Chapter 18 Extraneous Branches

From ancient times to the present, death has been a very taboo thing, so this small shop specializing in funeral supplies is not only very small, but also squeezed into the corner. The nearby shops are far away, so it is very clean.

"I'm looking for your shopkeeper. As soon as the girl entered, she hurried through.

The shopkeeper didn't look very old, looked up at her, and said expressionlessly: "The shopkeeper is not here, and you can tell the little one the same if there is something." After speaking, he took the feather duster and patted it, and there was no warm greeting at all.

The girl didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so she threw a token-like thing directly on the counter, and said in an accentuated tone: "I'm looking for your shopkeeper!"

Shopkeeper frowned, seemingly dissatisfied with her yelling, but still picked up the token. Who knew that as soon as he glanced at it, he raised his eyebrows, and then approached to carefully identify it, as if he had determined the authenticity of the token, and immediately changed it to a respectful expression, and said: "Dare to ask the guest official's surname?

"Su!" the girl knocked on the counter and said impatiently, "Don't ask, I'll look for Zheng Tianling." ”

The name was thrown out and had an immediate effect, the shopkeeper really didn't ask again, threw down the feather duster in his hand and hurriedly walked to the door of the store, looked at it to see that no one noticed here, and quickly hung a sign at the door of the store that was closed, and then closed the door of the store, walked up to the girl and saluted respectfully, and said, "Please come with me!"

The girl nodded, grabbed the token and followed.

The shopkeeper led her into the inner hall, walked through the patio, came to a door, stretched out his hand to open the door, and said, "Please!"

As soon as the girl entered the door, she said, "Third brother, the situation has changed, we can't wait any longer, we must leave immediately." ”

"The third brother is not here, Brother Zheng is here!" a lazy voice responded.

The girl glanced at the room, and sure enough, she didn't see Tang Qianzhi's shadow, only Zheng Tianling, who was leaning on the recliner and yawning.

This girl was Tang Zixi in disguise, and frowned when she heard this: "Where did you go?" Didn't you say that you were waiting for me here?" Seeing that the other party didn't wake up, he suddenly became angry and complained, "Why don't you stop him?"

"You went for an hour and didn't come back, and he couldn't sit still and went out to find you. He's such a big living person, can I still tie it up?" Zheng Tianling wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, casually touched a candied fruit from the silver plate and threw it into his mouth, and muttered vaguely, "It's really more conscienceless than the other, I haven't heard a word of thanks after working all night." ”

Tang Zixi didn't care about arguing with him, and said hurriedly: "How long have you been gone?"

Zheng Tianling sniffed and said in an urn voice, "I didn't say this." Before he finished speaking, he said with a look of surprise, "Could it be that he doesn't know where you have been?"

"What do you say!" Tang Zixi glared at him fiercely, and turned around and left without saying a word. She didn't worry about anything else, she was afraid that Tang Qianzhi would collide with the emperor, and it would be really bad.

"Hey, wait a minute. Zheng Tianling obviously also noticed that something was wrong, jumped up from the recliner, and said, "I'll go with you." After walking a few steps, he stopped, grabbed a large handful of candied fruit, and hurried to follow.

"Something happened to the young helper!" Tang Zixi almost collided with a person as soon as he stepped out of the door, it was the shopkeeper who led the way.

"You just had an accident!" Zheng Tianling glared.

"Yes, yes, I have an accident!" The shopkeeper didn't care about apologizing, and said with a worried face: "Suddenly, a lot of officials came, and they were searching from door to door, so they came to us soon." ”

"What the hell is going on?" Zheng Tianling grabbed Tang Zixi, who was about to rush out, and frowned, "Why did you suddenly start searching? Could it be that we were hiding here and were discovered?"

"I don't know!" shopkeeper shook his head and said, "My subordinates heard a sentence or two from afar, as if they were catching assassins!"

"Assassins?"

"Assassin!"

The two voices sounded almost at the same time, the difference was that Zheng Tianling had a suspicious tone, and Tang Zixi exclaimed.

Zheng Tianling glanced at the girl whose face changed suddenly, and asked, "Do you know this?"

"It must be my third brother!" Tang Zixi saw the other party's puzzled expression, and explained briefly, "I just saw the emperor, and that Gonggong Wu, who has a high martial arts skill, is with him." Oh no, third brother!"

"The emperor is out of the palace?" Zheng Tianling also panicked, how much the Tang family brothers and sisters hated that emperor He could think of it with his toes, but he didn't expect that Tang Sangongzi's martial arts were mediocre, but his courage was greater than the sky, and he dared to assassinate the emperor single-handedly. This is Kyoto, and the emperor can rush out of thousands of troops with a casual shout, and just one person will drown people with a mouthful of spit. Tang Qianzhi ran to assassinate the hungry dog into the thatched house - looking for (death)?

According to the previous plan, after Tang Zixi finished the extremely important thing in her mouth, Zheng Tianling took them out of the city, as long as the two brothers and sisters were successfully sent out of the city, he would be considered to have fulfilled his promise and be able to give Su Jing an explanation. But if Tang Qianzhi really ran to assassinate and was caught by the emperor, or even killed, wouldn't his deal with Su Jing be ruined?

Zheng Shao, who has always been witty and changeable, was also a little dumbfounded.

"What should I do, what should I do?" Tang Zixi was so anxious that tears came down, and he kept turning in circles in place, and the fear in his heart poured out like a flood.

People are so strange, in despair, both their minds and their courage will become surprisingly big, and that kind of fearless spirit makes him feel that everything is an ant, even in the face of thousands of troops, he dares to break through. But when there was suddenly a glimmer of hope in his heart, all his courage and courage would quickly shrink and even disappear, until he became timid.

Tang Zixi had always thought that she was the only one left in this world, and all she wanted was to come back for revenge. I don't care about life and death. Before being attacked at the city gate, He Bi, who answered her, was killed by a killer who suddenly appeared, and the horseman took her to fight to the death, the whole process was extremely tragic, and she did not have the slightest fear when the other party's long knife passed by several times, but there was a faint expectation. It wasn't until she saw Su Jing later that the other party told her that Tang Qianzhi was still alive, and at that moment she suddenly had the belief that she wanted to continue to live, and even had a trace of gratitude to God in her heart, leaving a trace of blood for the Tang family. But now, all hope has been dashed. The flame of survival that ignited in her heart, the glimmer of hope for her future life, was extinguished in this moment. If Tang Qianzhi is also dead, then there is no meaning for her life......

At this moment, countless thoughts turned in Tang Zixi's mind, and at the end they all converged into one sentence: You must save him!

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, her long eyelashes fluttering, and she kept telling herself to be calm. After a while, he opened his eyes again and became unusually calm, and said in a deep voice: "Is there a back door or a secret passage?"

"Yes!" the shopkeeper pointed in one direction, "There's a dog hole over there that leads to the street in the back." ”

"What?dog hole?" Zheng Tianling immediately vetoed, "No, I won't drill a dog hole if I kill me." Is there any other choice?"

The shopkeeper said with some embarrassment: "Yes, there is, but it takes a lot of effort." Before he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, and a angry voice shouted, "Open the door!"

The three people in the patio were stunned at the same time, and Tang Zixi was the first to react and urge: "There is no time, lead the way!"

The shopkeeper nodded and turned his head to leave, the target was the barren little vegetable garden in the corner. He walked to the corner of the vegetable garden, and pushed open the knee-deep grass to reveal a dark hole, in which a faint glimmer of light could be seen, and it was obvious that the distance between the dog hole was not short.

He was about to turn around to say hello, only to feel that Tang Zixi had already taken the lead in getting into the dog hole, and crawled forward with his hands and feet.

At this point, the knock on the door had already taken on the smell of gunpowder and turned into a knocking sound on the door.

The shopkeeper looked at Zheng Tianling with a black face, and said cautiously: "Young Gang Master!"

Zheng Tianling pointed at him and gritted his teeth and said, "If you let the fourth person know, I have to kill you!"

"Yes, yes, yes! The subordinates absolutely did not dare to divulge half a sentence. The shopkeeper nodded hurriedly, and saw that the other party got into it with a hem of his clothes, so he hurriedly lowered his head and followed.

As soon as the three of them entered, the door of the shop was slammed open, and a group of wolf-like servants broke in.

"Your Excellency!" the sharp-eyed officer spotted the dog hole.

After the half-pillar of incense, the dusty trio appeared in an alley full of garbage, and the whole alley was empty except for the flies and insects flying in the sky, giving people a strange feeling of noise and silence.

"Oh my God!" Zheng Tianling let out a wail after just one glance, and said viciously to the shopkeeper, "Xiao Zhanjie, are you taking revenge?"

The shopkeeper pursed his lips when he heard this, secretly pointed to the girl who was walking forward, and said loudly: "Passing through this alley is the largest vegetable market in the vicinity, where there are many fish and dragons, as long as we blend in with the crowd, I believe those officials will never find us." After speaking, he quickly followed, looking like he couldn't avoid him, obviously afraid that Zheng Tianling would turn his face and beat him.

Zheng Tianling raised his head to look at the blue sky, and found that the sky was surprisingly clean, which finally brought a little comfort to his tormented heart.

The narrow turning was like a floodgate, and as soon as the three of them turned the corner, a noise rushed towards them, shouting, scolding, and arguing, and the heads of the three were dizzy at the same time.

"Wait a minute!" Zheng Tianling grabbed Tang Zixi, who was about to walk forward, and pointed to a certain place, "There is a problem with those two people." ”

Tang Zixi looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a chicken vendor bargaining with a man who looked like a customer, everything looked normal, and he couldn't help but glance at him suspiciously.