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Sheepskin Street, located in the west area of Jinling City, is a street with a length of one mile and two zhang wide, which is the main street in the west area of the city, and many alleys are connected with this Sheepskin Street. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info there are no prosperous high-rise buildings in the entire western area of the city, and there are no restaurants and inns that can be placed on the table, they are all low tiled houses. But there is a special feature of Sheepskin Street, that is, if you want to buy good goods at a good price, you have to come to this street to try. In addition to the early stalls for breakfast and the like, there are also some shops selling some rouge gouache and some home-cooked daily necessities, it should be said that this is a relatively poor area.

There are no less than a dozen alleys that run through them, but they all have a characteristic, the alleys are not wide and less than a zhang wide, some alleys are straight to access, some alleys are winding, but there is a small alley called Sheepskin Street, which has become a forbidden area in this area, that is, the Buyi Alley, and the lower tiled houses in the two rows of the Cloth Alley.

There is a pond between this Buyi Lane and the nearest alley, so it seems that the two rows of tiled houses in Buyi Lane and Buyi Lane are more abrupt and unique. It is also this pond, which is neither large nor small, that separates this Buyi Lane from the other alleys and houses on Sheepskin Street, forming two inconspicuous areas.

Except for the people and residents in the Cloth Alley, it is rare to see the residents in other alleys go to the Cloth Alley, but the people in the Cloth Alley are familiar with the people in the other alleys. No, the tofu flower of the Lin family lady is a feature on this sheepskin street, and the pig's trotters marinated by the Xiao family lady, the reputation has spread to the south of the city, but whether it has been passed to the palace, it is unknown. There is also the meat bun of the old man of the Liu family, which is even more a must, one bite down, in addition to the mouth full of meat fragrance, there are greasy oil soup stains inside, if you accidentally bite it, the soup stains will splash on your clothes, no matter how you wash it, you can't wash it clean.

As for why the people in the other alleys don't go to the cloth lane, it is still a mystery, no one knows why, maybe in addition to the people in the cloth lane are more weird, there should be other factors. But the omnivorous snack sellers in Cloth Lane have added a lot of color to this sheepskin street.

Li Chenglong ran out of the crowd and stopped his steps, the old yellow dog just now couldn't even see the shadow, so he knew that it would be useless to chase it like this, so he had to stop his feet, he knew that the direction of the other end of the sheepskin street was a mysterious place, a place that he didn't even dare to think of, that was the palace.

In desperation, he had no choice but to scold and walk back, although he was still thinking about the wild dog, thinking about how to slaughter the wild dog and eat a good meal of dog meat. The wish is beautiful, the reality is cruel, Li Chenglong can't even catch a dog, which really arouses the endless anger in his heart, and when he goes back, he must change his name to the old immortal, he thought viciously in his heart.

At this time, the early sun has risen, and the pieces of golden light are pouring down like a sprinkler, bathed in the morning and winter sunshine, which makes people's hearts infinitely comfortable. The vast crowd gradually became lively, and the shouts and shouts, coupled with the morning fog that had not yet dispersed, began its lively day again.

Li Chenglong couldn't raise any interest, and walked listlessly among the figures, in fact, his stomach was really a little hungry, but he just touched the flat money bag in his arms, and there was not even a copper plate in it. He had no choice but to walk with his head down, although he could still break the old man of the Liu family with a thick face to eat one or two buns on credit, but the scene of patting his chest yesterday and saying that he would invite the old man of the Liu family to eat the braised pig's trotters of the lady of the Xiao family is still echoing in his mind. Where does he dare to show his face in front of Old Man Liu now, if he swears tomorrow, he will definitely win, but now, alas, not to mention how embarrassing it is.

When passing by the old man Liu's stall, Li Chenglong subconsciously lowered his head, but the smell of meat and the smell of soup went straight to his nostrils, making him swallow his saliva, so he had to lower his head lower, out of sight and quiet.

Li Chenglong, who was walking with his head down, avoided the old man who was shouting hard, and was secretly depressed and a little complacent, and he didn't feel that he had quickened his pace, otherwise he would be caught by the old man Liu, and it would be a good ridicule. There were more people, and the speed of his pace and the night of gambling and war inevitably caused him to be in a trance.

One was not careful, and he bumped into the person in front of him, "Which one of you doesn't open your eyes dares to block your Li Ye's way." Subconsciously, Li Chenglong opened his mouth and scolded, but when he raised his head and saw the person who was hit clearly, his face suddenly turned pale.

I saw a middle-aged man standing in front of him, about forty years old, dressed in a green cloth robe, dressed as a scribe, and his thin face revealed a trace of toughness. The man stared at him with a perceptive gaze, his slender palms brushing his long beard under his chin, and the man had a chilling smile on his face. is not angry and self-imposing, immobile as a mountain, smiling and dignified, but it is the best portrayal of the middle-aged scribe at this time.

His gaze swept over the middle-aged scribe, fixed on another person beside the middle-aged scribe, the man was about fifty years old, although the man was wearing a cloth robe, but he could clearly see the luxurious silk brocade robe exposed from the lower corner of the cloth robe, the person's body was slightly burly than the middle-aged scribe, a pair of Danfeng eyes that flew obliquely up, the most striking thing was that there was a mole the size of a soybean at the corner of the man's mouth, revealing a majesty accumulated over the years. Li Chenglong recognized this person, although he didn't know the middle-aged scribe in the green shirt, but when he saw that the man in cloth was half a body behind the scribe, he understood that the identity of the middle-aged scribe must be extraordinary.

Because he knew the man in his fifties, that man was the chief of Jingzhao Mansion in Jinling, that is to say, this person belonged to Jingzhao Mansion, and he was also the fourth in command of Jingzhao Mansion. There is also Jingzhao Mansion Yin on it, Feng Yi on the left, and Fufeng on the right, which can make a Wupin master of the Gyeonggi Department follow him, so it can be seen that the officials of this middle-aged scribe must not be inferior.

It is precisely because of knowing the history of the Jingzhao Mansion that Li Chenglong suddenly stopped his mouth, although he was mixed in the area of the west of Jinling City, he still had this bit of eyesight, and these two people were not something that ordinary people like him could offend. Feeling uneasy, he hurriedly lowered his head and said softly: "Second master, the little one is offended, and I hope the second master will not forgive me." ”

Originally, he subconsciously opened his mouth to say the word "adult", but his mind changed, since the other party went out on patrol in cloth clothes, he must not want people to know, he felt that especially the middle-aged scribe in Tsing Yi, he must not want others to know his identity, otherwise he would not have deliberately appeared in this Xicheng area where the poor are concentrated.

Sure enough, the middle-aged scribe who had just frowned suddenly stretched his eyebrows when he heard the other party's apology, which he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. And this Changshi Lord also tightened his heart, and then showed a satisfied expression on his face. He didn't know this ordinary-looking man, but he gave him a shrewd feeling.

"Okay, don't blame those who don't know, you can step back first." Before the middle-aged scribe could speak, the elder Changshi opened his mouth and sent the man away, and when he saw that the man had left in a hurry as if he had been granted amnesty, he sighed. The middle-aged scribe had a calm face, an easy-going expression, but there was a hint of anger in his easy-going expression that could explode at any time.

Li Chenglong was even more panicked, he didn't expect that this Changshi Lord was so talkative, and he didn't cure him for the crime of confrontation, so he let him go. He also didn't expect that these two adults would have some unknown purpose in their private service, so they were bumped into and scolded and convicted of others, so what is the point of their private visit.

Jinling Jingzhao Mansion came to a newly appointed Mansion Yin, I don't know if it is this adult, I heard that the newly appointed Jingzhao Mansion Yin likes to pay private visits to Weifu to investigate the people's feelings, if these are true, then the newly appointed Jingzhao Mansion Yin is likely to be the middle-aged scribe in Tsing Yi. Li Chenglong walked all the way forward, thinking secretly to himself. However, what he didn't expect was that the two adults in his mouth had also been shuttling through the crowd with his footsteps, and the direction was exactly the direction he was heading.

Walking out of the crowd, Li Chenglong took a big gulp of the fresh breath of this morning, at this moment, he had exhausted the remaining energy in his body after chasing a dog and hitting someone. He could only stand on the side of the street and hold on to the locust tree that had grown for an unknown number of years, and then past the pond in front of him was Buyi Lane.

After resting for about a pillar of incense, he felt that his eyelids were heavier, so he had to force himself up and walk towards his home. Passing through the pond, he met a horn cart pushing a wooden ox and a horse, and on the cart there were two rows of barrels, and a foul smell seeped through the two rows of barrels, making him feel suffocated.

The cart was a patched old man, with gray hair and beard, and a coffin-like face, the old man looked at him coldly, but the coffin-like face was pulled even lower. And Li Chenglong snorted from his nostrils, and he didn't look at the old man with the cart, and the two passed by. One stiffened his old face, the other covered his nose with his hand, and let out a heavy snort from his nose, and neither of them paid attention to the other, as if they had a hatred that was difficult to resolve for thousands of years.

If this is a father and son, maybe many people don't believe it, but they are indeed a father and son. Father Li Laoshi has been helping those rich and noble families and pee all his life in this city, pushing the dilapidated horn cart every morning, but going to those rich and noble houses to collect convenient things to be dumped. He also has an identity, he is also a groom, which is said to have been passed down from his ancestors and passed down from generation to generation.

Li Chenglong would let out a strange hum from his nostrils every time he met his father, and he felt that his father helping those rich and noble families collect and dump dung was the cheapest job, and there was no old man with a similar job in the city. What he is most accustomed to is that this old immortal is too picky, and he is reluctant to eat even a bun and a scallion pancake. In the end, there is nothing, although I have some savings over the years, but I have been gambling like this in the dark for a while, how can I have any savings. The old immortal doesn't have a good face for himself every day, isn't it just to take a few copper plates from you to touch his luck, he has to make it look like an enemy, and then see who will give you the old immortal to the end.

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, the more I thought about it, the more tired I became, although I was tired, but I didn't want to see this old immortal, Li Chenglong quickened his pace, and soon arrived at Buyi Lane. At the entrance of the alley, I saw a young man in ragged clothes who looked like a child coming slowly, and I saw him holding a few copper coins in his hand, with an expression of flying eyebrows.

"Yo, isn't this a dog, so early, looking at your expression, it's not like you're going out to ask for food?" As soon as Li Chenglong heard Lai Gou'er, he joked out loud, ridiculing and teasing this is also part of Li Chenglong's joy in life. He looks down on Lai Gou'er, and at the same time is jealous of the other party, obviously he is a stinky person who asks for food, why is he still happy every day, is he really happy in such a life. In private, he also asked this little beggar, my daily dream is that I still have the east, west, north and south to be fed, nothing else, now we are starving to death every day, why do we live a sad life. And what he got was Lai Gou'er's answer, just like this, although Li Chenglong would sarcastically mock the other party with contempt, but every time his sarcasm stabbed back to him like a knife.

"Brother Chenglong, I had some harvest yesterday, go and bring some breakfast for Sixiao this morning." As soon as Lai Gou'er saw the other party, he replied to the other party heartily, and he also raised the copper coins in his hand.

"Recently, you have to look at the east, west, north and south, it is said that several children have been lost in Sheepskin Street, all of them are about seven or eight years old, I heard that those women who lost their children are crying so darkly, that tragic appearance, they are unbearable to look at directly, east, west, north and south are the only children in our cloth lane, you don't want to lose them." Li Chenglong said some of what he had heard, and it was rare to say something serious in front of Lai Gou'er.