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"The bitter Taoist enlightened."

Tang Yuan pulled out the dart and flattened the letter. On the envelope were four words written by cinnabar.

Those who knew his identity in the Jianghu said not many, not many, and a letter alone was not enough to deduce the identity of the visitor.He sat on the ground and opened the letter.

"In the past, the busy city was farewell. I don't know if the young man is safe or not. Now Wuwei Pavilion has undergone major changes. Xie is hard to escape. Please entrust the young man with a heartless thing. Please take this letter to the Yanshui Tower and find Yanshui The landlord, Shuishang Pingzigu, told her to be very careful of the people in Wuwei Pavilion, if anyone trespasses in the Yanshui Building, please protect the things I entrusted to her, and also please take care of herself."

"What is difficult for the young hero, the young hero can make up his own mind. If he is helped by the young hero in Wuwei Pavilion, he will be rewarded in the future. If the young hero has any difficulties, please send this letter to the small stone in the ruined temple on the outskirts of the city." .”

Yanshui Building...

Tang Yuan knew this place, it was a restaurant, the largest and most famous restaurant in Jianghu.

The host is a woman, a very pungent and sophisticated woman, who is very rare in the Jianghu with Dengping crossing water, so she was nicknamed "Shuishangping".

Yanshuilou has the most mellow wine and the most beautiful water in the world. Anyone who goes there will be drunk in the secret brewed wine of Yanshuilou.But not everyone can go to Yanshuilou. The people who go to Yanshuilou to eat are all from the world with excellent qinggong, because Zigu never lets people with poor qinggong enter the door. According to her words, "dirty smoke The lintel of the water tower".

According to Pavilion Master Xie Sanchuan's lightness skills, he shouldn't have anything to do with such a person, especially when he entrusted him with something. Could it be that Zigu really can forgive him?

And what happened to the Wuwei Pavilion that made Xie Sanchuan unable to get away from him, and asked others to be careful of the Wuwei Pavilion?

Originally, his status was a little sensitive, and he was half-forced to stay in Beijing by the emperor, so he shouldn't interfere too much, but he vaguely felt that this matter was very involved, and maybe he could take the opportunity to find out the reason for the emperor's abnormal behavior now.

After thinking for a long time, he still came to a tailor shop.

There is nothing special about this shop, the storefront is ordinary, and there is nothing special about the store.

That is, the guy napping by the counter is a bit special.Where is he in particular?

Very ordinary.

No matter how popular a person's face is, if you stare at it for a long time, you can find one or two differences from it, but he is different, a face seems to be smoothed out, as long as you look away, this person's The face will no longer exist in your mind.

"Master Tang, what kind of clothes are you here today?" The man opened his mouth lazily, his voice was like water, so light and tasteless, there was no trace of it flowing through his ears.

"Don't buy clothes today, buy a skeleton, I want you to make it yourself and put on my clothes."

"I need to pay more for what I do."

"Record it in the account of the Tang Mansion."

"When do you want it?"

"Now, I hope to see him ride back soon.—and bring me a letter back."

After talking so much, the guy moved his body and went to look for something under the counter, his voice like boiling water was still coming from under the counter: "Hey - what a young master, our job is not so easy of."

After a long time, he took out a woman's dressing gown from under it, looked at Tang Yuan's face carefully, powdered his own face, and said, "Young Master Tang's face is really a treasure from heaven. You don’t even need to change your powder, it’s easy to dress up. —— Please trouble the young master to go and change your clothes later. By the way, your Dahei doesn’t want to see me, so he might not be able to fool him, and the one from the Yuan Mansion, That person will definitely reveal his secrets in front of him."

Seeing that he had accepted the job, Tang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Do you have any pens and paper here? Later, Yuan Xiao will definitely blame me for making my own decisions. I will write a letter to apologize first, and my parents will also have to explain. Now, it's not easy for me to come back once, and my mother will definitely cry again when she sees me leaving again."

"You care so much."

"Isn't it good to worry too much? Like you, you abandoned your relatives and friends early to be this kind of guy. Are you really happy?"

"I never had any relatives or friends, only a master." The man suddenly retorted loudly, but before finishing a sentence, his voice dropped again, "The master is gone, and I only have this craft..."

"Forget it, I won't poke your sad spot anymore. I'll go to the back and change your clothes for you." Tang Yuan picked up the pen and paper on the counter that should have been used for bookkeeping, lifted the curtain and walked inside.

Hearing the person behind him speak, his voice has become the same as Tang Yuan's, but his own feelings are still in the words: "It's a pity that I don't worry about it anymore..."

Tang Yuan didn't turn his head back, and didn't say anything else. World affairs in the world are like fish drinking water, they just know how warm and cold they are.He still has a lot of bad things to settle, why should he reach out to meddle in other people's affairs?

This unremarkable shop is the shop of the lazy guy just now, to be precise, it is the shop of his master, and he has inherited the mantle of the master.For ordinary people, this store is a poor shopkeeper who sells some ready-made clothes to make a living.But for Jianghu people, this is the largest and most famous source of human skin masks.

People in the rivers and lakes refer to human skin masks as clothes, and some desperadoes will even put on their "clothes" and never take them off until they grow together with their faces, until they are completely wiped out. Become someone else yourself.The guy's master is the most famous mask master in the world, known as "Thousand Faces", but in fact there are more than a thousand faces coming out of his hands.

The guy is called "Qian Mian", and he is better than blue because he is better than blue. He is not only excellent in making human skin masks, but also imitating and pretending to be others. There is even an anecdote of pretending to be someone else and living with his family for three months without being recognized. thing.He also took many people who are willing to learn this trick as apprentices. These people are called "skeletons". With a "skeleton" and wearing suitable "clothes", they can become another person.

Tang Yuan first knew Qian Mian when he was very young. At that time, he was poisoned and blind, but the emperor just wanted him to die. It was very difficult for his master to take him out of the imperial city, so he took him with him. When I came to this store, I asked the clerk for a child to pretend to be him until he was completely cured of the poison.

Tang Yuan never saw Qianmian's face when he was a child, but his voice has always been the same in his impression and never changed.Qianmian was not so lazy when he was a child, Tang Yuan still remembered that he was leaning against the counter blindly, Ren Qianmian touched this face, and boasted as he touched it: "Young Master Tang, you have such a good-looking face, The facial features are correct, look at the brow bone, it's easy to dress up."

playful.This was a real compliment from the craftsman, and he was given a pastry to satisfy his hunger. Although he didn't eat it, he was very grateful to him, and felt that this person was really a good person.

Only later did he realize that Qian Mian is a good person, but also a poor person.

The year Qian Mian left home happened to be a great famine. Everyone had nothing to eat, and people starved to death all over the mountains and plains.At that time, his dream was to be able to eat a full meal.They also have a lot of family members. There are three brothers, an older sister and a younger sister. His younger sister is only three years old.

He often left his rations for his younger sister to eat, until one day he heard his parents discussing to replace his younger sister.

Changing children to eat was not new at that time.When their family fled famine, there were pots on the side of the road.

Later, Qian Mian left overnight, and he wondered if his sister's life could be saved if he lost a mouth to eat. Although Qian Mian didn't say anything about it later, Tang Yuan could also imagine that it must have been lost.It's just the famine era, it's not that there is no family affection, but survival is too important.

Maybe it's because Qianmian's ordinary face is so ordinary, he survived the escape all the way, and later Qianmian was taken as an apprentice by Qianyan.The master and apprentice love each other like father and son, so much so that even after Qian Yan died, Qian Mian was unwilling to be the shopkeeper, but still regarded himself as a clerk.

Tang Yuan often comes to the tailor shop, because his face is always growing, and he wants Qianmian to change his "clothes" to look like him.Tang Yuan would always bring him a gift when he returned to Beijing, and Qian Mian would often give him poorly made "clothes" for him to take back to play.The friendship between the two can be regarded as gentle as water.

When Tang Yuan came out with his clothes in hand, he had already changed into an ordinary warrior's attire, and Qian Mian had already dressed up and was waiting for him.

Qianmian is good at craftsmanship, this face made Tang Yuan feel a little dazed, he only felt that the opposite was his twin brother.Qian Mian was slightly stronger than Tang Yuan, and he squeezed his shoulders to measure Tang Yuan's height.Tang Yuan only heard his bones make a "cracking" sound, as if the bones in his body collided together.Qian Mian's figure suddenly became shorter, fat and thin as well as Tang Yuan's, and his voice was also tuned by Qian Mian: "What are you going to do?"

"I want to go out of the city. The emperor asks you to help carry it. He does everything possible to keep me in Beijing. If I go out of the city at will, I will be forcibly stopped. As for my parents, don't lie to them, give them my letter, They will understand. You have to send this horse back to the Yuan Mansion first, and Yuan Xiao must blame me, so you just need to explain it to him. The sooner I leave Beijing, the sooner I know what my uncle is up to.—— Lend me the horse from your store."

Tang Yuan picked up a horse casually and walked out the back door. Naturally, "Tang Yuan" also came out from the front door.

This "Tang Yuan" is exactly the same as the real Tang Yuan himself, the way he walks and the tricks when he mounts a horse are all imitated.

But Dahei recognizes people only by breath but not face. When it sensed a strange breath, it shook its head and snorted uneasily, just not wanting "Tang Yuan" to ride him.

"Tang Yuan" comforted Dahei for a while, and then Dahei reluctantly told him to ride on his back and run all the way to Yuan's mansion.

When they arrived at the gate of Yuan Mansion, the concierge knew this big black horse, the second young master's precious mount. "Tang Yuan" rode his horse all the way into the mansion, but no one dared to stop him.

Yuan Xiao came back a long time ago and was practicing sword in the yard. When he saw him coming back, he came down to meet him.

"How about the courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing?" "Tang Yuan" reined in the horse in front of him, and he took the reins and took "Tang Yuan"'s hand to pull him off the horse.

"It's not bad, the emperor really put a lot of thought into it."

In the end, he was caught by Yuan Xiao before he got off the horse. Yuan Xiao's hand pinched his neck, and the veins in his hand were bulging, as if the next step would break his neck bone.

"Where's Tang Yuan?"

Qianmian's face was flushed, he grabbed Yuan Xiao's hand, and shouted: "Hero, please forgive me! Young Master Tang called me here, I, I have his autographed letter."

"Bring it."

Qian Mian didn't dare to say more, taking advantage of Yuan Xiao's hand loosening, he quickly took out the letter.

I don't know what Tang Yuan said in the letter. His face was livid, as if I would kill you, but after reading a few sentences, his face softened. At the end of the reading, his face was full of helplessness.

He flicked the letter paper with two fingers, let Qianmian into the mansion, and said: "Master Qianmian, I really offended you. Yuan's subordinates are not serious, so I will come to apologize another day. ——Tang Yuan asked you to do the same thing. It's what I want to say, please try your best to hide it from the emperor, I can't leave Beijing right now, I'm sorry for your trouble."

Qian Mian didn't dare to accept his apology, so he evaded a few words with a dry smile, and said in his heart: "I didn't tell me before I came here that there would be a bloody disaster so soon, I have to pay more."

But he didn't dare to say that, he just said: "Your Majesty Yuan is too polite, I have to rush back to the Tang Manor with people's money and money to eliminate disasters."

"I won't stop Master Qianmian from returning to the Tang Mansion, but... Tangyuan is mischievous by nature, so you don't have to be too serious when pretending, so as not to expose your secrets."

Qian Mian agreed to bid farewell to Yuan Xiao, feeling amused in his heart, who else would recognize him just by looking at him?