Chapter 31: The Flower Thief (2)

Hong Feng listened to the young man's words and said to Lingyu: "Brother Zhang, business is here again, I will go to Longyang Mansion to meet this flower thief and see how capable he is." Zhang Lingyu said: "I have something to do in Jinling, and a friend is waiting for me to congratulate him on his wedding." Hong Feng said: "It's by the way, it won't be left alone for a long time, and besides, you can't bear to have a girl in trouble, not to mention that there are three thousand silver, don't you want to take it?" Zhang Lingyu said: "I didn't look at the silver, let the beauties of Longyang Mansion get rid of fear and tribulation as soon as possible, this is very important, Brother Hong is right, saving people is important, and it doesn't matter if the marriage is postponed for a few days." Hong Feng smiled: "Could it be that people want to postpone the wedding because you haven't arrived, and you are not the groom's official." Zhang Lingyu said seriously: "That's what he said to me, saying that I will have a wedding when I arrive." Hong Feng smiled: "People just said a kind word, and you took it seriously." ’

Zhang Lingyu said with a smile: "Whether it's true or not, we'll know when the time comes, don't say these boring words now, let's hurry up and rest, get up early tomorrow and hurry to Longyang Mansion as soon as possible." Hong Feng smiled: "I've eaten and drunk enough, now go back to my room to rest." Zhang Lingyu said: "Brother Hong, let's sleep in the same bed tonight, do you think it's okay." Hong Feng said: "I have slept alone since I was a child, and I never like to share a bed with others. Zhang Lingyu smiled: "That's a big trouble, what if you marry a lady." Hong Feng smiled: "I didn't say I don't like to sleep with women. Zhang Lingyu's face sank and said: "Brother Hong, you not only value sex and ignore friends, but also dislike me for being poor and cheap, tomorrow we will go our separate ways, so as not to lose your identity." Hong Feng hurriedly laughed and said, "Brother Zhang is angry, or we will sleep in the same bed." Zhang Lingyu said: "No need, the twisted melon is not sweet, if you want to kick me in the middle of the night, it will not be cost-effective, and besides, you are not a beauty, who is rare." After that, he went back to his room and went to sleep.

Hong Feng returned to the guest room and lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, Zhang Lingyu always looked angry in his mind, repeating a sentence, that is: 'We went our separate ways and went our separate ways. She fantasized for a while, talking and laughing with Zhang Lingyu along the way, and she was very happy. After a while, he fantasized about Zhang Lingyu's angry appearance. I thought in my heart: 'Could it be that I parted ways with Zhang Lingyu like this, and the fate ended here, this is too unwilling, to miss this person, to find such a character there, not only handsome and dashing, but also strong in martial arts and kind-hearted. Brother Zhang, you can't blame me, I am a daughter, how can I sleep with a man casually, although I like you, then I have to wait for you to marry me home to sleep in the same bed. But he can't be blamed for this, he doesn't know that I am a daughter's family, and thinks that I look down on and dislike him, and thinks that I am not enough brotherly righteousness, so he is very angry. ’

Hong Feng couldn't sleep until midnight, and thought, "Just make it clear to him, if I really run away from him, I will regret it for the rest of my life." So he got dressed and got up, walked out of the guest room to Zhang Lingyu's door, knocked lightly on the door a few times, and Zhang Lingyu said in the room: "Who." Hong Feng said: "It's me, Brother Zhang, you haven't slept yet." Zhang Lingyu said: "I woke up from sleep, it's the middle of the night, you don't sleep, is there something urgent." Hong Feng said: "I have something to say to you, I can't sleep if I don't say it, and there is a reason why I don't want to sleep with you, I want to tell you that you won't be angry." Zhang Lingyu said: "You don't need to say the reason why you can't sleep here, I'm not angry with you, I'm just joking with you." Hong Feng said: "You are so bad, making a joke will make me unable to sleep in the middle of the night, Brother Zhang will not be allowed to make such a joke next time." Zhang Lingyu said: "I remember, you can rest." Hong Feng said: "Okay, I'll go to sleep." After saying that, he went back to his room, and the knots in his heart were unraveled, and he soon fell asleep, with a sweet smile on his face.

As soon as the next day dawned, Zhang Lingyu got up, went to have breakfast after washing, returned to the guest room, packed up the burden on his back, and held the sword in his hand. When he went out of the room and saw that Hong Feng hadn't gotten up yet, he thought to himself: "It must have been too late to sleep last night, so I'll let you sleep a little longer, I'll go and get your clothes first and then call you up." Zhang Lingyu came to the counter and settled the accounts of the two people, and said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, my friend got up and told him not to go, I will go to get the clothes and come back immediately." ’

Hong Feng didn't wake up until eight o'clock in his sleep, hurriedly dressed and got up, walked out of the door after a simple wash and combing, walked to the Lingyu door and knocked on the door a few times, saw that no one answered, pushed the door open, stretched out his head and saw that there was not even a figure, and the burden was gone, thinking that the eighth floor was gone. He scolded angrily in his heart: 'Stingy, liar, don't be angry, this one runs away without even saying hello, what a strange person, who walks badly without you, everyone who goes their own way is afraid of whom." Angrily returned to the room, packed up his baggage, went to the counter to settle the bill, walked to the counter and said, "The shopkeeper's checkout." The shopkeeper said, "The account has been settled by Zhang Gongzi, and he told you to wait for him here, and he will come back immediately when he goes to get his clothes." Hong Feng said: "That's what he said." The shopkeeper said, 'Why should I lie to you?' When Hong Feng heard Zhang say this, he immediately smiled and said, "Xiao Er will bring me a bowl of wontons." He said happily in his heart: "I'm not wrong, I'm not a stingy ghost in the first place, it's all my blind guessing and asking for trouble." ’

Hong Feng was smiling while eating wontons, only to hear someone say: "Look at you eating wontons and smiling at Mimi, what kind of beautiful things do you want." Hong Feng looked up and saw Zhang Lingyu standing in front of him, wearing the blue boy's shirt that was ordered yesterday, showing even more graceful and plump like jade. smiled: "I was thinking about what Brother Zhang would look like when he wore new clothes, and I laughed when I thought about it." Zhang Lingyu smiled and said, "The ghost believes your words, what do you think, is it good-looking?" Hong Feng looked at him and smiled: "Of course it looks good, just like Luo Cheng's rebirth Pan An reappeared." Zhang Lingyu smiled: "Brother Hong, you are playing tricks on me again, I will ignore you if you do this again." Hong Feng smiled: "Okay, I don't say it's okay, I asked people again, they said you don't believe it, it's really difficult to be a person, and it's even more difficult to be a good person." Zhang Lingyu said: "Don't be poor, hurry up after eating." She ate a few more wontons, and she drank half a bowl of soup to her mouth, and then put the bowl on the table and said, 'Let's go.' He grabbed his burden and put it on his shoulder, followed Zhang Lingyu out of the inn.

Zhang Lingyu and Hong Feng were walking on the street, and Hong Feng proposed: "Brother Zhang, if we want to buy two horses, can't we go fast on them?" Zhang Lingyu said: "That's a good feeling, but you know where to sell horses." Hong Feng said: "We can ask people." After speaking, he walked to a grocery store and asked, "May I ask the shopkeeper, is there a place to sell horses in Huaining County?" The shopkeeper said: "There is a big car shop on East Street, and there is a big alley facing north on the side of the big car shop, and there is a mule, horse and cattle market in the big car shop. Hong Feng said: "Xiexie's shopkeeper." After speaking, he turned around and walked towards East Street with Zhang Lingyu.

The two of them arrived at the mule and horse market, where there were already many mules, horses, cows and donkeys waiting for buyers. Hong Feng took a fancy to a jujube red horse, which was strong and strong, and his hair was shiny, and Zuihou bought it for one hundred taels of silver. Hong Feng led the jujube red horse to the saddle shop on the edge of the market to match the saddle. Zhang Lingyu walked to a yellow horse, only to see that the horse's hooves reached eight feet on its back, and its head reached its tail to two feet, it was a tall horse with a well-proportioned body, but it was too thin. Zhang Lingyu stepped forward and touched the horse's mane, and the horse rubbed its head against Zhang Lingyu, with a begging look in his eyes, meaning that you should buy me quickly.

When the old man saw that someone had a crush on his horse, he hurriedly came over and said, 'Childe, you have such good eyesight, you can fall in love with my horse at a glance.' Zhang Lingyu said with a smile: "Old man, don't be joking, you thin horse can't walk on the road, and you dare to say that it is a thousand miles horse." The old man said: "Although my horse is a thousand-mile horse, it is only because my family is poor and there is no good material to feed it, so I am so thin, and it is no problem to go to the son's house to grow strong and travel thousands of miles a day." The old man said, "I don't ask you for more, the price is two hundred taels of silver." Zhang Lingyu said: "What are you kidding, the horse that can't walk on this thin road will cost two hundred taels." After saying that, he pressed one palm on the horse's back, and the horse could not hold on, and the horse could not bend over and kneel on the ground on its front legs. Zhang Lingyu said: "Old man, look at how much silver this can be worth." At this time, many people came to watch the excitement, and some said that this old man came to sell thousands of horses every time he sewed the market, and also said that he was Bole, and he was deceiving people for a long time. Some people said, "Take my stupid eyes and look at it as worth a maximum of thirty taels."

The old man felt incredible when he saw that he was lying down on this tall horse with one hand, and said in surprise: "Impossible, impossible, I think the son sincerely wants to buy it, so you can give one hundred and fifty taels." At this time, Hong Feng came over and said, "Brother Zhang, how did you buy this skinny horse, how did you hurry." The old man hurriedly said, "If it weren't for the fact that my son was sick and urgently needed to use silver to get medicine, you would not have sold it to you even if you gave me two hundred taels." Zhang Lingyu said: "What you say is the truth. The old man said: "Tell lies, and there are five thunderstorms in the sky." Zhang Lingyu said: "You are really a thousand miles." The old man said, "It's true." Zhang Lingyu said: "Okay, I will believe you once, and I will give you three hundred taels of silver." The old man said excitedly: "Thank you for your help, I and the whole family are xiexie you." Everyone was talking behind his back, saying that this boy had a nervous problem and was a loser.

Zhang Lingyu also saddled his yellow horse, and the two had lunch, and then rode out of the city on horseback. The two walked side by side, and although the yellow horse was thin, his feet were not slow, and he was not behind the jujube red horse at all. In the evening, I went to a town to stay overnight, and rushed to Longyang Mansion at noon the next day.

Zhang Lingyu and Hong Feng walked to a good luck inn and stopped, the two dismounted and walked to the door, and then a shopkeeper greeted him with a smile and said, "Two sons, whether to hit the tip or live in the store." Zhang Lingyu said: "To live in a hotel, you need two upper rooms, and the horses need good materials." Xiao Er said: "The two sons will go to eat first, and I will lead the horse to the backyard." Xiao Er led the horse to the backyard stable and tied it up, and added haode horse material. Zhang Lingyu and Hong Feng entered the lobby of the inn, there were guests on the sixth floor in the lobby, and Xiao Er came to greet them, the two found a table on the side and sat down, Hong Feng ordered, and after a while, Xiaoer brought up the wine and food, and the two ate and drank.

The lobby was full of discussions about the flower thief, and Xiao Er sent a pot of wine to Zhang Lingyu and them, Zhang Lingyu asked Xiao Er: "Little Second Brother, is the flower thief they talking about really true?" Xiao Erdao: "This can still be fake, a few people have died, but the two sons don't have to be afraid, because the flower thief is looking for a beautiful girl." Hong Feng said: "Who said that we are afraid of him." Xiao Er looked at the table leaning against a sword, and suddenly realized: "Oh, I know, you must have come to the three thousand silver rewards, trying to catch the flower thief, but the silver is not easy to take, the flower thief can not only fly the eaves and walk the wall, but also strong martial arts, and the hidden weapon is also good, the night before yesterday there was a self-proclaimed thousand miles chasing the wind, secretly stalking to find the traces of the flower thief, but the flower thief also found him, sent a money dart to blind the right eye of the thousands of miles chasing the wind." The flower thief did not know where to go, and the flower thief was also bold, and raped a girl that night. Xiao Er paused and said: "Two sons, do you say that this flower thief is too rampant, he even wrote on the notice of arresting him: Whoever can catch me, I am giving him five thousand taels of silver, and whoever wants to die because of this should not blame me." Zhang Lingyu said: "It's arrogant enough, isn't there a master of the rivers and lakes to arrest him." Xiao Erdao: "Recently, there have been a lot of people from the rivers and lakes, but they are not his opponents, but they have made the city even more chaotic." Hong Feng said: "Okay, you go and get busy." After speaking, he gave him a few copper plates, and Xiao Er took the copper plates and left happily.

Zhang Lingyu and Hong Feng booked a room after lunch and walked to the street, they walked through the streets and alleys to inspect the layout of Longyang Mansion's residence, and also found the addresses of several of the most famous beauties, because these are the targets of the flower thief, and the name written by the flower thief on the reward notice. The two returned to the inn for dinner, and made an appointment to go their separate ways in the evening.

Hong Feng returned to the guest room to change into a black night coat, covered his face with black veil, came out of the back window, and quickly disappeared into the night, although there was a half round of bright moon, but compared with the day, it was still far worse, and it was like day for Zhang Lingyu. Zhang Lingyu also put on a night suit, covered her face with a black cloth, came out of the back window, turned over and went to the roof of the building and knelt down, watching and listening to the surrounding movements. After a while, someone opened the window in the building below him, and the figure twisted to the next roof.

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