"Old liar, why did you change your outfit today?"

A young man with thin eyebrows in a gray-white cloth robe squatted on the stone steps beside him, tied in a ponytail, rubbing his hands in front of his mouth, and exhaling hot breath from time to time.

There was only one person beside the young man, and an old Taoist priest was sitting on a stool not far away, and it was obvious that he was the old liar that the young man was talking about.

"Hey, how about that offer I told you last time?"

An old Taoist priest on the side is not annoyed by being called a liar, there is no movement at all, the old god with half-closed eyes sits firmly in front of a wooden case, there is a banner hanging on the side of the wooden case, the old Taoist priest is thinly dressed, if it is not for the trembling from time to time, it may be regarded as a master of the Tao, the blood is long, and he does not refuse this severe cold.

"Old liar, you, you are so good, or ...... Do the math for me?"

The young man was obviously very familiar with the old Taoist, and he reached out to play with a few ancient coins of unknown age that the old Taoist priest had placed in front of the case.

"Smack!"

Lao Dao was not polite at all, and a hand reached out of his sleeve to hit the young man, looking at the ruthlessness of the hand, those who didn't know thought it was an enemy.

"Hey, old thing, isn't it just a broken copper coin? I can't even buy a steamed bun, it's rare. ”

The young man retracted his hand, and several red fingerprints appeared on his hand, obviously painfully beaten, like a fried tiger, glaring angrily at the old man.

The old man's beard trembled slightly, and naturally he closed his eyes and did not argue with this young man.

The old Taoist priest didn't pay attention to the young man's self-talk, and the handsome young man on the side scolded for a while, and his hand was still a little swollen.

He rubbed his face with a somewhat painful hand, his face was a little hot, and when he saw that the Taoist priest ignored him, he probably felt bored, so he stopped talking, and just craned his neck and looked at the street.

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In the morning, Li Lichuan was woken up by the sound in the room, and drank some wine yesterday, this good wine is really not comparable to the turbid wine in the town under the Qingcheng Mountain.

"What are you doing?"

Li Lichuan saw that the little girl had already gotten up, and she was still wearing the patched and somewhat wide old clothes.

"Ah......" The little girl brought by Li Lichuan was startled, like a rabbit that was caught red-handed when stealing food, and froze at the table.

Li Lichuan glanced at his body, the quilt on the bed was pressed on him at some point, it should have been made by this little girl.

"Are you sick, do you still have a fever?"

"Good...... It's better......" The little girl turned around in a panic, holding a towel in her hand, raised her head and glanced at the little Taoist priest in front of her, and saw Li Lichuan sitting on the cabinet looking at her, looking at each other, the little girl's neck shrank, and she quickly lowered her head, as if there was some treasure on the ground.

Li Lichuan saw that the little girl's lips were still a little white, but they were much better than yesterday, and he wanted to find a time to send her back, it was not a problem to always take a little girl with her, people walking in the rivers and lakes were naturally more comfortable alone, not to mention that something might happen one day.

......

"I'll send you back to the village in a few days, and the dragon lord in that village is gone. Li Lichuan pinched his nose and reluctantly called the python who didn't know how long he had lived to be the dragon king.

After touching the smooth chin that had just been shaved for a few days, he lifted the quilt that was pressed on his lap and jumped off the cabinet as soon as he turned over.

"The medicine is going to be decoctioned and drunk, pay a little more attention to it in the last few days, I still have some silver, it should be enough for you to use it for some time. ”

After speaking, Li Lichuan took out the only remaining four taels of silver from his arms and walked towards the little girl, leaned over and grabbed one of the little girl's hands, and put the silver on it.

Don't wait for Li Lichuan to say anything more.

"Smack......

The towel fell to the ground, and then the silver was not caught, and a few pieces of silver rolled to the ground.

The little girl squatted down in a hurry, picked up a grain and put it in her left hand, but her left hand shook tightly, and she was trembling, and the silver she had just picked up slipped from her nails, but it was more and more messy, as if she couldn't finish picking it up, and finally the little girl stopped picking it up, and raised her head, pear blossoms brought rain, and large tears were left from her eyes, hitting the wooden floor and making a clicking sound.

"Brother Daoist...... You...... Are you going to drive Jiu'er away?"

Li Lichuan was completely stunned, he never expected to react so much when he was ready to send the little girl back, and sighed.

"There are many rights and wrongs in this rivers and lakes, one day I accidentally fell on a person's back, I almost fought with someone yesterday, it is really inconvenient to take you, you go back to the village and have no worries about your life, but I may be the next day. ”

The little girl covered her mouth with her hands, buried her head down, and shrugged her shoulders, obviously sadly tight.

Where did Li Lichuan see such a scene, as the saying goes, women are made of water, naturally it is not unreasonable, this cry, Li Lichuan was confused, and he no longer looked at the sad little girl who was crying and pushed the door and walked out.

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An inconspicuous mansion in the east of Jincheng City, this house was originally the mansion of a lord in the court, it is said that the official was once from the fourth grade, you must know that the Shu country is not big, the officials above the third grade are so many, and the number is counted, but many years ago, it is said that it was offended by a big man, which led to the fall of the family, and then the person's official seal was lost, and the house of the family was also sold, and it was out of this rich Jincheng.

The house in Jincheng is expensive, it is not an exaggeration to say that every inch of land is gold, the army of Chu has not stepped into this city, it is enough to show that the nearly 10,000 taels of silver spent on this is not a loss, the same price, in Jiangcheng, is enough to buy a house three times the place, after this house was bought, the neighbors have not seen the owner who bought this house, at the beginning there were people talking, but after a long time people are accustomed to it, no matter who he lives here, with me, what does it have to do with it?

People always do that, don't they?

At this time, it was the middle of the night, and the third watch was on the day.

A sneaky figure touched the door of the house in the shadows of the alley, looked up, and thought that no one was looking, so he walked up the steps and knocked on the heavy wooden door.

The sneaky man leaned against the door and didn't know what to say, and in a short time the door that had been closed for many years was opened through a crack, and the figure leaned sideways into the door, and the door was closed again, as if the door had always been like this, like a deserted mansion left here.

"Master, the people brought it. An old servant led a sound shadow wrapped in a wide robe to a house in the middle of the house, and knocked softly on the door.

"Come in. ”

The gray-robed man flashed in, and the old servant outside the door closed the door and retreated.

Sitting in the center was a short, thin man, with a small beard, black hair, and a brush, who didn't know what he was writing, and he didn't even change the slightest change in the gray-robed man's movements, but continued to write on the desk.

When the gray-robed man came in, he saw that the short, thin man ignored him, and he looked for a place to sit down, but for some reason dragged his seat towards the door, a little further away from the short, thin man.

......

"Why don't you come and see what I'm writing?"

"Senior brother, I still want to run more places, I haven't gotten tired of this river and lake. ”

The short, thin man paused for a moment with the brush he was holding, and a large puddle of ink dripped from the paper, and finally he raised his head, his eyes flashing slightly.

"I am the least accustomed to making that sheep's hair, soft and weak, and the slightest carelessness will stain my great rice paper. With that, he put the brush in his hand on the pillow.

"There are many sheep in the middle and lower reaches of the river, and you should be one of the treasures, why don't you send me to bring you a Liaowei." ”

"Senior brother is really calculating. ”

The thin man smiled, and for some reason rejected the kindness of the gray-robed man.

"What, do you still have to wear this robe here Senior Brother?"

"It's cold, I'm not like my brother, I'm a little unbearable, my brother is used to wolf, but I think this sheep's hair, rabbit's hair and everything are very good. ”

The thin man's eyes narrowed slightly, raised his forehead slightly and glanced at the gray-robed man, I don't know what he thought, he lowered his head, and put the ink-stained rice paper in the candle flame, and when it burned out, only a handful of ashes stayed in the candlestick.

"Tell me, what did you find?"

“......”

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Jincheng as the capital of Shu in the past, since ancient times is the place where soldiers must fight, naturally not only because of its important geographical location, Shuchuan is surrounded by many hills, relying on the Minjiang River, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as early as two hundred years ago before the Qin Emperor unified the world, it is the capital of David, with a history of several hundred years, the Great Qin Empire was overthrown, more than a dozen cities of all sizes in Shu, and the capital was naturally set in Jincheng.

Jincheng only opened two gates in the morning, the north gate and the south gate, one in, one out, about the five watches of the city, there is a history of the city gate waiting at the door

There are people who go out and come in the city, and the most in and out is probably the small town outside the city, or the people in the small village, get up early to transport some vegetables, melons and fruits into the city to sell some money to live, and there are businessmen, but generally not so early, only the people outside the city will get up so early to line up at the gate of the city before waking up in this thousand-year-old city.

The guards of the city gate stood at the gate, and in addition to a few who were checking, there was also a group of soldiers who were holding their spears and still fighting at Hatche.

A veteran with a gun was originally a little sleepy, it is not a good errand to see this broken city gate, I have been watching it for many years, and I have been thinking about it for more than ten years, and I am probably tired of playing with a thing for a few days, let alone a few years, but fortunately, this errand is also very stable, and the life is stable.

We all know that Shu does not drag the military salary, and the military salary is said to be two taels a month, which is definitely not a lot of money for you, unlike other places.

There are 12 cities in Shu, and none of them have received the city gate, which is why the drudgery of Shu has made it to the Great Departure Dynasty, and everyone is vying to do this city gate history, which is nothing more than a lot of oil and water, and how many people will enter and exit a city in a day?