Chapter 18: Ziqi Comes to the Door
According to Qu Nanyi's meaning, Li Dazhuang, the head of the bureaucracy, asked the people in the troupe about the appearance of the mandrill, and asked someone to draw two pictures. One picture was provided by many actors, and the picture depicted a monster covered in animal hair. One is provided by Yan Delin, and the painting shows a slender beauty. Although Yan Delin repeatedly emphasized how beautiful the beauties were, under the painting attainments of the time, all beauties were almost depicted in one mold. If you want to find people by posting portraits, unless they have big features, it's just.
Despite this, Li Dazhuang still followed Qu Nanyi's instructions, posted a notice, and offered a reward of one or two silver to catch mandrills.
One tael of silver is not much, but it is enough for ordinary people to live for three or four months. For a time, the people habitually looked east and west when they went out, to see if they could find the shadow of the mandrill. It's just that everyone doesn't understand whether that beauty is called a mandrill, or that monster is a mandrill. There are not many people in the county who can read, and most people can't figure out what is written on the posters.
However, that doesn't stop people from having fun.
As soon as they heard that the mandrill appeared by the river, some people rushed to the river with mallets to look for it; As soon as they heard that the mandrill had appeared at the mouth of the alley, someone picked up an iron pickaxe and surrounded it; As soon as they heard that the mandrill was ferocious and murderous, everyone hid in their homes and lived a life of fire prevention, theft and mandrill.
Mandrills, as if they had evaporated in the world.
In the Yan family opera troupe, because Fenghua was a horizontal death and could not be stopped, Yan Delin chose a piece of land at random and buried people in a hurry.
Mi Jiu had already woken up, he knew that Fenghua died in his house, and the death was terrifying, so he didn't want to go back to live, but the room in the troupe was limited, and he didn't want to squeeze into a room with others and sleep in the same bed, so he could only move back to live.
When he could walk on the ground, Qu Nanyi called him and Yan Delin to interrogate.
Although Mi Jiu has an alibi, he has a motive to buy a murder. What Yan Delin looks like to him, everyone can see. It is not impossible for him to order the mandrill to kill Yan Delin. After all, the mandrill is a beast, so he can't understand it, and it is possible to kill the phoenix flower by mistake. As for Yan Delin's repeated emphasis, that mandrill is a monster and will become a beauty, but it is just his words, and it is not enough to believe it. Moreover, he had his ears cut off that night, who knows if he lost too much blood and was dizzy?
After Qu Nan asked one or two, he let the two leave.
Along the way, Mi Jiu felt that Yan Delin's gaze at him was particularly penetrating, as if he had tied up his wife and children with stones and thrown them into the river. When he looked closely, Yan Delin turned his eyes away and stopped looking at himself.
When the two returned to the troupe, they saw a visitor.
At this time, the yard is full of lifelessness, who will come to find this bad luck?
I don't want to, some people are like being born from this bad luck, not only calmly, but also rarely have a good mood. This person is the white master and white son of the gambling house.
As soon as Yan Delin saw Bai Ziqi, he felt that the ear hurt badly, and he had a headache with his whole head. He originally promised Bai Ziqi to send Mi Jiu over the next day, but this happened to the family, on the one hand, it was delayed, and on the other hand, he also had a fluke mentality, thinking that he could escape the catastrophe. He definitely didn't feel sorry for Mi Jiu, but he didn't want to lose his cash cow just like that. No, as soon as this Jiu Jiu was able to get off the ground, Bai Ziqi came.
Yan Delin was carried in front of Bai Ziqi. With the help of the second master, he sat up, smiled weakly at Bai Ziqi, called to Jiu, and said, "Jiu, come here." He reluctantly squeezed out a smile at Mi Jiu, and persuaded in a soft voice as much as possible, "If something like this happens, our Yan family opera team is down." You followed me, and I can't see you suffering and sinning. You can go with Bai Ye. Bai Ye has a good heart and will treat you well. ”
Mi Jiu looked at Bai Ziqi, and only felt that this person was good-looking, and he could say goodbye to himself, but the eyes of that person looked at him were really unpleasant, and his eyes were furious. It's like...... It's like a viper staring at its prey! Yes, that's what it feels like! Yu Jiu thinks that he has some eyesight, and he is also a little accurate when he sees people. This Bai Ziqi knows at a glance that he is not a good bird! Moreover, the name of the white master of the gambling house is better than that of the old man Zhao, for the sake of silver, he has not done anything bad? It's just that that person has some brains, and if he makes a mistake, he can't handle it on seven inches.
Mi Jiu knew that Yan Delin was going to sell himself, and he was so angry that his chest hurt! He sneered and said, "Yan Delin, I can't leave you as the master!" ”
Yan Delin's eyes showed a fierce light, and he sneered: "I'm afraid I can't help you in this matter!" You are a little bastard taken in by my old man, you have eaten and drunk my family since you were a child, why can't Lao Tzu be the master?! You go with Bai Ye now, be well-behaved, maybe you can mix riches. If you don't know how serious you are against Bai Ye, you will be looking for death by yourself! Bai Ye is not as kind-hearted as Lao Tzu, eh...... Heart...... Softhearted. Yan Delin's front teeth are gone, and when he speaks, he leaks, and these words have a very comedic effect.
However, Mi Jiu felt cold all over his body! Expected for a long time, didn't it? But why does my heart still hurt? It must be an illusion! Yes, it's an illusion!
Yu Jiu covered his heart with one hand, pointed to Yan Delin's missing head with the other, and shouted: "If you cut off one ear from that wooden lump, you can't understand human language?" The master said that the master can help you if he can answer your own will, and it is useless if you can't respond to your request! Let me go with such a rotten and ruthless thing, just let me die! Roaring and roaring, Qi Jiu's eyes turned red, he could see that Yan Delin's yin thing had already hooked up with Bai Ziqi, otherwise Bai Ziqi would not have come to the door to ask for someone today.
Mi Jiu hated it in his heart, flicked his sleeves, and roared: "Okay, if you don't give me a way to live, today, I will kill you first, save you from smearing the old man, and then hit him to death, but it can be regarded as an explanation to the old man!" As soon as the words fell, the man rushed into the kitchen, picked up a kitchen knife, and slashed at Yan Delin. The action is clean and neat, and it will never get out of the mud and water.
Yan Delin was terrified! He couldn't run by himself, so he could only tremble and scream in a trembling voice: "Help! Help me! ”
Erdang guy commanded two martial artists and stopped Yu Jiu.
Mi Jiu was very brave, regardless of continuing to charge, if he hadn't been seriously injured that day, I am afraid that Yan Delin would have been hacked to death by this time.
Yan Delin was shocked, and hurriedly asked Bai Ziqi for help: "Master Bai, help!" You can't just sit back and let that Jiu hack me to death. ”
Bai Ziqi asked rhetorically: "Why not?" ”