws on her legs and leaned on it.

Qi An came this time, I don't know if I came to join in the fun or baby, there is a lot of oil and water, adding up to almost a thousand taels of gold, and I will pay so much trade money in one night, not counting taxes, my aunt and grandmother, I am afraid that I will not be able to sell it at this price even if I do it for a year.

She stretched out a white hand and carefully examined the bewitching patterns on it, as if it had been burned with fire, and carved it deeply on the back of her hand.

It's quite lively today, and it should be a lot of accounts, the little gentleman of Xilu Academy, the envoy of the Great Moon Kingdom, and the commercial house of the Han Kingdom...... Aren't they all big people who can't afford to offend...... The treasures that were photographed were all bought by these big families......

She thought as she sat down on a small dresser, a mahogany bronze mirror reflecting her slightly tired face.

There is a girl from the Western Regions, who looks really delicate, if you talk about it, she is much better than the girl in my building, and she lit the sky lantern as soon as she came up, in this kind of place, lighting the sky lantern is an offending thing, thanks to what she wants is only a spiritual grass from the Western Regions, but no one robs her.

Facing the bronze mirror, Song Qian'er slowly took off the golden mask on her face, revealing the face hidden behind the mask. From the bridge of the nose to the forehead, there were horrible scars, as if they had been burned, the flesh and skin were squeezed together, and the eyebrows could not be seen, only the eyes still radiated a beautiful light.

By the way, what's the girl's name? She seemed to have said it when she paid the money, and the steward asked her...... She said her name was ...... Han Luyao?

Song Qian'er stood up from the dresser, took out a small bottle of essential oil from the table, poured it on her hand, and began to wipe her face carefully.

It's noon.

Chu Liusheng was awakened by the smell of fragrant dog meat buns, and this tempting fragrance burrowed into his nose, hooking his empty stomach fiercely, making a gurgling sound.

He slowly opened his eyes, and there were still familiar bluestone bricks in front of him, and the voices of people around him were buzzing, and the sound of footsteps came and went.

As soon as his body moved, his bones seemed to crack with a clicking sound, and he grinned in pain.

He struggled to sit up, leaning limply against the wall behind him.

In front of him is the more prosperous street of Chang'an City, Xianglin Street, where vendors from all over the country have begun to choose a good place to set up stalls, and smoke rises from several stalls below the street. It was the point of lunch. Chu Liusheng looked around, and several little children were sucking noodles not far in front of him, staring at him directly.

Where did the hairy boy come from, I haven't seen a boy on the street.

Chu Liusheng rolled his eyes at the little boys, sniffed, and looked for the source of the aroma.

He turned his head to the side and saw that he was relying on a small steamed bun shop, which had good business and the aroma of food was constantly coming out.

My stomach was gurgling again, and I thought it had been more than two days since I had eaten properly, and my pocket was already too clean.

The last time he had a full meal, it was in a small village on the outskirts of Chang'an City, he won more than a dozen taels of silver by gambling with his old man, and he wanted to play a big game when he entered Chang'an City, but he entered a silk rhyme building and was caught.

Fortunately, I picked up a life, thanks to my good skills, I found a few pieces of that little girl's clothes from the room, tied myself tightly, took advantage of the excitement outside, hung myself from the window to the second floor, and then slipped out of the guest room.

Thinking of this, the corners of Chu Liusheng's mouth raised proudly. The woman in the world who can trap my master hasn't come out of her mother's womb yet.

Before leaving, I also took a few clothes, if I was found by that girl, I wouldn't be angry?

Thinking about it, he laboriously touched his waist, and it was really bulging. He took out a piece of lilac tight-fitting fabric from his clothes, and put it in Chang'an, which was also considered the top grade in silk.

He looked up and saw the little kid on the other side staring at him like a pervert.

"Roll the calf, the master will gouge out your eyeballs in a while, what's so beautiful?" Chu Liusheng scolded at them, the smell of blood in his mouth welled up, and he couldn't help but choke and cough again and again.

After a few coughs, I felt a pinprick pain in my chest and abdomen. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to ease his time, when one hand suddenly groped for a hard object on his clothes.

What is this, whose little girl's clothes still have a bead on it? So fashionable.

Chu Liusheng thought suspiciously, and took the dirty clothes in front of him and looked at them carefully, the bead was embroidered on one side, only the size of a finger, and the white body was transparent.

"This thing...... It's not going to be worth a lot of money......"

Chu Liusheng was muttering to himself, his head suddenly hurt, he came back to his senses, and saw the little boys picking up stones and throwing them at him, and then ran away with a smile.

Chu Liusheng couldn't help but get angry, and scolded: "Whose little kid, there is no one to raise in life, what kind of quality is this, do you treat me as a young master?"

The pain in his leg made him unable to even stand up, let alone fight back, he could only curse a few times at the backs, helpless. The top priority is to fill your stomach first, after all, a few dirty clothes on your body can't be eaten. Chu Liusheng looked towards the door of the steamed bun shop, and suddenly, he was surprised to see an old man with a hunched body, who was walking out while stuffing a big, white steaming steamed bun into his mouth, and carrying a long box wrapped in a white cloth on his back, almost crushing him.

Chu Liusheng's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly shouted in a hoarse voice, "Master!"

The old man was stunned, stuffed the big bun in his mouth, and looked left and right, looking for the source of the sound.

"Lu Chuan, old man, Lao Tzu is here!" Chu Liusheng couldn't help but call him by his name, and the wounds on his body hurt so much that he grinned his teeth.

Lu Chuan took a big bite of the bun in his hand, saw Chu Liusheng who was leaning against the wall and was half-dead, his eyes widened in surprise, and said, "Stinky boy, why are you here?"

Chu Liusheng raised his arm with great effort and beckoned, "Don't worry about it so much for now, let me eat the buns quickly." ”

Lu Chuan was stunned for a while, trotted to Chu Liusheng's side, handed over a bun, and said, "Why did you come out of the broken temple? I said that I went to sleep in the broken temple this morning, why weren't you there?

Chu Liusheng took Lu Chuan's bun and hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth, his cheeks bulged so high that he didn't have the time to pay attention to Lu Chuan's words.

Lu Chuan looked at him carefully, frowned, and said, "Hey, look at you, you have a blue nose and swollen face, who did you fight with and was beaten so badly, the other side was not light, and the bridge of your nose was almost crooked." ”

As he spoke, he reached over and touched Chu Liusheng's face, who was so painful that he hurriedly turned his face away.

"What did you do last night? Look at you like this, it doesn't look like you fell, what's the matter? Jumping off the tower of Chang'an City?" Lu Chuan asked.

Chu Liusheng swallowed the bun blocked in his throat, and said vaguely: "Didn't you say you were going to do something serious last night?" I thought about what you could do as a bad old man, so I followed all the way from the broken temple, and what did you end up with...... Siyun Building, you're gone, I'll go in and take a look, good guy, it's a casino. ”

After that, he hurriedly eliminated the bun in his hand in a few bites, and hurriedly went to grab it in Lu Chuan's hand.

Lu Chuan handed him all the buns in his hand and said, "Good guy, are you still following me? Lao Tzu went to Siyun Building to do business!"

Chu Liusheng glanced at him, and while stuffing buns into his mouth indiscriminately, he said: ", what can you do when you go to the casino in the middle of the night......?"

Lu Chuan saw that he wanted to stop talking, so he approached and asked, "Then you got started? Then you won't be beaten like this, right?"

Chu Liusheng looked at Lu Chuan, his voice was a few degrees lower, and he said with a little weakness: "I went out of thousands there, I don't know why I was caught......