Master Luo Cao

Under the night, the city is silent, but the mandarin duck house is brightly lit and full of people.

Wearing his most decent clothes, Yang Ye tremblingly walked to the gate of the mandarin duck house. After standing for a while, two beautiful girls came up to him and dragged him in without any explanation. Yang Ye suddenly panicked, " Hey, what are you doing?"

One of the girls gave a "puchi" laugh and said, "My lord, is this your first time here?"

Yang Ye stammered: "Yes... so what? Who hasn't had the first time?"

"Yo," another girl said with a coquettish smile, "Young master, is this really the first time?"

This "first time" is not the other's "first time", Yang Ye's brain became hot after hearing it, and he always hangs out with a group of old men on weekdays, and he doesn't know how to respond at this time, so he can only hold back a red one in silence Face.

The beautifully dressed bawdy came up to her, took one of Yang Ye's arms, flicked her veil at the two girls, and said angrily, "What are you talking about? Our son has a strict family education, isn't he?" Seeing Yang Ye Ye pursed his lips with a face of resistance, and then said with a shy smile: "Dare to ask your surname?"

Yang Ye said: "My surname is Yang."

"Mr. Yang, I have admired you for a long time." The madam asked enthusiastically, "Mr. Yang, what kind of sweetheart do you want to find when you come to our place?"

Yang Ye said: "Liu Si."

The mandarin duck restaurant lost a young lady who was looking for medicine. It was the girl Liu Si who accidentally revealed this to Yang Ye's brother, and Yang Ye's brother revealed it to him in a drunken chat. I reported it to Mr. Fu, and then I was sent by Mr. Fu to this terrible place for business.

The bustard smiled and said: "What a coincidence that you came, our Liu Si just happens to be free today, the servant will take you there?"

"Hmm..." Yang Ye reached into his arms and squeezed the thin purse, remembering Mr. Kou's hopeful gaze when he handed over the five taels of silver to him, and shook his hands vigorously, Sincerely said: "Yang Ye, our yamen is poor, you must save some money for this money, you can drink water and never drink, understand?" Yang Ye took a breath and said: "Okay, take me there."

After going up to the second floor and pulling aside the heavy veils, the bustard's mother affectionately held the stiff willow leaves by her arms, and called into the room sweetly, "Si'er, come out to see the guests."

"Here we come." A petite figure moved from far to near, lifted the veil, and raised his head. It was a beautiful and small face with two dimples on his mouth. Liu Si greeted Yang Ye Yingying, and said softly: "The slave family has seen the young master."

Yang Ye looked at her steadily and asked, "You are Miss Liu Si?"

Liu Si smiled and said: "It's the Nu family, young master, you must have never been here before, but how do you know the Nu family?"

Yang Ye faltered and said: "Yes... a friend of mine and I... mentioned you to me..."

This is also common.A group of men drank too much, and most of what they said in their mouths was inseparable from women, maybe some of Liu Si's benefactors praised her to the sky, which made this young child feel itchy, so he looked for it. Come.The bustard smiled self-consciously, let go of Yang Ye's arm, gently pushed him towards Liu Si, and said, "Then I won't bother you, my lord, Si'er, take me in for a chat. After a pause, he added ambiguously to Yang Ye, "You can talk about anything."

The arm that had been entangled for a long time was finally released. Yang Ye just breathed a sigh of relief, and was suddenly pushed onto Liusi's body. He really just stepped out of the tiger's mouth and into the wolf's den. Hastily stepped back three steps, and said politely: "Miss please first."

Perhaps she had never seen such a thing before, Liu Si was obviously taken aback for a moment, then she smiled, took Yang Ye's arm again, and said, "My lord, please."

The two entered the room together, and when Liu Si turned to close the door, Yang Ye quickly freed his arm, rushed to the table, looked at his nose, nose and heart, put his hands on his knees, Sit peacefully.Liu Si also sat down beside him, leaned towards him slowly, and said: "Young master, what kind of wine would you like to drink? There is a very good daughter red here at my slave's house, why don't you warm it up, and you and I will have a few drinks together." cup?"

Yang Ye was stunned for a moment, he didn't even dare to ask the price, he only asked cautiously: "Is there any boiled water?"

Liu Si's almond eyes widened, she quickly got up from Yang Ye, and looked him up and down suspiciously—how could anyone come to the brothel to drink boiled water?Could it be that a poor man wants to come to eat Bawang's meal? !

Seeing Liu Siliu's eyebrows upside down with an angry expression on his face, Yang Ye thumped in his heart, rolled his eyes, thinking that money should be spent wisely, gritted his teeth, and took out a tael of silver from his flat purse , put it in front of Liu Si, and said: "It doesn't mean anything else, I can't drink alcohol, and I get a headache when I drink it, the girl laughed at me."

Seeing the real gold and silver, Liu Si's doubts disappeared, and she smiled sweetly again. She reached out and touched the one tael of silver into her sleeve, and said, "Young master is right. Drinking alcohol will hurt your health. You'd better drink tea. This slave Go and pour tea for Young Master." After saying that, he turned around to get the teapot, turned his back to Yang Ye, took out the silver ingot and bit it, confirmed that it was genuine, smiled brightly, and poured the teapot for Yang Ye, "Please, Young Master."

"Yeah." Yang Ye touched the cup to his lips symbolically, but didn't drink it, then put the cup down again, and said, "The reason why I came here is because a friend of mine mentioned you, girl."

Liu Si smiled and said, "You said it earlier."

"Alas," Yang Ye sighed, and abruptly changed the topic in another direction, "Your life must have been very hard."

Suspicion flashed across Liu Si's face, but it was the uncle who gave the money, and she was also happy to chat with her, and said with a smile: "If it is not forced by the livelihood, who would want to do this business?"

Yang Ye said: "If one day you meet a good family, try your best to escape if you can. This business is too dangerous. I heard that some family has lost a young man, and no one is alive or dead, and no one is looking for it... oh , it seems to be your mandarin duck restaurant?"

Liu Si's smile was a bit forced, and she said perfunctorily: "Young master, where did you hear that? The people here are all the property of the mandarin duck restaurant, and they are actually the same as the flowers, grass, tables, and benches you saw. If it’s broken, it needs to be repaired, if it’s lost, it needs to be found, how could it be gone?” After a pause, she asked, “Where did you hear the news, my lord?”

Yang Ye was vague, "I heard it on the wine table, it can't be counted...it can't be counted..."

Liu Si laughed again: "If you say good people, it's not hard to find them. Isn't there one in front of me?" As she spoke, she leaned softly towards Yang Ye. Yang Ye pretended to reach out to meet him, but secretly Pushing the teacup on the table, he poured all the tea on himself. He got up in a panic, "Oh, my clothes are wet! It's broken. If my parents see it, they will definitely scold me again." Fan. Please leave, miss, I’ll leave first.” As she spoke, she wanted to run away with oil on her feet, but Liu Si hugged him and said with a smile, “Don’t worry, my lord, I’ll just dry your clothes for you.” . " A pair of hands was nimble like a fish swimming into Yang Ye's arms, Yang Ye hurriedly raised his hand to block it, while the two struggled and pushed, something fell to the ground and made a "clang" sound.

Liu Si took the first step to grab the object in her hand, looked down, her almond eyes slowly opened wide, she looked in amazement at the two big bright red characters engraved on the token in her hand - Catch fast.

At every moment, Fu Yunshu opened his eyes from sleep on time, but he didn't sleep enough last night, so he yawned big as soon as he opened his eyes.Kou Luoche's voice came from the side, "Are you awake?" Fu Yunshu looked over there sleepily, and saw him standing in front of him with a bun in his mouth, and handed him a bowl filled with dark and bitter taste. Strong liquid, said: "Get up and drink medicine."

Although the act of delivering the medicine to the bed is considerate, drinking the medicine in the morning really can't make people feel warm. Fu Yunshu held his breath and poured down the whole bowl of medicine in one gulp, staring at the bun in Kou Luocha's mouth, and said: "I also to eat."

Kou Luoche then gave him another bun.

Holding the steamed stuffed bun, the little county magistrate calmed down a little, and said, "Let's set off later. We won't rest today, and we'll be on our way until evening. We'll just find a place to make do for the night, and we'll leave just after dawn. After a long time, you will be able to reach Ciyao County, and after leaving Ciyao, you will be the state capital."

Kou Luoche suddenly said: "Not good!"

Fu Yunshu was taken aback by him, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Kou Luoche said: "Today, this road does not lead to the village or to the store, so it will be difficult for you to get medicine."

"..." Fu Yunshu said with a half-smile, "Brother Lao Kou really misses that."

The two set off on horseback after a hasty breakfast, and they left Ming County not long after. At the beginning, there were still many people on the official road. Apart from the two of them, the vast avenue is uninhabited.

The little county magistrate said today that he would concentrate on his journey, so he really focused on his journey. He didn't say a word of nonsense all day. Sometimes Kou Luoche deliberately teased him with words, but he also had a serious face, and responded once or twice perfunctorily.Mr. Kou was making fun of himself, and gradually stopped talking.The two of them had been running around for a day, and the dust and sand from the official road covered their heads and faces. At this time, both of them were dusty, and Kou Luoche turned his head, just in time to see the little county magistrate stretching his hands behind his back with a blank face—— Rubbed the ass.

So Master Kou reined in the horse and said: "Brother Fu, let's go here today, if you keep running, the horse can't bear it if you can persist."

Fu Yunshu nodded, "OK."

The two got off their horses, walked down the official road, and began to grope around for a place where they could make do for a night.But here, besides the bushes, there are patches of shrubs, and there are one or two fat and strong rats that come out from time to time.

Fu Yunshu moved behind Kou Luocha silently, but Kou Luocha who was walking in front suddenly stopped for some reason and let out a soft "Huh".Fu Yunshu asked, "What's wrong?"

Kou Luoche said: "Look." As he said that, he took two steps to the side to get out of the way.Fu Yunshu took a closer look under the moonlight, and there was a stone tablet upside down where Kou Luoche was standing. Because of the age, Mo Yue's half body was buried in the soil, and the words engraved on it were also blurred. He squinted his eyes and stared at it for a long time. Recognize it, "Yun... Jian... Temple?"