Zheng Bingrong said with a smile: "Lord Duan is now responsible for guarding the Imperial City, and he has become diligent and enterprising. It's only been a few days since I took office, and I'm familiar with the environment around the capital, Lu Bangyan has your help, why don't you worry about getting promoted and getting rich. ”

"Princess Fengzhi is serious, even if Brother Bangyan doesn't have my help, he is also a rich and noble minister who has been promoted to become wealthy! It's just that he often tells me to understand the terrain and locations of Yehuang City as soon as possible, especially in the area of Ailao Mountain, so I will take the time to take a look. Duan Qianqiu said with a smile.

"What's there to see about Ailao Mountain?"

"There are deep forests and dense grass, rugged and changeable mountains, many caves, and it is not far from the Yehuang City, which is the most conducive to the hidden of thieves with evil intentions and bad intentions. If I were the commander of Yehuang City's city defense, I would definitely take the time to personally lead the troops to inspect this place well. ”

Duan Qianqiu said as he observed Mei Fang's expression. I saw that her expression changed several times, and I knew that she must be extremely worried about the situation of the officers and soldiers searching the mountain.

At this time, Mei Fang suddenly shouted loudly: "Two adults, please wait... , let's talk about national affairs later, the Mei side has something to ask for..."

"Say it. Zheng Bingrong said lazily: "As long as it's not borrowing money, it's easy to say!"

"Ahh......h

Zheng Bingrong glanced at her and sneered: "Is there a time when you are not in urgent need of money? Since I met you, I have borrowed a total of 18,645 taels of silver and 500 taels of gold from you.

Mei Fang lowered his head and said in a voice like a gnat: "It's all urgent, and it's the same this time." ”

"A few days ago, you borrowed another five hundred taels of silver from my father, but is there such a thing?"

"Yes. ”

"As long as my father comes to Yehuang City, you will definitely borrow money from him, but is there such a thing?"

"Yes. ”

"Why?"

"Because Master Zheng is more generous than you. ”

Zheng Bingrong's face sank, and he slapped the table and said, "You are generous, and say, what are you doing with the money this time, drinking, gambling, or are you fooling around and owing some bastard money?"

Mei Fang swore to the sky: "No, absolutely not this time, I am here to buy this time... Medicine!"

Zheng Bingrong obviously didn't buy it, she sneered and said: "It's buying medicine again, the white deer blood of Changbai Mountain that I borrowed money to buy last time hasn't seen a shadow yet! What kind of medicine are you going to buy this time? Is it the dragon blood in the Dragon Palace?"

Mei Fang's eyes turned red and said, "No, this time is different." ”

Mei Fang's personality has always been hearty, basically heartless, Zheng Bingrong has always been used to laughing with her, this is the first time to see Mei Fang's painful and crying expression, so he asked puzzledly: "What are you crying about, did I say something wrong?"

Mei Fang shook his head, and his eyelashes were moistened.

Zheng Bingrong saw it, he felt a little unbearable, and he also felt that his words were heavy, so he softened his tone and said: "Okay, okay, good sister, sister is just going to say." What does it matter to you, how much do you want to borrow?"

Mei Fang stretched out five fingers.

Zheng Bingrong said: "Five hundred taels?"

"No, five thousand taels!" Mei Fang's head hung down again.

Duan Qianqiu was also a little surprised when he heard this, because one or two pieces of silver could buy two stone of rice in Yehuang City, and some ordinary people's expenses for the whole year were only twenty taels. Even if the people in the cave eat and wear for this period of time, they don't need so much silver, right?

Zheng Bingrong took a deep breath, and before he could speak, Mei Fang raised his head again and begged, "I'll mortgage my house in Yehuang City to you, Sister Bingrong." This time it's really urgent, not nonsense. ”

"What do I want your house to do? It's just silver, I'll give it to you, it's just that what you want so much silver to do, is there something serious, tell Sister Bingrong, is there anything else we can't say?" Zheng Bingrong said with concern when he saw her expression.

Mei Fang wanted to speak and stopped.

Duan Qianqiu thought that she was scrupling about herself, and some private things were inconvenient to say, so she said: "Duan Mou just remembered that there are still some important things to do, so it will not hinder the two of them, and Duan Mou will leave first." ”

Mei Fang stopped him and said, "No, Brother Duan, it's actually nothing." It's just that I have an old friend who helped me a lot when I was studying medicine with my master Zhang Yixian, and now he is seriously ill in a different place, and his family is poor, so I have to raise some money to treat him. ”

Zheng Bingrong let out an "oh", half-convinced, and when he saw Mei Fang lowering his head again, looking sad, he muttered in his heart: "This so-called old friend shouldn't be this little Nizi's lover." ”

She walked out of the door and asked the housekeeper to go to the account room to get a silver ticket of 5,000 taels, and when she folded it back, she stuffed it into Mei Fang's hand and said: "You can use the silver to take care of your old friends, it's better than the previous nonsense, you can take this silver ticket." ”

Mei Fang thanked him and left with the silver ticket.

Duan Qianqiu thought to himself: "It seems that Mei Fang still hasn't told Zheng Bingrong about Meizhuang, so presumably Yang Yaxin doesn't know." Why is she hiding all these things?"

Seeing Mei Fang leave the living room, Duan Qianqiu smiled and said, "She looks very strange, not the same as before." ”

Zheng Bingrong thought for a moment and muttered: "Yes, she has been very strange these days, especially after returning to her own house the day before yesterday, she is even more distraught......"

Duan Qianqiu saw that Mei Fang had not gone far, so he also said goodbye to Zheng Bingrong, and with Mei Fang, he went out of the mansion, his martial arts are now better than in the past, and Mei Fang did not notice that he was following.

Mei Fang went out of Yehuang City from the south gate and traveled all the way, but the direction he ran was not the Ailao Mountain area.

"Isn't she going to visit the people in Meizhuang?" Duan Qianqiu followed all the way from a distance.

It wasn't until almost noon that Mei Fang came to a deserted ancient town in Yehuang City.

The ancient town has been eroded by the years, and all kinds of buildings in the town are mottled and decayed, and moss is everywhere. The town is also completely unpopulated, except for the occasional wild dog foraging in the streets.

Mei Fang walked to the door of a mansion, only to see that the paint on the red and vermilion gate of the mansion had peeled off and crawled with cobwebs, and the two stone lions standing in front of the steps, pale yellow rust moss, were all over the body, one of them even had its front paws broken.

The inside of the door was also quiet, and no one seemed to be inside.

The door was not locked, and Mei Fang easily pushed open the door and walked into this deserted house!