Liang Ying, the king of Jin, drank the cold wine as water cup after cup, and drank more than a dozen glasses in a row, and when the wine pot was about to bottom, the wrist of his wine pot was pinched by Zhang Ziyi of the Zhu Kingdom.

Zhang Ziyi smiled softly and said: "Since His Royal Highness can't decide, the old man will retire first, the night breeze is cold, and my old bones can't stand the cold, so I won't accompany His Royal Highness the King of Jin." ”

Liang Ying, the king of Jin, gently put down the wine jug, waved his hand in the direction behind him, and the maid standing in the dark quietly retreated.

Zhang Ziyi patted her son's shoulder and said, "Go ahead, I'll have a few private words with Your Highness." ”

Zhang Jingyue got up and walked towards the corner of the dim garden.

In the following time, Liang Ying, the king of Jin, chatted with Zhang Ziyi of Zhuguo about some things, as for what the content was, except for the parties involved, only God knows.

Afterwards, on the way back to the house with his son Zhang Jingyue, Zhang Ziyi bumped into someone from the Emperor's City, and the emperor naturally knew about the private meeting of Liang Ying, the king of Jin.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it.

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It is said that after the Meng Mansion and his party stayed in Tongli Ancient Town, they first ate and drank, and after they were full of wine and food, Meng Ran proposed to go out to have a look, and by the way, they would consume food.

The rest of the people had nothing to do, and followed Meng Ran out of the inn together.

Everyone entered the town at the end of the Shen period, and it was already more than half of the hour when they went out on the street again, thinking that they would see a quiet town that was about to fall asleep, but they never thought that the number of pedestrians on the street would increase instead of decreasing.

It's just that the people on the street look like some outsiders who are dusty, and most of them are young people, and they all come to participate in the Jijia competition to recruit sons-in-law.

The Meng Mansion group is particularly eye-catching among the pedestrians on the street, because of the large number of people, the older ones are too old, and the small ones are too small, which is incompatible with the mainstream crowd on the street.

A group of people walked around the town and watched it, passing by the green building with red lanterns hanging high, the restaurant full of friends, and the tea house with low talk, and saw more than a few figures.

At the end of the unitary time, the Meng Mansion group was already a little tired, and planned to return to the inn to rest.

The five of them talked and laughed and walked in the direction of the inn.

The most talkative is naturally Meng Ran, who has never seen much of the world, he asks east and west, and the guide points to the north, and he looks like a countryman.

As he was walking, Geng Huyuan suddenly smiled in his eyes, and gently bumped the swordsman surnamed Lin with his elbow, who was talking to Meng Ran.

The swordsman surnamed Lin continued to talk, and his eyes had already noticed a figure in front of him.

Although there were a lot of people here, the street was quite spacious enough to accommodate two carriages walking side by side at the same time, but the figure on the opposite side was heading straight towards Meng Ran, obviously with ulterior motives.

Meng Ran's clothes were not luxurious, but he had a delicate coat hanging around his waist, and he thought that the figure was coming towards Meng Ran's coat.

The swordsman surnamed Lin, who knew all this, gave Geng Huyuan a look, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, thinking that he was planning to tease this little thief.

The little thief took a few steps forward, and was already in front of Meng Ran, and kept shouting: "Give way, let go." ”

As he spoke, the movements on his feet did not stop, and the little thief reached out to separate the swordsman surnamed Lin from Meng Ran, and at the same time, his right hand quickly touched the blanket on Meng Ran's waist.

Together, these movements work together seamlessly.

It's a pity that the little thief met the Meng Mansion and his party.

When the little thief passed by Meng Ran, he only felt that his right hand touched an empty space, and then his left arm was grabbed.

Naturally, the little thief was the swordsman surnamed Lin, he smiled slightly, and said, "This friend, be careful when walking, don't fall on your heels." ”

The little thief shook off the hand of the swordsman surnamed Lin, and said in a stiff tone: "Foreigner, let go of my hand, be careful that I am not polite to you." ”

At this time, Meng Ran also understood, grabbed the little thief's right arm, and asked coldly: "The road is so wide, why do you have to pass by me?"

The little thief was not afraid, and reprimanded angrily: "You guys, you are so bold, you can live wherever you want, what do you want to do?

When the swordsman surnamed Lin heard such a tough answer, he didn't get angry, but just stepped on the little thief's feet quietly, with a slight force.

Immediately, a pig-killing cry sounded in the streets.

The little thief shouted hoarsely, begging for a detour: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I have something at home, and I accidentally bumped into a few friends, please forgive me and spare me." ”

Although the little thief was begging for mercy, his eyes kept rolling, and there was still a hint of fierceness in his eyes, so he was naturally thinking about revenge.

The swordsman surnamed Lin was not afraid of the little thief's calculations, laughed lightly, and said, "Then you have to be more careful in the future, after all, there are not many people who are as good at talking as me." ”

After finishing speaking, the swordsman surnamed Lin had already let go of the little thief's hand.

Seeing this, Meng Ran also let go of the little thief's right hand very casually.

The little thief was stunned for a moment, and a little happy, and then a trace of cruelty flashed in his eyes, and he hugged the swordsman surnamed Lin with a punch, and soon disappeared into the crowd.

After the little thief walked away, Meng Ran casually touched his waist, and found that the blanket that was still there just now had disappeared, and hurriedly said: "My blanket is gone, it must have been done by the little thief just now, let's chase it." ”

The swordsman surnamed Lin smiled slightly, and handed the blanket hidden behind him to Meng Ran.

Meng Ran was surprised and delighted, and said, "How did Senior Lin do it?

The swordsman surnamed Lin just smiled and didn't answer.

At this moment, Geng Huyuan, who had not spoken, suddenly asked, "What are the gains?"

Meng Ran and the swordsman surnamed Lin were both stunned, and said in unison: "What else can you gain besides the breath of a thief?"

Geng Huyuan looked at Hua Rong behind Meng Ran with a smile.

Hua Rong smiled awkwardly, took out a not very fresh blanket from behind him, and said, "Sure enough, I can't hide it from Senior Geng." ”

Seeing the blanket in Hua Rong's hand, Meng Ran was straightforward, "Senior Hua is very capable, but that little thief didn't notice it." ”

It turned out that when Meng Ran and the swordsman surnamed Lin caught the little thief, Hua Rong stretched out his flexible and clever hands and untied the belt around the thief's waist, and the whole process was silent, so that the experienced little thief could not steal chickens and rice.

Meng Ran took the thief's blanket and pinched it in his hand a few times, only to feel that there was a hard thing and a few copper plates in the blanket.

Filled with curiosity, Meng Ran opened the blanket and poured out a token and a tinkling copper plate.

The eyes of the five of them skimmed over the copper plate and stared at the token in unison.

I saw that the whole body of the token was purple, and the pattern of clouds was carved on the side of the five people, and the words 'Sun Yiming, the general flag of the Shadow Guard', were written in the center of the token.

Meng Ran still had to observe carefully, the token had already been taken away by Geng Huyuan.

Geng Huyuan said in a deep voice: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's leave quickly, if it is late, I am afraid that we will get into trouble." ”

Although Meng Ran didn't understand Geng Huyuan's intentions, he was also very obedient and threw away the empty blanket and walked forward quickly.

Then the five of them hurriedly walked in the direction of the inn.

When Meng Fu and his party came to the intersection north of the inn, more than a dozen people suddenly jumped out of the street and surrounded Meng Ran and the others.

The first one had a goatee, and next to him was the little thief Meng Ran and they let go.

The little thief whispered a few times in Goatee's ear, and Goatee looked at Meng Ran and the others with a gleam in his eyes, like a beast in the mountains and forests looking at a docile domestic animal.

The swordsman surnamed Lin took a step forward lightly, and asked in a casual tone, "I don't know what a few friends want?"

The goatee touched the long beard under his chin, and said slowly: "My brother said that you robbed him of his coat, and there is an ancestral jade pendant in the jacket, which is worth a fortune.

In the past, you relied on the strength of the crowd to bully my brothers, but now that the brothers have come, they naturally want to seek justice. ”

The swordsman surnamed Lin smiled and said lightly: "We haven't seen any blankets, nor have we seen jade pendants, nor have we seen your brothers. ”

At this time, the passers-by retreated, leaving a huge open space.

Those who were weak and timid stayed away from the streets, while those who felt that they were strong in martial arts and had more companions watched from a distance or close.

Goatee's face sank, and he said coldly: "That kid, do you think that your third master is entertaining you?

The goatee turned around and glanced at the little thief, and said calmly: "Little Liuzi, tell me what happened to you about throwing your blanket, and the third master will call the shots for you." ”

Xiao Liuzi snorted and said with a look of resentment: "It was these outsiders who stole my blanket. I was in a hurry to get home, and I didn't pay much attention to the pedestrians on the street, and I collided with the saber, and later found that the blanket hanging from my waist was gone, not to mention the ancestral jade pendant in the jacket.

The jade pendant was left by my grandfather, and it was worth hundreds of taels of silver, and now it was stolen by these people, and I begged the third master to be the master of the little one. ”

Xiao Liuzi said indignantly, and bent down to the goatee, looking very aggrieved and heartbroken.

Hearing this nonsense, Meng Ran and his entourage all had ugly faces, they were kind enough to let go of this little thief who wanted to steal, but they didn't expect to be bitten back, saying that they were the bitter masters who lost their objects, and framed Meng Ran and others as the thieves who did not enter the stream.

The goatee narrowed his eyes and shouted at the swordsman surnamed Lin: "Seeing that you are dressed decently, you can do such a contrived thing, it really makes the third master and I look down on it."

If you happily hand over the little sixth son's coat, I will not blame the third master in the past, but if you deliberately cause trouble for me, then don't blame the third master for not being merciful. ”

The swordsman surnamed Lin replied with a smile: "We haven't seen this little sixth son, so naturally we haven't seen any blankets. ”

Goatee snorted coldly and reprimanded: "Don't toast and don't eat and drink, do you know where this is? This is Tongli Ancient Town, and it is not your turn to be presumptuous." ”

The smile on the face of the swordsman surnamed Lin was even stronger, and he said lightly: "What about Tongli Ancient Town? I really want to weigh your skills, don't look down on it." ”