Shangguan Yun said with a smile: "This big brother, this road is not yours alone, if you can walk, I will walk, how can I see that I am following you?"

The man panicked and said, "Then you...... Then you go first, I don't want you to follow me. ”

Shangguan Yun still smiled: "Why should I walk in front of you?"

The man was even more disorganized, and stammered, "You...... You...... I...... I ...... "He, you, you, and I said two sentences, but I didn't say anything."

Shangguan Yun grimaced, and said seriously: "You can't say the reason yourself, why do you want me to walk in front of you? Could it be that you want to follow me?"

The man waved his hand again and again, "No, no, how can I follow you." ”

Shangguan Yun smiled: "Then you just go ahead." ”

The man hesitated, "I...... I...... I remembered, I still have something to do, and I need to go back to the city first. He panicked, spread his steps and ran in the direction of Shizhou.

Shangguan Yun groaned: "This person must have been sent by the shopkeeper, it seems that the relationship between this Bishui Village and the rice shop is not shallow, and it must be investigated." When he saw that the man had already left, he didn't dare to follow him again, so he strode towards Bishui Village again.

Before coming to Bishui Village, Shangguan Yun first listened to the movement inside, and there was no sound, he looked through the crack in the door again, but there was still no figure. Shangguan Yun opened the door and walked in, and checked all the rooms again, still the same as last night, except for a few footprints on the ground, which he left the night before.

When I came to the backyard, I saw a small road leading directly to the river, and Shangguan Yun came to the river, and he had already arrived at a very small wharf, but there was no boat. On the stone piles by the wharf, there are deep marks made by the hemp rope, and it is obvious that there are often boats tied here. It seems that the girls left by boat yesterday. Shangguan Yun smiled dumbly, but last night was a false alarm, and he didn't know if the girls went downstream or upstream, and he couldn't continue to pursue at this time.

Shangguan Yun left Bishui Village and came to Shizhou City again, planning to go to Mipu to investigate. In the evening, when there was a curfew on the street, he began his light work and quietly came to the rice shop, where there was still light through the gap between the doors and panels. Shangguan Yunzong went up to the roof, gently lifted the tiles and looked down, and saw that the shopkeeper in the shop and the people who followed him during the day were all in the shop.

Then I heard the shopkeeper scold: "You useless thing, you can't do such a thing, what's the use of keeping you? Alas, I don't know how they sent you." ”

The man was extremely aggrieved and defended: "Shopkeeper, you don't know, how can we afford to mess with these people?"

The shopkeeper stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of his head, Shangguan Yun was startled, but seeing that the two of them did not move, he put his mind at ease, and listened to the shopkeeper's soft and angry reprimand: "Ma Er, can't you afford to provoke them, do you think you can afford to provoke those people above?"

Ma Er still argued strongly: "You didn't tell me yourself, does that person know martial arts? I don't know martial arts, and I was discovered by him, where do you dare to provoke him?"

The shopkeeper's anger was uncontrollable, but he still suppressed his anger and said bitterly: "If those girls in the village know about this, you and I will have to move our heads, and the people above will know, I am afraid that you and I will not have a good time." You've only been here for a short time, and you don't know how powerful it is, and I don't blame you. Don't let go of any suspicious person in the future, even if you are killed by him, you can only accept your fate, you know?"

Ma Er said unhappily: "The shopkeeper, although the work in the shop is leisurely, and the monthly silver money is also a lot, but those girls in the village are not easy to get along, even if they take a look at it more, they are also fierce, looking like they want to eat people." If you tell the people above, let me go back on an errand, so as not to make you angry here, and I don't have to worry about losing my heart all day long, for fear that one day my head will move. ”

The shopkeeper sneered twice, pointed at Ma Er, and said, "Ma Er, Ma Er, do you think it's so simple? Don't I want to go back on an errand? If you want to go back, unless you become a dead man, don't think about leaving half a step." ”

"Shopkeeper, in the past few months, I have always been obedient to you, so are you doing this to me?" Although Ma Er held a grudge, he did not dare to attack.

"Do you still think that I am the fault of all these things?" the shopkeeper snorted, very unhappy in his heart.

"Who else could it be, if not?" Ma Er muttered quietly.

The shopkeeper was so angry that he wanted to wave his hand, but he finally put it down, he paused in a hurry, and said, "You...... , Alas, Ma Er, you are so confused, do you know why we are here?"

"Aren't you helping someone quietly sell some tribute rice? I don't know whose business it is. ”

"On the surface, it looks like this, but it's not that simple. ”

"Shopkeeper, isn't that how things were supposed to be?"

"I don't know what's going on, I heard others say, it seems that there is some unclear relationship between Bianliang and Zhuangzhong, otherwise why would the above risk killing the head to sell tribute, and go to great lengths to transport it to this remote place. But these are all rumors, and I don't know if it's true. ”

Ma Er nodded and said, "That's right, we only do business with that Zhuangzi, it must be like this." ”

"Since you understand, you should know that this is a matter of losing your head, and you and I can't afford to provoke any of those people in the court!"

Ma Er said sadly: "Then don't we have to sell rice here for a lifetime?"

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "Unless the people above are gracious and transfer you back, don't mention it." ”

Ma Er cried with a sad face and wailed in a long voice: "I still have elderly parents at home, I'm afraid I won't see them in this life, my father and mother ......"

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "I've been here for almost ten years, and I don't even dare to take a step in Shizhou City, and I said that I have seen my parents and relatives, so you would have forgotten this thought." ”

Ma Er was even more sad: "I haven't even married a daughter-in-law yet, so it's hard to be a bachelor for the rest of my life, alas." ”

The shopkeeper glared at him fiercely, and reprimanded: "When those girls come back in the future, you should not look at them, and if they see it, be careful of the thing on your neck." ”

Ma Er didn't care, and immediately turned sadness into joy, and said with a smile: "Although those girls are powerful, they all look like fairies, maybe the ladies in the palace are not as good-looking as them, if you don't look at them, wouldn't it be a pity?"

The shopkeeper slapped Ma Er with a wave of his hand, and angrily reprimanded: "Ma Er, are you talking nonsense to me? If you dare to make any more crooked ideas, don't let them do it, I will dig out your two beads." ”

Ma Er saw that he didn't seem to be joking, so he didn't dare to joke for half a sentence, he covered his face, and only said: "Yes, don't look at it, don't watch it." ”

The shopkeeper said angrily: "It's not early, I'll go to sleep, you clean up, in case those girls come tomorrow, it doesn't look like it." He ignored Ma Er and went back to the back room.

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