The next morning, Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan bid farewell to Ning Wangye and Jiang Cheng and went to Beijing.

Different from the splendid and prosperous Jinling, Shangjing gives people a more serious and heavy feeling. Although the streets are still full of people and horse-drawn carriages, it is rare to see drunk and down-and-out scholars holding wine glasses and singing loudly on the streets of Shangjing, nor can you see the beautiful incense carts of girls going out of the city or into the city in groups, let alone the people talking loudly about the current affairs of the country. The first impression of going to the capital to Xu Ming was seriousness.

"The owner of the wine stall said that the shaman of the witch clan had gone north, and according to his footsteps, he should have entered the capital and been sealed in the city. Xu Ming pondered, "But I don't know if he has left now, so I will go to Beijing for a few days first, and find out that he has already left the city, and then make plans!"

Xu Ming pulled Guan Chunuan, who was bustling, and was about to find an inn.

"Ah, there are people fighting crickets over there!" Guan Chunuan tugged at the corners of Xu Ming's clothes, revealing a look of eagerness: "Let's go and have a look, okay." ”

Xu Ming was so entangled that he had no choice but to be pulled by her to the middle of the crowd. "Excuse me, thank you!" Xu Ming escorted Guan Chunuan and squeezed into the middle of the crowd, and there were four young men fighting crickets in the middle. Two richly dressed and two modestly dressed. They team up in pairs and are battling.

The crickets of the sons in fancy clothes were very large and had golden tentacles, but they were flashy, and they were gradually beaten by the crickets of the short-shirted children, and finally defeated.

"Lost. One of them, a somewhat fat man, was very unhappy to lose, but he was very happy, and he stood up and took out a piece of silver from his body and threw it to the two of them, while the other, a little thin, was very reluctant, and twisted for a while before he took a very small piece of silver from his silver bag and threw it over. His strength was too great, and the silver was too small, and the two boys did not receive it, and the silver rolled on the ground and rolled into the drain, where it could not be found. The thin boy laughed happily when he saw this, he glanced contemptuously at the two who dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and patted the fat boy on the shoulder: "Let's go, Thirteenth Master, I'll take you to a good place today!"

The fat and thin second son turned around and happened to see Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan, who was hiding in his arms and watching the excitement. The fat boy and Xu Ming glanced at each other, both of them were stunned for a moment, and subconsciously nodded to each other. Xu Ming always felt that he had seen this fat man somewhere, but he couldn't remember it very much.

The thin boy saw Guan Chunuan, and both eyes straightened. He saw the fat boy nodding at Xu Ming, so he asked him, "Does the Thirteenth Master know that person?"

The fat boy shook his head: "I don't know, but it's a little familiar." ”

The thin boy put his mind at ease: "In this huge Shangjing City, there are countless people who have had an eye for the Thirteenth Master, this is his blessing!"

The little fat man nodded, didn't say anything, got up to leave, but was pulled by the thin man. The thin man whispered in his ear: "Today I said that I would take the Thirteenth Master to a good place, but now it seems that I don't need it." Did the Thirteenth Master see that girl? It's hard to find such a beautiful girl in the entire Shangjing City, why don't I ask her to come and give the Thirteenth Master a good time?"

The fat man hurriedly shook his head: "The good place you said won't be Qinglou, you can't go, you can't go, and I won't agree if you want to rob the people's daughter, my father, my father will kill me if he knows." ”

"Am I just asking her to go with us willingly, you haven't tasted a woman yet, don't you want to taste it?"

The poor thirteenth master is still a simple child of fifteen or sixteen years old, he has just learned some things about men and women, and after the thin man said this, he suddenly felt a little itchy, he gritted his teeth: "Okay, you go, but if people don't agree with you, hurry up and give me back!"

"Gotcha!" the thin man smiled and walked towards Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan.

And all this was heard by Xu Ming. Guan Chunuan looked at his face in confusion and gradually gloomy, and then pulled Xu Ming, who was about to leave, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Don't ask, just follow along. Xu Ming's tone was stern and unquestionable, and Guan Chunuan obediently followed him quickly.

"Where is the little lady going?" the thin man ran from behind. Stopped in front of the two of them. Around him, a few people dressed as sticks slowly gathered around.

A cloud drifted over to cover the sun, and suddenly it darkened in the capital.

Xu Ming squinted his eyes at the thin man with a lewd smile in front of him, and said coldly, "What do you want to do?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to invite this girl for a drink. The thin man smiled like a gentleman.

Xu Ming sneered: "This is Shangjing." ”

The thin man shook his head: "So you still don't understand Shangjing, in Shangjing, there is nothing that I Xu Runyu can't get." ”

"I'm afraid of trouble, otherwise you think you can still stand here?" After Xu Ming finished saying this, he suddenly felt a wave of nausea and tightness in his chest, and then the sky began to spin in front of him, and he fainted.

"A knot pill and a yuan infant are embarrassed to speak to me in Shangjing? Xu Ming heard the thin man's words before he fainted, and what he thought in his heart was: When did this little girl break through!

Xu Ming felt that he had come to this world after a lot of disasters, first became an orphan, then was kidnapped, came back from a business trip in Jinling, his wife ran away with someone, and now the fan sister was tied up and put in prison again. Xu Ming looked at the dark clouds outside through the window in a daze, thinking back to the first half of his life that was too magnificent. As for why he is in prison now, he doesn't know, he was already lying in the prison when he woke up, thinking that he was imprisoned on some random charge.

Guan Chunuan didn't know where to go, thinking that he should have been tied up by a thin man. At that time, I was on the street, and my mind was not very clear, but now I understand it when I am in prison: Guan Chunuan is the little princess of Ziyang Sect, and it is impossible for Guan Shanyue not to give her some hard goods for self-defense. This is Shangjing again, there is no reason why no one knows that the daughter and disciples of the sect master of the Ziyang Sect are here, maybe someone will come and let him out after a while.

Xu Ming's mind calmed down and looked around the cell: there was only a tattered straw mat in the cell, and there was a window high on the wall. The two sides were separated by thick wood, and the door was also made of wood, so with Xu Ming's ability, it was still easy to get out of this cell. But Xu Ming didn't think of a way to get out, and he was worried that he didn't know where to stay, but this kid helped him solve it, and it happened that he was about to break through, and it was not too late for Xu Ming to go out after breaking through in prison.

The cells on either side of him were closed, and there was one on the opposite door. The brother on the left is sleeping in tattered clothes and with a broken straw hat over his face. On the right-hand side is a young man who looks like a scholar reading a book, wearing a blue robe, with long silky hair draped behind his back, turning the pages with his slender fingers. On the opposite side was a strong man with five big and three thick, sitting on a straw mat in a daze.

Xu Ming looked at the three of them, took a closer look, and he quietly moved to the right railing: "Hello, the brother who reads!" Xu Ming said to the scholar who was reading in a low voice.

The man closed the book and looked at Xu Ming: "Your Excellency, what's the matter?" His voice was like the tinkling of a clear spring, if it weren't for the wooden railing in front of him being too real, he would have thought that they were chanting poems in the teahouse.

"Where is this?" asked Xu Ming.

"Three columns of T-shaped cells in the first district of Shangjing Prison. ”

Xu Ming was shocked: "How do you know so clearly? You come often?" Xu Ming instantly had the illusion that the white-faced scholar in front of him was actually a Jiangyang thief.

The man pointed to Xu Ming's back: "That kid told me that he is very familiar with the cell boss here." ”

The brother who slept in a straw hat sat up and yawned a long time: "I slept so comfortably." He raised his eyes and saw Xu Ming: "Yo, are you awake?"

"Do you know me?" Xu Ming asked the unstellar young man in front of him.

"I don't know, but I know how you got in. The boy laughed, and took out a roll of cigarette from under the mat, and two flints from the corner, and lit a cigarette and smoked it.

"I said money boy, can you stop smoking, your smoking affects my reading. When the gentleman saw him light a cigarette, he frowned.

Qian Boy smiled: "When you get to prison, you still read, don't pretend to be Lao Lu, just your three-legged cat kung fu, you will still be a poor talent after ten years of study." ”

"You!" Lu Xiucai wanted to burst into foul language, but thought that this was not in line with the teachings of the sage, so he had to hold his breath and hold it there.

"You scholars are just such inkblots, you can't talk dirty, I said to show you, Lu Xiucai, you are really *******************************. Xu Ming watched in surprise as the money boy said a restrictive non-repetitive swear word to the angry Lu Xiucai.

Lu Xiucai had already stood up and stomped his feet in circles in the cramped cell: "Not a son of man, not a son of man, no one who has no mouth to hide! It's not your fault that you are uneducated, but ......"

Qian Xiaozi hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry I was wrong, don't say it, who can stand it when you talk like chanting scriptures." Lu Xiucai was made out of temper by the money boy, and sat there alone while sulking while reading.

Xu Ming moved to the left again, and he asked Qian boy: "You say you know how I got in?"

Qian Xiaozi swallowed the clouds comfortably: "That's knowing, you are because you disturb public order, and you can go out after two days of detaining you." ”

Xu Ming didn't care much about his charges and when he would be able to get out, he asked Qian boy, "How do you know?"

"I'm a good brother to the cell boss here, and every time I come in, I bring him some good things from big families, and after a long time, I get acquainted with each other, and he gave me this cigarette. Qian Boy shook the cigarette in his hand, and was still a little proud when he said it.

"You come often?" Xu Ming looked at the somewhat thin boy in front of him, and really didn't expect that this would be a bad boy.

"yes, that's what I eat. The boy spoke lightly.

Xu Ming was puzzled: "What do you mean, you deliberately came in to eat prison food?"

Qian Boy shook his head: "This prison meal is so bad to eat, who is willing to eat it." I am specially helping these young people in the capital to take the blame, these young masters often rob the people's daughters, take people's treasures or something, and let me take the blame after being accused of Shangfu Yin. I'm not an adult, the sentence is light, and these young people take good care of me, almost every time I come in for two or three months, and the prison food I eat is also told by the young people, and the food is the same level as the prison head. This place has food and shelter, and you can make money lying down, so why not do it?"

"Money boy, you didn't use the words of the sage like that!" Lu Xiucai suddenly said next door. The money boy smiled, and he didn't show his talent, and smoked by himself.

"And what are you charged with this time?"

"There is an inn at night and forcibly occupies a female disciple in the Valley of Hundred Flowers. The money boy finished his cigarette and exhaled the last pleasant cloud of smoke.

Xu Mingren was stupid: "Does this Nima also have people who believe it?

Qian Xiaozi looked at Xu Ming with a smile: "You don't understand, it doesn't matter if they believe it or not, as long as someone is guilty, and the young people in Beijing let them believe it, they have to believe it." ”

"This is the young people in Shangjing?" Xu Ming panicked instantly, he thought of Guan Chunuan.

"This is Shangjing. The money boy lay down again, holding a grass in his mouth, and whistled.