In the crowded market on the south bank of Mochou Lake, Xu Hao was unable to walk an inch in the crowd, and gradually increased his speed impatiently, drilling through the cracks of the people, and accidentally collided with a strong woman in her forties.

The woman carried a bamboo basket in her hand, and two bowls of noodles in the basket spilled over the ground, and the porcelain bowls slammed into the bluestone paved pavement, scattering and shattering.

Xu Hao hurriedly stopped, not wanting the woman to drag him down, and shouted to the sky: "My father-in-law and my son-in-law have come to my family today, and I have just worked hard to sell a hundred pieces of tin foil and make these two bowls of egg noodles, and I want to take them back and invite them to eat." Who said that this blind Xianggong bumped into him ruthlessly, and everyone commented on me, should I pay for it or not? ”

The people around him were gossiping, and someone said: "You don't have to twist him, it looks like a Sven, just ask him to pay for it." ”

Xu Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly, and hurriedly said that he would admit compensation, and reached out to touch the money in the bag, but he couldn't reach out. Seeing this, the woman became more and more anxious, blindly scolding and shouting, and made a lot of trouble.

"Auntie, don't be impatient." Xu Hao sweated on his forehead, and secretly scolded Li Dong where they all died, and he didn't send money over.

Suddenly, a man with a yellow face and a short beard flashed out of the crowd, about thirty years old, and said, "How much do you have to pay for two bowls of noodles?" ”

The woman said, "Even the bowl with noodles is only 200 wen, and it can't be missing." ”

The woman didn't look a little nonsense, but she didn't take the opportunity to blackmail, Xu Hao smiled bitterly, if she really responded to the sentence of suffocating the hero for a penny, she had to admit it if she was scolded.

The man immediately took out a silver horn from his body and said, "Here are two coins, which is enough." ”

The woman took it happily, and walked away with satisfaction, and the people who watched also dispersed in a hurry, Xu Hao asked the name of the person, and the man said: "There will be a period later, and there is no need to recognize each other at this time." As soon as he arched his hand, he went away.

At that moment, there were guards who followed. Inquire into the details of the man. And Xu Hao stood in place with a little headache, just like a chance encounter, now everything is difficult to distinguish whether it is intentional or intentional on the surface, thinking that there are people around every moment looking for opportunities to approach, this day is really boring, especially miss the life in Yangzhou, Suzhou.

Not to mention the small episodes he encountered on the street, the He family in the temple led Song'an into the house, Zhang Luanchui pretended to be surprised, and covered his face to avoid it.

Songan smiled smugly: "Miss, please take a seat, the wife of a high-ranking official from here." The ladies of the noble family and the poor monks have to entertain in person, and if they are ordinary pilgrims, they will be taken care of by the guests below. I was busy for a long time this morning, and I was free at this time, so I came to accompany me, and Miss Hugh wanted to be surprised. ”

Zhang Luanchui looked shy and lowered his head and did not answer, He smiled meaningfully, turned around and slipped out of the city without making a sound.

Li Su'e saw that this stubborn monk was going to forcibly misbehave. Blocking the front and said: "My young lady was rescued from your temple because of the falling lake, and she is not as good as the person who enters the incense, and the master does not need to entertain, so you can ask for convenience." ”

Songan smiled and said, "We monks are most afraid of offending people. Always socialize, Miss just ignores the poor monk, how can the poor monk fall into the face? ”

As he spoke, Songan actually moved the chair to Zhang Luan's side. Licking his face and laughing: "It's not that the poor monk is rude, even in the Forbidden City, he is a distinguished guest, and he is a big man with a head and a face in Beijing." Now I'm asking the lady to give her face. ”

The second daughter has been joining Jinyiwei for a few years, and she has met all kinds of people when handling cases, but she never expected that this monk would dare to act so unscrupulously at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and dare to coerce a serious woman in the temple.

Seeing Song'an's way of treating women with familiarity, it was obvious that something similar had happened more than once, and Zhang Luan got up and hid in front of the offering table with a funny face.

Li Su'e stood in front of her, and Song'an repeatedly succeeded, most of the insulted women did not dare to speak out, and chose to swallow their anger, because they became more and more rampant, and said in their hearts that they would simply not do anything and keep going, and let go of the means of being captured alive, anyway, they were also lonely beauties from other places, and they were nothing more than thinking about dealing with that Xu Gongzi.

Li Su'e said angrily: "You thief! What's wrong with you, what's wrong with ignoring you? ”

Song'an Dalu smiled and said, "Miss ignore me and go to the meditation room with the sprinkler family; Even if the young lady ignores it, she has to go shopping! ”

Zhang Luanchui sneered in his heart, thinking about Xu Hao's explanation, he picked up a bronze wax table from the offering table, and smashed it directly, and the wound was about two or three inches deep on the head of Song'an.

Matsuan screamed, and ran away with his bloodied hands holding his head, and even his robe was dyed red.

For a while, life in the temple was boiling, and dozens of monks shouted: "It's the opposite, it's the opposite, this girl dares to poison him." ”

The two girls looked at each other and smiled, and waited in the house without going out. He was peeping out of the window before, and hurriedly helped Song'an back to the room to bandage his wounds, and hurriedly came back to ask Xiao Shami to go to the cellar with the two of them.

Zhang Luan cried and cried and looked frightened, Li Su'e pretended to be timid and scared, and was led to a room to sit down.

The little novice from earlier was also among them, and said, "Ladies please sit down, wait for Grandma He to accompany you, I will go to bring tea, and I will go to see the tutor." ”

Zhang Luanchui wiped his tears with a silk scarf, secretly observed the house, seemed to be different from other places, walked to the door and looked outside, but it was a flat house without a building, and it was connected to a low wall. Outside the wall, the hall is made of stone, the foundation is flush with the low wall, the roof has no tiles, and it is smeared with cement that has become popular in recent years, and the thick curtain board is nailed inside, which is extremely strong.

There is a small patio in the courtyard, surrounded by walls, and monks patrol back and forth with knives and sticks. I think He said that he sent it to the cellar, could it be that this is the cellar? But he didn't see other women, and he became suspicious.

Li Su'e was also furnishing in the observation room, and there was nothing suspicious, when Xiao Shami came in with a teapot, and He followed behind, and suddenly stepped on a piece of the floor against the wall with his foot a few times.

The second daughter was taken aback, only to hear a click, the floor was lifted, and two or three mothers-in-law stepped up the stairs and went out, and it turned out that there was a cellar below.

Li Su'e exclaimed and walked over to take a look, the lights and candles inside were brilliant, it seemed to be a hall, the laughter and laughter were very lively, and there was a sound of whining and crying, He's reaction was a little strange, and he went down and shouted: "Sister-in-law Liu, now it's okay, you two people are here!" ”

Zhang Luanchui was a little confused, holding his left hand on the soft sword on his waist, secretly guarding, while Li Su'e put his right hand in his arms. Leaned against the door, and if something happened urgently, he immediately ran out of the cloud to ignite the cloud-piercing arrow.

At this time, a delicate young woman came out from below, wearing an ordinary hairpin skirt, but she was in her twenties.

He Shi pointed at Zhang Luanchui and said: "Look at this sister, I don't believe that she has such strength, she injured Song'an, and she bled more than asking Fayun from Wutai Mountain to help him heal. ”

The three exchanged their names. Zhang Luanchui told the fabricated encounter of falling into the water, and the second daughter learned that the young woman's family was a pastry shop by Mochou Lake, and her husband's surname was Liu. Three days ago, Matsuan simply took advantage of her husband's absence in the store, called someone to rob her in the middle of the night, hid in the cellar and threatened her to force her to obey.

It turned out that the He family used to be greedy for some money, and seeing the monk hook up with the women of high-ranking officials and nobles is considered your love and my willingness. So it helps to match. Recently, I learned that there are thirty or forty women imprisoned in the Dare Love Temple, which is a big crime of killing the head, how dare you continue to help the monk do evil? Besides, she and the young woman have been neighbors for many years, and they can't bear to fall into the devil's cave and finally die in Huangquan. It was to help parry around, plus Xu Hao came to stay the day before yesterday, and wandered around the temple at night, and the pavilion collapsed yesterday and died. So that Matsuan has never had a chance to succeed.

Unconsciously, the sky darkened, and He Shi came in and informed: "The monk fainted twice, and this thief is self-inflicted." Today, God's prosthetic sister let him suffer this big blow, and he was also exhausted. And the people inside are enough to be poisoned by him, at this time the temple is busy, it is better to take this opportunity to set him on fire, burn it clean, and avenge everyone, let's go to Shuntianfu to complain together, I am afraid that the government will cover up, but it will cure us of the crime of losing moderation, or take advantage of the chaos to go to each other. ”

Sister-in-law Liu said: "This plan is not good. Although the temple is busy, but the four or five of us, even counting the cellar, are only thirty or fifty women, so do we have to use it? If the organ is exposed, or the monks outside put out the fire in time, the person who set the fire will be held accountable if it is burned or not. We are not afraid of fighting horizontally and vertically, but we are afraid that it will affect the public, and this plan is absolutely impossible. ”

He said: "Then the four of us are fighting hard with Song'an? I tricked him into pretending that you were agreeing to do so, and I killed him while he was unprepared. We are women, how can we make enemies with monks? When people go to court, the government must know in their hearts that the monk has to illegally abduct a Tibetan woman and be killed by our refusal to commit adultery. ”

Zhang Luanchui and Li Su'e knew it in their hearts, let them discuss, and said with a smile: "My cousin has great ability, and he will be rude when he goes out during the day, and he will definitely come back at night, so we don't have to panic, let's rest for a while." ”

Seeing this, He said: "Then I'll go and tell him the truth secretly, I just hope that he has an idea, and don't even die here." ”

Here Li Su'e closed the door, and the young woman led them down to the cellar, and saw that the women were dressed like foxes, sitting around under the lamp, laughing, and feeling at ease that they had been detained and reduced to men's playthings, which was incomprehensible. There are also those with sad faces and tears, sitting stupidly in secret, and others locked in a corner like a cell, with a haggard look on their heads.

There is a large rectangular table in the middle, a Hu bed is spread on it, and all kinds of pastimes are arranged on the table, such as silk stringed instruments and unsightly spring stools, etc., and some large candles are lit to illuminate the stone room.

Zhang Luan secretly spat a mouthful of disgust, the young woman's surname is Shi, her husband's name is Liu Dakai, known as Liu Dalang, the husband and wife are affectionate but the life is very poor, it is Yisongan who does not put her family in his eyes, sighs and turns around.

Seeing that everyone had obtained the stolen goods and had completed the task, Li Su'e said in a low voice: "Do you hurry up and report to the governor?" ”

Zhang Luan shook his head and said: "There are such appalling evil things in this capital, it can be seen that there must be officials to protect these evil monks, so the governor will go to great lengths to ask us to sneak in, otherwise just order the officers and soldiers to come in and search."

First, Song'an often went in and out of the Forbidden City and the homes of princes and nobles, and it was rumored that the face of the saint would not look good; Second, if such an evil act happened in the capital, the world must not make a big uproar? Perhaps the Governor will choose to make a big thing a small thing.

If the governor wants to get rid of the evil this time, he will not be angry if he just kills these monks, and he will continue to lead the snake out of the hole; Fourth, this matter will involve many ministers, and the governor may have other meanings when it comes to matters involving the court, so you and I can just follow orders. ”

Li Su'e said with an ugly face: "If the governor doesn't completely punish these wicked people this time and chooses to make peace with the minister, then I, Li Su'e, swear to quit Jinyiwei." ”

Zhang Luanchui said with confidence: "We are all Jinyi guards brought in by the governor himself, has he ever ordered us to do something against our conscience in the past few years?" Regardless of the size of the case, has he ever intervened in the case? Adults act selflessly and above board, and now Jinyiwei is from top to bottom, who is not a man with a strong chest? The people will no longer shy away from us, and your worries are superfluous. ”

"That's just as well." Li Su'e grinned, and then said distressedly: "Obviously, our sisters are good-looking, why do adults turn a blind eye?" ”

Zhang Luan cried and laughed and said: "Public is public, private is private, we are not prostitutes on the Qinhuai River for a long time, what kind of person is an adult, how can you covet your subordinates?" Really. (To be continued......)