Chapter 50: Qingyang City
With Chang Xi's guards all the time, there is nothing to do all night.
With the dappled light and shadow sprinkled into the forest in the morning light, Chang Xi and Xin Tong walked quickly through the dense forest, and the dull sound of stepping on the branches came and went, attracting many creatures in the forest who got up early to forage for food.
More than half of the journey, it is only more than 300 miles away from Qingyang City. Walking through the high places of the forest, the two of them could already faintly feel the density of the trees thinning as they moved forward.
After walking more than 100 miles, you can already see a spacious official road winding in the forest, and a team of carriages on the official road is moving forward slowly. The horseback guards on both sides of the convoy were shocked to gasp when they saw the ghostly figures of ten feet sweeping out of the forest without touching their feet. Before they could come to their senses, the two figures were gone.
"Sect Leader Wang, what's the situation, what's the strength of a group of people gasping blindly?"
In a luxurious carriage with four-cornered cornices in the center of the convoy, a slightly cold man's voice sounded after a woman's coquettish smile and a sigh of forgiveness.
Among the convoy guards, a man dressed in chain mail was obviously a little more complicated than others, his face turned pale, he pulled the reins, drove the horse half a section behind the luxurious carriage, bowed his waist and whispered next to the bead curtain on the side of the carriage: "Second master, there are only two people who should be masters of the rivers and lakes who have swept the convoy from a high place, and a few young men under him have never seen the world, and they have disturbed the second master by sound, and they will be severely punished when they go back." ”
"Masters of the rivers and lakes, men and women?" the cold man asked nonchalantly.
Wang Jiaotou pondered for a moment and said with some uncertainty: "It should be a man and a woman, one of them is dressed in a white thing like a white fox, I think it should be a woman." However, the two of them were very fast, and they only saw it for a moment, so it was hard to be sure. ”
As if to be interested, a gloomy laughter sounded in the carriage: "Woman, still a master, then I want to see what kind of desperate expression the fairy couple who walks with her if such a woman is pressed under me?"
As soon as the man's voice fell, the woman's coquettish laughter in the carriage stopped abruptly, as if her lips and teeth were blocked by something, and only the dull panting and snorting remained. Without concealing the sound of the waves crashing on the shore between the lips, the young guards on both sides of the convoy all lowered their heads when they heard this red-faced sound, and they didn't even dare to gasp.
The sound of the tide in the carriage was endless, and Wang Jiaotou, who was on the side, quietly clenched his fists, and his heart was desolate. Before the death of the big boss, how could the second master be as depraved as he is now? The big boss has only passed away for less than a month, but there is no one in the family who can check and balance one or two.
In the past, although the second master was a little lustful, he did not act excessively. But now it's only a month's work, and the second master, who lacks the discipline of the big boss, has already been eroded by lust. If he continues like this, how far can the second master be from becoming a wasted person? But how can he be just a small sect leader under the second master of the Lin family, even if he is unwilling, what can he do? Do he want to be abandoned in the wilderness or take money to support his family? He has only one way to go.
"You know what to do, right?"
Wang Jiaotou's tightly pursed lips loosened weakly, and the hands that were holding the reins were no longer contaminated with many unwashed karma, and they pulled back sharply.
"It's... Second master. ”
Chang Xi naturally didn't know that he had been involved in the whirlpool of the Lin family before he entered the city, and at this time, the two of them had already left this dense forest that stretched for hundreds of miles and blended into the crowd in front of the gate of Qingyang City. In order not to reveal their identities early, Chang Xi and Xin Tong changed into the common chivalrous clothes in the world before leaving, and in the crowd waiting in line to enter the city, there were not 1,000 but 800 people dressed like this, which would not attract the attention of others.
As the slowly moving stream of people passed through the city pass, a shadow cast a shadow from the pitch-black dome in the long corridor under the city pass. In a trance, Chang Xi seemed to have returned to the scene where he went to Huizhou City for the first time after his father. In the memory, his father's broad shoulders flashed away, pulling Chang Xi's distant thoughts back to reality. Chang Xi looked at Xin Tong, who was full of nervousness behind him, and let go of his clenched fist at some point.
"I used to be fearless alone, but now I am in a messed up mood and deserve to be scolded by my father. Chang Xi shook his head self-deprecatingly, and then strode forward, pushing aside the suddenly bright sunlight in front of him, and straightened his waist.
Qingyang City, Lin Mansion.
"I said sister-in-law, please mourn the pain of bereavement. It's just that there are several excellent wine shops and gambling houses under the name of the first master, but I heard that it is not enough to make ends meet every day, and our Lin family can't withstand your toss even if it is a big business. I and my younger siblings sincerely want to help your sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law doesn't open the door with a face?"
In front of a secluded and elegant courtyard in the Lin Mansion, several richly dressed women clasped the courtyard door. The women's mouths shouted "sister-in-law is long, sister-in-law is short" is very cordial, but the meaning of estrangement in words is very obvious. Before the bones of a master were cold, he was going to go to the door to plot the family property, and the vicious intentions of these women were cold.
"Get out of here, it's not a good thing to look at you guys before, if you disturb Miss, don't think that my Lao Li doesn't dare to beat women!"
The woman who was holding the door saw the knocker in her hand pull violently, screaming an ugly cry like a duck's crook, and the whole person threw herself into the door uncontrollably, falling to the ground. A few guards with thick shoulders and round waists walked out of the wide open courtyard gate, and the burly man who walked in front stared at the big eyes of the copper bell, and shouted loudly at several trembling women.
Several timid women could not care about the "sister" who fell to the ground, and they screamed and cursed and fled from the yard with their skirts in embarrassment. The woman who fell to the ground burst into tears under the burly man's angry gaze, and her face was as thick as the fat powder of the city wall, and in an instant it became an ugly mess. His face was bruised, red, and green, as if he had opened a dye shop on that face.
Watching the women flee from the courtyard in a hurry, the fierceness on Lao Li's face could no longer be suppressed, revealing unbearable pain, Pu Fan's big palms covered his chest and leaned against the door frame and slowly slid to the ground, followed by several loyal guards who hurriedly hugged him.
"Brother Li, Brother Li!"
Hearing the noisy sound outside the courtyard gate, a figure of a maid dressed in green clothes leaned out of the inner room. When she saw the man sitting on the ground slowly holding his chest, she couldn't help but scream. Without waiting for the voice of the maid in green clothes to fall, a hurried sound suddenly sounded in the inner room, and a delicate woman who was no more than two years old rushed out of the house, and when she saw the scene in front of her, her face turned white, and she hurriedly ran to the courtyard door.
Lao Li looked at the delicate woman and the maid in cuiyi who were full of anxiety in front of him, felt that his face was burning badly, took a deep breath, and waved his hand to cover the bruises on his chest with his clothes the size of a sea bowl without a trace: "Miss, Xiao Yu'er, don't worry." It's just an old injury left from the previous work with those Lin family cubs, it's not in the way, just rest for a while. ”
Xiao Yu'er on the side was already crying: "Those people are so ruthless, they are so dead, don't they want to kill people?"
Xin Wu noticed the movement of Lao Li's hand trying to cover the scar on his chest, and ripped it open. Seeing the shocking scar, my heart felt like I was being torn by a knife. Uncle Li has watched her grow up since she was a child, and she is better than a relative if she is not a relative. This time he married away in Qingyang City, Uncle Li couldn't rest assured, he was afraid that there was no one around her to call her with confidence, and he was even more afraid that she would suffer and be bullied by her in-laws. did not hesitate to give up his high position in his family and marry her to the Lin family, but he never thought that he would fall into such a situation.
With the support of Xin Wu, Lao Li stood up stiffly, but he thought of the kid he met before for no reason, and couldn't help but sigh: "If the little brother Chang was here before, with his skills, the Lin family would never dare to be so presumptuous." ”
Thinking of this familiar name, Xin Wu suddenly felt uneasy. The free and easy figure that had saved them from under the Ghost Tooth Village with the strength of one person seemed to be as clear as yesterday, and he had never forgotten it, and only whispered in a voice that he could hear.
"Chang Xi... It would be nice to see each other again..."