The dark incense pavilion lives up to the name of "dark incense", the spices used in it are very special, very similar to the quiet plum blossom fragrance, neither strong, and will not get tired after smelling for a long time.

Most of the people who come and go to the Dark Incense Pavilion are literati and, and there are few rough people.

The layout inside is atmospheric and exquisite, and the use of space is unique, and it is clear that the person who designed the Dark Incense Pavilion is a figure of great achievement in architecture.

As he was walking, a young scholar suddenly walked over.

Ji Xiao's heart moved, he was actually an acquaintance.

He really found Ji Xiao, stared at it for a moment, patted his head, and said, "Hey, this is not a ......"

Ji Yu hurriedly walked over and patted the other party's shoulder and said, "Zhu Yicai and Brother Zhu, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's always been good." ”

He whispered, "Call me Liao Ji." ”

Zhu Yicai smiled and said, "Hahaha, Brother Liao Ji, it's been a long time, it's been a long time." ”

He also whispered in his ear: "Give me a new picture of Guanyin to inscribe a poem, I won't expose you." ”

Ji Xiao nodded expressionlessly.

Zhu Yicai was obviously a regular customer here, and said to the little guy who brought Ji Xiao: "This is my friend, what should you do now, just go." ”

The little guy hurriedly nodded and left.

Zhu Yicai put his arm around Ji Xiao's shoulders and said, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, Brother Liao is also from my generation." ”

Ji Xiao said lightly: "I'm here to find someone." ”

Zhu Yicai looked very understanding, and said with a smile: "Everyone here is looking for people, I don't know which girl Brother Liao is looking for." ”

Ji Xiao simply didn't care if he misunderstood or not, and said directly: "Have you heard of Mei Sanniang?"

Zhu Yicai said: "I know, she used to be the most popular person in the Dark Fragrance Pavilion, but she rarely shows up recently." ”

Ji Xiao said: "Do you know who Mei Sanniang's best sister is?"

Zhu Yicai coughed and said, "Brother Liao, you should find another girl." ”

Ji Xiaoqi said: "What's the matter, she's gone?"

"Mei Sanniang's best sister is called Wu Chunniang, and she is my best friend. He was slightly embarrassed.

Ji Xiao smiled and said, "I'm not here to take away your favor, but I have something to ask her, since it's such a coincidence, you can take me to see her." ”

Zhu Yicai said: "I see, let's go, I'll take you there." ”

Zhu Yicai was really familiar with the road, and he didn't stop all the way, so he took Ji Xiao to Wu Chunniang's residence. If Ji Yu came to find it by himself, he could also find it here, but Zhu Yi led the way and introduced him, but there was less trouble.

Wu Chunniang heard Zhu Yicai shouting, and came out, but she was a beautiful woman. However, Zhu Yicai is only in his early twenties, and he is not an old cow eating tender grass.

This girl obviously likes Zhu Yicai very much, and she looks at him with affection. After all, Zhu Yicai is not big or small, he is also a well-known talent, his painting skills are particularly outstanding, and he has not yet been married, and his family has a lot of money, not to mention the Qinglou woman, and many young ladies from large families like him very much.

Zhu Yicai introduced: "Chunniang, this is my friend Liao Ji. ”

"Gongzi Liao is fine. Wu Chunniang said a blessing to Ji Xiaoyingying.

Ji Xiao bowed slightly and said, "Hello Miss Wu." ”

Zhu Yicai said again: "Chunniang, my brother Liao has something to ask you, what do you know, just tell him nothing." ”

Wu Chunniang nodded and said, "Liao Gongzi has something to ask." ”

Ji Xiao said: "I don't know if Mei Sanniang has come to you during the day." ”

Wu Chunniang was a little surprised, she said, "Where did Gongzi Liao come from?"

Ji Xiao said: "My family lives near Lanruo Temple. ”

Lanruo Temple is a well-known ancient temple, and he is naturally not worried that Wu Chunniang has not heard of it.

Wu Chunniang said: "It turns out that the son is the person Sanniang said, and wait a minute." ”

She went back to the back room, and then there was a rustling sound, apparently looking for something. After a while, Wu Chunniang came out with a burden, and she said: "This is Sanniang's gold and silver jewelry, she said that she won't need this thing in the future, and specially taught me to transfer it to you." ”

Ji Xiao knew that this was Mei Sanniang's thank you gift to him, since she asked Wu Chunniang to transfer the things to herself, she obviously expected that she would not be able to come back.

He asked, "When she saw you, was there anything else out of the ordinary?" ”

Wu Chunniang said: "Yes, there was a Taoist priest who followed when she came. After Sanniang gave me the things, after explaining, she followed the Taoist priest and left. ”

She paused slightly, and then added: "I suspected that there was something wrong with the Taoist priest, because I saw that she was very afraid of the Taoist priest, so I asked her quietly, and she just told me not to ask. When I saw her say this, although I had some doubts, I still didn't do much in the end, and now that I think about it, I was still too careless to ask a few more words. “

She had just taken a nap at that time, and she was still a little confused, Mei Sanniang suddenly came to her, came in a hurry, hurried away, and didn't react to many things.

Zhu Yicai said: "Could it be that this Taoist priest is a villain?"

He is quite chivalrous, otherwise he would not be able to make friends with Ji Xiao.

Ji Xiao said: "Not necessarily." He asked Wu Chunniang again: "You and Mei Sanniang met in this room?"

Wu Chunniang recalled: "Exactly, when she came to me, it should have been Shen Shi, just an hour ago. ”

Ji Xiao nodded and said, "You guys wait a while." ”

He closed his eyes, and the smell of all kinds of remnants in the room came to him. A large amount of complicated information poured into his heart, gradually concretizing into one picture after another, and soon he locked on a picture and grabbed a trace of qi.

Ji Xiao opened his eyes and said, "Thank you for telling me, I still have something to do, so I will leave first." ”

Zhu Yicai said: "Brother Liao, you have found out, and I will go with you." ”

Ji Xiao sensed that the qi machine was not far from the city, and did not move for the time being, so he groaned slightly, and said: "You can go with me, but don't mess around, don't be afraid of anything you see." "Zhu Yi has the fate to break into this matter, and Ji Xiao will not hinder him, as for whether he is blessed or not, it depends on his creation.

Zhu Yicai patted his chest and said: "I have always been very bold, do you remember how I fought with those mountain bandits at the beginning?" ”

Ji Xiao said lightly: "In the end, I beat them away." ”

When Wu Chunniang heard this, she couldn't help but smile.

Zhu Yicai snorted and said, "I just want to say that I have a lot of courage." ”

Ji Xiao bowed his head lightly and said, "Don't say more, let's go." ”

Zhu Yicai smiled and said to Wu Chunniang: "I'll go first." ”

Wu Chunniang said "um" and sent them out.

The two left the Dark Fragrance Pavilion, Ji Xiao just walked in the ordinary way, Zhu Yicai was naturally able to follow, and after turning two streets, he saw a wine shop, called "Drunk No Return".

Zhu Yicai said with a smile: "A small wine shop, even dare to call it drunk and not return." ”

Ji Xiao smiled slightly: "The smaller the shop, the more I like to choose an atmospheric name to attract customers." ”

"That makes sense, this is the place we are looking for?" Zhu Yicai asked.

"Exactly, let's go inside. ”

Walking into it, Zhu Yicai couldn't help but cover his nose, this wine shop is a place where the peddlers and pawns gather, the smell is mixed, he is a rich boy in the end, so he can't stand it. It's just that seeing Ji Xiao's expression as usual, he also endured it.

It's a small shop, and when you go inside, there's no bartender to greet you warmly.

Ji Xiao glanced inside, his eyes fell on a remote table, at this time a drunken Taoist priest was being scolded by a young man, it seems that he is the only bartender in this wine shop, maybe he will have to work part-time as a shopkeeper, because he looked at the counter, and there was no one.

"You bull nose who kills a thousand knives, you have to settle the wine money for the past few days if you say anything, otherwise you don't want to leave. The bartender scolded the Taoist priest incessantly, and the words behind him were difficult to sound, obviously to spill out his grievances.

The Taoist priest had a beard on his face, and he couldn't tell his age, but he just let the other party scold.

The bartender was tired of scolding, so he said, "You should give a word." ”

The Taoist priest laughed and said, "If you give me another sip of wine, you can take everything you can see on me." ”

The bartender snorted and said, "Your tattered clothes aren't worth a few dollars." ”

He rolled his eyes, looked at the Taoist priest's vermilion wine gourd again, and he grabbed it and said, "This is a bit valuable." ”

The Taoist priest said: "I can't give it to you like this." ”

Seeing that he cared about the wine gourd, the bartender became more and more convinced that the wine gourd was valuable, and he said: "If you don't settle the bill, you have to take something to pay off the debt, even if you meet the official, this is the truth." ”

Zhu Yicai walked over at this time and said, "How much money he owes for wine, I'll give it for him, don't abuse people." ”

The bartender saw that Zhu Yicai was dressed in a gorgeous costume, neatly and cleanly, and hurriedly smiled: "This master, you are a superior person at first glance, but you don't care about this stinky Taoist priest, last time there was also a master who settled an account for him, and he asked the family to settle the wine account for him for three days in a row." After that, the master never came again. Speaking of which, this Taoist priest is actually our regular customer, I look at him pitiful, and then he gave him a few days of wine money, but he doesn't know what to do at all, the day before yesterday came to drink on credit, yesterday came to drink on credit, and today is back, I also have a cost to open a store, where can I always give him credit, so today can no longer be credited to him, and he has to let him pay back. Everything I said is true, and you should know who he is by now, and if you settle the account for him, he will rely on you. ”

Zhu Yicai couldn't help but hesitate a little, he glanced at the Taoist priest again, and saw that he was in rags, his beard was unkempt, and he was strange and pitiful, and his compassion attacked, so he took out a piece of silver and said, "Forget it, I'll settle the wine account for him this time." ”

The Taoist priest looked happy and said, "Childe, what a good person, thank you, thank you." ”

He said to the bartender, "Get me a drink." ”

The bartender shook his head and said, "Cheap you stinky Taoist." ”

He took the money and went to fetch another jug of wine.

The Taoist priest had already asked Zhu Yicai and Ji Xiao to sit down together.

He claimed to be surnamed Zhang and had no fixed residence. Zhu Yicai also introduced himself and Ji Xiao.

The Taoist priest was a self-cooked, and when the bartender served the wine, he pulled them to chat. Only then did Zhu Yi realize that this Taoist priest actually had good knowledge, and the articles were classic, all of which were easy to come by.

If he changed into a clean scribe's attire, he thought that the other party was a well-educated Confucian.

There are some topics that Zhu Yicai can't keep up with.

However, no matter what topic the Taoist priest talks about, it is difficult for Ji Xiao. Zhu Yicai nodded secretly, thinking that if Master Yu was not a monk, but went to the imperial examination, he would definitely be able to enter the scholar and rank.

It's a pity, it's a pity, he shook his head secretly.

Although Ji Xiao had already decided that the Taoist priest was the person he was going to find, he was not in a hurry, after all, he already knew that Mei Sanniang was fine for the time being, so he was ready to see where the Taoist priest came from, and he was also ready to plan a chance for Zhu Yicai.